#Raptor's rambles

[raptorstar]

*Proceeds to reveal my main ship randomly out of nowhere*

I need to talk about these two as a duo more.

[total-drama-raptor]

I didn’t think this was something I’d have to post but due to the dogshit takes I’ve seen on twitter I’m posting it here now that the episode’s out.

Jake hinting that he had suicidal thoughts is not something done “to get sympathy points from the audience”. He’s been through a ton of traumatic events in the last few years in-universe, and it’s not a stretch to say that he’d go there.

If my parents disowned me for being gay, my only supportive family member died while I was away, spent months getting mistreated by cruel tv hosts and betrayed by those I held as friends, went through an abusive relationship, and got ghosted by one of the only people I had left to trust, I’d consider killing myself too.

But that’s not the point of this. Ever since people leaked the episode on twitter, I’ve seen people saying that it was just done to make people feel bad for Jake, and a few even saying he should’ve finished the job. Now, I’ve seen tumblr as a less hateful place than there, and I’m hoping we don’t get into any discourse like that. Plus saying shit like that hurts people who have had similar thoughts in the past, even if it’s targeted at a fictional character.

So, for the sake of everyone in this fandom, please refrain from using words that could hurt the actual people in it. I know we’re better than the hellhole that is twitter.

[littlefankingdom]

Everytime something happens in France in a comic, I realize how little researches comics writers do. And like, if they are this bad with my western country, how bad it is with third-world countries they talk about???

In Nightwing (2016), Raptor is from a circus that was near Paris during Mary Grayson's childhood, so more than 40 years ago at least.

In this flashback, they accuse the mayor of Paris of having given leprosy to the romani and of keeping away the meds they need. Already, with our healthcare's system, it's hardly possible, as they would be able to go to a hospital to get the help they need. Do they think "public healthcare" means the state has a direct control on medication, because that's not the case at all. The French gov control the money put into medication, how much is bought, but a mayor has no power over this. I just don't understand how something like this could happen. You can totally write a racist medical scandal in France, but makes it make sense with our system.

But also, Paris didn't have a mayor until 1977, so if it's before 1977, impossible. And, Paris' mayor from 1977 to 1995 is JACQUES CHIRAC, who was the PRESIDENT after. They wrote a story implying that a French President kept medications away from sick people, was discovered and was still elected President. And, yes, the French government is far from good and they have deeply harmed the romani, but like, maybe don't write shit like that. (Also, Chirac was really against the war of Iraq, and stood up against the US, which France is still paying the price for to this day. So I don't really like an USAmerican to criticize Chirac. Like, we can do it, others can do it, but not USAmericans, y'all have done enough) I'm pretty sure that wasn't the goal of the writers. No, what happen is that they didn't do researches about Paris' mayor and so, wrote that shit.

This may be inspired by the contaminated blood's scandal in the 80s-90s, which was worst in France, but no mayor was found guilty, it was doctors who knowingly contaminated patients with a deadly illness. And the French government was held accountable, even if they had no hand in it, as a matter of principle.

I understand it's a fiction, and they didn't literally wrote "Chirac did this", but it's kind of clumsy. (Especially because of everything I wrote earlier about Chirac's politics and how the US is still punishing France for being against killing civilians and destroying Iraq. France was doing the right thing, and the US worked so France would go back in line and treat Arabs like shit. Do not think western countries are free from the US' imperialism)

And in no way I'm saying that you cannot write France being awful, I know my gov's crimes (rn, they have deported homeless out of Paris for the Olympics, the President is refusing to acknowledge the left won the elections and to take a leftist prime minister so we have no prime minister since mid July and fuck democracy I guess, they support Israel's crimes against humanity, and are behaving like the colonizers that they are in New-Caledonia, sending the armies against the Kanaks that have not enough power on their own land), I'm just saying it should at least be believable enough to work. (Easiest way: make the cops racist. Boom. Also, French cops talk like vilains, it's insane.) And also, not about someone touchy like clumsily painting badly a president that was punished by the US for doing the right thing.

[roseofhybrids]

Something I've been thinking about after the "solver is taking over Uzi and she might have to get mercy killed just like her mom" development

A tense situation to be sure, these drones are definitely gonna have a lot to go through with these last 2 episodes. But we can all guess it'll turn out ok in the end on the basis that, that's just how stories tend to go. A meta, non-diegetic reason not to worry.

