pov it’s 1893 and you are a Romanian train station employee selling a train ticket to a guy who looks half dead and has no bags and no passport but definitely has to be English judging by his violent attitude
one of the funniest sections of pliny the elder’s natural histories to me is in book 30 when pliny excitedly says that moles are the animal that magicians love most and then goes on to explain that it’s because moles are creatures becursed and despised by nature itself
pliny the elder, seeing moles: truly there is no creature farther from god than this
Polar Bears are the only bear to actively hunt humans as food.
This isn’t curiosity. This is lethal intent.
It is with the heaviest of hearts that we must strongly advise against petting polar bears or allowing them into your house or vehicle. Tragically, despite the fact that polar bears are the cutest most perfect animal to ever live, they do want to eat you
Practical effects, puppets and robots at fan conventions are becoming more and more mind boggling, while Hollywood continuously pretends, that they’re “unrealistic” and CGI is the one true way going forwards.
