Only week after their visit to the planet Mortis, Anakin begins having very vivid nightmares of his future as Darth Vader.
Every night when he goes to sleep, he instantly wakes up trapped in the hellish suit, where every living moment is absolute agony. His body is burnt, his limbs are gone, and his lungs tremble with every breath, but it’s nothing compared to the overwhelming despair and anger he feels festering inside him.
He cannot control his actions as Vader, seemingly on auto pilot as he experiences the day to day life of a ruthless Sith Lord and as Sideous plaything. He can’t even see Sideous’s true face in his dreams, his tormentor’s face is always shadowed by darkness, and his voice is distorted beyond recognition.
The nightmares only stop when Vader goes to meditate, allowing Anakin to wake back up. It’s horribly disorienting, and Anakin sometimes awakens with golden eyes, trembling and vomiting as he’s slammed back into reality. Every morning he needs time to calm down, or at least wait until the yellow fades from his eyes as he adjusts to being Anakin again.
Anakin hesitantly dismisses the first couple of nightmares, but when he begins to experience them every single night, it’s starts to freak him out. Being told you had the potential to become a monster is one thing, but living it out every night is another, and Anakin is afraid for himself, and everyone around him.
He even tries not to sleep at one point to avoid the dreams, but he always passes out eventually, usually only able to last for two days.
He feels like he can’t tell anyone either, as he doesn’t want to prove that the Council was right about him being dangerous. He can’t even begin to imagine what Obi-Wan would do or think of him if he told him. Would Obi-Wan kill him?Would Padme still love him?Would Ashoka abandon him?
So Anakin tells no one and tries to act normal, tries to pretend every day that he’s not living two separate lives, one as a Hero of the Republic, and one as the Sith Lord of the Empire.
((This part was totally inspired by the one panel in the Vader comics (⌐■_■)))
-Every day for Anakin is beginning to feel like hell. He trying so damned hard to keep himself from cracking, to not jut start screaming in rage over the despair he feels about his current situation and how damned isolating it is. It’s getting to the point where he doesn’t care which reality he gets stuck in at this point, he just wants it all to stop.
-It doesn’t help that Vader is always lurking right under his skin, ready at any second to burst through and tear himself and everyone around him apart. It sickens Anakin even more when he realizes how tempted he is to just do it, to just let the darkness consume him, and accept his damned fate as a monster.
-He manages to last month before it finally crumbles all around him.
I just dove a shipwreck and ten gajillion sharks were there 🥰
And tonight I get certified to night dive!!!!
On the wreck dive there was a five foot long barracuda hanging out under the dive boat. Just vibing.
UPDATE: I SAW NOT ONE BUT TWO OCTOPUSES ON THE NIGHT DIVE
Wait I’m not done talking about this night dive. At the end, in order to complete the certification, we had to turn off our lights.
And I realized I wasn’t nervous? Which is absurd. We were only in about 15 feet of water, though, and the moon was almost full, so we knelt in the sand and the whole world was the softest glowing blue. Even in the dark you could see streams of fish glinting past overhead.
And then! And then we started flapping our hands around and the water sparkled green!!! We spent five minutes kneeling there, flapping and giggling like little kids.
I’ve been so sad, but the world is so big. Somewhere out there is an octopus.
(On a night dive you will notice tons of beady little red eyes shining back at you from the coral.
They’re shrimp.)
You do not have to twist my arm to hear more about my underwater adventures! I can’t believe I didn’t already mention about the wreck dive with the sharks, see, when they come close you’re supposed to maintain eye contact. And there were a bunch of juveniles there (all reef sharks), and the juveniles can be a little dumb, so they do in fact get really damn close.
I’m not sure how to describe making eye contact with a shark.
Their pupils are slit.
Your stomach does the swoopy rollercoaster thing and a little voice in your head is going holy shit.
They are very much watching you right back.
Did you know! Lobsters can be colossal.
I have drawn my (first) octopus friend
Barracudas are like nosy old men. No, they won’t hurt you. Yes, they want to know everything about what you’re doing. No, you should not wear shiny jewelry around them. Yes, they are going to get much closer than you would prefer, yes, even if you’re not wearing jewelry.
I love the annoying fuckers but that doesn’t mean I don’t feel some kind of way about turning around and finding a six foot fish grinning in my face.
They remember the first robin. They remember how bloodthirsty the little gremlin was, how he appeared out of the darkness with a “HIYA FOLKS” that gave people near heart attacks with PTSD so bad they flinched everytime they walked into a dark corner. They remember his grin, baring few too many teeth with a glint in his eyes whenever the bat wasn’t around to curb him. They remember the death stare, the brooding that made no one doubt this was the Bat’s son. They remember how a punch would land a lot harder than it was supposed to, or the screaming that followed. Oh they remembered him alright.
The second one thank the stars was better. The second robin was giggly. He would hop around town, offering his help to everyone who needed it. Sure he was rough with abusers but hell no one cared about them. Matter of fact, the villains were glad because those assholes deserved no sympathy. They remember his puns, his wonder, his innocence and his spark. They remembered his laughter, his concern - the kind that only comes from one who’s been on the streets. This one was better, and the villains thanked their lucky stars. They remembered him alright.
But now, as the years passed and new characters emerged, the crime city saw the rise of two characters - a sunshine happy nightwing and a ready to kill red hood. And naturally, from their experiences in the past, the villains ended up making an honest mistake that ruined the two vigilantes’ reputation:
The villains assumed the first robin was Red Hood and the other was Nightwing. And BY GOD Gotham has not seen unhinged chaos like this.
SCENE 1
Red Hood *drawing his pistol* : Please, reach for your weapon. I’m itching for an excuse for my intrusive thoughts to become extrusive.
Two-Face: You dare mock me little bird?! Well.. I may not have my weapon.. but I have something I know you’d like..
Red Hood: Oh yeah?What’s that?
Two-Face:TAKE THIS! *slams button and coconuts start falling from the sky, all cracking and spilling as they hit the ground*
Red Hood:
Two-Face:
Red Hood: .. thefuck was that supposed to do?
Two-Face: .. HOW ARE YOU STILL STANDING?! YOU HATE COCONUTS ROBIN!!
Red Hood: The fuck- .. wait did you call me robin?
Two-Face *grins* : Yea.. robin. The first one. Thought I didn’t notice?
Red Hood: The first one? Does this *gestures vaguely to himself and his weapons* seem like something the first robin would do?
Two-Face:
Goon 1: I mean.. yeah
Red Hood: What! The first robin was nice!
Goon 2 *guffawing*: I beg your fucking pardon??
Two-Face: .. you took my coin and attached a magnet beneath it so everytime I flipped it it wouldn’t stop spinning. Do you know how long that took me to figure out?? Do you know how insane it drove me?? Joker had to help me out of pity. OUT. OF. PITY.
Red Hood:
Goon 1: ..Also you did steal some of our bones
Red Hood:hedidfuckingwhatnow-
SCENE 2
Nightwing: Hey there buddy! You look frostyl!
Dr. Freeze: Aha! You are too late to stop me robin!
Nightwing: .. robin?
Dr. Freeze: why yes! Don’t act coy, I know it’s you there. Now that we’ve got that clear.. I was wondering if you remembered all those years ago when you gave me a source for electricity to power a hospital keeping my Nora?
Nightwing:
Dr. Freeze: well you weren’t careful enough and never told me how much I could take from it.. so I used it to power so many of my inventions that came after
Nightwing*remembering when Jason was robin and every damn time he came to visit Wayne Manor his room would always run out power and the countless cold showers in freezing winters he had to take because of it*: .. oh? Well, sorry to break your bubble, but that wasn’t me Elsa.
Dr. Freeze: no? You joke around, make puns and I’m supposed to believe it’s NOT you?. The first one brooded like there was no tomorrow. He pissed me off so bad once I overheard him saying his favourite ice cream flavour and I made sure it wouldn’t be available in Gotham for YEARS. You’re not as bad as the first one. I’d remember if you were him.
