I Sure Would Hate To Die

when asked why a "proper" dragon has to look like it ate 50 tons of steroids every day of its life, a mod answered that it would need huge pecs to support wing muscles, like with birds. when someone pointed out that pterosaurs, which also had massive wingspans, weren't built like professional bodybuilders, the ask was dismissed as trolling.

Yeah yeah, stylization and all, but lizards walk on their heels! They're plantigrade animals! same thing with crocodilians! I know it's just a tiny thing but it drives me up the WALL when people do that!

THE ORIGINAL???

A underrated moral panic is the UK government's deep and enduring hatred of ninjitsu. From the days of video nastys banning nunchucks and shuriken from the media but not touching depictions of any type of weapon people actually have or use to Keir Starmer promising to ban ninja swords to solve knife crime, famously committed primarily with replica Japanese swords, forever. There are still presumably people with ASBOs for pretending to be Naruto in 2004, when Tony Blair executed a raid on the servers hosting Real Ultimate Power and declared once and for all that Britain will not stand for dishonorable stealth combat no matter how many shadow warriors are sent by Brussels

I grew up with teenage mutant hero turtles on the TV because they didn't want to say the n word on television aimed at kids

Okay, never expected to see someone say "the n word" and mean ninja, but with Britain everything is possible

Remembering the British film censor who despised nunchucks to such a degree he would shred scenes to pieces to cover up a image of them on a poster in the background. It literally wasn't even prompted by anything. He wasn't even worried about kids hurting themselves trying them out, like he did, he just thought Britain was due for a massive wave of ninja crime and he heroically stopped it

hello allo person in a fandom. let’s play a game. in front of you are two characters. your challenge is to okay and you’ve already started shipping them. well the crusher machine is going to activate now goodbye.

hello self proclaimed multishipper on tumblr. let's play a game. in front of you is an aro person venting understandable frustration about how 99% of fanworks and fan discussions in every single fandom always center around romance, regardless of whether or not the character in question would realistically want to date anyone. your challenge is to okay and you've already started calling op a violent anti. well the crusher machine-

very irritating how often i see people anthropomorphize nonhuman animals (especially wild animals) on this site and online at large but very disappointing that when someone says 'hey don't project human emotions onto that bird/dog/bear/deer etc.' a bunch of other people are like 'exactly. animals don't care' and then go on to describe nonhuman animals as incapable of sentience, compassion, or thought. perhaps there's a secret option about how nonhuman animals think and feel that's neither 'they think and feel exactly as humans do' nor 'they don't think or feel anything.' but idk i'm just some guy.

give it up for girls with vaginas and boys with penises

pause i forgot cis people exist this was intended as a celebration of bottom surgery

"the trans umbrella is transmisogynistic" sure, if you see trans women as completely different from all other trans people. Which could mean nothing

"who's even allowed to want to be a girl" I swear to god, lady, listen to trans people who aren't like you, that have different opinions. These people(transmedicalists) plug their ears and go "lalala"

i know i said i did not want to talk about the nolan odyssey but i do have one more nodyssey post in me. i actually think the idea of odysseus understanding his story as existing both in and out of a historic timeframe is a fun way to handle the liminality caused by the story being part of an extensive oral tradition. however having him say "our age of bronze is collapsing" is perhaps not the way i would have done that