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This beautiful destination is the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia:

Ever heard of the “Great Dismal Swamp” in Virginia? Do you imagine the most depressing, gross, scary place you’ve ever seen? It might look a bit haunting, but look how gorgeous the Great Dismal Swamp can be:

Oh yeah, did I mention that swamps are unbelievably rich in wildlife and rare plant species? For example, the Great Dismal Swamp has over 200 species of birds, over 70 species of reptiles and amphibians, and booming mammal populations (you’re very likely to see black bears and otters, for example). That doesn’t sound so dismal to me.

Speaking of wildlife, the Pantanal swamps in Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia are home to some rare and gorgeous animals like jaguars, hyacinth macaws, capybaras, caiman, giant otters, maned wolves, and more.

It’s easy to understand why swamps might get a bad reputation. They’re hard to travel on foot (many swamps now have boardwalk trails and canoe tours), and the stagnant water can smell bad and give a home to many bugs, which spread diseases. Cool animals like crocodiles and jaguars are bad news if you’re lost in the swamp and come face to face with one. But swamps are super important to the planet and are often way more beautiful than what you may be picturing! 

One cool thing swamps do is absorb excess water like sponges so the surrounding areas don’t get badly flooded. In addition to the many animals that live in swamps, swamp plants often have medicinal value or other practical purposes. And despite their reputation for being dirty, swamps actually purify water because their thick plant growth and soil absorb impurities in the water!

[transcript: 1. “god is fucking with my oblivion. if he wants forgiveness, he shouldn’t have given us memory.”

2. “your god comes and he is ordinary and terrible. he confers with the doctors at your kitchen table and tells you to eat….”

3. “our father who art in heaven. our father who art buried in the yard.”

4. “at the trial of god, we will ask: ‘why did you allow all this?’ and the answer will be an echo: ‘why did you allow all this?’”

5. “i don’t believe in god as much as i believe in the interrogation room. i believe in someone placing a loaded gun on a metal table between me and a door. who gets to be god then? will god be the bullet or the table or the door.”

6. “every spy knows this. some say god is where we put our sorrow. god says, which one of you fuckers can get to me first?”/end transcript.]

are you a horror fan, getting into the genre, or just looking for something to watch? here’s a bunch of links to some horror films and shows (both good and bad cuz i felt obligated to put whole franchises in here) for everyone to enjoy!!!! or hate!!!! always remember: being a horror fan is watching god awful movies to find the good ones that will change your life

halloween (1978)

halloween 2 (1981)

halloween 3: season of the witch (1982)

halloween 4: the return of michael myers (1988)

halloween 5: the revenge of michael myers (1989)

halloween: the curse of michael myers (1995)

halloween h20: 20 years later (1998)

halloween: resurrection (2002) 

halloween (2018)

halloween kills (2021)

candyman (1992)

candyman: farewell to the flesh (1995)

candyman: day of the dead (1999)

candyman (2021)

the evil dead (1981)

evil dead 2 (1987)

army of darkness (1992)

evil dead (2013)

ash vs evil dead (2015-2018)

scream (1996)

scream 2 (1997)

scream 3 (2000)  

scream 4 (2011)

scream (2022)

night of the living dead (1968)

dawn of the dead (1978)

day of the dead (1985)

child’s play (1988)

child’s play 2 (1990) 

child’s play 3 (1991) 

bride of chucky (1998)

seed of chucky (2004)

curse of chucky (2013)

cult of chucky (2017)

chucky (2021-ongoing)

the texas chainsaw massacre (1974)

the texas chainsaw massacre 2 (1986)

leatherface: the texas chainsaw massacre 3 (1990)

texas chainsaw massacre: the next generation (1995)

the texas chainsaw massacre (2003)

the texas chainsaw massacre: the beginning (2006)

texas chainsaw 3d (2013)

leatherface (2017)

texas chainsaw massacre (2022)

saw (2004)

saw 2 (2005)

saw 3 (2006)

saw 4 (2007)

saw 5 (2008)

saw 6 (2009)

saw 3d (2010)

jigsaw (2017)

spiral: from the book of saw (2021)

ringu (1998)

ringu 2 (1999)

ringu 0: birthday (2000)

a nightmare on elm street (1984)

a nightmare on elm street 2: freddy’s revenge (1985)

a nightmare on elm street 3: dream warriors (1987)

a nightmare on elm street 4: the dream master (1988)

