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Rocky in the movie is 80 cm, Rocky in the book says that Eridians are 50 cm, on average.
Anyway, lets talk about how fucked, physically, up a human astronaut would be if left alone in space for 50 years. We don't even require gravity to eat like Eridians do!
based off this post by @75screamingtoads that made me start watching. as you can see my art gets progressively worse each panel lol
I cannot recommend bringing your heritage and culture into how you view media enough.
It is important to consider the culture of the person who created the piece, absolutely; but the different perspectives offered by the viewers is fascinating in and of itself and does not always detract from the message.
As an example, when I was younger, I watched Schindler's List. This movie is famously shot in black and white except for one section, concerning a little girl in a red coat. The camera follows her until her eventual death.
I am Turtle Island Indigenous and I was always taught that the only color spirits could see was red, because it is the color of life and blood.
So the second the girl in the red jacket came on screen, something inside me chilled with fear.
The only color in the movie was that red. At some point, I, the viewer, had died.
I remember sobbing at the sight of the burning human piles that were shown, convinced I was buried in there somewhere. The reason I had only seen red on the girl was that my death was recent. I was the ash in the air mistaken for snow. I had died before her and had followed her, helplessly, until she followed me.
The message I got for that was maybe not what the creator had intended: that there was no "being clever enough" or "good enough" or "kind enough" that would shield or protect you from such a massive tidal wave of evil.
You are not exempt from tragedy, that red jacket whispered. You are not special.
When I told some of my white friends about my experience with viewing Schindler's List, some were shocked and the rest just out-and-out mocked me for my "media illiteracy".
"it was just a filming trick to make you feel something," I remember one saying, which terrified me. How had he not felt anything even before she showed up?
However, when I repeated my viewing to a college class, they were fascinated. The implications of what I had seen and felt made the film all the more terrifying and solemn. It encouraged a lot of people to try to ask themselves what media meant from a cultural perspective, where they hadn't done that before.
culture shock, nerds edition (engineer meets biologist)
Bundled up in his heated blanket
Every time I see this creature he looks like if the wind blows on him a bit too strong he'll puff into a million seeds like a dandelion and scatter in the breeze
Gettin the good ads again
Let's Rename the Birds!!! (pt. 14)
As you may already know... ornithological authorities (such as the AOS and ABA) in North America have decided, for a variety of reasons, to rename all of the birds that have been named after people.
Some examples: Lewis's Woodpecker, Smith's Longspur, MacGillivray's Warbler...
I thought it would be fun for us to come up with some ideas for new common names here on Tumblr.
Here are some criteria for re-naming that might appeal to ornithologists and birdwatchers:
Habitat and geographical range
Physical characteristics
Call/song characteristics
Behavior
PLEASE MAKE YOUR NAMING SUGGESTIONS IN THE COMMENTS, REBLOG, OR TAGS.
We'll take the best ideas, and put them in a poll by the end of the week! (I and an esteemed panel of ornithological tumblererrsssres will make the decisions).
WEEK 14 - LeConte's Sparrow
LeConte's Sparrow (Ammospiza leconteii), family Passerellidae, order Passeriformes
Breeds/nests in the North central US, central Canada, as well as other various isolated areas of Canada.
Overwinters in the South-central US.
This species is usually found in grasslands, such as prairie, meadow, grassy wetlands, and agricultural fields.
They prefer moderately wet grassy areas with dense vegetation and open bare ground.
While the warm orangey-buff coloration of the bird often set it apart, there are other similar looking sparrows in the same grassland habitats. (Many sparrows may be hard to identify in the field unless the observer gets a really good look at the bird, which doesn't always occur).
This bird is particularly beloved by birdwatchers for its warmer colors (amongst sparrows).
They are relatively elusive/secretive, and are not seen often.
Length: 4.7 in/12 cm, Wingspan: 7.1 in/18 cm
The bird is usually seen feeding and foraging on the ground, but will occasionally perch up and move through tall grasses.
In the warmer months, they feed mainly on insects. In the winter they feed mainly on seeds (especially grass seeds).
Not sexually dimorphic.
Mother incubates eggs, both parents feed chicks.
Nests made with grasses and occasionally animal hair, attached to tall grasses and sedges.
Hear the calls here: LeConte's Sparrow Sounds, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
photograph by Laura Erickson & Jeff Timmons
SD, USA - photograph by Terry Sohl
photograph by Erin Prokopanko
MD, USA - photograph by Tim Frye
TIME TO VOTE!!!
We had so much input for this one, that we couldn’t possibly include all the great suggestions, but thanks to you all for your input.
I am not including sun oriented names, because we recieved so many sun oriented names for previous birds. We can't rename all orangey birds in north america sun something or other.
Okay, you made your suggestions, and our esteemed panel of judges has weighed in:
@passerinethehallway; @proton-wobbler, and I!!!
What should we rename the Leconte's Sparrow?
Flammulated Sparrow
Bittern-marked Sparrow
Bumblebee Sparrow
Tall Grass Sparrow
Buff-browed Sparrow
Prairie Fawn Sparrow
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I do think it’s interesting how the novel Dracula is meant to be a modern setting from its perspective. It’s very much that genre of story about an ancient fantasy archetype finding itself in a modern setting, complete with the rules-lawyering that often comes with modern parodies (that isn’t to say the stories of Olde didn’t have fun with loopholes either though).
