Welcome to Shawntopia

Dinosaur / Chip. He/him. College student. I like paleontology, geology, medicine, neuroscience, and ska.

[skaraptor]

about!

↝ Dinosaur or Chip (or derivatives of my url). Silly nicknames are my lifeblood, feel free to get interesting with it

↝ He/him

↝ Brazilian. Socialist. Religious

↝ Physically disabled & mentally ill

↝ Premed neuro major who spends far too much time on Tumblr.

↝ Multifandom. Currently obsessed with: M*A*S*H (many apologies to my mutuals)

↝ For bonus content, see @dinosaurposthoard

more info + tag guide under cut:

Favorites:

Movies: UHF, Psycho, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Muppets from Space, Jurassic Park, Wake Up Dead Man

TV shows: M*A*S*H, House M.D., Bob's Burgers, Morel Orel, BBC Ghosts, Columbo, Horrible Histories, Animaniacs, The Aquabats! Super Show!, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 1966 Batman

Comics / webseries: Homestar Runner, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, Jumulanpelko, Metal Family, Pretty Pretty Please I Don't Want To Be A Magical Girl

Video games: Sam and Max series, Faith: The Unholy Trinity, Fran Bow, Unravel 2, Wobbledogs

Books: East of Eden, Devil House, Dracula, The Count of Monte Cristo, Wolf in White Van

Musicals: Greenwillow, Falsettos, Fiddler on the Roof, The Apple Tree, Ghost Quartet

Bands / musicians: The Mountain Goats, The Aquabats!, The Specials, Death Cab for Cutie, Panic! At The Disco, Gogol Bordello, Will Wood, Oingo Boingo, Weezer, Neutral Milk Hotel, Radiohead

Podcasts: The Orbiting Human Circus, Clear + Vivid, Welcome To Night Vale, Lore, The Mystery Show

Dinosaurs: Utahraptor or ankylosaurus. I love all the raptors.

Geologic age: Cretaceous, but can be swayed. Miocene is cool

Tag guide:

#limited edition! -- shower thought posts, mostly. Whatever I'm thinking in the moment. If something cool happens I'm putting it there. I go in and delete these regularly

#blogosaurus -- posts about my life, silly thoughts, et cetera.

#dino does a doodle -- artwork. I'm no artist but I enjoy it

#paleoposting -- for all my paleontological thoughts

#dino's mail bag -- for when lovely people send me asks

#outgoing mail -- asks that i send to other lovely people

#don't quit your day job -- posts about my geology research and lab safety job :)

#disability tag -- what it says on the tin

#nfd -- for posts that could be perceived as nsfw (but always fairly tame)

Trigger warnings typically tagged "#tw [thing]"

[fashionmajor]

i miss the collective high from when luigi allegedly killed the healthcare ceo and also when charlie got kirked like can we have another round of something like that pls?

[butchfaith]

how it feels to become an active participant in your own life

[ispyspookymansion]

ohhhh i get it now! theres something wrong with me

[ukulelehitter-deactivated202603]

its been about 10 years since she showed me this but i am STILL thinking about how my (then) 4 year old cousin drew birds

OBSESSED with this creature; she draws the body from above/below and the head from the side, with a giant eyeball that takes up the entire head and never looks in a specific direction. in a very old-fashioned sense: iconic

[earhartsease]

flounder birb

[thesituation]

open tumblr, see something that pisses me off, write a snarky post, delete it, write a slightly more earnest post, edit it for 5 minutes, delete it, close tumblr

[skaraptor]

cannot begin to express just how much i need a lizard to kiss on the head. like legitimately it's a need. you have no idea how much emotional support lizards have given me. someone get me a lizard STAT!!!!!!

[charaznablescanontoyota]

words of wisdom from wikipedia this evening

[ryannorth]

much to consider

[gaybichon]

not even funny how true this is for me

[skaraptor]

"oh this made you uncomfortable? why didn't you say anything?" well, you see, that's because i assumed my discomfort was my fault and that the other person knew better than me. as i always do. for no particular reason

[skaraptor]

the things i would do for James Ortiz hair..........

