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[foxglovedforest]

The kids are aight

[stevishabitat]

[mikkeneko]

#“I respect this”

[frightfullytreeish]

i know i must have reblogged this one million times before but i cannot fucking find it so here it is again

[kingpin-of-steel-act3]

[ihatenearlyeverything]

its ok theyre Gods lil helpers

[oatmealbrain]

And boy are they clumsy

[hydrangeafae]

Hi, these bees are babies! They’re not clumsy at all, this is what is called orientation flights. After birth and before beginning their careers as foragers (as all Honey bees cycle through all the jobs in the Hive throughout their lifespan), Honey bees take short flights back and forth, to and from the Hive, to orient themselves with their wings and their home so they can learn its location and how to get back home after foraging! Everyone has to learn, these are just smol little baby turkeys. Bees use the angle of the sun for location so adults have a better and more direct sense of location than any human

[polar-solstice]

IM SO PLEASED TO LEARN THIS!!!

They are just!!! Student drivers!!! 😭

[sindri42]

BONK!

[should-be-sleeping]

[phantomrose96]

When you meet Edward Elric he gives off the impression that he's the short-tempered hot-headed "violence is the answer to all life's questions" kind of protagonist, and it's in fact incredible character craft that he's actually the character who ends the series with a negative-3 kill count.

[phantomrose96]

people killed: 0

direct orders of "you really really need to kill this guy" ignored: 1

ongoing murders being committed by Ed's own friends/colleagues that Ed got in the way of to specifically stop that murder from happening: 2

[phantomrose96]

God's worst soldier Edward Elric. Showed up as the youngest member of the Amestrian army, took millions of dollars from them, never followed a single order, helped dismantle their fascist regime, left with a lower kill count than he arrived with, then fucked off to go be a house-husband. Character of all time.

[aka-blaa]

You know, when you said "negative-3 kill count," I, who haven't seen the anime, thought, "He resurrected 3 people?????" But I'm seeing here on the wiki that apparently resurrection in this anime is a terrible idea.

[phantomrose96]

Official addition to this post.

[coredrill]

something that i DO find fascinating abt both phm and interpretations of it is when folks say things along the lines of “the point of grace’s lack of attachments isn’t that he’s aroace, the point of grace’s lack of attachments is that he’s refused to open himself up enough to form ANY close bonds because he’s a coward” because like. not only is it very possible for both to be true, i think that reading both as being the case continues to enhance the story AND speaks a very honest truth about how being aroace might have affected his life?

like. imagine you are grace. you have a life you enjoy where you get to teach kids you’re fond of about a subject you love. you’ve been hanging out with your friend marissa weekly for years (!) and you have a lot of peers on project hail mary who you respect and even have fun with. but! you’re also like 40, and you know how the world works - at the end of the day, at the end of the project, all of those people will go back to their parents and families and partners. the people whose names are on their emergency contact forms and birth certificates and marriage licenses and apartment leases. no matter how much you care about them, and no matter how much they care about you, there is always someone else in their life who is Above you, and Before you, because That’s How The World Works.

so like… yeah. lmao. aroace grace not opening himself up all the way because he anticipates pain and wants to avoid that is a kind of protective hedging that i find very likely for him to engage in? even if he opens himself up to the people around him, the fact is that most of those people will only reciprocate to whatever degree they/society deem acceptable for friendship, even if they like him a lot.

which is why, imo, the very careful portrayal of grace and rocky’s friendship in the phm film reads as extremely aroace-coded. because it’s not “rocky specifically is Special and Likable in a way which fixes all of grace’s hangups and allows him to open up” - it’s “rocky has a partner to go home to, but on multiple occasions, puts grace Above and Before that in a way which grace is unused to, because grace comes from a society which culturally and legally devalues the types of relationships he wants and holds most dear.” and once rocky shows that he is willing to reciprocate friendship and care to a degree grace could never expect from anyone on earth, grace no longer needs to maintain the kind of emotional defenses he always has. grace likes rocky and wants to be friends from the moment they meet, of course, but only lets himself form SUCH a close bond after rocky demonstrates that he, too, does not place an earth-society-style limit on the strength of their friendship. and they’re both better off for it!

[rosettyller]

[bugsnbites]

Picture it. Decades after the world is saved, a huge alien spacecraft touches down on earth.

Scientist, politicians, and thousands of reporters gather to witness the aliens disembark the ship. A group of boulder-like creatures, clicking and whistling to the humans around them.

