Hidden Lacuna

Amusing myself among the muses

[kropotkindersurprise]

you know how it is

[bending-sickle]

“The leopard sharks mating on the seabed.” & “The leopard sharks mating near the surface.” Credit: researcher Dr Hugo Lassauce-University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC)-Aquarium des Lagons

^ First ever recorded video of wild leopard sharks mating (here, two males and a female) off Caledonia, an archipelago in the south-west Pacific Ocean. “It was over quickly for both males, one after the other. The first took 63 seconds, the other 47.” “Despite their broad range, their wild mating behaviour has remained largely undocumented until now, with most research carried out in aquariums.” Read more about the event (and watch the video) here.

“Grab her by the fin” is a common mating position in many shark species, whereby the female is pinned down into position:

“Rough Love” by Kat Zhou, 3rd Place Marine Life Behavior for Ocean Art 2023 featuring nurse sharks

[hiddenlacuna]

Awww yeah get the shark smut on the timeline

[cheaphalloweencostume]

not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl... what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

[cheaphalloweencostume]

happy birthday devils sacrament. i wish you were never born

[feldfrog]

Imagine being one of the parents for the kids in the Magic School Bus class. Getting those field trip permission slips home every single night.

Like what, another one? Doesn’t she teach? This just says Inside a Dog

[allyourlife]

my fav calvin n hobbes joke and no one ever puts it anywhere

[queer-as-city-folk]

Remember the cup song??

[queer-as-city-folk]

I remember the cup song

[queer-as-city-folk]

It turns 20 next year

[janusisasnakeyboi]

this post is why I learned Cups from the 2012 movie Pitch Perfect was based on a song from 1931 called When I'm Gone that was reworked into a folk song in 1937 called Miss Me When I'm Gone, a cover of which was first recorded and uploaded to YouTube with the cup game as the percussion in 2009. please note that none of these years are 2006, twenty years prior to next year, 2026

[queer-as-city-folk]

That's because I lied!!

[knitmeapony]

I feel like this should be a net zero information post yet somehow I learned something new.

[almostarts]

François-Xavier Lalanne, ‘Troupeau D’éléphants dans les Arbres,” 2001,

Executed by Deroyaume Fondeur, Villers-sur-Port, France,

Comprising seven free-standing elephant sculptures and an octagonal center table,

Gilt bronze, Glass,

Table: 33 ½ (85.1 cm) high; 63 in. (161.3 cm) diameter?

Largest elephant: 20 ¼ in. (51.5 cm) high; 20 ¼ (51.5 cm) deep; 8 in. (20.3 cm) wide 1/8.

La rêverie, The collection of Sydell Miller,

Courtesy: Christie’s

[almostarts]

François-Xavier Lalanne, ‘Hippo Bar’, 1976-1996,

Bronze, 105 x 200 x 67 cm (41.3 x 78.7 x 26.4 in).

Courtesy of Kamel Mennour

[hiddenlacuna]

I love it

[almostarts]

François-Xavier Lalanne, “Hippopotame II,” Bar, 1978,

Patinated Bronze, Stainless Steel, Copper, Nickel Silver, Brass, Painted Wood,

100 x 200 x 80 cm (Closed) / 148 x 222 x 92 (Open)

[homunculus-argument]

Character concept:

A medieval European knight who's asexual, and being a product of his time, place and station, is also a complete dickhead. Being well-educated and passably good-looking, he has made a hobby out of the ideals of courtly love, charming and seducing impressionable noblewomen with absolutely zero intention to ever actually consummate the relationships, instead using them as excuses to also not engage in any other sexual activities. While the other knights think it's weird, it's not undignified or the wrong kind of weird to refuse to visit brothels because he's remaining pure and loyal to this one random bored and lonely married woman whose husband cannot prove anything that'd justify killing this guy.

The knight is just notoriously the most pure, chaste and virtuous rampant manwhore that anyone knows. His confessional priest has repeatedly told him to stop fucking doing this, to the response of "lmao no". The only person who doesn't either ardently love or madly hate this guy is a random stablehand who happens to look a lot like him, and has ploughed through an impressive amount of noblewomen who figured that he resembles the knight enough to suffice as a substitute.

