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A man that has fleas and a few ethics violations
#koinobart#koi fries#original character#oc#haoyu#mad scientists#biologist#that quote from jurassic park#artists on tumblr#mad scientist#sketch
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there's always a second magpie somewhere
#and that's when the attack comes#not from the front#but from the side#from the other magpie ...you didn't even know was there#lol#they are dinosaurs#after all#magpie#one for sorrow#two for joy#pottery#ceramic#underglaze painting#jurassic park quote in the tags lol in case anyone isn't sure where it's from#claypigeon#glazeware
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shoutout to the part of the lost world (the book) where a guy tries to hold still so the t rex won't see him, just like in the last book, and it doesn't work, and the t rex gives him a confused look and then gorily eats him and a little while later ian malcolm michael crichton the author turns directly to you, the reader, and says 'LMAO, T REX DIDN'T HAVE VISUAL SYSTEMS THAT COULDN'T SEE MOVEMENT. LET ME EXPLAIN IN GREAT DETAIL HOW THAT WOULD BE COMPLETELY STUPID. I'M MICHAEL CRICHTON, AUTHOR OF JURASSIC PARK, THE BOOK WHERE THE T REX CAN'T SEE YOU IF YOU DON'T MOVE. HAVE A NICE DAY'
Most audacious retcon I've ever seen.
#I checked to make sure this wasn't a movie addition and found a quote from the novel. 'Rex can't see you if you don't move' was in the book#'he probably read the wrong research paper' said malcolm shaking his head#That paper was written by Your Friend Alan Grant who did this One Weird Trick on a real live t rex that wanted to eat him and it worked#Yes it is more audacious than 'Bilbo Lied' for two reasons. 1) Tolkien edited and republished The Hobbit to add in the new lore#Crichton left Jurassic Park as-is and just wrote a sequel where the characters call what happened in it stupid#2) Tolkien established in-universe why the information changed and that the one ring makes you lie about whether or not you stole it#In Jurassic Park vs Lost World one thing is true and then another thing is true and there's no magic and no time travel#Even as a kid I saw that and went 'can you do that? Can he do that'
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pet peeve is when a story tells us something is aberrant, but it seems to matter more about who does the behavior than the behavior itself. rorschach in snyder's watchmen isn't going too far; we watch nite owl and silk spectre ii snap necks and arms with gleeful, loving abandon, in slow motion no less, while they lecture the audience about rorschach's violence. heroes frequently torture the plot contrivance out of a villain and then moralize to the camera when the villains do the same. indominus rex's killing spree doesn't shock or appall me; all the jurassic world dinosaurs act like mindless killing machines, and the camera lingers, rapturous, on their cruelty. it's not an outlier. there's nothing interesting about it beyond as a set piece.
in a better script, the indominus rex would have had pathos; a chimera made for entertainment, for profit, stitched together with no regard for itself and placed in a lonely box. a freak among freaks. of course it would be mad. but the film wasn't interested in it as an animal, or a character, only as a moving piece of scenery for people to scream at or breathe tensely while it can clearly smell and reach them but doesn't, because it isn't a character and doesn't have motivations.
it's just sort of boring, i suppose. it tries like all other empty drab things do to cover it with bombast and roaring and soaring brassy scores but it's just sort of dull. a sprawl of nothing.
conversely peele's nope is a transcendent monster movie, imo, because it thinks about the the whys and hows, how jean jacket perceives the world, how the world perceives her, and lets that shape the narrative as much as jupe or emerald or gordy. they consulted biologists and behaviorists, digging into the meat of it. the creature as a camera as an animal as a device. nope has layers. it takes its own insane premise seriously, and has something to say, and is a goddamn good movie. i forgot where i was going with this.
