bogleech:

andmaybegayer:

I love insects where the juveniles eat meat and the adults drink nectar. Wasps with huge wicked sharp jaws and venomous stingers all to carry some spider back to its nest for its big soft wriggly babies to eat. She’s going to go lazily drink nectar while they really go to town on it. So many fly larvae are voracious carnivores to be feared and avoided and then they turn into dopey flies that wander from flower to flower only stopping to lay eggs conspicuously close to a bunch of caterpillar eggs.

Tons of insects are like if king cobras grew up into deer. Although in the case of wasps, it’s like a deer with a gun

gwydionmisha:

alcrox:

onebatch–twobatch:

unpretty:

unpretty:

unpretty:

bisexuhowl:

unpretty:

did cinderella ever talk to her man about his faceblindness

#‘i met the perfect woman but it was a special occasion’#'so now wherever she is her makeup and hair are probably different’#'this is my nightmare’

rip prince charming, who had to let the whole kingdom make jokes about his foot fetish for the rest of his life because every blonde with an updo looks basically the same as far as he can tell

they call him prince charming because he’s always really polite to strangers to cover for the fact that he doesn’t know if he’s supposed to recognize them from somewhere and when you’re a prince that shit starts wars

best part of this post is all the people with prosopagnosia confirming that they literally never questioned why the prince was incapable of hiring a sketch artist even in versions without masks/glamours

(ps here’s this)

PLEASE click the link

Please, please, for the love of god, Click. The. Link.

A had a partner with face blindness for several years.  One time it was chilly so I threw on an old sweater I hardly ever wore, but i kept because it was literally the only sweater we could find at the street market in my size one extremely chilly morning in August 1983 in Auvergne and it had good memories despite it’s colour.

I’m a goth.  I was a goth then.  To my lover, I was a person of a particular size and build dressed in black with the occasional jewel tone and dark hair at a particular length.

The sweater was very much not Goth.  It was a pale shade and oversized and nobbly.

We went to Cub Foods, which was a massive warehouse style grocery store.  we separated to do our assorted shopping.

He couldn’t find me.  He searched with an increasing urgency and rising panic.  I oblivious contemplated box macaroni and jiffy mixes as he passed my aisle over and over.

My shopping done I spotted and hailed him, and he looked at me with some confusion, but he knew my voice, my hair, the particular cut of my trousers, picked because they looked good and I could run and fight in them, the shape of my boots.  Once he looked closely, he knew it was me, but at a distance all he was seeing was the Wrong Sweater.

We were neither of us publicly demonstrative by nature, but he hugged me so tight in his relief.  Once I understood, I felt terrible, and when I wore something uncharacteristic, I made sure he memorized it because I could never forget his terror and relief.

This is how I discovered he was face blind.  I was the first person to notice, he’d hidden it so well.

Of course Prince Charming was face blind,

biglawbear:

Btw you can be intensely critical of the Democratic party and recognize that it is full of aged out of touch moderates who are refusing to meet the urgency of the moment,

and also recognize that voting for Democrats is extremely important because it allows things like the confirmation of Justices and prevents the literal fascist party from gaining more power and that harm reduction is an important end in itself

These things can coexist

Politics is a long game. Being disappointed and angry today does not obviate your responsibility to participate

fickes:

with great pain comes the great inability to form a coherent sentence

[ID: a 4-page comic in illuminated manuscript style of a person standing outside. /1: They look to the distance and say: “What is that dolorous cloud: that dreadful fright I see now on the dark horizon?” /2: They turn, upset, and say: “Alas! It is the brain fog approaching!” A purple cloud enters the panel. /3: They hold up their hands against the approaching cloud, saying: “A curse upon that fog that steals my eloquence. I…hate…it” /4: The cloud surrounds them and they say: “cloud”…“bad” /ID]

liberalsarecool:

Capitalism is broken and incapable of fixing itself. The only solution is labor solidarity.

monsters-conquer-the-world:

liberalsarecool:

Support railroad workers. #RailWorkers

RAILWORKERS KEEP FIGHTING THAT GOOD FIGHT

touchyourblood:

shhhhimwatchingthis:

You want to know why Inigo Montoya remains such an iconic and beloved character even 35 years after the Princess Bride came out?

It’s because he’s one of the few characters in fiction who has a story where he has dedicated his life to revenge, his whole motivation is about getting revenge….and he gets it! and then he isn’t empty or despairing! he doesn’t regret it! he’s totally satisfied!

because so many stories about revenge or rage are about characters “seeing the futility of their actions” or learning “their desire for revenge has only made them the monsters they hated” FUCK THAT.

