#also I guessed velociraptor but am not 100%

[justatumblinweed]

[Image ID: A variation on the "it chrismas" meme for Hanukkah. Instead of the scaly velociraptor usually shown, this dinosaur (also a velociraptor possibly?) is feathered, with wings and tail to match.

On the left it is shown in profile, looking over its shoulder with big round eyes and its tongue sticking out in a tiny blep. It is wearing a yarmulke decorated with the Star of David. "it chanukkah," it remarks.

On the right, the drawing is zoomed into the dinosaur's head, showing its fluff and glassy eyes in greater detail. It seems to be giving a very slight smile with a greeting of "chag smech."

/End ID.]

a meme that DEFINITELY needed improving. thank you all

[fishsfailureson]

Alright, new introduction post

(Edit: please don't spam like my posts without reblogging anything. It gets a little irritating.)

Hi, my name's Storm/Fish. I am an intermediate artist who draws whatever they want (mostly dinosaurs atm lmao). I'm agender and I use they/it pronouns, my preference is that people use both. I'm also open to neopronouns but I'm not 100% sure if I want to use them.

My interests:

Biology/paleontology

Rain world

Guardians of Ga'hoole (I don't talk about this much lol)

Writing and worldbuilding

Random facts about myself:

I'm asexual

I draw using FireAlpaca mostly

I'm short (which is annoying because I can't REACH SHIT)

My favourite dinosaur is a tie between Sinosauropteryx, Velociraptor and Microraptor.

Other stuff I think you should know:

If you believe a post should have a tw please ask me, this can be through a dm, an ask or a reply (if it's my original post). As a general rule I tag triggering topics as (insert trigger here) tw (e.g. violence tw).

My asks are always open (although I do have anons off) (edit: I guess I lied about that-)

If you want to use my art for anything non-commercial please ask for permission beforehand. Credit for the art, including a link to my account, is required.

As of now my only other active social medias are my toyhou.se (FishSFailureson), artfight (FishFailureson), Cara (fishsfailureson) and discord (would rather not disclose as it's personal). If you see anyone aside from those accounts posting my art they are most likely a reposter. I do not give anyone permission to repost my art on any platform. Please contact me if you see this happen.

I also have a sideblog just for reblogging things, @fishreblogs

I also run @artist-quests

[bylightofdawn]

I finished ME3 and whelp that end game was a fucking SLOG. OH MY GOD. It never ended. I ended up going with Control because I am a weak-willed paragon player at the end of the day. I will probably reload my save if I can and experiment with Destroy tomorrow though. Even though I did a shit ton of side-missions I guess my military assets still weren’t enough. I blame the fact I didn’t know the Reapors would breed like fucking lice and I prolly should have spent the first day just scanning for as much materials as I could because I did 95% of the side-missions that didn’t require scanning and I was only like 6000+

Fuck. My. Life.

Okay so my hot takes are as follows: I still love Shepard/Garrus. I was very heartbroken to break Kaidan’s heart by picking the sexy velociraptor over him.

Also, Garrus never gave me shit for picking up with Cerberus and I get why people dislike Kaidan. I still think his pluses outweigh the minuses and I am thinking of doing a m!Shep only trilogy playthrough where I romance him cause fuck I love war buddies falling in love and watching a friendship shift into something more trope. -cough cough- I’m looking at you Cortez and Vega. -cough cough-

Garrus also kinda reads as ver young and emotionally immature in a lot of ways. Like Shepard was definitely the first serious relationship he ever had. Fucks sake, this man’s idea of a date was to go and shoot things on top of the Citadel. And he cannot be smooth to save his poor Turian life. 

But that’s part of his charm, if I’m being honest. However compare that to the heartbreaking and emotionally vulnerable moments Shepard and Kaidan have, you can definitely tell the developers were more invested in that romance.

I ABJECTLY REFUSE to acknowledge they did my bae Kal’Reegar like they did and fucking offed him in a fucking email. N O P E. Sorry, rumors of his death are greatly exaggerated and he will drag his wounded ass home and surprise Tali by being alive. I will accept no other canon.

I fucking ship the hell out of Liara and Javik even though Javik is a super not-cool colonizer/ at times outright misogynist and I don’t know how I feel about this. It makes me uncomfortable but I guess that’s why you have problematic faves. So long as you are willing to acknowledge and accept that the shit they pull isn’t kosher and don’t try and defend it then it’s up for you to find that balance of on your morality scale.

