Spindlesaurus Rex

My name is Jean. This is where I put my nonesense. Multifandom. Maybe some fanfiction sometimes. She/her, bisexual, 30

[justnoodlefishthings]

I've been completely enamored with this clip of Werner Herzog saying "here comes honey boo boo" for days now

[brucebocchi]

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

Tactical reloading of things that don’t need tactical reloads

[taraljc]

I lost it at the toaster and couldn't make it past the smoke detector before reblogging

[h0ped3lusion]

This is so satisfying to watch—

[shrubsparrow]

I made an art/anatomy tutorial about birds! I hope people will find it helpful!

[mercurymasc]

my friend and i were discussing a dnd campaign made up entirely of shakespearean characters but we were debating who would be what and if there would be any that aren't bards

my pitches were for barbarian beatrice (let her be filled with rage) and warlock hamlet whose pact was slowly driving him to insanity

please drop more ideas come and nerd out with me

[spindlesaurus-rex]

Personally, it is very important to me that Caliban is not a barbarian but someone in a bad pact too thanks, for asking

[spindlesaurus-rex]

Yeah, Feste might be a rogue also. Charisma high, wisdom not so much!

[spindlesaurus-rex]

Ariel makes sense as a familiar/ Mephit if Prospero is a wizard but I so much prefer readings that grant both Caliban and Ariel full agency so what if Prospero is an NPC and is the patron to both Ariel and Caliban’s pacts?

[mercurymasc]

my friend and i were discussing a dnd campaign made up entirely of shakespearean characters but we were debating who would be what and if there would be any that aren't bards

my pitches were for barbarian beatrice (let her be filled with rage) and warlock hamlet whose pact was slowly driving him to insanity

please drop more ideas come and nerd out with me

[spindlesaurus-rex]

Personally, it is very important to me that Caliban is not a barbarian but someone in a bad pact too thanks, for asking

[spindlesaurus-rex]

Yeah, Feste might be a rogue also. Charisma high, wisdom not so much!

[mercurymasc]

my friend and i were discussing a dnd campaign made up entirely of shakespearean characters but we were debating who would be what and if there would be any that aren't bards

my pitches were for barbarian beatrice (let her be filled with rage) and warlock hamlet whose pact was slowly driving him to insanity

please drop more ideas come and nerd out with me

[spindlesaurus-rex]

Personally, it is very important to me that Caliban is not a barbarian but someone in a bad pact too thanks for asking

[mercurymasc]

my friend and i were discussing a dnd campaign made up entirely of shakespearean characters but we were debating who would be what and if there would be any that aren't bards

my pitches were for barbarian beatrice (let her be filled with rage) and warlock hamlet whose pact was slowly driving him to insanity

please drop more ideas come and nerd out with me

[dreamingnemleria]

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[aniseandspearmint]

"I love you. ...That was for the potatoes, not for you."

[potato-murderer]

I am now in debt to someone I have never met before

[potatofacts]

If you did this to a human they wouldn’t like it but potatoes aren’t even remotely scared of this

[baratheonpilled]

LYONEL BARATHEON x SER DUNCAN THE TALL.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 1.01 / Dialogues With Leuco by Cesare Pavese

[lipstickhamlet]

something about the way shakespeare's plays are positioned to just barely cover the untold tragedies lurking underneath. lady macbeth knows how tender the babe is that milks her yet the macbeths have no child to pass the crown to. iago mentions that othello saw his own brother shot to pieces by cannons. olivia was planning to grieve her brother for 7 years until she met viola. beatrice knew benedick of old. lady capulet was only fourteen when she gave birth to juliet. it drives me crazy to see all the untold stories peeking out between the lines of the main plot.

