#notapangolin

[tyrantisterror]

If you're looking for good DC movies, I would recommend Shazam! if you haven't already seen that, and Aquaman, which is over-the-top in the best way possible.

I’ve seen those two - love Shazam!, liked parts of Aquaman but had trouble following the plot.

Wonder Woman is also good, but the best of them all is Birds of Prey, and honestly I should just rewatch that one again and get that sweet, sweet seratonin it gives me.

[bogleech]

Have you seen Callichimaera yet? It's a recently discovered prehistoric crab (around the Cretaceous) with a whole bunch of baby crab features. It's being called the "platypus of crabs".

They were a good baby :(

[deinocheirus]

Questions on the nature of the Gods

@girpgorp​ this is actually something I thought about quite a bit and couldn't decide on for a while. I decided that a lot of human depictions of them are completely normal looking humans (with lotsa teeth). I don't think most of the gods care either way but Mercury insisted that they should have a “Good public image”. 

A lot of average people have no idea or flat up deny the gods could be anything but the handsome figures they are depicted in art, or that they are formless, ethereal beings that we can't fully grasp the true forms of, despite the numerous people who've met the gods openly saying they just look like toothy ghouls.

@the-rat-empress​: To be chief deity means not only to be able assign yourself the domains you wish to rule over, but be able to do so with the other Gods too.  Something about gods makes them VERY fixated and devoted to whatever their “role” is set to, to the degree that it can be used to manipulate them. To be  the chief deity means you have 100% your own say on what you do or do not want to do.

Jupiter used this as both reward and punishment for his fellow gods. He made his favorite daughter the goddess of wisdom and strategy to show his affection of her, and promoted Apollo from a disease and health god to his more opulent roles to show his approval. He also made Neptune and Pluto the sea and underworld gods to push them away, and Juno the goddess of marriage to make her “more managable”

@superbigbootyassbitch​: I think Venus and Juno do love Mars and vice versa, but the Gods in general doesn't have uh..a great grasp on “love”.  It's hard to say how much of it is because of their somewhat alien nature and how much is from the fact of their less then stellar upbringings and giant egos.

I made this...completely incomprehensible chart for discord on the topic of the gods’ relationships with one another 

@notapangolin​ Currently the God’s ages arnt set beyond all of them (except maybe Liber?) being at least over a thousand years old, Vesta being the eldest. The Gods don't work with American Gods rules and can exist without human belief. “Nature Gods” have zero need for humans whatsoever even if they appreciate the acknowledgement, but societal gods are very much attached to and “need” people and their support.

[msjerlthesciencegirl]

WANTED: Anteater! Crime? Murder.

In 1969, Salvador Dali famously sauntered through the streets of Paris with his pet anteater. Though striking in appearance, the anteater likely makes a terrible pet. They can reach 7 feet long, and have velociraptor-like claws that can easily cut through denim and are used not only to destroy hardened termite mounds, but to slice a jaguar to shreds. You read that right. An anteater can demolish a jaguar.

A youngster may spend 6 months to 2 years attached to its mother’s back. If you were to get yourself a wee anteater, it would want to attach to you as well. Just ask author, adventurer, and conservationist Paul Rosolie. He acted as a surrogate mother for a baby anteater called Lulu, and spent many an hour with the furry little warrior physically attached to him. If the thought of a clawed monster attached to you constantly isn’t enough consider this: in 2007, while cleaning its enclosure, a caregiver named Melisa was attacked. The usually-docile anteater slashed at her legs and stomach, killing her.  

Some animals have been found in the jungle completely eviscerated, abdominal cavities completely emptied out. To keep its fearsome nails razor sharp, the anteater curls its front fingers back, and walks on its knuckles. This is how it got its misnomer of a name. Myrmecophaga tridactla means “Ant-eating. Walks on three fingers.” The first part is true, but the second isn’t--  they have five fingers-- we just don’t see them all due to their gorilla-like, knuckle-dragging shamble.   

Bizarre Biology Tongue can flicker 160 times a minute, which is about 2.5 times per SECOND. This allows the anteater to trap and consume 30,000+ insects per day/night. The anteater’s tongue needs so much power, that it is attached to its breastbone. (Ours are more or less suspended in our throats.) All the way from the sternum, the  tongue can stick out of its head by another two feet. The tongue traps insects as well as protects the tongue from their chemical warfare or attacks by being both sticky and covered like papillae-- little spines almost like a cat’s.

Like the aardvark, the anteater has a bizarre, gizzard-like stomach that grinds up their food since they have no teeth to speak of. But what’s even weirder is this: anteaters are incapable of making stomach acid. Most creatures have hydrochloric acid in their stomachs-- including us. The anteater doesn’t need it. Instead, as the stomach physically grinds down the insects, the insects release formic acid. This then, is what the anteater uses to chemically digest its food. Let me say that again, this time with horror: the anteater uses the ants’ own body acids to DIGEST ITSELF. That would be like if you were eaten by a tiger, and the tiger used YOUR inner juices to digest your own body. Freaky stuff.

