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the black blade

i love dwp1 so fucking much, but at its very core that movie says: you have to choose, and there's only one right choice. andy's friends are assholes, nate is a bastard, and andy is the one who framed as wrong for choosing her very good job that is a legitimately good entry into the industry she wants to work in. miranda's divorce, while inadvertently making miranda more interesting than the movie ever intended, is a narrative device to show andy that if she keeps this up, she will end up alone. what's crazy about all that is that, at the same time, the movie tries to argue that the choice to be made isn't whether or not to be a good person, but whether or not to be in a situation that makes you a bad person. this is insane, btw. but andy at the end is like, i don't want to be like you therefore i must not be here. the abdication of personal responsibility for your actions is, actually, wild.

so you could have knocked me over with a fucking feather by the time i walked out of dwp2. because i never in one hundred trillion years expected them to come back 20 years later and recognise that actually, andy made all those choices, they didn't happen to her, and yes, actually, she's that selfish bitch (huge fucking compliment). she didn't get married, she didn't have kids, she's flounced in and out of lily's life for 15 years, and the moment someone threw her a piece of driftwood to cling to, she leapt on board. even at the last moment, she still couldn't quite bring herself to not look down on the genuine potential runway offered her, but hell, she'll settle for it.

that car scene made me insane. miranda calling her out again, and andy finally agreeing, and more than that, going all on this arrangement that neither of them actually wants, exactly, but could be mutually beneficial to them both? i practically moaned.

that compromise was both the theme and the hero of this film blows my mind. miranda, who will do anything for advertisers, who will sit her assistant next to her and have her call out all the politically incorrect things she cannot say anymore, who hangs up her own coat, but is still, fundamentally the same person she was 20 years ago: she loves her job, and will do anything to keep doing it. and that is, from start to finish, who andy always was.

and instead of judging them this time, dwp2 says: yes, there are choices to make, and there are always costs whichever way you choose. but there's no wrong choice this time. just find a way to do what you love and you'll be fine.

(and if you can, along the way, make it up to the people you hurt as you do. because there will always be people you hurt, but actually there isn't some natural order of punishment that goes with that. guys, that emily wanted to be friends all that time? i cried. the nigel resolution? bawled.)

witchesbr3w

i cannot believe the official marvel page made and posted this.

#aaa

ravioliet

god's weakest soldier is scrolling tumblr instead of being productive or participating in any of their hobbies

#i JUST opened the app 😭#FINE

black-salt-cage

ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ♡‧₊˚

#OUUGHHHHH #my FUCKING jester:

amorphousbl0b

The tribes of Tumblr appeared to worship Apollo as their primary patron deity, most often under the epithet Apollo Sphairahemon ("Apollo the Ball-Thrower") as a god of prophecy and sport. His name was typically invoked to celebrate a user blessed with uncommon prescience. Moments of prophecy were considered highly sacred and were often recorded, and such texts are sometimes accompanied by an artistic depiction of the god — either his traditional masculine image or, unusually, in the form of a young woman, which appears to have been an earlier style before a conservative shift toward more conventional iconography — preparing to cast a round rubber ball that our scholars believe was used in the sport known as "dodge ball". Much as other cults regarded his arrows as bringers of disease and health, this community believed that being struck by this ball would bestow prophetic visions.

Some icons are reproduced below:

An earlier depiction (c. 2020) of Apollo as a girl clad in a simple tunic and playing with other children. Figures are smiling and the image is brightly colored, indicating a celebratory outlook toward knowledge of the future.

A later piece (c. 2022) that resembles the traditional appearance of Apollo. References to childhood and play are omitted, and the god carries a more frightening aspect; perhaps this icon represented grim omens rather than good tidings.

teaboot

Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.

They were us.

Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.

Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not

A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it

sheilikhal

This is actually really important and comes up in Anthropology classes all. The. Time.

As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.

There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.

Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.

We've been human for a long, long time, and we are not inherently better than all those who came before.

fresne999

One the most profound experiences of my life was visiting Font de Gaume, which has 12 thousand year old paintings. They use a technique where the horses appeared to run across the wall when seen in flickering firelight. There was a bison the wall staring at us with such attitude, I could practically hear him. I had the most profound feeling of those ancient artists reaching forward to lay their hands on my shoulders. To say, "This was my world." It was a profoundly moving experience.

Some years later, I went to the Orkney islands where we visited a tiny family run museum of artifacts from the chambered tomb at the other end of the farm. They handed me a pestle once held by some neolithci human.They'd worn groves where the thumb and forefinger would be for better grip.

cymbie8

One time, in a French history class, my teacher randomly at the end of the class had all of us draw a sketch of a horse. And we were all like ??? Okay???

At the beginning of the next class, my teacher showed us a cave painting of a horse. And then he showed all of our horses, which he had scanned and put into the presentation.

He then pointed out all the ways that our horses looked similar to the prehistoric horse. Same features, drawn from the same angle, etc.

And then he asked us, "Isn't it cool that you draw horses the same way as someone who lived 20,000 years ago?"

Yeah. That stuck with me for a while.

catgirlthecrazy

In Spain, there's a cave full of ancient, ice age era drawings of bison and reindeer and other animals of that period... And one small section of chaotic scribbles just a little away from everything else. These scribblesv were so incomprehensible, they were originally just called the 'Panel of Enigmatic Signs'... Until it occurred to someone that drawings only three feet off the ground probably weren't made by adults.

Scientists are now pretty sure the scribbles were made by kids ages 3-6, more or less on their own. The adult cave artists were probably doing what any modern parent might do when they want to keep small children out of their hair for awhile: they gave the kids some drawing tools of their own and a small section of wall to work on, out of the way but still close enough to keep an eye on them, and let them have at it.

What's most charming about the whole thing is the way the cave scribbles look exactly like what you'd find on the wall of a preschool today. Artistic styles vary widely across different times and cultures, but child development is as near to a universal human experience as it gets.

mikkeneko

Wisher made detailed 3D scans of the drawings, which helped her understand the uneven pressure applied to the charcoal and the direction the lines were drawn. The team then compared the panel’s composition with age-appropriate artistic efforts by modern children. Kids across cultures go through the same developmental stages, which influence their physical ability to draw, until about the age of 6, Amir notes.

The team compared the ancient art with the developmental stages exhibited by modern children: the furiously scribbled circles and push-pull lines typical of 3-year-olds just learning to control their bodies, for example, or the wobbly, right-angled figures of slightly older kids beginning to master fine motor skills.

Both are apparent in the cave, superimposed on each other as though two or more kids were drawing at once. That’s a clue the Las Monedas marks were likely made by “siblings or a mixed-age play group within the sphere of safety around adults, but also within their own space,” says co-author Felix Riede, an Aarhus archaeologist.

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Adults at Las Monedas would have been aware of what the kids were doing and presumably had lit fires or torches; without ample firelight the cave is pitch black.

blondebrainpowered

In 1930 the Indiana Bell building in Evansville, Indiana was moved over 34 days the 11,000-ton building was moved 16 meters from its original location and rotated 90 degrees, a process that was completed in mid-November 1930, without interrupting or the service of calls nor the supply of gas, water, and electricity of the building. Over a month, the structure was moved 15 inch/hr all while 600 employees still worked there. According to reports, ‘no one inside felt it move’

The move was planned by engineers Bevington, Taggert & Fowler, while contractors John Eichlea Co. carried out the feat.

#what the genuine fuck?#engineering