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Space Lizard

@lizardsfromspace / lizardsfromspace.tumblr.com

Ellen. She/her. Cryptids, lights & the night. I am a freak. I have hands and I have feet, and if you saw me you'd faint, you'd be petrified, mummified, turned into stone or a pillar of salt.

My Sideblogs of Note

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Fearsome: My monster of the week horror series about a trans teen werewolf, her pack, her friend the chupacabra, and her pet enemy Gef the talking Mongoose. Inspired by 90s horror like Scream and The Craft, and books like Animorphs. Updates Monday, Wednesday, and Friday

Mysteries of the Unknown: Paranormal aesthetic blog, especially focused on the 90s show Sightings

Is It Correct?: Factchecking blog, sporadically updated whenever something annoys me enough

Inactive

Actually Queer: Blog profiling canonical LGBT characters in media. Primarily updated 2012-2013, with a brief flurry of activity in 2017. Partially abandoned bc LGBT characters became more common (and Tumblr users hyping up straight characters as if they were canonically queer became less common), but mainly bc I ran out of shows I had watched myself & submissions were relatively rare

Obsessive Fanboys: Another blog mainly updated in 2012, this one mocked the fanboyish reactions in the comments of Rotten Tomatoes reviews. Why did this one end? Simple: Rotten Tomatoes (wisely) removed its comment section, and the four hour rant videos that took its place aren't as pithy to dunk on. But hey, it's an archive of its era

Space Lizard's Den: A creepy story blog from 2018/2019, before I just started posting them to main.

I had to make my own list of movies everyone on tumblr has seen because the lists I’ve encountered so far really don’t feel to me like they’ve covered the REAL movies us tumblrites love

Btw if you have any questions about movies on this list that you may not have seen, you can learn more on the podcast Tubi or Not Tubi, where they are all covered in detail!!

There’s still five days to vote in this movie poll. How many have YOU seen

Saw some people saying "I took Elon's money, and I'm voting for Susan Crawford" and. Okay that did own him a little but you know the point of it is that he puts you on lists and stuff right. You still gave him your information & are gonna get signed up for everything. A Nazi still has a list with you on it no matter who wins

there are a lot more abjectly harmful and meanspirited april fool's jokes out there but the one i personally find most annoying is when american game devs pretend that they're going to make a visual novel spinoff of their game because they can't imagine making visual novels in earnest

conversely, the sonic team won my everlasting respect by making their april fool's joke an actual complete visual novel without a hint of irony or disdain for the medium because the joke wasn't that it was a vn, it was that they fucking killed sonic

I like how Leia’s shaky and politically unstable New Republic lasted over 7 years longer than Palpatine’s “eternal” Empire that the Sith worked a thousand years to create.

The best "found footage mistaken for real" story was UFO Abduction/The McPherson Tape. Probably the first found footage movie as we'd recognize it - made in the late 80s - and it didn't get its due, on account of being a ultra low budget indie film, and also because before it came out, every copy was burnt in a warehouse fire.

Except somehow, copies did survive, which is how we have the film today, but before that someone lopped off the movie's credits, kept the kayfabe frame about it being a real lost video from 1983, and started selling it at UFO conventions as genuine. The director had no idea for years that his movie was being analyzed heavily by UFO experts; when he discovered this, he was able to parlay the attention into making a remake of his film for UPN (which I've yet to see but is at least higher budget).

I can see why people believed it, bc it does feel very much like an amateur home video. That less slick 80s camcorder vibe versus late 90s, and also bc it's just a bunch of normal people doing mundane things in a house with aliens occasionally intruding

everyone’s trying to stump the akinator so i’m gonna try and see if he’ll know that i’m thinking of the little symbol on the front of his turban

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sheik

come on it hasn’t even been 10 fucking seconds

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sheik

GOD DAMN IT

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i fucking hate this stupid piece of shit genie fuck him i hate him so fucking much

"Rationalism" is up there with "Objectivism" in terms of "definitionally funny things to call your own belief system".

"Yeah man I've been doing some thinking and philosophy and I've come up with a framework called Being Right"

memes cats would make

[ID: a simple chart showing two captioned illustrations. the first is a drawing of a smiling person labeled "The Person." underneath are bullet points which say: "nice to me," "calls me good boy names like Dumb Sausage and Stop," "put dinner," and "holding me because i never be bad." the second is a frowning person with an angry vacuum cleaner labeled "The Person (evil alter ego???) and the bullet points read: "LOUD," "maybe possessed by Bad devil or evil etc," and "chases me except if i hide behind the ladder thats been in the living room for 6 months it can't find me."]

Hey Americans, if you have a state Supreme Court vote coming up, vote in it. A Supreme Court can make or break a state, especially in this current political climate, and we actually have control over who gets into our state courts.

Wisconsites, we have a Supreme Court vote coming up in April and if you don't vote in it, I'm going to cut a hole into all your window screens, right on the very edge so it's in a place where you can't just patch it but it's too big to just ignore. Enjoy your box elder bugs and grass spiders 🔫

The Wisconsin Supreme Court election is on April 1st. That means that it's happening this Tuesday. Wisconsites, for the love of god, if you haven't cast your vote already, go out and vote.

Super educational website about how this works & which seats are up for election in 2025 (scroll down)

Unironically, vegans need to be advocating for more and better sheep, llama, and alpaca farms. Wool is one of the best fabrics we have in terms of versatility, longevity and most importantly, insulation. Even wet, it retains 80% of it’s insulation potential.

AND IT DOESN’T SHED MICROPLASTICS

Like, there’s literally nothing you can do to a sheep that’s as morally reprehensible as dumping plastic down the gullet of literally every other living thing. You wanna talk about animal welfare? Talk about reducing the amount of microplastics produced by rayon, polyester, and spandex.

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Bruh plant-based sources of clothing exist and are better for the environment and don’t involve slicing an animal’s throat open please shut the fuck up you cunt

THE WOOL GROWS BACK

Do they think you kill a sheep for it’s wool

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