a nightmare on elm street 5: the dream child (1989)

freddy’s dead: the final nightmare (1991)

wes craven’s new nightmare (1994)

freddy vs jason (2003)

friday the 13th (1980)

friday the 13th part 2 (1981)

friday the 13th part 3 (1982)

friday the 13th: the final chapter (1984)

friday the 13th: a new beginning (1985)

friday the 13th part 6: jason lives (1986)

friday the 13th part 7: the new blood (1988)

friday the 13th part 8: jason takes manhattan (1989)

jason goes to hell: the final friday (1993)

jason x (2002)

hellraiser (1987)

hellbound: hellraiser 2 (1988)

hellraiser 3: hell on earth (1992)

hellraiser: bloodline (1996)

alien (1979)

aliens (1986)

alien 3 (1992)

alien resurrection (1997) 

predator (1987)

predator 2 (1990)

predators (2010)

prey (2022)

house of 1000 corpses (2003)

the devil’s rejects (2005)

3 from hell (2019)

fear street part one: 1994 (2021)

fear street part two: 1978 (2021)

fear street part three: 1666 (2021)

the strangers (2008)

the strangers: prey at night (2018)

a quiet place (2018)

a quiet place part 2 (2021)

the silence of the lambs (1991)

hannibal (2013-2015)

get out (2017)

us (2019)

nope (2022)

perfect blue (1997)

killer klowns from outer space (1988)

the thing (1982)

carrie (1976)

the shining (1980)

doctor sleep (2019)

pet sematary (1989)

it (2017)

it chapter 2 (2019)

trick ‘r treat (2007)

suspiria (1977)

black christmas (1974)

my bloody valentine (1981)

american psycho (2000)

el hoyo (2019)

shaun of the dead (2004)

train to busan (2016)

resident evil: welcome to raccoon city (2021)

hereditary (2018)

jennifer’s body (2009)

the lighthouse (2019)

little shop of horrors (1986)

orphan (2009)

spree (2020)

re-animator (1985)

wolf creek (2005)

freaky (2020)

bloody birthday (1981)

scary stories to tell in the dark (2019)

mandy (2018)

the cabin in the woods (2012)

ready or not (2019)

10 cloverfield lane (2016)

the blair witch project (1999)

possum (2018)

the exorcist (1973)

stranger things (2016-ongoing)

the twilight zone (1959-1964)

Normally when you delete a post, it’s gone, but not gone gone. Just deleted from public never to be seen again. The database entry is still there, just inaccessible.

This post, however, the root post is just gone. Gone gone. Gone forever. Everything attached to it is still there, but since the root post is hard deleted, it’s got nothing to add to. When the note counter tries to add notes to nothing, it goes nowhere.

So it throws every new note into the void. Goodbye forever, notes.

To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)

If you’re younger, you may not know Patrick Swayze; he was Taken From Us in 2009. But Patrick Swayze was an icon of masculinity. Men were willing to watch romantic movies because Patrick Swayze was in them.

Patrick Swayze was fucking beefcake.

And this man didn’t just agree to do a movie where the only time he’s not actually in drag is the first three minutes, which involve stepping out of the shower, doing make up, and getting Dressed. He has ONE LINE that is delivered in a man’s voice, and it’s not during those three minutes.

And if you watch those three minutes, you see a stark difference between his portrayal of Miss Vida Bohéme and Wesley Snipes as Noxeema Jackson. (I am not criticizing Snipes’ performance. They were different roles.) Noxeema was a comedy character. Chi-Chi was a comedy character. But Miss Vida Bohéme was a dramatic role, played by a dramatic powerhouse.

When Vida sits down in front of the mirror, she sees a man. And she doesn’t like it.

Then she puts her hair up, and her face lights up.

“Ready or not,” she says. “Here comes Mama.”

And while Noxeema is having fun with her transformation (at one point breaking into a giggling fit after putting on pantyhose), Vida is simply taking pleasure in bringing out her true self. And when she’s done, she sees this:

And you can FEEL her pride.

It was all just a show, anyway. They did it every year. They brought out a selection of criminals, and the Sorcerer who ruled us showed his power by bringing about their deaths by magic. Just to show, every year, what happened to anyone who crossed him.

