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oh i'm happy that people enjoyed looking at this animal with me.. it's fun to be nice to an animal and with bugs it's often more okay to do than with other animals since it's unlikely you will socialize them to humans to their detriment.
Watermelon piece is a good offering towards any adult wasp, but being a mud dauber she is a great wasp to observe, since they are not very aggressive and their sting is not too bad. I waited until she was a little more hydrated and started grooming herself to remove her from the house, since she was visibly quite dusty i knew it would be the next thing she would want to do.
a really funny behavior was that although she was completely content to be observed by humans, she saw an ant on the counter and got visibly upset, which is understandable since an ant wants to eat a weak bug a lot more than humans do. I removed the ant to keep her from getting too stressed out. she was so mad about the ant and even though it makes sense i thought it was pretty funny since wasps can tell who humans are. she knew we were hanging out and that part was fine, but an ant is just too much!! eventually i put her and her fruit outside.
So, this post made me wheeze-cackle for several minutes, which meant I had to share it around. And one of the responses I got on the discord server where I shared it was: honestly I can't decide if Grace is the right kind of nerd to have been on tumblr.
And after a few seconds of trying to decide that myself, there came another response in the conversation: I think at least he was definitely the kind of teacher that his students loved to show internet crap to.
And I had a glorious vision.
Ryland Grace is on tumblr. He's been on tumblr since the days when you could edit other people's posts. And he has been meticulously careful to make sure none of his students ever suspect it for a second -- which means he never posts anything about his work, or talks in class about anything that's crossed his dash unless he can find a plausible source somewhere else. But yes, of course, every so often his students want to share a meme or a video or a funny post with him ("wait till after class"), and he's very appreciative and never gives away if he's seen it before.
In one of his last video messages to Earth, Grace says a heartfelt and genuinely moving goodbye to his students. He ends with "Best of luck, kids. And always remember ..."
(Nobody ever suspected he had that kind of wicked grin in him.)
we are witnessing the gentrification of the term "tumblr sexyman" in real time and it is extremely disappointing. like no, live-action white boy #265 played by ryan gosling isn't a tumblr sexyman. i can't believe i have to say this but if it wouldn't get you shoved into a locker it probably isn't a sexyman
For those wondering about the fox. Grace has a subtle motif with this animal throughout the movie, but especially this shot where they pack this toy fox with his belongings on the Hail Mary. The pose of it looked a little haunting to me, thus prompting this illustration.
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(Small/large prints are also available on my etsy â€ïž)
Thought this was a Daemon AU until I scrolled down and man actually that would really elevate the symbolism of the violation being committed. Grace's daemon lying sprawled on top of him, in a position that would require someone to physically pick her up and put her there, while everyone else's are either hiding in their clothing or are out of frame because they're actively avoiding standing next to their humans in this moment out of guilt.
...actually that'd be a really interesting AU because (a) Grace having to explain to Rocky why there's a second apparent organism next to him that's physically tethered to his spacesuit that seems vaguely similar but to Rocky's sonar the second alien's body does not match Grace's in a way that seems almost like an imitation of the structure of Grace's body. There is breathing and a heartbeat and a rigid internal skeleton but a lot of the noisy internal organs that Grace has are missing. And Grace is like "Oh, that's the corporeal form of my soul. She's technically mostly made of dark matter but is shaped like a completely different species from my planet. Also she has her own mind and personality even though we're technically one being and we have to stay within about 10 meters of each other at all times. (b) wait imagine if in the excessive centrifugal force scene Grace passes out because the seat breaking causes his daemon to slide to the opposite side of the cabin they're pulled so far apart they pass out from the pain, (c) Grace never really got around to explaining the touch taboo because Rocky physically can't touch them anyway due to incompatible atmospheres. But then Rocky has to drag his daemon closer to him so they'll wake up / drag both of them to Armando.
Today, the world's most powerful microscope has photographed in real color the core of a single atom. The nucleus of an atom is like the delicious yolk of a hard boiled quantum egg, containing protons and neutrons (red) as held together by gluons (tan filaments). All known substances are made of atoms with nuclei like the one seen above.
