New Blog Name, Same Blog Taste!

It has come to my attention that there are a great deal of questions in this world that are grand and important. I am here to tell you that I am qualified to answer almost none of them. But I know quite a lot about animals, especially the various classes of Arthropoda, a few things about some fandoms, and a plethora of voluminous vocabulary words. I like to think I approach life with a certain amount of practical whimsy, I may or may not be the unholy offspring of a sasquatch and a leprechaun, and no, I will not marry you. (Years later, this description is mildly embarrassing but not untrue, and I am too lazy to write a better one - Author’s Editorial, Circa 2020)

[bonnettbee]

EXTINCT STICKY NOTE FRIENDS MASTERPOST because I can’t find what I tagged all of these fellas with when I posted them the first time ;w;

The first of these go all the way back to 2020, when I started at my current office job and needed colors in my cubicle that weren’t just Greige (Grey-Beige); these were almost exclusively drawn from memory, and a lot of them are pretty doofy as a result. Others I took a bit of creative liberty on. Proportions and perspective tend to be weird on most of these… but they all still ended up holding a special place in my heart. ^w^

Pt. 1

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Pt. 2

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Pt. 3

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Pt. 4, these are the last of the ones I’ve done so far! I’ll add any more that I do to this post. :3

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Update/Pt. 5: A VERY good noodle, I can never see anything about these funny little guys without laughing so hard I almost cry 😂

You have no idea how hard it was not to draw him some little snake pants for his doofy little snake legs.

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THE POLL HAS SPOKEN! HECKHANDS MCMEGADUCK IS THE FIRST EXTINCT FRIEND ON THE WALL IN 2024!!! :D

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@a-book-of-creatures here are all of the suggestions I had time for today before I had to lock up… sadly, Mr. Moa might have to wait until next time I have a gap in my schedule, and I frankly have no idea why I made some of the color choices I did (other than your red-white-and-purple Archie-boi and the exquisite opportunity you gave me to make an ancient squid wizard, of course), but I hope you enjoy them regardless! :3

[bonnettbee]

Another batch of friends! Including the last of @a-book-of-creatures ‘s most recent suggestions (whose experimental color blending… uh… did NOT go according to plan, lessons were definitely learned there >.>’), a VERY plush and friendly request from my cousin, a big heckin boofer - the BIGGEST heckin boofer known to science at the time of writing, in fact - and two Funny Little Guys™️ from the Triassic!

I’m slowly running out of usable room on my current cubicle wall, but I still REALLY want to try and find a way to cram more friends in there before actual work picks back up again, so stay tuned and feel free to let me know in my dms or on this post who else you all might want to see join the party! :D

[bonnettbee]

Things have picked back up at work a bit, so I’ve had less time… but I wanted to share a momentous occasion: the first ever Extinct Sticky Note Friends two-for-one! Based on that lovely little fossil of these two sharing a burrow that was making the rounds a while ago. 🥰

Since we don’t know if Thrinaxodon was fluffy or not, I decided to split the difference and give him a sort of “cape” or “crest” of some kind of fur-like integument on top, and let him be a little bit more ambiguously-textured on the bottom? Kinda helps break up the silhouette a bit, I like how he turned out and the fluffy crest seems like a comfy place for his little Broomistega buddy!

In my heart, these little guys come from a universe where they didn’t die together and fossilize, and got to keep being friends and live long and happy lives together. Maybe they could even become the time-traveling paleo protagonists of a children’s cartoon or something. 😅

[bonnettbee]

Finally, an update to this masterpost, and to the wall! :D

Bit of a charming story behind this one too.

My Boss’s Boss (name redacted here for privacy) is retiring on Friday, so I asked him if he wanted me to put an extinct friend of his choice on the wall in his honor.

He is a lifelong sport fisherman, and asked me if I had any information on whether there were ever any “dinosaur salmon” - I suggested ol O. rastrosus here, mentioning that they had Saber Teeth and could get 6-8 ft long according to some estimates; he was absolutely GIDDY at that revelation, said he thought it was a shame he’d missed them by a few million years, and mused to another Grandpa-Aged coworker over how you’d go about landing and cooking a salmon that big and whether it would be any good to eat at that size.

