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[noblenighttime]

Whenever I’m reading MCU fanfiction and I come across a mention of Tony Stark’s death, there’s always a moment of my brain just going ‘huh?’ Because after Endgame my mind just immediately went

[loveridden1999]

[khmelisuneliart]

all that remains

[scribeherself]

seeing people say "this trope has been done to death" as if that's ever stopped anyone from eating bread. BREAD HAS BEEN DONE TO DEATH FOR LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF YEARS AND WE STILL WANT MORE BREAD. write your chosen one AU. write your coffee shop meet-cute. write your 47th iteration of "there was only one bed" because guess what??? we're still hungry.

[themonstrousother]

Really funny thing to say to the child soldier

[ofswordsandpens]

unfortunately I think the divide within the og atla creative team regarding zutara during the show's development led to the funniest possible outcome .

cause on one hand, since zuko and katara's relationship never explicitly turns romantic, I think it spared their dynamic from the weird pitfalls that the writing suffered from when it came to the canon romances. and what we do get from the canon zk dynamic is a really compelling and cohesive narrative arc: enemies -> resentful co-captives -> empathizing co-captives -> ...mayyyybeee allies? -> ENEMIES 2.0 -> "Mr. Sorry For Betraying You" & "Ms. No Worries I'll Just Kill You Next Time :)" -> Southern Raiders "I fear only one person has ever understood me and I hate the guy" + "the guy" accomplices -> brief spy interlude -> Friends <3 -> synergetic teammates -> Co-Usurpers -> literally laid his life down for her

...but on the other hand, because the creative team was so divided during this time, it wasn't enough to just let things lie or whatever, so somewhere in between the "friends / synergetic teammates" bit and "co-usurpers" bit of their relationship development, the show takes not one, but two distinct moments to turn to the viewers and say "zutara shippers you are dumb and stupid and delusional btw" cause the creators had a complex over the fact that young girls in 2007 preferred zutara. And then right after that zuko goes and throws himself in front of lightning for katara. lol. lmao, even.

[gayemoji]

not me cheering bc buffy couldnt catch up to riley before he left in the helicopter. fucking bye bitch. try not being such a dumbass.

[enba-and-luka]

[wiisagi-maiingan]

"There is nothing wrong with adults living with their parents for any reason and it's actually the norm in huge parts of the world."

and

"People should be able to afford to live independently if that's what they want."

are statements that NEED to coexist.

[elmtrees]

My biggest pet peeve in the asoiaf fandom is when Aryas/Briennes/Rhaenyras book accurate physical appearances are discussed and people try so hard to deny book canon. “Well, Arya is often compared to Lyanna Stark so she must be actually beautiful!!” “By today’s standards, Brienne would be average looking!1!1!” “Rhaenyra is actually curvy, not FAT!!” omg you guys really hate the thought of some of your favorite female characters being a lil unattractive and not looking like supermodels like damn

[jackoshadows]

Once again, why is there this much angst over a pre-teen child's looks? Is only one female child in the entirety of asoiaf allowed to be pretty? Is there a quota?

Why is 9/11 year old Arya - a child who has still not grown into her looks when we first meet her - put in the same box as 18/19 year old teenager Brienne and 20 year old Rhaenyra after her pregnancies? What, do they belong in some special category titled 'fat and ugly'?

Is Arya only allowed to be seen forever as how her teenage bullies - Sansa and Jeyne - described the 9 year old?

Why are there never any such pet peeves/debates about Jon Snow's looks considering he and Arya look similar and have the Stark long face (like Lyanna)?

Why are Sansa stans so obsessed with looks in general? You are the only category of fans I have seen that always complain about how fans of other characters discuss their faves.

Since you consider canon to be so important, yes Arya is compared to Lyanna by those who knew her and yes, Lyanna was considered beautiful and fans are allowed to make inferences.

Several characters in the books call Arya 'Pretty' and the Kindly Man even says this to Arya Stark (calls her og face as pretty and never talks abt her like she is Brienne) - "Or would you sooner be a courtesan, and have songs sung of your beauty?"

If only Sansa stans would actually read the Arya chapters before complaining about 'book accurate physical descriptions' then we wouldn't have to recycle this tired discourse for the umpteenth time.

[tired-w]

A gripe I have about a lot of fanfiction that features Arya or Brienne is the fact they often have these two women have negative views on women and feminity when that is not the case. They both have a negative view of the place women are made to settle in the social practices of Westeros.

Arya dislikes how women are viewed and she refuses to "be a lady". She rejects it the same way a tomboy would reject the color pink even if they don't actually hate the color. Its like coming from a family where women are homemaker and saying "I'm going to be an engineer!". People aren't taking her seriously because thats just not what is done, its a male dominated field, and they don't have the faith in her. Its like late 90's early 2000's tomboy character archetype. Hates the social standards not the girl.

