was looking at the transcript for empok nor today and i think its worth noting that amaro, the crew member that garak kills, is talking about the cardassian soldier who’s hunting them and says he’d like to kill him himself and calls him a “spoonhead.” this is minutes before high!garak kills amaro.
for basically the entire episode, garak is trying to provoke miles into saying or doing something that would put him into the same category as amaro, but it never works. he asks him if he wants to kill more “cardies” (garak actually says that word!) but miles won’t ever take the bait, and keeps insisting he’s not a soldier anymore and he didn’t enjoy what he had to do at setlik iii. garak asks him how many cardassians he killed and miles insists he doesn’t remember. in their final confrontation garak says he’s disappointed because miles has no bloodlust towards him, only fear.
god, it’s SUCH a good fucking episode - but i think particularly in how it handles this aspect. garak’s got the racism drug coursing through his veins, so when amaro says a slur, it immediately triggers murder-brain. but miles - even though they have never gotten along, even though there’s an obvious rivalry for julian’s attention that they even talk about at the beginning of the episode - garak has to keep goading him, he needs him to SAY something, needs him to DO something, and miles won’t do it. he never gives garak what he needs to trigger his murder brain and i think that’s beautiful.
might have made this post a couple years ago but how far back along the evolutionary tree do you have to go before it’s bestiality to have sex with early hominids? I think australopithecus is too far but that’s just an upper bound
actually wait since humans are largely differentiated from our ancestors by neotenous traits maybe it would be pedophilia for an australopithecus to have sex with a human. and bestiality the other way. might have just discovered a new kind of crime
i think everyone in the homo erectus group is close enough to not be bestiality, so australopithecus is exactly the most human-like being for whcih it would still be bestiality. i googled some pictures of homo ergaster and like…yeah thats a dude
Yeah, fucking lucy is definitely bestiality. Australopithecines are just upright apes and don’t share many traits with anatomically modern humans. It’s still a point of contention if we really know that Lucy and her kind were actually our ancestors. Additionally, I HAVE to ask my professors this question now and i can already feel their brain doing backflips to answer
My prof finally got back to me, a pretty non answer imo
only on tumblr to people ask questions like “would it be ethical to fuck my primate ancestor from 400,000 years ago?”
The answer is no, mainly because you’re almost defiantly related
the unexpected answer we all ignored: it’s not bestiality, but it is incest
So this post travelled from “is sex with homo habilis bestiality” to “sex with homo heidlebergensis is incest” and I’m now curious as to where it can go next. Presumably “sex with homo sapiens is SIN” which… does seem to be where a lot of tumblr posts go, come to think of it.
I’m not sure if fucking an australopithicus would necessarily be bestiality. I feel like it might be monsterfucking.
Great post everyone
I have some real bad news for anybody here whose criteria for “is it incest if I fuck them” is like “we share any genetic material” because oh boy, well
I heard that modern humans are all, at most, 50th cousins- there was a genetic bottleneck in human history because they think there was a mass extinction event which left only 10,000 of us alive. So, good job, humans.
So what you’re saying is it’s LESS incestuous to fuck an australopithicus than a homo sapiens
Guys, the important consideration is the one we cannot know without a time machine. if you ask an australopithecine if they want to fuck, do they say “Yes” in a language that some kind of universal translator can comprehend? Or do they say “EEEE eee eeee ooo eee?”
If they have language and can and do say yes, it’s monsterfucking. If they don’t, it’s bestiality.
Tumblr: As usual, tackling the important ethical issues of the day.
Can we just at least agree that, in this day and age, fucking most of them would be necrophilia?
Lesser known small mammals (or mammals whenever i bring up people have no idea what im talking about)
Quoll ..a carnivorous marsupial native to Australia that spends most of the day sleeping in its dens. there have been 111 recorded events of quolls eating human remains (x) (pictured here is a spotted-tail quoll)
Numbat..an insectivorous marsupial from Australia that is diurnal (or is primarily active during the day). unlike other mammals that primarily eat termites, they have a jaw with 50 very small teeth. they live in tree hollows and block the openings with the thick hide of their rump
Hyrax ..a small thickset herbivorous mammal that is more closely related to elephants and sea cows than pikas and marmots. theyre found in africa, and they have rubbery paw pads that help them climb up rocks (this is a rock hyrax)
Solenodon… a venomous, insectivorous little mammal that is easily provoked into a frenzy of squeaking and biting. it uses echolocation to compensate for its poor eyesight, and females have two teats almost located on its backside (above is a cuban solenodon)
Sengi (elephant shrews (or better known as the get a look at the snout species))…is another insectivore that is more closely related to elephants than true shrews. they live in southern Africa and have relatively large brains for their size (a respectable 11 inches) (this is a black and rufous sengi)
Tenrec..omnivorous little mammal that lives in land, sea, underground, and in trees. there are many different subspecies of tenrec that can look like hedgehogs, opossums, rats, and shrews (this is one is a lowland streaked tenrec from madagascar)
Many of you may know how fucked up the PIP application process is. If you don’t, I can firsthand attest to this. I know they didn’t even read my evidence, as they told me in my refusal that I have “no problems” with walking, despite multiple pieces of evidence, including a letter from my GP, regarding my use of a wheelchair. They expect us to jump through impossible hoops to prove our disability. My grandma who has had polio since she was a child and cant leave the house on her own due to this had to apply SEVEN times. It’s ridiculous and dehumanising.
If you are disabled or care about disabled people, I’m sure you agree with me that it needs to change. If you do, please have a look at this petition. It’s a step in the right direction to at least get Parliament to talk about it and hold this review- but we need to get it off the ground. Share it with friends and family and anyone who will listen. Don’t let noise around this die down. We need this!
IF YOU’RE NOT A UK RESIDENT PLEASE DONT TRY AND SIGN THIS! Even one false signature, if proven, can void the whole thing.
What can you do to help? Spread awareness among anyone you may know who is resident in the UK, and ask others to do the same. The more traction this gets the better!
More should be made about the fact that Garak is not in fact, just a tailor, but also a fashion designer.
You’re telling me that people wouldn’t be clambering after a Garak Original after the war where he helped free Cardassia??? You’re telling me museums wouldn’t be collecting his pieces for those sections of museums where they have historical outfits?? Quark brags regularly that he has a closet full of Garak originals. It’s just a fact. Grow up bro, grow up.
is that’s not Julian’s teddy bear. It’s Jules’s. Julian stitched up “his first patient” when he was five, well before he got his genetic modifications. And for someone who considers himself unnatural, has trouble reconciling his “realness” with the fact that he was “designed”… that is the most comforting thing in the entire world. Here he’s got tangible proof, real tangible proof, with Jules’ stitching still in the leg and everything, that his love of medicine, his love of what he does, is real.
(that bear’s a talisman. Of course he’s brining it to DS9)
currently thinking about: this photo of richard sandells kissing the eros statue in piccadilly circus as part of an outrage kiss-in protest against the prosecution of gay people showing affection in public.
you know that gag where there’s a character who’s falling off a ledge to their death and they’re all teary and the music swells as their hand slips and then the shot zooms out to show they fell like. two feet. that’s what answering important emails feels like.
