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The X-Files as text posts aka me losing my mind
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it would love house and you all know it
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give us characters we care about and let your picture breathe occasionally, it’s really not that hard; think Luke staring at the binary sunset on Tatooine, a more memorable scene than so much shooty shooty.
“characters we care about and visuals that aren’t a chaotic mess”, it doesn’t guarantee a good movie but it’s a good start.
dialogue we can hear and a plot that makes sense
This feels like it’s about to turn into a Disney song about Gaston
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The new tony hawk
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Sometimes we have to hide who we are to avoid detection. Other times we feel eyes boring into us wherever we go.
Reblogging a render/post from last year for trans day of visibility. It's ok if you have to stay invisible today. It's scary out there, especially with the current state of things.
Please take care.
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Imagine meeting the most handsome goofiest genderweird butch you've ever seen and she has a dedicated probably monogamous boyfriend who to be fair is actually a pretty cool dude and you're devastated that you can't shoot your shot. Then you find out that up until last year boyfriend was certain he was gay and then he met this handsome goofy genderweird butch and was like oh I like women. Or at least women who are also men sometimes. So I'm bisexual. Also to make things more confusing they're both veterans who are actually pretty staunchly anti-military and hate every admiral they've ever encountered and the butch only went into the military because she desperately needed healthcare coverage for her father and the boyfriend was like. A legacy military brat who realized this is all pretty fucked actually. Congratulations you have encountered modern day Mulan and Li Shang
Big fan of how this has gotten a fair amount of tags that are a long the lines of "that last line hit me like a TRUCK" in surprise. And yet no one has disagreed with me. I'm taking that as a sign that I'm RIGHT
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Well obviously I can’t have chronic fatigue, that’s a real problem for real disabled people that’s diagnosed by doctors probably. Clearly I just have some sort of perpetual exhaustion issue, that is also almost certainly my fault somehow
Should I be concerned with how this got so many notes in such a short period of time? Are we okay?
Thinking about Lilo & Stitch makes me really appreciate certain things about the original + the series. Almost every single named [human] character in the movie isn’t white: the only exception being Mertle, y’know, the bratty little girl we’re not supposed to like.
Besides all of the racial representation, Lilo herself is very much a neurodivergent icon, and her portrayal as the protagonist is amazing considering how characters like her are typically either sidelined or depicted in ways to make them less sympathetic/human (modern media does at least a slightly better job at adressing that kind of thing tho).
So all of that is great, but to anyone that hasn’t seen Lilo & Stitch: The Series, it also does some extremely refreshing stuff.
Pleakley gets tons of validation to dress in drag, everyone always referring to Pleakley as “she” when dressed up as “aunt Pleakley.” There’s even an episode that tackles Pleakley dealing with the pressures of his family that wants him to marry a girl and settle down to have a “normal life.” After the episode's shenanigans, there's a realistic depiction of the misunderstanding of a heteronormative/traditional parent with their non-traditional child: Pleakley's mom says that she just wants her children to be happy, but when Pleakley says that he is happy, she thinks he's only trying to console her as she insists, "How can you be happy? You aren't even married." But Pleakley finally gets it through to his mom when he says, "I don't want to be married, mother! I'm happy just as I am."
After getting to meet all of Pleakley's ohana throughout the episode and hearing from Pleakley himself -after all of the previous misunderstandings- that he really, truly, is happy, she's finally starting to understand.
Even though his mom comments as they leave that she wants him to “try wearing men’s clothes more often,” she still does walk away accepting that she simply doesn’t understand her son's way of thinking. It’ll definitely be hard for her since she’s so much more “traditional,” but she’s finally coming to grips with the fact that her son is who he is, and likes being that way, so she’ll love him regardless. She's trying her best.
