White Dino's 46th Birthday!

The MOON rises over Speckles' time. The SUN rises over White Dino's time. This is not a new story nor a continuation of Dino King Requiem. It is a whole new chapter in the Speckles Project! How long it goes on for we cannot say but one thing is for certain…Even Gods Live On A Circle. Welcome to White Dino's 46th Birthday! Gareth. White Dino. Time's Arbiter. The Author.

I see now that I was trying to match Requiem to Speckles 3 by word count. They are the bookends of the piece. The First and Last. Both now have 9,400 words. Had I known this earlier there wouldn't have been so many "I'm finished" proclamations! Here are some screen grabs. X.

Here is the last area on FanFiction that isn't personal. This is now the average month for Team Dino! We shall leave you with our best 5-word sentence. "Our favorite dinos will return…" Just not by us I'm afraid. All the best and back soon. Gareth. White Dino. Time's Arbiter.

"It's just as well you didn't give birth to yourself when I was 40. Or your name might have well been WD-40!" Giggled Gareth. "Oh, hilarious G. Your puns are as bad as your grammar!" White Dino replied. "Well, I did get an E in my English exam. That was before Jurassic Park!"

"So I felt story writing wasn't for me. Let's study photography instead. And for 7 years I learned chemical based photography. Only to graduate in the year 2000 just as the digital era was starting." "And now anyone with a smartphone can be a great producer." Spoke White Dino.

"But, somehow. A whole bunch of years later, I have The Speckles Project under my belt. And there's nothing I do about it." "Nope." Said White Dino. "FanFiction isn't done for profit or fame. It's a calling. For all we know, Sang-Ho Han wants us to fall into a vat of Dino Poop!"

I had a dream a while back: A giant crab burst out the ground and chased me everywhere. The only way I could stop it was by throwing frogs at it! As one Dinosaur God to another…what do you think that means? Thanks for Prehistoric Planet. My kin love being in pop culture!

If you wish the God of Dinosaur's opinion…X resembles a spear going through a smartphone! Which is fine with me as I don't have much use for one. Y'all smartphone users? Also, I've been on Facebook since 2007. So don't expect me to leave Twitter quite yet. Good day sir!

So, that was July 2023. And what a month it has been! We broke a few more seals but I think Dino King Requiem can finally live up to its name. Team Dino also shared some dream stuff with the magnificent Darren Naish! What a score for us! Twitter X is our only real concern now…

I lived through the era of the X-Files. I too had a Mulder and Scully poster. That was many years ago, so what is with the new found obsession with Alien life being hidden from us and the letter X being cool again? Can one lone figure fight the future? The White Dino knows all…

"This is it Cy. The most closely guarded secret in all creation. An entire species wiped away to see what comes up in its stead. We've been doing it for millions of years. But no more. Because I tell you what Cy. NO DINOSAUR ON EARTH IS DYING TODAY!" With a blinding white flash.

Think of that as a deleted scene. White Dino's speech before stopping the asteroid went on so long the dinos themselves almost chose extinction! So I cut it back and back until I settled for "Thank You!" With that said…Welcome to August 2023. This will be so much fun! G and WD.

"WhoIsTheWhiteDino" appeared in my mind around September 2020 as a vague Twitter reference. But, I didn't join Twitter till late 2022 when Elon Musk bought it for 44 billion. I then finished the Speckles Project July 24th 2023 when Twitter…died. Make of that what you will…?

Happy Memory: Mid September 2020. I was out on one of my walks. Suddenly, Speckles, Blue-Eyes and White Dino started jumping around in my head like kids on a trampoline. Tired of all the sadness they demanded to be funny. I rushed back to base and typed the Comedy End Credits!

Sad Memory: February 2021. I was out on one of my walks. Suddenly a huge row broke out in my head between Speckles and White Dino. Speckles said something that hurts to this day. "I was the one who lost Blue-Eyes not you. How dare you assume to know how I felt about it." OUCH!

Ludicrous Memory: After the dinosaurs survive the asteroid and are celebrating…One-Eye shows up! And they are like "Run everyone, it's that horrible monster from the first Speckles Movie!" One-Eye proceeds to trundle over to Speckles and Blue-Eyes and collapses and cries…

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be so evil, the writers made me do it, Er Hur Hur…" This being a White Dino production they all give him a big group hug. Just like that…his other eye grows back. And he becomes the happiest T-Rex that ever lived. There are two raptors nearby…

"So what the hell are we supposed to call him now? Two-Eyes!" The other one responds. "Oh, don't be stupid…we've all got two eyes!" Yeah, I'm ready to see that therapist now. This one came to me while I was having a bath! Not long now. #GodOfDinosaurs #Tarbosaurus #Speckles.

"I think now that I have been at war with myself and everything I knew before the year 2020. I cannot change the mistakes of my past nor repair my friendships broken. All I can do is try to atone. That is The Speckles Project. That is my atonement. Who are you White Dino…?"

"I can't tell you that." White Dino replied. "There is a chain to this thing. You report to me, I report to my boss, he reports to THE boss. If you knew a fraction of what I did your head would burst like a runny egg! You're just letting yourself become Gareth the Tarbosaurus."

The Author's Residence: It is not a haunted mansion that sits over an ancient burial ground. It is a new build that sits atop an old school car park! Hardly the stuff of legend. Yet I could not have written The Speckles Project at any other time and place. Was this all foretold?

The Author: My one attempt at being aloof and mysterious. How it happened is still a mystery, but I think at the time I was trying to channel my Inner-Sephiroth! Yes, we ALL know who that is! Using Holy Magic to stop an asteroid. Where the Final Fantasy 7 did that come from?!

Geez. I have not felt this empty since the summer of 2021. In July it was The Speckles Chronicles followed by White Dino's 44th Birthday! By the start of August I was wiped. There seemed something strangely iconic about being 44 then 45. So, I wrote birthday pieces for both…

Even after White Dino's 45th it didn't feel quite finished between us. If our time with Speckles and Co was to truly end it had to be all of us together and happy. That was The White Dino Chronicles. So for future reference just reread our birthday pieces with different gifts!

Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday dear Vessel. You know I was just a happy-to-be-nobody 42-year-old when The White Dino came knocking! Now look at me. Almost 3 years of my life looking for answers, seeking the truth. Here then is my ultimate conclusion…

Question: Did the Dinosaurs have a God?

Answer: YES, they had a God…and he is bloody annoyed!

Happy Birthday to me…! Here's to 3 years of White Dino Madness! Hip hip hooray! Party in my head as always. Can't wait to see what happens when I turn 47? Good luck, Team Dino.

We believed in nothing until something believed in us - Gareth/The White Dino/Mr. Arbiter.