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VOTE JAKAPIL FOR DINOSAUR MARCH MADNESS
@a-dinosaur-a-day
No other contestant in the final four is such A Creature™️ the way that Jakapil is. Jakapil is simultaneously the ultimate being to exist from the perspective of a dinosaur-obsessed child and a fascinating, paradigm-shifting paleontological enigma. Literally the perfect dinosaur, what more could you want
Why vote for Jakapil?
the most likely scenario here is that this guy represents a hundred million year old ghost lineage of basal thyreophorans that we’ve never discovered before. The less likely scenarios are bipedal armored ceratopsian or a completely new kind of ornithsician, both of which have been genuinely considered by some paleontologists! Whatever the case, Jakapil represents a brand new, never-before seen lineage of dinosaurs unlike anything we’ve ever known before, and that’s SO COOL
Aesthetically, this is a bipedal armored dinosaur with tiny abelisaur-grade arms, estimated to be less than 5 ft long and 15 lb (or 1.5 m and 7 kg max). Literally perfect. I’m really bad at visualizing measurements but I’m pretty sure you could pick it up and hold it in your arms if you tried. Sure you could do that with Heracles or Caihong, but you don’t need a Time Machine to pick up parrots and shiny bird things - there’s nothing like Jakapil for you to hold and snuggle today
They’re so friggin weird. It’s got jaws like a ceratopsian or a heterodontosaur, a jaw bone that no other basal thyreophorans have, arm anatomy shockingly similar to abelisaurs, and THEY CAN CHEW. I know that chewing seems really normal to us humans but it’s so weird to see outside of mammals. Practically the only other dinosaurs that chew are ornithopods. Jakapil seems like it’s trying to be as many kinds of dinosaur as possible, which further supports my statement that it is the Ultimate Dinosaur
It’s armored and covered in spikes. ‘Nuff said
Also a friendly reminder that the only other known bipedal thyreophoran is Scutellosaurus, which was from Early Jurassic Europe. Jakapil is from late Cretaceous South America, so this guy just popped up across the world a hundred million years later with practically no trace of its ancestors. How did this happen? What the fuck were its ancestors doing in that time? Heracles may have given us neat answers to New Zealand-y questions, but Jakapil gave us questions we didn’t even know needed to be asked
I’ve said it once and I’ve said it again, South America’s fauna has been friggin' amazing since the Cretaceous and never stopped. Automatic points for being a South American dinosaur. This guy lived alongside Giganotosaurus and Buitreraptor!!
What about the other contestants, you may ask? Kholumolumo is only here for the meme. Outside of the funny name and it’s absurdly convoluted history to getting formally named, what do you actually know about it? How much does it contribute to our understanding of dinosaurs compared to the other contestants?
Caihong is basic. I’m sorry but I won’t back down from this (for another few months at least). I love dromaeosaurs as much as the next person, but literally all that Caihong has going for it is it’s ultra-inridescence. Any other Chinese dromaeosaur could provide the rest. Look past your instinctual love of shiny things and vote for something that breaks away from everything we thought we knew to become something truly unique!
As for Heracles... I actually have nothing bad to say about Heracles, I love New Zealand's fauna and giant flightless birds (especially on islands). But while I love Heracles for everything it stands for, I feel like Jakapil stands for so much more. Heracles is a wonderful addition to our knowledge of it's lineage and environment, but also... is it really that surprising to find a giant flightless bird in New Zealand that belongs to that a family endemic to New Zealand? Jakapil is just such a bizarre, fascinating, unexpected discovery from so many perspectives. It is truly the ultimate dinosaur, and we should honor it as such
As of the time of writing there's still four days left at the polls and Jakapil is a steady second place in all three of them. We still have time to win this for Jakapil and dethrone Caihong!
#dinosaur march madness#dmm rising stars#dmm final four#dmm finals#jakapil#dmm#a-dinosaur-a-day#JAKAPIL SWEEP#long post#hmm i should probably be tagging these as long posts shouldnt i
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Vote for Annakacygna!
First off, it's a weird and enormous swan, which is pretty cool on its own, but more importantly, Vorombe is sadly not in the spirit of Dinosaur March Madness: Rising Stars. When it was most likely its own genus, Vorombe would have been a worthy contender, but given the paper indicating it may not be distinct from Aepyornis, this is no longer the case. This year's contest is meant to celebrate recent discoveries, and while a new and informative fossil of a preexisting bird is exciting, it just wouldn't be right for that to win the bird bracket over something truly distinct. I'd hate to have the top bird (or even DMM winner) need to have an asterisk by its name. I have hope that Heracles or Cryptogyps has a chance to defeat Vorombe in the next round, but it's not a guarantee. This is a humble request to consider this factor if you haven't already voted this round.
P.S.: If your reason to vote for Vorombe is that it reminds you of Harambe, I'm sorry, but I don't care for that joke in general and it's hardly a reason for a DMM vote
#annakacycna#vorombe#dinosaur march madness#dmm#a dinosaur a day#dmm rising stars#dinosaur#dinosaurs#my post
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Day 9: Almost Dinos
Today's competitors are very, very closely related to dinosaurs...so much in fact, that both were thought to be dinosaurs for a while.
Why isn't Silesaurus a dinosaur?
1.) Lacks an elongated deltopectoral crest (ridge on the humorus for muscle attachment).
