#compared to the animal kingdom

[gummi-ships]

#kingdom hearts 2 #kh2 #nobodies #twilight thorn #dusk #creeper #dragoon #assassin #samurai #sniper #dancer #berserker #gambler #sorcerer #my gif #nobodies are my favorite video game enemies #i'm obsessed with how they're animated it feels so alien and unnatural #their idle animations are pretty tame compared to how they behave in battle. maybe aside from that last gif. just look at it #but they're constantly distorting their bodies creating unnatural poses altering their heights and proportions and defying gravity #there's a lot i could say about each individual one but i wont because i'd write an essay in the tags #i actually attempted to but it got WAY too long so i deleted it just know i am passionate...

[macaroniismile]

his animations r so cute :)) esp his salute

#i love how fluent his animation is compared to many other cookies #captain caviar cookie #cookie run kingdom #cookie run

[peacefullyraging]

#propaganda #dehumanizing language #dehumanizing Palestinians #dehumanizing the Middle East #comparing the Middle East to bugs #comparing the Middle East to insects #how the Middle East is like the animal kingdom #thomas friedman #joe biden #genocide Joe #free gaza #Free Palestine #Free the whole Middle East from America

[why-bless-your-heart]

ohhhh Greatest Of All Time.

#I just thought we were comparing them favorably to an impressive member of the animal kingdom.

[verm1c1de]

He's drinking What

What is his fucking problem???

caffeine is bad fur bugs

#a lot of the things humans can consume is apeshit compared to the rest of the animal kingdom #peppurrs are spicy.... to kill things #ask #vermi.txt #animatorfun

[spectrearia]

hhh found some photos of old disney trips from several years back and it just made me really sad that the parks are nothing like what they were back then anymore. i still feel like it was probably best in the 90s and early 2000s (from what i've seen in videos documenting that time frame, and from the few trips my fam went on as well), but i ended up visiting more often in the 2010s and i still really enjoyed it;;

i miss walking around and just drinking in the atmosphere and theming honestly. sucks that its a mess now and you're paying so dang much for lackluster quality and there's no room for spontaneous flexibility within your visit because of the stupid genie+ app and insane wait times for Everything. the fact that there's no real "off season" anymore because it's Always Busy is a terrible reality as well. *sigh*

#nothing compares to the atmosphere of the disney parks and thats what makes it so sad that it's changed a lot #i've also heard that cleanliness has degraded a lot as well #which isn't . good. #never been big on most universal IPs #so that park never interested me cuz i have no attachment to anything offered within it #but i have been a few times since i stopped going to disney and i did enjoy it; mostly just the islands of adventure #but even still i do miss wandering around epcot and animal kingdom the most :'c #universal doesn't really come close to that but hopefully the new epic universe will prove to be better than where disney's at now #anyway . i just got hit with a wave of nostalgia for a time that can't ever be replicated again i guess #i'm glad i could enjoy those trips while i could tho #spectre says #(not letting anyone reblog this because i dont want to accidentally start any Discourse lol) #OK WAIT CORRECTION. #universal's portofino hotel is absolutely GORGEOUS and i genuinely loved it so so much #and volcano bay was really fun and immersive too; mega props to them for that one #so universal does have some offerings that i really liked!!! #but as a whole i just like some of the theming of the disney parks better; mostly the stuff that doesn't rely on existing IP

[never-forget-viva-la-pluto]

A lion's roar doesn't even seem like a roar it sounds like the big cat version of coughing up a hairball. Their stomachs even move like they are trying to heave. XD

#big cats #lions #comparing my little mister to the wild cats of africa is funny to me #i mean cats dont usually meow in the wild #the meowing they do for us #they dont communicate with roars really either unless you count caterwauling #but big cats are all so different from each other #they probably have different rules #and wild cats are different than a zoo animal that was raised by humans #which is where all my big cat experiences are and the animal kingdom is already so gd weird that at this point i think anything is possible #any cat experts out there know why they are so weird when they roar compared to other cats

[mirror-to-the-past]

Okay, now I've finished-finished KH2, and like... I don't have *terribly* much to add (post-mortem edit: lie), since I was pretty much on the brink of the final battle when I last posted about the game, but DAMN. That was actually really sweet/heartwarming.

