#i just wish i had more time to study it

[ranger-rai]

Are many resurrected pokémon rock-type as a result of the cloning process being from fossils, or is it just that rock-types fossilize more easily on account of already being made of rock?

It's been a hot topic these past few decades, ever since the first Omanyte was hatched in a hundred million years. The only species I know of a certain verdict on is Aerodactyl, given that it was cloned from a preserved blood sample, but is still rock.

Hmmm. I wouldn't be 100% sure on this one because I'm not a scientist, but from what I've been told, it's a bit of both.

A lot of the pokemon brought back through this process had so much rock and mineral in their remains that it was heavily ingrained into their DNA, however a large majority of these pokemon had properties of rock or ground types which made it easier for their fossils to remain more preserved.

For example, the Helix fossil is mostly preserved through that tough shell, or the Skull Fossil having one of the thickest skull bones known to us, so those pieces were able to last for so long, similar to rock types now with incredibly durable bones.

Some pokemon might have more in common with plants or Avians but the fossilized remains have been mixed in with the rocks and minerals for so long that they wouldn't be able to revive them without the rock typing.

Even though we can revive some pokemon with this method, there's still so much we don't know about the ancient pokemon we revive, so who's to say just how drastically different we got it.

[otaku553]

New blorbo :)

Also a silly interaction with this piece

[ryllen]

i have no other reason of drawing this, other than i just want to

[evocatiio]

if chibnall was the one writing this season you lot would be talking VERY differently

[icecreambeach]

another observation from A Study in Scarlet: after the case has concluded, Watson reads in a newspaper (the Echo)...

"If the case has had no other effect, it, at least, brings out in the most striking manner the efficiency of our detective police force, and will serve as a lesson to all foreigners that they will do wisely to settle their feuds at home, and not to carry them on to British soil."

RICH STATEMENT from a country who brought countless """feuds""" to any foreign soil they could reach!!! bold declarations from the colonizers i'd say!!!!!

[shhhh-baby-is-studying]

I get so annoyed when people tell me I'm gonna do great on a test I barely studied for. I know ur trying to comfort me, but honestly it just adds pressure. I thrive on academic validation. A C is an F in my head. So when someone I care about tells me that I'm gonna do great on a test that ik without a doubt I'm not going to do well on, it's gonna hurt me twice as hard when I bomb it. Because you had high hopes for me and I threw them on the floor.

Sorry for this really negative post, but I had to vent somewhere. I figured those following my studyblr or in the community would understand how I feel or smth. The person who said it didn't understand why I kept denying I was gonna great on the test even after I explained what I said up above. My friends also don't understand this mentality and kinda acted like I was being ridiculous and like I should've just said thank you and moved on. My rant is over now. Thank you, and I'm sorry to those who read it.

[telesodalite]

Sort of a ramble, sort of me just writing my thoughts out while I'm stuck with writer's block, but I keep thinking about how Fulcrum was in stasis for roughly 3 million years??

Like, that's a long time, even for Cybertronians. Not a really long time, not an entire lifespan. But still, it's a large chunk of a normal lifespan just gone. Poof.

One second you're crawling across the pockmarked terrain of an alien planet, surrounded by the sound of gunfire, and the shouting and screaming before and after each earth shuddering impact of another k-con hitting the ground. And then it's quiet. You're not there anymore. You're drifting somewhere between not alive and just asleep. Preserved somewhere in the background of a doomed body, ignored by time and space, still here, but also not.

And then there's sound. Not gunfire. Not shouting or screaming. Not the sounds that'll haunt you till your dying days, your own death sentence pounding in your head. No. Just voices, talking, standing out against a silent, dead world. Wondering. Joking. Bickering. Familiar. Just, not familiar to you. And you're awake. Pulled back from the nothingness you've been frozen in, consciousness tugged forwards with the yank of a fuel pump and the nearness of life.

These two moments are roughly 3 million years apart, but only minutes, maybe even seconds, to him. From a hectic harrowing battlefield, to an old silent graveyard in one blink.

How long did it take to really sink in? I mean, he seems to just roll with it. He doesn't seem particularly bothered. But like, what happened outside of what we see? How did he really feel?

