{"id":1070,"date":"2026-01-30T01:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pasioncondal.com\/blog\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2026-02-19T02:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:18:28","slug":"luna-attempts-dino-pedagogy-a-tragedy-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasioncondal.com\/blog\/luna-attempts-dino-pedagogy-a-tragedy-1-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Luna attempts dino pedagogy (a tragedy) 1\/3"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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While Karen rests her sore back on the couch and we all are snowbound and on edge with cabin fever\u2026<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Luna\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>(bursting into the living room like a missile with her trusty clipboard): I am telling you, telling you, that dinosaurs were part of an organized and hierarchical society. They had routines and, probably schedules, meetings and clipboards made of palm trees.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(following Luna scandalized): Meetings?! They were NOT chupatintas, Luna. They were glorious chaotic creatures with teeth, eat them all and let the velociraptor sort them out.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Luna<\/strong><\/span>: You are completely wrong. Dinosaurs survived for 165 million years and you need a plan to last that long!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>: Hah! you don\u2019t last that long without eating everything that moves, not planning, a vibe.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Luna<\/strong><\/span>: Dinos built nests like baby chicks, paleontologists found fossilized nesting grounds.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>: Oh, please spare me. Willow buries her toys too and it doesn\u2019t make her a scientist.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Luna<\/strong><\/span>: The Tyrannosaurus rex had binocular vision, sharp as a tack!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>: And he still couldn\u2019t clap, tragic, what\u2019s your point.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Luna<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(offended gasp): Dinosaurs raised their young!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>: So do pigeons and they are idiots.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Luna<\/strong><\/span>: And dinosaurs were FEATHERED. Science has SPOKEN.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>: PROPAGANDA. Science also once thought the earth was flat, Luna M. Whiskers. Sit down before you embarrass yourself.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Luna<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(slams clipboard on table): Oh, I\u2019m embarrassing? You still think dinosaurs looked like funky lizards in bad rubber suits from the old movies!.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(gasp): Those were majestic, you heretic cow! Dinosaurs should make you shiver in your pants, not look like a dumb pigeon with anger issues.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Luna<\/strong><\/span>: You just hate feathers because you associate them with chaos, birds and\u2026 frankly\u2026 Tartiflette.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>: (in Dowager mode): DO NOT BRING THE MONSTER INTO THIS. The fact that you said birds are dinosaurs is the biggest crock I\u2019ve heard.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Luna<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(paces): It\u2019s called evolution, Charlotte, e-vo-lu-tion. Dinos didn\u2019t just vanish like your toys, they rebranded, Darwin was a good PR. Now they scream and wake me up at 5 a.m.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>: IF pigeons are dinos, then I am the Queen of Gondor and this house owes me tribute, my precious.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Luna<\/strong><\/span>: You are closer to a Therizinosaurus than a T-rex. All fluff for brains.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(fur fluffs violently): TAKE THAT BACK. I AM CLEARLY A TYRANNOSAURUS. Large and commanding with terrifying strength, top of the food chain predator!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Luna<\/strong><\/span>: You nap seventeen hours a day and scream when dinner is three minutes late. You are not top of anything.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(points to Luna): And YOU, YOU would be one of those skinny and twitchy dinosaurs that causes mass extinctions by accident.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Luna<\/strong><\/span>: HOW DARE YOU…<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>:…WITH ANGER ISSUES AND TINY ARMS.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Luna<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(hurt then furious): I would be a smart Troodon! Respect evolution! And this is coming from the cat who thinks seniority equals wisdom? You were just born earlier, Charlotte, that\u2019s not leadership, that\u2019s timing!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>: You are romanticizing reptiles!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Luna<\/strong><\/span>: They ruled the Earth!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>: And then they lost it to a rock. Case closed.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Luna<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(deadly calm): Extinction does not mean incompetence.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>: Tell that to the asteroid.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Luna<\/strong><\/span>: This again? You just hate that evolution didn\u2019t crown you Empress of All Species.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>: Evolution absolutely did, just look at me.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Luna<\/strong><\/span>: You\u2019re orange.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(gasps, scandalized): HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT MY COLOR.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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(They\u2019re nose to nose now.)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Tartiflette<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(who had been carefully listening from under the couch, whispering): \u2026but could they wear hats?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(immediately): YES.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Luna<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(after a pause): \u2026some evidence suggests ornamental crests.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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(A small grey blur rockets past.)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Tartiflette<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(screaming): DINOSAURS HAD HATS. I KNEW IT. (Crash. Something shatters. Karen sighs)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>: SEE? DRAMA (closing eyes) This is why extinction events happen.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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(Ziggy snores. Lilith mutters something about \u201csummoning a velociraptor.\u201d)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(final word, smug): Dinosaurs were chaos.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Luna<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(sighing, writing furiously on clipboard): Conclusion: dinosaurs were cats with feathers.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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(Everyone stops. Long pause.)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(low growl): \u2026I hate that you\u2019re right.\u2026Get out of my sight.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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