Inigo Montoya kills the man who kills his father, is allowed to live in the narrative after and be happy about it and it is so satisfying. it’s fantastic. it’s iconic.

let more characters rage against the world, bring it down with bloodied hands, and let them be FUCKING RIGHT about it. Let them celebrate their success with sharp grins, and let them live happy, full lives where they always remain proud/fulfilled for what they’ve done

I think another important thing about Inigo is that he’s not some dark, gritty character so consumed by his desire for revenge that he’ll go to any lengths to get it. He’s still a generally good guy. He has a good friendship with Fezzik, forms one very quickly with Westley, demonstrates honor toward his opponents, he’s very likeable. He’s a criminal, yeah, but only, in his own words, “to pay the bills.” He doesn’t seem to like unnecessary violence, agreeing with Fezzik that they shouldn’t kill Buttercup. His hatred is reserved only for the six fingered man, and he never lets it out on anyone else.

And he does briefly face a “consequence” of his revenge! He flat out admits that he now doesn’t know what to do with the rest of his life. But because he’s a good guy who didn’t let his quest get in the way of making friends, Westley offers him the mantle of Dread Pirate Roberts, giving him a new purpose in life. That brief moment of “now what?” is solved almost immediately, because he wasn’t an “I work alone/you’d never understand my pain/I’ll kill anyone who gets in my way” kind of jackass.

And I think that’s great, we need more revenge driven characters who aren’t total assholes!

writing-prompt-s:

For every super power in existence there is someone who is immune to it. You are immune to ‘Time Stopping’, allowing you to move around in the time frozen world like the user does. However you have no idea who they are or when they will stop or restart time.

derinthescarletpescatarian:

dykenoi:

bane-of-technology:

bircjosta:

hunter-rodrigez:

one-time-i-dreamt:

All skirt/dress wearers when we discover they have functional pockets 😍

It’s also worth mentioning that this is the guy who posted this: 

His name is Jim Sterling and he is a rather… colorful games journalist who actually uses his platform to report on stuff like horrible working conditions, abuse and even stuff like sexual assault in the games industry.

He also raised concerns about the addictive nature of stuff like loot boxes and micro transactions long before anyone else did. 

They recently came out as non-binary “gender trash” (his words, not mine) and uses he/they/any pronouns according to his Twitter. Give their videos a look see if you are interested in hearing about workers rights in the creative industry.

we love and appreciate James Stephanie Sterling in this house

i would like to share that they are using exclusively they/them pronouns at this time :-)

Jim used to be a relatively big name reviewer back in the Angry Trillby Reviewer Days until they suddenly ‘quit’ their job with the very prominent games journalism company they worked for and were summarily blacklisted by the entire AAA industry.

Why? Because a massive scandal broke at the major game publisher Ubisoft revealing a culture of systematic sexual abuse, including high-ranking officials within the company that would regularly drug and rape female employees, which management and HR seemed fully aware of and would protect and move around the perpetrators Catholic-church-style. Reviewers were told not to talk about it and, when it became impossible to contain, to not talk about it where it’s “irrelevant” – that is, never mention or hint at any such stuff when actually reviewing and promoting Ubisoft games, because it’s a separate thing, see, no need to distract from the game (Ubisoft’s goal here was to be able to continue to advertise their games to players who hadn’t heard about it, and wait out the scandal until those who had just assumed everything was dealt with and forgot, which worked).

Jim refused. They knew this would tank their career, they knew they were throwing away an incredibly promising future. They did it anyway.

James Stephanie Sterling in one of a very small number of game reviewers out there with an actual fucking spine and a moral code made from titanium. They’re still effectively blacklisted from the industry, because since then they’ve refused to reform and play Good PR Robot like reviewers are supposed to do (because the AAA games industry thinks ‘reviewer’ and ‘critic’ are synonyms for ‘PR person in a gig economy’), shining light on repeated abuses and scandals in the industry, both internal scandals like this (discrimination, worker abuse, fraud, the normalisation of crunch culture and not paying workers) and ways at which the AAA industry scams players (abuses of early access, loot boxes and ‘pay to win’ mechanics that used to be the realm of free-to-play games now dominating paid titles while the prices of those titles also go up, abusive subscription models and ‘always online’ services, fun little tricks that companies love to pull with “remastered” games, and lately NFTs). Jim’s usually a good six months to a full year ahead of the curve on spying out this bullshit, able to see and warn about it before it becomes trendy enough for other reviewers to touch, and the result has been being continually silenced by game companies and passively buried by algorithms due to illegitimate DCMA takedowns, incorrect copyright strikes spurious lawsuits, being frozen out of gaming news, and whatever other nasty tricks people can pull. They came out as nonbinary very shortly before hitting a million subscribers (despite the forces agaisnt them) and then suddenly lost a lot of subscribers over a short period of time. Which was surely a complete coincidence. Yep. Just a coincidence. Have they backed down on literally anything? No. Because they decided to do this properly despite the cost and they are NOT fucking around.

They also call out particularly bad bullshit of indie developers (we’re talking the con artists and bigots in indie development in particular), not just AAA, which once hilariously resulted in a tiny no-name developer attempting to sue them for TEN MILLION DOLLARS. (Well, I found it hilarious after the fact. It was incredibly frustrating and somewhat stressful for Jim at the time, if one of the more ridiculous silencing tactics.) You can see them report on that here: