My Little Escape Pod

"That's funny. The damage doesn't look as bad from out here."

[blooooom]

it can be tempting to live your life like a prequel. to live as if you’re setting up your own story.and once you lose the weight, once you have the money, once you graduate school, once you’re in a real relationship, once, once, once. then finally, you’ll begin to live, and everything you do up until that point is some kind of half-life, some unimportant foreword you can skip. don’t do this. inhabit your life completely. sink fully into the wealth of your existence. the power to manifest is in the fearless owning of who you are, so that you can shape where you’re going.

[harry-lloyds]

Batman: Fine. Did you get all that, Commissioner? Commissioner: Indeed I did, Batman. We’ll set up the tape telecast and have the dummy package of money waiting. See you at eleven tonight. Commissioner: Two fine men. So dissimilar in many respects and yet… yet so similar in others.

[dallirious]

some stagehand probably: mr. tchaikovsky sir we cant actually hit the drum this hard it will break the instrument

potyr ilyich tchaikovsky, wheeling a cannon into the theater: does it look like i give a fuck, johann

[holographic-bone-jester]

Hey just a quick reminder

[holographic-bone-jester]

Another quick reminder since i start seeing people saying “UwU both are good” in the tags and reblogs.

[dabidagoose]

Reminder : it doesn’t matter how we portray them, they are dead so like let ppl have fun

[holographic-bone-jester]

[dabidagoose]

But why does it matter dude I know it’s scientifically innacurate but ppl enjoying that innacurate version doesn’t have any negative applications???? Unless dinosaurs were brought back to life and ppl misidentified them or smthn it really has only negative impact keeping ppl from having fun with the fictional lizard dinos

[bookrat]

It makes a big difference. People who make models for museums get passed over for projects because the owners don’t want to hear that their precious Jurassic Park lizards were actually weird birds, and “the public won’t get it anyway”. It makes a feedback loop so that even when people are presented with accurate depictions of past animals, they violently reject them. 

Scaly raptors are also a gift to the anti-evolution fanatics, who like to pretend that the rarity of big mainstream feathered dinosaurs is in some way indicative of conflict and confusion in the paleontology community. 

[phantoms-lair]

Also any variant of ‘It’s okay to ignore science and go with what you like’ is a dangerous mindset.

[ailurinae]

If you want some scaly monsters, make scaly monsters, and don’t call them dinosaurs

[screechingfromthevoids]

I think cultivating interest in dinosaurs is the first step in spreading accurate information. A lot of people find the revealation that a lot of them were feathered to be really interesting and it’s only a matter of time until that’s reflected in public consciousness. And some early dinosaurs were “scaly monsters” while some were floofy feather men. Understanding which was which should be interesting not a point of contention and stress. Otherwise people will disengage at the fear of being wrong.

Dinosaurs a cool. Lizards or birds.

[holographic-bone-jester]

No. Dinosaurs weren’t “monsters” or “lizards”, even for those that were fully covered in scales, this is specifically one of the main things we’re trying to fight against. Dinosaurs are animals, not monsters, and they are dinosaurs, not lizards, lizards aren’t even remotely closely related to dinosaurs, you might as well be saying that kangaroos are lizards.

Not only that, but the association of early dinosaur=featherless is likely vastly false, as we know at least theropods and ornithischians had a feathered common ancestor, and this likely is not ancestral to only dinosaurs, but ornithodira (pterosaurs+dinosaurs) in general, since the pycnofibers of pterosaurs are quite similar to dinosaur proto-feathers, and it seems more likely that both groups had a fuzzy common ancestor rather than both closely related groups convergently just evolving an important trait like a whole new form of integument.

People who “disagree with feathers”, or more so refuse accuracy in general, are actively working to cover facts and misinform people. There is a reason why we are trying to take this issue head-on, and people saying that we should “chill” only feel condescending, especially when it’s followed by spitting utter bullshit (like comparing dinosaurs to lizards and such), which is just further proving that we cannot “chill” on this issue.

If we chilled, no one would be speaking up against the media and awesomebros, and they’d have even more free range to keep the public in the dark and pick and choose what the public gets to glorify and what it gets to point at and mock. They made this is into this stupid “scientists ruin our childhood” fight, and, ultimately, we have to fight back, otherwise no one else will.

[agent-moonshoes]

It’s happened I’ve finally hit that point where the amount of adulting in my life has reached critical mass and I can no longer ignore that I am Grown Up and have a House and a Family and two Careers to juggle and no time in my life anymore to watch anything but by gosh I’m still counting down to when Achievement Haunter comes back.