But yeah even Citadel DLC hinted at that being a thing and yeah I ship it.

I don’t mind Garrus/Tali as much as I thought I was when going into ME3 and I know I kinda rudely labeled it as pair the spares but the more I think about it, the more I can see it. I mean, they have been with Shepard for years and I can totally see them building a bond. I would also be completely down for a Garrus/Tali slow-burn where Shepard/Garrus was a thing and now Garrus needs to find a way to conduct his life in a world without her being the pendulum on which his orbit revolves.

And I feel like Tali and Kaidan/Liara to a lesser extent are the people who would understand what it’s like trying to live in a world without her larger-than-life presence. I am also 1000% open to the idea of Garrus/Kaidan finding second chance love with one another with them grieving together over the loss of Shepard and HAVE in fact read some really awesome fanfics with that theme.

I’ve been reading SO MANY FANFICS during this playthrough and I have a shit ton of pairings, both crack and otherwise. I’m compiling a list of ME fanfic recs right now that I will gush about in ad nauseam later.

I got boned because I didn’t import from ME1 onwards so it felt like a personal attack and failing that Eve and Miranda died. I also didn’t have access to Kasumi or Zaheed which made me sad.

I just don’t think I’m up for sinking another 100+ hours into this series right this moment. I am debating buying Andromedea but the amount of bitching and whinging I’ve heard about it, I don’t know if it’s just fandom being a whiny titty baby because they ‘broke it’ or if it’s legitimate criticism.

I’m darkly amused that I am 2/2 in the talking at people long enough they would rather shoot themselves than listen to me pontificate any longer. First Saren and now the Illusive Man, Shepard really do be talking people quite literally to death with her care bear stares Paragon energy. 🤣 And yes I am dating myself horrifically with that reference.

I’m also debating picking up Dragon Age. I bought it on disk for PS3 I think but I’m not breaking that shit out to play a horrifically grainy near 20 year old title. Hopefully it has a remastered edition.

I’m glad I finally finished this series. I’ve legit been picking it up and putting it down for like 10 years at this point. Do I think it’s worth the hype everyone has given it? Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh no? It’s serviceable and definitely a fun ride. I am super both confused and impressed with BioWare rehauling the gaming mechanics THREE DIFFERENT TIMES. Like, I respect the grind but why? I know everyone hated the Mako and none of use were sad to see it go but jeeze. I’m assuming there was a gaming engine difference between the three of them but still it’s not usual to have the gaming mechanics changed three different times and it gives it a bit of a haphazard vibe because of it.

I actually REALLY MISSED the hacking games in ME3. I suspect I’m prolly in the minority there but I would much rather have that fun code matching/icon matching memory style game over mashing buttons in ME1 or just having to sit there watching Shepard wave her hand around for 10 seconds while bypassing doors in ME3.

I hated only having access to three/eventually four weapons in ME2 but I liked it’s leveling up system the most. Class restricted weapons just didn’t do it for me. Being able to build your paragon/renegade level in ME1 is just weird and I’m glad they got away from that. I do feel like ME1 and ME3 were more similar in how they did their level scaling and I really liked being able to earn a special ability from one of your teammates if you invested enough time and effort into building a rapport with them. Whereas you could just buy it in ME2.

NGL I got Flare and didn’t look back at all. LMAO. What a stupidly OP ability. Banshee and Brutes? Eh toss some grenades and Flare at them and it ain’t a problem anymore.

There are other things but I think I’ve spazzed out long enough over this stupid video game trilogy.

[pacifistghost-moved]

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———  BASICS! ♡

(PEN)NAME: HelenE

PRONOUNS: She/Her

ZODIAC SIGN:  Aquarius  

TAKEN OR SINGLE: Single

———  THREE  FACTS! ♡

I love dinosaurs (and prehistoric life in general, but you probably know that already). My favourites include the therizinosaurus, dakotaraptor, utahraptor, velociraptor, spinosaurus, T. rex and so on. I also love phorousrhacids (terror birds, look them up, they’re amazing creatures) (Kelenken and Titanis specifically), which are avian dinosaurs.

You’ll find pieces of myself in pretty much every character I write. Yes, this is why a lot of them are eccentric. No, I won’t answer why a lot of them are violent, traumatised misanthropists with high body counts (I PROMISE I am not as scary/cruel as my muses!). But, take it from an aspiring writer; this is a beautifully efficient way to make your characters feel real. At least, I hope it is.

