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The Watermelon Woman (1996) dir. Cheryl Dunye
Hey this movie is really important in queer history! It was the first feature length film directed by a black lesbian! You can watch it here for free!
I really recommend you do because while it is a rom-com (and a drama), it also looks at how the stories of black queers are over looked in history.
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One of my favorite tricks for designing alien species/cultures is to take a real animal with an interesting lifecycle and think about what that biology would translate to if they had human intelligence
Example: silk moths as a base species
Because the moths themselves don’t eat and only live long enough to mate and then starve to death, the entire culture is made up of children and adolescents. The older children raise the younger ones, with families being made up of hatchmates from different years.
Because molts and eventual transformation into a short lived adult happen on a set schedule, families have a cycle— when your oldest set of siblings cocoon to become adults, you wait at the mating grounds and try to adopt their newborns after they pass. If that fails, you take any ‘orphans’ you can find.
Because death and birth are nearly simultaneous, they have a religion based around reincarnation, and infants with markings similar to a parent are often given their name. Claiming the offspring of a beloved family member is vitally important, because you want to be able to protect their soul and keep them close.
Because it’s hard to track the offspring of your male family members, there are sometimes major fights when a family sees an infant with familiar markings in another family’s clutch.
Between mating seasons, their culture is extremely food-oriented, because everyone is growing and silkworms eat nigh constantly. They spend most of their lives outdoors but sleep and shelter from bad weather in large family dwellings made from wood and the remains of the silk cocoons of prior generations.
everyone is really vibing with the silkworm aliens I see
Check out Adrien Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series. We have intelligent aliens evolved from Earth jumping spiders, computers made of ants, and aliens evolved from Earth octopuses/octopi/octopodes
Spoilers ahead, but more on the spacefaring octopi since they are so alien and interesting.
They don't just have a brain, but are composed of three separate intelligences; the crown, the reach, and the guise.
The crown is the emotional, conscious mind. It has no concept of how to achieve tasks or make change on the world, but it feels and wants.
The reach is literally the tentacles of the octopus, which contain neurons. Their arms themselves perform all the math and enact change on the world to the best of their ability, directed by the crown. The crown has no knowledge of what the reach is thinking. The crown has emotions and desires, and their arms just do their best to solve equations and puzzles and hunt to fulfill those desires.
The guise is the camouflage skin of the octopus, which unconsciously expresses the emotions and desires of the crown. All communication happens guise to guise, pure emotion, while their reaches communicate in other ways, pure logistics.
I'm barely scratching the surface here. Tchaikovsky is so good at imagining aliens that are so alien that it isn't readily apparent if they are even conscious.
Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"
More from the notes:
I love this post
The horse thinks as it scratches an itch
It’s fun to use contractions inappropriately, but it’s hard to explain why that’s
thats a common interest we've
Yeah, but people get annoyed by it, like when you throw soda cans in the trash can’t the recycle bin
let's put Scooby and the gang in a genuine horror movie situation, i wanna see what these freaks are truly capable of
"didn't they already do this with—" no. put them in a slasher film. put them in a BLOODBATH. put this van full of weirdoes in a Texas Chainsaw Massacre scenario i have FAITH in them
THEY'D DO WELL IN SAW
okay I'm thinking about this
not Saw specifically but a slasher with a legit body count. Summer camp slashers are overplayed but I think it really works because it's the type of thing the Scooby gang WOULD get caught up in.
like some of the counselors didn't show up (got got) so the head counselor calls his younger cousin to see if him and his friends can fill in last minute. They show up and they're a bunch of nerds, one of them even has an anxiety dog, and they don't have a big role at first. It seems like the movie is setting them up as cannon fodder.
and then the deaths start and suddenly the nerds are locked the fuck in. The little one with the glasses actually fixed the phone line and is taking stock of all their supplies in case the vehicles go out. The counselor's cousin who seemed like a himbo has set up a perimeter and made makeshift alarms for all the doors and windows, knows all the entry points. The anxious one and his dog are keeping the mood up with the snacks and activities that were supposed to be for the kids, making sure nobody panics and starts making dumb decisions. Somebody tried to grab the redhead and she flipped him over and had him zip-tied before anybody noticed. Weren't they a D&D group or something? What is happening???
Fuck the slasher movie just effectively becomes Home Alone but with Four Kevin McAllisters
Bro's fucked.
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at one point the kid with the anxiety dog says, "man, why does this keep happening? this is, like, the eighth time thid year!"
it's barely June. abruptly all the normal councilors understand a) why he has an anxiety dog, and b) why the dog has anxiety too.
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when most people first join deviantArt at a young age they usually start off posting sonic the hedgehog recolors and anime screenshots. but then there was me, making king of the hill super forms
“There’s simply no room for me to park my hellcat” wins best in show for me.
Two Utah court clerks have been dubbed "anti-ICE vigilantes" after they were allegedly caught "sneaking" immigrants out the back door of the
That's how you show real solidarity!
"After they overheard that ICE was at the courthouse to arrest someone, they improperly accessed court databases to determine who was not born in the United States," a DOJ detention filing says. "They then snuck every suspected illegal alien who was at the courthouse out a back door, where ICE, who was waiting in the parking lot for their target to leave the building, could not see them."
Think about what you can do at your job or in your daily life to resist fascism when the opportunity presents itself!
fundraiser for their legal expenses x
She's being so big and brave.