The atom used was a Thulium atom because of its highly photogenic traits, bright coloration, and nice atomic number. According to microscopy professor Minnie Lewker, "Atoms have been photographed before but never in real color. They usually look almost like waves of light and dark instead of real, tangible objects as they are."
The same microscope team was also able to take the first known photograph of an electron:
Fuuuck I just loss 20000 dollars in adverisement revenue and potential sales when that guy over there didnât look at my flyer because he was talking to the girl he was walking with. The sensible option here is to ban talking while walking since itâs literally theft.
what the fuck is dark academia anyway. I keep hearing this term but I have no idea what it actually is. Is this something related to occult research and vampires and stuff? I am not looking this up for comedic purposes.
The key to fighting a mime is that simply refusing to acknowledge the existence of the invisible objects will not protect you from them. You have to pay attention to everything the enemy is doing and keep track of what invisible things there are and where they are, and if possible turn them back against their master. I have five bloodstained and in one case moderately charred berets on my trophy shelf so I think I am a credible source on this subject.
The drawback is not what you might expect: he who fights mimes need not take care that he does not himself become a mime. As long as you don't shut the fuck up in battle, you are safe from this hazard, even in the event of heavy mimeoleum exposure. However, there is a very real risk of becoming a clown.
I don't understand why "Adrian doesn't like Grace at first" is as popular as it is on fanfics.
Imagine for a second you are Adrian surname The Eridian. Your spouse has been missing and presumed dead for around a decade, and suddenly one day an alien spaceship comes into orbit. And you cheer "Yay alien species have realized we have the same problem and have come to either give us a solution or join or efforts, too bad my mate is still gone."
Except he is not actually gone, because the eridian equivalent of a carebear decided to save them. And he doesn't want anything in return, in fact he is well aware that he might die A PAINFUL SLOW DEATH, shortly after fighting just to get the love of your life back to you. But it's ok :) because Rocky (yes he gave them a silly name) is my best friend! Oh- Are you ok-
Rereading Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane because that one silly poll reminded me of how much Twitchtip deserved better.
Oh my god I forgot how completely sick of everyone she is for the whole first half of the book. Justifiably. Ripred voluntold her to go on this mission, decided they should just waltz into Regalia A DAY EARLY instead of meeting the escort, immediately gets them attacked, which Ripred thinks is hilarious, and then. He tries to blame this on Twitchtip being eager to see Regalia. While Twitchtip is literally shoving her nose in the dirt and trying to use it as an air filter because she's so overwhelmed by this fucking city, which she has to spend an EXTRA DAY in because of Ripred and he's implying she wanted this. I love Ripred but he is so fucking insufferable and I really with The Underland Chronicles had a higher age rating so we could see Twitchtip curse him out.
Also Ripred fucking WARNED Vikus and Solovet that they were starving the rats to the point of desperation. He fucking warned them.
But anyway the whole boat ride is Twitchtip being near-catatonic and speaking primarily to try to get everyone to shut the fuck up because she can only handle one sense being overwhelmed at once. So relatable.
I just reached the whirlpool incident, and the conversation afterward, and... Gregor. You are so dense. Trying to cover for Twitchtip and give her an out for curling up against him is like, it wasn't a bad decision, his heart is in the right place, but like... you are aware of how badly that poor rat needs a hug. Please just tell her you don't actually mind, you were just surprised. Or come up with some half baked excuse. You literally both got at least some amount of hypothermia earlier today the body heat excuse is right there. The natural end point of this scene is that several hours later someone else wakes up and notices that they are curled up in a nest of blankets together to the point where there is zero chance of anyone buying that it was an accident, and Gregor immediately claims she was shivering and Howard said to keep her warm, and this is technically not wrong.
It occurs to me that Twitchtip said she was on her own for three or four years, but she never actually said how old she was when she was kicked out. Given how fast rats grow, what are the odds that she's only, like, five or six?
