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charlesoberonn

Archeologist 20,000 years after horses go extinct: *cries* I don’t

why-cant-i-have-a-good-username

That comment is one of the most accurate things in studying history.

silly-jellyghoty

I can feel the pain already

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Sometimes when I'm high I like to imagine arguments in the far future about what kind of milk or eggs were in our recipes. I hope the main opposing factions would be divided over whether the milk was from dogs or cats because "what other mammals were in the vast majority of households back then?"

paintedfirelady

Paint it black and paint it white Pull the blinds and meet the light I see heaven up above But I see you and I see love And we’ve got a long road We’ve got a burning coal Sometimes it feels too hot to hold I hope it never goes cold

Very rough and lazy Zutara thing inspired by The Narrative’s newest song, Toe The Line. It’s hauntingly beautiful and I’m obsessed (please be obsessed like I am because it also gives me a lot of Zutara vibes)

tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva

"oh so it's women support women until--" yes actually, sometimes women do not in fact do things worth supporting and other women criticizing them isn't some sort of affront to feminism

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liberalsarecool

The pro-life party are pro-execution.

Death penalty. Police murder. Insurgents. They approve of them all.

There is no mystery to conservatives pushing for the killing of progressive protesters by domestic insurgents, run over by cars, and murdered by LEO. Their fascism is manifest.

whitejadeflower

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slumberblues

When you’ve been abused by a parent like that dealing with anything afterwords is terrifying.

I can only imagine the emotions Zuko was feeling when he apologised to Iroh there.

mangaluva-deactivated20220930

^This is one of the reasons that I think going in to apologize to Iroh is one of the bravest things that Zuko’s ever done, because of how much it must have terrified him to do so (Iroh would never hurt Zuko like that, but that fear had to have been at the top of Zuko’s mind at this moment)

And why I love Iroh so, so much for being who he is.

royaltealovingkookiness

YES! Zuko was so terrified - and how he wronged Iroh was so much on his mind. He says it right at the end of CoD to Azula, then to Ozai in the Day of the Black Sun, then to Sokka, to Toph, to Katara - anyone who’d listen how bad he feels and how much he wants to redeem himself to his uncle.

But still, he’s so afraid when they hit a dead-end with Aang and Zuko realizes they need to go to Iroh (and it’s clear that he took the smelly slipper with him deliberately, he already had this plan in the back of his mind, but he never had the nerve to do it).

And then, as they get to Ba Sing Se, he makes an excuse to make camp outside the city - he’s so terrified to face Iroh.

He’s clearly so scared to even go to Iroh’s tent.

Then when he gets there, for the first time Zuko who goes fearlessly into hopeless fights and throws himself in harm’s way without a second thought, completely loses his nerve;

sitting down instead (he was never this afraid to face Ozai, or even the dragons) and it takes a pep-talk from Katara

to go through that final threshold.

And these little acts of hesitation by Zuko who never hesitates, never shows fear, build up the tension so perfectly.

Interestingly, this story mimics very closely the parable of the Prodigal Son (the ultimate redemption story).

woppy42

this thread on Brach’s turkey dinner candy corn is the funniest thing i’ve read in my life. please enjoy

doctorguilty

Not to sound like an old fart here but my philosophy about video games is like. A kid living out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere with no internet access for miles should be able to purchase a game from walmart, take that game home, put it in their console, and play the whole game with all of its features and the only thing lack of internet affects is the inability to play online with others. Nothing else. They shouldn't be missing entire chunks of the game becuase they can't download a patch. The game shouldn't be borderline empty or unplayable without a patch.

comominimo

thejakeformerlyknownasprince

Writing Advice #?: Do NOT over-explain your sci fi nonsense.

The whole recent discussion about The Rules of Morphing got me thinking about how one of Animorphs’ great strengths is that is explains morphing juuuuust enough. We can follow its internal logic, but it doesn’t get so detailed that we run into the nitty-gritty of all the ways humans cannot turn into dolphins. We know that your base form “passes through a singularity… into z-space” (#45) and that the DNA of another animal “in your cells” comes to replace your base form (#49). And that’s about all the detail we get.

I think sometimes writers think more is more when it comes to explaining your fake science, because it’s tempting to go “look at all this research I did!” But you can have sci-fi mechanics informed by real science without ever explaining the real science. For example, flip to the back of some editions of Jurassic Park and you get a Works Cited with dozens of scientific papers Crichton used while writing it. HOWEVER, the actual science is introduced in-text as “bird-like blood cells contain DNA, and you can get traces of blood that mosquitoes ate, and if these are Cretaceous-era mosquitoes preserved in amber, then [mumble mumble] dinosaur clones!” Of course, that [mumble mumble] contains like 40 different reasons you can’t get enough DNA from degraded traces of blood to make an entire genome, but there’s just enough logic in the explanation to make it feel scientific.

By contrast, Starship Troopers spends entire walls of text explaining the mechanics of the characters’ armor. It’s mildly interesting, but it slows down the plot and doesn’t come up later. If it’s going to be a crucial plot device that the Jurassic Park dinos have DNA transcription errors spliced with frog genes, then include that explanation. If it’s just a cool fact you read in Stephen Hawking’s essays that will never be plot fuel, leave it in your notes.

You also risk doing more than boring your audience; you risk breaking their suspended disbelief. For example, the Twilight series has more sci-fi-esque vampires, which mostly works most of the time. EXCEPT in Breaking Dawn there’s a scene where Carlisle tells Jacob that he’s trying to figure out how to abort the vampire-human hybrid that’s growing inside Bella because it’s eating her from the inside out. That’s fine — I love reproductive horror – but then Carlisle goes on to say that humans have 46 chromosomes, vampires have 50, werewolves have 48, and the monster-fetus has 48. And the whole sci-fi reality breaks.

With a B- in high school Biology, I know that humans with 47 or 48 chromosomes exist, and that 48 chromosomes doesn’t mean “werewolf” it means “human with some congenital disabilities.” I also know that there are diseases that can fuck with epigenetics, but that altering the chromosomal structure of every cell in a person’s body is both nonsensical and unable to produce the changes (diamond skin, venom, immortality) ascribed to the vampire pathogen. I stop enjoying the scene, I stop suspending my disbelief in vampirism-as-pathogen, and I have a little voice screeching “but that doesn’t work!” for the rest of the book.

Ya know what would be a better explanation? Carlisle saying “vampires are different on a cellular level from humans. Werewolves are similar to humans, but still different. I think this fetus is physiologically vampire-like, and that’s why it’s currently ripping through Bella like she’s a wet paper sack.” How are vampires cellularly different from humans? [mumble mumble mosquitoes in amber] All you need to know is that they are, and that that’s why Carlisle is so scared of this thing.

Angel the Series has a similar plot: vampire-human hybrid fetus starts eating its host mother from the inside out, when it shouldn’t even exist. And during that whole sequence the characters don’t know where the fetus came from and never figure it out. No explanation at all is BETTER than an overly-detailed one that breaks the series’ reality. (Not to pretend Angel is perfect, given that unlike Twilight it’s quite misogynistic in its relative prioritization of mother and fetus, but “nobody can figure out how the hybrid happened” is still great plot fuel for the rest of said hybrid’s life.)

Anyway, just like it’s nigh-impossible to write a character who is smarter than you, it’s nigh-impossible to invent an impossible wheel that doesn’t already exist. So don’t get too into the mechanics of your sci-fi type of wheel, just say “it runs on singularities.” Tell us just barely enough that we’ll know what it means if one of those wheels slips an axis 100 pages from now.

trashytarbosaurus

thesuperheroesnetwork

I shouldn’t have to remind you, but the FF series is already completely insane without dinosaurs.

And I shouldn’t have to remind you, but the FF series is already completely insane without dinosaurs. FF is a non-linear franchise (4, 5, and 6 are prequels to 3) that has gone from stealing DVD/VCR combo players, to bank heists, to multiple character resurrections, to fighting a submarine, and going to space. The spinoff movie Hobbs & Shaw had them fighting a Captain America-esque super soldier played by Idris Elba. Would dinosaurs really be such a stretch? Really???

rex-j-burton

Howdy.

Cowboy dinos are a vibe

asgardiansofthegalaxyvol3

They’ve been gone for 6 months and that’s awful since their families must have buried them, mourned them, prayed every night that they’d somehow just make it home.

But Kenji’s dad has the money to hire someone to search the island for his son to have that closure the other families can’t... and he just doesn’t. It’s genuinely one of the sickest things I’ve seen in a while. Like yeah they keep driving in the fact that Kenji’s dad doesn’t love him. But this? It hurts