"Dinosaurs? Aren't they just giant prehistoric lizards? Why are there feathers? They're not birds. You writers need to take some science classes!" - Producer guy who graduated in business

"Dinosaurs need characterization too" is an incredible quote.

Yeah it's quite often that dinosaurs are treated more like fantasy creatures than real animals, at that point the story might as well be about actual monsters that are just inspired by dinos, which some stories do to be completely fair.

I just realised how many new models of dinosaurs had to be drawn that would be used just for this 1 video Your struggles were not in vain, JP. These are some sick dinosaurs

My favorite part of writing dinosaur (or really any carnivorous animal) is when writers think they don’t have any self-preservation instincts and make them do downright suicidal things in order to chase the protagonist. Also, don’t forget to make all therapods scaled down version of T-Rex because that’s probably the only Dino the writer knows.

Never forget to write a thousand shitty sequels. That part's very important.

Also, if the herbivorous dinosaurs are actually, you know, herbivores, make sure that all of them are docile, gentle creatures that wouldn’t hurt a fly. Ignoring the fact that most large herbivores are aggressive, highly territorial creatures that kill hundreds of people every year more than most carnivores ever could. And also ignoring the fact that many herbivorous dinosaurs had horns the length of people, armour embedded into their skin, and tails that could possibly break the sound barrier. And while we’re at it, let’s just make hadrosaurs total pushovers that are just fodder for T-rex, raptors, and other large theropods, despite many of them being larger than elephants and much bigger than many of their predators. Because a seven tonne Parasaurolophus would totally succumb to a pack of man-sized raptors not just squash them like bugs.

This is one of the reasons I have so much nostalgia for Transformers' Dinobots. As robots they don't need feathers, and all paleontological inaccuracies can be explained by the fact that they are aliens who thought dinosaur fossils were cool. Plus they combine robots with a 1980's idea of dinosaurs. Just perfect nostalgia. 🥰

"Now why am I writing about dinosaurs, which is an incredibly niche topic?" Because you're sick of the terrible Jurassic Park sequels and want some modern takes on the genre that are actually good or at the very least mediocre?

The irony that JT didn’t use the *dinobots* during that transformers reference is palpable.

"Dinosaurs are so cool they exempt me from any writing sins committed!" -Jurassic World writers.

My respect for J.P. just went through the roof with the amount of dinosaur knowledge he displayed in that "Well actually..." segment. Also, on the topic of telling interesting, emotional stories with scientifically accurate dinosaurs, I just have to say David Attenborough's Prehistoric Planet nails it on the head. 👌

I will always find it funny that Thagumizers a joke from a Far side comic is now considered the legit name for the spikes on the Stegosaurus tail.

"My story has dinosaurs in it, so your criticism is invalid" Seems the writers of the Jurassic World movies took this to heart

All of this can be applied to dragons as well. They are hella cool creatures that often overwhelm a setting and make it feel lacking at in meaningful normal interactions.

"Don Bluth Traumatised My Childhood Support Group" legit needs to be a thing 💀 You know the worst thing about calling Dimetrodon a dinosaur? It wasn't even a reptile. It was a synapsid, the same part of the family tree which mammals belong to. It's literally more closely related to the human calling it a dinosaur than a dinosaur!

write them as animals because that is what they are. the stereotype of the carnivores being some kind of sadistic murder machines should be dispensed with in future films, and it's what the vast majority of these films are about. i think the show Camp Cretaceous does a sorta decent job of portraying Rexy at least, as just another animal on the island. id like to see a dinosaur movie where the main threat is a herbivore

The thing about Jurassic Park is that you could replace the dinosaurs with ordinary large animals and the plot would still have been the same (assuming all of the humans still had motives for doing what they did). Conversely, if the park had had physical barriers like cliffs and moats, like normal zoos do, instead of relying solely on electric fences with no backup plan (or if it hadn't given a single employee power over the only thing keeping the dinos contained), the dinosaurs wouldn't have escaped and everything would have been fine. The film is trying to say that bringing back dinos is bad, but what I'm seeing is that keeping dangerous wildlife in a slipshod fashion is bad.