#always rattling that quote from peele about the difference between horror and comedy being a matter of timing#creature horror is my favorite horror and most of it is Bad but i love it. sometimes you strike genuine gold and other times. well.#drives me crazy when monsters behave only in ways meant to be scary rather than how a real living thing would act. you can do both.#i remember hearing about a woman attacked by a moose in her own back yard. it gored and stomped her then left back into the woods#a few minutes later as she tried to crawl away it came back and attacked her again. terrifying! for no purpose!#a prey animal attack is often more frightening and vicious than a predator's imo#because to be eaten -- that carries its own logic. a prey animal though holds fear and rage and desperation in the core of it. it Knows.#a lion is a simple creature compared to a beef bull who just managed to corner the farmer against the fence#unlike say movie monsters continuing to chase and kill and attack while a volcano goes off around them and literally burns them to death#don't get me started on the icy swimming feathered raptor#also the goddamn dimetrodon in the caves like. i have never seen a beast less suited for a goddamn cave. why is it acting like that.#the book jurassic park goes into the behaviors and dynamics and such of the dinosaurs and what it means that we made them and why#using the cutting edge of science to craft both story and its monsters#but the franchise is dreadfully incurious#as many franchises end up being in the end#frog croaks#i guess i wanted to complain about the jurassic world franchise specifically actually#i haven't read crichton since high school. maybe i should revisit and see if my opinion holds lol
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Not gonna happen but what if nightbringer also shows us the stupid things the brothers have done to adapt to the devildom.
Like yeah they're going to be bitchy and on a short trigger for explosive anger, but also.
Overcompensating.
The brothers strutting aound in their demon forms 24/7; the other nobles that were knocked down a peg think it's because the 7 are showing off. And like, 2 of the 7 are showing off. The other 5 just dont know how to switch out of the demon form.
Killing a group of succubi on the first day of school? Yeah, they were standing in the middle of the hall and blocking everyone, this is totally a reasonable response for a demon to have right?
Beel not controlling his strength and wrecking gym supplies, learning that working out helps him ignore his feelings. Mammon in his early gambling days simply killing anyone that he owed too much money to.
Satan being the most well recieved because he has never been an angel and adapts the fastest. Him having to act as a cultural barrier between his brothers and the devildom, a role he despises that should fall on to Lucifer, but he's busy being accquainted with Diavolo, the other royals, and the academy.
Asmo has always been beautiful and is used to getting his way, but now he has to deal with people always wanting to grab him, touch him. His hair, his body, his things. Anyone he tries to talk to seems to go slack jawed and stupid and he feels like he can only have mildly interesting conversations with his brothers. Asmo having to deal with the corruption of his beauty.
And the only reason they're chill now is because no one challenged them. Like kids acting up for attention- no one retalliated or punished them for all of their crazy outrageous antics so they got it all out of their system and then mellowed out.
It would also be fun to see the aftermath of the celestial war with so many newly fallen angels learning to be proper demons (i believe it was more than just the 7 that fell? Could be wrong) and when they try to act out the eay that the brothers do, most get killed for it.
#something something quote from jurassic park: theyre learning where they fall in the food chain#i should actually look at the promo material i have no idea whats going on
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Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions. - Dr. Alan Grant, Jurassic Park III
The thing about Ramattra being unable to truly understand Mondatta's teachings, along with sentience being shoved upon him by Aurora when she decided to share her gift with all omnics, is that it goes against what he was coded to do.
A Ravager class. An omnic designed to lead others against humans.
We see a bit of it in the cutscene after the Gothenburg mission. All the omnics there have blue vision receptors while Ramattra's has remained red. And in the world Overwatch exists, red is evil.
If we were to hold that also to something a little older in media, I, Robot comes to mind. The robots there had a blue interface before it changed to red to signify that something was wrong. No longer good, now a force to be reckoned with.
But back to Ramattra.
He does regret his actions from the Omnic Crisis, which is what led him to the Shambali in the first place. Tried to devote himself to peace, and for a while it worked. For a bit.
Mondatta preached how he and all his brothers and sisters, whether they were circuitry or flesh were one underneath the Iris. This is said with benevolence, something only Mondatta could say. Not much is known of what Mondatta did before the Crisis. Was he too corrupted by Anubis? Or was he left untouched, an omnic that probably had already lived in Nepal under service of the people who lived there?
Speculation, speculation, we will never know. For now at least. What we do know is that despite all the time he spent at the monastery, Ramattra could not fully let go of what his original purpose was. It was always there, locked in a small box until one day he took note at how his people, his brothers and sisters were but a single generation.
