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peckenpaugh2020-01-09 10:15 am
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John Travolta is my boggart actually
I’M VERY EXCITED FOR FOG PET DAY!!!!
I’M VERY EXCITED FOR FOG PET DAY!!!!
I will never be over the dream where he just stood in the corner sulking for the entirety of it
UGH ALSO OK I DECIDED TO GIVE HIM THIS
can my worst child Tybalt have C please
Someone do a trouble with him :(
UGH ALSO OK I DECIDED TO GIVE HIM THIS
can my worst child Tybalt have C please
Someone do a trouble with him :(
Edited 2020-01-09 15:43 (UTC)
YELLS
PATRONUS DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
QUEEN G MR STIRLING PINHEAD JOHN TRAVOLTA
PATRONUS DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
QUEEN G MR STIRLING PINHEAD JOHN TRAVOLTA
ADDED! And if no one else scoops it up I would be happy to throw either of my juniors into the joining slot but i'll let others spy it first
Added! Get him Ramona
TIME TO OPEN 14 TABS ABOUT ANIMAL SYMBOLISM
I love patronus time and also getting to peek into the heads of children.
Uhhhh A for Cicero? He's ready to fight that elf but is woefully unprepared to take on this opponent.
I love patronus time and also getting to peek into the heads of children.
Uhhhh A for Cicero? He's ready to fight that elf but is woefully unprepared to take on this opponent.
Oooooooh Ramona got in troooouble
JINGLE POX IS SPREADING
Oh unquestionably and he is delighted
Everyone's old school rival should be John Travolta.
Uriah sits at the edge of the practice session, bouncing his knee and periodically twirling his wand like it's a drumstick. He doesn't exactly trust the magic inside him, and best case scenario nothing happens. More likely, though, is that way too much happens. And it'll hurt like a motherfucker.
He sighs and slouches in his chair as everyone else actually practices. Maybe he'll just take a nap and hope it gets chalked up to laziness.
He sighs and slouches in his chair as everyone else actually practices. Maybe he'll just take a nap and hope it gets chalked up to laziness.
NAME: Claudia Vega
YEAR: Senior
ARE YOU IN DADA, CHARMS, O&L, or DUELLING CLUB? Honors Charms, no time for the rest!
PATRONUS: Red kangaroo. Kangaroos can do a lot and cover long distances, but they succeed the most when they're looking and moving forward and not looking back or dwelling in the past. They're also hard-working, struggle to find a good work-life balance, and have the ability to delay gestation of their soon-to-be pocket babies if it doesn't seem like a good environment to raise a pocket baby. Some of these things are actual kangaroo facts and some are Spirit Animal Kangaroo facts but I'll let you decide what's what.
HAPPY MEMORY: Viking getting to act as a landing pad for a sophomore in the Vercoer game. What?? It doesn't have to be nice!!
EFFORT: Claudia goes hard 10 every time every day
ANYTHING ELSE?: Pocket babies poop in their mama's pouch and the mom cleans it out with her snoot. I did need you to know that.
YEAR: Senior
ARE YOU IN DADA, CHARMS, O&L, or DUELLING CLUB? Honors Charms, no time for the rest!
PATRONUS: Red kangaroo. Kangaroos can do a lot and cover long distances, but they succeed the most when they're looking and moving forward and not looking back or dwelling in the past. They're also hard-working, struggle to find a good work-life balance, and have the ability to delay gestation of their soon-to-be pocket babies if it doesn't seem like a good environment to raise a pocket baby. Some of these things are actual kangaroo facts and some are Spirit Animal Kangaroo facts but I'll let you decide what's what.
HAPPY MEMORY: Viking getting to act as a landing pad for a sophomore in the Vercoer game. What?? It doesn't have to be nice!!
EFFORT: Claudia goes hard 10 every time every day
ANYTHING ELSE?: Pocket babies poop in their mama's pouch and the mom cleans it out with her snoot. I did need you to know that.
NAME: Gemma Zhao
YEAR: senior
ARE YOU IN DADA, CHARMS, O&L, or DUELLING CLUB? DADA, Charms and Duelling
PATRONUS: Sea Lion. Sea lions are energetic, enthusiastic and charismatic, and they love the spotlight. They are loyal and able to win others' trust. However, they can be aggressive and overconfident.
HAPPY MEMORY: Wildgulch's last Quidditch win against Deeplurk.
EFFORT: 8. She's more focused than usual.
ANYTHING ELSE?: No
YEAR: senior
ARE YOU IN DADA, CHARMS, O&L, or DUELLING CLUB? DADA, Charms and Duelling
PATRONUS: Sea Lion. Sea lions are energetic, enthusiastic and charismatic, and they love the spotlight. They are loyal and able to win others' trust. However, they can be aggressive and overconfident.
HAPPY MEMORY: Wildgulch's last Quidditch win against Deeplurk.
EFFORT: 8. She's more focused than usual.
