Singing can be a stress response

... there are dishes to do and people to love.

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

the king has abruptly fired 60% of his wizard staff, so he’s about to be abruptly surprised at who floated 100% of his formerly floating sky castle

[hyper-lynx]

I heard they're planning to maintain their levitation rites with autonomous constructs from now on, saying wizards are going to be totally obsolete within the season... so, ah, I'd invest in falling island insurance.

[scilas]

Preserving not-prev-but-someone-elses funny tags in this chain as well because I love both these additions actually,

[byjove]

Video game where you get to play as a knight of the Round Table and go on quests and gain renown and level up your skills and befriend and romance other characters but it always ends in everyone being slaughtered at Camlann. You can decide to assist Mordred in usurping against his father or support the king you have served for so long but everyone will die anyway. This kingdom will inevitably crumble, you can’t do anything about it. You can put hundreds of hours into it and there is nothing you can do about that. But you CAN flirt with sexy single father Gawain!

[loving-jack-kelly]

hey. after grace dies. he's buried in a combination of human and eridian traditions. a beautiful carved monument to who he is and what he represents to the planet and people of erid. and they have a permanent sort of honor guard there. somebody always there to watch him sleep.

and generations later, when erid is thriving again and even rocky and adrian are long gone, buried or memorialized right alongside grace, classes of little eridian children come and watch the changing of the watch. feel connected to the history of their planet because they, too, are watching grace and rocky sleep. the saviors of erid will never sleep alone again.

[gondorrevealparty]

my wizardgirl keeps mage regressing during the big boss fight, throwing out level 1 Ice Bolt and giggling like we're supposed to find it cute. I know this bitch can do a level 12 modified Frosthammer Vortex. It's not even hard for her. But the Wyvern Queen, who we're supposed to be killing, keeps going "Wow, that was a really big spell for you! good job giving me -1 speed! You're soooo powerful!" and my fuckass mage is beaming at her with those big wet eyes. I don't care if you get "level dysphoria" from your gigantic big-girl mana pool I'm about to die out here

[scrupulosity-comics]

truly and unabashedly enjoying something can only mean one thing… a shameful perversion of the psyche!

[hailed-marys]

how to get out of your own way

[nebulations]

[ID: A Project Hail Mary comic. (Edit: OP kindly added this ID to the og post, so please go reblog from there instead!!) Grace is frowning as he works on a report, and Carl asks from offscreen, "Have you ever thought about getting out of your own way?" Grace, confused: "Huh?" Carl, unimpressed: "You're smart, man, but you cut yourself off halfway through all your sentences. Why?"

Grace hunches in and says, "Guess I was bullied a lot growing up, haha-" Carl cuts in. "So was I." Grace: "What? Really?" Carl pops Skittles in his mouth as he replies, "I grew up fat and black, I got my fair share of shit. Sure, it got to me, but I came around to the idea that those teenage dipshits were wrong about me. What's your excuse, man?"

Grace says uncomfortably, "I never- Uh. I, well-" Carl looks very unimpressed and says, "See? You're doing it again. Say what you mean to say." Grace slumps. "I guess I never thought about it that way." Carl: "Yeah. I know. That's why I said it. Get out of your own damn way."

We see the first panel in color: Grace floating outside the Hail Mary, surrounded by the red glow of Astrophage, as Carl says, "And once you do that? Hoo, man. You'll be unstoppable."

Back to black and white, Grace smiles emotionally and says, "Thanks, Carl." Carl stands up to leave and points at his paper. "Remember, Stratt wants that report by end of day." Grace hunches again and scowls, "Thank you, Carl." End ID]

[mythosaursarecool]

She wants to see The Baby

[what-even-is-thiss]

Shoutout to the people who grew up in a house where being gay or trans was just never talked about.

Shoutout to the people whose parents support lgbt rights but never told their kids until they were in their teens or twenties because they said it was “difficult to explain to children”.

Shoutout to the people whose religious communities came out in support just a little too late.

Shoutout to everyone afraid to come out just because they know they’ll be safe physically but they don’t know how everything will change socially.

Shoutout to everyone whose internalized homophobia that they’re trying to overcome came from subtle cues and not explicit statements.

Shoutout to the in betweeners. The pain you felt is real.

[mythosaursarecool]

She wants to see The Baby

[havingapoemwithyou]

I Guess By Now I Thought I’d Be Done With Shame by Franny Choi

[swordy-da-goat]

This isn't a diss to those people. I just wanted everyone to know the Road Wiz is an ally ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

[scrupulosity-comics]

sometimes instead of a horrid little monk, divine visions of lesbians dance in my head dispensing wisdom

[scrupulosity-comics]

[sayatsugu]

When You Look at Dr. Grace

part 1/2 (part 2)

[mythosaursarecool]

Welcome to my ✨300 Followers✨post!!

