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ever since the early 2000s when a couple brain-dead frat boys on campus said "Cute skirt" at me and giggled, I've worn kilts pretty much every day
because to hell with the delicate gender-enforcing losers who don't understand the origins of kilts, to hell with people sticking their noses into other people's choices, and to hell with the whole notion of gendered clothing
I might be a little biased but I’m honestly starting to believe that there’s no purer form of love than the defensive spite you see from biologists that have devoted their life to the study of a maligned or misunderstood species. For example:
The hyena biologist that arranged for Disney animators to come sketch captive hyenas for The Lion King film (Laurence Frank) was so incensed when the animals were depicted as villains in the movie that he later included boycotting the film on a list of ways the average person could help hyena conservation.
Though it’s commonly known that Charles Darwin’s distaste for parasitic wasps played a role in his development of evolution theory (since he felt no loving God would create animals with such a disturbing life cycle), the biologists who study these wasps find it an unfair characterization. When they were tasked with coming up with a common name for the family of parasitic wasps (Ichneumonidae) that old Charles so disliked, they proposed the name “Darwin Wasps” to spite the famous naturalist who had insulted their beloved family of insects.
Parasitologist Tommy Leung was so frustrated with the way people write about parasites to evoke horror and gore that he started writing a Parasite of the Day blog, that specifically avoids inflammatory or unsettling language to describe them. He also illustrates different species in colorful anime art on Twitter in a series called Parasite Monster Girls—which he calls his “love letter to parasites.”
I guess I’m just saying that if you’re a biologist studying an unpopular species and you have a little bit of a chip on your shoulder about it you can always count on me to be in your corner if you want to get a little petty with the public!
(ID: tags that read “when does a monster stop being a monster? when you love it”)
the virgin loss.jpg versus the chad xkcd Seven Years
Don’t forget the latest version, Ten Years
I will be 70 years old and I still will never have gotten over the time the Mythbusters used a rocket powered steel wall to - and I use this word as literally as possible - vaporize an entire car into red mist
If you haven’t seen this episode of Mythbusters I feel so bad for you because “What car?” remains to this day as a defining moment of my adolescence and my entire life
That was a near-religious experience
I made a gif of it for those of you who cant watch the video in your country. Or if you know you just want to stare at it mesmerized like me
Oh wow they sure did vaporise that car into red mist
you'll read book grace describing his own apartment and then you read him describing his classroom and you want to strangle him. you just want to strangle him a little bit
single man's meal in a single man's apartment. small, tidy (empty). a tv, a microwave, a picture of the san francisco skyline that probably came with the place. nothing else of note. but step one foot in his memory of the classroom he's worked in every day for years and he still gloats about it. look, look! the Jacob's ladder in the corner that he keeps unplugged. there, an entire collection of animals preserved in formaldehyde—did he preserve the fake egg and spaghetti jar in that tidy little kitchen he doesn't use? no i bet that was at school also, with the one single class that would never fall for his favourite prank. the reward system with the beanbags. and my favourite, and i have to quote this one: "And gracing the center of the ceiling was my pride and joy—a huge mobile that was a model of the solar system. Jupiter was the size of a basketball, while wee Mercury was as small as a marble."
san francisco skyline in his fucking san francisco apartment.
he loved those kids. he loved his job. he loved teaching so much that that love spilled out of him like water, it made him barge into an FBI guarded laboratory and demand the most powerful woman in the world give him a second chance to help. but god forbid the love overstayed its welcome. god forbid he couldn't toe it off like a pair of wet boots at the front door. wouldn't want to drag that into his pristine fucking empty apartment ryland grace youuuu fucking cowardddd
ok ok ok ok my favorite part so far in the book vs the movie is how in the BOOK when sauron’s Evil Servants are interrogating the gaffer about the whereabouts of Mister Baggins and frodo can only hear the gaffer’s side of the conversation but it ends with “no i can’t take any messages i’m sorry GOODNIGHT”
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im so happy a ringwraith asked sam’s dad if he could leave a message for Mister Baggins
[horrific ringwraith voice] CAN YOU AT LEAST TELL ME WHERE HE’S GETTING HIS MAIL FORWARDED
When you hear the news that there is a growing life expectancy gap between republicans and democrats partially because of the right-wing anti-science conspiracies that have taken hold (especially after COVID) you’re like “Lol. They owned the libs so hard they died.” and then you remember these are the same people having 6+ kids to populate the polls with their white Christian children and medically neglecting them. Then you squint at the data and realize it is not measuring voter data and life expectancy but life expectancy in red areas vs. blue areas and you realize that voter suppression, corruption, racism and poverty is actually killing the people in these places faster than the national average, not their own reactionary views. And you’re so angry it’s being presented like it’s their fault they’re dying.
Gift for my most beloved husband of two black capped chickadees.
a lot of people don’t tell you this when you’re starting to remodel your own home but occasionally under the floorboards you’ll find the entrance to an unimaginably sprawling and vast complex of underground lakes connected to each other through intricate networks of tunnels where suburbanite mermaids have set up mermaid strip malls with mermaid verizon, mermaid driving school, the mermaid liquor store, and so on. and many people will think this is a plumbing issue, but it’s actually a zoning problem
The "these two things are not related" at the end absolutely elevates this to god tier
abSOLUTELY NO
it's kinda embarrassing when you have a fetish that has the most obvious crystal clear psychosexual explanation like okay you didn't even try with that one...
