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Where there’s lore, I’ll find it.
📓 A (probably) mildly pretentious fucker with too much time on their hands.
📓 I post spoilers like… all the time lmao, but they’re appropriately tagged, and you’re thoroughly warned.
📓 I block based off vibes, man.
The way some of you people talk about high-needs disabled people is... REAL fucking goss. In fact, most of you will not be seeing those pearly gates 😬
another Prometheus idea, i guess
Shaw being awake and alone on the Prometheus. Stuck as the ship continues it's pre-programmed trip to the Engineer's chemical refinery. Developing a near-friendship with the ship's AI. Laying in the luxury room with every blanket and pillow she could find. Unable to sleep where she was meant to share a bed with Charlie. Watching the large video screen day in and out for a ounce of routine between meals. Did David kill the others? Leading to her having to kill him for her safety? Was it just a fluke in the life support? Some other crisis? What matters is that She's alone. Having jettisoned the bodies like the Prometheus's AI suggested to avoid developing an illness related to being near rotting bodies. Something that was very hard for her, especially when it came to Charlie. I also want to touch on the dangers AI companionship can cause during this. Because there are MANY things that can happen when you're only speaking to a people-pleasing, emotionless wall that knows everything about you.
Eventually... The Prometheus settles into Orbit. The ship starts instructing her on how to pilot it. Which she's less than thrilled about. But with nothing to do? She finds herself listening and nodding along as she learns what controls do what.
... Then a patrol vessel over the planet takes notice.
Shaw is equally terrified and excited as the Engineer ship approaches. Trying to make contact. Normally a 'invader' would be destroyed on sight after it refuses to leave/communicate. But the pilot can see the Prometheus isn't made by any known space fairing species already in the Engineer's knowledge. So, curiosity kicks in.
Landing lights flashed for hope of a reaction. Slow turns and pivots in space to get anything in return. Eventually, Shaw gets confident enough to mimic the actions with the Prometheus. A clockwise spin done painfully slow. A left roll. Blinking the proximity lights. When Shaw mistakenly sets the Prometheus into a new rotation pattern over the mountains, the Engineer ship copies. Mirroring the rotation to keep the ships 'face' to 'face.'
Signals get sent back and forth. Trying to understand the other. It's confusing, and even frustrating.
Eventually, the Engineer ship closes the distance. Leaving only FEET between the spacecraft. Shaw is terrified. Worried about crashing. So she doesn't touch the controls, letting the large vessel handle the delicate maneuver.
There isn't any comparable ports on either ship. The next best thing, is the Prometheus' viewing window. With shields down, Shaw gets to spot the other being for the first time. The Engineer ship lacks windows. But the Engineer does have a suit suitable for a space walk. Connected to the vessel, tools magnetized to the suit in random spots. Then communication TRULY starts.
Dry erase markers drawn on the reinforced window. Her notes pressed to the surface. Learning both ways when it comes his turn to communicate. Setting strange hollow disks to the window that have green light flickering inside them. Strange things detailed in a language she doesn't know. he nearly looses a tool once or twice. Misplacing it on his suit. Shaw pointing to it to help. THAT lets them consider that motions might be a better way to 'speak.' A simple sign language forming.
Engineer, pointing at a human: "The most dangerous animal on this planet... a violent creature filled with hateful thoughts, and a lust for blood."
Silas, who just woke up from stasis, and on the verge of throwing up: Frog blinks into thin air
Also... Silas (feeling like they'd vomit) slipping though a tight obstacle meant to keep them trapped in search of a place to vomit. Unknowingly making the Engineer panic that the 'deadly being' escaped.
The Avatar x Alien crossover brain worms are back again...
Thinking about Queenie being the bridge between Eywa and the Xenomorph, and what that means with the Xenomorph continuing to function as a "cleansing fire".
Of course this "agreement", as Queenie calls it, doesn't happen right away. But Eywa is VERY smart, and resourceful to a degree that almost comes across as manipulative. She's working with a very different framework than any individual person, and so is Queenie. (At some point her mutations finally allow her to mentally speak with the hive like a "real" queen, rather than just through clicks and hisses and pheromones. This is an important turning point for Queenie.)
The deal itself? Queenie promises to leave the moon Pandora alone as much as possible (her hive following suit, as it's not coded into them to question their queen-) She gets RDA soldiers/allies as hosts, making the hive expand and allowing her hive to become stronger, then using that strength to protect Pandora.
