Deinonychus antirrhopus

Behold Deinonychus, the real, revolutionary raptor from Jurassic Park, in all his stout gentlebird glory! Unless I’m just plain stupid, in these modern days of feathers, I still see a notion of dromaeosaurids like it being depicted as "small, lithe, screeching, wolf-like predators," almost entirely in an activated look, and having feathers hugging the contours of the body, such as exposing the shape of the legs for I don’t know why. While yes, of course they were not sluggish and did eat meat, I find the rest forming an unreasonable palaeoart meme. First, Deinonychus was not even close to small, being a formidable dinosaur the mass of a jaguar at roughly a hundred kilograms, not to mention the tremendous three metres. All birds have at least some marginal difference in their shape with their feathers from without, even the biggest ones. Finally, it’s almost certain dromaeosaurs would’ve often been participating in many bird-like behaviours, now being so bird-like, and not just looking like they’re on a hunt. Barely have I ever seen a depiction of a dromaeosaur on a tree, besides with Microraptor. I’ve recently done a more bird-like Rahonavis doing this, and it’s nowhere near unreasonable for the relatively smaller and medium-sized members of the family. An extra adaptation that has been hypothesised for the famous falciform claws is climbing trees, maybe with help of "wing-assisted incline running," used by some birds today. I actually speculate that Deinonychus shared a lifestyle not unlike that of a leopard, ambushing prey from trees above, dragging prey up to feed away from other predators, maybe even building huge nests on said trees, similar to bald eagles. Deinonychus is now thought to be an ambush predator after all, so this isn’t unlikely. So this natural reconstruction of Deinonychus is made to combat this meme. Already nailed it with the Rahonavis, failed it with the Bissekty giant, but here is where it currently stands.