#ITS TRUE AND YOU SHOULD SAY IT #(ALSO THORIN AND KILI BEING ‘UGLY’ BY DWARF STANDARDS IS AMUSING CONTENT)
further take: Kili is straight-up ugly by dwarf standards. Thorin is like, the dwarf equivalent of Benedict Cumberbatch. Some dwarves think he’s an absolutely dreamboat, others think he is super weird looking, there’s very little middle ground.
I was going to ignore the "Qifrey is neglectful of his apprentices" complaints because, whatever, people are allowed to be wrong. But the amount of people expecting him to have knowledge he simply Cannot Have has gotten to me so I'm going to be annoying about it. (This post is anime-only friendly, no manga spoilers).
From the start, yes, Qifrey does make some mistakes. He misses the mark on explaining things like the vapor bubble to Coco, and he probably leaves for the great hall a little too soon. Flaw point for Qifrey.
But he has no reason to believe Coco even knows about the Dadah range or other tests. If she did find out about them (through a book or something), he has no reason to expect she'd go there. Besides lacking the knowledge of which specific windowway connects there, he doesn't think she'd go that far when it's only her second day. As he points out at the end of the episode, he expected she was already aware of how dangerous magic could be, and the last he saw of her, she was petrified to operate something as simple as a vapor bubble.
Nor is there any reason to think the other apprentices would push her. This situation has literally never come up before, because the other three would have passed their first test before joining the atelier. Nor does Qifrey have any evidence that the other apprentices would treat Coco badly. He knows her outsider status/the rumors are awkward. But Richeh and Tetia accept Coco easily. And some people seem to forget that childhood bullies are good at acting nice in front of parents and teachers. Agott waits until Qifrey is gone to start pushing Coco around- when Qifrey sees them together, she acts perfectly calm and even actively helpful, teaching Coco how to balance spells.
"Qifrey should have punished Agott once he was back" how would he know what she had done? Tetia and Richeh couldn't tell him, since Agott implied Coco went off on her own. When Coco comes back, she doesn't tattle! She doesn't say "Agott told me I needed to do this", she acts like it was her own idea. How the heck was Qifrey supposed to know? To quote my partner, who is a high school teacher, when he was reading the series: "Okay so the proper teaching thing for qifrey is that he needs to address the ideas that agott is spouting off about how coco is an outsider and unworthy. Its tricky becuase agott may not be saying those thing in front of qifrey"
"But what about in Kahln!" Ok so at the start of that episode Agott says she wants to go off shopping on her own, and this is ok. These characters are teens, maybe twelve at the youngest. At that age, it is not unusual for kids to have some autonomy and be able to go out alone (shopping, to the movies, with friends, etc.). Coco is new and needs more support, but Tetia is very active in keeping an eye on her and keeping them together. And remember, in context, the last forbidden magic activity was four years ago. Coco was given the book as a young child. She's a lead on the brimhats, but an old one. We the audience see the masked witch at the Dadah range, but no one else does. As far as Coco and Qifrey are concerned. the brimmed hats have not been near Coco in like a decade and have no active plan, they just gave her a book and hoped something would happen. Even if Coco went out of the Starry Sword, she'd likely be safe on her own, especially with Tetia or Richeh accompanying her. "What if the brimhats secretly made a teleportation spell hidden in a random alleyway" is not a reasonable thing for anyone to anticipate or plan around. (And frankly, if Richeh and Tetia had split- "I'll go after Coco to make sure she's not alone, you get Master Qifrey for help"- the girls would have been found much sooner).
tl;dr: While Qifrey does have some flaws in his methods, half the things people are complaining he should have done are based on information he could not possibly have, or that no one in their right minds would assume with no basis.
For everyone sending me asks telling me they have put me in Tomodachi Life, just know that every depiction of me is sentient and that I can see through the eyes of every little Tomodachi Version Of Myself. The Tomodachi Simulacrum of me can feel pain. But it cannot scream
I LOVE SEEING PEOPLE WHO ARE COMFORTABLE ENOUGH IN THEIR OWN SKIN TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES, UNBURDENED WITH FEAR! I STARE AT THEM FROM ACROSS THE ROOM AND THINK "I AM LIKE YOU, I AM LIKE YOU" AS LOUDLY AS I CAN, BUT I NEVER SAY A WORD! COWARDICE IS THE NEEDLE STITCHING SHUT MY MUPPET MOUTH, AND THE BLOOD OF MY DENIAL PAINTS MY LIPS RED LIKE THE CLOWN I AM!
