#someone had a rabbit

[tartppola]

corn plate moment but is he wearing a mechanics uniform under that jacket 🤔

[arachnecisms]

Ok but the Brachypelmas are slow growers so if you get small or even medium sized slings you could absolutely house them all in deli cups in a 5-10gallon tank.

My four most recent purchases are all in 2oz takeout sauce containers. 2 brachys and a curly hair, a Cyriocosmus leetzi who won’t need more than a 4x4” cube on adulthood.

You can see the leetzi in the second one from bottom all splayed out on the right.

I stg you haven’t lived until you have created a functional enclosure in which your spider enjoys the vaulted ceiling of the single small leaf it’s hiding under.

Slings can be teensy. I probably won’t need to rehouse these guys for months and months. In fact I will bet I will need to rehouse the dwarf tarantula before I need to rehouse the Brachypelmas or curly hair.

You can definitely make a small single aquarium work for a while, just not for full grown, non-dwarf species. But let me tell you, the dwarf species are rad and should not be dismissed.

Behold my pretty. Dolichothele diamantinensis was my first tarantula and while fairly fast, with prep and research and a solid handle on how to successfully rehouse bolty spiders, they are amazing. I don’t handle and don’t plan on it, for fear of injuring the spider. But look at this gorgeous tiny T! It’s so so pretty! And this is about as big as it will get if it’s a male. If it’s female probably a smidge bigger. Closer to 3” dls.

I caught the tarantula keeping hobby itch but im only allowed ONE tank in graduate student housing.

i want. a shelf. of spiders.

someday. someday i will have this shelf.

[seaghosst]

i lied btw i made four swords so i could project my music taste on to my fav characters /j

they’re listening to caroline by concrete blonde

(masterpost)

[wyrddogs]

Something something just because the dog isn't flashy doesn't mean it's not driven. Just because it's not screaming doesn't mean it's not in drive.

Just because the dog is best suited for trailing, locating, and flushing game and thus rarely gets to participate in killing game, doesn't make it less important than the team members who are better at killing. The killing might be the flashiest and most exciting part, but it isn't the most important part. The dogs that kill won't be able to do that if the dogs that flush don't put the game into the position to be killed.

Grumbly venting brought to you a conversation with someone who thinks the actual kill is the most important part of hunting. And who thinks that only badass, hardcore, drivey, screamy dogs that murder are good hunting dogs.

[fictionadventurer]

Details:

1940s Hans Christian Andersen shorts: Intended as animated segments within a live-action film about the author's life, these would have adapted The Little Mermaid, The Fir Tree, Through the Picture Frame, The Emperor's Nightingale, and The Steadfast Tin Soldier. (Yes, I know we got adaptations of several of these, but I still want to share the concept art for old versions).

Gremlins: A film they worked on a lot during WWII but couldn't crack the story (or find money to make it)

Don Quixote: They tried to adapt the story in various ways in the '40s, '50s, and '00s, which is too long to get into here, but it led to some interesting concept art.

Chanticleer: A story about an arrogant rooster who thought his crow made the sun rise, and used this to rule over the other farmyard animals. Reynard the Fox was a villain who tried to take advantage of the discontent in the farm animals to take over as their leader (with plans to eat them), which leads to Chanticleer saving them and learning humility. Work started on it in the 1940s, and it was so close to being made in the 1960s, but they decided to go with The Sword in the Stone instead. Some of the animators loved it, though, and some of the character concepts were later adapted into Robin Hood.

Catfish Bend: I haven't found much about the story beyond "talking animals in the South", but the concept art intrigues me. It would have been released in 1981, but after it was shelved, some of the concepts went on to inspire The Rescuers.

Mistress Masham's Repose: An adaptation of T.H. White's novel, pitched in the late 1980s

Fraidy Cat: 2009 film about a pampered housecat named Oscar who is falsely accused of kidnapping another pet and has to team up with a cockatoo and try to find the real culprit to clear his name. Shelved because they figured kids and general audiences wouldn't understand the Hitchcock references (which seems like a terrible reason, but alas).