"Why aren't you writing about dinosaurs, because dinosaurs are cool" Wow, some actually GOOD writing advice from JP. How rare

The animated series “Primal” actually nails the Characterization part. The main duo are a caveman and a T-rex who bonded by their shared trauma of losing their respective families. The show is like a nature documentary that was directed by a metal album cover artist, and I love it. It’s both emotionally and physically gruesome to watch.

As a massive Palaeontology nerd, I feel so called out by this XD. Legit though, I was laughing the whole way through. This is exactly why I loved the original Jurassic Park, but feel dimly about the Jurassic World franchise. The first JP had its roots in the current science of the time, while also taking some creative liberties for cool hollywood action. It showed both the majesty and danger of Dinosaurs, which has been completely lost in the JW franchise, which threw out any care of love for Palaeontology in light of "Wow, cool dangerous Dinosaurs!"

Even when he's talking about an entirely different subject you still learn something new to improve in your stories. Thank you TWA. (For example a bounty hunter I am writing has an accidental movie dinosaur motif, and the line describing how a hunt should work completely rephrased my opinion on how to write them)

3:13 To be fair, Brontosaurus is currently a valid genius after it was revived back in 2015. If I remember, there are around three species and Robert T. Baker has been ecstatic and vindicated since. 3:46 Eh... Kinda? So as a member of a family, Carnotaurus is part of the Abelisauridae, a group of generally basal carnivores which were known to develop thick, deep skulls and rugose or horny ornamentation over the course of their history. Of course, the animal likely fought in shoving matches between rivals, though it is proposed that they may have whacked opponents and prey along their sides thanks to the thick skull and horns - an idea that was also proposed to it's Madagascan counterpart, Majungasaurus. Of course, it's hard to assert a definite position on such an idea because, as you've referenced, nobody is sure just how strong or durable the dinosaur's neck is.😅 3:48 As it turns out, there's one more surprise about Dilophosaurus - it's head. In a recent paper literally from this year, there was an entire overhaul to the dinosaur and the implications of it's evolution. The two crests on it's head that gave it it's name were much more thick and extensions of the skull as opposed to merely two separate and thin crests. These portions housed powerful muscles that helped augment the power of it's bite. Also, what had once been a long jaw with a kink was actually the result of a damaged skull. In reality, the head was a bit more robust and similar to other early large carnivores. 4:09 Honestly, I ain't got much to say about this. My only gripe is that the wings on the Dromes should be "complete" in so much as they were like bird wings with primary feathers covering all but the first finger (the second finger acted as an anchor like modern birds). As for pack hunting, that's a contentious issue. Me personally, if such a possibility was on the table, I doubt they'd be as sophisticated as mammalian predators. It's possible (and I'm really stretching that term) as we see a level of gregariousness in other, larger carnivores (allosauroids and tyrannosauroids) and some scant evidence in Dromaeosaurids, though it could be that these were small family groups. 5:05 So a T. rex as an adult ain't going to outrun anyone. What it will do is stalk a target and then surprise it. Yes, they're slow, but they only need to be so fast to catch animals even slower with lower metabolisms. Keep in mind that T. rex can move at maximum of up to 15 mph, which is impressive for a forty foot long, thirteen foot tall, nine ton murder machine. Then couple the fact that it's stride length is gonna be relatively long and that it has the respiration of a bird. People in general run about 8 mph. I'm not saying a T. rex adults are going to waste energy chasing people. But I am saying people aren't as nimble as you may think. And keep in mind I'm talking about the big ones. The teens are a totally different animal, especially ecologically. 5:59 So I actually agree with this. As someone who admits to see the Jurassic Park series as an annoyance (not just because of the inaccuracies, but because even I can point out some huge problems with the plot), I get annoyed when people start gatekeeping like this. I'm a self-admitted dick, but I want people to still be able to enjoy and spread the thing I love. As bad as the current films are, I still see the JP/JW franchise as a way to get the general public interested in the field of Paleontology. I still remember being awes by the first film and enjoying the second one when my dad took me to the cinema as a surprise. Yeah, it sounds like a "I hate you 'cause I love you" kinda deal and at the end of the day, it is. We're talking about a multi-billion dollar franchise that is essentially how most people get into the science. With every feathered Pyroraptor they show off, there's two scaly Deinonychus expies in the way. In that sense, if your going to be the main entry point to something all I want is for you to be good at it. The thing about science is that it's always evolving - the more we understand, the more ideas either form or get dropped. That's the name of the game. That said, I also agree that just like with any nerd fandoms, there's going to be a fan-dumb menace acting like elitist snobs blocking entry or, unironically enough, promoting outdated ideas because new stuff flies in the face of their personal canon. I've seen people get pissed over the idea of feathered dinosaurs. Hell, there was a recent issue where some guys got mad that the T. rex in Prehistoric Planet (we in the fandom have since named him "Hank") was shown as an attentive dad and thus labeled "woke." People like me can't stand those guys. 8:41 I think there's already a dinosaur Watership Down. In fact, there's a whole series. It's called Age of Reptiles and it's a comic series created by Ricardo Delgado. The series details the lives of various dinosaurs in different environments and focuses on themes like violence, gang wars, resource competition, revenge, betrayal, etc.