First off, holy SHIT that final battle was movie-like as all hell. The choreographed action and reaction commands... woah. I was such a dumbass during multiple Xemnas phases, though, it was a wonder I beat him first try. Buckle up for my dumbass endeavors, it's a trip.

That part where you're flying to his little throne thing and he's tossing buildings at you was fun, because I kept launching myself against his fucking barrier and getting repelled/damaged and Xemnas was all "why do you despise the void," over and over again. I was so confused, but just... kept trying like a bullheaded idiot until my health was nose-diving and Riku started healing Sora. Cue me screaming into the void like "WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?" Started playing Marco-Polo when Riku would say "Sora!" every time his health dropped, and eventually found him on a building at the bottom of the map I was supposed to fling at Xemnas apparently? 😂

Two other cringe-fails on my end... when Xemnas was tasering Sora and you briefly shift into Riku to complete mission 'Save His Guy,' I was beating the decoy Xemnas to death like "DON'T WORRY SORA, I'VE GOT YOU," only to realize right before Sora bit the dust that you were supposed to walk up to the other Xemnas actively doing the electrocution and just... y'know... tap the reaction command. I'm sensing a common theme here...

And to top it off, on that scene that would Otherwise Be Really Cool where Sora and Riku are meant to deflect the lasers from Xemnas, I must've missed my chance for the reaction command, and it was really fucking hilarious to watch actually, because you have the action movie sweeping spiral shot, where Riku's Understood The Instructions, leaping around and deflecting everything like a ninja, whereas Sora was utterly stunlocked, and just sort of... standing there... getting hit over and over again... it looked so pathetic, haha.

Anyway, actual plot aside from me being bad at the game, and by plot I mean Sora and Riku just being the heart and soul of the cracked out finale, apparently:

(Although shout-out to Roxas for making me feel all weepy just by saying "Look sharp," I'm eternally sad. Someone free him.)

I just... I don't even know where to start, guys. Riku being angsty, "How am I gonna face everyone?" only for Sora to go "Like this!" And make the goofiest little face to cheer Riku up, and it WORKED. That was just... I cooed, y'all.

These faces (I tracked down the GIF because I was just appalled the animators in a 2006 game had them make goo-goo eyes at each other, Sora looking away like that is what gets me):

Xemnas trying to pit them against each other in his boss fight, but you know it just wouldn't matter, because of *course* Sora trusts Riku, he can't imagine thinking otherwise, and of *course* Riku was jealous of Sora in some aspects (which was addressed later, wooo), but it didn't matter, because he just wanted to be able to be with Sora over any misgivings he might've had about his self image.

(Side Note: What in the Sam-Hill did Xemnas mean when he said there were falsehoods in their hearts? Excuse me? Will that be expanded upon? What are they denying??)

And like... they literally ended up trapped in KH Hell-equivalent, and they were just... fine?? with it?? Just completely zen on the beach (I can't help but find it interesting that the realm of darkness is a beach like Destiny Islands, and wonder if there's some light/dark parallels about the trio involving that), staring out at the water side by side, fully knowing they could just wither away there, but it was cool, because they were together. "I've got something you could never imitate too," (Which was being Riku's friend, godDAMN Sora you're gonna make me cry 😭) says Sora, just chilled out as all hell.

For further laughs, in the post credits scene where and Riku and Sora were sitting on the Paopu tree, and Sora was like 'where'd the door to light come from?' and I was all excited like a kid paying attention in class or something "Kairi Princess of Heart ex-machina, she and her letter must have been tied to-" and then Riku poked at Sora's heart and was like "From here 😌 It's closer than you think," and then I'm over here, being a vaguely disappointed nerd, like "Oh, no lore. Just... Riku saying Sora is filled with light. They're just... still having a moment. That's fine." (And they were just looking and smiling at each other while the camera was focused on their faces, which is completely interrupted by Kairi running up, pfft- bless her for the tonal whiplash)

Edit: I also loved that credits clip of Sora walking through the secret hideout cave and running his hands along the drawings, you could see his eyes combing over the memories, it was so touching. I loved when he found the drawing him and Kairi made, because I thought of that KH1 cutscene of them as small children carving it out, and you could *see* it in his eyes that Sora had a "Look where I am now," kind of moment. I will never stop screaming about the facial animations for these games.

