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Things Doctor Who should be
a showcase for young/early career British acting talent and tv production talent in the UK
fiercely moral and borderline communist Saturday night family telly that's engaging for all ages
slightly parochial
12-14 episodes per series
cheap
Things Doctor Who should not be
open to any kind of input from any kind of USamerican
oops all stuntcasting
expensive
You gotta read and watch some old books and films that arenât 100% modern politically correct. Iâm not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.
Also, more often than you might think, theyâre not actually promoting bigotry so much as âdidnât consider all the implications of somethingâ or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.
Kill the censor in your head.
When we choose to avoid history because it's Problematic or Says Bad Things, we are choosing to divorce ourselves from understanding how we came from that time to this one, which makes it even more likely for the cycle to repeat, with no one but a few people with shelves of old books aware that it's happened before.
and this shit's important. Media from the past tells us how people from the past acted and thought and behaved.
Plus, a lot of these media pieces were socially acceptable and/or progressive for their time. For example, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, while it contains a lot of words and ideas that are offensive now, was very progressive for its time. The book is a statement piece for how a young man who's grown up in a racist environment, with no words to explain himself other than racist and bigoted ones, decides that the whole system is shit and he's not going to follow those rules any more. So not reading or engaging with it because it uses the n-word a lot really misses the point.
I think something that makes Project Hail Mary resonate with audiences is that the movie takes your hand and says, âyou are never as alone as you thinkâ.
And in a world filled with dystopian or depressing sci-fi stories that argue for individualism and cynicism, it was incredibly refreshing to see something that says no, humanity is at its best when we are one.
That we are at our best when we are a collaborative effort, and that cooperation and hope are necessary for our survival and for our advancements. Nothing can be done without the love we have for eachother, the curiosity we innately have, and our desire for connection.
"Grace Rocky save stars".
Not "Grace saves Earth" or "Rocky saves Erid", but "Grace Rocky save stars". Together.
âthe millenium falcon would wipe out the enterprise in secondsâ lmao the enterprise is just an innocent science class floating thru spaceâŚ. all they wanna do is look at some rocks⌠kiss an alienâŚ. find some space plantsâŚ.. why would you fight that its not a battleship theyre just nerdsâŚâŚ leave them oloneÂ
A friend of mine saw this and brought up some interesting arguments
so, in other words,
Pretty much.
here have some size comparison
Who wins in a fight, a fully staffed Navy research vessel or your local weed man and his best friend in their souped up VW Bus?
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So while itâs true that the Enterprise is not as big as people think, that goes double for the Falcon!
A good way of thinking about the relative size is by using a bridge comparison:
The Enterprise bridge has space for 11 people to work, as well as a significant amount of space between stations to move around comfortably:
[Bridge illustration by Tobias Weinmann via here]
And the whole thing fits in the nipple thing up on top of the saucer:
Meanwhile the Falcon (beloved weed bus) has a cockpit that seats 4, with only 2 main operational stations, and zero floor space:
And since Serenity was mentioned tooâŚ
Serenity has a bridge more comparable to La Sirena - with 2 stations at the front and quite a bit of floor space.
And for those interested in a visual comparison:
(Boeing 747 for scale as well as the Delta Flyer because Why Not)
TLDR: The Millennium Falcon is pretty dinky, so I propose *true weed bus status* goes to the excellent smuggling ships of Serenity and La Sirena. The Falcon is herby demoted to man on his weed bicycle with his pet monkey and a gun (to be clear the monkey is Solo)
âman on his weed bicycle with his pet monkey and a gunâ
This is the analysis I am here for
one of the most fucked up aspects of being an adult is really how life-goes-on everything is. like you can be dealing with the most fucked up trauma-drama-grief and still have to sleep and eat food to survive and like. poop. pooping while you're really sad shouldn't be a thing but it is. we don't have a say in the matter. life goes on
How to tell a person âhey you are responding to a narrative that youâve made up in your head rather than whatâs actually happeningâ without sounding like a gaslighter.
Narrative: Everybody hates me.
Evidence: I was greeted less enthusiastically than somebody else. I caught someone glancing at me while laughing in conversation. My dish that I worked hard on was not well-received at the party.
Hereâs HSTHETE, the 24 hour comic I drew this year! Thanks to everybody who followed along on twitter this weekend as I posted these pages <3
PS: if you liked this, thereâs a whole book of these comics available now!
