#nerd rant

[chronicprocatonator]

Oohhhh Golden is Rumi's "I Want song", it's a manifestation of how Rumi is subconsciously ashamed of herself and how desperate she is to live openly. Even in a song that sounds triumphant and bold and loud it wreaks of anxiety and self hate, she not talking about a beautiful present, shes talking about a future in which she erases a part of herself that she was literally born with. She doesn't want to lie anymore. She doesn't want to be scared of what would happen if her friends knew. She even gives a false version of what she's truly insecure about. God this moive is so damn good.

[marshm4ll0w]

Sooo, I've been rereading ToA, and I need to rant about my stupid-ass mythology obsession, deal with it :3

Why the fuck were the ancient Greeks so stupid sometimes?? like actually why? their ancient mythology is built like Swiss cheese, bcuz the amount of plot holes makes zero sense

exhibit A: in order to free his godly siblings from Kronos' beer belly, good old Zeus famously feeds him a mix of mustard and WINE. Millenia later, Zeus cheats on his wife for the hundredth time, and has a child named Dionysus, gives birth from his thigh, you get the gist of it. Dionysus then invents this beautiful beverage, made of grapes, essentially uses alcoholism to cope with his friend's death. he invented wine, and Zeus was so impressed he made dionysus his cupbearer. See a problem here??

did Kronos go back and fuck up the timeline or something?

honorable mentions-

orpheus shows up in the underworld after Theseus gets trapped in Dwayne Johnson, yet Theseus is nowhere to be found

persephone's myth is used to describe the origin of the seasons, yet in so many old Greek stories about the titans, the seasons are directly referenced

The wedding of Achilles' parents directly caused the Trojan war, yet just a few years later, Achilles is somehow already a grown man ready to fight??

I should've picked a simpler obsession..

[stargazer56cipher]

Yap to me on pterosaur bro

PTEROSAURS ARE THE BIGGEST LIVING THINGS TO HAVE EVER FLOWN

Estimates are pretty inconsistent with size because we actually have only found tiny bits of these pterosaurs, and it’s debated sometimes whether the Quetzalcoatlus or the Hatzegopteryx are bigger, but the general standpoint is that the Quetzalcoatlus is the biggest.

Pterosaurs when first discovered were thought to be semi aquatic which has since been disproven, but some smaller species are thought to have been able to swoop into water and snatch up some fish, and bigger species like Hatzegopteryxes are known to have eaten Dinosaurs!

They’re quadrupeds, but their back legs are believed to have been relatively useless during take off and that they instead would throw themselves into the air with their front legs alone

Also some people think that pterodactyls aren’t really things for some reason? They are. Quite literally the genus Pterodactylus exists one species being Pterodactylus antiquus

[generaln0nsense]

project hail mary is the best movie ever actually. 12/10, perfect movie

[thejadeofc]

While we're on the subject, I listened to Caleb's first phone call from the game and in comparison to the latest one, he sounds so much livelier and although his side comments still have a bite to it there's isn't a sense of that deep, almost suffocated longing that the later lines have when he implies something to mc.

[bleu-mush]

nerd rant below

right. So. I've never fully watched miraculous. But I have seen the movie and ive seen a few episodes enough to understand what it's about. And I like the premise! But like many others I just wasnt... satisfied with how the show played out in what I watched. I was always left asking "wtf did I just watch" after almost every episode I watched which is why I kinda dropped it.

Im gonna say this, I am not a hater of the show!!! I just personally didn't click with it and that's fine. I think it's fine as a show and it's not a bad thing for others to enjoy it. I just personally didn't like it.

And I'm not gonna say my version is better. It's just more tailored for me- and it's really just to explore concepts and have some fun.

Anyways about the doodle! I was thinking up ideas about how I wanted ladybug to look. In my imagination I think it'd be cool for her to have this bright blue hair and a lot more buggy accessories. I also was thinking about different outfits for her. Which let to me coming up with this winter bug design.

Im not too satisfied with it- but it's a decent starting point for designs of her. I know in her normal fit I want her to wear a decent amount of padding. So the knee pads and the little shoulder spikes I think are a good staring base. But I wanna add more I think. Maybe some gloves or a helmet.

I like the colors so far. I know she's gonna end up looking pretty monochrome so I'm thinking of just adding in dashes of green or blue here and there.

[neokamui414]

The fact that in the early Young Avengers comics, Billy used Manifestation and self-help books to actualize his powers is really brilliant in a way that I don't think the writers intended or most fans / comic book readers ever realized.

See the thing about stuff like Manifestation/ Law of Attraction/ The Secret is that is these concepts were born out of scientific, philosophical, and occult intellectual developments in the 17th to 19th centuries. And a lot of it had to do with magnets, new discoveries and innovations with electricity, and a new level of intellectual focus on the will, emotions, and human psychology (the things that would eventually give rise to 20th century psychoanalysis). This is the time period where we got stuff like Mesmer and Mesmerism, the New Thought Movement, Spiritualism, and the idea of Animal Magnetism.

So you have his mother or pseudo magical reincarnation b******* mother Wanda who's aesthetics and conceptualization of magic has a lot to do with late 19th to early 21st century occultism with stuff like Wicca, Thelema, and yes Chaos Magic. And then you have his grandfather, Magneto the master of what? Magnetism?!?! (Whom incidentally also displayed in his older appearances telepathic / mind control abilities in addition to his manipulation of metal which obviously can be attributed to neuro electricity nowadays but back in the day the thing that was explicitly evoked to explain his ability to control people was, you guessed it, Animal Magnetism!)

So Wiccan's ability to execute his magic being this sort of combination/ halfway point of his mother's probability manipulation and his grandfather's ability to affect electromagnetism is actually super fucking brilliant and cool and is the kind of clarity and specificity a fictional magic system and acknowledgment of history of real world occultism that you very rarely find in comics overall, and again it was almost certainly unintentional on the writer's part which makes it both more brilliant and more frustrating!!!!

So in addition to the fact that this makes the retcon of Wanda not being Magneto's actual biological daughter even more infuriating and nonsensical, it's also one of the reasons why I'm really not vibing with the current MCU depiction of Billy even if I did like Agatha All Along.