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raptorcivilization

Also, “Jurassic Park made their dinosaurs lizardy because it was cooler” is a misconception. That’s pretty much how scientists saw dinosaurs in the early 90s. Spielberg made a point of bringing the current scientific image of dinosaurs to the public. At one point they were gonna give the raptors lizardy tongues but that was axed for feeling too lizardy. The raptor breath fogged the glass to emphasize that dinosaurs were warm-blooded. Jurassic Park was pretty up-to-date for the time - and I’m 90% sure that there would be feathered raptors if Sinosauropteryx et al. were published a few years earlier. Jurassic World made their dinosaurs lizardy because it was cooler.

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I was hanging around at my boyfriend’s place (in hindsight he was probably Satan) and we were just chilling, doing normal things, when a long, sleek, black car pulled up outside of his house. My boyfriend, suddenly very nervous and twitchy, told me to go and hide in the closet. When I asked him what was up, he just told me it was a “work associate” so I went and did as he said. I peeked a little bit out of the closet to see who this person was. I wanted to see who could possibly get my boyfriend, the actual Devil, to tremble in fear. And lo and behold, it was Ted Cruz.

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Reflections on this post:

1. I need to read URLs.

2. “in hindsight he was probably Satan” may be the single greatest hook to a story that I’ve ever seen.

3. The levels of stress and suspense that occur in the rising action here rival that of some of the greatest survival horror works that exist on this earth.

4. “And lo and behold, it was Ted Cruz” is probably the only sentence that could make the conclusion to this story more terrifying, and ended the story in a way far superior to anything my own sense of dread could have come up with.