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y'all ever think about how insane the sauropods were

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I submit to you that the most iconic feature of any animal is either unlikely or impossible to fossilize.

If all we had of wolves were their bones we would never guess that they howl.

If all we had of elephants were fossils with no living related species, we might infer some kind of proboscis but we’d never come up with those ears.

If all we had of chickens were bones, we wouldn’t know about their combs and wattles, or that roosters crow.

We wouldn’t know that lions have manes, or that zebras have stripes, or that peacocks have trains, that howler monkeys yell, that cats purr, that deer shed the velvet from their antlers, that caterpillars become butterflies, that spiders make webs, that chickadees say their name, that Canada geese are assholes, that orangutans are ginger, that dolphins echolocate, or that squid even existed.

My point here is that we don’t know anything about dinosaurs. If we saw one we would not recognize it. As my evidence I submit the above, along with the fact that it took us two centuries to realize they’d been all around us the whole time.

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'"In the circumstances, this was like not telling people about self-defense so that no one would ever attack them." - Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

saw someone say "an 11-year-old isn't even supposed to know what sex is and if you do something horrible must be happening to you and you need to get out of there" like can we be for real for a moment. have some people honest to god never heard 11-year-olds making sex jokes in their life

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My douchey coworker started a story by being like, “You know Mr. Beast?”

And honest to god, I don’t, but I suspect if this coworker likes him then I wouldn’t care for him. I had the unparalleled pleasure of going, “The moldy cheese guy?”

That was the only thing I knew associated with the name.

Fully derailed him. He was absolutely baffled and stopped to google the moldy cheese scandal. So thank you tumblr, for sharing about the moldy cheese so I didn’t have to listen to that anecdote.

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TERF shocked to discover that the real world is not an online echo chamber, and that instead the average woman either supports or just doesn’t care about trans people the way they do

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I SAW DEATH AND PUNCHED IT SO HARD

a transgender survival story by Zinnia Jones 💜

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someone sedate this man.

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I just realized why I love the Galaxy Warriors and other knockoffs so their ilk...

Look at these dorks:

Shiny, confused, muscly weirdos with weapons in their hands and hubcaps slapped to their harnesses.. they’re the Ator of toy lines. 

A good knock-off or just plain failed toyline is like a terrible movie that’s terrible in that riff-able beautiful way. Visions exceeding their grasp and yet somehow a grasp lacking adequate vision at the same time.

Someone on Tumblr once referred to the art on the old Masters of the Universe packages of representing “lonesome freaks going about their dark deeds” or something similar… meanwhile, the Galaxy Hole, as @phelous called it, is filled with, well…

Baffled dorks stumbling through life pretending they know what they’re doing. As a kid, that made them lame. As an adult, that makes them weirdly relateable. 

I feel ya, Baltard. I feel ya.

TL:DR: If MOTU was Arnold Schwarzenegger, these guys were Reb Brown.

And somebody’s gotta be.

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nabiki my queen

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Caper in the Castro is a legendary video game, not because legions of die-hard fans continue to play it, but because it was thought to be lost forever. Now, what is largely considered to be the first LGBTQ-focused video game (it was released in 1989) is on the Internet Archive for anybody to play.

The game is a noir point-and-click that puts the player in the (gum)shoes of a private detective named Tracker McDyke who is, in case you couldn’t guess by the name, a lesbian. McDyke must unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of Tessy LaFemme, a transgender woman, in San Francisco’s Castro district, an historically gay neighbourhood.

OOOOOHhh!

The game was released as charityware – freely, with a strong request to give a donation an AIDS Charity of their choice. I’d like to push towards still following that and donating, if you’re able.

(And you might also want to donate to the Internet Archive, who is hosting it now, while you’re at it – they’re in the middle of a donation drive, and could use your support.)

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I’ve witnessed this happen so many times online.

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Some sketches I did a while ago after re-reading Guards! Guards!. I had completely forgotten how good this book really was.

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Me trying to make my problems go away:

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fucking. what?