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“I don’t want to be your shadow, but no one can see me without you." 

hands like houses - release [a tale of outer suburbia] - (slowed + reverb)

its not about how scary they are, they are/were real life animals and what matters is learning more about them, not how well they fit into your science fiction horror film lol

listen

have you ever met a swan

“Oh man, I can’t deal with birds ‘cause they’re dinosaurs and sometimes it’s like they get this glint in their eyes and they remember.”

This is a bearded vulture, or lammergeier. It’s four feet long and has a nine foot wingspan and it eats bones.

This is a shoebill stork. It dropped the duck without biting down shortly after the picture was taken, but if it had decided not to-

… it could have been the end of the road for that duck.

This is the last thing a fish sees before a macaroni penguin eats it.

This is a secretary bird in the act of demonstrating to Lord Voldemort that he came to the wrong neighborhood, ese.

This is a goose.

This is a vulture.

This is a cassowary on the attack. 

Be glad I couldn’t find the actual gif of a pelican swallowing a fish, because it’s freakin’ Lovecraftian in its HEADS SHOULD NOT BEND THAT WAY factor. You’ll have to settle for the idea of a feathered dinosaur suddenly going GLORP and devouring its victims whole just like this lady here.

Steven Spielberg didn’t create these. These are the feet of an emu.

And this is what happens when a swan (this one is named Asboy; his father was Mr. Asbo, the first swan in the UK to get named after an anti-social behavior order in ‘honor’ of his tendency to attack boaters) decides it doesn’t like you. I should probably note that this one attacked a cow.

The velociraptor was about 2 feet tall. That’s about the size of a turkey. Do you know how many people are scared of turkeys? Do you know how many people will run away from a turkey coming at them? Almost everyone. It’s about the size of a goose; and even more people will run from a goose. And none of them have proper bone anchored teeth, or sickle claws, or grasping hands. They’re not predators, they eat grass and bugs and maybe small rodents or fish if they catch them but it’s not a staple. And yet. So many people are terrified of them. The feathers don’t seem to be a problem for their fear.

Carnivorous mammals, almost universally, eat creatures much smaller than themselves unless they’re group hunters. There’s exceptions, tigers for example, which are so heavy and terrifying that they’ll knock down a cow singlehandedly, and of course all the Mustelidae take prey size as a fucking challenge. But mostly like, cats don’t kill dogs and carry them around in their jaws.

Birds of prey are different. Sure, most of their prey are small, but if they have an opportunity to grab something their weight or heavier, they fucking go for it. Owls are the worst for this, but hawks will do it too. They’ll straight-up snatch and carry animals heavier than themselves, because apparently their wings will allow for that, though not easily. They will grab something struggling and squirming that would have about as much chance of eating them. Sometimes it gets them killed. A lot of the time, though, they win, because some of them have literally skull-crushing talons.

All of this makes me think that a Velociraptor might well go for a human, in territorial fury if not as prey - and possibly that, too, especially if they really were social eaters. A Deinonychus would definitely murder my face. I don’t have even the slightest doubt. Basically I wouldn’t trust any dinosaur with sharp teeth even if it only came up to my knees. Birds do not respect the predator-prey size ratio. I doubt non-avian dinosaurs were any better.

like hell im gonna be alone with my thoughts

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