Anyway that ended up being longer than I expected. The boys are back together and they're mushy. Kairi still has abandonment issues and they'll probably just get worse from here. Someone, somewhere curls up into a fetal position every time a KH villain gives another darkness/light monologue with the dumbest sounding lines known to man. Maleficent's entire subplot this game was just her house-hunting. Michael Mouse acts like a war veteran, and it would be hilarious if post-Ansem the Wise (I missed hearing your voice, Christopher Lee RIP) explosion he starts having survivor's guilt too. Roxas makes me want to cry, and Naminé does too. The mystery of Kairi's Keyblade has not been answered. Nobody has told Sora about Castle Oblivion even though Naminé was Right There. Next time... on Kingdom Hearts...

I wish I could caption this in the KH subtitle font but I'm too lazy to figure out how zip files work at this hour so here's comic sans

#extremely long post mb friends #I'm a bit sleep deprived #kingdom hearts #what's the ship name for the idiots #if i had a nickel for everytime I got way too invested in a wonderfully silly anime based media where the light haired emotionally reserved #best friend of the main protagonist proceeded to compare the protag to light #id have 2 nickels #*insert rest of the meme* #anyway yeah ship name... idk it could just be their limit break name #'Eternal Session' #'Eternal Session' of what bro- us enjoying spending our lives side by side as defenders of the universe? thats pretty ga-

[berrymeter]

animal cruelty in the food industry is a problem but i really wonder how much of animal cruelty content you can find & expose yourself to online is genuine & how much is staged or something taken out of context that makes everything seem worse than it might actually be. i'm sure some have witnessed genuinely heartbreaking things but also like. it's not a black & white matter at all yk. i wonder what "ara"s have been exposed to. maybe it's my bias bc i follow a dairy farmer who has cows who pretty blatantly live well & who likely would have things to say abt their workplace if it employed harmful methods to handle cattle but i just. i do think a decent chunk of it is exaggerated & peta has made so many things so much worse. playing into ppl's emotional & anthropomorphising animals to get sympathy for their cause. ironic considering how many "rescued" pets they've killed but anyway

#perth.txt #dont mind me im just. thinking abt things a friend said #i don't think treating animals as equals to humans on all aspects is at all reasonable #there's a reason why it's dehumanising to compare humans to animals #while humans are also part of the animal kingdom or w/e the fuck we are also incredibly different & it cannot be denied #i got distracted & los tmy thoughts maybe ill add more later bye

[dragontamer05]

When I ever I see or here ‘human’s aren’t animals’ I don’t know why but I just feel so weird

In that one hand I do get what is being said and what people generally mean by it- in that we/ our brains are more evolved then even our closes primate cousins, not only smarter but over all essentially just made/built different from any other animal that’s gotta survive based on instincts alone and all that.

There’s a reason we’re considered the dominant species after all.

However on the flip-side  it’s not exactly an accurate statement because for as different as we are from say the Gorilla’s in the jungle, or even the pets we keep- human’s by the very scientific definition are animals.

We are no less animals then a teeny tiny Water Bear- which has literally evolved in such a way that it can survive in conditions that would ordinarily kill even us humans, and microscopic or a Jellyfish which quite literally haven’t a single brain cell to their name.

And no I’m not saying go around and treat people the same way you’d treat a dog, or some animal you stumbled across in the forest, and I fully agree that because of how human’s have evolved there are many aspects of the human species that can’t be compared to the rest of the animal kingdom

But I just don’t fully agree with the idea of treating that difference as being because we’ve somehow evolved into something so far removed that we can’t even be called an animal anymore.

