The Dark Emporium of Earthly Delights

Hi! I'm Leon: an incendiary, opinionated, egotistical and all-round repulsive soul that's currently in his senior year at the University of Western Australia. I'm blunt, caustic, charming, brutally-frank and eloquent all at once. I speak my thoughts out loud and dress strangely. My sexuality is (apparently) nebulous and frequently subject to speculative second-guessing. I abhor religion, but respect individuals' search for the truth.

The above is more of a read-before-consumption than it is, say, an exercise in vanity. If; however; you leave your reservations at the door, then I can guarantee that we'll have a raucously good time together by the fire.

I write about life, men's (and occasionally women's) fashion, computer games, and maybe even love. I follow pages I adore and I occasionally reblog things that impress me or make me laugh.

If you are easily-offended, stubbornly-religious or morally and politically-conservative, then I would advise against reading beyond this preface. This is a space for me to consolidate my thoughts and to capture the brightest of moments. Some of these thoughts are radical, others beautiful, but most are ugly, vitriolic and indignant.

For I am human.

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1 year ago
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I find this strangley hilarious. Even better are some of the comments.

Here’s a few gems:

“16 and pregnant.”
“What a sophisticated nest!”
“WTF why doesn’t the pigeon sit on the eggs?

2 years ago
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theambershow:

Evolution caught in action. This species of skink, normally an egg-laying type, is pregnant with live young.

My favorite part of this photo is that she looks like she’s going, “Yeah, I’m evolving. You wanna make something of it, punk?”

Science is fun.

The whole story is on National Geographic News.

I’ve always been fascinated by animals that are in a state of pronounced evolutionary transition. Everyone in primary school wanted a pet lion or shark - you know, some really cliche variety of carnivorous mega-fauna. I got weird looks whenever I said I wanted an Archaeopteryx.

I love skinks, but it has occurred to me that they would have been so much more bad-arse if their primordial ancestors hadn’t allowed the venemous proclivities of their serpentine forerunners to devolve into vestigiality, given the subsequent oblivion that invariably follows. I’m pretty sure I would never have caught these with my hands as a juvenile if they were capable of administering a heart-stopping toxin via a nip to the finger.

I can already hear the bible thumpers proclaiming the awesomeness pictured above as some divine experiment by Dr. Whitebeard in Heaven.

/wrists

2 years ago
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