Iâm reblogging this 7-year-old comic of mine because, not only is it somehow still circulating, it just passed 400,000 notes??? Thank you, several hundred thousand internet strangers, for keepinâ this olâ goat girl goinâ so long
(Also hi, Iâm still making fairy-tale-flavored lesbian romance comics and have a new one coming out very soonâŚ)
Spiders are nature's suburban maids and I'm tired of pretending like they aren't.
Explain?
Not too big to be threatening to humans, but also big enough to take care of most pests both out in the open and in places humans can't get, like vents or between walls.
They usually stay out of the way. Any accidental interactions I've had with them they seem even more spooked by it than I am and try to help them find an out of the way corner to retreat to.
There's some pests they can't take care of, like wasps (depending on the spider). Personally, I would fight a nest of wasps if it meant protecting the spiders who keep the other house-threatening pests culled.
If I ever get bit by a spider that's just the price I pay. All it hurts is my feelings.
How to see whether a Chinese handmade teapot is well done or not - quality of the spout is an important standard.Â
cr: ćżĺŻ ĺťşć°´ç´Ťéś
that last teapot is like witnessing an eternal and important truth
I just watched this with the sound on and i really recommend it because the utter silence of the last teapot is both perfectly predictable and totally remarkable.
using violence to liberate people from sweatshops, unsafe mines, and grinding poverty isn't the same as using violence to impose those things on people. the idea that violence is morally repugnant regardless of context is a belief that every oppressor throughout history would love for the oppressed to hold
washing your face is actually multi tasking because you are also washing your hands and forearms and shirt and countertop and feet and floor and hair
watching game of thrones and this was considered a historically accurate portrayal of steppe nomads??? the faux leather strapless crops and faux leather yoga pants?????
one thing this show clearly doesnât get, which a lot of modern portrayals of premodern times donât seem to get, is that in a preindustrial society where literally everything is handmade, people preferred (and prefer!) to take a little longer to make things beautiful. if youâre personally spinning and weaving and stitching every inch your new coat, you might as well take an extra afternoon to dye the fibers a really lovely yellow with some onion scraps, and spend a little longer to embroider on a nice pattern. if youâre personally carving every angle of every chair in your house, you may as well slow down and carve them with a beautiful and culturally significant design, especially if you know your great-grandchildren will be sitting in them. in a hyperconsumerist industrial society itâs expected that you just buy what you can afford and settle for however beautiful or ugly the thing happens to be, but it wasnât always that way. the vast majority of people in the premodern world were hobbyist artists, and they dressed in and sat on and slept under and smoked with and ate out of their and their ancestorsâ canvases every day
This is the interior of a modern Kyrgyz yurt. Btw. Those tapestries on the walls and ceiling are usually made of felted wool and are for insulation (traditionally they were also for weather-proofing, but now that's usually done with plastic sheeting). The ribbing is traditionally bright red and the rugs and tapestries are also usually brightly colored. Many people involved in animal husbandry still live in these for part of the year, and some year-round.
The past and the culturally in-touch present were and are extremely colorful.
undiagnosed autistic people will be like "I don't get upset when my routine changes though!!" and it's because they've built a set of if-then loops in their head to pick from one of 6 different strict routines and they do get incredibly upset when they're unable to keep to any of the 6 scripts. I'm john normal
This is called a fault tree. You will always know how to act if your fault tree captures all possible scenarios. In NASA Mission Control during mission critical events like landings there are huge binders with fault tree protocols, kind of like choose your own adventure books except youâre not the one making the choices, the universe is making them for you and youâre just trying to keep up.
The engineers who develop fault trees, I am told, often imagine new ways for their precious spacecraft to die (new branches on the fault trees) either while in the shower or lying awake at 3am, because human
Was just thinking about this the other day. Yeah I have a favorite seat on the bus (middle of the bus, near the back doors, slightly elevated, facing forward), but I donât get upset if someone is already sitting there, I just pick one of my other favorite spots. Then I realized that most people probably donât have a favorite bus seat, let alone a series of backup favorites.
Never forget that the physicians and "detransitioners" they bring to speak against trans healthcare are paid enormous sums to give false testimonies. They're not legitimate sources and shouldn't stop you from living your best life (source).
Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes donât go feral like in the book. Itâs almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.
thereâs a timeskip
THEREâS A TIMESKIP
THEREâS A TIMESKIP
THEREâS A TIMESKIP
after losing control of the signal fire thereâs a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyoneâs hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and theyâre still just kind of chilling!!!!
IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH
AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because
THEREâS AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING
AND A PILOTâS CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA
BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM
HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -
IT DIDNâT HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVENâT READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DONâT REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK
#tbf the dude wrote it to be a dick
yes. yes he did. iâm also gonna direct you to the real life âlord of the fliesâ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until theyâd cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. hereâs a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.
i read about this in rutger bregmanâs human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you donât want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.
