#BLACK KETTLE?????

[beauzos]

started reading Dragon Teeth by Crichton since my coworker is lending me Lost World in a few days and i had a couple days to kill till then since i finished Jurassic Park, and after a hundred pages i set the book down and went, "what is the point of this book?" so idk if it's going great KRKF

i think it's a great concept for a book. it's about the Bone Wars and people going out West to dig up dino bones in the 19th century, and it's told like the main character was a real guy and Crichton found, like, his unpublished writings and is writing a history book about him and . the Bones Wars guys. but really, the mc is not real, though Cope and Marsh are and it's draped in a lot of other historical figures. there's even an extensive Custer mention.

but it's just like. every scene is written like a summary, you understand what i mean? as a mock-history book, it's bad. as a fiction book, it's bad.

i like Crichton's writing, though, and i don't dislike the book, i just can recognize that it's not very good in execution at all. and what a shame! i love the Bone Wars era and i love the idea of digging up dinos in the American West and having this mc interacting with the real Cope and Marsh. it's brilliant. but i just feel like everything is being summarized to me, and i'm not really seeing like, a real book.

and that disappoints me!

also i feel uneasy about the way Crichton talks about Native peoples. cause, like, if this is to be read as a faux history book, then he's being racist. a lot of "savage" talk, and him like. oh man, the way he said Black Kettle was often argued as being an innocent and a scapegoat to justify US atrocities towards Native peoples and then going "this isn't true". i almost set the book down then and there and had to talk myself back into reading it bcs it's fiction but like. Crichton what are you saying KRKF this is like Steinbeck-level "author insert is being racist" shit and i don't like that.

the book was written in 1974, so i guess i should expect it. it just caught me off guard.

[laney-rockin]

It's canon that Spock likes to fuck with people and pretend he doesn't know human sayings just so he can make people explain it to him.

And then Kirk just knows when Spock is serious or is just being difficult and obtuse on purpose. They're married your honour.

[theaceofarrows]

Bruce: Damian, don't you think that maybe you should make some friends outside of being Robin? Like some friends at school?

Damian: You want me to have friends? The very thing that killed Julius Caesar? I think not

[Dick, Jason, and Tim, all hysterically laughing]

[silverfoxphil]

grabs you hits you eats you bites you grabs you grabs you grabs you

[paprikaries]

_"Waste of an investigation"_ wip sketch (sorry, it's 3:15 and I don't have enough energy to correct the dialogs!😆)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _"Waste of an investigation"_ wip, sketched Fanart: Cuphead / Mugman / King Dice (from Cuphead franchise) Cuphead the game by mdhr studio /The Cuphead show by Netflix

I created this comic because Cuphead reactions to King Dice in the show are quite funny.. I don't even know if this is an understandable english but, whatever... I'll correct it later! :3

[phanaklusmos]

love that dan gives phil so much shit for the superglue incident and yet. AND YET

[edwardslostalchemy]

The last thing I thought I'd ever say was that AFO is right lmfao, but he really called out endeavor on this one. AFO is no better when it comes to using people, especially his 'successor', but I appreciate that he went for the jugular with this one. It really is the cruelest match up. Like it should have been endeavor facing Touya, not Shouto who had 0 fault in that situation whatsoever.

[piplupcola]

Writers trying to convince Disney execs not to cancel Nimona, Owl House, and many other IPs:

It's almost laughable how ironic this scene is with what a dumpster fire Wish turned out to be

[greenteaandtattoos]

the sheer unfaithfulness of laudna's argument of, "i gave you a bruise, you gave me gashes" in trying to undermine orym's validity as if she wasn't the REASON he had attacked her, thinking she was an enemy because he couldn't SEE her after she cast darkness and she wouldn't SPEAK UP to assure him that it was her and she REFUSED to back down after he woke up and chose thievery and lashing out and risking his life AND his trust instead of COMMUNICATING, left me completely and utterly FLABBERGASTED at the AUDACITY

[quadrantvacillation]

Fuck fuck FUCK i JUST FIGURED IT OUT

HUSK REALLY SAID "I'd rather have the real you that's flawed than the fake you that everyone else thinks is perfect."

[v7n5]

[texaschainsawmascara]

I’ve seen way too many people saying there’s a time & place for activism??? lmfao no? it’s supposed to be 24/7 & it’s supposed to make you check your privilege & it’s supposed to make you uncomfortable in your safe little bubble. buck the fuck up.

[erros429]

yall ever see someone so hot you’re like “wow i need them carnally” but they’re literally a 2d animated fictional character. like girl stand up. they are not real. also they are pixels.

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #NationalTeaDay 🫖☕️:

Teapot with Fossil Decoration British, Staffordshire, c. 1760–65 Salt-glazed stoneware with enamel decoration 4 1/4 × 7 1/4 in. (10.8 × 18.4 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 37.22.6a,b

“Though it's got a surprisingly modern look, this teapot was made in the 18th-century in Staffordshire—the heart of Britain's pottery industry. The area’s limestone yielded prehistoric fossils, and potters often turned them into whimsical motifs for teapots.”

[catfindr]

[kruinka]

i truly think this is the funniest line in bllk