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#t irl #about the author #writer #ao3 #fourth wing au #iron flame au #empyrean au #fanfiction

"You know what, asshole? I was calling to prepare you, but I think I've just decided to say fuck you, instead." Warning? Shit. "Wait, wait, wait," Garrick practically screams in his car. "Prepare me for what?"

#ficwip word game wednesday #imrrick pilot au #fourth wing fanfic #fourth wing au #tentative title: the four day

June Reads:

New:

Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson (saw on B&N banned books table; poignant and powerful) How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States - Daniel Immerwahr (the more I learn about history - specifically American history - the more I want to facepalm. but also: if Bad Bunny made you interested in Puerto Rican history ... pick this up) Wolf Girl - Leia Stone (... first of four. not sure if I'll continue.) Everyone in this Bank Is a Thief - Benjamin Stevenson (... fourth in a series and probably my least favorite so far, tbh) The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party - Daniel James Brown (Donner Party as told via the perspective of a 21yo female survivor. Ooof.) Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice - Virginia Roberts Giuffre (... a reminder that we still haven't had any more arrests from the Epstein files. Second tough read in a row)

Rereads:

Banished - Shana Granderson, A Lady Pemberley: Mr. Darcy's Dragon - Maria Grace Longbourn: Dragon Entail - Maria Grace Netherfield: Rogue Dragon - Maria Grace The Reality of Everything - Rebecca Yarros

#t's reads #t irl #books read

russianblush

no ai usage over here. you’re gonna get my shitty authentic writing whether you like it or not

hemipenal-system

just watched jurassic park and from a meta perspective im thinking sadly about how the behavior the carnivores display is way more indicative (at least to me) of wanting to play and lacking stimulation in their lives than actually wanting to eat the human characters. and they got so so demonized for it

hemipenal-system

JP dinosaur behavior analysis with a healthy dose of headcanon included from someone who doesnt know much about behavioral science. for funsies

ok so first of all lets start with the t rex. her very first moment is the goat leg ending up on the car, but we can see in the next shot that she is very capable of swallowing the goat whole. so how did that leg get there? given evidence that t. rexes were likely social creatures, i like to imagine that the leg on the car was more “here you go have part of my meal because you’re small” for the humans

next is her communication. i want to look at one specific thing, which was actually the thing that prompted the post

to me, that certainly looks like eye pinning. eye pinning is a behavior in birds that signals high stimulation. here’s what it looks like in a bird

it can be positive or negative, but in this case it’s probably not negative, because there’s nothing forcing the rex to stay there. if she wanted to leave the situation she could hit the bricks

the continual roaring also sort of suggests play behavior to me. there’s not really any sense in making a shitload of noise at your prey (unless you’re trying to scare them out of cover, but we know she doesn’t need to do that because we see she’s strong enough to just break into the car) so, especially because they keep screaming, that reads way more like “im making noises and they’re making noises back ^w^” then it does as trying to intimidate prey for some reason

play behavior also makes sense because we know, canonically, she’s crazy understimulated. alan grant says as much when he mentions that they aren’t feeding her in a way that promotes hunting behavior. the way she noses at the jeep and spins it really just looks more like curious interaction than anything, as well as all the chasing people she does

next, the raptors. their really famous scene is the kitchen, but first let’s establish some facts about them. we know from muldoon and what we’re shown that:

- they’re smart enough to use one of their own as a distraction for flanking maneuvers

- they’re good at problem solving enough to wait until the electric fences are turned off to systematically test them for vulnerabilities

- they’re absurdly fast. “60 mph on open ground” fast

- they are absolutely not in a big enough enclosure

- they’re not fed in a way that promotes hunting behavior either

so when you put all this information together and then look at the kitchen scene, i don’t believe for even one second that the “hide behind the counter” routine is fooling those two raptors for any time at all. that entire sequence of loudly scrambling around the kitchen while something that can keep pace with a cheetah pretends it can’t catch you? yeah that makes WAY more sense as play behavior than it does hunting, especially since we see numerous times that there are many things on the island easier to catch and eat than a bunch of skinny humans (this goes for the rex, too!)

the bit with the noises is also true here. more true, if anything. muldoon tells us the raptors are ambush predators, so why on earth would they get into a hunting ground and then risk scaring their prey off with the loud barking calls? “hi we’re here come out and play” is a much more sensible use of a call loud enough to hurt a human’s ears from across a room in that situation

in conclusion: damnit john your girls are bored as fuck. give them a horse ball or a frozen pumpkin stuffed with meat or something

#why did this whole thing not reblog the first time #i'm an old and still don't know how to tumblr apparently #DINOSAURS

QueenOfTheCookies, whoever you are, thank you for finding and kudos'ing basically everything I ever wrote (especially the lesser-known and lesser-loved works). 🫶🫶🫶

#reader appreciation post #fanfic writer #fanfic author #we love your kudos!

hemipenal-system

just watched jurassic park and from a meta perspective im thinking sadly about how the behavior the carnivores display is way more indicative (at least to me) of wanting to play and lacking stimulation in their lives than actually wanting to eat the human characters. and they got so so demonized for it

hometoursandotherstuff

ectoimp

cameoappearance

A small price to pay for mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika

hockeyspiral23

… also: if I was a photographer and spent THAT much on a lens, you better believe I would take that bad boy everywhere and use the fuck out of it

writingdose

this and also the only difference between fanfic writers and writers who sell their own original works as careers is that fanfics aren’t monetized. that’s all.

being a “professional” writer doesn’t mean your works are inherently better than fanfics. I’ve read so many fics that are more professionally written than some published books.

whether or not a piece of writing is monetized has nothing to do with its quality.

