I just watched The Conjuring 2, and while it’s on my mind in a similar vein to this post, I also want to spread some appreciation for Javier Botet because GOD DAMN LOOK AT THIS SHIT
He has Marfan Syndrome, which is a rare connective tissue condition that gives him bizarrely elongated limbs and allows him to do unnatural things with his body, and he’s built quite a resume for himself appearing in horror movies
Like Doug Jones, he also appeared as three of the ghosts in Crimson Peak:
But you may have also seen him as The Crooked Man in The Conjuring 2:
Eddie’s leper in IT:
The Nina monster in all three REC movies:
Set, the God of Death in The Mummy (2017):
The titular creature in Mama:
He did motion capture work for the Xenomorph in Alien: Covenant:
And he most recently appeared in Insidious: The Last Key and the Slender Man movie!!
He’s done other more obscure horror movies too but basically this guy is adorable and inspiring and an amazing talent and I adore him 8D
Had the opportunity and fucking owned it
And to think, all I got from MY Marfan’s Syndrome was near-daily dislocation of major joints and body dysmorphic disorder.
OH MY GOD we’ve got the FIRST EVER actual live footage of a gulper eel!!!
All previous videos have been of dead specimens floating around in tanks.
Nobody ever knew until now that they might float around with their mouth inflated like a goofy balloon like this.
It starts to “billow” mid-way through the video because of the deep sea rover’s jet stream and it puts up with that for quite a while before it finally gets too annoyed.
like yeah instagram will start showing me ads for local honey and bee pollen if i say the word “apiary” multiple times in the span of an hour because theyre unconstitutionally using our phones as ways to collect data about each individual person since they don’t see us as actual human beings that deserve freedom from a surveillance state but as pawns and dollar signs to help further capitalistic greed, but at least they’re ads of stuff i LIKE and not an ad selling whatever product would need a picture of Jack Nicholson drunkenly eating watermelon as a lure.
oh by the way i didn’t make that jack nicholson picture ad up.
here’s a story – when i was little, we lived in a house that had no fence, but a twenty-five-foot wide strip of grass between the road and the house. my bedroom was on the side that paralleled the road. one night my mom came in, woke me up and told me i should sleep in the guest-room on the other side of the house and she tucked me in and we all went back to sleep. a few hours later, a drunk driver jumped the curb, went across the lawn, through a low hedge and slammed into the wall of my bedroom. my mom didn’t remember waking and moving me, so i still wonder.
Relatable FE Quote or Something 