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So my mom works at a church. Actually, she works somewhere that is located in a church, but close enough for government work. It’s not important. Anyway, they had an artist gallery, because sometimes churches do that; it’s a whole “supporting local artists” thing, and it’s pretty standard. 

What is very not standard is the artist they happened to host this week.

Susan B. Hale is a musician and painter in the Upstate NY region. (For people wondering where that is: it’s all the not-NYC part. There’s actually an entire state attached to the city, like a big, slightly-racist wart. I’m getting off track.)

Susan’s art is fairly standard, lovely oil-on-canvas Impressionist stuff. Mostly flowers –

– some pretty landscapes –

– some weird abstract shit –

Pretty stuff. If I had anything resembling disposable income, I’d wanna buy some of this stuff, because it’s gorgeous.

You know what else she paints, sometimes?

BIG FUCKING DINOSAURS

BIG FUCKING DINOSAURS FROLICKING WITH FLOWERS

BIG FUCKING DINOSAURS NOSHING ON HUMAN SKULLS IN A BLACK VOID-LIKE HELLSCAPE

BIG FUCKING DINOSAURS ON BIG FUCKING CANVASES PLAYING HIDE-AND-SEEK WITH DEAD FLOATING LADIES BY PICTURESQUE PONDS HOW ARE YOU NOT DELIGHTED BY THIS

Obviously, my immediate reaction was to seek this woman out and find her all of the money. But while I did absolutely spend two hours looking up who she was and then emailing her, she doesn’t appear to have an Etsy – or any online store at all. She has virtually no digital presence, and not much of a reputation offline either.

And this is tragic.

Because let’s be real: this woman should be a fucking internet star. She paints lovely scenes of tranquility and fills them with T-Rexes for no apparent reason, other than that she thinks they’re rad. There’s an alternate reality in which she’s a Tumblr legend, and I want to live in that reality.

So here’s the thing. I know I’m not a Big Tumblr Person. I have virtually no clout in things like this, and the odds of anyone seeing this post are kinda limited. But I also want this woman to be so inundated with requests for awesome dino paintings that she has no choice but to open up an online store. I want my home and those of everyone I know to be filled with humungous, lush oils of morbid hilarious dinosaur beauty, like if Monet spent a glorious weekend binging all of Jurassic Park while also on a cocaine bender.

Reblog this. Email her telling her how great you think she is and how much you wish she had an amazon site or whatever. Consider supporting her, if you have some money and love dinosaurs. Boost the shit out of this, because even if she doesn’t get a single dime, her artwork makes me smile and I want to at least share the happy with others, and maybe bounce some of it back to her.

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When Thomas comes up from the box, he states that some voices he’s hearing are familiar (3)

Thomas is the first Newbie during Alby’s time as Glade leader. Which means Nick had died within the month prior to Thomas arriving (9)

Newt is about a year younger than Alby (9)

Newt calls Chuck “Chuckie” (12) (103) (189)

Gally’s nose looks like a deformed potato (17)

Gally’s teeth are rotted and some are missing. He also has bed breath. (19)

Chuck has long hair and blue eyes (13)

Alby threatens to throw Thomas off the Cliff twice within the first hour of him arriving in the Glade (9) (20)

Chuck screams through the window at people while they’re in the bathroom (30)

It never rains in the Glade. (43)

Thomas ponders the Glade being a prison and they’ve all done unforgivable crimes (63). In relation to that, Thomas wonders if Winston’s crime was being a serial killer (78)

Thomas thinks it’s impossible to have an intelligent conversation with Chuck (64)

When Thomas sees the grave for “Stephen” he- mentally- makes a joke about Chuck annoying the boy to death (69)

When Thomas sees the body of the Glade cut in half he has to fight the urge to laugh (70)

Thomas thinks Alby hates him (86)

Ben survived an arrow to the head (88)

Ben was a builder (93)

Newt calls Thomas “Tommy” for the first time only after Thomas tells him that he’s not the Greenie anymore (98)

Newt tells Thomas that he got his limp after injuring himself running from a Griever (99)

Ben’s reaction the Changing was worse than most (99

Thomas isn’t intimidated by Newt (101)

Zart smells like sour milk (104)

Newt bites his nails when he gets nervous (106)

Newt refuses to let Thomas see Alby during the Changing, because he fears that it would make things worse (146)

Newt is either late in his sixteenth year or early in his seventeenth, as he is about a year younger than seventeen year old Alby (9) and older than sixteen year old Thomas (150)

Newt threatens to disband the Council and create an entire new one (160)

Gally calls Thomas “Tommy” on occasion (18) (161)

Newt and Gally have never gotten along (162) (260)

Newt declared that if Thomas couldn’t remember things, they’d throw him to the Grievers so he can go through the Changing (180)

Thomas wakes up covered in a blanket (186) and Chuck confirms that Newt found him the night before (187)

Some Gladers accused Thomas of killing Gally (188)

Newt doesn’t like being the leader (192)

Chuck cried himself to sleep almost every night for a month (193)

Frypan saved Thomas dinner because he knew that Thomas would be late (199)

Thomas wears a size eleven shoe (201)

Thomas’ feet are bigger than Minho’s (201)

The Runners wear diapers while in the Maze so that they never have to stop running  (202)

The Gladers tried asking the Creators for a TV (203)

Alby poked the believed dead Griever with his foot (212)

Thomas doesn’t want to speak telepathically (236)

Teresa kicked Jeff in the balls and climbed through a window (238)

When Newt is annoyed with Thomas, he reverts back to calling him Greenie (109) (243)

Alby suffered from depression post-Changing (249)

Newt was willing to spend days in the Maze, even though it was obvious that something horrible and traumatizing had happened to him there (250)

Alby mocks Newt’s limp and implies that he wouldn’t be much help in the Maze overnight (250)

Thomas imagined Chuck crying himself to sleep in a separate room (252)

Teresa was sleeping through most of the Griever attacks (262)

Minho suspected that Alby was the one who set the map room on fire (267)

Newt believes that he’s of lower intelligence than the other Gladers (273)

Wax paper is one of Frypan’s most valued supplies (274)

Thomas is embarrassed when Newt implies that Teresa is his girlfriend (280)

Speaking telepathically hurts Thomas and Teresa physically (284)

Thomas was stung by the Griever multiple times (295)

Chuck waited by Thomas’ bed side while he was going through the Changing- strongly implied (298)

Alby’s memories revolve around the Flare (313)

Thomas tells Teresa to “sugar coat” the trip for Chuck because Thomas is concerned about the boy’s mental health (323)

Chuck gave up hope on somebody in the world caring about him because of the conversation around the Glade about the Flare, etc (326)

Alby didn’t sacrifice himself so that the Gladers could make it through, he killed himself because he couldn’t stay to go back into the world (333)

Newt is disgusted by the lack of emotion Minho and Thomas show over Alby’s death (334)

The Gladers entered the WICKED headquarters by going down a slide in the floor (349)

Thomas is tackled by a Crank (362)