Paleontologists believe different waves of ceratopsians
immigrated from Asia into North America during the Cretaceous period,
and Aquilops was the first of them.
This is one of my favorite lines/exchanges in this movie
I love it on account of it shuts down that “skeptic dick” cliche that shows up in almost every movie with a supernatural bent in it.
“I don’t wanna hear anything about “I don’t believe in vampires” because I don’t fucking believe in vampires but I believe in my own two eyes” is without a doubt the best reaction a character in a horror movie has ever had to being confronted by clear proof of the supernatural
I’ve been too busy with con prep that I hardly have the energy to draw. I miss designing gijinkas, I used to do it all the time back in my deviantart days. They’re so fun!!! I doodled Vulpix girls
Do not repost artwork. Weissidian @ Twitter / Instagram / Etsy
Okay, some fandom history, why show writers and authors say “for legal reasons” the can’t read fan fic.
Back in ancient times in the 1970s there was a show called Star Trek the Animated Series. It was on the air as fandom culture around Star Trek was really taking route and there were many fanzines (things on actual paper that people bought) being published and the first conventions to attend.
David Gerrold was a writer for Star Trek the Animated Series who had also written one of the most famous episodes of the original series The Trouble with Tribbles. While he was around the production office for STtAS he was introduced to a couple of fans who proceeded to tell him all about their ideas for an episode–essentially a sequel to his famous episode–which it so happens he had already written a script for. When that episode aired he received a letter from one of those fans lawyers demanding “credit”. It so happened that he could prove that the episode existed before the meeting but the involvement of lawyers and a threat to sue became widely known.
Marion Zimmer Bradly was, before recent horrifying revelations decades after her death, a titan of fantasy writing. She also welcome fan fiction and published it in anthologies and in a magazine she published. One day she opened a story sent to her and the plot of the story was essentially the plot of a a novel she had nearly finished writing. More than a years worth of her work was now unpublishable because it was provable that she had read this story with this similar plot and she couldn’t prove the work on the novel existed before she saw the story. She stopped publishing anthologies and fan fiction and in particular the MZB story is the one a lot of professional writers know as representative of the dangers of fan fiction.
So when a writer says they can’t read fan fiction for legal reasons it’s that their own lawyers are protecting them from outside lawsuits.
And this is why knowing your fandom history matters.
Exactly.
And writers don’t want to be influenced by your fan-fic either. We don’t want to end up inadvertently stealing your ideas because we read them three years ago and forgot we did.
So, just don’t show fan fiction or sequential fan art to writers. Actors also often have contracts that prevent them from reading it so they aren’t influenced.
hi I’m a therapist some people come to me to break down severe childhood trauma some people come to me because their job is super stressful some people come to me because they’re worried all the time about stuff that they know they shouldn’t be worried about but they worry anyway some people come to me because they’re bad at focusing some people come to me because their mom said they should but they’re enjoying the experience anyway what i’m saying is there is no wrong time, reason, or explanation to come see a therapist. we’re ready for you.
my zombieland saga theories are that tae is probably legendary not because she’s an actual singer, but because she’s the first zombie (which is why its taking her so long to wake up) or because she’s related to Tatsumi and therefore just inherently legendary in his opinion
Also, I think Sakura might have become famous after death, since we’ve already seen how she died. If that’s not a red herring (and it might be), than she probably had an audition tape circulate online and became famous after people looked into it and found out she was dead, dubbing her the “legendary ghost idol”
Pepper really was the Pete Best of JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS, wasn’t she: she was kicked out before the comic became really popular. (She was never part of the band.)
She was a spirited character though, with a heart: she was cynical, independent, sharp, and a good foil for Melody, who was her polar opposite. Pepper was a 2010s girl in a 1960s comic. Valerie, who replaced Pepper, had more or less the same dynamic with Melody, but none of the innuendo. Pepper was always all over Melody, picking her up, swinging her around, putting her arms around her.
Reading the stories, you get the sense that Pepper’s constant mocking of Melody is just an expression of her secret affection, like a grade school boy pulling the pigtails of a girl he has a crush on.
Am I reading too much into this comic? Of course I am. Everyone is. It’s projection. Reading too much into things is simply what people do. If say Shakespeare could hear what scholars have written about his King Lear these past centuries, he would get a laughing fit and say the play was just a good night out for the people and nothing more. But any piece of art, whether it’s highbrow or lowbrow, a play or a comic, a pop song or a painting, is always more than what it is, or what the artist “means” or “intends”, as a piece of art basically has no other intention than to be a piece of art. The rest is up to us, the audience.
If art couldn’t transcend itself, we’d live on a very boring planet.
Take the Mona Lisa. I’ve seen it, it’s quite small and not very impressive, you’d walk past it if there wasn’t a crowd gathered in front of it. You might even think it’s ugly. Someone next to me said, disappointed, “Is this it?” But tomes have been written about it, songs singing its praises, it’s more than the commissioned portrait it once was.
The Mona Lisa, by the way, only became famous because it was stolen in 1911. (Picasso was briefly a suspect, but exonerated.) Before that, it was just a painting; there wasn’t even much of a panic when it went missing. Imagine it being stolen today…
every time I see this post I release all over again that this is the peak of humor for the human race. like this is the funniest goddamn thing I’ve ever seen.
Monsters and Stuff 