Comic Sans Jr, PhD

INDEFINITE HIATUS, CATCH YOU NERDS LATER

[brightredbirdie]

UPDATE Heyyyyyy so I haven’t been online much and it’s been because I’m in a weird place mentally— Long story short I’m not particularly okay, but I’m working on it….

I’m “officially” putting this blog on HIATUS,

and I don’t know how long it’ll be. There’s a few posts left in my queue, but I will be gone.

Mutuals, if you wanna stay in touch hmu in the next few days and I can add you on Discord or Facebook or somewhere

And honestly —— thanks to everyone for being cool and fun. 💕 I’ve loved screaming about fictional characters with you, and I’ve been proud to have my mind changed about some real world issues through talking to you, and most importantly while I’m gone I will miss your top-quality god-tier shit posting.

It’s been real; BRB (Be Randomly Back eventually) 😘

[brightredbirdie]

tiny updates

haven’t been on tumblr in a bit

not dead yet (i guess?)

turned 24

gatorade is literally a gift from god????

saw justice league, didn’t dislike it

i’m more of a collection of memes and mistakes than i am, like....

a real human

[mydearthisbe]

James Potter, human disaster:

Heir to a hair potion fortune, still has uncontrollably messy hair

A Chaser on his house Quidditch team, shows off with an item that isn’t for his position 

Had to be at least sixteen when he came up with ‘furry little problem’ because he said ‘werewolf’ casually during OWLs

Meets three people on the train at the age of eleven and decides immediately that they’re going to be his best mate, his worst enemy, and his wife

Joins a secret rebel organization and wears a t-shirt referring to said secret organization while out on the town 

Says he’ll hold Voldemort off, doesn’t remember to pick up his wand 

[frogmp3]

if you’re older than 14/15, every time you think of millie bobby brown or finn wolfhard i want you to also think of me standing in between you and them, wielding a sword

[ghostienonbibi]

I hope the Rock doesn’t do something problematic before this video comes out. Or ever.

Griffin McElroy (via ghostienonbibi)

[rasec-wizzlbang-blog]

can I legally have my body divided into fifths upon my death and be buried in five separate cemeteries

[captenki]

That just made me think of something. If you have multiple personalities and they all wanted to be buried in seperate cemeteries wyd??? Would the body be split up or would ppl go against their wishes and bury them in one cemetery???

[rasec-wizzlbang-blog]

thats not why I’m doing this but thats an interesting question too

[respectable-loonitic]

W h y   a r e    y o u    d o i n g   t h i s   t h e n?

[rasec-wizzlbang-blog]

[brightredbirdie]

@rivercityrabbitsbro shit im dyin

[mttg-kc]

Happy Halloween from me to you !! 

[ursie]

@brightredbirdie

[plant-dad-sulu]

Are there like… any other parents on Vulcan? Like are Sarek and Amanda single-handedly raising every single child they encounter? Every child who sets foot on the planet now belongs to them? Like they meet some other Vulcan’s kid and go “hello, I’m your parent now” and then just take off with them? Is that what happened?

[thedurvin]

Sarek at the mall: “Sir, madam, I do not know your name, but but I see your son/daughter seems unfulfilled by your bond, constraining his/her philosophical development. As our offspring’s relationship with us is demonstrably superior, would it not be logical for you to surrender custody?”

Other Vulcan: “Your reasoning is cogent and flawless. Live long and prosper, son/daughter. I shall use the funds that were to pay for your schooling to purchase many plush robes in which I will ponder existence more comfortably.”

Vulcan child: “An excellent plan. Thank you for begetting me.”

[plant-dad-sulu]

I know it’s been a while but the funniest part of this for me is still “Sarek at the mall”

[ursie]

@brightredbirdie

[cabanaken]

Anime tiddies.exe

[mivykitty-deactivated20181207]

@haleyscomett-art

[thesofterworldjob]

[ursie]

@brightredbirdie

[ninalinovna]

pre-flashpoint roy & lian for @judedeluca

[why-i-love-comics]

Nightwing/Huntress #3

written by Devin Grayson

art by Greg Land & Bill Sienkiewicz

[screamingay]

i support the irish lesbian witch whose soul chose hozier as a vessel to write music about her and her undead gf

[vulcandroid]

i will never be over the fact that during first contact a human offered their hand to a vulcan and the vulcan was just like “wow humans are fucking wild” and took it

[roachpatrol]

Humanity’s first contact with Vulcans was some guy going “I’m down to fuck.”

