Dragons are basically fish, when you get down to it.
There’s no such thing as fish. The word doesn’t have any taxonomic meaning. It’s a word we’ve used to describe everything from hagfish to goldfish, even though a coelacanth is more closely related to a camel than a salmon. But because they inhabit the same ecological niche of “vertebrate animal with gills and fins,” we call them all fish.
Likewise, there’s no such thing as dragons. We call anything that fills the mytho-ecological niche of “dangerous animal that blocks the way” a dragon. And that’s why any kind of argument of what does and doesn’t count as a dragon is moot — wyverns are dragons just as much as a jabberwock or a jaculus or a tatzelwurm, not because they’re closely related in a biological clade but because they fill a narrative niche.
Dragons are also lobsters, but that’s for unrelated reasons.
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Because of it's theropod-like anatomy, but often being depicted with more than 3 digits per limb; do you think a Wyvern would be a dinosaur? Or would it be a case of convergent evolution from an Archosaur, or another more modern branch of reptile?
I’d kind of lean towards them evolving from similar branches to Yi Qi, a cool little critter with very different wings that looks like evolution scrapped that design after the second draft.
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They’re not bat wings. They’re not bird wings. They’re something all of their own.
I’m sorely tempted to call them proto-dragon wings.
So I’d like to think this little dude is the way-back ancestor for wyverns, and perhaps in another timeline it would have worked out. Still some significant modifications required, but it’s a good base to start from.
Not a question but still: I love to headcannon Lucy as aromantic and she pours all the love/emotions she can't/doesn't feel romanticly into Narnia and it's inhabitants
ooooh neat thought!!! i don’t think i’ve seen aro lucy before :D
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aro culture is being really interested in lockpicking. not necessarily for nefarious purposes, it just seems cool because it's a neat puzzle
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Well, we'll see...
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*tucks you in with fuzzy blanket* *pats your head*
You’ll be okay, friend <3
Faen i forbanna kuksugende helvete, for noe jælva dritt.
Do you wanna learn how to say “fuck in damned cocksucking hell, this is some fucking shit” and more like this in Norwegian? Well, you’re in luck because that’s exactly what I spent a good two hours of my life explaining to you guys.
Also let me know if you have any questions, I’m more than happy to answer!
m, f, nt. = masculine, feminine or neutral nouns
Faen
The equivalent to fuck. If you stubbed your toe in a table corner, this is what you will yell out in pained frustration. After years of being a swear word it has lost it’s meaning but it’s original meaning comes from fanden, which means the devil. Additional fact: In Denmark they’ll still yell fanden instead of faen.
A lot of expressions are tied to faen. Here are some examples:
Faen ta deg. (Fuck you.) Fy faen! (Fuck, but emphasized.) Faen i helvete. (Fuck in hell. Again, for emphasis.) Stygg som faen. (Ugly as fuck.) Jeg gir faen. (I don’t give a fuck.) Gi faen. (Knock it off.) … for faen.* ( … for fuck’s sake.)
*Can’t be used alone, you have to fill inn the dots with something else. Usually used when you’re saying something that may contradict what has just been said. Han er jo fæl, for faen / But he’s terrible, for fuck’s sake.
Satan og helvete
Helvete: means hell, we use this all the time. Additional fact: Many of you might know of the town in Norway called Hell and how it’s so far north that during the winter, Hell may freeze over. But the word “hell” in Norwegian means luck. Do whatever you like with this information.
Satan: You’ll yell this out the same way you’ll yell out fuck, but it doesn’t have the same dynamic as faen. You may use it as an adjective, however. For emphasis, add svarte at the end.
Satan helvetes fitte! Satan svarte!
Jævla, forbanna og jævel
Jævla is an adjective, kind of like “fucking”, except it can’t be used alone, then you’re not making sense.
You can use forbanna in two ways: (1) wherever you can use jævla. It’s an adjective, and it describes something cursed. You can also combine forbanna and jævla if you’re really pissed off! (2) to let people know that you or another person is pissed off. Basically, you ARE forbanna. Usually you add an adverb such as these in front: “fly”, “skikkelig” or “helt” forbanna. “Fly” is exclusively used for forbanna.
Jævla/forbanna idiot. (Fucking idiot.) Hun ble fly forbanna når hun så meg. (She got really pissed off when she saw me.)
Jævel is a noun (m) and means devil. It’s an insult, usually expresses dislike OR someone being mischievous.
Han er en forbanna liten jævel. (He’s a little fucking bastard.)
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