i have had many urges…. but i have never booped her
luckily she’s a timid sweetheart and probably would just hide if i ever tried to boop her.
she’s only ever bitten me once! It hurt quite a bit but she doesn’t have anywhere close to the power needed to take off a finger.Â
Moray eels don’t crunch or slice. They have sharp, backward-pointing, needle-like teeth, meant to grab and hold until their pharyngeal jaws (tiny secret Alien-style throat jaws) can dart out, grab the food, and pull it down their throat.Â
It’s a similar idea to a snake- the bite is gonna hurt, and it’s gonna be hard to get all the teeth out of yourself if they don’t let go, but it’ll just be puncture marks without any real serious damage. It has to be a huge moray to cause any severe damage. One of multiple reasons why morays aren’t dangerous, that and their lack of aggression. If you don’t poke one in the face or stick your hand in one’s burrow, you won’t get bit.
that is true for most morays! however snowflakes evolved to eat mostly crustaceans and so they actually have small, cone-shaped teeth for crushing the exoskeletons of crabs and shrimp! Â
you can see her teeth alright in this gif
Ooh, cool! I haven’t seen snowflake teeth up close, just some others. Green morays in aquariums and something in Hawaii I didn’t manage to ID.Â
Yeah, that could probably do some serious damage if it was in the mouth of something much bigger. A smaller eel like Noodle, I’d think maybe some bruising if she hung on or bit down hard. Did she draw blood at all?
nah, just some unpleasant finger crushing. it hurt for a few days after but it didn’t leave a mark
I looked up a picture of a snowflake moray skull, and I found a news story about a diver who got his thumb bitten off by a moray eel.
The eel was six feet long, he’d regularly been feeding it while diving with it, and the food of choice was sausage. Apparently Scarface (eel) got ahold of his thumb while aiming for a sausage and either didn’t realize the mistake or didn’t care. Fortunately, the diver understood his mistake and did not go back to kill the eel later.
So apparently a six-foot moray does have the teeth and body force necessary to take off a finger. Also, you should not hand-feed large sea life with food that resembles fingers. Please do not.Â
I…. I have thoughts and feelings that are way more intense than I ever imagined regarding the depiction of “female” robots in media. Like, “write a thirty page essay and possibly original fiction” intense rather than a few lengthy tumblr posts. I talked about it rather shallowly after Blade Runner 2049 came out, but it’s been stewing in the back of my mind since October and I need to express it somehow.
“hey ship what are ya thinkin’ about? you look distressed”
“the ethical implications of intentionally giving sexual characteristics to and programming gender in an artificial being capable of consciousness without its consent, especially when those traits are already associated with objectification and social inequality in humans”
listen if youre going to complain about the way someone draws robots then you might as well complain about furries too cause dogs and cats aint supposed to have two big tits 24/7 but here we are
Wh…at? That’s. I don’t think that’s my point, but I’m not actually sure what your point is.
If you’re creating an artificial being capable of consciousness and human-like cognition (currently only a fictional scenario), you are fully responsible for actively choosing its appearance. Not nature, not God, not random chance. You. You choose whether it appears sexless, or masculine, or feminine, how “human” it looks, whether it has genitalia, if it can fuck, if it can be fucked… its body is subject entirely and exclusively to your whims.
You know it will be objectified. Of course it will – it’s a machine, after all. What is the purpose of a machine, if not “to be used”?Â
You’re probably not just trying to make a machine if you go to the trouble of giving it consciousness and a human form. You’re creating an artificial human that will interact with biological humans. The odds are already stacked against it being regarded as a person deserving of autonomy and rights because of its natural (or… lack thereof?). Most sci-fi settings resemble our own socially, subject to many if not all of the same prejudices, including sexism. Maybe designing your android to be anatomically correct humanizes him in the eyes of others. But doing the same to your gynoid? Now she’s doubly objectified, more “toy” than “machine”.
Donald Trump is exactly the kind of person that Jesus would have thrown out of the temple and beaten with a stick, and the fact that so many self-identified Christians want to put him in office tells you pretty everything wrong with white American Christianity.Â
Because Jesus had authority at temples and beat people.
I 100% can’t tell if you’re joking here but he actually did chase people out of a temple at least once for using religion for their own selfish gains, complete with literal table flipping and improvised whips
So really it’s not that he would have trump thrown out as much as he would storm in and accuse him of turning his father’s house into a den of thieves before upending a table on his head
Dude, Jesus not only chased them out, he broke stuff they were selling, let loose all of their animals, and fucking flipped all the money-changing tables.
Jesus 100% would have been chasing Trump out with a table leg.
Canon Jesus 10000% better than fanon Jesus
Canon Jesus did some very weird shit. Like, just before throwing the market out of the temple, he stole a donkey, then cursed a fig tree because it didn’t have any fruit on it. The next day, or possibly immediately, everyone was amazed that the fig tree he had cursed was withered. He must’ve been in a fuckin weird mood. Going through a Dark Period. The Chaotic Mage of Light losing his shit just a little bit.
“So, what the fuck was that, Jesus?” someone asked as they’re all looking at the horribly withered corpse of the poor cursed tree.
“The power of prayer,” Jesus said absently.
“… wait, is cursing literally a form of prayer? Because some Wiccans are going to be really upset about that, like, they have a whole threefold law thing, is this… okay?”
“Listen,” said Jesus, “If I tell a mountain to get back in the sea? The mountain will get in the fucking sea. Do you want me to tell you to get in the sea?”
And they were all like, “Good demo, Jesus. Good lesson.”
Meanwhile, he was having the aforementioned public brawl in the temple.
Just keep that in mind during this election cycle – viable answers for What Would Jesus Do include flipping tables, stealing animals and striking down shrubbery with magic, all in one week.
Before Holy Week in the church calendar comes the lesser-known festival of Christ Doesn’t Give A Fuck Week
I now have a mental image of Jesus as Negan from the walking dead, dolling out justice on religious heathens with a table leg studded with nails.
The fig tree incident happened because he was hungry and couldn’t find any fruit on it. Anyone who’s experienced low blood sugar can relate to that tantrum.
Jesus was hangry.
I believe this is my favorite post ever.
My favorite part of the “flipping tables at the temple” story is that before any of that went down, Jesus went out and wove his own whip with which to drive these people out.
I like to imagine him being just so angry, muttering under his breath while he braided together the scourge.
I never feel as connected to my early human ancestors as when I am gnawing on a chicken wing and my dogs are watching me. The most spiritually honest version of a paleo diet is just, “whatever you can find, but a dog is watching you”
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