#fuck fire ants

[shailion]

SPRING IS HERE!

PROS: BUGS :D

CONS: BUGS D:

[olliesaurus-rex]

I wish all mosquitoes and fire ants a very Burn In Hell

[robbyykeene]

“She wasn’t forcing him in any way” YOU chose to show Robby so drunk he couldn’t talk and could barely stand. YOU chose to show Robby come out of that room and say he couldn’t remember what happened. YOU chose to show him stand there like a zombie unresponsive while she kissed him and then stumble away like he didn’t know what planet he was on. YOU chose to depict a situation where one party so obviously could not consent, and the other was acutely aware of that fact. Stop playing fucking dumb and admit you’re a pathetic rape apologist and move the fuck on.

[ecos-syscourse]

Imagine you're trying to get a gem (understanding) out of a hole covered in rocks (misunderstanding, bias, misinformation).

What would you do to get the gem out?

You take the other rocks (misinformation, bias, misunderstanding) out of the hole, maybe with a help of a shovel, that are in the way of getting to the golden rock/gem (understanding, person switching sides). Gently, because if the rocks bump into each other, it could damage the gem, and possibly break it.

What would you not do?

- throw a shovel at the hole

- unleash a horde of fiery ants at the hole

- laugh at the hole after attacking it

Now then, let's say the gem is uh. oh. my comparison to rocks doesn't work for this.

nono I'll roll with it

The rock is scared of being saved. This is strange, it's not used to being out of this hole. Being out of the hole is different. It doesn't make sense to them. They've always been in the whole, why would they leave?

The rock may paint itself a different color, to make you think that it is right to be in the hole. It may pretend to be dirt. To be something it's not.

It could try anything and everything not to be removed from its hole, even if it would be better for it to be out of it.

This is called a defense mechanism.

Or, that's what I'm pretty sure it's called.

When the gem is doing this, please treat it gently. Do not attack it with fire ants or a shovel. It may seem like it's not, but it is showing weakness.

It doesn't have any good defenses left, so it's trying it's best to find anything.

FOR THE LOVE, DO NOT HIT IT WITH A SHOVEL OR ATTACK IT WITH FIRE ANTS.

BE KIND.

IT IS SIMPLE: BE KIND.

IT TAKES ZERO FUCKING DOLLARS TO BE KIND AND UNDERSTANDING

Remember: you are trying to get the other person to change sides. not for the rock to damage itself. not for the rock to be buried deeper.

hitting it with a shovel will only bury it deeper.

fire ants and termites or whatever bug will break the rock.

[jtl-fics]

more importantly how would riko fit into camping setting this man never touched grass

LMAO Shoulda known this would be the follow-up ask from you my dear.

I know we talked about Riko and stars but I'm gonna write a lil bit about it. So more under the cut.

There was a time where the car that is taking Riko from place to place, media event to media event breaks down in the middle of the road. There's no cell service and it's just him and a driver. The driver heads off, swearing to be back with a tow truck or whatever assistance they need.

Riko sits in that backseat arms crossed and PISSED about what's going on. He's going to miss his media engagement, it's going to be a whole damn thing. Who knows how Master will react. He can't do anything because he needs his suit to be perfect for when he shows up fashionably late to the engagement and the interview.

Then an hour passes, maybe two, maybe three, and it's dark. He can no longer entertain himself by counting the stitches in the fine Italian leather seats like he'd been doing when he ran out of Exy strategies to think about and funny excuses to give to people who might not even know he's not there.

He climbs out of the car figuring he can count a few stars, make exy plays out of their formations if nothing else. It'll get boring just like the few times he and Kevin snuck up to the top of the stadium and looked at the muted stars. Staring up at the stars won't ruin his suit.

He looks up and the universe is greeting him.

He gets back in the car suddenly feeling overwhelmed by what he had just seen. Sits and tries to count the stitches (finite, with an end) just by touch but he keeps getting different numbers since his fingers aren't that sensitive anymore.

He takes a breath and climbs out of the car again and looks up. The universe greets him again and it's endless. He can't possibly count what is up there, it's bigger than him. He looks at his suit and knows that he's not going to be going to make it and he can think up a good story about why he's dirty.

He settles on the hood of the car staring up into the sky and he feels small. A car passes him and he doesn't even try to stop it too transfixed by the heavens above him.

A few more hours pass like this and he wonders if his driver just legged it fearing the repercussions of improper maintenance of a Moriyama vehicle. He wonders if he lives here now.

The car is kind of uncomfortable he looks to the side and thinks about laying on the grass and thinks about insects and worms and things beneath him. Small things that can be destroyed by him so easily right under his polished shoes. He's above them, high above them.

He looks up at the stars again and finds himself laying with the bugs in the grass.

It's nice.

[joelletwo]

i stood in a anthill. BADLY. i keep finding them on me 😭

[rudjedet]

though honestly sometimes i just need a forceful fucking reminder that a good part of the time my brain feels like it's been at the receiving end of an mummifyer's attentions because it's been understimulated for too long and i just need to shove some complex material at it.

[ants-personal]

sad that i was?am? friends with them for 13 years lived with them for 9 years and now just the knowledge they are near is enough to send me into a spiral

[rxttenfish]

honestly every insect or especially ANT metaphor when it comes to unknowable cosmic entities and humanity turns absurdly funny the second you know anything about insects.

like ah yes. pitiful meaningless humans in the face of cosmic terror. who nonetheless are the reason everything is the way that it is to eldritch entities and the reason to which they owe their existence, who nonetheless are some of the most irrationally feared animals to exist in contrast to their actual physical abilities, who have shaped the course of history and who will shape it evermore. animals which very suggestions to their form sends eldritch deities into a panic and utmost horror, despite how common it is, how widespread, how beloved the design is by creation.

and to add in the ant metaphor like these people have NEVER stepped in an anthill. like ants arent some of the most feared animals by every other animal in the world, like dedicated ant-eaters arent actually rather rare, like plants, even greater deciders of the shape of this world, havent befriended and built great homes for ants for the purpose of deterring every other animal which might bother them.

you know.

those insects. those ants. meaningless. helpless. worthless.

[scumpatrol]

ERIC NORTHMAN | S5E6 TRUE BLOOD

[shinkai-kaiju]

the south of the united states is evil because despite it being a beautiful day and me wanting to work on a screenprint and a linocut outside in the sun. i cannot lay or sit in the grass because you bastards have ants that bite and they dont even bite hard they just bite for the pleasure of it

[boycritter]

saw a HUGE ant on my leg and threw my phone across the room trying to get it off 😭😭

[succubi-tch]

I love when the people at my doctor's office are given one job (scheduling me with the right kind of goddamn doctor that they make me wait months to see) and I get a call the literal day of the appointment telling me "hey someone scheduled you with the wrong kind of doctor. Whoopsie"

[chopper-base]

My supervisor is having to add "spacial awareness" to our weekly meetings cause of me. Within the past month, I've ended up stepping on two different fire ant hills. Due to my work, he has to write an injury report for both.

For those of you NOT from the southern states of America (or whatever other countries you can find the motherfuckers) the bite literally feels like it's burning and it fuckin SUCKS! and the little fuckers CLIMBED UP THE INSIDE OF MY PANT LEGS-

I AM IN PAIN AND MY LEGS ARE BURNING

[gaylactic-fire]

The amount of mutuals I have to un-mutual bc they puttin proship slop on my dash

[ragnar0c]

Ignis lore is also equally as scary as Lope lore. Talking to him is like. Learning your father's lore. Unlike Alope, I THINK HIS LORE IS SOOO FUNNY.