The new layout it a whole mess. Thankfully Xkit can already help with a bunch of this! I’m sure it’ll give more options soon.
Vanilla Tumblr: (I have marked in red what can be removed. The tabs can be set not to stick, so you will really only see them at the top of your dash. Empty box on the left for hidden notifications and shop sparkle, i just didn’t have any. I’m EU so no Live for me).
this website’s moderation sucks ass and it has a terrible bot problem and there are an enormous amount of bugs but thankfully we have a staff team hard at work not addressing any of these but instead making shitty ui changes that nobody wants
If reincarnation is real I wonder how many people stare at their own art in museums, listen to their own music they made in a different life and read books they don’t remember writing
I need you all to know that I’m thinking about this post on a daily basis. How many people discover their own graves? How many stares at their own mummies? Visit monuments without remembering they built them?
Maybe our souls are meant to forget so we can discover the world one more time, find beauty again in the little things we had become familiar with, learn again how to love the people we knew for years, find peace and inspiration in the things we did in a different life and were once ashamed of.
Which White People Expedition Diaries have you been reading? That subgenre is one I've always enjoyed but for understandable reasons (ie the racism) they're pretty thin on the ground these days
Oh I’m reading the historical ones like the Burke and Wills expedition notes and they’re racist as fuck. I think it’s funny when colonizers die of shit your brains out and get eaten by rats disease.
you know the “bunny hands” pose everyone does to indicate t. rex? with the hands folded down, palms facing the chest? yeah. almost no dinosaurs could do that. it would break their wrists. only one unique group evolved to do that, which doesn’t include any of the Jurassic Park dinosaurs. the term for this is “pronation” and actually the vast majority of land vertebrates can’t do it. mammals can. mammals are weird.
not a single dinosaur has claws on their fourth or fifth fingers. not a single one. not even if they’re quadrupedal.
most dinosaurs have very stiff tails and can’t wiggle them around like a lizard tail. the tails were stiff for balance.
the “tongue flick” thing that lizards do is a lizard thing. dinosaurs wouldn’t have done that. they don’t do that today (birds, birds don’t do that)
“nonavian” dinosaurs with feathered wings had them like birds. they covered the hands. and attached to the hands. stop giving Velociraptor hands. it had wings. and very big ones, too, based on Zhenyuanlong.
dinosaurs with scales don’t have lizard scales. lizard scales are a derived trait found only in lizards. they had scutes similar to those of living birds, but much smaller compared to body size, and often in crazy shapes and patterns. dinosaur scales are super weird tbh
sauropods don’t have elephant feet. they handled the problem of size in a much weirder way: instead of spreading out the weight, they turned their feet into columns. like pillars. some of the biggest species didn’t have any fingers, their front limbs just. end. for maximum column support.
dinosaurs were chonky. you could not see the bones like a silhouette under the skin. some might have been skinnier and some of the features of the bones would be somewhat like with skinny bird legs, but most of the time? no. so stop making the holes in their skulls visible on the outside like damn. jurassic park/world is the biggest offender for this one.
the whole unique feature of dinosaurs is having their legs DIRECTLY under their bodies. they do not sprawl. I can’t believe I have to say that, but I do.
hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur) front feet were hooves. like, seriously, hooves. not little flippers. not three fingered hands. hooves.
I reserve the right to add more to this post as I think of things.
other people can too, but just research before you do.
common mistakes from the five tiny dinosaurs I allow to live in my home:
thinking food is for bird (food is usually not for bird)
following humans to the bathroom because the FLOCK MUST STAY TOGETHER (not when humans are pooping we don’t)
screaming when we’re on the phone (no, your “grandparents” do not appreciate your contributions to phone conversations, Willis)
constantly getting into each others’ personal spaces (when will the war between Ahsoka and Ellie end)
dropping their food on the ground all the time (I don’t CARE if your ecological niche features spreading plant seeds, Ellie!!!! your dropped raisins aren’t going to grow into grape vines in the kitchen!!!)
chewing on books (that isn’t how reading works, minerva)
plucking max’s beard hair (it’s MEIG/MOM who wants their facial hair plucked, not max!!!! stop plucking max, minerva!!!)
pooping everywhere (this one is on us humans. we could clean better.)
When I was little I LOVED the taste of blues clues kids toothpaste. I'd just straight up eat it. My mom thought this was unhealthy and would take away the toothpaste if she caught me eating it. Or threaten to switch to grown-up mint toothpaste (not as tasty). I would crouch behind the open bathroom door slowly squeezing out blues clues kids toothpaste onto my hands and eating it as quietly as possible
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