One of them raises something large and metallic towards the crowd.

There's an immediate recoil of fear (is it a weapon?!) before the audience realises it's human technology. A laptop, old and beaten and looks like it was put back together by a drunk.

The alien presses a button.

"Hello Earth, this is Doctor Captain Ryland Grace. These guys are Eridians and they're here on a shopping trip. I have a list and no money, but I did save the world so that has to count for something. Number one, salt and vinegar chips. Actually anything potato. Number two, I miss apple juice. Number three,"

[redstonedust]

the problem with movie remakes is that they always remake something that was already good, meaning at worst you ruin it and at best your remake is largely redundant. to make a truly good remake you need to start with source material that is absolute dogwater. ignore the pull of nostalgia. redeem the sins of moviemaking past.

[blessphemy]

this is how morbius can still win

[mapsontheweb]

Passenger trains in US vs Europe (image is making the rounds among U.S. transit advocates today)

[rumbustious-backhander]

High speed rail in China on 2008 VS 2020

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

[moringmark]

[mintybasilcake]

Gotta love tgcf, because no other novel would ever be able to convince me that Xie Lian's reaction to the Cave of 10000 gods was normal. But here? We know, Xie Lian has seen shit. We know he has the tolerance level of a rock and we also know he trusts Hua Cheng deeply.

So while HC is nervously sweating and slowly bursting into panic and Mu Qing and Feng Xin are desperately trying to plan their flight from the obviously insane and obsessive ghost king, Xie Lian is just like "Oh wow, that's sure a lot of statues of me. Well done. Should we move on?"

[ghost-kings-court-jester]

Wow Hua Cheng you sure made a lot of statues of me even though we just met oh wait it’s from years ago oh I’m the beloved oh no why are you running away I need to hug you and kiss you because I’ve been extremely jealous of myself this whole time hi Feng Xin and Mu Qing on the wall it’s cool we’re boyfriends now.

[greatnesswithoutenvies]

#precious precious boy

#bro was relieved his crush was requited

#xie lian has been obsessed over since birth#this aint weird for him

#it's not that it's not weird for him#which is true#but that he loves it

#this is someone who wanted to grow up to be a god

#it's not that he doesn't mind it or is used to it#it's that he craves it

#this is best case scenario for him

#he lucked out with hua cheng

#I could talk about this forever#there has never been a couple more made for each other and no one else

#always found it kinda funny that mu qing and feng xin were so horrified

#and of course they would be since they're seeing it from a 'this literal murderous ghoul is clearly obsessed with our friend' perspective

#meanwhile xie lian 'mr turned one of the most powerful gods at before legal drinking age' is just like

#'oh this is so nice san lang your sure are a talented sculptor! how lovely!'

#he's humble and kind but he's used to worship too#and i love that for him

#little talked about aspect too is in the books... divine statues never look like the actual god

#and in xl's backstory he laments 'is that supposed to me be?' as he sees his own non-HC statues he feels he cant live up to

#hua cheng honed his skill to create statues that look EXACTLY like him down to the stitches on his clothes

#hua cheng sees xie lian for who he is. and that's the first time xie lian had truly experienced that

#and the relief... after everything, all the mistakes, all the tripping and falling on his face, there's someone who never wavered

#and worshiped him the entire time, since before he even ascended

#xie lian wants someone that wants him deeply#he needs someone that won't leave

#of course he's gonna love guy whose so dedicated that its a bit creepy

#freak for freak behavior but both the freaks think that they themselves are The Freak

#There's freak4freak#And then there's whatever these two motherfuckers are doing

#Dog food in my mouth every time I look at them

#literally I love that Xie Lian loves all the statues lol

#ahhhh I love Hua Cheng's devotion shown through with all those statues!

#of course Mu Qing and Feng Xin are normal and find it creepy

#but Xie Lian is so honored and happy that he's Hua Cheng's beloved xD

#LITERALLY SO CRAZY TO ME xie lian is insane and i love him so dearly

#its his abandonment issues. he just learned there was someone who never turned on him and never wanted to leave him...

#its his dream come true. its a reckoning. its a restoration of faith in forever.

#meanwhile his friends are like. THIS IS FUCKING INSANE. and they're right. but xie lian is also insane

#after everything that happened with the last guy obsessed with him it’s truly a relief HC is good to him fr

#HC could easily be read as a walking red flag but a lot of his actions are innocuous all things considered

#and even if HC is being kind of a dick to other people XL is super into it

#I love them#my beloved freak4freak pairing

#they are one of the best couples to ever be written their love story is so long and intertwined and perfect

Reposting all the best tags, keep them coming!

