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delphinidin4

silverhawk

the differences between crocodiles and alligators in case u were not aware

@dholes

Both are friends.

@rashkah

But how about gharial and caiman?

cry-olophosaurus

here comes the rest of the family

drawingwithdinosaurs

The gang’s all here

acoldghostlypresence

thegreenpea

The difference between a crocodile and an alligator is if you see it in a while or later

bluesatomobile

The subconscious subtext of The Legend of Korra. This is about what you feel when watching Korra that isn’t explicitly mention or part of the plot.

The bodily invasion and lack of agency.

Amon terrorizes Korra and eventually takes away her bending. Stripping her of her agency.

Unalaq literally reaches in and pulls Raava out of Korra.

Zaheer chains her up and injects poison into Korra and she ends up in a wheelchair.

Aang in ALTA has never went through these types of experiences. But Korra did.

Why Korra? I don’t think the writers intended so but Korra acts as an avatar for a women experience in a male dominated world.

The most interesting thing is Kuvira, the only female villain. She isn’t like the other villains. She out right challenges her to a 1 vs 1 match where she states “you can use the avatar state and all the elements.” She does not try to use her or abuse her.

Anyways~ thanks for reading. I’m lol still processing my rewatch of Legend of Korra.

kidbumi

I agree with everything you said except giving the writer’s the benefit of the doubt.

She was THE most powerful bender on the planet. A living GOD. But she didn’t even feel safe in her own bed, and we got several narratives of sneak into her bed and violate or steal her? Those are rape narratives, full stop.

What’s more the torture and violence we saw done to Korra would have NEVER made it past a brainstorm with Aang’s white(adjacent) body. Literally never.

If there’s ever a remake of Korra, Bryke need not touch a single page of the storyboard.

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

i’m obsessed with shows like supernatural, teen wolf, etc. where a person gets attacked and the doctor in the ER is immediately like “it looks like they were attacked by a wolf” like it makes me FEEL INSANE

HOW many wolf attacks is the average US ER doctor seeing to make this instant assessment

as a wildlife biologist I wouldn’t assume a wolf attack unless the victim was found while being Actively attacked by wolves

atotalmess

It’s a different thing in the USA we actually have wild animals.

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

I’m American. I got my degree in West Virginia. There have been 2 (MAYBE 3, it’s a little unclear) verifiable fatal wolf attacks in All of North America since at least as far back as 1900. I promise no doctor is assuming wolves when a patient gets rolled in. That said, this post is just a joke

allaneddem

So, in this case, what a doctor will assume?

Asking for a writer.

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

I’m not a doctor, but from the wildlife perspective, I’d assume dogs first if the person were in-town. MAYBE a bear, depending on where you are. Grizzly country and black bear country are different. If you need a character to get attacked by a wild animal, just start by googling historic cases of animal attacks in the setting.

ALSO, I know it’s fiction, but I hope writers start thinking more about our responsibility when we portray wildlife. Fiction has done a lot of damage to predator species for centuries, so it’d be nice to start portraying them more realistically.

I’ve only ever been attacked by an animal in the wild once. I was in a the woods of a state park.

It was a feral domestic cat, orange tabby.

redchrominance

*person attacked by a werewolf is wheeled into the ER* “it looks like they were attacked by a… very big raccon?”

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

*vampire victim wheeled in*

doctor: how big did witnesses say the possum was

dovewithscales

I’m gonna echo that sentiment on responsible fiction writing. Literally the movie Jaws alone directly put more than one species on the endangered species list. It’s been 45 years and the global shark population still hasn’t fully recovered from one blockbuster that scared people about sharks.

softblockwashere-deactivated202

i am going to create an environment that is so toxic

screambirdscreaming

softblockwashere-deactivated202

wtf ❤️

screambirdscreaming

The dumb joke is that when cyanobacteria first invented photosynthesis, the oxygen they released was extremely toxic to all the other bacteria that existed at that point. Photosynthesis was so successful and they released so much oxygen that they nearly wiped out all life on earth.

This is called the Great Oxygenation event, or the Great Oxygen Catastrophe, it is to date one of the largest mass extinction events in earth’s history, and as far as I know it’s the single most extreme event of an organism making the environment toxic for other organisms.

Which is always funny to think about from a human perspective, because pretty much all life *except* bacteria could not have evolved if this hadn’t happened.

The Archaea - the really old bacteria that existed before cyanobacteria - are still around, they just live in weird places now like hot springs and the deep ocean where the nasty oxygen can’t reach them.

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everythingfox

Croissant Dragons!

Dragons and Beasties

podencos

Has anyone else been in the strangest, most indecipherable headspace of their life lately

koney-scanlines

friendly-neighborhood-patriarch

…oh no

reperspectivity

This is the IT version of the condom pinned to the ‘be safe’ note.

nerdgasrnz

For posterity (no pun intended)

jaycee-penny-art

whoever modeled/animated miku’s dance moves has my undying respect

durbikins

SHE DID THAT ALL BY HERSELF. NO MOCAP. NO ANIMATORS. JUST MIKU!

teamnowalls-deactivated20180918

why miku giving hands

ashilesun

Station 19 3.12

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

haiku-robot

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

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.