To be honest, I remember catching Gundam after school and thinking it was so cool.
At least until I learned it wasn't a giant robot fighting tournament the entire series. And now that I think about it, it was also one of my earliest experiences of the trope "big bad evil daddy".
This post led me to reminisce on the nature of catâs meowing, and I have a funny story
I befriended a feral cat once who had spent her life in the forest without human interaction. I was worried about her because she had a paw damaged from an old injury and was emaciated but obviously nursing kittens that were hidden away somewhere. It took me weeks of putting out food and sitting across the yard every evening for her to trust me even a little and when she decided we were friends and she expected dinner every night she started coming to my door and trying to call for me in the evening, but she didnât meow. Why would she? Cats only meow naturally as kittens when their vocal chords/ears arenât fully developed, adult cats communicate with vocalizations that arenât audible to humans. She probably tried making noises I couldnât hear to call me but ended up sticking to the one I always responded to- a horrible yowling growl that she had made at me when we first encountered each other in the forest. Except once we were friends she would make this noise while purring and rubbing affectionately against a nearby tree or the porch railing (because she didnât want to touch me yet). This understandably freaked my family members out but I was touched that she had taken the time to find a way to basically yell FUCK OFF in an affectionate way.
Fast forward to when she finally trusts me enough to bring her hidden kittens out of the forest to me, long story short I gained their trust and put them in this big pen, that I had previously used to keep chickens in, so theyâd be safe and to keep her from having another litter. Except she was already secretly pregnant again! (Fix your pets, guys, they make SO many babies) and ended up having her new babies in this pen. I kept my distance, sitting on the outside once they were born until she seemed comfortable enough to let me come inside. The kittens were a bit wild, hissing viscously at me as soon as they opened their eyes, but they warmed up to me. There were four of them and soon they all wanted to be the center of attention during the twice daily play sessions. Iâd be playing with one and another would meow insistently behind me and Iâd immediately answer them and give them love, teaching them that humans could be friends that answer their needs- making them adoptable once they were weaned. Mama cat (Artie) would just watch me play with them, and I guess she was doing some thinking because one day when they were about a month old I was playing with them and one meowed behind me. I was confused because I hadnât realized there was a kitten behind me and when I turned, there wasnât. The only cat there was Artie looking at me really intensely. I turned back around to the kittens and I heard the meow again, I turned back to Artie and responded in the way I always did with the kittens âyes baby?â And she meowed again in an exact imitation of her kittens! After that she would.not.shut.up. It was like she had cracked some kind of code, meowing for attention and snacks and just to say hi. Her two older kittens, the ones sheâd had in the forest, had never meowed at me either but started to once they saw how I responded to their mom. and I find it endlessly fascinating because before that it had never occurred to me that cats only meow at humans because they were taught by other cats to keep meowing past kittenhood because thatâs the best way to get a humanâs attention.
Imagine befriending some weird giant with the wrong number of legs that you met in the forest who seems nice enough but doesnât seem to be able to hear you, until your friend explains that all they can understand is fuck off! And Iâm a baby give me love!
youtube playing ads immediately after a video is over, not letting me rewind what i was watching until theyâre over.
all social media apps having this tiktok dash structure where as soon as a short video is over it automatically scrolls down to another one, algorithmically chosen.
streaming apps moving the thing im watching to a tiny corner and recommending more things as soon as the end credits begin, and i have to opt out of the next movie/show starting under a short timer.
streaming apps doing the same thing also after i finish watching through the end credits, not letting me sit with a blank screen for a little while until i decide im ready to move on.
We need time to digest things. We need to sit with new information, with emotions. Humans have a processing speed and it isn't instant (that's why timing in jokes/humor/comedy is so important). We in fact need space in our brains. I once heard it said "let your brain de-frag." Sit and think about nothing.
The end credits is a time of REFLECTION. It's a time of PONDERING. It's a time of thinking about the heroism and villainy of the story, how it applies to real life and your life specifically. It's about pondering art and creativity and human nature. I need to be able to choose for myself when that time of reflection ends and I move on to the next thing.
(Context: The Survey Corp captured the Miss Fortune Sisters and Rei is Lucas, the protagonist of Hisui / the professor assistant in Sinnoh and he has been in Hisui for over a year.)
(In the Galaxy Hall)
Rei: So again, all your alibis are that a mysterious stranger threw smoke-bombs you three are notorious for using to escape, robbed Beniâs shop, and forced you three to put the same stolen mochi in your pockets.
Charm: When you put it that way it doesnât sound believable.
The Gimli Glider is one of those stories where every aspect sounds more fake than the last and yet it all actually happened.
-A passenger plane was underloaded with fuel because Canada had just converted to the metric system and everyone supposed to double check their numbers got it wrong.
-When the plane ran out of fuel they were too far away to make it to an in-service airport and had to head towards the Gimli military base. Which was shuttered.
-They were coming in to fast due to a lack of flaps control and had to perform a series of slips (as shown in the video above) to slow down, basically drifting a giant passenger plane.
-As they come down they realized that just because Gimliâs been decommissioned doesnât mean itâs abandoned because a bunch of people are having drag races on the runway theyâre about to need.
-Despite everything they managed to land safely and no one was killed or even hurt which is why itâs one of the best air disasters to meme on.
The Wikipedia page on this is fantastic and my favorite line from it is âFlying with all engines out was never expected to occur, so it had never been covered in training.â
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