cottoncaps
Cotton - They/Them - Projection’s my middle name-minors DNI
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these are the miserable remains of a chestnut weevil (Curculio elephas) who will never again feel the joy of a freshly drilled acorn after unspeakable atrocities were perpetrated upon her by me
this is her thirty seconds later. the atrocities that she miraculously recovered from included "being gently scooped up from a branch"
(September 1st, 2024)
im gods weakest faggot
by far the funniest thing about reading fanfiction as a political professional is that I can always tell exactly who has and hasn't been to a fundraiser or gala based on how they write them
this leucistic blue jay, photographed by sue kiesel, is almost pure white - in stark contrast to a typical specimen’s vivid blues. leucism is a genetic mutation that presents in a lack of pigmentation, but not a full loss as in the case of albinism.
just to remind myself of that time I somehow ended up recommending the fic op actually wrote about this in the comments to someone without realising op was, in fact, the author of that fic.
sometimes you follow someone for their skyfire/starscream comic and find out later they're the author of your fav starscream redemption fic
this hellsite is alright actually
Look my favourite 'Starscream joins the Autobots' concept involves him absolutely playing up his victimhood in a manipulative attempt to win sympathy. He's a Decepticon! He's Starscream. Of course he does! He will act however weak and vulnerable he needs to, in order to achieve his ends.
This gives him a fascinating duality. He's a Machiavellian selfish would-be-tyrant who fucking dares the Autobots to feel sorry for him; while at the same time, he's a wheedling, snivelling mess, making puppy-dog eyes as he cunningly reveals tailored scraps of his abusive relationship with Megatron to win over the 'soft-sparked' Autobots.
Everything he shares is true.
In fact, things with Megatron were probably even worse than he portrays, albeit more complex - i.e., with far more goading and violence on his side, but which in NO WAY justified the ghastly abuse he was subjected to.
This is a way for him to feel like he's in control of the shit that's been done to him. If he's using his victim status as a weapon, it feels like it's his. He's taken possession of it. He's made it into something more powerful, in his mind (even if this defence tactic kinda... prevents him from fully recognising that what happened to him was actually really really awful).
I wish more fics engaged with this aspect of his character, where he's PERFECTLY WILLING to go 'OH THE ABUSE. OH I HAVE SUFFERED' if it'll get him ahead in life, while perhaps not even fully understanding just how much trauma he's gone through.
bro, the me inside your head is kind to you, right? haha? 🤨
WE'RE SUFFERING TONIGHT.
Club-horned Wasp - Sapygidae
Black snake millipede, Californiulus euphanus, Paeromopodidae, Julida
Found in Washington and Oregon
Photos 1-2 by corndog and 3-9 by wetlandwanderer
the bog gave me a vision
i must not kill myself . killing myself is the myself killer
Sketches for costumes. “Mensch und kunstfigur.” Oskar Schlemmer. Die buhne im bauhaus. 1925.
Heidelberg University
it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.
fat character who becomes a vampire and loses a ton of weight and blood can not sate their hunger but they can't eat anything they used to like anymore. everyone views it as a positive healthy positive development but they're starving and dying slowly but never truly dying, a living corpse. this is a metaphor for something
posts that are little nightmares to me
Due to work my body hurts bad
as someone who sees themself in scorpions this image always brings me so much comfort. i can still live despite the pain i have caused.
people always talk about evil clones like oooh a dark mirror oohh what if you saw what are cruel person you were/are capable of becoming. and well yes but what if you were the evil clone. what if you looked in the mirror and what you saw was so bright it blinded you. what if you had to know exactly how good you could have been.
the trolley problem vs. systemic oppression: a comic.
current wip 🧜♀️🌊💙 hand embroidery and fabric paint on cotton bag
(this bag is now finished and available in my shop!)
etsy
booktok did ruin a lot of romance novels bc of the demand for instant gratification but culturally it is kind of a slay that so many young women are just reading smut and masturbating all day #respect
Mexican Climbing Salamander (Bolitoglossa mexicana), family Plethodontidae, Sierra Caral on the Caribbean slope of eastern Guatemala
photograph by Igor Sarmientos Melgar
Resurrection, 2025
Oil on canvas
14 x 11 in.