Earthen Tales

Just a personal blog in which I share many things from anime to aikido to environmental stuff. Also gundam and tales series, probably a lot of that.

[saltyduane]

Fit check for my Jedi era

[alnat-art]

I rewatched Moulin Rouge after months of watching Star Wars and... Obi-Wan can sing?.. 🤯

[foxwithadarkside]

Oh, a joke, u said @clarareberosen...

@lonewolflupe @eclec-tech @eobe @crosshairs-dumb-pimp-gf @nocturius8015ficore

[foolfortune]

[sulemio-week-official]

Happy two year anniversary to them🍅🍙✨

[philosophomoric]

“the ways you have learned to survive may not be the ways you wish to continue to live“

[aka-maggie]

@sleepybitchcity tags on point

[runrundoyourstuff]

something i’ve learned in my own life and growing/healing process is that the thank you step really is key

[pleasedontsqueezetheshhh]

There’s a lot of shame in getting stuck in addiction or eventually unhelpful patterns but they were frying pans that saved you from the fire. I’ve found that giving yourself some credit for coping in those moments helps you feel a little more capable to try a new way.

[hasbrotoys]

"they brought back the dire wolf" they fucking made a GMO wolf with the millions they got from stupid idiot rich people investors who go googoogaga eyed over being told that the company could "bring back" extinct animals if some rich idiots gave them millions of dollars.

WHAT ABOUT THE BUGS. WHAT ABOUT OUR AMPHIBIANS. WOOLY MICE WON'T SAVE HUMANITY.

[byelacey]

thinking about my dog and how he makes sure i get my daily mental health outings

[byelacey]

pov you’re now this dog’s goat

[talesfromtreatment]

*very suspicious squinting*

Skepticism activated

So it's not a dire wolf (which are not very related to gray wolves at all), it's a gray wolf with 14 modified genes.

Like yes, the technology is cool and the advances impressive, but these claims of de-extinction are so fucking overhyped and in this case an outright lie that it makes me want to bite something

[ivytherium]

To anyone who follows me, I don't care about nor trust Colossal Biosciences anymore (The people behind the "Wooly Mice"). They have proven themselves to be headline-chasing grifters after this latest stunt. They are claiming to have de-extincted *Aenocyon dirus*, aka the Dire Wolf, by editing just 20 genes from the the DNA of a Grey Wolf (*Canis lupus*) to make this thing:

If it wasn't clear from their scientific names, Grey Wolves and Dire Wolves aren't remotely related to one another aside from being Canids, despite what pop culture like Game of Thrones would have you believe. If they did look like each other, it would have had to be via convergent evolution, as they only shared a common ancestor over 5 million years ago.

This distinction, however, isn't found in the publicized articles about this so-called resurrected Dire Wolf and makes their claim that they brought the Dire Wolf back by simply editing *20* genes from the genome of a Grey Wolf laughable. A Dire Wolf would have shared more in common genetically with a Maned Wolf (*Chrysocyon brachyurus*) or Bush Dog (*Speothos venaticus*) than it would with a Grey Wolf.

Bottom line, don't fall for whatever this company is trying to tell you. If the Dire Wolf were to be brought back, it wouldn't be via something like this, and certainly wouldn't *look* like this. If you want an idea as to how a real Dire Wolf would look like in life, here is some fantastic paleoart by artist Mauricio Antón:

Addendum: I seem to have partially miscalculated Dire Wolf genetics. They were not closer to Maned Wolves or Bush Dogs, but they were still not closely related to Grey Wolves. They were basal members of Canini, related to canids like Jackals (genus Lupulella) but distinct from them. I am sorry for this misinformation in my attempt to correct other misinformation. My main point, however, is still correct.

[socialmaya]

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

theyer old enough that they used to connect 

[finnglas]

They're older than Florida. The Floridian peninsula is the solidified runoff of the Appalachians that got caught on some coral. It's why we're like this, I think. You don't stand a chance of being normal when you were created by the shed skin of an elder god draping itself over a hollow skeleton. You're always going to be a little Off.

[galladegamer]

[headspace-hotel]

They used to be as tall as the Himalayas.

[purkinje-effect]

[coyotevvitch]

i hurt myself with Big Jack by Pet Foolery (can find on instagram) again and no one seems to have posted the whole comic so. here. someone reminded me of it and i tracked it down. gonna go cry in a corner now.

[coyotevvitch]

did not know part 2 existed, here you go. another stab

[octoswan]

I made these as a way to compile all the geographical vocabulary that I thought was useful and interesting for writers. Some descriptors share categories, and some are simplified, but for the most part everything is in its proper place. Not all the words are as useable as others, and some might take tricky wording to pull off, but I hope these prove useful to all you writers out there!

(save the images to zoom in on the pics)

[firelightinferno]

Oh, that’s very helpful indeed!

[writing-prompt-s]

!!!

[kuromi-hoemie]

not my circus not my—

what? *unrolls paper* why are you giving me a deed to the.. oh, oh no.. fuck.

they're my monkeys now

[morbidmanatee]

@clownboybebop pardon????

[clownboybebop]

ah, here:

[steampunkforever]

I would still use my turn signals in the Mad Max Wasteland. They'd call me "Signal" because I'd hit my blinker before ramming the enemy hot rods into the side of a desert ravine. I'd use my turn signal every time. They would respect me for this.

[kraken17]

"That is Signal, the Last Follower of the Old Law."

[minervose]

i can perfectly visualize a scene where there's violence and explosions. then it cuts to a close up of the turn signal, with out of focus combat through the window, and the only sound being the tick tick of the signal. Then cutting to the full volume ramming and chaos the signal indicated was coming

[fablerenown]

Listen, I have seen many a posts to the tune of "Hozier is a fae god!" Or "Florence is a fae god!" And I am here to tell you that neither of them are fae gods. Paramours, probably, maybe members of an Entourage, but gods? No.

You want to know who an actual fucking fae god is???

Kendrick Lamar.

The pettiness. The creativity. The persuasiveness. The accuracy. He had 110 million people across the nation today singing "a minooooor" like it was fucking nothing. This man has cast a thousand-year curse on Aubrey Graham's bloodline that cannot be undone through mortal means.

Now, THAT is some fae god level shit.

[furrypowerurbandope]

[renard-dartigue]