galahadwilder:

Some nerds on the internet: you can’t make your OC too awesome because then it’s a Mary Sue and nobody will like them

Guillermo Del Toro, a man with balls: his name is STACKER PENTECOST and he leads a LEGION OF GIANT ROBOTS that are piloted by HIS FAMILY and he funds by SELLING MONSTER PARTS ON THE BLACK MARKET and he’s played by IDRIS ELBA

snorlaxatives:

snorlaxatives:

one thing about me is i frickin love long ass youtube videos about the most random and niche topics imaginable. defunctland’s investigation into who created the disney channel theme song? oh i was seated. a two hour breakdown on the lore of the entire tekken video game franchise? sign me up. a vlog about a cross-country roadtrip dining at every single rainforest cafe in the united states? i’m there.

a-dinosaur-a-day:

ecrivainsolitaire:

a-dinosaur-a-day:

raptorcivilization:

raptorcivilization:

a-dinosaur-a-day:

What’s most amazing about people who hate that birds are dinosaurs is that, without the discovery of birds being dinosaurs in the 1960s, none of y'all would have ever actually cared about dinosaurs

the history:

• dino craze in 1800s. people thought, birds are very similar to these guys. Dollo fucked it up, made a bad theory, and people stopped thinking that
• Early 1900s, dinosaurs deemed sluggish, stupid, pointless evolutionary failures. most people not really into dinosaurs anymore. this continues until
• 1960s: Deinonychus discovered. suddenly, dinosaurs interesting again: vibrant, lively, warm blooded animals. Also… birds might be dinosaurs?
• from the 60s through the 70s, a slow buildup of dinosaur culture - both in crappy stop motion movies, but also in children’s books and other media
• 80s cladistics revolution shows birds are living dinosaurs, though not without flaws. documentary after documentary is made, causing the major dinosaur boom of the late 80s and early 90s
• the peak of this boom are the A&E and PBS documentaries, which both outright state birds are dinosaurs
• cartoons like land before time and other dinosaur content keep coming out too, especially at the end of the 80s and the earliest 90s
• the book jurassic park, referencing the birds are dinosaurs thing, is written in the late 80s. in the early 90s, is adapted into one of the greatest blockbusters of all time. now dinosaur interest is MAINSTREAM.
• jurassic park isn’t the start of the dinosaur boom, it is the apex
• 90s becomes the decade of dinosaurs, with tons of new discoveries, television shows, documentaries, and other programming
• 1996 first feathered “nonavian” dinosaur discovered. birds are dinosaurs is the closest thing we have to proven phylogenetic fact
• 1999 walking with dinosaurs premieres, revolutionizing the dinosaur-documentary genre.
• early 2000s becomes the age of Period-Type Dino-Docu-Dramas
• velociraptor is determined to have feathers
• suddenly, dinosaur mania starts to die in the later 2000s
• even though discoveries keep happening and we learn so much in the 2010s, the 2010s becomes a very regressive time - a sort of reactionary response to the birdification of dinosaurs and the dinosaurification of birds. the height of this is jurassic world
• we may be in the middle of a dino-docu-drama revitilization thanks to prehistoric planet. stay tuned on that one

like, everyone was fine with the birdification of dinosaurs up and until they looked “feminine” on the outside, because of feathers.

It’s just all such transparent misogyny and homophobia and people who react against feathered dinosaurs or birds being dinosaurs are just… so transparently parroting conservative talking points

Anyways, yeah. without birds are dinosaurs, you wouldn’t have jurassic park. Sooooo

Look at this T. rex concept art from the first Jurassic Park:

Look at how dynamic these pieces are, the emphasis on the talon-like foot claws over the teeth. Compare to 80s paleomedia’s lumpier tyrannosaurs, still getting over the hump of the earlier part of the century:

Jurassic Park took a big, conscious effort to portray dinosaurs as the active, warm-blooded animals they were - a view that we would not have without the bird connection. Even the word “raptor” means “bird of prey”.

The final shot of the movie highlights pelicans for a reason.

As a random side note: the sound design for Jurassic Park, amazingly enough, also reflects BAD. A lot of bird calls went into the vocals of both the Velociraptor and the Dilophosaurus. The sequels would continue using bird calls for Pachycephalosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Spinosaurus, Compsognathus, and more. It may not be much, but before Jurassic Park, most paleomedia did not do this. Instead they leaned even more heavily on mammals, amazingly enough (watch old dinosaur movies, you’re gonna hear a lot of elephants, cats, hoofed mammals, and dudes screaming). I doubt there wasn’t some intent behind this.

#iirc Jurassic Park trying to figure out how to make the dinosaurs move with cgi is what led to some understandings about#like. how they were bird like

yup! Both JP and WWD had research components to their productions that lead to amazing discoveries, especially how bird like their bodies were. like, when I say “if a dinosaur doesn’t look like a bird on the outside, it’s definitely still on on the inside”, this is the shit I mean. The work done by Phil Tippett alone was instrumental in the paleo-biomechanical field.

Dinosaurs walked, made noises, and - as far as we can tell from the fossil record - behaved like birds. Birds in niches we now associate with large mammals, but birds nonetheless.

Anyone who says feathered dinosaurs aren’t threatening hasn’t lived with a 4in tall parakeet that tries to bite off any fingers that approach him and bosses around apes 300 times its size. If that crazy little reptile were the size of the JP animatronics I can assure you it would slurp up people’s vertebræ for fun. The only reason that tiny punk hasn’t killed anyone yet is he hasn’t figured out how.

everything going okay with your home companion dinosaur there buddy

apocalypsegay:

cottonsquab:

runby2:

I told my gf that I was having an episode earlier and she replied “is it the beach episode” and it shocked me so much that it grounded me immediately

#i want you all to know that this is like. a legit strategy that’s taught to people LMAO #i.e. say something so fucking stupid/absurd that it distracts the person’s brain so much that it drags them back and grounds them #like. people are actually taught to do this

memendoemori:

melonsap:

only-tiktoks:

For those worried about the crew having to do a whole job just for one person, flight staff only get paid for time they’re in the air; if he’d cancelled, they wouldn’t have gotten paid for zip.

So in other words, he gave them an easy day where they can spend most of it on break, and also airplane staff should unionize.

Also the plane likely has to get to NC somehow so you might as well have fun with it

throwupgirl:

AUTISM RULES.

furryprovocateur:

i mean this in the gentlest way possible: you need to eat vegetables. you need to become comfortable with doing so. i do not care if you are a picky eater because of autism (hi, i used to be this person!), you need to find at least some vegetables you can eat. find a different way to prepare them. chances are you would like a vegetable you hate if you prepared it in a stew or roasted it with seasoning or included it as an ingredient in a recipe. just. please start eating better. potatoes and corn are not sufficient vegetables for a healthy diet.

animentality:

foone:

foone:

It’s important to me that everyone understands that if you’ve got an autistic friend who periodically sends you pictures/videos/whatever of your Thing, because they know you’re into it… They love you.

Now don’t get me wrong, It may not necessarily be romantic love, they might not want to run off to a little farm in Montana where you’ll be married forever and raise little sheeps…

But they definitely love you. And they’re so happy when they spot a post about X and go “ooh, my friend likes X! I’ll send it to them!”.

Because they love you and want you to be happy.

Happiness is stored in the 3am discord DM of a link to a Tumblr post of a cute raccoon

funky-dealer:

icant even explain why i feel this way about it but this meme, this specific version, just makes me so emotional i love it so so much. its very heartwarming. peace n love on planet earth

ashyslashyy:

sabertoothwalrus:

only-tiktoks: