Dancing Demons & Evil Bunnies

[reading-writing-revolution]

[jaanderson2112-deactivated20190]

It might just work because Trump is really that STUPID.

[5bi5]

[erainab]

[orange-twilight]

i am shook to my goddamn CORE. THIS IS THE FUNNIEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE

[hashtagloveloses]

peak LGBT ally is robert pattinson and taylor lautner kissing each other so that kristen stewart didn’t have to be straight live on TV

[the-incedible-sulk]

OKAY BUT LOOK AT HER FACE! LOOK AT HOW HAPPY SHE IS THAT HES NOT MAKING HER GO THROUGH WITH WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT

The movies might have sucked, but the actors have redeeming qualities

[donnasweettttttttt]

every single thing robert pattinson ever does is intentionally genetically engineered to make stephenie meyer’s mormon blood boil hot enough for her to feel the constant neverending pain he experienced having to make and promote her movies for all those years. this is more than lgbt allyship. this is revenge.

[lubricates]

SORRY GIRLS

[galahadwilder]

A sudden, terrifying thought

When you see an animal with its eyes set to the front, like wolves, or humans, that’s usually a predator animal.

If you see an animal with its eyes set farther back, though—to the side—that animal is prey.

Now look at this dragon.

See those eyes?

They’re to the SIDE.

This raises an interesting—and terrifying—question.

What in the name of Lovecraft led evolution to consider DRAGONS…

As PREY?

[dorito-and-pinetree]

I know this isn’t part of my blogs theme but like this is interesting

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[kappagecko]

@howdidigetinvolved

[perfectlygenericblog]

The eyes-in-the-front thing (usually) only applies to mammals. Crocodiles, arguably the inspiration for dragons, have eyes that look to the sides despite being a predator.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

hey what up I’m about to be That Asshole

This isn’t a mammalian thing. When people talk about ‘eyes on the front’ or ‘eyes on the side,’ they’re really talking about binocular vision vs monocular vision. Binocular vision is more advantageous for predators because it’s what gives you depth perception; i.e, the distance you need to leap, lunge, or swipe to take out the fast-moving thing in front of you. Any animal that can position its eyes in a way that it has overlapping fields of vision has binocular vision. That includes a lot of predatory reptiles, including komodo dragons, monitor lizards, and chameleons.

(The eyes-in-front = predator / eyes-on-sides = prey thing holds true far more regularly for birds than it does for mammals. Consider owls, hawks, and falcons vs parrots, sparrows, and doves.)

But it’s not like binocular vision is inherently “better” than monocular vision. It’s a trade-off: you get better at leap-strike-kill, but your field of vision is commensurately restricted, meaning you see less stuff. Sometimes, the evolutionary benefit of binocular vision just doesn’t outweigh the benefit of seeing the other guy coming. Very few forms of aquatic life have binocular vision unless they have eye stalks, predator or not, because if you live underwater, the threat could be coming from literally any direction, so you want as wide a field of view as you can get. If you see a predator working monocular vision, it’s a pretty safe assumption that there is something else out there dangerous enough that their survival is aided more by knowing where it is than reliably getting food inside their mouths.

For example, if you are a crocodile, there is a decent chance that a hippo will cruise up your shit and bite you in half. I’d say that makes monocular vision worthwhile.

Which brings us back to OP’s point. Why would dragon evolution favor field of view over depth perception?

A lot of the stories I’ve read painted the biggest threats to dragons (until knights with little shiny sticks came along) as other dragons. Dragons fight each other, dragons have wars. And like fish, a dragon would need to worry about another dragon coming in from any angle. That’s a major point in favor of monocular vision. Moreover, you don’t need depth perception in order to hunt if you can breathe fucking fire. A flamethrower is not a precision weapon. If you can torch everything in front of you, who cares if your prey is 5 feet away or 20? Burn it all and sift among the rubble for meat once everything stops moving.

Really, why would dragons have eyes on the front of their heads? Seems like they’ve got the right idea to me.

