heebee

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heebee@beltsquid· 6d

It's hard for me to choose because I love Every theropod but I will go with Dromeosaurus because for no particularly good reason its skull reminds me of a dog. Basic, but my favorite specimen is the Berlin Archaeopteyrx

Skull of Dromeosaurus albertensis, which you can think of as Velociraptor's Canadian cousin. Thicker, more robust skull than Velociraptor. In no way resembles a dog.

The iconic fossil of Archaeopteryx lithographica. A fragile bird-like skeleton is fringed with feather impressions. It is an angel to me.

heebee@beltsquid· 9d

Damn I can't believe Ray Bradbury predicted soft rains for Solano County in August. What a hack

Screenshot of the weather outlook for Solano County for the week of August 4, 2026. Predicts sunshine and temperatures in the high 90s to low hundreds. The short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury takes place in Allendale, California, which is located in Solano County, on August 4, 2026.

heebee@beltsquid· 29d

Pastel drawing of a red-haired witch holding a potted plant by the artist megaelod. Infamous for being attached to a tweet where a creative director expressed dissatisfaction with the video game Disco Elysium for it's dark themes and wished that she could could make a game like it with the same deep narrative systems, but about 'a young witch in the alps searching for her lost cat.'

heebee@beltsquid· Jul 8

Out at the hospital having the time of my life with Mitch McConnell. He's all just out of frame, laughing too

Nathan fielder laughing against a brick wall

heebee@beltsquid· Jun 24

Berserk yuri, you say

Panel from the manga Berserk. Farnese has her arm wrapped around Casca and is saying "It was nothing."

heebee@beltsquid· Jun 23

Archival footage of Bungie leadership

Robot hammering a sign into the dirt with its own hand. Sign reads "NO FUN ALLOWED"

heebee@beltsquid· Jun 8

Damn, the "[thing I like] is dying because everything is too woke and gay these days" crank is eternal

“How To Write A Thriller,” by Ian Fleming (1963)

The craft of writing sophisticated thrillers is almost dead. Writers seem to be ashamed of inventing heroes who are white, villains who are black, and heroines who are a delicate shade of pink.

I am not an angry young, or even middle-aged, man. I am not “involved.” My books are not “engaged.” I have no message for suffering humanity and, though I was bullied at school and lost my virginity like so many of us used to do in the old days, I have never been tempted to foist these and other harrowing personal experiences on the public. My opuscula do not aim at changing people or making them go out and do something. They are written for warm-blooded heterosexuals in railway trains, airplanes and beds.

heebee@beltsquid· Jun 7

heebee@beltsquid· May 22

Seems to be working great

A desolate planet floats in front of a starfield. The title text reads: "Did You Know Master Chief's Suit Jerks Him Off?"

A space station wheels through the darkness of the void. The title text reads: "Did You Know Master Chief's Suit Jerks Him Off?"

The Starship Enterprise flies beside a planet. The title text reads: "Did You Know Master Chief's Suit Jerks Him Off?"

The USS Enterprise (TNG style) glides in front of a planet. The title text reads: "Did You Know Master Chief's Suit Jerks Him Off?"

heebee@beltsquid· May 21

They're literally quoting an article from Variety. It's in the post graphic.

The words "VIA: VARIETY" circled in yellow

heebee@beltsquid· Apr 27

It was real easy to make me reread a book compulsively as a tween so long as it was about a Cool Mythical Creature

Cover for the book "The Black Gryphon" by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon. Features a drawing of a black gryphon holding a blue orb and wearing a fancy necklace of jewels and pearls.

Cover for "The White Dragon" by Anne McCaffrey. Features a man riding a white dragon which is perched on a rocky cliffside. Three small green dragonets roughly the size of ravens surround him.

heebee@beltsquid· Apr 16

I mean i have a rotating list of favorite theropods (Dromeosaurus, Deinocheirus, Yutyrannus) but I feel this situation is the result of a failure of scicomm because you would think that Psittacosaurus would run away with it on account of the cuteness

Scale drawing showing the silhouette of a 6ft tall man in comparison to a silhouette of Psittacosaurus mongoliensis. The dinosaur is roughly the size of a medium sized dog and has a parrot-like face and a bushy tail

Photos of a model of Psittacosaurus mongoliensis based on a well-preserved fossil specimen. The dinosaur is small, bipedal, and has big round eyes and two spikes coming off its cheeks. It is scaled but features tall bristles along its tail. Feather-like features aren't just for the direct bird relatives!

heebee@beltsquid· Apr 13

why do publishers do this why do they replace banger covers with clipart dogshit

Image of Michael Whelan's cover for Anne McCaffrey's novel "Dragonflight." It is an acrylic painting of a woman riding on a golden dragon through a green sky. It is highly rendered with light and shadow in contrast to the one in the quoted post, which is a lifeless stylized image of a golden dragon with some green swirls behind it. I understand I am writing this for a hypothetical audience that is visually impaired so you will have to trust me that the Michael Whelan art rules and the clip art sucks ass.

