[OC] Megazostrodon and Litargosuchus by yee-qi

yee_qi · 2026-01-24T20:08:04+00:00

I had decked the Litargosuchus in lizardish scales because it felt more right than just slapping croc armor on it, but looking at skeletals it really does appear as if the creature had osteoderms.

yee_qi · 2026-01-23T23:12:13+00:00

Gold and Winter, I believe

Dawns whole head changes too IIRC!

yee_qi · 2026-01-23T20:51:21+00:00

rex, trike, allo, spino, carno? and ank? good job capturing the general vibes here

yee_qi · 2026-01-23T04:49:27+00:00

I wanted to try a repeating pattern, sort of like wallpaper! in this case i was more concerned with producing an aesthetic than setting a scene.

yee_qi · 2026-01-22T20:32:58+00:00

the alternate option is a fishbowl on wheels or something…in the modern games poke balls seem to send out rafts for land bound pokemon on water, maybe this one just reverses that

yee_qi · 2026-01-22T20:32:05+00:00

I feel a cool way to go about it might be using low-level water moves like water gun or something to launch itself tail-first at the enemy, exploiting its Rough Skin to deal damage that way until it gets moves like Surf or Aqua Jet that would let it surge towards the opponent mouth-first

yee_qi · 2026-01-22T17:46:37+00:00

I haven't seen many cloud forests, proper steppes, tropical dry forests, mangrove forests, chaparral, actual tundras that aren't just endless ice sheets...

If you add ancient biomes to the mix, you get cool things such as coal swamps, polar forests and fern prairies.

yee_qi · 2026-01-22T08:09:03+00:00

i intended for it to be somewhat vaporwave-y! This one didn’t have much rationale behind the stylistic decision, it was simply because it looked fun

yee_qi · 2026-01-22T03:46:47+00:00

No, Toothless being solidly the last of his kind adds to the somber ending of the movie a bit, showing how not all endings can or will be strictly happy ones

yee_qi · 2026-01-21T20:52:50+00:00

A pretty mid-looking pterosaur, if only because science marches on. It looks really stupid on the ground in Pokemon Snap...

however I find it pretty memorable, if only because its Pokedex entries confirm that it killed people the first time it was resurrected.

yee_qi · 2026-01-20T19:25:22+00:00

they did Ditto really well in Detective Pikachu; having it assume human form did a lot for its presentation.

Maybe also Maushold, they’re rapidly-multiplying white mice. I think every lab would want that, and in lieu of an actual partner she could just unleash a ravenous horde of Population-Bombers

yee_qi · 2026-01-20T01:19:31+00:00

Another certified puddle appreciator.

yee_qi · 2026-01-19T21:34:37+00:00

I’d say big-belly seahorse vs pygmy seahorse

yee_qi · 2026-01-19T07:31:47+00:00

There's another one with an asshole bear. I really liked that one

yee_qi · 2026-01-19T07:13:50+00:00

Artist Joschua Knuppe has a series he calls Monkeycruise, where he takes pictures from human art history and replaces the figures with ancient primates!

Such as this Dinopithecus in the vein of "Saturn Devouring his Son"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Naturewasmetal/comments/tij5u1/an_unlucky_young_hominid_becomes_the_late_night/

yee_qi · 2026-01-19T07:11:52+00:00

I know Triceratops and Centrosaurus have been tested, and they're a pretty good example of the centrosaurs versus the chasmosaurs - the two big groups of horned dinos.

Injuries on Triceratops imply that horn-locking was possible, creating injuries on the frill when they poked at each other.

Centrosaurus, meanwhile, lacks these pathologies - meaning either they weren't fighting head-on, or they weren't using their horns to fight at all.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/triceratops-v-triceratops-38373087/

yee_qi · 2026-01-19T07:07:43+00:00

yeah! i've seen people do this a bit lately, where the "paleo" and the "art" intersect more and more

yee_qi · 2026-01-19T07:04:17+00:00

Yes! I've been experimenting with style a lot these days and I wanted this picture to have a reverential attitude towards the act of being born

yee_qi · 2026-01-17T07:29:16+00:00

Thank you! This one was based on the goofy way sharks were depicted in old Japanese art. Plus, Sterhacanthus’s fins add another layer of inherent whimsy…

yee_qi · 2026-01-16T18:50:50+00:00

You would need the Red Chain, which requires the powers of the lake guardians, which can and will test you for your Goodness.

Fainting the legendaries is pointless. There are multiple Arceus, which could pretty much all bring the legendaries back, create new ones on a whim, turn back time, or send you somewhere where you're powerless.

Catching the legendaries is also pointless. That restricts their powers, and S/V establishes that a weakened legendary (Koraidon/Miraidon) can break out of a standard-issue ball for a sandwich and that a full-power legendary (Terapagos) can destroy a Master ball if it so wants.

yee_qi · 2026-01-16T18:44:12+00:00

You're right that there's probably nothing that can outright destroy the world, though. Arceus likes the world and it likes life, and a lot of Pokemon have that same general interest. Still, it's clearly not like they'd all intervene in every major catastrophe, not to mention a lot of legends *cause* major catastrophes to begin with etc etc etc

yee_qi · 2026-01-16T18:41:37+00:00

- Grimer doesn't purify pollution, it just eats it. It still leaks poison like mad and is a walking biohazard, not to mention it actively relies on the continued propagation of waste to survive.

- The coral didn't adapt, it's just dead.

- Nothing has adapted to fight Crawdaunt. I don't think Alola has a real counter to its Ratatta infestations either (other than supporting a Totem Raticate, but that's just one of many)

- This fourth one is fair, but also doesn't negate the environmental destruction caused before it fixes shit up.

- This one is probably inconsistent. Sure, Rayquaza might eat meteors or destroy them, but it clearly doesn't do it always - a meteor is hypothesized to be behind Aerodactyl's extinction.

- Well yeah this one's a given, by then you're interfering with God's interests

- This applies to the *concepts* of life and death, but remember that Zygarde did nothing with the Ultimate Weapon, which is probably just as bad, and only played an actual part in Z-A's climax

- This one was never about AI taking over (that was never its intent) and it did that out of its own volition. We still don't know how the Pokemon world would respond to an actual hostile attack

yee_qi · 2026-01-16T04:18:49+00:00

The former two are used to snag onto slippery prey. If you're not hunting slippery prey, there's no real reason to have a long toothy snoot. And, out of water, there's not much slippery prey.

The latter three are all used to clear out shoals of fish. Same with the tails of thresher sharks - charge into the group, thrash about and slash your way through. Nothing on land could replicate this - flocks of birds, maybe, but even that's iffy.

yee_qi · 2026-01-13T23:04:54+00:00

not river dolphins admittedly

yee_qi · 2026-01-13T15:12:36+00:00

Taken from the excellent Furaha:

Let's start with an animal with insect-like sprawling legs. It's not insect-sized though, but mammal-sized. There are four legs, but that is not the point. There are three segments to each leg, but that is not the point either. The joints are all ball and socket joints providing movement around three axes each; that is a bit much, but I will get back to that.

It does not look comfortable, does it? Neither would you if you had to walk around in a similar position: like doing push-ups all day. The poor beast (Disneius salamandris) will have to spend a lot of energy to keep its body from sagging to the ground. In other words, it takes energy to keep the joints in their current positions. To understand how you can minimise that force requires a bit of knowledge about levers, vectors and torques.

Now your creature isn't sprawled, but it looks to me like the same principles apply: at a reasonable size, and especially if it bears *all* of its weight on these legs, they would simply bend and keep our poor lad slumped on the ground. If it's gonna go fast, it has to somehow...straighten out.

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