Bread Bastard

3/5 I greatly approve of the taste,  but I'm not so wild about the sentiency. There's just not enough bastard.

[stajic]

Your phone is buzzing with my appreciation for you

💖💖💖

[all-pacas]

i have a lot of feelings and thoughts about coelacanths today

[all-pacas]

like… they’re blue

you have this mysterious fish that  no one really cared about, because everyone assumed they’d gone extinct with the dinosaurs. an interesting footnote, but one of many, many fossil species. 

and later the coelacanth gets some fame as a so-called “missing link” species, a theory which is now outdated (and not accurate for coelacanths) but was really influential at the time. because they have some weird biological quirks – bones in fins! – people were like “oh, they must be a missing link.” so the coelacanth was launched into some fame with the theory of evolution. it got brought up a lot. drawn in old textbooks as proof.

and then a fisherman finds a weird fish off the coast of south africa and calls a local fish expert who had let it be known she was interested in weird finds, and he brings her the (unfortunately badly rotted) corpse and she’s like “well, this is sure weird,” and sends off the bones to other experts, who start to quietly freak out, and rush to south africa, and rewards are offered for another one, any other one, and a few years later one is caught and frozen before rotting.

and it’s this incredible discovery, this extinct creature come to life (the prehistoric coelacanth lived in swamps and marshes in south america; these now are deep ocean fish in and around the indian ocean, but it’s still recognizably the same species)!

but it’s also blue.

not like, muddy blue, or tumblr-default-background blue.

proper shimmering sapphire blue and white. almost turquoise in some lights. this like… muddy, fossil creature. always drawn in dinosaur browns and grays. and it’s alive and it’s blue. just imagine being the scientist who opened that crate to this creature for the first time. you’re already excited, you’ve known about this fish for decades, you thought it was a story, you know it’s in this box. you expect  to see the weird fins and the strange tail. you know it’s large and odd looking. and you open it up and it’s this beautiful, shining blue, you know?

[all-pacas]

[img described: a coelacanth. it is blue.]

[stajic]

It Looks like stars

[octoswan]

I love that RPG race trail rations post, and it got me thinking about non-Eurocentric fantasy trail rations. I focused on Central and South Asian cuisines (as I also needed the information for a project I’m working on). I looked for foods that were easy to carry (dry or dehydrated), easily obtainable in markets/easily foraged, easy to cook/not needing cooking at all, and high in protein/generally filling. Many foods had language-specific names and some overlapped into different regions, so I bare-bones’d the names. This is what I came up with: 

Dried curd comes in many forms – kashk, aaruul, quroot, etc. – and was of particular interest to me, since I learned it was used since (and before) medieval times as a trail ration for soldiers and travelers because it is lightweight and high in protein. The more you know. 🌈

Tempeh is one of my favorite food options, but I should note that it originates from Southeastern Asia, Indonesia in particular. 

Bamboo is extremely handy for use as both a carrying and cooking vessel, and would save a character the hassle of bringing a skillet with them (provided the character is in an area with large bamboo and a water source). It’s a method still used today because it’s extremely efficient. Storing eggs in rice is a good way to travel with them and keep them from cracking for a short time. 

These are just some basics and I’m only scratching the surface, so if anyone has foods to add from these regions (East and Southeast Asia, too!), or any non-European region honestly, don’t hesitate to add them! 

[clawmarks]

Bureval - 1906 - via USC Libraries 

[harmalite]

CLADISTICS ruined my life

[aquaticpaleo]

yall joke but this is actually a serious conundrun with cladistic-based classification

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

The choice is this: 

Birds are reptiles 

Or crocodilians (and probably turtles) ARENT 

That’s it, that’s the choice 

[shadybacon]

What if Bird and reptiles are two different things that came from the same thing

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Nope 

Because you can’t group (lizards, snakes, tuatara, turtles, crocodilians) without also including (birds) 

So if you don’t want to include birds in reptiles then you have to leave out some things we’ve called reptiles 

birds are dinosaurs though, full stop. we’ve already defined what a dinosaur is and it includes birds. but reptiles isn’t really defined so much as thrown against a wall angrily. 

[shadybacon]

But don’t turtles and alligators have more in common with modern reptiles than modern birds have in common with modern reptiles? I’m not trying to contradict, I’m trying to understand. Mammals and reptiles have a common ancestor as well, but we do not make them the same group.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

It’s not about having things in common. It’s about common ancestry, which is how we classify animals in light of extinct species, which defy trait-based classification. 

And, the common ancestor of [lizards, snakes, tuatara, turtles, crocodilians] by definition is also the common ancestor of birds. It is NOT the common ancestor of mammals. 

So, either we decide that Tuatara Lizards and Snakes are the only reptiles, or we include birds as reptiles. Or we just decide reptiles are no longer a thing. 

[anais-ninja-bitch]

don’t throw reptiles against the wall? please? some of them are small and delicate. you could hurt them.

[virovac]

Basically, unless we’re maybe talking massive horizontal gene transfer, everything is still part of the group that came before it. 

You are technically a fish.

[haltraveler]

IIRC the fish thing is so frustrating that scientists have decided fish is just not real cladistic grouping at all

[aethersea]

hey could we go back please to the bit where the closest relative of Birds is Crocodiles? bc I am alarmed

[haltraveler]

Well, technically they’re equally-closely related to crocodiles, alligators, gharials and tomistomas. As archosaurs, they’re all descended from small reptiles that looked something like this 

The two main groups of archosaurs are the Pseudosuchia, or crocodile-line archosaurs, and the Ornithodira, or bird-line archosaurs. Both groups were massively diverse in prehistory, with the Pseudosuchia dominating most land-based niches in the Triassic, and the Ornithodira, especially the dinosaurs, doing the same during the Jurassic and Cretaceous. However, most of them have been wiped out due to the Triassic and Cretaceous mass extinctions, leaving them each with only one surviving clade: Aves, the true birds, and Crocodylia, the semiaquatic, ambush predators like crocs and gators. 

[alexaloraetheris]

This entire post sums up everything we’re not allowed to mention in our Vertebrata classes because the last time someone started that argument they had to break up a fistfight.

[knitordeath]

I’m just hung up on the humans evolving from fish comment.

Like, we evolved from tiny tree-climbing squirrels. To the best of our knowledge.

[theclockworkjudas]

…which evolved from tiny tree-climbing reptiles

…which evolved from amphibians

…which evolved from fish.

[invisible-goats]

*runs in ten minutes late with a plucked chicken* BEHOLD A LIZARD

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[seelcudoom]

the fact he can cross himself and invoke the lord and it only hurts but garlic will kill him outright implies garlic is more powerful then christ

[justlookatthosesausages]

In Italy it is

[frottinq]

dialectics is when there is two of something

[fortooate]

dialectics is when there is two of something

[blackpyrefly]

[eternal-fractal]

[thethespacecoyote]

SCP Foundation For Beginners

Since a lot of people are getting into WtNV and are interested in things similar to it, I figured I should make a compilation post about the SCP Foundation and some good entries to start with if you’re wanting to get into it and its own brand of weirdness but don’t really know where to start. So here! Happy reading my friends. 

Classic/Well-Known SCPs:

SCP-173 (The Sculpture)

SCP-682 (Hard-to-Destroy Reptile)

SCP-87 (The Stairwell)

SCP-106 (The Old Man)

SCP-261 (Pan-dimensional Vending)

SCP-914 (The Clockworks)

SCP-93 (Red Sea Object) - be sure to read the supplemental documents on this one

SCP-96 (Shy Guy)

SCP-231 (Special Personnel Requirements)

SCP-294 (The Coffee Machine)

SCP-001 (Dr. Clef’s Proposal)

SCP-073 (“Cain”)

SCP-076 (“Able”)

SCP-426 (I am a Toaster)

SCP-823 (Carnival of Horrors)

SCP-579 ([DATA EXPUNGED])

Horror/Disturbing:

SCP-1981 (“Ronald Reagen Cut Up While Talking”)

SCP-610 (The Flesh That Hates)

SCP-835 (Expunged Data Released)

SCP-701 (The Hanged King’s Tragedy)

SCP-1983 (Doorway to Nowhere)

SCP-004 (The 12 Rusty Keys and the Door)

SCP-804 (World Without Man)

SCP-015 (Pipe Nightmare)

SCP-097 (Old Fairgrounds)

SCP-439 (Bone Hive)

SCP-895 (Camera Disruption)

SCP-140 (An Incomplete Chronicle)

SCP-1048 (Builder Bear)

Comedic/Safe:

SCP-447 (Ball of Green Slime)

SCP-1006 (Spider Proletariat) 

SCP-420-J (it’s a pot joke surprise)

SCP-504 (Critical Tomatoes)

SCP-1541 (The Drunk God)

SCP-131 (The “Eye Pods”)

SCP-871 (Self Replacing Cake)

The whole “J” series are comedic SCPs

Personal Favorites:

SCP-025 (A Well Worn Wardrobe)

SCP-089 (Tophet)

SCP-354 (The Red Pool)

SCP-1057 (Absence of Shark)

SCP-1012 (Secret Chord)

SCP-1440 (The Old Man From Nowhere)

SCP-1115 (Ancient Aerial Drones)

SCP-1050 (Obsidian Obelisk of Warning)

SCP-1128 (Aquatic Horror)

SCP-1193 (Buried Giant)

SCP-1047 (Vengefully Ironic Street Signs)

Foundation Tales/Other:

Document Recovered From the Marianas Trench

Transcript of Dr Clef’s Seminar, “Reality Benders and You: How to Survive When Existence Doesn’t

10:30 AM

Ethics Committee Orientation 

Log of Anomalous Items

Where They All Go

Bees

[hauntedzone]

scp-231 contains heavily implied ©sa, be prepared before reading that one or skip it if you know that’s a sensitive topic for you.

[orjanism]

had the worst toast-buttering experience today

[orjanism]

@theindomitablerioghan artist rendition 

[tlirsgender]

I'm really not a very angry person there's just a lot of rage inside me

[tlirsgender]

There's something terrible boiling bubbling under my skin ready to burst out of my chest but I'm a chill guy

[cannibaltree]

[did-we-meme-that]

This.

[tiktoksforlosers]

X

[jeanjauthor]

There is so much going on here, the fact she made a laptop mockup for her own cat, the fact that she put the “google images of birds” on it, the fact that the cat KNOWS it’s the cat’s “laptop,” the fact that the cat is UPSET WHEN HER LAPTOP IS MESSED WITH...

12/10 would watch again

[tianella]

So great lol

[mugwomps]

It's the indignation expression that does it tho

[bunjywunjy]

what's your favourite bat?

the hammer-headed bat!

[bunjywunjy]

people sure do seem to have some Opinions about this animal

[ovengoats]

you dont know how fast i started lookijg for this post after getting this ad

[bunjywunjy]

alright which of you Maniacs saw this post and bought an ad space for this man to live in

[sulemania]

[deadmomjokes]

(tags via @royal-random-the-yogurt-queen)

How could you leave this in the tags? This man rearranged his entire guts so he could HORNK for his beloved, people deserve to know about this!! Love is stored in the HONK TUBE (because the heart is beside the point)

[stajic]

ITS.

BONK.

TIME

[catcrumb]

[kdfskdbkjfbkdjfb-deactivated202]

[acaseofthewiggins]

[sabertoothwalrus]

unmute

[copperbadge]

I have never so joyously reblogged a bird video in my life. 

[botanyshitposts]

scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple

the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

[flipocrite]

[clickityweasel]