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Side Blog for: Primeval -- Primeval: New World -- Prehistoric Creatures -- Writing fic

[johannesviii]

Diictodon, who survived the most brutal extinction event on Earth, is happy to see you made it to the other side of that year. Eat well and rest for a bit, you deserved it

[johannesviii]

Diictodon is happy to see you made it again, to the other side of 2021 this time! And look, the ginko is regrowing! Eat well and rest for a bit, you deserved it

[johannesviii]

Hey! Diictodon is happy to see you made it to the other side of 2022! Here’s a nice tuber for you. Eat well and rest for a bit, you deserved it

[i-was-bored-so-this-happened]

I'll never get over the fact that on AO3 all the Primeval character tags are the names the characters actually use but Becker? No, he gets tagged with his full name every time

[primeval--schism]

That’s because it’s Hilary-ious

[jurassicsunsets]

⦕⁅⁅⁅ɔ  ⦕⁅⁅⁅ɔ  ⦕⁅⁅⁅ɔ  ⦕⁅⁅⁅ɔ  ⦕⁅⁅⁅ɔ

you have encountered a group of trilobites! reblog to help them on their journey

[0pabinia]

>>}}}}}}):•:)—<

An Opabinia forages alongside!

[terrible-tentacle-theatre]

»﴿﴿﴿﴿﴿﴿Ѻʭ

Can an Anomalocaris perhaps come along? (It promises to play nice and not eat anyone else in the group.)

[a-ceratosaurus-wearingcrocs]

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A hallucigenia is there because yeah

[jewishpangolin]

(((_)))

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A Wiwaxia joins them

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

[primeval--schism]

Chapter 6 to my Primeval AU is up!

AO3 Link to Chapter 6

ff.n Link to Chapter 6

Themed Playlist

[seafossilqueen]

[cardcastor-deactivated20221105]

shuvuuia, my beloved...

[primeval--schism]

Wedge chicken!

[ozanthium]

A fiery Pyroraptor!

Available on Redbubble! 

[rcrisu]

At one point I said that I might try my hand at animating extinct fauna with Ebsynth, so here’s a Smilodon Fatalis. The reference animation was an African Lion.

[primeval--schism]

So I started a fanfiction project a decade ago, and I've talked a little about it here. This is the one I’ve basically completely rewritten.

Well, I started posting it, and I’m up to five chapter now.

AO3 Link

ff.n link

Themed Spotify Playlist

[insanitysilver]

I started a fic that was SUPPOSED to only be a oneshot... and which has snowballed and is now five chapters. I'm about 95% sure I'm gonna add two more. I've been chipping at it for five years (I counted). When I decided I was gonna make it a multi chapter, I decided I wasn't gonna post the 1st chapter until the 2nd was done so I could keep a consistent update schedule, but that gets hard when I decide to wedge in extra scenes on the fly. Should I just post chapter one, schedules be damned?

Ah, how fun! Of the two longfics I’ve written, one I wrote entirely then posted and the other I’ve been posting as I write. So here’s the rundown from my experience:

Pros of Waiting to Post:

No pressure to finish chapters by certain dates

Less guilt if you want to abandon the project

It’s much easier to edit earlier chapters (add foreshadowing, switch scenes around, rework character motivations, etc.)

Cons of Waiting to Post:

It takes a lot of internal motivation (unless you can get a friend group excited about it with you)

It's lonely work (once again unless you have writer friends)

Sometimes feedback can be useful

Pros of Posting Now:

The ppl want updates and that’s External Motivation babeyyy

It’s easy to stay hyped about writing

You get to see ppl react on a chapter-by-chapter basis

Their feedback may be helpful

Cons of Posting Now:

Ppl may ask for updates, which can be an added source of stress

Updating can begin to feel like an obligation

Harder to make bigger revisions to already posted chapters

Abandoning a fic or taking a break from it is trickier

The feedback of the general public may not be helpful

Updating your fic shouldn’t feel like an obligation, and you shouldn’t feel guilty about abandoning fics*, but those feelings tend to arise in us anyway. There’s not a one-size-fits-all answer to this question, so it’s really down to what you think you need! If it were me, I think I’d start to slowly post my chapter backlog with a couple months between updates. I’m a slow writer, so that would hopefully give me time to work on future chapters while ppl are reading the earlier ones.

*see ‘sunken cost fallacy’

[otussketching]

Nothing special, just a dodo being tagged for further study. This one is named “Ralph”. I drew them being handled by a person so you can get a sense of just how spooked they were during the whole procedure.

Side-note; not too proud of this one. I think I screwed up the eyes big time. The paints were also a bit of a challenge to handle, as adding new layers of watercolour just kept making the whole thing messier and messier. I think it’s… okay, though. Watercolour sure is fun to use, but the learning curve is about as steep as a high cliff.

[incorrectprimeval]

Lester: Connor, where are Sid, Nancy, and Rex?

Connor: [Nervous] Who?

Lester: Don't play dumb with me. The Dinosaurs. Where are they?

Connor: They're probably in the menagerie.

Lester: Then how come no one has seen then in a month?

Connor: Beats me.

Lester: So you're saying that if I went to your flat right now, Sid and Nancy would not be sleeping on your sofa?

Connor: Of course not!

Connor: ... They're not allowed up on the sofa.

[rocket-sith]

Reblog if you write fic and people can inbox you random-ass questions about your stories, itemized number lists be damned.

[writeouswriter]

[hummingyogurt]

This is probably the weirdest customization I made so far, I took a “giant spider” from the Primeval themed line of the British toy company Character Options and turned it into a Megarachne

The giant arachnids from the ITV show might be inspired by outdated depictions of Megarachne so it seemed to fit for this eurypterid

The colours I chose are based on vampire crabs

Here you can see the commercial of the original toy line, they only produced characters and creatures from the first two seasons, I deeply wish the line also included the gorgonopsid from the first episode but that never happened

[wyntereyez]

I feel like we've been overlooking the REAL news:

Scientists Have Described a Dinosaur's Butthole in Exquisite Detail

When a dog-sized Psittacosaurus was living out its days on Earth, it was probably concerned with mating, eating, and not being killed by oth

[hummingyogurt]

Old watercolour painting of Muiscasaurus I made back in 2015

[primeval--schism]

Murder dolphin

[hummingyogurt]

N-no it’s friendely

[primeval--schism]

Oh, no, I meant "murder dolphin" with all the care in the world. I always imagined these guys to be like dolphins we see now, just... sharper.