Welp, wish me luck (or not).
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An Introduction I Suppose
Circa 15,000 years BCE, humans made landfall on Kerguelen.
These people were related to the South African indigenous complex sometimes called "KhoiSan". These seperated from the rest of human...
2022-06-16 15:01:30 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://multituberculateearth.wordpress.com/2022/03/30/meniscoessidae-the-disgraced-ones/
2022-06-16 07:51:18 +0000 UTC View Post<figure>
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Magic: The Gathering is pretty unique in that its game mechanics produced an exceptionally useful writing tool.
The color pie essentially breaks down the core components of charac...
2022-06-14 15:44:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Oligocene map (adapted from Ron Blakey). Red marks the Pan-Arctic/Laurasian faunal unit, dominated by microcosmodontids, eucosmodontids, lambdopsalids, adalatheriids, and sudamericids, with relictual flightless kogaionids and ptilodontoideans and perhaps meniscoessids; lime marks the Afro-Ara...
2022-06-13 21:46:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Eocene map (adapted from Ron Blakey). Red marks the North American faunal province, dominated by ptilodontoideans, microcosmodontids, eucosmodontids, ferugliotheriids, taeniolabidids, lambdopsalids and adalatheriids; orange marks the European faunal province, dominated by taeniolabidids, feru...
2022-06-13 21:26:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Palaeocene map (adapted from Ron Blakey). Red marks the North American faunal province, dominated by ptilodontoideans, microcosmodontids, eucosmodontids, taeniolabidids, meniscoessids, ferugliotheriids and relictual therians; gold marks the Antarctic faunal province dominated by dryolestoids,...
2022-06-13 21:03:50 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://multituberculateearth.wordpress.com/2022/06/12/green-and-white-antarctica/
2022-06-12 08:55:32 +0000 UTC View Post<figure>
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So Prehistoric Planet is out and about. As predicted, it is the most scientifically accurate and visually stunning dinosaur documentary done to date. There’s honestly not much ...
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Pterosaur wing diagram...
The world exists in a continuum, from past to present and beyond.
My roots are plunged into the past, into the land, into the flesh, into the blood and into the soul.
So many have come before me, be them people, great beasts or ancient trees, their marks shaping the soil where my root...
2022-05-25 08:09:07 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://multituberculateearth.wordpress.com/2022/05/20/multituberculate-saberteeth/
2022-05-20 18:00:35 +0000 UTC View PostIn which I exercise more of the post-mending Ulgroth worldbuilding.
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Laira was a simple faerie.
A bit of sunshine, a warm welcome and the sound of rivulet waters echoing across the creek was enough to please her. Many of her kin los...
2022-05-15 18:56:51 +0000 UTC View PostRemember how old canon had interesting things to say like how mana apparently travels from the base of the skull? Good times.
Also the Ulgrotha guide said the minotaurs were based on Aboriginal Australian cultures so have some Kamilaroi-inspired things.
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G...
The cages rattled, wood hitting wood a sound more unsettling than the lightning roaring in the night sky, the pitiless splashes the carriage's collective hooves as they punched and marred the bog expanse, the murderous howls echoing through the hills all the way to the snowy peaks of the Koskun. ...
2022-05-02 23:29:00 +0000 UTC View PostI've been thinking about a hypothetical return to my favourite MTG set, and I think I'm going to commit to it.
I'll write a story that WOTC has confidently stated they will never write.
I hope to eventually convert this into a visual novel, I already have an arti...
2022-05-02 21:49:50 +0000 UTC View Post<figure>Borealestes serendipitus by Panciroli et al 2021.</figure>
I always think about Mesozoic syna...
2022-04-21 11:37:36 +0000 UTC View Post<figure>List of multie skulls by Adams et al 2019.</figure>
You might have figured something is h...
2022-04-13 19:15:06 +0000 UTC View PostA bird girl's story at Echo's edge, centuries before the mines were opened. (Note's: Jenna ending allusion that most of Echo was underwater. Also MC's name is Zapotec because indigenous peoples in the southwest traded with Mesoamericans)
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Xena stared at the water, black ...
2022-04-04 13:00:46 +0000 UTC View PostDue to the extremely erratic and unpredictable Enantiornithes phylogeny a full project probably ain't gonna be possible in the immediate future. Still, here's some ideas I decided to go with:
- Basic layout similar to that of The Speculative Dinosaur Project, with Avisauridae, a clade...
2022-03-13 15:59:35 +0000 UTC View Post<figure>Adamantina Formation enantiornithean jaw from Wu et al 2021.</figure>
I still remember the Mi...
2022-03-12 14:00:43 +0000 UTC View PostLots of “what if Pokemon were real animals” speculative essays, might as well do one for temtem.
Tuwai itself
Given its small size and long tail, I’m overall assuming an ecology similar to its real life inspiration, the toucans and the closely related barbets. P...
2022-03-09 11:49:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Been a while since I did one of these: https://multituberculateearth.wordpress.com/2022/03/30/flying-mammals/
2022-02-24 17:32:36 +0000 UTC View PostThus did the invaders come, tearing through the wind with marrow lights. The Aurora passed like a tide, but cut it was, and oblivious it was to them as well.
Flame burst like a flaring sun, leaving ashes like burnt corpses. This happened outside of him, but also on the inside, for the tide...
https://mullerornis.itch.io/lands-of-fire/devlog/343511/first-itteration-complete
2022-02-05 14:38:14 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Flynn route we get a tiny tidbit on Echo's indigenous history, and how little Sydney thought they had treasures. Here we explore this.
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Sydney looked at Jenna, across their lunchtable. He felt nervous; nominally friends, she had rejected any attempts in the past to be bestie...
2022-01-24 05:39:06 +0000 UTC View Post"Oh my goodness, what happened?" TJ's mom asked, half-concerned and half-amused.
As the two stood i the porch, its clear by the ruffled fur and scent that they had a tryst in the car, though at least they were presentable. TJ looked pretty embarassed but happy; it was Sydney who seemed atyp...
2022-01-18 22:34:53 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://mullerornis.itch.io/lands-of-fire/devlog/335527/penultimate-update
2022-01-15 14:58:51 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://sites.google.com/view/allotheria/gondwanatheres-of-the-oligocene
2022-01-11 23:41:52 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://mullerornis.itch.io/lands-of-fire/devlog/334188/future-updates
2022-01-11 13:21:57 +0000 UTC View Post<figure>
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People have done it for Pokemon types so why not?
Since there are twelve types I like to think that each color (plus colorless) has a type. You're free to disagree, particularly since th...
2022-01-10 12:58:22 +0000 UTC View Post