2.) Lacks epipophyses on cervical verts (parts that branch off the vertebra)
Pisanosaurus, not a dino? This little guy is still under hot debate. It could be a transitional form between silesaurids and basal ornithischians OR is could be a basal ornithiscian. More data is needed.
REBLOG for SILESAURUS
LIKE for PISANOSAURUS
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Guess who had her 1st dream with Mad T Party in it!
Kinda
It's hard to remember since it was hours ago, my dreams are all over the place and I went back to sleep and had a different dream that overrode that one
I knew I should've written it down before going back to sleep
The things I know for a fact are it was about the March Hare, specifically Jagger Hare and maybe Tarrant was there too?
It had something to do with his clothes, a ski resort, then a dinosaur chase
Also Jeremy from Code Lyoko
A LOT happened in such a short amount of time😅
#my thoughts#my dreams#sleep#mad t party#mad t party band#jagger hare#mtp march hare#march hare#my dreams be all over the place lol#the dinosaur part is standard and I was hoping for it before bed for some reason
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Tall Child- 141
Based on a request:
Currently thinking of feral R/n (my specialty, the shredded wall saga) then sort of started to sort of reflect on my childhood and got sad :( Could I request like a feral R/n origin story (if we can call it that lmao) of like R/n always being told to grow up even from being young? And never really being able to do child things, and then they joined the military which is dehumanising in its own right, so then when they go to the 141 and end up stabbing a wall or desk of something repetitively and gets caught, they’re expecting to be marched to Price’s office to be reprimanded, but instead whoever found R/n is just like “come on kid, let’s get you something to do that isn’t property damage,” and they go and get like a little archeology set or go dig holes outside together? And that’s how R/n ended up being feral it’s just because they’re finally allowed to be a kid again. This is such a long-winded ask I’m so sorry 💀🫧
A/N: R/N is like Penelope Garcia from Criminal Minds in my opinion...kinda
GN!Reader, some angst (don't think so...but just in case), fluff
Long ago, r/n was a child who never got to enjoy the word. Never grew up being covered in dirt, laughing over silly little things, destroying stuff and enjoying it, and living life as any normal child would. You see, long ago, the r/n we know of today never grew up with such memories. Always forced to be an adult in the mind of a curious and innocent child. The days when r/n would want to run through a pile of leaves during autumn, blow bubbles and try to burst as many as possible, never to be lived just be dreamed. Never did they get the chance to live a life most adults now long for.
Life, what a funny word.
Back then, you wanted a castle, tea parties, jump-through puddles, plastic dinosaurs on the floor, and race car toys to be used as a child would. Now that you are an adult, that life is more than a faint memory. Instead of watching cartoons in your pyjamas, at times, you wake up in a trench, snipe in and some dead comrades or enemies in your area, a dead field is your new show. What would you ever tell your younger self if that 6-year-old r/n would be standing there, looking up at you with tears in their eyes because mum and dad said no more cartoons?
For a while now, your team Task Force 141 have noticed how things in their part of the base have been 'damaged' no clue how walls, floors, or doors are being damaged. Until one night when Captain Price walks into the common room. There you stood, giggling at some wall you were making holes to. Ahhh, his very own little monster, having fun as a child would.
He knows you, knows how you are and as a soldier himself, he understands why you are this way, how bubbly you are, just like a child. His whole team was like this behind closed doors, especially you. As you giggled and made jokes to yourself, he stood there, arms crossed over his chest and a small smile on him. He doesn't have any children to spoil or watch grow, he only has you and Soap, the youngest in the task force. His very own children, maybe not by blood or adoption but being in his team makes him a father to both of you.
He never admits your little actions bring him a sense of happiness and the fact that he has accidentally talked to Laswell about you, showing pictures and sharing stories as a father would. She makes fun of him for it, "The man who didn't have time for wives or kids, having two tall children by his side, what a sight, John." she chuckles.
He taps your shoulder, "Grim, what're you doing?" Always the father younger you felt safe with. "Nothin'" you, like a child about to get scolded say. A small smile on you, trying to convince him you were still his innocent kid.
He sighs, how could ever be mad at you. Never could he stay mad, those puppy eyes looking up at him.
"...Sorry...?" you softly spoke, he chuckles and offers a hand. "C'mon, let's get out of here before Ghost gets us both scolded." You get up, his hand at your back, guiding you out. "you know, that is considered damage to government property, lucky for you...I'll get you some stuff to avoid any charges" he winks and guides you to his office. For a good hour or two, you two searched the internet, looking at things that maybe he could order for a grown soldier and said soldier use without looking weird.
He found a large sandbox that could be used as a kids' archaeology box kit. His excuse if anyone asked what Soap and you were doing would be "assigned on a mission where they have to dig some things up, it's a two-person mission, classified." What a great lie he'd give Ghost.
At times, when he'd "help you two train" he would sit on a lawn chair, rest against the fabric and chuckle when either of you found a "dinosaur" bone. There was a moment when he was so entertained he joined the two of you. For hours as Soap and you giggled, Price took the job seriously, dusting off sand, a smile on him, "I found it!" the missing bone to the dino Soap and you called 'stuffin'.
From a scope, Ghost and Gaz watched you three 'train' telling jokes and taking pictures. "Old man desperately needed that." Ghost comments. "Bet they go for ice cream after this," Gaz adds.
"Yeah." a sad sigh from both of the men followed along.
"Want to join them?" they said at the same time.
