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hi fellow Crash 1996 fanatics I made some bumper stickers to let everyone else on the road know what kind of freak you are :] available here! (I only made 30 but if there’s interest I can make more in the future)

Uh, I think you mean nothing is more *magical*

If you've never seen it before then it's almost definitely harmless because the world just never shuts the duck up about the five whole kinds that can ever seriously hurt you.

There are people in the notes I think I kinda want to beat in the face with a mallet

Seeing a bug I’d never seen before would make my day as a kid

Idk why I’m restricting it either. Still would

Are the words "insect apocalypse" new to this person?

You know what's REALLY terrifying? Not seeing any bugs at all

But seriously, almost all bugs are entirely harmless, and even among ones that CAN sting or bite you, most of them won't unless they feel they absolutely have to in order to avoid certain death.

Y'all have seen those pictures of oblivious people holding some type of bug that can give you a painful sting asking "what is this bug?" right? That bug just got grabbed by a giant Godzilla monster 10,000 times its size and it has an instant, sure-fire way of making the Godzilla monster leave it alone, but it's like "Ehh, better not, maybe it will put me down."

There are so many people in the notes describing common everyday bugs as though channeling the spirit of Pliny the Elder himself. Y'all have no business dunking on H.P. Lovecraft's air-conditioning horror if you are this terrified of regular crane flies

The chasm between the people going about their lives terrified to ever see a bug, and the people who Know, is so vast it kind of boggles my mind.

Like personally I am filled with a deep, gut-wrenching horror at reading these replies! The fact that there are places on Earth where it's possible to be unfamiliar with the most basic types of insect, is so scary.

Bugs are the foundation of the food chain and necessary to turn organic matter back into soil. No bugs means the plants are slowly starving to death in their own waste and the skies are empty of birds except for a few that can survive off of bird feeders. No bugs means the whole ecosystem is dying.

...except...ticks, German cockroaches, bedbugs, mosquitoes, and other bugs that are parasitic on humans; this kind of sterile, lifeless wasteland would be a dream come true for them! Unlimited food and ZERO natural predators!

And who the heck hates "beetles?" Does this person even know how broad an umbrella that is? Do they even know what they're referring to or do they think every roughly oval-shaped arthropod is a beetle? I've seen people who think cockroaches and stinkbugs are beetles so I really never know.

An inordinate dislike for beetles :(

Gonna drop this citation here for everyone in this thread: The vicious cycle of biophobia (Soga et al., 2023, Trends in Ecology and Evolution)

This is amazing. Going to post a couple of figures from it, they speak for themselves.

finding out there's a frankenstein ballet and that it was in october of last year…DEVASTATING

look at this. look at these. im foaming at the mouth

It was stupid good. So good in fact that the bbc filmed a version and put it on dvd when it debuted. I bought that dvd after I saw the show and put it up on the Internet Archive. The audio is not great but the dancing is spectacular. Ever see a pas de deux around an anatomical dissection? You will.

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If anyones interested in learning about the first black vampire short story, published in 1819, heres a link to the wiki, its called The Black Vampyre, and its about a former slave turned vampire who seeks revenge on his slave master. Its actually a first in many categories!

you can read the story itself here

Not only is it the first Black vampire story, it's the first comedic vampire story, the first story to include a mixed race vampire, the first vampire story by an American author, and probably the first anti-slavery short story. Some scholars believe that the text was written in response to John William Polidori's The Vampyre.

Here is the actual pdf from the site since you have to click around from the above link to actually get to it

a little bit of dinner in my life

a little bit of mah boi by my side

a little bit of spaghetti is all i need

a little bit of gay luigi? is what i see

a little bit of pingas in the sun

a little bit of pootis all night long

a little bit of lamp oil here i am

a little bit of rope makes me your bombs.

i knew what i must do

who wants to see a house that made me take ticks of poison damage

i want you to look through this house. i want you to really look. please try and make sense of the space in here. especially that weird thin room with the balcony. try and really wrap your head around this.

it's like a point and click adventure game. you have no sense of scale or distance because all the fucking photos are in portrait. there are too many mirrors and angles that straight up make no sense. it's confusing on purpose. its so fucked.

i think this might be my least favorite space in the whole thing. it feels bad. it gives me a little headache. i hate it.

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this motherfucker is selling adulterine castle

Women go to college to get more knowledge

Men go to my torture maze to atone