I blame the movies we watched growing up framing black widows, tarantulas, and even just regular spiders as dangerous and unsettling
You know what’s wild? I hear people all the time talking about how they’ve been bitten by spiders. And the truth is that spider bites are so incredibly rare, constantly misdiagnosed. Do your research or ask anyone who studies them. Spiders are simply not out here biting people.
But what’s even more amazing is how adamant people are about seeing spiders as biting people when you know who does bite people? All the time? Ants. Why do people not fear ants? But this fantasy of spiders biting them gives them severe avoidance instincts. Like have you ever sat on concrete. Or in grass. Or outside at all ever? Ants are biting you. That little pinch you felt under your thigh? That’s some little fuckers mouthpieces grabbing your leg my dude.
It just doesn’t make sense to me? Why do people fear spiders but not ants? When ants are so much more likely to walk on your person than spiders, and in many cases will bite you if you don’t know they’re on you. Someone explains this to me. And don’t say spiders are bigger and creepier bc have you seen bullet ants
This is not to throw shade on ants. I think ants are fantastic and beautiful little guys. But seriously why are we demonizing spiders when ants are literally sitting right next to them biting u
George:
Guys, I have to walk back my earlier statements.
I read Val's wiki, and I think I'm sold. I see the potential. This might be it. This might be our endgame.
I'm not kidding, see for yourselves.
At least we'll have Kit and Emilia's bewildered expressions to that joke of a finale 😁
Comedy gold
Show Dany wasn't a charmer. The characters are either dumb down to make them follow her or are smart enough to know what kind of person she is. She wasn't that complex character. Infact her villain arc gave her some depth.
It's painful how stupid everyone had to become. We always focus on Jon, but so many characters had to be lobotomized to make it work.
Not Sansa though! :D
America needs to step up its political verbal judo
absolutely brilliant
Aaaaw, thank you..😊
@joel-mlller came up with an Oberyn lives au where he’s blind and wears silk wraps over his eyes and it awakened something in me, sorry
wrapless version under the cut
She's crying her best
She’s really Going Through It™
Reblogging again even though I already receive a blessing the last go round
For my male audience
I nominate Cartoon Saloon to do the deed of animating
No more live action a song of ice and fire adaptions. Anime ONLY. I want that shit treated like Vox Machina
I love the thought that in two, maybe three hundred years when the Internet, Neil Gaiman, and Larry Welz are a distant hazy memory, The Innkeeper's Soul will be told with the same folktale reverence around fires as Stingy Jack O'Lantern and the darker versions of Grimm's Fairy Tales: an amusing fable about the power of human love trumping the petty squabbles of Heaven and Hell
I don't expect this one to get answered, but a friend who I recently introduced your work to asked, and I was curious:
Have you ever dabbled in writing erotica, or possibly better termed, smut? Maybe under a pseudonym?
Given the wide breadth of topics you've written about, and given that most artists of any type tend to dabble at least a little, I would guess that the answer is yes, just curious if any of it ever got published anywhere?
Thank you for your time, good sir. I've been a fan almost as long as you've been writing. Still looking for a copy of The First Four Years of the Fab Five for less than a billion dollars, and looking for a replacement for my stolen (and signed, in person, long ago) copy of Don't Panic.
There's a story called "Tastings" in Smoke and Mirrors, and a few bits of American Gods, but that's all I can think of so far.
How sweet of you, Mister President Trump 🙄
Reminder for when he “saves” it. He was the one who wanted this, and now he gets to be the hero and win favour with young constituents. Don’t give him the credit for fixing his own problem.