Thanks everyone for enjoying my silly blog and for those that keep coming back! (:

Y’all voted on this one to be Mythosaur Anatomy so let’s get going!

Find more stuff here: Caburs/Kirirs , Vocalizations , Random Lore

Now onto anatomy break down! Let’s start at the top and work our way down. I did draw these out of order at my own fancy so have fun with that

LETS GOOOOOO

Now for their skulls as you can see I used a horse as part of my rework of these guys. The teeth were giving horse and when I put the skulls side by side you can see from the front why I used a horse to rework the bone structure. Also I’m sure y’all have seen edited images of horses with incomplete cheeks 👀 that’s horrifying and I love it. I also just hate the flat face it’s so goofy and I felt like it did these beasts of legends dirty with a being pug nosed like that.

I added in the secondary tusks for fun cuz I liked them lmao not really any other reason. They do affect the shape the mouth a little shown in the next image. Cosmetically some clans might cut the secondary tusk during infancy stunting the growth (similar to how pigs tusks are cut). Some bloodlines would cut them though for practicality where later in life they risked them curling and causing bodily damage to the owner.

Dentition (teeth) wise they have the sheering flat front incisors like seen on the skull but mixing those with sharp canines and molars giving them a set of teeth made for omnivorous diet. Though due to their size and energy output they tended to be more carnivorous and supplemented with plant mater.

(For those that don’t know a honing complex is where the teeth make contact with the teeth surrounding them. During the biting motion the teeth grind together and sharpen them. This is found in quite a few primates and resulting in some WICKED sharp teeth. Mythosaurs have this on their canines)

This one is the messiest of my anatomy doodles lol but it was mostly just to showcase a few random head anatomy things.

THEY HAVE SQUISHY NOSES!! I just had to have that carry over from the horse skull. I don’t know if any y’all ever squished a horses nose but it’s a delightful thing and these space murder horses needed to have squishable noses (: it was a must. There’s a few anatomy traits I flushed out particularly for their aquatic to semiaquatic habits. Their nostrils and ear canals for example are similar to seals in that they both air tight. The sealing ear canals protects ear drums when diving to great depths.

The secondary eyelid is semi-transparent and thick, protecting from debris when burrowing and digging out dens. They eyelid is a little reflective and causes an interesting effect if pulled over the eye which can be spooky in the dark. They do have excellent eyesight in low light. If in complete darkness they rely more on hearing and their force sense to navigate in a kinda echolocation kind of way

The neck of a mythosaur is decently flexible which helps with the fact a mythosaurs tusk and nose makes for some good blind spots. I don’t have to much to say about this part of the body but feel free to look at the notes for anything fun.

The neck alongside the waist/belly are the most vulnerable parts of the body on a mythosaur

The chest and shoulders are the widest and most muscular part of a mythosaur. They sit higher than the hips due to muscle mass at the withers and the way they stand on their forepaws (see paws and claws image). Where the ridged plating turns to smooth right above the shoulder is typically where a saddle goes when a mythosaur is battle bonded and working as a mount.

The muscles in a mythosaurs shoulders are STRONG and allow for some pretty mean swipes and hits from both the paws and shoulder checks. They do have a good range of motion with their shoulders but it should be noted they can’t reach up and over their shoulder. There in lies the importance of carrying a Mando on your back! They keep any smaller hard to reach targets off you!

Mythosaur hips are slimmer then their shoulders but no less powerful. Karirs are know to do some pretty good jumping and vaulting with their legs but their heavier set Cabur counterparts can take a good leap at you if they wanted.

If you note the distinct shape of their pubic bone shape is to help support the hips and tail when resting in a down position. The skin in that area along with the sternum is thicker plated to protect from pressure brake down wile stationary for long periods of time. (On my Mythos you’ll spot the area as lighter colored in some art)

A mythosaurs tail is easily as long as their body, and often grows longer than the body into adulthood. After the shoulders this is arguably the next strongest part of the body. The tail is used for swimming as well as a counter balance for sharp turns wile running. Cabur tails tend to be thicker with a higher fat content the. Karir usually resulting in a the tail dragging on the ground towards the middle to end. The scales of the underside are thick though so it doesn’t usually cause any damage unless the terrain is particularly corse. But adult Caburs tend to keep to their deep waters and dens so it’s not typically a problem.

The thicker plating at the end of the tail functions a bit like a sudo club. It’s not really a club and smacking your tail into things repeatedly will do damage. Instead a thicker spot a bit like sticking a nail on the end of a wip. The ridges if caught right will tear the object their hitting and the majority of the force comes from the pull back and the snapping of the end.

The thickness of the base of the tail also interferes with the position of sitting. Mythosaurs tend to stand or lay down when idle.

