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Jules of Nature
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trying on a metaphor
Monterey Bay Aquarium
noise dept.
$LAYYYTER
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Stranger Things
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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cherry valley forever
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
@theartofmadeline
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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One Nice Bug Per Day
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@osheamobile
80s misogyny saved the Star Wars galaxy because Darth Vader wasted all his time and effort trying to convince his starry-eyed gayboy empath son to become an evil space fascist when if anyone had any point asked his daughter “hey do you ever just want to KILL these people” she would’ve been shooing lightning out of her hands to prove a point in like 10 minutes
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And if I said Megamind is one of the few movies that understands Superman.
And if I said Megamind through its three subversions of Superman shows a deeper understanding that the point of Superman is that he was loved and taught to love by good, present parents, and because of that he is able to return that love to a world even if it doesn't always accept it, and he is not corrupted by his power, than many other films either subverting or playing the superman story straight.
Megamind has three Superman subversions. One is obviously Megamind himself. He was not raised loved by the world, but rather was loved by those hated by the world. Because he was still raised with love, he does care about other people, hence his character development. But because he didn't receive wider love growing up, his own is misplaced at first.
Metro Man was not loved growing up in a way that mattered. His adopted father was clearly very absent, and while we don't know much about his family, their relationship seems superficial. Because of this, his sense of duty to the world is also superficial, hence his boredom.
Hal wasn't raised with power. He gained it and was shown how to use it by a 'space dad' who only taught him power and not love. Hence, he sees it only as a grasping means to an end.
All three of these subversions, in their negative space, create the silhouette of the superhero that they are parodying. That silhouette is of a space child that came to earth and was cared for very deeply by the world, and taught love through his experience of love, and because of that holds fast to his duty to the world. Which is Superman.
Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.
It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.
It's rude.
The above is doubly true if the content of the email is something that will be important to the person receiving - especially something that affects them negatively. They see that this thing that affected them so much didn't matter enough to you to write it yourself. I was a bystander to such a thing not long ago and it was just awful.
RUDE!!! that is so very much it.
SkyJade fans: we don't talk enough about how absolutely deranged the year 10ABY was for Mara Jade specifically.
Because at the end of the Thrawn campaign (~9.5ABY), Luke gives her his father's lightsaber.
Which he treats as a normal coworker interaction / gentle encouragement to join his Jedi Academy.
This is, for the record, COMPLETELY INSANE behavior.
Sir. This woman VERY recently had an inescapable psychic kill command for you lodged in her skull courtesy of the Emperor. And your response to resolving this situation is apparently:
“Here, take my dead father’s laser sword.”
:)
Luke is operating on spiritually earnest farmboy logic here, but Mara — who is bad at emotions in general and especially bad at affection directed at herself — is nevertheless, like many women, dimly aware of this thing called BOUNDARIES and decides maybe she should not immediately go do Jedi training with the incredibly intense blond man handing her meaningful family heirlooms after one shared military campaign.
Now, the Doylist explanation for all of this is obviously that the EU authors in this era were barely coordinating.
But the Watsonian result is hysterical.
Because while the rest of the cast is dealing with assorted disasters with the Imperial Civil War and Dark Empire Trilogy, Mara quietly kriffs offscreen to pursue Jedi training.
Not with Master Skywalker.
No.
With Kyle Katarn.
And if you know the timeline, this is SO funny because circa 9.5–10ABY Kyle is basically an independent-study self-certified Jedi Master whose primary qualifications are:
surviving
owning a lightsaber
and aggressively tomb raiding Sith ruins
This is peak Jedi Knight era Kyle. His entire educational and life philosophy is basically, “I found this in a crypt and it probably won’t kill me.”
So Mara, in an effort to avoid one emotionally complicated Jedi, accidentally apprentices herself to another Jedi whose emotional range is approximately that of a very honorable brick.
And naturally this culminates in Mysteries of the Sith, where Kyle immediately gets too cocky poking around Sith artifacts on Dromund Kaas and falls to the dark side.
Which means poor Mara spends her gap year dragging THIS IDIOT back from corruption.
(Should this perhaps have given her an early warning sign about the Exar Kun situation brewing at Luke’s Academy in the Jedi Academy Trilogy? You would THINK.)
