Let's Pretend To Be Dinosaurs

to give them something funny to look at

[qwahaxahn]

average Alanna problem: this boy is being real stupid right now

average Daine problem: the forest 😐

average Kel problem: They Are Killing The Children

average Beka problem: the bribe money is barely making rent

[mik-mania]

im so fucking stubborn

[invader-bean]

michael what the fuck.

[mik-mania]

no its one of my fancy pencils :)

the end cap comes off :)

[mik-mania]

oh lard

[mik-mania]

my son he is sick he has every disease

[mik-mania]

we are nearing peak deviancy

[mik-mania]

happy back-to-school day

[mik-mania]

im so clever that its sickening

[mik-mania]

if i breathe wrong i'll lose him

[mik-mania]

it got too small for the clip. luckily i realized this eraser has the perfect holes

[mik-mania]

at what point does this stop being a pencil

[leahelizabeth89]

Tags via @mik-mania

[omghotmemes]

It’s water over the bridge

[phoenix]

A bridge over troubled highways.

[bisexualwario]

[melophobia2013]

[ID: a tweet by @ hagfail saying:

It was removed from Tubu. Heebee sold the IP. Poodee won't play it in your region. It's not on Dippy. You can't find it on Weeno. Gumpy lost the rights to Pheebo. Poob was removed from the app store. The FBI have issued a warning to Poob. 3 Poob executives were arrested today.

/end ID]

[prokopetz]

Dramatically declaring "IT BEGINS" even though I know darn well it has in fact been ongoing for some time.

[mewy101]

I could never find the right way to tell you, have you noticed I've been gone?

[louisegluckpdf]

"i get a little bit genghis khan" was such a strange and delightful thing to say in a pop song

[gemini-enthusiast]

Hilariously funny that they let the guy known for wandering off without warning to look at birds was allowed to do this

[songofsaraneth]

#famously few birds in space#probably the safest place to take him

[awritersbro]

if you see a Jabberwocky in an American National Park i cannot stress this enough you HAVE to report them to the nearest Park ranger. I know, I know, they fill human hearts with terror and whimsy in equal measure, but they are an aggressively invasive species in the Americas. Jackalopes are at risk of becoming extinct because during shedding season they have no natural defences against jaws that bite and claws that catch.

You don't have to worry about them killing it, they're actually endangered in England due to Victorian Era overhunting, so the British government's provided the National Park service with Vorpal Tranquilizer Darts so they can safely transport them to their native British Countryside where they can feast on borogroves and jubjub birds to their hearts' content.

[edgar-allan-possum]

Jabberwocks are starting to really intrude on the territory of the Snallygaster and crowd them out. Please report when you see them and help preserve our American monsters!

[tlaquetzqui]

Biologists prefer the term “fearsome critters”, just FYI. They resemble monsters but only due to convergent evolution.

[zimjaeyun-deactivated20220116]

fuck it’s august??? what’s next? 2022???? can’t do this anymore

[in-tua-deep]

i must have seen a gif from heated rivalry of when ilya is pointing out his face on the video game bc last night i had a dream that ilya and shane launched their friendship WAY earlier and mostly by accident via being competitive assholes

the whole premise was that ilya's boston team and shane's montreal team ended up at the same bar, except it was an arcade bar and one of the things they had was the hockey game. and hey, fair game to yell to your hockey rival that you'll beat him on AND off the ice?

and shane is nothing if not a competitive shit, so he sits and plays and beat ilya, who said something like "you only won because you're boring and drink ginger ales while i've had alcohol, i would have beaten you sober" and without even thinking shane says "bet" and essentially invites himself to Ilya's apartment (already the plan) except with the express idea that they will (also) have a rematch of the hockey game and he will wipe the floor with Ilya

the next day they realize that both of their teams, knowing that they are THE competitive assholes of all times, did not even blink an eye at shane volunteering to stay in the lair of the enemy and are kind of like. wait. holy shit. is this... a good excuse? plausible deniability?

so they kind of. keep doing it. sometimes alone, sometimes some teammates come and witness their face offs. they chirp each other and are LASER FOCUSED on beating each other. they make stupid bets on the outcomes. they are even posting (mostly ilya and the teammates that witness this) on social media

and suddenly, they can just kind of. be in public together? and everyone assumes it's because of a lost bet on this game? they go out to eat and as long as they don't split the check then everyone assumes that the one that paid lost their last video game match up

the one thing i remember is them both pushing harder the longer the reactions to them stayed under the radar. ilya literally got flowers that he posted on his social media because they came with a card that said "sorry for your loss(es)" with the es marked on in sharpie after boston lost to them on ice and ilya lost on the game with a caption that said something like 'when did hollander get a sense of humor???'. and then they were on the phone giggling about how shane is literally able to send ilya flowers publicly without anyone batting an eye

i think towards the end of the dream cliff was starting to catch on, or at least was catching on to the fact that ilya was bi and had a MASSIVE crush on shane. on the other hand, i think hayden could have walked in on them making out and his first thought would be "which idiot said they were better at kissing and made it a competition, do i really have to explain the optics of this"

