Life After The Speckles Project.

It had to happen. The Speckles Project was always going to come crashing down in a blaze of ignominy. No more Google Links; No more Global Views. Just Team Dino alone to wonder what it was all for? Again, was all of this pre-determined or did we write our own demise as humanity seems to be doing? We promise you this is where it ends! You think YOU are tired of this - G and WD.

"I am SO bored!" Spoke White Dino. "Tell me about it." Time's Arbiter replied. "No more hanging out with Speckles and Co, no more FanFiction, Twitter X was a bust. And thanks to some random troll…everybody hates us now!"

"A tad melodramatic you two!" Said Gareth. "I think of our time on FanFiction like all my other endeavors over the years. Photographic technician; Computer technician; Store assistant; Band photographer; even just trying to be friends with people in general. There is ALWAYS a time limit placed on these things. People will always tire of us and want us gone?"

This isn't going to be depressing. I'm just telling you my story.

Back in the year 1997, when I started university, I was friends with a cool couple. We all seemed to get on. And…they were smokers. I was never into it myself, but was familiar with it because my old man had a habit. He quit in 1991 by the way! Anyway, my friends seemed only too happy to share so I obliged. My first real cigarette took my head off!

And for the next few months those smokes were free-flowing. I became addicted and LOVED it.

One day, as I had done many times before, I grabbed one of their packs to get me a smoke…they lost it. Yelling and swearing at me. "We're sick of it Peach. Don't ever ask for cigarettes again."

And that was the end of that. So I said to myself, "I will buy ONE pack only to finish this thing off!"

By the end of my course in the year 2000, I was on 40-a-day minimum! Super King Blacks if you must know! Horrible things. And for the next 20 years I was an on-and-off chain smoker!

The rest I have gone over so many times now. Lockdown came, I started smoking like a loon, ended up with the worst chest pain of my life and quit shortly after. And then came the Speckles movies out of nowhere…and my time as The White Dino began.

This might be important…?

The first time I ever watched Speckles the Tarbosaurus it did precisely NOTHING for me. I remember thinking, "Oh, that's sad. The family died." And the first time I watched Blue-Eyes die I thought, "What a shock, Blue-Eyes died too." That was it, nothing more.

Then I went for a week without smoking, oh boy! I felt I had a lot of pent-up sadness within me trying to escape. And I watched the Speckles movie again. This time I didn't sleep the whole night. The next morning, like an idiot, I watched the death of Blue-Eyes again, to see what it would do…

I absolutely lost it. I grabbed a pillow, stuffed it over my face and just SCREAMED and CRIED. Nobody heard. But at least it was coming out of me finally. But as I learned shortly after…it is one thing to open the flood gates…it is another to close them.

It was three days before I stopped crying, another two before I could even talk about it. You see, every time I tried…my nose and throat would block up entirely. As though my own body was trying to kill itself. I couldn't breathe at all. Scared the hell out of me.

The next thing I knew, I was spinning off to the nearest shop to buy more cigarettes. And I smoked that entire pack like a condemned man. The relief from all this pain and crying was immense. I knew then that I had a bit of a problem! After that I haven't smoked since.

I got better!

Since that drama things did improve. The third time I watched the Speckles movie, it put me in a state of total euphoria! I felt the death of Blue-Eyes was a noble and beautiful thing, the ultimate sacrifice so Speckles and the kids could live on. The third time I watched it, I was in HEAVEN.

And thus began my obsession with the Dino King movies, who made them, why they made me feel as they did and eventually writing FanFiction about them. For a while I honestly came to believe those movies were made for me and no other. Which is maybe why I take the Speckles Project so personally. I tend to forget others watch these movies too!

At the start of 2023 I began to notice something. The death of Blue-Eyes didn't even put a lump in my throat anymore. I was furious, these emotions that had powered me for ages had just gone.

That is when I began I suppose the second phase. No longer about why I felt so much sadness, but why I wasn't. If I had been who I am now 3.5 years back, not a single word would I have typed. And this crazy story of mine would have never been!

Where this all came from!

Not a single thing I have written, from Speckles 3 to Resurrection came from my unique and brilliant brain. Everything came from somewhere, a film, a TV show, Video Games, Anime, ETC.

Around the time of my great Speckles meltdown, I was binge-watching…Battlestar Galactica, Lost and Heroes. While playing copious amounts of Final Fantasy Seven Remake and Bioshock Infinite. Indeed, that line I use about, "There is always a Speckles and there is always a Junior."

That was me tipping my hat to, "There is always a lighthouse and there is always a man." From Bioshock Infinite.

That line, "I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU YET." Is loosely based on a great line, "I DID NOT MURDER HIM." From I-Robot.

And most importantly…WhoIsTheWhiteDino, believe it or not, was my acknowledgment to a movie question that defined 90s Cinema, "What Is The Matrix." So perhaps White Dino himself is my own version of follow the White Rabbit from the Matrix movies!

From Xenogears to FF7 to Grandia 2, the Bioshock games, all the films and games and media that have been so important to so many over the years. The Speckles Project is my enormous attempt to repackage all these medias and return to sender! Thanks for so many years of work from you all. Please keep making more!

Yes, I even use moments and dialogues from the legendary TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Who I believe once said, "If nothing we do matters, the only thing that matters is what we do. Because people shouldn't have to be afraid of tomorrow."

There are far too many influences and moments in the Speckles Project for me to ever list. I'm sure you will get them all eventually. I also use a lot of Korean films that nobody ever heard of!

But if you get the chance look up these two long forgotten films from Speckles' homeland:

"Resurrection of the Little Match Girl" and "Attack the Gas Station!" I love 'em!

Another attempt at a closedown!

I feel like I have gone on and on for an ice age!

But I am acutely aware that the Dino King Page is running out of slots.

The question of WhoIsTheWhiteDino is no longer important.

All that matters is this…

If the Speckles Project was inside of me…

What the hell is inside all of you?

This is one possible outcome. Will there ever be another?

This has been a Gareth and The White Dino production.

I do not own the Speckles franchise or either of the Dino King movies. You do! - The White Dino.