In regards to your fascination with barnacles; how does it feel to be the exact opposite of Charles Darwin?
Oh he was fascinated by them, he just GREW to hate them because he wanted to understand what they were and give them a taxonomy and nobody had any idea how many species there were and he was a guy who couldn’t stop something once he picked it up so he got trapped just dissecting stinky dead barnacles in his basement for years while he physically deteriorated and went slightly mad though on the end his four gigantic books on just barnacles are still the most complete work ever written on a single animal group!
I’ll never fall into that trap. Especially since some fool did it for me already 😎