Also, his body aged without him. While his mind preserved itself, freezing him as he was right then, his body was left to weather Clemency for all those years. No wonder it crumbled to dust when he jumped off the world sweeper. It's probably a miracle of some kind that it didn't just fall apart each time someone leaned on him.

And even after they rebuild him, give him a better, newer body. His spark, it's casing, all the irreplaceable core bits that make up their inner bodies, it aged in the time without him. Does he feel it? Does it make his body even more foreign to him?

Then he's also a technician with information that's 3 million years out of date. Lucky him that the scavengers probably weren't working with top of the line material. But still it's gotta be weird when faced with anything brand new, because a lot can change and progress in 3 million years, and now some of the knowledge he once prided himself in is obsolete.

Besides those things, his view of the galaxy, of the war, of their kind, of other kinds, is one of the few things actually pointed out when it comes to him being stuck in the past. So, how often were his old views challenged? Facts of life he held close proved to no longer true? There's 3 million years worth of new science, new beliefs, new words, new terms, new views.

And sure, some of it can be familiar, because they're an ever evolving kind, and they have patterns, core beliefs, repeating behaviors, but a lot of it's gonna be unfamiliar at the same time, because it's 3 million years worth of catch up, it's not like missing last week's trend.

In a way, it makes him a living relic of a bygone era for Decepticons. It would've been really interesting to have had that explored a little more.

[cheekblush]

really starting to believe that psychic who claimed i’m cursed

[offorestsongs]

UNIVERSITY.

[roaringroa]

they should make a life where you don't have appointments, work, school and scheduled events every single day for months on end

[radlegowaffle]

(not so) doodle page of a friends dnd character magdelene! character belongs to @pixellyix

[j-esbian]

thinking abt how much of my life i’ve lost to depression and i truly want to throw up

[moralchampion]

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[tangents-within-tangents]

I'm SO TIRED of being insecure about my art!

I'm so tired of my limitations and how every time I draw I can feel them holding me back

It's so frustrating how that will actually stop me from even trying sometimes, bc I KNOW that's dumb and I'll never get better if don't make things, but it's just so discouraging!

I'm so tired of how my creative productivity can never keep up with my ideas and inspiration

I'm tired of this ever-growing list of things I want to but probably never will draw bc it just takes so long and even if I could stay motivated I won't have time

I'm tired of trying to build up confidence and convince myself to be at peace with the process and stop comparing myself to others

I'm tired of almost instantly seeing everything wrong with a piece, sometimes before I even finish it

I just want my skill to be at the level where it can successfully bring my visions to life but I don't know how to GET it there

[frankiebirds]

sorry i don't have anything to say about the "to hell and back" two-parter! it's a really good episode with some great guest characters and some real emotions. but it's based off robert pickton and that's all i can think about. may he rot.

[rigelmejo]

Sometimes I wish to study Spanish, or Italian. (And Spanish I would probably use more... Italian would be nice for talking to cousins, but also many of my cousins learned english so they do not need me to speak italian...) or maybe Russian. But the last time I studied Russian I was dating someone who's family all spoke it, so I needed those basics to know what their family and roommates were saying and to help babysit their baby brother who knew poka! And objects and not much else. I don't need those anymore and quickly forgot the little bits I knew since I don't hear it daily like I used to...

And then I think, well, I learned enough French to read. If I really want to put hundreds of hours into a 3rd language again... it would be most effective to just work on my French listening skills, and speaking/writing skills. But there's no pressing reason to speak/write french right now. Sure, if I wanted a job in certain places I'd better learn that. But for now, all I do with french is read, and I can read what I want, so I dont really have a pressure pushing me...

(I can read nonfiction spanish too, and there's not really a pressing need to learn more spanish, except for that I DO have some spanish language shows, musicians, and novelists I would probably enjoy understanding more if I did learn. And there's a lot of online spanish posts I'd like to understand.)

But also it's like... you know. The reality is we only have so much time in a day/week/year. And splitting time even More means slower progress in Every goal. And it's probably for the best to NOT split down into even more goals until there's more time for new ones. (Says I, the workaholic trying to Be Less of one, who is always juggling way too many goals lmao)

I guess my point with all this is just. Everything is so cool. It would always be awesome to understand more. Hate that our time is so limited. :c