Instead of saying we aren’t animals maybe a better phrase to use could be ‘we are more then just animals.’ or ‘humans aren’t just wild animals’

Again I realize when people say this they don’t mean it literally (I certainly hope they don’t anyway) and is being used as a way to get across how different us humans are to any other creature but it just sounds weird, in that it’s not something we’d say about any other animal that’s evolved to be so different compared the rest of the animal kingdom (such as my Jellyfish and Waterbear example from earlier)

- On a side note I get very amused by this animal book that goes over a large number of creatures in the world (all broken up with reptiles/ amphibians/ birds/mammals ect) I have and I think if I recall its the very last page of the book - could be wrong- they actually have written up about humans

#I'm aware it's not being used in the literal sense but comparative #it doesn't even bother me that much but it's a weird little thing I can't help but think about from time to time #and just struggle not to want go 'but we are animals' and sound like some idiot #ramblings #and I am aware of how calling people animals or anything similar there of has been used in cruel ways #which frankly I think saying your treating someone like an animal says more on how we treat animals/view them #to compare like beign demeaning cruel treating without respect/ are stupid ect.. to the treatment of animals?? #like obviously even if you treat animals with the utmost respect as said don't treat people in the exact manner you would your pet dog #but i'd also hope for people not to treat animals as if their unintelligent and with out any care or respect #all animals including humans deserve to be treated in agood respectful manner that fits who/what they are #heck maybe if we stopped making such a hard divide bet ween us and the rest of the animal kingdom saying that humans are animals #would lose any power of being an insult / negative view eventually

[animalkingdom-an0nymous]

Season 6 has to be better than season 5 because ak5 was a fuckin dumpster fire

#animal kingdom #y’all know how much I love them #but season 5 was an absolute dud compared to 4 #ak6 has to be better #it WILL be better #ak #ak6

[avian-hearts]

[to the tune of the official cr song “i want you everyday”] I MISS YOU EVERYDAY........... I MISS HAVING YOU IN MY LIFE,

#caw caw #01; cinnamon powder #iirc this image was from when cream puff was getting released to kingdom? #and like. speaking of kingdom i have a lot of thoughts about what cinnamon would be like if he was there too #i won't say all of them rn but the winning animation for example would be!!!! him turning his wand into a rose! #and holding it in is mouth. just like in puzzleworld <3 #even though i don't talk about him that often compared to my other cr f/os; he is still so Special to me..............

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

why do people still treat men and women like two different species when human sexual dimorphism is, when compared to the rest of the animal kingdom, fucking miniscule. we don't even have differently colored plumage

#my post #text post #my ramblings #50 #100 #200 #500 #1000 #2000

[novalizinpeace]

Have been a time since i had made a full post for the cartoon critters, so time to give them some love

I present to you... The Smiling Critters's Family Tree

1- Dogday & Catnap - Queen Gaia

''Everybody call her your highness, but for us, mom is just mom''

Her introduction in the cartoon is a surprise for everybody, since nobody knew Catnap & Dogday were actually sibling (even when the two refer to the other as brother, they thought it was a best friend thing), even less knew they were princes! Queen Gaia is a calm, motherly figure, but after lost her husband in a war with another kingdom, she decide to hide her two babies from the public, and when they became old enough to have a pendant, let them live with their people in hope to teach them to overcome their weakness (arrogance in Catnap and cowardice in Dogday). Her original pendant was able to move both the sun and the moon, but she divide it to let her sons the responsability (the one she have now is a fake one, something important for the season finale of the cartoon)

2-Picky & Kickin - Mr. Piggy

''Our dad is the best!'' ''No comparation needed!''

Mr. Piggy isn't a recurrent character in the cartoon, making his debut in Kickin's birthday just to tell the story of how he found a egg with legs running around his farm (all the episode is basically a retell of the poor pigman trying to catch the egg while also having her daughter in his back). He's a good apple, loving dad that enjoy spend time with his kids, been cooking something with Picky (he teach her about healthy ingredients) or going fishing with Kickin (is the only calm activity Kickin can do without get bored). The Apple pendant was originally his, while the star pendant was found by the own Kickin.

3- Bubba - Mr. and Mrs Tiny

''I'm just... A tiny Bubbaphant''

The stork made a mistake, and Bubba end up with two parents that only shared with him the big ears, but not for this the Tiny couple stop loving their son, nor Bubba stop looking at his parents as the best he could have. Their debut is subtle, and they don't have a lot of relevance in the cartoon, but is funny to see them from time to time over Bubba's head in a event.

4- Bobby - The Bearhug Family

''Don't worry! They don't bite, i teach them not to''

Yep, Bobby come from a ''wild'' family. Their debut episode talk about the differences between a ''critter'' and a ''wild'' (basically, any real animal is a wild in this cartoon), been the whole episode a explication of how Bobby become the critter she's now (and how she got her pendant).