Price ended up buying a bigger sandbox because this time, his whole team would be digging up some stuff on a mission. His children, you being the favourite and Soap competing for that title win.
A tall child crying as they sat in their bed, looking back at the old photos of a 6-year-old. Now they can look back and think, 'Maybe I was raised to be an adult because I'd find a family who would let me be that child who is now let out of the shadows.' This is the life you earned after suffering for years, watching people die, and losing so much. Now that life you dreamed of, is there.
Life, what a mystical word.
#cod#cod mw2#cod x reader#cod 141#ghost cod#mw2 141#task force 141#mwii#141 x reader#141#cod ghost#cod modern warfare#cod mwii#cod price#cod soap#cod imagine#cod fanfic#call of duty mw2#cod mw soap#modern warfare 2#mw2#modern warfare#gaz my beloved#gaz imagine#soap call of duty#soap mactavish#john soap mactavish#ghost hc#ghost call of duty#captain john price
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Announcing T. rex Madness!
In the spirit of Dinosaur March Madness (and first thought of during this year's competition), 64 T. rexes drawn from real life and popular culture will compete to become tumblr's favorite iteration of the most famous dinosaur. Nothing is too niche or goofy (though that said, the entrants have already been selected, but feel free to suggest any I left out for a potential second bracket!).
The polls will launch starting this evening and each runs for a week, after which point round 2 will begin, and so on.
So get ready for a new kind of dino bracket, stomping onto your dash this summer/fall!
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read chapter 1: here
warnings: alcohol, death
(Italics are Telugu dialogue, brackets have translation to English)
March 1986
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"While I'm far away from you my baby
I know it's hard for you my baby
Because it's hard for me my baby
And The darkest hour is just before dawn"
- Dedicated to the One I Love by The Mamas and the Papas
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Varadha drank alcohol for the first time on 20th March, 1986. He had his reasons. No Aai. No Deva. No Baba. No one cares. Nothing matters. And tomorrow was 21st March.
Varadha found whiskey bottles in Baba's office. He drank half of a bottle and it burned his throat. But after a while everything felt more peaceful. The constant noise in his brain was very distant.
He saw a young child running fast through the rooms, giggling, hiding behind doors and tables. He thought it was Baachi.
"Vara, kanna. Agaraa, parigethaku!!" ("Vara, love. Please stop running!!"), his mother called out. She was annoyed but she wasn't mad. So, Vara figured he can make her chase him for a few more minutes.
"Vachi kotha battalu vesko, kanna"("Put on these new clothes, my love"), Aai requested. "Bangarukonda, kadha?"("You are a mountain of gold, right?"), she cooed. She didn't speak for a little while. Vara realised his mother stopped following him. He tiptoed back to the hall and his mother caught him by surprise. She was tickling him, saying, "Patteskunna, Patteskunna, Rakshasudini"("I caught you, I caught you, monster"). Vara turned around laughing and hugged his mother. Aai's belly grew more and more everyday and she is now caressing her belly even in her sleep.
Varadha watched his younger self and his mother from afar not wanting to sully the purity of this memory. Aai looked so beautiful. He was unable to recall what festival they were celebrating.
His mother finally finished dressing Vara in festive clothes which were very itchy and not black and cool like his father's clothes. She was dressed in a violet pattu saree. She was sparkling in her gold jewellery. Aai was not listening to his stories about dinosaurs who eat leaves in the forest. How he is making this clever connection that dinosaurs are big, long necked goats.
"Aai, nuvvu vinatle, nenu cheppanu po!"("Aai, you are not listening. I won't tell you"), Vara dismissed his mother.
"Sorry raa kanna, nuvvu thvaraga thayaaru aipothe nenu nee katha vini, chappatlu kodatha Sarena? Neeku kotha katha kuda cheptha"("Sorry my love. If you get ready fastly, I will listen to your story and clap for you, okay? I will also tell you a new story"), Aai said as she kissed his cheek.
Varadha was listening in on this conversation and he was trying to recall what story his mother had told him later. He hated that he doesn't remember it anymore.
Now Aai and Vara sat on the sofa in the hall. Vara was safely tucked beside his mother and fell asleep.
Varadha looked at his younger self and envy bubbled inside him.
"Appudu ikkadike vasthavu raa, kanna, nuvvu" ("You always arrive here only, my love"), Aai said chuckling. Varadha shifted his gaze from his younger self to his mother. She was looking at him with such loving eyes.
"Eroju tharavatha manchi rojulu levu, Aai" ("There are no good days after this, Aai"), Varadha teared up.
"Baachi ippudu ilane unnada?" ("Does Baachi look like this, now?"), she asked curiously, threading her fingers through Vara's hair.
"Inka podugu" ("He is taller"), he replied.
"Anukunna" ("Thought so"), she said and beckoned him to sit beside her.
Varadha sat beside his mother to her left and rested his head on her shoulder.
Tears fell from his eyes and stained her golden blouse.
"Enni rojulu ayipoindhi kanna nuvvu vachi, kaani naaku antha thelusu. Sariga thinatam ledhu, padukovatledhu. Ippudu thagatam kuda" ("It has been so many days since you came here. But, I know everything. You are not eating properly. You are not sleeping properly. Now, you are drinking too"), she listed and whacked his head.
Varadha rubbed the back of his head to soften her blow.