He was a nice guy, I’ll miss him, and I’m happy I was able to make him smile before he retires with my own “Big Fish Story.” 😁

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Another new one… redid this guy a couple times, wasn’t thrilled with the coloring on any of them (wanted to go for kind of a tapir pattern but idk if it worked) but I didn’t wanna draw him again. ;w;

I’m also not sure if the pose is even SLIGHTLY correct, ref images are all over the place and I had to take a few creative liberties to get him to fit on a sticky note, but I hope I at least got the idea across? These are such goofy little guys that I had to have one on my wall, maybe I’ll try another pass at one with better colors another time. 😅

[bonnettbee]

Update: our first friend of 2025! Another person retiring from the company asked me for this one (name redacted for privacy), as apparently it’s one of their kid’s old favorites. I saw that a lot of modern stego reconstructions give them kind of staggered plates instead of straight-up pairs, so I went with that… hopefully that’s actually how they were, because it’s MUCH easier to draw them this way! Not sure if I got the number of plates right, though, I forgot to count. ^_^’

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Ok so TWO UPDATES IN ONE DAY, with many more than two dinosaurs! A couple of other coworkers, seeing the Stegosaurus, requested another set of “All-Stars” for the wall; one wanted a T. rex, the other wanted a Velociraptor.

The rexes sadly turned into a bit of a disaster coloring-wise, but hopefully he likes them anyway? I went with the increasingly popular “Downy Baby, Bald or Mostly-Bald Adult” Interpretation here, and the mostly illegible “fun fact” is related to that. At least the poses are still pretty cute, ruinous attempts to fix coloring mistakes aside.

The person who wanted Velociraptor is also getting a bonus Protoceratops, because I’ve been meaning to draw these two fighting in reference to the famous fossil for a while now, and I actually really like how the poses turned out! I think it was @strange-kaleidoscope who once said they liked that my extinct creatures were always happy.. I apologize for letting you down in that regard this time, friend, but I hope the cool battle stances make up for it at least? 😅

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NEW (OLD) GUY ALERT! A couple different folks here and elsewhere have been asking for a Tullymonstrum, and who am I to deny such a silly fella a place on my wall of friends? :3

[beardedmrbean]

[aflo]

Attempting to locate a new Greek restaraunt using my gyroscope

[prokopetz]

It's super entertaining how a lot of housecats seem to parse camera lenses as eyes and react accordingly, but I sometimes wonder if wild cats have the same reaction. Like, are wildlife studies getting messed up because a bobcat saw a trail camera and was like Why Is This Fucking Thing Watching Me?

[sutured-infection]

Cellulose nitrate was used to make dice from the late 1860s until the middle of the twentieth century, and the material remains stable for decades. Then, in a flash, they can dramatically decompose. Nitric acid is released in a process called outgassing. The dice cleave, crumble, and then implode.

From Dice: Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck by Ricky Jay and Rosamond Purcell, 2002.

[jesus-lizard-journal]

hello beautiful

[prokopetz]

It's actually a bit surprising to me that we haven't seen contemporary meta brainfuck indie games do more than they have with 1990s point and click adventure games' penchant for developer-intended softlocks. That feels like something you could very easily spin as Saying Something.

[prokopetz]

Honestly, having grown up with this bullshit is probably a big part of the reason I'm fascinated with player-hostile game design. Giving a puzzle three different solutions with fully voiced and animated reactions to each, except two of those solutions render the game unwinnable in ways that won't become apparent until hours later is a level of "fuck you" that most modern games with pretensions of player-hostility can only dream of!

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@lunchm34t replied:

what adventure games softlock you like that?

I'm usually loathe to suggest TV Tropes as a resource, but given that only a person who's entirely unacquainted with the genre would be asking that question, a primer is probably warranted. Check out the Unwinnable By Design article and read the preamble for context on the types of softlocks we're discussing, then hit either the "Sierra" or "Infocom" links (yes, those two publishers each have their own dedicated sections!), pop open the "Cruel" tab, and get ready to read some stuff that makes you mad.

[sd-d0-l1y]

There really is only one correct way to play some of these games huh.

[prokopetz]

A critical piece of context that a lot of modern gamers completely miss is that Douglas Adams' adventure games are works of parody not only in terms of their narratives, but also in the sense that they're rather vicious parodies of adventure games as a genre. Each of their absurdly obtuse puzzles is lampooning some puzzle design trope or set of tropes that was legitimately commonplace at the time they were made, and many of the really nasty bits are crafted specifically to piss off experienced adventure game fans who otherwise wouldn't get caught out by that sort of thing. They're outliers in the genre only in the sense that they're putting forth extra effort to be annoying about it – most games of the type pull the exact same shit entirely without remark!

[prokopetz]

(Honestly, the player-hostility of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tends to be tremendously overstated owing to a combination of effective marketing and the fact that it's the only adventure game from that era that any significant number of current-gen gamers have ever actually played. In terms of sheer fuckery it's considerably friendlier than stuff like, say, Codename: ICEMAN.)

[dana-ategina]

were these like, rented out blockbuster-style and the devs got a cut out of said rent, or

[prokopetz]

It helps to understand that point and click adventure games are one of the first genres the Git Gud crowd really fixated on, and a lot of these early design trends revolved around catering to that crowd. It only got reframed as a genre for filthy casuals in the wake of a demographic shift in the mid 1990s that saw the genre's player base skewing strongly female; it's practically the only example of a video game genre's reputation flipping directly from "hardcore" to "casual", and one of the most striking illustrations of the fact that which kinds of games are considered "real" games is more about identity politics than mechanics.

[natureisthegreatestartist]

Ever seen an Andean mountain cat before? No? That's not surprising considering it's an endangered species with only about 1,500 of these cats living in the wild.

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[iplaycomputer]

nature is beautiful

[iraffiruse]

[tim-official]

see every time i see this status i get angry because i’ve played through literally every scenario in rct1 and there is no place where this is a thing. there is never more than one park per map. and in rct2 you can’t make that happen i the scenario editor either. it is not remotely within the game’s functionality to simulate two discrete parks and these games were coded in assembly for christ sake so it’s not like someone modded it in by adding the line “int const TOTAL_NUM_POSSIBLE_PARKS = 2;”. there is no conceivable way this post is anything close to true and even though i know how writing all this out reflects upon me as a person and even though i know exactly how meaningless and trifling of a takedown attempt this is on some random facebook screencap with hundreds of thousands of notes im going to post it anyway because i’m too petty to have any say in the matter

[yanguang]

[goldcrescent]

I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀

[goldcrescent]

if you say women are intentionally nerfed from birth in 2026 people look at you like you’re insane and start condescendingly telling you about how women are just better at different things (but not during their periods haha) but this was a completely basic feminist talking point I grew up with like “girls can do it too! [shot of little girls climbing and running with boys]” nickelodeon commercial tier base level I hate it how is everyone suddenly dumber than the average 7 year old

[prokopetz]

I forgot to buy cheese last grocery day and this has genuinely been the hardest week of my life.

[prokopetz]

I'm not even being ironic. I have been through post-surgical recovery that was more tolerable to me than these past few cheeseless days have been. But I get paid tomorrow, and an end is in sight, so I persevere.

[ashleythetraveler]

One of us does not understand your grocery logistics situation

[prokopetz]

Mostly a combination of "not wanting to walk to the grocery store when it's 30C outside" and "owing to the particulars of my employment situation I only get paid once a month, so disposable income tends to be tight in the final week, and I'm disinclined to incur debt to buy cheese".

[felixcloud6288]

[s-aint-elmo]

an interest passing feels like being abandoned by the evil spirit that had taken possession of your body

[s-aint-elmo]

pulling out hanks of grass and sighing listlessly. i kind of miss being posessed. isn't there an evil spirit somewhere that wants to possess meeee

[awesome-brick]

reblog if you are ASEXUAL, support ASEXUAL PEOPLE, or SECRETLY A DRAGON IN HUMAN FORM

[ashubii]

This is why I have TikTok

[gutsygills]

mold pisses me off so much

oh you have to eat your produce the moment it leaves the store or the fuckin Hungering Dust will get it. and. poison your food

[tobiasdrake]

I ran into this post years ago and to be honest, it has completely reoriented the way I engage with food.

Like. I’ve always sorta understood that things grow moldy or stale or sour or such if left out, but I never really internalized it in a meaningful way.

But now I’m just like.

Yeah. The hungering dust. There exists omnivorous dust in the air that will eat my food if I don’t.

Those bagels have been sitting there for a week. Are we going to eat them soon or are we leaving them for the hungering dust?

Pizza’s been sitting out on the counter for an hour. Everyone’s enjoying the pizza, but if we don’t want “everyone” to include the hungering dust then we should probably put it away soon.

That’s just. That’s how food works to me now. There exists an invisible predator in the air that hungers for your yummies, and it will not hesitate to eat your food if you don’t make the effort to protect and preserve it. And eat what can’t be preserved before the dust can.

Life-changing.

[the-missing-number]

food doesn’t actually “go bad”, it just gets eaten by something else first

[the-haiku-bot]

food doesn’t actually

“go bad”, it just gets eaten

by something else first

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.