My favourite films are End of Evangelion (this one, predictably, hit me very hard), Shin Godzilla (from the guy who directed Evangelion, honestly he’s brilliant), and Battle Royale (did I make a mistake watching this when I was 13...? Nahhhhhh)

———  EXPERIENCE! ♡

(Get ready I talk a lot about my story-writing history here)

I first started writing stories when I was around seven. My first novel over 100 pages was done when I was ten. Since then, I’ve been writing countless stories (even did a few graphic novels), and I want to physically publish them one day and become a famous author (yes, the famous part is important). Almost every single story I write focuses on a non-human protagonist, is extremely violent, deals with deep/heavy themes, does not contain a happy ending and tends to be very unconventional. I like to... make people think, I guess? RP-wise, I only started around September 2019 (yep, that’s when I made IceWyvern!Ghost), but I don’t consider it to be much different from my passion for writing. It helps me keep up with/develop my style, and gives me the opportunity to write characters I otherwise wouldn’t write- like human beings.

———  MUSE  PREFERENCE! ♡

I don’t mind. As long as we can explore interesting plots, develop our characters/writing, dig deep and have fun, I’m happy.

In terms of my own muses? Ghost and Sephiroth are my favourites to write and are consistent in being the ones I have highest muse for. I love everyone else too, but my muse for them is much less stable.

———  FLUFF / ANGST / SMUT! ♡    

FLUFF: Not too experienced with this, but I’d be very happy to write this! It’s cute. Mostly. Touchy-feely stuff isn’t my area, but hell, it’s fun to explore in RP, and it’ll help me get out of my comfort zone.

ANGST:  ... Obviously. OBVIOUSLY. I LOVE MAKING PEOPLE CRY

SMUT: NOPE! NOPE NOPE NOPE! I cannot, I actually literally CANNOT. Naked people freak me OUT peeps.

PLOT / MEMES: Hell yeah, bring ‘em in!

Tagged by: Stolen from @csilentium

Tagging: Urm... @oflockhearted @nibelheimraised @hiislegacy @blackwinged-silversolace @projecth-aileth @gainsborro @nimbostrxtus @sungwrath @mousxr @hisemeraldgaze @sparkstorms @flamedance @azure-steel @chaton-encore @dreamsofasoldier

[brawltogethernow]

Tagged by @mirrorfalls​, hey dude.

Name: Olivia, not a secret but I’ve never liked it.

Nickname(s): Brawl is literally the only nickname I’ve ever had and I love it honestly.

Gender:  Can’t claim to understand the concept even after some little study.

Star Sign:  Capricorn

Current Time:  ............................exactly 4:00 a.m.

Favorite Artists: Calder, Vermeer; not leaving museum fodder or broadening the definition of “art” or we’d be here all day watching me fall apart like Chidi Anagonye trying to pick a hat.

Song Stuck in My Head: *pauses to listen to mental radio* “Caramelldansen” because I keep seeing memes, actively at war with “History Maker” because I’m rewatching YoI. That’s...certainly an otaku cocktail.

Last Movie I Saw: My brother and I coordinated to watch the 2000 Digimon movie. (We live in different states and hold movie nights over text.) It was bizarrely nostalgic despite my never having seen it or literally one minute of any other Digimon media before. It is just so aggressively a product of that year. I could have seen it. I cannot mentally place it into 2020; it has to be edited into ~2000 retroactively.

Last Thing I Googled: “discrete” to check if you can use it like “specific” without the connotation of “separate”. You cannot.

Other Blogs: Reference-saving blog here is ellipsisfolder. A couple empty side blogs, one that isn’t empty that I don’t want people visiting because I use it to save stuff for text post memes and post/reblog things I don’t want an audience for, like if I need a really quick and dirty way to send myself an image. I’m currently clusterfracas on Twitter, which I have basically never used for anything except that it’s recently make it easier to stay tuned in to the only corner of the Spider-Man fandom with opinions I agree with. Thinking of changing it to the same name as this blog for synergy, but it being the clean version of my favorite word (clusterfuck) and also a synonym for brawltogethernow if you tilt your head... Am I ready to give that up.

Do I Get Asks: Yes! I love you guys. Once in a blue moon I even finish answering them.

