#look at them! there's a dodo!
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the little animal emojis remind me so much of sandylion stickers and i want to put them on everything
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#look at them! there's a dodo!#this is pointless but it brings me joy so#when else can i use the gorilla emoji honestly#i miss sandylion stickers
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Lookbook: Araminta Hearst-Irsay
Since it will take a while to get my head back into gameplay, here's a super quick thing I threw together of how I would have dressed Araminta before I shipped her off for @akitasimblr to torment😉, was I using cc at the time. It's fairly maxis-match and some are completely vanilla.
Very much missing Paint 3D on my new computer, need to find a replacement stat as that's being gradually phased out.
Everyday and Formal. Dress is by @sentate, top is an edit of that Tiny Living t-shirt dress. She could be walking on the sand so neither her formal nor partywear shoes are all that high or with stiletto heels. Plus as a professional athlete, she veers towards comfortable footwear anyway.
Exercise and Sleep. Shorts in the exercise fit are cc, top in the sleepwear fit is.
Party and Swim. The skirt in the party outfit is the only cc. I'd be tempted to swap out the bikini for the string one by @trillyke, but for desert island living Araminta would want something relatively practical that can double up as a second bra and underwear if needs be. Plus her entrance was kind of iconic, if I may say so myself 🫡
Hot and Cold Weather. Hot is as it was, Cold is with a cc pair of jeans since for the life of me, I could not find a vanilla pair that wasn't torn or frayed without also being Mom jeans (not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's not Araminta's style). Bear in mind with the Cold Weather fit, the BC is set in Sulani and Araminta's originally from foggy Henford-on-Bagley. She likely wouldn't wear both the sweater and the jacket at once - girly is just being prepared.
(I need a new editing program - and a cas backdrop, though this didn't look half bad by simply using the capture function.)
#baby's first look book#not even tagging this properly as i was too disorganised to keep track of creators#but i will look them up if asked#my sims#araminta hearst-irsay#mad about dodo#it's returning this weekend i believe#get excited!
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i still cannot believe that people actually read my posts. case in point: i got this notification (from @tumblemumbler, thank you) and laughed until there were tears.
it's true: i want to take fox mulder to the zoo. i'm guilty as charged. i wanna point at some lions and be like "woah", and see if he thinks the lions are amazing, or if he tries to play it cool and deny that sense of wonder you get from seeing a magnificent beast. is it so wrong to want to take a full grown man out to see the Creatures, and then watch him enjoy the gift shop.......? to find a nice little novelty tie with the funniest animal from the day on it...? to say, hey fictional man, let's put aside that decades long quest for answers on the existence of aliens, and marvel at some otters splashing about... now wouldn't that be lovely?
#in my head this is just my little diary no one reads so going through tags and comments are sososo fun#because we are experiencing a Thing communally! which is the best!#and i have to say everyone has been SO kind and funny and helpful and great about how i'm trying to avoid spoilers#so thank you to everyone who comments or reblogs i have fun seeing your commentary on my commentary!!!#i also of course think scully should go to the zoo but it's just that mulder has that energy where i think he really needs it more#now scully on the other hand i think she needs to go to a museum. neeeeeed to hear her takes on modern art.#give her something to really think about and ponder the place of humanity now vs in the past. what it means to be alive. is it to create?#i know she would have a deep and profound reaction to seeing an everyday object from 3000 years ago and i want to share that with her#and with her litany of biology facts i think that there is no choice but to take her to the science museum to look at dinosaurs and dodos#you will not find all of these things in one museum which is why we need to go to a bunch of them#when i get further in y'all i WILL write a fic where our duo goes to a museum and also a zoo. i want to have a better characterization firs#like a beach episode level scenario. i'll look into real museums in the DC area in the 90's and everything.#we'll see. we'll get there <3
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since everyone is sharing their smash or pass tier lists I'll share mine too
#can you tell I like them evil and handsome#maybe I should've placed Haarlep a little lower#but they look like Raphael I wouldn't need to think twice who am I trying to fool#dodo speaks
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ill give you a reason to hate our flag means death: its not a story Inspired in, like, the mythical figure of blackbeard or making some silly fantasy pirate nonsense, it's directly plucking the historic blackbeard and this plantation, slave-catching cunt he teamed up with once and making them go kis kis kis
knew you'd have a take on this. honestly idk if i even care to know all the ways this show is justifiably criticised bc i already know its just televised rpff & have already devalued it in my brain