King of the Elves: Announced in 2009, it was a 3D animated film scheduled for 2012, before being shelved in 2016. Adapted from a Philip K. Dick story, it was about an ordinary man who saves some elves from a troll and (apparently reluctantly) gets declared their king.

Gigantic: A retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk set during the Spanish exploration, it involves Jack meeting an 11-year-old female giant who treats him like a doll, and eventually fighting much larger Storm Giants. Would have had songs written by the team from Frozen and was set to be released in 2018, then moved to 2020 before being cancelled because apparently they couldn't figure out the story.

[old-man-hell]

🧈🧈🧈

[brave-little-pauper]

Gotta love my 2023 animated films based on popular IPs starring world-saving New Yorkers that also explore the theme of family

(bonus for 2 of them being 80s properties involving brothers with Italian names and turtles)

[gatheringbones]

re: having to do a trauma disclosure when first getting involved with somebody.

it’s not a pass/fail thing. it’s always an education. you don’t “pass” if the conversation goes well and the relationship stays in place. you don’t “fail” if wires get crossed and you say the wrong thing and they say the wrong thing and everything falls apart.

the most important thing is to stay in your body and in the moment and to pay attention to what is said and felt. notice where both of you expand and shrink over the course of the disclosure. notice what happens to the story of what happened to you as you try to translate it into the moment.

the existence of trauma is one thing but there is powerful cultural conditioning behind how people respond to it— pay attention to whether or not you and your story are safe with this person, or if their conditioning and their reactivity leads them towards betraying your intimacy with their response. pay attention to what is projected and where. pay particular attention to feelings of shame/failure/dirtyness/ridiculousness/inadequacy and try to remember that the primary drive behind these feelings is to protect you.

pay attention to the role this other person assigns themselves in response to your story. do they affect what they think a professional therapist or trained priest or licensed judge would say? does their affect and energy radically change from what it was previously? does the change in energy make you feel warmer and more real, or singled out and pathologized? do you get the sense that your story serves some use for this other person, and if so, what does that actually have to do with you?

if you feel overwhelmingly negative feelings afterwards (which is only natural) what happens to those feelings in the week or so after the discussion when you subject them to gentle attention? do they soften and transform? do you learn something from them? is there some new insight that needs room to emerge? do you need increased levels of care to see you through this vulnerable period?

none of this is about finding the perfect and clearest and least problematic way to tell your story. none of it is about becoming normal and well-adjusted enough to date. it’s all a learning experience.

[puppyeared]

fuck it. plaguesona

[liquidstar]

support group for nerds who were rejected by their peers because of their hyper-energetic and reckless nature and, among other factors, this lead to a habit of escapism through fiction. only for them to eventually find themselves in a fantasy world, except that this world isn't anything like the story they envisioned. it's is far crueler and won't let them be the hero they always dreamed of, crushing their idealized fantasy. and because of shenanigans involving different forms of time travel they end up taking on massive burdens that weaken their mental state even further, and driving them into far worse depression than their former happy-go-lucky selves (even if part of that was a facade). this compounded with the guilt of leaving their parents behind, and the idea that they hurt all the friends they made along the way, they start to believe that the entire world would have been better off if they were never born to begin with. so they begin to feel that they can't be loved for who they really are, despite how much the people around them care. and at the end their arcs basically center around this idea of moving on from fantasy, growing up, and both understanding and being understood by others. and also have purple girlfriends with cats and a cute new non-human little sibling with parental abandonment issues

[golbiey]

team rose pencil case design that im nearly done and will be ordering before the end of the year!! ❤️

[wutheringmights]

also i really shouldn't have written stp because now i have a million ideas for spirit's adventures in new hyrule that I will never have time to actually write :((

[mr-babish-the-bunny]

Happy (belated) easter everyone

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

s2 episode 3 thoughts

here we go! this episode is titled "blood" which did not bode well for me, the girl who hates blood. but i am dedicated and pushed through in the name of our mission.

we open at a post office. sometimes, i think it would be fun to work in a post office.

but alas! our postman has received a paper cut. he licks it up which... can't be hygienic.

