Where Do We Go From Here?
So here's some interesting anecdotes that have nothing much to do with Speckles. But, like the Other Review Posts, I can't think where else to put them!
They might shed some light on how all of this came to be…
I do in fact remember…going to see the very first Jurassic Park Movie at the cinema! I was 15 going on 16 years old and stuck in that limbo between leaving school, and starting college. It was the ABC Cinema at Southend and back then, tickets were £3.50 for standard or £4.50 if you wanted the comfy seats!
Cinema tickets were slightly cheaper in 1993!
As for the film itself, Jurassic Park is the stuff of legend so what can I possibly tell you about it that you don't already know!?
But, somehow…that was 29 YEARS AGO!
I am now 44 going on 45 years old and Jurassic World Dominion is not long away from us. That to me is the longest circle of all. A film series that started almost 30 years ago finally completes. Will I be seeing it? Though technically it is the other Dino franchise that some other guy came up with, it does have rampaging dinosaurs in the time of man! Unlike White Dino, I'm happy to talk about it.
And although I seem to remember Speckles thought it was a bit daft. I still believe it holds some entertainment value for us! It has been a VERY long time since I was excited about a film release.
29 Years. Time's Arbiter must be laughing himself silly! I hadn't the slightest clue that so much later in life I would end up writing The Speckles Chronicles. I must have had dinosaurs on the brain much longer than I realized! Or did they dream me up to make it all happen?
"Some choices we don't make, some we do make. And some are made for us. It all led me here to FanFiction."
I like to think it well and truly ended with Speckles 7. I was close to writing another segment where Speckles returns to Blue Eyes and Junior and discusses what they learned again. But, it was exactly the same as the "Return" chapter right at the end of Reminiscence. And I try not to repeat myself too much! So I settled for "The Pay-Off". Even Speckles was starting to get annoyed with me by then. And I am sure you were too!
I continue to be humbled by this experience and hope we've all learned something along the way. As you no doubt noticed…I corrected HORDE finally. Even the mistakes in my tales were revealed to me only at certain times and in certain ways. And always in batches of FOUR. Weird!
Could the next God of Dinos please hire a proof-reader before they begin. It has taken me forever to get the language right in my stories.
I honestly can't tell you what happens next. Me and my alters are just members of the audience now, looking to see what lies ahead. I have some rough ideas for a White Dino's 45th Birthday piece. But I have promised not to write anymore Speckles stories, too many times to keep track of.
Perhaps Speckles himself could write one for me…?
2022. What a time to be alive? Roll on Jurassic World Dominion. You have been a bloody long time coming…
This is WhoIsTheWhiteDino. Anything Is Possible. Goodbye again Dear Readers.
Okay FanFiction, you've earned it. Here is another White Dino post for you!
Although I will not be adding it to The Other Review Posts. Something was evidently very unhappy with me for posting The Birthday Chronicles on June 14th. Actually, that particular addition should have been obvious. I said I wouldn't One-Shot Speckles 7. But with the Birthday pieces either side, it seemed good enough to do so. Of course there had to be four chapters.
Why June 14th? Simple. It was the day I decided to go see Jurassic World Dominion at the Cinema! It was a HUGE IMAX screen, and the ticket price…£19.96. That's 29 years of inflation for you! No idea what that amounts to in Dollars? But I bet it's a lot of them.
Ticket price 1993 - £3.50. Ticket price 2022 - £19.96.
The damn Blu-Ray won't cost that much!
With that out the way, I might really be finished. I know I've said that to death, but where else can all this go? At this point in my odyssey…Junior can break into my mind, Speckles can break out of it, Blue-Eyes is Mother Nature. (I promise to you I wasn't on drugs when I wrote Reckoning!)
I've overpowered my dinosaurs to the point that they really don't need me anymore. And, if Speckles 7 was my ultimate confession, then 45th Birthday was my ultimate Love Letter. I HAD to find a way to end it in the most loving, respectful and zany way possible! And was the metaphor a bit obvious in the end? I now have a buggering great dino-shaped hole in my soul.
But not in a bad way, we'll always have what we went through together. That is my own Eternity's Seal. An experience like no other. It's yours, take it.
We are ALL Dinosaur Gods now…
What else can I say? Welcome to the rest of 2022. What could possibly go wrong?!
Farewell again FanFiction. Gareth and his Inner-Dinosaur.