But WAIT. Because this is ALSO the year of Dark Empire, my very favorite and absolutely deranged year of the Legends timeline.
So imagine this from Mara’s perspective.
You flee the emotionally earnest not-quite-love-interest Jedi by going to study under another Jedi who immediately starts having Sith Artifact Problems.
And then somewhere in the middle of this nonsense you get the news bulletin:
“By the way, Luke Skywalker got yoinked away by some kind of inexplicable Force storm and has apparently resurfaced as the military commander of the Reborn Emperor’s Operation Shadow Hand.”
And Mara’s just standing there like:
“... the REBORN WHAT.”
So during the events of Mysteries of the Sith, Mara successfully drags Kyle back from the dark side through what is, functionally, the Power of Friendship.
Like yes there are Sith artifacts and Force visions and actual mechanics involved, but emotionally the plot is basically:
“Kyle, stop licking cursed tomb walls.”
“No.” *lick*
“Kyle PLEASE.”
And somehow it works.
So Mara presumably exits this experience going:
“Great. Wonderful. Fantastic. I have now personally managed one emotionally constipated Jedi man having Sith Problems. Time to go talk down or put down Skywalker.”
And she’s probably mentally preparing herself for the world’s worst intervention road trip.
Like:
“Apparently if I don’t supervise Jedi personally they start freebasing Sith artifacts within thirty business days.”
Except then she gets back and —
Oh.
Luke already came back with his sister's help.
Apparently it was a phase.
Wonderful.
Excellent.
I DON’T have to solve every problem myself.
But then the VERY NEXT YEAR, 11ABY, the New Republic looks at this man — this VERY RECENTLY RECOVERED FROM A SITH APPRENTICESHIP man — and decides:
“Yes. We should give him government support to found a religious boarding school for Force-sensitive children.”
Insane institutional decision-making.
And Luke, who has learned absolutely nothing about normal interpersonal pacing, immediately circles back around to:
“Hey Mara :)
“do you want to come train at my Jedi Academy :)”
SIR.
From her perspective you vanished into evil hyperspace weather, joined your dead fascist dad’s evil wizard cult, and got government funding to open a school less than a year later.
And maybe the craziest part is that she STILL eventually marries him. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
i think that tos is remembered as the uplifting and silly trek and by this kirk is kind of often characterized as mostly optimistic and joyful. and he is to an extent, but if you watch the show he is also constantly like wallowing in angst and staring into distances and being crushed by his responsibility. kirk's tortured as fuck. and partially because of this janeway is a better "kirk reprise" than archer (when both of these shows sort of aimed to be tos again, with more freedom and less tying up in starfleet rules). well she's also better because she is just better written, and because the "all american-nes" of kirk was like not even that relevant to why he was a good character and they really overcorrected with archer with it and the masculinity performance both. but also because for voyager they really leaned into the angst and the torture! janeway is also staring into the distance. janeway is assuming eleven tortured poses before breakfast and that's why she's a true kirk-type, not just her confidence and devotion of her crew she gets
Maybe film would be better if everyone who wants to become a director were expected to first produce a silent film. Without intertitles. A film where the only tool they have is the moving picture.
Maybe then they'd learn to make films where WE CAN SEE.
It's not that I don't appreciate a bit of chiaroscuro, but there has to be enough chiar to o the scur.
love watching pre, idk, 2000 movies where there is "night lighting" that tells you it is dark but the director has paid lighting engineers enough that you can also clearly see everything
Once again I am begging directors to go back to the Battle of Helm's Deep where the answer to the question of "where is the lighting coming from" was "the same place as the music"
Light your sets. Or do the age-old trick of "shoot in day and slap a blue filter on it" that even Fury Road did in 20-fucking-15.
look I'm not going to even try to attempt to glaze Joss Fucking Whedon in today's day and age but even if you go back to the first two seasons of Buffy where there were entire scenes where part of the screen was just nothing but pure black you could still see what was going on
Maybe film would be better if everyone who wants to become a director were expected to first produce a silent film. Without intertitles. A film where the only tool they have is the moving picture.
Maybe then they'd learn to make films where WE CAN SEE.
