My latest piece: Our Blessed Rebel Queen, Carrie Fisher
done in watercolour and ink.
Carrie Fisher has always been a great inspiration to me. As someone who suffers from depression and anxiety, I wanted to create a piece to bring me and comfort and strength. To look upon Space Mom and say “yes, I can face today.”
I can’t stop thinking about crocodiles for some reason so here’s some cool pictures I found of probably the second largest one in captivity, his name is Utan:
isn’t he beautiful
listen to the SOUND when he bites
and that’s not even a real power bite, that’s mostly just heavy bone falling on heavy bone from his jaws and the air rushing out from between them
2000 pounds of Good Boy
you get me
I honestly expected like 5 notes, what HAPPENED here
More tags on this ridiculous post:
Wait, thats the 2nd biggest crocodile? Then what does the biggest one look like?
That would be Cassius, a very old Saltwater crocodile who is estimated to be around 114 years old and lives at Marineland Melanesia in Green Island, Australia. His official measurement is 5.48 meters, which makes him the largest in captivity currently. Because Utan is only slightly smaller and much younger, (only in his 50s), he will likely break Cassius’ record eventually. But for now, Cassius holds the title:
He is NOT, however, either the largest crocodile ever captured in Australia OR the largest ever in captivity.
A slightly larger crocodile has been reported (though not yet comfirmed) to have been captured at 5.58 meters.
And while the famous Brutus of the Adelaide River was estimated to be just slightly larger than Cassius at 5.5m, he was driven out of his territory by a younger and even larger crocodile, who as a result has been given the name, The Dominator. He is estimated to be just over 6m.
This is Brutus, with an appropriate caption:
It is believed that he lost that arm in a fight with a Bull Shark.
The Bull Shark lost.
THIS is the crocodile who kicked him out. The Dominator:
And that’s STILL not the biggest.
The largest living crocodile ever reliably measured was Lolong, who for the 1.5 years between his capture and his death was the largest crocodile ever held in captivity, at a whopping 6.17 meters (20 feet 3 inches) and 1075 kg (2,370 lbs). He had been feeding on both humans and very large livestock in the Bunawan creek in Agusan del Sur in the Philippines. It took 100 people all night to drag him to shore during his capture.
And here’s why:
Also, to prevent credit from getting buried on a separate reblog, I have been informed that the above image of the crocodile with the cartoon eyes and halo was made by @rashkah! (And it is wonderful and I would like to thank him for its existence, because it perfectly captures my feelings about terrifying giant primordial reptiles.)
As far as Brutus is concerned I was led to believe that he lost that arm when relatively young.
Since then Brutus developed a habit of hunting and eating Bull Sharks.
Here’s him with a prey.
And if you thought that you’ll be safe if you just stay out of Australia then think again!
Meet Gustave the Nile Croc.
This crocodile became almost legendary for both it’s size and the habit of hunting both livestock AND humans.
So how big is Gustave?
No one is sure. Since he was NEVER captured.
His estimated size is of at least 5,5m but some give him over 6m.
The terrifying parts are:
1) He is still growing having only about 60 years.
2) Adult crocodiles often perform a gesture of submission to him – something usually done by young crocodiles toward adults – Gustave is just THAT BIG.
3) His sheer size makes it difficult for him to catch agile prey Nile crocs tend to feed on – hence why he developed a habit of hunting either larger prey like Hippopotamus or creatures which are not good at spotting danger in the first place like livestock and humans.
And this is NOT ALL.
Gustave actually has a noticeable scars on his body – he was shot at east 3 times and stabbed with a spear or something similar at one occasion.
He lived to tell the tale – my question is:
What happened to that one dude who attacked Gustave with a spear?
*Crocodile Dundee voice* Mate, that’s not Gustave:
THIS is Gustave:
And he is the PERFECT CROCODILE. He is the perfect example of what I mean when I talk about (as I do) how the morphology of extremely large crocodiles adapts to the changing physics of their bite.
This is a typical adult Nile Crocodile:
And THIS is a god among his kind:
This is it, folks. The Final Form. THIS is what peak performance looks like.
Crocodiles and physics have an interesting relationship. Crocodiles have, by a CONSIDERABLE MARGIN, the strongest bite of any animal on Earth. EVER. Scaled up estimates (based on Nile and Saltwater crocodiles) give the extinct Deinosuchus an estimated bite force MORE THAN DOUBLE the recently updated Tyrannosaurus bite estimates. Living crocodiles have bite forces measured in the range of 5000 pounds per square inch, for an individual around 15-16 feet. It is estimated that modern crocodiles in the range of 18-20 feet would have bit forces around 7-8000 psi or more.
That’s a problem.
Because a crocodile’s skull is only designed to handle so much pressure. Go beyond that limit and the force of impact when those jaws snap shut could literally shatter their own skulls.
But evolution has spent hundreds of millions of years perfecting crocodiles, so PHYSICS ISN’T GOING TO STOP THEM. What ends up happening in the skulls of these extremely large crocodiles is they will increase dramatically in mass to compensate for the increased forces. A crocodile’s skull is almost exclusively solid bone, with only minimal space for nasal passages, a surprisingly advanced brain, and some slightly porous looking framework that helps the bone distribute the force over a larger area. The effect is by far the most pronounced in Nile crocodiles, which most regularly feed on larger prey and need to make use of all that power.