Finished the book. Okay so I need an emotional support Twitchtip Lives AU but if Gregor and Ares had just taken her with them they could have just, like, handed her back to Ripred and Co, and it would have made parts of the situation with Pearlpelt a little too easy because, like, they could just ask her if she knew he was a baby. Twitchtip being captured by the gnawers and tortured is excellent angst fuel not only for her but for Gregor, because Gregor has seen what that did to his dad.
But wait I have an idea, what if once her nose healed and her sense of smell was functional again, the rats forced her to use her abilities to help them? And at some point they drag her along on a mission and she smells that Gregor and Ares are nearby and tries to sabotage her captors to save them and is nearly executed for it before they get her out of there? And then she has to suffer through weeks of medical treatment in Regalia.
Oh my god and the very next thing that happens a few months later is the goddamn plague. The rats do not have effective medicines, they do not have flea powder, they don't have hazmat suits, and they do not have a microbiology lab that can look at blood samples under a microscope. Having a prisoner who can detect and locate infected rats from a distance would be incredibly convenient to the faction of Gorger loyalists who captured her. I bet her captors would've had her enforcing quarantines and pointing out recently-infected asymptomatic patients... who were then summarily killed in horrific ways to try to take out the fleas without letting them get close to anyone.
The thing is, the phrase I repeatedly heard was ânever again meant never again for everyoneâ and we can say that while itâs fucked up to appropriate an explicitly Jewish phrase for others, itâs EXTREMELY fucked up to say ânever again for everybodyâ and then EXCLUDE JEWS.
Yâall have got to stop with these ginormous fucking sugary syrup beverages with a splash of espresso. Why are you drinking that shit every morning like itâs not just liquid cake youâre chugging every morning. That is not coffee. Go get a coffee machine and add a little cream and honey youâll be doing yourself a favor. Good lord.
Controversial opinion but when I see people drinking those sugary syrup "coffee" based drinks I think about how much money I have saved over the course of my life by realizing that if I like sugary drinks and dislike coffee then there are sugary caffeinated beverages that are not coffee based, and accepting that my true destiny is becoming a Mtn Dew (TM) flavor connoisseur.
"I didn't used to have to question the cat videos"
play him off, Keyboard Cat.
(the joke explained: Keyboard Cat is faked with good old practical effects of: the owner's hands are hidden under the shirt using his cat as a puppet, the cat is not actually playing the piano. Tons of people believed the cat was actually playing it. This video was made in 1983, uploaded to YouTube in 2007, went viral in like 2009)
(not to mention the epidemic of fake animal rescue videos with people abusing animals by putting them in dangerous or distressing situations for clicks)
Rereading Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane because that one silly poll reminded me of how much Twitchtip deserved better.
Oh my god I forgot how completely sick of everyone she is for the whole first half of the book. Justifiably. Ripred voluntold her to go on this mission, decided they should just waltz into Regalia A DAY EARLY instead of meeting the escort, immediately gets them attacked, which Ripred thinks is hilarious, and then. He tries to blame this on Twitchtip being eager to see Regalia. While Twitchtip is literally shoving her nose in the dirt and trying to use it as an air filter because she's so overwhelmed by this fucking city, which she has to spend an EXTRA DAY in because of Ripred and he's implying she wanted this. I love Ripred but he is so fucking insufferable and I really with The Underland Chronicles had a higher age rating so we could see Twitchtip curse him out.
Also Ripred fucking WARNED Vikus and Solovet that they were starving the rats to the point of desperation. He fucking warned them.
But anyway the whole boat ride is Twitchtip being near-catatonic and speaking primarily to try to get everyone to shut the fuck up because she can only handle one sense being overwhelmed at once. So relatable.
I just reached the whirlpool incident, and the conversation afterward, and... Gregor. You are so dense. Trying to cover for Twitchtip and give her an out for curling up against him is like, it wasn't a bad decision, his heart is in the right place, but like... you are aware of how badly that poor rat needs a hug. Please just tell her you don't actually mind, you were just surprised. Or come up with some half baked excuse. You literally both got at least some amount of hypothermia earlier today the body heat excuse is right there. The natural end point of this scene is that several hours later someone else wakes up and notices that they are curled up in a nest of blankets together to the point where there is zero chance of anyone buying that it was an accident, and Gregor immediately claims she was shivering and Howard said to keep her warm, and this is technically not wrong.
