holdmymetaphor

[holdmymetaphor]

Barn Owl (Tyto alba), fledgling chick hauling ass across a lawn, as it was learning to fly, family Tytonidae, order Strigiformes, Netherlands

photograph by Hannie Heere

[holdmymetaphor]

Kutner X Amber Enemies-to-Lovers

do you see the vision

[holdmymetaphor]

sometimes chase dresses badly but sometimes his ridiculous wardrobe is actually good characterization, like the fact that he's 12 years old and can't be bothered to do the buttons on his shirt

like there actually is a lot of very good characterization in wardrobe in all the characters, chase included! it's things like him not buttoning his shirt cuffs, or how he uses canvas messenger bags instead of briefcases like foreman prefers, right? he's young. he's (literally) immature. he doesn't dress or act entirely appropriately for his age - he seems uncomfortable appearing formal; in episodes like all in where he's meant to dress up, he doesn't wear a suit but a blazer. even his bad wardrobe choices reflect this; he doesn't put a lot of care into his appearance, he doesn't try very hard (this itself being a very young-coded act). i started making gifs for s2 and the entire reason i started this project is coming up -- in hunting, chase goes over to cameron's in the same clothes he was wearing earlier in the episode, but he's taken the time to untuck his shirt. he is not comfortable 'appearing' adult yet. he is constantly, in little ways, trying to subvert it, but he also lacks house's confidence to ignore the rules entirely, so he does things like this. he untucks his shirt. he unbuttons his shirt cuffs. he wears jeans with his shirt and tie.

[holdmymetaphor]

When it was discovered that Zalim (ironically meaning, cruel) was in the company of two very young cubs, those at Ranthambore feared the worst: that, as an adult male, he would kill them. Instead, he surprised naturalists with his “motherly” behavior when he took in his twin daughters following the death of their mother.

At this time, science stated that tigers were only as social as mothers and cubs could go and that tiger fathers rarely interacted with their offspring. Zalim changed that when he was witnessed, month after month, caring for his daughters and teaching them how to hunt. Their relationship eventually ceased when the two girls were shifted to Sariska Tiger Reserve and Zalim went on to father another litter with the then-dominant tigress Sundari, the so-called Lady of the Lakes. When she too mysteriously disappeared, Zalim unsurprisingly took care of their cubs as well.

Ranthambore National Park, India Photograph taken via camera trap

[holdmymetaphor]

SILLY FORECAM 🫶🫶🫶

[holdmymetaphor]

vampire!wilson

[holdmymetaphor]

You can’t convince me they weren’t a couple

(video taken from heart4hilson on tt)

[holdmymetaphor]

Big ole Hilson doodle dump

[holdmymetaphor]

The closest experience I've ever had to discovering "the vitamin" was buying a 100% wool outfit and wearing it in the winter.

Not only was I not freezing anymore, I was not sweating and overheating either. The horrible sensory nightmare of winter clothes disappeared.

In particular, I bought a pair of wool pants. They were a thrifted pair of fancy dress pants like you would wear at an important office job, and they were easily the most comfortable pair of winter-appropriate pants i'd ever worn. I wore them Every Single Day.

From that point on I realized a lot of my clothes were making me feel bad, and the common thread was polyester. Especially polyester blends.

It's a trap because the polyester clothes are the ones that always feel sooooo silky soft when they are in the store, whereas cotton, linen and wool can feel comparatively rough and scratchy. But when actually wearing them for hours throughout the day, it's the natural fibers that feel more comfortable.

Maybe the secret to sensory comfort is not about the presence of softness, but the absence of overloading sensations. Or maybe the sensory stress and agony is not triggered by texture of the fabric, but by how it breathes and regulates temperature.

Then there's the problem of clothing life span: polyester blends, no matter how soft they seem at first, become rough and scratchy and covered in hard, itchy pills after wearing them 10 or 20 times, whether or not they have been tumble-dried or even washed at all. (I tested it!) Linen and cotton become softer and more comfy the more you wear them, polyester but ESPECIALLY polyester blends become a constant stressor. Polyester blend t-shirts I used to love for their softness now feel bristly and irritating.

So now I'm trying to change my wardrobe to as many natural fibers as possible, and the more natural fiber clothes i have the more I realize that the plastic fibers stress me out. It's so easy to overheat or freeze in them and they're always degrading and becoming less comfortable and it sucks.

[holdmymetaphor]

oh i just love drawing characters with two dots for eyes, no house you’re not getting your big blue eyes back until you finish treating your patient. GOSH

[holdmymetaphor]

why has anyone bothered to write a kissing scene after annie proulx wrote this in 1997

[holdmymetaphor]

Jorking it? WRONG! chronic leg pain

[holdmymetaphor]

stoned and autistic at a party trying to make conversation: I find the comparative lifespan of organisms so interesting. Spiders are comparatively long lived animals. Female black widows can live up to 3 years but their male counterparts rarely live four months. Some tarantulas live upwards of 20 years. The longest lived spider was around 43 years old when she was cruelly assassinated by a parasitic wasp. Domestic rats have a lifespan comparable to female black widows. To put things into perspective, there are spiders that remember a pre-pandemic world but it is likely every rat on earth was born post-COVID. There could be a spider out there born when Reagan was in office.

[holdmymetaphor]

Who else would be stupid enough to?

[holdmymetaphor]

i need you to tell me that you love me crazy etc it’s wilson breaking through the glass through the closet a bit but importantly very much not entirely cause it’s still him operating on normal normal normal robot programming because house literally did just tell him he loves him. and house has been telling him over and over his whole life wilson just can’t See that because he can’t conceptualise love told in any language other than healthy friendship straight romance lifelong marriage. so he needs house to tell him in that language. using those words. not just after house has done something no sane healthy friend would ever do and is saying i love you almost as a joke but when he’s ordinary and earnest and Means it. wilson needs it to be said how all love confessions are because he’s still a robot. but by the end of the episode he’s broken through and doesn’t need house to say it anymore because he finally hears all the millions of times he’s said it before. he sees the oreos and realises okay yeah. that’s saying i love you. whilst he’s still stuck though that demand breaks partially through the closet cause him outright asking house is beyond what he considers normal. he’s still speaking that normal language but he’s saying things he shouldn’t. he’s letting the cracks bleed. cause like when house says i need you in the restaurant he’s saying i love you but it doesn’t translate to that for wilson cause of his need to be needed. he reads it instead as so you’re just sucking me dry like everything else. we’re just a machine. begging to hear i love you in the car isn’t part of that machinery. but he wouldn’t need to ask it at all if they were broken out of it. so it isn’t complete truth. it isn’t complete vulnerability. but in that moment it’s the most he can do. the most he can bear. instinctually it feels like a bigger moment than the final scene where he goes to house’s and incredibly casually says eh yeah you were right no need for sappy shit let’s drink haha but actually That’s the bigger moment. and the reason it’s casual is because that’s what their love is. at its core. it isn’t melodramatic or painful it’s just there and reliable and good. they have to break through the coffins they’ve been stuck in to get there but when they do. it’s easy. so easy. love like breathing. their love is trapped behind themselves but it isn’t unfinished. once wilson realises his love for house isn’t a function isn’t a machine there’s nothing else needed. he doesn’t need the i love you because it’s already there it’s been there a million times it’s there immortally and it’s in the language they’ve been speaking every day. they don’t need to say anything more. he doesn’t need house to tell him he loves him. he already has. he always is

[holdmymetaphor]

what could have POSSIBLY prompted that

[holdmymetaphor]

i love the -with mama trend but sometimes i get sad because that is clearly papa and he aint getting any credit raising those darn kids...