hey, my name's dinamite 🦋 you can also call me draki, or josef, or eleven
i've started to interact with people on tumblr, so you can always send me asks! i'll try to answer whenever I can. feel free to use my art with credit.
I'm currently hyperfixated on the Creep franchise (also in general Mark Duplass), but I'm also majorly into SCP! I also like JJBA :)
i only use he/him pronouns and i am 17. (🇵🇭🇰🇭) asian american If It matters... (i'm aroace and agender, so i don't generally care too much about the rest of my labels)
I block freely, don't care too much for DNIs but if you're a zionist/don't support palestine get out. dont send me NSFW/sexual posts either.
uhh wip, more detail on interests below!
Favorite SCPs: 7000, 3999, 7408, 5520, 5956
Favorite Canons/Series: On Guard 43, Monarchs and Maestros, does Redtape count? yeah
Favorite Personnel: Dr. Kondraki, Dr. Clef, Agent Lament, Dr. Wettle, Dr. Lillihammer, Researcher Talloran, as well as Draven Kondraki
Favorite Tale: "Here's a Beer, Now Show Me", "Yesterday" ... along with several of the tales featuring Kondraki!
Am I interested in anything else? Yes! I'm currently extremely hyperfixated on my OCs. I'm also hyperfixated on various other things that changes every few weeks! I'm too lazy listing them, so feel free to ask about anything!!! :D
Id prefer not to go indepth on this, but im disordered. that will affect my social interactions and posts. I'm autistic and struggle with social cues. I also have memory issues and I might seem "inconsistent" at times. Just give me a reminder if I forget anything!
I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.
The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”
1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.
Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.
It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.
There's a different species of barnacle, Sacculina, that parasitizes crabs in a similar way to this. It has a very cursed lifecycle and I assume the crab is also having a weird time.
I just looked it up—it injects itself into the crab's body and replaces the crab's genitals with itself, grows roots into the crab's organs (including its brain), and controls the crab's behaviors so the crab will take care of the Sacculina larvae as a female crab would its own babies—if the crab is male, the Sacculina parasite will make the crab's body produce female hormones to basically change it to female.
This is so cool...how did this even develop? How did the parasite evolve to do that? How ancient would this relationship have to be for something so complex to form?
