January's Bloom

Weak opinions, strongly held. he/him @deoxys314 on Twitter

[verybadpaleontologyjokes]

happy palentines day paleontology edition

bonus

geology one

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

welcome... to Nothing Park

[meow-moment]

"You have a T-Rex?"

"No."

[pardonmystardust]

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

[sillysayaka]

you didn't do it. you crazy son of a bitch you didn't do it

[highdrainjah]

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they should, that they didn't stop to think if they could"

[goldensunset]

idk who needs to hear this but if you have been putting something off bc it doesn't need to be done until the end of the month. we are almost done with the teens we are approaching the big numbers (the twenties). that date shall dawn upon you swiftly and without mercy before you know it. psa for everyone except me i got plany off time

[charlesoberonn]

Some of my favorite variants

[blathersinfodumps]

[hyydraworks]

Something about little guys, packed up for travellin' 🤌

[roconize]

Bad Content #31

[strawberry-crocodile]

I just wanna say the original is like a thousand times funnier than all the edgy sex joke versions. Some of us are just autistic about reptile phylogeny, bitch.

[sun-almighty-wukong]

oh this is the original?

[lumsel]

Hey I notice you're mutuals with people who are mutuals with you. Kind of problematic how you're implicitly endorsing yourself, don't you think?

i mean i implicitly endorse myself every other night, heyooooo

[businesstiramisu]

vs. Bertrand Russell, who is only mutuals with those who are not mutuals with him

[kaylmao]

the public transportation pervert gets off at every stop

[cypressure]

Kentrosaurus aethiopicus

[cypressure]

prints of this drawing (and more) are now available on my store!

[cypressure]

the larger print of this drawing is SOLD OUT, but the small edition is still in stock

[femmenietzsche]

Whenever I’m on the street children throw large pebbles at me and say “This is only somewhat due to your bad tumblr posts. There are multiple reasons for this.”

[pixeljamgames]

Little-known fact: Stegos could do this... they just need a good reason to.

[rlyehtaxidermist]

dreamt that one of those big name pop women came out as nonbinary and released an industrial noise album about a space war with some kind of fungus creatures. i saw them at the guthrie

[silverbridge-harbor]

Velociraptors are scary but really they aren't that scary because they can't change speed. They always move at exactly the same rate, so they're predictable and you can avoid them. The real one to look out for is the acceleraptor

[horseshoecrabfan]

Went to the Wetlands Institute the other day.

Sex and Gluttony on The Delaware Bay would be the title of my band (if I had more friends and knew how to make music).

[voyaging-too]

I don’t really know how best to put this, but having seen multiple worthwhile creative projects implode due to money/management issues, I now have even more respect for the financial decisions behind Friends at the Table. They are making a beautiful actual play podcast, they have been making a beautiful actual play podcast since 2014, and despite being reasonably successful, they are very, very careful when it comes to monetising it or scaling it up.

They run a really popular Patreon, but as far as I can tell, they have managed not to overcommit.

They remain a small operation, the players themselves produce and edit the show, a player writes the music and another draws the maps. They occasionally commission artists for cover art and merch, and that’s it.

All the players have other projects, and as far as I can tell, most of them have kept some form of day job. The DM definitely did, at least.

They decided not to do ads, and they still don’t do ads, at all. There’s the occasional shout-out to the players’ other projects, or a few words in praise of whichever game they are currently playing, but no ad reads, no sponsorships, nothing. Which is a big deal, because they’re not dependent on ad revenue, not dependent on the continued goodwill of advertisers, and not undermining the anti-capitalist stories they are trying to tell the way a lot of supposedly anti-capitalist fiction does.

[voyaging-too]

And now the last two games they played for the Road to Palisade were games where they improvised a fake, fictional in-universe podcast, one about wrestling and one about politics. And they also improvised fake ad reads. At the time, I found them hilarious, but in retrospect, it’s such a flex. They can make a fake podcast with absurdly funny fake ad reads, because their real podcast doesn’t do that. They never have to pretend that they genuinely enjoy the product of whatever coffee or scented candle or VPN company is willing to sponsor them, because they made the call not to rely on ad revenue, and they managed to stick to it. And I would never judge any other podcast or vlog or whatever for having to rely on ads to survive, but I nonetheless admire the hell out of F@TT for successfully pulling off an ad-free model, in an online landscape where ubiquitous ads and sponsorships are the norm.

[coldcrashpictures]

A lot of people say movies like Jurassic Park and Jaws are "the Perfect Movie" about their respective creatures (dinosaurs and sharks respectively). As such a lot of movies about those creatures that come out now are often low budget mockbusters aping off those films or are directly compared to Jurassic Park and Jaws even if the only thing they have in common with thise movies is "dinosaur stuff" or "shark attack."

Why do you think that is (if you believe it at all) and do you think there can ever be a dinosaur film that can either overcome this comparison or avoid it entirely, and what would that look like?

I think a big part of the success of Jurassic Park and Jaws is that they're genre-films that don't act like genre films. They assumed they needed to impress more than just the typical monster/horror movie enthusiasts. Most dinosaur and shark films don't bother. I really wish they would.