Imagine Grace defined his name as the elegance definition of grace and Rocky spends years thinking how fucking ironic this clumsy leaky space blobs name is.
Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.
And Rocky has to suddenly reconcile that the clumsy leaky blob that saved his life twice, that almost certainly doomed himself to come back for him, name is Mercy.
Hmmm I just saw someone holding up Weird Al as a perfect unproblematic paragon and if it catches on I will be Concerned. Not because of the man himself but because we've seen this cycle play out plenty of times before and I know what happens next.
Look, I like the guy, he's a good musician and parodist and from what little I do know about his personal life he seems like a decent and kind person. But he's human. That is a human being. Eventually he's going to say something a lot of people disagree with or not say something when people want him to or some blemish from his past (maybe not even something all that bad!) is gonna surface and people are gonna have to confront the fact that he's not who they hyped him up to be. And when that happens an unfortunate number of people are going to treat it as a betrayal because of the unrealistic standard they set.
Entertainers are people. You can find them fun or even admirable and still not try to make saints out of them.
You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading “the land of the free” in history books. Then they get to be men, they forget even more.
JAMES STEWART in MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)
Seeing the diminishment and erasure of the legacy of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series occur in my actual lifetime is mind-boggling.
You've got people out here making youtube videos about the legacy of dragons and dragonriding in fantasy fiction without talking about the dragonriding Grand Master of SFF herself Anne McCaffrey.
This isn't some obscure thing where I'm trying to promote someone who is only kind of known because of forgotten representation. Anne McCaffrey was A HOUSEHOLD NAME when I was a kid when it comes to fantasy literature. She's the first woman to win a Hugo and to win a Nebula. In 2002 there was a TV pilot filmed for Dragonriders of Pern.
Eragon, Temeraire, Toothless, and the dragons of Fourth Wing exist because these people grew up on the blueprint set by the Pern novels. Talking about dragons and not mentioning Pern is like talking about Orcs and not mentioning Lord of the Rings.
Y'all need to read your fucking classics before you go talking like an authority on a topic. Jesus Christ.
Eragon, Temeraire, Toothless, and the dragons of Fourth Wing exist because these people grew up on the blueprint set by the Pern novels.
Not to mention A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Fucking Thrones. GRRM owes quite literally all of his dragon shit (and worldbuilding) to McCaffrey.
Spoilers for the Dragonriders of Pern series and the A Song of Ice and Fire series below (all credit to the author of this Reddit post)
Dragonriders of Pern (1968) | A Song of Ice and Fire (1996-)
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The main character Lessa is the last of her noble house | Daenarys is (soon to be) the last of her noble house
Lessa lost her family to a “Usurper” | Daenarys lost her family to a “Usurper”
The “Usurper” styles himself The Lord of Seven Holds | The “Usurper” styles himself the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms
The “Usurper” dies early in the first book | The “usurper” dies early in the first book
The Weyr is an ancient order of guardians that protects civilization from an apocalyptic threat | The Night’s Watch is an ancient order of guardians that protects civilization from an apocalyptic threat
The apocalyptic threat (Thread) has not been seen in centuries and many people no longer believe in it | The apocalyptic threat (White Walkers) has not been seen in centuries and many people no longer believe in it
A “Red Star” in the sky is a portent of the apocalypse | A “Red Star” in the sky is a portent of the apocalypse
The pernese believe that grass covering the countryside threatens the apocalypse | The Dothraki believe that “ghost grass” covering the Dothraki sea is a sign of the apocalypse
Ancient Pern was more advanced (they were spacefaring colonists from another world) but have since regressed to a medieval society. | Ancient Westeros was more advanced. Whether you believe that ancient Westeros was more advanced technologically or magically, either way, it has regressed to not having what it had before. The Wildlings can’t read, but their First Men ancestors had reading and built castles which requires mathematics and architecture. The magic/tech to build The Wall or Storm’s End is long lost to even their inhabitants.
Pern has lost much of the knowledge that is needed to fight the apocalyptic threat, as knowledge passed into myth and then disappeared | Westeros has lost much of the knowledge that is needed to fight the apocalyptic threat, as knowledge passed into myth and then disappeared
The Weyr has fallen into disrepute as the lords no longer take them seriously and no longer pay their tithes | The Night’s Watch has fallen into disrepute as the lords no longer take them seriously and no longer pay their tithes
They Weyr fortresses are at the edge of civilization | The Night’s Watch castles and the Five Forts of Essos lie at the edge of civilization
Many of the Weyr fortresses lie abandoned | Many of the Night’s Watch castles lie abandoned
Five of the Weyr fortresses are abandoned. These fortresses are large enough to hold thousands of men and their dragons | There are five abandoned fortresses in Essos. These fortresses are large enough to house hundreds of thousands of men
Dragons were genetically engineered in ancient times from drakes | Dragons were created in ancient times by “bloodmages” of Valyria by crossing drakes and fire wyrms
Dragons form a telepathic bond with a single rider | Dragons form a mental bond with a single rider
There is a time travel element | There are time travel elements (so far only confirmed in the show).
Time travel is essentially “closed loop”. It doesn’t change events that characters remember; it only explains events they do remember. For example, Lessa remembers that the watchdogs didn’t alert her family to the usurper’s assassins, then she travels back in time to that night and her presence distracts the watchdogs from alerting her family to the assassin’s presence. Lessa travels back in time to bring the Weyr-men from five “empty” forts to the present, thus explaining why they have been empty for centuries. | Time travel is essentially “closed loop”. It doesn’t change events that characters remember, it only explains events they do remember (again, show only). For example, Bran travels back in time and warps Hodor’s mind, thus explaining why he says “Hodor” all the time.
Lessa has a special ability to conceal her appearance by telepathically clouding the minds of observers and making them see something else | Melisandre and the Faceless Men work Glamers to conceal their appearance in the minds of observers.
The mental disguising ability involves wearing the clothes of what you want a person to see; Lessa dresses as an old woman and people see an old woman | Glamering is a mental disguising ability that involves wearing an article of clothing from what you want observers to see (Rattleshirt’s shirt for example)
The southern continent is abandoned and uninhabitable because of a biological spore | Sothoryos is abandoned and uninhabitable because of diseases
Some of you people are really confident that you would make the perfect most virtuous choices in every difficult situation no matter how limited the knowledge or resources you were working with, huh.
I have never read or watched Death Note and i know the whole ‘book that kills people’ premise but from all the shit i see on here it seems to be two teenaged boys acting out this scene over and over
#the reason that lab safety regulations are the way they are is because literally all chemists are like this #as in 100% of them #no exceptions (via @prokopetz)
