Aw'right. Ima be honest, sometimes I think I have ADHD.
I don't, but I ought to.
The reason for this is that I am very, very, very easily distracted. I also have the tendency to not only go off topic, but go off topic and rant.
A lot of times, I like to cram a ton of probably useless and possibly obscure information into my head, just for the fun of it, just so you know.
So, one day, I had to do some presentation in science class, right? And, so, my project was about the oceanic trenches and the life that can be found in them, and other deep sea life, like giant flashlight fish, humpback anglerfish, black swallowers, hadal snailfish, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So, someone asked me about the stoplight loosejaw. They asked something along the lines of what it looked like, and I was all like:
"Stoplight loosejaws actually have a very characteristic appearance based on their name. They are one of the only fish which give off red bioluminescent light, just under their eye, hence the name stoplight, and they have a large, protruding jaw which hangs loose from the rest of their body, hence the latter. They are very bony in appearance, which actually dates back to the Devonian period when bony fish were first starting to appear, including the well-known sharks [ancestors], armored placoderms, and lobefish (named for the fleshy bases to their fins) which were a huge evolutionary leap since they eventually led to amphibians, one of the only surviving lobefish in modern day being the coelacanth. The Devonian actually, though, gave way to many aquatic species, and towards the end of the period the first forests started appearing, as fern-like plants began developing woody stems, leading to the Devonian trees which were on average 30 metres tall. The Devonian period, though, actually ended when there was a mass marine extinction, leading to the Permian period, which followed the Ice Age. The Permian period, also colloquially called the Age of Amphibians, took place during the existence of Pangaea, when the Tethys ocean was forming, and had a very dramatically extreme fluctuation in climate. It gave way to many, many new species, including fusilinids, echinoderms, cephalopods, brachiopods, foraminiferans, ammonoids, trilobites, fungi, arthropods, tetrapods, coleoptera and hemiptera beetles, avicephalans, temnospondyli and lepospondyli, and, arguably most importantly, therapsids. Therapsids were animals which displayed both reptilian and mammalian qualities, including dinocephalia, cynodonts, gorgonopsians, therocephalians, and dicynodonts. Other terrestrial fauna included archosaurs, pareiasaurs, batrachosaurs, and diapsids. The age following the Permian period was the Age of Reptiles, though, so reptilian qualities in therapsids seem to have dominated, before the mammalian qualities became prevalent, as it is in modern day."
And they were all like:
"Sorry?"
And I was all like:
"Nothing."
So, yeah, that's often how it goes when someone asks me a question. But because I'm helplessly volatile, about 50% of the time I'll digress, while the other 50% I'll just give them a monosyllabic answer.
But I've ranted about many things, including girliness, snarkiness, melodrama, music, and whatever. But my favorite topic to talk about is stereotypes and racism. I particularly like to talk about Asian stereotypes, racism, and culture, because I am Asian, but I also like American and European culture, so....
Ranting is... my way of ventilating, because I can talk about whatever, and since I'm usually talking very quickly and/or using larger words, people don't really know what I'm saying (and sometimes I'll accidentally use more than one language in the same rant). So, I can talk about... fractals, chaos theories, and depression all day and no one would know. No one would be able to tell whether or not I'm talking about Edward Gein or Alexander Litvinenko or Matthew Shepard.
They just can't tell.
But I love ranting [when I feel like it], and usually I'll rant about something that loosely has something to do with whatever I was talking about originally, but not really.
And I do get distracted very easily. One minute I'll be screaming about Italian politics, the next I'll be fascinated by the opening mechanism of a pencil sharpener (true story, bro).
