it’s a tragedy that dinotopia was adapted as a weird gritty looking tv movie with bad cgi when it’s, without exaggeration, the most ghibli any book has ever been
hmm
It’s high time for a new Dinotopia adaptation (with updated, accurate dinosaurs, as James Gurney would want, of course)
HIGH TIME
friend omg, you are in the lucky 10,000 today because the book is a *joy*
don’t think like, a novel, think like a coffee table book that’s framed like an actual informative guide to the actual place Dinotopia
it’s filled with scrawled notes and observations and gorgeous art from the point of view of a newcomer fascinated by the culture and science and history of this island
did i tell u guys i got into an argument on twitter bc i said foxes are dogs and someone tried to bring up their actual fuckin. classification or whatever and i just said “foxes are dogs cause they are fluffye” and they kept arguing with me. the entire time i was like “you will not survive the immigration to tumblr you are lucky we are not there right now”
This is especially funny because they aren’t even right. Foxes *ARE* dogs.
“Me when I lie” is such a funny pseudo-diplomatic response to anything. Like just going “see I’m not saying that you would ever lie, but I tend to be a liar, and that would be the exact kind of thing that would come out of my mouth when I’m lying” sounds like the exact kind of quip that someone who was just described as ‘too clever for their own good’ would get stabbed over.
D&D would be good if it wasn’t weird about what type of fairy creature your character is
actually 99% of settings with different sentient species in them would be good if they weren’t weird about creature types but specifically about what happens when different creatures fuck
your mom was a Not Scary Creature and your dad was a Scary Creature? and you’re angsting about being Half Scary? Should we throw a party? should we invite Francis Galton
“I would kill for you. I would die for you” would you take a break for me? Would you sit down and rest? For a day, a week, a year? Would you let others take care of your needs for me? Would you let yourself be held for me? By me?
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OP i hope its okay to reblog with your additions bc they are good
not only is it okay, I think i’d like that very much, thank you.
hey writers if you want to make a metaphor for racism, please maybe remember that racism is literally based on nothing. Africans weren’t enslaved en masse because the Robo-Musa threatened to destroy the world, they were enslaved because it was economically rewarding and politically convenient. If at any point your allegory for racism includes “so <oppressed group> did this major catastrophe and” then you have not only missed the point but you are literally reinforcing the ideas that racism have let racism self-perpetuate (that e.g. black people are naturally dangerous and violent and must be contained or begrudgingly accepted by the Nice White People)
i put this on twitter days ago and no one cared. i even flipped the images to fit properly and no one noticed. all i do for nothing
[ID: a screenshot of Rose and the Doctor (David Tennant) from Doctor Who, paralleling the confession scene from Supernatural. Rose is crying and the Doctor is looking at her. End ID]
I was curious about the casting of Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer, is Lucifer a female character in the show or is the show taking the more androgynous route with the depiction, like the Constantine movie did with casting Tilda Swinton as Gabriel?
at the end of Animorphs, once everyone on Earth found out about morphing technology, that must have killed the cute/funny animal video industry. every video is just filled with comments like “FAKE. that’s not a real swearing parrot, it’s just a guy morphed into a parrot”
Those people who constantly reblog your stuff but you never really talk:
I do notice my regulars. You guys are the best.
“Regulars” makes me feel like a bar-tender…
Wiping down my dash at the end of an evening, I see your read-more, over-hear your rant in the tags, so I pour you a drink.
“…what’s troubling you, kid?”
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday As the regular crowd tumbls by There’s an old fandom queen blogging next to me And her little gray tags catch my eye
She says tumblr I’m feeling like shit today can you send me some posts for a smile can we talk about slash, can you fill up my dash so I won’t have to think for a while
Laa dahdah didee dah La dahdah didee dah dadum
Fill up my dash, you’re my followers Fill it with pictures and fic Yeah we’re all in the mood for some memery And occasional pictures of dick
Now Jill is a centaur novelist And she writes of her girlfriend and wife She reblogs from Toni, who’s in My Little Pony, And probably will be for life.
As the staff implements wretched changes And we think of how aliens bone We are writing a lot about loneliess: It’s much better than writing alone.
AND sometimes we blog about politics
And sometimes we blog with a beer
And when I proudly boast that I’m older than most,
They say ‘gross, what are YOU doing here’.
*wild applause!!
When one of the classics crosses your dash, what can you do…? 😄
You were once the demon king. “Defeated” by the hero, you went into hiding to pursue a simpler life. Today the “hero” has appeared, threatening you family to pay tribute, not realizing who you actually are. Today you show them what happens when you have something worth fighting to protect.
You are told at seven that you won’t ever do anything good
in your life. You grow up knowing that it doesn’t matter that you help your
younger sister make her letters properly or that you’re the one who stays up
late with mother when too many custom orders come through the tailor shop. It
doesn’t matter that you don’t want to hurt anyone or control anyone or anything
of the sort. It doesn’t matter that your name means Light in your
mother’s native language because as soon as they realize that you’re the Demon
King, no one ever calls your name again.
