GERARD DUBOIS Moby Dick
this is legendary because you as you go you see the photo itself and you’re “oh this is some symbolic / surrealist art” and then the TITLE hits you like a shotgun shell
In case you were unaware, Moby Dick is one of the foundational texts of cosmic horror. The White Whale is a god, maybe even The God. And Ahab Hates Him.
men are so privileged they dont even realized how oppressed they really are
@casualfruit nah say it with ur chest cos u truly ate
They are so right it hurts. I had to be careful about how much physical love and affection I showed my nieces because I am a man. So many times I had to rein in my joy at being with them and my pride in their accomplishments because too much would be creepy or some other bullshit. Hell for that matter any of the women in my life we have to have carefully restrained love for one another.
Let me love the people in my life whole and truly. Please, I'm fuckin' begging.
I've said it before and I'll say it again:
A departure from rigid, binary gender norms benefits all of us.
As a trans man, I decided what kind of man I wanted to be. I settled on "goofy-ass faggot" because conventional masculinity is so, so restrictive.
bunj can you tell me about an animal I've probably never heard of before, i wanna learn about a new weird ass animal that seems like it shouldn't exist, got any?
have a ningbing
one of the smallest predatory marsupials on the planet, found only in a tiny area of Northern Australia!
number one fingers biter, it's ningbing :)
Godsdammit. Of COURSE there's a real thing called the Ningbing. Of COURSE it's homicidal; of COURSE it's from Australia.
This is a good question! And the answer is: I think the community made up the 'Fritz' part. Pretty sure that's what his name is in Emesis Blue (which is, incidentally, the video that reached up from my Recommended list and violently dragged me back into this fandom, hahah).
But as far as I know, the only name we know canonically is 'Ludwig,' and we're not sure if it's his first or his last name.
HOWEVER:
This sign is featured in the Man vs. Machine map 'Rottenburg.'
According to the wiki, this is a blurb from the official update that included this map:
"The second of our Two Cities finds the mercs defending the Medic's vaguely European hometown of Rottenburg — a sprawling village famous for its centuries-old traditions of 1) chasing the next in the resident lineage of mad doctors out of town with torches and pitchforks whenever they swapped out too many super-charged baboon hearts,"
Huh. Interesting.
Now, this is just conjecture, but this implies two things:
Of course, it's also possible that he was unrelated to whatever local mad scientist there was when he was a kid, but he decided 'hey, I'd like to do that too' and then grew up to eventually take over the pharmacy for himself. There are plenty of mom-and-pop type places that are operated by someone whose last name isn't actually on the sign.
So until Valve says something, we don't really know what his last name is - this is just an extremely strong hint.
For the purpose of this blog, though, his name is Dr. Ludwig Humboldt. I haven't yet decided what Misha's last name is.
Speaking of Misha... apropos of nothing, but here's a shot from the supply room in the same map.
(Hahaha floating syringe. Why is it floating? Because players aren't supposed to be able to look at this room from this angle. When viewed from above, you don't notice it's floating.)
Anyway, I saw someone else once point out that our boy Ludwig is fucking obsessed with making diagrams of Misha. He studies him like he's the perfect specimen.
What's that? You want a close up of the diagram? Of course!
"This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like." -- Ludwig, probably
Anyway, as you can see, we unfortunately can't read the text when we zoom in. But I do have to note that it is hilarious that the ammo pouches and bandolier are part of the diagram, as if they're an essential part of his anatomy. That is also literally just an A-posed model they loaded in and slapped a skeleton on top of.
I choose to believe Ludwig made this diagram in Blender himself.
FYI, the Anatomy of a Heavy poster was an official piece of merch! I owned it at some juncture, it may yet be around here somewhere.
I haaaaate the “call drag performers by their government names” trend
Yeah, don't do that.
I am floored by the contrast between this artist's obvious skill and determination, in that they were chiselling into solid stone, and their utter inability to draft stuff in charcoal or something first.
Anyway if you see this you have to reblog and tag with a delight from ur day -- even the littlest thing counts
Part of a series of queer and trans prints I'll have available at this weekend's Pride market, and then in my shop after.
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Peer reviewed tags from @honestlyvan
It kills me that Remsen went on to write a book on theoretical chemistry!
Can sit on the bus like a human person:
Noisy neighbour:
Weird vibes squad
Physically impossible seatmate
The readers of the world just need more unholy perversion and distressingly specific surgical scenes in their AI-generated romance novels.
Trying to define "moral" or "proper" or "correct" forms of sex is a losing proposition, and always has been. Whether you define it in terms of what people MUST do or what they CAN'T do, there is always going to be someone out there who's into stuff you never thought of, and would probably rather not consider long enough to figure out where it fits in your standards.
Which is to say, I just posted a fic in which Medic gives Spy a consensual, recreational, strictly temporary sex change.
If you like the word “queer” reblog.
Behold: the queer community
Yeah, I definitely wasn't done with the .blend file I used in my first post. Doktor is more forceful than Misha expected!
I headcanon that Misha would normally move pretty slowly in a blooming relationship, but Ludwig isn't the least bit shy about immediately speedrunning it the second he sees that Misha might be open to it.
Like, "I've been shoulder-deep in your chest cavity on multiple occasions, why should it be such a surprise that my lips are now on yours?"
Well, thoracic surgery is at LEAST third base