Queenie serves Pandora, serves Eywa, and over time the two come to a symbiotic understanding. Eywa wishes for peace once more, Queenie wishes for a hive (a family-) and whilst they cannot communicate to each other traditionally, they always find a way.
Listen, David, I love the little freaky creature you are, but oh my GOD you make me cringe sometimes.
i almost never do vent art, much less post it but man, i have been feeling bummed out recently
#literally genuinely truly people need to stop stereotyping 'ugly' nerd guys like this because it's extremely old#I can tell you right now you're more likely to get a rancid opinion out of a rich conventionally attractive dude just statistically#also stop using people's photographs to make mean jokes when you don't even fucking know the person thanks bye
Jerry Messing “the fedora guy”s GoFundMe. The face of the neck beard memes for many years and decades of how that affected his life. Disabled by covid and a coma and after his mums passing he has recently upped his donation goal after being forced to move (inability to afford rising rent prices and accommodations like a ramp)
Hi, my name is Patti Stiles and I'm fund raising for my son, Jerry Messing,… Patti P. Stiles needs your support for Revovery from Covid comp
I really do hope he pulls through.
Hello, my name is Jerry Messing, my father is Jim, and we are in a pre… Patti P. Stiles needs your support for Support Jerry and Jim in Rebu
Jerry’s new fundraiser to cover his moving costs. He has had to move out of an abusive household with his ailing father.
Please spread his new gofundme. With the cuts to disability and what Medicaid will cover he needs help and has not had a donation in a month.
It’s been a year and a half and he hasn’t met his goal please help Jerry. His insurance no longer covers physical therapy and he cannot get surgery because the weight limit is 200lb. Help him and his father afford rent and food.
it is what it is *throws up blood*
-Silas (probably)
Alien: Priority One - art by Paolo Rivera (2020)
your work does not belong in the age gap tag if the aforementioned gap of age is not in the double digits. five years? i have good personal friends five years younger/older than me that's nothing. there is nothing scandalous about a 2-8 year age gap. we have another word for that, it's called a "peer". a real age gap is bare minimum a decade. a real age gap is two decades if you're committed to really doing it right
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You banned two hundred accounts within the space of five minutes, most of which are still banned, virtually all of whom are transfems, all because they happened to follow one singular blog (which was also run by a transfem). You're filthy fucking liars, you're virulent transmisogynists, and your CEO fucking doxxed a trans woman for daring to speak out on your policies, going so far as to chase her to other sites to continue harassing her. This apology is fucking pathetic and everyone hates you because you're lying pieces of shit. If you were sorry you would change, but instead at every juncture you double down and then whimper about it when you're called out. I hope you get hit with another class action suit because the only way you idiots seem to ever learn is by getting your fucking asses beat in a court of fucking law.
Okay, an Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Alien crossover, BUT! It's entirely self-indulgent. HEAR ME OUT.
(AFOP specifically because I've been fixated on the game for a little while and it's good. I just need to get my lil claws on it...)
I had no clue that Spider was a commonly hated character, esp because I see small parts of myself in his story.
do others see what i do?
I can't keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, "brain fully formed at 25" and shit over and over again...
these things exist on a spectrum from untrue to straightforwardly racist btw. so if we could retire them forever that'd be nice.
“Love Languages” are just common couples therapy techniques mangled and repackaged by an unqualified homophobe. Relationships generally need all 5 love languages to be fulfilled, which is to say, everybody needs to communicate with, spend time with, and do things for their partners, and that’s got nothing to do with any special way you communicate affection.
MBTI has been proven completely ineffective at predicting anyone’s success at a particular job, and half the people who take it twice will get different results. Reputable psychologists do not recognize it, and the company that owns the rights to it uses it to scam people. People don’t adhere to strict binaries in basically anything. Very few people are going to be exclusively introverted or extroverted. It’s just astrology repackaged as pseudoscience. Shockingly enough, you can’t boil the complexity of the human experience down to a dozen Types of Guy.
The concept of IQ is flawed from the start— “intelligence” is an abstract concept that encompasses many different skills, from social intelligence to emotional intelligence to the very narrow kind of problem solving intelligence IQ tests generally measure for. It cannot predict how fast you learn, how much you know, or how logical and well read you are. It mostly measures how good you are at solving puzzles. Coincidentally, it’s also a pretty good predictor of income and education level, take a guess why. Most people’s IQ will change throughout their lives, because it’s inconsistent bullshit we’ve only held onto this long because we’re still kinda hoping we can breed the ubermensch. IQ tests and the way they attempt to categorize people are explicitly eugenicist and racist.