Except Dracula is a story that plays itself straight. The vampire himself is not stupid. He’s possibly the oldest vampire of all which means he upgraded from animal instinct and mindless echoes of past memories to someone who’s regained his critical thinking skills. The story begins because he’s already adapted to how the modern world works now by hiring a solicitor who understands modern laws.
He knows now that he doesn’t have to march into London with an army like he used to; He can just buy property and the laws of London are forced to respect that. Similarly he’s already experimented in and discovered loopholes to vampire rules and limitations; Vampires are bound by the permission of owners so he simply uses his solicitor to buy and own a bunch of properties. If he needs to be invited in, Dracula hypnotizes someone to let him in.
Vampires need to return to their grave every dusk/dawn (whichever comes sooner), which causes their coffin to act as an anchor that limits how far from it they can travel? Dracula simply rations the earth of his grave into fifty coffins and spreads them across London so his range becomes exponentially larger.
All of these things make the story almost come across as a deconstruction and it might just be! It’s just that Dracula the novel became such a trendsetter that people nowadays see it as playing things fully straight. It almost feels as if the novel is written with the idea that readers have a basic understanding of vampires and their rules, so part of the thrill comes in the revelation of how the titular vampire is working around these rules. Likewise I’ve heard it used to be a trope in English literature for a traveler to visit some foreign land with a monster and escape by going home. But here the foreign aspect of the story is just the first (and final) arc; The monster’s plan hinges on coming to the UK itself!
So yeah. Dracula isn’t stupid and he reflects the idea that people of the past had just as common sense as the rest of us, they just had access to less/inaccurate knowledge and things worked differently back then. Dracula would be like… That bit of someone showing a medieval peasant a meme as they comprehend it perfectly and aren’t even wowed by the Doritos. If Dracula was set in the 21st century he’d probably understand social media well enough to become an influencer if he wanted to, though the issue of being invisible in cameras wouldn’t help.
in a world where happy rich people sell the discontent lower class the lie that money cant buy you happiness it is at least reassuring to know that our sole trillionaire is the most pathetic, unloved, miserable, alone human being on the planet, and that NOTHING could make him happy. get fuckeddd lol
I’m on a roll I had to draw everyone’s favorite Rocky ♥️🙂↕️
Transcript below:
do you think that you could jerk off while driving and still drive safely (trying to settle a debate)
vulva haver, yes
penis haver, yes
vulva haver, no
penis haver, no
other kind of genitalia(?), yes
other kind of genitalia(?), no
nuance/results/other
do you think that you could jerk off while driving and still drive safely (trying to settle a debate)
vulva haver, yes
penis haver, yes
vulva haver, no
penis haver, no
other kind of genitalia(?), yes
other kind of genitalia(?), no
nuance/results/other
Have a great day
in a crazy twist of events, senshi has just won the world cup
i think grace teaching on erid was rocky babytrapping him. i think at one point grace was like the only thing i miss about earth is teaching my kids and rocky was like hmm...rocky make some calls.
hey everyone, just curious:
what is everyone's criteria for blocking people?
My feed is very very peaceful generally as a result of my blocking criteria that allows me to curate my feed. I don't fight with people, I don't argue, I just block and move on with my day. 10 stars, would recommend. It's how the block is meant to function here. Almost no one uses the FYP. Your feed is meant to be who you're following, and so it's up to you to manage what you see accordingly.
So, aside from all the usuals (Trolls: blocked, bigots: blocked, etc), as a fandom blog a lot of that criteria revolves around just basic fandom etiquette for me because that's how I like to function in fandom.
Are they being hateful towards the fandom? Blocked. Nuance in that polite disagreement is fine, but if we're launching insults over what amounts to ship disagreements or not liking a character that someone else likes, they get a block. Especially if they're using ship or character tags just to get their rant seen. I don't like when people are dicks about this stuff in a shared space. This is also why you generally don't see me discussing ships or characters I hate - I'm here to water my garden, not shit in someone else's yard. So don't shit in mine.
People bullying others in the fandom or anywhere else: blocked.
Body shaming actors: blocked.
If someone is continuously posting some opinion that really drives me crazy and it's not tagged in a way where I can use the tag filters: blocked. Not because I hate them or anything, but just because I curate my feed with stuff I enjoy (I'd love for tumblr to give us an option to just hide someone's posts from our feeds while they can still see ours, but alas).
Having a fic or post and tagging every character an actor has played when the post/fic is only about only one of those characters: blocked
AI users: instant block if admitted or if I'm super sure. There's still a few on my feed and in my fandom I'm reasonably certain are using it but I'm holding off for now because I'm looking for a little more evidence.
Anyone putting out very extreme trigger-y fics or fantasies without tagging it: blocked. Not because I don't think they should be able to write it - I'm very anti censorship - but because if they won't use the tags that allow me to hide it, then I'm going to essentially do it for them by blocking.
My blocklist is very long and I don't remember 90% of them cause I pretty much just think 'oh you're being an ass, blocked' and then forget about them, but I'm delighted to say nine times of ten if I open the comments of a post with some drama in the comments, I just get a whole lot of 'this comment is hidden because you have blocked the user'. And oooooh how lovely that is. Guard your peace, babes. Follow people you enjoy hearing from, block whoever makes you miserable. You will be so much happier.
Wanna
