Grimble Gramble

Not Those Bears (I'm 26 he/him)

[desolendate]

im literally in tears what the fuck

[all-mammal-creechur]

Few-toothed Rat Paucidentomys vermidax

A shrew-rat from Sulawesi, Indonesia. The rat has no molars and only two upper incisors, an adaptation to its earthworm diet.

image by Jacob Esselstyn, et al.

[a-book-of-creatures]

Wait so it has only -

Oh. Oh.

[offshoreoilrig]

They need to invent jobs that it makes sense for 27-30 year olds to have

[feministism]

[klapollo]

almost seven years deep into the 2020s this feels less like a retrospective evaluation and more like a prophetic vision

[pitbolshevik]

cool animal meme dude hey just wondering why is that fennec fox in somebody's living room

[pitbolshevik]

"it's just a meme let people have fun" NO. you WILL learn about wildlife trafficking and its role in the exotic pet trade

[fluffydogbutts]

[192929020202020]

[orthoscheme]

there are more weird small brown mammals than you could ever ever imagine

[orthoscheme]

You dont know this one

[dickstolebyanalien]

hot ones seems tailormade for a hitman mission. important person eating poisonable food in public, bald guy to impersonate, its all there. presumably some kind of clockwork dollhouse of employees to surveil and subvert somewhere offscreen in the black void

[project-catgirlpiller]

[389]

[forest-woman]

[laurierrose]

we need to start legally protecting these like make this kind of bathroom part of the national park system

[retroscifiart]

In the late 1980s & early 90s Syd Mead released a series of calendars featuring his work. These are some of the images from the 1989, 1991 & 1992 Syd Mead Oblagon Calendars

[thestuffedalligator]

Human Is is a 1955 Philip K. Dick sci-fi short story where a guy goes to another planet for work and when he comes back to Earth his personality has flipped from an asshole to a sweet, kind, considerate man. Everyone's immediately convinced that an alien has taken over his body, this goes all the way to court, and in court his wife testifies that she's noticed no changes at all and so the charges are dropped.

And then there's a bit right at the end of the story as the wife and the husband are walking out of court:

Jill turned abruptly. "What is your name? Your real name."

The man's gray eyes flickered. He smiled a little, kind, gentle smile. "I'm afraid you would not be able to pronounce it. The sounds cannot be formed..."

Jill was silent as they walked along, deep in thought. The city lights were coming on all around them. Bright yellow spots in the gloom. "What are you thinking?" the man asked.

"I was thinking perhaps I will still call you Lester," Jill said. "If you don't mind."

"I don't mind," the man said. He put his arm around her, drawing her close to him. He gazed down tenderly as they walked through the thickening darkness, between the yellow candles of light that marked the way. "Anything you wish. Whatever will make you happy."

And I. God. There's something there. A soupcon of monsterfuckery. To tell your partner in a moment of intimacy that yes, you're something so inhuman that the lips you're stealing can't speak your actual name. You're a parasite that not only had the ability to burrow under this man's skin and take over his life, but you were so desperate to escape a dead, dry, blasted planet that you did.

And for your partner to then turn around and go "I know, I've always known, and I love you" is just. God I know it's not a great Dick story but something about it is making me lose my mind

[inthefallofasparrow]

It was adapted into a TV episode with Bryan Cranston.

[cameoappearance]

[kosmogrl]

they weren’t kidding when they said the only way out is through

[lookcaitlin]

[behemothhecatombe]

Christian Broutin

[girlkaramazov]

just helped an old old man log into his outlook account and we succeeded and he said “young lady, go in peace. we have accomplished this mission.” what an electrifying way of speaking…