As for Brienne, she doesn't reject feminity in the same way but thats because she was never allowed to have access to it. She has always been masculinized and deemed ugly and not a woman. It's like how female sports stars often have their feminity stripped away and questioned, even if their body serves an important job. Any comment you can read by red-pilled men under an Illona Maher video is absolutely something that can or has been said to Brienne.

The character who does hate feminity, women, and everything about being a girl is Cersei. She is one of those boy moms whose husbands married then cause they were pretty but checked out so now they are dating their own son because they don't know how to exist outside male validation. Other women are not allies but threats, young, old, ugly, beautiful, doesn't matter, if you have a vagina you're a threat. Brienne and Arya can be friends with women, Cersei cannot.

[gingerswagfreckles]

Buzz Aldrin punching a moon landing denier in the face at the age of 72. Lol.

[gingerswagfreckles]

This video has been almost completely scrubbed off the internet because the loser who got decked keeps suing everyone. Luckily for you guys EYE have a copy of the video! :)

In honor of the Artemis 2 launch!!! Suck it crazies in the chat yelling about how NASA is using AI!!!

[weaselle]

"you're a coward and a liar" it wasn't that long ago a man could be shot or stabbed with a sword for saying that to another man and nobody would think the man defending his honor had done anything wrong.

Also, Mr. Aldrin had an active military career before his astronaut days and i'd say he hasn't forgotten how to throw a damn good punch -- just look at his wide stance

10/10 well-deserved punch

additional info

at the time, Aldrin was 72 years old, 6 foot 2 inches, and 250 pounds. Sibel (the man he punched) was 37 years old

Sibel has made multiple "documentaries" about the moon landing being fake and has repeatedly harassed the astronauts involved, in this instance getting Aldrin to agree to the above meeting by pretending to be doing an interview on space for a Japanese children's television show

Buzz Aldrin's step-daughter was present, and in addition to being poked repeatedly and aggressively with a bible (Sibrel wanted him to swear on a bible that he went to the moon) Aldrin felt the man following them into the hotel refusing to leave them alone might pose a threat to her

charges against Aldrin were either dropped or never filed, based on Aldrin's lack of a prior criminal record, witness accounts of Sibrel's having drawn Aldrin to the hotel under false pretenses, Sibrel's aggressiveness before the punch, and Sibrel having declined to seek medical attention and sustaining no obvious injury visible to witnesses during the incident

[mcgear]

Buffy Summers x The Thing Is by Ellen Bass

[buffycaps]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER - 1.12: Prochecy Girl // 5.22: The Gift

[spiribia]

we do need to revisit the wording of "you can't have your cake and eat it too" because i don't think it clearly enough conveys that it's more that you can't simultaneously retain a cake and also get to consume it (which would render you cakeless). for years i was like But why not....it's my cake....?

[ferrettoy]

this fucking problem is how they caught the unabomber

[m0thmancore]

hey you should uh. elaborate. for my own personal satisfaction

[ferrettoy]

the unabomber was pedantic about idiomatic phrases like "have your cake and eat it too" and rephrased it to "eat your cake and have it too" (which to be very fair makes sense). fast forward to when he starts writing manifestos. he uses the phrase word for word in his pedantic style and his brother (who has been keeping his eyes on the unabomber shit for obvious reasons) notices the phrase and is like "oh fuck that's my fucking brother no one else fucking says that" and calls in an FBI tip

[tetrafelino]

Well you can't deliberately speak in a way nobody else does and also stay anonymous you know. Can't eat your cake and have it too.

[teaboot]

You see I too often sat in school classes and thought “when am I ever going to need this, I’m never going to be an engineer, I’m never gonna be a scientist, I’m never gonna be a linguist” and then I grew up and it turns out a lot of bigots and cults and scams and grifts hinge their entire business model on you just. Not knowing what a protein is or some shit

[myboyrozanovv]

If people knew what a fucking atom is and how molecules are defined, at least a quarter of all health related cults like movements and scams wouldn't work.

"Ohh it's a different sugar than refined sugar" it's the same molecule.

"Ohhh my water filtering apparatus making beauty water and cleaning water and alkaline water" Water is H20. What you're doing is reverse osmosis, and if it's alkaline then there is a substance that's not water in there to make it alkaline. You can't purify water to a pH of 12, because pure water molecules have, by definition of how the pH system works and several phyics rules, a pH of exactly 7.

"Ooohh it has ~different~ sodium atoms." That's called an isotope and sodium isotopes aren't created by magic woowoo, and the magical ability of most isotopes is radioactivity.

"Low toxin" what toxin. Tell me their names. What are they doing. "They are endocrine disruptors" what part of the endocrine system? How? Do you have a source that doesn't try to sell you something?

