Meet the atlantean's wrath

Why? Why? Why dear fucking God, WHY?



I'm sorry but I can't even BEGIN to articulate my mind around such terrible and pointless cruelty.
I'm gonna grab my teddy bear, curl up and cry in a little corner now... ;_;

PS: Support Sea Shepherd if you want things to change since the protection of sharks is one of their primary goals.

Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle: "At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society."

Dear internet, today's entry in this lovely little journal of mine will be filled with a lot of diverse material in form and nature because I just feel like it.

First of all, let's begin with the incredible immortal jellyfish: Turritopsis Nutricula.



As the article in the Telegraph stated it: "The Turritopsis Nutricula is able to revert back to a juvenile form once it mates after becoming sexually mature.
Marine biologists say the jellyfish numbers are rocketing because they need not die.
Dr Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute said: "We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion."
The jellyfish are originally from the Caribbean but have spread all over the world.
Turritopsis Nutricula is technically known as a hydrozoan and is the only known animal that is capable of reverting completely to its younger self.
It does this through the cell development process of transdifferentiation.
Scientists believe the cycle can repeat indefinitely, rendering it potentially immortal.
While most members of the jellyfish family usually die after propagating, the Turritopsis nutricula has developed the unique ability to return to a polyp state.
Having stumbled upon the font of eternal youth, this tiny creature which is just 5mm long is the focus of many intricate studies by marine biologists and geneticists to see exactly how it manages to literally reverse its aging process."

Yes, you read that right, if these jellyfish don't have a highly efficient predator,they'll just end up exponentially increasing!
I, for one, welcome our molluscs overlords and will apply myself to be the most perfect slave


Also, fandom-wise I just realized that I never made a proper entry reflecting on Green Lantern #37. So I have to say that my reaction to the ending was pretty close to this:



Colour me clueless guys, because I really did.not.see.it.coming!
The wait for the next issue already begins to be excruciating...


Also in kali921's latest entry she displayed an AMAZING self-portrait wich inspired me to do my very own. After 5 minutes in MS-paint I am at last able to display my artistic talents in this faithful rendition (complete with captions and all)



Yes, that is totally objective and faithful. I'm sure now you'll be able to recognize me if you roam in Paris' streets.


In other news, I may not be a great fan of porno movies but I have to admit that those of the early 20th century are some of the funniest things Ive ever seen. It teached me that standards of beauty have really, incredibly changed over the decades, that old people love to screw in public and that if you're not careful enough, you can take a penis for a mushroom (don't ask, you don't really want to know).


Again in the animals are awesome department, a drunken russian asshole named Alexander Kirilov tried last weekend to rape a raccoon who did not take this offer kindly and quickly bit off his penis.
Ah, the sweet taste of justice rightly delivered! :D (if you want to read the story by yourself, though there isn't much more to it, head here)



I've also tried recently (since I apparently like to maul my brain) to view and read creationists materials (mostly shitty videos on Youtube) and, quite expectedly, I ended up foaming and even more disgruntled by humanity than I previously was. So first, let me state one thing, if you're a christian good for you; I honestly don't care to what system of belief you adhere to and all is fine with me AS LONG AS YOU DON'T TRY TO TRAVESTY SCIENCE TO MAKE THE WORLD AGREE WITH YOUR TWO THOUSAND YEAR OLD BOOK!!!
*deep breath*
Honestly, few things irk more than close-mindedness or religious fundies and creationists answer to both fronts. On the other hand, thanks the gods (oh my, irony!) for the great evolutionists resources I've stumbled upon while trying to cleanse my brain of all the mental-retardedness I had just witnessed. One of these is Thunderf00t AMAZING Youtube channel and most of all his "Why do people laugh at creationists" series of videos. Some of the them aren't of a very high quality, especially the earlier ones, but if you've got more than a passing interest in science, you definitely need to check them out. Awesome stuff really.

Lewis Carroll: "Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

I am literally frothing to the mouth!
As of two days ago the seven english animal rights activists of the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) who were arrested back in May have been condemned by jury and found guilty of 'conspiracy with persons unknown to blackmail' towards Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) with terms that ranges from 4 to 11 years.

