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Hey, random curiosity:

Don't have any vested interest or ulterior motive, just genuinely curious and thought it'd be nice to stoke some engagement in the JP fandom.

✨Not Like Other Shrimp✨

I meeean there’s also maybe Parasaurolophus, who is dubious in just the Hell Creek, and Dakotaraptor and Troodon, who are just dubious everywhere??

Cretaceous Saurischians Stickers - Cretaceous Ornithischians Stickers - Cretaceous Non-Dinosaurs Stickers

I don't know what I'm doing anymore lol. Getting back into paleo stuff. Tiktaalik feelings. I plan on making this into a small edition of 2 color screen prints on paper, so follow along to get notified for that! Photoshop // ~ 8 hours

Instagram // X // Bluesky

We’re celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day in a big way, with one of the largest known deer: the Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus)! It was originally discovered in bog deposits in Ireland. This megafauna could weigh up to 1,500 pounds (680 kg) and its antlers could reach an incredible 13-ft- (4-m-) spread. Once ranging from western Europe to China, this animal died out some 10,000 years ago. However, at least one population, living in Russia’s Ural Mountains, managed to survive until about 7,770 years ago, long after the end of the Pleistocene. 

See the Irish Elk up close in the Museum’s Hall of Advanced Mammals! We’re open daily from 10 am-5:30 pm. Plan your visit.

Photo: © AMNH 

Stenonychosaurus

[ ID: A digital redraw of an OT3 meme from Elite on Netflix featuring Moonwatcher, Winter and Qibli from wings of fire. On the top panel Qibli is looking at the viewer with a smile, while Moon and Winter are kissing behind him. On the second panel Winter is standing with a love-struck expression, while Moon is now kissing Qibli. On the last panel Moon is smiling at the viewer and showing a middle finger. Winter and Qibli are kissing in the background. They’re all drawn with a slight blush and small hearts near them. The background is simple with different shades of green. End ID.]

A meme redraw I did awhile back for Valentine’s Day with one of my favorite ships, Qinterwatcher :]

A version without the blush & hearts (more realistic version of sorts + closer to the original meme) + the OG meme under read more!

Vaporwave dragon adopt

Eye strain warning!!

Looking at any offers but $35 is the AB!

they come with a moodboard as well!

stanford goes insane over barbie lore

og photo + commission info under cut!

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COMMS OPEN soup powered fuck machine

HI!!! ADDING ONTO THIS - i haven’t gotten any commissions yet and currently my household does not have an income. This would help a ton! if

You caught him naked

Okay, just one more... Bill Cipher stimboard!!!!

🎩/⚠️/🎩 ⚠️/⚠️/⚠️ 🎩/⚠️/🎩

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I could talk about it for so long istg

Who else is excited for “The Book of Bill?” 👁️

This is for Gravity Falls fans :3c I'm sure you've heard of Book of Bill, and probably have seen this picture by @ atomikku (I don't know if they'd wanna get tagged so I'm not)

My question, with no third option for both, just assuming you can only go to one

Edit: this is not to get the book, it's for a meet and greet and book signing

Personally (I think you can tell) I'd go with Bill, no second thoughts no regrets.

A study into 90% of Bill's organs

I went so overboard omg but I wanted to try underpainting :Dc See if you can guess what color was the base for each of em!

The second set of eyelids are something I added partially for emoting purposes and partially because of how many times the animators do this thing where his lashes don't follow his lids and it drives me less insane to have a hc about it

On each daydream or edit audio I listen always come out with a new Gf Au

But this one....

.....Uhm....I..uh...

Well we'll work on it..

Hello everyone!

The Gravity Falls Seasons Zine Interest Check closes in 2 days on March 8th! This is your last chance to reblog, let us know any ideas/opinions you have for the the zine, and tell us what you're excited about!

We have been doing lots of research, crunching a lot of numbers, reading all of your responses, and getting more and more excited to bring this to life! Thank you so much for participating in the interest check and spreading the word; this would be impossible without your help! Please feel free to ask us any questions (and see our already answered questions here )

Oh, and don't forget to complete the interest check if you haven't already ;)

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Seasons is a Gravity Falls zine themed around the Pines family hanging out in the different seasons of the year. It will have four sections-

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Keep an eye on this space for more announcements coming soon!

Mods Berry and Jade

P.S. Have you noticed the seasons change as we make each update?

Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with Disney in any way. The zine will be a charity zine will all surplus going to charity- no one will profit from this zine.

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LE HER!! RAAGGHHHH!!

