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I’m glad that Indiana finally has its first national park and that it’s the one mostly known for having sand dunes that eat children.
how, pray tell, does a dune eat A Child
Imagine that you’re a big pile of sand by the shore of Lake Michigan, between Gary and Michigan City. Your name is Mount Baldy, and you’re a popular tourist destination at what is now Indiana Dunes National Park.
For a huge pile of tiny rocks, you live a surprisingly nomadic lifestyle. More than a hundred years of tourism and foot traffic has destroyed much of the native grass that kept you stationary. You are now what they call a “wandering dune”, as wind off the lake slowly but steadily pushes your tremendous bulk a little further inland every year.
As you move, you gradually engulf everything in your path—trees, buildings, rocks, hills, your own parking lot—everything. You are an unstoppable force, like some kind of gigantic gelatinous cube, but you’re still very popular with visitors.
In 2013, you suddenly eat a child. It’s a surprising move on your part—dry quicksand isn’t supposed to be a real natural phenomenon. I mean, what is this, a 1960’s action movie?
One moment, a family from Illinois is cheerfully climbing your slopes. The next, the 6 year old boy suddenly vanishes without warning, leaving no trace. Would-be rescuers dig in the sand where he disappeared until their hands are bleeding. Geologists insist that he must have wandered off, because enormous piles sand physically cannot form hollows or pockets within themselves—but three hours later, he is found, unconscious but alive, buried almost twelve feet deep in the sand.
The current leading geological theory as to how this happened is that the organic material you engulf, like trees, slowly decompose beneath your slopes, leaving behind unstable voids held together only by the fragile remains of the decayed material. When these voids are walked over, they collapse, forming sudden sinkholes that can swallow visitors whole. The rules that typically govern stationary dunes, or wandering dunes in areas that are not forested, no longer apply to you. You are unpredictable and dangerous and have remained closed to visitors except on guided hikes ever since.
world heritage post
So this sand dune just… what, defies the laws of physics for sand?
Nope–here is an illustration I just made that might explain it better:


That’s the stuff of horror movies; I can’t believe the kid didn’t die.
Yeah—amazingly he made a full recovery. I would expect someone to suffer at least some brain damage after that long with so little oxygen, but he got super lucky.

of course you had to screencap the panel with not one but TWO spelling errors
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Uhh guys? Can we normalize having long legs and a tight pussy maybe,,,,,??
NO! my legs are short and my pussy is a cave known for its natural acoustics
I apologize for my lack of inclusvitiy… I’ll off myself now
(via icastbogspells)
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Smeyers pacing be like:
Ch1-37: Edward and I hated each other, we barely spoke and when we did it was an argument about whether we should speak again or not
Ch38-39: k so basically I want to bone him and also he’s a vampire and also we played baseball with his fam and also I’m being tracked by an evil vampire named James and ooops almost died but it’s fine cause now I’m in the hospital and wow I wanna be a vampire wow I want that icicle peen
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An idea of what the Twilight vamps can look like in the sun:
1. They look the way they did when they died:
- Carlisle has a bite mark on his wrist and his arm hangs weirdly, like his shoulder was out of it’s socket, body still hunched over in pain.
- Jasper has a bloody bite on the juncture between his shoulder and neck, another on the other side to match, always bleeding and always burning.
- Edward looks like a living corpse, hectic spots of red on his cheeks from the fever, all skin and bones, a bloody bite on his wrist, his face and body gaunt.
- Esme’s stomach is slightly swollen, her neck bent at an impossible angle and her spine all twisted and broken, dried tears on her cheeks, a bloody bite on her throat.
- Alice is all skin and bones, hollow eyes and gaunt body, twitching periodically like she can still feel the electricity zipping through her body, a bite on her shoulder.
- Rosalie is all bloody and beaten up, half dead, lips swollen and bitten raw, dried blood on the insides of her thighs, a broken collarbone, broken leg, and 4 bruised ribs, she hisses out in pain every time she moves, a bite on her throat.
- Emmett is a bloody mess, his clothes all shredded and body twisted in pain, deep gashes across his chest and abdomen and legs, his body broken, a deep bite on his neck.
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The most accurate part of Twilight is the white people not following their end of the treaty
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any au where bella runs away from edward to be with jacob and edward goes after her is honestly unrealistic because if bella expressed her intention to stay human rosalie would grab edward in a chokehold and keep him there for the next 100 years
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Emmett claiming to have been present at every major historical event that occurred after he was changed
He’d just sit in the living room reading a history book and laugh obnoxiously loud until someone asks him what he’s laughing at, to which he’d reply “you had to be there”
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i’m eating eggs for breakfast and i had to stop to say what an absolute fucking idiot edward is. like just a complete moron. he’s feeding his small human wife five dozen eggs like a disney character on their honeymoon & it never occurs to him that maybe something is up?? and if bella is menstruating regularly he’s been around to track maybe 12 periods but this fucking knucklehead who analyzes every little thing she does from the number of her heartbeats to her farts doesn’t notice she missed her period?? and the two of them put their brains together and explained her symptoms like oh it must be the island??? 100 years of education and what does he have to show for it