The sentences are as follow, after a 3 months and a half long trial at Winchester Crown Court:
Daniel Wadham - 5 years
Daniel Amos 4 years
Gerrah Selby - 4 years
Heather Nicholson - 11years
Gregg Avery 9 years
Natasha Avery - 9 years
Gavin Medd-Hall - 8 years

My opinion?
I support the SHAC, the ALF (Animal Liberation Front) as well as anybody fighting for decent and humane conditions for animals a hundred percent. If that's deemed an unpopular and/or too radical position, well that's too damn bad but that wont make me change it even a little bit. Those guys in prison are too me HEROES willing to sacrifice their life (see Jill Phipps) and liberties for causes they believe in and that are, at least to me, well damn worth fighting for.

I'm going to buy some stationery and mail them, since that seems to be what they need the most, as of tomorrow. I know it won't change things at all but I need to do something to help and feel a wee bit better about all this.




Mark Twain: "In studying the traits and dispositions of the so-called lower animals, and contrasting them with man's, I find the result humiliating to me."

Random post rage but I’m really fed up with the Barry Allen hate in scans_daily. Hey, I know I mostly lurk here, seldom comment and as such shouldn’t complain about the tone of a community I’m not really shaping myself, but I’m intimidated in huge-ass comms and all this mess doesn’t motivate me that much to make myself better known (Aouch! This sentence is hurting my english!)
Honestly scans_daily is a great board. It’s one of the internet places where I spend the most time on and, as a student-poor comic lover, I appreciate the fact that it helps keeping track of storylines whose books I can afford and introduces me to titles I wouldn’t even have thought of reading before (“The Authority”, fuck yeah!).
BUT, it’s not a perfect place nevertheless; I’ve lately read some racist comments that creeped me the fuck out (most notably in the failtastic Avatar-casting thread) and there seems to be a very definite view of what you should like here. I’m a HUGE Hal, Barrie and Ollie fan while I couldn’t care less (and sometimes downright hate) Impulse, Spoiler or Cassandra/Batgirl, apparently that definitely makes me some kind of anti-christ…
#Sigh#
Yes I love Wally West, but that doesn’t change the fact that I’m OVERWHELMINGLY EXCITED to witness the resurrection of a character I grew up loving (even though he was technically already dead when I was born). So yeah, even if I’m the only one in this case, “The Flash: Rebirth” is a book I’m really looking forward to and a bunch of internet experts won’t spoil the enjoyment of this one terrible heathen. ;P

John Constantine: “I’ll tell you the ultimate secret of magic.
Any cunt could do it.”

I love icons (mine specifically) and memes amuse me, so today let's have an ICON MEME:

MY ICONS.

default	oldest	newest
saddest	happiest	angriest
cutest	sexiest	funniest
fave ship	fave fandom	best quote
most political	most insulting	most WTF
best stolen idea	use the most	favorite
	Always changes.

HOW MANY ICONS DO YOU HAVE: 105
OUT OF HOW MANY AVAILABLE ICONS SPACES: 105 ;)
IF YOU COULD BUY SPACE FOR MORE, WOULD YOU: Hell yes I would! (Gosh, I'm so shallow...)
DO YOUR ICONS MAKE A STATEMENT: Some of them, but in the end they mostly show my geekery and childishness (also, what does it says about me that the ones I had the most trouble to choose were "the cutest" and "the angriest"?)
WHAT FANDOM DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: Comics obviously.
AND THE SECOND MOST: Disney movies (what did I just said about geekery and childishness? ;))
WHAT SHIP DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: Er...I only have one shipping icon. (well, except if you count crazy!Hal and his flower)
ARE YOUR ICONS MADE MOSTLY BY OTHER PEOPLE: Yes.
DO YOU MAKE ICONS: I made one (in MS-paint) and added text to a few others.
ARE THEY ANY GOOD: NO! (well, still the bases of those I added text on ARE good)
ANIMATED ICONS ARE: Cool! I wish I had more actually.

And if you want to do the meme yourself, here is the coding. :D
Do it!

Helen Keller: "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

Lately I was talking with several persons about the animals who are the best adaptated to humanity rampant destruction modifications of the natural environment. Everyone came up with the popular answers that are rats or cockroaches but, while I agree with all of these suggestions, my choice was birds.
Birds? Yes, because even aside from the fact that they can fly you have to have to admire birds exceptional adaptability , ingenuity and all-around baddassery.
I'm thinking especially of:

-gulls:

-starlings:

-geese:

- the kings of human cities who will not rest until they've seen to the degradation of every single thing ever created by mankind...pigeons:

 

I rest my case.

