sometimes I think about how rattlesnakes are starting to adapt to bite immediately instead of using their rattle as a warning, because this defense mechanism that says “im here! im frightened! don’t come close or ill bite you” has instead ilicited a reaction of “oh fuck a rattlesnake, i should kill it”
so of course every snake that has the instinct to warn humans of its presence gets killed, and only the snakes that bite first and dont make themselves known get to survive. a human who’s been bitten is too worried about his swelling ankle to decapitate a snake with a shovel.
it’s a good example of how humans make the world more dangerous for ourselves by believing that we have mastery and ownership of it. we think we have the power and importance to control the life around us down to the snakes and insects, but every animal fights for life. and no animal thinks that any human is more important than it’s own life.
gravity falls au where both stan and ford end up in their teenage bodies, before the project broke.
they do not know the other has also time travelled. they are both trying to pretend to be so normal.
elaborating on this.
Stanley, freshly and newly 16ish but 60+ years of memories, thinks. “oh yeah, Ford thought i was clingy and annoying back then- now. i will be less clingy” and he takes a bunch of jobs around glass shard. he also is. kind of nicer? hes still kind of a jerk, but he helps more people out.
Stanford, freshly and newly 16ish but 60+ years of memories, thinks. “if i let my brother out of my sight, I’m going to commit homicide.” and follows stan around like a sad kicked dog. he still does his schoolwork, but he already knows a lot of this stuff, so he has more time to hang out with his brother.
and they do not tell each other anything at all. stanford is like “oh no what did i do. is it already too late?? why are you avoiding me stanley :(” meanwhile stanley is like “oh no what did i do. why are you ditching school work. have i fucked up the timeline already??”
eventually stan and ford will make the same joke at the dinner table and then just. look at each other. and realise.
and then ford tackles stan.
I’m just imagining this from their PARENTS perspective. Like. Sure, Stan and Ford have been acting a little weird lately, Fords been way more distant that Filbrick remembers him being and Stan is much kinder to his mother, but overall that stuff can be brushed off. Teenagers, right?
And then Stan tells a terrible joke at the dinner table, right? Absolutely godawful. And then, Ford finishes the joke, seemingly without really paying attention, and you don’t really care cause they’re twins and they’ve been doing this shit forever, and then.
Stanford. Your scrawniest son, the boy who avoided boxing lessons like the plague and probably couldn’t snap a pencil without breaking a sweat, literally dives across the table, completely clearing the table, the food, the vase of flowers, your wife, clears it all and executes an absolutely flawless tackle directly into his twin brother.
The two of them go down squabbling like chickens, with Ford going through moves you had no idea he even knew, grappling his brother in a headlock and spitting what are probably insults in a language you’ve never heard before, and Stan,meanwhile, has already called uncle and is clawing at the hardwood like it’ll save him.
And the entire time you sit at the dinner table watching this, fork still in your mouth, wondering when the hell did Ford learn to do. Any of that.
fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this
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