Omnics cannot create new life while humans can. Once an omnic can no longer keep themselves up to date, what happens then? And then there is open hostility against their people too. An entire continent decided to nuke itself to get rid of an omnium. One of it's cities makes a bloodsport of hunting any poor omnic that mistakenly wanders into their midst.
It's a bitter feeling that digs itself beneath his wires and metal. How is it that humans can go on living while his people are left behind? Humans fear another crisis so almost all omniums have been shut down. Any God AI left are either quarantined or has met their end as Anubis did.
Aurora cannot provide any answers. Why curse him with sentience? Why is it that he is the only Ravager left? What is his purpose now?
Questions upon questions that no one can answer. And when he tried to find them on his own, that locked box was essentially forced back open.
It is so very easy to return to what he originally was. It will be different this time because the difference between then and now is that Ramattra has sentience. He makes the calls but now he is making mistakes. Big ones that has caused him to lose companions. Either at the hands of humans or because he himself drove them away with his mad pursuit of what he perceives to be a better life for his people.
And if they won't follow him, well, he'll force them to. No matter the cost. Whatever it takes until he breaks.
#Ramattra#Overwatch 2#Omnic Crisis#why yes i am using a quote from jurassic park 3#it fits after all#i am very passionate about Ramattra okay?
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Claire: I just want someone who will spank me, fuck me, and then take me to the office Christmas party. Is that too much to ask?
Zara: From me, yes.
#source: texts from last night#jurassic park#jurassic world#incorrect quotes#claire dearing#zara young#claire x zara
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You know what I love about Jurassic World? That it makes the "We won't make the same mistakes again- No, this time you're making totally new ones" quote entirely come true. Jurassic Park failed because they put dangerous animals they hardly knew anything about in a theme park setting and thought they could control them- and then, surprised pikachu face, it turned out they couldn't. But the point is, they actually learned from it. In Jurassic World, they knew more about the animals, their wants and needs, their natural behaviour, and designed the park around it. They didn't try to control the animals in situations where they couldn't, and focused on avoiding these situations and keeping everything in a setting where they actually COULD keep them under control. And it worked AMAZINGLY WELL. While Jurassic Park already failed when it was still under construction, Jurassic World opened its gates for the public. Hell, they were able to allow people to go canoeing next to sauropodes without having a single accident. The park was open for a long time and was incredibly successful. And then, they decided to create a new spectacular dinosaur just out of pure spite. They didn't know what kind of animal they were creating, and neither they cared. And then, shocker!, said animal destroyed Jurassic World because no one could predict how it would behave.
Jurassic Park is not a series about the dangers of bioengineering. It is a series about how capitalist greed turns bioengineering into a catastrophe.
#jurassic world#jurassic park#jurassic world dominion#michael crichton#indominus rex#ian malcolm#allan grant#ellie sattler#john hammond
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Cute When You're Jealous
SUMMARY: Glen misses out on an event the two of you had planned to go to together. So a friend takes you instead, but it leaves Glen feeling a little jealous.
PAIRING: Glen Powell x Reader
A/N: Thanks to the Anon who sent this request in! I tried to do something a little different with it and make Glen the jealous one instead of the reader. I hope you like it!
PROMPT: "You're really cute when you're jealous."
WARNINGS/TAGS: None. Just Fluff.
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The two of you are stretched out across Glen’s couch, perfectly tangled together after the few days he was away. One of your legs is draped comfortably over his thigh, and you’re curled into his side, with your arm resting across his stomach. He’s got one arm wrapped firmly around your waist, his other hand resting over your forearm. His fingers are tracing light, soothing patterns up and down your skin—a touch that feels both intimate and grounding.
You smile up at him as you begin telling him about the Jurassic Park screening, the one he had wanted to take you to. He’s watching you closely at first, but as you start talking about the details of the night, his fingers gradually stop moving. He’s silent as you describe the T-Rex scene, his hand stilled against your arm, and you notice he’s not looking at you anymore. Instead, his gaze is fixed somewhere down near his feet, and the usual ease in his expression has gone quiet.
“Glen?” you ask softly, studying him. You can feel the slight tension in his shoulders, the subtle way his arm around you has stiffened just a bit. “Is something wrong?”