*How the dinosaurs went extinct:* The T-Rex saw a huge boulder and kicked it into the orbit as the rock faded away into nothingness. Years later, the boulder paid a visit to Earth as a meteor to get revenge on the dinosaurs.

I’ve always loved dinosaurs. I think that if velociraptors were around today, they’d be kind of like dogs. Just super sociable due to being pack hunters.

Also: the trope of large herbivorous dinos being totally defenseless and/or peaceful, despite many modern large herbivores often being even more dangerous than carnivores.

"It's not like treating science like a religion misses the entire point.." Just...god, thank you so much for saying this.

"it's almost like treating science as a religion defeats the entire point" +10 billion respect points for that statement. not that j.p. didn't already have a lot of those just for wanting to help people become better writers in an entertaining and thought out format.

Random dinosaurs, dragons, and those characters that have one eye covered by their hair all serve the same purpose.

I loved the “Dinotopia” books as a kid. That’s a story about a father and son who shipwreck in a lost continent that has people and herbivore dinosaurs living alongside each other. There are carnivorous Dinos too but they live in their own valley and people wisely leave them be.

If you're interested, "Evolution," by Stephen Baxter, kind of does the "dinosaur watership down" concept, though more with direct human ancestors (starting with the Cretaceous). It has stories from the perspective of little rodent-like critters, proto-monkeys, apes, etc. And then post-humans. Plus some vignettes from the dinos' viewpoints.

8:36 Dinosaur _Watership Down._ If this sounds like something you'd want to read, I've read a book called _Raptor Red,_ which follows the life of a Utahraptor. It's not perfect, but was written by a genuine paleontologist. It can be a bit dry sometimes, and unlike _Watership Down_ there is no "talking" between the dinosaurs.

We're getting one step closer to that Dinosaur Erotica TWA got rejected for!

It's always The Land Before Time that traumatized people's childhood

"My story has dinosaurs in it, therefore your criticism is invalid." Fair.

