Spinosaurus time!
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antishurtugal_rebornHello everyone! I come bearing more gifts of sporks of badly-edited books!
I like dinosaurs, as one can tell by my username. I also like b-movies. I had no idea that 'dinosaur thrillers', aka the book versions of b-movies you'd see on the SciFi Channel, were apparently a whole-ass genre these days, until my sister gave me a whole bunch of such books for my birthday this year. I've just cracked open the first one. Join me for an amazing adventure as I livespork "Spinosaurus" by Hugo Navikov, printed in 2015 by Severed Press.
"Brent Russell is a hunter of the rarest game. His targets are cryptids, animals denied by science. But they are well known by those living on the edges of civilization, where monsters attack and devour their animals and children and lay ruin to their shantytowns.
When a shadowy organization sends Brett to the Congo in search of the legendary dinosaur cryptid Kasai Rex, he will face much more than a terrifying monster from the past.
Spinosaurus is a dinosaur thriller packed with intrigue, action and giant prehistoric predators."
As I said, I love b-movies, so I'm not knocking the genre. That doesn't mean I won't spork the living daylights out of them though. On the plus side, the cover image is an appropriately awesome and rainbow-colored, if no longer scientifically accurate, Spinosaurus. (The prologue seems to have the Spinosaurus more in line with the modern aquatic view. We'll have to see if that holds true with more descriptions later in the book.)
(Seriously if you haven't seen Velocipastor yet you don't know what you're missing. Anyway. Carry on.)
( Prologue: Tshikapa, Congo )
I like dinosaurs, as one can tell by my username. I also like b-movies. I had no idea that 'dinosaur thrillers', aka the book versions of b-movies you'd see on the SciFi Channel, were apparently a whole-ass genre these days, until my sister gave me a whole bunch of such books for my birthday this year. I've just cracked open the first one. Join me for an amazing adventure as I livespork "Spinosaurus" by Hugo Navikov, printed in 2015 by Severed Press.
"Brent Russell is a hunter of the rarest game. His targets are cryptids, animals denied by science. But they are well known by those living on the edges of civilization, where monsters attack and devour their animals and children and lay ruin to their shantytowns.
When a shadowy organization sends Brett to the Congo in search of the legendary dinosaur cryptid Kasai Rex, he will face much more than a terrifying monster from the past.
Spinosaurus is a dinosaur thriller packed with intrigue, action and giant prehistoric predators."
As I said, I love b-movies, so I'm not knocking the genre. That doesn't mean I won't spork the living daylights out of them though. On the plus side, the cover image is an appropriately awesome and rainbow-colored, if no longer scientifically accurate, Spinosaurus. (The prologue seems to have the Spinosaurus more in line with the modern aquatic view. We'll have to see if that holds true with more descriptions later in the book.)
(Seriously if you haven't seen Velocipastor yet you don't know what you're missing. Anyway. Carry on.)
( Prologue: Tshikapa, Congo )
World of the Others Commentary
Nov. 3rd, 2025 02:01 pmmara_dienne459 posting in antishurtugal_reborn The plot has finally arrived, so the author does her best to have her cake and eat it, too. There's a bunch of horrible, needless death, and the characters generally being stupid and even less helpful than they usually are.
( Let's Do The Time Warp Again. And Again. And Again. )
( Let's Do The Time Warp Again. And Again. And Again. )
The World of the Others Commentary
Oct. 30th, 2025 09:06 ammara_dienne459 posting in antishurtugal_reborn We are now six chapters away from the end of this novel, with a whole slew of books to continue the series, including several spin-off books. In this chapter, the plot finally wakes up and starts slogging its way through its morning routine. You can definitely see the author poking the poor plot with a cattle prod in order to get it to do as she wants exactly how she wants. Also, trigger warning for horrific deaths of children being mentioned by the Queen Sue, who herself has no feelings about it.
( Drawing Out the End )
( Drawing Out the End )
To Sleep Screen "Adaptation"
Oct. 30th, 2025 05:15 pmepistler posting in antishurtugal_rebornOMG a "big name" is coming on board eventually! Wait that sounds familiar. And we're allegedly getting WormFork 2 "soon". Awesome...
The Scrolls of the Ancients: Chapter Sixty-Four, Chapter Sixty-Five, and Chapter Sixty-Six
Oct. 27th, 2025 06:36 ammasterghandalf posting in antishurtugal_rebornWarning: This post contains violence, misogyny and deaths, including the death of an infant.
( In which Newcomb continues to cram things into the final act of the story that we really should have had introduced earlier. )
( In which Newcomb continues to cram things into the final act of the story that we really should have had introduced earlier. )
The Scrolls of the Ancients: Chapter Sixty-Four, Chapter Sixty-Five, and Chapter Sixty-Six
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dw_maintenanceGood morning, afternoon, and evening!
We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)
I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.
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