[nathanpikajew]

this is some good dragon discourse right here, 10/10, and i dont mean to derail the whole thing away from the eyes, but i feel obligated to mention that in many stories and accurate to some reptiles, dragons have an extremely acute sense of smell/taste which would definitely help narrow down the depth perception issue. things smell stronger the closer they are. and i feel like i read somewhere that a blind snake can flick the air with its tongue and track its target mouse with no trouble at all. gotta imagine the “great serpents of the sky” had some pretty advanced biology. enough to make field of view win out against depth perception.

anywho. cool stuff. fear the dragons even if they are the prey cause they still beat us on the food chain.

[jabberwockypie]

“A flamethrower is not a precision weapon. If you can torch everything in front of you, who cares if your prey is 5 feet away or 20? Burn it all and sift among the rubble for meat once everything stops moving.”

[jaquitor]

Hi hello, friendly neighborhood dragon nerd here just jumping in on the discourse. This post has always bothered me for a myriad of reasons but I’m here to rain on everyone’s parades and talk about why all these dragons ABSOLUTELY have binocular vision, and do not have cow-like herbivore eyes.

The main thing everyone seems to be talking about here is where the eyes are positioned on the head, not how the eye is set in the socket, which is very important! Absolutely every single one of those dragons presented in drawings have forward facing eyes to some degree.

To be my visual aid, we’re going to use my good friend, the Tyrannosaurus Rex!

(hello everyone pleasure to be here)

Now the first thing you’ll notice here is the fact that our good pal T. Rex’s eyes are oriented a great deal like all the dragons eyes in the artwork above! But that absolutely does not mean this creature had sideways facing eyes, or lacked binocular vision. In fact, T. Rex is famous for having a SUPERB field of binocular vision. How, you ask?

Because despite being set in a way that looks rather sideways when viewed in profile, the eyes of the T. rex actually face forward together, and create an overlapping field of view. The same can be said for all of the dragons above, despite not having their eyes as close together as say, a wolf, they are still ABSOLUTELY oriented for this type of vision.

So lets take a look at one of the more famous dragons depicted in this post, Mr. Smaug. (And the one with readily available alternative poses.)

(yes greetings, pleasure to be here as well)

So, here he is, what do we do if we turn him from profile view, to a full front on…?

Boom.

Smaug ABSOLUTELY has some form of binocular vision from the way his eyes are positioned in his skull. The exact field of view is up for debate, because this varies greatly from creature to creature, but Smaug most certainly has some form of depth perception. 

So in conclusion, you shouldn’t judge a creature drawn primarily in profile for having eyes on the sides of its head. Thank u for coming to my TED talk.

[yourwisehistory]

Jason ‘I like to throw axes at bullseye’ momoa

[linaisbluepancake]

[bextheboo]

[gummy-no-longer]

[thorffour-deactivated20190920]

[bellamione-trash-deactivated202]

Hermione healer AU.

Hermione leaves Hogwarts in her like, thirdish year to study at a wizard medical school and becomes the youngest healer. But there’s war and stuff so Hermiones assigned to tend to injured captives from the enimies side. She does this so she can rank up quicker. Then one day bellas captured and YALL ALREADY KNOW.

Bellatrix busts in bein all bad ass covered in chains n shit because the Aurors were like “She fucking does wandless magic miss, best be careful with that she beast.” And Hermione takes one look at this pitiful looking older woman covered in scars and scratches and goes “How’d you capture her?” And and Auror goes “She put ten men into a coma before one even got a hit on her, after that we kept firing until her stamina wore out, even then took ten more of us to subdue her. Bloody woman was casting hexes with her hands.” And at that moment our little bean just looks at Bellatrix and goes

“Woah. Can i keep her? For tests and stuff”

[bellamione-trash-deactivated202]

OKAY GUYS BUT LISTEN

COME ON

IM SLEEP DEPRIVED, BUT ITS A GOOD IDEA OKAY??

