I Am Forever A Fan Of Mass Extinctions As A Form Of Eldritch Horror. This Asteroid Was Taller Than Mount

I am forever a fan of mass extinctions as a form of eldritch horror. This asteroid was taller than Mount Everest. It was a mountain falling from the heavens at fifty-eight times the speed of sound. Everything that witnessed the moment it touched the ground would have been obliterated nigh-instantly. And the ones that didn't had no way to understand why winter had come so soon, or why the sun had stopped rising. It was the end of the world. Out of every four species on the planet when it began, only one made it to the other side.

How has this not been used for horror yet?

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Haven't drawn 2D art in a while. Bristolia insolens from the Lower Cambrian 520 million years ago😊

a little story about seeing the past through the present - featuring razorbill, who is the closest living relative of the great auk, a bird that became extinct not so long ago.

- Native to the Arctic and sub-Arctic region and once numbering millions of individuals, Great auks became extinct mid-19th century. The last breeding pair, found incubating an egg, was killed on 3 June 1844, on request from a merchant who wanted specimens, with Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangling the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashing the egg with his boot. The last individual was seen in 1852, leaving no hope that the species might be extant.

I'm trying to push "just" as a minimizer further out of my vocabulary, not to eliminate but to crack down on using it. I don't need to use it as often as I do, and then I'll poke around and see stuff like "it just happens to intersex people" or "intersexism is just an edge case" or other language along that lines, and that's kinda where I notice the word "just" has some claws deeper in my brain than I would like because it's super easy to roll with that. "Oh well that's fair it's just a little small amount." And that's just fucked up I think.

Cuz that sort of minimizing language has been around forever. Oh it's just intersex people, oh it's just trans people, oh it's just gay people, oh honestly, how much could that part of the population be, ten people? But it's always tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions however you cut it. Like you live in a small town, a thousand people, if intersex people are "just" one percent of the population, maybe ten people there might be intersex and you probably know one or two. You meet a hundred, a thousand people, more in your life, it means you probably met someone intersex or trans or queer or all of that. In a global population of seven billion people you can six degrees your way to famous actors Kevin Bacon and he's one guy. That "just" thing, that easy and agreeable minimizing sentiment, it's tricky and so I'm trying to make it a caution point. It's just language though, just one word that happens to be widely used by millions of people and which directs your brain to think a certain way because language is how we share our brains.

Anyway this is too long.

A Dromie doing the Fox thing.

I will cry if something similar like this is portrayed in Prehistoric Planet S3.

Baby albino changyuraptor spooked by her own reflection, realizing that she's not like her other siblings.