Catoblepas

Definitely possible, it’s just a little too consistent for me to think it’s all people meeting their hero and nobody just trying to do their job and getting treated poorly.

He has a reputation of just being an unpleasant dick and difficult to work with. Nothing super problematic to my knowledge, just a bad personality.

The addition of ‘fuckers’ in there makes me suspect Jeff Vandermeer, but I wouldn’t be able to say what book other than maybe part of the Southern Reach series.

For anyone unfamiliar with sailor superstitions, changing a ship’s name is believed to basically make it cursed.

This is step one of taking it away from all trans people. Useful idiots think not letting trans kids have hormones or surgery is the ‘compromise position’ to a controversy that doesn’t exist in the medical community, but it’s just a stepping stone to being more and more restrictive about who is allowed to transition.

It drives me nuts when news articles mention but don’t link to the Go Fund Me page: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-dianas-recovery-from-acid-attack