[coriolanusbutch]

obsessed with this footnote in my copy of romeo and juliet

[filmnoirsbian]

Had a dream about a haunted forest

[gorbling]

Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"

[gorbling]

[hapalopus]

[hapalopus]

More from the notes:

[vexwerewolf]

I love this post

[karifaevt]

The horse thinks as it scratches an itch

[lipstickhamlet]

does anyone else live in verona or is it just the two gentlemen & the two households both alike in dignity

[cryptotheism]

Pisses me off how good Shakespeare actually is. Like yeah he's actually that good. People hype him up like he's the best English writer ever, and yeah he's actually an S+ tier writer.

[cryptotheism]

Insane that he did all that while naming his characters shit like Count Evilcount and Peter Penissex.

[sparrowlucero]

dinosaur discourse

[gallusrostromegalus]

I am going to spoil the joke under the cut, but in service of giving some additional context that makes it even funnier:

If you're having trouble telling what the difference is between the two dinos, the joke is that there is virtually no difference, save for a feature we have no actual physical evidence for (unless there's been a big update I missed, we don't have any conclusive evidence of what large therapods were colored like).

This does not stop every paleoart subreddit or twitter/bsky artist following from being full of the most utterly miserable bickering pedants having wildly disproportionate reactions to minor and purely theoretical... I can't even call them arguments. Just different ideas.

Meanwhile, the paleoartists I know from my master's program- the people who are doing the illustrations for real museums like the smithsonian and university teaching materials- are out there having fun and going "How much can I make this Tyrannosaur look like a flamingo? It's not like there's anything to suggest they were NOT bright pink :)"

[sario528]

Hey Gallus, as an Actual paleoartist, what do you think of this?

[gallusrostromegalus]

So my master's is in Botanical Illustration, not Paleontological Illustration, but I did Email this to my profs that would make redditors explode and they offered the following notes:

Overall: The vibes are immaculate, but Probably Not

We have some fossil evidence to suggest juvenile Rexes were downy, but adults were almost certainly not

Especially not like this, because sparrows are floofy because they're little animals that live in temperate climates with cold winters, and T-Rex was a Very Large Animal living in tropical climates. It did not need the insulation.

That's a pose a T-rex could strike but not it's natural habit. The artist has also fudged the proportions a bit, in a very plausible way so always double-check your measurements and reference sources to make sure you're not making stuff up

T-rex would have had no need for flight feathers like depicted on the wings and tail, and it comes from earlier in the evolutionary tree than flighted dinosaurs so it wouldn't have them vestigially either

HOWEVER:

It's extremely valid and compelling to consider how feathering might have radically changed the silhouettes, especially in terms of camouflage and insulation for some of the smaller and midsize dinosaurs

Patterning and cryptic camouflage are also very valid interpretations, even on a giant non-aquatic predator, because a ton of animals are paler on the underside

The little bright cheek puffs are something that might have shown up as skin pigmentation, esp given that Rexes had extremely good vision and probably fairly sociable so communicative coloration would be a very valid and reasonable choice

They think its very cute and funny and they're all emailing this image to each other and printing it to put it on office doors

[gallusrostromegalus]

I'd like to address these tags by @eclipseyeger real fast:

YOU ABSOLUTELY DO NOT NEED A MASTERS DEGREE TO BE A SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATOR!!

I don't actually have one! What I have is a master's certification of botanical illustration from the Denver Botanic Garden's Illustration Program. It's not an accredited degree, but it is just as if not more respected as a master's degree from a university. And a hell of a lot cheaper! I just call it a master's because it gets the concept across and is shorter to type.

And I don't technically need that! Anyone can take on an art commission for scientific purposes! Anyone can join any of the illustration guilds regardless of education! There are people with no formal art training making a living at this because all you actually need is a strong portfolio and the ability to network.

To that end, I recommend at least some formal art training and classes in how to draw with the kind of accuracy educational institutions are expecting, to build the skills necessary and to meet fellow illustrators, because 90% of the commissions you get come from your fellow sci ill people recommending you to a client because they're booked.

But yeah, you can just jump right in! Email the paleontology department of a university with your portfolio! Hand out business cards to grad students looking to spruce up a paper! Join an Illustration guild! There is no gatekeeping here, we are actively trying to herd new people in!!