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The Old Man of the Lake is a log that floats around the lake. It is somewhat strange in that it floats vertically. It's roughly 30 feet tall, with only about 5 or so feet sticking out above the surface of the water. It was first 'offically' recorded in the early 20th century, though there are oral reports of it as far back as 1896 (and likely earlier still given the cultural importance of Crater Lake to the Klamath tribe of that area.

The Old Man should have rotted away long ago or at the very least become waterlogged and sank into the water fully, but nope. Over a hundred years, and there is this log still in the water just floating.

So y'know how I said the fact that it floats vertically was 'somewhat strange'? Let's get into some actual strange territory regarding the Old Man. It moves. Against the wind. It has been recorded moving in paths that do not make sense, never getting stuck on the shore of Wizard Island, nor the area of shore around the lake. Now that's strange.

So now let's get freaky: The free-floating Old Man posed a hazard to boats since it moves, and only a small portion of it was above water. (though personal boats are no longer allowed on the lake) Anyway, in 1988 a team was using a small submersible to explore the lake. The scientist figured it'd be a good idea to moor the Old Man near the coast of Wizard Island out of their way, for safety. So they tied some rope to it, to move the Old Man. As soon as they did so, the clear blue skies of a warm August day turned dark. The wind kicked up, bad, and it started to rain, then hail, then snow in the span of a few minutes...again in August. Now snow in that area is common, but not in the summer months. It gets super warm in that area in summer (like 70 to 90 degrees on average) So the scientists decided to nope the fuck out of the water, because of this freak storm. They unmoored the Old Man, preparing to get the fuck out of dodge of this summer snowstorm. As soon as the rope loosened and was in the water, as quickly as the storm had come on them, the darkened skies cleared and it was once more a fine sunny summer day.

"The Old Man floats vertically through the lake on a calm day"

"THE OLD MAN FLOATS. VERTICALLY. THROUGH THE LAKE ON A CALM DAY"

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Go into the power shell

then paste in:

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I like to imagine this is how other Dwarves see him, a delicate pretty boy. It's just other races can't read Dwarf body language that well.

Then he's an elf and suddenly they see his mannerisms in a different light, but he's always been this way. They just didn't have Dwarf Goggles.

Specifically, in how other dwarves like Senshi's old mining party treat him. Even knowing Senshi was still a child, they still expected more "dwarvenly" behaviour from him than he exhibited.

The text tells us multiple times that Senshi isn't your typical dwarf. He doesn't have the usual dwarf skills and his interests are pretty unusual. It's hard to tell early on because the only other dwarf we see is Namari and she reads as pretty butch to us...but I think it's actually Senshi who moreso doesn't conform well to dwarf gender roles.

Sure, he might seem like a macho, stoic, spartan-living survivalist to us, but, I think, to other dwarves he's kind of an effeminate nature-loving hippy pretty-boy.

I think that his mannerisms get overlooked because he's a beefy guy with a big beard; but, if you look closely, he's always been prone to pretty poses:

And some of them aren't really that different from his elf-form poses...

(that first pose is actually in the manga but he's partially blocked by Laios so it wasn't as clear of a visual for this purpose)

Senshi has always had a bit of a flair for dramatic and emotive posing, it just becomes more evident when he is in elf form because of our own gender biases: to us, dwarves seem more masculine and elves seem more feminine or androgynous.

I think the biggest difference between elf-Senshi and dwarf-Senshi is that elf-Senshi doesn't know what to do with his long limbs and hair.

He is used to wearing a helmet all the time which keeps his hair in place, so he has to keep flipping his hair out of his face dramatically.

He keeps crossing his legs because I don't think his legs were long enough to really DO that before.

He also usually carries a big pack on his back and hanging onto the straps kept his hands busy. His pack is too heavy for him now so he isn't wearing it and keeps resting his hands on his upper arms or face instead.

He often touched his face or stroked his beard when he was in thought, but now he doesn't have a thick beard to stroke so he just looks like he's voguing

Ryoko Kui is a master at depicting the different anatomies of the respective races. Things like the length of characters' limbs inform how they have to carry themselves and that influences how they are perceived.

Senshi takes this lesson to heart.

I just spent three hours pulling up carpet and staples for a friend’s home renovation and we all did nothing but chat and joke and have wonderful conversation the whole time.

I'm actually really surprised at how, well, sane he makes it all sound. I always just assumed he was a power hungry despot and there's definitely some of that in there. But his main motivation for overthrowing House is that he genuinely believes he'd make a better leader. Not because he thinks he's smarter or anything but because he actually knows how to lead. House leads Vegas the same way he ran his corporation. Invest capital, broker favorable deals, appoint competent subordinates, and then sit back and collect the profits. Problem is that his "employees" were tribals less than a decade ago and weren't raised in a corporate hierarchy. To them, this hands off approach looks at best like carelessness and at worst like an intentional insult. I'm finally starting to understand why the Omertas call him "Not-At-Home."

And the irony of the situation is that thanks to all of his scheming, Benny himself is disappearing for days or even weeks at a time and it's weakening his peoples' confidence in him. To the point that any brain damaged yahoo with a Speech of 45 can convince them to sell him out. Benny and House are more alike than either wants to admit.

One Weird Al fan who was massively surprised by all this was Stefani Germanotta, better known as Lady Gaga. It turns out that her manager had been the one handling the situation and never actually played the song for her. She quickly OK’ed it, and the song was still the lead-off single for the Alpocalypse.

TLDR version: The Jane Goodall Institute was not amused, and bugged Larson to pull it from publication… But Goodall herself saw it when she got back from the research trip she’d been on, thought it was HILARIOUS, and let the PR people who made the decision HAVE IT for giving him grief about it without consulting her first, before giving Larson the go-ahead herself; as a result, it got to go back into print. She even signed a copy of it for him!

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Birds are reptiles 

Or crocodilians (and probably turtles) ARENT 

Because you can’t group (lizards, snakes, tuatara, turtles, crocodilians) without also including (birds) 

So if you don’t want to include birds in reptiles then you have to leave out some things we’ve called reptiles 

And, the common ancestor of [lizards, snakes, tuatara, turtles, crocodilians] by definition is also the common ancestor of birds. It is NOT the common ancestor of mammals. 

…which evolved from amphibians

the book “why fish don’t exist”

by Lulu Miller