Brainfloods and Mindscrews

I think this ship (spaceship) is really funny

also apparently this rock art dates across multiple periods spanning thousands of years? but i couldn't find much detail on that so i can't give specifics

but yeah, this isn't just a memory of giraffes, but of giraffes now absent encountered by people just 2000 years (the difference between the late roman republic and today) out of the ice age, in a climate unfamiliar to any of the hundred billion people born since the desertification of the sahara drove the ancient egyptians to the nile, near the start of the agricultural revolution

the time between this and the birth of the sahara was nearly as long as the time between the birth of the sahara and now, in which all recorded history is contained, and all languages we can recognise at all - the language and culture of these people would be totally alien to current libyans, twice the difference between the oldest european language and english, predating all but libya's mountains!

My husband complained that this was more Shakespeare than Eddas, and I challenged him to do better.

Solen sken, skönt gyllene

Dagen Tor föddes

På trottoaren, vid Taco Bell

Där låg Loke

—KJN

My translation:

The sun shone, sweet golden

The day of Tor’s birth

On the tarmac, by Taco Bell

There lay Loki

ay yo show ur husband 

Solen skinnede, skøn og gylden

På dagen for Tors fødsel

På asfalten ved Taco Bell

Dér lå Loke

“LEV MERE (LIVE MAS)”

He hair shine brite

A very very

Magical site

But then I see

A bab from hell

I pik up loki

and exomis:

Since we are here might as well share the dhoti and the lungi

https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Lungi

https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Pancha-Kachcham?amp=1

It’s only men in the photos but really anyone can wear them. I am wearing a lungi right now.

Aztec/Mexica

Maya

Inca

(The last image is a drawing of an Inca emperor and shows the specific style of highly-decorated tunic they wore, which you can read about and see a very famous surviving example of here)

And these shapes still continue in a lot of traditional dress today. Huipil especially are still common and worn a lot different ways.

Also some ancient Near Eastern/Mesopotamian styles, who like their neighbors also loved Big Rectangle (and especially Big Rectangle with fringe)

Sumerian

Hittite (reconstructions by annasrome)

..and Assyrian

(while particularly loving: “Gender of the Day: Wales”)

And my dad and brothers? Were deeply disturbed by the movie Jennifer’s Body. I was flabbergasted. It’s not scary! It’s not even that gory. But they were horrified by it. These men who grew up on 70s slashers were legitimately shook by 90 minutes of Megan Fox eating a few teenage boys, mostly off-screen.

Similarly, my all-male reading panel for my thesis? Were so disturbed by my synopsis of the film Teeth that they couldn’t even talk about it. One of them said he couldn’t look at his wife for a week after reading it.

Again, grown-ass men who study and teach media for a living. Who definitely watch and enjoy horror movies. One of whom was a huge Tarantino buff. We watched and read worse in his intro to mass media class! But one movie about a girl whose vag could bite was enough to haunt him.

Then of course you have things like the Gone Girl backlash–men yelling that Amy Dunne is evil and women clamoring to assure everyone that they know she is not someone to emulate–the backlash against Carol Danvers, and, more recently, the griping from MRAs against the upcoming film Hustlers, which is about strippers scamming their Wall Street clients.

My conclusion? Most men–at least most straight, cisgender men, who are both my sample population and most of the ones whining that Carol is a “villain”–are perfectly fine with, and desensitized to, media where men do violence to women (horror movies), or men do violence to men (horror and action movies). They’re even sort of fine when women do violence to women (“ooooo cat fight!”).

But they get intensely uncomfortable when women are depicted doing any kind of violence to men, especially in films that tilt the balance of power to the other side of the m/f gender binary beyond a single moment or scene.

So woman as flesh-eating monster with men as her preferred cuisine? Woman who responds to unwanted sexual contact by biting it off? Woman who frames her cheating husband for murder? Woman whose response to harassment–behavior that many of the loudest whiners know is both creepy and reflective of their own thoughts/actions–is to break something?

Too scary. Unacceptable. Disturbing. These men hate being presented with the idea, even in fiction, that their position of power is socially constructed, that it could easily be flipped the other way. It terrifies them.

In feeling that terror, they experience a tiny modicum of what living, existing, moving, being perceived as a woman in the world is like.

In Maori folk tales Maui meets his end when he tries to sneak into the vagina of the goddess of night and death because she wakes and smashes him into tiny bits with her obsidian vagina teeth. He was a worm at the time (it makes sense in context)

Unfun turn to the real world: There is a medical condition called dermoid cysts, that can occur in the vagina, but those cysts are more like bumps and not teeth-like, but still, medical precedent.

Why would that sound anything like gossip??? Wtf. Why, when talking about SA, the first thing that comes to your mind is that it might be gossip?

For me, it's something I have to think about. I've analyzed Hannibal over and over and I feel like there's something that he has never told anyone about his childhood, not even Chiyoh. I theorized about what could that something be.

Not sure what anon meant tbh-

In many real world documented cases of cannibalism you will find that they ate the dead first, the ones they didn't have to kill themselves. The greatest barrier was the fact that to eat a human, you normally have to kill a human first. If there is a fresh corpse, suddenly a lot of the reasons not to practice cannibalism go away, especially if starving.

Semen on the other hand is not something you need to survive. Important for the survival of the species, but you would not die if your balls were to shrivel up. You loose your blood though and well that's it.

There is a movie based on a true story about a plane crash in the Andens where the survivors decide to consume the flesh of those that died in the crash.

There are multiple cases of cannibalism at sea, one who spawned the famous book Moby Dick and one that was weird because Edgar Allan Poe wrote a book and then the incident happened and the cabin boy they killed and eat had the same name as the victim in the book.

That was actually the case that put an end to cannibalism at sea because the court decided that killing the cabin boy was murder and doing it to survive was no excuse. So they were sentenced to death but because of errors in the process Queen Victoria decided to use her royal prerogative of mercy. The court had withheld the option of manslaughter from the jury and thus they were given 6 months in prison and then were released. But yeah, that was officially the last case of cannibalism at sea.

The armor covers his chest well enough, you can’t see his hardened nipples (since you can see the curvature of the rest of his chest musculature so well it makes me believe that he has no nipples) and it has no belly-button window.

The armor doen’t ride up his butt that much, it does not render his arse into two highly polished bowling balls like you can see in several highly sugestive female armor sets.

Oh and speaking of balls… where is the male equivalent to those DD-Breast male gamers like to watch jiggling so much… where is the hung like a horse dick? I highly doubt that you can apply propper jiggle physics to that small a crotch.

I wanna make one of these that is like a literal curtain of worms

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