It occurs to me that Twitchtip said she was on her own for three or four years, but she never actually said how old she was when she was kicked out. Given how fast rats grow, what are the odds that she's only, like, five or six?
Finished the book. Okay so I need an emotional support Twitchtip Lives AU but if Gregor and Ares had just taken her with them they could have just, like, handed her back to Ripred and Co, and it would have made parts of the situation with Pearlpelt a little too easy because, like, they could just ask her if she knew he was a baby. Twitchtip being captured by the gnawers and tortured is excellent angst fuel not only for her but for Gregor, because Gregor has seen what that did to his dad.
But wait I have an idea, what if once her nose healed and her sense of smell was functional again, the rats forced her to use her abilities to help them? And at some point they drag her along on a mission and she smells that Gregor and Ares are nearby and tries to sabotage her captors to save them and is nearly executed for it before they get her out of there? And then she has to suffer through weeks of medical treatment in Regalia.
What if Topham had gotten the Atlantic he wanted?
I know what I'm basically pitching here is essentially "It's A Splendid Life/A Small World" but with Henry, but it's an interesting thought process because this change likely means that Gordon doesn't wind up coming to Sodor.
Okay, I got really into the weeds thinking about this one.Â
My first instinct was to say "I already had a post speculating about how the timeline changes if you Splendid Life each of the other original six characters." And I do think my thoughts here are very similar so far as the Henry portion of that post goes: Without Henry, the railway in general and definitely Topham Hatt I in particular do not have what I think was their most important catalyst for growth. The railway survives financially just fine without Henry. But it's not our N.W.R. It doesn't develop its soul.Â
That post also covered Gordonless N.W.R. but it's not so applicable because my answer there was: lol, what N.W.R.? It went bankrupt by or during or not long after WWII. However, if N.W.R. is Gordonless because it got its secondhand Robinson Atlantic, I think that's a very different prospect. Because I believe Topham Hatt knew what he was about. I think "secondhand Robinson Atlantic" best suited the railway's needs in 1922. Unless the Atlantic's personality completely and utterly and just really spectacularly sucked, then I think the railway would have been BETTER off⊠in the short term. It wouldn't have had its (up until 1935) financially disastrous Henry I experiment. And I maintain that Gordon (although as it happened the financial savior of the place)âoverpowered, and with his finicky third cylinder that Crovan's Gate would not have had the least experience in maintainingâwas not at all ideal for the role he was tapped for⊠in 1922.Â
The most obvious change, however, is that (without Henry I and Gordon), we also do not get Percy. Even if the Atlantic was the most entitled and demanding engine of all time, I do not think they would have had the necessary support to strike and twist the Fat Controller's arm in the direction of Percy's dodgy workshop. Even if this Unknown Entity could have got James onside, that makes only 2 and not 3 of them, with no Gordon as forceful speaker.Â
Put a pin in that â more notes on James in this timeline to follow â for now, though, yeah. Although of course one never wishes to Thanos-snap three of our six friends out of the timeline, I do think that in the 20s and 30s the railway would have chugged along smoothly enough (or, at least, no-smoother-and-probably-more-so-than-they-did-in-canon) and that our other friends would hardly have been aware they were missing out on anything. Like, in the canon timeline I'm sure 1930 N.W.R. was making more money than Henryless 1930 N.W.R. But the former's expenses were higher, and at any rate even if it is coming out ahead, I don't think it's enough yet to make a huge difference. Those gain of income and opportunity would need to compound over the next 20 years before we can really see the effects by just looking around.Â
In the meantime, a functioning Robinson Atlantic would have kept the operation afloat⊠albeit the Fat Controller would have certainly snapped up James when the opportunity arose.Â