He blinks, glancing up at you with a sheepish, almost-too-casual smile. “Hmm? No, no, I’m good,” he says, brushing it off with a chuckle. But there’s a hint of something else in his tone, a little edge of restraint.
You tilt your head, giving him a look that says you’re not buying it for a second. “Okay, try that again. Because I know you, babe. Something’s definitely up.”
He tries to wave it away, running a hand through his hair, but he can’t fully hide the reluctant smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.
“It’s really not a big deal. I just, uh…” He lets out a breath, finally looking back down at you. “I guess I just hate the idea of missing out on things with you. I was the one who planned that night, you know? And here I am, getting scooped up to New York, and then someone else gets to be there with you instead.”
You feel a warmth spread through you, and you give him a reassuring squeeze, your fingers brushing gently over his ribs.
“So you’re saying you’re jealous,” you tease, your voice light, though your heart aches a little for him.
He scoffs, rolling his eyes like the very idea is absurd. “Jealous? Of what? That you spent a night quoting some dinosaur movie with Joe? Hardly.”
You raise an eyebrow, unable to hold back a smile as you reach up to brush a stray lock of hair from his forehead. “Uh-huh. So, no jealousy at all?” you press gently, catching his gaze and not letting him squirm away this time.
He shifts under your gaze, his cheeks tinged with a faint blush.
“Maybe just a little,” he admits, reluctantly, his voice barely above a murmur. “Not in a jealous-jealous way. I trust you, and you know Joe and I get along great. I just… I don’t know. It feels weird when someone else gets that time with you, especially when I want to be the one there with you.”
“You’re really cute when you’re jealous,” you murmur, leaning up to press a soft kiss to his cheek.
He groans playfully, rolling his eyes even as his smile betrays him.
“Oh, stop it. I am not cute right now,” he insists, though his arm tightens around your waist, pulling you closer.
But you shake your head, grinning up at him.
“Nope, you are. And anyway, it’s not the same without you,” you say, laying your head back on his chest. “I had fun, but trust me, I’d take a cozy movie night with you any day over some big theater experience with anyone else.”
His expression softens, and he shifts his hand up to brush his fingers through your hair.
“You mean that?” he asks, his voice carrying a vulnerable edge you don’t often hear.
You nod, meeting his gaze. “Absolutely. There’s nowhere else I’d rather be right now than right here with you. How about we make up for it and watch Jurassic Park together?”
His face lights up, and he leans down to press a gentle kiss to your lips, letting it linger. When he pulls back, his eyes are warm, his earlier hesitation melting away.
“You’re sure?” he asks, though the grin tugging at his mouth tells you he’s already in.
“Positive. Besides,” you say, snuggling closer to him, “I’m counting on you to give me the full experience, T-Rex roars and all.”
With a chuckle, he reaches for the remote and turns on the movie. His hand returns to your arm, gently running his fingers along it again as the opening credits start to play.
He presses another kiss to your forehead, murmuring, “Best movie night ever.”
And as the familiar music fills the room, you can feel the last of his tension ease away, leaving just the two of you, tangled up and exactly where you want to be.
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yes, I only did JP the original, because the minute you go beyond that you invite controversy,
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I want to be part of a non-fandom fandom.
It's like there's this migratory fandom that looks at every story through the same lens--literal slash goggles--and turns every character into the same archetypes and makes the same "incorrect quotes" joke about every dynamic and I just... I want not that.
I'd love to hear someone's big headcanon about James Bond's childhood or a meta analysis on Batman thinks about Dick vs. Tim vs. Jason or just some cool behind-the-scenes story from the filming of Indiana Jones.
But at best, you have to wade through a sea of "what if the hero and his [male best friend]/[male arch-enemy]/[male biological brother] were gay and had sex"? If you go into the James Bond tag, a ton of it is mean girl mockery, weird trans headcanons, and chatting about other characters played by Daniel Craig--nothing to do with James Bond. Not even George Lazenby!
