Making Myself Crazy

And then looking at this...

Notice how much healthier the second set looks? Their lips cover their teeth, they actually have fat on their bodies, their skin doesn't wrinkle like they're dehydrated. You can't see every single tendon and muscle move because you aren't supposed to. Dinosaurs are animals, not reptilian body-builders.

THIS is the kind of change I want to see in how we create realistic depictions of not only dinosaurs, but all prehistoric creatures. Paleoart has always had a huge issue with shrink-wrapping and making these animals look terrifying instead of making them look like, well, animals.

STOP BACKYARD BREEDING YOUR DINOSAURS

QUEEN SHIT

Dean's bisexuality was, as most people know at this point, something of an open secret on set. The writers knew, the cast knew, whoever in the lights was constantly splashing bi lighting all over the place knew, I'd be willing to wager even Robert Singer knew; there's a reason the network did market research on making him openly bi.

But here's the kicker: for all that this was a known facet of the character and show to most people on set, it was very deliberately left to subtext so that the show could have plausible deniability on their Marlboro Man action hero being into dudes. So Dean can turn into a blushing mess around his very male celebrity crushes, can get flustered and trip all over himself when a man expresses attraction to him, can have a male siren, multiple male love interests, and flirtations with literally dozens of male tertiary and one-off characters over the years... but as long as we don't utter the word "bisexual" or actually show him kissing a dude on screen, there's nothing to see here... right?

even if it's fair to assume that a younger and less self-aware Dean was heavily compartmentalizing his sexuality and just Not Unpacking That Right Now while still wandering around sleeping with men all over the place, the fact is that the implication is that even if he was avoiding looking directly at his attraction to men, even if he aggressively re-closeted himself around Sam, even if he wasn't thinking of himself as A Bisexual™ until much later on... he knew himself as someone who has sex with men.

Stan: Well, it’s a simple chemical reaction, you see, when two people like each other very much-

Ben: They like each other?!

Stan: Well, I think so.

Ben: Well… don’t you think we should tell them?

http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/

http://www.somethingawful.com/feature-articles/for-the-cure/

http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/132728/susan_g_komen_foundation_has

that’s right fracking you know, a process using chemicals known to cause cancer that leech into the water supply

http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/10/baker-hughes-fights-breast-cancer-pink-fracking-drill-bits/

Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Cancer Research Institute

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

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is that true??

I’ve been trying to figure out how to write a post like this for months. and this is the best I came up with. Please send me asks if y’all want me to talk more about OSF’s production because, trust me, I want to talk more about OSF’s production. This would be so much longer if Tumblr allowed more than 10 photos.

I also decided to include my even more rambling plot synopsis I wrote back in 2015 when trying to tell my friends about the show. So if you wanna go deep, go ahead and click the read more. I only made a few edits from the run down I wrote back then, though, so I can’t promise coherency and can promise redundancy if you already know the show. And small jokes with myself that reflect dialogue that was cut for Broadway. :)

So a while back (I can’t remember exactly when but I think it was some time around the 40s/50s), a bunch of penguins escaped. A keeper left the gate open so a bunch of penguins just… followed them. And the people loved it. Look at these adorable birds outside their cage just following that guy around! So they get all the penguins back inside and realise that none of them really ran off, they just followed the keeper and went back inside and crowd thought it was amazing, so why not make it a regular thing? Get enough people there that if one of them goes to make a run for it (which at least one has in the past), they can’t get past the people, and let the ones who want outside have a little wander. So every day, they get a crowd, they open the gate, and whatever penguins want to get out can go, waddle about, squawk at people, and then hop back inside.

Only one edge was allowed to be sharpened, but oftentimes a small part (a couple inches) of the short edge (e.g. the edge that wasn’t sharp) would be sharpened, and weapon design often allowed for this

In this way, something that looked like This, a messer of just over a meter in length…

…would be legally considered a knife, and therefore allowable for non-nobility to possess. (you can also see the bit on the back of the tip that would be sharpened)