Nightwing:
Nightwing *firing up his escrima sticks to maximum voltage*: Oh let me jog your memory then :)
Photograph taken on board the ship (an ex Norwegian whaler) 'Morning’ (1871), which was one of the relief ships sent down to the Antarctic in 1902-3 and again in 1903-4 to assist Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery on the National Antarctic Expedition. It was probably taken by the captain of the 'Morning’ (1871) on both expeditions, Captain William Colbeck. The cat in the photograph is possibly called 'Night.’
gentle reminder that “gay panic” is not a cutesy way of describing a gay character freaking out over another character or their sexuality. gay panic is a legal defense tactic used in the US until very recently to get homophobes out of facing consequences for killing or assaulting queer people. it is neither cute nor funny.
if you didn’t know this, that’s ok, now you do! proceed accordingly.
okay so, for the vast vast vast VAST majority of their time in existence as continents, North and South America have been completely separate continents, with oceans in between them.
135 mya (million years ago):
60 mya:
once they separated from Laurasia and Gondwana respectively and became their own thing after the Big Kablooie (66mya), they both started to evolve their own completely unique ecosystems with their own forms of life!
North America was a bonanza for big cats, proboscideans, bears, and canines:
while South America went big on giant sloths, terror birds, marsupials, and armadillos that could tow your car:
and so they remained, two houses alike in dignity, but rarely interacting except for swapping stormtossed refugees once in a while as they very slooooowly drifted towards each other.
and then, 2.7 mya, the two drifting continents uplifted the seafloor between them like a snowdrift in between two oncoming plows and made much of Central America and Panama.
AND EVERYTHING CHANGED WHEN PANAMA ATTACKED
and WHOOOOPS.
suddenly, the biota of both continents had freedom of movement into a totally new environment. terror birds pushed north into Central and Southern North America, only to be pushed back by incoming waves of smilodon, jaguars, and pumas.
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<p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://bedlamsbard.tumblr.com/post/788557434505543680">https://bedlamsbard.tumblr.com/post/788557434505543680</a></p><p>okay so, for the vast vast vast VAST majority of their time in existence as continents, North and South America have been completely separate continents, with oceans in between them.</p><p>135 mya (million years ago):</p><div class="npf_row"><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="396" data-orig-width="800"><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/28c439c418bf019a7a2fbdea5182ea3d/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-d7/s640x960/1a5e3fe001c21c0c6db97cd0f72d0d90a8b1ba24.png" data-orig-height="396" data-orig-width="800" srcset="https://64.media.tumblr.com/28c439c418bf019a7a2fbdea5182ea3d/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-d7/s75x75_c1/4686fbfe09da9275c661c1957afd76d935afff4c.png 75w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/28c439c418bf019a7a2fbdea5182ea3d/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-d7/s100x200/c1680cb0bd08c070459b0db7c2657c86f8c104b1.png 100w, 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data-orig-width="800"><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/a7c7bcd426f37eeb1d25ccdf442cab16/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-44/s640x960/ecac6d8ce7e1b4b9abb88a62192e9987719f562a.png" data-orig-height="397" data-orig-width="800" srcset="https://64.media.tumblr.com/a7c7bcd426f37eeb1d25ccdf442cab16/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-44/s75x75_c1/bfec9a32c95d2ff897de66a5b6c5402a73a9aec4.png 75w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/a7c7bcd426f37eeb1d25ccdf442cab16/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-44/s100x200/8441aea7650cb1d0d50c63026f2b774d7eef19d7.png 100w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/a7c7bcd426f37eeb1d25ccdf442cab16/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-44/s250x400/79066ac88fce6f94c37dee601a23a52d89bbfbff.png 250w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/a7c7bcd426f37eeb1d25ccdf442cab16/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-44/s400x600/b1d541f7c853af336198350abb0d63422569ab7e.png 400w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/a7c7bcd426f37eeb1d25ccdf442cab16/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-44/s500x750/ea82e8af0261a7dec64a19c5d4458a55bae32fcc.png 500w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/a7c7bcd426f37eeb1d25ccdf442cab16/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-44/s540x810/0276c4dfb00020fe1764d275e70956d5663e2544.png 540w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/a7c7bcd426f37eeb1d25ccdf442cab16/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-44/s640x960/ecac6d8ce7e1b4b9abb88a62192e9987719f562a.png 640w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/a7c7bcd426f37eeb1d25ccdf442cab16/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-44/s1280x1920/ecbfc848cf9651e3f37d813f2de1a7f47e3092cc.png 800w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px"></figure></div><p>once they separated from Laurasia and Gondwana respectively and became their own thing after the Big Kablooie (66mya), they both started to evolve their own completely unique ecosystems with their own forms of life!