black air force energy.

okay i’m awake time to write for my silly little phone spiders

Deleted my old post (too many notes!) so here's the re-up! It's pride month, yay! And Juneteenth is near, double yay, so if you like the idea of a Black lesbian and her family having money to survive and dare I say...thrive??? During the month of June, can you pretty please throw some money at me? Xoxo, gossip girl.

Paypal.me/marsinaries

Venmo.com/fluoresensitive

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Four more days to juneteenth! White people pay me $30 or I'll explode your crusty white dog; cishet people, give me $100 or I'll explode Jakey

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Reminder that BetterHelp doesn't give a fuck about their patients and is actually a fucking terrible way to get therapy.

Please find other alternatives for BH because they're ATROCIOUS.

Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.

Fucking witchcraft, man. 

fucking look at this shit though

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

amazing

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)

Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.

So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.

This is getting better and better.

I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI

I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.

@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?

Realism comes at a cost, it seems.

i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:

It’s a three piece raptor suit.

Old movies had the best special effects

The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.

@jurassicparkandrecreation

@shepfax

Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time.  They were blowing out a budget bigger than anything Hollywood had ever seen, and along with employing almost the last hurrah of incredible physical FX, they had a bank of those newfangled digital SFX computers.  Nobody’d ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before.  It’d all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them.  Spielberg wanted THE BEST DINOSAURS EVER, and he figured on using the cutting edge of digital modeling and animation technology to build them for him.

So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”

The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass.  They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that.  And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that.  One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”

He called up film of a chicken walking.  Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”

Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existed–we knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection there–but the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent.  Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.

That paleontologists’d be Kevin Padian. Who is awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Padian

This post just gets better and better with time

“leave fandom shippers alone” I wish the oppression you people felt was real

PLEASE DO NOT TAG AS D*NATIONS

alright here we go again. i'm broke. still on universal credit and the bills are getting bigger and bigger. if anyone has anything they can give just for food i would be so grateful 🩷

paypal.me/emmmwhat

hi all, just an update. my college bursary has been stopped since im not in classes anymore so im more broke than ever. if anyone can give anything i would really appreciate it 💕

keep seeing Temu ads on here so just to share cause idk if people are widely aware

I need like $30 to get food till i get paid tomorrow

Paypal.me/lavalake

Cash: ronaldknox

Venmo: lostagent34

Got paid. It all went to bills so i still need help w this

wow how come nobody wants to work??!!! 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 wow you haven't found a job yet??!!! 😵😵😵😵 stop begging on the internet it's sooooo easy to find a job these days ahahahah.... 😀😀😀😀 just keep sending in 400 applications a day 🫣🫣🫣🫣

"close to half said they kept the ads up to give the impression the company was growing...One-third of the managers who said they advertised jobs they weren’t trying to fill said they kept the listings up to placate overworked employees."

I’ve personally experienced this - and it’s been going on for YEARS. Companies will keep job postings up even if they aren’t actively trying to fill the position. If they happen to get someone to apply with a good enough skill set, they’ll likely bring them on, but it basically has to be the ‘perfect candidate.’

There was a place near where I used to live, who always had engineering positions posted. I applied for a few of them because hey, they all had different posting numbers so they must be different jobs, right? But then I’d never hear ANYTHING back, not even a ‘sorry you’re not what we’re looking for.’

So then I met someone who actually worked there, and he told me that they weren’t actually hiring ANYONE for any position - they just had the postings up to keep an ‘active talent pool’ available - in other words, if someone quit they’d have a list of people that could replace them.

The difference between then and now, is that they’re now using these ‘fake job ads’ to keep up the claim that ‘no one wants to work.’

I was so fucking /srs when i said i hoped there would be riots at pride events this year and i still am. we need to be fucking fighting back. we need to make the fascist politicians fear for their lives and i mean that 100% genuinely. im so fucking tired

and while im at it shut up about slur discourse shut up about flag discourse shut up about kink at pride shut up about identities you dont understand (yes even that one) !!!!!! people are DYING. there are bigger more important things to worry about and You Are Not Helping Anyone. other queer people are not your enemy.

we dont need to be protected from clumsy baby gays or it/its pronouns or "contradictory" identities. we need to be fighting the fucking fascists trying to genocide us right now in the REAL WORLD.

we need to protect each other, not hurt each other. you're doing our oppressors' work for them. stop fucking infighting.

FLAWLESSSSSS! Brandee did THAT. 🥺😍🔥

(photographer: @PeytonFulford)

WHITNEY HOUSTON

Everyone reblog with your most unemployable traits

disney has done irreparable damage to some of yall i swear to god

no offense but some of yall are poisoned by spoiler culture. if it's well-executed, whether or not you know abt the "twist" or the event or whatever doesnt diminish its impact.

also if u literally go into the tag and u see spoilers thats on u. u literally went and searched it out without having seen/read/played/experienced the entire thing and then cry about people talking about it because you personally didnt know. like... just avoid the tag/blacklist it until ur done if you have such a fear of being spoiled

also not to make it abt star wars bc this post is abt how people react to spoilers in general but everyone knows darth vader is luke's dad. does that make it any less impactful? is the OT worse in any way just because you already know this thing? get the fuck over yourself. just bc ur used to shitty media that rely on one-note "shocking reveals" and badly written storylines held together with dollar store tape and a prayer to a god they dont believe in doesnt mean that that is the case for every single medium out there, and this attitude of No Spoilers over anything else is actively detrimental to making & experiencing good art

regarding the gomens2 "leak" and how ppl treat a 2 frame moment posted by a corporate account as Horrible Spoilers that will Ruin The Integrity of the Show (ntm how theyre all batting for known cp defender + casual bigot neilman)... youre all fucking pussies stop kissing his ass hes not gonna fuck you and those 2 frames can barely be counted as anything "spoiler"-y. same goddamned energy as ppl refusing to watch trailers bc those are spoilers

No one here has made me feel bad about it, but i feel like shit. Towards the end of April, beginning of May, I had gotten SA'd while homeless. I haven't been feeling great and I took a test, turns out I'm pregnant (i think about 6 weeks now). I can't afford to have this baby and as much as I would like to keep it, I need to get an abortion. I'm lucky my state still has it, but the lowest cost for a pill is $580 and for the in-clinic abortion, it's $600/ first trimester. Losing my dad and having to crowdfund for the boys has not helped anything (have $95 left for last bit). I'm doing tarot readings, my bestie @scarsofbeauty is still doing commissions. Please consider helping a poc trans nonbinary person.

$90/$495 (some resource ppl sent me were able to get it lowered! 06/13/23 2:28 am)

pp: teariche@gmail.com

ca: $starshooterr

i have zelle (Dm me) and tips activated

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i get the sentiment behind ‘rejection is redirection’ but sometimes (often, actually) rejection is just rejection lol. you’re not being redirected anywhere except back to where you started, except it’s worse this time because you have to account for setbacks. so you’re actually moving one step forward two steps back