[becomes supervillain] [spends the entire time giving subtle set-ups to cool lines the hero could say]
[Superhero is oblivious to set ups] [make their own one liners] [enrages supervillain]
me: haha! i’m sure you’ll find this 10000 volt electric blast… hero: volt-y interesting! me: what????? what the f u ck ?????? you’re supposed to say shocking what the fFUCK was that
Guys a few days ago i saw these two guys that were both probably in their early twenties at the store at like nine o’clock at night and one of them was wearing these fuzzy duck sandals that quacked loudly every time he took a step and his friend was pacing away from him as fast as he could going “I don’t know you. We are not friends.” While the other laughed hysterically about his duck shoes.
instead of thinking about it in terms of predator and prey, I think it’s easier to view it as a preference for devouring, versus being devoured. just because you want to devour someone in one situation doesn’t mean you can’t yearn to be devoured in another, right?
but let’s consider the ouroboros for a moment – the snake devouring its own tail. in that kind of situation, the snake has become its own prey. it is being devoured to the precise degree that it devours. you could say that it has achieved vore equilibrium – the point at which the desire to destroy is equal to the desire to be destroyed.
and why do people generally find vore appealing? for those who want to be devoured, it’s the fantasy of returning to the womb, melting away into physical unity with the devourer, dying as an individual and becoming food for something greater, yielding totally to authority. for those who want to devour, however, what is the appeal? desire for the beloved so strong it could kill them. the fantasy of total dominance. the desire to possess totally. demanding that the lives of others be subordinate to your own. the thrill of hunting and overwhelming something weaker. the fantasy of being the ultimate apex predator. sadism that is willing to kill.
but it isn’t always clear-cut like that. there’s vore in which the party being consumed is dominant – for example, a goo creature oozing down the throat of something and using its body as a vehicle/controlling it from within. there’s also vore in which the devourer is submissive. the line between “eating and being eaten” almost vanishes altogether in the niche branches of vore (anal vore, unbirthing, etc). instead of devouring or being devoured, it’s about the desire to be full and the desire to fill.
but what about the population that identifies with both?
what if the predator and the prey have no boundary between them? what if the devourer and the devoured are simply competing sides of the same organism? we started out discussing the predator as the Other/object of desire, and then we spoke of the prey as the other/object; but what if both are the Self, struggling against itself – two halves of the same inseparable nature?
which brings us back to the notion of the ouroboros.
Some of you are reblogging because you think its funny that programmers would talk to ducks. I’m reblogging because I think its funny picturing a programmer explaining their code, realizing what they did when they explain the bad code, then grabbing the strangling the duck while yelling “WHY WAS THE FIX THAT SIMPLE!? AM I GOING BLIND!”
AS A PROGRAMMER I CAN TELL YOU THAT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU FUCKING DO WE HAD TO BAN THE DUCKS FROM MY CLASSES BECAUSE EVERYONE WOULD FLIP THE DUCK OR THROW IT AT A WALL OR SOMETHING WHEN THEY FIGURED OUT THE PROBLEM IN THEIR CODE
so that’s the function of a rubber duck
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I work at a startup and part of the onboarding package you get when you first start working here now includes a rubber duck. We also have a bigger version of the duck for the extra hard problems. Sometimes one duck doesn’t cut it and you need to borrow your neighbors to get more ducks on the problem. One time we couldn’t figure out why something wasn’t working right so we assembled the counsel of ducks and by the grace of the Duck Gods were we able to finally come to a solution. These ducks have saved many lives and should be respected for the heroes they are.
people seem to forget that barrys first thought when he wakes up naked in his newest body post wonderland is to assume that he had a wild fucking foursome with THB and honestly………. in terms of forgotten fandom facts its a tragedy this is one of them
just moving along like everyone else 