[hellboundhorrormovielover]

Spy x family is very very good because there's a bit where a far right terrorist group says that they want to start a war and a main character responds by saying to them "have any of you ever killed anyone before? Have you ever been killed before? Have you ever had a limb torn off by an artillery shell? Have you ever heard the sound of bones shattering? Have you ever smelled the reek of rotting flesh? Have you ever found the crushed bodies of your parents and siblings in a pile of rubble that used to be your home? Have you ever discovered a blown-off piece of your lover stuck to a wall? Have you ever been so hungry that you tried to eat tree bark? Or stewed a pot of human flesh? Have you ever convinced yourself that your enemy was subhuman so you could...slaughter them like animals? Have you ever been so haunted by shame and regret afterwards that you cried until you vomited? Have you ever had friends who did the same, and then took their own lives? Did you learn nothing about war at your university?!"

and that's the same volume where they adopt a dog that can see into the future

[sabertoothwalrus]

you CAN 👏 NOT 👏 tell me Aang wouldn’t love fart jokes. Boy is an AIR bender from Prankster Island. He’s airbending his farts at people. He asks Sokka to pull his finger and launches himself 50 feet in the air. He does this every single day. Sokka laughs at it every single time.

[sabertoothwalrus]

I can’t even say he finds it so funny because he’s 12 because I also find it funny and I am in my 20s

[kakastravakaianapoda]

If Grace could not fully get out of teacher mode even after being in a coma for years (the Rocky my hand is up scene), I can not even think how much worse it would get after he actually takes up teaching again at Erid.

I can imagine Grace, still in that "has been teaching for five hours" haze, trying to have a conversation with Rocky like:

"That's a great answer, buddy, you have earned yourself a sticker... Oh shoot Rocky I'm so so..."

"Yes, yes, Grace very sorry for speaking to Rocky like child, Grace brain thinks Grace still in classroom, apology accepted now where is my sticker question"

[segamascott]

[itsgarbageboy]

maomao is my favorite "not like other girls" style protagonist bc for one shes a girls girl through and through. to the bone. and two she's just a weird little freak. absolute lunatic. they have the whole "omg she's actually beautiful and everyone falls for her when she's all made up" trope but the punchline is that she does not fucking want to look like that. she actively puts dirt on her face every day bc she does not want to be perceived as attractive (mostly out of fear of being used for sex work though at the same time she has the utmost respect for women who do sex work like she grew up in a brothel those are her sisters). she's Sherlock level smart and solves every mystery so fast but goes "well thats none of my business. anyway back to testing poisons on myself" she has the 2nd most powerful guy in the nation head over heels in love with her and is like "man this guy is weird around me what's his deal. I guess he's fine though because he gives me rare medicines and has no dick" fucking ICON i love her. also she once slapped someone so hard they fell on the floor. 10/10

[kyoshi-lesbians]

my controversial opinion is I don’t think Zuko was confused by “my first girlfriend turned into the moon”

[kyoshi-lesbians]

he was there during siege of the North. he infiltrated the spirit oasis. he has an uncle who studies spirits and the spirit world. he watched the sky go dark then the moon suddenly reappear like everyone else in the entire world did. and most importantly he watched zhao get eaten by a giant godzilla fish spirit.

[kyoshi-lesbians]

his entire life since he saw that beam of blue-white light in the south pole has been ‘this day has already been so goddamn weird’

[edgar-allan-possum]

The only really new information was that that was Sokka’s girlfriend

[library-graffiti]

Important opinion in the tags that I need to have be part of the post:

[clearascountryair]

Also, Iroh was there? He literally watched Sokka make out with the moon spirit. And you want to tell me that a romantic sap like him would not have immediately told Zuko about this romantic tragedy? Please, Zuko has known about this for ages, he just knows that this is not an acceptable situation in which to say “yeah, I know.”

[terriwriting]

Sokka: “My girlfriend turned into the moon.”

Zuko: “I know.” “Yes.” “She sure did.” “Uh huh.” “Tell me something new.” “Are we still talking about that?” “That’s rough, buddy.”

[alexseanchai]

[image: tags by samwisethebold: #it’s not that he doesn’t get what sokka means #it’s that how on earth do you respond to that]