Charlie: "I'm gonna go take a celebration piss."

Arrrgh!!!
All my exams are killing me!
Yes, it's once again this time in the semester when you suddenly realize that there's this nice thing called finals happening in a few days and that you're NOT READY!
I furthermore can't allow myself to fail anything this cession, or the following one in June, since (if everything goes well) I'll finally be able to study linguistics full time next year. My love for words and grammar would never let me live a failure down!
And, of course, my anxiety has to go back and nag me constantly. Avoidant disorder, I hate you (honestly, how I am even supposed to concentrate with this shit bugging me?)!

So, Happy New Year a little late and sorry for the discontinuing presence but I'll probably keep on posting/commenting sporadically for a week or so.

Theodore Roosevelt: "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

This is basically the state I've spent the whole day in:


Mark Twain: "I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."

I was away this last four days in the french Alps with my family, hence my absence from the net. 'Twasn't as great as promised but I got to see the mountains, breath fresh air and frolic in the snow, so who I am to complain? No, I have instead a very important message to pass:

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!!!

Even if you're not celebrating, I truly hope you're spending a wonderful (couple of) day(s) with those you love.

And since Christmas wouldn't feel complete without a strangely disturbing flying victorian jellyfish:

XD

Jack Skellington: "You know, I think this Christmas thing is not as tricky as it seems! But why should they have all the fun? It should belong to anyone! Not anyone, in fact, but me! Why, I could make a Christmas tree! And there's not a reason I can find, I couldn't have a Christmastime! I bet I could improve it, too! And that's exactly what I'll do!"

CAN'T STOP LAUGHING! XD
I've (almost) accidentally stumbled upon this little flash animation of everybody's favorite potions master and gosh, such beauty must be shared by clicking here (kimuro this one is for you ;) )!

Not that it has anything to do with the rest of the post, but I hate my boobs. HATE THEM!
They're not that huge (thank God I only have B-cup titties), but they still deserve my flaming hatred for being all jiggly, squishy, and highly impracticable. I don't even find the stuff attractive and don't need any more proof that I should have been born as a boy.
Yeah, yeah, I know: maybe if I wore bras more often than once every three months I wouldn't resent them that much; but if feminism taught me one thing is that at least I'm free to blind everybody with my squiggly appendices if I want to!

Edgar Allan Poe: "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

С днем рождения!!! Happy Birthday!!! Joyeux anniversaire ellaquin!!! :D

A good million of internet hugs just for you, you rightfully deserve them for being one of the nicest, quirkiest and most intelligent person I know. I feel that very few people could be able to understand me as much as you do, and it's always an incredibly great pleasure to talk to you, even if it's only on the internet.

Have a pile of little ducklings to celebrate!



And this incredible music video which mixes two of the best things in the universe, namely Nightwish music and "The Lord of the Rings" movies. Enjoy:
I hope you're having an awesome day and eat a lot of birthday cakes now! ;)

Samwise Gamgee (Sam): "Don't go where I can't follow."

It is a known truth that having a little brother is quite hellish in itself, but having two of them and mental disorders on the top? Yeah, that's certainly life's cruel way of telling you that you're fucked.
Come on, I know I'm rather unbalanced and crazy. I'm not following therapy for nothing, mind you. But I still allow myself to be more than a little angered when the HLBC (stands for: "horrible little brothers company") decides to purposely play on my (many) phobias because "it's fun". Yeeeeah, nice guys.
I know I'm not the best big sister on this planet, I'm more immature than my siblings on many points and my incapacity to deal with the real world and the intrinsic complexities of modern society doesn't make of me the best example around. But please buddies, I don't think it allows you to be utter dickheads towards me. Playing on somebody's irrational fears is NOT COOL, no matter if that person pisses you off or if your consider her to be a total waste of oxygen, there are some thing that shouldn't be considered as acceptable and I wish it'd be one of them.

Still, I think that what my brothers did (quite cruel practical joke if it wasn't clear enough, since I don't express myself very well when I'm pissed off and saddened) wouldn't have hurt half as much if my mother hadn't sided with them.
"Oh, come one, they would never do that." Well, yes Mom, as a matter of fact, they just did. :(

The Grasshopper: "He's comitted pesticide!"

