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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget review

Dawn of the Nugget is a return to form for Aardman, at least on the animation department. Though there are a few CGI touches, most of the movie is in their classical stop motion, which is rather pleasant...

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Where and how did pteranodontians come to be?

Epapetelo by SpinoDragon145

Pteranodontians are a famous clade of Late Cretaceous pterosaurs that include the titular Pteranodon, the nyctosaurs and taxa that sometimes are either...

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Movie Night

Tj and Sydney love movie nights with friends, but sometimes more private viewings are afoot.

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"Have you decided on what movie" Sydney lounged on the couch, curious but nervous.

"I'm not sure myself" TJ confessed, "Its been a while without Flynn, Car...

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Got a fan suggestion for Multituberculate Earth:

https://multituberculateearth.wordpress.com/2022/04/01/the-birds-of-multituberculate-earth/

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Aqalax (includes story)

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Announcing the Anamills Project

It's a story that has been brooding about in my mind for a long time. For now, it takes a back seat to Fallen Máni and Matahouroa, but I will unveil it alongside Aethersworn.

Unlike Aethersworn, I can give you the basic world building points.

Premise

The titular Anami...

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Merry Little Batman review

Merry Little Batman is decidedly on the lighter side of Batman media, in stark and perhaps welcome contrast to other DC animated films. The character designs are highly caricaturesque, ranging from Alfre...

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Magic the Gathering: Aqalax

Naje held unto the her boat. It was midday, but in the bayous of the Guey territory the cypresses dimmed the sunlight somewhat. It was enough for her purposes. Crawdads were compelled into the net, rising from the muck. Once the cache was filled, she rowed to the docks. Upon landing, a few fi...

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On pterosaur footprints

A maker of Rhamphichnus footprints by Mark Witton. Note pronated arms.

There are three main pterosaur ichnotaxa (footprints assigned taxonomically):

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On Navajodactylus

Two depictions of Navajodactylus as a non-azhdarchid pterodactyloid, by Spooky and Corvarts respecti...

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Titina review

Titina is a rare family animated movie that is based on an historical event that is down to earth and (relatively) accurate to said event. There are no talking animals, and fantastical scenes are the res...

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Scott Pilgrim Takes Off review


Scott Pilgrim Takes Off has been heavily prommoted as an adaptation of the comics, down to the casting of most of the film's actors. And indeed, the first episode does more or less follow the ...

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The Boy and the Heron review

The Boy and the Heron in some ways resembles Spirited Away, and in some ways it can be considered an improvement, enchancing its more positive qualities. The key difference is that the movie dedicates a ...

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The Marvels review

Captain/Ms Marvel and the various people that donned those titles are among my favourite Marvel heroes, so a legacy flick focusing on these underrated gals was a treat to see.


Carol Danv...

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Phyrexia as smallpox

So the planeswalker's guide to Lost Caverns of Ixalan dropped and I'm honestly still processing everything. There's a lot of rich worldbuilding, a true trimph for vo...

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Scavengers & Scavengers Reign review

Scavengers focuses on two stranded scientists on the planet Vesta Minor, exploiting its indigenous life for a variety of ends.

Biologically, the alien life doesn't make a lot of sense, being more like organic appliances. So if you're aiming for speculative evolution, don't bother. But if yo...

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Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires review

This is a stop motion animated film, and a damn fluid one at that. The animation is beyond spectacular and never feels clunky. It also plays close attention to detail, like the constant flowing candlewax...

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Doom Patrol review

Doom Patrol is by far one of the best superhero shows of the 2010's/early 2020's. The comics, having essentially lived in the shadow of the more popular X-Men, have taken a route towards surrealism and p...

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Goodbye, Onyx Equinox

On November 5 2023, roughly four years after her series run on Crunchyroll, Onyx Equinox creator Sofia Alexander confirmed the show was cancelled.

This is beyond tragic for me. I loved thi...

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Blue Eye Samurai review

Blue Eye Samurai is a visual masterpiece with cel-shaded CGI, which truly gives it a comic book vibe on certain scenes. At times, the show gets experimental; you'll never live until you see their animate...

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The Magic Snowflake Review

Christmas films are aplenty, and though this does not reach the heights of posterior works like Klaus there is some interesting animation going on. The movie combines a rather child-book like style with ...

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A Dia To Remember

Leo Alvarez never much cared for the Day of the Dead, but he reconsiders it for his family.

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Leo Alvarez carefully cleaned his shrine.

Marigolds, candles and incense surrounded a photo of his abuelo and abuela. It was a rather simple shrine, born ou...

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Lemuria: the Dreaded Titicula

Young Titicula emerging from an elephant wound. By Dave Garcia.

The island of Lemuria is home to a staggering mammalian megafauna, ruled over by 2023-10-31 07:17:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Jenna's Halloween

The Echo gang lets their kids celebrate trick-or-treating

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Jenna watched the sunset.

It was melodic, the blood red of the sky heralding softer orange lights, soon keeping the darkness at bay. If only the bonfires had been enough at Echo; she always ...

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Curses! review

So "adventure archaeology" has been a stapple of popular culture for decades. Usually it focuses on obtaining artifacts, unfortunately ignoring the realities of colonialism and its unlawful theft of cult...

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The Fern Prarie: fact or myth?

Moschorhinus and Lystrosaurus by DiBgd. Notably, the small plants in this picture are not true ferns but the extinct seed fern Dicrodium. To help illustrate my point.

In ...

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Pterosaurs on Life On Our Planet

As my previous review showed, Life On Our Planet has issues. One of the issues ...

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Life On Our Planet Review


Prehistoric Planet seems to indeed have heralded a new age of prehistoric documentaries, and some like this one take new creative insights. Rather than being something akin to a David...

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Susurrus

Was too busy during Spirit Day, so I decided to make up with this

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"Everytime I see you part of me combusts, so radiant you are" Drayden whispered softly into Zander's ear.

"You have such a way with words" Zander whispered back.

He kissed his ...

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