#do dinosaurs exist?

[rwby-confess]

Confession #316

[qwantzfeed]

i probably know some things that aren't even necessary to my immediate survival, and i dunno if philosophy covers whether that's good or not

[swan2swan]

The biggest problem with Dominion is the dichotomy of Maisie's plotline with regards to motherhood, and the way both plots revolve around it from wholly opposite perspectives while never actually clashing.

Her plot starts off simply enough: she's angsting about not being a real person, Claire's trying to protect her, and Maisie spits at her with the "You're not my mother!" line right before she's kidnapped.

This is a classic Finding Nemo setup, which Claire takes to with gusto: she calls on favors, slips into seedy markets, fights a crime boss, eludes raptors, jumps out of a plane, and crawls through a forest to get the girl she calls her daughter back. Most stories would show this as a trial: ye olde "GASP! My parents love me!" story.

But the fact that Claire has no obligation to bring Maisie back is never challenged. Soyona doesn't bother with asking or playing the role of the tempting serpent instilling doubt; the closest the movie comes to that is Franklin giving her the "I told you this would happen" speech. It's all taken for granted, which is...okay, because we have already established who Claire is, but that's not the problem.

The problem comes with the other half of the story: Maisie mopes to Wu about how she's just a close, and Wu immediately points out how no, she was conceived and carried in a human womb just like everyone else! And he calls Charlotte "your mother".

And Maisie goes "Is that my mother?"

And when she meets Ellie, Dr. Sattler is somehow fully aware of who Maisie's REAL MOTHER, the one who created her and who she looks like, is, and gushes about how great of a eugen--person she was. Every single time Maisie talks about "her mother" with the people around her, the word is referring to Charlotte Lockwood, the woman who birthed her.

Meanwhile, that Claire woman is crawling into a slimy pond to get away from a twenty-foot-tall Kreugersaurus because she wants to get Maisie away from kidnappers.

Of course, Maisie runs back to her and yells "Those are my parents!", but there's still something missing there. Claire's side of the story is all about her powering through, risking her life time and time again to track down her daughter...but there's never really a moment between them later. Maisie even posits the "So I was just an experiment to her..." plotline that has been seen before, but even that's immediately refuted.

The movie's not wrong for avoiding the cliches and the oft-used tropes of foster motherhood, but it doesn't really break any new ground, either. Obviously, people can have more than one mom, but there's something of an imbalanced focus on Charlotte as Maisie's mother in the Maisie and Jurassic Park plotline, while Claire in the Jurassic World plotline is doing all the expected Mom Stuff.

I can't wholly express what's bothering me about it, maybe I'm overthinking it, but it...doesn't quite sit right with me.

[bogkeep]

saw some lego dinosaurs today :3

[the-lonelyshepherd]

If you were a dinosaur you’d be this one

(I know nothing about dinosaurs. I just think they are cool)

DILOPHOSAURUS!!!omg that scene from jurassic park was like so fascinating to me as a child…………. silly…..

[daisywords]

EVERYONE HOLD UP I think I just discovered the missing piece that connects the worldbuilding and the plot and the characters and everything and surprise surprise it's an element I was considering near the wip's genesis but discarded and now it's back in full force babey

[chaoticdesertdweller]

[limerental]

the tragedy of enjoying the type of fandom analysis, speculation, info, and long-form discussion that only really seems to happen on reddit these days but if I wander onto any witcher subreddit there's this yappy swarm of bigots on every post ever no matter what the post is about

.

[lulu2992]

Inktober 2023, Day 7: Drip.

Run.

[acetheidiotinacloset]

Kids shows that I think will do a lot of good/ have done a lot of good

Bluey (It's a no brainer, and The Sign better not be the finale)

The Ghost and Molly McGee (They finished the show though, and now I'm sad)

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

Bluey again because it deserves two spots

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Paranormal Park

Blue's Clues (We miss you Steve)

[kaiaprax]

Thank you @batri-jopa for tagging me! I always want to participate in these fun posts but sometimes it's hard on mobile.

[badbugbotblood]

TIL that my propensity for making squeaking/chirping sounds does, indeed, fall under vocal stimming

[swan2swan]

And I just fixed my little plot itch of "Dinosaur fights could NOT have been lucrative enough of a prospect for people to go all-in on them":

Exactly.

They're not.

But you start with Dinosaur Fights. A cruel fight between two creatures that have no right to be alive save for your money...and that's where you put the line. You have established that "dinosaur dogfighting" is bad and evil, and that it's much better to keep the dinosaurs alive for other things.

Which then justifies farming. And pet sales. And military use. Because now you've shown the world something terrible, and they have a baseline. As long as you don't cross that baseline (which also turns people toward it, because look at how forbidden!), you can get away with anything. And people who insist that this is "wrong" will now have to back down any time they complain about dinosaurs existing in the first place.

[xilianx]

Sometimes it's blessing and a curse that music/soundtracks fuel my writing motivation and scene planning, because either I got no fuggin music I need for days if not WEEKS on end to get the creative juices going or I got the same damn song replaying over and over as imagine multiple scenes down to the fine details and start going feral work because I need to write.

And sometimes it's a track from the Dinosaur (2000) movie OST because nostalgia comes knocking on my Spotify playlists like a mf that I owe money too and I forgot about for years.

[slumbering-shadows]

Many years ago I got some cool ass edgy Gothic cloth for a project but it was the last yard or so available at the time, and we waited and waited and waited for it to restock but it didn't and then I forgot about it

Well today I tracked down the manufacturer to see if maybe they had restocked it since it's been *checks notes* 6 years, and it turns out that this stupid place cycles out their designs annually and refuses to renew old designs and so I literally have the last bolt of this fabric in existence and I'm very sad because I want curtains out of it but I can only make 1.

[celepeace]

Sometimes I'm surprised that monster hunter isn't more popular among the creature design and spec evo corners of tumblr, at least the portions that also play video games, and then I remember that it's just about as hard as soulsborne games (I'd argue some specific entries are even harder) but doesn't have any of the atmospheric or story elements to attract people. It gets by on sheer gameplay alone and isn't a pvp game either. There is no way to make the game easier besides picking one of the less mechanically complex weapons and git gud. If it wasn't for the neat dinosaurs I couldn't think of a game less alluring to the average tumblr user