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[brainrotallthewaydown1312]

locklyle is hilarious because he fell first and he fell harder, but that's genuinely impressive because she went fucking insane. and they are both oblivious despite being a genius detective and a once in a generation spiritual genius. how did they manage all that while living under the same roof

[sailforvalinor]

Weightlifting Fairy is a lot of things but one thing I appreciate about it is that Joon-Hyung in most situations seems pretty mature for his age, but the moment he lays eyes on Bok-Joo, he goes “I was born to annoy that woman,” and proceeds to become the most irritating man on the planet when in a 20 foot radius of her. And it’s so dang funny

[yeehawpim]

top 3 mentopolis finale moments for sure

[dizzybevvie]

Beverlys the little guy ever. He's a boyscout. He has songs prepared for every scenario. He calls his parents "Sir" and "ma'am". He collects teeth and father figures. He charms old women into giving him information. He can only cast spells with a visual aid. He is the youngest in the group. He has tinnitus. He is a flaming homosexual. He is the only one with the ability to read. He is way too rich for his own good. He is physically unable to do the easy thing. He tried to prank an all-knowing god. He's got the flattest ass in Bahumia. he is my best friend

[what-even-is-thiss]

You know the Grimm version of Snow White makes more sense than most versions if only because in that version Snow White was like 7 years old.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Like imagine you find a 7 year old in the woods and she’s like my mom is gonna kill me because I’m prettier than her and she’s not kidding. You know this queen is that sort of person. So you and your roommates adopt the kid and tell her don’t talk to strangers. And she keeps talking to strangers and getting poison combs stuck in her hair and whatnot.

Like yeah that’s kinda stupid but also she’s seven. She likes apples.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Also imagine it from the hunter’s perspective. The queen tells you this bitch is prettier than me I need you to take her out in the woods and kill her. And then you see who you’re supposed to kill and it’s a 2nd grader. Like how are you supposed to react to that sort of situation? Kill a human child? No. Because you’re not a brainless evil minion you’re just some guy dealing with a cartoonishly evil monarch. Of course you let her go.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Bad look for the Prince of course. Even if she did age while she was in that glass case. He saw a dead woman and just decided to keep her. And once she stopped being dead he was like we’re married now

He did cause the evil queen to dance to death in red hot shoes though. That was kinda cool.

[thedupshadove]

With the acknowledgement that I'm grasping at straws, is it ever directly confirmed that the Prince wasn't also 7?

[thedupshadove]

See, I think that still works.

You are the guardsman assigned to protect the eight-year-old Prince. You are currently in the middle of the forest because he absolutely had his heart set on "going hunting", and the royal second-grader should definitely not be traipsing around the woods on his own. You let him go a little on ahead and he comes running back talking about how there's a dead girl in the clearing and there's no-one else around and he wants to take her home because she's really pretty, Hans, and she's all alone!

You let him drag you to said clearing and okay, that is one angelic-looking dead child alright, and on the one hand the quality of her clothes and the craftsmanship on the coffin (who builds a see-through coffin?) speak to potential Consequences if you simply carry her off, but also for the amount of vines that have grown on the coffin she looks extraordinarily un-decayed, so you should probably get the court alchemist's opinion on that, and there's no way he's going to come all the way out here in his embroidered velvet curly-shoes. And also this kid is technically assigned by God as your natural superior, or something.

So fine. You hoist the coffin onto your shoulder (it's not like the Prince can do it. He's eight.) and head back toward the castle, Prince chattering blithely all the way. And then you turn your ankle on a rock and suddenly there's a thump and a cough and a lot of shouting from inside the coffin and you have now become a key player in a tense political incident with the next kingdom over.

You should probably ask for a raise.

[littlecofiegirl]

[lithiumseven]

My absolute favorite series of Taskmaster are the ones where one of the contestants is a friend of Greg’s and they just spend the entire season dunking on each other

[taskmastersource]

+ bonus, Lucy's reaction

[sketchlm]

Watching both Critical Role and Dimension 20 you can really see the differences between Brennan and his players versus Matt Mercer and his players, because whenever Matt does something fucked up they just sit forlornly like 🥺 and then Matt also looks back at them like 🥺

but whenever Brennan does something fucked up they'll call him every insult imaginable and he'll own it completely and straight up say some shit like 'gonna kill that dog 😜' without a hint of fear or hesitation

[kittyoverlord]

Dropout TV: "We consulted neurologists and other professionals for this season."

This season:

[dizzybevvie]

Beverlys the little guy ever. He's a boyscout. He has songs prepared for every scenario. He calls his parents "Sir" and "ma'am". He collects teeth and father figures. He charms old women into giving him information. He can only cast spells with a visual aid. He is the youngest in the group. He has tinnitus. He is a flaming homosexual. He is the only one with the ability to read. He is way too rich for his own good. He is physically unable to do the easy thing. He tried to prank an all-knowing god. He's got the flattest ass in Bahumia. he is my best friend

[emiko-matsui]

we NEED jake hurwitz to play a girl dnd character. women, as a gender, deserve that level of cringefail he brings to the table

[scottsumrners]

Diversity win! This unkillable possum is transgender!