But I'm looking for a little in universe hope that they'll manage to fix this, and I think I've found one. To explain it, we need to first take a look at Tessa and V. (prepare for a lot of reading, sorry in advance)

So, Tessa has made her thoughts pretty clear during her talk with N. This is a "for the greater good" scenario, it's either kill Uzi or the Absolute Solver kills everyone. Painful but understandable.

But then we have V. When she carries Uzi back to the others, she insists they leave right then and there, and waits for N to join her.

But he hesitates because of what Tessa has told him. V is let in on this fact when Tessa tells him she hasn't been honest with V yet. The fact Tessa says this while comforting N as he hesitates tells V that Tessa said something to him to plant doubt in his mind. It also implies, to N, that V doesn't know the gravity of the situation. But that just isn't true V has just witnessed what Uzi is capable of first hand in the operating room. Hell, she's witnessed a lot of the solver's power first hand. Such as when Uzi attacked her in episode 4, and when CYN mutated her in 5. She knows this thing is dangerous. The look she gives before they leave the operating room, and her reaction to Uzi trying to her powers when they find Doll's trap, says as much.

When Tessa offers to take a look at Uzi. V immediately shows hostility towards her over not controlling the sentinels like she said she could. Then there's her line after Tessa tells N she hasn't been honest with V. It makes sense for her to be mad after Tessa implies she's been keeping something from her. But rather than directing her next question at Tess, and saying something like: "Not honest about what?" or "What haven't you told me?". She instead turns to N and asks, "What did she tell you?" Her tone isn't just angry, it's accusatory. They're interrupted by Uzi waking up, and we get this look between Tessa and V.

A blank stare met with anger and fear.

This scene seems to put Tessa and V on separate sides.

Tessa believes there's no other option but to kill off the infected drones. She doesn't want to kill Uzi, but leaving her alive puts the universe at risk. Tessa's seen what the solver did with CYN. She's seen what it did to her parents, to the other drones, to the Earth, possibly what it did to other planets, and she can't let that happen again.

V on the other hand is protecting Uzi, something that would be pretty uncharacteristic of her before. When Uzi first shows she has her solver powers at the end of episode 3, her first reaction is to take aim with her gun. And in 4, she is shown to be terrified when Uzi turns that arrow into a flesh monster. V was still willing to kill Uzi because she was showing signs of solver infection. She only stopped when N got Uzi to calm down during her rampage. After that she was willing to cover up that Uzi ate her classmates, and now she's willing to give up interrupting CYN's plan, just so they can get an injured Uzi out of there.

Tess is 100% up for killing Uzi if it means saving everyone. V, not so much. It's hard to say that she'd let the universe get destroyed to protect her new friend. But, at the very least, V seems in favor of trying to find another solution.

It's a basically the trolley problem. Tessa's answer is - flip the switch so that only 1 person dies. V's answer is - isn't there another way?

This leaves N in between the two. Where he might have to make that choice (read might as definitely going to, because that's just how stories tend to go).

Do nothing and let 5 people die, or flip a switch so only 1 person dies Do nothing and let the universe be destroyed, or kill your best friend (read friend as love interest, like this is a historical account of two "very good friends". Because while it hasn't been outright been said aloud, that's just how stories tend to go).

So who is N to side with?

And to get what I think will be the answer, we need to look at V's says at the very end of the episode. Her final words to N and Uzi before the elevator falls.

N is yelling out for her to come with them, that they need her. V dismisses this with a simple "nah." Not even a proper no. She just brushes off the idea that they need her to come with them. Up till now, she's been trying to protect N from the truth (she did this in some pretty nasty ways, but that was her intent). But now he knows about the Absolute Solver and what happened back at the manor. He's stood up to both J and V, he's not going to go down without a fight. N doesn't need any protecting, she's willing to let him handle this alone.

Then she turns to Uzi and simply says: "Uzi, I trust you." I think is V saying she trusts that Uzi won't turn out like CYN did. She trusts her to find a way to fix this.

It's because of this that I believe the show is building up to have N side with V on this.

So they'll to stick together, move forward together, or not at all. They can work together to fix this instead of all the murder.

