A Visual Size Comparison of a Star Wars Super Star Destroyer and Manhattan
holy shit
Glad we had this little chat.
I just choked on my own tongue looking at this.
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sroloc--elbisivni asked: Top six big cats
Oooh, yay! Top six ask meme
6. Mountain Lion
Okay, like, these things are gorgeous and all, and very impressive, all silvery-brown, but they lost a higher spot on the list because they FUCKING SCREAM and the first time I heard one it was like fuck-all midnight in Bumfuck Nowhere, MT, and I was convinced that my family and I were all going to be ax murdered and no one was ever going to know because we lived in a town of 90 people with no law enforcement to speak of where people went missing in the mountains monthly. However, there’s a certain level of badassery to that, so they still made the list.
5. Normal Lion
It’s…a fucking lion…it had to get on the list somewhere on account of being a fucking lion.
4. Cheetah
Did you know that the reason they get cheetahs dog-friends is because cheetahs are so high-strung that they basically can’t function as creatures? So they get therapy dogs to, like, lower their blood pressure. And honestly same. Also the science of how cheetahs run so fucking fast is AMAZING and makes me happy, they’re like spotted Slinkies with legs.
3. Snow Leopard
MAXIMUM FLOOF. There’s a picture somewhere of a snow leopard with its tail in its mouth and I can’t find it BUT I LOVE THAT PICTURE. Snow leopards are the perfect combination of lethality and floof. Also they do parkour, basically, and you have not truly admired a creature until you’ve seen a snow leopard run across a wall.
2. Black Panther
Actually black panthers are melanistic jaguars! But I like them a lot and kind of always have, I have a toy black panther I’ve had since I was very wee, her name is Casseopia, I think. I was on an astronomy kick. They’re amazing and their black coats are so sleek and beautiful and I’m a fan.
And coming in at Number 1. Siberian Tiger
Everyone remembers how I read Far Too Much Animorphs at the age of seven, yes? I have a genuine adoration for the Siberian tiger because it’s Jake’s battle morph. And furthermore: look at this gorgeousness. How could I NOT.
They’re big, sleek, beautiful, and their numbers are (very very slowly) on the rise. I love them very much.
In conclusion: as we’ve seen, I know little to nothing about big cats, but I like them anyway.
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Sean Bean hiking up to the Lord of the Rings sets bc he’s afraid of helicopters is even funnier when you hear that Viggo Mortensen did the exact same thing, except Viggo’s reason for hiking to the sets was bc he wanted to be authentically travel-worn
Like literally you have Boromir doing this pretty cool thing bc he’s scared to death of the alternative while Aragorn just does it for The Aesthetic™
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So there has been a bit of “what if humans were the weird ones?” going around tumblr at the moment and Earth Day got me thinking. Earth is a wonky place, the axis tilts, the orbit wobbles, and the ground spews molten rock for goodness sakes. What if what makes humans weird is just our capacity to survive? What if all the other life bearing planets are these mild, Mediterranean climates with no seasons, no tectonic plates, and no intense weather?
What if several species (including humans) land on a world and the humans are all “SCORE! Earth like world! Let’s get exploring before we get out competed!” And the planet starts offing the other aliens right and left, electric storms, hypothermia, tornadoes and the humans are just … there… counting seconds between flashes, having snowball fights, and just surviving.
To paraphrase one of my favorite bits of a ‘humans are awesome’ fiction megapost: “you don’t know you’re from a Death World until you leave it.” For a ton of reasons, I really like the idea of Earth being Space Australia.
Earth being Space Australia Words cannot express how much I love these posts
Alien: “I’m sorry, what did you just say your comfortable temperature range is?”
Human: “Honestly we can tolerate anywhere from -40 to 50 Celcius, but we prefer the 0 to 30 range.”
Alien: “……. I’m sorry, did you just list temperatures below freezing?”
Human: “Yeah, but most of us prefer to throw on scarves or jackets at those temperatures it can be a bit nippy.”
Other human: “Nah mate, I knew this guy in college who refused to wear anything past his knees and elbows until it was -20 at least.”
Human: “Heh. Yeah everybody knows someone like that.”
Alien: “……. And did you also say 50 Celcius? As in, half way to boiling?”
Human: “Eugh. Yes. It sucks, we sweat everywhere, and god help you if you touch a seatbelt buckle, but yes.”
Alien: “……. We’ve got like 50 uninhabitable planets we think you might enjoy.”
“You’re telling me that you have… settlements. On islands with active volcanism?”
“Well, yeah. I’m not about to tell Iceland and Hawaii how to live their lives. Actually, it’s kind of a tourist attraction.”
“What, the molten rock?”
“Well, yeah! It’s not every day you see a mountain spew out liquid rocks! The best one is Yellowstone, though. All these hot springs and geysers from the supervolcano–”
“You ACTIVELY SEEK OUT ACTIVE SUPERVOLCANOES?”
“Shit, man, we swim in the groundwater near them.”Sounds like the “Damned” trilogy by Alan Dean Foster.
“And you say the poles of your world would get as low as negative one hundred with wind chill?”
“Yup, with blizzards you cant see through every other day just about.”
“Amazing! when did you manage to send drones that could survive such temperatures?”
“… well, actually…”
“… what?”
“…we kinda……. sent……….. people…..”
“…”
“…”
“…what?”
“we sent-”
“no yeah I heard you I just- what? You sent… HUMANS… to a place one hundred degrees below freezing?”
“y-yeah”
“and they didn’t… die?”
“Well the first few did”
“PEOPLE DIED OF THE COLD AND YOUR SOLUTION WAS TO SEND MORE PEOPLE???!?!?!?”
My new favorite Humans are Weird quote
“PEOPLE DIED OF THE COLD AND YOUR SOLUTION WAS TO SEND MORE PEOPLE?”
aka The History of Russia
aka Arctic Exploration
aka The History of Alaska
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Traditional fantasy-based MMO classes redesigned for a post-apocalyptic setting: ( 1 / 9 ) priests
A character design project I’ve been mulling over for a while. I wanted to try taking some staple fantasy-based classes and see how they’d translate to a apocalypse-based setting, something vaguely Mad Max- or Fallout-flavored. Also squeezing in some practice working with weapons and clothes. :)
The priest class was one of the first classes I wanted to try redesigning. Of course, they’d have to have strong parallels to field medics, but I also specifically wanted them to look a bit like surgeons. The main components of their outfits are ruined doctor’s coats and surgical garments in that signature bright teal (bandannas, masks and gloves).
Dart guns take the place of priest-ly magic, used for healing (“medi-darts” ala Fallout’s stimpaks), buffs (painkillers, adrenaline shots) and de-buffs (tranquilizers). They use blasts of pressurized air instead of any gunpowder, and are reloaded with aircans; the darts come slotted onto “cartridges” of semi-flexible metal strips, which are ejected and reused.
Like most healers, these guys aren’t very good offensive units, but they do carry bonesaws as last resorts for self-defense.
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Traditional fantasy-based MMO classes redesigned for a post-apocalyptic setting: ( 2 / 9 ) knights
A slightly more straightforward translation from fantasy to a semi-realistic setting. The main focus became finding modern parallels for armor. Knights are well-rounded classes, so I wanted their equipment to be robust, but easy to move in; sports gear ended up being the best replacement.
Their outfits are mostly composed of motocross equipment (jersey, pants and boots in attractively garish color schemes), with additional sports gear stacked on top – MMA headgear, football/baseball protective gear, ice hockey gloves, lacrosse shinguards. The swords are rather crudely bolted and cobbled together from scrap metal; foraged riot gear can also be used in place of a second sword.
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