Gorrión

She/her. Fairly new to Tumblr. Currently obsessed with Bagginshield and Zutara.

[cocoa-rococo]

i keep thinking about how alfendi and lucy are so perfectly set up for a sun-moon metaphor about their dynamic.

i know the obvious, more immediate thought is that al is the moon and lucy's the sun; she's warm and friendly with a cheery disposition, while he's more secretive with phases and associated with darkness. but i think — and here's what i love about their bond — it works in reverse.

it's ALFENDI who's the sun; burning and burning and burning with life and for justice, always fixed on a single point, so bright it blindsides the unprepared and hurts to be close to. yet for all his temper, he's able to be comforting, helping lucy grow in her work. he's the lynchpin that everything else revolves around.

lucy is his moon: she reflects his own fire back at him so much she practically glows. she adapts to his intensity, distant but constantly present, no matter what happens. the main source of light in the darkness, revealing things that were hidden. orbiting the sun, pulled in by heavy gravity and pulling things to herself, never too far away.

[dualital-deactivated20260714]

ooc. sharing my thoughts on something that was largely overlooked by the fandom and yet heavily influences my portrayal.

placid appears as such on the surface, and yet we know there lies something deeper that is only ever alluded to. the famous line "forget hershel, the one and only, i am layton!" is a subconscious thought of placid's, not potty's. so why is placid so widely viewed as the 'good' identity?

my theory? placid is not truly placid, but cold. i do not believe the difference between the two alfendis was ever nice/calm/gentle vs chaotic/angry/irrational, or good vs bad, but rather cold vs hot. placid is unaffected by his job, apathetic towards people, and disconnected from those around him. it is very easy to be consistently polite and amicable when you are not emotionally invested in anything, and this makes him palatable. not 'good', but easier to digest.

whereas potty cares, and truly cares. he is passionate, expressive, and deeply feeling, hence his erratic manner and short fuse. ignoring the fact that he has very good reasons for having an ill temper, given that his entire life, his independence and his relationship were all stripped away from him as a result of his condition, caused by his best friend's betrayal... ignoring all of that, potty is simply invested in his work. he has no time for incompetence or half measures, and why? well, did hershel ever do things by halves? did hershel never risk his life for the sake of justice? he was raised by a man who diligently sought out the truth, and so why wouldn't he possess the same passion?

and yes, hershel is more gentlemanly in his manner, but this is also a man who had a sword fight with an alleged vampire, so there is a certain amount of lunacy in the layton family tree.

[homunculus-argument]

You know the meme where you go "the name of [noun with a diminutive] implies the existence of [a hypothetical HUGE form of same thing, but without the diminutive]" like "existence of dorito implies the existence of THE DORO" and it's a huge-ass corn chip the size of a wheel of cheese?

Well, in finnish, the word for moth is "yökkönen", from "yö" (night), the suffix "-kko/kkö" which has many purposes but one of them is to change any word into "person involved with doing something with the root word", and the dininutive "-nen". So the name of moth is "little night creature".

But coming back to the diminutive meme, the existence of yökkönen would imply the existence of yökkö, the big (or at least medium-sized, or non-small) night creature. Through a happenstance completely unrelated to moths or other insects, "yökkö" is the finnish vernacular word for a night shift nurse.

[artfullypoetic]

like fire and rain

[tea-and-la]

it's very interesting that some aang stans are appalled at the concept of people not thinking aang is ready for a relationship while simultaneously defending any aang criticism with "he's 12!"

[cogentranting]

Kind of obsessed with this quote from Henry Jackman, the composer for Winter Soldier, about writing the Winter Soldier theme: 

“Because there’s a human element to the Winter Soldier that gets revealed toward the end of the film, the Winter Soldier starts off unrelenting and brutal and mechanized and almost Terminator like but the difference between The Winter Soldier and Terminator is that somewhere behind the wires and all the mechanization is a character that we know and we care about and that more importantly, Cap knows about and it’s very painful to him. So one of the things I ended up doing with the Winter Soldier was I spent literally ten days just on production with vocals because I wanted to get the sensation of a human trapped inside machinery. So I did a lot of vocal recordings and then processed the living hell out of them to get these tortured, time-stretched human cries of someone who has been so processed that it’s become mechanized at the same time but you can still hear the human in there.” 