Pom pom pom!
Just found this amusing: ( My Interests Collage! )

Morpheus: "The pill you took is part of a trace program. It's designed to disrupt your input/output carrier signal so we can pinpoint your location.
Neo: What does that mean?
Cypher: It means, buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, because Kansas is about to go bye-bye."

Yay, go me! I'm 21 today and although birthdays shouldn't really mean anything, I am H.A.P.P.Y!!!
The best part of officially turning one year older is obviously being submerged by presents, especially considering that my parents were awesomely nice this year and gave me this:


:D (at least ten times more awesome that this picture lets it show)

At first my mother was less than thrilled at the idea to go in the comic book store (Oh the horror!) and buy me a toy ("It's called an action figure darnit!") though. This weekend, our conversation ran like this (translated from french):
-Mom: So...what do you want for your birthday this year? I still haven't bought anything.
-Me: Same as usual I guess, books, books, books, books, a Green Lantern action figure, books...
-Mom: Wait! Wait, what was that last one?
-Me: Books?
-Mom: No, the one before.
-Me: A Green Lantern action figure?
-Mom: Yeah, why would you need this? Aren't you a little too old for toys (and it's not like I need to encourage you to be even more immature).
-Me: Why?!! Come on, this would be the best thing ever! I would play with it like I'm five years old again, reenact epic intergalactic battles and construct dioramas in my bedroom with it!
Mom: O_0 Ooookay, don't count too much on it girl.

So, I didn't.
Which shows that I should never doubt my parents (who obviously are TEH AWESOME) since I was woken up to greet a huuuge pile of books (all of them fantastic themed since I'm a little obsessed), a frog plushie (which I bought myself a year ago and never received, I had quite forgot about it and, although it wasn't technically a gift, it was a nice surprise) and a miniature Hal Jordan complete with his power battery and all.
Gosh, he's even sitting on the corner of my computer as I'm typing!

SO OVERWHELMINGLY AWESOME DAY! :D
I will explode from joy now if you allow me...

Mahatma Gandhi: "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

I'm cursed I tell you, cursed!
Remember when my old beloved computer died back in September? Well, its replacement already begins to act up and bug or 'splode like crazy.
The day after my last entry, I was mindlessly browsing the world wide web when the plug which received the electric cable of my comp' began to spit out motherfucking sparks!
It turned out that inside the rubber protection that envelops it, said cable was severed...WTF?!!! I never even touch the damn thing!
Of course by the time I unplugged it, the whole voltage had broke a part of the delicate machine that needed to be substituted. #sigh#...
And there went two more weeks without internet...I used the occasion to catch up some reading and movie-watching, but despite the fact that I had tons of things I could do, I'd be seen, at all hours, aimlessly wandering in the flat and whining: "I want my computer baaaaack."
What can I say, I hopelessly addicted.
I got hold of my precious machine yesterday, and I've been trying to catch up what I missed, most notably by a shameless webcomic binge-reading.

So what new things happened to me during these last few computerless days?

I cut my hair in an extremely short cut and despite (or because?) of the fact that I'm even more mistaken for a teenage boy now, I fucking love it.
I also got a mild panic attack a few days ago, nothing huge or crippling like the only two real big ones I've had in my life (paralysis, uncontrollable trembling and screaming, suffocation...trust me, this stuff really isn't pretty while it lasts), but still pretty damn shaking. Honestly, I think that the only times I felt more helpless than during a panic attack were when my grand-fathers died; I wouldn't wish such a torture on anyone (no, scratch that, I'm actually cruel and assholish enough to wish this on some people after all).

In more joyous news, I also took the time to watch "Gremlins" which always puts me in an incredibly cheerful mood. Thus, I've been known to abruptly burst into singing the theme air (actually I'm even doing it right now as I'm typing) and scream whenever something wasn't working in the house: "My God! There's a gremlin here!!!" (by the way, I'm absolutely convinced that there's one living in my computer).

Ha, feels good to be back! :D

Cyclops: "How do you hide something a mile long?
Gambit: Who knows? Deep pockets?"

Birds of Paradise are so gorgeous and go to extraordinary length to seduce their loved ones:


BEST MATING TACTIC EVER!!! XD

I also love the tidying up beforehand and the "What the fuck? Leave me alone reaction" of the female.
Gosh, everything we, humans, could come up with, Nature has already done, and a billion times better.



Sophocles: "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."