I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldn’t get me one because they were “too violent and also ate people” :(

Tulio (from Rio) is 100% Birdkin/kith. You can't change my mind

re: real tails in the therian community, where they came from, and why they're (usually) not a good thing

(before i start this post, i want to let you know that i am pro-hunting and pro-taxidermy. this is not a post just saying "tails are bad because they kill animals". if you are anti-hunting, please see yourself to the block button. this is not a post for you.)

i got my first introduction to the therian community through tiktok. i'm very recently awakened and also wasn't on tumblr when i was being awakened so my only real way to see other therians do therian things was through tiktok. but now that i'm in more therian spaces with people that have seen a lot more therian history than i have i realize that the "therians" i was seeing on tiktok were an entirely different breed than what therians have really been since the days of alt.horror.werewolves. 

in this post i'll be using the term "tiktok therian" to describe these people. though they are therians, i believe their culture (specifically regarding the importance of gear) is fundamentally different than the main therian community's and should therefore be categorized as something else. they are also often substantially younger than therians in other spaces (i don't recall where but i've seen therians as young as seven years old on tiktok) and often don't engage with therianthropy anywhere outside of tiktok (which is part of the problem, and will also be something i address in this post).

so let's talk tails.

a massive part of tiktok therian culture is gear. alongside quadrobics, wearing gear (masks and tails, typically) seems to be… pretty much all that the tiktok therian community focuses on. and from what i've seen on therian tiktok it seems like the more tails you have, the "cooler" you are. additionally, from what i've seen, yarn tails/faux tails are seen as a sort of "substandard" or "budget" option compared to real fur tails. this is…weird. it's a dichotomy that doesn't exist anywhere else on the therian scene and it seems to be completely manufactured by tiktok therians themselves. for some reason tiktok therians believe that real tails are superior to faux alternatives, and the more real tails one has, the better.

additionally, i do not believe all real fur tails are bad. if sourced from a local taxidermist that you Know is ethical, or if you source and tan yours yourself, they are completely fine. it is not the tails that are the problem- the problem lies in the tiktok therian culture that's created a need for more and more real tails, which often results in (particularly younger) therians seeking out the cheapest option to add to their hoard, and, when it comes to taxidermy, the "cheapest option" is also often the cruelest behind the scenes.

i also know it's not plausible for the average preteen tiktok therian to shell out 30 or 40 dollars for an ethical tail, or to go out and source and tan their own tail (whether that be from hunting or roadkill). some therians simply don't have the resources to own real, ethical fur tails.

and this is where i humbly suggest yarn tails as an alternative!

i don't work for the yarn industry i promise But yarn tails are everything that real tails are and more without the high price tag, the risk of cruelty, or the maintenance.  literally just go to michaels and buy a skein of acrylic yarn for like three dollars. if the tiktok therian community eliminated its collective bias towards real fur tails and actually started accepting yarn tails as Good Tails (which they are..) then the entire problem regarding cheap unethical tails would be gone. yarn tails require close to zero maintenance and, with practice, only take a couple hours and less than five dollars to make.

but you can't really talk about replacing real tails without talking about why real tails (and having so many of them) is a big thing on therian tiktok in the first place.

i believe most of the problem lies with tiktok itself. by nature, tiktok's short-form video format forces creators to upload content constantly to stay relevant. in the tiktok therian community, the content that gets the most clicks is- you guessed it- quads and gear. these therians on tiktok, typically not even in high school yet, are forced by their platform to continually purchase new tails and masks to stay relevant. i believe yarn tails are frowned upon simply because they require work to create. the work that goes into creating yarn tails is simply not compatible with the constant upload schedule that tiktok requires- being able to purchase a real tail from amazon and have it arrive ready to use at your doorstep the next day is much more accommodating to the schedule that tiktok forces from its users. 

(also when i say "force" i don't mean that tiktok is holding a gun to these therian kids' heads saying "Make More Content Or Else." i mean that tiktok's format has led to a dependence on social media for attention in these people and they must upload consistently to get the attention they crave. the harmful effects of tiktok on children's brains is a whole other post in and of itself…)

anyhow. i did not intend this post to become a critique of social media when i first conceptualized it but This Is What It Is Now. tiktok is a toxic, exploitative place for everyone on it- both creators and viewers, and especially younger people- and it should be blasted off the face of the earth./hj

also small point to add before i tie this up- people like Therian Territory pretending to know how to differentiate unethical vs. ethical fur farms are lying for attention and are doing nothing to fix the underlying problem with buying so many real tails (which, as stated above, comes from a dependence on social media for attention). Therian Territory knows nothing about leatherworking or taxidermy (and also defends zoophiles i mean huh what?) and it hurts my soul to see so many young therians using them as a source of information when they've been proven time and time again to be a dishonest slimeball.

so to conclude this, i don't believe that having one or two ethically sourced real fur tails is a problem. i don't believe that having any amount of real tails is a problem, actually. tiktok therians having dozens of real fur tails is only a symptom of the real underlying problem: tiktok's (and social media in general's) exploitative nature and the strict schedules it imposes on its users to stay relevant.

if you'd like to (respectfully) debate me on any point i've raised here, please go to my askbox- don't do it in the reblogs or comments of this post. id rather not clutter it up that way. thank you for reading and free palestine.

// fal h. fourpaws, professional canine opinion haver

OKAY SO

I made a spacehey because I love retro type stuff (if you used MySpace please god don’t kill me for saying retro I’m sorry)

but there are no dinosaur blinkies I can find!

so I took matters into my own hands and it was painful

but I give you this:

This was so painful to make using a new software so please, I never want any of you to go through what I did, use it w/o credit I do not care

under the cut if you just want the png versions

Could I request a blinkie that says "Literal T-rex' with browns and greens?

Me and the boys hunting for food (going to pick up our Braum's chicken strips) and risking our lives (having to talk to like- two employees)