Teeth Studies

something something politics are killing me

give me one more ad for fucking dulcolax, tumblr. i swear to god

the way i’m so down bad for hazekura mikitaka is ridiculous he’s not even human

not even in a sexual way i just wanna fluff up his hair and aaaaaagh strangle him or something idek i just need to squeeze this creechure

Also, I took a most perfect picture of a bug yesterday

commission for @peach-dogs!

sheer leg attack

from last year but once again relevant

Short Story Recommendations

These all fuck me up to a varying degree of emotions

Crime

Philomel Cottage - Agatha Christie

Lamb to the Slaughter - Roald Dahl

Death and the Compass - Jorge Luis Borges

Horror

The Landlady - Roald Dahl

A Walk in the Dark - Arthur C Clarke

The Wife’s Story - Ursula K Le Guin

The Veldt - Ray Bradbury

The Hanging Stranger - Philip K Dick

The Colour out of Space - H P Lovecraft

The Spider - Hanns Heinz Ewers

Sad

The Life You Save May Be Your Own - Flannery O’Connor

A Small, Good Thing - Raymond Carver

Cathedral - Raymond Carver

The Haunted Boy - Carson McCullers

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - Ursula K. Le Guin

The Chef - Andy Weir

The Martyr - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

Jambula Tree - Monica Arak de Nyeko

The Rats Do Sleep At Night - Wolfgang Borchert

Sci-Fi

Love is the Plan the Plan is Death - James Tiptree Jr

The Last Question - Isaac Asimov

The Nine Billion Names of God - Arthur C Clarke

The Star - Arthur C Clarke

Reunion - Arthur C Clarke

The Commuter - Philip K Dick

Exhibit Piece - Philip K Dick

To Serve Man - Damon Knight

Brothers Beyond the Void - Paul W Fairman

What the Fuck?! 

The Lottery - Shirley Jackson

A Collapse of Horses - Brian Evenson

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby - Donald Barthelme

Hopeful Monsters - Hiromi Goto

The Box Social - James Reaney

He-y come on ou-t - shinichi hoshi

The Garden of Forking Paths - Jorge Luis Borges

Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang (just the entire collection bro)

Other

Broken Routine - Jeffrey Archer

A Man Who Had No Eyes - Mackinlay Kantor

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been - Joyce Carol Oates

The Lady, or the Tiger - Frank R Stockton

The Continuity of Parks - Julio Cortázar

The Dinner Party - Mona Gardner

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Gabriel García Márquez

On Exactitude in Science - Jorge Luis Borges

last night my dad told me that i shouldn’t be worrying about current events because there’s nothing i can do about anything.

this morning my mom told me that yes she knows that all of this terrible stuff going on affects me directly but i can’t let it get me down.

and then they literally ask me why i want to kill myself why i want to move out so bad why i am always so distant to them.

coming out of my cage and i been doing just bad. going back in my cage because i like my cage

Hold up! It's Aquarius season. It's his birthday season but I've got some more Dadtaro & Smolyne thoughts I need to share.

Because while I did say in a previous post that Jolyne would definitely be a "Papa's Girl" if Jotaro was a present father, you don't understand the exact vision of it: This tall, stoic man doing his work but the second his little girl calls out for him, that stoicism melts away and is replaced with pure fondness when he pays her attention.

I watched clips from this show called "The Glory" and holy shit when I tell you... the way this guy loves his stepdaughter is exactly how I envisioned Jotaro treating Jolyne if he was around her the whole time.

LIKE HEAR ME OUT AND WATCH:

(Side tangent, but you can't tell me this man doesn't give off 4taro vibes. The professional aura, the slicked clean cut hair, the long coats. Like, come on now. The actor is 44, so my brainrot is screaming this is how 6taro would look if he maintained the Part 4 vibes.)

Imagine these scenes happening similarly somewhere after Eyes of Heaven, where Jotaro resets the timeline to where he's able to spend more time with Jolyne wanting to be a better father for her: He brings her to work, he attends her school events, he picks her up from school etc.

"It's okay if you can't go... I like you when you're busy too..." "..." "No. Of course, I'm going to go, even if I'm busy."

The part where the little girl cries as she runs to him, just imagine it's Jotaro actually coming home from a year of him dealing with Stand users, busy overseas away from home, and Jolyne is starting to wonder if him being away is her fault.

But when he returns to his daughter, he lifts her in his arms, and says what the man says in the clip after she feels guilty:

"You have nothing to be sorry for... Nothing that's happening right now is because of you... This isn't your fault. Do you understand?" "Papa..."

Also to THOSE people in the community who say "But Jotaro is too emotionless to be that empathet-" NO. He has difficulty processing and expressing emotions, but he still has them. He cares for his family even if he's shit at it. He's not a fucking psychopath.