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terrible-tentacle-theatre:

So I’m on the TV Tropes page for “Small Taxonomy Pools” and it reads like it was written by the saltiest troop of biologists ever. It’s a fucking gold mine of taxonomical nerd rage. Observe:

THIS IS ME

@elodieunderglass behold your people!

oh MY god

“herbivores are harmless and therefore boring”

“gastropods: one snail, one slug”

“snakes in fiction come in five main styles”

“generic harmless”

OH MY GOD

ARCHAEA DO NOT EXIST IN FICTION 

(not quite one time I accidentally saw a truly godawful Weather Channel disaster movie thing that used the name of an archaeal taxon but literally everything they said about it was wrong and also they didn’t mention the word archaea so still technically correct) 

DID I WRITE THIS ENTIRE TVTROPES PAGE WHILE SLEEPWALKING?!?!?!