#ikildaman shut the fuck up#tbhness i dont even care that bad bc obvs ive never watched it. like nun of this affects me#rpf has always put me off and i Really dont value rpf from FANfiction-y approaches#not only do i not know this random dead person but im probably worse off interacting w media abt them when i dont know them#+ im historically & geographically illiterate. i already dont know whats going on ever. there is no hook to make me care bout this show#other than >pirates and >maritime references#any rpf material i have successfully been made to gaf about i probably did not come into it looking for insight or w/e on the real ppl#or like the Notable Figures are not The Point#like charles darwin is in The Pirates!. this aint about him tho. this is about the Pirate Captain and Polly the Dodo#“charles darwin is drowning!” this aint about him
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where im taking the doctor for a date tbh
#yea we're doing all three in a day no thats not insane thats being honest about the speed at which they live their life#you know that thing about how the speed of your heart determines how fast you experience time?#like mice experience time faster than us and also live shorter?#bc their hearts beat faster than ours?#dont know if thats true but i read it once i think#you know how the doctors hearts sound like. super hyper fast?#anyway i want to spend a day hearing the most bonkers corrections of museum cards and watching them get in fights with museum people#'listen ''mr expert'' i killed the last dodo (turns to me. 'accidentally!' turns back) i Think i'd know what they look like dont you'#'really wasnt my fault. was a little bit my fault. 53 birds one timey wimey detector sort of a situation. shouldnt have brought it honestly#'but you dont step out of your tardis going:#'hm maybe i shouldnt bring my machine that boils eggs at 30 paces in case i run into the last 53 dodos''#'i mean the 17th century wasnt even on the agenda! i was in the 32nd century! two galaxies over! and then suddenly: mauritius'#'dont know what happened'#'well'#'53 exploded dodos. happened.'#'my sincerest apologies'#and i'll go 'lunch?'#or kissing with tongue behind a dinosaur skeleton whichever
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got a bunch of DIYs out if anyone wants to trade/take them awayyy <3
#acnh#acnh diy#acnh trade#acnh trades#animal crossing#animal crossing new horizons#dm for dodo code#literally come take them away they are all just lying around and i'm tired#i've set up a little display of what things look like too bc i was making sure i'd learnt them all
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I wanna learn abt extinct animals now
#💭 — ⌗nervo rambles . ★#came across a video saying how the Dodos died within 83 years from when the Europeans discovered them (1598-1681)#but later on they said there was a flightless songbird (the last flightless songbird ever) called the Stephen's Island Wren#and they went extinct in the same year (1894) they were discovered by Lighthouse Keeper and their cat hunted and killed them all#AND THEY'RE WERE PENGUINS TOO#they were called Auk Penguins and they went extinct in abt 70 years (1774-1844)#and then the Stellar Sea Cow#ok I'm done yapping now#Idk I think researching extinct animals would be fun#like I didn't even know abt the penguins or the songbird#the songbird looked so cool :((
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favorite extinct animal?
huge fan of dodos
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I once imagined this story where a raptor gains heightened intelligence/self-awareness and goes through an existential crisis. Although fighting off madness, he keeps looking after this dodo bird that he suspects got the same dose of awareness. He can't prove it, but that doesn't matter to him.
#trying to explain this blob of a story concept as concisely as possible. have mercy if its compellingness escapes you.#i rlly like this new look. also im renaming him to Rift for my sanity. also also the dodo's name is Melon!! round bird!! <3#dinosaurs#dinosaur#raptor#and rip dodos those arent even prehistoric and yet i didnt know that humans helped kill them off until like this year#oc#oc rift#mmkart
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To the guy on Facebook trying to insist to me that this woman named Jackie Lane is the same woman as the Doctor Who actress Jackie Lane…
… dude.
#he is really not pleased with me trying to correct him and there’s nothing more i can do about it so i’ve got to take to tumblr now#because come on#for someone who is so sure that he knows better he seems to have never looked at jackie in his life#the jawline? the eyes? the nose? you think that’s the same human?#people sharing names and getting mixed up in searches for each other do not make them the same person my friend#i’ve seen people get confused and claim the modeling photos are her before#(and to make matters worse there seem to be a couple different models with the name that turn up as well)#but. just look at them??#also quite critically. there’s no evidence that jackie ever modeled. end of.#thank you and goodnight#classic who#dodo chaplet#jackie lane
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Calm down everyone he’s clearly talking about Them
hey mr davies fascinating concept however
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
#Doctor who#Is this what he was intended to be talking about?#probably not#however#I Will believe he was talking about his adopted children until convinced otherwise#just bc they weren’t biologically his doesn’t mean he wasn’t their parent#i mean look at them#susan foreman#vicki pallister#dodo chaplet#victoria waterfield#zoe heriot#ace mcshane#tegan jovanka#nyssa of traken#adric#should… also have included Jenny probably#Oh well
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I was bored last weekend, and my brain decided the dodo is pigeons post was as good a thing as any to poke with a blunt ikea pencil for entertainment.
The nearest relative of the dodo, the nicobar pigeon, is still alive, so how hard would it be to get a modern dodo? A dodo sapiens, if you would?