[reaumantic]

i don’t lose hyperfixations they just go dormant until I hear something about it like a sleeper agent

[scorpiety-bye-deactivated202310]

do you think we get to learn everything when we die or are the colors that exist between colors gonna be shrimp-only knowledge forever

[stimman4000]

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[midsummernight98]

good types of alone time:

“decadence”

rewatch pride & prejudice (2005 or 1995, your pick)

take a long shower & shave legs

stare at face in mirror for a long time, reflect on changes that have occured in past year

sara bareilles cd on repeat

“deep mystery”

lying on the floor listening to music you liked fifteen years ago

watch dust motes travel across the room in the late afternoon haze

what would be different about my life if i had been a cheerleader in high school?

what was the title of that book you read in the fourth grade?  you only remember the main character’s name and nothing about the plot.  you spend the next three hours googling and then you drop $60 for a first edition on ebay

cup of tea, then another

are you there god?

“efficiency”

take out five boxes of paperwork from the closet and spend the next three hours making small piles around your body on the floor

write first chapter of novel

cover wall in post it notes

lists lists lists

highlight everything

now’s a good time to start that bullet journal

must empty email inbox

plan out next five years of life down to the month, week, day

“shake it up”

blast nsync while scrubbing out microwave

rearrange living room four different ways

today’s a good day to repaint your bedroom

let’s research and plan a trip to san francisco

develop new fashion style, must throw away all items of clothes that don’t work with it

“rain day”

light candle, open windows, put on sweater

reread old favorite book

pet a cat

listen to jewel cd

[pantheraleoatrox]

The perfect side character doesn’t exi-

[addikted-2-dopamine-deactivated]

I LAUGHED SO HARD

[msnbcpundit]

REMEMBER SKIP-IT FROM THE 90’S

[apjvff]

my weapon of choice during school yard fights 

[almostvivian]

DnD campaign but the only weapons are 90′s toys @riskpig

[allisquish]

Distance weapon: those sky dancer propeller toys.

[riskpig]

I’ll allow it.

[sensitive-inferno]

I have but two words:

[durnesque-esque]

Are those a weapon or piece of armor?

[kaleymonster]

Party walks into the inn to rest and the pub looks like

[riskpig]

Perfection.

[medinaquirin]

@anotherspecter

[biglawbear]

I ride into battle on one of these

[bardicknowledgeblogger]

Animal Companions

[techcat]

Fresh combat

[themetaisawesome]

Monks have to use these

[ariassong]

Wizard’s Spell book

[ariassong]

Warlock Patrons

Archfey

Fiend

Celestial

Great Old One

The undying

[kalkris]

THE B A R D

[bardicknowledgeblogger]

It got better since I last saw it

[unfortunatelyimaginary]

This is so weird bc being born in 1997 I saw all these toys… old, dirty, and faded by the sun

it’s so weird to think of them as new and current toys rather than the relics of a bygone age

[thegirlinthebyakko]

Currency

[bfleuter]

Dungeon:

[katedrawscomics]

the party embarks upon a laser quest

[insomniac-arrest]

when girls like horses we call them ‘horse girls’ and mock them for their bond with giant nightmare leg-finger creatures

but if boys like horses we call them ‘future cowboys’ and ‘rugged outdoors men’

I’m just saying, I’ve met a lot more horse girls than horse boys so when the dystopic breakdown of society hits us, it’s not going to be roving bands of young men on horseback (they don’t know how to ride, they haven’t B O N D ED)

it will be Kelly from elementary school and her band of fifty midwest girls in pink cowgirl boots who have come for your resources

[valtsv]

[neurotypical-karen]

Actually, it just boils down to how you naturally communicate. There was a study done on this specific social situation that showed that, while neurotypicals usually respond to a person telling an unfortunate story about themselves with something along the lines of “that’s awful” or “that must feel so X,” neurodivergent folks (specifically autistic, although in my personal experience it applies to cousin conditions like ADHD and BPD) were more likely to respond with a story of their own. To us, the first one feels hollow and token, where the second one actually shows that you know how they’re feeling, and that you’re truly sympathizing rather than putting on airs, but to a neurotypical person the second one usually feels like monopolizing the conversation, or even more drastically, getting into a pissing match over who had it worse.

It’s two drastically different neurotypes getting their wires crossed when trying to communicate with each other.

[lochnessblobster]

Hey what the fuck

[notlikejay]

😳

[kadywicker]

road trips are like "which hard truths am I gonna come to terms with while staring out this window"

[disneyfilms]

[opzolder69]