The portrayal of people with physical disabilities is also great. It’s not because there’s one recurring character with some condition, but almost because there are non-recurring characters. It isn’t in every episode, but here’s an example: they want to show someone at the park playing fetch with their dog for just one shot. They could very easily have it be any a random person, but they decided to make it a lady in a wheelchair. There's another episode where Nani's friends from highschool show up and one has forearm crutches, but not just because she had some recent accident. No one in the episode questions her condition or feels the need to point it out, the only comment on it being that the friend will use the crutches to lightly bonk the others' arms, and Nani jokes, "You are still deadly with that thing."
The fact that they include characters with disabilities when they "don't have to" makes it that much more normal. These people aren't some special case or the main highlight of the episode, they're just another person. They're normal.
There's so much that all of the original Lilo & Stitch media did right, but now the name will forever be tainted with the association of the remake, which I'm sure will have absolutely none of the tasteful writing and ideas of anything prior to it.
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i always see people look at jayvik and go “omg he’s so hot you know all his classmates had crushes on him” LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER! WRONG!
literally everyone at the academy didn’t wanna talk to jayce because he constantly had that energy of “autistic guy who REALLY wants to tell you about his special interest” but because his special interest was illegal he would just never mention it and instead stand in the corner at parties and if you tried to talk to him he wouldn’t respond properly because he’s busy thinking of hextech, but again, illegal, so he just wouldn’t pay attention to you and if you asked why he would stare blankly at you and say “huh? oh sorry continue”
viktor is even WORSE at parties but his lack of bitches was more due to classism and not personality defects. despite that, when jayce and viktor got together everyone at the academy breathed a collective sigh of relief that their two least eligible bachelors were finally taken OFF the market for good, and only at the price of like 2 explosions
Jayce's journal backs this up too. If he was anything to his peers, he was either indifferent or a HATER.
He didn't really socialize with his peers. His grades were slipping. Jayce wasn't some stud valedictorian that got bitches. He was lowkey a loser!!
On the other hand, Viktor has on multiple occasions demonstrated a natural level of social awareness that Jayce had to essentially study for and cultivate during the timeskip. People always try to prove that Viktor lacks social skills with the "Am I interrupting?" scene. But, in fact, Viktor did exactly what he needed to do and knew what to say to get Jayce away from the ledge.
i know we're talking about jayce arcane but i'd like to point out that in league lore, jayce and viktor met because they were both at a mandatory progress day party and started chatting about how they didn't want to be there at all. also, league jayce was canonically hated by every single one of his colleagues because he was autistic (i'm paraphrasing but go read league jayce's bio, The Tism is obvious)
jayce giopara and jayce talis are very different characters in a lot of ways but his arrogance is not one of the differences. league is a lot more upfront with these traits since giopara is very certifiably Post Divorce And Doing Fine About It, but so many of jayce's traits from the show are clear "this guy is a loser and will become giopara if you let him marinate" signs that it hurts me when people so easily write off jayce talis's flaws just bc they're subtler. let him stew!!!!!!!
all that is to say jayce was NOT the popular kid in school
It's funny bc I actually originally included "Jayce Talis and Jayce Giopara are more similar than a lot of people are comfortable admitting" but I deleted it bc I'm notoriously preachy about how much I love Giopara and didn't wanna split off into an unrelated tangent lmao.
I was waiting with baited breath for Talis to get Gioparafied in S2. And while I LOVE the direction he ended up going in, I do kinda mourn my OG Special Boy That I Love Very Much.
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What a weird looking ship
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Happy April Fools, have yet another thepandaredd video, this one of Superman's prank on Batman going wrong.
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(Peter Wimsey voice) Let's get something out of the way. I know I look and sound like I personally know Bertie Wooster. I know that my entire mien is that of a devoted attendee of his gentleman's club. I know. Unfortunately I am the smartest person in a ten mile radius and there's been a murder.
“I—I'm afraid it's ridiculous of me to suppose you can help me," she began.
"Always my unfortunate appearance," moaned Lord Peter, with such alarming acumen as to double her discomfort. "Would it invite confidence more, d'you suppose, if I dyed my hair black an' grew a Newgate fringe? It's very tryin', you can't think, always to look as if one's name was Algy.”
—Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unprincipled Affair of the Practical Joker
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Eoropaidh Beach by Davy Kelly
Tràigh Shanndaigh is the Gaelic name for this beach on Lewis, it is is v+-ery popular with surfers, families with young children, walkers and swimmers.
Source: Flickr / davyk16
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so when i see museum paleobotany illustration like especially pre-cenozoic most of the plants look intuitively 'simpler' to me; more cartoonish than modern plants, even modulo the overall realism of the illustration. i vaguely assumed this was because they were based on degraded fossil evidence, but lately i was thinking it's not inconceivable that morphology actually tended simpler in the past. any insight?
in some ways, yes!
(buckle in lads im going to go hog wild here)
for instance, going way back (before the earth’s whole Lepidodendron coal swamp phase, so like, ancient relatives of nonvascular plants like liverworts and mosses were around, but that was it), plants were really starting to invest hard into the whole ‘what if our bodies were tubes?’ innovation brought forward by ancient hornwort relatives (that’s an entirely different tangent). so the very first vascular plants ever, as they emerged in the very early Devonian, probably looked something like this (sculpture reconstruction is of Aglaophyton major):
no leaves yet. also note that each branch is split into perfect pairs (dichotomous branching), and each pair of branches has a single reproductive organ at the end. these are both classic hilarious beta test plant kingdom problems as i talked about in this post and i WILL cyberbully these extinct squiggles for it
at this point there’s like, still a good few iterations of Noodle Time that will happen in the next few million years before the whole ‘what if leaf?’ idea really becomes a thing. along with Aglaophyton we have Horneophytopsida (arguably the most primitive), and a couple others. after that, things really start to heat up with the famous Cooksonia, in whose fossils we see the first transitions from Noodle Moss Time to the first real vascular plants (tracheophytes) on earth: extremely primitive Noodle Vascular System Time. as you can see, this is all really variations on a theme
still very cartoonish-looking. still no real leaves. the first leaves, in fact, will be two different kinds of leaves: for the Isoetes party of plants, consisting of modern-day quillworts, spike mosses, and club mosses, and their ancient relatives of Lepidodendrons and the like, the first leaves will be called ‘microphylls’, and will be basically a little point coming off the main vascular system with a single vein running through it. this is what Lepidodenrons had instead of ‘proper’ modern leaves and is why they look weirdly furry. real modern leaves never really caught on with this group of dudes.
one of the things Lepidodendron is REALLY well known for is for the scale texture left on their upper trunks. these are called leaf cushions, can be used to identify the species found in a fossil (the size, shapes, and details are very minutely different from species to species), and are left over from when the plant had microphylls attached to it’s trunk. as the plant matured, it would shed these leaves and leave behind the scaley bases, and as it grew even taller the scales themselves would shed and leave the plant looking smooth. in maturity, it’s suspected that only the top of the plant had microphylls, but older illustrations will depict the scales going all the way to the base.
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(side note: some modern lycopods still have these. see lycopodium, aka the modern club moss genus. the club moss ones are irresistible not to pet and feel really stiff when you touch them and inevitably lightly grasp a stalk and run your entire fist down the length of it because of a primal urge to Touch The Weird Plant)
now, meanwhile while all this is happening Isoetes crowd, other plants are realizing that maybe there’s a more efficient way to Be A Tube on planet earth. the ancient relatives of whisk ferns, horsetails, and ferns – a group who’s diverged descendents will eventually go on to evolve seeds and then, 100-200 million years down the line, flowers – will evolve the first modern leaves as we know them by making ‘megaphylls’, which unlike microphylls have a leaf blade stretched between multiple veins as opposed to just a weird hair/point with a single vein. behold:
oh yeah baby. Noodle Time just got organized. it turns out that if you stretch some leaf between those hilariously poorly thought out branches and figure out how to not kill yourself doing it, youve really got something going on, and plants have been riding that ever since.
so in conclusion: yes, they really did look like that. at least to the extent of our current knowledge. 400 million years ago the earth was but a noodle wild west