[headspace-hotel]

*through tears* so true bestie

[victusinveritas]

[captainzutara]

it's actually so crazy that both Katara and Zuko were ordered to be killed by Azulon and were saved by the sacrifices of their mothers, and that they parallel each other in being the sun and moon, and yin and yang, and are direct parallels to the Oma and Shu story and have the same values and bond with each other so deeply even in a short time about the most intimate and traumatizing moments of their lives and people still think we're bonkers to even ship them, LIKE—

[cristalplanetheart]

😳

[savethewailes]

Let! That! Baby! Eat!!!!!!

[adelphicoracle]

Perfect tags

[i-cant-carry-it-for-you]

[blumineck]

Let me axe you something…

Would you like to see me test stuff like this in armour (Including the pole)? Or learn how it was made and fitted? Please help fund the Bluminarmour project if you can!

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[beardedmrbean]

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

[3liza]

how did they not fucking account for this. sorry but this is really really stupid

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

this is so funny.

[ruffboi-mags]

@3liza they didn’t account for it because they didn’t realize it was an issue. The particles the gloves are shedding are not microplastics but they are similar enough in composition and under an electron microscope that because the scientists didn’t know to account for them, they didn’t realize that’s what they were seeing.

Also they DID account for contamination in WET sample preparation, because they’d already learned previously that the nitrile gloves could contaminate wet samples, but this was the first discovery that they were contaminating DRY or AIRBORNE samples as well.

All of this was very clearly laid out in just the last provided link - i didn’t even have to read all of them to learn this, I read like 3 paragraphs of the nautil.us article and I was able to learn what happened and why it hadn’t been accounted for.

Like, I understand the frustration, but this is the sort of thing that has to be DISCOVERED before it can be accounted for, and this is what that kind of discovery looks like, and berating scientists for not already knowing something science hadn’t yet learned is kind of a pointless and bad faith approach to things.

We’ve learned that a lot of the studies done on microplastics in our environment were not actually accurate, and had unintentionally incorrectly inflated numbers of microplastics in their samples due to this issue, which means that while microplastics are still obviously a problem, they’re not as overwhelming large of a problem than we thought! This is a good thing! Science has done its job and we have learned new things and can now do even better science! There’s no reason to be angry at or berate the scientists who’ve gone before. We know better now. That’s the important part.

[bedpsyching]

Things I hate: fan made pokemon gender differences

[butterbeanchu]

YO THESE ARE FUCKING HALARIOUS

Like fan made stuff goes all out but in reality Pokemon gender differences are the most mundane shit

Only goes gen 1-4 tho

[aberrantemotion]

Yea thats how animals work

[bacony-cakes]

they fuckin gave charizard nidoqueen tits

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[memopmiff]

Bloodbender 🩸

[eddies-ashtray]

luv how male animals gotta fucking dance around and cry and shit for female attention and sex. and then men irl complain about fat women and body hair like get on ur fucking knees and beg me actually

[eddies-ashtray]

like these tarantulas dude?? the male has to tap out a rhythm she likes and if she doesn’t?? she’ll literally eat him.

[caustic-light]

Alpha males: "This is nature. You don't see animals acting like queers don't you?"

90% of nature documentaries: "Until now the female has been very impressed by the males drag performance of Orwell's Homage To Catalonia, soundtracked exclusively by Maria Carey songs. A demanding performance like that knows to impress. But... Oh No... One note in the final tune was one cent flat. It doesn't look good for the male now. She is ordering an orbital laser strike to burn his beautifully groomed plumage from space. It will take all year to regrow, effectively ending this one's mating season early. Better luck next time, little guy. Women are a tough audience."

[postcardpast]

[durbikins]

[pending-trans-action-2]

[kandelyabr55]