Its A Long Sad Story

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

Abortion easily accessible from the kitchen that's nice

you could spell it like horce

Stop Humidity the air is trying to touch me Inappropriately

it really pisses me off when adults sit there and drill it into kids’ heads that their youth is fleeting and tell them things like “enjoy your childhood while it lasts because this is the best it’s gonna get”. why are you telling children that adulthood is the worst thing they can experience? seriously what the fuck is wrong with you, why are you trying to make them feel like growing up is a fate worse than death? trying to convince them their life is over before it even begins? i’m tired of that shit. because tell my why my 12 year old cousin told me when she turns 30 she’ll be so depressed she’s just gonna cry all the time. what the fuck. kids don’t need to hear that their already stressful and overwhelming lives are never going to get better, that the abuse and lack of autonomy they face is apparently the highlight of their lives. they need to hear about adults who are happy to be alive and happy to have made it to their age. they need to know that growing up rules, it’s a gift and life does not have to suck for them, that they have a future that’s worth sticking around for. this rhetoric is so damaging mentally and i’m about to start hitting the adults who parrot it. i’m sorry you hate your life but you don’t get to dump your issues on these kids. don’t piss me off and leave these babies alone!

The indian burial ground trope is weird cause it's like. Obviously the horror is white people being haunted by their own sins, right. The colonialism. Murdering these people and paving over their graves. But they literally never frame it that way they're too racist so it's still, like, subliminal white guilt under a thick layer of "what if the savage ndns come back 😨" like the scary thing here is YOU LOL

It's also frequently pretty unnecessary set dressing. What if you were in a haunted hotel cause a guy went crazy and killed his family in there ... and there were dead ndns also. Implying it's the dead ndns fault. Man white people just do that sometimes

There's potential to dig into it as an exploration of colonial violence & white guilt but it's always white people writing these stories. Racistly. Cause another thing is it's weird to frame burial grounds as spooky scary skeletons in the first place ... like ... I'm a spooky scary indian I hang with ghosts like that and it's like a beautiful peaceful meadow. Cause they're not mad at me I guess :shrug:. If they built a hotel over it I'd be pissed too tf

Granted white people are also scared of nature so maybe they'd still be tweaking in the meadow idk