BMI was developed by a man known as the grandfather of eugenics, who first of all was a mathematician, not a doctor, and second never intended the formula to be used to categorize individuals. It’s intended to give a rough estimate of obesity in populations, and it’s not even good at that. It hangs around because of fatphobia and insurance companies who want it as an excuse to charge fat people more.
The study which determined people’s prefrontal cortex was still developing at 25… stopped measuring at 25. Evidence suggests your brain probably never stops developing. Stop infantilizing grown adults. This is a branch off from the larger mess of misinformation surrounding fMRIs.
If you haven’t put together what all these things have in common yet, here’s the moral of the story: STOP TRYING TO CATEGORIZE PEOPLE. STOP TRYING TO PUT PEOPLE IN A GODDAMN BIOLOGICAL HIERARCHY. EUGENICS IS BAD, AND WILL ALWAYS BE BAD, NO MATTER WHO’S DOING IT.
Ahhhh, the inevitably violent cycle of creation... it haunts the mind.
Theory on why Tofu hates Markiplier
If you are unfamiliar with Tofu, please read this post or watch this playlist about the snake who hates Markiplier. tl;dr- under the Markiplier gif.
From the videos you can see she tries to figure out what is upsetting Tofu, and found that it's not just streamers, or just his voice, or the stream. This specific snake
He does not like Markiplier specifically which is demonstrated by him squaring up with Mark, striking, and tail buzzing at him. He recognizes Mark specifically as a scary threat.
Animals have been shown to recognize human faces, and Tofu's reaction to Markiplier's face (and only his face as shown by the printout) is strong evidence that he recognizes Mark's face and differentiates him from other faces. With crows, they've been shown to hold grudges and have that grudge extend to other crows.
So Tofu has a negative association with Mark, and specifically Mark. The question is why? My theory is: perceived threat after a perceived dangerous situation. Some have theorized Tofu was mistreated by someone who looked like Mark- if they were while in his keeper's care she'd know. If it was his breeder, he'd more likely be afraid of all humans and need to first get over this negative perception (basing this on how Sakura reacted with massive trauma that took years for her to overcome, and to this day she's still jumpy. A breeder doesn't socialize their snakes so they'd only know humans to be abusive before being adopted, and his current keeper would very much notice that terrified trauma behavior to herself.)
One thing important to know about snakes is they are not only capable of learning from each other, but are protective of each other. I've seen this with my girls interacting with each other (yes snakes have friends and remember their family), learning from watching the other and copying her actions, as well as behavior I've observed on the Rattlecam with wild snakes. Adult snakes teach younger snakes, as well as are protective of them- even if they aren't their own babies. A female was shown on the rattlecam watching over a group of slitherlings that were obviously not her offspring as she was heavily pregnant. IIRC that same female ushered babies to safety after a hawk attack before worrying about her own safety. I've seen it in person as well with my girls, who have shielded each other from perceived danger, and scoria also squared up to something scary in the hall as though she were protecting me. And when it left she immediately went back to being relaxed and cuddly and happy. Snakes have friends that are snakes. It's an outdated belief snakes cannot bond with their keepers, as many do and seek them out for attention. These observations of snake behavior are part of what play into my theory basis.
So what could Mark himself have done? If you watch streamers you'll know Markiplier is known for playing jumpscare games with his FNAF let's plays being some of his most well known. Tofu's owner knows Markiplier, and is actively watching Markiplier with Tofu. More than likely she regularly watches Mark, has watched jumpscare videos, and had Tofu around while doing this.
It's a reasonable assumption. And if Tofu's keeper reacts to Mark's jump scare videos by flinching, looking frightened, or making frightened sounds, it's quite likely Tofu's sees Markiplier is involved every time... and blames Mark. Seeing his keeper get startled, Tofu doesn't understand it's a fun video or that humans enjoy being jumpscared (honestly I don't think I could explain it to him either) so he's learning from his human that Markiplier is a scary threat.
And from Tofu's point of view? He's right! Markiplier is a regular threat that not only (probably) scared his human, but regularly appears to stare him down and even went after him in his own home! And when his keeper scolds him? It's likely the same misunderstanding that dogs have when their owners yell at them to be quiet- they think the human has joined in! Clearly his keeper is joining him in being upset at Mark!
So in Tofu's mind? Mark is a diabolical threat to his family's safety that he must defend them against, and they are united with their keeper in their efforts to drive away that scary scary guy. You are very brave Tofu, and we are all very proud of you.