Well, first of all, the nicobar pigeon is near threatened and looks pretty, so people are trying to keep it un-hunted and out of the pet trade. Zoos can breed them, but I'm pretty sure they would ban you from most zoos worldwide if you asked one to borrow their very hard to get birds for selective breeding of the "bored Internet user with a passably good grade in high school biology" kind.
So what if you take a different pigeon and try to work from there? Create a modern dodo. From a European wood pigeon, perhaps? A European wood dodo. You'd need to make it 50-75% bigger, somehow. And also get neoteny without killing its fertility or compatibility with life. But that feels... Doable? Maybe?
My skills in the subject are limited at best, but I've got a cousin who grew up in an animal loving home whose dad's love for parakeets culminated in her keeping a significant number of pigeons. She is a kindergarten teacher with a newborn child these days, so she doesn't have oodles of time, but she perked up at the mention of her sweet feather babies in my little thought experiment.
Her take: "I've not got any pigeons left that are at an age where I'm comfortable breeding them, but I don't think it'd be too-too hard. There's fancy breeds that are already quite big, but they have issues with mobility... Still worth looking into, though. Tell me if you need help sourcing some."
Not quite ready to turn my second floor apartment balcony into a pigeon coop, I turned to my other bird loving cousin, who researched the everloving crud out of optimal living circumstances for her brahma chickens. Her scientific background is a master's in psychology, and she works in various "do not get us sued, you unethical conifer of a human being" roles professionally, so I asked her how she'd go about getting a pigeon the size of her brahmas and induce neoteny.
Her plan: "If you're not starting with the right pigeon anyway, just go completely left field. See if you can cross breed whatever pigeon is readily available with, say, a brahma to speed run the size, then see if there's other birds you can get the neoteny from. Then breed selectively to fine tune the dodo-ishness."
Would this work? It seemed unlikely. It certainly would get questions from the vet if anyone tried.
So I asked my baby sister, who has two degrees in biology, but one of them is in worms and the other, somehow, in Python. The programming language, not the snake. She works in ecology, assessing what cleanup needs to happen if people want to stop having to pay pollution fines and/or make their land suitable for anything but industrial waste management. Her home is eco friendly. Her child has organic wood toys recommended by pedagogical experts. Not crunchy, not hippy, but... solarpunk accountant. How would she go about it? Make a wood pigeon big first? Or select for neoteny, so you wouldn't lose size from that?
"That takes too long. Just CRISPR that shit into activating, then troubleshoot until it's compatible with life, then see what else you need to tweak genetically to get to a dodo."
That... Felt like a big thing to do in the back yard of my thought experiment.
"You don't have a back yard. You've got a tiny balcony. And probably some strict animal hoarding laws."
I also don't have access to CRISPR.
"Eeeh, I know some people. Just talk to [pigeon cousin] first about how to take care of them."
I just want to point out, dear reader, that at no point anyone in my family questioned why anyone/I would want to recreate a dodo. I also never said I was going to, but it was just assumed I was picking it up as a casual hobby, a natural next step after my... Knitting, sewing and baking.
If questioned, they'll just say I'm the weird one in the family, but it is very important to keep in mind that absolutely nothing and no one forces them to readily and enthusiastically entertain my whimsies.
#dodo#scientific ethics#thought experiment#idle curiosity at work#my family loves me#and I love them#those were not the answers I was looking for#now I wanna ask my uncle who grew up on a farm with several species of fowl#I am not starting an unethical pigeon breeding program#and not just because I've got nowhere to put it#I'M THE INSURANCE COUSIN I SHOULD NOT BE THE SECOND MOST ETHICAL OPTION HERE#very fun question to while away a Friday night with though#long post
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My pictures are best viewed on desktop until I can get a better monitor fyi
#and preferably a new graphics card too#I don’t notice how off the colors are until I see them on mobile#bear with me a little#looks like I’ll have to begin hotsampling too#I didn’t have to do it with ffxiv so that’s new#dodo speaks
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placing this here for fun bc why not (this is from s1 to s20 AKA doctor 1-5)
this only include my favs of the companions while i was watching (sorry adric, barbara etc. 💔)
classic (favs order):
nyssa
sarah jane
ramona (astra - regeneration)
jo grant
leela
dodo
zoe
susan
Ramona (1st body)
polly
liz shaw
#dodo liz shaw#polly and zoe#are 4 i didn’t remember so i had to look them up so they’re placed on appearance and what i remember#astra regeneration is the first time she regenerated and chose the body of a girl named astra from the episode before#*ੈ✩robin’s nest 🎧
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do tou guys like reg tavtor becia.se. meTOO!!!!!!!!!!!! okay have pilbly
I have a lot more elevator game dodoes here so look out 4 them I guess
#regretevator#regretevator pilby#regretevator mach#this is NAWT hat kid bru#roblox#fanart#doodles#loopy’s art tag 🧃
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