I truly am obsessed with how Knives Out was like. Hello Daniel Craig, man who has spent the past two decades of his career being alternately beaten up and objectified playing an action hero with no personality. Would you like to please put on a shirt and an incomprehensible vaguely Texan accent and flex your character acting dark comedy muscles as well as your pecs for a while. And he's like BOY WOULD I and they made a work of art. Also love that they put Chris Evans in sweaters. Get your beefcakes then dress them nice make them soft and give them some bonkers character work to do it's what cinema needs more of

I love that several people have responded to this with "op I forgive you cause you're Scottish but that's not a Texan accent" which is fair thank you I appreciate it but no two people have agreed on what accent it is which is also Absolutely fair and hilarious as a reaction to this film

Cannot stress enough that I do not know what the fuck a foghorn leghorn is but literally a hundred people have said it to me so far so I'm assuming it's important to, like, Americans

The idea that Foghorn Leghorn,

The Rhode Island rooster from Looney Toons, is one of the Elder Gods of America, is honestly fascinating from a theological and folkloric viewpoint

Pardon me, but he is a LEGHORN, not a RIR. It’s in his NAME. Leghorns are an Italian breed. And yes, he is an elder god.

According to Foghorn's Tvtropes page:

Presumably, it's less that Foghorn Leghorn is a Rhode Island Rooster and more that he's a Rooster who lives in Rhode Island, possibly a Central Virginian Leghorn Rooster living in Rhode Island, though that implies a complicated and interesting life story that took him from Central Virginia all the way to Rhode Island

I would not rely on TV Tropes as an unbiased source. Wikipedia simple says his species is officially “rooster” and mentions a Leghorn being a breed of chicken. TV Tropes probably thinks the Cornflakes chicken is a RIR too.

I am potentially willing to concede he is a “barnyard mix” (cross between breeds) and his father, Harold Leghorn, was a leghorn and his unnamed mother was a RIR or other dark variety.

I love this site.

Sometimes it’s 1:30 am and you own chickens and you’re drinking whiskey in the bath tub and accuracy about iconic fictional chickens is the hill to die on, ok, and that’s why I love Tumblr. 

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Coelacanth fish are considered to be living fossils, meaning they exist in pretty much exactly the same form as they did millions of years ago.

But if you went back in time and brought a coelacanth fish from 100 million years ago to the present day and introduced it to a modern coelacanth fish, they would not be able to breed, because even if the visible form of the animal has not changed, its DNA is nonetheless so different as to be incompatible.

Over millions of years, mutations accumulate in the genetic code, inevitably changing it. Thus it is impossible for a creature to stop evolving. This makes sense but it makes me really existential for some reason

Well , I mean likely can’t breed but but there is the rare possibilities:

The sturddlefish is a hybrid of the American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) and the Russian sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii), accidentally created by researchers in 2019 and announced in 2020.[2] Obtaining living hybrids through breeding individuals from different families is unusual, especially given that the two species' last common ancestor lived 184 million years ago.[3]

Taxonomy and genetics agains says “eff your rules”

Well that sure is something!

So something interesting I learned during my brief stint as a geneticist is that things that "look" similar to extinct taxa on the outside often have undergone WAY more genetic changes than things that look visibly different

This is because the traits self correct. Genetic drift is always happening, and life is always changing. So, if a population experiences such strong selection that they need to stay the same, they need to correct that with just as many mutations as those that happen to make them drift away.

So, in many ways, "living fossil" could not be a more misleading term. We talk about coelacanths, sharks, crocodilians not evolving for millions of years, but in many ways... they're evolving more than the rest of us, just so they can stay the same.

And that's the coolest shit I've ever learned

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Older adult seeing you for the first time in a while: "wow! Hey! I hate your hair and clothing choices! How are you doing?"

Woo Brain: "My home is haunted"

Rational Brain: "Most ghost phenomena is explained by infrasound and carbon monoxide leaks"

Wizard Brain: "Ghosts are made of infrasound and carbon monoxide."

"you only deserve food and shelter if you contribute to society" says people living in countries where nobody's labor actually feeds or benefits their neighbors anymore but exclusively benefits the companies keeping the food and shelter behind the artificial paywalls

You're not nomads relying on each other to hunt and gather anymore, you're talking about stocking shelves for fucking wal marts

And even the oldest societies on earth all took care of the elderly or sick anyway

dudes will be like "if you don't Contribute To Society you don't get to live, that's the simple facts" meanwhile their job is like Marketing and Brand Development Specialist

what is the lamest thing that ever genuinely scared you like either as a kid or adult. i got scared of those halloween cartoon scooby doo ass eye stickers ppl put on mirrors when i was 9 and screamed so hard i fainted

you are an R L Stein protagonist my friend