Dop's Dumpster

hi im dop, also known as trashmann. chaotic mess of obsessions (and art) (and sometimes very very rarely, writing)

[dopscratch]

tag info

i was told that i should get a personal art tag so i hereby declare that #trashmann treasure will mark any art that i personally do!

in addition, #rancid ramble will be any longer rambles or rants i have. basically stuff that you might have to dedicate more than a quick skim to get through, usually higher quality material and will weed out my short random bits of chaos.

#funky fiction will be any stories or excerpts of stories i'll post

#lore landfill will be all worldbuilding stuff, along with headcanons and the like

#character containment will be any material related to my original characters

i may do more things in the future if i think of something fun or if i (or someone else) thinks i could use another category! this will be updated with any changes!

ART RULES

ASK FOR PERMISSION TO REPOST. i usually do not allow reposts but if you have a funny idea and want to include my art, please just tell me about it and ask before making a post on another platform. if it's transformative enough i will probably say yes and ask you to give me a link once you've posted it. if you're doing something with it here on tumblr just reblog

You MAY trace my artwork for practice and practice only. if you post it, credit me and give me a link to where you've shared it.

[malwarechips]

"i think", i say, about my own ocs, who i made,

[rosexknight]

“my headcanon is…” i say about the canon that i made about my own characters

[dopscratch]

where can i get the project hail mary iron lung crossover content that isnt shipping at every freaking turn

[dopscratch]

ok asking this as a genuine question if anyone actually knows please do share your secrets

[dopscratch]

slugcat art i found from a while back

[redstonedust]

cozy game is such a weird term to me i feel like it gets applied to so many genres. life sims farming games rpgs survival games strategy games. i saw someone call dont starve a cozy game. i feel like the vibes of dont starve are quite possibly the opposite of cozy actually.

[dopscratch]

i feel like cozy game is such a bad category because of how subjective it is. if its an aesthetic, then it might confuse people expecting something else from the gameplay. but also what people consider "cozy" is quite different than others, if its about how people feel playing it.

i sometimes calm down or relax with games like carrion or i am your beast. if that makes them cozy i think thats hilarious.

[kingcatnine]

we need to instill a new storytelling rule of thumb into people called "show don't tweet" where we encourage them to put all pertinent canon information into the actual story and its official supplemental material instead of using reddit AMAs as lore dlcs

[afreemanlearns]

[dopscratch]

its because of this issue that i basically just take the easy way out and say that if it's not in the source material or official supplemental material, it's not canon. if you didn't care enough to put it in anything official, it's not important enough to be solidified like that.

[pantamonte]

Liking something and wanting to find people who you can bond over it with but you have to block 90% of that thing's fanbase bc they're genuinely so batshit insane

[pantamonte]

Like its better just to find a few people you get along with at most in fan spaces and ignore everyone else. Only problem is when it feels like finding a unicorn in the wild

[midandevil]

You must answer for the crimes committed by your Scarlet blood.

[crowboy-bebop]

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

source: hellgate osprey cam

[curlicuecal]

[deinonychian]

. ^ . \ / \ V \ \ F /-_. |/ \

the noble quetzalcoatlus

[homunculus-argument]

I still want to see a high budget dinosaur documentary that's done in that old Walking With Dinosaurs type as-realistic-as-we-can-make-it wildlife documentary style, except instead of the classic calm-voiced David Attenborough style narrator, it's narrated by a two-person team of a paleontologist, and a stoner who knows nothing about dinosaurs. Ideally, neither of them has been involved in the production of the show itself, and both of them are seeing the footage they are narrating for the very first time.

[footage of newly hatched baby dinosaurs climbing out of the nest as their mother observes, immediately proceeding to start chasing and biting random bugs and each other]

"Yeah, it's a well-grounded and commonly respected theory that this particular species was social, raised their young into adulthood and probably hunted in packs. I like how they decided to show how nature and nurture work together by having them instinctively start practicing both social behaviour and hunting maneuvres in play with each other."

[sobbing pure tears of joy] "B-bitey babies. They're so beautiful. Mama looks so proud."

[dopscratch]

i volunteer as the paleontologist

[blau04]

[etchif]

Man pterosaurs are so cool. I wish I wish I wish I could see one in real life just once

[markscherz]

Look if you can't handle me at my

you don't deserve me at my

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[outerwilds-confessions]

Going hater mode for a second, I don't care as much as I pretend to:

Why does everybody call Hearthians fish? Their ancestors were amphibious. If they are currently anything that isn't amphibian, it would be reptile. Where are we getting fish

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[dopscratch]

i dont even go here but im going to rage for a second about the usage of "reptile"

disclaimer this is lighthearted and is just me rambling about things no one cares about, not targeted at anyone and the ramble does quickly go off topic and off the rails

REPTILES ARE NOT ALL AMNIOTES

REPTILES as defined in the most useful and modern sense are all amniotes that are closer to lizards, snakes, crocs, birds, etc than they are to mammals.

sauropsids (essentially equivalent to reptiles) and synapsids (amniotes closer to mammals) are TWO SEPERATE CATEGORIES that split off from each other at the same time into 2 different lineages

reptiles are NOT a "step" in an evolutionary path as people use it to mean "fish" to "amphibian" to "reptile" to "mammal"

in an aliens species obviously you cant put them perfectly within the categories of earth

but ASSUMING they have an amniotic egg they could possibly be called amniotes.

whether we further would categorize them anything similar to a "reptile" or a "synapsid/mammal" would probably be down to the way their jawbones are constructed and the number of holes they have in their skulls

sorry the equation of "reptile" with "primitive creature step after amphibian" is very annoying to me and i cannot stop myself from speaking on the matter because i love reptiles and they shouldnt be reduced to that (also all "primitive" animals in general shouldnt be talked down about like they so often are)

such a statement would only be more accurate (though still grossly simplified but i wont get into that) if "reptiles" were something like "fish" where you cant define them monophyletically without excluding everything you would say would be the next "stage" (ex: how all amphibians and amniotes are technically a type of lobe finned fish)

[targetedknowledge]

[alex-and-nova420]

made this into a gif bc i liked it so much. shark Denied

[neovisceral]