"Repu Nanna raaka pothe, Nene karyakramam cheyali. Naaku cheyalani ledhu, Aai" ("If Father doesn't come tomorrow, I have to perform the rites. I don't want to do them, Aai"), Varadha admitted. Six years ago, his mother passed after giving birth to Baachi. Every year, his father performs Pinda Pradhaana ritual to honour Aai's memory on 21st March.
"Mee Nanna vastharu, Varadha. Maa madhyana unna Prema appatiki vuntundhi. Nuvvu kangaru padaku" ("Your father will come, Varadha. The love between him and I will always be there. Don't worry"), Aai reassured.
There was a knock on the door. His mother turned to him and hugged him fiercely. Varadha caressed her belly as she kissed him on the forehead.
"Naaku vellalani ledhu" ("I don't want to go"), Varadha said, gasping suddenly.
There was another knock on the door.
"Aaa, vasthunna" ("I am coming"), Aai shouted.
"Nenu kuda akkadiki vellatam ledhu, kanna. Nenu appudu neethone untanu" ("I am also not going anywhere, my love. I will always be with you, I promise"), she whispered into his ear.
He got up from the sofa and walked away from her. She picked up sleeping Vara into her arms and opened the door. His father was standing, smiling at the door in his black shirt and grey kurta. He took Vara from her arms and hugged her. He was talking to her but Varadha couldn't hear him. Everything was muted. He fell back into a dark room and felt breathless.
He woke up, gasping for air. After drinking some water, he fell back asleep immediately wishing he would get the same dream again.
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Today was Baachi's birthday. For the past five years, on this day, Varadha and Baachi sat beside their father, as he dutifully completed the Pinda Pradhaana ritual in Devi Matha temple. This year, Varadha was unsure whether his father would come due to their fractured relationship.
To his relief, his father came and completed the ritual. When the three of them had to take a dip in the temple pond, Baachi got scared of getting into the water. Varadha comforted Baachi as his father watched from afar. He carried Baachi on his back and took a dip in the water.
His father's entourage was ready to leave after he put on some dry clothes. His father's assistant took Varadha to his father. His father spoke in a steady voice, "Baba and the drivers will be released from prison today."
Varadha's knees started to shake.
Raja Mannar continued,
"Malli naa maata thappithe, naa koduku vani kuda choodanu, ardha maiyindha? Gelichaanu Ani anukoku. Idhi nee Aai kosam chestunna. Nee kosam kadhu. Edho oka roju, Dhaara pellam Inka koduku dhorukuthaaru. Vallu dhorikinappudu, nee Kalla mundhe vallani champutha, Sarena?"
("If you cross me again, I will not even consider that you are my son. Don't think that you have won. I am doing this for your mother. Not for you. One day, Dhaara's wife and son will be captured. When they are captured, I will kill them while you watch, okay?")
His father's eyes were burning. There was no love there. If there was any love, it was so shattered and twisted in his grief over his wife's death and the loss of this future of a happy family that was gone with her.
As soon as his father left, Varadha's knees gave out. He fell to the ground, crying and shaking. Baachi stood before him and said, "Endhuku, Anna, edusthunnav? Aai ki manam edisthe nacchadhu kadha, edavaku."("Why are you crying, brother? Aai doesn't like it when we cry, so, don't cry") He said it with such conviction that it made Varadha chuckle. He got up and took Baachi's hand.
"Baba eroju sayanthram intiki vasthaaru, manam emi chesi pedadham Baba thinadaaniki" ("Baba will come home by today evening. What dishes should we cook for him to eat?"), Varadha asked. Baachi chattered on listing all his favourite food items that he was sure Baba will also like to eat.
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tags: @deadloverscity, @ghostdriftexistence @sambaridli, @rambheem-is-real, @sinistergooseberries, @vardhamannartitties, @moonnpaww, @literariyumi, @sana2410, @varadevaficrecs
Go read @sinistergooseberries amazing fic here which gave me the idea to write the some of the dialogue in Telugu and then translate to English
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Tokimitsu Aoshi’s trivia (source: twt & Egoist Bible).
"Ah, I can’t stand this kind of me! I want confidence!!”
☆ Character's colour: Dark green.
☆ Weapons: Quick reaction, physical, and stamina.
☆ Birthday: 21st March.
☆ Current age: 17 (3rd year of high school)
☆ Zodiac: Aries.
☆ Birthplace: Niigata Prefecture.
☆ Family: Father. Mother. Older brother. Himself. Younger brother.
☆ Current height: 183 cm.
☆ Foot size: 28 cm.
☆ Dominant foot: Right foot.
☆ Blood type: A.
☆ Starts playing football: At age 9.
☆ Motto: "Start small and work hard."
☆ Favorite food: Eels. “I..I heard eels will increase your vitality.”
☆ Disliked food: Cream-based sweets. “I’m not good with sweets… Ah! I’m sorry cake shop!
☆ Favorite animal: Dinosaurs. “Especially triceratops, because they have strength to protect themselves.”
☆ Favorite season: Winter. ”Because everyone becomes negative… hehe..”
☆ Favorite football player: Sergio Aguero.
☆ Favorite song: “Ai” by Motohiro Hata.
☆ Favorite anime: Dr. Slump “I like Gacchan.”
☆ Favorite movie: 3 Idiots.
☆ Favorite TV program: ‘Wednesday Downtown’ & ‘TV Chidori’.
☆ Mushroom shoots vs Bamboo shoots: Mushroom. “Eh... I wonder if the bamboo group will get mad... then I’ll choose bamboo shoot... Oh, don't get mad, mushroom group...!”
