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how terrifying metamorphosis must be for the caterpillar has no concept of what it is doing, or what a butterfly is, or what will happen to it as it spins itself the cocoon. we r more alike than different

importantandunavoidable

there are parts of your future self in you waiting emerge but you have to become unrecognizable slime first

mossyquill02

Even cooler, recent research has determined (through classic conditioning of caterpillars) that these insects generally retain their memories from before metamorphosis into their new form!

svendryn

Holometabolous insects are super cool. There are also a lot of cells/tissues preserved during metamorphosis! There are neurons don't get fully eliminated during the process. They retract and prune some of their arbors but then regrow from a more immature state. The larval neurons also act to help the new adult neurons from similar origins to grown and develop into the adult neural circuits! The imaginal discs are some of the clearest examples of we have of how genetic and molecular patterns help coordinate the growth and development of complex limbs/appendage. Such a cool organ system.

ifanimaltrapped

cryhounds

TH GAY PEOPLE IN MY PHONEWHEN I DROP IT ON THE FLOOR

twilightofthesandwiches

Hey! Spin this Wheel of all Pokemon Abilities!

You now have this Ability in your real life!

How do you feel?

HELL YEAH THIS IS AWESOME

This is extremely great!

This is very good!

This is… pretty good

This… could be worse?

I feel utterly neutral about this

This has very strong upsides and downsides, feel conflicted

This is basically useless to me!

This… isn’t great

This sucks…

This is really bad, actually!

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

Voting ended onApr 11

twili-midna

a-really-bad-decision

Dragon age origins is like…. You’re nineteen, new in town, and it’s your second day at pizza hut. You don’t even know how to work the register yet and you just watched your manager get carted off by the paramedics. You have no contact info for him, his next of kin, or corporate. The only other employee is the guy who’s been here for two weeks and is a bit of a doofus, and neither of you really know what you’re supposed to do now. You both desperately need this job though, and the doofus at least has a drivers license and *kiiinda* knows how to use the oven so you just. Shrug, and start taking orders and making pizzas and praying to god that the bills are on autopay.

And weirdly enough you’re really good at this: making pizzas and dealing with shitty customers and breaking up fights in the parking lot and pretending to be Duncan’s cousin on the phone so the utility company doesn’t cut off the power. But running a store is a lot of work for two dumb kids, so slowly you start accumulating a bunch of competent weirdos to help out, like the nun who left her convent because god told her to help you make pizzas, and the elderly school teacher who just survived a mass shooting, and the guy the papa johns down the street hired to run you over. And really there’s no way any of this should be working as well as it is - you’re absolutely committing fraud of some kind here - but you’ve managed to dodge the landlord every time he’s stopped by, and the health inspector never shows up to tell you to stop letting your dog hang out behind the counter and you’re all still kinda looking at each other and asking ‘are we allowed to just do this?’ before shrugging again and continuing to make pizzas, until somehow, through a series of unlikely technicalities, your doofus coworker ends up on the ballot for governor.

And after like five months of this the regional manager wanders in out of nowhere and you’re sure he’s about to chew your ass out for this mess, but it turns out he’s pretty chill and honestly kind of impressed with how you managed to keep the place up and running all on your own. So now you’re all thinking ‘thank god, there’s someone here who actually knows how to run a Pizza Hut’ only for him to get hit by a car two days later on the night of the Super Bowl.

lowpolyanimals

Crypt Rat from Old School RuneScape

greatlordfluffernutter

you’re telling me THIS guy’s voicing Mario?

gatheringbones

[“A FAGGOT FABLE

Some faggots were more beautiful than other faggots. The beautiful ones only wanted to touch and be touched by the other beautiful ones. Orchard was the most beautiful of all and all the beautiful faggots wanted to touch Orchard. One day Orchard made himself ugly, very ugly. When the beautiful faggots saw what he had done. they wept and then they turned their backs on him and forgot him. Only the ugly faggots now wanted to touch Orchard. So he gathered them all together and took them to a mountain top where they lived in harmony and joy. As they learned to love each other more and more, Orchard and the other ugly faggots grew more and more beautiful. After many years they floated down from their mountain top down into the town. The beautiful faggots were astounded by these newly arrived creatures. The beautiful faggots wanted to touch them all and love them forever. But Orchard said, "No, you are too ugly for us. Go and love the ugliest faggot you can discover and then we will love you in return." So they left the town and did as they were asked to do, spreading the notion that to love the ugliest will make both beautiful. At last, one day, all the faggots everywhere were so beautiful that no one had to think about it any more. Now they all loved and touched each other with great pleasure and ecstasy."]

Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends In Between Revolutions, Calamus Press, 1977

burins

you can read the entirety of The Faggots and Their Friends in between Revolutions on the internet archive here! it's a good scan and you get all the lovely illustrations. the archive also has an audio version.

kumboochies

Only sluts and whores can reblog this

persimmonlions

brainrotdotorg

Pussy corrosive. Pussy explosive. I look at that pussy, it’s what I need a dose of. Pussy eroding. Pussy abrasive. I look at that pussy, it’s what I need a taste of. Pussy be stinging. Pussy be hurting. Pussy be sizzling when it’s supposed to be squirting. Pussy disintegrating. Pussy dissolving. Pussy turning heads, that shit is revolving.

brainrotdotorg

Pussy potent. Pussy persuasive. Pussy not local, that shit is invasive. Pussy feeble, pussy pathetic. This pussy ain't meta, this shit's diegetic. Pussy ambush, pussy boobytrap. Pussy equipped with a glock and a strap. Pussy not rude, this pussy's the meanest. This pussy's a pussy but it's also a penis

brainrotdotorg

Pussy flexible, pussy twistable, pussy compelling, that shit's irresistible. Pussy bewildering. Pussy perplexing. Pussy be cursing and pussy be hexing. Eye of newt and turkey gizzard, drink a potion from the pussy wizard. This pussy tells the truth, this pussy tells lies. Can you see through my pussy disguise?

brainrotdotorg

Pussy sopping. Pussy sweating. Pussy complicit, it’s aiding and abetting. Pussy disco. Pussy rave. Put that pussy on the radio waves. Pussy be zesty. Pussy be spiced. Serve up that pussy in a bowl with some rice. Pussy helter. Pussy skelter. I get more pussy than an animal shelter

draconym

Me: Fuck, the paper towels I want are on the top shelf.

The Sir David Attenborough That Lives In My Brain: Being smaller-than-average presents an added challenge to foraging ... but necessity is the mother of invention. A little creativity turns a baguette into a tool, and voilà--

(paper towel roll falls on my face)

Sir David Attenborough, pleasantly: Success.

thepapermice

Baby chimera

pooblet

@gemevieve @royalfirefly @pbscore

shutyourmoustache

La-HA! hit me like a fucking drug.

this is what every social interaction feels like when you’re neurodivergent

erinthebrave

I looked up the menu for the restaurant this is based on and i wanted to die.

toadstoolpal

i actually know abt cafe gratitude, u have to order by SAYING “i am [menu item]” it’s fucking insane

skzloona

googling this to laugh at the website and finding out that one of the 5 locations of this restaurant is 10 minutes away from where i live is the most horrific feeling i’ve ever experienced.

awritersrejections

the first time I ever met with a producer-level writer in LA, he told me to meet him at one of these places. I had no idea what I was walking into. the entire experience was fucking surreal.

the producer asked if I could taste the joy in my mushroom soup.

awritersrejections

the menu got an update—now they include the “I am” in the actual name of the thing :)

samwisestouthearted

I’m delighted to share with you all that because it’s 2025 so why not, they will right now sell you a $100 cheeseburger and fries with side of Labubu

elodieunderglass

Why big into energy labubu indeed.

burins

hello! it is my birthday. no other holiday happening today don't worry about it. if you would like to do something to celebrate, I would love if you picked a cause you care about. one cause! it's important that it only be one to start. find a local group that does good work and see how you can volunteer with them.

maybe your community fridge needs stocking maybe the community garden has a bunch of schoolkids coming to learn about tomatoes and they need extra eyeballs. maybe your park needs cleaning up. maybe your local refugee settlement organization needs translation help or court escorts or people to pack donations. maybe you are good at spreadsheets or talking to lonely old people or doing adult literacy or language tutoring. maybe there's a local bill or ballot initiative you really care about canvassing for. maybe an advocacy group needs AV help for a documentary screening. the world is hard and scary and it is easier if you have a concrete Thing you do to make your community and your world better that isn't posting. and this includes if you have a caring profession job that feels like a hamster wheel of despair! look for a volunteer gig where you just stack cans or pull invasive weeds or stuff envelopes for a few hours the satisfaction of a concrete visible accomplishment after a week of feeling professionally helpless cannot be overstated.

if you genuinely don't have any idea where to start and aren't super plugged into events in your community a volunteer funnel organization like Gay for Good is a good way to introduce you to a bunch of different orgs in your area! or tbh you can even check Nextdoor (I know I'm sorry I wish it wasn't ubiquitous) and see if anyone is posting about needing a hand. though even showing up once is better than nothing I do recommend trying to stick with one group or cause once you find a good fit rather than always doing the sampler platter- experienced volunteers are more effective, it's less overwhelming to stick to Your Cause (while still caring about connected struggles), and you'll build more community if you regularly see the same group every time you volunteer.

okay that's my soapbox. I can't currently leave the house very much and I miss my regular volunteer gig so so so bad!! this could be you (not the missing it. the having a fulfilling and meaningful thing you do that lessens the despair.)

beardedmrbean

theman

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

tattooedzombigirl

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

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