My additions as a dino fan: - Amber and bones are too old to possess proper DNA that can be used to clone or resurrect prehistoric creatures. -All prehistoric creatures filled respective niches in their environment, and weren't either murder machines or herbivores. -Herbivores are just as capable of being as deadly as carnivores under the right circumstances. -Larger prehistoric creatures were powerhouses. However, they needed to consume large amounts of food while simultaneously using as little energy as possible. This is why certain creatures travel in packs or will scavenge from dead corpses. It is easier to do this than always look after yourself and always expending energy hunting. -Diseases and other pathogens exist. Infections also exist. Both are deadly, and we do not know what current-era pathogens could affect dinosaurs, not do we know what prehistoric pathogens might do to modern-era creatures. Neither would likely have natural resistances to the other's pathogens. -Much like modern oceans, prehistoric waters had a plentiful variety of life- enough of which could probably kill you. -Flora, bugs, and small mammals were alive during different periods. A darting dragonfly, a bulbous cycad, an unfurling fern, moist moss, marching ants, buzzing insects, and scurrying mammals all help add life to a world. The small things matter just as much as the dinosaurs. -Humans would likely not have to fear large dinos until you got into their territory or enraged them. You would most likely be hunted by theropods or scavengers that were a several tons, more nimble, and regular hunt smaller prey, or by creatures that hunted in packs like lions or wolves. -Dinosaur intelligence ranged from cow-like to dog-like. However, they likely could not be tamed unless there were extenuating circumstances explaining how a species became more tame. -Psittacosaurus had quills on its tail. Quills are still being investigated in other dinosaur species. Protofeathers also existed on dinos. They did not all have scaly bodies like alligators, devoid of hair or feathers. -That being said, dinosaur skin on larger dinos likely felt like an alligator's, and likely looked like one too. -Dinos were likely more earthy tones or blended more into their environment. Bright colors were likely rare naturally (probably appearing on specific species) or the result of some mutation like albinism or the like. Looking at modern animals in different ecosystems may give an idea of what colors dinos possibly looked like. -Dinos would be tough to kill, even by modern standards. Elephant guns and high-caliber weapons would have the best chances of felling large dinos swiftly. Smaller arms would likely hurt or sting them and cause them to become enraged. At you. And everything else nearby. -There is no hard evidence for dinosaurs having venom or being poisonous. That being said, it may not have been impossible- but you would not be violating any known science by simply saying they did not. -Pterosaurs likely rode wind currents like modern birds. Flapping wings uses a lot of energy, while gliding is easier. -There are -*-lots-*- of dinos and prehistoric creatures. Limiting yourself to the famous ones tends to take away originality and creativity. Internet searching and libraries can introduce you to creatures you- or your audience- may not have known before. Throw more popular creatures around for familiarity, and use lesser-known creatures for interest and intrigue. Both will keep your audience's attention if you balanced things right. -Having a glossary in the back or end of a book could help with identifying unfamiliar creatures or flora in a written work. These are some things people tend to forget when it comes to dinos and prehistoric creatures.

To anyone saying that feathers would ruin the dinosaurs’s imitation factor, look how ostrich actually act and tell people who own chicken about how aggressive chicken can be.

I wrote a medieval story in wich some dudes in armor rode Feathered Pachys into battle and worked as shock cavalry with big lances, its also nice to be able to use them as a narrative resource when the characters are working with their pens, grooming, rising these creatures from egg, making them specialized saddles and armor, and just playing with the little ones by putting on a helmet and having headbutting contests xD

When I was a child, my favorite book series was one that told scientifically accurate (for the time) stories about dinosaurs and other extinct animals. Actual stories, mind you, and while the plot in a kid's book obviously wasn't anything super deep, the fact that they treated the dinosaurs as characters and not props made me love it more than the books that only had facts in them. I think the author's name was Rupert Oliver.

Writer: "How about genetically enhanced dinosaur that's super smart? They think and reason which could lead understanding dinos and humans. Imagine how many stories we could make, plus the super dino would have they're own character arc too!" Somebody else: yeah all that sounds boring and new. But the super smart stuff is cool so... Super smart murder machine it is!

Always remember to open the door up to dinosaurs, add new ideas to the floor, and have everybody walk the dinosaur route

9:20 In the game Jurassic Park: Trespasser dinos used to have complicated behaviors, but it was scrapped and replaced with dinos being murder machines, because they were forced to ship it before it was even remotely finished.

