When ur 19 and still obsess over fictional cats

Nightheart has been pushing his family away for a long time. Squirrelflight held him back from becoming a warrior because she was- rightfully- worried about the dangerous risks he was taking, and he held that against her as her unjustly holding him back because of unreasonably high expectations. Sparkpelt was exiled by Ashfur- who also almost murdered her by the way- and Nightheart's upset about her 'abandoning' him with Finchlight when she had no choice but to leave and honestly if he wanted to be with them he could have gone with them! At one point Squirrelflight asks Sparkpelt to help Nightheart train, which she readily agrees to, but Nightheart immediately insists he doesn't need her help, then takes it as proof she wants nothing to do with him when she respects that! He assumes, for some reason, that Squirrelflight took him to the gathering to publicly humiliate him for some reason! He constantly talks about family being untrustworthy and refuses to show even basic politeness to any of his family members no matter how supportive they try to be.

I don't think "Oh, so you don't like it when your kin turn their back on you?" was about the name! At all! It was about how Nightheart spent moons purposefully choosing to see the worst in everyone in his family and then yelled at them all for apparently mistreating him in public during his naming ceremony without talking to any of them about any of it beforehand.

As directly as you can possibly state this without dropping a term the cats wouldn't know, Berryheart is canonically xenophobic.

It's very likely that she picked up this fear from her experiences with the Kin, and she's now using this belief to justify every reactionary response she has to the code changing, her discomfort with outsiders, and her general fear of uncertainty.

Berryheart and her clique have invented a political term to frame the idea of changing clans in a bad light. This is comparable to the way you might hear a conservative using the word "Illegal Alien" instead of migrant or expat

And, much like how the conservative applies this to migrants they don't like such as brown ones, Berryheart does not apply the derogatory label "clan-swapper" to people she does like, such as Dovewing.

Not yet, at least. We all know how these things tend to go.

So next, Sunbeam finds herself at what can be compared to a political rally. We saw in River that their toxic rhetoric has already made more level-headed people such as Tawnypelt drop out of the clique entirely, and now Sunbeam is the only voice of reason in what is otherwise an echo chamber.

She thinks that she can reach them by being diplomatic, the way that in an argument you can calm someone down a bit by showing them that you're listening. She does not realize that these cats have been radicalized. They jump on her concession like it's a weakness.

This is a frighteningly real scenario. Sunbeam has been so focused on the drama of her personal life that her friends and family have suddenly become people she doesn't recognize.

What was once some people getting together to gripe about how change is scary has been mobilized into an irrational, motivated hate group.

Making yet another post warning people about Everywhere at the End of Time (EATEOT)

LIST OF DON’Ts:

- Don’t listen to it if you’re faint of heart or sensitive.

- Don’t listen to it if you have a fear of age, forgetting, sickness / disease, or death.

- Don’t listen to it if you’re mentally or emotionally in a bad place.

Special note: people with depression, anxiety, autism, schizophrenia, and similar disorders tend to be more impacted by EATEOT, from what I’ve seen. Even completely neurotypical people have experienced paranoia and intense psychological distress from listening.

- Don’t listen if you’re prone to paranoia or hallucinations.

- Don’t listen to it if you know someone currently dying of old age, dementia, Alzheimer’s, etc.

- Don’t listen to it all at once, give yourself breaks. (The original albums were released 6 months apart, so it was intended to be listened to in pieces.)

- Don’t listen to it in the dark, in the evening, or at night.

- Don’t listen to it alone.

- Don’t listen to it in the same place you sleep. Sleep in a room? Listen to it in the kitchen or living room.

- Don’t listen under the influence. Don’t listen to it drunk or high. Do not listen while / after consuming alcohol, while / after smoking weed, while / after taking hallucinogens, or while / after taking any other kind of drug, including caffeine!

- Don’t listen while tired, falling asleep, or napping.

- Don’t listen while ill or sick, including if you’re constipated or during your menstrual cycle. (Yes, I’m serious. Gut health can effect emotional and psychological states!)

Some heads ups:

- Most stages contain audio distortion, lots of noise, and droning sounds. It gets worse as the stages and tracks go on. If you have issues with certain sounds or noises, especially white noises, crackling, popping, etc. you might want to avoid EATEOT.

