The Titanoboa, is a 48ft long snake dating from around 60-58million years ago. It had a rib cage 2ft wide, allowing it to eat whole crocodiles, and surrounding the ribcage were muscles so powerful that it could crush a rhino. Titanoboa was so big it couldn’t even spend long amounts of time on land, because the force of gravity acting on it would cause it to suffocate under its own weight.
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I’m so glad they aren’t around
omg me too. I’m scared enough of 26 ft long anacondas. I’m so happy Megalodons, those giant sharks, aren’t alive either
Praise natural selection
I remember watching Walking with Beasts or something similar, or some British tv show about evolution
The subject was something like a 12 foot long water scorpion
I was so startled by its sudden appearance and narration that I yelped: “12 fucking feet?!?! I’m fucking glad it’s extinct!”
Dude, prehistory was home to some fucking TERRIFYING creatures. For some reason, everything back then was enormous and scary. Extinction doesn’t always have to be a bad thing!
And Poppy, what you saw was an arthropod known as Pterygotus (it was actually featured in Walking With Monsters). Not only was it as big (or maybe even bigger) than your average human, it had a stinger the size of a lightbulb. REALLY glad that bugger isn’t around anymore.
Also, Megalodon deserves to be mention again, because just hearing its name makes me want to never be submerged in water ever again.
GOD, I HATE THIS POST. HOW DO WE EVEN KNOW THAT SHIT ISN’T STILL AROUND? LURKING? EVOLVING? WE DON’T. WE DON’T KNOW SHIT ABOUT SHIT DOWN THERE. THE OCEAN IS A PRIMEVAL HELLSCAPE NIGHTMARE AND WE ALL JUST DIP OUR STUPID FRAGILE UNPROTECTED FETUS BODIES AROUND THE EDGES OF IT LIKE THAT’S NORMAL. FUCK THE OCEAN.
this is so relevant to my interests
It wasn’t just the predators. North Carolina was once home to giant ground sloths…
THAT IS A GODDAMNED LEAF-EATING SLOTH.
We’ve got a skeleton of one of these fuckers at the museum downtown, and man, just being NEAR it is unsettling.
DON’T FORGET PREHISTORIC WHALES, SOME OF THOSE FUCKERS WERE TERRIFYING
AMBULOCETUS WAS AMPHIBIOUS AND PRETTY BADASS
BASILOSAURUS WAS THIS GIANT REPTILIAN CETACEAN THAT PROBABLY SWAM LIKE A DUMB EEL BECAUSE OF ITS TINY FLUKES BUT THIS FUCKER WAS 60 FEET LONG AND AT THE TOP OF THE MARINE FOOD CHAIN
AND THEN THERE’S MY FAVORITE, ZYGOPHYSETER, WHICH WAS THIS HUGE EARLY SPERM WHALE THAT ATE SHARKS AND OTHER WHALES
IT WAS NOTHING BUT TEETH
The reason why the animals in the prehistoric times were so big was because there was much more oxygen in the atmosphere if I recall correctly. Because there was so much oxygen and so few carbon gasses, life on earth was able to grow to terrifying lengths and heights, don’t forget how giant the bugs were.
I have never seen so much prime nope in a single post
Also important to note that megalodon is theorized to still be alive,possibly living in the darkest depths of the ocean. They haven’t found signs of its extinction
scientists: “we haven’t seen a megalodon in quite some time now, let’s just hope it’s exstinct”
This whole post is my JAM not gonna lie I am fascinated by massive prehistoric animals
I took a DND personality quiz and it fuckin nailed it
seems about right im a fuckin Noodle
aah, high school crushes
taking a break from commissions just to mess around in MangaStudio to make sure I remembered how to use toning
Original Character ask meme - Psychology edition~
1: What’s your OC’s biggest insecurity and how would they react if someone pointed it out to them?
2: If your OC wants to buy a firearm, what it might be for?
3: Does your OC behave differently around different people, if so with whom and how?
4: Would your OC want to involve themselves in humanitarian work ? If yes, then for what? If not, then why not?
5: How would your OC generally react to someone being verbally abusive towards them for no apparent reason?
6: Does your OC have a realistic image of their own intelligence?
7: Does your OC have any irrational phobias?
8: How is/was your OC’s relationship with their parents?
9: Does your OC feel a pressure to achieve or are they content and calm with doing what they can at the moment?
10: Does your OC guard their emotions by being tough? If not how would they?
11: How would your OC react to hearing they’re adopted?
12: What is one of the most primary things your OC feels that is missing from their life?
13: What kind of situations does your OC avoid the most?
14: If your OC gets into a fight with their best friend, would they wait for their friend to make up with them, or would they try to make up with their friend?
15: Does your OC consider themselves a good person?
16: Is your OC good at giving others validation of their feelings and making them feel understood?
17: Does your OC suffer from any mental health issues?
18: What kind of intrapersonal values does your OC have? (values about their self, what makes them feel like a valid person)
19: What boosts your OC’s confidence the most?
20: Does your OC hurt others often unintentionally? If yes, how?
