We Have New Worlds Here

Alex is a fairly average geeky grad student who reads fantasy novels and listens to strange music. He's easily bored by this world, so he spends a lot of his time in imaginary ones.

[alexspaghetti]

Thanos the Stoic: Marvel’s Most Virtuous Villain

Before I get into the meat of my review, allow me to wax eloquent about one of the little things I liked in Infinity War. The first half of this review I will keep spoiler-free; in the second half…

Marvel villains have been sympathetic before, but never quite as virtuous as Thanos - at least according to one school of philosophy. Join us at The Study of Everything as we explore what makes Avengers: Infinity War a uniquely compelling (and ultimately tragic) installment in Marvel’s decade-long franchise.

[alexspaghetti]

Cathedrals in Suitcases: The Marvelous Atmospheres of Progressive Rock

In the fifteenth chapter of C.S. Lewis’s novel That Hideous Strength, the gods – that is, the Oyarsa, the planetary intelligences – descend into the drawing room of an English manor. In a recent po…

The Study of Everything has remained silent on this matter for far too long. Well, no more. Join us again for an extended, self-indulgent apologia for the progressive rock genre and an examination of its distinctive (though often misunderstood) appeal.

Also, marvel at our inability to go two posts without mentioning C.S. Lewis again.

[alexspaghetti]

Truth in the Square: Resisting Evil Ideologies

One of the habits I’ve inherited from the Christian Humanist Podcast’s Dr. Nathan Gilmour, who was my adviser and mentor and is now my colleague, is the practice of reading widely and deeply…

The Study of Everything returns, briefly, for some serious thoughts concerning recent events. How might a seventy-year-old story by Jorge Luis Borges be able to speak to our cultural and historical moment?

[mayahan]

Creative Dioramas by Tatsuya Tanaka

[alexspaghetti]

That Unearthly Aroma: My Favorite Kind of Horror Story

In the summertime, when I was a child, dozens of spiders would congregate on the ceiling of our carport just above the back door. There were large spiders and small spiders, web-spinners and hole-h…

To everyone’s surprise (including mine), The Study of Everything returns for the second time this month. Join us for a look at the unique appeal (and potential virtues) of supernatural and “weird” horror fiction.

[alexspaghetti]

Saving the World: How ‘Wonder Woman’ Succeeds Where ‘Man of Steel’ Failed

The moment DC announced that Wonder Woman, seventy-six years after her first appearance in the pages of DC’s All-Star Comics, would finally get to star in a film of her own, a part of me began sile…

After far too long an absence, The Study of Everything returns with yet another movie review! This time we’re examining Wonder Woman and how it improves on DC’s previous films.

[enemies-to-lovers]

I’m just saying

so here’s our favorite adoptive space dad Bail Organa in Revenge of the Sith:

and here he is in Rogue One:

meanwhile, here’s Obi-Wan in Revenge of the Sith:

and here he is after the exact same amount of time: 

I’d like some of whatever Bail is having on Alderaan and exactly zero of what Obi-Wan is having on Tatooine 

[bemusedlybespectacled]

well one of them is the viceroy of alderaan and the other one is living as a hermit in space nevada, sorry that obi wan isn’t keeping up his moisturizing regimen on Planet Sand Hell while bail organa drinks kale smoothies in the shade

[alexspaghetti]

Gotta watch out for that sand. It’s coarse and irritating and gets everywhere.

[as-cosy-as-can-be]

[johnnybravo20]

Jellyfish Rise (by Multiple Owners)

[patgavin]

Fort Carroll, Baltimore, Md

Pre-Civil War man-made defense island in the middle of the Patapsco River, designed by Robert E. Lee, abandoned for almost a century.

[alethinephrine]

I need to go there.

[anessenceofautumn]

☾Autumn Wonderland☽

[nitewrighter]

You know that whole trope where like, the protagonists get teleported up into the aliens’ spaceship or base or whatever and the alien appears to them only it doesn’t appear as it really looks like but rather, since it doesn’t want to scare the protagonists, it takes the form of something we find familiar and pleasing and is like, “I look like your dad or whatever–is this form okay?” Like I think about that trope a lot and I think like, what if the alien couldn’t pick out a form via telepathy and only had earth media to try and decide what form would scare its human guests least and be accepted almost immediately and honestly the more I think about it the more options for what form that might be are just really fun to me.

“I have chosen the form of your earth playwright and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda–do not be afraid. I come in peace.”

“Greetings. I am Glofnorbo of the cloud you call the ‘Pegasus Nebula.’ I have scanned your earth media from afar and empirically decided that you would find the form of the one known as Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson most pleasing. I have come to confer with your leaders.” 

“Do not be panic. I come in peace. I have assumed the form of your insectoid demigoddess ‘Hatsune Miku’ so that we may communicate peacefully without my true form horrifying you.” 

[nineprotons]

“It was decided that I would assume the form of your ‘Mister Rogers’ in order to best welcome your world to the galactic neighborhood without frightening your kind.”

[gentlemanbones]

“…So did your colleague take on the form of Jack Black for that reason too?”

“No, that is the actual Jack Black. We do not know how to make him leave.”

[darksilenceinsuburbia]

Conrad Jon Godly

[word-stuck]

(submitted by singinginamericanaccent)

[hejibits]

Deleted scene: Another time machine appears and Future Future John punches Future John for never taking breaks

[nubbsgalore]

the waitomo limestone caves on new zealand’s northern island are home to an endemic species of bioluminescent fungus gnat (arachnocampa luminosa, or glow worm fly) who in their larval stage produce silk threads from which to hang and, using a blue light emitted from a modified excretory organ in their tails, lure in prey who then become ensnared in sticky droplets of mucus. (click link for credit x, x, x, x)

[theartofanimation]

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