THINGS THAT YOU CANNOT UN-THINK
I have a story for you all. It's about gay penguins.
A week or so ago I started reading a book of essays about fanfiction and fan culture. It's one of the nerdiest books to ever exist and I love it to pieces. So in the introduction, they're giving examples of how quickly fandom moves. Paraphrased, it said something like, "Imagine a fan has a friend who had a bad day, so she writes a fanfic about gay penguin sex with her friend's favorite anthropomorphic pairing to make her feel better. It soon catches on...there's a string of comments about how weird it is, or how awesome. Somebody posts a poem they wrote about gay penguin sex..."
Understandably, this mental image stuck with me.
Then today, I watched The Office on our DVR, and at the end I saw a clip of the beginning of an episode of Parks and Recreation. I won't explain it in detail, but the gag was that the Amy Pohler character accidentally set up a display of marriage and sex between two male penguins in front of a bunch of kids.
Yes. More gay penguin sex, and this time it was not a MENTAL image.
Then I realized that this theme is going to stick with me for the REST OF MY LIFE. I'm serious. I'm going to start noticing references to gay penguin sex everywhere I go, and I'm going to feel like it's haunting me. Pretty soon I'll be wikipedia-ing the possibilities of actual gay penguin sex. When I'm elderly and look back on my life, I'll be quite disturbed as I'll suddenly realize that I spent my entire life periodically thinking about gay penguin sex.
I DO NOT THINK THAT THIS IS A GOOD THING, YOU GUYS.
Update: Okay, I actually wikipedia'd it, and it's actually a thing. Some male penguins, especially in zoos, bond and make nests and if you give them an egg, they'll hatch it and raise it. This is often because of a shortage of female penguins, but if the zoo introduces new females, it probably won't break up the males because penguins mate for life. <3 Yay, penguins!
A week or so ago I started reading a book of essays about fanfiction and fan culture. It's one of the nerdiest books to ever exist and I love it to pieces. So in the introduction, they're giving examples of how quickly fandom moves. Paraphrased, it said something like, "Imagine a fan has a friend who had a bad day, so she writes a fanfic about gay penguin sex with her friend's favorite anthropomorphic pairing to make her feel better. It soon catches on...there's a string of comments about how weird it is, or how awesome. Somebody posts a poem they wrote about gay penguin sex..."
Understandably, this mental image stuck with me.
Then today, I watched The Office on our DVR, and at the end I saw a clip of the beginning of an episode of Parks and Recreation. I won't explain it in detail, but the gag was that the Amy Pohler character accidentally set up a display of marriage and sex between two male penguins in front of a bunch of kids.
Yes. More gay penguin sex, and this time it was not a MENTAL image.
Then I realized that this theme is going to stick with me for the REST OF MY LIFE. I'm serious. I'm going to start noticing references to gay penguin sex everywhere I go, and I'm going to feel like it's haunting me. Pretty soon I'll be wikipedia-ing the possibilities of actual gay penguin sex. When I'm elderly and look back on my life, I'll be quite disturbed as I'll suddenly realize that I spent my entire life periodically thinking about gay penguin sex.
I DO NOT THINK THAT THIS IS A GOOD THING, YOU GUYS.
Update: Okay, I actually wikipedia'd it, and it's actually a thing. Some male penguins, especially in zoos, bond and make nests and if you give them an egg, they'll hatch it and raise it. This is often because of a shortage of female penguins, but if the zoo introduces new females, it probably won't break up the males because penguins mate for life. <3 Yay, penguins!