3)  To my fellow science nerds: one of the hashtags for this gif image is #Birds, how does that make you feel?

#Birds? Perhaps the best description of how I feel about that is the following emoji:


The word "PTEROSAURS" exists FOR A REASON, people...





Sigh...okay, moving on.

1)  It has be postulated by many authors, including myself, that Sierra might be some kind of psychopath or sociopath (a person without emotional empathy for others) based upon his words and actions during the seventh film.  Including his willingness to kidnap Ducky and then to discard her to what he assumes is her doom.  What do you think?

2)  What is your personal head-canon about how these two met up?  It does seem that Rinkus knows how to recognize and handle Sierra's more intense impulses to lash out to a much better degree than Pterano.

Despite a childhood of watching LBT VII to the point where I knew it by heart, I never really thought about Rinkus and Sierra's backstories at all. (That fanfic I wrote about Sierra for a prompt a couple months ago doesn't count, as it was hardly a serious fanfic.)   The two flyers do seem to have a close dynamic, though, which is interesting. Although, at the same time, I wouldn't necessarily consider them friends, since there sure weren't any signs of either one being willing to let the other in on the stone's "powers" at all (see Rhombus's GIF).

As for Sierra maybe being a psychopath, I think it's certainly possible based on his actions/words (for example, wanting to feed the Gang to sharpteeth). He's by far the most menacing non-carnivorous villain LBT has to offer, which is something I appreciate when I look back on LBT VII. Non-sharptooth villains were always good, but when they seemed like a real threat, they were even better.

As the real brains of the whole "stone of cold fire" operation, Rinkus was a competent villain, too, bringing a sense of sneakiness that counteracted Sierra's hotheaded tendencies. However, he does bring me to another complaint I must make in the interest of science...

While Cearadactylus and Pteranodon were both on the larger side for pterosaurs, Rhamphorhynchus wasn't even half their size. Except, apparently, in LBT. I know these movies are far from scientifically accurate as it is, but even as a kid I knew a Rhamphorhynchus shouldn't have been as big as the other pterosaurs. Why did he need to be so big, anyway? It's not like he was the one who ended up carrying Ducky. But I'll stop my rant here, moving along...

Aside from these two being among LBT's best villains, they also worked for being played for laughs now and then. Sierra griping about Ducky was amusing: "Nope, nope, nope, yep, yep, yep...it's driving me NUTS, NUTS, NUTS!" (That "nuts, nuts, nuts" part is one of those LBT lines that caught on among my family years ago, and it even still comes up in conversation sometimes.) The way Rinkus cuts Sierra off when he tries to complain in the middle of "Very Important Creature" ("What did you say?" "He said LEAD THE WAY!") made me chuckle, too.

Oh, okay. Voting or not, I would've been in for the participation points alone to begin with. Thanks for the quick response, I'll have a new and improved pic by May 7!

P: With ten letters left to go, we'll have finished this round through them all before we know it!

Okay @Flathead770 thanks for clarifying!
If it's alright, though, I now have a new question. Last night when I submitted my picture, I was in too much of a hurry to make the deadline to notice you'd already extended the deadline for StardustSoldier. Now that I realize the prompts won't be judged until a week into May, would it be okay if I added more to my picture? I hadn't gotten to complete my original plan for it, which involved a background that I ended up not having enough time for. Let me know if continuing to draw until Stardust is finished would be okay!

I guess the two pictures were too large to submit together, so here's the second one:

"I don't suppose you're a friend of Littlefoot's, are you?" the female Rainbow Face inquired. The young longneck she'd previously met had always seemed to have a diverse gang of friends in tow. "Might I ask as well how you came to coexist with...certain others in this valley?" she added, thinking of that cranky threehorn she'd encountered before, who had seemed to object to anything and everything within his reach.

"Skip the small talk..." Cera sighed, interrupting Grandpa Longneck's question. "He said he knows something about those yellowbellies!" She marched towards the Rainbow Face. "Are you telling the truth? We already had this whole phony magic stone story from you before, how do we know we can believe you now?"

No one's only black or white.

Hold your breath until you're blue and make your eyes turn red!

As for the Rhett hate, I don't get it, but this is coming from the guy who likes the silliness of yellowbellies. 

I'm also guilty of enjoying the yellowbellies. Although I would never call LBT XIII one of my favorite sequels, it's just so absurd that it really can be funny! It's not as if it pretends that the yellowbellies are anything but ridiculous--the Gang's reactions to them are always priceless!

Thinking about the fanfic I'm working on.

Also thinking of cuddling up with my Little Foot plush. Yup I still have him.

Aww, I have my childhood Littlefoot, too! Plus his friends.

Quote from: Goldenwind on April 28, 2020, 01:49:41 PM

@RainbowFaceProtege Big Daddy? 

(I know what duo you mean. XD)

No.. not him.. keep him away!

 

In all seriousness now, though, as a kid I felt downright robbed over my favorite characters not being chosen to return. Robbed, I tell you!!