Succulent Ambush

Kapoor or one of his agents has, it’s worth noting, violated the terms of service put forth on Semple’s website, and Semple isn’t happy. He expressed his deep concern over the situation in an email to artnet News:

This naturally upset a great number of people in the art world, to say the least, as many other people were excited to experiment with using the Vantablack pigment in their art. Therefore, as an act of retaliation, artist Stuart Semple released PINK, the world’s pink pigment under the stipulation that anyone in the world could buy it, except for Anish Kapoor. At the time of purchase, the purchaser has to agree to a legal statement saying that they are not Anish Kapoor and will not willing or knowingly give the pigment to Anish Kapoor. 

and people are blaming her because they’re like “well her son said he wanted to go into the gorilla pit idk why she didn’t listen” like???? kids say weird stuff like that all the time? and kids slip away all the time?

and male silverback gorillas have a volatile nature and he could’ve snapped any moments. and this isn’t a cartoon! tranquilizers don’t take immediate affect. so don’t come on my post being passive aggressive if you haven’t actually looked into why they chose to do what they did

Also with the proximity of the child it is possible that the gorilla could have fallen on to him, causing him to drown as well.

If you look at this Facebook post by Amanda O'Donoughue (an experienced zoo keeper) she actually explains in depth why tranquilising the gorilla was not an option. https://www.facebook.com/amanda.odonoughue/posts/1203379586363094

As a student veterinary nurse I can categorically state that no veterinarian, veterinary nurse or zoo keeper would want to euthanise an otherwise healthy animal - especially one that is genetically important to an endangered or threatened species like gorillas. But in this instance - when all other safe methods of attempting to rescue the child had failed - euthanasia was the only option.

She also explains how the gorilla was not actually trying to protect the child and that his behaviours show that he was I fact very unhappy with having an intruder in his enclosure.

“I’m sick of you always taking the cat’s side in everything!”

“I pictured you hotter, to be honest.”

“What do you mean you’ve never tried hangover sex? It’s like, an instant cure!”

“Remember how I told you I already took care of that? Well I lied and I need help NOW.”

“Is this the same store you don’t go to anymore because you said ‘I love you’ to the cashier?”

“No, I was just in the neighbourhood…total coincidence that you’re here too…”

“When we’re 50, wanna be each other’s backup spouse?”

“No, officer, I will NOT step out of the vehicle..”

“For the last time, this is not Joe’s Pizza. How do you keep dialling this number? Who even free-dials anymore?”

“Yes, I know that’s my face on the billboard, can we not make a big deal about it?”

“Are these your underwear or mine?”

“Hey remember that time we practised kissing? That was so dumb, right? Right..?”

“What do you mean there’s no signal? We’re trapped here?!”

“Yeah, we broke up months ago…I didn’t tell you about it because didn’t think you’d care.”

“….happy birthday to ME…”

“Yeah we made a sex bet and now it’s terrible because I thought I would be the one who’s better at it..”

“Oh my god, you have a concussion, stop trying to flirt with me.”

“It’s super annoying that you’re so fit because you make me exercise more. How else was I supposed to ogle you?”

“I haven’t written anything in weeks because you’re so damn distracting. Stop that!”

[Marnie Dickens’] new series Forty Elephants is being developed by the BBC and is described as “a girl gang show set in the 1920s and centred on a crime family”.

“Forty Elephants is a modern and visceral period drama centred around the formidable leader of the infamous girl-gang and the ambitious young woman who sets out to undo her.”

Title: Leader Of The Free World Rating: PG Summary: Clint Barton’s presidential campaign started as a joke. It didn’t end that way, except for Steve. Notes: Written for @MemPrime, who requested it as a birthday fic. (Sorry I didn’t actually write the debate you suggested, @fatfemme-inist, I chickened out. :D) Happy birthday, Mem! Other Notes: I don’t know how presidential campaigns work, guys. I didn’t do any research because politics is very boring and I only research it when I am myself voting to make sure I don’t vote for Darth Vader in disguise. Please forgive for any inaccuracies, I wasn’t willing to put that amount of energy into what is essentially four thousand words of LOL CLINT BARTON. Warnings: None.

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It was kind of a dare, and it was sort of at a party, which were both excuses Tony and Clint used a lot, because “we were drunk” was not an excuse Steve would put up with. Technically “it was at a party” wasn’t either, but he and Tony had shouted their way through several arguments over “it was a dare”, and the result was that Steve no longer got into fights over dares. Because Tony knew his history, and he knew that if Steve Rogers was telling someone not to take a dare, Steve Rogers was being a giant hypocrite.

“It’s honestly not that hard to get your ass on a ballot,” Tony said, tipping his beer at the presidential debate going on silently on one of the televisions. The Avengers had developed several patterns around their missions against Hydra, and Tony liked the post-assault protein-load that they usually did right after, but the post-assault party the weekend following a mission, that was his favorite.

“There’s a ton of paperwork, isn’t there?” Clint asked.

“Not really that much. I mean,” Tony corrected, “Not that much if you have, you know, your own legal department.”

“Oh, rich-dude-not-much,” Clint teased. “So you could run for president pretty easily, huh?”

I love the thought of just the other’s touch is enough grounding to get them then feeling secure enough to sleep. Like they’re doing recon and Bucky is too wired so Steve keeps a hand across his shoulder while he keeps watch and Bucky is able to nod off. Or with nightmares where Steve ends up on the couch and watching TV and Bucky joins him and they wake up at 5am realizing they need to invest in a much bigger couch. *hearts*

I think that one of the most harmful and pervasive things fandom can do sometimes is focus on some sort of “relationship goal” type trope and make it seem like a relationship norm - wherein there’s something wrong with a relationship, either in fandom or in real life, if it doesn’t have a certain element. One of those things is the idea that couples who sleep together, all cuddly, stay together.  It comes from the idea that bed sharing while “in love” is all touching and needing to feel the other person next to you while sleeping, and that once the relationship gets more mature or the people fall out of love, they no longer touch each other while sleeping. 

Sure, I think it can be adorable, but it’s also really not true to real people.  There are TONS of reasons it doesn’t work in real life, and I feel like whether or not Steve and Bucky share a bed every night, or even a bedroom, doesn’t have anything to do with the strength of their relationship.

On a personal note: absolutely no one wants to force me into a bed-sharing situation. I’m an insomniac at the best of times, but I’m a miserable insomniac when I’m sharing a room. I will WAKE THE OTHER PERSON UP because if I’m not asleep then no one can be. I get so super resentful if someone is sleeping and I can’t, like every soft (or loud snore) fills me with rage until I’m a quivering mess of hostility and after the 3 hours of sleep I manage, I’m willing to allow everyone to know it.

I’ve been told “you know, you’ll adapt” and I think that’s TOTAL BULLSHIT. If I haven’t adapted to being able to sleep on my own in 30 years what makes you think I’m going to be able to adapt to another person in the next 30?????