EXTINCT STICKY NOTE FRIENDS MASTERPOST because I can’t find what I tagged all of these fellas with when I posted them the first time ;w;

The first of these go all the way back to 2020, when I started at my current office job and needed colors in my cubicle that weren’t just Greige (Grey-Beige); these were almost exclusively drawn from memory, and a lot of them are pretty doofy as a result. Others I took a bit of creative liberty on. Proportions and perspective tend to be weird on most of these… but they all still ended up holding a special place in my heart. ^w^

Pt. 1

Pt. 2

Pt. 3

Pt. 4, these are the last of the ones I’ve done so far! I’ll add any more that I do to this post. :3

Update/Pt. 5: A VERY good noodle, I can never see anything about these funny little guys without laughing so hard I almost cry 😂

You have no idea how hard it was not to draw him some little snake pants for his doofy little snake legs.

THE POLL HAS SPOKEN! HECKHANDS MCMEGADUCK IS THE FIRST EXTINCT FRIEND ON THE WALL IN 2024!!! :D

@a-book-of-creatures here are all of the suggestions I had time for today before I had to lock up… sadly, Mr. Moa might have to wait until next time I have a gap in my schedule, and I frankly have no idea why I made some of the color choices I did (other than your red-white-and-purple Archie-boi and the exquisite opportunity you gave me to make an ancient squid wizard, of course), but I hope you enjoy them regardless! :3

Another batch of friends! Including the last of @a-book-of-creatures ‘s most recent suggestions (whose experimental color blending… uh… did NOT go according to plan, lessons were definitely learned there >.>’), a VERY plush and friendly request from my cousin, a big heckin boofer - the BIGGEST heckin boofer known to science at the time of writing, in fact - and two Funny Little Guys™️ from the Triassic!

I’m slowly running out of usable room on my current cubicle wall, but I still REALLY want to try and find a way to cram more friends in there before actual work picks back up again, so stay tuned and feel free to let me know in my dms or on this post who else you all might want to see join the party! :D

Things have picked back up at work a bit, so I’ve had less time… but I wanted to share a momentous occasion: the first ever Extinct Sticky Note Friends two-for-one! Based on that lovely little fossil of these two sharing a burrow that was making the rounds a while ago. 🥰

Since we don’t know if Thrinaxodon was fluffy or not, I decided to split the difference and give him a sort of “cape” or “crest” of some kind of fur-like integument on top, and let him be a little bit more ambiguously-textured on the bottom? Kinda helps break up the silhouette a bit, I like how he turned out and the fluffy crest seems like a comfy place for his little Broomistega buddy!

In my heart, these little guys come from a universe where they didn’t die together and fossilize, and got to keep being friends and live long and happy lives together. Maybe they could even become the time-traveling paleo protagonists of a children’s cartoon or something. 😅

Finally, an update to this masterpost, and to the wall! :D

Bit of a charming story behind this one too.

My Boss’s Boss (name redacted here for privacy) is retiring on Friday, so I asked him if he wanted me to put an extinct friend of his choice on the wall in his honor.

He is a lifelong sport fisherman, and asked me if I had any information on whether there were ever any “dinosaur salmon” - I suggested ol O. rastrosus here, mentioning that they had Saber Teeth and could get 6-8 ft long according to some estimates; he was absolutely GIDDY at that revelation, said he thought it was a shame he’d missed them by a few million years, and mused to another Grandpa-Aged coworker over how you’d go about landing and cooking a salmon that big and whether it would be any good to eat at that size.

He was a nice guy, I’ll miss him, and I’m happy I was able to make him smile before he retires with my own “Big Fish Story.” 😁

Another new one… redid this guy a couple times, wasn’t thrilled with the coloring on any of them (wanted to go for kind of a tapir pattern but idk if it worked) but I didn’t wanna draw him again. ;w;

I’m also not sure if the pose is even SLIGHTLY correct, ref images are all over the place and I had to take a few creative liberties to get him to fit on a sticky note, but I hope I at least got the idea across? These are such goofy little guys that I had to have one on my wall, maybe I’ll try another pass at one with better colors another time. 😅

Update: our first friend of 2025! Another person retiring from the company asked me for this one (name redacted for privacy), as apparently it’s one of their kid’s old favorites. I saw that a lot of modern stego reconstructions give them kind of staggered plates instead of straight-up pairs, so I went with that… hopefully that’s actually how they were, because it’s MUCH easier to draw them this way! Not sure if I got the number of plates right, though, I forgot to count. ^_^’

Ok so TWO UPDATES IN ONE DAY, with many more than two dinosaurs! A couple of other coworkers, seeing the Stegosaurus, requested another set of “All-Stars” for the wall; one wanted a T. rex, the other wanted a Velociraptor.

The rexes sadly turned into a bit of a disaster coloring-wise, but hopefully he likes them anyway? I went with the increasingly popular “Downy Baby, Bald or Mostly-Bald Adult” Interpretation here, and the mostly illegible “fun fact” is related to that. At least the poses are still pretty cute, ruinous attempts to fix coloring mistakes aside.