</p><p>North America was a bonanza for big cats, proboscideans, bears, and canines:</p><div class="npf_row"><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1438" data-orig-width="3298"><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/922cbd78ade3b009423436aff445d2f2/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-9e/s640x960/bba52c2c86f31849e650c8b2411b357c12afdda5.png" data-orig-height="1438" data-orig-width="3298" srcset="https://64.media.tumblr.com/922cbd78ade3b009423436aff445d2f2/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-9e/s75x75_c1/637a4be5c73b4c990a60cab34952783dcd1ca7c8.png 75w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/922cbd78ade3b009423436aff445d2f2/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-9e/s100x200/18c9e588f4ec7c20cd8683d5be172af4c86562b0.png 100w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/922cbd78ade3b009423436aff445d2f2/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-9e/s250x400/3cdfc9f53acd8afb8cc0fce8359f1b27585fe4bf.png 250w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/922cbd78ade3b009423436aff445d2f2/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-9e/s400x600/159eb6dcf581693e3f41f680ac8dfaa83f753b03.png 400w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/922cbd78ade3b009423436aff445d2f2/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-9e/s500x750/6c3ce03e2ef4c8f01079049193d832c734506483.png 500w, 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made much of Central America and Panama.</p><div class="npf_row"><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="480" data-orig-width="640"><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/643899bdc8a7037870aa17521dcedc93/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-44/s640x960/8e2ddfd3db9e7719a7765acfefb8c2ea363300b1.png" data-orig-height="480" data-orig-width="640" srcset="https://64.media.tumblr.com/643899bdc8a7037870aa17521dcedc93/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-44/s75x75_c1/820c28e7be1f22d997ef11de0d81d19af31eff10.png 75w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/643899bdc8a7037870aa17521dcedc93/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-44/s100x200/8c620523c23034da8d5f5459793ed0015f21d250.png 100w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/643899bdc8a7037870aa17521dcedc93/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-44/s250x400/7808ef67bb9d296b3b423e9034a46991e0fe4f80.png 250w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/643899bdc8a7037870aa17521dcedc93/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-44/s400x600/ffabfb0c75c7a0ff6e87e360319b37804470d374.png 400w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/643899bdc8a7037870aa17521dcedc93/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-44/s500x750/a946fa726e337c118753583a59e737fcaf1b468d.png 500w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/643899bdc8a7037870aa17521dcedc93/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-44/s540x810/a402105c06953ddc53a1e0b9a788068bbee7a42d.png 540w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/643899bdc8a7037870aa17521dcedc93/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-44/s640x960/8e2ddfd3db9e7719a7765acfefb8c2ea363300b1.png 640w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"></figure></div><p><small><i>AND EVERYTHING CHANGED WHEN PANAMA ATTACKED</i></small></p><p>and WHOOOOPS.</p><p>suddenly, the biota of both continents had freedom of movement into a totally new environment. terror birds pushed north into Central and Southern North America, only to be pushed back by incoming waves of smilodon, jaguars, and pumas.</p><div class="npf_row"><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="720" data-orig-width="1280"><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/e31ece3c35fd7f30b0e27af927c6e86a/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-89/s640x960/66f907690c36584ecaec63f85ebc5fd2b025715e.png" data-orig-height="720" data-orig-width="1280" srcset="https://64.media.tumblr.com/e31ece3c35fd7f30b0e27af927c6e86a/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-89/s75x75_c1/19ad062ae16f05782f792295db2cdb3f401f0a4d.png 75w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/e31ece3c35fd7f30b0e27af927c6e86a/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-89/s100x200/35f8c12414bce1767e982b7814b6778cf2f5b061.png 100w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/e31ece3c35fd7f30b0e27af927c6e86a/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-89/s250x400/7f98356925ecc25ca542bd20ae180b40ca4f8db9.png 250w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/e31ece3c35fd7f30b0e27af927c6e86a/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-89/s400x600/89dd3f1a7ec45e07da5436d01c2699ce6d40503c.png 400w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/e31ece3c35fd7f30b0e27af927c6e86a/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-89/s500x750/f69e45a8fc8ba1b9bd93550fe0feaf20f0ddc03f.png 