It's not that I don't appreciate a bit of chiaroscuro, but there has to be enough chiar to o the scur.
love watching pre, idk, 2000 movies where there is "night lighting" that tells you it is dark but the director has paid lighting engineers enough that you can also clearly see everything
Once again I am begging directors to go back to the Battle of Helm's Deep where the answer to the question of "where is the lighting coming from" was "the same place as the music"
Light your sets. Or do the age-old trick of "shoot in day and slap a blue filter on it" that even Fury Road did in 20-fucking-15.
Love that this alien arm is clearly just green bubblewrap. 70s prosthetics I love you
Classic SF once again betrayed by a clear, static-free signal and a flat digital screen
This is how I remember classic Who and Star Trek, folks, with signal ghosts and scanning lines (but usually with more static/snow)
Sharing this on my main because it appears from the notes that it's useful for some modern viewers.
You KNOW classic SF used the limited displays of CRT television and the static of transmitted signals the way theaters use stage makeup and lighting to make inexpensive props look great fine— take advantage of the medium! But it's hard to imagine how it looked if you've only seen Blu-ray HD restorations.
I swear to you, despite classic Who using bubble wrap for years as one of its go-to materials that reflected light in interesting ways, we never realized that's what it was.
There's also the fact that in 1975 (when it was first broadcast and I first watched it) though it was in use as an industrial packaging material, bubblewrap was not that common to the average person in the street, especially not kids.
And honestly, for the "looks like warts/alien skin", this really worked.
Everyone in this family is hilarious no notes
#OH. JOE HILL IS A REAL DUDE. #I did think Mr. nashville tenesee was doing a funny lol
I am cracking up so hard bc it lowkey implies Mr. Joe Hills (coming at you like he always does from Nashville, Tennessee) might not be a real dude.
Posts to give @bixbythemartian wartime flashbacks
I can't believe home depot literally produced a wildly successful science fiction musical and we all just pretend it didn't happen. on one hand yes it had a boring white guy main character but like.... home depot just... Made it? And it had shit ton of box office sales? and no one even talks about this. this is like avatar (2009) all over again
OK so. After a lot of frantic googling I realized this was all a dream. home depot did not in fact produce a wildly successful science fiction musical. I was on allergy meds and took a nap and my brain simply prophesized this. slightly disappointed because I wanted to watch it.
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"everyone should get more aromantic" can appeal to tumblr's sensibilities but I genuinely think everyone should also get more asexual. I don't mean everyone stop having sex, what I mean is
Sex is not essential. You can live without it. Full stop.
Not having sex isn't shameful or a sign of failure. It also doesn't make anyone boring.
You are not entitled to having sex with anybody and nobody is entitled to having sex with you.
Sex is not what makes someone an adult.
Nobody's worth is defined by how much sex they have or don't have.
Sex is not equally important to everyone.
You can have fulfilling and happy relationships without sex.
You should only have sex on your own terms, not because you feel like you owe it to someone, or because you feel like you'd be incomplete without it.
Know your boundaries around sex and be firm about them. Know how to respect other people's boundaries.
The previous point also applies when it comes to discussing sex. If someone doesn't wanna talk about it or hear about it you have to back down.
Anything can be sexual but not everything has to be sexual.
these are getting weird
Sometimes I think that I'm being silly for only waiting for when games are extremely discounted in sales before buying them
Then I see some bullshit like this
and then I remember why I follow the Way of Monkey Island
Granted, it's the second tier of three tiers but also what the fuck
Also, this is the default that showed up in my steam wishlist so this is what I saw when I went to quickly peruse games that were on sale
My Steam wishlist is permanently set to only show me games on it that are on sale, sorted by the discount, and I vastly recommend these filter settings for everyone
Sometimes I think that I'm being silly for only waiting for when games are extremely discounted in sales before buying them
Then I see some bullshit like this
and then I remember why I follow the Way of Monkey Island
Granted, it's the second tier of three tiers but also what the fuck
Also, this is the default that showed up in my steam wishlist so this is what I saw when I went to quickly peruse games that were on sale
Sometimes I think that I'm being silly for only waiting for when games are extremely discounted in sales before buying them
Then I see some bullshit like this
and then I remember why I follow the Way of Monkey Island
BTVS fandom is so funny because we're collectively like: Oh yes, Buffy's three main love interests: Angel, Spike, and *checks notes* Faith.