"Just mix vinegar and baking soda to cleanse all the toxins of your fruits" you just created water molecules and CO2, and some calcium and acetate which don't have much chemical property. That's a science fair vulcano. And doesn't have acidic or alkaline properties to chemically influence anything. Just use tap water at this point. "My wood cutting board soaked in an alkaline solution from baking soda to clear out the toxins leaves a nasty looking soup" yeah because you were dissolving the wood with an alkaline solution. Congratulations.

"There is effective microorganisms in this ceramic bead and it can cleanse your laundry and dishes and prevent mold in your fridge and it works for years" what microorganisms exactly? How did you discover them? What are they eating? Are they resistant to 60 degrees and steam? Do they procreate in the fridge? Are they spreading out on all surfaces to prevent the mold or is it an air filtration system that works without airflow or is it just magic? "Put them in your flowers, they can reverse cavities, put them in your walls" what are they eating in my walls? What kind of microorganisms are they? Did you test the safety of those things in human bodies? Are they native to my biotope? How do they survive in those fucking ceramic beads?

"Just use vinegar it's magic" it's a mild acid. Like, cool, sure, it works for several things, but it doesn't have magic properties. It's just a mild acid. Lemon juice is too. And once again, if you mix it with baking soda, they neutralise each other and you get water. Which cleans a lot of things but you dont need to do *all that* to get your hands on some plain water.

[holmoris]

do not get me started on how bad people are about basic electrical principles, especially this abomination

warning : that link does psychic damage

[acearchaeologist]

Those bracelets that say they'll fix all your health problems using negative ions?

I always assumed they were a scam because ions (an atom with an electron imbalance) really really hate existing and are hard to make.

Lots of ions are ok in water because water is super polar (oxygen hogs all the electrons so every molecule is like a tiny magnet) and therefore they'll soak up all the imbalanced charges.

Go pour salt in water right now. If it dissolves you've created negative chlorine ions! (And an equal number of positive sodium ions)! Good job on being a scientist.

But in air? Nothing polar to stabilise them.

Go pour salt on your table. It stays a solid? Good job. You've proven the atoms in salt prefer being bonded to each other than being free flying ions. You're half way to a chemistry degree.

The only way to force the creation of ions in air is a fuckton of energy. This can be electricity or radiation.

Go attach leads to a 9V battery. Put both into a cup of water. If you see bubbles you've successfully split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen will be on the positive lead because oxygen ions are negative. The hydrogen will be on the negative clip because hydrogen ions are positive. There will also be more bubbles because water has twice as many hydrogen atoms as oxygen atoms. These bubbles won't be ions though, because again, ions hate existing so they recombine into oxygen and hydrogen gas almost instantly. Still. You did technically make negative ions for a split second. Good job.

But most of those negative ion bracelets don't have batteries (which again, only make ions for a split second and require a renewable resource like water to do that with). So they must be a scam right? They're just rocks!

Nope. Remember the other way to make ions? It was radiation! Those bracelets and necklaces you're supposed to wear 24/7 to keep yourself healthy? They're made of mildly radioactive stone.

So they are splitting the air into ions (for a split second. You now know that ions hate existing so they recombine. Although sometimes they'll recombine into ozone (O3) rather than breathable oxygen (O2). Ozone isn't great to breathe in but you also presumably have been near a car so like... It's not a big deal in the scheme of things).

But more importantly!! They're also splitting your body into ions! Which are stabilised by the water in your body (remember the magnet analogy?) and therefore last a lot longer and can get up to more fuckery.

To;dr the negative ion bracelets do what they say on the label. They just do it by dosing you with radiation. And unlike just walking past a radioactive rock or getting an x-ray or a particularly sunny day, they're doing it on a concentrated part of your body, for as long as you're wearing it. And you're supposed to give these to children!!!

[silvereyedowl]

#and if everyone was taught how to engage with and create art then we wouldn't have such an issue with ai slop now

#where people simply do not understand what the creative process entails so they devalue and dismiss it

#striving to be a well rounded person educated on as many things as possible is good actually

#and in this era of intellectual incuriosity being normalised it is absolutely crucial

[rohirric-hunter]

I was homeschooled but for some high school classes I went to an accredited co-op, and one of these was high school AP Chemistry

So while I was taking this chemistry class I walked into a health food store one day and saw a bottle of "alkaline water"

Well I bought it and brought it into class the next day and asked the teacher if we could PH test it, since we were learning about acids and bases, and she loved the idea of IRL applied science so we took ten minutes to do a quick PH test on the alkaline water

Guys it was so fucking acidic. It had a PH rating of 4. Don't ever buy alkaline water it is such a massive scam. I don't even know what they did to it or how you get that to happen. That's the PH rating of wine

[dankxsinatra]

[thesapphictwink]

There's a scene in very early 60's Doctor Who where a character falls into a swamp, I think, and they throw not a rag doll, but a card board cut out of the actor. 10/10 they don't make 'em like this no more

[misheancolchester]

[kinardstits]