body in abyss

Here's a redraw of one of my favorite scenes of arcane

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GIVE HIM A BREAK

Viktor just went from being some guy to my all time favourite Arcane character. Funniest possible direction they could’ve gone with him. Every fuck in his mind body soul was spent and gone when he emerged from that goop. Woke up purple from a near death experience and immediately dumped his situationship, quit his job, fucked off to the undercity wearing nothing but a blanket and then became the second coming of Christ on accident. King of protecting his peace. Imagine being that guy who tried to shank him. Some Czech twink with dick and balls hanging out starts glowing and then magically cleanses the poison from your body. I’d be on my knees worshipping him too man what a fucked up situation. Someone please get him some trousers

Vander: I've always liked the name Violet. Silco: *snorts a line* Hey, you know what I like?

to me this is canon

Silco renaming Powder to Jinx was actually him trying to atone for his mistake because he didn't think their mother would actually go through with "Powder".

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing

This is humanity

Happy Birthday, Curiousity.

Happy birthday, Curiosity.

Happy birthday curiosity

happy birthday curiosity!! :D

Happy birthday, Curiousity!

Oh my gossdnsnss

Happy birthday to this little guy

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CURIOSITY

happy birth curiosity

happy birth

@queer-verse

I’m sorry but if that doesn’t absolutely BLOW YOUR FUCKING SOCKS OFF, you are NOT invited to my birthday party.

@queer-verse you’re invited to my birthday party

oh,

oh this is absolutely beautiful

I saw some James Webb Telescope scientists give a talk and one of them said this was her favorite image because she had waited and worked 25 years to see this.

@neptunite-stars

@queer-verse

I know this isn't ninjago guys but I finished this 17 hour painting for my art class and I was proud of it so...enjoy.

I love Egypt fun fact about me. :)

A PAINTING????

obligatory

SCROLL BACK IT'S ART

HOLY FUCK

The amount of safety features incorporated into modern cars is unreal. I've seen crashes where the car flipped over and the occupant only had minor injuries. My dad was t-boned by someone speeding off the highway and walked away with a broken arm. The car was completely smashed except for the passenger compartment, which was curtained on all sides with airbags. That one manufacturer has decided they are exempt from implementing all these advancements disgusting and terrifying

When I was going through driver's ed I was taught that the steering column would stab through your chest if you crashed head on and that was just the way it was. We do not want to go back, not even a little

The point of car safety features is that the car is supposed to die in an accident so you don't have to. Your car should be a pile of smoking rubble after an accident, and you should be fine.

I was in a car accident where I flipped it from nose to tail, landing on the roof in a ditch with trees against the drivers side and the rise of the ditch blocking in the passenger side.

The car was totalled.

I banged my knee crawling out through the trunk and that was my only injury.

I was in another accident where I couldn't stop at an intersection in time because it was too icy. I slid into the intersection and was hit by two vehicles coming from the left and striking the drivers side of the vehicle. The car was totalled. I didn't have a single scratch.

I was in a different accident (passenger in the back seat driver's side this time), leaning against the door while I read. The driver blew a stop sign on the highway and we got t-boned by another vehicle hitting the door I was leaning against. The car was totalled, I dislocated my hip (it immediately popped back into place) and fractured my elbow. I was the most seriously injured person from both vehicles and one of two people hospitalized. The other guy who was hospitalized was from the second car. He pulled both sides of his groin muscle. My driver briefly lost consciousness from getting hit in the face by the airbag and was otherwise fine. My brother in the front passenger seat had mild whiplash. Not sure about the other folks in the second car but none of them were in the hospital with me and the guy that was said they were fine.

T-boned at highway speeds and the result was relatively minor injuries (though I do have lasting hip pain but that's easy to manage and only usually bothers me when I'm trying to sleep).

Crumple zones are SO important. Cars are built to be totalled in an accident so the people don't get totalled.

Three accidents in which the vehicle I was in got totalled, and I walked away from two of them. Cars weren't built better in the past and the cybertruck is a fucking deathtrap.

His Dark Materials is a franchise that tackles so many branches of physics and even creates a universe where the main course of study is experimental theology which is all about identifying and explaining dark matter while also adding dimensions to string theory, the multiverse theory, and the very concept of the human soul. At the same time, it aggressively calls out the problem with the state being controlled by the church, how people are condemned for being different and religious fearmongering stops the chance at growth both on an individual and a societal scale. It’s a franchise where the heroes of the story are two children who aren’t allowed to know the prophecy they’re a part of, who save the world unwittingly simply by doing what they believe to be right. Meanwhile, the person who thought he was the hero all along, the person who rallied an army from multiple universes to FIGHT. GOD. HIMSELF. is ultimately consumed by his own ego and forced to take a back seat when he realises he’s just one tiny piece of a much larger story that’s true heart is his own daugher. The child he abandoned, the child he didn’t know or care to know how to look after. It’s a franchise about finding love even when your biological family abandon you, it’s about looking evil in the eye and seeing your own mother, it’s about good and evil not being black and white but instead a complex and cruel mixture of both. It’s about the two worst people you know banding together at the last second to save their daughter with their final breaths. It’s about exploration and learning how to grow through experience, it’s about kindness being shared across the multiverse, exchanging stories with strangers and saving the whole world by doing something perfectly ordinary and receiving no reward.