☆ What goes best with rice : Umeboshi. "Eating it with porridge is even better!"
☆ Hobby: Muscle training.
☆ What makes him happy: “I want to be told I’m amazing just the way I am.”.
☆ What makes him upset: “Please don’t hate me.”
☆ What he thinks his strength is: “I can’t think of such things, even if I do, I do not want to be hated, so I won’t say anything.”
☆ What he thinks his weakness is: “Negative, no self-confidence, low self-esteem, lack of courage to be hated, uninteresting.”
☆ Best subject: Mathematics / P.E.
☆ Dislike/weak subject: “The act of raising your hand and speak up in all classes.”
☆ What made him cry recently: “When I woke up in the middle of the night.” (He cried because he was scared that he was all alone.)
☆ Usual sleeping time: 6.5 hours.
☆ What he usually ends up buying from convenience store: Anti-sweat wipes.
☆ Place he washes first when taking a bath: Toes.
☆ Ideal type: Someone who don’t hurt others.
☆ At what age he experiences first love: At age 7. “With a classmate of mine. I was too scared to confess and graduated without saying a word. We ended up attending different middle school.”
☆ What will he do if received 100 million yen: “Invest. To eliminate future worries."
☆ What age he stops receiving presents from Santa: At 8 years old.
☆ What was his last wish from Santa: Confidence. (Santa won’t give you something you can’t see)
☆ How he spent his holiday: "Browsing summary sites. I only read the reviews of the movies I haven't watch yet. I’m relieved to find a fool (a troll, perhaps?) on SNS.”
☆ What will he do during his last day on Earth: Joining hands with all living things.
note: i want to apologize in advance for any mistake made in the translation!
#blue lock#tokimitsu aoshi#trivia: tokimitsu aoshi#trivia#trivia: profile#bluelocksource#our translation
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As someone that's just been absorbing the Rhine Lab manga via osmosis, I am just obsessed with the sheer arrogance, the audacity, the presumptuousness on Kirsten's part to genuinely think she can willfully betray Saria's trust to such a disgusting degree, to use the product of their bond to make a weapon to use against Saria, and still, STILL think Saria will remain loyal and faithful to her. It's the ugliest, most twisted dependence I've seen since Berserk and I'm loving it.
It drives me mad because like, if you get the full picture of Saria and Kirsten it becomes clear that Kirsten isn't just some cackling mad scientist saying ''But I don't want to cure cancer I want to turn people into dinosaurs", Kirsten is someone that puts her ideals over everything else, even herself.
In fact, Saria is the only person she cares about, though selfishly. Kirsten didn't neglect Saria out of some hatred or resentment, she neglected her because she considered the act of being together as her own happiness, with no consideration of Saria's own feelings, and Kirsten's happiness could not come before her sacred ideals.
But why would Kirsten think about Saria's own feelings? Saria's the one who taught her that emotions are just egotism that gets in the way of scientific thinking.
But she does care about Saria the way Saria cares about her. Saria grew up with an abusive father, and Kirsten's parents were the ones instead who inspired Saria to become a scientist. They became best friends, and when Kirsten's parents died in and the scandal wolves came for her, it was Saria who literally, physically fended them off.
The whole reason Rhine Labs exists is because Kirsten wanted to follow her parents' dream of reaching space, but she would never have had the courage to start it without Saria with her. She tells Saria 'Stay, and I will wipe out disasters and Oripathy with you on the way to achieve my dreams. I can do anything when you are with me.'
And it's something Kirsten truly believes in to the point of madness. That she's smart enough to solve all the world's problems on her own. She doesn't even care about whether or not she lives to see it, all that matters is the fulfillment of the unspoken promise she made to Saria, that if Saria stays with her, she will save humanity.
Even if that means sacrificing children on the altar of science, in the name of wiping out war, hunger, and disease.
Another person pointed this out too in my inbox, but it becomes obvious in the last part of their fight that the only thing Kirsten truly cares about is Saria. She doesn't care about the lives of innocent children, or whether or not her employees are evil people, or even her own life. The reason she protects the march of science above all else is because this is what she told Saria she would do, and her own personality as a cold, unfeeling person is something she learned from Saria herself.
The only time she shows any emotion is when Saria begins to bloody her hands on Kirsten's own barrier, and when Saria tells Kirsten she wants to leave.
The translation's wording could be just a little bit better but GOD. When Kirsten realizes Saria is serious about leaving her she refuses to let it happen. Then she pleads with her "Then stop me right here", then she even tries to bargain using Ifrit's life "I can save that test subject regardless of what it will cost", but it's all for naught because Kirsten fundamentally doesn't understand that the test subject has a name she must use, and it's Ifrit.
The whole time she's putting on her emotionless act the way she believes Saria would want her to act, the only sign of what she really feels being the words she uses and the blood from Saria's hand being visible in every panel, a teardrop on Kirsten's cheek.
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ITS TIME
FOR
DINOSAUR MARCH MADNESS 2k23!!!!!!!!!!!!
Starting NEXT WEEK, we begin the ultimate competition:
DMM: RISING STARS
These are ALL dinosaurs that have been discovered in the past five years!!! New friends from old times!!! Including such new fan favorites as Bajadasaurus, Jakapil, Meraxes, and Anachronornis - and that's only four of them!