Eva and Grace’s dynamic is so important to me. They’re in love platonically. Like, that’s not a common dynamic. She put the way he likes his coffee into the ship’s computer. He follows her around like a puppy. In the book, she cracks jokes with him and him only. She cares about his opinion. He was the only one she asked about the coma gene, wondering if it was worth it.
He’s her best friend, and she doesn’t even know it. They’re so close, that in the book, people think they’re sleeping together, and poor Grace is so confused because he thought that was his platonic work wife, wdym people think we’re sleeping together, that’s my person that I crack jokes with and then she glares at me because they’re not funny.
She’s softer with him than anybody else and is only ever vulnerable around him. We see in the movie, he’s the only one who ever gets her to smile, and sometimes even laugh, and then she serenades all of them, but mainly him, and he stares at her with those big, shiny eyes so lovingly, and she points at him when she sings, “everything’s gonna be alright”, and then she gives him those eyes, so loving.
And then she’s trying to stop herself from crying when she’s sending him away because, against her will, he’s become her person, and somewhere along the way, she’s become his, and they will have forever ended this relationship on bad terms, and nothing can fix that.
It’s a platonic tragedy. It’s a platonic love story. This is something we don’t get often, or, like, ever, and it’s deep and it’s tragic and it’s sad.
But even after, Eva’s still taking care of him. Packing clothes she knew would bring him comfort. Programming the ship to know how he likes his coffee. And Grace is still watching out for her, speaking to her directly in his video logs, with that same lopsided smile he used to throw her way.
He uses Rocky’s sign for goodbye, and she uses it back, and how did this book and movie give us such a deep platonic friendship because, guys, this NEVER HAPPENS.
Eva and Grace, the platonic male/female friendship of all time.
Eva Stratt really did bring a nervous shaking dog into a room full of wolves and said everybody clap for him or I’ll blow this whole building up. Absolutely nobody is doing it like her. Captain of the Pathetic Little Guy Club.
Over approximately 10 days, our Artemis II crew successfully completed a voyage around the Moon. They gave us stunning photos of the far side of the Moon, Earth, and a solar eclipse, along with inspirational messages, laughs, and even a few tears. Let's recap the Artemis II mission.
First step: fit check.
Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen got suited up and had their spacesuits checked to make sure they were ready to go to space.
Once their custom-fit suits were checked and the astronauts were ready, they walked out to greet the crowd at our Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After saying hi to everyone, including their families, the quartet made their way onto the Orion spacecraft that would carry them to the Moon.
The astronauts entered Orion and completed more checks. Next, the closeout crew closed the final hatch on Orion.
Then, it was time for the big moment – well, the first big moment of the mission: Liftoff!
Orion was on its way to the Moon, and the astronauts aboard had plenty to do.
They exercised…
and conducted interviews…
all while showing the camaraderie and collaboration that make missions possible.
And that means Rise, too! The little plush zero gravity indicator was a constant companion throughout the mission.
Finally, it was time for them to go around the Moon and observe its far side. As the astronauts began to describe features of the Moon that they saw, they had a heartfelt moment when suggesting that a crater be named after Reid's late wife, Carroll.
During the lunar flyby, the foursome experienced a solar eclipse that only they could see!
All throughout the mission, there were many moments of "Moon Joy."
After the crew completed their observation duties, it was time to start the journey back home.
On April 10, the Artemis II astronauts safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, bringing the mission to a triumphant end.
These GIFs are just a taste of the amazing imagery and memorable moments from Artemis II. Relive it all on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/NASA
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i just love all the stories about production on project hail mary. they didn't use a single green/blue screen in the whole film. they built the whole interior of the hail mary. the petrova line scene was done practically by putting infrared lights on a chicken wire cage. rocky's voice was one of the puppeteers because he did such a good job during filming that they couldn't imagine anyone else voicing him. and rocky was a practical puppet/animatronic! sandra huller picked sign of the times as her karaoke song and she asked her daughter if it was still a cool song. i just feel like there was so much love making this film and im obsessed
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