500w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/e31ece3c35fd7f30b0e27af927c6e86a/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-89/s540x810/7c2002d651576a1268a3e94c3074d1bc67df050b.png 540w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/e31ece3c35fd7f30b0e27af927c6e86a/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-89/s640x960/66f907690c36584ecaec63f85ebc5fd2b025715e.png 640w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/e31ece3c35fd7f30b0e27af927c6e86a/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-89/s1280x1920/8b7eab57bb78cd1591cca1de042cbe761ab83aee.png 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px"></figure></div><p><small><src: Life On Our Planet></small></p><p>canines and proboscideans and bears and rabbits and predators of all shapes and sizes came roaring south into the body of South America, wreaking environmental change in their wake, while fleets of possums, armadillos, and giant sloths trekked north to find some new niches of their own. </p><p>when the dust had settled, South America was VERY different from how it had first looked, with many native predators supplanted by carnivorans and many small to medium herbivores supplanted by northern species. the terror birds were gone, ending the last legacy of the dominant predatory theropods.</p><div class="npf_row"><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="882" data-orig-width="1323"><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/7fddbcada2b47792dc9469d86186cfc0/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-05/s640x960/ddfe14949f4c90b3e364920e6d010147cc8211fc.png" data-orig-height="882" data-orig-width="1323" srcset="https://64.media.tumblr.com/7fddbcada2b47792dc9469d86186cfc0/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-05/s75x75_c1/19c0fa002686606cfa7e37b20e6b4fd969ad8cb5.png 75w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/7fddbcada2b47792dc9469d86186cfc0/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-05/s100x200/5dec0dc1128fed67f0f8253e44b329794efccd62.png 100w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/7fddbcada2b47792dc9469d86186cfc0/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-05/s250x400/63df74da7d5d88476dffd55960ec4f8e66cd5ecc.png 250w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/7fddbcada2b47792dc9469d86186cfc0/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-05/s400x600/63492561240556deef735670871257be911ccb96.png 400w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/7fddbcada2b47792dc9469d86186cfc0/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-05/s500x750/3e26a077635b21f98c2421375ab0013c90146b78.png 500w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/7fddbcada2b47792dc9469d86186cfc0/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-05/s540x810/81f327e0046b8d489e394727df7a0d2577ce1c69.png 540w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/7fddbcada2b47792dc9469d86186cfc0/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-05/s640x960/ddfe14949f4c90b3e364920e6d010147cc8211fc.png 640w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/7fddbcada2b47792dc9469d86186cfc0/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-05/s1280x1920/c4e6087c6b269cdbcf5791fb031921afaf813767.png 1280w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/7fddbcada2b47792dc9469d86186cfc0/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-05/s2048x3072/b573ad296a20944e5f13ea64d9ac74aef9b92cc9.png 1323w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px"></figure></div><p><small><src: Mauricia Anton></small></p><p>North America had picked up some new additions of its own, some that lasted (armadillos, possums) and some that didn't. </p><div class="npf_row"><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="936" data-orig-width="1500"><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/b7f4b6e40cf8a59058f1dfe950464799/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-f0/s640x960/5823c7d1eac65acaeed672282655bcfbeb8d62d6.png" data-orig-height="936" data-orig-width="1500" srcset="https://64.media.tumblr.com/b7f4b6e40cf8a59058f1dfe950464799/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-f0/s75x75_c1/cc4554cffa391f242b2e91be1385bda35b955c29.png 75w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/b7f4b6e40cf8a59058f1dfe950464799/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-f0/s100x200/6a7de97c8cf0f6621c6084839ad60a7b1888c3f7.png 100w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/b7f4b6e40cf8a59058f1dfe950464799/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-f0/s250x400/a885f437615e265d429cc0fa5ce177ca0835f291.png 250w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/b7f4b6e40cf8a59058f1dfe950464799/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-f0/s400x600/db321bc18e749c3550985dc75422510bada82197.png 400w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/b7f4b6e40cf8a59058f1dfe950464799/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-f0/s500x750/95b5b132f9965488e88ee074a8504220d334d596.png 500w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/b7f4b6e40cf8a59058f1dfe950464799/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-f0/s540x810/d6c9ef238d3bd08b37bc3d1d30cd1e9bf74cb4ad.png 