My last weird and awesome skull post was really popular, so I decided to do one about something else I’m excessively interested in: Megafauna! This isn’t at all a comprehensive list of the coolest ones, not by a long shot, so you should definitely look up some of the BBC docs on Youtube or google ones from your continent!
The cave bear! (N. America)
‘Hell Pigs’ (N. America) Actually entelodonts, unrelated to pigs at all and more closely tied to hippos and cetaceans! Dat sagittal crest amirite
The Stag Moose @allosauroid brought to my attention that this is the skull of the
Irish elk, Megaloceros, not a stag moose! (Eurasia) Which stood 6 foot at the shoulder/withers
Platybelodon (widespread) Google artist renditions of these guys, you won’t be disappointed
Barbourofelis! (N. America) Like a smaller smilodon, with much cooler teeth. Look at those incisors!
Megatherium (S. America) Primitive sloths the size of elephants!
Titanus Walleri (N. America) Other continents had equally large if not larger ‘terror birds’
Paraceratherium (Eurasia) One of the largest terrestrial mammals we’ve ever discovered. It was actually a species of hornless rhino! Google artist recs of these guys, too
Diprotodon (Australia) The largest known marsupial, which was the size of a hippopotamus and stood 6 feet tall
I saved Glyptodon (S. America) for last, because these things have some of the weirdest skulls I’ve ever seen. They were technically armadillos, but reached the size of a Volkswagen Beetle!
Move over, Money Cat–this is the Vulture Culture Kitty, who only shows up once in a cat’s age! Reblog her within five minutes and you’ll unearth some bone, hide or other natural treasure, whether in the deepest woods, or the shelves of an antique store.
No you guys don’t understand.
I’m COMPELLED to reblog vulture kitty because, to date, this is the ONLY “magical reblog” post that has ever worked for me. The first time it happened I found a beautiful perfect turkey feather. The second time it happened I found an entire dead bird (which granted I couldn’t keep but I could take pictures)
While money cat has never, ever worked for me, in any of it’s iterations (nor has money snake, money lizard, or money anything else) vulture kitty has never failed me. She’s consistently worked. It’s uncanney. It’s like this little cat ghost is dragging in dead things for me like a live cat would.
idk how the Hell it happens but it happens.
Neat story about the actual skull in the photo–wayyyyy back when, a guy I was involved with for a few years told me that there were a few of his deceased pets buried in the back garden. He told me there was one particular Siamese cat whose skull he wanted to retrieve because he’d been so fond of her. So we went out to the garden, but he had no idea where she’d been buried, it had been so many years and he’d been a kid at the time. I walked around a bit, and then knelt down and pointed to a spot in the soil: “There. You need to dig THERE” I told him. Sure enough, about a foot or so down, was this little kitty skull. Never found the rest of her, just this bit. he gave her to me after we broke up a couple of years later because he thought I should have her. She hangs over my altar to this day.
I’m going antiquing soon with my boyfriend. I’m counting on you to bring reasonably priced vintage stoles to me, money cat.
I don’t really want to find dead things, I just think this is a very pretty cat skull.
I don’t actually need any more dead things, because years
ago a coworker gave me a vintage fur muff/purse that had come from a friend who
was clearing out her late mother’s closet; and which I originally thought dated
from the 1960s, until I noticed that the pull-tab on the zipper was the logo of
the 1939 World’s Fair.
Basically I’m just reblogging so I can brag about this, and
also it’s a nice skull.
Finally uploading some personal work I did for my portfolio, playing around with the story of Beauty and the Beast but tried placing it in Feudal Japan. The vassals were by far my favorite to do
I could honestly write an entire freaking essay on the Orson
Welles movie version of Macbeth. Like how the Weird Sisters are given
infinitely more power than was ever hinted in the original play and how Macbeth
begins to take on more and more of their worldview and even their iconography
even as they’re pushing him forward to his doom. How there’s an added subtext of Christian
prayer versus pagan magic in the added character of Alan Napier’s Holy Father
and how much more important Macbeth’s line about not being able to say “amen”
after killing Duncan becomes with it.
How Lady Macduff is directly contrasted with Lady Macbeth in some scenes
as the gentle, compassionate, and relatively chaste light feminine against the
violent, cruel, and seductive dark feminine.
How the character of Malcolm is made so much more tragic and pathetic by
the decision to remove the scene where he’s testing Macduff’s loyalty, showing
him more as a boy playing at being king rather than the man who would be king. How it’s arguably both more and less of a
tragedy because Macbeth is made into a hapless puppet playing out a prophecy
that he himself shaped, and the line “Peace, the charm’s wound up!” is moved to
the very end to reflect that fact. How
there’s a ten minute long unbroken shot
from the moment Macbeth first goes into Duncan’s chamber to the moment the
alarm is sounded to wake the castle, and you can just cut the tension with a
knife the entire time…
One of these days, I will have the energy to write that
essay.
Also the moment where the witches all raise their odd, forked sticks in perfect synch and croak “hail” in a flat, dead voice is TERRIFYING.
Many people know that vaccines were linked to autism by a fraud and con artist who just wanted to sell his own alternative vaccines.
What a lot of people DON’T know is that he had no reason to choose autism for this scam except that it had JUST started entering mainstream consciousness and was still barely understood by most people. He took advantage of ignorance and confusion already surrounding a hype train and it could have been anything but it happened to be Autism at that particular time.
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