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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

@denseblackhole.bsky.social This meme made me think of our Digimon vs. Pokemon discussion the other day.

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Another word for "chunky" is "solid." I would trust this boi to guard my flank any day.

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Very happy to see the last page of Tech Rush chapter 1. If you were reluctant to start the story because you weren't sure it was going anywhere--now's a good time to jump in and enjoy this short, completed arc. And hopefully resolving tech issues will lead to faster pages in the future!

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

No doubt this Styracosaurus has some cute colors, but its high, alert posture means it's a survivor, too.

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Check out the latest page of Tech Rush. Transitioning from the intro plot to the main plot.

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Neo Monster Island @neomonsterisland.com · 08/01/2026

This picture is evergreen every single year #Godzilla

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Now that's a dinosaur I'd give a wide berth!

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A lot of great findings in this study. Check out the full thread to get the details!

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

This is what the real, human internet is for: answering the burning questions that keep so many of us up at night.

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

This is cool! It's like an inversion of the Bradbury story "The Fog Horn."

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Dense Blackhole 🛸 @denseblackhole.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Finally finished Page 19 for Tech Rush! I think I learned a valuable lesson - not every panel need a full background! 😅 Anyway, as usual, the link for the new page is below! www.theduckwebcomics.com/Tech_Rush/58...

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

The insightful response is pasted at the bottom.

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Help Lauren make this difficult color decision!

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

These are some pretty cute dino stickers!

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I love that Bsky is full of so many creatives doing such amazingly creative things. This is a project I will continue to watch with great interest.

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

After my last post, I decided to search #checkmymath to see if it's a thing people do. I would actually really like to have this as a resource if people who enjoy random math problems will take up the challenge. Answer: not really, but there are some gems there.

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

To modern eyes, the 1861 Punch #comic seems akin to the #dinosaur #art of creatures witnessing the deadly meteorite impact that we see so often these days. However, I think this comic predates the notion that dinosaur extinction was due to an astronomic catastrophe.

Nineteenth century representations of dinosaurs looking through telescopes at a fanciful depiction of a comet.

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Good News: The Rapture actually happened today at midnight GMT. Bad News: We're all still here. Nobody can make the cut as long as there's this much suffering in the world. Do what you can to make this world the best place it can be, and maybe we'll make the cut next time.

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Thanks to everyone who helped make the launch of my #dinosaur novel PLUG AND FEATHERS such a success. Especially thankful to @denseblackhole.bsky.social for helping to promote it. My novel cracked the top 100 in one of its categories. Here's a screenshot, of where I ranked among the gay erotica.

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

A scary predator on the prowl. I wouldn't want to meet this character on an open plain!

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

As promised: the second book in the Argent Abyss series: Dead Ground, with another lovely cover painting by the talented Virginia Hagans.

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

One of the challenges of writing historic fiction about people encountering dinosaurs is: would they even recognize what these are? Based on historic reconstructions vs. our modern understanding of what they'd see--they might not know what they're seeing.

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Why PLUG AND FEATHERS? PLUG AND FEATHERS is the story of the complicated relationship of three people, how their trip into the world of dinosaurs forces them to address the unresolved issues between them.

Examples of the stone-breaking tool called plug and feathers, shims and wedges, and other names. It is a three-part tool: the feathers slide into the rock, then the plug or wedge goes between them. As the plug is driven deeper, the feathers put pressure on the rock, causing it to split.

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

One of the things that makes Tech Rush such a fun postapocalyptic story is all the fun little details, like this one here. If you haven't checked it out yet, follow the link and start at the beginning.

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The Plug and Feathers Kindle version is available for pre-order. Paperback and other ebook versions will be available Friday! www.amazon.com/Plug-Feather...

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Plug and Feathers (Argent Abyss Book 1)

Amazon.com: Plug and Feathers (Argent Abyss Book 1) eBook : Candelaria, Matthew: Kindle Store

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Weird. In histories of #Spinosaurus reconstructions, this 1981 masterpiece by Richard Smolinski rarely gets mentioned. #dinosaur " #art "

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

That looks like a close call! See the full story in the link below.

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

This cool #dinosaur #art is from a 1934 story "When Reptiles Ruled," told from the POV of a Struthiomimus, Luigi.

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

VALLEY OF GWANGI is a great little pic, and it's one of Harryhausen's signature works in the field of dinosaur cinema. Yes, I love suitmation. Yes, I love puppeteering. But nothing made dinosaurs come to life like stop-motion animation.

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I dreamt I was a barbarian grammarian and the sentence "Hrathgar wroth fully until he wroth fully wroth." kept coming up. I don't know what it means!

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

This is pretty amazing for a first attempt at dinosaur art!

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Check out the amazing #dinosaur #art for my novel PLUG AND FEATHERS. Full cover spread will make it an attractive addition to any paperback collection. Available for preorder on September 5 (with special pricing), publishes on September 14!

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Later today, I'll be revealing the cover for PLUG AND FEATHERS, the first of the #dinosaur books. First, though, here's the #blurb. It's an image because character limits are way too small for posting even this short text.

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Intriguing. I look forward to learning more.

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Part of the reason I chose Virginia as my #coverartist for the #dinosaur books is all the wonderful bird art she does. For example, check out this amazing crane!

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Not very many car songs are written about Volvos. In addition to the unique subject, the song features the best attempt at making car driving sounds in a song since Woody Guthrie. youtu.be/7fm7sJSz77c?...

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The Medallions 59 Volvo

YouTube video by lund6565

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

When it came time to put out the dinosaur books, I started looking for cover artists, I immediately thought of Virginia Hagans, a friend of mine who made this image that I use as the cover for my dinosaur group, Dinosaur Fantastica www.facebook.com/share/g/1F4e...

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Matthew B. Candelaria @orlandospurioso.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Not the Disco Duck, that's a dino duck. (I have some dino goose art coming soon.)

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