#for some reason that's horrifying to me

[canisalbus]

"I'm going to get more lashes today."

- Repentant Catholic Machete in 1600s

and

- Pretty Machete in 2023

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#BHEH #sparked my interest to look up if eyelash implants are a thing and the answer is yes #for some reason that's horrifying to me #answered #anonymous #I think his mentor was a self-flagellating type #really into mortification of the flesh kinda guy #Machete isn't a fan #if he feels like he has to punish himself for something he tends to ramp up the self-denial #fasting and abstaining are easier to tolerate than sharp physical pain

[botanyshitposts]

ok this sounds insane but in 2018 i went to a few carnivorous plant talks at the botany conference in minnesota. i got caught up in conversation with one of the guys there who was a huge nepenthes guy who told me a story about another collector in the pacific northwest who'd been buying poached plants, like a huge amount, and eventually got staked out by the fish and wildlife service and arrested and had all his plants seized and went to prison for it. idk if i ever talked about this on this blog before-- i know i liveblogged a lot from that conference but cant remember what all i posted-- but ive avoided talking about it since then because i was never able to find like, news articles or anything covering it, but behold.... we now have proof it was real, and im like 80% sure this was this guy he was talking about. the raid happened in 2016 and they'd been staking them out since 2013. he had nearly 400 plants and had been sourcing many of them from poachers in indonesia and borneo.

remember folks: poaching happens with plants too! it's a huge problem not only in carnvirous plants (nepenthes especially, which this piece is dedicated to talking about) but also in native plant populations in the US, including native carnivorous plant populations (north and south carolina's venus fly traps, california's darlingtonia, and sarracenia from the east coast), native orchids (historically one of the most poached categories), desert plants/cacti/succulents, and slow-growing woody ornamentals (cycads, for example). never buy bare-root plants off ebay or facebook! your best bet is local nurseries (which usually purchase farm-raised plants that do well in a wide range of conditions, and as a result have a healthy population in the wild) or specialty greenhouses (more expensive, but at least in the case of carnivorous plants offer young plants bred from established adult plants in-house, raised in captivity).

#super sad piece fellas like this shit guts me i cant even stress it enough #stories about nepenthes poaching hit different #there are hundreds of species #some are really common and widespread all over indonesia/china/japan/oceania #and some are like. super hyperadapted to one specific ridge on one specific mountain #theyre still being recorded and stuff because theyve speciated so much #so youll have a plant that has like. a max of 15 adults in the population at any given time. literally a nightmare scenario #AND theyre diaceous (there are male plants and female plants). doesnt seem like a problem until you think about the population dynamics #there not only has to be two plants but the plants have to be a male and a female #and people living there have reason to take them. like the poacher interviewed in this article does it to supplement his income #from working at a horrifying rubber production ordeal to feed his wife and kids #and he says everyone in his village does the same for the same reasons #nightmare!! nightmare!! nightmare horrible nightmare world!!! horrible fucking nightmare!!!! #nepenethes #carnivorous plants #poaching #conservation

[illegiblehandwriting1]

humans are funny because we like to eat things that want to eat us. And sometimes it's happening simultaneously, like kiwi and pineapple

#legitimately no reason i should post this #im going to anyway of course #i just ate a kiwi like an apple and it was good #occasionally i do things that remind me of idea that humans are space orcs #which. yeah. #who tf would eat something that dissolves them? #just imagining some human finding a kiwi in space #and it's a known toxin or smth to other people #but the human just says “ooh kiwi! sweet” and snarfs the whole thing down like an apple #cue horrified stares #same with caffeine #chicken scratch #humans are space orcs #i guess

[cleolinda]

Babysitting instructions

I just remembered a Spooky Season-themed piece I wrote for The Toast, uh, ten years ago. Hopefully it's okay if I repost/archive it here. On the site itself, it was stylized as an image with a handwriting font to look like an actual written note, if you want to see that; I had imagined it as something typed and signed. The working title was "Don't Worry, Julie."

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Julie --

Thanks so much for watching little Lucy for us! Her big brother is sleeping over at a friend's house, so you won't have to worry about him! :)

I'm leaving the key to the attic on the kitchen table in case you need it, but I'm sure you won't. The noise up there is just the bats that sometimes get in--they won't bother you! There's no reason for you to go up there at all. 

