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Today's Valyrian glyph is daema "violet". One of the main characteristics of Valyrians is their violet eye color. I waited a while to come up with this word because I wanted it to be good and fit in with the world. Once we saw Daemon as a character I knew I had the right base. Also his name is pretty badass: The Stone Violet. It's like an 80s wrestler who wears pink spandex and has a steel flower in his teeth. Or a 70s prog band that finishes a song at 3:04 but then keeps on playing it anyway until 17:38. I dig it.

Today's Valyrian glyph is daema "violet". One of the main characteristics of Valyrians is their violet eye color. I waited a while to come up with this word because I wanted it to be good and fit in with the world. Once we saw Daemon as a character I knew I had the right base. Also his name is pretty badass: The Stone Violet. It's like an 80s wrestler who wears pink spandex and has a steel flower in his teeth. Or a 70s prog band that finishes a song at 3:04 but then keeps on playing it anyway until 17:38. I dig it.

Obviously, there are more dragon names than this in A Song of Ice and Fire (and more that have been mentioned in House of the Dragon), but these are the ones we have pictures of (or skulls, at least). I have to say, GRRM doesn't disappoint when it comes to the quantity of dragons. If dragons are supposed to be a big thing in the series, there better be a lot of them, and there are, so hats off to him for that!

Latest Valyrian dialogue from House of the Dragon! This is episode 302.

Well, it's a Latin phrase that translates to, "those who are about to die salute you." I think we wanted a really cool, poignant title, especially because it was the episode to feature the Handler and Ghosts deaths, as well as Soyona's comeuppance. Going with the Latin phrase felt like a cool connection to the fact that we were also having this last showdown in the Colosseum-esque location. If I remember correctly, the episode was almost titled, "Are You Not Entertained?" (or maybe it was just an idea that floated around), which is a quote from Gladiator -- something we were also referencing because of the location. So it all just kinda worked out. It's interesting to note that the phrase, historically, seems to have been more of a plea for reprieve for soldiers that was actually granted -- ironically, the Handler was not met with the same reprieve. Or, perhaps she was, since the loss of Ghost was so devastating to her. I'll let y'all run with that! In the end, we really just liked the poignance of the phrase and how it was foreshadowing the events of the episode.

Some more renders of a Kotie (fictional fantasy feline from my world/story) 3D model. Same character in a winter and summer landscape, plus some "fish eye" camera tests. Made in Blender.

Equal parts whimsical, eerie, and adorable, it feels like something out of a forgotten fairytale.

I have to thank a team of friends and colleagues who help behind the scenes with research, creation of size charts and conversation partners when it comes to deciding on the compositions of these pieces. Their help has been invaluable!

Can we get around the 30 image limit by reposting with a new image to the thread each week? We shall see. Mazon Creek now, Toolebuc formation this Saturday.

Adding Toolebuc formation

Adding the Cleveland Shale of the Ohio formation.

Adding the Consthum quarry

Adding the Ermaying formation

Adding the Bahariya formation!

Btw. this was the last formation piece of the year, I would love to know what has been your favorite so far!

First formation stream of the year!

Adding the Gigantopithecus fauna of Pleistocene China!

Adding the Hell Creek formation from the latest Cretaceous of North America! Our 1 year anniversary for this series!

Adding the Rio do Rasto formation from the middle Permian of Brazil!

Adding the Corral Bluffs from the early Paleocene of the Denver formation.

Adding the Fossil Butte member of the Eocene Green River formation.

Adding the Soom Shale, member of the Cederberg Formation in South Africa. A late Ordovician world of oddities.

Adding the Miocene St. Bathans fauna from New Zealand! A spark of life after this fauna island nearly drowned in the Oligocene!

Adding the Candeleros formation from the Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Argentina. Home of Giganotosaurus and many sauropods.

Adding the Rhynie Chert locality from the Devonian of Scotland. A geothermal wetland preserving early landplants and animals.

Adding the Ischigualasto formation from the Upper Triassic of Argentina, known for some of the oldest dinosaurs.

Adding Emu Bay Shale, from the Cambrian of Australia. No. 50 in this series!

Adding Sirius Passet, another Cambrian lagerstätte from Greenland. Tons of weird critters from here, among them the more than 50 cm long Pambdelurion.

Adding Bear Gulch, an incredibly diverse locality from the Carboniferous of Montana! So many fish, so little time.

Adding the Niobrara Formation of the late Cretaceous. The second Western Interior Seaway piece of the series.

Adding the Maevarano formation from Late Ctretaceous Madagascar. A wonderland of small and large oddities.

Adding the Pleistocene of Flores, a kingdom of tiny humans, tiny elephants and a whole bunch of giant rats, storks and lizards.

Adding the Las Hoyas locality, an early Cretaceous wetland full of all sort of beautiful little critters... and Concevenator.

Adding the Dinosaur Park Formation of the Late Cretaceous of Canada. A classic when it comes to tyrannosaurs, ceratopsians and hadrosaurs.

Adding the Tiki formation from the Triassic of India, a paradise for phytosaurs.

Adding the Holocene of New Zealand, a bird world that we just missed, largely because of ourselves.

Adding the Cerro del Pueblo formation from the Cretaceous of Mexico, a place for strange hadrosaurs and even stranger ornithomimosaur.

Adding the Gogo Formation from the Devonian of Australia! A classic, very productive formation full of placoderms.

Adding the Hornerstown formation of the latest Cretaceous and early Plaeocene of New Jersey! A witness to the K-Pg event.

Adding the Hammerschmiede clay pit, this is what peak Miocene looks like in Europe ;)

YOU CAN'T STOP ME! Adding the Gargano island fauna, a Miocene/Pliocene world of insular oddballs.

Adding the Ocher sub-assemblage zone from the Middle Permian of Russia! Estemmenosuchus, Estemmenosuchus everywhere!

Adding the Patrick Burn Formation, our first Silurian formation and home to a fun mix of arthropods and jawless fish!

Adding the Kuanti Formation, a window into early jawed fish evolution in the Silurian.

Adding the Jialingjiang Formation, the early Triassic home of the hupehsuchians!

Original post by @cryptotheism

(I love how it turned out, especially Helaena, she feels like a peak teenager. Yes inspo was the umbrella academy meme)

happy make a terrible comic day!!! i haven't stopped thinking about this post since i saw it. in 2018 a common merganser was spotted with 76 (SEVENTY SIX!!!) chicks!! that's SOOOO many baby. so much success.

I've finished it 😊It took me eons...The Battle of The Whispering Wood

I've finished it 😊It took me eons...The Battle of The Whispering Wood

Addendum: some sketches I did right after i listened to the talk about Tameryraptor in 2021

Today's Valyrian glyph is daema "violet". One of the main characteristics of Valyrians is their violet eye color. I waited a while to come up with this word because I wanted it to be good and fit in with the world. Once we saw Daemon as a character I knew I had the right base. Also his name is pretty badass: The Stone Violet. It's like an 80s wrestler who wears pink spandex and has a steel flower in his teeth. Or a 70s prog band that finishes a song at 3:04 but then keeps on playing it anyway until 17:38. I dig it.