From the weird to the wonderful, these dinosaurs are here to indicate that just because they were found recently, doesn't mean that they aren't destined to become icons like the names we already know and love. Get ready to learn about some new paleontological excitement - and debate angrily over which ones are better ;)
Round One will go from March 1st through the 7th
Round Two will extend from March 8th through the 14th
Round Three will then go from the 15th to the 21st
Round Four from the 22nd to the 28th
And the FINAL FOUR SHOWDOWN (Ornithischian Vs Sauropodomorph vs Nonavian theropod vs Bird) will occur from March 29th through April 4th!
Thanks to the new tumblr poll feature, reconstructions and mini factfiles for each dinosaur will be on the post with the poll itself! No need to leave tumblr, no personal research, no google quizzes - just rapid learning and immediate voting!
Get ready to vote! Get ready to debate! Get ready... for DINOSAUR MARCH MADNESS!
Round One Matchups under the readmore :)
SAUROPODOMORPHA (and miscellany)
Gnathovorax vs Mbiresaurus
Bagualosaurus vs Issi
Ngwevu vs Kholumolumo
Bagualia vs Amanzia
Lingwulong vs Bajadasaurus
Lavocatisaurus vs Ruixinia
Abditosaurus vs Ibirania
Australotitan vs Mansourasaurus
ORNITHISCHIA
Sanxiasaurus vs Changmiania
Iyuku vs Sinocephale
Bisticeratops vs Crittendenceratops
Kelumapusaura vs Gobihadros
Ajnabia vs Tlatolophus
Jakapil vs Bashanosaurus
Stegouros vs Patagopelta
Spicomellus vs Jinyunpelta
NONAVIAN THEROPODA
Berthasaura vs Vespersaurus
Spectrovenator vs Riparovenator
Asfaltovenator vs Meraxes
Suskityrannus vs Maip
Daurlong vs Natovenator
Bannykus vs Ambopteryx
Caihong vs Hesperornithoides
Falcatakely vs Janavis
NEORNITHES (BIRDS)
Vorombe vs Prodontopteryx
Asteriornis vs Panraogallus
Anachronornis vs Conflicto
Annakacygna vs Nasidytes
Aviraptor vs Cryptogyps
Miosurnia vs Primoptynx
Danielsraptor vs Heracles
Eofringillirostrum vs Heliothraupis
#dinosaur march madness#dmm#dmm rising stars#palaeoblr#dinosaurs#bracket#polls#march madness#tumblr dinosaur competition#thank you tumblr for making polls dmm is so much easier now I will cry#heliothraupis#eofringillirostrum#heracles#danielsraptor#primoptynx#miosurnia#cryptogyps#aviraptor#nasidytes#annakacygna#conflicto#anachronornis#panraogallus#asteriornis#prodontopteryx#vorombe#janavis#falcatakely#hesperornithoides#caihong
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VOTE STEGOUROS FOR DINOSAUR MARCH MADNESS 2023
art by Gabriel Ugueto
This is admittedly a really tough choice, but what is March Madness season for if not throwing your entire soul into campaigning against a random animal species for petty reasons? (disclaimer: this is from the guy who slandered Vaderlimulus for almost the entirety of Triassic March Madness before realizing that it never actually beat Atopodentatus in a poll)
I’ll try to keep this short since my previous Berthasaura propoganda post took a lot out of me and I actually respect Spicomellus as a contender /hj
A VOTE FOR STEGOUROS IS A VOTE FOR:
- an entirely new basal clade of ankylosaurs, only described less than two years ago, which survived until the Maastrichtian!
- the macuahuitl, which I believe is the first new type of thyreophoran tail-weaponry discovered in a long time
- asymmetrical, vaguely hourglass shaped teeth. what was it doing with those teeth? something cool, no doubt; I am a sucker for phylogenetic trends in feeding ecology
- was apparently adapted for cursoriality, including with hoof-shaped claws? I didn’t even know thyreophorans could do that but yes please, all of that. Hello, new hyperfixation rabbithole
- south america! as far as I’m concerned, South American ecology has been Fabulous roughly since the Cretaceous and hasn’t stopped. Stegouros lived alongside unenlagiines! that’s really cool!
- a Little Guy™️. exhibit A, from wikipedia:
what a perfectly sized little guy. so precious and (comparatively) small, and this was a full-grown adult thyreophoran from the non-European Maastrichtian! As far as I know, Stegouros has no right to be that small. If it does, please tell me, as it will only make me love it more
- something known from a mostly-complete skeleton! so we actually have a good idea of what it looks like!
As much as I love Spicomellus for being so extra (osteoderms attached directly to the rib, first known african ankylosaur, earliest known ankylosaur, lived alongside a Stegosaur) it’s only known from a single rib bone. It is, admittedly, a really cool rib bone, but Stegouros also lots of really cool bones! And they all belong to the same skeleton! Spicomellus may come with some really interesting biogeography and ankylosaur evolution facts, but so does Stegouros! And Stegouros objectively has more neat anatomy than Spicomellus does, no matter how you slice it. Does Spicomellus really have anything to offer that Stegouros can’t offer just as well, if not better?
Vote Stegouros for the only remaining Cool Ankylosaur™️ with a remotely complete skeleton. For the only remaining definitely-a-thyreophoran with a remotely complete Skelton, for that matter.
@a-dinosaur-a-day
#dinosaur march madness#dmm round two#dmm rising stars#stegouros#spicomellus#ankylosauria#a-dinosaur-a-day#dinosaurs
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Cap-IM Rec Week - Golden Oldie Thursday
Day 4 of @cap-ironman's rec week event!
