I think the greatest irony of my life is when the cafeteria at my college changed all the lights to blue bulbs for “autism awareness”, which fucked with my sensory issues badly enough that I could barely stand to be in the building
mary shelley: pours her heart and soul into the creature’s ability to eloquently express his deepest and most painful feelings to frankenstein through literal pages and pages of speech
modern media: makes the creature unable to utter anything but grunts and scary sounds
Actually im pretty sure he only knew french so thats true to the source material
there was some science that got done that involved putting a camera on a humboldt squid and
all i can think about is how fucking weird this must be for the squid??? like??? squid do not wear clothes, when left to themselves so how is this one adapting to its new clothes-wearing paradigm, how does it feel about this situation where it is now the only squid in a t-shirt and bodycam
shit, what do the other squids think? are they jealous that they didn’t get free outfits, or are they all roasting their buddy because he looks like a total dork now
I’m reminded of the ornithologists who discovered that banding birds with brightly-colored bands actually disrupted the mating season because female birds were attracted to males with colorful bands
what if these scientists have plunged the normally staid squid community into a maelstrom of unbridled sexual desire because one of them is wearing a shirt
“I’ve done a science!” You’ve gone and ruined a perfectly good cephalopod is what you’ve done! Look at them - they’ve got LINGERIE!