- Stage 2 is incredibly depressing, but was the easiest for me to get through. A lot of people consider it their favorite, from what I’ve seen. It’s less frightening and more somber than the others.

- Stage 3 (especially late stage 3) and onward sound less like music and more like ambient songs from Silent Hill.

- Stages 4 & 5 contain a lot of jumbled noise and some “musical jumpscares”.

- Stage 6 is mostly white noise until the last 5 or so minutes, another sort-of musical jumpscare.

- It’s honestly a kind of boring experience. It can be scary, but once you get past the horror, it’s just… well, it’s 6 and a half hours of ambient music. Not everyone likes it, so don’t worry if it’s not your thing.

If you can’t handle it, don’t force yourself. Please. If you can’t finish it, don’t worry! EATEOT isn’t for everyone and you’re not weak, stupid, or anything bad because you can’t finish it!

Feel free to reblog and add your own tips, if you like. I hope this could help someone!

I'm a sensitive autistic with anxiety with severe fear of death, prone to paranoia, who listened to the while piece at once at night(ending at midnight).

Thank goodness i watched it through a livestream with all other people, otherwise i'd be dead and buried. Nevertheless, i really do not recommend that other people do the same, i was left extremely paranoid and distressed, obly calmed down after i talked to my friend for 2 hours.

Okay for my first post on Tumblr I decided I’m gonna go on an analysis of Rexy’s behavior during the first Jurassic Park’s breakout scene because why the hell not. Don’t worry I’m a biologist in training, I know what I’m talking about (not really).

Okay, first a dumb nitpick. The iconic scene with the water tremors is… Really not what would happen. The T.rex is big, but not so big to make the ground literally shake. Elephants are well known to sneak up on people with ease and they’re just a bit smaller than a T.rex.

With that out of the way, the actual breakout scene: She rips out the wires, steps out and gives us the money shot with a cool pose and a mighty roar… Except not quite. She first takes a look around, THEN she lets out that iconic roar we all love. If you ask me, I think she’s probably announcing her presence. She’s knowingly leaving her territory and entering an area she doesn’t know, so she checks if that spot is already taken by telling any other potential Tyrannosaurs she’s coming through.

Oh, but then the mayhem starts! Nope, she just… Leaves. There’s no immediate response, so she’s got green light to just explore this new environment. Really, she didn’t actually want anything to do with humans, at most she nudged the car out of curiosity. Everyone would have made it safe and sound…

Until Lex turns the god damn light on. I guess she was trying to catch Alan and Ian’s attention? Which good job girl, you also caught the attention of a 7 ton predator. Way to gp.

So good old Rexy decides to investigate, and curiously she just seems to be generally aware that the light is coming from somewhere around the area since she’s not really looking at the car.

That is until Tim closes the door.

Well kids, you got her full attention now. So she starts inspecting the car. Like, really inspecting it, sniffing it around to try and get a good sense of what this weird, shiny thing is.

And that’s when she sees there’s something inside. I don’t think she fully understands there’s food in there yet, she’s probably still seeing the car as a whole, but there’s definitely something weird about it, so she roars and tries to get a reaction.

Then she sees the kids moving inside, and she nudges the car. That’s when the kids start screaming and moving all erratically, with Tim trying to wrestle the light out of his sister’s hands and screaming at her to turn it off.

Of course Rexy is seeing and hearing all of it, and that’s when she realizes there’s definitely food in there, plus all that sudden movement and screaming must be sending her predatory instincts into overdrive.

And have you ever seen any video or photo of a big cat in a zoo trying to get a treat out of one of those enrichment balls?

Yeah.

Luckily for the kids there’s a thick enough panel of glass between them and those banana sized teeth, so she can’t get them that way. But that’s fine of course, because there’s always plan B. What’s plan B you ask?

Well flip the car over of course. The top of the thing is armored, so maybe its underside will be softer? That’s how a lot of animals work, there’s a reason predators start eating their prey’s guts a lot of the time, so the logic is sound.

She then bites the tire too, I’m guessing out of curiosity or trying to test different spots. Of course the tire gets completely pierced by the teeth, freeing a lot of air… And making noise, which catches Rexy’s attention… And makes her bite it again.