Lastly but certainly not least the paaaaws! Now our canon Mythos are a three toes bastard but I went for a five fingered approach.

Wile semi-aquatic in nature Caburs are more aquatic and Karirs terrestrial. I worked to incorporate that into these feet. They sport a good thick webbing between the digits of all toes. Even the dueclaw of the hind feet are webbed. Those duclaws are also opposable and can help grip when climbing. The pads of their feet are setae covered like most lizards, helping with grip on sheer surfaces and overall lessening the strain on their claws and fingers wile hefting their big mass up objects.

The webbing, like the secondary tusk is cosmetically cut by some clans. Typically Karir clans that live farther inland with no big bodies of water would trim them. Some like to cut small brakes into the webbing along the side of the finger to allow for armor to cover the fingers and claws. The webbing though is quite sturdy and flexible so it doesn’t easily tear.

Their claws, like their tusks, are another beskar heavy area of the body. Mythosaurs will click their claws along side verbal vocalizations to assist with sensing things with their force sense.

This is taken directly from my Cabur/Karir post but was relevant anatomy and wanted it here as a comment on mythosaur bones specifically:

"Their claws, teeth, and tusks have strong deposits of beskar in them, giving them their shiny silver coloring, though it should be noted that all their bones contain it in lattice work of support structures. When the sport of hunting mythosaurs became a thing before they disappeared the beskar pulled from their bones had a slightly easier time being made into armor vrs the stuff pulled from the mines. This had to do with the fact it still contained a fair bit of its host mythosaurs magic and ability to change forms, wile the older beskar in the grounds had time to settle into and ‘know’ it’s shape better. A skilled Armorer can tell if their working with ‘young’ beskar vrs ‘settled’ beskar. Despite being harder to work with settled beskar is more favorable because it holds up better under pressure."

Anywho thanks for 300 followers y’all and thanks for making it to the bottom of the post! More to come as we go!!

[mythosaursarecool]

Wip Wednesday have some wips I may or may not finish

[grendel-menz]

burning food is an inherited trait

[redbean-nom]

thinking abt designs for the mythosaur and shriek hawk, because the canon mythosaur does in no way resemble a semiaquatic jungle creature, and the canon "shriek hawk" appears to either be some sort of dino-planet mutant population or somehow crossed with nevarro dragons, especially since it doesn't even match the silhouette of the vizsla shriek hawk- either way, the shriek hawk equivalent of those super squashed french bulldogs.

so. starting with the mythosaur:

disclaimer: this is pulling from both legends and canon, and also from the perspective of someone whose background is in general dentistry, not paleoart reconstruction

our only existing examples of mythosaur fossils are the skull insignias and replicas: the original cracked-skull signet from boba's pauldron, the stylized signet from jaster/the haat'ade, grogu's pendant, and the one on the armorer's wall in the nevarro forge.

this is further complicated by mythosaurs being sexually dimorphic at a skeletal level as well as the iconic sigil being apparently based off a humanoid species that resembles a male mythosaur:

the Jaing mythosaur seems to feature the binocular eyes/eye sockets seen most clearly in the boba and jaster signets, but broader-set and straighter tusks than almost all the attributed mythosaur skulls. assuming that basic features like eye/nose placement and mandibular structure aren't dimorphic, the Forge mythosaur is probably the most accurate representation of a mythosaur skull.

the only appearance of a nearly-complete mythosaur skeleton is in the form of a defunct theme park of dubious accuracy and proportions, depicted in one issue of a comic from 1977:

this is... certainly something, to say the least. the skull part features the same monocular eye placement (correlates with the Forge mythosaur), oddly-placed nose horns (and no nostrils, and also weird nose-abs), remarkably no tusks, some sort of unicorn-ceratopsid horn crest.

The vehicles for scale are unidentified transport barges, but they seem to be about a foot taller than leia in the back, so approximately 6ft? judging from the transport in the eye-door, the orbital socket is approximately 48 ft across.

in comparison, our other data points in terms of size demonstrate 1) at least one mythosaur (the Living Waters mythosaur) has a head at least twice as tall as din, so approximately 12ft of visible head in comparison to the 48ft-eye of the Theme Park mythosaur. 2) some number of mythosaurs were large enough and of a reasonable shape to be ridden. 3) mythosaurs generally have some large bones of a size appropriate for mythosaur axes, but most likely not so large that the entire axe could be carved from one bone (given the segmented axe shape). 4) all(?) mythosaurs have a sternum bone of a size reasonable for the carving of the mask of mandalore and presumably of a shape reminiscent of the bes'karta.

the Living Waters mythosaur also provides some valuable detail on its face: it appears to be a large reptilian with rough skin of a muted color, seemingly demonstrating the elongated facial structure and the separate tusks (so not a hippo skull situation).

