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Not someone who mugs you, or kills someone while driving drunk, those are just criminals. I mean VILLAINS.

Not like trump or musk, who are... cartoonishly evil. And not sexy villains, not grandiose villains, not even satisfyingly two dimensional villains it is easy to hate unconditionally. The real villains.

I had a client who was a retired executive for one of the big oil companies, i think it was Shell or Chevron. Had a home just outside of San Francisco that was wall to wall floor to ceiling full of expensive art. Literally. I once accidentally knocked a painting off the wall because it was hanging at knee height at the corner of the stairs, and it had a little brass plaque on it, and i looked up the name of the artist and it was Monet's apprentice and son-in-law, who was apparently also a famous painter. He had an original Andy Warhol, which should have been a prize piece for anyone to showcase -- it was hanging in the bathroom. I swear to god this guy was using a Chihuly (famous glass sculptor) as a fruit bowl. And he was like, "idk my wife was the one who liked art"

I was intrigued by this guy, because in the circles i run this dude is The Enemy. right? Wealthy oil executive? But as my client, he was... like a sweet grandpa. A poor widower, a nice old man, anyone who knew him would have called him a sweetheart. He had a slightly bewildered air, a sort of gentle bumbling nature.

And the fact that he was both of these things, a Sweet Little Old Man and The Enemy, at the same time, seemed important and fascinating to me.

He reminded me of some antagonist from fiction, but i couldn't put my finger on who. And when i did it all made sense.

John Hammond.

probably one of the most realistic bad guys ever written.

If you've only ever seen the movie, this will need some explaining.

Michael Crichton wrote Jurassic Park in 1990, and i read it shortly thereafter. In the movie, the dinosaurs are the antagonists, which imo erases 50% of the point of the story.

book spoilers below.

In the book, John Hammond is the villain but it takes the reader like half the book to figure that out. Just like my client, John is a sweet old man who wants lovely things for people. He's a very sympathetic character. But as the book progresses, you start to see something about him.

He has an idea, and he's sure it's a good one. When someone else dies in pursuit of his dream, he doesn't think anything of it. When other people turn out to care about that, he brings in experts to evaluate the safety of his idea, and when they quickly tell him his idea is dangerous and needs to be put on hold, he ignores his own experts that he himself hired, because they are telling him that he is wrong, and he is sure he is right.

In his mind, he's a visionary, and nobody understands his vision. He is surrounded by naysayers. Several things have proven too difficult to do the best and safest way, so he has cut corners and taken shortcuts so he can keep moving forward with his plans, but he's sure it's fine. He refuses to hear any word of caution, because he believes he is being cautious enough, and he knows best, even though he has no background in any of the sciences or professions involved. He sends his own grandchildren out into a life-threatening situation because he is willfully ignorant of the danger he is creating.

THIS is like the real villains of the world. He doesn't want anyone to die. Far from it, he only wants good things for people! He's a sweet old man who loves his grandchildren. But he has money and power and refuses to hear that what he is doing is dangerous for everyone, even his own family.

I think he's possibly one of the most important villains ever written in popular fiction.

In the book, he is killed by a pack of the smallest, cutest, "least dangerous" dinosaurs, because a big part of why we read fiction is to see the villains face thematic justice. But like a cigarette CEO dying of lung cancer, his death does not stop his creation from spreading out into the world to continue to endanger everyone else.

I think it is really important to see and understand this kind of villainy in fiction, so you can recognize it in real life.

Sweetheart of a grandfather. Wanted the best for everyone. Right up until what was best for everyone inconvenienced the pursuit of his own interests.

And my client was like that too. His wife had died, and his dog was now the love of his life, and she was this little old dog with silky hair in a hair cut that left long wispy bits on her lower legs. Certain plant materials were easily entangled in this hair and impossible to get out without pulling her hair which clearly hurt her. When i suggested he ask his groomer to trim her lower leg hair short to avoid this, he refused, saying he really liked her usual hair cut.

I emphasized that she was in pain after every walk due to the plant debris getting caught in her leg hair, and a simple trim could put an end to her daily painful removal of it, and he just frowned like i'd recommended he take a bath in pig shit and said "But she'll be ugly" and refused to talk about it anymore.

Where do they come from. What do

they hope to achieve.

you all say: I love you I

love you I love you.

What happens is that it is pretty fucked up, and I don't know exactly what might be the cause :\

Might be a fungus, might be little bugs (I've seen some really really tiny ones running around, but couldn't even see them properly think of what they might be).

