====== Velociraptors ======

[[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/34598.html?thread=158755878#t158755878|"Are you a velociraptor?"]] began as a parody of [[Kynn]]'s trademark //"Are you trans?"// and/or [[winterfox-pre-outing|Winterfox]]'s trademark //"Are you white?"// questions, but on f_fa it has taken on a life of its own. Examples:

  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/35341.html?thread=163414285#t163414285|"Where did you get the idea velociraptors are apolitical?"]]
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/37641.html?thread=169978377#t169978377|"Being a Velociraptor is the second most privileged class]], the first being a Tyrannosaurus. I mean, do you know how fucked up it is to be an Allosaurus?"
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/35600.html?thread=164367376#t164367376|"Dude. We're velociraptors, that is by default hotter than the humans.]] Grow some self esteem or go over there and hang with the mastodons or something."
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/32491.html?thread=147421163#t147421163|"As a velociraptor, I would like to state that I love each and every anon in this thread]], including but not limited to the clueless appropriating hipster mammal upthread."
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/34242.html?thread=156158658#t156158658|"I'm a velociraptor and the extent to which this meme fetishizes us makes me seriously uncomfortable."]]
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/32491.html?thread=146461163#t146461163|"But you're being discriminatory against other breeds of dinosaur! I am a deinonychus and proud of it!"]]
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/37932.html?thread=170885932#t170885932|"The main thing is to get any gentlevelociraptors attending to agree //beforehand// not to go on a drunken rampage and destroy the place]], and also that they won't try to eat anyone whose opinions on yaoi they disagree with."
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/38277.html?thread=172046213#t172046213|"trans!pterosaur velociraptor suddenly feels very sad again at not being able to fly."]] Followed by "transspecies" jokes.
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/38277.html?thread=172711301#t172711301|"It turns out that if velociraptors come to your meet-up]] and are exceedingly rude and will not stop loudly espousing their abysmally wrong opinions about yaoi, if you deep-fry them they taste almost exactly like Chick-Fil-A."
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/43248.html|Post #160]] was called "Things You Wouldn't Admit Unvelociraptor," and the first page contains more [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/43248.html?thread=195278832#t195278832|velociraptor]] [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/43248.html?thread=195285488#t195285488|silliness]].
  * Yuletide 2012 saw the appearance of a [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/602260|velociraptor-centric piece of FFA RPF]] (with bonus in-character comments by the acafan raptor author, the [[http://archiveofourown.org/comments/1929916|wanky trans!pterosaur]], and the missing [[original-male-dog|Original Male Dog]].)

[[survey-says|11% of Gentle Failers responding to the April/May 2012 survey]] identified themselves as velociraptors who meme only on Pancake Full Moon Thursday. [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/32582.html?thread=147827782#t147827782|The velociraptor population is evenly distributed around the globe]], although it is unclear how many of these saurian respondents are [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/32582.html?thread=147959110&|time-traveling residents of the lunar base]], and the survey was shockingly noninclusive of [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/38277.html?thread=172046213&|trans-species saurian identities]], as well as the meme's even more neglected population of [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/32491.html?thread=147358443#t147358443|proud pterodactyls and therian othersaurs]].

In July 2012, Ur-Sunny [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/37641.html?thread=169810697#t169810697|posted a photo]] of her favorite soft drink, [[diet-mountain-fury|Diet Mountain Fury]], along with a velociraptor.

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