Giant tarantulas keep tiny frogs as pets. Insects will eat the burrowing tarantulas’ eggs – so the spiders protect the frogs from predators, and in return the frogs eat the insects. Source
This has blown my mind for years. It’s so unreal. It’s almost the same exact reason humans and cats started living together.
Tiny frogs are tarantula housecats. A science fact seldom gets to sound that much like meaningless word salad.
This is legit, guys. And I’m excited about it.
Someone needs to draw a tarantula person with a tiny pet housefrog now. Please let this be a thing.
I love how in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Steve and Bucky are having their dramatic highway battle and the cars in the other lane just keep driving. Like, the regular people in the Marvel Cinematic Universe must be so jaded at this point. Like, “Ho hum. Another Monday. Aw dangit. Looks like they’re at it again. The five o’clock rush is gonna be hell.”
Various twitter accounts just like:
So-called superheroes making me late to work again. Are they gonna employ me when I get fired for their incompetence? 🖕
THINK I SAW CAP AMERICA ON HWY 95 BRIDGE 🇺🇸❤️
No one at work believes I was late because I missed my turn due to “enormous bird man.” #cantmakethisshitup
Captain America vs SHIELD secret police have shootout on freeway in DC. What are they not telling us?
Dropped my snack in floorboard bc some metal arm dude flew off this car & into the gd road. Skittles everywhere.
Saw some guy get tossed into oncoming traffic and hit by a penske truck this afternoon. #gross #wasgettinglunch #nevermind 🤢
FUCKING SUPERHEROES BETTER HAVE SOME SUPER FUCKING INSURANCE. CAME OUT OF MEETING. MY CAR IS TOTALED. WTF?!?!
Saw Black Widow on bridge this afternoon. #daymade
Which Avenger has a metal arm? #newfave 💋
Think I saw Cap A out of costume & still fighting shit. Either that or some kids have taken LARPing too far.
Is there an Avengers with wings? Seriously. This is important.
Pray for those caught in #Hwy95 incident. Bus overturned. Potential Avengers situation. 🙏
Ridding the world of evil? What about the evil of making a girl late to her lunch date? Smh
Got bullet holes in my car today, but it also shielded black widow so like thank you ma’am. It’s been an honor.
Okay I already reblogged the original, but this ‘twitter’ post has me crying, so I have to reblog it too. Lmfao!
Which avenger has a metal arm? #new fave
*dead*
As a former resident of the NOVA/DC area I can honestly say that people driving around this super battle on I-95 was one of the most realistic things about that movie
Something to note about the peter scene. He’s not blocking bucky’s other arm, and Bucky is a trained killer. He could absoLUTELY crush this insect of a child. He’s dumbstruck because this is the first time Bucky has heard his enemy’s voice and it clicks
I’m fighting an actual child
“This is a baby. Who put this baby in a warzone? I can’t just fight a baby!”
Fandom prefers their mentally ill characters to be like a fairy tale character, cursed to become a monster after spending 100 years with a wicked witch. Fandom loves Bucky Barnes because they see him as this cursed princess. When Bucky shows symptoms they manifest either as Sebastian Stan Looking Sad And Pensive, or as Literally Not In Control of His Own Body.
Tony Stark, a more realistic day-to-day portrayal of mental illness, is pretty widely hated and treated like a villain within the fandom. When Tony displays symptoms, it’s in making poor decisions out of desperation and fear. He goes to extremes. His mistakes made from fear based in his trauma blow up in his face. He displays coping mechanisms by being obsessive and unintentionally endangering people. He uses false arrogance and humor to distance himself, he lingers on his past trauma and it continues to shape his actions, often negatively, years later. He lashes out violently when he is faced with losing the few people he is close to.
Tony’s poor choices should not be excused because of his mental illnesses. He needs to be held responsible. But the way fandom treats Tony versus how they treat Bucky is pretty telling. Fandom doesn’t want mentally ill characters. They want innocent victims who cope in perfectly healthy ways and have never made any mistakes or poor choices as a result of their mental illness or trauma. They want someone they can feel sad about, but not someone with any messy symptoms.
Just as long as that mental illness isn’t inconvenient, unattractive, or uncomfortable!
Now that i think about it, if avengers and the mcu took place in the 90s who would eddie murphy play? like there is no way he’d play a supporting character esp to a white guy in the 90s….hmmm he’d probably audition and try hard for t’challa, but they’d probably give him blue marvel…but that character didn’t exist in the 90s…and there is no way he’d play Hiemdall lmao.
male filmmaker: *finding every possible gratuitous way to feature skinny naked women in his work* it’s a social commentary on how females are objectified all the time in real life
white, male filmmaker: *finding every possible gratuitous way to feature skinny, white naked women in his work* it’s a social commentary on how females are objectified all the time in real life.
sis life is too short to act like moc aren’t also complicit w sexism
Meanwhile, over in the MCU;
The MCU has more manservice than fanservice.
Speaking of men of color….
Let’s talk about how after Black Panther came out Winston Duke, the man playing M’Baku, was hit with sexualized tweets and messages from women.
But every time there is a butt shot of a woman in the MCU we get a fresh flood of two bit gender thinkers writing articles about how women are sexualized as if it only happens to them.
Even Quicksilver. They made his suit really tight.
I also found a quiz from Buzzfeed about which man from Black Panther you should hook up with, so….
Don’t forget that MCU’s Peter Parker is 15. Ew.
Well, sure, but at least that scene has a joke purpose. To show him going “I’m not a superhero!” and then immediately reveal his muscles.
The fact that it functions as fanservice is technically incidental.
People will only find fault in the outfit of one of these people.
Weird how you can have any amount of manservice short of a guy’s actual dick being on screen but it’s either got some in-universe reason for existing that totally negates any fanservice value, or else it’s a “male power fantasy” and any man would absolutely dress like that if they could get away with it socially, but a woman show even the slightest titillation to her and any attempt to explain why it exists is shot down as “just an excuse” and degrading her to a mere object.
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