540w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/b7f4b6e40cf8a59058f1dfe950464799/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-f0/s640x960/5823c7d1eac65acaeed672282655bcfbeb8d62d6.png 640w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/b7f4b6e40cf8a59058f1dfe950464799/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-f0/s1280x1920/749366d2573c28287bec8520046e16b34930a167.png 1280w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/b7f4b6e40cf8a59058f1dfe950464799/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-f0/s2048x3072/679f9c8a1cab2e532e5e27318344ba722c554577.png 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px"></figure></div><p><small><src: Peter Schouten></small></p><p>and we call this kerfuffle the Great American Biotic Interchange, because it sounds better than ECOLOGICAL WARZONE: ESCAPE FROM BRAZIL</p><p>(if you're a scientist, anyway)</p><div class="npf_row"><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-height="1105" data-orig-width="1920"><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/e704b4a2994eae8a971d026fc325fa8d/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-ce/s640x960/2b3c4ab0737360c66c0506299df23db63f2cae70.png" data-orig-height="1105" data-orig-width="1920" srcset="https://64.media.tumblr.com/e704b4a2994eae8a971d026fc325fa8d/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-ce/s75x75_c1/bf8b63a9317e7534ccf9cf27a3a0c79eff62ad22.png 75w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/e704b4a2994eae8a971d026fc325fa8d/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-ce/s100x200/5c55111b5d45399f782ce10c87594593b7797c4d.png 100w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/e704b4a2994eae8a971d026fc325fa8d/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-ce/s250x400/4ebac8ceeebd8a7f860b299b03f580a48c41e78b.png 250w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/e704b4a2994eae8a971d026fc325fa8d/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-ce/s400x600/cc5b644326afc35ef1ed66d00c2cdd4f419b24a7.png 400w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/e704b4a2994eae8a971d026fc325fa8d/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-ce/s500x750/d8db1b5919f188ccbeeba43fcc4e874039692e61.png 500w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/e704b4a2994eae8a971d026fc325fa8d/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-ce/s540x810/79a8ab17c1dabf171bc8e4fe795fe9155be88e73.png 540w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/e704b4a2994eae8a971d026fc325fa8d/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-ce/s640x960/2b3c4ab0737360c66c0506299df23db63f2cae70.png 640w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/e704b4a2994eae8a971d026fc325fa8d/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-ce/s1280x1920/bbfc4676d28daee3a83bf4e798c367ef39404e7e.png 1280w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/e704b4a2994eae8a971d026fc325fa8d/f8bc9c9a7a4b9716-ce/s2048x3072/c05588146fcca1af6495427d81e93364d3b87a55.png 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px"></figure></div><p><small><src: Guillermo Torres Carreño></small></p><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="https://thelonebookman.tumblr.com/post/788551600447848448/dear-bunjicus-wunjicus-what-is-the-great-american">thelonebookman</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Important note: the reason South America seems to get the short end of the stick, exchange-wise, is because North America had already been dealing with Asian biota invading for <i>millions of years </i>across Beringia (aka the Bering Straits landbridge). A lot of the big NorAm Charismatic Megafauna (TM) is actually Asian in origin (bison, bears, beavers, etc.). </p><p>So the North knew how to deal with invasive species...many of them had <i>started</i> that way! The South, OTOH, had been in its own isolated bubble forever with only the occasional rafted rodent or primate to impinge upon its ecology until BOOM! </p><p>The parallels to immune systems and ideologies, etc. write themselves. </p></blockquote><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://bedlamsbard.tumblr.com/post/788557434505543680">https://bedlamsbard.tumblr.com/post/788557434505543680</a></p>
i understand why people like the queue and i do respect you guys for using it but that is just not how i roll. if i think these 37 posts are funny you’re seeing them right fucking now
as someone who was on deviantart way too much in middleschool my relationship to the furry community is sort of like how athiest people still celebrate christmas.
‘overseen by the architect of its very destruction’ is the kind of thing a fall out boy would say
“Your eyes were Green Like the orcs in orc city and my lips were red like the fire that burnt down orc city you said it was pretty but you lied, like seduction, our ruin was overseen by the architect of its very destruction. and just like the orc war baby it was finally over” - taylor swift song that could exist with a couple rewrites and some line breaks
Me i remember… heh. the Goblin Gazette had a field day. do you think they’re still together
i hear the elf king only did all that bc she dumped him. but who can be sure…
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