ANTEDILUVIAN Gifs

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Antediluvian is a short animated film in commemorative homage to Classic Paleoart and the earliest Paleontologists. Exactly 200 years ago was the first dinosaur formally described.

Full short film now available at Youtube/MarioLanzas.

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I never read the series until I was an adult, and the first book legitimately made me cry! Knowing Jango was going to die made it even worse. Here’s this kid who sees his dad as his entire world, and that world is ripped away from him in one instant at the start of a war he can’t possibly understand. It really makes you hate all the adults involved even more, especially people like Palpatine and Dooku, knowing that this tragedy will repeat itself many times over across the galaxy. And seeing how no one even gives a crap about this kid afterwards is especially heartbreaking.

(Mace is really cold-hearted about the whole thing in the Clone Wars series, telling Boba “You’ll just have to forgive me.” Not a sorry or anything. Granted, the kid had just tried to kill him, but damn, not an ounce of compassion or understanding. I respect him as a Jedi, but I can’t forgive his treatment of Boba. He demands understanding without showing it himself.)

i got a book about boba fett as a child at the library and it’s the worst decision i’ve ever made

So stinking cute!

Night on the Galactic Railroad

This anime adaptation of the classic Japanese children’s book by the same name is such an underrated gem. It gives me the same sense of wonder as a Studio Ghibli film, but has a slower, more melancholy note, full of liminal imagery and meditations on life and death. It’s one I rewatch periodically and makes me cry a little every time.

For my No Man’s Sky fic, it would have to be Verity’s older brother, Sage.

She was in space when he was killed. He was part of a unit escorting a group of colonists to a new galaxy when they were ambushed. One of the raiders got a lucky shot.

Verity didn’t even get to return for the funeral, so sometimes it is easier for her to pretend he is alive. However, his death haunts her more than she would like to admit, not just from a personal standpoint but a philosophical one. What are she and her brother really doing out here? Sure, Euclid is friendlier to humanity than Andromeda, but that doesn’t erase the fact that both she and him are/were invaders. Even though she isn’t part of a militarized force, she is essentially scouting ahead for new territory. She had never really thought about the colonial/imperialist implications of her job before, and as someone with Native Alaskan ancestry, it makes her too uncomfortable to think about often. So she buries it under the wonders she finds, knowing deep down that her species and their home planet might be fucked beyond repair.

But beyond that is the fact she simply misses her brother, like she does all her family. She misses the person who taught her how to throw a punch, who hid fish eyeballs in her socks, and who engaged her in never ending Star Wars versus Star Trek debates. Every day she spends in Euclid, the farther she and her family’s experiences grow apart, and now she has lost the one person back home who would understand what she’s going through the most.

(Weird behind-the-scenes story. I tried playing as Sage for the fishing expedition so I could ask him some questions from the “afterlife” and get to know him better. The save became corrupted after only one session, and I could not get it to load again. Out of all my dead characters, he is well and truly dead, and appears to want to stay that way.)

which oc haunts the story?

Tomax and Xamot are so extra. Their close sibling bond is probably the most wholesome part of Cobra.

This scene lives in my head rent free.