I used to be really squeamish about snakes, but we adopted a surrendered Columbian red-tailed boa and love her so much. She's incredibly sweet and very smart and curious. (Okay kinda dumb in many other ways lol)
The only time she's bitten us was if she got confused and missed her strike when we were trying to feed her (frozen) rats.
I think predators tend to require more smarts, and fat builds better brains, and prey tend to be rich in fat.
So naturally, I think we find things that problem solve and play and exhibit curiosity to be cute.
I dunno, lotsa "prey animals" are cute too but maybe it's in other ways? Haha
Yeah pretty tame I was hoping it was some crazy shit like have you ever seen the livestreams where guys put rubber bands on their balls and cut off the circulation and then inject saline into their ballsack until it expands to comically large sizes?
My wife used to handle library returns. They had to examine each book for signs of bed bugs, and found interesting things used as bookmarks. Sometimes money, personal notes, or random business cards.
But I tell you, no story beat: A razor blade. Yep. Just fell right out from the pages. Naked and sharp. How's that for chaotic evil??
(Thankfully nobody was harmed. Glad they all wore gloves!)
Lol I thought that at first too. Chuckling to myself like "Oh boy here go all the civilized nations putting up measures to handle the wave of fleeing U.S / U.K migrants." LOL
Of course, I sympathize though. A majority of the ones actually able to flee would be the already-well-off that would try to get their nasty little business-fingers all over everything in their new borders.
Wow, if corpos couldn't own residential property? Could you imagine?? Unlike a lot of ways the world is all wrong, this is such a clear-cut, actionable demand. I love it. It's so simple.
I mean they'd probably find ways to just put the deeds under individuals that are puppets for their corpo-daddies or something, but it'd be such a good impact.
I actually really liked the premise behind that one, the idea that collectively since we flooded our entertainment with cynical grimdark media, we all just accepted that ill use of technology leading to an apocalypse was an inevitability, and apathy let it happen.
It was an interesting message that I would've liked to see in a different vehicle.
Also the inciting incident to the 'verse of Firefly:
Mal: "Here's how it is: (The) Earth got used up, so we (moved out, and) terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths, some rich and flush with new technologies, some not so much. (The) Central Planets, them as formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule; a few idiots tried to fight it, among them myself. I'm Malcolm Reynolds, captain of Serenity.
I used to be really squeamish about snakes, but we adopted a surrendered Columbian red-tailed boa and love her so much. She's incredibly sweet and very smart and curious. (Okay kinda dumb in many other ways lol)
The only time she's bitten us was if she got confused and missed her strike when we were trying to feed her (frozen) rats.
I think predators tend to require more smarts, and fat builds better brains, and prey tend to be rich in fat.
So naturally, I think we find things that problem solve and play and exhibit curiosity to be cute.
I dunno, lotsa "prey animals" are cute too but maybe it's in other ways? Haha