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I will never again achieve the level of Raw Power I had as a 10 year old child trying to convince an Actual Palaeontologist that a fake dinosaur I made up was actually real and he’d “just never heard of it”
For reference, the dinosaur in question was called “Jarabosaurus” and was a giant 25 metre long relative of Spinosaurus. In my head it looked like this Todd Marshall drawing:
I also made a powerpoint presentation about it that I showed to my parents.
THIS IS A PRIORITY ONE ALERT, I HAVE FOUND THE POWERPOINT
So I dug the old family laptop out of our garage and guess what was inside???
A masterpiece
Also Author’s note, take literally everything in here with so many grains of salt, way more stuff than I realised is completely fake
This at least is mostly factually correct, though I’m not sure I’d describe WW2 as “lately”
Hey remember when I said I made stuff up?? This slide is COMPLETELY FAKE and I have no idea why!
Formatting is my passion
There he is!!!!!! The man, the myth, the completely made up legend, it’s JARABOSAURUS ADORANUS. I,,, still don’t know why I invented a totally fake giant spinosaurid?? As far as I can remember I didn’t make any decision like “hehehe I’m going to make up a dinosaur and fool everyone!!!”, I just kinda,,, added it to the presentation with no further thought?
So what I’m saying is Jarabosaurus sprang totally unbidden to my mind, and it possibly a vision from an alternate universe
(A) Wow, I was on top of the Baryonyx/Suchomimus debate at age ten, that’s pretty impressive! (B) Did I just think every North African dinosaur was destroyed in World War 2??? Suchomimus was discovered in 1998
And finally, ending on what is possibly the most factually accurate slide of the lot?? Like this was an actual thing, Siamosaurus was at one point hypothesised to have actually been a fish
Thank you so much for coming on this journey with me! I am glad we could delve into the wilderness that was my 10 year old child mind.
@un-dead-alchemy He looked very confused and said “I’ll uh,,, have to look it up later?”
once again compelled to inform everyone about my spinosaur lies because I remembered that this was a thing that I did. also because I wanted to share the other beautiful fake dinosaurs that I found in the notes:
@thehardboiledham @doodlepede @heroicspiritcollins our beautiful fake dinosaurs are frolicking together in imaginary dinosaur world
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Mind your "yeah, but"s. Don't unnecessarily crush someone with negativity when they're excited about something or trying to be positive.
Someone in your friend group is REALLY excited that a popular artist just release a new song or album? Now's not the time to crush them by telling them how much you think that artist is overrated and that anyone who listens to them just doesn't know any real music. They're not hurting anyone, why make them feel bad or dumb just for being happy and excited?
Your co-worker tries to share something positive they read in the news, such whatever country you live in now has lower rates of alcoholism, or more trees than ever were planted last year in re-forestation efforts? Ask if yourself if it's necessary to "yeah, but" their positive news with a spin on making it negative. Is that helping at all or serving any purpose? In a lot of cases it's not helpful or necessary.
What do you really have to gain from crushing someone's excitement or attempts at being positive? Ask yourself what your real intentions are. Ask yourself if you actually have anything worthwhile to gain outside of crushing someone who was excited or trying to be positive.
And in the future, be more considerate of people who are excited about something harmless, or trying to be positive. You never know what inner pain or turmoil they could have in their personal life that they haven't shared with you, which they're just trying to get through with excitement and positivity. Consider being more supportive of their excitement or attempts at positivity in the future.
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hi! i love your jevil cosplay, and i was wondering if you had a sewing pattern for his hat perhaps?? a link to someone's etsy or just any pattern that you used to make it would be amazing!! thank you :)
Hey there! I am SO sorry for such a delayed response. I haven't been the most active on this blog lately but I'm trying to change that this year.
But to answer your question: First of all, omg I'm really flattered that you like my cosplay, thank you😭
Unfortunately, I don't have the pattern for it. I'm gonna be real, I was a total amateur at sewing at the time, and completely winged that hat from scratch with no forethought of keeping the pattern for a later use 🙃 Same with his tail (which took me about three attempts to get right.) However, I'm planning to do some major touch-ups on his cosplay this year. New hat, new tail, new cape. And when I do, I will absolutely do my best to provide some patterns! I personally have no intention to charge people for them, I get why Etsy artists do it and they're within their right to, but I personally just wanna provide peeps the tools to make a Jevil cosplay. Because LORD KNOWS WE NEED MORE JEVILS OUT THERE!! PLEASE!!! 🙏
But yeah, I'll for sure keep yall updated!! I probably won't be getting around to remaking things until after I have better hours/pay starting in April, but I have full intention to get him refreshed sooner rather than later 👌
Hey so an insane new dinosaur got announced??
This is Haolong dongi, a new species of iguanodontian ornithopod found covered in what is basically,,, hedgehog quills??
The fossil is a stunningly preserved skeleton from China that includes evidence of hard armour scales on the tail (like in the much smaller Kulindadromeus), and a coat of spines along its neck and back! The name appropriately means "spiky dragon".
Not only is a spiny iguanodont wild on its own (this individual is over 2 metres long and is a juvenile, other ornithopods with quill-like structures are much smaller), these spines also appear to be an entirely new skin structure? They're apparently not feathers or scales, but a secret third thing.
The publication is available to read here!
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There was this woman poet in 4th century China called Su Hui (蘇蕙), a child genius who had reportedly mastered Chinese characters by age 3.
At 21 years old, heartbroken by her husband who left her for another woman, she decided to encode her feelings in a structure so intricate, so beautiful, so intellectually staggering that it still baffles scholars to this day.
