Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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  • 8 comments
fayanora

fayanora

July 8 2010, 05:50:59 UTC 10 years ago

Awesome!
thewrittenwyrd

Going one better - or worse...

thewrittenwyrd

July 8 2010, 07:52:37 UTC 10 years ago

How about a Vorpel Hamster? It's an old D&D monster I dreamed up years ago - take a hamster, feed him a double handful of benzedrine and bad acid, and lock him in a tiny mirror-lined box. When someone opens the box, the monster goes for the throat like a psychotic timberwolf. :-}>
xiphias

xiphias

July 8 2010, 10:39:03 UTC 10 years ago

Ah, combining two of the best "freakin' scary monster" things in Earth's history: Pliocene megafauna, and Australia.

Australia managed some scary beasts all the way into human history -- at the time that humans made it to Australia, there were giant carnivorous kangaroos.
xiphias

xiphias

July 8 2010, 10:40:06 UTC 10 years ago

I mean, even scarier than the beasts they have NOW. NOW, they've got great whites, hammerheads, crocodiles, cane toads, and Australians.
ysabetwordsmith

Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

July 8 2010, 16:50:08 UTC 10 years ago

... plus the jellyfish swarms.
ysabetwordsmith

Hmm...

ysabetwordsmith

July 8 2010, 16:55:31 UTC 10 years ago

I'm still pondering what Australian fauna will be like in my dogsbody setting -- whether more of the alarming megafauna will be there, or not.
vanessawestwood

vanessawestwood

July 8 2010, 14:09:01 UTC 10 years ago

I Hate When Your Busy,
And That Prevents You
From Writing A New Story.
Happens To Be All The Time :|
ysabetwordsmith

Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

July 8 2010, 16:51:58 UTC 10 years ago

Summer is my busy season for writing, with the Llewellyn annuals. I do have some fiction going, though.