ANYTHING ELSE?: No
NAME: Gertrude Mcgilliguddy
YEAR: Senior
ARE YOU IN DADA, CHARMS, O&L, or DUELLING CLUB? Charms
PATRONUS: Deinonychus ("terrible claw" in Greek) is extinct, which is just as well, because you wouldn't want to meet this dinosaur in the tall grass. It is a dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur, popularly known collectively as "raptors".
Dromaeosaurs are perhaps most well known for their large brains and high levels of intelligence. Though they wouldn't be geniuses by human standards (no opening doors), they were very intelligent indeed compared to other dinosaurs, and were capable of complex reactions to external stimuli. Unlike other famous theropods, such as tyrannosaurus rex, Dromaeosaurs had grasping hands and flexible forelimbs that allowed for greater seizing grasp and interaction with the world. This would eventually lead to flight stroke in modern birds. Paleontologists debate the possibility that, in absence of a global extinction event, Dromaeosaurs could have developed human-like intelligence. Clever girl, indeed.
Another thing that Dromaeosaurs were known for, particularly Deinonychus, was that terrible claw from which this particular species derives its name. Sam Neill used it to tell tales to terrify children, but what was it's purpose? The most popular hypothesis envisions this terrifying claw as a slashing weapon, allowing the animal to cleave open the bowels of much larger prey. The claw could also have been used to stab prey that didn't die from the initial attack, finishing it off with a kicking motion.
One hypothesis holds that this claw was actually primarily used not for slashing, but for restraint. This model, based primarily on comparisons between the morphology and proportions of the feet and legs of Dromaeosaurs to several groups of extant birds of prey, proposes that Deinonychus killed in a manner very similar to extant accipitrid birds of prey: by leaping onto its quarry, pinning it under its body weight, and gripping it tightly with the large, sickle-shaped claws. Like accipitrids, the Dromaeosaur would then begin to feed on the animal while still alive, until it eventually died from blood loss and organ failure.
Another, less dramatic, hypothesis suggests that the talons would have been more effective in climbing than in dealing killing blows due to the short metatarsus and relatively weak foot/lower leg strength of Deinonychus, more similar to an owl than an eagle or a hawke. Variation in the degree of curvature of the claw has been found amongst members of the same species, and it is unknown what accounts for the difference, but this theory suggests that it is a change over the course of the animal's life. Younger, smaller creatures would have had more deeply carved talons, allowing them to climb trees, in addition to longer arms and more robust pectoral girdles than adults, indicating gliding if not limited flight. Older animals would loose the gliding ability and show less severe curves as they adapted to life lived primarily on the ground as they aged and grew.
Regardless, these adaptations, as well as the wear patterns on the teeth of fossilized remains, show that unlike Troodontidae, which seems to have preyed on softer animals and prey items such as invertebrates and carrion, Dromaeosaurids included bone in their diet and were well adapted to handle struggling prey.
The other popular depiction of Dromaeosaurs is that these bird predecessors were pack hunters, but despite their intelligence, experts remain conflicted about whether they were capable of that kind of collaboration. Extrapolating behavior from fossils and scattered skeletons is tricky, and extinct animals aren't particularly forthcoming about their behaviors.
Certainly, we know that Dromaeosaurs were social creatures at least some of the time. Their distinctive tracks, marked by the way they walked with only two toes on the ground and their wicked sickle-like claws held aloft, are fossilized behavior. Trackways have been found showing the animals running together without conflict. In Shandong, China, scientists found the footprints of at least six individuals that walked in close proximity to each other and in the same direction, seeming to indicate a group, if not a pack.
Still, sociability doesn't necessarily indicate the type of coordinated cooperation seen in pack hunting. The pack theory is based on fossils in groups around larger prey, as well as sites where prey has been impaled by the teeth of multiple individuals of the same Dromaeosaur species. However, that doesn't tell the whole picture. Did Dromaeosaurs work together in collective social groups to take down prey, like wolves? Or do these sites actually indicate competition over prey, with multiple animals fighting to the death over feeding rights? Were they more like komodo dragons or wolves? On the other hand, these two theories need not be mutually exclusive. If Dromaeosaurs were like modern crocodilians, they may have been capable of infighting, competition for food and cannibalism as well as cooperative feeding necessary to take down larger prey. The notion that these are exclusive behaviors may actually be a false dichotomy.
Like Deinonychus, Trudy prefers her prey alive and struggling. She wants to win, she wants to be the best, but it doesn't mean nearly as much if it isn't a struggle. She is clever, but maybe not quite as smart as she would like people to believe. Her strength lies in her ability to adapt and to interact meaningfully with her surroundings, though curiosity may end up killing the raptor and leaving her trapped to be fossilized, if she isn't careful. Though she is sociable, it remains to be seen whether she can work with others meaningfully. It might help her survive to learn how, though, and just because she's ruthless doesn't mean she's incapable.
HAPPY MEMORY: Learning the glass harmonica from her Great (great, great...) grandmother.
EFFORT: 11, she is a fucking try hard and she wants to win at ghost animals
ANYTHING ELSE?: Alex and Jenny said I could have an extinct animal if I wrote an essay.