Ok, that's enough quoting the other episodes for parallels

So there you have, just some ideas to hold on to till we see this season end

[violetsandshrikes]

More of Wonder the Turkey Vulture at the Ojai Raptor Center (slight sound warning)

[raptor1312]

So I just learned something

I use this one gif of Pure Vanilla rotating pretty often, and I was taking a screenshot of it just for fun when I noticed two things:

1. He T-poses when jumping.

2. The drippy part of his robes extend to his sleeves, so that’s pretty useful to know in case anyone else was curious

And bonus

[avephelis]

THRASHING TYKE (fairy/dragon) and IRON ROVER (normal/ghost)

so, as some of you may recall (since i asked for your input), i've been designing paradox fakemon !! i really like when new forms are given to middle-stage or under-utilised pokemon, so togetic and furfrou were easy choices.

thought it'd be fun to imply togetic took a while to get airborne, so thrashing tyke ended up being sort of an inversion of usual togetic qualities! and iron rover is, of course, inspired by laika (hence the ghost typing).

anyway, pretty happy with them for a first go at fakemon rendering 👍👍

[starrygatorr]

hi yeah piggybacking off of my season 4 yugioh post. what the fuck were they feeding the writers.

the animation was inconsistent and often times bad, the plot as a whole was painfully mediocre, and the beginning and end were both slop. but the characterization? best in the series. INSANE. every character was absolutely fucking on point the moment the actual premise of the leviathan and atlantis is not being focused on. mai valentine alone couldve carried this entire season. that’s not even talking about rex and weevil gaining major roles and actually having their characters explored (🤯🤯). not to mention the INSAAAAANE decision to practically role reverse joey n yami. yami being the hotheaded one to not think things through, the one to mess up and put people in danger, the one who has to learn a major lesson. meanwhile joey was out here showing compassion to mai and even rex of all people and making suggestions and plans and keeping levelheaded. WHAT WERE THE WRITERS EATING

[spacecatdraws]

so I found out my beardie likes being sung to

quoir experience + tired lizard = spiky lullaby

[raptorstar]

So with the release of Beatnik being soon..I decided to uh..

Redesign Pientre nearly completely and turn him into sort of a Beatnik oc...

+ icon closeup cause It's hard to see

[total-drama-raptor]

rip lake müller you would’ve loved chappell roan

[megaraptormenace]

There’s been some really interesting discussion on violence and hunting instincts going around, so fuck it, rambling time.

⚠️ TW: Violence, Prey Drive/Hunting Instincts, Intrusive Thoughts & ‘Thought Crimes’.

As a dinosaur, the hunt is not violence. As a dinosaur, I’m simply not capable of recognising prey items as anything more complex than food. Bringing down prey feels no different from cooking dinner, really.

But as a human, I’m painfully aware that things my prey drive wants me to go for are beings with their own experiences of the world. Especially when those things are humans.

I don’t blame the instincts, for the record. They’re holdovers from before modern society was even a twinkle in anyone’s eye, exacerbated by my nonhumanity. My instincts don’t focus on humans specifically, it’s just that my options are very limited in the places I’ve lived. Humans and livestock are the only animals with enough meat to be worth the energy to hunt.

That’s not to say I always enjoy having them, though. Especially when I was younger they were a source of great distress. I was stuck in an awful loop of [urge to hunt] -> [being frightened by that] -> [intrusive thoughts telling me only bad people have bad thoughts, so I 5 be a bad person] rinse, repeat.

I spent many years feeling like I was a hair’s breadth away from snapping and really hurting someone. Not true, of course, but try confronting irrational thoughts with facts and logic some time. It’s rarely very effective

I’ve come a long way since then. With appropriate treatment, my laundry list of mental health issues are significantly more manageable. Not to say I don’t have bad days, but on balance, I’m okay with who - and what - I am.

[ant1quarian]

I propose a new lot of creatures to add to the list of Cryptids we have:

Raptors.

Kind of like Avians except less... completely genocidal and kind of more just doing what they need to in order to survive- also primarily solitary instead of Avians who live in flocks.

But unlike the Avians, they didn't have to evolve for violence. Still, they are the ones that can wander around alongside humans without being too concerned about killing some of them.

[biohazard-inevitable]

I know I’ve had deinonychus as my fave dino for a while but the longer I think on it I think Baryonyx might be my fave dinosaur….

If i had to say like- a cluster of favorites though?

Heres my top ten in no particular order:

- Baryonyx

- Deinonychus

- Therizinosaurus

- Tyrannosaurus Regina

- Dimorphodon

- Quetzalcoatal

- Velociraptor

- Spinosaurus

- Titanoboa

- Sarcosuchus

[raptor-the-pilott]

I guess they're the next best thing.. Well, guess who's legally come into possession of a helicopter! The very not-stolen kind!

[raptor1312]

I CLOSE THE APP FOR A SECOND AND SUDDENLY

@chocxy-prince @scarapanna @joyfuldonutqueen YOU