naturalscorpiosub:

miss-nerdgasmz:

I WANT A TRUE HORROR MOVIE WHERE ALL THE CHARACTERS ARE INTELLIGENT AND DO ALL THE RIGHT THINGS AND TAKE ALL THE PROPER PRECAUTIONS BUT STILL WIND UP GETTING KILLED BY THE ANTAGONIST

NOTHING IS SCARIER THAN DOING EVERYTHING YOU CAN IN VAIN AND STARING IN THE FACE OF FUTILITY
(plus I would like not to yell at the characters for being dumb for once)

PREACH!!!!!

Oh I’ve got TWO for you.

1. Children of Men. Easily the scariest movie I have ever freakin seen. Easily. *shudder* Entirely too real. Fits the stated parameters exactly: they do everything right, and it just doesn’t matter. (One char does survive… maybe. You want to believe they did— you need to believe they did— but for all we know, all the effort and fighting and dying could very well have been for nothing.) 

2. Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria. Hold on to your popcorn, because this ain’t even fiction. Two words: no antibiotics. Scared yet? You should be. Imagine getting a toothache and going to the doctor, and they do everything they can… and you die. In horrendous pain. From a bad tooth. Or from strep throat. Or a scratch from your dog. Imagine scraping your elbow and losing your arm. (Imagine amputation, or any surgery, without antibiotics.) Imagine a world of rampant, untreatable syphilis. And chlamydia. And gonorrhea. Imagine the bubonic plague all over again— but this time with airplanes. (Yes, that bacteria is still around.) Imagine drastically reduced food output, both animal AND plant. Now know that this is actually happening. Right now. And not slowly, either. There’s a good chance you will be living in that world within your own lifetime. And at the moment, there doesn’t seem to be anything we can do about it. 

Sweet dreams…

(Source: nerdgasrnz)

notjustbitchy:

fandomsandfeminism:

Why on Earth would you assume that as soon as someone reaches subsistence wages that they would just stop working. You know people want things beyond just “not dying” right? 

Thiiiiiiis! If I didn’t need to work, well a) I probably still would because I like having nice things that are in no way basic needs like being able to go on fancy vacations, and b) I could spend maybe 2 or 3 weeks playing games and screwing around on the internet before I was bored out of my skull and absolutely needed to build/write/create/do *something*.

iirc, “security that your basic needs are likely to be met” is how we got civilization as we know it. Once people had stuff like y’know agriculture and food storage/distribution so that everyone didn’t have to spend literally all their waking hours working to stay one step ahead of death, they didn’t just spend those extra hours sitting around doing nothing. They used a lot of that now-free time to create trades and art and mathematics and philosophy and whatnot. 

If you take way the need for people to work just to live, most people will work on what they love, aka the stuff that makes life worth living. And if a few people sit on their asses, so what?? It’s worth it to me.

lenabeanss:

marsincharge:

PLEASE LOOK AT THIS GRAPHIC MY GODSISTER POSTED ON IG

She right