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how?? just how?

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I've curated my dash so well that sometimes I forget antis exist on this site until I stumble upon a pit of them. Yikes.

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What do non-FFxiv players think FFxiv players do in this game?

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FFXIV players who want their WoL to kill the Elementals: "My WoL would be applauded for freeing the Shroud of their evil and their death will fix Gridania's shortcomings, prejudices, and xenophobia."

The actual likely consequences of that scenario:

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Here’s one good thing to come out of 2020:

Paleontologists completed a life-sized replica of Sue, the most complete T. Rex ever found.

And she is freaking GORGEOUS!

As I read more about this beauty, I found out some new details regarding things I thought I previously knew about the beast that was Tyrannosaurus Rex, and I’m going to share them with you.

First, and most obvious, her size:

This is nothing new, we all figured T. Rex was big, but I for one never stopped to consider exactly how big it was. Nobody ever really knows what to imagine when they read about something the size of a whale that walked around and ate everything it could kill. 

Speaking of eating things, I just want to remind you all that T. Rex had–by miles–the strongest bite of any terrestrial animal living or dead, somewhere around six and a half tons of force. That’s over six times greater than the current estimate of what Allosaurus was capable of, and three times what was delivered by the highest measured reading of the living title holder–the estuarine crocodile. It didn’t have to waste time swinging its head open-mouthed like Saurophaganax for a little extra oomph, or grow fancy serrated teeth like Carcharodontosaurus to cut pieces out of its prey. It opted for the simplest approach: get its mouth around something and crush it to death; imagine the full weight of an elephant on whatever was between this thing’s jaws.

“How did it find something to eat?” I hear you asking. “It can’t see something if it doesn’t move, right?”

Listen, I love Jurassic Park too, but that’s a big crock of shit.

Notice how both her eyes face forward. That gives her binocular vision (the ability to focus both eyes on one target, like you and I). More importantly it means she has impeccable depth perception due to overlapping fields of vision from each, large, eyeball. Researchers agree that T. Rex not only had incredible vision, but that it was probably better than most modern animals–including eagles, hawks, and owls–and that she could likely spot something three and a half miles away. If something that big can see that well, it doesn’t matter if you move or not, she’d be able to tell if it was an animal trying to hide or a piece of vegetation. So pray she isn’t hungry if she lays eyes on you. And even if by some miracle she didn’t see you, she’d still smell you. 

If she decided you looked tasty, you probably wouldn’t hear her coming as much as you’d feel her. Modern science indicates that T. Rex didn’t roar like in Jurassic Park, but rather bellowed or maybe even hissed like crocodilians. If she were on to you, you’d most likely feel this sense of unease creep up your spine as a low-pitched rumble in the air permeated through you. You wouldn’t know what it was or where it was coming from until you hear her footfalls. By then it’s too late–you could try to run but she’d probably catch you. There’s plenty on YouTube that reconstructs what T. Rex may have sounded like, and it’s legitimately haunting.  

To wrap all of this up, the one bit of good that came out of the cursed year that is 2020 is that this wonderful child of science and art came into the world, and reaffirmed my respect and admiration for the eight ton slab of muscle and teeth that is this magnificent creature.

…and it is nothing if not magnificent.

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jin guangyao remains THE most compelling and dynamic non-protagonist character in mdzs, and no amount of rudely tagged character hate will change that

"but i hate him and NEED to share that i hate him with anyone who might check the character tags!!!"

🖕😌🖕

no you don't

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Honestly, i have read and watched both Tgcf and mo dao zu shi and obsessed over them both. But mo dao zu shi has me in this unbreakable chokehold. And i think the ending is definitely responsible for this. Like think about it. The ending of Tgcf is very hopeful and fairytale esque. Yes the sufferings were long and gut wrenching but the villains were basically just given a slap on the wrist and every one just moved on . Beefleaf also had a very hopeful ending. But not mdzs noooo. The only people who got any happy endings were wangxian and sizhui. Jiang cheng, meng yao, lan xichen, nie huaisang were left completely alone and devastated. And at the end nothing really changed. The cultivation world never apologized or learnt any lessons. They just did the same thing they did at the first line of the novel. They celebrated the death of another bastard born calling him a monster. Yet they were the ones who created these monsters called xue yang , meng yao, ghost general and finally wwx.

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琴箫合璧 (x)

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What would the FFXIV OST would look like if you mapped it out and drew lines between the songs that share motifs?

Take a peek and find out. 🎶

Some numbers:

There are 471 songs and 477 individual motifs in this chart at time of publishing

There are 567 instances of motifs appearing in other songs (so far)

22 motifs are established in 1.0, 43 in ARR, 19 in HW, 16 in StB, 13 in ShB, and 20 in EW

There are only four degrees of separation between "A Sailor Never Sleeps", the Limsa Lominsa night theme, and "The Final Day", which plays during the final 6.0 trial???

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I feel so old when I see the answers to most of the polls (I'm 43) 🤣 Can we do a poll just about voters age?

😂💖💖 ikr, i've never felt more ancient and crumbling than when people tag songs from my childhood as old classics 😅

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You know what'd be a nice lil piece of angst. If Emet does come back eventually, new life and all, and, as per the rules of the aetherial sea, his memory's completely, irreversibly wiped. Wouldn't it be fun for the wol to be the one that remembers.

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the biggest lesson you can ever learn about ffxiv is that stormblood is actually kinda fire when you don't have a bitch in your ear telling you it's bad. the second biggest lesson you can learn about ffxiv is what a prime number is

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April 27th is International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day! My comic Crow time is pretty much stuffed to the brim with crows, so it's a good way to celebrate these goth little dudes.

READ CROW TIME!

OR GET PLUSH GOTH BOI?? WOW!

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✨ Please reblog the polls to make them reach out to as many people as possible, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people listen to the music with an open mind 💖 Artists and titles will be revealed after the poll's conclusion, check the original post for an update! ✨