plaguedocboi:

Mad scientists are great and I adore the lab aesthetic but where is the love for unhinged field work scientists. You drive down a backroad in the middle of the night and your headlights illuminate someone crouched down in the woods completely covered in mud holding five toads in a net. You’re hiking in the remote mountains and there’s some guy perched on a cliff that should be impossible to get to ranting about rocks, they’re gone when you glance back. You’re hanging out by the river one day and see a fully clothed person walk out the water like Godzilla and they immediately start recording something on a clipboard while muttering to themselves about salamander populations. Feral Science. Degree in being a cryptid

  • mostlypixels@programming.devEnglish
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    6 months ago

    You drive through the fields and spot dishevelled young woman hunching over roadkill, reaching into the corpse with pliers as flies buzz around her. You accidentally make eye contact just as she - grinning - drops a writhing maggot into a translucent plastic bottle.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    There was a great movie that I saw as a kid, starring Shawn Connery, where he plays a mad field scientist. He’s in the rainforest looking for a cure for cancer in chemicals produced by ants or something like that. I can’t remember what it’s called though!

    Edit: ChatGPT to the rescue! It was a rare flower, not ants. 1992, called Medicine Man. Check it out! It’s worth a watch.