It's like if someone grouped together a real Hollywood movie and its porn parody and said that the audience is the same, so you get some people watching Jurassic Park and talking about how the cinematic dinosaurs compare to what paleontologists believe they were like and also there are some people talk about how hot it was when a guy came on Jenna Jameson's chest. What are we doing in the same room, people? We are not here for the same things.
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So I wrote a bit about the film making of The Sign already but I wanted to dive a bit more into the VFX aspects b/c the show is - justifiably imo - getting a lot of praise for their work.
So I'm going to quote this video by VFX artists that I think sums up why, overall, the CGI works in The Sign:
"It's very interesting with a smaller budget Jurassic Park was crunched into choosing their VFX shots very very wisely and they didn't hold shots for longer than they needed to."
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(I recommend watching the entire video, there's a lot of great discussion and education on how VFX is done in film. They're not simply "reacting" but talking about the techniques used in the film making itself.)
This is partly what The Sign is doing really well, they're not lingering on any shots, they're using their budget well by picking the most impactful moments to include more expensive and complicated CG effects.
What I love about smaller or mid-budget films is you can tell when the crew had to get truly inventive, creative, and purposeful when choosing how to portray a specific effect or action in a scene. Jaws is one of my favorite examples of this; Jaws cost 9 million (about 51 million adjusted to inflation) in 1975, and the shark animatronics (there were 3 pieces) was difficult to work with. This led to Spielberg and the crew switching things up and going for that shark POV that's now really famous.
It wasn't an accident, but it wasn't 100% planned or originally intentional, there was an issue, and the crew reworked things within their budget so they could still accomplish their creative goals.
The iconic first scene of the t-rex in Jurassic Park is a combination of an animatronic and CGI. In the video above they talk specifically about how this was filmed, and how setting the scene at night, with a singular main light source, and covered in water, really helped make the t-rex look "real". And why that scene holds up really well even today.
The Sign has used moments of CGI very sparingly which works within the story yes by building up tension within the narrative mystery, but also in the film making. They're not overwhelming the audience with it, whilst also using real sets and props to blend in with those scenes AND using a lot of the CGI in specific spaces.
The scene in ep01 where Phaya meets the Naga for the first time is a good example; the water is dark, there's only a singular light source (above) and there's a general lack of background. With only one light source, the VFX artists don't have to worry about shading every inch of the Naga to photorealistic standards, the image doesn't have to be insanely sharp b/c the water adds a layer of blur to everything, and since it's already a mystical creature the audience already has a higher suspension of disbelief anyway making us more forgiving to the fact this is not a "real" creature.
Compare this mythical creature with the dragons from Game of Thrones:
I want to first say I do think the special effects of GOT were really good, the VFX team's work is to be appreciated. But see how there's more light sources required for these dragons? They're just not just within a limited area, they're outdoors in the open which requires more math (literally) on where the light will bounce and reflect, plus all the disparities in texture on the dragons themselves. See how parts of their wings are more noticeably red then others?
Game of Thrones was a show with millions upon millions in it's budget, so they can indulge, The Sign doesn't, so they have to be smart. And they are!
Another standout scene so far in the series as far as filmmaking goes for me is from episode05.
If you look closely you can see the edges around Phaya are a bit blurred out and rewatching the scene you can see an image of him is almost transposed over the actor as well. It gives it a pseudo 3D effect, which helps blend the actor into the fake background which makes it less obvious it's, well, fake.
Then there's the Big Moment, the reveal of our Garuda:
I'm partially not convinced this was 100% CGI I'm wondering if they used a bit of claymation or maybe a miniature or something (maybe a puppet?). The weight of the movement and body feel like something more close to the use of a puppet or animatronic than straight CGI. (If you want to read more about miniatures in film I recommend this article on Godzilla 1954!)
But what I find smart about this shot is that the focus of the camera is on the Garuda, Phaya is much smaller and lower in the frame. I say this is smart because being distance from Phaya allows for the Garuda and the background to take up more space in the frame and contrast less with the real elements, ie Phaya's real human body. It also makes the Garuda more imposing, dominating the frame at a higher angle, and gives a sense of largeness in comparison to Phaya's smaller human self.
