Mental health struggles sometimes feel like this to me. Stuck inside, observing the mess, and waiting for it to pass.
alone in the sudden dust almost dusksudden as rubber bands on your wrist
now snapped
only purplestained remnants on veins like that one huge purple chrysanthemum under an adolescent armpit: i'm seemly today
not worse
i think it's similar without you : new machinery newer auditoriums construction particles inflation and articles are a bit
pricey: i outline
you peachsplit on
your land gentle
shove mountainair
the one i'm looking for: a moth as your friend let them be let them stay blessedly bewildered
versprühen:
some find me
pompous like
raisins in water or my words seriously awful coldglass and if you were here you'd tell them
some acrobatics
but what of your
last dispatch
modern parting
Reminds me of one of my favorite posts
Oh, so you and dad?
Yes, Jack. That’s us.
Suptober day 14, Stardust
update: jack has drawn himself into the family portrait
I might be a little biased but I’m honestly starting to believe that there’s no purer form of love than the defensive spite you see from biologists that have devoted their life to the study of a maligned or misunderstood species. For example:
The hyena biologist that arranged for Disney animators to come sketch captive hyenas for The Lion King film (Laurence Frank) was so incensed when the animals were depicted as villains in the movie that he later included boycotting the film on a list of ways the average person could help hyena conservation.
Though it’s commonly known that Charles Darwin’s distaste for parasitic wasps played a role in his development of evolution theory (since he felt no loving God would create animals with such a disturbing life cycle), the biologists who study these wasps find it an unfair characterization. When they were tasked with coming up with a common name for the family of parasitic wasps (Ichneumonidae) that old Charles so disliked, they proposed the name “Darwin Wasps” to spite the famous naturalist who had insulted their beloved family of insects.
Parasitologist Tommy Leung was so frustrated with the way people write about parasites to evoke horror and gore that he started writing a Parasite of the Day blog, that specifically avoids inflammatory or unsettling language to describe them. He also illustrates different species in colorful anime art on Twitter in a series called Parasite Monster Girls—which he calls his “love letter to parasites.”
I guess I’m just saying that if you’re a biologist studying an unpopular species and you have a little bit of a chip on your shoulder about it you can always count on me to be in your corner if you want to get a little petty with the public!
(ID: tags that read “when does a monster stop being a monster? when you love it”)
I'm sorry, the Watcher channel is so fucking hilarious to me now. They really quit buzzfeed and immediately decided they're going to do the same shows just slightly different. I'm obsessed
tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva
love that this caused so much controversy the thread needed to be locked. over chicken sandwich
gang this does not even scratch the surface
Someone posted a picture of a piece of chicken between two hamburger buns titled “Chicken Burger” to /r/food. Another user commented “Chicken Sandwich” on the post, and was slapped with a 30 day ban by the mods. When they responded to ask why, the mod said
“Correcting someone in public is public shaming, on top of being incorrect, it’s a pretty shitty comment to leave.”
So now /r/food is on lockdown after being spammed with posts titled “Chicken Sandwich” and other variations. The mod that handed the ban down pinned a post doubling down, comparing the situation to “Pride posts that always fill up with bigots” and “removing racists from posts featuring POC”, and including a link on “how to correctly, correct someone.”
because someone commented “Chicken Sandwich” on a post titled “Chicken Burger”.
Okay but this also does not scratch the surface either It all started when the sandwich guy posted about what happened to him on r/TIFU, which led to a lot of outrage including someone in the comments saying they were also banned from r/food just for saying they had diabetes (this was later confirmed by a mod). All this anger turned into a brigade which resulted in the entire sub being flooded with almost nothing but posts about Chicken Sandwiches, now known as burgergate. The mod who initially instituted the ban then went on to compare fending off spammers to defending the capitol building during the January 6 riot. You can see in the post that this made it into r/subredditdrama, a community which discusses ongoing drama across reddit. This particular thread in the screenshot is locked, an interesting detail for reasons that come into play later.