You are chased out of your village the moment your powers
bloom at fifteen years old, and the skies turn black with your fear. A rock
hits you between your shoulder blades just as you make it to the main road and
you stumble, falling to your knees in a mud puddle at the very moment the skies
open up.
“She’s cursing us!” the midwife who delivered you screams
over the thunder. “She’s damning us with her!”
Your mother is crying, but she doesn’t raise a hand to help
you. She did everything she could, keeping your Role a secret all these years.
She won’t risk anymore with another little girl to take care of.
No one tells you that you have a choice. No kind stranger
drags you out of the rain and into the warmth of their home where a wise sage
tells you it is not how we are born, but what choices we make.
Instead, you take the little pack your mother hid for you in
the depths of the forest and sling it over your shoulder. There’s money,
provisions, and more wraps to cover the evil mark on your left bicep.
“Your destiny will find you,” your mother told you only
hours ago. “I forgive you for it.”
She meant the words as a comfort, but you only heard
condemnation in it. Without having killed so much as a fly, she is already
blessing you with forgiveness.
I was reading up on sinuses in order to distract myself from the Agonies of the Head Cold, and I discovered that actually we have no idea what these head holes are even for other than being incredibly uncomfortable when you have a cold. There are some theories, that range from your embryonic contractors going “bone is expensive, just put air in there, no one will notice,” to ideas about them being architecturally useful for distributing face stress, or good for sound, but it honestly seems like we just don’t really know.
Anyway, the rabbithole then led me to discover that while carnivorans in general have frontal sinuses, pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, etc.) don’t, on account of how diving to eldritch McCrush-depth with giant air pockets in your face is probably not the best idea, and I’d just like to say that it feels extremely unfair that an animal that looks like THIS will never experience nasal congestion.
(Northern Elephant Seal, My original photo, taken in San Simeon, CA)
au contraire, op
life finds a way
Ah, eel-snorting Hawaiian monk seal, why must you pursue the Forbidden Sensation
Fuck hostile architecture, I want unhostile architecture. I want benches to be designed to be as easy as possible to sleep on. I want little places for pigeons to nest to be purposefully put on buildings. I want people designing public spaces to think about what they’d be like to skateboard on. I want “Please loiter” signs. I want people to be kind. I want…
“When I decided to hit Bush with the shoe, it was a natural reaction, to the killing of a million of my people, the orphaning of five million children, resulting in tens of thousands of handicapped persons, tens of thousands of prisoners in American jails in Iraq, and the everyday scandals caused by the American occupation: rape, Abu Ghraib prison, bringing down roofs on people’s heads with Apache helicopters and F16 planes. Despite all this, Bush was saying the Iraqi people are happy, and the Americans liberated the Iraqi people.”
never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn’t worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱
the reviews are in… glad everyone’s enjoying song of the worm
[id: tumblr tags reading ‘dude This Fucking Rules’, 'holy fucking shit! that was legit so cool?’, 'holy shit that is fucking metal’, 'oh this fucks severely’, 'yeah no this fucking SLAPS’, 'yo this RULES’]
Turns out I do need to clarify that these particular comb jellies are actually not filter feeders :)
these are also the true actual first animal group that’s ever thought to have existed; comb jellies or ctenophores are survivors from the *ediacaran,* the point in time where we can’t even guess what kind of animal most of the fossils are. But, maybe all of them were just wacky shaped comb jellies???? we will never know. this one ate them all.
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unfortunately, a lot of the userbase won’t opt out. those who don’t see this post, those who have posted to tumblr but don’t anymore, users on older versions of the app who forget to opt out next time they’re on desktop, etc. the point of making it opt-out is to take advantage of people who wouldn’t have opted in but don’t/can’t opt out in time.automatically opting out people who have discouraged search crawling is a gesture that helps Tumblr look more kind, but from the fact that everyone else has to manually opt out, Tumblr is definitely not looking benevolent.
I wonder, will Tumblr/Automattic be selling images from deactivated blogs? I assume deactivated blogs can’t opt out.
when will they start selling this data? Is it already too late to keep them from selling every image you’ve posted before you opted out?
and if they’re especially malicious, I wonder if they could get away with saying “this image is from a blog that’s opted out, but it was reblogged by a blog that hasn’t opted out, so we’re selling the image that’s on that non-opted-out blog.”
making users need to opt out to keep their images from being taken and sold is a shitty move that makes it clear Tumblr/Automattic don’t respect our privacy, and @staff are really not giving us much info here to suggest otherwise.
If you do, it would be great if you could comment in the post on the epprbcu page with your EPPRBCU pages (that’s what they call blogs). So that we can find each other’s pages more easily.
This is a tribute to Peter Benchley, not the movie Jaws (1975)
The author of ‘Jaws’ dedicated the rest of his life to reversing the unexpected negative impact his book had on the image of sharks.
Not only were sharks supposedly killed to create props for the movie, but 'Jaws’ ended up awakening a bloody sea of ignorance in people at the time, who, haunted by an irrational fear and lack of understanding about marine predators, felt motivated to take to their boats and kill thousands of great white sharks in the most feared ways.
Such as the promotion of great white shark hunting championships that targeted the biggest ones, which were mostly pregnant females who, after being displayed as a trophy, had their jaws ripped off and their bodies discarded in the garbage.