There was a time, probably, when the people he executed really were rebels or assassins. In latter days he had to take what the dungeons offered. I was dragged up in chains between a pickpocket, sobbing in terror, and a man who’d killed another man in a brawl. There were few criminals of any note, by then. So instead of choosing the wickedest criminals, they chose based on appearance. The man who’d been in the brawl had a face like a clenched fist, and looked like a ruffian. The pickpocket, aging and with hands beginning to tremble, was a different kind of example. As was I.

“There aren’t many pretty ones, this year,” the man who chose me had said, examining me. “But this one will do. Not young, but not old, a woman, well-favoured enough for the gallows… what was her crime?”

The warder shrugged. “She tried to kill one of the sheriffs.”

The man looked down at me and I shrugged. “I hit him with a washing stick, because he tried to extort money from me, and he was a baby about it.” I refused to treat this as anything but pathetic, even after my sentencing. “I didn’t even break any bones.”

“Treason, then,” the man said, nodding. “Attacking the servants of the law. That will look well on the list. Send her.”

I had been debating ever since what to choose. Something quick? Something painless? I considered demanding that I suffer the attack I supposedly made on the sheriff, but then I realized the Sorcerer would only give me what the man had said I was going to do, and that was not a pleasant way to die. I had all but decided on something swift and relatively painless. Beheading with the sharpest of blades sounded good. It would be quick. 

If all we had of wolves were their bones we would never guess that they howl.

If all we had of elephants were fossils with no living related species, we might infer some kind of proboscis but we'd never come up with those ears.

If all we had of chickens were bones, we wouldn't know about their combs and wattles, or that roosters crow.

We wouldn't know that lions have manes, or that zebras have stripes, or that peacocks have trains, that howler monkeys yell, that cats purr, that deer shed the velvet from their antlers, that caterpillars become butterflies, that spiders make webs, that chickadees say their name, that Canada geese are assholes, that orangutans are ginger, that dolphins echolocate, or that squid even existed.

- We have fossils of spider webs

- Paleontologists have reconstructed the larynx (voice box) of extinct animals and we have a pretty good idea what vocalizations they were capable of

- Fossilized pigments have been found in a variety of taxa

We know the entire lifecycle of a tyrannosaurus. We know from the sheer amount of remains we have, from every stange.

We know roughly how they sounded (as the person above me said).

We know they had remarkable vision.

We know they had the second. strongest sense of smell in history.

We know from their bones that they grew to a certain size and stayed there until about 14 or so, then absolutely ballooned up to their adult size in about three or four years.

We know they likely lived in family groups, because we have bones with certainly fatal injuries for a solitary animal (broken legs and such) that are completely healed.

We know exactly how other dinosaurs look, down to colors and patterns, because bones are not the only information that is preserved.

The Sinosauropteryx is one such dinosaur. Because pigmentation molecules were preserved in the feather impressions, we know it's colors, and it's tail rings (which one would argue would be it's "iconic feature."

(Art credit Julio Lacerda)

Microraptor is another! We know from feather impressions that it had four wings. We know from pigmentation that it was an iredecent black, like a raven.

(Art credit Vitor Silva)

This is not limited to dinosaurs, or feathers. We've found pigmentation in scales and skin. We've completely reconstructed two extinct penguins, colors and all. We've figured out the colors of some non-avian and non-feathered dinosaurs. We can identify evidence of feathers existing on animals without feather impressions.

We have feathered dinosaurs preserved in amber.

We can defer likely behavioral patterns through adaptations we see in bones, and from the environments they were found in. We can see how certain movements evolved through musculature attachments (yes, how muscles attached is often preserved). We know avian flight likely evolved by "accident" by the way early raptorforms moved their arms to strike at their prey.

We also understand behavior in extant animals and can easily speculate likely behaviors in extinct animals. (A predator running for it's life is not going to exhibit hunting behaviors)

We learn and understand way more from "rocks" than paleontologists are given credit for. And if you watch a movie like Jurassic World, which has no interest in portraying anything with any sort of accuracy, and your take away is "We can't possibly know anything about these animals," then you don't understand science.

As for shrinkwrapped reconstructions, we understand how muscles attach, and how fat works. Artists who lean into shrinkwrapping are are not generally concerned with scientific accuracy, or biology. They're only concerned with Awesombro.

If true paleoartists tried to reconstruct a hippo, while they naturally would not get every bit correct, it would certainly look like a real animal, and not that alien monster that tumblr is so fond of using as "proof" that paleontologists don't know anything (an art piece that itself was extreme and satirical, and a condemnation of the particular subset of paleoartists I mentioned earlier)