It's Only a Form of Insect Collecting

names are fake but you may call me Ro • my pronouns are in the eye of the beholder • over 18 • this is an aesthetic blog but only from 12 to 4 on mondays during the full moon • i do my best with trigger tagging but if you need something tagged then feel free to ask • header image by @chum-rum (used with permission)

[52stations]

i've got the kind of eyebags that make people in movies say 'you look like hell, detective. go home.'

[maggotsandcream]

Something I do find lovely about the first 4 Murderbot Diaries books (can’t yet speak on all of them) is:

Murderbot chronically finding new scientists/travellers to claim as “clients” (whether paid or not) like one of those sheepless herding dogs that goes around finding sheep (or anything else they can herd like a flock of sheep). Like it clearly has a protect humans instinct and a desperate need for enrichment.

Given its general lack of self awareness and unreliable narrator status, there’s no way in hell Murderbot is aware it’s doing this.

[silas-lehnsherr]

Murderbot: I just want to be left alone to watch my shows. I care nothing for these humans. I hate having clients.

Also Murderbot: *noticing unaccompanied humans that have nothing to do with it at all* Oh look, clients.

[refurbishedconstruct]

a rogue SecUnit will see a group of scientists and be like “is anyone going to protect them?” and not wait for an answer

[alphacrone]

i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.

[itsalwaysdark]

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

[dk-thrive]

The tree that keeps on giving. Yesterday, a Barred Owl. Today, Juvenile raccoon cubs. 9 am. 87º F. July 2, 2026. Darien, CT. (@dkct25)

[decomposedmaw]

Pixel post dividers for everyone! It's not much, but feel free to use them if you'd like. I don't know the ideal size for these, so let me know if they're too tall. I can make them a bit shorter next time.

[bumblebeebats]

Hilariously cisgender question from this counseling screening thing im filling out, lmao. Like, I know what they're getting at, but... this opens such a philosophical can of worms. Did i have a Gender when i was born? Does gender start at conception? Without remembering the events of my own birth, how can i be certain that I didn't quietly identify as a ze/hir from ages 0-3 months? much to think about

[linecoveredinjellyfish]

the author of this linguistic anthropology textbook hates noam chomsky so much

[linecoveredinjellyfish]

i can feel such frustration bleeding through these paragraphs

[linecoveredinjellyfish]

the author of this linguistic anthropology textbook hates noam chomsky so much

[friendlyfrankenstein]

the scariest thing about old tv isnt really the racism or the sexisim because you kinda go in braced for that it's all the scenes where suddenly an actress is holding a lion cub or a chimpanzee is in the same room as a toddler, or suddenly theres a lion, or there's a chimpanzee again but it's driving a car, or holding a lighter, or holding fireworks. You just kind of watch in horror as over and over an actress performs with only 1960s tv film shootings best animal handling between her and the opening to Nope.

[retroactivebakeries]

[kiradical]

This is how I learn that the famous chimp my dad got my nickname from tried to kill Reagan. Fuck yeah.

[toroidalearthtruther]

"less is more" is a lie perpetuated by big small to sell more less

[perkyshelley]

chose a hill but i won't die on it. feel free to come and be killed on my hill

[iphigeniacomplex]

just got a call from the american psychiatric association. you old dogs, i said, picking up on the first ring. how many times i gotta tell you to lose this number. i don’t want you coming around here anymore. “listen, toots, we’ve been doing some thinking,” they says, and i says, guess there’s a first time for everything. “you’re a real funny dame, sugardoll. reviewing criticism, we’ve determined that the biggest issue with our previous diagnostic and statistic manuals of mental disorders is the anonymity of it all. we’ve been circling around a vague figure of the mentally well without defining the traits of a mentally well person. there’s no personality. what we need is a cute broad with a couple opinions to model the psychological norm.” so i’m saying back up and give it to me straight: i’m the new standard of sanity? can i get that in writing? and they say, “as the american psychiatric association we hereby state that you are the baseline and any deviations from your personality are deviations from the very concept of sanity, at least in the united states psychiatric system.” they’re making it public tomorrow. it’s a nice gig, if you really want to know. never thought they’d let a woman do it.

[tiktoks-for-my-besties]

[alexaloraetheris]

My favorite brand of people are musicians who hear Rush Fucking E, which isn't technically meant to be played by a human at all, and immediately picking up their instrument and going 'bet'.

[finalgirlabigailhobbs]

cannibal chappell roan: you can put a hundred boys in jars

[finalgirlabigailhobbs]

vehicular manslaughter chappell roan: you can hit a hundred boys with cars

[finalgirlabigailhobbs]

medieval torturer chappell roan: you can coat a hundred boys in tar

[balaclava-trismegistus]

[Getting so angry it makes my brain disease worse] people sre supposed to be nice..

[necrowyrm]