It was hard to pick from all my pre-2019 bookmarks, so my criteria for this list were a little more limited than the prompt. These are some of my favorite fics that are more than 10 years old, and haven't appeared on one of my previous rec lists.
A Particular Style by sinuous_curve (MCU | Explicit | No Archive Warnings Apply | 3,640 words)
Date: August 12, 2012
Summary: “The erotic tale of one camp counselor’s descent into lesbian madness?” Toni rattles off the summary, pressing the back of her hand to her forehead in a swoon that Steph can’t see. “I can’t fault your taste. It was always one of my favorites.”
Betwixt by tsukinofaerii (616 | Not Rated | Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con | 7,968 words)
Date: October 31, 2009
Summary: Steve is pulled into an alternate universe that could have been plucked from his nightmares. All he wants to do is get home alive. Tony may have other ideas.
The Wheels of Inevitability by sinuous_curve (MCU | Explicit | No Archive Warnings Apply | 1,241 words)
Date: October 31, 2012
Summary: “You know, once in high school I got into an argument about whether or not the serum made your tits bigger,” Toni says, threading a loop of black cord down the center of Steph’s sternum.
More below the cut!
Apparently Only One Meal From Barbarism by valtyr (616 | Explicit | Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con | 2,172 words)
Date: September 19, 2010
Summary: The Savage Land: "All kinds of mutates and dinosaurs and big cheetahs and a surprising amount of acceptable nudity." - Spider-Man
Incident Report by justanotherStonyfan (MCU | Not Rated | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | 5,058 words)
Date: March 18, 2013
Summary: Everything would have been fine if Fury had just let them sleep before the debrief, but no, that would be too easy. But Super-Soldiers need their sleep, and problems are caused when they don't get it. Billionaires, though...they hardly need to sleep at all, right?
For Sale, One Super Soldier, Slightly Used by valtyr (MCU | Explicit | No Archive Warnings Apply | 1,692 words)
Date: September 24, 2010
Summary: Movieverse hookerfic. Don't judge me. I guess maybe issues of consent in the social pressure kind of way?
Heroes and Devils by marinarusalka (616 | Teen And Up Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply | 35,275 words)
Date: September 20, 2011
Summary: Three years after Dr. Doom cast the entire island of Manhattan into the dark depths of the Echo Bazaar, life goes on. The people of Lowered Manhattan, including the Avengers, have adapted as best they could to their shadowy new existence. But then the Avengers find themselves in possession of a mysterious locked box that could save them all -- if it doesn't kill Tony first.
A Fire to be Kindled by drifloon (MCU | Teen And Up Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply | 15,685 words)
Date: December 09, 2012
Summary: It makes perfect sense, of course. The serum gave Steve the perfect body, so why wouldn’t it also give him the perfect mind? In the quietness of his own mind, Tony can admit he’s a little stung Steve didn’t tell him, but he’s not really surprised.
(Or: the one where Steve is smarter than Tony, and neither of them deal well.)
Bonded, Not Broken by Jaune_Chat (@jaune-chat) (MCU | Mature | Underage | 5,364 words)
Date: March 08, 2013
Summary: In a world where a touch reveals your soulmate, Steve Rogers, never frozen, thought he'd never find his perfect match. Until the day he's fifty years old and held newborn Tony Stark in his arms. Then he realized the man he'd been destined to love his whole life had just arrived. But how in the world could they ever be together, with a half-century of years between them?
as they learned to see by often_adamanta (MCU | Teen And Up Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply | 11,643 words)
Date: May 30, 2013
Summary: Tony stayed silent through her terse explanation, anger growing. When Natasha was finished, he asked, “So you’re telling me that Steve’s been missing for almost two months, most likely kidnapped by an unknown organization, a force which employs two brilliant but completely crazy scientists that hate Stark Industries because they were refused jobs on the basis of their psych evals, and I’m only hearing about this now?”
we don't need a heart of gold, we need the heart of a lion by Zekkass (MCU | Explicit | No Archive Warnings Apply | 16,879 words)
Date: April 17, 2012
Summary: 'You know what's an interesting plot bunny? And I'm sorry in advance. If Captain America was an alternate personality of Steve's or vice versa.'
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Second Semi Finalists:
In 2022, a study showed an ontogenetic shift (growth shift) in Postosuchus from quadrupedal to bipedal as observed in the shortening of the front limbs.
Schleromochlus is very rare and as such, not much work has been/can be done on it but it was approximately 7 inches long and most of that was its tail.
#paleontology#fossils#fun facts#march madness#competition#not a dinosaur#pterosaur#postosuchus#pseudosuchia
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for atria, quinn, zadimus, and dillon:
💥 COLLISON - what emotions do they have trouble dealing with?
🎂 BIRTHDAY CAKE - when is their birthday? do they like celebrating it?
🕷️ SPIDER - what is their biggest fear? do they have any irrational / mundane fears?
🌱 SEEDLING - what is their most vivid memory from childhood?
✂️ SCISSORS - what is the "last straw" for them to cut someone out of their life? how easily do they let go of people?
🔫 PISTOL - do they trust people easily? how easily will they turn their back to someone? have they been backstabbed before? will they betray someone if given an ultimatum?
🌪️ TORNADO - what is the biggest change you've ever made to them? how have they changed from their original version?
