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Ellie/Bee/June

@ellievalk

18 she/it Minecraft fan 🏳️‍⚧️ ellievalkdraws is tumblr. Profile pic by salmonjaws

transformers are so cool

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Literally that one ep of transformers prime where optimus fights nemesis prime in the middle of some government facility in nevada

I love when I make shit up to be funny and then actually I'm a prophet gifted by apollo

Not just that but he DID fight himself in the og cartoon! Like literally just another him. I think it also happened twice where one was controlled telepathically by megatron and the other was just starscream

Had a dream I was gaming so hard during a run of Deltarune that I somehow unlocked all the unreleased chapters even the ones that haven't been made yet and I pulverized through every single enemy just by running into them really fast, making them violently explode into scattered pixels with my sheer force. I was having fun until suddenly the screen went white and a very visibly upset Mario appeared (because I was playing on the switch) and he was sitting on a folding chair with his hands clasped together and he asked me “what the fuck is a-wrong with you”. immediately woke up

Artist interpretation

good heavens Real? real

fr it's so bleak that free the nipple faded into irrelevancy like the fact that as a society the Feminized Nipple is something so taboo to be seen in public is just pathetic. if you personally can't handle a bit of nip I hate you. you are psychically weaker than a baby. grow the fuck up.

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Chell: eeeeyikes!! How am I supposed to “Test” this “Chamber” if this mean robot lady wants these turrets to kill me?!

The portals:

Trying to get people to realize birds are full on actual no holds barred dinosaurs on the internet is like playing a constant game of whack-a-mole

The game never ends there's just another mole to whack

whack whack whack

I understand that you guys aren't being totally serious, but birds are categorically NOT dinosaurs. They're BIRDS. Being descended from and very similar to an animal does not make them literally the same.

Bats are mammals. If every mammal except for bats went extinct, bats would still be mammals. This is what happened with birds. They're a type of dinosaur that evolved within the dinosaur evolutionary tree, and existed alongside other types of dinosaurs until all those other types of dinosaurs were wiped out. Surviving when the other dinosaurs went extinct doesn't mean they stopped being dinosaurs at any point.

@arctic-nimbus I am not joking, I am being serious. Birds are living dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs are defined as the most recent common ancestor of [Theropods] + [Sauropodomorphs] + [Ornithischians], and ALL OF THAT ANCESTOR'S DESCENDANTS

hence, because birds descend from that ancestor, ALL BIRDS ARE DINOSAURS THE END.

I am a paleontologist and this has been known since 1996 please stop making me play whack a mole. this is googleable. this is on wikipedia. this is in most paleontological sources. this is in the literature. this is in books. this is in jurassic park. this is on this blog in many places. this is on other people's blogs in many places.

this is, or should be, common. knowledge.

fin

Okay, your condescending reply aside, you haven't addressed the elephant in the room which is what I brought up in the other thread. I'm descended from a fish. That doesn't mean I am a fish. You telling me that birds are living dinosaurs doesn't make any difference to me because you haven't made a convincing argument why I should categorize them that way as oppose to another way.

Where do you draw the line between them being living dinosaurs and them being something else?

there ISNT A LINE

and YES, WE ARE SARCOPTERYGIIANS AKA LOBE FINNED FISH

I don't care that I'm being condescending. This is like telling an astronomer that pluto is a planet.

stop.

So if there isn't a line, then what you're saying is gibberish because there's no actual definition of anything. We miswell call birds lobe finned fish as well. So why doesn't your post say that?

yeah, they are!

it's a description of family groups!

relationships!

the end!

Welcome to biology...

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i think perhaps part of the concept to be explained here is that a single thing can fall under multiple categories.

an american robin, for example:

  • is a thrush
  • is a bird
  • is a dinosaur
  • is a fish

the level of specificity to use is context dependent, but it is still all of those things at once.

With fish, the confusing part is that "fish" is typically thought of as a contrasting category to land creatures, but it turns out that the fin-having water-breathing swimmy creatures we all know and love are a much bigger and more ancestral category of thing than any of the land-going fourleggers.

In fact, all the familiar creatures like amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals are just specific types of fish that got really weird. Those weird fish were hella successful fish, because they got so weird they unlocked a whole new area: Land! And there were so many new niches on Land that they diversified a TON, obtaining a bajillion weird forms that became so different, they can appear at a glance to be even more diverse than the fish that stayed in the water.

(And some of them decided to go back in the water for some reason...)

But it's not true, because some of the swimmy fish are way less related to each other than the land fish are to the swimmy fish. Giraffes and Coelacanths look very different on the outside, but they are much more closely related than Coelacanths and Great White Sharks.

insane how many people just have these incredible artists in their families who get no recognition outside of crocheting circles because this art form is devalued for its association with women

in my country, the word for crocheting, is used metaphorically, to compliment a surgeon’s work.

every AFAB person my mother’s age and older, had practiced this craft at one point on another.

My mom has made literal paintings, that decorate our house for years (I’ll come back with pictures when I visit next) you can only see that they are crocheting when you go very close.

as promised here’s my mom’s crocheting “paintings”

There is another one but it had been stored many years ago, (i remember it from my childhood) and sadly it is probably damaged by mold, it depicted wild horsed running in nature 

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not sure if anyone has said this yet but yall know pangrams? a sentence that has every letter of the alphabet? and the coolest one is

sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

working off the sphinx theory i think its safe to say the black sphinx is the sphinx of vows