Since the Garuda is against an already fake background there is no need for a "light source". Notice how the Garuda has no shadows or light reflections, unlike the Naga from before (or the t-rex)? This makes less work for the VFX team b/c now they don't have to math out where all the bits of shadow, light, and color textures would come from, everything is flat and singular.
Keeping the Garuda at a distance as well, means we're not looking at or for the details of their feathers, or body. We see there is texture to them, but it doesn't need to look photorealistic b/c of that distance in the frame.
Contrast it with Simba from Lion King 2019, or Detective Pikachu:
Again, I think both look very good, but they need to because the audience is so close to the characters in frame. If Pikachu or Simba didn't have this level of care and detail put in when the audience is literally right in their faces everyone would notice how fake they look and complain (I mean I still complained about Lion King but b/c it was a bad and visually boring film but the VFX team did a great job).
We know this because Ant Man Quantumania didn't put the same care and effect in and it looked horrible. Everyone clowned Modak, and fair, but it wasn't just him that looked bad. Entire set pieces look clearly fake, like why is Ant Man suddenly in Zanarkand??
In the second image, look at Scott and Cassie's clothes, you can see the light on their clothes (especially Cassie's) isn't the same as what's happening in their surrounding environment (which is a lot jfc). It's also just poor film making because the frame of both shots is cluttered to the god damn BRIM with STUFF our eyes aren't sure what to focus on. There's a lack of perspective and weight given to the scenes (compare these wide shots to Jurassic Park when our protagonists see the dinosaurs in an open field for the first time, there's a sense of WONDER). So our human characters get completely lost in the frame and feel overwhelmed entirely. They also stick out because the CGI isn't fully well rendered.
Possibly my biggest chaotic take to date, I prefer the CGI in The Sign to Ant Man 3 there I fucking said it. Ugliest MCU movie to date I said what I said.
There is at least care going into The Sign, there's thought, there's creativity, there's a sense of passion. I can forgive that the Garuda isn't photorealistic because it doesn't need to be, it needs to be visibly believable within the world it's set in and it does. The show has been very smart about when to employ it's special effects, and how to film them. It's taken care. It has more in common with films like Godzilla Minus One which had a budget of 15 million and looks phenomenal, way better than Godzilla vs Kong or what we've seen from Godzilla x Kong (which I am looking forward to b/c I'm godzilla trash).
anyway watch the sign it's gucci
#the sign#the sign the series#chaos pikachu speaks#lord have fucking mercy this was long#chaos pikachu metas#Youtube#pikachu's bl film series
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2024 Reading Log, pt 2
006. Gardening Can Be Murder by Marta McDowell. I honestly thought that this book was going to be about something else. With the subtitle “how poisonous plants, sinister shovels and grim gardens have inspired mystery writers”, I thought it was going to be about, you know, that. True crime themed to gardens, discussions of poisonous plants, that sort of thing. The book is actually about the mystery books that have gardening as a theme. And while the author’s dedication to not spoiling anything (seriously, anything, even 150 year old stories like The Moonstone or “Rappacini’s Daughter”) is admirable in its own way, this leaves the book feeling like endless buildup without any payoff. Big fans of murder mysteries might enjoy this—especially the last chapter, which interviews writers about their gardens—but I found it more boring than anything else, and finished it only because it was very short.
007. Antimony, Gold and Jupiter’s Wolf by Peter Wothers. This book is about how the elements got their names, and most of it deals with the early modern period, as alchemy transitioned to chemistry and then into the 19th century, when chemistry was a real science, but things like atomic theory were not yet understood. The book goes into fascinating detail, and has a lot of quotes from primary sources, as scientists then were just like scientists now, that is, opinionated and bickering with each other over their preferred explanations. And names! Many of the splits between elements and their symbols (like Na for sodium) are due to compromise attempts to appease two different factions with their preferred names. A book covering arcane minutia of history always has the risk of feeling like a slog, but this is a fast and fun read.
