Mar. 20th, 2007

flyingskull: (anomalocaris)
First, take a peek at my icon. That thing really existed, hundreds of millions year ago, in the Cambrian era. Which makes me wonder why Fantasy author never bother to go look at past reality for their beasties, but such is Fantasy, never let it be tainted with real things, no matter how definitely extinct. Anyway, they've found fossils of it and they've named it Anomalocaris which means Odd Crab which also means they didn't get it right the first time. It was a winged lobster with double grabbing shrimp-like appendages and a circular bone-crushing maw. I rather love it and I decided this one's name is Tam Lin. Why? Because he used to wreck havock, back in the old days when humans were not, and Tam Lin is a hell of a havock wrecker on writers.

Which elegant transition brings me to my Tam Lin Rant )

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