Someone else then goes and posts about burgergate on another sub, r/iamveryculinary , which is dedicated to making fun of food related snobbery and drama. This does not go over well, as it turns out that one of the mods of r/food is also a mod of r/iamveryculinary. This mod then proceeds to get slapfights in the comments, which notably includes her saying she would “rain fiery hell upon” anyone who posts chicken sandwiches in r/food, and complaining that she’s so focused on moderating burgergate that she has no time to spend with her kids. People then beg her to forget the chicken sandwich drama and take care of her children. I would love to give you some more details about this incident or tell you the other side, but I can’t since she deleted all the comments of the people she was arguing with so most of what we have left is just the things she herself said. Someone then goes on to post about the r/iamveryculinary drama on r/subredditdrama again. This post immediately gets deleted completely, because it turns out that the r/food mod who also moderates r/iamveryculinary also moderates r/subredditdrama. More people beg the mod to stop caring about the drama and spend time with her kids. The whole thing eventually gets posted to r/subredditdramadrama , a meta sub where people discuss drama that goes down in r/subredditdrama. Another post is then made to r/subredditdramadrama, where the sandwich guy who was initially banned posts his conversation with the mod that banned him. Up until this point, the original mod had been arguing that the permanent ban wasn’t because of the chicken sandwich comment (which was only a 30 day ban), but because he had been rude to the mods when asking why. Screenshots show sandwich guy simply asking why he was banned and then apologizing for the chicken sandwich comment, only to be smugly told by the mod that he needs to “educate himself”, who also insinuates that he’s a weirdo and calls his comment shitty. Don’t miss this mod showing up in the comments of these screenshots and arguing with everyone else over them. So basically the whole thing was one innocuous comment about a chicken sandwich which quickly spiralled into a multi-sub meltdown that has lasted for about two days now. Chicken sandwich guy has not, as far as I know, been unbanned as of yet.
All of us on Tumblr that never get on Reddit:
I love when there’s a really bending heavy episode because you just KNOW Sokka is about to get the dumbest C plot
They stuck that boy in a hole for 22 minutes
albatrosses will wipe the floor with any species of bird you choose to compare them to. they’re the Most, or at least Extremely, by almost every metric
wingspan. lifespan. intricacy of mating dances. devotion to monogamy. investment in offspring. ability to circumnavigate the globe. literary symbolism that is flexible but not to the point of meaninglessness. eyeliner quality. I could go on
Making art with light is truly something amazing
Spiritfarer changed me as a person.
#Archovember Day 28 - Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni
While most people now know of the giraffe-sized Quetzalcoatlus northropi, the smaller species deserves much more credit. Most of what we know about the giant Q. northropi comes from lawsoni: northropi is known only from cervical vertebrae and some fragments of wing. We have filled in the rest using the anatomy of the smaller species, Q. lawsoni, of which much more material is known. For years Q. lawsoni wasn’t even named (as it was uncertain whether it was a juvenile or a seperate species). It was just known as Quetzalcoatlus sp. or “the smaller Quetzalcoatlus”. Finally, northropi was determined to be an adult and a separate species from northropi, and recieved a name in late 2021.
Even if it wasn’t the size of a giraffe, Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni was still a large, formidable azhdarchid! It had an estimated wingspan of 5 m (16 ft), body length of 3.5 m (11 ft), body mass of 65 kg (143 lb), and a long, sharp, pointed beak. It was native to Late Cretaceous North America, particularly Texas, where it coexisted with the other azhdarchid Wellnhopterus. It has been suggested that Quetzalcoatlus would have filled a similar niche to the modern Marabou Stork: a terrestrial scavenger and predator of small animals that could still fly in a pinch. Having unique fore and hindlimb proportions, Quetzalcoatlus seems adapted to a terrestrial lifestyle, and was even capable of “galloping.”
Alongside fellow azhdarchids Wellnhopterus and its larger cousin Q. northropi, Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni lived alongside the titanosaur Alamosaurus, the ceratopsids Bravoceratops and Torosaurus, the hadrosaurs Kritosaurus and Saurolophinae, the dromaeosaur Saurornitholestes, the troodontid Troodon, and of course, the tyrannosaurid Tyrannosaurus rex. It would have fed on a variety of small mammals, reptiles, and perhaps even birds and their eggs.
I forgot to post this here, so here’s my Q. northropi as a comparison