Yark & Forsoth!

It's surreal every time I see it. This particular pseudosuchian has a very different snout/facial profile from me, but the build and stance is basically identical.

I was in my 30s when I learned these creatures even existed. There was no way for me to imprint on the idea of a crocodilian that looked like this, except by pure coincidence.

Nor did I know that a reptile could be this colour— a shade rarely found in nature, maybe occasionally on flowers or birds.

(Every child's dinosaur book in the 80s depicted them as brown or green. I did know that partially blue reptiles existed, but their colours were intense, almost neon, not dusty and soft like a fading flower.)

Or that prehistoric reptiles could have lived in boreal areas. I thought all that was my fantasy. Something I made up; and so I called myself dragon and drake, having no better words for the collection of traits I felt were mine.

I still haven't found an Earthen animal with all of these features (although it's possible we'll never know the scale colours of many ancient animals). But it's extremely plausible that it could exist, and that's exciting. I hope I'm around to see it discovered.

You can be unsure of your theriotype.

You can not know your theriotype.

We are literally right here. We do these things on tumblr daily. Half the people I follow on here have personal websites they update regularly. I'm in like 6 well-attended discord servers where all people do is share their experiences and have meaningful discussions. We didn't go anywhere, you've just apparently fallen victim to the convenience of The Algorithm and forgotten that old web spaces required you to seek them out on purpose and didn't endlessly churn out new content if you didn't contribute.

god forbid not every aspect of nature was made to service or convenience you.

god forbid being outside is a little annoying sometimes. god forbid there’s a bug on you. god forbid the sun is in your eyes.

god forbid things fight and bite and protect themselves. god forbid the animals survive.