[vetchtibbles]

if you're transgender and need name ideas, may I direct you toward the nato alphabet because like. delta? november?? echo?? romeo is like the butchest name. please consider foxtrot. being named whiskey would be cool as hell. I know multiple transmascs who were a bit too into english lit and are named victor now. I've met people named sierra who were trans in every direction. maybe don't name yourself golf

[in-a-mellow-tone]

[elbiotipo]

More than "here in the Southern Hemisphere we have inverted seasons :)" thing, which is TECHNICALLY true, I would go a step further and encourage to think about that "much of the world does not exactly has a spring-summer-fall-winter season sequence as they show in cartoons"

[paperdragonsong]

I will scream about this to anyone who listens forever. AUSTRALIA DOES NOT HAVE "ENGLISH SEASONS BUT BACKWARDS" and the insistence that it does creates a massive layer of alienation from the natural world.

I never really realised how much difference it makes until I went to England and realised that here the change of seasons is an obvious, visible, physical change in the world. Like, everything REALLY IS orange and foggy in autumn! In spring there are flowers EVERYWHERE, so much more than any other season, and the trees really do have all blossom and no leaves. Even if it doesn't snow, in winter there's frost all the time and the trees are bare and the sky is visibly greyer all the time. You don't need to be told "this date is the first day of spring", you can SEE IT (although this is getting way messier and less precise due to climate change).

By contrast, most places in Australia the seasons we're taught feel like arbitrary categories - and is it any surprise considering they're colonial constructs? Orange-leaved autumn and blossom-covered spring is a cartoon stereotype with no relevance on a continent where ALL NATIVE TREES ARE EVERGREEN!! Snowy winters are a joke in the desert, and even sunny summers don't ring particularly true considering that much of the country is in the tropics, where summer means monsoons - not that I've ever seen the concept that WE HAVE A MONSOON SEASON taught at an Australian school.

Most Indigenous nations around Australia had six or more seasons, revolving around wet and dry times as much as hot and cold, and marked by the appearances of certain native animals and flowers. Schools need to start teaching the real seasons, and explaining that climate cycles are too complex to generalise globally, or else we will keep raising generations who view the natural world as hostile and unpredictable and climate predictions as generally irrelevent and frequently wrong - and I'm sure I don't need to spell out why that's a problem in the era of climate crisis.

[tiredtransgal]

i want to add that 40% of the world's population lives in the tropics, and the 4 season model just doesn't make much sense for a lot of places in there. usually it's just the wet season/monsoon season and the dry season. it's often hot year round.

the 4 season model as you and i know it is a european invention, though 4 season models aren't unique to europe! most notably china has the same type of season subdivision.

in general the way humans define seasons is largely subjective and varies across cultures. the one you were taught is not at all universal!

[myguiltyotpleasures]

[spokir]

[bunjywunjy]

everyone should sometimes be cats it's good for you

[skyline-sunset-in-my-veins]

Looney toons level of hauling ass

[ovid]

it’s psychological horror to YOU. to me it’s a romcom

[allbuthuman]

it's a romcom to YOU. to me it's psychological horror

[libraford]

Able-bodied mother of neurotypical able-bodied children: "I was initially looking forward to the inclusive playground but there are only two play structures intended for wheelchairs."

Every person at the intersection of neurodiverse and mobility aid use: "Wow, there's a wheelchair swing and a wheelchair accessible merry go round and a triple-wide slide so someone can play with an aid and theres a touch exhibit that uses edible plants and a windchime forest for sound seeking persons and wide walkways and a natural play area and the floor is a rubber mat instead of loose mulch and lots of imaginative play areas and I can push my walker right up to the roller slide..."

[libraford]

The company we consulted for our upgrades specializes in inclusive play, and does so by actually consulting not only persons in wheelchairs but a spectrum of ability. Not disability advocates- people who have disabilities.

And that has been the difference in this whole conversation-and just about every conversation ive been having lately: people will be upset on your behalf for selfish reasons without asking how you feel.

You're not upset that there new playground isn't inclusive enough, you're upset that it holds no nostalgia for you.