and then he immediately gets fired :( this is sooooo unfair

when he returns to his post his machine reads "KILL"!!! my first thought was that this was gonna be a little shop of horrors style thing where an inanimate object tastes blood and Likes it (Which is sort of what happened? but mostly not really)

((side note: need to see mulder and scully take on audrey two))

so it seems that the people are either being told by machines to do some killing or all the members of the town are experiencing collective hallucination...

mulder arrives. i was distracted by his fluffy hair. from the notes: "his hair is fluffy. he isn't saying much at this crime scene but his hair is fluffy"

! MULDER LORE REVEAL ! he played right field! (this was brought up when the policeman mentioned the suspect was on the softball team)

back to our post office friend, who is near a child with a random nosebleed whilst getting some money, and now the ATM is telling him to kill people

mulder points out that these are spree killings and not serial ones <-okay human embodiment of the nerd emoji.

it's a totally normal report on the crimes, no spooky stuff involved, and scully is reading it... until he mentions UFOs and she says to herself "i was wondering when you'd get to that" LMAOOOOO she knows him too well

we see a woman being lured into a dark garage by a mechanic and i thought i knew where this was going but i DIDN'T because SHE gets paranoid and the machine tells her the guy is gonna get her and she freaks out and STABS HIM

mulder arrives to the crime scene with a really funny looking camera. can anyone provide me more information about this camera? i'm curious

anyway, he shows up at the house of the woman who killed the mechanic, and we see another example of his bountiful social skills when he asks to come in and she says "i'm late for work" and he just barges in and says "you can blame me". i love this man so bad it's actually a problem. he WILL get inside of ur house.

but her microwave is telling her to kill him and she pulls out a knife and STABS him and i was yelling NOOOOOOOO! and then the cop he was with shoots her and VERY QUICKLY we get a cutscene to....

SCULLY AUTOPSY TIME!!!!!!

she thinks there's some sort of chemical that is making the people do this

we also see poor wet meow meow mulder's bandaged arm :(

back to the ex-postman, who is seeking new gainful employment at a supermarket in which there are guns for sale in the back, another reminder that this show is set in america. he starts to see evil things in the TV but resists (and it might be related to the blood drive at the store but? it's a little unclear tbh)

mulder running scene! getting his cardio in! the man is dripping in sweat! he sees a guy toss some stuff in a yard and it's... dead bugs?

so who does he take the bugs to? well, the weirdos who previously were consulted for another case: the conspirators at the lone gunman! famous for the one guy hitting on scully and ripping up her twenty dollar bill

so we're back to these freaks and he says he didn't see their latest issue because "it arrived the same day as my subscription to Celebrity Skin"

now, i had an educated guess here based on name alone, but needed to confirm what this "celebrity skin" truly was. a search brings you to an album by the band Hole, and i was like omg!!! we're gonna get an insight into his canon music taste!!!! there is nothing more i LOVE than learning a character's favorite artists <3

but, this cannot be... for the show takes place before 1998, when the album was released... so i dig further

chat, as expected, it is a porn mag. seems to have involved some unethical stuff. mulder: ur a sick man.

the even sicker man who previously hit on scully was like "where's your little friend?" and he counters with "she wouldn't come. she was too afraid of her love for you" and the weirdo responds with "she's tasty"

now i want you to buckle your seat belts for what mulder says next. buckled? secured? sat? everyone is in a safe position? okay. he says:

"you know, it's men like you that give perversion a bad name"

HELLO? hey. hi! quick question <3 what does that mean. mulder a freak confirmed????

