I just watched The Conjuring 2, and while it’s on my mind in a similar vein to this post, I also want to spread some appreciation for Javier Botet because GOD DAMN LOOK AT THIS SHIT
He has Marfan Syndrome, which is a rare connective tissue condition that gives him bizarrely elongated limbs and allows him to do unnatural things with his body, and he’s built quite a resume for himself appearing in horror movies
Like Doug Jones, he also appeared as three of the ghosts in Crimson Peak:
But you may have also seen him as The Crooked Man in The Conjuring 2:
Eddie’s leper in IT:
The Nina monster in all three REC movies:
Set, the God of Death in The Mummy (2017):
The titular creature in Mama:
He did motion capture work for the Xenomorph in Alien: Covenant:
And he most recently appeared in Insidious: The Last Key and the Slender Man movie!!
He’s done other more obscure horror movies too but basically this guy is adorable and inspiring and an amazing talent and I adore him 8D
Anonymous asked: you should watch the original video of the gulper eel on the EvNautilus Youtube channel. The scientists' reactions are golden. They have a lot of fun videos tbh :)
“Is it engorged or is it…like that?” “Lookathislittleface!”
Gulper eels (also known as pelican eels) are such cool creatures. Their most notable feature is, of course, their giant mouth - but interestingly, they’re thought to mostly eat small crustaceans. Their lower jaw has a huge pouch of skin on it that looks like of like a pelican’s- hence the name.
Similar to how baleen whales gulp seawater and filter their prey out from it, gulper eels are thought to gulp mouthfuls of prey and water simultaneously into their pouch, and then slowly press the water out through their gill slits until they’ve got a mouthful of food to swallow. It looks like that’s what we’re seeing in this video - it starts with the eel having a full pouch of water, and at the end, you can see the regular size of the gulper eel without it’s maw inflated by water.
For all gulper eels look scary, they actually have tiny teeth and are only found in very deep water (this video was filmed at a depth of around a mile). So if they squick you out, you never need to worry about running into one in real life.
And, yes, the commentary on this from the observing scientists is gold.
are those the scientists that were instulting the cute cuttlefish?
Someone who doesn’t watch baseball please explain this picture
Ok but as a dysphoric trans man the whole ‘you need dysphoria to be trans’ actually baffles me because even tho I’ve always has crippling dysphoria, it didn’t actually help me figure out my gender at all. I usually dismissed my dysphoria as ‘internalized misogyny’ or just not being feminine enough, which actually just caused me worse dysphoria.
You know what made me figure out that I’m trans though? Gender euphoria. The minute I got called a ‘sir’ is the moment that I realized, “shit this feels right.” And at that point I realized that I could no longer deny the fact that I’m not a woman and that I couldn’t keep living as one.
Here’s a hot take: maybebeingtransisn’tsomuch about how uncomfortable you can be in your AGAB, but rather how muchmorecomfortable you can be.
