Shadow Play, Chapter 10

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Terra stiffened—she trusted Blynn, but even Blynn wasn’t right all the time. For a split second, Terra’s mind scrambled to try to figure out what to do if Malkus Vile learned they were after the artefacts.

The door creaked open, without any further remarks from either brass head, revealing a storeroom full of treasure. “Whoaaaa,” Blynn said as she wandered inside. “We always find the coolest stuff.”

Hyren let out a relieved laugh. “How did you—I can’t believe that worked!” he said, following her inside.

 

 Yeah, the moms in Pokémon games just seem a little too eager to kick their kids out of the house... especially the Johto mom with whom you foolishly entrust your savings.

I designed another amigurumi! This is the adorable "Dumbo octopus" Grimpoteuths, and part of the reason why I designed it is because some species of Grimpoteuthis are orange and I had some bright orange yarn kicking around my stash, so naturally my mind went right to cephalopods. I had a lot of fun making the tentacles curly. <3

 

 As a fan of both paleontology and astronomy (and a lot of other things), sometimes I find myself pondering the fact that quite a few astronomical events happened during the history of life on Earth. Such as the lunar impact that caused the Tycho crater, estimated to be about 100 million years old, which would place it in the middle of the Cretaceous. So dinosaurs could have seen the impact happen if they had been paying attention. I wonder if they would have noticed?

Given the dating, I couldn't help but plug the mid-Cretaceous Wayan Formation yet again, so here's an Oryctodromeus having a snack and totally ignoring what's happening to the Moon.

I based the color scheme and time of day on a lovely photo I took a while back of the Moon rising above the mountains near my neighborhood one late afternoon.

 Professor Elm hasn't left his lab in so long, he's just completely lost touch with reality.

 In the games, after you defeat Lance and get your Pokemon recorded in the Hall of Fame and the credits roll, you find yourself back in your bedroom. My thought is that after becoming Pokemon Champion, Kris went back home, zonked out in bed--and was then rudely awakened by Professor Elm because it's time for the postgame.

 More fake clickbait news!

This one is poking fun at how the Internet seems to think that everyone likes dinosaurs for the same reason and that we are all 5-year-old boys who just want to watch dinosaurs eat each other, eat people, and just be vicious monsters of unchecked mayhem. I don't know about you, but I like dinosaurs just because they're fascinating creatures and a wonderful part of the 3.8-billion-year-long pageant of life on our amazing planet, regardless of their ability to eat people.

(I'm very certain that if dinosaurs were around today, they would not run around trying to eat everybody. They would probably be really afraid of humans, like most animals today. I have a big soapbox about the psychologically skewed perception of dinosaurs in popular culture, and how it's been unfortunately fed into by the Jurassic Park/World franchise that likes to depict prehistoric animals as nothing more than bloodthirsty killing machines, but let's not open that can of worms today.)