Vulcans’ first contact with Humans was an emphatic “Sure.”

[lilian-cho]

@sineala

[star-lord]

#iiiiiiiiiiiiii mean vulcans had been watching humans for a long time#they knew the significance of a handshake but still#they had to find some fast and loose ambassador#willing to fuckin make out with a human for the sake of not offending them on first contact#lmao#star trek give me the story of this fast and loose vulcan

[moonsofavalon]

“sir…these…these humans…they greet each other by…” *glances around before furtively whispering* “by clasping hands…”

*prolonged silence* “oh my…”

“sir…sir how will we make first contact with them? surely we…we cannot refuse this handclasping ritual, they will take it as an insult, but what vulcan would agree to such a distasteful and uncomfortable ritual??”

*several pensive moments later* “contact the vulcan high command and tell them to send us kuvak. i once saw that crazy son of a bitch arm wrestle a klingon, he’ll put his hands on anything”

[rodarte]

Sofia Boutella wears Rodarte SS17 in Malibu Magazine (Photo by Zoey Grossman, Styling by Sean Knight).

[ursie]

@brightredbirdie

[plotsjotsandespressoshots-deact]

Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

[suicunesrider]

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

[drtanner-dickery]

I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.

Fucking witchcraft, man. 

[fanboyingoverdemigods]

fucking look at this shit though

[mauridianhallow]

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

[mizushimo]

amazing

[shadowthorne]

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

[mad-dyspunktional]

They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.

[datneeks]

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

[muck-raker-deactivated20181222]

(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)

[alessariel]

Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.

[brainsforbabyjesus]

So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.

[alessariel]

This is getting better and better.

[red-dirt-roads-deactivated20161]

I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI

[teslasturtle-deactivated2023011]

I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.

[perspectivemax-deactivated20181]

@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?

[myloverhammurabi]

Realism comes at a cost, it seems.

[gorsime]

i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:

[myloverhammurabi]

It’s a three piece raptor suit.

[flamingbluepanda]

Old movies had the best special effects

[skafuller-deactivated20180122]

The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.

[witwitch-deactivated20160508]

@jurassicparkandrecreation

[senkirowolf]

@shepfax

[prettyarb]

Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time.  They were blowing out a budget bigger than anything Hollywood had ever seen, and along with employing almost the last hurrah of incredible physical FX, they had a bank of those newfangled digital SFX computers.  Nobody’d ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before.  It’d all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them.  Spielberg wanted THE BEST DINOSAURS EVER, and he figured on using the cutting edge of digital modeling and animation technology to build them for him.

So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”

The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass.  They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that.  And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that.  One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”

He called up film of a chicken walking.  Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”

Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existed–we knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection there–but the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent.  Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.

[bastlynn]

That paleontologists’d be Kevin Padian. Who is awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Padian

[thistherapylife]

This post just gets better and better with time

[2winpeaks]

imagine a crocodile with horse-like legs… unstoppable… i would love to ride one o’ those into battle

[chyna-r-deactivated20151227]

are you..high 

[2winpeaks]

[chyna-r-deactivated20151227]

….carry on 

[swimmingferret]

Fun fact these ‘crocodile cousins’ with ‘horse-like legs’ existed and was known as a ‘sabre-toothed cat in armour’ due to it’s speed out of water and long fangs. There was the ‘DogCroc’ ( Araripesuchus wegeneri) and ‘BoarCroc’ (Kaprosuchus). The DogCroc (featured above) was only around the size of a small dog, with its skull easily fitting into the palm of someones hand. It lived during the Lower Cretaceous-Upper Cretaceous period;

*Comparison of a DogCroc’s skull to a Sarcosuchus skull. (Sarcosuchus is the largest known crocodile species and was large enough it could even prey upon a T-Rex and could weigh up to ten tonnes and be over forty feet long.)

However the BoarCroc (Kaprosuchus) was twenty-foot long and could gallop across land and preyed upon dinosaurs.

[queen-of-putresence]

That’s a fucking dragon