5-Hoppy - The Hopscotch sibling

''We're a team! A team that hops together stay together!''

There's no a debut of Hoppy's parents, but it's implied that they're still alive, just really busy. Meanwhile, her sibling show up from time to time, been as background characters, or with their our episode, been two: one where Hoppy is wants to participate in a sibling deportive event and can't find the perfect harmony with any of her sibling ('cause none of them are as sporty as her), and one where she need to babysit Huppy, but the lil' troublemaker end up causing troubles for all the critters. In the sibling event it explain that Hoppy got her pendant from her big sister, 'cause she wasn't able to control the power like it was suppose to.

6-Craftycorn - King Canvas

''I... had never been enough for him...''

No showing his full design yet, but only leaving something clear: he's a villain, having his debut in the season finale, but there's mentions of him around all the cartoon, incluying the implication of him killing Queen Gaia's husband. Craftycorn isn't a big fan of her dad.

#poppy playtime #smiling critters oc #smiling critters #dogday #catnap #picky piggy #kickin chicken #bobby bearhug #bubba bubbaphant #hoppy hopscotch #craftycorn #family tree #character study #nova say

[mod2amaryllis]

wish was not good. i went cuz the animation looked fresh and pretty in the trailers and frankly my hopes were reignited with encanto. but it wasn't good. go see the holdovers instead.

i feel so little about it i almost don't care to give details lmao but it was basically 90 minutes of winks and nudges to previous disney properties. particularly insulting was the final shot showing a mickey mouse firework as we are literally winked at. a whole kingdom of characters i know nothing about and am expected to root for. even the animation style, the whole reason i gave it a shot, felt bland and flat after a while, like boring environments, too clean, idk how to really explain it, and again I'm comparing it mainly to encanto with its sublime colors and variety. the villain was hot i guess, which i expect will be this website's top priority. his song was fine.

i guess the only redeeming thing i can say is that the main message of "one person having all the power is bad" is a good message for kids. but watching it as an adult, the dissonance between that and the ever present shadow of Disney saying "but WE'RE not bad :-) WE grant your wishes! ^^" was impossible to ignore.

this critic summed it up better than i ever could.

#time for a palette cleanser #wish #m2a

[dinodorks]

[ Argentinosaurus, a giant sauropod, illustrated by Chase Stone. ]

"Of all the animals ever to have roamed the planet, the iconic long-necked, long-tailed dinosaurs known as sauropods stand unrivaled. No other terrestrial creatures have come close to attaining their colossal sizes. They overshadowed all other dinosaurs, from the duck-billed hadrosaurs and the horned ceratopsians to the armored ankylosaurs and predatory tyrannosaurs. Even the mightiest land mammals—mammoths and rhinoceroslike beasts that were up to twice as heavy as the largest elephants alive today—were featherweights compared with the biggest sauropods. From an evolutionary perspective, this singularity makes sauropods an intriguing anomaly. Evolution is rampant with examples of convergence, in which the same feature evolves more than once independently in different groups of organisms. A classic example of convergence is powered flight—flapping wings evolved in birds, bats, pterosaurs and insects, but the particular bones or other structures making up the wings differ among the groups, attesting to their independent evolutionary origins. Convergence in evolution is very common even when it comes to complicated features: warm-bloodedness, eyes that can move and focus, bipedal locomotion, the loss of limbs, the use of tools, and live birth all evolved multiple times in different animal groups. Convergence is widespread in the plant kingdom as well: carnivorous plants evolved at least a dozen times, roots evolved more than once, and even arborescence—plants taking the form of trees—evolved more than once. With convergence so common in nature, sauropods' uniqueness in size is special in itself. No other land animal has approached even a third of the largest sauropods' weight. What makes sauropods stand out from the crowd, both literally and figuratively?"

Read more: "How Sauropod Dinosaurs Became the Biggest Land Animals Again and Again" by Michael D. D'Emic.

#palaeoblr #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Sauropods #Dinosaurs #Art #Article #Argentinosaurus #Cretaceous #Mesozoic #Prehistoric #Extinct