it seems quite odd that the Theme Park mythosaur depiction would leave out the tusks, so given that the Jaing mythosaur resembles a specifically male mythosaur, i'll assume the female mythosaur has the unicorn-ceratopsid crest instead. i'm also going to assume the nose horns are a iguanodon situation, so i've moved them to points of the cheek ridge like ceratopsid cheek points.

looking at these examples, the weirdest thing that seems to stand out is the oddly vertical jaw- where does the mandible attach? how does it eat?? does it actually bite offensively if it has to smush its whole face up to where it's biting?? what sort of range of motion does it have?? the Jaing mythosaur/Jaing species and the Theme Park mythosaur both have more horizontal heads that would better facilitate eating in a hand-less predatory animal; however, the Living Waters mythosaur does have that weird vertical jaw (unless its mouth goes at a 90 degree angle from the rest of its face, like a goblin shark). then again, we can't rule out that the Living Waters mythosaur is just a weird individual with some facial deformity causing the impractical verticality.

that said, why does it have rodent teeth. where are the rest of its teeth. why does it have a huge gap in the side of its face.

i tried putting skin over it and now it looks like a sock puppet.

time to try again with a more forward-angled maxilla, instead of just continuing the angle of the upper face.

i... don't know if this is worse. it looks like some sort of horrible sauropod-rat. well, at least the canon version looks at least as unwieldy as this :/

possible solution for the vertical face: maybe it rotates like how gorilla heads stay facing forward when they're knuckle walking or bipedally walking? but like a weird reptilian version? but then their teeth would be horizontal :///

alright. take three, this time with a more humanoid vertical jaw.

it now looks like it ran facefirst into a brick wall. unsure if this is an aesthetic improvement from the sauropod rat, but it seems even less functional in terms of range of motion and durability. however, the occlusion is a bit better in the resting state?

looking at it again, how does it even fight. the tusks would seem like the obvious answer but they seem too close to the face? and the teeth are huge but they're weird flat skinny incisors that are way too vertical to be of use without smushing the entire face up against the prey.

not to mention these are supposed to be jungle creatures?? judging from the Living Waters mythosaur i'm going to assume they're some sort of jungle river creature-

-ARE THEY BALEEN FILTER FEEDERS

apparently baleen is a non-fossilizing soft tissue, which would explain why the Theme Park mythosaur doesn't seem to have any functional teeth, and those weird skinny incisors can either be some sort of baleen-like tissue replicated as "teeth" in the classic "mythosaur skull" (especially if the Jaing species and associated Jaing mythosaur actually did have teeth), or something like split rostrum whales.

that would also explain how such a huge creature supports large global populations

well, this still needs some work, but it definitely looks better than sock puppet mythosaur... except no, the nostrils probably wouldn't work if the baleen attach to the front of the skull.

going back to look at the front view, the Forge mythosaur seems to have some indentations between its eyes, kind of like where rancor nostrils are, that look similar to trunk attachment points. except the actual nostrils are lower on the Living Waters mythosaur.

wait

going back to rodent teeth

BEAVER. BEAVER TEETH

THATS WHAT HAS WEIRD LONG SKINNY INCISORS

irl, beavers have iron deposits in their enamel to prevent wear/stress during tree-gnawing activity. what if. beaver mythosaur. with BESKAR INFUSED TEETH

mandalore also has massive veshok forests - hardwood trees remarkable for their sturdiness. so it makes sense that something would make use of those giant veshok trees!

BEAVER MYTHOSAURS WITH BESKAR TEETH THAT GNAW VESHOK TREES

BEAVER MYTHOSAUR BUILDING A DAM UNDER THE LIVING WATERS

BEAVER MYTHOSAUR

beavers eat mostly wood and assorted vegetation; to maintain both the herbivore teeth and the reptilian appearance i've added marine iguana features to the mix. (conveniently, iguanas' parietal eye nicely explains the indentation in the middle of the Forge mythosaur's forehead)

it. it looks so dumb but a little more in a Weird Animal way and not a sad deflated sock puppet

...now on to the rest of the body (essentially, it's a 60-ft-long marine iguana with beskar teeth and beaver behavior) :

their reputation as fierce beasts/honorable foes can likely be attributed to Large Herbivore. it's a mandalorian beaver-iguana-moose. with beskar teeth.

[lostwren]

Thank you for doing this! I just spent like, an hour looking at references and going through a very similar thought process but never got past "maybe whale? Or shark?" Because yeah, the teeth make no sense.

Honestly, at this point I feel like it's a raccoon skull=wolf situation. Because every mock up I've seen also lacks any large muscle attachment points in the skull. So we're presumably not looking at an animal with a lot of bite strength.

I just hope Disney doesn't do bulldog legs on them. At least let us pretend they can sprint.