For the journal of a self-proclaimed animal-lover, I find that this page is cruelly lacking of zoological goodnesses. As such, today’s post shall revolve around one of the most amazing animals of this planet: I named spiders.
I fucking LOVE spiders. There I said it.
I know that they must be one of the most underappreciated wonders of the world and that a whole lot of people are terribly afraid of them, but I just don’t get it. I can’t see them as anything else than beautiful, useful (we would have been eradicated by ravenous bugs a long time ago without them) and all-around incredibly lovable. If you look at the amazing hunting techniques they display, at the stupefying complexity and genius at play in the making of webs, at the delightful cuteness (Yes! Cuteness!!!) of an eight-eyed baby and still come to me saying that you can’t stand them, I’m sorry but I’ll have to admit being unable to understand you on this.

The funny part in this whole spider business is that (with the noticeable exception of my father who’s totally indifferent to the subject , but still kinda likes webs) everybody in my family suffers from a rather acute arachnophobia. When my brothers happen to stumble upon an eight-legged cutie, they invariably shriek and run away waving their arms helplessly and bumping into walls like beheaded chickens; while my mother pitifully calls my name with some “help” or “please” thrown in the middle, waiting for me to (gently) retrieve the poor spider from the house.
I on the other hand can't never get enough of them. I have to plead guilty of destroying a fair number of webs in my younger years because I wanted to hold the arachnids in my hand and had to cruelly pry them from their hunting grounds for it. I would ultimately release the spider from my hold, but the wrongs were already done (I'm terribly sorry for this by the way, even if at the time I didn't know better).

The real irony in all is that I’m extremely allergic to spider bites. I’ve only been bitten twice in my rather short life, but both times led to an horrible extra-painful reaction which took almost a month to fade away...and I wasn't even lucky enough to ultimately end with super-powers.
Did it teach me to stay the hell away from them? Certainly not, I way too irresponsible for acting according to what seems the wisest. ;)

So to celebrate my fine eight-legged friends, I give you an arachnoïd picspam of doom!

( Under a cut because I am kind and acknowledge that some people suffer from arachnophobia. )

Mike: "Take these you'll need them.
Chris McCormick: Perfume?
Mike: Well spiders have a highly developed sense of smell the perfume might confuse them.
Harlan: Great if we die we die smelling nice."

Well, since I can't seem to stop posting today, and to change from the previous infuriated entry, let's have a magical crazy storytelling done by a cute-as-a-button little french gal:



I'm honestly amazed by the improvisatory skills this kid is showing. And to my very immature brain, well, this story actually makes sense. XD
My only regrets are that, damn, the hippo died and the lion was a bully.

Agatha Trunchbull: "I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me."

No, just no!



You know what? I'm ALL for organ donations (organs giving? How do you say this in english?), have had my giver (again english?) card since I was 18 and firmly advocate it, but this is probably one of the most insensitive, degrading and mysoginistic add I've ever seen, and the mere thought that it's supposed to serve a cause I'm totally backing just makes me foam a little.
Because you know, organs transplants are obviously comparable to porn and the idea of jerking off to somebody supposed to represent a sick, life-hanging-by-a-thread demographic is totally normal and healthy. #eye-roll#
I swear I'm slowly losing all the remaining faith I had in humanity...

(er...I don't know why I seem to be posting-crazed today. I apologize for squatting your friendlist guys.)

Mark Twain: "Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else."

Okay, it's time for a wee and silly test, and this one is about superpowers: Yay!!!

Your Superpower Should Be Invisibility

You are stealth, complex, and creative. You never face problems head on. Instead, you rely on your craftiness to get your way. A mystery to others, you thrive on being a little misunderstood. You happily work behind the scenes... because there's nothing better than a sneak attack! Why you would be a good superhero: You're so sly, no one would notice... not even your best friends Your biggest problem as a superhero: Missing out on all of the glory that visible superheroes get

Hey, I kinda like it. It's a pretty good description of my personality, and while invisibility would certainly not be my first choice power-wise, it can still amount to a lot of fun.

However, if you'd leave to me the possibility to have a superpower of my liking, I'd pick Green Lantern's (near omnipotence, yep) or Aquaman's (I swear if somebody drops a lame Aquaman joke I'm going to rip his/her throat out, in all honesty I can't even fathom how talking to marine animals ISN'T the best super power ever). It's no wonder they both are among my three favorites super-powered guys. ;)

Mark Twain: "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."