21: Does your OC hurt others often intentionally? If yes, how?
22: How does your OC usually show affection? Are they openly romantic or more restricted with their affectionate emotions?
23: Does your OC tend to hide something about their personality/essence when meeting new people? If yes, what?
24: How would your OC react if they got humiliated by someone in a group of people?
25: How would your OC process the grief caused by the death of a loved one?
26: What is the most intense thing your OC has been battling with?
27: Does your OC practise any kind of escapism? If yes, what kind?
28: How would your OC react if a bully stole their lunch money in high school?
29: How does your OC behave on the face of a conflict?
30: What makes your OC defensive quickest?
Useful Writing Resources
This is an extensive list of resources for every problem you could come across while writing/planning/editing your novel. Use it well;)
{ *** } Indicate a Highly Reccommended Resource
Planning/outlining Your Work
- How To Outline ***
- Zigzag Method : Creating Plots
- How to Plot a Romance Novel
- Seven Great Sources of Conflict for Romances
- Let’s talk about brainstorming
- Writing Something With Meaning ***
- Past Or Present Tense? : How To Decide
Writing Your Work
- How To Write A Fabulous Chapter #1 ***
- How to Build a Romance Thread in Your Story
- The Big Book Of Writing Sex ***
- 6 Ways to Get Your Readers Shipping Like Crazy
- Romance Writing Tips ***
- 20 Tips for Writing Lovable Romance Novel Heroes
- 7 Ways To Speed Up Your Writing ***
- 80+ Barriers to Love: A List of Ideas to Keep Romantic Tension High
- 9 Romance Writing Mistakes to Avoid
- Removing the Creeps From Romance
- 19 Ways to Write Better Dialogue ***
- 50 Things Your Characters Can Do WHILE They Talk ***
- How To Write Action And Fight Scenes
- 10 Steps To Write Arguments
- 9 Ways To Write Body Language
- Writing Good Kissing Scenes
- Writing Murders
- Create And Control Tone ***
- Tips for Writing Ghost Stories
- Incorporating Flashbacks
- 12 Tips To Avoid Overwriting ***
Characters
- Behind the Name
- Top Baby Names
- Looking for a name that means a certain thing? ***
- 7 Rules of Picking Names
- Most Common Surnames ***
- Minor Character Development
- Writing Antagonists, Antiheroes and Villains
- Characters With Enhanced Senses
- 5 Tips to Help You Introduce Characters
- How Do You Describe a Character?
- How To Write Child Characters
- 36 Core Values For Building Character
- Questions To Answer When Creating Characters ***
- 4 Ways to Make Readers Instantly Loathe Your Character Descriptions
- 5 Ways to Keep Characters Consistent
- Character Archetypes
- 25 Ways To Fuck With Your Characters
- Building Platonic Relationships Between Female Characters
- 9 Simple and Powerful Ways to Write Body Language
- 33 Ways To Write Stronger Characters
- Conveying Character Emotion
- How to Make Readers Love an Unlikable Character…
- How to Create Powerful Character Combos
- How To Describe A Character’s Voice ***
- Describing Clothing And Appearance ***
- Career Masterpost ***
- Creating Your Character’s Personality ***
- Character Flaws ***
Editing
- DON’T EDIT>>> REWRITE THE WHOLE THING FIRST
- Ultimate Guide To Editing Each Aspect Of Your Work ***
- Why You Would Read Your Novel Out Loud ***
- Grammar and Punctuation ***
- How To Write A Captivating First Sentence
- 10 Things Your Opening Chapter Should Do: A Check-List for Self-Editing ***
- Saving Your Story: Finding Where It Went Wrong
- How To Condense Without Losing Anything
- The Stages Of Editing
- Dialogue/Description Balance
- 3 Proofreading Tips
- The Short Story Form
- Chapter & Novel Lengths
- Anatomy Of A Novel : Chapters and Parts ***
- How To Write Chapter After Chapter Until You Have A Book ***
- Where Chapter #2 Should Start
- Step By Step Guide To Editing Your Draft
- Writing Tool: CTRL-F (How And Why You Should Use It) ***
- How To Kill A Character
- 25 Steps To Edit The Unmerciful Suck Out Of Your Story
- 5 Ways To Make Your Novel Helplessly Addictive ***
Setting
- {Setting} How To Describe Setting In Your Stories ***
- 20 Questions To Enhance Setting
- How To Bring Your Setting To Life
Miscellaneous Resources You Can Use In Between
- How to Write from a Guy’s POV
- The Emotional Wounds Thesaurus
- Text To Speech Reader
- Compare Character Heights
- A Visual Dictionary of Tops
- Writers Helping Writers
- 7 Tricks To Imrove Your Writing Overnight
- Work Out/ Word Count : Exercise Between Writing ***
- Most Important Writing Tips ***
- Let’s talk about diversity in novels
- Letting Go Of Your Story
- Keeping A Healthy Writing Schedule And Avoiding Procrastination ***
- How To Create A Good Book Cover
- Write or Die
- Tip of my Tongue
- Character Traits Form
- Online Thesaurus
Writing Sketchy/Medical/Law
- Coma: Types, Causes, etc
- Tips for writing blood loss
- Gunshot Wound Care