Oh, and it’s also a franchise rich with fantasy, with giant talking polar bears, witches and ghosts, angels and daemons, and a mammal-like species from another world that travels exclusively on roller skates. 

And it fucking. rocks.

one thing that pisses me off is when people supposedly love sokka but then say things that just don’t make sense. like that post that’s like “sokka was so charismatic he was charming everyone” no that was aang. aang is the one being charming and charismatic and friendly and beloved by everyone everywhere he goes. meanwhile many people straight up found sokka offputting due to his being a miserable little hater. neurotic freak. paranoid sleep-deprived and kills people without remorse. like he straight up gives off bad vibes a lot of the time. yes he does pull bitches and father figures, but that’s because cute girls and fatherly adult men are the only two demographics of people he actually makes an effort to be nice to. i’m all here for people appreciating sokka, but we need to stop acting like what his makes him great is the fact that he’s some extroverted life of the party when a) he isn’t b) aang, however, very much is and c) he’s literally so depressed that he makes it everyone else’s problem just by standing in the same room as them with his utterly miserable vibes. get it right

okay THAT SAID it’s not simply that he’s an antisocial pathetic loser who doesn’t know how to talk to people, either. i keep seeing ppl say this in the tags, and it’s like, no, you’re thinking of ZUKO. sokka isn’t aang-levels of outgoing and charismatic and lovable, but he also isn’t nearly as awkward and socially inept as zuko is. you can see this most clearly in “the boiling rock,” when they both pose as guards and must rely on their ability to deceive and improvise. zuko has no such abilities, and thus struggles to hold a natural sounding conversation with his fellow guards, panics in a moment when another guard tries to enter suki’s cell, needs to be held back by sokka before he impulsively jumps to chit sang’s defense and blows their cover, and gets caught almost immediately. sokka, on the other hand, is shown to evade suspicion specifically because he is actually a skilled manipulator, as demonstrated by the scene where he convinces a guard to let all the prisoners into the yard during a lockdown. (i suppose there is that one moment where sokka says “the only thing we’re hatching… is an egg?” but i maintain that line should’ve gone to mr “takes everything too literally” “silver sandwich” anyway.) so my point is, sokka is actually good at manipulating people when he operates with the intent to deceive. even when sokka says earlier in the episode “i have to regain my honor,” he isn’t outright manipulating zuko, but he is nonetheless putting his situation into terms zuko can understand, telling him what he wants to hear.

sokka is good at reading people; azula may claim that she’s “a people person,” but sokka’s vibe detector genuinely has like. a 95% success rate. and he knows how to effectively communicate with others, he knows how to deceive, how to flatter, how to manipulate. but he very often just doesn’t. when he meets new people while traveling the world, he’s usually blunt as shit, honest to a fault, ruthlessly critical of every perceived flaw. and sokka holds everyone (including and especially himself) to an impossibly high standard of excellence (because he assumes he’s average, and that actual average people are in fact below average) and is thus extremely aggravated when most human beings fail to meet his standards. and he makes that known, because, like i said, he is a miserable little hater, and judges people like it’s his job. that said, he will soften his words and choose them carefully when he knows he’s in an emotionally delicate situation, especially with the rest of the gaang. he is hyperaware, for example, that aang’s quote-unquote “innocence” is a precious commodity, and thus barely puts up a fight when aang insists on saving zuko, or generally refrains from talking about death, such as when he catches himself before saying “we don’t know if bumi’s even still………around.”

so it’s not that he’s an asshole loser because that’s fundamentally who he is. zuko tries really hard to be good, but simply cannot get past his own limitations a lot of the time. he could obviously learn better social skills, because that is a skill you can develop, but he has a naturally obsessive mind and lacks tact or a filter. sokka has other issues going on, for sure, but he does have tact, he knows how to modify and comport himself for the benefit of others, how to convince and manipulate and even, on occasion, charm. but most of the time, he simply chooses not to. he could easily be just as charming and likable and outgoing as aang, and in moments where he is making an effort to get on someone’s good side for whatever reason, he is, and a lot of people remember that about him as if it’s his most common modus operandi. but it’s not. it’s the exception. most of the time, he’d rather judge everyone he meets and pinpoint all their weaknesses and generally be a massive bitch. like aunt wu said, his future is full of struggle and anguish, most of it self-inflicted. freak.