[storm-of-feathers]

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

[storm-of-feathers]

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

[skaraptor]

age regressing to 10 but ngl 10 year old me was more mature than adult me is now so you're pleasantly surprised

[skaraptor]

i love it when people post pictures of them holding wild snakes like "look at this beautiful snake I found!! :D" while the snake is very clearly trying to bite the person's hand off

[skaraptor]

being [insert whatever doctors determine is wrong with me] will have you saying things like "i knew divorced people were uniquely evil"

[quordleona03]

M*A*S*H goes to Pride

In 1970, the world's first Pride march was held in New York City. Virtually all of our MASH friends would have lived long enough to see or to attend that first march. Which of them would have gone (assuming them to be in New York City in June 1970)? And would they have gone as ally or because they were LGBTQ? Maxwell Q. Klinger Of course. This is the most easiest answer of them all. Klinger would have dressed up to go. He would have accessorized. He would have checked with the organisers, designed multiple placards for the occasion, distributed them at the start, and walked the march in heels, a lovely dress, and a huge smile. Ally or LGBTQ? Klinger would have let you guess. Sherman T. Potter This is almost as easy to answer. Potter would have dressed up smartly and got Mildred or someone to make him a placard that said PROUD OF MY GAY GRANDSON (or LESBIAN GRANDDAUGHTER - maybe Cheryl Pershing Potter, whom we heard about in S04E14 ) and he would walk the route holding the placard high and his back military-straight, looking dead serious all the way. He would have been startled at the number of tearful handshakes and requests for hugs he got. Ally or LGBTQ? Ally. Charles Emerson Winchester III I am afraid this is the next-easiest answer: Winchester would not have gone. Not as an ally, and definitely not as a gay or bi man. As an ally, he'd have donated money to the cause, and if LGBTQ, he'd have made sure it was anonymous. Ally or LGBTQ? Wouldn't matter. Margaret Houlihan As an ally, she'd go. As a lesbian, I think she'd stay home, afraid of being outed and fired. Sorry. I'd like to think otherwise, but I think Margaret would be braver about standing up for others than she would for herself. As a straight woman, she'd march for lesbian nurses kicked out of the army whom she knew to be good nurses and good officers. Ally or LGBTQ? Ally.

Frank Burns Would never go and would spit venom at those who did. Never an ally. Could be he's gay, but I doubt it. Ally or LGBTQ? Neither.

Sidney Freedman Wouldn't go but would wish very much he could. Still active as a psychoanalyst, Sidney decides it is more important for him to be a gay and LGBTQ-friendly practicing analyst, providing psychiatric care without condemnation, than it is to march for Pride. Ally or LGBTQ? Gay as a goose.

Radar O'Reilly Would go. Wouldn't think to make a placard in advance, but would scrounge cardboard and a marker-pen from somewhere and make one on the spot that said LOVE KINDNESS. Would be very happy to be in the middle of so many happy people, and when his gay best friend hugs him and thanks him for showing up he's all afluster because what else could he do? Ally or LGBTQ? Ally. Trapper John McIntyre Would go. Wouldn't carry a placard. Would keep an eye out for homophobes threatening marchers and appear, six foot three, in a looming kind of way, and inquire if the homophobe doesn't have somewhere else he'd rather be. Ally or LGBTQ? Either way - he'd be a daddy. BJ Hunnicutt Would definitely decide he wasn't going because who needs to make that kind of display, people should keep themselves to themselves, no one should be punished for loving but no one needs to go on a march for it, and then he'd show up anyway with a hastily-made placard that said SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW and get into a long conversation with some lesbian bikers about which is the best bike. Ally or LGBTQ? Ally. Though if he were gay, I fear he'd really do the same as lesbian Margaret Houlihan - stay home. Francis Mulcahy Would decide he should go, after much prayer and thought. Would carry a carefully-made placard saying REPEAL THE DEUTERONOMIC CODE. Would be mortally embarrassed all the way but desperately trying not to show it, especially when he got kissed in public. Ally or LGBTQ? Gay. Hawkeye Pierce Gleefully shows up, having been looking forward to going ever since he heard. Carries a placard whose message he has thought and rethought and rewritten at least a hundred times. It now says LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE. Tries to catch the eye of every glaring homophobe they march passes in order to give them a big grin and a wave. Hugs everyone he recognises, especially Radar, and kisses Francis Mulcahy in public at the end of the march. Ally or LGBTQ? Flamboyant pansexual.

[skaraptor]

really it's been so long since I've been truly Close to someone that i don't know if I'm capable of it anymore or if I've put up too many walls

[skaraptor]

tbh i'm just such an Epically Messed Up Collection of Neurons that i think it would be unethical to inflict someone else with all my issues. so instead i vaguepost about it on my blog and crowdsource emotional closeness :thumbs_up: