Katie Potter

I'm a science educator who writes YA sci-fantasy

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

I wanna play a Kenku ancestral barbarian who's ancestors they summon include ghost dinosaurs. Like the idea of summoning ghosts from your evolutionary lineage sounds so, so cool. Unfortunately I haven't found a dm who takes the idea seriously enough to let me play it. 😔

an actual understanding of prehistory has SO much worldbuilding potential for games of all kinds, STORIES of all kinds, and I'm sick of it just being "monsters that people can shoot and/or tame I guess"

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Cecelia and the Living Fossils

Shameless dinosaur necromancer story plug

[itsadragonaesthetic]

What is your opinion on terraforming Mars?

Humans don't belong on other planets

I'll be the first volunteer to live on Mars

We need to terraform Mars because the Earth is dying

It's a nice idea, but we need to focus on problems on Earth right now

We could maybe learn about improving conditions on Earth by terraforming Mars

I'm undecided/don't have strong opinions about it

Voting ended onJul 16, 2023

[headspace-hotel]

Where's the option "visiting and exploring other planets is fine but terraforming Earth is going to be a lot easier than terraforming Mars if you think about it"

also "we need to work out if there is other life on Mars first"

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

I would vote for those options if they were there

[colossalsummer]

I always feel sort of complicated about the idea of terraforming other planets because it's a totally untouched natural landscape. I don't think building and farming is bad, but I think it's worth considering that things just won't be the same there ever again. This may not be realistic but I wish we could protect and preserve planets like national parks, maybe building research outposts but largely leaving them intact. Definitely adds some extra considerations if there's unique microbial life there.

[just-tavig]

You're an paleontologist digging up a dinosaur fossil... when suddenly you awaken:

MAGICAL DINOSAUR GHOST✨️🦖👻

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nyehhhh there's a circle now

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

HERE WE GO GANG

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CatLF Q&A!

Do you have questions about Cecelia and the Living Fossils? Questions about dinosaurs? Questions about prehistoric humans? Drop me an ask or comment on this post and I'll try to answer it when we hit 1000 reads!

[yoofilos]

The Dunk Shrunk Event, 2023

In the wake of the recently released publication by Engelman, the famous Dunkleosteus got its size cut from the previously humongous 7 metres long beast of an Arthrodire have now downsized into 3 - 5 metres long Hydrogen bomb shaped fat fish. Here are my rendition of the new dunk, honestly, I am fond of the new form of this animal.

Figure 1. Size estimate and skull diagram of Dunkleosteus terrelli based on the specimen CMNH 5768, the most popular of its species

Figure 2. Size comparison of the older version of dunk (above) compared to the new and chonkier version of dunk (below).

On other platforms, such as twitter and instagram, I have been called a prophet, for the gift of premonition have been bestowed upon me in the year of 2021 because I created this round fellow, aptly named "Dunkball", it was a local sensation when it first conceived.

Figure 3. The Dunkball, look at this boi, bask in his glorious spherical presence, for he is a perfect specimen.

Also just for fun, I created these joke dunk forms for you fellow enthusiasts to enjoy:

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Source publication:

A Devonian Fish Tale: A New Method of Body Length Estimation Suggests Much Smaller Sizes for Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi: Arthrodira)

Dunkleosteus terrelli, an arthrodire placoderm, is one of the most widely recognized fossil vertebrates due to its large size and status as

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Told him we could go to chuck e cheese after his doctor appointment

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If you're following Cecelia and the Living Fossils, Chapter 29 just dropped!

If you haven't had a chance to read, you can catch up on the website or on Wattpad.

I'm at like ⭐930-something reads⭐ on Wattpad right now, which is really exciting for me. I've never posted any writing online before, so the reads and comments are keeping me going. It's so fun and wild to get live feedback.

What should we do if we hit 1000 reads? It's a big number to me and I really want to celebrate and thank you guys, so I feel like something cool should happen.

Is there anything you'd want to see or do? Art? Polls? Q&A? Maybe I could make a silly personality quiz or something? I have a playlist for this story. I could show you that if you want?

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

I'm bored

there are more than ten options so I had to do some smushing

Vote For Your Fave

Cambrian

Ordovician, Silurian

Devonian

Carboniferous

Permian

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene, Quaternary

Voting ended onFeb 2, 2023

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This is an illustration for an article I wrote about Acrocanthosaurus!

Acrocanthosaurus appears in Cecelia and the Living Fossils, a story about a teenage necromancer who brings dinosaurs back to life.

I'm thinking about maybe making a sticker pack out of this illustration series or something similar.

[antiqueanimals]

Zoology - Textbook for Schools. Edited by D. Naumov. 1985.

Internet Archive

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Seasons greetings from Cecelia and Pine. 🎄

No new chapter this week, but if you have some catching up to do you can read Cecelia and the Living Fossils here.

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This is an illustration for an article I wrote about Deinonychus antirrhopus. You can read it here.

Coloration is based on a screech owl. I gave him speculative ear tufts because I think they're cute.

This raptor is from a weekly serial I'm writing called Cecelia and the Living Fossils. It's about a teenage necromancer who brings dinosaurs back to life.

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This is an illustration for an article I wrote about Deinonychus antirrhopus. You can read it here.

Coloration is based on a screech owl. I gave him speculative ear tufts because I think they're cute.

This raptor is from a weekly serial I'm writing called Cecelia and the Living Fossils. It's about a teenage necromancer who brings dinosaurs back to life.

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⭐Heads up⭐

For my CatLF friends--I had an emergency happen at work this week. Everything turned out okay, but it was pretty exhausting and set me back on writing. I'm gonna go easy on myself and give you my best, so instead of a chapter I'm gonna post a Cecelia: Unearthed tomorrow with some new paleoart I'm really excited about.

[one-weird-mammal-a-day]

Let's combine your two scary animals into one antarctic scale worm

Every part of this creature looks like it causes pain.

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I will say, worms are a lot more horrendous-looking when they're dead and their jaws are fully extended. This is also a picture of the belly of the worm, and honestly that's never really any bug's good side. On video, they're almost kinda soft-looking. I love the way they row their bristle-scales in rolling body waves to move through the water. You can skip to :37 if you just want to see the worm.

Also, some scale worms are rainbowy--like Peinaleopolynoe. They do have pretty serious chompers. You can see where this one had a few bites taken out of its armor by other scale worms.

x

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A super low-res symmetrical Deinonychus I never got around to finishing.

He's from chapter 21 of Cecelia and the Living Fossils. I like the idea of owl tufts on raptors.