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sophia_sol) wrote2024-03-14 02:35 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2024-03-14 02:35 pm
five things: dinosaur feathers, writing outlines, friendship, trans backstory, pidw mobing thought
whoops this week you get five things, I couldn't narrow it down!
one
the current state of research into feathers on dinosaurs (and pterosaurs!) is so INTERESTING, we keep learning new things that complicate our understanding, and it's possible that proto-feathers are a basal trait to the archosaur ancestor of both dinosaurs and pterosaurs?!! OR that feather-like structures convergently evolved like 4 or 5 times within archosaurs, which is ALSO super cool. either option is just so exciting!!!
we do know though that all coelurosaurs -- this includes tyrannosaurs -- are from a feathered lineage. so any coelurosaur either had feathers or was an oddity who evolved from feathered relatives to no longer have feathers.
It's hard to say for sure though about a lot of specific species because feathers don't preserve well in most contexts so we just don't have evidence.
but still. LOTS of feathered dinosaurs for sure.
so many feathery possibilities out there!
two
did you know! you could be a discovery type of writer and still find outlines helpful? it's just that you write the outline to cover the parts of the story you've ALREADY written, so you can better see your structure and remember your story beats as you keep going!
three
I love.... friendship 💖
I love all the different kinds of friendship one can have, and how they each bring a different kind of wonderfulness to your life!
four
in retrospect it was very trans egg of me in high school to be like "idk why this is but it is very emotionally important to me that I be allowed to sing in my school's men's chorus; I have a decent tenor voice and my gender shouldn't be a barrier"
AND to be able to TELL people I was in a men's chorus! I got so much satisfaction out of that!
(yes the men's chorus did let me in. thank you to the director for being a terrifying teacher but a decent person.)
five
a thought from 2022 when I was attempting to have a fandom-specific twitter presence:
pidw mobing is just.....so good to think about
I think they don't talk about it, they don't act on it, they maybe don't even realise they feel it, but they are each other's most stable and reliable connection, no backstabbing or politicking or pretense
even when they're angry with each other it feels like a relief. no secrets between them. lbh can safely let all his worst qualities be visible, no need to turn on the seductive charm. mbj can relax in the knowledge he's not being played by someone who pretends to care.
mbj will do whatever his lord requires of him. lbh will protect his trusted lieutenant.
any other feelings are unnecessary for them to analyse or pay attention to
one
the current state of research into feathers on dinosaurs (and pterosaurs!) is so INTERESTING, we keep learning new things that complicate our understanding, and it's possible that proto-feathers are a basal trait to the archosaur ancestor of both dinosaurs and pterosaurs?!! OR that feather-like structures convergently evolved like 4 or 5 times within archosaurs, which is ALSO super cool. either option is just so exciting!!!
we do know though that all coelurosaurs -- this includes tyrannosaurs -- are from a feathered lineage. so any coelurosaur either had feathers or was an oddity who evolved from feathered relatives to no longer have feathers.
It's hard to say for sure though about a lot of specific species because feathers don't preserve well in most contexts so we just don't have evidence.
but still. LOTS of feathered dinosaurs for sure.
so many feathery possibilities out there!
two
did you know! you could be a discovery type of writer and still find outlines helpful? it's just that you write the outline to cover the parts of the story you've ALREADY written, so you can better see your structure and remember your story beats as you keep going!
three
I love.... friendship 💖
I love all the different kinds of friendship one can have, and how they each bring a different kind of wonderfulness to your life!
four
in retrospect it was very trans egg of me in high school to be like "idk why this is but it is very emotionally important to me that I be allowed to sing in my school's men's chorus; I have a decent tenor voice and my gender shouldn't be a barrier"
AND to be able to TELL people I was in a men's chorus! I got so much satisfaction out of that!
(yes the men's chorus did let me in. thank you to the director for being a terrifying teacher but a decent person.)
five
a thought from 2022 when I was attempting to have a fandom-specific twitter presence:
pidw mobing is just.....so good to think about
I think they don't talk about it, they don't act on it, they maybe don't even realise they feel it, but they are each other's most stable and reliable connection, no backstabbing or politicking or pretense
even when they're angry with each other it feels like a relief. no secrets between them. lbh can safely let all his worst qualities be visible, no need to turn on the seductive charm. mbj can relax in the knowledge he's not being played by someone who pretends to care.
mbj will do whatever his lord requires of him. lbh will protect his trusted lieutenant.
any other feelings are unnecessary for them to analyse or pay attention to