008. Doctor Dhrolin’s Dictionary of Dinosaurs by Nathan T Barling and Michael O’Sullivan, illustrations by Mark P Witton. This book is an odd concept, but one that I was immediately on board with—a D&D book written by paleontologists with the intention of bringing accurate and interesting stats for prehistoric reptiles to the game. The fact that it’s mostly illustrated by Mark Witton definitely clinched my backing that Kickstarter. And this book is a lot of fun. So much so, that I read it all in a single sitting. I don’t know how accurate the stats are (like, a Hatzegopteryx has a higher CR than titanosaurs or T. rexes), but they seem like they’d be fun in play, and the writing does a good job of combining fantasy fun with actual education. Even for someone not running a 5e game, the stuff on how to run animals as not killing machines, and the mutation tables, could be useful. There are multiple types of playable dinosaurs, all of which seem like they’d work well at the table and avoid typical stereotypes, and a lot of in-jokes and pop culture references (like the cursed staff of unspared expense, which looks like Hammond’s cane in the Jurassic Park movie).
009. Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day by Judith Tschann. I’m a sucker for books about etymology. And this one, on food etymology, is a pretty breezy read. I had fun with it, and it even busted some misconceptions that I had, etymologically speaking. Like, there’s no evidence that “bloody” as an explicative originated from “God’s blood”? Wild. Etymology books tend to be written in a sort of stream-of-consciousness style, where talking about one word may lead down a garden path to the next one. The book also has a couple of little matching quizzes, which is something I haven’t seen in a book since like the 90s.
010. The Lives of Octopuses and their Relatives by Danna Staaf. I was previously a little disappointed in The Lives of Beetles, another book in this series, but I knew I liked Staaf, who wrote the excellent book Squid Empire about cephalopod evolution and paleontology. I’m pleased to report that this book is also excellent. Staaf takes the “lives” part seriously, and the book is arranged by ecology, looking at different marine habitats, the challenges that they pose to living things, and the cephalopods that live there. Cuttlefish get slightly short shrift in this book compared to squids and octopuses, but that’s about the biggest complaint I had. I like how the species profiles cover more obscure taxa, and information about the best studied (like Pacific giant octopus and Humboldt squid) is kept to the chapters.
#reading log#marine biology#cephalopods#etymology#food history#tabletop rpgs#dinosaurs#D&D 5e#chemistry#periodic table#history of science#mystery#horticulture
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omg can i ask stuff?? do u have a favorite: videogame pass time food color dessert movie anime novel trope (ex lovers to enemies) musical snack place you go to clear your head type of cat catchphrase / thing you like to say a lot quote
or yk anything u wanna talk abt or share? :>
Ouuu okay long list here we go!!
My favorite videogame might have to be call of duty. Simple, fun, ykyk
Pass time I annoy the gang. Either do pranks or just talk to them until they get annoyed.
I LOVE spicy food. Griot is pretty good, got to try that when boss asked me if I wanted something special or whatever
My favorite color is probably purple. Purple or emerald green specifically.
I’m actually not a huge dessert guy! But when I do want something, a stolen sweet from one of the other guys is my go to. Tastes better when it’s stolen
I don’t watch movies often, but Jurassic park and all those were awesome!! Dinosaurs are cool as hell. I wish they added some feathers though to them, some dinosaurs had some fluff and weren’t just scales.
Favorite anime.. I don’t watch many, so I’ll just go with something sort of popular that’s good, like Demon Slayer. Their animations are so sick.
Novel trope? Maybe forbidden love, or uh.. redemption.
I honestly don’t know any musicals I’m ngl so I don’t have anything for that one
I like crunchy snacks. Crackers or peanuts.
I like to go see color when I need to chill out for a while. I also like seeing him in general, but he’s awesome. If I can’t, I like to go out in the woods outside the castle and wander for a while. If I’m needed boss just finds me and drags me back or whatever.
Long hair calico kitties! They’re so pretty and FLUFFY
Sssomething I say a lot? “Suck it” probably HAHA
‘Twas fun thinking of answers for these…….
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Alan: If I hear Wonderful Christmastime one more time, I’m putting my foot up Paul McCartney’s ass.
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In the 1993 film Jurassic Park, the dinosaurs are bred to be exclusively female, but as we later learn, the spliced DNA from the frogs gives them the ability to develop male attributes to allow them to continue to mate. "Life, uhhhh, finds a way," to quote Jeff Goldblum.
This leads me to a question I've been pondering for years:
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