☁️ CLOUD - a soft headcanon
OC Emoji Asks
here we gO
💥 COLLISON - what emotions do they have trouble dealing with?
atria -- lol all of them
quinn -- i don't think she has any? like of the group, she's the only one that's moderately well-adjusted until chapter 21 oops sorry quinn
dillon -- guilt, i think? specifically, guilt about cutting up and having fun while daisy is all [vague hand gesture] yeah. yeah.
zadimus -- absolutely none this is a lie
🎂 BIRTHDAY CAKE - when is their birthday? do they like celebrating it?
atria -- GREAT question, it's..... uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh [mumbles into hand] anyway she liked celebrating it while her mom was alive, had a rough patch for a few years, understandably so, and then her family manages to drag it out of her and throw mad parties
quinn -- october 10th! she's a libra, and you will be given cake at drone-point, so help her god. now, getting her to sit down and not bake her own cake is an exercise in patience and dodging knives
dillon -- march 27! aries bb. even when daisy's having her zombie issues, she still likes celebrating with her sister, and obviously cheryl would be distraught if she didn't get to spoil her little dilly pickle on her special day
zadimus -- after a few centuries or so, the calendars change so much and the exact day tends to get lost somewhere along the way, but he knows it's somewhere in autumn and just sort of. picks a day at random, preferably with nice weather and crunchy leaves on the ground. obviously the vain bitch LOVES celebrating his own birthday and he's making it everyone else's problem
🕷️ SPIDER - what is their biggest fear? do they have any irrational / mundane fears?
atria -- she acts like she's not but she's terrified of dying, especially alone or where no one can find her
quinn -- death, but also lizards
dillon -- HEIGHTS god she's so scared of heights, she is SMALL, she doesn't want to be tall or high up, she won't even go on a step stool
zadimus -- nothing :D this is also a lie
🌱 SEEDLING - what is their most vivid memory from childhood?
atria -- all the ones with her mom in them
quinn -- the first time she jumped off a swing at the top of its arc (she also broke her arm SO bad from it)
dillon -- LMAO CHERYL MAKING A MESS IN THE YARD
zadimus -- he doesn't have many memories from his childhood, and none of them vivid, mostly because he didn't have a very happy one and he's also old as dinosaur shit
✂️ SCISSORS - what is the "last straw" for them to cut someone out of their life? how easily do they let go of people?
atria -- betrayal, like. she doesn't trust easy so the second you break that, she's gone. she doesn't tend to form deep attachments very often, so she lets go pretty easy most of the time
quinn -- she's got a long fuse, but stringing her along, maybe? using her. she has a hard time letting go of people though, even the ones that she's cut out
dillon -- getting between her and her family. she also doesn't trust easy and tends to shrug off people that are out of her life
zadimus -- when the mutual benefit fizzles out. if he's not getting something out of it, he's really not... interested in maintaining a relationship, platonic or otherwise.
🔫 PISTOL - do they trust people easily? how easily will they turn their back to someone? have they been backstabbed before? will they betray someone if given an ultimatum?
atria -- 3/10 ease of trust, good luck ever seeing her back. she's been betrayed before, but once you've gained her loyalty, she's loyal as shit until you stab her back first. even then, she's really not the betrayal type.
quinn -- 8/10 ease of trust, won't turn her back to a stranger though. she hasn't been backstabbed, but she has been hurt pretty bad, and she's not the betrayal type.
dillon -- 5/10 ease of trust, doesn't give her back to many people, hasn't been backstabbed so much as she's been bullied to hell and back, and she's not the betrayal type.
zadimus -- 3/10 ease of trust, won't give his back to anyone except for like. three people in history, has been betrayed, would sell you to satan for a single corn chip, but once he's loyal (rare), he's loyal.
🌪️ TORNADO - what is the biggest change you've ever made to them? how have they changed from their original version?
atria -- her original iteration was a spectre trainee, so big change there.
quinn -- i don't think she's actually changed at all? she's had the most consistent characterization
dillon -- no changes!
zadimus -- also no changes!
☁️ CLOUD - a soft headcanon
atria -- she burrows in bed and keeps her space super cold so she can have like. a ton of pillows and blankets and fishdog and--
quinn -- she has a nice singing voice 🥺 like maybe it's not the fluffiest headcanon (is it a headcanon if they're my own ocs?) but quinn singing lullabies to atria lives rent free in my head ok
dillon -- secretly likes being picked up, like. a lot.
zadimus -- serial snuggler, but also likes. you know when birds are in a bird bath? that. but in the rain and shower.
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The Nintendo Switch just came out seven years ago when I was big into handhelds on this day [3 March 2017]. So, to prove how much my interest in aliens became far more superior in this occasion, surprise!
Yellow and White, two of the community's most beloved mouthless aliens that successfully debuted on the Nintendo GameCube, were given each of their own set from Stickybutter to play around. Yellow has prosthetic candy arms that he can imagine himself punching against Bulborbs while stretching and flexing them, and White is enjoying a pair of dinosaur loving clothes that he wants a simple earthling a great big hug. And they seem to love it a lot!
Don't worry; Stickybutter isn't mad about this. He's just letting them borrow his arms and clothes for a little while before they get bored and return them back. He wouldn't mind!
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You missed Dinosaur March Madness >:(
Sorry, it didn't get submitted, but we'll keep it in mind if we make a part 2 someday
#I literally couldn't make the bracket bigger it was 128 already#ask#Not really but idk what to tag it
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