[bellamione-trash-deactivated202]

@type-writes

[bellamione-trash-deactivated202]

IM SORRY I JUST KEEP ROBLOGGING THIS WITH MORE ART.

YALL JUST GUNNA HAVE TO DEAL UNTIL TUMBLR WONT LET ME REBLOG IT ANYMORE OKAY

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@type-writes

[bellamione-trash-deactivated202]

JUST INCASE SOME OF YALL SLEEPING ON THIS AU. HERE IS SOME GAY FOR THE BELLAMIONE FANDOM

TAKE MY PEN AWAY, BURN IT, END ME BECAUSE OF MY SIN.

Um @type-writes is writing it so. YA’LL BETTER GO GIVE HER A TON OF ATTENTION

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While I was making this a sentence just came into my head:

“Bella stop saying probe, you really don’t know what it means.”

[bellamione-trash-deactivated202]

@type-writes IM NOT SAYING TO DO IT. IM JUST SAYING THE OPTIONS THERE

suspenders ugn

[bellamione-trash-deactivated202]

“Don’t be shy pet, my leg really hurts. Come come, get in close.”

“MADAM BLACK, STOP”

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YALL GETTING SO ANGRESSIVE OVER THIS AU HAHAHAAA

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I KNOW THIS ISNT WHAT YOU WANT BUT NO ONE CAN EVER MAKE ME BELIEVE BELLATRIX BLACK LËŚTRÃÑGĘ, WOULD WEAR REAL SUSPENDERS UNLESS ITS A GARTER BELT.

@type-writes

[bellamione-trash-deactivated202]

THIS IS SLOPPY AND DONE QUICKLY BUT HEY, MY CLASSES WERE CANCLED FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK BECAUSE THIS HURRICAINES GUNNA FUCK US UP.

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SO ON THE PLUS SIDE, MORE TIME. ON THE DOWN SIDE, A FUCKING ALMOST CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE COMING FOR MY STATE IN A DAY AND A HALF.

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. @type-writes

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So if I don’t post like past Friday it’s because I’m dead ✌️👌

[bellamione-trash-deactivated202]

IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED. THIS PURE CHAOTIC GIF.

EVERYTHING IVE REBLOGGED ON THIS POST HAS BEEN GOOD AND I ACTUALLY TRIED. NOW LOOK. @crashandburn-bellamione

@type-writes

I still gave her a garter belt someone save my gay ass

[bellamione-trash-deactivated202]

WELCOME TO MY BLOG IT JUST GOT A LOT MORE INAPPROPRIATE.

THIS ISNT EVEN THAT GOOD BUT OH WELL LMAOOO

IM SORRY ILL STOP MAKING THIS SIN

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@type-writes

[bellamione-trash-deactivated202]

The art on the last reblog is so much better and I’m sorry this is shitty but honestly, just slapping a white shirt on Hermione and calling it healer au art.

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And for the first picture, you know sometimes Hermione doesn’t wear her standardized white healer shirt under her cloak. And sometimes Bella finds out. And reacts. It’s just what happens.

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I’ll post something better later to make it up to y’all.

@type-writes

[bellamione-trash-deactivated202]

@type-writes gimmie my GAYS

[bellamione-trash-deactivated202]

Extra

@type-writes my favorite Brit, I give you this, in hopes you give me gays

[sandersstudies]

I don’t want to be rich, I just want to be comfy.

Want to have one really nice set of plates and silverware for company and Thanksgiving.

Want to be able to buy a new outfit and a good bra at least a couple times a year.

Want to be able to give “just because” gifts.

Want to burn incense and candles in my home daily, and have nice soaps.

Want to be able to donate to charity frequently and without worry.

Want to buy hardcover books to read and put on a shelf for my kids to read someday.

Want to have candies in bowls for people who visit.

Want to be able to take my young siblings and cousins to a movie and let them get the big popcorn they won’t finish, because there’s magic in just having it.

