A fun timelapse video of the preparation of a massive 4” wide lower molar of an adult Titanothere from the Chadron Formation of South Dakota. I found this on a trip this summer with
. The molar is a little weathered as it was exposed and sticking out of a cliff face when we found it. It’s actually prepped out really well though and has all its complete root system. Titanotheres or Brontotheriidae (also known as “Thunder Beasts”) were the massive horned herbivorous giants of North America during the Oligocene.
Title: Put Down in Words Author: paintedrecs Word Count: 203,777 Rating: Mature Relationship: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski Published: 2017-04-01 to 2017-04-27
“Oh,” Stiles said, his voice coming out low and breathy, “fuck me.”
“I don’t think that’s on the syllabus, but we can check to see if there’s a spot open in any of his classes,” Scott said, grinning.
“This isn’t an actual professor, though,” Stiles insisted, unable to resist brushing his thumb over the sharp line of the man’s bearded jaw. He was laughing at something off-camera, the shot taken in three-quarters view, his coat collar casually rumpled and opened to reveal a sliver of a simple grey t-shirt. The whole thing was deliberately calculated to lend him a more accessible feel, and god help him, Stiles was falling for it.
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When Stiles signed up for Dr. Hale’s intro to history class, he had two goals: knock out the credits his advisor was bugging him to complete before he graduated, and spend a few hours a week daydreaming about his sexy professor’s salt and pepper beard.
Derek, a few months away from turning forty and not sure when his life had started feeling so damn lonely, had never encountered someone like Stiles before. Bright-eyed, sharp-tongued, determined to throw Derek’s carefully cultivated world into disarray…and absolutely the last person Derek should be falling in love with.
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story concept of the day: a “medical mystery of the week” serial set in a world with monsters and superpowers and mutants and aliens
It would be like. One part comedy, one part drama, two parts world-building. The hospital has an aquatic wing for mermaids and sea monsters. How do you treat someone who has telepathic influenza? We’ll figure it out, I guess!
Some storyline concepts:
—a woman from a telepathic race based on anglerfish shows up in the ER in a panic because her mate, who is tiny and permanently attached to her body, has stopped communicating through their telepathic link
—the air-breathing doctors have to take over the aquatic ward after a mysterious illness spreads through the water-breathing staff
—an ambulance brings in an unconscious alien from a species totally outside of medical literature, the staff scramble to save their life while flying blind
—the first outbreak of lycanthropy in 50 years occurs following protests against the vaccine, the hospital is quarantined while the on-staff pharmacists try to control the situation
If I write this, I’d want it to be like. Scrubs meets WTNV.
Character concept: a demon who works in the ER because their ability to “steal” souls means they can bring back patients who are medically dead but still repairable if you can just get them breathing again.
He has some insanely generic sounding name like Doctor Fred and has that “snake tongue, fangs, ram horns, red skin, yellow eyes, long tail, black bat wings” thing going on
He’s like 35 and the object of unrepentant longing from most of the interns and junior staff. He’s kind and patient and great with kids and has the cutest hiccupy laugh and is absolutely the guy you want overseeing your training because he never yells. Everyone wants to marry Doctor Fred.
It’s a running joke that he’s probably a literal Incubus but there’s no aura or magic at play, he’s just got a perfect personality.
I think I’m naming this story “doctors and demons” for now
Another character is just. Nessie. The Loch Ness monster is here. She works at the front desk for the aquatic ward and pokes her head out of the water to pass notes and files to the other doctors.
One of the aquatic doctors is Doctor Lagoon, who is the creature from the black lagoon. He’s very intimidating but can be immediately be calmed down by bringing up his human wife or their daughter. There’s a picture of him holding his wife bridal style on his desk.
The actual protagonist is a human woman who considers herself totally normal but actually has SOME sort of powerful telekinesis that she constantly explains away as coincidence.
There’s a character named Cadaver or Caddie who is a living corpse that constantly regenerates. She’s vital to the hospital for organ transplants but an absolute nightmare for the staff because she does things like host speed dating for zombies in the morgue and eat everyone lunch out of the staff room fridge.
Also I think the protagonist’s name is Jane Doe or Doctor Doe, as a joke on her being average but… not at all.
I think the trio of main characters are Doctor Fred (emergency), Doctor Doe (in-patient) and an alien surgeon named Doctor Hive, who is close to an insectoid Cthulhu. A running joke is her ability to keep track of her hundreds of children but not the names of any of their fathers or her coworkers except her very favorites.
I LOVE URBAN FANTASY
(James White’s Hospital Station stories were sort of the SF version of this.)
Oh my god I need this show.
I mean, the special effects budget would be through the roof but it would be so, so worth it.
Dude I would take crappy CGI and prosthetics just based on the concept alone. Make Nessie an incredibly obvious sock puppet, I don’t care.
The war between the fox and wolf clans has raged for centuries, ignited in a time before anyone can remember. Now both clans—tired of the bloodshed and hate—are searching for a way to end the war.
Crowned prince Stiles Stilinski—heir to the fox clan—has agreed with his father to meet with the Hales, the ruling royal family over the wolf clan. Under the counselling of the Druids, both clans are presented with a solution to the war: unite the Stilinski and Hale clans through marriage. To quell their people’s anger, both Stiles and Derek—eldest living Hale Alpha—are urged to accept the other as an equal; as their mate.
For the sake of their people, both houses make the ultimate sacrifice by choosing duty over love. But, out of what was first assumed to be compromised, quickly turns to be a better match than either could have hoped for. But not all is easy for either clan, as some members refuse to believe that the war could end so easily.
“Prince Stilinski,” one of the druid guards opened the doors to the throne hall, eyeing both Stiles and Scott.
“Yes?” Stiles asked, releasing Scott as he turned to look at him. He wanted to roll his eyes at the look the guard was giving him. He hated it when people automatically assumed Scott was Stiles’ consort. The idea made him feel dirty, feeling as if someone suggested he be bed by his brother.
“Your father has spoken,” the guard stated. “You now may enter,” he moved to the side to allow Stiles enough room to enter.
Stiles nodded, taking a deep breath before walking forward, to what he feared was his doom. He felt a wave of relief the moment he locked eyes with his father, who offered him a small smile of encouragement. The comforting moment was ruined the minute he felt the heat of eyes on him, causing the hair on the back of his neck to stand up. His eyes quickly flickered over to the family that sat at the table across the hall.
Stiles could immediately tell that they were the Hales. They all look alike. They all look like her … He was haunted by her face ever since that day. Haunted by eyes that were at peace from a lifetime of war; eyes that thanked him, even though he couldn’t save her.
The eldest woman carefully watched him move, her eyes observing and evaluating him, as if she was waiting to see him perform something. The man next to her gently rubbed his hand over her shoulder in a reassuring manner, suggesting that whatever his father had said when addressing them upset her wolf. She must be Queen Talia. He was uncertain who the other man was. He knew King Andrew had been murdered a few years ago, leaving the Hale family vengeful for the taste of fox blood.
Stiles’ eyes moved to the man sitting next to Queen Talia, and instantly wished he hadn’t. He immediately locked eyes with him, seeing the same beautiful green eyes that Laura had. His eyes, however, spoke volumes for how he felt about Stiles, and none of it was friendly. His cold glare caused Stiles’ fox to whimper and cower back, knowing that a predator was in the room with him. An angered predator. And that must be Derek.
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