Fear spread widely to all shark species, creating a lack of sensitivity that made it convenient to exterminate entire shark populations around the world that for a long time remained invisible to people’s perception.
And this has continued to resonate for a long time with the entertainment media perpetuating the portrayal of sharks as monsters, newspapers favoring sensationalism about shark incidents, governments promoting shark culls, the advance of the unregulated predatory fishing industry, scientists not being supported in their studies of marine predators, the destruction of their natural habitats and the pollution of the oceans.
For thousands of years, sharks have taken care of the health of our oceans, older than the dinosaurs or the first trees, they have gone through great mass extinctions, they have been worshipped and respected as gods and guardians by oceanic peoples and now we demonize them in our media and exterminate them by the millions every year, who is the real monster?
We are shark-eaters.
I hope you can also hear what Peter Benchley himself had to say about all this:
I finally finished this artwork! Hope you like it. At some point I will adapt it for my little Redbubble store.🛍️
I reduced the quality to try to prevent them from stealing. I hope it’s enough! 🙁
An excellent drawing & tribute to a great man! Here’s a short video included in the article where Benchley sums up his thoughts nicely (warning for footage of the shark finning process):
For those who might want a more in-depth video explanation of the Jaws book, film, & its repercussions, I’d personally recommend Trey the Explainer’s video essay on the topic:
Your addition to these videos is very welcome! Thank you so much for this, I didn’t know about Trey’s video! 🦈✨
This is a tribute to Peter Benchley, not the movie Jaws (1975)
The author of ‘Jaws’ dedicated the rest of his life to reversing the unexpected negative impact his book had on the image of sharks.
Not only were sharks supposedly killed to create props for the movie, but 'Jaws’ ended up awakening a bloody sea of ignorance in people at the time, who, haunted by an irrational fear and lack of understanding about marine predators, felt motivated to take to their boats and kill thousands of great white sharks in the most feared ways.
Such as the promotion of great white shark hunting championships that targeted the biggest ones, which were mostly pregnant females who, after being displayed as a trophy, had their jaws ripped off and their bodies discarded in the garbage.
Fear spread widely to all shark species, creating a lack of sensitivity that made it convenient to exterminate entire shark populations around the world that for a long time remained invisible to people’s perception.
And this has continued to resonate for a long time with the entertainment media perpetuating the portrayal of sharks as monsters, newspapers favoring sensationalism about shark incidents, governments promoting shark culls, the advance of the unregulated predatory fishing industry, scientists not being supported in their studies of marine predators, the destruction of their natural habitats and the pollution of the oceans.
For thousands of years, sharks have taken care of the health of our oceans, older than the dinosaurs or the first trees, they have gone through great mass extinctions, they have been worshipped and respected as gods and guardians by oceanic peoples and now we demonize them in our media and exterminate them by the millions every year, who is the real monster?
We are shark-eaters.
I hope you can also hear what Peter Benchley himself had to say about all this:
I finally finished this artwork! Hope you like it. At some point I will adapt it for my little Redbubble store.🛍️
I reduced the quality to try to prevent them from stealing. I hope it’s enough! 🙁
An excellent drawing & tribute to a great man! Here’s a short video included in the article where Benchley sums up his thoughts nicely (warning for footage of the shark finning process):
For those who might want a more in-depth video explanation of the Jaws book, film, & its repercussions, I’d personally recommend Trey the Explainer’s video essay on the topic:
Your addition to these videos is very welcome! Thank you so much for this, I didn’t know about Trey’s video! 🦈✨
Those people who constantly reblog your stuff but you never really talk:
I do notice my regulars. You guys are the best.
“Regulars” makes me feel like a bar-tender…
Wiping down my dash at the end of an evening, I see your read-more, over-hear your rant in the tags, so I pour you a drink.
“…what’s troubling you, kid?”
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday As the regular crowd tumbls by There’s an old fandom queen blogging next to me And her little gray tags catch my eye
She says tumblr I’m feeling like shit today can you send me some posts for a smile can we talk about slash, can you fill up my dash so I won’t have to think for a while
Laa dahdah didee dah La dahdah didee dah dadum
Fill up my dash, you’re my followers Fill it with pictures and fic Yeah we’re all in the mood for some memery And occasional pictures of dick
Now Jill is a centaur novelist And she writes of her girlfriend and wife She reblogs from Toni, who’s in My Little Pony, And probably will be for life.
As the staff implements wretched changes And we think of how aliens bone We are writing a lot about loneliess: It’s much better than writing alone.
AND sometimes we blog about politics
And sometimes we blog with a beer
And when I proudly boast that I’m older than most,
They say ‘gross, what are YOU doing here’.
*wild applause!!
When one of the classics crosses your dash, what can you do…? 😄
so when food is too salty we might say “打死卖盐的” basically meaning “did you beat the salt merchant to death” but one time in an attempt to be a little polite and a little funny to the chef (my mother) i said “……是不是又跟卖盐的有矛盾了” meaning “are you… having a dispute with the salt merchant again” and now it’s a whole thing in my family
anyway point being there has been another altercation with the salt merchant
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