Because it subsides on insects, the anteater doesn’t get the same preponderance of nutrients that other land-dwelling mammals get. This has an effect on its metabolism-- which is slow to get the most out of the bugs. This then, makes the anteater a generally slow and plodding animal, who needs to sleep 16 out of every 24 hours. It also means the anteater has an incredibly low body temperature for an endothermic or “warm-blooded” animal. We run 98.5 degrees Fahrenheit. Dogs are a bit warmer. Anteaters have the lowest body temp at 90-91 degrees. Thus, the tail comes into play.

To help thermoregulate, an anteater will use its tail as a blanket as it sleeps. (This behavior also helps hide the anteater. Unlike the aardvark, the anteater doesn’t create a burrow to sleep in, but rather a very shallow depression. So, it could easily be stumbled upon and devoured...especially with the shark contrast of its striping.) 

[tyrantisterror]

Hmm...All this talk of Godzilla Anime has got me thinking: how would you do a Monster Planet take on Godzilla?

Same setup as the anime trilogy - every Toho monster emerges at once, destroyed civilization utterly, the vast majority of humanity retreats with the aid of space aliens, flash forward a few thousand years.

Only this time, instead of focusing on a grating and poorly developed Ahab figure, our heroes are a pair of twins who have grown up ON the Planet of Monsters, living in the territory of the goddess Mothra.  In this version, evern kaiju is still alive, and each has become the avatar of a certain chunk of territory that in turn matches their appearance - Anguirus rules a desert filled with large, jagged rock formations, Biollante is the center of a massive jungle filled with animate plant life, etc.  They are, in essence, the new gods of the earth, and all life that remains on the planet has learned to live under their feet.  And there is life now - a lot of it, in fact.  The Planet of Monsters is a thriving planet, albeit one where humanity is not in control.

Which is a problem when the descendants of the humans who fled return to take back their ancestors’ turf.

Though our heroic twins are at first intrigued by the space-humans’ arrival, they soon realize that the meeting may not turn out in their favor, as the space-humans wish to kill the new gods and create an empire of man, even if it means destroying all the environments that have risen in the gods’ wake.  Worse, the aliens that arrive with them seem to have even more sinister motives, and they all insist they know better than the “primitive moth cultists.”  Can our heroes convince humanity to live in harmony with a world that’s outgrown them, or will the folly of men prove as endless as the wrath of Godzilla himself?

[tyrantisterror]

I have a pdf of the wildlife of Star Wars (along with a bunch of spec books) if you wanna use that.

Alright, hook me up!

[tyrantisterror]

Are the Wildmen of the Woods based on the evil invisible goblin monsters from the Rankin/Bass adaptation of L Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus?

Like, design wise?  Krompoos is based on the puppets for Kubla Krause and the Winter Warlock, Belsnickel is sort of a hybrid of the Bumble and Yukon Cornelius (with the outfit of Dwight’s take on the Belsnickel from The Office), and Old Pitch is based on both the Snow Miser from The Year Without Santa Claus and Grimsley from Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.

[tyrantisterror]

You been watching Fargo? I love the first three seasons. Really unfortunate they didn't get around to a fourth.

Didn’t care for the Chris Rock season, I take it?

[tyrantisterror]

what'd ya think of the main bad guy, Shane?

He’s a dick!

[tyrantisterror]

If ya need some anti-Punisher ammo, just remember that Punisher is such a simp for Captain America that when he pulled that whole "Hail Hydra" shtick couple years back, Punisher immediately defected to fascism.

Hell, is that even a defection, or is it just his true colors?

[tyrantisterror]

TT, as a fan of the Arthurian legend, how do you feel about Quest for Camelot? If you've seen it, that is.

I saw it as a kid, didn’t really like it that much.  I do like this reaction image though:

[tyrantisterror]

Hmmm...Here's a question for you: how would you go about making a kaiju like Hedorah heroic?

Hedorah eats pollution.  Teach him to do so without melting people and he’d actually be pretty damn useful.

[tyrantisterror]

Here's an idea to get your creative juices flowing: if you had to how would you go about making a Godzilla Christmas Carol?

Gigan is Scrooge, Mothra is Christmas Past, Jet Jaguar is Christmas Present, King Ghidorah is Christmas Yet to Come, Megalon is Jacob Marley, Godzilla is Bob Cratchit, Baby Godzilla is Tiny Tim, and the whole thing has a running gag where none of the kaiju involved know what the fuck Christmas is.

[tyrantisterror]

what are blurgs? or grimmly brimmly, for that matter

These are Blurrgs.  They debuted in the made-for-tv Ewok movies that debuted after Return of the Jedi.  Those movies are horrible, just wretched.

Wilford Brimley appears in one of them, and there’s a seen where he’s in, like, a potato sack nightgown that’s filthy, and he rolls off a bed and for a brief yet too long moment you can see his underwear, which is also filthy and stained.  This is the Grimly Brimley.

[tyrantisterror]

If you had to, how would you go about giving Godzilla a love-interest? For this scenario, we'll say Monsterverse Godzilla.

Monsterverse Godzilla already has a love interest, and her name is Mothra.

[bogleech]

Hey Bog, why are your reblogs upside down? As it stands they're constructed so the first reblog is on the bottom and your comment is at the top. It frightens me.

It’s apparently a glitch happening randomly on tumblr and some people’s blogs are also displaying their oldest-ever posts first too.