Before I start to take action on it, I would like to hear if anyone knows what's going on there.

hi hello this is my first post on tumblr!! its already new years for me so, HAPPY NEW YEAR! i’ve been collecting this shit since november so why not share it 🔥 ft. failed attempt at finding a vnc one

its bench time

extra sasaki to miyano picture because this is needed!!!

(All of these songs can be found on Spotify, by the way. I listen to every song mentioned in the reblogs and if I think it fits I will add it to the end of the list, with credit to the user who suggested it, of course.)

“Here” by Alessia Cara (aromantic)

“I Do Not Hook Up” by Kelly Clarkson (some flavor of acespec)

“We’ll Never Have Sex” by Leith Ross (the sex-repulsed alloace anthem)

“Asexual Love” by Lily Summer (alloace, I think, or aroace with a QPR)

“ace song” by Izzie Burton (sex-repulsed alloace)

“Never Been In Love” by Will Jay (aroace)

“Turning Out” by AJR (quoiromantic, arospec in general)

“People Watching” by Conan Gray (cupioromantic and aromantic)

“Turning Out Pt. II” by AJR (aromantic, probably aroace)

“Turning Out Pt. III” by AJR (asexual, either grayromantic or romance-favorable aromantic)

“We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off” by Ella Eyre (demisexual)

“Crash Culture” by Conan Gray (sex-repulsed and romance-repulsed aroace)

“I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)” by Meatloaf (sex-repulsed alloace)

“Love Song” by Sara Bareilles (against amatonormativity)

“Zero Feelings” by Zoe Clark (aroace, possibly loveless aro)

“Like All My Friends” by Francis Karel (aromantic, cupioromantic)

“Don’t Tell Me” by Avril Lavigne (sex-averse alloace)

“Soulmate” by Lizzo (aroallo)

“Sit Still, Look Pretty” by Daya (aromantic, likely aroallo)

“Sex Yeah” by MARINA (against allonormativity)

“Oh No!” by MARINA (loveless aro, or else just aromantic and aplatonic)

“Something That We’re Not” by Demi Lovato (aroallo)

“No Friends” by CADMIUM (aplatonic)

“i think i wanna be alone” by mazie (loveless aro)

“Lemon Boy” by Cavetown (QPR love song)

“You’re My Best Friend” by Queen (QPR love song)

“Shape of You” by Ed Sheeran (aroallo, likely romance favorable or neutral)

“It’s Only Sex” by Car Seat Headrest (sex-repulsed ace), suggested by @taffylaffy

“Flowers” by Miley Cyrus (can be interpreted as aroacespec or just arospec or acespec), suggested by @cl0udypaws.

“Love Love Love” by Of Monster and Men (loveless aro; seems romance favorable to me) suggested by @a-genderless-frog

“Bite the Hand” by boygenius (the user suggested this was aromantic but I feel like it can be interpreted as any variety of aspec since the main thing that unites us is not feeling “love” the same way as other people; I think it’s most relevant for aro- and apl- spec folks though), again suggested by @a-genderless-frog.

“Squaring Up” by Sir Chloe (romance-repulsed aro, against amatonormativity), suggested by @a-genderless-frog.

“Sports” by Beach Bunny (romance-averse aromantic), suggested by @a-genderless-frog

”Don’t Fall In Love” by Danko Jones (romance-averse aromantic), suggested by @voidscape-the-oblivion.

“Romance Is Boring” by Los Campesinos! (definitely gives me an aroallo or sex-favorable aroace vibe personally), suggested by @voidscape-the-oblivion.

“Heart Heavy” by Mother Mother (romance-repulsed aro, against amatonormativity), suggested by @voidscape-the-oblivion

“Aromantic Moodboard” by Maxwell Anthony (aromantic), suggested by @chelowl

“Are They Actually Attractive?” by Boy Jr. (quoiromantic, quoisexual, etc.), suggested by @chelowl

“It’s Okay To Be Lonely” by Mothé (aromantic), suggested by @chelowl

“Only Over You” by Fleetwood Mac (grayromantic), suggested by @brain-salad-sovereign

“death wish” by Lyn Lapid (aromantic), suggested by @wishgirl101

“I’m Happy Just To Dance With You” by the Beatles (demiromantic), suggested by @wishgirl101

This one is for all the David x Michael lovers. Hashtag hope you enjoy. The grind never stops