#wintermutal

don't worry Q wasn't putting the root vegetables up the cats' assholes he was putting them up his own asshole while one of the cats watched and narrated and made it abundantly clear that this was something it found arousing. pretty sure Q's ass was described by this cat as a "cute little hole" during the scene. nobody questioned this and Perv Cats became an established and very popular universe within the fandom, leaving me to feel like I was going insane.

Instead of a simple answer, I will keep to the theme of 2020 and give you a long and rambling one that I think illustrates my point perfectly.

As we all know, we have been suffering from a pandemic of sorts. Said pandemic is highly infectious among humans, and I, of course, run a humanoid containment site (that’s a fancy word for “people with anomalous abilities but for legal reasons we can’t call them “human” in the paperwork). Now, as soon as the news began to spread, I decided to take some action, because this shit never ends well and I’ve done enough research on pathogens and diseases and all that lovely stuff to know how this goes down.

I lock down my site. I mean nobody enters, nobody leaves. If you were here when the lockdown happened, tough titties. We are in quarantine, baby! We’re acting like 008 just leaked from the lab! Get comfortable! As well as this, I ordered strict social distancing measures, because it was several days before I was able to get hold of tests. Thankfully the site is quite spacious and many people could work from their quarters or personal offices, so work wasn’t overly interrupted. Well, we were lucky, because I tested every damn person on the site and we were virus-free. Brilliant! People who were desperately needed elsewhere were able to travel; still a no on people coming in. We are, and have remained, virus-free. 

Well, the Powers That Be conferred, and decided that face masks were mandatory on every site. These face masks are simply not convenient for many of the people in my care, and for people like site security they’re just inconvenient. Plus, we’re virus-free. There is not a single trace of the virus on my site and there won’t be, because we are not letting anyone or anything in. I say all this in a surprisingly politely worded email (I had the suspicious I may have to get less polite later) and hope to the lord above that someone in this organization will have sense. My prayers went unanswered.

I get a very terse email telling me that it. is. mandatory! My pleas fall on deaf ears, as do my curses. I try and put it off for as long as possible, feigning supply shortages (not exactly a lie -- I did not order any face masks) and then making up whatever excuse came into my head, and I suppose they finally had enough because they sent us a huge crate full of face masks. As per the protocol I had the good sense to enforce when I saw the writing on the wall, the crate was quarantined in the cargo hold for a week (aka we ignored it and nobody even went near it), because I like to be careful (the virus dies on most surfaces within days). 

When it was safe, we tested it to see if it had been exposed.

The crate had been infected. 

Nah, I got no sources. Just this crazy itch that there are just too many damn coincidences and no news about the captain, crew, disciplinary actions, or even a reason why. Best we’ve gotten so far is “winds did it”.

Also I’m sure that big dick-n-balls in the water has nothing to do with anything.

But if I was an aggrieved cargo-ship captain ready to quit my job in the most spectacular way possible? That’s what I’d do. But first, I’d short a WHOLE bunch of shipping company stocks.

please don’t remind me of this I literally watched two whole video essays about this drama because it was honestly horrifying and gripping all in one. combined length of said video essays was almost 2 hours which is a lot for me. there was readouts of some of the excerpts and oh my god. oh my god. 

also the ‘inventor’ went off so hard because she argued that she had invented heterosexual A/B/O, which was its own thing, and refused to budge on the matter. then she sent lawyers after the YouTuber who did the video essays I was watching, and that made it into the second video. it was wild.

I think deep down a lot of scientifically-minded people feel this way. for example, don't get me wrong, I might be out here like Spooky McGhost but I believe that paranormal research is just another branch of scientific study, albeit less understood and certainly in its infancy. a quest for answers is natural, as is fearing what those answers might be.

I think it's important to take comfort from the fact we'll never know everything. it is a comfort, even if it's frustrating at times and probably the only thing that can undoubtedly bring home the reality of the human race's mortality -- this idea that we're only here for such a comparatively short amount of time, and that there's no way we'll ever know everything. even so, what's a life without new information and ideas and questions? I don't think I truly want to know everything, but I want to know everything I can. thankfully the world changes at a rapid pace, so I'll never be left without questions.