I'm here I'm queer I'm an avatar of Eldritch fear

Mostly The Magnus Archives right now. Late twenties/early thirties. Ace. You can take the word queer from me over my dead body. Bresby most other places online. They/them.

[freshlydelivereddarce]

TODAYS THE DAY SALAD BOY

[mortalityplays]

if you published A Modest Proposal on tumblr you would get about a 45 minute grace period before people started helpfully informing you in the notes that cannibalism is a real thing that does happen sometimes and also if you think about it poor people are effectively being eaten by the rich, especially children, so even though op was joking it's actually a serious issue

[mortalityplays]

@ jonathan swift did you know sometimes poor people's bodies ARE actually exploited by the rich irl

[terriwriting]

Historically insensitive that he specifically recommends eating Irish babies. It's like he's not even aware of England's colonial occupation of Ireland.

[ruxiecat121]

It’s moments before Halloween and I’ve not seen a single person in my newsfeed share the little singing ghosts videos this year. Don’t worry though. This year’s been rough and I’ve got y’all covered with some sweet spooky holiday cheer. :)

October 2023 edit of my original post because the creator made a new one for this year!

[ruxiecat121]

Adding to my post for 2024 because they have blessed us with another new one!!! Happy Halloween, y'all!

[ruxiecat121]

I also seem to have missed this one?! Shame on me.

[ruxiecat121]

He added a new one for 2025! And now I share it with all of you. 💗

[saywhat-politics]

Wind and solar energy infrastructure is essentially worthless when it is dark outside, and the wind is not blowing. - U.S. Department of Energy

[robertreich]

Your regular reminder that trickle-down economics is a cruel joke designed by the wealthy.

[theunicorncomic-blog]

[randomushroom]

HE FOUND TUMBLR??????

[robertreich]

I’ve been here the whole time.

[determinedowl23]

oh my god

[badsciencejokes]

I'm gonna burn

[inspired-lesson-plans]

Math, High School, Precalculus

Do Now:

What are her options to neutralize the tan?

[higgsbison]

happy glorious 25th of may

[in-a-vancaster]

YES!

[poetry-protest-pornography]

This is the best one

[ruffboi-mags]

(in case anyone needs context, since i know there's a bunch of younguns who didn't even know the "It's gonna be May" meme... The song playing is NSync's song "It's Gonna Be Me", the guy in the mint green t-shirt is NSync member Lance Bass, and the guy in the pink hoodie is his husband Michael.)

[sparrowlucero]

the "dire wolves are no longer extinct" stuff is gonna be the most annoyingly persistent science misinformation for the next decade at least

[keepingitreluctant]

[leaveyourego]

All right. I'll take a crack at weighing in.

Is Jurassic Park a movie about frogs? Are frogs the reason millions of people spent hours of time and billions of dollars watching those movies?

Based upon the "facts" of the story, you'd have to admit that this is technically correct, but is it true?

The argument being presented here is that these aren't really Direwolves, because they have a basis as Gray Wolves and they have subsequently been modified. I'd argue that adding the essence of what a Direwolf is to what was the essence of a Gray Wolf changes and destroys the necessary defining properties (essence) of Gray Wolf, making the creature's new necessary defining properties Direwolf.

In other words. If the essential properties of Direwolf are added to Gray Wolf, isn't it now Direwolf and not Gray Wolf?

[ohh-danny-boy-deactivated202504]

I'd go even further and say that since direwolf and gray wolf DNA is virtually identical, they have actually de-extincted the direwolf simply by making a gray wolf the size of a direwolf

[frangipani-wanderlust]

The argument being presented is not that these aren't direwolves because they have a basis in gray wolf DNA. It is that these aren't really direwolves because they have no direwolf DNA. None. Not any at all.

These are gray wolves that have been GMO'd to look like direwolves.

The premise in Jurassic Park is that the dinosaurs used actual DNA of the dinosaurs that were revived. Frog DNA was used to fill in the gaps, yes, but even in the films, Ian Malcom and Alan Grant--who never agree on anything--agreed that the parks dinosaurs were only kinda-sorta revived dinosaurs specifically because DNA from other animals was spliced in. If direwolf DNA had been used in the creation of these animals, we would be having the Jurassic Park debate. It wasn't.

They aren't direwolves just because they've been modified to look like them. In order for direwolves to be revived from extinction, they would've needed to use actual direwolf DNA and they didn't.