YEAR: Senior
ARE YOU IN DADA, CHARMS, O&L, or DUELLING CLUB? Charms
PATRONUS: Deinonychus ("terrible claw" in Greek) is extinct, which is just as well, because you wouldn't want to meet this dinosaur in the tall grass. It is a dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur, popularly known collectively as "raptors".
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Dromaeosaurs are perhaps most well known for their large brains and high levels of intelligence. Though they wouldn't be geniuses by human standards (no opening doors), they were very intelligent indeed compared to other dinosaurs, and were capable of complex reactions to external stimuli. Unlike other famous theropods, such as tyrannosaurus rex, Dromaeosaurs had grasping hands and flexible forelimbs that allowed for greater seizing grasp and interaction with the world. This would eventually lead to flight stroke in modern birds. Paleontologists debate the possibility that, in absence of a global extinction event, Dromaeosaurs could have developed human-like intelligence. Clever girl, indeed.
Another thing that Dromaeosaurs were known for, particularly Deinonychus, was that terrible claw from which this particular species derives its name. Sam Neill used it to tell tales to terrify children, but what was it's purpose? The most popular hypothesis envisions this terrifying claw as a slashing weapon, allowing the animal to cleave open the bowels of much larger prey. The claw could also have been used to stab prey that didn't die from the initial attack, finishing it off with a kicking motion.
One hypothesis holds that this claw was actually primarily used not for slashing, but for restraint. This model, based primarily on comparisons between the morphology and proportions of the feet and legs of Dromaeosaurs to several groups of extant birds of prey, proposes that Deinonychus killed in a manner very similar to extant accipitrid birds of prey: by leaping onto its quarry, pinning it under its body weight, and gripping it tightly with the large, sickle-shaped claws. Like accipitrids, the Dromaeosaur would then begin to feed on the animal while still alive, until it eventually died from blood loss and organ failure.
Another, less dramatic, hypothesis suggests that the talons would have been more effective in climbing than in dealing killing blows due to the short metatarsus and relatively weak foot/lower leg strength of Deinonychus, more similar to an owl than an eagle or a hawke. Variation in the degree of curvature of the claw has been found amongst members of the same species, and it is unknown what accounts for the difference, but this theory suggests that it is a change over the course of the animal's life. Younger, smaller creatures would have had more deeply carved talons, allowing them to climb trees, in addition to longer arms and more robust pectoral girdles than adults, indicating gliding if not limited flight. Older animals would loose the gliding ability and show less severe curves as they adapted to life lived primarily on the ground as they aged and grew.
Regardless, these adaptations, as well as the wear patterns on the teeth of fossilized remains, show that unlike Troodontidae, which seems to have preyed on softer animals and prey items such as invertebrates and carrion, Dromaeosaurids included bone in their diet and were well adapted to handle struggling prey.
The other popular depiction of Dromaeosaurs is that these bird predecessors were pack hunters, but despite their intelligence, experts remain conflicted about whether they were capable of that kind of collaboration. Extrapolating behavior from fossils and scattered skeletons is tricky, and extinct animals aren't particularly forthcoming about their behaviors.
Certainly, we know that Dromaeosaurs were social creatures at least some of the time. Their distinctive tracks, marked by the way they walked with only two toes on the ground and their wicked sickle-like claws held aloft, are fossilized behavior. Trackways have been found showing the animals running together without conflict. In Shandong, China, scientists found the footprints of at least six individuals that walked in close proximity to each other and in the same direction, seeming to indicate a group, if not a pack.
Still, sociability doesn't necessarily indicate the type of coordinated cooperation seen in pack hunting. The pack theory is based on fossils in groups around larger prey, as well as sites where prey has been impaled by the teeth of multiple individuals of the same Dromaeosaur species. However, that doesn't tell the whole picture. Did Dromaeosaurs work together in collective social groups to take down prey, like wolves? Or do these sites actually indicate competition over prey, with multiple animals fighting to the death over feeding rights? Were they more like komodo dragons or wolves? On the other hand, these two theories need not be mutually exclusive. If Dromaeosaurs were like modern crocodilians, they may have been capable of infighting, competition for food and cannibalism as well as cooperative feeding necessary to take down larger prey. The notion that these are exclusive behaviors may actually be a false dichotomy.
Like Deinonychus, Trudy prefers her prey alive and struggling. She wants to win, she wants to be the best, but it doesn't mean nearly as much if it isn't a struggle. She is clever, but maybe not quite as smart as she would like people to believe. Her strength lies in her ability to adapt and to interact meaningfully with her surroundings, though curiosity may end up killing the raptor and leaving her trapped to be fossilized, if she isn't careful. Though she is sociable, it remains to be seen whether she can work with others meaningfully. It might help her survive to learn how, though, and just because she's ruthless doesn't mean she's incapable.
HAPPY MEMORY: Learning the glass harmonica from her Great (great, great...) grandmother.
EFFORT: 11, she is a fucking try hard and she wants to win at ghost animals
ANYTHING ELSE?: Alex and Jenny said I could have an extinct animal if I wrote an essay.
Edited 2020-01-09 18:24 (UTC)
Someone put Cheryl in jail
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