Want to have a linen closet or at least a linen shelf.

Want to go see live local theater several times a year.

Want to have a bottle of wine or champagne in the house for when I suddenly need to celebrate.

Want to have a kitchen with basic baking supplies so I can bake bread on the weekend, and pies for special occasions.

I just want to be comfy.

[cluegrrl]

That is my definition of ‘wealth’, as contrasted with ‘excess’.  As my mother in law put it – if I can see a little something in a store that I know a friend would love, and just BUY it for them without having to worry about whether I can afford it in the budget, that means I’m well off.  And that?  That is what I want.

For everyone.  

Everyone.

[thorthepiratangel]

The God of thunder

Bonus

[steven]

sorry i have bubonic plague i can’t hang out tonight

[61below]

aw rats

[kkneesockks]

[salemcenter10560-deactivated201]

why doesn’t the x-mansion have wheelchair ramps

it’s literally his house

how does he get in and out of his own house

[anzozi-everywhere]

when your creators forget to give you a way to leave your own fucking house

[durnesque-esque]

Sounds like Sims…

[eliminativism]

He is capable of astral projection why would he ever leave? He can possess a Tibetan sherpa if he wants to feel the wind in his hair again - or feel his hair.

[lucaumbriel]

Yeah,but sometimes you just wanna get out and stretch your legs, you know?

[eliminativism]

>stretch your legs

[solarpunk-aesthetic]

Just imagine a world full of beautiful stained glass windows which also generate electricity…

[Oxford Photovoltaics]

[thorffour-deactivated20190920]

[textonly]

[tattooedsocialistfeminist666]

This is what I told a very well-meaning Facebook friend who posted this image and told everyone to stop using plastic bags. 

Thank you for sharing this and speaking out. We are in a desperate situation. Even if every single person decided to cut disposable plastics out of their lives, the Earth would still be doomed. The fact is, 63% of the industrial carbon pollution released into the atmosphere since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution can be traced to just under 100 companies. If we do not hold these major companies (Chevron, ExxonMobil, Saudi Aramco, British Petroleum, Gazprom, Shell, the National Iranian Oil Company, etc.) accountable, future generations will be left with a barely habitable planet. Also, major meat and dairy companies have become some of the world’s biggest polluters. We need a complete overhaul of our current society. Yes, please avoid plastic bags and disposable cutlery when possible, but also support organizations that work to end climate change. Share the work of researchers who study climate change. Vote for politicians who take climate change seriously (our sitting president believes climate change is a hoax). Consider consuming less meat (especially since Americans already eat too much meat and dairy than is normal or healthy). Attend a climate march. We all need to take action—we only have one planet and it is being destroyed. 

[rhsin]

[marzipanandminutiae]

the thing about millennials who don’t want kids is I feel like a lot of them are deeply On Board for their friends’ kids

like I’m among the minority of my friends in definitely for sure wanting kids someday

but each of my parenthood-eschewing friends has claimed a different role in my future offspring’s life and they seem very excited to play it

so we as a generation may have fewer children

but I feel like they’ll be the most supported and loved children imaginable

[pfdiva]

As a millennial who doesn’t want children, I am seconding this, because it’s not like we don’t want children to exist in the world!  We do!  Children can be lovely and amazing and they are literally our future!  It’s just So Very Difficult to raise children in our nuclear-family society, especially as a millennial, and you want to do the job RIGHT.

Well, if you can’t do the job right yourself, the least you can do is help a friend raise THEIR child right, help take the burden off their shoulders, and give that kid all the love and attention they can stand.

I’d be damned excited to do that, too.

[thelongestpuzzle]

this generation is so excited and ready to be weird uncle/aunt so-and-so

[micaxiii]

I hope this generation makes communal families a thing again and this time it won’t be treated like a “taboo hippie thing”

[tallteal]

Takes a village to raise a kid

[feministism]

[divinemissmolly]

“Exhausted witch” is a mood though lol