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(DIR) Post #Ailq0gp7YVL2QHhVnk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-10T02:29:20Z
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Story Concept: A secret society of paleontologists and archeologists who make a pact that when each of them dies the others will go to wild lengths to stage burial circumstances most likely to be preserved, even fossilized to confound the intelligent life of the far future. This includes weird burial objects, suggestive poses, etc.They make the pact when young & silly, but as they grow old and carry it out it becomes a much more serious & momentous thing. About keeping promises & friendship.
(DIR) Post #AilqDgSIEfzP2tDf7Y by thepoliticalcat@mastodon.social
2024-06-10T02:31:40Z
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@futurebird I like it already. Make it a project they work on together, meeting up at a cabin that someone's grandparents own, kinda run down but still pretty, and they meet there every year, but as they get older and have relationships and Stuff, it ... gets more complex.
(DIR) Post #AilqIQtlVGecFEKkl6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-10T02:32:33Z
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@thepoliticalcat Someone's husband wants a normal funeral so they have to turn to grave robbing digging her up.
(DIR) Post #AilqYip4d31eT9uGfY by thepoliticalcat@mastodon.social
2024-06-10T02:35:28Z
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@futurebird Yes! Sounds wonderful! In a ... creepy sort of way.
(DIR) Post #AilqaLiVVUmlO2bwxM by fondoffawns@nerdculture.de
2024-06-10T02:35:36Z
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@futurebird I’d read it 😊
(DIR) Post #AilsOUzFPoWkZQuzrs by PTR_K@dice.camp
2024-06-10T02:56:00Z
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@futurebird I only know of this book by reputation, but always had a soft spot for the premise:Motel of Mysteries by David Macaulayhttps://www.amazon.com/Motel-Mysteries-David-Macaulay/dp/0395284252
(DIR) Post #AiltU17pS8dheF7xPE by coprolite9000@mastodon.me.uk
2024-06-10T03:08:13Z
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@futurebird I think my brain must work in a similar way to yours - cue sudden flashback to some very relevant answers from a bioarchaeologist (Dr Brenna Hassett) and an osteoarchaeologist (Prof Alice Roberts):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT-ecMjcRiE&t=3044s(Timestamp at about 1:06:10. Summary: anaerobic mudslide, or buried in a limestone cave!)
(DIR) Post #AiluDBsQKFcc1aShlo by superball@norcal.social
2024-06-10T03:16:24Z
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@futurebird OMG this is brilliant. I’m in. Can someone make me a paleontologist or archaeologist real quick?
(DIR) Post #AiluLJtaOc1HD8skYS by Mikal@sfba.social
2024-06-10T03:17:53Z
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@futurebird In the process, you could teach people a lot about geological processes and why fossils are found where they are.
(DIR) Post #Ailv6sLW7y0nfScgNM by davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social
2024-06-10T03:26:30Z
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@futurebird Has to have a final chapter with future intelligent life digging them up and trying to understand humans based only on these fossils.
(DIR) Post #Ailwt9cxHNO17QMeGm by WhiteCatTamer@mastodon.online
2024-06-10T03:45:41Z
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@futurebird Gonna need at least a couple of physicists if they’re gonna make a Stonehenge on the Moon out of sarcophagi.
(DIR) Post #AilySqYRlhkALRq4fI by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-06-10T04:04:04Z
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@futurebird But, I am too lazy to do it. I have read there are paleontologists and archaeologists who have put a fair amount of thouught into seeing their bodies get every chance of being preserved, and I suspect some have gone so far as to actually put instructions in their wills, and it's probably even possible to track down an example of the instructions being carried out, as part of background research for a story.
(DIR) Post #Aim6sAqQGdI096pp6O by meshe@mastodon.social
2024-06-10T05:38:10Z
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@futurebird This reminds me of the young affluent boy that made a very elaborate tomb for hot cheetos...https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktoker-built-giant-coffin-for-chip-bag-2022-11?op=1
(DIR) Post #AimBIhafXbGh3FN59c by tanepiper@tane.codes
2024-06-10T06:27:47Z
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@futurebird I even have a theme tune if they ever make it into a movie https://www.udio.com/songs/anE3vo2LJ3zezqCFLRPaGQ
(DIR) Post #AimFFQXQsrD773YF9M by notsoloud@expressional.social
2024-06-10T07:12:06Z
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@futurebirdOh yeah, most stories have way too little about isotopes!
(DIR) Post #AimJ54GtDSf8yT84xM by sashin@veganism.social
2024-06-10T07:55:04Z
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@futurebird This is unironically fucking cool!
(DIR) Post #AimZF6URQ9gW19H8KW by c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io
2024-06-10T10:56:07Z
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@futurebird epilogue: one of the last surviving members notes that they’re deleting this memoir, the author is “dealt with” and, despite their betrayal in writing this down, the preparations are already underway to inter them in the mausoleum.
(DIR) Post #AimZcs9qML28W6yUro by cascheranno@hachyderm.io
2024-06-10T11:00:25Z
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@futurebird gotta admit, if I ever learned I was terminally ill, I planned to do just this. Ancient apparel, pockets full of tech, and a long glacial/boggy nap.
(DIR) Post #Aime1iUHqkZra6dgGG by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-06-10T11:49:41Z
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@LyallMorrison This is the perfect title! #ideas #storyideas #thingstowrite
(DIR) Post #AimhHhVhYBel2wc8au by GinevraCat@toot.community
2024-06-10T12:26:15Z
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@futurebird 1 million percent would read / watch this.
(DIR) Post #AinhHsAc6yeRGWnByK by anne_twain@theblower.au
2024-06-11T00:00:53Z
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@futurebird 😃 I love it ! You have to wonder (and maybe this is what inspired you) whether some burials of the past were the way they were for this very reason. #archaeology
(DIR) Post #Ainj7k2ZgN9J43KScC by Zestryon@mastodon.social
2024-06-11T00:21:33Z
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@futurebird Dead Paleontologists Society
(DIR) Post #AinjaC05K1INt9jNdg by gretared@sfba.social
2024-06-11T00:26:43Z
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@futurebird I don’t know why but this made me think of when a bunch of archeologists were asked what the most misleading artifact of our time they could imagine and they came up with a green highway sign that said Orange.
(DIR) Post #AinjdnF1JkkGG3QxNY by ladyteruki@mastodon.social
2024-06-11T00:27:22Z
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@futurebird : I could see that as a TV show, with new death every episode or so. It'd be a fantastic exploration of the inexorability of deaths and the ways we make sense of it, of the rituals that keep the living going in a time of loss, of that hunger for learning from the past that turns into leaving your own mark in the present, of a metaphor about legacies and what we choose to leave behind for later generations... I'd watch that.