#THE PARASITES

[flowerytale]

Daphne du Maurier, from The Parasites

[trashg0blin37]

He’s quite frankly just a little baby and if anything happens to him in btsv I’m starting a riot.

(Quality is better if you click the image)

[pon-farr-night]

The Parasites want me to listen to A Stitch in Time again.

[pollyredis]

Oh..

-why are you blushing? ;)

(I actually don't really like the outcome, but okay, that's fine, compared to the old works, it's not bad)

❤🔪

Oh no!! It's a gif with meat, careful!

[womansfilm]

The tragedy of life, thought Niall [...] was not that people died; but that they died to you. All people died to Niall, except Maria. Therefore, Charles was right. I live and feed upon Maria, thought Niall; in her I have my being. I lie embedded deep in the guts of her, and I can't escape because I don't want to escape, ever . . . ever . . .

The Parasites, Daphne Du Maurier, 1949

[azazel-dreams]

The Parasites by Daphne Du Maurier

Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤

[chronivore]

1996

[nando161mando]

If you want to know why people have lost faith in capitalism, this might help

[tencentbounty]

could perhaps be cooking rn

[flowerytale]

Daphne du Maurier, from The Parasites

[cjrights]

Do ittttt

Imagine popping your pussy to write something on anon and the person doesn't post it 😞

How would you feel if that happened to you cj 🧍🏾‍♀ not good right

is the gaslighting working?

oh my goodness 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[thethirdbear]

the last days of august had come and gone, and september was upon us.

[gxre-pxrn]

Block your boyfriend

Grrhhhgrr. Bngfrrr hjjgrrr...

[sophbun]

head chog

[great-and-small]

Do y’all know about Frédéric Thomas? He is a French parasitologist who heard a story about crickets in New Zealand leaping into the water even though they can’t swim, and immediately speculated this suicidal behavior was related to behavior manipulation from an internal parasite. This is before neuro-parasitology was a field at all, and before people really put much stock into parasite’s ability to control animal behavior.

Thomas was certain that studying these crickets would be a huge priority for the scientific world given the implications of a parasite controlling an animal’s actions in such an insidious way. Unfortunately, absolutely nobody would fund Thomas’ expedition to study the crickets, and his grants were all declined. In a wild move that showcases the balls to the wall, near- insanity level passion of a biologist, Thomas declared a hunger strike and wrote a letter to the president of France saying he would not eat until someone took the matter seriously and funded his study on the suicidal crickets. I feel like those of us in research can at least a little bit understand this impulse.

Well the French government actually got Thomas’ message and freaked out a bit at the negative publicity that could arise from a crazy worm scientist starving to death. So they send some government bigwigs to the university to pressure Thomas and his department heads into calling an end to the hunger strike. In the flurry of attention that resulted from this, a Swiss billionaire heard about Thomas’ plight and offered to partially fund the study. The French government was happy to get rid of Thomas and contributed funding as well so that Thomas could head to New Zealand to study his suicidal crickets. He was right about the parasites causing the behavior!

The hunger strike debacle is not even the wildest part of this story. I love biology so much