"Sorry to ruin childhoods" Imho I'd disagree, if it had some of the best vision out of most predatory animals, intellect of a chimp and was thick as hell I'd say it's quite an upgrade

Well I actually think the discussion about the moral, ecological and philosophical implications of bringing dinosaurs back to life in the original Jurassic park was actually some of the most interesting stuff in the movie. Also you missed out on the trope that the big bad dinosaur in the first movie of a dinosaur movie franchise is a T-Rex. but in the sequels T. rex has got to be trounced and killed by a supposedly bigger and scarier dinosaur to up the stakes of the movies. Even though it’s doubtful such animals could actually win against T. rex.

I love that the pointy bits on the stegasaur tail is in fact called the Thagomizer by paleontologists.

If you want a masterclass in writing dinosaurs, just watch "The VelociPastor(2018)". That movie gets everything right!

I also really love the bullet/explosionproof dinosaurs from jurassic world. They just evolved to perfect american killers through natural selection... or frogs I guess

Concept: Take dinosaurs and inspire their behaviour on modern-day birds. Owl-inspired dinosaur which acts like a cranky moron with sharp claws. Crow-inspired dinosaur that is a happy and silly guy and yet smarter than everyone. Parrot-inspired dinosaur that is a lil' shid Goose-inspired dinosaur that would fight god for literally no reason, despite actually not having the fight skills to actually back up all that anger.

Finally, the greatest writing advice channel in the planet is back!

Actually coca cola didn't invent santa's look. There were several variations, including the red suit version floating around. The red suit version was made popular by a widespread, illustrated version of the night before christmas that came out way back when. Coke did eventually did make this version even more popular, but they didn't invent it.

Here is the exciting conclusion of my future-proof dinosaur story: "They're STILL dead. The End."

"Dilophosauruses have no fossil evidence of having a neck frill or ever spitting poison" Me: My dissapointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

This video answered my lifelong question on why I never got into dinosaurs. Alot of interesting sci fi/fantasy monsters at least have some kind of gimmick that makes them unique from one another and irreplaceable. Even if they're not unique, monsters like the Titans, Terminators, Xenomorph, and the Upside Down creatures can become iconic because it's fun trying to find out how the hell they work and how you're supposed to beat them. Even the most overplayed ones like zombies, werewolves, and vampires can still have fun, creative ways to use their monster gimmick. But dinosaurs are always just massive beasts that rampage and eat everything they see for no reason. You could literally replace them with any giant ass monster that wants to eat you and the conflict is functionally no different.

I have been hanging out with some friends' kids. There's nothing that makes me feel quite so much like sitting an exam I haven't studied for than talking about dinosaurs with them.

This came out at the perfect time. I was just thinking about writing a dinosaur story from the dinosaurs' perspective, thinking that I should do plenty of research and come up with my own creative interpretations of dinosaurs, but you proved that that's a terrible idea. Instead I'll make the story about love triangles and dino fights

I have a theory that this video is actually a backdoor pilot for JP's upcoming second channel where he talks about dinosaurs and dinosaur facts

Gee, I sure wonder if there was a very disappointing movie that came out recently that inspired this chapter's topic!

Don't forget all herbivores that aren't Triceratops or Stegosaurus are defenseless wimps that are always killed by the cool predators.

Watership Down for Dinos has already been written - look up "Raptor Red." That said, just because someone else did it before doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. That always bugged the s*** out of me - Young me: [story idea] Fake friend: Oh, that's been done before [proceeds to tell me plot of book with only passing resemblance to my idea] Young me: [gives up because I was a total doormat] Oh, you're right then...

I feel this video is well (or poorly?) timed considering Prehistoric Planet came out relatively recently. As a big nerd about biology I’m pleased about the acknowledgment about modern dino knowledge (and also the fact that you shouldn’t be forced to include all of it in a purely creative work, either).

Normally, I don't care about these type of videos until now. Also, my biggest complaint about dinosaurs in media is that how so many people kept repeating the old fashioned 'zombie hands' of dinosaurs. For those who don't get it, The palms of dinosaurs in media always faced down when in reality, they faced at each other. If someone notice this mistake and made a satirical joke out of it, It would be satisfying to hear it since these problem has never been addressed for 50 years!

