My cat Westley has developed a rabid desire for cash. So far he hasn't chomped any to the point of official mutilation, but I did find a partially-chewed $20 he stashed in his play tunnel. Money corrupts us all.

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Some beak-heads for this Tuesday’s special episode!

While bovines have not spread far beyond the known world, within its confines, there are numerous species that are quite successful. Perhaps chief among these are the buffalos, with the Seridic wetlands being home to a massive population of water buffalo. Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLr5...

A growing ba'khar's bread and butter:

Her specialty as a witch is in weather and sea magic. This spreads her magic quite thin over a vast area, and she cannot control these forces, but it does make her aware of the motion of wind and water currents, making her invaluable to her town.

Put the marsh plants together:

A selection of flora from the open marshes of the Seridic wetlands:

A plant:

Just some of the fish we'll meet in December!

Some ducks:

Everyone go watch 'Nightfall'! I did the majority of the VFX and supervised the animation team for this film! I'm very proud of how all the dinosaurs came out and I hope you like them! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-xu...

My Halloween special is up featuring artwork from @proflambeo.bsky.social @talesofkaimere.bsky.social Emily Stepp Nickoraptor youtu.be/kEFMYTZ7hR8?...

I'm pretty confident that certain online people are going to be cheering about how they were right all along on Nanotyrannus. Their take will be that they were right all along and their arguments, based on private specimens of uncertain provenance, photos of things without scale bars, and ideas...

MORE Seridic fish:

The Aznarith are an order of knights who form a symbiotic bond with enchanted weapons. The order was first established during the Age of Witches to protect common folk from demons like this sloth homunculus seeking revenge for their lost territory, but they later helped kill tyrannical witch-kings.

The Shalefoot Clan is said to be extinct, but the legacy of their magic remains to this day in the form of magical soil and many modern folk witches apply their techniques (albeit at a far less potent capacity) to make the grounds that towns rely upon to be more productive.

Kaimere's Third Age began with the rapid turnover from a realm dominated by voracious greater demons to the rule of oppressive witch-kings. War not just between witches but also revolution by their subjects made this a far more violent era of Kaimere's history. Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj0W...

Some mammals of the Seridic wetlands: A sparassodont, a coati, an armadillo, a hydrochoerine, and a mylodont sloth.

My darling seat-stealer:

Fish of the genus Brycon are found in freshwater habitats in much of the known world, though are at their most abundant and diverse in the Seridic Wetlands. They are omnivores, primarily eating vegetation with a range of small fish and invertebrates.

Really excited for everyone to see this next year. My baby looks so good! 😍😍😍 So happy and proud to have been one of the talented group of people who worked in this show!

Though other subspecies of green alar (also just called alar) can get quite large, the Seridic alar is the smallest member of not only the species but the genus overall. It is generally believed living alongside the only living species of Ardeanax (the ba'khar) contributes to this restriction.

Some notes on the vision of the ba'khar and what their prey sees from below the surface...

(3/4) Featuring art by @talesofkaimere.bsky.social

A female kurajaku. While large aquatic males of this species are by up to a factor of three or four the largest theropods either planet has ever seen, females are restricted to the conventional maximums of the clade due to having to nest on land.

Squamantarx (a coelacanth) and Trokteplosus (a perchid) are two large fish found in the Seridic Wetlands, and both are favored prey of the ba’khar

A female kurajaku:

#DVparty Hope I’m not too late. Here is some art and a map of my science fiction fantasy middle grade book involving speculative evolution dinosaurs. Credit for the art goes to @talesofkaimere.bsky.social These images have been shown in various videos on my YouTube channel

The ba'khar, a massive fish-specialized megaraptoran endemic to the Crescent of southern Ni'Khar, most abundant in the Seridic Wetlands. Males have a sail on their back for display and to anchor lifting muscles and ligaments of the neck. They also sport a pronged midline crest.

The Seridic Alar:

I have fixed the Saga of Tenir'ha and Baru compilation! All five chapters are now in order. Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=38Zw...

Art from I think around 2012-2013 depicting the Ba’Khar (then called the 1-humped kurajaku) as a noasaur descended from the likes of Masiakasaurus:

Some young megaraptorans for the Ba’Khar Fable:

A size chart of our megaraptoran mothers: a ba'khar and kurajaku. Yodemi is a ba'khar in her late forties. A mother of over a hundred adults and many more young at the start of our story, including our protagonist, Fai Zhemi. Mazhu is, conversely, a new mother, laying her first clutch.

Halfway done writing the December Ba'Khar story: the Fable of Fai Zhemi! I'll be doing at least one live stream Q&A, probably two, as fundraisers for the fable. Probably one in October and one in November as I fill out the many sketches and illustrations. Stay tuned for dates!

Sauropods are the largest land animals of the known world, and wherever they go, they shape the landscape to their desires. Cold is their only weakness. In their absence, a related lineage has taken dominion over the southern continent: the parasauropods of Kaishel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A99e...

Uploaded the episodes through October. Next couple days I’ll try to finish up my backlog of commissions then we’re off to Maine for vacation! Once we get home I’ll finish November’s episodes then plan a fundraising stream for the December Ba’Khar Saga!

A year apart. Little Westley isn’t so little anymore (by a notable margin the biggest of our 3 cats)

He's ready for school!

The Hell Pig Episode is Here! A bit early because I forgot to set the time, but that works since I'm at camp and will be working at usual release and engagement hours. Thank you so much to my sponsor and art budget team! Hope you enjoy! Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7fd...

A few First Children weapons. In their later years so many artifacts were botanical or made of magic so have poor preservation. However, in their early occupation of Qajar, they had many items made of metals that last much better, especially enchanted artifacts like these.

Some Kaishelan fabadonts:

The houze prairie of central Ni’Khar is home to a great diversity of formidable creatures. Some familiar like leopards, others strange such as quilled ceratopsians and giant chalicotheres. Even demons haunt these grasslands. None are more feared than the na'hashet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSlU...

An engaging and thoughtful review of my first Tales of Kaimere anthology! Always like hearing the favorites & what didn't land for readers. Helps inform future works. Also adore the bestiary-style uktan. Thanks so much to Aspen for sharing your thoughts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=btiB...

Two species of Legionarius, an abundant genus of hoplititan:

A herd of mixed-age Legionarius foraging. The pair of older adolescents stand on their hindquarters to feed on a tree fern. Their four younger companions look on, more out of curiosity than hunger. One makes an attempt but is still too small.

A pair of Caudipeltus walk along a bank. On the high and dry, the titan maintains a normal high-gauge stride. In the shallow mud, her companion everts to a low-gauge stance for better stability in the loose terrain.

The koordu, Kaishel’s biggest animal, is a large parasauropod.

One of the sauropods in eastern Kairul: