#not this time

[lilaira]

M: Celebrate yourself everyday! from your local non-binary surgeon, with love~

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[hamletteprinceofdenmark]

Really struck this time around by how all the locals tried so hard to save Jonathan and protect him.

You live under an undead and terrorising boyar. Who knows how many strangers you've sent on to his unyielding grasp. How many children have been lost to his greedy mouth and the three other terrors that live with him?

The latest victim is so sweet too. He compliments your cooking. He talks about his fiancee and his new job and you stumble along in conversation, broken German on both sides. He is so lovely. So full of life. Of hope.

You break down crying, begging him not to go, finally resorting to handing him your rosary. He seems reluctant. He's so innocent. He doesn't know. Is this what all English are like?

You must save this one. For his mother's sake. For his fiancee. For everyone who holds him dear. No more.

You tell the driver -- you know him. And his sister. And brother. And aunt. And uncle. You tell everyone you know.

Not this one.

You wave him off. Is that worry on his face? Does he know? Does he suspect? You don't know. You can't see this far away. You're getting old.

You go back inside. You hope he survives. You know he probably won't.

You're driving the English Man to the Vampire. The old lady at the hotel told you to please try. Make haste. Outwit him. Somehow.

Easy for her to say! But you try anyway.

Not this one. No more.

You race against time, driving your horses on and on and on.

If you just make it before the time ... maybe you can save this one ...

The young fool offers to walk outside the carriage. Doesn't he know anything? The wolves! And there are stranger things that bite out here ...

Inside, your other passengers press gifts and prayers and blessings on the stranger.

Not this one. Not this time.

You arrive with an hour to spare!

You made it!

You did it!

Better the next day. If they can just get him to the next town, maybe --

And then you hear it.

The thundering pound of hooves coming up the pass.

For the Dead travel fast.

[nowthebloodwillflow]

[unfairlyfallen]

It wasn't until my junior year of high school that I realized 'making note of every potential improvised weapon in any given room' is not actually standard behavior.

Recognizing the abnormality did not instantly rewire my brain, so this is a habit I have not managed to rid myself of yet.

I was just on a walk up my dirt road.

I located a glass bottle, a very round rock, and an arrow.

[peytonsundayschool]

Dude, I almost forgot to tell y’all!!

Yesterday after we picked up the crib, we went to a kids consignment shop to see if we could find any cute crib stuff. We did not. BUT this hello Kitty kitchen was in there for 22 dollar bucks?!?!? Started to set her up, but now I need to clean up the rest of the kitchen around her. I can’t wait till I’m done with chores today because I’m gonna set up my whole kitchen. It’s so much bigger now!! And the burners make fry sounds and boiling water sounds!! (It was just the kitchen by itself no accessories the rest of the stuff I put on there from the stuff I already had and I finally get to display my really pretty tea set from Daddy!) 

[t0bey]

oops! All muppets

[derived-centrosaur]

Spec-Dinovember Day 22: Parody, an incorrect/outdated reconstruction that turns out to be a real creature

The first fossils of Therizinosaurus to be found were the fragmentary remains of three massive claws. Uncertain of what kind of creature they belonged to, they were tentatively hypothesized to be from a large turtle-like reptile. Many further excavations revealed the therizinosaurs and segnosaurs to be the same animals, and that they were very odd theropod dinosaurs. However, a continent away and across the Tethys there would yet be a giant scythe-clawed turtle. Austrochitra maleevii is the largest member of the trionychidae family and one of the largest turtles, matching Archelon in dimensions but falling short in mass. Like the other giant turtles it is marine in habit, natively found within the shallow Eromanga Sea which covers much of Australia in the mid-Cretaceous. They are carnivorous and will attempt to eat just about anything they can catch. Much like their relatives they often wait buried in the seabed for prey to come close. also like their relatives they are capable of gas exchange via the vascularized oral tissue. They are rather swift swimmers if the need arises, occasionally pursuing prey for short bursts if their initial ambush misses. The large claws aid them in digging and tossing sand and mud over themselves when they hide, and in fending off potential predators or rivals. Their range is quite limited as their hunting method requires a loose sediment floor and comparatively shallow water depth. Occasional vagrants can be found out around the coasts of greater Australia, but no permanent populations have been able to establish themselves outside the Eromanga Sea.

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Not a dinosaur this time, but tangentially relevant. I dunno why, but it just felt like it had to be a softshell, and like the family is already named for having 3 claws so... it kinda fits. Australia is a long ways from the original Therizinosaurus locality, but I couldn't just plop this thing back into the Nemegt fauna with how well sampled it is. So I done what I've been doing for all these and trying to think of times and places that are poorly represented. The inland sea has produced the most Mesozoic fossils from anywhere in Australia, but that's just how scrappy most of the fossils of that time are there, so I went with it. Plus I've always just kinda had a soft spot for the dinosaurs of Down-Under ever since seeing the original Walking With Dinosaurs and reading Dinosaurs of Darkness (mine's a 1st edition hardcover, but it appears this 2nd edition has a few new chapters at the end, cool!). Also I don't know anything about turtles, so turtle experts how'd I do?