Aiden: No.
Rudy: Dude, I guarantee if you do this, good things will happen.
Aiden: I'm not doing this.
Rudy: They call you Wifey for a reason! Just do it! C'mon!
Aiden: There is nothing that you can say that will make me-
Rudy: I'll cut off contact with you for 6 months.
*later*
Aru: I'm home!
Aiden, wearing nothing but an apron: Welcome back, darling!
Aru: 😳WHA-
Aiden, holding a ladle: Would you like dinner first?
Aiden: Or a bath?
Aiden: Or
Aiden: How
Aiden: A-
Aiden: -bout
Aiden, holding her chin and amping up the smoulder: Me?
Aru, on the verge of fainting: ...yes...
Aiden: What?
Aru, pouncing on him: YES TO ALL, I DON'T CARE WHAT ORDER-
*even later*
Mini: So, have you told Aiden about our vacation yet?
Rudy: That. And more.
Mini: ...what did you do?
Rudy: Nothing they won't thank me for later! (Or that I won't do later)
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127 100 x100 Nureha (Log Horizon) icons, free to use
Name: Nureha
Gender: Female
Source: Log Horizon
Medium: Anime
Visual Style: 2d
Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YY1q8mAKLIFRadgQ9Pu2Adu3othLt5fj?usp=sharing
These icons are all from the anime adaption of Log Horizon, and have all three seasoned icons. These icons are considered to be complete.
This was initially a commission being uploaded as I rebuild my blog. If you were the original commissioner and you would prefer these icons not be public, please reach out to me and I’ll take them down!
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Do y’all know about Frédéric Thomas? He is a French parasitologist who heard a story about crickets in New Zealand leaping into the water even though they can’t swim, and immediately speculated this suicidal behavior was related to behavior manipulation from an internal parasite. This is before neuro-parasitology was a field at all, and before people really put much stock into parasite’s ability to control animal behavior.
Thomas was certain that studying these crickets would be a huge priority for the scientific world given the implications of a parasite controlling an animal’s actions in such an insidious way. Unfortunately, absolutely nobody would fund Thomas’ expedition to study the crickets, and his grants were all declined. In a wild move that showcases the balls to the wall, near- insanity level passion of a biologist, Thomas declared a hunger strike and wrote a letter to the president of France saying he would not eat until someone took the matter seriously and funded his study on the suicidal crickets. I feel like those of us in research can at least a little bit understand this impulse.
Well the French government actually got Thomas’ message and freaked out a bit at the negative publicity that could arise from a crazy worm scientist starving to death. So they send some government bigwigs to the university to pressure Thomas and his department heads into calling an end to the hunger strike. In the flurry of attention that resulted from this, a Swiss billionaire heard about Thomas’ plight and offered to partially fund the study. The French government was happy to get rid of Thomas and contributed funding as well so that Thomas could head to New Zealand to study his suicidal crickets. He was right about the parasites causing the behavior!
The hunger strike debacle is not even the wildest part of this story. I love biology so much
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