The person who wanted Velociraptor is also getting a bonus Protoceratops, because I’ve been meaning to draw these two fighting in reference to the famous fossil for a while now, and I actually really like how the poses turned out! I think it was @strange-kaleidoscope who once said they liked that my extinct creatures were always happy.. I apologize for letting you down in that regard this time, friend, but I hope the cool battle stances make up for it at least? 😅

NEW (OLD) GUY ALERT! A couple different folks here and elsewhere have been asking for a Tullymonstrum, and who am I to deny such a silly fella a place on my wall of friends? :3

Working on revisions of the monstur world map main continent. Well, I have a problem with scale but I would rathter have it be more of a really big island than an actual continent. Ultimately I'd like to cram as much stuff into it as possible.

It's based around the geography of the North America but I thought it would be novel to shape it like a Mola Mola. You can make out some expies to some american features like the grand canyon and the great lakes.

The island in the eye is supposed to be the human village but it's really huge. I was thinking it would be cool to have it be a big metropolis, but it's starting to remind me too much of Unova, the fact that the map is based on the U.S. isn't helping (nor is its location on the map itself). I meant for it to be around Virginia, where I'm from, with lots of wetlands and woods.

There are other settlements and races besides humans, but I don't know how modern I want the human world to be. I kinda like the idea of a nostalgic 80's/90's suburbia feel with random achronistic fantasy elements of the past (as opposed to futuristic like pokemon). So like, imagine if you can ride a skateboard to schoo past horses and carriages or trolleys l and your bookbag was alive and also sometimes it rains bubbles.

Before I even read your description I thought the eye looked more artificial than the rest of the map, so I think your metropolis idea shows up great on a quick glance.

It's also fun that the mouth looks like a good natural port for imports to come in and enrich the "continent".

Yeah! Well, it's meant to be a crater lake, but you've got me thinking that maybe it's hinted that the humans came to the monstur world on whatever made the crater and that's why they set up their civilization in just that tiny spot.

This concept art sucks. idk what I thought I was doing but I definently learned that I can't draw bridges.

Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.

I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.

Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won't let you copy and paste:

Many people are aware that copyright originated as and remains a protection for publishers, not authors.

However, there are longstanding rights intended to protect authors. These are legally called 'the moral rights of authors.' Good naming.

These rights include:

The right to attribution. To have your name on your work. Don't repost peoples work without attribution.

The right to use a pen name or to publish anonymously. Publishers should protect the privacy of authors. Service providers shouldn't require posters to provide ID.

The right to integrity. Editors should not cut up your work to make it say something you do not endorse.

So let's review:

❌ AI harms authors because it violates copyright.

✅ AI harms authors because it violates their rights to attribution and integrity.

Akira Shishido, c. late 1970s

A customer contacted our team with questions, and then finished their email with: "I am daunted by the complexities and unknowns." I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since.

Reblog if you are daunted by the complexities and unknowns

nobody asked but its very funny that this is the top post of all time in the adhd women subreddit

yall gotta learn the difference between "this character is an asshole" and "this character was supposed to be super cool but the author is an asshole" and "this character is a teenage girl who was mean once"

If you flee from something too hard you reflect it revealingly.

Try too hard to avoid being cringe, and you end up cringe. You become insincere; risk nothing, evoke nothing.

At the same time, you could describe an inarticulate temper tantrum as "pure sincerity."

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Okay that's pretty sick, hats off. Not quite Borgesian but getting there

Your tax dollars at work

(Image description: pencil sketch of an elf-like man with three kittens. He is holding a winged lizard puppet and swinging it around while the kittens watch and take swipes at it. Dialogue from the man says: "That's right, come on. Get the nasty drake!" End description.)

This is Kaen, one of my favorite side characters and a man of many trades. He is a stroi, close cousin of elves and drow.

Kaen keeps a flock of domestic grouse. A common threat to the grouse coops are the flying lizards, which everyone calls drakes. In Kaen's region, they're pine drakes. These flying lizards spit venom and eat eggs. They're considered a pest.

Domestic birds like the grouse are often guarded by specially bred and trained cats. This is because it was the elves that started it, and they live in the trees where a cat is going to be a more useful animal than a dog. Aviary guard cats have thick fur to resist the venom spit of the drakes, and they're experts at catching flying prey.

Semi domestic bald ravens, called banoken by the elves, also work alongside the guard cats, sounding the alarm when drakes come close and swooping around to drive the drakes closer to the cats. The banoken have good reason to do this, as they also find their nests raided by drakes and have learned that keeping nests by the guard cat territories makes their eggs safer.

The bald ravens have many names, because they also use unique calls to work alongside hunters of any people species, locating prey and leading hunters to it. They get to eat some of the offal, and the hunters have an easier time finding their quarry. It's a win-win.

Though the bald ravens' ability to mimic sounds also makes them a little creepy, since they can pick up on any words and repeat them as they please. The elf word "banok" means "voice of the shadows". The orcs call these birds "takran" which means "death's bird". They are very important animals to thr people who live in their habitat.