- Examples of Hospital Forms
- Common Legal Questions
- The Writer’s Forensics Blog
- Brain Injury Legal Guide
- Types of Surgical Operations
- Types of Mental Health Problems
- A Day in the Life of a Mental Hospital Patient
- Global Black Market Information ***
- Crime Scene Science
- Examining Mob Mentality
- How Street Gangs Work
Writers’ Block Help/ Productivity
- Story Plot Generator
- @aveeragemusings ‘ Cure To Writers’ Block ***
- 50 Romance Plot Ideas
- Reading Like A Writer ***
- Defeat Writers’ Block
- Writing In A Bad Mood ***
- Writers Block
- When You’ve Lost Motivation To Write A Novel ***
- What To Do When The Words Won’t Flow ***
- 9 Ways To Be A More Productive Writer
- “I Cannot Write A Good Sentence Today” (How To Get Over It) ***
- Real Writing Advice ***
Info You Need To Know & Words You Didn’t Think Of
- A Writer’s Thesaurus ***
- Words To Describe… ***
- Words & Phrases To Use In Your Sex Scenes ***
- Colors (An Extensive List Of Colors)
- List Of Kinks & Fetishes ***
- List Of Elemental Abilities
- inkarnate.com : World Creator And Map Maker For Your Imaginary Setting
- Body Language Phrases
- List Of Legendary Creatures
- How To Write Magic
- Hairstyle References
- Hemingway : Writing Checker
- Body Types: Words To Describe Bodies and How They Move Around
- Poisonous Herbs and Plants ***
- The Psychology of Color
- The Meaning behind Rose color
- Types of Swords
- Color Symbolism
- How a handgun works
- How to Write a Eulogy
- Types of Crying
- Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes ***
- Superstitions and More
- The 12 Common Archetypes
- Language of Flowers
- 12 Realistic Woman Body Shapes
Using Feedback And Reviews
- Turning Negative Reviews Into Positive Ones ***
- Proofreading Marks : Easy Symbols To Make Reviewing/Feedback Easier ***
Authonomy
Teen Ink
Figment
Fiction Press
ReviewFuseThese Are Trusted Critique Sites ;)
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Terrible? Transformation Curses
Send my muse a curse to transform them for a day (or however long the mun/sender decides). Feel free to combine curses to create a terrible, or beautiful, monster!
- Third Eye: The muse has an eye placed anywhere on their body that is often visible (forehead, chest, hand…) and this eye has the ability to see glimpses of the future, another dimension, and/or supernatural entities.
- Horns: The muse has horns sprouting from their head. The size and number of horns is completely up to the sender!
- Slither: The muse now has a long, serpentine tail and has lost the ability to walk on their legs.
- Cloven hooves: The muse has to walk with a pair of hooves instead of feet. Add furry legs for a classic ‘satyr’ look if the sender wishes.
- Lovely locks: Instead of hair, the muse now has … something else up there. Snakes, tentacles, spines, dripping slime - the sender can use their imagination!
- Gaping Maw: If you have two mouths, can you eat twice as many tacos? Let’s hope. The muse has a second mouth placed anywhere on their body, either hidden or visible, and it’s full of razor sharp teeth.
- Fangs: The muse’s ordinary mouth now sports sharp vampire-like fangs.
- Jaws: Hell, since when is two sharp teeth enough? The muse now has an entire mouthful of razor fangs.
- Scratch: Instead of fingernails, the muse now has long, pointed claws. Be careful with those things.
- Thwump: Who doesn’t want a tail? Now the muse has their own tail. It can be cute and delicate or heavy and covered in spikes depending on the sender.
- Hiss: The muse has a long, long tongue. Tapered or forked is up to you!
- Porcupine: Porcupines are cute, but a little hazardous when annoyed. The muse now has sharp spines placed anywhere on their body (back, elbows, legs…).
- Swamp beast: The muse can breathe easy under water with a new set of gills, and why not webbed fingers and toes to go with it?
- Majestic birb: Now the muse has the power of flight with their own set of wings. Are they fluffy bird wings, leathery bat wings, or buzzing insect wings?
- Piercing Gaze: Whatever the muse’s original eye color is, they now have something different and unusual. Pure black eyes, milky white eyes, bright red eyes - it’s up to the sender!
- Snout: The muse has swapped noses with any type of creature. Give them a beak, a pig snout, a feline button nose, or even a canine muzzle.
- Solid, Liquid, Gas: The muse’s entire body is made up of something other than flesh! Turn them into a gooey slime monster, a red-hot lava monster, a hard rock beast, or even a wisp of person-shaped fog.
- Leathers and Feathers: The muse has more than just smooth skin now. Add some scales, feathers, fur, or an exoskeleton!
- Size Difference: Grow or shrink the muse either a little bit or a whole lot.
- Chameleon: Give the muse bright neon skin, wild colors of hair, or exotic stripes and patterns. Plaid? Go for it.