#afraid of mice

[paintermagazine]

‘Run free, run wild!’

So says: Marilyn Monroe

Beverley Hills (May 1950)

[noisyghost]

a little ref sheet for my tav, Wander (they/them) :)

theyre the scariest looking guy youve ever met but are actually just a pacifist minding their own business (their business is talking to birds)

[notonlymice]

peasants!rumbelle au moodboard

[mleprae]

I brought this up a few times, but one of my leprosy tidbits that fascinates me is how it affects mood and libido. Good chunk of some christian faiths didn't take kindly to leprosy, which may be rooted how many skin diseases were associated with terrible sins at the time, mostly sexual, a lot of texts we have of those specific parts were painting victims in a terrible light.

Especifically how leprosy turned people into monstrous violent rapists, those descriptions where mostly ignored by modern medicine researchers, because it obviously came from a group who didn't have the best intentions in mind.

Except that, the same description kept showing up in several texts, from different times, cultures, places, my favorite one has to be from a byzantinum physician who put it "A raging desire of Aphrodite, and a spontaneous periods of weakness." // "Lepers are especially desirous and burn for intercourse, then feel themselves weaker than normal." And at what point do you get so many descriptions of the same thing and go "Maybe we should investigate?" Because no one did, for hundreds of years!!!

And turns out... turns out... they were right!!! All along!!! Because you see, because leprosy is a dynamic disease, symptoms can get worse or better really quickly. One of the sites of predilection for leprosy is the testicles, so SURELY. SURELY. *grabs you by the shoulders* it affected testosterone production?!? *starts violently shaking you* the hormone that increases your libido and gives you mood swings??!? WHY DID NO ONE CHECK SOONER

Leprosy can "block" the production of testosterone, and because the body is a Beautiful Machine, it starts producing more LH, which stimulates the production of sex hormones, but because the way is blocked, the LH accumulates. When leprosy "relapses" all of these LH that have been building up, rapidly turn into T, causing mood swings, increased sexual desire, this peaks way more than normal T levels for the average person. I'm not sure why it causes people to be tired after that peak, maybe it takes a toll on the body, or that the hormonal levels stabilize right after which is lower than the peak. Either way, Messed. Up.

[girl-hemingway]

hey! congratulations on being in my dream last night (???). you began posting your opinion on various household snacks and objects as well as different international landmarks and animals?

woke up (inside my dream) to roughly four hundred posts in the last five minutes, all of which were simply 1-10 ratings of things like pretzels.

i don't know if this information will mean anything to you as i am still sleep deprived but i hope little mice and rats bring you just as much joy irl as they did in my dream

favorite snacks

ritz crackers (classic, salty, crunch without having Chips effect)

chocolate covered almonds

baby carrots (with hummus)

diet coke (222ml can for maximum crispness)

least favorite snacks

any sort of fruit-based candy (i'm not a child)

chips (might as well just have ritz crackers)

fruit-based drinks that are not juice (just have juice)

real life carrots (too big and feel like rabbit)

[sofipitch]

*In Gideon the bone construct has many legs and a scorpion tail, in HTN there heralds are bees, in NTN the heralds appear moth-like. I think this means we'll probably get more big bug monsters

[kismetconstellations]

Here I go, again... The ride just never ends.

Shiro's reaction to Allura sacrificing herself for him in Season One, when he was still a character who mattered:

Shiro's reaction to the exact same thing in Season Eight, when the writers had long since stopped caring about him:

Shiro's response to Ulaz, who he barely knew, sacrificing himself to save him, back in Season Two:

Shiro saying goodbye to one of his dearest friends, who saved his life and gifted him with his new arm, and the power source for it, in the final episode of the absolute disaster that is Season Eight:

[saltycharacters]

Klavier Gavin owning a ball python named Spätzle he adopted after an animal themed photoshoot for a magazine send tweet

[vampiresuns]

despite cecil palmer can be everything and anything, and this has always the ultimate sexyman potential, latin americans know that if Juan Carlos Bodoque made the rounds, he’d be the undisputed Sexyman King

[starlightseer]

My cat dropped a live mouse down the back of my jacket. I was trying to save it from him. Felt it squirming. Panicked a little bit.

[feral-renaissance-cat]

Hey guess who was cleaning out their files and found stuff from their film editing course?

This was the last of a three-part final where we had to take scenes from existing movies and recut them into short format videos, in this case into a theatrical trailer. When I saw Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield were on the list of available films my found-footage-loving heart couldn’t resist.

[paintermagazine]

‘These guys must be desperate!’

‘GAGS’ magazine (Jan, 1942)

Artist: C.C. Dell

[aforests]

back on my matt stone bullshit

[elllteo]

oooo he sawed the mouse :( scarey

[ OC, Matteo, He/Him ]

[la-vie-en-romano]

enjoying some last few minutes of rat company before leaving for the airport

here in portallini we're so popular that it's no longer "OH MY GOD ITS CARLO ROMANO" its more of a "hey its carlo romano!"

but i have a feeling the frostfield airport will be... loud

[lulue-xie]

Long story short but I have a phobia over monkeys, I told it to my coworkers and now one of them always make fun of me for that ???

I know it's strange but I can't control it so hm