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hook / line / sinker

the first of probably more than a dozen spy-in-skirts pieces i want to do <3

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Hey, do any of you people remember that one tf2 comic where soldier is talking to a bunch of wooden cutouts thinking they’re real people? You know how it was supposed to be a joke about how insane Soldier is, unable to differentiate the inanimate from the alive? Am I the only one who lost my mind about the implications of that or am I going just as insane as him.

You can see how lazy I got near the end but I couldn’t be bothered to work on this anymore

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an old con gag that will always be funny is someone cosplaying spy from tf2 in a group of people and they've got a different cosplay taped to their face to blend in

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I FOUND THIS VINE AGAIN

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Grief

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What do it do??

observe

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mutuals are people u wanna eat bread dipped in olive oil with

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jesse pinkman themed pages in my journal

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Martin Luther King speaking to striking workers in Memphis

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Here's a key part of the transfemme experience that is very overlooked: when you don't pass, people don't actually see you as a man, or treat you like a man.

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reposting old su art i like..

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there's something so poignant about how similar Walt and Jesse's endings could have been. Out into a remote snowy town, armed with nothing but a new identity and the bare necessities. It's just that when Jesse looks off into the cold white landscape he feels free - relieved he doesn't ever have to be Jesse Pinkman again, grateful for a second chance to be anyone but himself, ready to entirely let go. But Walter...when he looks out into the blank distance I think he just feels loss. The loss of his future, of his identity as a chemist, of the reputation he spent so long building and then rebuilding. Ultimately I think it's Walter's ego always holding him back, his constant desire for validation and glory. Which is why Walt can't stay put, can't be alone, can't be separated from his identity. It's like Walt can't stand to imagine a world without himself in it but that's exactly what Jesse is desperate to do. Idk i just love how Vince Gilligan illustrates their completely opposing perspectives to what end up being very parallel circumstances. and as always, he uses it to reveal so much about his characters' motivations and feelings about themselves. I owe him my life lmao

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the sensation of power Walt must have felt the moment Jesse agreed to shoot an innocent man in the face at point blank range simply bc Walt demanded he do it is just ASTOUNDING. using Jesse's hands like theyre his own. using Jesse's body to carry out his will. knowing that he can just slip into Jesse's head and do whatever needs to get done. god entered my body like a body my same size etc etc

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I'm so fascinated by languages with different levels of formality built in because it immediately introduces such complex social dynamics. The social distance between people is palpable when it's built right into the language, in a way it's not really palpable in English.

So for example. I speak Spanish, and i was taught to address everyone formally unless specifically invited otherwise. People explained to me that "usted" was formal, for use with strangers, bosses, and other people you respect or are distant from, while "tú" is used most often between family and good friends.

That's pretty straightforward, but it gets interesting when you see people using "tú" as a form of address for flirting with strangers, or for picking a fight or intimidating someone. In other languages I've sometimes heard people switch to formal address with partners, friends or family to show when they are upset. That's just so interesting! You're indicating social and emotional space and hierarchy just in the words you choose to address the other person as "you"!!

Not to mention the "what form of address should I use for you...?" conversation which, idk how other people feel about it, but to me it always felt awkward as heck, like a DTR but with someone you're only just becoming comfortable with. "You can use tú with me" always felt... Weirdly intimate? Like, i am comfortable around you, i consider you a friend. Like what a vulnerable thing to say to a person. (That's probably also just a function of how i was strictly told to use formal address when i was learning. Maybe others don't feel so weird about it?)

And if you aren't going to have a conversation about it and you're just going to switch, how do you know when? If you switch too soon it might feel overly familiar and pushy but if you don't switch soon enough you might seem cold??? It's so interesting.

Anyway. As an English-speaking American (even if i can speak a bit of Spanish), i feel like i just don't have a sense for social distance and hierarchy, really, simply because there isn't really language for it in my mother tongue. The fact that others can be keenly aware of that all the time just because they have words to describe it blows my mind!

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I know a lot of people find it uncomfortable and invasive but I actually kinda love my head being manhandled at the barber's. Every time they tilt my head or move me to one side I feel like a docile sheep about to have my winter coat shorn off by a well trained farmer with strong but gentle hands

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WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PARASITE?

hmm. that’s really hard & I could probably provide more interesting answers for each type of parasitism

aside from silly parasitoid life cycles like trigonalid wasps, I really like greater honeyguides as brood parasites.

they are a funky passerine-looking woodpecker relative, and adults have developed a mutualism with humans in which the bird leads humans to beehives, and when the humans take the honey and leave the nest broken the honeyguide eats the larvae, pupae, and bizarrely the wax. they’d be a great bird for the wax-digesting alone, but…

they start out as really hardcore brood parasites. they’re plump little goblins with hooked bills that go around stabbing and biting to death any of its adoptive siblings (all while completely blind), leaving the host family with just the honeyguide to raise. their Biting The World behavior is so strong they’ll clamp onto human hands, as shown.

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Ohhh help help! I'm hurt need help...

FUCK BRIAN GET LOST...

Ohhhh I am hurttttt heeelp... 🐦