Came to be known as the Xuanji Tu (璇璣圖) - the "Star Gauge" or "Map of the Armillary Sphere" - it's a 29 by 29 grid of 841 characters that can produce over 4,000 different poems.
Read it forward. Read it backward. Read it horizontally, vertically, diagonally. Read it spiraling outward from the center. Read it in circles around the outer edge. Each path through the grid produces a different poem - all of them coherent, all of them beautiful, all of them rhyming, all of them expressing variations on the same themes of longing, betrayal, regret, and undying love.
The outer ring of 112 characters forms a single circular poem - believed to be both the first and longest of its kind ever written. The interior grid produces 2,848 different four-line poems of seven characters each. In addition, there are hundreds of other smaller and longer poems, depending on the reading method.
At the center a single character she left implied but unwritten: 心 (xin) - "heart." Later copyists would add it explicitly, but in Su Hui's original the meaning was even more beautiful: 4,000 poems, all orbiting the space where her heart used to be.
Take for instance the outer red grid of the Star Gauge. Starting from the top right corner and reading down, you get this seven-character quatrain:
仁智懷德聖虞唐,
貞志篤終誓穹蒼,
欽所感想妄淫荒,
心憂增慕懷慘傷。
In pinyin, it is:
Rén zhì huái dé shèng yú táng,
zhēnzhì dǔ zhōng shì qióng cāng,
qīn suǒ gǎnxiǎng wàng yín huāng,
xīn yōu zēng mù huái cǎn shāng.
Notice how it rhymes? táng / cāng / huāng / shāng
The rough translation in English is: "The benevolent and wise cherish virtue, like the sage-kings Yao and Shun, With steadfast will I swear to the heavens above, What I revere and feel - how could it be wanton or dissolute? My heart's sorrow grows, longing brings only grief."
Now read it from the bottom to the top and you get this entirely different seven-character quatrain:
傷慘懷慕增憂心,
荒淫妄想感所欽,
蒼穹誓終篤志貞,
唐虞聖德懷智仁。
The pinyin:
Shāng cǎn huái mù zēng yōu xīn,
huāngyín wàngxiǎng gǎn suǒ qīn,
cāngqióng shì zhōng dǔzhì zhēn,
táng yúshèngdé huái zhì rén.
It rhymes too: xīn and qīn, zhēn and rén
And the meaning is just as beautiful and coherent: "Grief and sorrow, longing fills my worried heart, Wanton and dissolute fantasies - is that what you revere? I swear to the heavens my constancy is true, May we embody the sage-kings' virtue, wisdom, and benevolence."
That's just 2 poems out of the over 4,000 you can construct from the Xuanji Tu!
At the very center of the grid, the 8 red characters wrapped around the central heart, she "signed" her poem with a hidden message:
詩圖璇玑,始平蘇氏。 "The poem-picture of the Armillary Sphere, by Su of Shiping."
Or reversed:
蘇氏詩圖,璇玑始平。 "Su's poem-picture - the Armillary Sphere begins in peace."
Many scholars, and even emperors, throughout Chinese history have been completely obsessed by Su Hui's puzzle.
For instance, in the Ming dynasty, a scholar named Kang Wanmin (康萬民) devoted his entire life to the poems (kangshiw.com/contents/461/2…), ending up documenting twelve different reading methods - forward, backward, diagonal, radiating, corner-to-corner, spiraling - and extracting 4,206 poems. His book on the subject ("Reading Methods for the Xuanji Tu Poems", 璇璣圖詩讀法) runs to hundreds of pages.
Empress Wu Zetian herself, the legendary woman emperor of the Tang dynasty, wrote a preface to the Xuanji Tu around 692 CE (baike.baidu.com/item/%E7%BB%87…).
Incredibly, there's even far more complexity to the Xuanji Tu than just the poems:
- The name 璇玑 (Xuanji) - Armillary Sphere - is astronomical in meaning and the way the poems can be read mirrors the way celestial bodies orbit around a fixed center. It's a model of the heavens.
- Her original work, with the characters woven on silk brocade, was in five colors (red, black, blue/green, purple, and yellow) which correspond to the Five Elements (五行) - the foundational Chinese philosophical system that explains how the universe operates. So it's also a model of the entire cosmic order according to ancient Chinese philosophy.
- It's also of course deeply mathematical with this 29 x 29 perfect square grid, with sub-squares, lines and rectangles, and a structure which allows for symmetrical reading patterns in all directions
- Last but not least, the content of the poems themselves contain multiple registers. On top of expressing her personal grief and longing for her husband, it's also filled with accusations against the concubine (Zhao Yangtai) he left her for, reflections on politics (with many references to sage-kings) and philosophical reflections.
So the Star Gauge is simultaneously:
- A love letter (expressing personal longing)
- A legal brief (arguing her case against her rival)
- A cosmological model (structured like the heavens)
- A Five Element diagram (encoding the fundamental structure of the world according to ancient Chinese philosophy)
- A mathematical construction with perfect symmetry and precision
And yet, for all this complexity, we should not forget this was all ultimately in service of the simplest human message imaginable: a 21-year-old woman asking the love of her life "come back to me".
Her husband did, eventually. According to what empress Wu Zetian herself wrote in her preface to the Xuanji Tu, when he received Su's brocade he was so "moved by its supreme beauty" that he sent away his concubine and returned to his wife. As the story goes, they lived together until old age.
The heart at the center was filled after all.
This gold heart sticker fell on him and he gave me such a hard time about getting it off. He wanted to be bedazzled.