I just don’t get it. How can our society act so goddamned normal about seahorses. How can anybody so casually accept that that’s a fish???
This is one of nature’s most anatomically perverse of all beasts. A FISH, like a carp or a bass or a beta is a fish, but it bent its body straight up only to bend its head permanently back down. It stretched its skull into a pipe. It tapered its tail like a lizard, specifically like a chameleon. It can also move its eyes independently by the way, you know, like a chameleon. Fun fact, it can change color to express its mood, like you know whatever does that. It doesn’t properly swim anymore. It buzzes its few remaining fins like an insect’s wings to float itself around at a snail’s pace. It lives its whole life clinging to coral branches or seaweed, which means it decided to become a “tree dweller” in an environment where gravity didn’t even matter anyway. The males get pregnant. They make noises at each other by rubbing some of their neck bones together. Every day, EVERY DAY a mated pair does a little dance and a little neck bone song so they remember which two seahorses they were. They’re a beautiful precious obscenity. Nothing so adorable ever made such a strong case against a logical creator.
They have as little skin and meat as they could get away with. Their skeleton is almost all they are.
watching an ocean documentary and still blown away by how smart dolphins are. like they have their own language, its heavily implied they can understand grammar and semantics. do you think dolphins can develop their own mythos and legends? do they speak of their wolf ancestor like we do Adam and Eve?
If there’s one thing to learn from the Bible it’s that God primarily chooses extremely flawed little weirdos to carry out his work
bitch this is all you’re gonna get. this life, this face, this body. you better not ‘maybe in another universe’ your way out of everything. sit your ass down and face this. go make tea and have a picnic and read a goddamn book. kiss your loved ones, send that damn text, and hug your siblings. this is all you’re gonna get.
I know I said I would bake a fancy pie but life happened, and not in an entirely fun way
I think what I love most about mythology is that the “Trickster God/Spirit” is an archetypical character found in almost every body of folklore. It’s like “Oh, here’s our God of the Sun, our God of the Sea, our God of Fertility, and our God of Being A Wretched Little Gremlin Who Causes Problems On Purpose”
no one slaughter me right now ok I'm so flooded with stress hormones the meat would taste terrible
Okay but it is so painful that i have to pay to exist. Most parks close at sunset. "Loitering" is a legitimate crime. Hotel rooms go for $200 a night. I can't afford rent or a mortgage. My mother can barely afford the mortgage on her house thay she's had for 25 years. Trying to go off the grid would be the same amount of effort if not more for paying off a house. This game sucks.
You know what, I'm gonna say it. I enjoyed the Minecraft movie. Was it the best movie? No, but it's not supposed to be. It's not trying to take itself seriously, and that's the point. I just found it lighthearted and fun.