... how about the @ficwip word of the week twice?

I catch her eye as I get to the velvet rope blocking off the booth from the rest of the club. Violet places her hand on mine, preventing me from unclasping it to enter, and I, as always, feel the sparks from her touch. “I’m sorry, and who might you be?” She gives me a wicked grin. “VIP section, you know.”

music AU

Violet's eyes go wide. "From the stories?" she whispers and Asher nods. She turns back and curtsies, a move made awkward by the boy - Xaden - still clutching her hand. "I'm sorry."

super secret project

#ficwip word game wednesday #wrap me in a bolt of lightning #secret project #fourth wing fanfic #fourth wing au

teathattast

jaynejezebelle

Resurrecting my tumblr because PWHL Reddit said PWHLblr was the place to be.

I’ve been working on these tarot card (ish) designs over the last few months. I gotta get it together and finish up with Vancouver and Minnesota before the new teams announce their names/logos 💀

… sometimes I go back and reread my own stuff. Just because.

It’s always good when the things I wrote two years ago still crack me up.

Also a reminder that if you haven’t read The Backup Plan, it’s still (I think) a fun one.

#TBP #the backup plan #fourth wing fanfic #fourth wing au

ratbastarddotfuck

Reblog if you’re part of a hostile nation that’s declared war on Australia

mycroftrh

Oh my god though guys you don’t know the best thing! The best thing is: he’s right.

The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands is a micronation near Australia. This is their flag:

The Gay Kingdom (as it is colloquially known) was founded in 2004 in protest against Australia’s legal stance against same-sex marriage.

Here are some of their stamps:

They are currently ruled by Emperor Dale I, and their currency is the Pink Dollar.

And, indeed - they declared war on Australia for not recognizing same-sex marriages performed outside the country. (Second link.)

sailurmars

You’re telling me there has been a Gay Island this ENTIRE TIME and I’m only just finding out about it????

feitanswife

WHAT

gondorsfinest

okay, but not enough people know the details on this. people at pride were upset about gay rights in australia. so they decided to sail 200 miles into the coral sea just ‘cause and put a rainbow flag on a fucking empty island out of spite. and i’m talking empty. no inhabitants. zero. it was a flat piece of land with a bit of dry grass. now it has a camp site and a post office.

they have a declaration of independence that talks a bit about gay rights and then just flat out copies the “life liberty and the pursuit of happiness” part from the american declaration of independence. and here’s the best part: the founding group actually elected their emperor. he was originally going to be called the “administrator” of a republic. their website, however, says that “upon legal advice, his title was changed to that of Sovereign on the grounds that under Australian law a defacto prince trying to claim his crown cannot be charged with treason”. so they made it a kingdom and he now claims to be a descendent of edward ii.

everything about this is glorious and everyone should know about it.

Keep reading

ileolai

Not one of you mentioned that the anthem for this nation is I Am What I Am by Gloria Gaynor. Not. One. Of. You.

ebonykain

This is the greatest thing I’ve ever read

faejilly

Highlights from the timeline via wikipedia as this thread is from 2017:

As previously mentioned, the idea originated at Pride (Brisbane 2003) in reaction to punitive anti-marriage legislation

“On the 14th day of June 2004, at this highest point in the Coral Sea, Emperor Dale Parker Anderson raised the gay rainbow flag and claimed the islands of the Coral Sea in his name as homeland for the gay and lesbian peoples of the world. God Save our King!”

The campsite/capital Heaven was named after the London nightclub

War was declared on Australia in September 2004

The aforementioned stamps were issued in July 2006 “with the aim of creating a high and distinctive reputation amongst the philatelic fraternity”

They were never recognized legally/internationally as a micronation (and in fact Anderson refused to attend a conference in 2010 because they weren’t actually trying to be a sovereign nation)

In Feb 2017, Abetz was objecting to the flag of a “hostile nation” being flown

The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands was dissolved in November 2017 (when same-sex marriage was legalized)

thememedaddy

#i feel terrible saying this but it's so true #it's only good if one person acts as a sous chef #and even then

Alex Warren was pretty damn awesome. Glad I decided on the solo date night.

#Alex Warren #concert #confetti party #t irl

tahthetrickster

just so we’re clear if you’ve never actually seen a cybertruck in person and have only seen photos of them i cannot stress enough how much worse they look in real life. like i honestly don’t know how it’s possible. most things look basically the same in pictures and in real life. but as stupid and ugly as cybertrucks look in photos, every person i’ve spoken to who has seen one in real life agrees that they somehow look even worse in person. and i know you’re thinking to yourself “tah they already look so bad in photos, how can they possibly look even worse in person?” I DONT KNOW. the first time i saw one on the road i was on a phone call and i literally cut myself off in the middle of a sentence just to be like “oh my GOD.” just an incredibly, laughably, unbelievably bad vehicle. i’ve never experienced anything like it. they’re just so bad

hockeyspiral23

With the cardboard sticking out the back, it really does look like a dumpster.

#cybertruck #so ugly #so so so fucking ugly #I hate them so much #and I see a lot out west and just ugh

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