Dinosaur Realism

I feel like starfish are one of those animals that are treated as very “normal” by people but absolutely shouldn’t be. Like they’re a wheel of repeating heads connected by a central stomach. They walk around using thousands of tiny sticky hydraulically powered tentacles. They have an eye on the end of each arm. Instead of having a mouth they just have an opening where their entire stomach can be pushed out to engulf prey. And they’re just allowed to exist like this. It’s not illegal or anything.

On the one hand the proliferation of the murder hotel myth is a little unconscionable and obfuscates that HH Holmes wasn’t a movie psychopath he killed people to steal their identities and rob them. On the other hand the idea of a murder hotel is so much fun.

food has no moral value. being fed does.

save me loyal to the death second in command characters. save me. love you loyal second in command characters that are forced to turn against their leader. save me. loyalty

SAVE ME LOYALTY BOUND CHARACTERS.

ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY'RE WOMEN❗️❗️❗️

maybe there never were any twin towers. like did u ever see them?

So I know all you kids are joking around but no, you’re not allowed to make jokes about this. No.

i like how all cats regardless of species can either look rlly badass and cool or just incredibly silly stupid

THANK YOU DON’T MIND IF I DO

tbh if someone just handed me a pressure washer and set me loose in the streets i would go into a trance and just start hosing shit down indiscriminately. it's not a question of how much i could clean, but how long until i get hit by a car and die

"there's no platonic explanation for this" some of y'all need better friends

"there's no platonic explanation for this" some of y'all need to be better friends

I love that this captures the exact feeling of chess.

I think a fun way to have he/she pronouns would be by helping other avoid the ambiguous antecedent problem and taking on the pronouns that are less represented in the current group.

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