[agentkatie]

so the neutrogena anti-aging companion mods are a blight on the landscape but some modders truly are doing the lord’s work

[desired-love-]

Astarion got polymorphed into a sheep mid battle and during the following cutscene this popped up 💀💀💀

[theharlotofferelden]

Genuinely loved the experience of being at camp for the first time and seeing all the companions with their tits out like they’re all gonna go clubbin or some shit

Then there’s Gale

Who’s just. So utterly swagless that his clothes smell like dusty old books. My man doesn’t give a fuck about the drip he’s getting his ass ready for bed

[your-resident-fangirl]

the harrow/gideon/ianthe dynamic at the end of harrow the ninth is so funny to me. ianthe thinks shes in a live triangle with harrow and gideon only for gideon to show up and be like WRONG. your competing with ANOTHER dead bitch and we're BOTH losing get over it loser. meanwhile harrow thinks she has two dead wives and a work colleague (they are BARELY even platonic *scoff* <- harrow voice). truly unparalleled

[funnytwittertweets]

[charlottan]

[grison-in-space]

Okay but no like–if you’re a sessile organism (i.e. one that does not move), you still have to be able to adapt to changing environmental conditions, including potentially dangerous environmental conditions like fire and drought. Plant behavior, then, is a whole growing behavioral ecology field that studies how plants do change their behavior and physiology in response to their environment–without ever moving on a scale humans can see in the moment. (There are also sessile animals, like anemones and bivalves and barnacles, and plant behavior often pulls from studies of the way that these sessile animals respond to threat and danger by changing their behavior, too.) Trees, because they are long-lived and will therefore experience a wide range of environmental conditions in their one spot before they die, have to be particularly adaptable to change.

So what does it mean for a plant to change behavior in response to a threat? What’s going on with that ethylene gas? What’s the threat?

Well, acacia trees (not Arcadia) are infamously dry, prickly, nasty little trees that aren’t worth eating to most species. They have one big predator: the mighty giraffe.

Pictured: an acacia’s worst nightmare. Oh, it might look louche and unassuming, but giraffes eat fucktons of acacia by preference! And they particularly enjoy snacking on the flowers–the plant’s reproductive organs! What’s worse, acacias traditionally protect themselves in Africa by getting too tall for herbivores to reach and leaves growing enormous thorns all over themselves at lower levels. Giraffes, those bastards, circumvent all those lovely spiky thorns through being tall enough to just casually lean over them and snacking away. The WORST. Even if the acacia puts thorns all over itself, not just at the top, giraffes will cheerfully snake through the thorns using their long, prehensile tongues.

So what can an acacia do to combat the giraffe menace?

Different species try different tactics. Several species, especially bullthorn acacias, carefully feed and host aggressive colonies of ants to attack giraffes and other predators to drive them away. The ant colonies also often helpfully attack all of the competing plants within a radius of the tree, freeing up resources for the host tree.

But more commonly, acacias respond to getting bits eaten off itself by pumping their tissues (especially the tender leaves and shoots) full of tannins. That’s the nasty thing that makes red wine, black tea, and coffee taste so bitter to many humans… and taste interesting and astringent to others. At high enough concentrations, tannins are lethal. Acacias are good enough at producing tannins that they’re sometimes farmed for the purpose. But tannins aren’t cheap, and if there aren’t any herbivores around, maybe it’s better for the tree to put more energy into making new growth. It’s best not to waste them, after all. So plants keep them in reserve and only start really shoving them into the foliage when those bastard giraffes (or other herbivores) start damaging the plant’s growth. That damage triggers ethylene emission, which is an important stress hormone in plants. The ethylene coursing through the plant triggers release of the tannins with which the plant hopes to drive off or kill those bastard giraffes.

Well, wouldn’t it be great to know when that bastard giraffe might be coming before it eats all your nice delicate shoots and precious flowers? That way, you could get a head start on producing your tannins and minimize the damage that the fucking giraffe can do before you either drive it off or kill it. So acacias–and other plants–have ethylene receptors not just for their own hormonal signaling, but also so that they can smell the ethylene produced by other trees getting currently eaten by hungry giraffes. Remember, those leggy fuckers move, so you’d best prepare for them before they can get to you. Plants being able to communicate with one another about changes in environments before any given plant actually has to fight the giraffe allows them to adjust to change on the fly even without being able to change location or position in response to circumstances. Because the ethylene is carried on the wind, then, giraffes will actually move farther distances to graze on acacia trees, especially trees that are upwind–and therefore haven’t had a chance to prepare for the coming of the giraffe before it starts tonguing away.

Anyway that’s how I just spent an hour rolling around in bed composing this reply instead of getting up to take my meds. *fingerguns* those bastard giraffes strike again!

[whetstonefires]

it’s absolutely valid in context but the phrase ‘giraffes and other predators’ sent me a place

[grison-in-space]

to an acacia tree, the lion is a gentle, perhaps even benevolent source of tasty tasty nitrogen droppings, while the giraffe is a fearsome hunter

what I’m saying is that everyone needs to take a plant’s-eye view of the world some time just to get some practice stepping out of our anthropocentric perspective and reflecting on what utter bastards giraffes can be

[heliophile-oxon]

“Remember, those leggy fuckers move” - sageacacian advice to a young acacia.