oh oh here's my fav Childhood Spider Story!
I'm like 8ish i think, which made my brother like 11ish.
for some reason, my brother was looking in the crawlspace in the basement. And he discovered! A black widow! In a magnificent tangle web in the corner closest to the crawlspace entrance. And also several hundred egg sacs. <3
Obviously, he tells our parents! Hey, mom and dad! there's a black widow in the crawlspace!
our parents are like WHAT????
so they skedaddle to home depot for some heavy duty spider killing chemicals and some of those fog bomber misty thingies.
you'd THINK that the rest of this story would go
"and then our dad took the spray and went in the crawlspace and sprayed the spider and set off the fog bomb"
but it doesn't lmfaooooo
THEY SENT ME AND MY BROTHER INTO THE CRAWLSPACE TO SPRAY THE BLACK WIDOW AND SET OFF THE FOG BOMB LMAOOOO CAN YOU BELIEVE IT
I'M LIKE 8 AND MY BROTHER IS LIKE 11 AND OUR PARENTS HANDED US A BUCKET OF TOXIC CHEMICALS AND TOLD US TO GO SPRAY A DANGEROUS SPIDER AND THEN DETONATE A DEADLY CHEMICAL BOMB LMAOOOOO
which like, black widows bites are only fatal on VERY VERY RARE OCCASIONS but if somebody IS gonna die from a black widow bite, its gonna be a tiny child lmaooooo what the hell!!!
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not me sitting at the raptors game yesterday trying to discreetly google "how does a shot clock work"
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love when men cry about body hair bc "it's hygiene" and yet 15% of cis men leave the bathroom without washing their hands at all and an additional 35% only just wet their hands without using soap. that is nearly half of all men. that means statistically you have probably shaken hands with or been in direct contact with one of these people.
love when men say that women "only want money" when it turns out that even in equal-earning homes, women are actually adding caregiver burdens and housework from previous years, whereas men have been expanding leisure time and hobbies. in equal-earning households, men spend an average of 3.5 hours extra in leisure time per week, which is 182 hours per year - a little over a week of paid vacation time that the other partner does not receive. kinda sounds like he wants her money.
love that men have decided women are frail and weak and annoying when we scream in surprise but it turns out it's actually women who are more reliable in an emergency because men need to be convinced to actually take action and respond to the threat. like, actually, for-real: men experience such a strong sense of pride about their pre-supposed abilities that it gets them and their families killed. they are so used to dismissing women that it literally kills them.
love it. told my father this and he said there's lies, damned lies, and statistics. a year ago i tried to get him to evacuate the house during a flash flood. he ignored me and got injured. he has told me, laughing, that he never washes his hands. he has said in the last week that women are just happier when we're cooking or cleaning.
maybe i'm overly nostalgic. but it didn't used to feel so fucking bleak. it used to feel like at least a little shameful to consider women to be sheep. it just feels like the earth is round and we are still having conversations about it being flat - except these conversations are about the most obvious forms of patriarchy. like, we know about this stuff. we've known since well before the 50's.
recently andrew tate tried to justify cheating on his partner as being the "male prerogative." i don't know what the prerogative for the rest of us would be. just sitting at home, watching the slow erosion of our humanity.
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crack idea no one asked for:
yona ends up being to zelda what sidon is to link, and zelda and link agonize together over their shared confusing feelings and wonder if all zora royalty are just Like This
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