"Dinosaurs are so cool that a story with Dinosaurs doesn't even need a love triangle!" Me: **slaps table** That's it, I'm officially writing only dinosaur stories from now on. Finally, I'm *FREEEEEEEE*

Tier Zoo has helped me understand that dinosaurs wouldn't thrive in our modern ecosystem. They went extinct for a reason.

The fact that the Thagomizer became the actual scientific term will forever put a smile on my face.

You want Dinosaur Watership Down? I recommend Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker. He wrote it as a means of expressing his hypotheses on dinosaur behavior circa the mid 90s, but he presented it as a fictional story depicting life in the late Jurassic period from the perspective of a female Utahraptor who perceives the world much more differently from us. A lot of what he wrote about then has since been disproven by the march of science, but it's still an engaging read for anyone who likes xenofiction. Anyway, it's really sad how few good dinosaur stories there are, though I am happy there is one out right now: Tartakovsky's Primal. It plays fast and loose with scientific accuracy and is pulpy as hell, but the animation is fantastic, but the dinosaurs and prehistoric animals are presented as more than just monsters, a Tyrannosaur serves as the co-protagonist, and she has fantastic chemistry with her Neanderthal companion, all of which is presented without a word said between them.

I'm surprised you didn't mention how herbivores are portrayed as gentle giants you can just walk up to and pet when in reality they are much more dangerous than predators.

8:20 I've heard that the term "Thagomizer" is actually the scientifically accurate term for that dinosaur body part, because real paleontologists liked that one comic so much and they hadn't decided on a term for tail spikes at that point.

Writers in millenia : I discovered an ancient screenplay ! If we restore the data from the damaged harddrive we could maybe remake infinite sequels from that single script ! Reboots always find a way

Don't forget the biggest rule about Dinosaur movies: There were two major periods Dinosaurs lived in (well three, but the first one is near-criminally underrepresented). You have to name your movie after one of them but have most of your Dinosaurs from the other one.

So fun fact: most artistic reconstructions of dinosaurs are incredibly conservative, essentially "shrink wrapping" skin unto the skeleton structure. Problem is that a lot of animals have features that aren't directly represented in the skeleton - google "modern animals drawn like dinosaurs" if you want to get an idea what this means, but the short version is that method gives you spiky-headed hippos, swans with stabbing arms instead of wings, and earless cats that look like reptiles. And that's with a full skeletal structure to work with. For many dinosaurs we've only recovered partial skeletons. All of which is a long way of saying that we don't have evidence that dilophosaurus could spit poison... but as far as I know we don't have evidence that they couldn't either. There's a ton of room to go wild with dinosaurs without violating the current science. You'll still get neckbeards (and some of the more conservative paleontologists) trying to "well actually" you, but those people would've done the same thing to anyone giving velociraptors feathers in the 90s.

>>Doesnt even need a love triangle Then explain "taken by the t-rex" Checkmate authors

God, as a Palaeontology student this video makes me so fucking happy. From the "um actually" section, most of your facts are correct, with my fun fact being that us humans and Dinosaurs common ancestor is a Dimetrodon. And tho Palaleo experts bash Dino literature to high hell, we do have our guilty pleasures.

aww jp acknowledged dino nerds and mentioned actual biology)) i never felt so nice while also being laughed at. so sweet

As someone with a great passion for writing and an 'almost' unhealthy obsession with dinosaurs, this is like christmas and my birthday combined

Idea: A Jurassic Park type place bio-engineers dinosaurs to look like the pop-culture versions instead of the accurate versions, inadvertently creating numerous super-predators and/or animals that suffer horribly with improper biology.

