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20k | one shot | ABO dynamics | fantasy AU | rating: Explicit

“Nothing makes Keith more miserable than winter weather and Shiro well knows that, yet he still takes him along on a mission that leads the two all the way into the mountains, where snow is as permanent an occurrence as sand is in the desert Keith grew up in. Shiro has given Keith his blanket to use as a second cloak but he’s still freezing, his horse trailing behind Shiro’s black stallion as they climb the path along the Balmera’s Spine. “The pass should be a quintant’s journey from here,” Shiro says cheerfully as he notices a landmark stone Keith would have missed without him since it’s just a boulder like any other, the markings almost faded in the unforgiving conditions. “It better be,” Keith mutters, wrapping the warm blanket tighter around himself and nuzzling a little into its wool, Shiro’s scent still lingering on it.”

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here we go, this is my @sheithsecretsanta gift to @teicakes! i’ve had lots of fun working on this, thank you for the generous, detailed wishlist - without it, i wouldn’t have been able to piece this AU together. please enjoy & have wonderful holidays ♥

Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.

Fucking witchcraft, man. 

fucking look at this shit though

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

amazing

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)

Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.

So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.

This is getting better and better.

I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI

I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.

@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?

Realism comes at a cost, it seems.

i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:

It’s a three piece raptor suit.

Old movies had the best special effects

The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.

@jurassicparkandrecreation

@shepfax

Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time.  They were blowing out a budget bigger than anything Hollywood had ever seen, and along with employing almost the last hurrah of incredible physical FX, they had a bank of those newfangled digital SFX computers.  Nobody’d ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before.  It’d all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them.  Spielberg wanted THE BEST DINOSAURS EVER, and he figured on using the cutting edge of digital modeling and animation technology to build them for him.

So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”

The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass.  They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that.  And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that.  One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”

He called up film of a chicken walking.  Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”

Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existed–we knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection there–but the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent.  Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.

That paleontologists’d be Kevin Padian. Who is awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Padian

This post just gets better and better with time

vacuum sealed

hey s8 i have a proposition for you

[video: a seal emerges from a hole in the ice to breathe. It yells “Ah! Woo!” then sinks back down]

The ahh was so much deeper and the woo so much softer than i could have expected i love it

I reversed an older shance doodle so now it’s Lance trying to get his arms around shiro this time! :D

also doodling shiro getting flustered is so fun…y’all can imagine what lance would be whining about to get shiro so flustered ;^D

A lad can dream :^)

The episode in S3 where shiro is stranded in space trying to get back to Voltron, and starts having flashbacks to all the paladins and HIS MEMORY OF LANCE WAS WHEN HE CRADLED A DYING LANCE IN HIS ARMS…my shance heart was struck u//u

I had a lot of fun at the Voltron panel at Raleigh Comic Con with Kimberly Brooks and Josh Keaton! Here are some things that happened. Anything in quotes is paraphrased because I’m going on memory. They gave such detailed answers that I’m sure I’m missing a lot of things. Also some of this is vague spoilers for s7!

Note: this is a long list so it’s behind a readmore, and I think it’s messing up the bullet formatting for mobile. sorry about that!

Keep reading

+Mononoke Keith+

It is finally done! I hope you guys like it! I have uploaded it onto my Redbubble if you want to check it out. 

Please do not pin or repost, please do not upload anywhere else. Thank you!

based on a headcanon I have that he probably told Shiro at some point and Krolia might have seen it during the trip and yeAh

HI I’M STILL SO MAD ABOUT THIS,,