This effort is distinct from efforts to revive the woolly mammoth, which do in fact use mammoth DNA. Or to revive the Pyrenean Ibex, which also use DNA from the extinct species. Or to revive the thylacine, which also use DNA from the extinct species. That wasn't done in this case. They didn't pull a Jurassic Park because they didn't do the same thing as what was done in that franchise.

[sparrowlucero]

almost every comment I've gotten on this post, both arguing for and against these being dire wolves, is making the same mistake that i alluded to several times, which is assuming that a dire wolf is the fantasy creature that looks like a normal grey wolf, as portrayed on game of thrones. Dire wolves, the real animal, are not wolves. "wolf" is just the common name of the animal, akin to "mountain goat". The dire wolf was a species of wild canid that wasn't particularly closely related to grey wolves; no more than a wolf is related to this:

at the very least the animal's head shape was much different to grey wolves, and even if it looked anything like them at all (ex. both having similar coat patterns), they would still be recognizably distinct animals, ala mountain lions and african lions or ostriches and cassowaries. No, "sharing most of their DNA" does not mean two different species look like the same animal (unless you think humans and gorillas are the same thing), and that certainly wasn't true of dire wolves and grey wolves, given the former, again, have massive disproportionate heads among other anatomical differences:

The animal they've bred here has not been "GMO'd to look like a direwolf" or "given the essential properties of Direwolf", it's just a normal looking wolf, allegedly going to grow bigger because pop culture portrays dire wolves as bigger than grey wolves (they aren't) and only white because the wolf on game of thrones is white (what are the chances a large mammal from a temperate climate would have pure white fur?) The equivalent here isn't "a literal jurassic park dinosaur that technically has frog dna"; the equivalent would be if someone edited a infinitesimally tiny amount of a frog's dna to match the *hypothetical dna* of a dinosaur and claimed the completely average looking frog they hatched was a resurrected t rex. The argument here - "it's a dire wolf because it looks like one" vs "it's not a dire wolf, it just looks like one" is completely ignoring that the jurassic park t rex of the situation looks exactly like a normal frog.

[bramblepatch]

Also even if this was a Jurassic Park situation - which, as outlined above, it is not - Jurassic Park is first and foremost about why doing a Jurassic Park situation is a very bad idea. A major element Jurassic Park is that the genetic engineering that produced the dinosaurs was not well enough understood to predict all of the side effects of combining frog and dinosaur DNA, resulting in animals with unexpected and potentially ecologically disastrous traits.

[kittykatninja321]

ace discourse on the dash in 2025 is a recession indicator

[beehuts]

[bougiebutchbitch]

the writing was on the wall.

[libraford]

What if we lived in less interesting times?

[mrshamill]

i could go for that

[mug-of-beans]

“The old magic persists thanks to it’s unfathomable power.”

No, the old magic persists because the new magic can’t run the legacy spells I need to do my job, and keeps trying to install spirits I don’t want or need onto my orb.

[aqueerkettleofish]

Look, if the new magic didn't have a personality construct that kept trying to tell me which spells to use, maybe I wouldn't still be using the old magic.

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

Yes it had a deep blood cost, but at least it was a one time sacrifice and not this monthly bloodletting nonsense new age magic has

[bloodybellycomb]

[recuperationdisliker]

f(x) tribute band called f'(x). you'd think the point would be to be derivative but it's actually quite easy to differentiate the two.

[recuperationdisliker]

no

[recuperationdisliker]

yeah :)

[fallingtowers]

haha yayyyy :) i'm having such a wonderful time on the internet with you

[anouchard]

Well, they say printers can sense fear.

[throughtimeandstarlight]

[charlesoberonn]

This post goes around Tumblr every year, and it’s always true. There’s never been an uneventful or boring January.

[fiollaigean]

"the magnus archives sounds cool! what are the content warnings?"

[fiollaigean]

kidnapping stalking insanity sleepwalking cannibalism and teeth, gaslighting gun violence pipe murder and silence and medical trauma and meat. bugs in your body and poisoned black coffee and self-mutilation and lies, police brutality breaks from reality suicide spiders and eyes. paaaaaranoia degloving the uncanny valley and running like prey to survive, agonies torture and drowning and falling and then being buried alive.

[quasi-normalcy]

Financial anxiety, loss of identity, burning sadism and pain; deep oceans and vertigo, going to far to know secrets that make you insane!