And don't go into the master bedroom--I don't want you to see how messy we are! Who knows what kind of dust bunnies are under the bed!! Definitely do not look under there. Oh, and there's a leak in the master bath, so if you see water dripping through the ceiling in the den, don't worry about that. I know it kind of looks like blood, but it's just rust from the pipes. Sometimes it runs down the walls, too! It's so funny how freaked out people get about that! I mean, what makes more sense--voices moaning in the walls, or just the pipes groaning? I know you're a lot more level-headed than that. 

I trust you, so it goes without saying not to have any friends over while we're gone--I know you wouldn't! (You don't have a boyfriend, do you? Ever?) We've got a great home theater setup so you'll have plenty of scaaaary movies to watch! It needs to be just you there. Just you. 

Sometimes the power goes out, just for a minute, so we keep candles on the side table. But don't light the red candles. IT IS NOT TIME TO LIGHT THE RED CANDLES. 

Oh, and the cat's been gone a few days. He should come back pretty soon. He'll come in through the pet door. He always comes back.

If someone's at the door, don't answer it. Our neighbors are so terrible, always trying to poach our babysitters! >:(

And Lucy shouldn't be any trouble at all--just leave her in the crib with Talking Elmo and she'll be fine. (The dolls stay in the den with you, though.) And she loves the big clown statue--it really is supposed to be there! Ha ha! Don't worry about the stars on the walls, we'll clean that up later (she's our little artist!). Just keep all the curtains closed and don't answer the landline, and I'm sure everything will go just great. :) :) :) 

P.S. We're trying to get Lucy to sleep through the night, so even if she starts crying, do not feed her after midnight. DO NOT DO THAT.

Rosemary

#silliness #my writing #every horror movie everywhere all at once #I'm sure you can guess the brother's name #me for some reason #halloween everyday #between you and me #I just loved the idea that talking elmo was horrifying unto itself #horror

[moeblob]

I am really tired of a situation rn.

#fe three houses #felix hugo fraldarius #me using felix on my angy days because he is my angersona? you bet! #anyway if you want to try to get someones money or something bc you hurt your own car banging into mine #can you try to be a bit more timely with it buddy come on you hit me on feb29 ! #why am i getting your insurance company calling me today ! #also i would like to point out i didnt do it and neither of us were hurt and i filed a claim with my own insurance comp #and also filed a police report bc he didnt even suggest calling the cops to the scene #so like yeah hey man maybe you and your insurance company can move a lil faster or smth #literally everything that happened the day of is - according to my dad - an intimidation tactic #i look like im 15 and he probably thinks he can take advantage of a new driver but ya know! tough luck! #im just really tired and stressed over multiple things not negative so getting this on top of it was like #bro .................... anyway my phone didnt pick up for some reason so i called back and then nothing got resolved #cause the person who actually called me wasnt around to connect the line to from the guy who answered #idk man just its a lot despite my v minimal energy #got a job interview on monday tho ! and then also next week is an eye exam #and you might be thinking isnt that a good thing to get your eyes checked? you are correct but i am horrified #there are two body parts that give me absolute anxiety and eyes are one of them #and i know my eye sight is declining and im just v anxious #its fine im going to be fine i just have to be anxious about it

[anxiously-sidequesting]

Not to keep beating dead horses like I so much love to do but I am still completely Flabbergasted and Astonished at how you (Merle Ambrose) could discover the most terrifying fact that a child that is essentially under your care has been indoctrinated into a cult (which, by the way, a process that has taken over the course of years) ((by an agent that has been stationed in a direct position to make it easier to access and manipulate children, that has easily escaped your notice for such a long time)) that worships a nihilistic entity whose ultimate goal is the absolute and total destruction of Everything and Everyone around you, and your one, single, simple-sentenced response to that is to say "Oh, that's a shame. He (Duncan) always was pretty terrible. Hope he gets better someday." And then to move on from those extremely worrying and dangerous bundle of issues permanently without taking any sort of action to protect the vulnerable and make sure nothing like this ever happens again

