#dinosaur expert

[orgasming-caterpillar]

Hey yall what the fuck does this mean

[digi-lov]

Agumon Expert EX4-023 and Fake Agumon Expert EX4-052 by Takase from EX-04 Theme Booster Alternative Being

[kevin--of-desert-bluffs]

Doing these rundowns is helping me actually catch up, I admit I was fairly behind and I'm always delighted when it's randomly mentioned that a character is queer.

Like oh Joel Eisenberg gay? Neat.

[krindor]

Send help im experiencing childlike wonder and an academic study-bug at the same time

[smidge-j]

Hello tumblr here is a photo of me next to a very large dinosaur skeleton.

This is the patigotitan, a 30m long fossil found in patagonia South Amerrica somewhere. Idk I didn't really read the information I just looked at the big boy. And boy was this boy big. Fucken Massive Lad.

Blown away by the absolute size on this thing.

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

where im taking the doctor for a date tbh

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Why are ankylosaurs the most perfect dinosaurs ever?

they are shaped like a Friend

also, they have the best sense of smell ever. ever. they would be amazing at detecting danger. like. holy hell.

[the-witchs-cafe]

Rex Owen from Dinosaur King would turn into a witch in Puella Magi Madoka Magica!

Cause of Witchification: Finding out that your birth parents have disappeared whilst time traveling thanks to a mutiny caused by two of their crew mates has got to be shocking enough. Being stuck in the future, where he and his parents technically "belong", with no way to reconnect with your friends is a whole other can of worms.

Requested by anon.

[weaselle]

i want to talk about real life villains

Not someone who mugs you, or kills someone while driving drunk, those are just criminals. I mean VILLAINS.

Not like trump or musk, who are... cartoonishly evil. And not sexy villains, not grandiose villains, not even satisfyingly two dimensional villains it is easy to hate unconditionally. The real villains.

I had a client who was a retired executive for one of the big oil companies, i think it was Shell or Chevron. Had a home just outside of San Francisco that was wall to wall floor to ceiling full of expensive art. Literally. I once accidentally knocked a painting off the wall because it was hanging at knee height at the corner of the stairs, and it had a little brass plaque on it, and i looked up the name of the artist and it was Monet's apprentice and son-in-law, who was apparently also a famous painter. He had an original Andy Warhol, which should have been a prize piece for anyone to showcase -- it was hanging in the bathroom. I swear to god this guy was using a Chihuly (famous glass sculptor) as a fruit bowl. And he was like, "idk my wife was the one who liked art"

I was intrigued by this guy, because in the circles i run this dude is The Enemy. right? Wealthy oil executive? But as my client, he was... like a sweet grandpa. A poor widower, a nice old man, anyone who knew him would have called him a sweetheart. He had a slightly bewildered air, a sort of gentle bumbling nature.

And the fact that he was both of these things, a Sweet Little Old Man and The Enemy, at the same time, seemed important and fascinating to me.

He reminded me of some antagonist from fiction, but i couldn't put my finger on who. And when i did it all made sense.

John Hammond.

probably one of the most realistic bad guys ever written.

If you've only ever seen the movie, this will need some explaining.

Michael Crichton wrote Jurassic Park in 1990, and i read it shortly thereafter. In the movie, the dinosaurs are the antagonists, which imo erases 50% of the point of the story.

book spoilers below.

In the book, John Hammond is the villain but it takes the reader like half the book to figure that out. Just like my client, John is a sweet old man who wants lovely things for people. He's a very sympathetic character. But as the book progresses, you start to see something about him.

He has an idea, and he's sure it's a good one. When someone else dies in pursuit of his dream, he doesn't think anything of it. When other people turn out to care about that, he brings in experts to evaluate the safety of his idea, and when they quickly tell him his idea is dangerous and needs to be put on hold, he ignores his own experts that he himself hired, because they are telling him that he is wrong, and he is sure he is right.

In his mind, he's a visionary, and nobody understands his vision. He is surrounded by naysayers. Several things have proven too difficult to do the best and safest way, so he has cut corners and taken shortcuts so he can keep moving forward with his plans, but he's sure it's fine. He refuses to hear any word of caution, because he believes he is being cautious enough, and he knows best, even though he has no background in any of the sciences or professions involved. He sends his own grandchildren out into a life-threatening situation because he is willfully ignorant of the danger he is creating.

THIS is like the real villains of the world. He doesn't want anyone to die. Far from it, he only wants good things for people! He's a sweet old man who loves his grandchildren. But he has money and power and refuses to hear that what he is doing is dangerous for everyone, even his own family.