Also like if you're into horny dragon books this one is literally the blueprint. Also the dragons are psychic aliens.

heebee@beltsquid· Apr 13

This grid is somewhat misleading because I didn't really have a slot for Mass Effect, wasn't good at Bayonetta, and Destiny 1&2 are there mostly because they're the only multiplayer games I've recently played.

heebee@beltsquid· Apr 9

Certainly seems like as long as you're a) a man who is 2) looking to kill his female partner, if you add the magic ingredient of "hiking" you can get that demoted from murder to manslaughter guaranteed

Screenshot from the linked AP article. Text reads: "Konig had planned to kill his wife, Arielle Konig, during a weekend trip to Honolulu for her birthday in March 2025, prosecutors said. They said he tried to push her off a cliff and stab her with a syringe, and then struck her with a rock before the attack was interrupted by two hikers who heard her cries for help."

heebee@beltsquid· Mar 8

Have we considered that maybe possibly these people on TikTok are playing this up for views. Like, I'm pretty sure native English speakers can understand the blisteringly difficult sentence "she went to the store" as easily as "I went to the store."

Screenshot from the Slate article which reads: "lsewhere on BookTok, readers mourn their own self-diagnosed ineptitude; they’d like to savor the richness of third person, they say, but, for whatever reason, are unable to wrap their minds around the vantage point. “I feel like I don’t know how to read!” said one exasperated TikTokker, bemoaning the all-seeing narrator pervading two books she couldn’t quite grok. “I can’t do it. I tried. It does not work for me.”"

heebee@beltsquid· Feb 4

Love the preemptive "no, no this isn't a mistake, shut up" from the devs. Lmao, sure guys

"Keller added that, to him, this “isn’t an admission of a mistake,” but rather a commitment to Overwatch’s future as a PvP game that can integrate its narrative in the form of annual events through animated shorts, comics, audio dramas, and other media, rather than the originally planned PvE story missions that were meant to be a pillar of the sequel."

heebee@beltsquid· Jan 12

The American, which is frankly a pretty boring name for a river

heebee@beltsquid· Jan 1

The way this issue of National Geographic set my brain on fire

Painting by John Gurche. Two Allosaurs pursue a herd of Ultrasaurs.

heebee@beltsquid· Dec 12

heebee@beltsquid· Dec 5

Congrats Crunchy Roll, you have become AnimeJunkies Fansubs.

Screenshot from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, as fansubbed by the group Anime Junkies in 2002. The inaccurate subtitle reads "Are you aware of the frequent occurences of the mass naked child events within the country?"

heebee@beltsquid· Nov 7

The Amazon Mass Effect TV show is NOT going to be about Shepard

Woman holding a boba tea and looking to the sky withe a tight smile on her face. Caption reads "Girl who is 'going to be okay'"

heebee@beltsquid· Sep 14

This exact discourse came up on tumblr and tumblr user astralcafe drew this about the discussion:

Loose drawing of Zidane and Steiner from FFIX. Zidane is mad about the meta and Steiner is distraught that Vivi is being turned into soup

heebee@beltsquid· Sep 6

Your favorite dragon designs in media! Falkor from Neverending Story, Rankin/Bass' version of Smaug, Michael Whelan's take on Pern's dragons, and Vaal Hazak from Monster Hunter: World.

Image of Falkor from the film adaptation of The Neverending Story. He is elongated and lacks wings like an Asian dragon and has a doglike face and fur intermingled with scales.

Smaug from Rankin/Bass's animated adaptation of The Hobbit. He features a catlike face with a serpent's fangs and tongue.

Michael Whelan's cover for Anne McCaffrey's novel "All the Weyrs of Pern." The image prominently features a white dragon with leatherlike skin and its eyes are compound eyes like an insect's.

Render of Vaal Hazak from Monster Hunter: World. A dragon that is draped in rotting flesh and has a face that resembles that of a deep-sea fish.

heebee@beltsquid· Aug 31

If you see this, QTP with your favorite Princess Zelda! (Wrong answers only)

illustration of Deedlit from Record of Lodoss War wearing a white peasant dress and eating grapes

heebee@beltsquid· Aug 16

I can't wait for Ace Attorney 7's new lawyer gimmick to be "checking court documents to see if a human wrote them or not"

Screenshot from the linked article which reads:
"Per The Guardian, the prosecution didn't double-check the accuracy of the defense's references, which caused them to draw up arguments based on AI-fabricated misinformation. It was the judge who finally noticed that something was amiss, and when the defense was confronted about the wild array of mistakes in court, they admitted to using generative AI to whip up the documents.

Worse yet, that wasn't even the end of the defense's inadmissible behavior. As The Guardian explains, the defense re-submitted purportedly revised documents — only for those documents to include more AI-generated errors, including completely nonexistent laws."

heebee@beltsquid· Aug 12

Probably "My Teacher is an Alien" by Bruce Coville and "The Bank Street Book of Fantasy" which is an anthology of short stories adapted into comics and actually features a couple of sci-fi ones.

Cover for "My Teacher is an Alien" by Bruce Coville. A green alien is taking off a human-shaped mask while two children crouch outside the classroom window in shock.

Cover for "The Bank Street book of Fantasy." Shows a woman riding a horse which is rearing up in front of a dragon.

heebee@beltsquid· Jun 6

Screenshot of Toadette saying "Hey, looks like my entire construction crew is SLACKING OFF up there! I blame the union."

heebee@beltsquid· Jun 6

Clown makeup has been reapplied. I'm ready for Geoff to disappoint me

Screenshot of Brian David Gilbert. Subtitle reads "But isn't that we want, as gamers? To be disappointed?"

heebee@beltsquid· May 22

The Metal Gear Solid series loves nothing more than nuclear war, long cutscenes, and the male ass