Man at that point I'd just pretend i don't know. How the hell am i supposed to answer her riddle? And what? make her feel bad?
I'd rather die!
Which of them eats you?
Naturally you give the child the honour of her first kill, and both you and mother Sphinx play along as you fall over and let child ineffectually gnaw on your shin as you dramatically cry out about the indignity of you, an adventurer of 30 years, being bested at riddles by a child.
The mother dramatically then "finishes you off" (keeps you safe in her mouth and deposits you outside). You return a week later wearing a mustache and glasses, as discussed.
This becomes a regular thing, each time with a different costume, as you see the baby's confidence grow over time
a ton of people have unexpectedly followed me over the last 2 days so here is my rent-lowering gunshot:
the american south is the most racially diverse and poorest region of the united states, and any political sentiment that treats the south is stupid or expendable is inherently racist and classist. a lot of y'all are racist and classist. the south is also the heart of american culture. argue with a wall. you cannot deny that everybody in the entire world does not emulate artists from atlanta. there is vested interest in keeping the south poor and uneducated BECAUSE this is the most racially diverse region in this country. if you actually give a fuck about progress, you would fight for the south, not mock us.
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I got 2 trans eene thingamajigs... (transish as adult and transish as tweens)
both of these designs are stacks better than my first eene girl designs so yea
How BIG are Recognizers, actually? Every time I try to look it up, there seems to be no established size. Even on the wikis, there's no exact measurement.
I feel like it varies between grids too. Encom/82, Flynn's grid, Dillinger's grid... All different
Alrighty, I may have fallen asleep before I could finish this last night, but I got some numbers crunched today and the actual result is absolutely not what I expected! So let me break down what exactly I did to get the heights that I did, which involved inventing placeholder units based on actor proxies to get a better sense of scale.
This will be the first of at least two (likely three) reblogs due to limits on images per reblog. It'll take me a little time, but they will all be up soon!
[Disclaimers: the results are a ballpark estimate. There are complicating factors for getting an exact height for each of them, but the results I yielded are at least pretty damn close. I also did not include the Recognizers from Uprising due to lacking a measurable real proxy to compare them to.]
First: the '82 Recognizers
The first thing I did for each Recognizer iteration was to find good screencaps to use. I ended up needing more for '82 than the latter two versions combined, since we don't get a single shot with a lone Program (or Flynn) and a full Recognizer in frame. That posed a bit of a problem, so I started by looking at these two images:
On one hand, we can see that the physical set and digital model don't match 100 percent. The ledge above their heads in the second image is absent in the first, where the 'roofline' slopes down to about the height of where the bottom of the ledge should be. Close enough for us to figure out what the height of that area should be for the digital model.
And alas, poor Ram. But what's helpful here is Flynn, since he's standing mostly upright in the entrance to the cockpit. Were he fully upright and at the exact top of the slope, it would be safe to guess that his height would more or less equal the height from the floor to the bottom of the ledge just above the entrance. Hence, the unit I used for this one was Kevins.
Then, we have this image, which is the clearest head-on shot of a Recognizer in the movie:
... the only problem being, though, that it's shown from behind. Compare that to this shot from the front, which is slightly more skewed and blurrier:
Yeah, not the most helpful on its own.
But layer the two as closely as possible?
Now we're getting somewhere. We can put in a unit line (one Kevin) from floor height to the bottom of the ledge, and start duplicating from there.
Ultimately, the '82 Recognizer was 70.5 Kevins tall. But how tall is a Kevin, anyway?
We'll round a smidge and call that 6 feet. Then it's just a matter of converting Kevins to feet, which gets us...
423 feet. Absolutely massive!
Sigh, I fully had the second rb ready to go and then the site crashed on me when I tried to actually rb it, so let's try this again...
Second: the Legacy Recognizers
This one was by far the easiest to figure out, in part thanks to this great shot:
... and the fact that these are seemingly the Weenie Hut Jrs. of Recognizers.
Logically, the unit for this one is Sams. It's hard to see exactly where the top of his head is, but we can get close given that the top of the head aligns roughly with the elbow with an arm raised like this. And how tall is a Sam?
We'll round again to 6'3", or 6.25 feet.
So how tall is this itty bitty little Recognizer? Just 6.75 Sams, or in other words...
'Only' about 42 feet!
Third: Ares Recognizers
This one wasn't as quick to do as Legacy's, but still fairly easy. There's a good wide shot of Athena's Recognizer:
It's hard to tell exactly where she's standing at first glance. A closer shot shows that where she's standing as she pilots it places her feet level to the entry floor, and her head a little below her screens.
Going back to the first image, we can get a one-Athena unit for scale.
Now there is a tiny bit of the bottom of the Recognizer's legs that's cut off in this image, so the bottom line for measuring needs to be cheated a tad low. Still, we can yield a pretty good number of 26 Athenas, or in other words...
About 150 feet!
I absolutely was not expecting for the '82 version to be so incredibly gigantic compared to the others. To get a better sense of scale, here are all three together:
And here they are with the Pyramids of Giza for comparison, the tallest of which at 430 feet is just seven feet taller than the '82 Recognizer!
I wasn't kidding when I said the Legacy version is the Weenie Hut Jr. edition. As imposing as they looked in the movie, they're dinky as hell compared to the others.
