dear ficcers writing your first-ever sci-fi au:

jumpingjacktrash:

strictlyquadrilateral:

jumpingjacktrash:

occasionallyomniscient:

jumpingjacktrash:

you can’t have an ice age AND raised sea level. it’s one or the other. ice melts, sea rises. ice freezes, sea lowers. that’s how it works.

Is this a vague post about The Day After Tomorrow because same

it was a fic that was probably inspired by it. i was on board with the whole ‘little ice age that lasts about a thousand years after the 21st century’ thing based on implied bombing and other things that filled the atmo with particulates, but then they started going thru coastal landmarks that were now underwater and i just. no. you can’t. do that. it doesn’t. argh!

you want a nuclear winter in your future dystopia, go for it.

you want a greenhouse waterworld in your future dystopia, sure, hit it.

YOU CAN’T HAVE BOTH AT THE SAME TIME IT IS IMPOSSIBLE.

what if i build a huge wall through the equator so that i can melt ice on one side and it won’t flood the other

what then jesse

what then

every reply on this post: but what if i come up with a weird scenario no one’s ever written before so you can be wrong jesse

me:

Welcome to Japan

catchymemes:

Where cars are parked orderly and in reverse

Where fruits can be cubes

Where people keep left

And lamps have different brightness for double beds

People queue up in lines

Applies to stickers too

Where what you get is the same as the poster

you get waved goodbye..?

Relieving both mind and body

Yup.

Smooth train operator

No embarrassing knocking or barging into rooms to check out if they are occupied

When you need an extra hand

For the selfiestas

Brolly holders

Because normal manhole covers are too mainstream

Think diagonal

And anytime u need to soak your feet

Where you raise responsible adults, not brats

And luggage is organised in color codes

When you need help after the condom broke

Instant sanitary gratification

Why they are so welcome at football matches

Where water is that clean in the drains

Nuff said

Source: imgur.com

jumpingjacktrash:

2-weird-4:

edwardnashtons:

end0skeletal:

marycp2011:

end0skeletal:

A piebald or pied animal is one that has a pattern of pigmented spots on an unpigmented (white) background of hair, feathers or scales.

(Photo sources: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10)

I think I’ve heard that color pattern showing up seems to happen when animals start to become more human-friendly for some reason?

Like when they started to domesticated foxes-

That’s true! Foxes are the most recent/famous example of piebald coats showing up as animals are bred to favor more tame temperaments. As the most friendly and sociable foxes were bred with each other, other characteristics started showing up in addition to piebald coats:

  • Floppy ears
  • Curly tails
  • Shorter tails (loss of vertebrae)
  • Change in vocalizations (barking)

As far as why this happens, that’s some complex genetics I’m not qualified to explain. In fact, I’m not sure if enough research has been done to fully understand it. If anyone knows of any studies that successfully correlated all the traits that start coming out in the process of domestication, feel free to chime in!

does this mean people with freckles are domesticated humans?

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/30/580806947/why-dogs-have-floppy-ears-an-animated-tale

They do, in fact, have a unified theory about this now! I believe the actual paper might be linked in this article. Domestication phenotypes are all about the neural crest cells.

that’s a very cute video!