A nerd? On tumblr? How unique.

"comparing apples and oranges" has always been funny to me as an expression because people's go to exampe of two things so radically different that they defy any useful comparison are apples. and oranges. like you would struggle to find a more comparable pair of objects than that. theyre literally sold right next to each other in most stores.

As someone who certainly ships but doesn't come to fiction primarily to do that I do find it weird that the assumption, if I don't like a ship, is that it's because I ship something that conflicts with it. Like, no, actually, sometimes I think two characters just don't have anything interesting going on, that a romance between them adds nothing to the story or even detracts from more interesting explorations not tied to either of them being in a romance with anyone else, and/or that their shippers have been profoundly unpleasant. I think this makes shipping-brained people madder, honestly, because it means I genuinely just think what they like sucks with no particular self-interested motivations they can attack back (other than I guess having a good story, which is way harder to argue about).

There are Experiences behind this sign

Y'all I'm begging you please follow these folks on social media and pay them a visit if you're in the UK. They're a fantastic company and their signs change on the regular but they're always along the same hilarious lines

Resisting the urge to Um Actually this dragon novel because it has the dragon eggs be like three or four feet wide but there is simply a limit to how large hard-shelled terrestrial eggs can be. No matter how large the animal is, the embryo needs oxygen, and oxygen needs surface area. The larger an object is, the lower its surface area relative to volume, and the less oxygen the embryo can receive. We think of large animals as having porportionately large young because mammalian pregnancy has the unique benefit of allowing for the size of the young to scale with the adult because their oxygen is provided directly through the placenta, and almost all the megafauna remaining on Earth are mammals. But this is not the case for species which lay eggs! For fuck's sake even the sauropods hatched out of eggs barely larger than basketballs! Your hatchling dragon would be impressively enormous if it were the size of a house cat. Stop trying to make me believe that this (ROUND!) dragon egg somehow supplied enough oxygen to develop an infant the size of a large dog or even bigger. If it were possible the dinosaurs woulda been doing it!!!!

I love you /lh. Experts going off on their particular fascinating cool topics and adding unexpected context to things we take for granted is like my favorite thing this was delightful. Talk to me more about eggs and geometry and biology all you want :D

OK so now can we reverse it and maths out the minimum atmospheric oxygen pressure based on the described size of a dragon egg?

What does it say that my immediate response was to start imagining how an egg might be larger and yet have an adequate surface area to provide appropriate quantities of oxygen and my instant solution was PINE CONE DESIGN EGG

... Suddenly the common modern depiction of dragon eggs covered in scales makes sense, they're not dragon scales, they're additional surface area for diffusion

I like when fic length/book length/movie length is its own punchline

why did they start breeding busses to have flat faces. they can't breathe

If only pugs could breathe through their butt too :((

Holy shit

How could I NOT reblog this? It’s AMAZING!!!