#i love ambrose as a character but the things he does makes me clench my fists so hard blood circulation gets cut off #the absolute.... lack of care ambrose has for certain things literally render me speechless #and like okay in his uh. in his uh “defense”. there was like. other stuff going on at the time. i get that #like the end of the world for the 7th time yeah there were other things on ambrose's plate #but i dont know how many different ways to put “your children are being manipulated and kidnapped into a cult that means them harm under- #-your nose and it can absolutely happen again“ and make that stick #you... i #that is a horrifying fact to learn and the response is dismissive at BEST #like im not saying ambrose should adopt all 800 children that go to his school or whatever #but like... DO SOMETHING #you have COMPLETE AND UTTER INFLUENCE OVER THE NATIONAL GUARD. DO YOU REMEMBER THAT? USE THAT #send out watch parties! hold stranger danger assemblies! have adults regularly check in with kids! install a curfew! ANY OF THOSE THINGS? #like even if ambrose couldnt single-handedly stop a powerful cult he could at least make an effort.... AN EFFORT #ONE ATTEMPT. TO MAKE SURE ****HIS**** SCHOOL AND STUDENTS ARE SAFE........ #and the fact that he says something along the lines of “well duncan was always fucked up” ☹️☹️☹️☹️ #this shouldt surprise me fir the man who for 1. some reason refuses to fix the death school #2. does not care about dworgyn or mortis in the least #3. keeps trying to pressure necromancers to change schools #4. kidnapped US from earth and used us. #it really shouldnt but........ but #im gonna say it and idc (/lh) if its unpopular. ambrose should not be in power #he is incompetent at best. he is harmful at worst. #he does NOTHING 99.9% of the time and the one Tuesday where he takes action it makes something worse. he should not be in power #this post is /lh but idk. im a little angry #NOT SERIOUSLY ANGRY BUT CMON MAN. CMON BRO #if the game utilized ambrose's potential more and pointed out how useless/paranoid/rash he can be i would ascend to heaven #i would like literally one person (who isnt a villain) in the game to look at ambrose and say “wow hes kinda fucked up” #THATS THE BARE MINIMUM BUT I WILL ACCEPT THAT I WILL. #kind of unrelated but im kinda mad that the only person to correctly point out how weird ambrose is is morganthe #the murderous tyrant. the person we're not supposed to listen to. because she's evil. she couldnt POSSIBLY be right about Good Guy Ambrose!

[uncanny-tranny]

I know I've talked about this before, but as somebody with Strong features who has been mocked for it, it really infuriates me when people bully others for changing their strong features through surgery instead of criticizing beauty culture, you know, a big issue as to why people with strong or ethnic features are often bullied or even discriminated against. When you bully people for altering their appearance through surgery, you may just be victim-blaming somebody. Beauty culture is the issue, not somebody using their bodily autonomy as they see fit.

#beauty culture #honestly i think one of the reasons people have stopped mocking me for my features is simply because... #...they were 'masculinizing' features and since i am a man people aren't as willing to 'call it out'... #...now that people have recognized my manhood i've noticed they're less inclined to call out the features they see as masculine... #...because it's like saying 'the sky is blue!!!!' and expecting people to be horrified and shocked #even in a post-beauty culture world 'cosmetic' plastic surgery would still exist #because it is an aspect of bodily autonomy #i have some Thoughts on this #(i will say in the first few tags that people have still pointed out my features but like. my dysphoria doesn't latch onto it anymore) #(and i've embraced that i just look Like My Dad and i always have and probably always will) #this was just inspired by somebody expressing that they changed their strong feature because of bullying/beauty culture... #...and people were making fun of *her* instead of criticizing and hating beauty culture for tormenting her for how she existed #would she have changed her strong nose if not for beauty culture? who knows because that isn't the world we're living in rn #but you can't just ignore how painful it was to have been TORMENTED for your NATURAL BODY #like that's honestly the lowest of the low imo #and i 100% support her decision because her bodily autonomy is *absolute* #without bodily autonomy you have NOTHING. if you do not OWN your body you own NOTHING.

[iero]

Hate when people who are against tattoos pull out the “What do you think you’ll look like when you’re 65, 70, 75, etc. with those on your body?” card. Like, first of all, I think I’ll look cool as fuck and second of all, why do you care?

#personal #I always say ‘I’m here for a good time not a long time.’ to people in response to that all the time but I can’t say it to my mom. #She would be horrified and yes this post was brought on because of her. #She literally has 2 tattoos herself……. And she wanted a reason to argue against her younger daughter/my sister currently at this #family together. They’re always great. #My sister almost has her arm sleeve finished along with some other tattoo scattered elsewhere. #She and me have the most tatttoos in the family and when my mom said something me and her had a comedy sitcom moment. #We literally looked at each other like ‘Uh…’ before turning back to my mom LMAOOO #My family is so fun believe me…

[francy-sketches]

This is the worst explanation I've ever read what 😭

#.txt #george please its becoming so hard to defend you #'why would these two fertile children not start breeding immediately' ???????? #idk man maybe its bc they're traumatized. or they're just not into eachother. maybe they're gay idk #idc about jaehaera 'getting replacted' or whatever what bothers me is the fucking. smoking hot 6 year old #like even if we accept she absolutely HAD to be 6 why did it have to be a girlboss moment #i love how asoiaf presents child marriages as bad and horrifying and then fire and blood just. doesnt #i swear he was posessed by some evil spirit when writing f&b #if asoiaf was written like f&b we would have gotten the beautiful love story of tyrek and his infant wife or smth #this is kinda funny tho. all that twitter arguing about the greens getting divine punishment or whatever #but no turns out grrm is just weird #or at the very least he's got some skewed views of medieval life #ok now I wanna hear the reason why he made viserys 2's wife so much older than him

[ghoulishautism]

its pretty interesting seeing everyone's opinions on certain AUs or Fanon concepts in such a fanon-heavy fandom

#i think ghost king danny is funny on principle but you also have to understand that ghosts having a king overall makes zero sense #I prefer the ghost zone to be a wild west where everyone has their own stupid rules and territories #like Walker's rules are literally Made Up and ghosts only follow them to avoid him #I also forget phara dark or however you spell his name exists sometimes he just wasnt. a very compelling villain to me #I do like ghost obsessions though only because it doesnt make sense for only SOME people to become ghosts when they die like- they have- #-to be bounded by SOMETHING. #ghost obsessions come from 'real' ghost lore- unfinished business and whatnot #having a goal you can infinitely chase until the literal end of time is horrifying to me. A restless spirit that can never cease #Id like to hear the reasoning behind ghosts existing without obsessions though

[grimmjowjaegerjaquez]

when youre trying to live alone out in your field lab but then these two yahoos follow you out there and now they wont leave????

#my art #su is a very tired scientist butterfly woman #in my mind she was the one that initially designed the Infinite Prison Cubes that apparently all the espada have on them lololol #she was initially working with szayel bc they were both sciencey/researchy types. before he became espada lmfao. #buuuuuut unfortunately szayel is a bastardous man and. i havent decided if he steals her research and claims it as his own #or just frames her for something and smears her name #regardless she was demoted and was more or less forced to be a guard for one of the outer guardhouse things (think aisslinger and demoura) #it might just be that once he was promoted to espada she was. more or less considered part of his fraccion and she was uh #more than a little bit horrified/terrified of him. and was like ''please let me go anywhere else i cannot work with this man anymore'' #vinetta WAS a gardener but after her greenhouse was destroyed she had a bit of a mental break and fled las noches #vinetta is a venus fly trap woman who also has some rafflesia shit going on because i think its cool. #she has a one-sided crush/fascination with rudbornn and yes. it is just bc theyre both plants. #theres no deeper reason for it. #also think its funny for him to see her and immediately be like ''oh no not you again'' and her just being like ''RUDY IS THAT YOU~~~~~<3'' #marisol is nirgge parduoc's younger sister #shes a crocodile. and as huge and strong and epic as she is #she simply does NOT want to fight. she'd much rather just chill. and thats why she was kind of kicked out of baraggan's lil gang #her weapon normally looks like a pair of brass knuckles. #vinetta's zanpakuto is her umbrella jhfgjh #su's is just a very boring looking dagger. i was thinking it'd be funny for her weapon to look really cutesy or something so she would #DREAD taking it out hskjdfhdkj