[homunculus-argument]

I think "The Hangover" movies would work better as a whole movie genre. The beginning is always the same: group of friends wake up hungover as hell, to start figuring out what the hell happened last night. Turns out a lot happened. As a tradition of the genre, there's always an animal in the house that has no logical reason to be there.

But get this: The same premise every time, but in wildly different times and places. Victorian England, the gentlemen went fuckshit with some nice sherry, wrote some questionable letters, worked together to compose an absolutely idiotic thinkpiece essay and sent it to the local newsprint (the publishing of it must be stopped) and for some reason there's an ostrich.

A troupe of travelling performers in the late Kofun period wake up in the stables of an inn, and the main plot point is the little beast sleeping on someone's chest. None of them have ever seen a cat before, but one knows enough to tell that those are imperial pets, and whoever's fucking cat that is will both be capable and willing to kill whoever stole it. So they'd better fucking return it.

A Tepehuan group of youths find themselves way out of the place that they last remember they had been, for some reason someone's balls have been shaved and painted red, and the strange out of place animal sleeping at their makeshift campsite is some random swedish guy. The spaniards don't seem to know how the fuck he ended up there, either, but they clearly do not have a mutual language with each other.

[greykolla-art]

Every day I wake up and think:

“At some point Izzy realised how out of control things had gotten, and started putting himself in between Ed and the crew, as much as he could. Especially when Ed was too drunk/high to even know what he was doing. Cause Izzy doesn’t want the others to suffer more for his mistakes.”

“They are all bonded through shared trauma now.”

And every day I cry like a baby.

[ebookporn]

Some very good writing advice from Ira Glass.

[witchhammerx]

My annual Halloween greetings from the past.

[imnova]

@hiddenlacuna

[hiddenlacuna]

Mother!

[yourmortalenemy]

Via emeraldcitycomiccon on Instagram

Nathan Foad and Con O’Neill take a pirate terminology quiz. This video is a gem. Some highlights: they just keep making answers up, Con spends a little too long talking about nice ass, Nathan and Con spend almost the whole video so close to each other that Con questions if they look like “young lovers”. It’s exactly the kind of chaos you’d expect from these two.

[thememedaddy]

[yeahiwasintheshit]

Yup

[writing-prompt-s]

Most immortals become the angsty “everyone I have ever loved is gone” kind of immortal. You, on the other hand, instead took it upon yourself to be a loving presence to entire generations of your chosen family, because they are descended from someone you once loved long ago.

[inkskinned]

i hate the "meta glasses" with their invisible cameras i hate when people record strangers just-living-their-lives i hate the culture of "it's not illegal so it's fine". people deserve to walk around the city without some nameless freak recording their faces and putting them up on the internet. like dude you don't show your own face how's that for irony huh.

i hate those "testing strangers to see if they're friendly and kind! kindness wins! kindness pays!" clickbait recordings where overwhelmingly it is young, attractive people (largely women) who are being scouted for views and free advertising . they're making you model for them and they reap the benefits. they profit now off of testing you while you fucking exist. i do not want to be fucking tested. i hate the commodification of "kindness" like dude just give random people the money, not because they fucking smiled for it. none of the people recording has any idea about the origin of the term "emotional labor" and none of us could get them to even think about it. i did not apply for this job! and you know what! i actually super am a nice person! i still don't want to be fucking recorded!

& it's so normalized that the comments are always so fucking ignorant like wow the brunette is so evil so mean so twisted just because she didn't smile at a random guy in an intersection. god forbid any person is in hiding due to an abusive situation. no, we need to see if they'll say good morning to a stranger approaching them. i am trying to walk towards my job i am not "unkind" just because i didn't notice your fucked up "social experiment". you fucking weirdo. stop doing this.

[wilwheaton]

The women who write Shit You Should Care About coined a term for this: Panopticontent.

In a Panopticon, the prisoners never know if they are being watched, which is psychological torture, and prohibited under international law. It follows that, if we are in public, never knowing if or that we are being filmed for something that may end up being viewed by millions of people, with all the risks that sort of thing carries, Panopticontent needs to be stopped. Probably the quickest way to curb it is to demonitize it, but that's never going to happen; companies like Meta have spent too much money trying to make it happen.

Late Stage Capitalism is the fucking WORST.