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misscherrylikesthediscourse

I think I might have broken my finger reblogging this.

cryptidbitch-deactivated2017080

EVERYONE TAKE A MINUTE TO JUST APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT DONALD GLOVER EXISTS AND KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK IS UP

darkwingduck

Yknow it belatedly occurs to me that those old ways of “welp, we had a drought, a famine, and a plague so the gods don’t like our king, lets get rid of him” actually make logical sense. If the king didn’t encourage infrastructure like digging wells, or invest in putting money aside to help feed people in times of crisis, or didn’t enact laws to stop the spread of disease....yeah. He needed to go. Not because the gods were angry, but because he was a bad king, and putting a new one in authority who would do those things to fix the problems would at least help weather the storm more effectively.

jabberwockypie

#in completely unrelated news i think the gods don't like our king #perhaps we should see if a blood sacrifice of the wealthy will soothe them (tags via @words-writ-in-starlight)

thenib

From Kasia Babis.

jackalopc

whenever someone is like ‘why do burger-flippers deserve to make the same amount as x?’ and i just ask ‘have you considered that maybe x deserves to be paid more?’ because it never occurs to people that if these people are being underpaid, then there is a chance that so are they.

zooophagous

I see this all the time with people bringing up paramedics. “You want 15$ an hour as a burger flipper! I made less than that as an EMT!”

Yeah and it was wrong to pay YOU that little too. You got overworked and underpaid and the amount of money the McDonalds employee in the drive through gets has no bearing what so ever on what an EMT makes. Pay the EMT more too.

saint-batrick

it distresses me that anyone whose job it is to save my fucking life is making less now than i was in an office job in 2007.

odinsblog

strawberry-lemonade

anyone who reblogs this before may 2020 will get a drawing of them as a cartoon

and you can request any additions you’d like, whether it be demon horns, angel wings, mermaid tail, doesn’t matter. im bored

miraculous786

Isn’t it April Fools Day Today? 👀

strawberry-lemonade

well i dont know time so screw that Y’ALL GETTING DRAWINGS

strawberry-lemonade

GUYS. I WANT TO ART. I AM GOING TO DRAW EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU, I AM GOING TO MESS UP ON A FEW AND CRY, BUT YOU WILL GET THE ART.

this is not an april fool’s joke because thanks to covid-19 i have no sense of time and didn’t even realize it was april first when i posted this

galahadwilder

Dingus

013-jackson

This is neat

biggest-gummiest-spoon

please draw me

eyelander-ii

oh boy, theres a plethora of source material for me (go by url, not icon)

strawberry-lemonade

I HAVE TO CHANGE THE DEADLINE, EVERYONE WHO REBLOGS BEFORE APRIL 5TH WILL GET A DRAWING.

ANYONE WHO REBLOGS AFTER WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL JULY TO GET THEIR DRAWINGS.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD BECAUSE I CAN’T DO MUCH MORE

shoeboxgoblin

Rejection sensitive dysphoria is wild. Someone will be like "hey just so you know the thing you did was a little bit loud/uncomfortable/insensitive but it's ok I know you didn't mean it" and my brain will instantly translate "you should be shot"

ajani

The fun other side of this too is when you are afraid of making other people feel that way so you just let shit go 90% of the time even when it's reasonable and valid to make a comment/critique/etc

romanocheese

just-shower-thoughts

If giraffes were predators they would look both hilarious and terrifying while sneaking up on their prey

i-draws-dinosaurs

I’m afraid you’ve missed the predatory giraffes by about 66 million years mate.

These guys are Azhdarchid pterosaurs, and they were some of the strangest reptiles to ever exist. They were perfectly capable of flight, but their physiology suggests that they may have spent a significant portion of their lives hunting on the ground.

The largest of them could reach over 5 metres tall while standing, and had a 10-metre wingspan. They varied greatly in body type, from the tall, spindly forms of Quetzalcoatlus and Arambourgiania (images 4 and 1-2 respectively) to the heavy brute strength of Hatzegopteryz, a species that may have used its head to bludgeon its prey (images 2 and 3).

There has never been another flying animal before or since to have reached such incredible sizes, nor any predator so intimidatingly tall. Well, not any that we know of yet.

All of these illustrations are by Mark Witton, a palaeontologist and artist who specialises in pterosaurs. This is his blog about palaeontology and the science of reconstructing extinct species. You can find out more about each of these images here, here and here.