(i mean i guess we DID already know he fucked phoebe on arthur conan doyle's grave, which is going to stick in my head forever, but. don't make it worse. sometimes he's such a Man)

anyway the weirdos at the lone gunman think it's related to pesticides. and then mulder asks to borrow their night vision goggles and the weirdest of weirdos is like "only if you give me scully's number!"

cutscene to him using the night goggles

(mulder, if you gave that creep her number, i will NEVER forgive you. so keep that in mind)

he's sitting in a field and it looks so natural, like he really belongs there. bring back sitting in fields. but then he breaks into the orchard and gets sprayed by some pesticides and thoroughly knocked on his ass

mulder's yelling at some guy to take responsibility for the pesticides that he thinks are killing people... a moral crusader serving on the front lines...

scully's here now, btw. she took his blood. which had to be a strange experience. and then she mentions that she FLEW 300 MILES in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT to come take his blood?

holy shit, mulder. she did that for you and you've been so broody and angsty lately and maybe even gave some dick her phone number. holy shit mulder, do not blow this. you cannot afford to blow this. she is soooo good to you.

anyway, he's seeing the same evil messages in technology the killers were now so that's a bummer

mulder proposes that this is some sort of subliminal messaging thing that is being activated by the fear-inducing pesticides and the cop gets pissed and leaves, to which he says "he's probably one of those people that thinks Elvis is dead"

so that's the SECOND line in this show about him being an elvis truther and i'm starting to think it's not a joke

back to the ex-postman. people are coming to his door to take blood and test for the chemicals in the pesticides and he's going bonkers. he's seeing "KILL" in his calculator, which is how you know things are rough. his watch even beeps and says "KILL" which i think would make a very very very very funny gif if anyone has that.

well, all of a sudden he's missing so the agents go to his house and knock. until.

scully realizes the door is open and just. lets herself in. i was laughing SO hard here. these bitches WILL get into your house. they will NOT wait for an invitation. truly a sign of soulmatism.

ex-postman was running running and they're like omg where is heeeeee he's gonna hurt people!!! scully is once again proving her genius status by saying that if it's a paranoia case, then all these guys in police uniforms need to get out of view.

(there's also this shot where mulder is like. smoldering. and she's behind him and man. height difference content i really really do love you and your work <3)

our crazed ex-postman climbs a tower at a college and is gonna start shooting but he's also hallucinating and laughing maniacally which i described in my notes as "entering his joker era"

mulder runs up and prevents a shootout using some handy jujitsu. neeeeed to see if this man is a black belt. for character driven purposes.

but he says that he knows the guy can't stop and overall it's an eerie situation because you can tell the pesticides are still in his brain as well. and his arm is bleeding again and this makes the other guy go into overdrive.

um. okay.

crisis averted...?

well, you sure would like to think that, wouldn't you? but the episode ends with mulder calling scully, and then HE sees more evil stuff in his phone! and it fades to blackness as her voice is heard through the speaker...

(i love that she knew it was him immediately. despite the silence. and that her train of thought went from "it's scully" to "mulder is it you?" to "mulder, what's wrong?" talk about a connection!)

hope he doesn't do anything too impulsive...

in conclusion: my very surface level interpretation of this episode was that it was warning us to not be controlled by technology, which i'm sure felt more relevant back in the day. but now that i have to click "don't sell my data" when i browse flavors of soup for sale online, i think we might just no longer be the target audience. or maybe it's even more relevant! an argument could be made both ways.

down with pesticides, though! i can get behind that! when's the last time you saw a bee? bring them back!

[jrmblob]

cut

thick tension in the air while str rummages through a box underneath the sink

j's on the edge of the bathtub, rubbing his knees together and making shy eye contact with himself in the mirror

he jumps when str turns around, he cant see what he's oh so carefully holding in his hand

str tugs at j's arm, it goes limp and lays flat on his thigh

"dont move"

j wants to move but he obeys, shutting his eyes as if he were on a rollercoaster

a sharp pain, only for a second

and then another

his eyes open, 2 timid slashes lie below his wrists, the first starts to show blood

j stands, covering his arm with his hand, he cant speak, str has a weird look

staring too deep into j's eyes, like he was trying to send a message, as if the cuts he gave him were birthday presents and they weren’t being appreciated

they both try to find the right words. j doesnt feel like its right, he should be mad, he is..kinda. but it felt nice, he guesses. he needed it. hes always kind of wanted it

str wants to do more, he wants to hurt with somebody, hurt somebody

j smiles, its coy. he reaches for the door, making eye contact with his savior

"thank you"

[chewie-santatoast]

I am so fucking upset!!!!

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