Okay but the backstory behind this statue is dope af. The artist behind it Jason deCaires Taylor, he does a bunch of other underwater art pieces that many of you have probably seen on the internet……. He owns the first UNDERWATER MUSEUM in Cancun which has sculptures like these:
He even did sculptures in London called “The Rising Tide”, so that when the high tide comes around, the statues are completely underwater.
See those feathers? The skeleton they found was so well-preserved that scientists were able to examine the pigment cells in the feathers and compare them to those of modern day birds.
And they were able to do this with such accuracy that they know the coloration of this dinosaur. In life it looked something like this.
It just baffles me that we know the color patterns of an animal that has been dead for 161 million years
They found a prehistoric chicken that wears adidas swear pants my god
so if generic wizards use wands and staffs to cast spells I’m gonna bring up the idea of modern era magicians using what they can find with a wooden body, like teens picking up baseball bats and 2x4s
imagine just running out of mana or whatever and instead of slinking back you just crack your rune laden bat over a particularly punkish goblin
(#2) I’ve always been bi. Okay, fair enough he said. Then: how do you know that you’re bi? I looked at him for a while before the penny dropped and I asked him back: are you unsure? He went on the defense and started saying stuff like: No, no, no I’m totally straight, very much so. And I was like, yeah, sure you are sweetie but I left it at that for the moment. A couple of weeks later he came and asked me if he could buy me lunch and we could talk. I said yes, and when we sat there he said:
(#3) ‘I think you were right. I’ve never cared about genders but I’m kind of scared of what that implies. Do I need to start having sex? Because I don’t like having sex.’ This led me into a long and complicated description about pan, bi and ace. He realized panromantic ace fit him perfectly and he looked so damn happy about it I just wanted to hug him. So I did. And that’s the story of how I helped a confused 30 y/o man with his sexuality and got myself a boyfriend in the process.
look, honestly, my Kink™ is aliens with weird/no mouths getting oral for the first time
like they don’t even know this is a thing till their weird human s/o gets there and totally wrecks their shit with their mouth. every time they look at their humans mouth they get turned on just thinking about it. they’re fucking destroyed.
– Aloy leans forward when riding her horse (sorry, strider) up a hill and back when riding down, like youre supposed to, despite never having ridden or even seen a real horse in her life
– the mount machines all have properly animated gaits, two-beat trot three-beat canter four-beat gallop etc
– the little smile she makes when it’s snowing or raining and she puts her hands out you complain about the rain but i know the truth
– the pine saplings near pitchcliff
– studious pallas
– the poetry inside the metal flowers
– aloy’s little comments to herself when she’s picking herbs/climbing ice/the weather changes/she slides down a hillside/etc
– if you ride right up to the cutscene trigger while tracking dervahl the game animates her dismounting and patting the strider’s side as part of the cutscene
– tallnecks, esp. how they’re totally oblivious to you scrambling all over them
– the fact that you don’t need the focus to track because the environmental clues (footprints, blood smears, cart tracks, etc) are actually there
– sylens sends you a bunch of information and then there’s about a second’s worth of pause and he just sends you the definition of corporation as if that’s the only thing that might be confusing
– those two mysterious named rabbits up above devil’s thirst seriously what’s the deal with them
– the really gorgeous sunsets
– the crouch idle where she rocks back so it looks like she’s sitting
– going back to visit Rost and you actually can tell him about your journeys (i cried SO hard)
– npcs comment on what you’re wearing
– the little surprised hop-jump-look animation the watchers make when you throw a rock near them
– overridden ravagers rumbling and following you around
– the fact that overridden machines have unique animations for fighting other machines as opposed to you
– PHOTO MODE
– the sound the metal flowers make
– Aloy’s little shrug when she drops the safe through the floor
– aloy shutting down all the dudes who try to flirt with her
– seriously she’s so blunt i love it the world needs more blunt pragmatic heroines
– “it’s a door”
– the hair physics and the way the sun catches in the edges of her hair
– big machines knock over trees when they go into forested areas and it’s terrifying
– the way the fog moves over the ground in waves
– aloy’s crooked teeth and bushy eyebrows and slightly chubby face and she’s stocky but also ripped from years of hunting like she looks like a person shes perfect
– the fact that the mount machines have the same base body but slightly different sounds and idle animations
– did i mention studious pallas? i love him he is Trying his Best
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