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did laika know she would be so loved so long after she was gone? did she know people would write songs and poems about her? she was barely loved throughout her life until the scientists kissed her nose before they sent her to her death. do you think that heat death was the closest she felt to a warm embrace? i miss her every day. im not alone in that. she’ll never be alone up there in the stars.

#it's Christmas and i am in shambles #i keep thinking of laika ✋😔

cryptonature

Vultures are holy creatures.

Tending the dead.

Bowing low.

Bared head.

Whispers to cold flesh,

“Your old name is not your king.

I rename you ‘Everything.’”

charlesoberonn

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fun fact!

Vultures are also responsible for keeping diseases at bay.

Vulture stomach acid is so powerful that it can kill anthrax and many other deadly diseases.

So when they consume the carcass of a creature that has died of disease, they actually destroy the disease within it too!

So yes vultures are 100% holy creatures because they not only eat the dead, but protect the living from death.

headspace-hotel

Literally none of my story ideas come with a plot, ever. WITHOUT FAIL, it’s always just an Aesthetic, like two and a half characters, some very, very vivid settings, and a weird concept. Never plot. Not even an inkling of a plot. My brain tosses me this cool stuff and is like welp i’ll be back in 4-5 business months

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brooklyn nine-nine, the good place, and one day at a time is proof that you don’t need offensive jokes to make a good comedy

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We were talking about Jaws in class today and one girl was like “I don’t know about anyone else but I thought the scene between Quint and Hooper [where they’re comparing scars and taking off their clothes and touching each other] was homoerotic” and the prof was like NO, so I was like “actually I thought so too” and explained why and the professor was like “that’s just camaraderie, intimacy, affection not eroticism” as if homoeroticism is only and strictly about overt sexual desire and went on to describe their “bodies weaving together” and I was like wait wtf that’s just gay. But she was adamant like “no that’s incorrect” which was annoying as fuck so congratulations you old bitch im gonna go write multi chapter Quint/Hooper Jaws slash fanfiction You and your thick headed love hating skepticism are responsible

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Jaws is literally about (a shark but like) men in a hypermasculine cultural setting (ships/at sea) struggling to find ways to be intimate with each other, ie it’s Brokeback Mountain on a ship

pinkfairyarmadillo

its literally about things we fear beneath the surface….. your prof is dumb you should teach the class

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“have you ever considered that maybe werewolves and ghosts [sharks] are just distractions to keep you away from what really frightens you?”

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“Yet sometimes one trembling star comes in the clear sky and makes me think the world beautiful,”

— Virginia Woolf, from The Complete Works; “The Waves,” published c. 1931

badjokesbyjeff

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obstinatecondolement

I wonder when exactly it was that Star Trek stopped being perceived as light, fluffy, not-really-legitimate sci fi that ~housewives~ liked and started being seen as serious nerd business that girls had to keep their gross cooties off.

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Also when did the Beatles start to be remembered as rock legends rather than a silly boy band teenaged girls liked?

schumie

When men decided they liked them.

startrektrashface

this is seriously exactly how it happened. Women were actually the first rock and roll ‘critics’ because they would write in to women’s papers and magazines to share and discuss what their kids were listening to when men still thought it was trashy teeny bopper music. once it became a lucrative, mainstream genre men shoved women out of the space. Men also tend to be gatekeepers once they move into formerly female spaces - early trek fandom was incredibly open and inclusive; women would set up fan get togethers in their own houses to discuss the show or invite the actors to visit before conventions became a thing, and then were huge in organizing the first conventions - but now the stereotype of a trekkie is a nerdy white dude who scoffs derisively at casual fans and newbies with his encyclopedic and pedantic knowledge of trek

changelinglili

I propose we call this “mentrification”

shiralipkin

YES

rosalarian

MENTRIFICATION that’s genius

roachpatrol

by the way every single man i’ve ever explained this to is completely boggled to hear about it. they genuinely don’t fucking know. they’re always like ‘okay name a field this happened in’ and you’re like ‘beer. writing novels. gynecology. computers.’ and they’re completely fucking distraught. men didn’t invent beer???? men didn’t invent everything?

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We can also witness the reverse happening, where women move into a space and suddenly it is deemed weak or unimportant. Some examples are teaching, nursing, and psychology.