Otter space!

Everything I post is really random- there is no theme... be prepared for some Star Trek though! 🖖🏻

[wigglyflippingout]

is this what growing up is like

me at 14: wow, protagonists in media my age! how relateable!

me at 28: WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CHILD SOLDIERS? WHERE ARE ALL THE ADULTS? WHO LET THIS HAPPEN AND WHY ARE THEY NOT BEING PROSECUTED BY LAW WITHIN THESE FICTIONAL UNIVERSES

[grand-duc]

In the same vein:

Me at 14: oh protagonists that are 17-20-ish, they’re basically adults, right?

Me at 28: Oh my Gods you’re babies who left you in charge?!

[rcmclachlan]

Ariel: Daddy, I love him! Me at 14: Yeah, girl, you tell him! Me at 30:

[imagitory]

Marnie in Halloweentown: I’m thirteen, okay? I’m practically grown up! I’m certainly old enough to make my own choices – right?

Me at 7: Right!

Me at 13: Right! …Well, okay, maybe not practically grown up, but still, right!

Me at 28:

[chiaroscar]

You either die young or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

[the-cosmic-goddess-deactivated2]

This is so true

[twodotsknowwhy]

Me as teenager: Yeah, girl, you hook up with that older guy, this is super hot!

Me as an adult: all of these men should be arrested

[supremequeenofthenerds]

Me age 24 re-reading Harry Potter

[jhaernyl]

This, a thousand times this.

[enjolras-in-valinor]

GOD, that last gif is so accurate. that’s the best way to describe this feeling. 

[kimpossibooty]

I know a while back I told you guys about how my maternal grandpa was in the Air Force and had knowledge of alien contact

I just found out my paternal grandpa was a black market margarine smuggler

[kimpossibooty]

Margarine like the butter substitute

[catchymemes]

[hymnofvalefor]

[spocksgotemotions]

hey guys. Ya think there are memes that go around the Enterprise? Like how many fuckin memes are there about the sexual tension between Jim and Spock. Are there ensigns that photoshop their faces into meme templates and share them with their friends until Jim catches someone? Does he think it’s hilarious until he gets to the ones about boning Spock (because shit that’s supposed to be a secret wtf) Enterprise memes?

[thetimetostrikeislater]

Bones is CC’d in every one.

[worldinmywindow2]

Chekov and Sulu made this one:

[wrathofbones]

[thisisnotahetship]

Yeoman Barrows makes this one

[castielsbeefriend]

[castielsbeefriend]

[castielsbeefriend]

[himbo-kronk-stan]

When you’re a red shirt called to the teleportation bay

[starsspaceandlogic]

Holy wow it’s gotten better since I last saw it

[nohelan-img]

Me @ myself anytime I open my mouth:

[whatsdifferentincanada]

[sadboynate-deactivated20160121]

@dennys why are you calling me at nearly 3am

[dennys]

2 hang

[twelfthedoctor]

[plotsjotsandespressoshots-deact]

Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

[suicunesrider]

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

[drtanner-dickery]

I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.

Fucking witchcraft, man. 

[fanboyingoverdemigods]

fucking look at this shit though

[mauridianhallow]

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

[mizushimo]

amazing

[shadowthorne]

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

[mad-dyspunktional]

They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.

[datneeks]

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

[muck-raker-deactivated20181222]

(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)

[alessariel]

Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.

[brainsforbabyjesus]

So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.

[alessariel]

This is getting better and better.

[red-dirt-roads-deactivated20161]

I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI

[teslasturtle-deactivated2023011]

I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.

[perspectivemax-deactivated20181]

@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?

[myloverhammurabi]

Realism comes at a cost, it seems.

[gorsime]

i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:

[myloverhammurabi]

It’s a three piece raptor suit.

[flamingbluepanda]

Old movies had the best special effects

[skafuller-deactivated20180122]

The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.

[witwitch-deactivated20160508]

@jurassicparkandrecreation

[senkirowolf]

@shepfax

[prettyarb]

Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time.  They were blowing out a budget bigger than anything Hollywood had ever seen, and along with employing almost the last hurrah of incredible physical FX, they had a bank of those newfangled digital SFX computers.  Nobody’d ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before.  It’d all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them.  Spielberg wanted THE BEST DINOSAURS EVER, and he figured on using the cutting edge of digital modeling and animation technology to build them for him.

So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”

The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass.  They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that.  And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that.  One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”

He called up film of a chicken walking.  Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”

Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existed–we knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection there–but the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent.  Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.

[bastlynn]

That paleontologists’d be Kevin Padian. Who is awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Padian

[thistherapylife]

This post just gets better and better with time

[welcometoyouredoom]

[ahmallama-deactivated20240604]

this is like a group chat

[mxnrique]

me: i hate country music

shania twain: let’s go girls!

me:

[littleturtleduck]

me: i hate country music

carrie underwood: right now, he’s probably-

me: 

[madsrocketship]

Me: I hate country music 

Beyoncé: daddy’s little girl 

Me:

[mxnrique]

me: i hate country music

dolly parton: jolene jolene jolene jooooleeeeeeeeene

me:

[black-sadness]

me: i hate country music

Lady Antebellum: It’s a quarter after one!

me:

[sunnytaughtyou]

This is just so accurate.

[bort-the-champion-of-bears-deac]

why the fuck is Beyonce on here though

[mxnrique]

BECAUSE DADDY LESSONS IS A COUNTRY SONG AND YOU WILL LEARN TO FUCKING DEAL

[bort-the-champion-of-bears-deac]

or its not so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[mxnrique]

well it is. so u gon just have to deal

[bort-the-champion-of-bears-deac]

don’t have to deal if there’s nothing to deal so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[appalachian-racist-deactivated2]

It absolutely is not a fucking country song

[mxnrique]

[almondkittie]

Bless this post!!! DRAG THEM!!!

[jennyhoelzer-deactivated2016120]

[decayedvenus]

[sameoldsin]

people should just embrace jewel tones already if I see one more house entirely decorated in washed out neutral colours I’m gonna sue someone

[sameoldsin]

hell is not a fiery demon pit its a never ending white and cream minimalist apartment, every time someone paints a room entirely white and adds a pale blue throw cushion for “a splash of colour” they are carrying out the work of the devil

[kyraneko]

#fuck resale values my mental health comes first

Writing one’s home-nesting tendencies around resale value is itself playing into the Devil’s hands.

Paint your walls. Install catwalks for your kitties. Transform your home into a hobbit-hole or the innermost chambers of a D&D dungeon owned by a particularly campy lich. Grow a rainforest of plants in your southern-exposure window rooms or strangle your house in vines.

Horrify the Petunia Dursleys of the world by your mere existence, and be happy.

[archaeo-geek]

A while ago Facebook kept trying to advertise some kind of design magazine/website to me with an article “The Most Colour-Soaked Home We’ve Ever Seen” and I finally clicked the link and all the pictures were a bunch of white and off-white rooms with a couple of vases and books in bright colours scattered around. Like bitch you’re advertising this to me in Atlantic Canada we don’t do “splashes of colour” we let the floodgates open. Your lame-ass pallid designs have no power here.

[ardatli]

When it’s foggy 350 days of the year, you’ve got to be able to pick out your own house from a distance. 

[shitty-car-mods-daily]

[trek-tracks]

one day, Spocko, one day

[per-ineptia-ad-astra]

[ID: A screenshot of Spock in The Naked Time, holding a computer and crying, with a text post edited on top that reads “ *checks the “i am not a robot” captcha box with a sense of profound sadness* “]

[cowboyjimkirk]

S’chn T’gai Spock: a Shakespeare Nerd