(Oh, and by the way … these are NOT dinosaurs)

crystallineknight

What the hell these are so intimidating, why aren’t these in any dinosaur movies

i-draws-dinosaurs

Just imagine it …

The protagonists and a few disposable minor characters are walking carefully through a forest at night, covered by a thick fog. They know there are dinosaurs everywhere, but they can’t see more than three metres in front of their own faces.

Eventually they stop near a small cluster of trees to rest. As they sit there, exhausted, one of the trees begins to move. Everyone freezes, terrified. They have no idea what this thing is.

Then a massive beak slams down, longer than a person is tall, and plucks one of the minor characters off his feet and into the air.

The small group erupts into movement, frantically running away from whatever those things are. There’s two of them now, and as the fog begins to clear the group are able to make out more of their shape. They are huge, with long, spindly necks topped with a massive, daggerlike head. The long legs that they once mistook for trees have an almost mechanical movement as the giant creatures stalk towards them. And then comes the next terrible surprise.

These things can run.

s-leary

It’s a short film.

warpedellipsis

How could those things possibly fly? Could they take off from the ground or did they need a cliff like bats do?

i-draws-dinosaurs

Okay this is really bizarre and awesome but like these guys probably used their giant long wings to pole-vault themselves into the air, from a standing start no less. No run-up or cliffside needed, just some massively powerful arms to launch them skywards like the world’s most terrifying slingshot.

(The pterosaur in the video I linked isn’t an azhdarchid, but it gets the general picture across)

warpedellipsis

because it wasn’t terrifying enough already….

How does something that big have hollow bones though? Wouldn’t they break under the pressure of pole vaulting themselves?

i-draws-dinosaurs

Basically, azhdarchid bones aren’t just “hollow”. They’re actually full of an incredibly complex network of spongy strands of bone that functions almost like scaffolding to support the bones and make them a lot stronger than they would initially appear. A lot of dinosaurs, including very large ones, had this same sort of bone structure as well.

It’s a delicate balance between being light enough to fly and strong enough to take off and staying in the air, but they certainly weren’t skinny, lightweight pushovers like they’re often portrayed.

thatdragonzeek

You want to know my favourite thing about quetzalcoatlus?

It’s scientific name is

Mexican Feathered God

If you think I’m joking, I’m not. I’m dead serious.

Look it up if you think the pic is edited, idrc, but it’s the funniest thing I know about dinosaurs.

Also I love dinosaurs a lot, I’ve been obsessed with em since I was like seven, and I had the best day last week when I opened a kinder egg and I got a little t-rex. I don’t care if I’m eighteen, dinosaurs have, and always will, make me squeal like a four-year-old ÚwÙ

doodle-dog-diary

IT KEEPS GETTING BETTER

(Or worse, depends on how you look at it)

tenderwiki

reasons why people with ADHD lie

we didn't remember what was happening and our brain made something up we only later realized wasn't true.

no one believes us when we tell the truth so it's easier to lie.

we didn't realize we were lying until the words were already out.

we have a complicated relationship to truth in that we rarely know what it is until we're told/have it affirmed to us.

myadhdlife

We're embarrassed

linguisticparadox

we're gonna get yelled at for telling the truth anyway (because it involves some ADHD fuck-up or other)

transloveletter

the crushing fear of rejection we think will happen if we dont give the “correct” answer even if there is literally no wrong answer

sir-libearian

oh. Oh

dramatically-existing

"I had a bad childhood"

says too much

sounds sad

people will assume things

"I come with lore"

makes you sound like a character

is cooler

people will be so distracted by the wording that they won't see how badly you've been doing

shyocean

I'm fucking using this.

a-fools-stone

I also recomend using:

my bloodline ends with me. instead of “im not having kids”

Many have tried to court me and failed, instead of “im single”

How does it go traveller? as a gender nuetral way greeting

my family history is huanted by monsters as a quick way to summerise a problem/mental illness that negatively affecting you

and like a whole lot more ive forgotten

gahdamnpunk

SEIZE IT. PERIOD.

klapollo

hey shout out to PBS and public libraries

klapollo

like dudes for real PBS has so many resources for education and stuff. you can watch HOURS of documentaries online for free on their site. like no joke go on pbs dot org right now and you’ll find an entire netflix of public television with full transcripts to boot. the american experience site alone is loaded with multipart docuseries about american history the availability can vary but even then watch pbs sometimes!! they have really cool crap on all the time. sometimes they play ballets and broadway shows. (donation ad voice) support public television

vishual-deactivated20190408

strange and bizarre how community-funded and supported programming and resources are made to be free and easy to access, and it’s some of the highest quality stuff you can get my friends! sorry not sorry socialism works