5:00 Well ackchually don't forget the T-Rex had -Feathers- "Proto-Feathers"

I've always laughed at writers who try to characterise animals because 10 out of 9 times they do it wrong. The only show that did animal-human dynamics right was ATLA with Aang and Appa. Also, font forget the animals have no self-preservation instincts and always attack prey that kills them in droves.

As a big dinosaur fan, I found the whole video incredible. The party about accuracy vs fun, and making jokes about many dinosaur misconceptions at 2:49-5:05 was just so good!!! Can't wait to see more videos!!!

Honestly that issue of "accurate" dinosaurs being one discovery away from being targets of ridicule is something science fiction authors worry about _all the time._

I literally just bought the original jurassic park book today, I am so exited to watch this and see how it applies to it!

Yes, was hoping this would be an episode EDIT: Oh yeah, Don't forget about making them bulletproof and lavaproof. Also give them Superpowers, like Echolocation and diving into frigid ice water despite not even having enough feathers to keep it warm in general, let alone the amount needed to keep itself warm in ice water

I love the voice acting for McStabbyPants in this one. He sounds appropriately defeatist about this whole situation. That being said... oddly enough, his pronunciation of the word "stroke" makes him sound like he had a stroke.

Wow, don't know why this topic from you was such a surprise to me, but it was awesome. Great job! Also, dude, respect for being up on the very latest with Carnotaurus osteoderms, and then just leaving it there for the ones who know.

The PBS Kids cartoon, “Dinosaur Train” actually made it FUN to learn about dinosaurs, as the channel was a big fan of doing with all of their cartoons. Every character was a dinosaur, and every episode they rode a train that could time-travel between the different Dino periods with no lasting consequences. And there’d be a section of the episode ALL ABOUT the dino(s) they were learning about that episode. There was no real monster fighting, just a good old’ family-friendly fun time, befriending each other and depicting good family relationships. It had a BANGER intro about what the story was about! I’d try to memorize and sing the lyrics when I was younger😅

At last, now I too can write Jurassic World movie scripts! Thank you JP! Thank you, and your awesome dino drawings!

Love his video! Off to write about the Velocirex of my dreams!!!!! Scale covered feathers to keep those srupid nerds away while maintaining the cool look :D

I’m so invested in the ending skits omg I can’t wait to see where it goes now, Greed is unironically a fascinating villain

My sister gave me the best idea for dinosaurs, instead of having them be the actual dinos of 65 million years ago, they evolved into faylike versions of themselves. As such I am now exempt from all dinosaur realism in my D&D game as the fay bread them to be whatever they wanted and they wanted Jurassic park

All of the TWA video's have really inspired me to expand my writing. Also I love the sponsorship war episodes. They're a lot more interesting to listen to rather than just a random sponsor in the middle of a video.

8:39 Daria in Muv Luv Alternative had me laughing far longer than it should considering I have the barest bones knowledge of either series.

I always look forward to these

Concept 1: Writing Dinosaurs. "Hey, reminds me of Jurassic Park." Concept 2: Forced Love Triangle with Dinosaurs. "Ha, that's Jurassic Park too."

I would like to see an episode of Terrible Writing Advice on Time Travel. That would give quite a bit of material to talk about.

YESSSS! I just love this channel! You are one of the funniest youtubers I’ve seen! Thank you for your effort and hard work! I love the TWA expended universe! Question? Have you thought up doing a video on the superhero / super villain genre? I understand script writing / editing / drawing the characters is time consuming. I hope you don’t mind my random thought :)

Hey I love your videos so much! They are both funny to watch casually as well as for writing!

"They are alive just like me" -stellar writing

Let’s go new terrible writing advice video love this channel and your book

You can just tell he needed to release his rage towards JW

Would actually highly recommend "Raptor Red" by Robert T. Bakker, highly unique subject & one of my all-time favourite reads.

I love this sooo much. I’ve been toying around with a lot of ideas for writing dinosaurs, especially in fantasy settings. I love trying to use modern day archosaurs as a basis for behavior, but adding my own twist since there is so much room for creativity when it comes to it. I’ve even been playing with certain levels of domestication!