She gets completely side tracked by the tire and starts trying to tear it off, and I honestly think here she’s just playing and has completely forgotten about the snack.

Not that the kids are in any less peril anyways, with an animal the size of an elephant crushing the car they’re currently trapped in with its sheer size alone. Thankfully Alan’s quick thinking and knowledge of animal behavior are here to save the day!

He grabs a flare and lights it on. This catches Rexy’s attention, because new weird sparkly thing. Then, he throws the flare back into the paddock, and Rexy follows it because she really wants to check out what the hell that new weird thing is. That’s it folks, the day is saved!

Right. For some reason, Ian decides to grab another flare and light it up too. This obviously catches Rexy’s attention because hey, another weird sparkly thing! Then Ian starts running with the flare, and throws the flare while running. The thing is, the point of the flare is giving Rexy a new target to check out, but if you start running and screaming then you become a target. A target that acts an awful lot like prey at that.

So Ian runs straight to the toilet for some reason, and Rexy lunges at him, running her head straight into the small hut because let’s be real, that thing wouldn’t be able to withstand a full charge of something that big lol.

Anyways, the whole thing comes crashing down, leaving poor Gennaro exposed. Now something that’s interesting here is that she doesn’t instantly eat him, she actually checks him out at first! She’s actually curious about him, tilting her head like a quizzical dog.

And eats him. So long for the whole “won’t see you if you don’t move” thing I guess.

Fortunately Gennaro being eaten alive gives Grant enough time to get Lex out of the car (which he would have had even if Ian hadn’t tried to be a hero anyways but I digress), but before he can get Tim, Lex screams. This obviously catches Rexy’s attention, who must be having the time of her life with all this stimulation and she comes back to the car.

We get this scene where she’s supposedly not seeing Grant and Lex because they’re not moving, but IIRC the Lost World novel retconned that to her just not being hungry anymore and honestly I’m gonna roll with that because even if she didn’t see them there’s no way she didn’t smell them. I think she just lost interest in humans after eating a goat and a lawyer, especially when she has a much bigger toy right there!

I honestly think she’s not even trying to get Tim out and eat him anymore, the way I see it she’s just playing around with the car, pushing it around and generally just dicking around with it for the hell of it.

Then she pushes it off a magically appearing cliff like your cat knocking over that one glass at the edge of your kitchen table, either because she wants to get rid of the used toy or simply because she thinks it’s funny. Or because Spielberg didn’t tell her there was suddenly a cliff where she had just walked off. Then she gives one final roar to the camera, which is probably just for cinematic effect tbh.

So… Yeah, that’s all. As you can see, one of the best things of the scene is that the T.rex is… Just an animal. It’s not a movie monster going on a rampage, everything it does is completely normal animal behavior. This is big part of what makes the scene just so good and tense. It just feels real, you can actually believe the protagonists are being put in danger by a wild animal. Because, at the end of the day, that’s what dinosaurs are. Just animals.

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There are so many topics that I want to discuss about Leif’s letter scene, but if I had a moment to pick it would be the way Andrias was handled throughout the whole thing.

Because for a story about change, growth, and unconditional love, this moment pulls the full stops and combines everything we know about Andrias’s narrative to an amazing peak, and it all comes down to a few things this story had established before the finale.

That Andrias, out of everyone, has always been integrated into the past whether he liked it or not.

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Part 113 of my bakery “enemies” au!

taking a small break after this part because my wrist hurts <3 oops

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Stereotypical Furry™: ah yes, very hot, much sexy

reasons why i love this clip so much

1. anne, love of my life, can BAKE COOKIES

2. those tasty tasty parallels of the plantars being the ones missing home this time around.

3. how anne was the one who made that swamp for them too!! that habit of making things similar to what shes familiar with, from all the way back in season 1, still applies to now and its for other people this time! i just thought that that was really cool and interesting to see

4. how CASUAL mrs b asks why the backyard is a swamp now. they are so used to the destruction theyre not even surprised. i love this family

5. ‘Anne, you cant keep giving them things just because you feel bad. They need to learn how to cope on their own.’

6. anne likes to eat bugs now its actually canon this is delightful news. i wont doubt that shes been trying to ease her parents into eating them too thatd be so funny tbh