I don’t know where to put this, so I think here will do. I knew part of this story, but not all of it, I think there are some books I need to find.
That time in the 60s where in an attempt to eventually communicate with aliens, a man hired a woman to live with dolphins and teach them english, while he helped telepathically from his isolation tank above their work. That she also gave the dolphin handjobs is what made this story famous but is not even the strangest part. 45 min long doc.
Now re-read this post while believing that you're still in the "More Blithe Racism" thread. See where your imagination takes you.
I couldn't find the "Unfuck the police" thread, and I don't know if this will work as it is on the dreaded FB, but here is video of an officer stripped to his skivvies and helping a swan in a lake that is still mostly frozen.
The text is also quite good, highlight being that the constable was thankful he had decided not to pick his Mickey Mouse briefs that morning after all.
About 10 years ago, I took some videos of hydras trying to eat other small animals. The "Hydra vs Cyclops" is one of my most viewed videos. TIL that there's a game called Mighty Omega and they recently had a paid event that was
I'm going to agree so hard to hate that meme format as I should have already that I'll redo the meme in a format that I don't see a use case that can't be used in any and all Chad/Virgin use cases.
I couldn't find the "Unfuck the police" thread, and I don't know if this will work as it is on the dreaded FB, but here is video of an officer stripped to his skivvies and helping a swan in a lake that is still mostly frozen.
I haven’t seen it here, but if you haven’t heard Joss Whedon is a douche, but that’s not what I’m about to ramble about. It’s that Joss Whedon’s particular set of douchey issues has suddenly made a plot line in Angel make sense.
In Angel, if I recall, and I’m not going to look it up, Fred is this young lady scientist who is involved in the research division of some demon related firm and becomes one of the good guys, she’s physically weak even for human standards but makes up for it with brains and friends. Fred is awesome. Through a set of orchestrated events a long dormant lovecraftian horror God was being ritualistically reborn, with Fred as the sacrifice. It is stopped, but too late, Fred’s soul is destroyed however the demonic tentacle monster Illyria is trapped in Fred’s body unable to fully emerge to destroy the world.
While there were some attempts to get Fred back and this is a demon haunted world, it’s passed over pretty quickly that the new member of the team is an ancient evil horror puppeting the skin of their friends body. Even when she purposefully teases them about it, their reactions are a bit more ‘you ate my favorite ice cream’ than ‘you murdered my friend and wear her skin.’ and it always felt a bit weird that no one cared a bit more that Fred was gone forever.
So anyway it turns out Whedon’s ‘type’ if you will, is frail and waif *looking* young girls who are actually physically strong and powerful often through magic. Illyria, Fred’s body but in sexy skin tight blue armor and superhuman strength, was basically his ‘final form’ of Fred, despite the two being completely different characters on paper.
[You got some details wrong but that's not as important because correcting them wouldn't change the result. Fred is awesome.]
There's also the hidden horror of the Slayer's lineage too.
According to the mythos: "Once in every generation there is the Chosen. One girl in all the world with the blah blah blah fight vampires and monsters etc."
In Season 4 it's revealed that the First Slayer wasn't Chosen because of some Odin-esque spell put on an otherwise ordinary hammer. No. She was sacrificed to be paired with a demonic power by a council of men.
It’s interesting how some of the patterns jump out once noticed.
Like taken singularly that’s a perfectly reasonable story line, the watchers always seemed a bit malevolent, more neutral than good, of course there’s a chance the Slayer powers come from men forcing a woman into a union with a demon, it’s not a rosey origin but there’s nothing too out of the ordinary about it. Singularly. But variants of that over and over, again, and it makes you start to go “hmm” and “Oh of course, who would have guessed.”
And let's not ignore what happened to Cordelia Chase because of real life issues between JW and Charisma Carpenter. That was a total shit show. I wasn't a fan of the character and even I knew there was some bullshit going on (without having news sources and such I was poring over at the time). Queue no one's surprise to what has come out recently.
Re: Miscellany
we could use her wisdom. For reals.
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