Just a new icon

[ink_in_hand]

A little small something today instead of the usual, as I feel that I'm risking a burnout otherwise. Things will return to normal tomorrow. And I've been dying to find a place to use this insult for ages, and while geology isn't quite paleontology the two are tightly linked in Earth study. So I now have a pissed off icon with my own little insult. I realize it's probably a bit OOC for him to be insulting someone but everyone gets ticked off sooner or later and an obscure reference in relation to his field of study sounds like something he might use.

If you know what a coprolite is, he probably isn't talking to you.

Talin loves you like some people love a good steak.

The 'little' worm wanted as icon as well. And who am I to deny a bladed parasite with a body length of five feet, not counting a rather long tail?

Comments

[chopperaerials.livejournal.com]

Kekekekekekeke...

These amuse us to no end. Thanks for brightening today.

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. I enjoy it immensely when others share my particular brand of humor.

[chopperaerials.livejournal.com]

Mm, I admit that my paleontology is rusty--left my books at home, haven't been to the library for a long while, and the last prehistoric life form I looked up was a Therizinosaur, and that was mainly for aesthetics purposes. Still, I still remember enough to enjoy the humor, so there it is.

*squeals* Who's a happy parasite? You are! Yes you are! YES YOU ARE!

...I think I need to sleep now.

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

It's not often that people get my jokes as they're often like this. Of course obscurity is good for insulting someone without them realizing it.

Talin will take over the internet! Mwahahaha.... the first parasite to do so through fan appeal. That has to be some sort of epic accomplishment.

[heslestor.livejournal.com]

*snickers madly at Beachcomber* Yes, I had to go look it up, and now I want to see that insult used in a fic somewhere. The best insults always are the more obscure types. That way, while the person is trying to puzzle out what the slag it is you just said, you can make a clean getaway.

Ya, it's kind of a wise thing to do what creatures like Talin demands asks of you. And I just realized how perfect his little blades would be for slicing into a spark chamber and then hacking into the spark while his tail wraps around the spinal/neural array and infects their motor control. Talin is turning out to be one little worm that you really don't want let loose, then again, the other Autobots probably haven't been told what he's fully capable of. Good thing he likes Hotzone so much.

[ink-in-hand.livejournal.com]

Because it would work so well too. Just imagine him talking to someone in that laidback pacifying tone of voice he uses.

"Hey man, chill out. Kiss a coprolite and make peace with the world. No need to get your servos in such a twist." Chances are, they'd never know that they were just insulted.

Talin's design just formed as I drew it/him/her, and now I'm unnerved with just how well it works. What's really creepy is that nine times out of ten, something I design is more perfect than I ever initially realize. Once, I created a free-floating underwater station for a sci-fi water planet story with these unusual looking long pipe things extending up to the surface all the way down to the dark deep. I later found out that the structure actually exists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_thermal_energy_conversion) as an energy generator, matching the use I had for them in my head.