I think he's possibly one of the most important villains ever written in popular fiction.

In the book, he is killed by a pack of the smallest, cutest, "least dangerous" dinosaurs, because a big part of why we read fiction is to see the villains face thematic justice. But like a cigarette CEO dying of lung cancer, his death does not stop his creation from spreading out into the world to continue to endanger everyone else.

I think it is really important to see and understand this kind of villainy in fiction, so you can recognize it in real life.

Sweetheart of a grandfather. Wanted the best for everyone. Right up until what was best for everyone inconvenienced the pursuit of his own interests.

And my client was like that too. His wife had died, and his dog was now the love of his life, and she was this little old dog with silky hair in a hair cut that left long wispy bits on her lower legs. Certain plant materials were easily entangled in this hair and impossible to get out without pulling her hair which clearly hurt her. When i suggested he ask his groomer to trim her lower leg hair short to avoid this, he refused, saying he really liked her usual hair cut.

I emphasized that she was in pain after every walk due to the plant debris getting caught in her leg hair, and a simple trim could put an end to her daily painful removal of it, and he just frowned like i'd recommended he take a bath in pig shit and said "But she'll be ugly" and refused to talk about it anymore.

Sweet old man though. Everyone loved him.

[remnants-of-forgotten-dreams]

So, I had a thought. You guys know Quetzalcoatl? Feathered serpent, ancient Aztec god, basically a giant snake with feathers...

What if it's based on dinosaurs?

No no, hear me out. Snake? Reptile. Dinosaur? Reptile. Dinosaurs are believed to have had feathers. Quetzalcoatl is literally called the feathered serpent. If whoever originally wrote the myths found a magically intact dinosaur corpse and decided it was a god, the very act of finding and unearthing it would have exposed it to the elements, meaning we wouldn't be able to find it, because it got wrecked by weather and stuff.

In summary... Quetzalcoatl is a dinosaur.

[tngpolycule]

Watching a documentary on dinosaurs rn and were at the Extinction asteroid™ part and I don't understand how the ppl im watchkng with dont feel like crying from that . All that we lost . All Was Lost . The World ENDED. they didnt know what was going on :(

[qqweebird]

thinking about this tiktok i saw a little while ago that i thought was kind of funny, it was this person talking about one of their special interests being dinosaurs & i was thinking oh yeah same hat, i also love dinosaurs :) and they brought out some sort of dinosaur-patterned object like a backpack or whatever n then proceeded to say “i couldnt tell you a single fact about these guys, haha!” . They couldn’t tell us a single fact about their special interest. im not claiming to be the Autism Arbiter or anythang but WHAT !

[revolver115]

I only know one thing about the FATE series, and that one fact is it, somehow, has 15 versions of the same fucking dude, and one of them's a dinosaur.

[cobbleztone]

I have seen too many posts of Bruce being a tired old man who understands nothing his kids talk about, but im tired of that crap, Bruce is definitely autistic and he learns everything there is to know about what his kids enjoy so he can bond with them

Dick is into dinosaurs? Bruce now knows more than any paleontologist on earth.

Jay is really into a specific book series? Bruce has now read all the books, watched all film adaptations, and he has spent countless nights theorizing about it.

Tim is into skateboarding? Bruce is now a professional skateboarder and knows how to make a board at home.

Damien is into animals? Well, Bruce just got himself a PhD in zoology

Duke is into chess? Well Bruce is now an expert in chess

Cass is into dancing? Bruce has learned every form of dance in existence

And if you thought he only does this for his legal children, then you thought wrong

Bruce learns that Barbara is into fantasy rpgs? Well, Bruce just learned all about fantasy games

Stephanie is into cooking? Bruce now knows every recipe in existence

They all find it odd but weirdly endearing that he knows so much about what they all enjoy

[ex-vespidae]

if it was a competition i would always prefer the vibrant varied nature aesthetic compared to the sci-fi robot aesthetic

the reason is probably because vibrant varied magic nature is just..more creatively freeing? like with sci-fi robots you gotta make the robots look like robots otherwise they aren't robots lmao. But with vibrant magical nature... you dont. You can do anything with it and really as long as it looks like a creature anything goes.

fun fact this is technically a pkmn post about how the scarlet paradox pkmn are infinitely better than the violet ones in my opinion lmao

the scarlet ones are cool and just varied creatures but the violet ones... they're just robots. I feel like maybe if they went the cyborg route they'd look better but... they're just robots... And yeah sure you can like the robots more than the dinosaur-like scarlet paradox forms but still... they're just robots...

and yes you can like the robots and i don't care if you do i just will always prefer dinosaurs to robots