Take twice daily with food

I don’t have kids

I don’t spend money on nicotine

I don’t gamble my money away on sports

I’m not reliant on a chat bot for all my life functions

- DREEPY! and company

-Noivern

-Scolipede

-Alolan Muk

-Golisopod

-Shiny Obstagoon

-Kabutops

-Liepard

-Gengar

-Jangmo-o et al

-Aurorus

-Elektross

-Magikarp

my least favorite so far:

me when I get home:

me the entire weekend:

Tumblr let me write a novel before the “post” button shat the bed so you’re getting screenshots.

Long fucking answer below the cut- TW for disease, animal death, human death, gore, and cannibalism.

Prion diseases are like a zombie disease for proteins. One protein misfolds, and then when it encounters other proteins it causes them to misfold too. Until a critical level of proteins are nonfunctional and your brain is full of holes.

Mad cow disease is another prion disease! Probably the best-known one. And currently the US and Canada are being steadily contaminated by Chronic Wasting Disease, which is a prion disease for deer (and moose and other relatives). One of the things that's so fucking scary about prion diseases is how resistant they are to destruction! CWD prions get shed in the saliva and urine of infected animals, and then it lasts in the soil or is taken up by grass where it can infect more animals. And it can last years and years. So you could cull 100% of the deer in affected areas, reintroduce uninfected animals years later, and the infection would pick right back up again. The prions are also freakishly resistant to heat, so you could burn an entire forest down and when the area had recovered the soil could still be contaminated.

The good news is, there's no evidence that CWD can spread to humans... yet. Another thing that's so fucking scary about prion diseases is the incubation period can be actual decades. So there could be hunters in North America right now who are infected by a prion disease they acquired from eating infected deer meat, who won't know about it for years. It might be totally fine, or there might be a time bomb spreading through the venison enjoyers of North America. We won't know until it's WAY too late to do anything about it.

As far as we're aware, it's only the brain and spinal tissue that carries the infectious proteins, so even if humans can catch CWD, if you don't eat that brain and spinal tissue, you're okay! As long as there's no cross-contamination form those areas while the deer carcass is being butchered. And as long as human crops don't uptake the prions like grass has been found to do.

if you're a 90's kid like I was, probably your first exposure to the idea of the giant pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus was through the Dinotopia books! though the author/artist, James Gurney, did nickname them "Skybaxes" for the ease of young readers.

this gave us a beautiful picture of an amazing animal that we would later discover was, EXTREMELY misleading.

see, the first book was released in 1992, back when we only had a few wing bones to describe Quetzalcoatlus! they hinted at the existence of a giant pterosaur with the wingspan of a small plane, but they didn't offer much detail:

this is what James Gurney was working off of when he created the Skybax, and you can totally see where he came from! he basically took the body plan of known pterosaurs like Pteranodon and scaled it UP to match the size of the new fossils.

but over the next several years, new fossils of Quetzalcoatlus were being discovered, described, and cataloged, enough that Gurney created a new Quetzalcoatlus for his second Dinotopia book that was outright stated to be Quetzalcoatlus Northropi, which is the name of the actual animal these bones belong to!

so sized up even bigger, same body plan.

and then in the early 2000's, some very interesting discoveries started to be made about Quetzalcoatlus and its relatives! turns out that they were a bunch of giraffe-sized storkmonster predators that could probably 1v1 a T Rex.

shown here life size!

so needless to say, this was a bit of a shock.

A japanese comic, using hatching and minimal colours.

Panel one: A fatter cat with black triangular markings is standing blankly on the table, in front of the owner’s laptop and blocking their use of it. The owner says “Go away…” in japanese.

Panel two: a closer angle of the cat infront of the laptop, particularly drawing attention to its fluffy primordial pouch. Japanese flavour text is added to emphasize that the pouch is hanging.

Panel 3: The owner touches the pouch, pushing it back up, and humorously saying “If you don’t move, I’ll give you a tummy tuck!”

Panel 4: The cat blankly looks at its owner’s hand with large black eyes, noticing the touch. Flavour text is added to indicate the owner is bouncing and playing with it.

Panel 5: It then looks at it’s owner with an unimpressed expression.

Panel 6: The cat looks even more unimpressed, the background becoming darker to further indicate distain. The owner ashamedly says “sorry”