it's always nice to be home again, and having the most random talks with my family. on one of these occasions my mom commented on how when i laugh my eyes start to resemble the fish my sister studied at a summer camp. yea my sister spent a summer somewhere studying this kind of fish. fascinating material i know. but anyways, apparently she was studying the peculiar mating behaviors of this kind of fish and she drew a picture of the male and female, which i will try to replicate using mspaint in the images below.

  fig A is supposed to be the male species. that long, extended...thing you see is a special kind of fin that transports his sperm to a female when he...well i'll get to that later. fig B is a female, and her extended "belly" means she is pregnant. the weird things is that once a female gets pregnant, she will always be because of all the sperm constantly implanting her eggs. ok right so mating ritual. it seems that mostly all of the species in the animal kingdom, the male has to perform some sort of ritual, be it doing ridiculous dancing or fighting another male to win the affection of the female. once the female is impressed enough by their custom actions, she gives the male permission to mate with her.

  however, these peculiar fishes...don't have any mating ritual. what the male does is hide somewhere, like that green seaweed looking thing, and when they see a female pass by, then proceed to rape her. horrible. its a hit and run one time stand sort of thing. right after he bangs her, he makes a run...er, a swim for it. oh and i forgot this almost important detail. that long extended fin on the male fishes (refer to fig A) is called...a "gunapodium". ahaha, wow how phallic can it get. first a gun, and then add a podium to it. sigmund freud is probably having a field day.

  man these fishes are crazy. whoever called that fin a "gunapodium" is pretty messed up too. so yea that's what my sister was doing most of the time at a summer camp, staring at this weird species of fish in a tank. and apparently my eyes look these fishes when i laugh. awkward.

  anyone who tries to make me laugh in the future, i'm just gonna glare at you.