Compare, 26 inch skull:
vs 29 inch skull:
Both of those are Nile crocodile skulls (or rather, replicas thereof).
And just for fun, here are the skulls of completely different (and very extinct species), Deinosuchus:
and Purussaurus:
The bigger the crocodile (within a given species), the more massive the skull needs to be to compensate for that UNBELIEVABLE bit pressure. This is one way to see from a distance whether you are looking at a normal sized crocodile:
and a truly extraordinary individual:
One of the things about Gustave that’s so impressive is how healthy his teeth look. A lot of large crocodiles, in their old age, have very worn down and often missing teeth. They do replace them many times over a lifetime, but when they get very old this slows down. Gustave, at least in every picture taken of him, had teeth that were in very good condition.
Even crocodiles much smaller than Gustave’s reported size (probably similar in size to Dominator or Lolong) tend to have smaller or more worn teeth:
than the pinnacle of his kind:
Lolong! It means Gramps or Grandpa, because he’s a relic of an ancient world where crocs more massive than he was walked the earth. His body is on display somewhere right now though I forgot where.
Every time I see this post there’s more crocodiles. It’s the gift that keeps on giving.
I think God is one and the same and follow good doctrines of both
I’m atheist
I’m Jewish
And it’s often more subtle
Like a salesperson handing you two products and pressuring you to buy one of them, making you forget that
You don’t have to buy anything if you don’t want to
You can leave the store and buy something elsewhere
And sometimes it can be as important as
“Are you gay or are you straight?”
I’m gay
I’m straight
I’m both? So Bi?
I like no one, I’m ace.
I’m anything else, really, this is a spectrum and I define my own orientation.
So remember- If someone if pressuring you to pick between two choices, they’re probably trying to manipulate you by making you forget you also have another three options.
You’ve been sent into an alternate dimension where music is magic: choirs can change the weather and orchestras can topple castle walls. With your digital music device (iPhone, MP3 player, whichever), you’ve just become the most powerful wizard in the world.
*Becomes invincible playing Harder, better, faster, stronger*
*Starts the apocalypse playing Raining Blood*
*Forges an indestructible robot army playing Du Hast*
*Creates an army/harem with Raining Men*
*Creates world peace with Imagine*
*Covers the world in sand with Darude Sandstorm*
*Becomes the Human Torch with This Girl is On Fire*
ok can we agree that the WORST feeling is when you’re just sitting around consciously procrastinating and you’re just overly aware that each second that passes is more time wasted and you like watch hours pass and you’re STILL procrastinating and you CANT STOP and your panicked brain is trapped inside a body that refuses to be productive and inside you’re screaming but outwardly you’re just eating chips
The best thing I know for this is just to do SOMETHING. It’s like you’re in a trance, so you have to break the trance. Get out of your chair and go into another room, or step outside. You don’t have to stay there long, but if there’s something small you can do in that other room, like wash a dish or fold a shirt, do it. If you hate it, you don’t have to do it forever. Then sit down somewhere and just experience the urge to do the procrastination activity but don’t act on it. See if the urge fades a little. If it doesn’t at all, go back to the distracting activity and set the timer for 10 minutes. At that ten minute mark, get out of your chair and repeat the above.
My shrink calls this STOP. It’s a DBT Distress Tolerance skill: Stop, Take a Step Back, Observe, and Proceed Mindfully. Once you get out of your trance, you can shut your eyes, check in with yourself, and DECIDE what to do next instead of just getting carried a long. Don’t pick something HARD to do, pick something very easy but active and that will give you a sense of accomplishment, no matter how small. If you really need to, you can go back to the distracting activity for little breaks but try to set a timer so you don’t get entranced again.
This is hard and takes practice. Maybe the first time, all you’ll manage is getting into the other room and then coming right back. Keep trying. It’s a muscle you build. I leave little notes around my house to remind me to do this. That helps.
Here’s a thing you might do BEFORE all of that. When I’m SUPER anxious and stuck, I’m out of what my shrink would call my Window of Tolerance, which is when you’re so keyed up (or so keyed down) that you can’t really think or act deliberately. So I have a list I keep on my wall: First I stick my face in ice water for about 30 seconds. This triggers the mammalian diving reflex, which depresses your sympathetic nervous system. Then I take a shower, trying to focus only on the water and not my racing thoughts. Finally I sit and do Four-Square breathing for a few minutes, which actually you can do anytime, anywhere. It has a similar effect as the ice-water thing. (If you have PRN anti-anxiety medication, taking a little of that at the beginning of the process can help you get through the exercises.)
