finally someone who doesn’t get confused by boneless pizza
…that’s the great thing about boneless pizza – you can just eat them in pieces like a normal person
And I can’t get distracted talking to you about how good boneless pizza is like I would if a non-boneless pizza was on the table, so it’s good for me to have someone to talk to
A bit of a long shot, but there’s this one spider that remember seeing years ago. Haven’t seen anything like it since and so don’t I have any photos or anything other than an old memory. The location was Ottawa Ontario, and what I remember most vividly is that it was this bright yellow green colour, kind of transparent looking, had no markings, a large abdomen and wasn’t any bigger that a large coin. Again, a long shot and I don’t really expect anyone to have an answer, but doesn’t hurt to ask!
Really hard to say, especially size-wise. Most of the spiders that come to mind are pretty small. Common candy-striped spiders, six-spotted orbweavers, American green crab spiders, or goldenrod crab spiders all live in that area and could be yellow-green with few or no markings. Probably the most likely candidate would be the six-spotted orbweaver - photos here - they come in a bunch of colors. Was it on a web or no?
If I could live in any country I’d actually pick new zealand based 100% entirely on the slugs they have there. I’m not even kidding. If I had the money and nothing at all anchoring me to America I’d live there to be around this one species alone:
just learned the lockpicking lawyer is an actual (retired) lawyer.. for some reason i assumed he wouldn’t be? like it didn’t remotely occur to me that a channel called the lockpicking lawyer would be a lawyer
My latest troll drawing reminded me of something I’ve been wanting to make a post about.
In the English language media I’ve seen trolls are generally depicted as big and stupid, though occasionally they’ll just be small and primitive.
And don’t get me wrong, we also have that here in Scandinavia as seen in the Norwegian movie Troll Hunter.
But trolls from nordic folklore are a lot more nuanced than what modern English language media would lead you to believe.
In folklore they are a sort of hidden nature people with cultures that varies between countries and towns. They can be cruel or kind. In Norway they can smell the blood of Christians and eat people, while in Denmark they don’t mind Christians but can’t stand the sound of church bells and will often move at the first sign of a church being build.
They’re also closely entangled with humans. Trolls steal human babies so they can raise them to go places trolls can’t (in Denmark at least), but leave their own babies with the humans assuming humans would find use for someone with a troll’s strength and abilities.
And that’s why in more modern troll media for adults they’re often used as a sympathetic allegory for people who feel wrong and out of place.
You got the Swedish movie Border from 2018 about a woman who couldn’t feel more wrong. People think she’s ugly and weird and she can’t even have sex because there’s something wrong with her genitalia.
But then she meets a man who looks like her and he slowly reveals that they’re both trolls and the only reason she feels weird is because she’s trying to live the life of a human. She’s a perfectly normal troll. It even turns out that troll men give birth and her “weird genitalia” is meant to impregnate, not be pregnant.
There’s also the band De Underjordiske (The Underworldly which is an old Danish word for otherworldly people that live under ground like trolls and dwarves) from Denmark who have the song Trold about Nordic people in general feeling off because we’re forest trolls who long to return to nature, but also Under Skyggernes Kniv (Under the Knife Of Shadows) about a person asking a troll that has lived their whole life under ground to not be afraid and come up into the sunlight and meet people and the video shows a person who appears to be dressing up as a woman for the first time and trying to live an authentic life.
So trolls are often very queer coded in modern Scandinavia which might sound insulting if you’re an outsider who’s only familiar with the English language version of them but makes a lot of sense in context.
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