[fuck-customers]

[creekfiend]

gender essentialism is soooo funny bc it's like "this is what women are like" and you're like "I've met women and many of them, if not the majority, have not been like that" and it's like "well women SHOULD be like that" and you're like "why should women be like that" and its like "because that's what women are like"

[animperfectangelsblog]

[s-leary]

Amazing moments in Dads: my friend’s dad’s critique of Frankenstein was, “I just don’t think the author had read science fiction before.”

[ruusverd-fandom-blog]

I saw someone the other day say LotR annoyed them because "Tolkien didn't understand character classes, his character builds aren't optimized" as if Tolkien had character creation sheets and the D&D 5e on his desk when he was writing instead of Beowulf or the Song of Roland or whatever.

[narcissistcookbook]

"i've got no qualms about it" meanwhile i'm over here making qualm chowder

[klapollo]

i actually think it's scary that we seem to be forgetting what regular human beings look like and that in some cases it's being deliberately accelerated by incels and their esoteric mythology of appearance now that they have the cultural microphone. it's scary that i can watch a movie from like 1991 and be like "oh if this woman was cast as a leading lady today it'd be a culture war outrage session about ugly women being shoved in our faces"

[apolladay]

Noticed a trend at my last autism support meetup... Are you autistic and do you like alcohol?

Autistic and like alcohol

Autistic and dislike alcohol

Not autistic and like alcohol

Not autistic and dislike alcohol

Cannot drink alcohol button / Results

Remaining time: 6 days 9 hours

[blasesaint]

[sandmandaddy69]

[randomitemdrop]

Item: some sort of large rideable Jinsect (Jeans Insect)

[iliketurtles55]

(Sequel to ‘This memory is being forgotten’)

[ominous-signs]

Official somber sign

[albertnatural]

[creekfiend]

we need to be bringing back this type of fashion. there's so many fun variants we could do :)

[life-on-our-planet]

eepy mourning dove cupping its wings under its belly for cushion ©Ella

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Feels like a bad idea maybe

[variegated-fairywren]

everybody start complimenting brown eyes NOW ‼️

[tsunflowers]

I’m reading this book about the changing arctic and the author stayed with the Nunamiut people of inland alaska for a while and talked to this high school kid who was like “ugh I hate going to school in the spring I wish I was hunting caribou” and I thought that was charming. you often hear about people who are devoted to preserving their traditional culture and knowledge but it’s rare to hear about someone who’s invested in the old ways out of pure teenage selfishness. school is lame and hunting caribou is awesome

[lamignonette]

[toasthaste]

according to An Immense World, apparently giant squid eyes are, like, UNREASONABLY large, even for something their size living at those depths. the next largest eyes on earth, blue whale eyes, are less than half the size, and swordfish, who live at similar depths as giant squid and have the largest eyes of any fish, have eyes that could fit inside a giant squid's pupil.

eyes hit serious diminishing returns wrt resource costs vs vision quality as they get bigger, so the question became: what the FUCK do giant (and colossal) squid need to see so badly that they couldn't see with swordfish-sized eyes that's justifying that massive energy cost? that nothing else in the deep ocean needs to see so fucking badly??

turns out the one strength eyes that big really have over much smaller eyes is: seeing large glowing objects in water deeper than 500 meters from an appreciable distance.

sperm whales are the primary predator of giant squid. sperm whales don't glow. BUT! water that deep is full of bioluminescent creatures-- these creatures light up when bumped into. something a sperm whale's size is continuously bumping into those critters, it's just surrounded by a glowing field all the time when it's swimming at those depths, visible from a distance-- if you have the right eyes-- as a massive glowing shape. so basically the only reason to have eyes the size of soccer balls is if you live in the deep ocean and your life depends on having a heads up when a hungry sperm whale lurking around

and also I gotta say, the imagery... the huge lurking threat betrayed only by the ambiguous glowing shape of its movements through the water, is really evocative, if spooky deep-sea games aren't already using that to make things extremely ominous then they should really start