Once you’ve calmed down and de-entranced yourself a little, you can possibly think about working again. Pick something very limited and specific. “I’m just going to write ONE paragraph about [x]” or “I’m going to study this one page.” Or “I’m going to work for 15 minutes.” GIVE IT A LIMIT so you aren’t trapped. Then you get a break to distract yourself. Keep the break short, but don’t skip it. You can finish a whole task by just going from one little sub-task to another, without ever looking at it from a whole-task perspective. Just keep doing one more little bit next and eventually you’ll be done.
not really, because they describe and talk about different things about a person
MBTI focuses on the sort of functions for how you take in, or use or process information, its more of a, how your brain currently likes to do things described as different functions like introverted sensing, or introverted feeling, or extroverted sensing, or extroverted thinking and etc in different orders, combinations and pairs, its how you think about and view things, which sounds like it could be connected to classpect on the surface
but the difference lies in this: MBTI can change over time as your functions grow and develop, and even your type may change over time based on how you grow and develop these 8 different functions and how you use them the best, or which pairs or ‘loops’ you use more, but its based always on your current form of what you are now
Classpect is never really about the current self, a lot of people assume this tho which is where i think the association with MBTI comes from, but really Classpect is about what you WANT to become, rather than what you are currently
God tiering is supposed to be a journey of growth and discovery, and the god tier itself is like this end goal post that you want to achieve in the future that describes not just “you” but the best version of you, you at your greatest, achieving your best, being the best you that ever could be by achieving what you want to achieve out of life
so its more, MBTI is place you are currently in your journey, Classpect is the End Goal Post
so trying to decide a god tier based on the MBTI I think is not accurate way to do it, simply for the fact that they are describing different parts of a person that may or may not be the same
like, its not set in stone that who you are now is who you will want to be, in fact its more likely that who you are now wont be exactly like the person that you wish to become eventually (tho it can happen with people who’ve had their life together since kindergarten, and dont really have much of a journey of self discovery as a sidewalk of self discovery lol)
#your mbti type doesnt change lmao
it honestly can actually, because MBTI describes your way of doing things, your personality, and people’s personalities can in fact change over long periods of time, our brains have plasticity/we aren’t stagnant and etc
MBTI explains this though as you developing your different inferior functions, instead of just your dominant ones
heres the problem with that though: there are 16 types based on the order of only 4 out of 8 functions, some types share all of the same functions, but simply in a different order of strength, so what happens when for example an INTJ who has (Ni> Te> Fi> Se) and happens to develop/change/grow over time so that their Se is stronger than their Fe? or their Fi stronger than their Ni? and now their order of functions is Fi > Se > Ni > Te? which is the order of functions for an ISFP?
Did they develop fully as an INTJ? or did they become an ISFP? are you doomed to be forever immature and unable to grow with inferior functions or can you change your type over time? how can you tell them apart if an already fully developed person takes an MBTI test? How can you determine the difference based only on their behavior alone? you can’t, you have to use some sort of measurable data
which brings up the other problem that nobody really brings up, which is that none of MBTI is based on any sort of observable real world data based on any of the functions, theres no actual data, theres no brains scans showing clearly that “this brain is a sensor vs an intuitor” you cannot tell because it isnt grounded in the physical reality of the brain, unlike mental illness or conditions of the brain, or things like sociopathy, which you can actaually see physical differences in the brains that reflect the observable differences
Instead Its all based on a person’s personal observations of people’s behavior and theorized classifications of behaviours, its all purely outside observations, no internal data. Its a theoretical framework that has yet to be proven, or connected to physical reality
I’m 5’4" which is pretty average but when I’m with someone who is 5’2 i feel like a giant. It’s only 2 inches but I’m suddenly like “Here, let me reach that for you,” even if I have to atand on my tiptoes and pull a muscle to get it.
5’4” is so tall to me. I’m down here looking up at taller people like “is the air thinner up there? can you see forever? will you please grab me that box from the not-unreasonably-high-but-too-tall-for-me cupboard?”
It’s really not that tall though. I see it as just tall enough to not be inconvenienced constantly but a step stool is still an essential part of my kitchen even if I set it up myself so that nothing I use daily is on those stupid higher shelves. And it means putting things as close as possible to the front of the higher shelves. I remember standing on my step stool once, looking into that useless cabinet above the stove, and being like. Oh so this is what it’s like to be 6 feet tall. You can just, see the back of cabinets.
Seriously though people 5’ and under make me feel like Brienne of Tarth. I bet actual tall people can see the tops of your heads.
….I go between 4’11.75" and 5’.
I feel so called out right now
Such smol beans in this world.
5′4, to me, is tiny. Those are the people who call me away from my books to get things from the second shelf of the cabinet. I was that height in fourth grade, iirc. It was when my mother and I were eye-to-eye.
Now I am 5′11 and the saddest thing is that I can’t wear high heels. I always loved wearing heels, the higher the better. Four inches was always my preference. It makes people uncomfortable (psychologically and physically) to look at a 6′3 woman, so I have to go without my beloved shoes.
My smols, you can always put on super cute heels!
1) I’M GONNA FIGHT YOU
2) WEAR ALL THE HEELS, I AM V V IN AWE OF TALL LADIES
3) no really please wear heels to compensate for the fact that I live in flats and sneakers and the occasional boot
As the ancients have said, “Cum manibus super caput suum inguen dentes aequantur.”*
just moving along like everyone else 