Hey @phillipfancypants I am intrigued, go ahead and lay out your argument
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Okay so basically this all started in 10th grade when my English teacher (idk if this context is needed but she grew up in Yugoslavia in the â80s before moving to the US as a teen and she has a VERY thick accent. Sheâs about 6â4â and has huge black hair that sticks out all around her head. Sheâs the human embodiment of a corvid bird. Truly such a fascinating person) anyway she was talking about Lord of the Flies in class and mentioned that a few years ago some students of hers tried to convince her that the book couldnât have taken place during WWII and that she didnât believe them because âthere have been no atomic bombs except during World War Twoâ and an atomic bomb is referenced as the inciting factor for why the boys were flying over a deserted island in the first place.
But the thing is, if you actually look at all the throwaway historical context details in the book, there is no logical way that it could have taken place in WWII. I realized that all clues point towards an alternate timeline where the Cold War turned hot. About halfway through the book I started bookmarking any scrap of information related the time period and it was getting to the point where each chapter took me twice as long to read because I would continually need to check various articles and Wikipedia pages to cross reference.
Eventually, I ended up writing a 5 -page paper picking the book apart for details which you can read here but Iâll also give you the individual points (a mixture of historical details and borderline headcanon):
Early on in the book, the boys mention that there are probably maps in âthe Queenâs libraryâ that show where they areâthis was one of the first things that stuck out to me, as Elizabeth II didnât become Queen until 1952, and WWII ended in 1945
Ralph mentions watching something on television at home. His dad, although a naval officer, would almost certainly not be able to afford a TV in 1945, BUT televisions were already popularized around the time of Lizzy 2âs coronation (or at the very earliest the 1948 London Olympics) and itâs believable that Ralph could have had one at home. Thereâs also some mentions around space travel/putting a man on Mars that would make more sense during the Cold War
I found Piggyâs character to be very interesting. For one thing, heâs introduced  as being fat due to his Aunt owning a candy store (his parents are both dead). If you know anything about the sugar ration during WWII, youâd know that candy stores would have been non-operational and Piggy would probably not have had access to an excess of sweets.
Continuing with Piggy, Iâd place his distinctive accent as either London Cockney or London Estuary. If Piggy was from London, he would have been evacuated to the British countryside via train (the same evacuations in which the Pevensies stay with their uncle in Narnia) long before the dropping of the atomic bombs. Hereâs where the headcanon comes in: Iâd be willing to bet that Piggy was evacuated to the countryside as a baby during WWII and both his parents were among the 27,000 killed in the London Blitz, hence why he now lives with his aunt. By assuming the years leading up to the book are peacetime instead of wartime, thereâs no issue around the candy store.
And finally, the most compelling argument imoâŚWHY WOULD BRITISH BOYS BE EVACUATED AFTER VE DAY??? In the book, itâs very clear that the LOTF boys are being evacuated from their boarding school after an atomic bomb was dropped. Victory in Europe was May 8th, 1945. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in early August. In what world would British boys be evacuated by a plane traveling over tropical airspace (historically child evacuations in the UK were domestic and carried out by train) to protect them from a bomb dropped in Japan four months after the end of the war in Europe?? The only plausible explanation would be that the USSR dropped a bomb on an Allied power and the boys are being evacuated from Briton all together to avoid nuclear fallout and/or future bombings.
Final note, at one point the boys consider building a new plane and decide against the idea because they âmight get shot down by the Redsâ even though the soviets were literally allies with Britain during WWII. Do you know when they most certainly werenât allies? The Cold War.
Anyway, I end up giving her this essay which she reads and then promptly says âthese are all very interesting points, but there was STILL no nuclear bomb besides the ones dropped on Japan in World War 2â and Iâm like âYes!! I know this!! And Iâm saying itâs an alternate future!!â But she never really seemed to understand what I was saying.
Anyway a few weeks ago I was at my job (Iâve been working IT some summers at my high school after I graduated) and I ran into her and she says âI was going through my desk and I found that essay you wrote on LOTF! I read it again and it was a really good argument piece, especially for a 10th grader.â
So of course I ask her âoh really? Well, were you finally convinced?â
And she basically says âit was goodâŚbut no :) <3â
And I have simply not known peace since.
it's good that we're saying "i don't feel guilty about pleasure im not Catholic" but we also need to start saying "i don't feel self-righteous about being overworked I'm not Puritan"
