A Couple That Goes Beyond the Boundaries of Cuteness

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A Couple That Goes Beyond the Boundaries of Cuteness
first character I got gender envy for
The Cyclone is a metaphor for life, and it was really on the nose, life can end abruptly with no explanation, life can make you realize you love the small moments, life is full of twists and turns and the view is beautiful. When Karnak says "be sure to ride the Cyclone" I think it means "be sure to enjoy your life" and I think this is beautiful.
I know it was basically written on our faces in neon but the coin just feel now.
hellooooo tumblr i’m momentarily back from the dead to post Ride the Cyclone art what’s the haps
st. cassian chamber choir after dying
won't you tell me at last who I am
Happy pride month ajdjakf
Their dynamic in my AU is so fun to draw, especially Chloé's one sided crush, it's becoming a problem
WHY THEY STRIKE: Ke Huy Quan (SAG), 2023 Winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Everything Everywhere All At Once
Roughly 87% of members earn less than the minimum requirement of $26,000 yearly, making them ineligible for health coverage through the union. The studios' refusal to pay union members a living wage and share their streaming revenues via residuals has made this a difficult ask for performers nationwide. For reference, "in most jobs, that [amount] would be considered a part-time job," according to SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher.
When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on"
When the Good Place said "Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.”
When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also 'Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“
Really cool write up that links to the original paper that just came out this year (2025)!
This is a really cool example of foraging innovation.
animal behaviour study can get a little confusing, because a lot of more specific or advanced behaviours tend to be anecdotal or a one off observation (so even if it seems obvious, like birds having preferences, there’s often a lack of actually repeatable data to back the claim up)
food preparation is a behaviour that’s considered more advanced, and it’s divided into a number of categories: soaking the food, cleaning the food, transporting water, etc. in this case, the novel behaviour is specifically flavouring the food, and showing preference for the noodles dunked in the blueberry soy yoghurt (as opposed to the potatoes, the water, the natural yoghurt, or any other combination)
it’s both “shows a preference” combined with “actively takes action (or prepares) the food in accordance with that preference”
A lot of captive parrots have been observed "making soup" by putting food in their water dishes. My parrot, Ripley, refers to pasta as "noodle," yogurt as "joodle" (juice + noodle), and pasta with pasta sauce on it as "candle" (candy + noodle). "Candle" is his favorite of these. (Combining words in this way is called "lexical elision" and scientists have documented several parrots doing it!)
Rewatching Treasure Planet (great movie, watch it) made realize something about the way that stories convey information to their audiences. There's been a lot of discussion on the overuse of plot twists and how many stories prioritise surprising their audience over telling decent stories. However, if you instead reveal the "twist" to the audience before it becomes known to the characters, you can build tension and stakes. Treasure Planet comes right out and tells you that Long John Silver is the main villain almost immediately after his introduction (And even before he's introduced we're warned about a cyborg, so you'd have to be pretty dense to not put 2 and 2 together and realize he's a bad guy). So when the audience watches him and Jim bond and grow closer, it builds tension for when Jim finds out and it highlights the tragedy of their friendship, because we all know it's not going to end well. Then, after the truth is revealed, stakes are created because we want the friendship between Jim and Silver to be repaired, because we know it was real, but we don't know if can be after what Silver's done. And all of this would have been lost if Silver's true nature had been a cheap plot twist. The tragedy would be completely overshadowed by the surprise and betrayal, and any investment in their relationship would have been built on the false impression that Silver was a good guy.
Another good example of this is Titanic. Even if you were somehow ignorant of the ship's sinking, the film makes sure you know that it sank with its framing device of Old Rose telling her story to people salvaging the Titanic's wreak. And Titanic's plot structure could only possibly work if you know the ship is going to sink. I'm not just talking about building tension, tragedy, and stakes for the characters like with the above example, I mean that if you didn't know that the Titanic was going down walking into the film, the abrupt shift from romance to suspense-disaster would be an increadibly tough pill to swallow. But it works because we expect it. You don't walk into a film called Titanic without expecting the damn boat to sink.
However, the sad thing about both of these examples, is that despite all the benefits that came from telling the audience these things ahead of time, I think the main reason the creators didn't make them plot twists was because they couldn't have. Treasure Island is the single most influential piece of pirate media out there, and you'd have to have been living under a rock for over a century to not know the Titanic sank. So, the writers had to work around the fact that these important turning points in the narratives were common knowledge, and they wound creating incredible stories as a consequence.
I want to see more of this style of writing in stories where the writers aren't forced to do it. We've clearly seen that you can tell some really damn good stories by giving information to the audience before the characters learn it, and I just wish more works would do that instead of trying to surprise people with shocking twists.
I remember at one point seeing a breakdown of who knows what when by genre, more or less:
If the audience knows before the character knows, it's horror
If the character knows before the audience knows, it's a whodunit/mystery story
If the character and audience find out together, it's adventure And of course:
If the audience knows and the character never finds out, it's tragedy
Shocking revelations
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this got so many notes but no one's reblogging it with my very important addition
Oooooh! The Baking Twink is branching out!? And with a player piano, no less?
The man literally came to the united states to get a degree in music so he could get a job playing jazz in a club or a hotel ballroom. That was his goal, that was why he was here.
It was Covid that trapped him in his apartment with his collection of antique cookbooks.
So the music came before the baking.
So really, the baking twink isn’t branching out, he’s just going back to his roots.
(I was aware the man was musically-inclined, for the record, although I didn’t know about the music degree.)
Here's Dylan playing some music before the vintage baking thing really took off:
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it’s been one year since i’ve posted this and i still can’t believe the mind-bogglingly enormous response it has gotten… thank you all, i’m glad you liked my silly comic so much
This is… the exact opposite of that dark souls gif
I don’t think it’s possible to adequately state how fucking ballsy and skilled this player is considering the EXTREMELY specific timing of that dodge and catching the spear attack WHILE TAUNTING BETWEEN EACH THROW
I’m wheezing
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I figured they were referring to this gif
Since they do the same pose and it really seems like the opposite outcome lol
Ah yes. Shroom.
im surprised no one is talking about how elon musk paid people to make high level hardcore characters for him so he could claim it was all his work on livestream only to be immediately exposed as he couldn't even play the game right
like holy shit
At this point, I honestly can't tell whether he's the biggest loser ever to make a billion dollars or whether he just has some kind of masochistic public humiliation kink and is using us all for non-consensual roleplay.