Reason for URL: An old note on my phone suggests I picked it from a huge pool of roughly Homestuck-username- style blends of words and phrases with common syllables. (brawl + all together now = brawl together now; philosophy + velociraptor = philociraptor) I vaguely remember drafting it? Noodling down all the combos I could come up with in...the schedule-filler law class I had last period of my senior year...? I’m not sure if I intended to use one or wanted to have them on hand for writing projects. I think it was basically doodling, actually. And I guess...I referenced it when I finally made an account? I’m glad I passed over the cutesier ones for one that’s vaguely violent.

Following: Apparently 77. Lots...of these...are dormant. I only follow stuff that updates so infrequently I know I'll forget it before it updates again, aesthetic/theme stuff I 100% jive with, and people whose social media I catch myself starting to check for updates constantly in rotation with the zombie-like refreshing of my blog activity/dashboard/e-mail. Otherwise I check blogs manually when I actually feel like it. Busy dashboard...ungood.

Average Sleep: Bad. I’m currently leveraging shelter in place to experiment with going along with when I naturally get tired and wake up -- which I thought I’d done before and always ended up with a somewhat fluctuating schedule of going to bed around sunset and waking up nine hours later, but I’ve realized that was actually still influenced by my drive to get up and go to bed as early as I could manage, and the concept of a 24-hour day. I’ve abandoned both of those and if I'm afraid to share the results. I think people would cry.

Lucky Number: 22, 9.

Currently Wearing: Artsy Threadless shirt of the TARDIS materializing, dark jeans, burgundy plaid overshirt, disintegrating open front sweater, purple and lavender socks with a landscape of pine trees, clouds, and a moose.

Dream Job: Non-specializing actor but sometimes Marvel calls and begs me to take a writing job for them and I graciously comply, also I have a webcomic and am a novelist and a princess-firefighter.

Okay not a princess-firefighter.

Dream Trip: Check any two: hot, city, ocean is nearby

Favorite Food: Sushi.

Instruments: Took piano for a few years at my own behest but didn’t get very good at it.

Favorite Song: Nah.

Tagging other people. I hate this part. XD ...Who do I owe at least one of these.... @phoenixyfriend @whetstonefires @lizasweetling (??) If you want to play please consider yourself tagged; this will probably get you tagged in the future.

[sparkylurkdragon]

I posted 9,085 times in 2022

That's 4,216 more posts than 2021!

246 posts created (3%)

8,839 posts reblogged (97%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@/taggthewanderer

@/antiqueanimals

@/dzamie

@/typhlonectes

@/vaspider

I tagged 9,085 of my posts in 2022

#queue - 3,949 posts

#oh dear - 1,841 posts

#wildlife - 1,318 posts

#pets - 588 posts

#cats - 487 posts

#yep - 446 posts

#dragons - 390 posts

#housecats - 374 posts

#sonic the hedgehog - 373 posts

#pokemon - 345 posts

Longest Tag: 110 characters

#there's a villain who can be foiled by playing someone's favourite song from what some quick googling tells me

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Oh this episode was so good!!

Feathered Velociraptor using WAIR and in general just being scrappy and delightful little ground-hawks!

Tyrannosaurus rex mating displays!

Deinocheirus in all its Fucking Bizarre Glory!

Quetzalcoatlus!!! Showing off mastery of air and land! That beautiful display of how we think pterosaurs took off!

I’m just beside myself grinning! This is what I want to see from dinosaur media! Dinosaurs and their contemporaries just being incredible, beautiful animals existing in their environment!

94 notes - Posted May 25, 2022

#4

Ah-ha, I see! We're at the part of the horror story where we're yelling at the protagonists!

281 notes - Posted October 1, 2022

#3

Miss Urist's reaction when I clicked my tongue at her and announced a friend of mine said hello.

308 notes - Posted August 18, 2022

#2

So here’s a comparison to maybe help newer fans understand why a lot of LJ-and-older fans are so defensive about drabbles being 100 words exactly.

It’s like haiku.

Drabbles are writing challenges. It’s a specific writing challenge to create a story or scene in 100 words exactly. Not 99, not 101.

It’s just like you can’t have a haiku in a 6-7-5-syllable format: it might well be a haiku-inspired piece of poetry, but it isn’t a haiku because it doesn’t Rise To The Challenge of the format, and you definitely couldn’t call Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” a haiku just because it’s also a poem.

