10.06.23 ©
what is like... the most on brand, stereotypical zodiac sign trait is true for you?
[1303/10977] Black-throated Flowerpiercer - Diglossa brunneiventris
Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Emberizoidea Family: Thraupidae (tanagers) Genus: Diglossa (flowerpiercers)
Photo credit: Jay McGowan via Macaulay Library
(guy experiencing the consequences of his actions) yeah i don’t know why these things keep happening to me i must be cursed or something
(guy who is cursed) yeah I'm sure all of these things that are happening to me are just the consequences of my actions
Theona Checkerspot, Chlosyne theona, family Nymphalidae, Canyon Lake, TX, USA
photograph by David Winchester
Anonymous asked:
How did people describe the taste of cilantro before modern soap was invented? Or did the cilantro-tastes-like-soap gene not exist then? (Writing a Socrates x Plato fluff fic)
im sorry youre writing what now
“Biquette the goat, sold to an abattoir after she stopped producing milk but was rescued by punks and then spent 10 years watching grindcore bands. Se could come and go as she pleased and, in the words of her rescuers, “escaped death, lived punk”. Absolute legend.”
Y'all wanna see a weird cucumber illuminati cup I found at the thrift shop?
Cucumber illuminati cup
brain: slartibartfast
me: huh?
brain: that was a dude from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, remember?
me: yeah, what about it?
brain: yeah
So obviously, the most obnoxious and useless sort of science fiction criticism is provided by angry dumb guys screaming into microphones about things being "woke"; but I also get annoyed by the people who insist on applying a sort of "roman-á-clé" reading, where everything in the story is merely a disguised stand-in for some real-world human political issue. Like, yes, obviously, sf is used for social and political commentary a lot of the time; but it's *also* used to just kind of play around on the frontiers of possibility. And it frankly seems kind of demeaning to the genre to pretend that its alien, its bizarre, and its inhuman features are necessarily just stand-ins for some mundane, real-world concept. Like, yes, clearly The War of the Worlds is about colonialism; but it's also about alien life; it's also about evolution and ecology; and it's also about "Wouldn't it be fucked up if THIS happened!?" And all of these are irreducible from the genre. Is your robot autistic? Well, maybe you can read it that way. Maybe it's a sincere attempt to imagine a nonhuman mechanical intelligence. Maybe it's both. Sometimes, you write a story strictly for "Wouldn't it be fucked-up if..." purposes and it ends up shedding a whole new light on the human condition; in fact, I think that, if you're taking your concept seriously, it should do this by default. But you have to take the bizarre on its own terms or you might as well be reading realism.
#exactly#i like sci fi because i like aliens and time travel and other dimensions and ecology#when people reduce it to ~this is all a metaphor for society~ im like. well that's not why im here.#the role of escapism is to escape reality and imagine other possibilities. so why would everything just be a standin for reality
What We Do in the Shadows (2014) dir. Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