[sparkpen]

no. never. we're friends now

#chip revvington #chainsaw consultant ttcc #i imagine toons are still anthropromorphic animals in this au #the contrary is literally just regular humans (cogs) and stylized humans which is mildly horrifying to me for some reason #also chip has different pupils to indicate when hes in override cause i cant just give him no pupils with my style

[giffingthingsss]

Memorable Moments II

#memorable moments #voyager things #a memory lane of my memory lane #it's so funny that one of the memories was janeway yelling 'give me back my ship' #that sprang to mind a lot for some reason #'give me my ship or give me death' #kes' warlordness #'i knoooooooow' #seven's uniform #admiral janeway being extra #the opera at the start of the swarm #b'elanna jumping out #flotter was a memory as in nightmare fuel #but an impression is an impression #this and then one other bit from twisted #harry's tear #that harry bit really made an impression #i remember being horrified at the idea of being conscious while being eaten alive #you'll notice the complete lack of chakotay in these #i didn't really notice him much tbh #my impression of him was basically 'poor man who's in love with janeway'

[elytrafemme]

i think i played sims 4 with my sister for six hours straight today?

#vixella + james turner's sale promo post convinced me #$33 dollars down the drain BUT it was for the two packs i'd most likely use anyway #we made ace attorney characters partly to captivate my sister's attention and also because it's funny as fuck #though i do have OCs in mind... yes it's 1:30 AM but i might just like... #write some more OCs. and watch more vixella :) i love her content sm #i also kind of wanted to figure out what sims traits my irl friends would have because i think it's funny #but i can't tell if that's the sort of thing i need to debrief them about #or to like never mention because who the fuck cares #ultimately i truly do not think any of them would give a shit but you know #(btw we got romantic garden stuff (free); city living ($16); and seasons ($16) + base game (free)) #both city living & seasons would ordinarily be $30-40 so... #we also want to circle back to grab cats & dogs (~$30-40; $16 on this sale but it's only 24 hr) #but i thought that city living was more strategic at the moment #+ i would in the long run LOVE to have growing together or parenthood... and parenthood runs cheaper in general... #but i already have spent a lot of money this semester :/ #mostly because Ooh Purchase Euphoria! and also because my college is located somewhere which. sigh. #has FAR higher prices than where i currently live #in a way that is truly horrifying but i do in fact go to college and need to get groceries somehow #so it's more of a desensitization thing because that does still need to occur #so like $33 dollars is very reasonable is my point

[volfoss]

No one tells you how stressful headphone shopping can be when you are NOT a guy w audio knowledge

#twist rambles #my prev headphones were like 20 bucks and generic. they worked great for like 4 years until they cracked lmao. trying to get a more comfy #pair of headphones. ive heard v good things about Sennheiser. so i look into it. there are 70 different varieties. i temporarily forget i #need easily exchangeable cords (prone to breaking them+ use them for discord calls so need a cord w a mic) and am entranced by the GORGEOUS #hd 595s. insanely gorgeous to me. i then remember oh god. ok time to see if there are things that you can easily swap to get this to work. #there are NOT. i continue looking through the pairs ive seen. i find some i like. they for some reason have proprietary cord things. i would #have to modify them to have them work. this is not good for me. my head is killig me by this point. i find some 595s that are modified for #3.5mm jack. they are 3x the price of the normal ones. so. all of that to say i am learning a lot and it is horrifying for me as a guy that #is so clueless. not even 2 mention the open vs closed back stuff. or the sound blocking stuff due to sensory issues. it is agonizing

[echothelover]

TMA fans do we think hanahaki disease is Buried or Corruption

#i lean a bit more towards team Corruption because i associate them a lot with unhealthy obsessive relationships #(home for what loves you and all that) #but i do think there's also something compelling for feelings so big they choke you as a buried thing #lonely can also work well but is less personally compelling to me for some reason #anyway no matter what hanahaki as an expression of the Fears is my favorite way to do that tropw #like yessss acknowledge how horrifying it is. make it fucked up! yes! #xander's personal rambles #the magnus archives