I mean, I guess you could? Language is malleable. But folks will look at you strangely and think you have perhaps missed the point.

5,175 notes - Posted July 15, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Here’s the thing about LGBT+ vs. Queer.

I’m ace, nonbinary, and demiromantic. With LGBT+ I’m included in the plus. And I’m happy to be included! Indeed, folks pointedly using LGBT without the plus makes my hackles raise.

But. I am sick of being in the fucking plus sign like an afterthought.

And no, adding more to the alphabet soup doesn’t help that feeling. There’s a limit to what human brains can cram in. I don’t think it’s reasonable to make folks say an increasingly long acronym every time they mention the community. I appreciate the effort, but you’re always going to either leave someone out or cram them into the miscellaneous field the plus sign represents.

With Queer I’m just there, alongside my queer siblings. The details may be different, but I’m just as queer as a cis allo gay man or a trans allo straight woman or a genderfuck individual.

We already tried to meet folks who don’t like queer as a word halfway with MOGAI. Marginalized Orientations, Gender Alignment, and Intersex. It’s inclusive without using the Dreaded Q-Word. Surely, if the objection was to “queer” as a Terribly Traumatizing Word (just like, oh, every other word used for us: “gay” was the slur of choice where I was growing up), MOGAI would be the perfect solution, yes?

And yet, that was thrown back into our faces and turned into an insult. So, at that point, I said fuck it and fuck you. I’m queer, and if its inclusivity makes you mad, good.

23,554 notes - Posted May 30, 2022

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[rhysgfrelsa-eudyptula]

About Me

I was tagged by @chibichocopaws 

sweetheart, if you are boring, I’m right there in the coma section. LOL but I appreciate the interest nonetheless

Name: Rhys (not my legal name, but this is what you are getting and the only name I will actually answer)

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio. As in pure and true Scorpio.  I am 100% Scorpio. fear me. LOL

Height: 5′2″ don’t laugh... dynomite and nitroglycerin come in small packages too, but they make the biggest explosions.

Languages Spoken: English mostly.... and a handful of words in more than a handful of other languages, enough to get me into trouble, not sure about back out again. LOL

Nationality: American  (because I have no clue, need to do that blood dna test because I want to know)

Favorite Fruit: Dragonfruit and Lychee (I love them both, can’t choose just one)

Favorite Scent: Vanilla. only thing better is freshly brewed coffee and or a freshly made pecan pie.

Favorite Color: Blue. not just one blue... all blues... except neon which is nearly eyebleeding... 

Favorite Animal: Land- Jaguar, Sea- Orca, Extinct- Velociraptor. Mythical- Dragons (eastern and western types). Bug- Dragonfly, Scorpion is in second place. Air- Owls (I had to clarify because I can’t pick just one, they have categories, and each is a favorite in those categories)

Coffee, Tea, or Hot Chocolate: All of them? No? Then it would have to be coffee... caffeine is my lifeblood. vampires beware... my blood will likely give you caffeinated jitters for YEARS. *cackles*

Favorite Fictional Character:  Duo Maxwell from Gundam Wing, Keith and Shiro from Voltron Legendary Defender, and Edward Elric from Full Metal Alchemist (because I can’t just have one favorite)

Dream Trip: Um.... I used to.... but crowds and people kinda make it all a big no for me. But I would like to see Scotland and Ireland.... and Stonehenge...

When was your blog created: I forget... sometime last year... or maybe the year before.... -.- I forget.... 

Last Movie you’ve seen: 2 movies back to back and I should have known better... 1. Coco 2. Kubo and the two strings.... both made me bawl my eyes out.... I should have known better.

Song you’ve had on repeat: SHINY! (Johnathan Young version), Dollhouse - (Nightcore version of Melanie Martinez song), Heaven and Hell - Digital Daggers (but then again... I have a large playlist on constant repeat)

Favorite Candy: Guess.... okay fine.. Reese’s Pieces or just Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.... (perfect pickmeup for anyone having low blood sugar problems)

Favorite Holiday: Halloween. Always and forever. I love everything to do with Autumn, the costumes are cool, CANDY CORN!!!! THE BEST STUFF NOT THE CRAP THEY SELL ALL YEAR!!! Also... the history of what Halloween used to be about. (Scary movies are boring to me, because they are all the same... in their most basic rundown)

I’m tagging…. @anaranesindanarie and @helmistress