#dinovamp

ok so theres an underwear brand called maxx and i thought it would be really funny to have my name on some underwear

i had to look this up but here are my takes

thyalicine

auroch

passenger pigeon

megalodon

great auk

I love it when mythology has queer people, being so myself. I could talk about more examples since mythology is kind of a special interest of mine, but that would be me going on too much on here I think.

I really should finish the other Persephone story – there's a lot more going on there and it's probably the longest one

My favorite myth is the Myth of the Drowned Girl. It has a really beautiful, poetic plot and it's kind of my "happy ending" story, where the protagonist ends up in a beautiful, idealized world where nothing bad will ever happen to her again (which seems like it should come from a Greek or maybe Celtic source, since there's so much Celtic stuff in the story)

The story is set in the ruins of Troy, after it's fallen. In the story, the young princess, Deianeira, has been given a prophecy that if she goes down to the sea and touches the rock there, she'll save her father and the city. However, since she's a vain princess who just wants to wear beautiful clothes and look good, this is a really terrible idea. She does this anyway, and she's immediately struck by lightning by Athena, which makes her pass out and drown in the sea. Her body is brought to the beach, and there's a storm, and the rocks are in the water. When she's found, her body is taken to Troy, and there is a huge funeral ceremony where the people honor her by throwing her body into the sea and lighting her with fire (because she's been so good, she has to have a sacrifice – I assume it's like a sacrifice that was performed regularly in ancient Troy). Then her body floats to the beach where Deianeira is now alive and is brought to her father on the battlefield, who is lying there dead from an arrow shot by Achilles. She takes the body and says, "It is not my father" and buries it without a word, then buries her own body beside it. The next morning she tells her father's body that he is not dead, but now she's alive, and she will never be his queen or anything like that, she's going to go on to live a good life in the beautiful, idealized world she always wanted. There are probably lots of versions of the story (my favorite, which I mentioned in the earlier post, is by a female author), but this is what happened to the character in the one I read.

have potatoes began their evolution from plant to animal? I wonder what potatoes would be like as animals

This is a great question.

Potatoes are not plants and are more like fungi (in that they are multicellular and reproduce by spore), but there's no reason I can think of to say that they aren't animals.

(A few people have said I was a plant and a few people have said I was an animal so I think some people are confused about what we mean by "what is an animal" and don't see the similarities)

Good question, I've thought about this some before.

I think it's hard for me to imagine what kind of stuff I'd say I like in the same way in the same way as other stuff I've been meaning to make videos, even if I like some of the basic ideas I'm getting from it.

I suppose it's easy to imagine something of the form "look how fucked up and bizarre this is," and then do something that is really "look how fucked up and bizarre this is." I wouldn't really know what to do with that, especially when I'm trying to do something that is more "look at all these things," and also something that is more intriguing. For some reason, what comes to mind for me is things that are in a world we don't know much about, and that are full of weird things happening in weird ways. I don't really have the experience of seeing something that seems like it's trying to do something for the fun of it (in the way I think is really important for horror).