You Can't See My Cute Dick Sorry :/

Daniel Everett / Untitled / Photography / 2019

the viewer is the dalek. the director is placing the average viewer in the position of the marginalized viewer—their black, brown, immigrant, trans, muslim counterparts. saying to them: i hate you; you are a threat to our way of life; join us or die—but with moral complexity for your complicity. it is okay to shed your humanity when your enemy hates you as much as you hate them.

the doctor emotionally monologuing at the daleks and then it cutting to shots like this is one of my favorite parts of dw

Double comb, sailors love token, Mid Century.

i'm a place

Max Ernst (German, 1891-1976) - Quasi-feu le romantisme, oil on canvas, 33.20 x 24.30 cm (1960)

i want to know what "more closely related" means and how that came to be and why that matters and to who

as funny as it is to say, "there's no such thing as a fish" is not actually true

"science doesn't know what a fish is" is really not true

"fish" is not a monophyletic category. there is no common ancestor of everything that we call a "fish," and none of the things that we don't

"fish" is a paraphyletic category -- and a useful one! marine biologists use it! "fish" describes a general body plan and lifestyle. it is useful to be able to talk about coelacanths and tuna in a shared category, though coelacanths are more closely related to us than to tuna.

where this bugs me is the repetition of the idea that "scientists" are hidebound and uncreative, unable to comprehend anything that doesn't conform to a specific idea of categorization -- when this is fundamentally untrue! we know perfectly well what a "fish" is. the fact that it's a paraphyletic group is only confounding to pop science, as a funny factoid, not to anyone who actually understands what a paraphyletic group is.

i'm allowed to do whatever harmful bullshit i want because billionaires have yachts and planes

St. George and the Dragon, from Red Magic by Kay Nielsen (1930)

people shouldn't have scents, nor textures