captured rook

[FUNKY MUSIC]

Narrator: Now remember, the aim is to make a silent entry into the secret facility.

Adam, off-screen: Jamie, are you ready?

Jamie, off-screen: Yeah, I’m ready.

Adam: Start the timer, Grant.

Grant: Timer starting in three, two, one.

Adam: Go, Jamie!

[UNIMAGINABLY LOUD BANG]

[EVERYONE LAUGHING]

Adam: Why, Thor, the god of Thunder, is trying to enter my building!

[SECOND LOUD BANG]

[ADAM CACKLING]

Tory: Somebody needs to check that air conditioner.

I will never set the bug outside, bug comes inside my home, bug must die, they have a short lifespan anyway.

They aren't intruders or unwanted visitors in your home, they have no idea what your home is. How on earth could they? It's a mass of foreign materials in their path, the size of a continent to them, and an unnatural one built by unfathomable giants.

They don't hate you, and almost none of them DO anything that can "bug" you. There are tens of thousands of groups of them and the groups that might harm you can be counted on one hand.

In my decades of existence I have never killed anything but ticks, fleas, mosquitoes in the process of biting me, a single bedbug at a doctor's office, a German cockroach infestation (the only really problematic roaches) and a couple ant colonies, in particular the ant colony that got into the insects I keep as pets and ate a hunch of them. I know I'd also have to kill lice and dry wood termites in my home but I haven't met them yet.

And that's it. Almost nothing else messes with people or people things, unless you're a gardener, but if I were a gardener a much longer list would also be allies in fighting the "pests" or pollinators my plants need.

Nothing happens if you leave all the other ones alone. They aren't going to climb into your bed and suck your blood if they're a cricket or a beetle. A lacewing or a crane fly isnt interested in your food. Nothing "must die" just because you aesthetically dislike how it looks or moves in your presence, which is stupid anyway, because they're all either beautiful or adorable or just rad and awesome looking. And outside RARE clinical phobia, the hatred of a natural organism is always a choice. Why would you choose to hate anything at all for no practical reason? Most people who believe they're phobic of spiders or insects or reptiles really aren't; they just hopped onto a bandwagon at some point that they didn't question. As soon as they do begin to question it the fear begins to fade.

You should want to like everything in nature because everything in nature is at the very least like a fun little character just trying to get by, and never did anything to anybody.

Hey, since Crunchyroll has removed Utena from its catalog just in time for Pride month, here's your reminder that the whole series is free to watch on Youtube! (Thanks to Nozomi Entertainment for being good about keeping up their official hosting.)

Revolutionary Girl Utena (Sub) and (Dub)

Now's a great time to watch a classic queer anime that's shaped the entire genre!

Some warnings below the cut, because it's also tragic and you might not want to go in unaware... It's so worth it though!