I think Thomas is still likely to get his branch line. Even without Gordon and Henry being involved, Thomas would have been getting quite bored on station pilot duty in 1925. Perhaps he did not get a chance to take Henry's train, but I don't know that it would have mattered. There were other big rude engines still around for a while. Even if there weren't (hell, maybe the N.W.R. got those other Big Blue Engines after Gordon, like maybe Gresley started a bit of a vogue), sheer boredom would still have Thomas complaining and it's likely that Edward would have taken pity on him at around the same time he does in canon. There's even some wiggle room of a few weeks in either direction for Thomas to still be at Wellsworth when James crashes.Â
Basically, I think Thomas is unaffected. He and Percy don't even interact in the RWS until the advent of Charles Hatt's controllership so it's not like he has a gaping hole where a best friendship ought to have been. He's doing fine in the Topham Hatt I era. Has fewer big engines to tease but I trust he pulls through.Â
I have a bit of a headcanon with Edward whereâto a lesser degree than Topham Hatt, but not dissimilarlyâHenry was the making of him as far as maturing his character. If one accepts this headcanon then maybe Edward is a little less understanding than he is in canon⊠but he's still basically himself enough that you'd have to squint to notice.Â
I also interpret (interpret, not headcanonâI fight on this hill) Edward not becoming a branch line engine until we're in the Charles Hatt era. In this timeline that might not be true, because supporting Henry I and even Gordon was I think a major pull factor keeping him in on the actionâ"Wellsworth pilot" is just such a useful post for that sort of thing because it gives him the flexibility to be called on when needed, and he's needed often enough that there's no need to find additional work for him down the branch. So in this timeline I suppose he could do Brendam line work a lot sooner. Still, maybe not. Depends a good deal on the capabilities and needs of The Robinson Atlantic (TRA?).Â
Then we get to James, and this is the part of the thought experiment I'm loving. So James crashes onto a Sodor without a Henry and Gordon. Isn't that fascinating?Â
And there are two competing effects of this:Â
In canon when James arrives he initially drifts into an Edward-coded sphere; they get along, and, for at least the first three sentences (đ) of Troublesome Engines, he's as content as Edward to do some shunting at Tidmouth. By like sentence four of the book, it's Henry and Gordon's influence that gets James grumbling and starting to resent "odd jobs." And it's apparent in the books to come that James is continually big tripping over his Big Engine status⊠but none of that influence exists here.Â
So maybe he'd stay in that Edwardian orbit⊠but again, it depends on the X factor of The Robinson Atlantic. Because here's the thing. The Atlantic would not have been so unambiguously a "bigger" big engine the way Henry I and Gordon are. Our Pacific Friends are gargantuan, especially on the context of 1920s Sodor. TRA is heavier than James but less powerful and olderâbuilt no later than 1906, a whole era and locomotive revolution before Henry's and Gordon's original designs.Â
In this timeline James is truly the Herculean young gun of the Sodor main line.Â
And boy is this fun to think about?!!Â
I know a lot of you read that sentence about Alternate-'Verse James and cringed and immediately began composing jokes about how the island is doomed, doomed.
But, I think you're wrong. I mean yes, a puffed-peacock James with relatively few colleagues who can keep him in his place would be loud and prone to overexuberance. But I don't see him being any worse in the role of top dog than Gordon tbh. I actually do think this James in many ways is less troublesome than canon James. Because a James who doesn't get the recognition he needs is an angry and sulky and snippy and desperate and reckless James⊠and it's this insecurity that causes at least 50% of his problems (RWS and TVS). A James in his full well-admired glory is mostly just charming and thoughtless and superficial. He'd lack Gordon's gravitas, but I think he'd actually get fewer bees in his bonnet re: shit mainland engines and/or little engines do/say. See, James likes having fun. He might be a bad influence on "lesser" engines but he'd spend far less time condescending to them or being offended by them.Â
A Gordon with a well-fed ego is touchy and prideful. A James with a well-fed ego just has a more amiable temper.
And (albeit I agree with @greatwesternway that James is one of the smartest members of the cast) I don't think James has that⊠subordinate cunning that Gordon sometimes displays, indeed in "Trust Thomas" Gordon has to coach James in simple deceit. And James will jump for any new paint job offered (unlike Henry and Gordon, who do not soften their stance when new paint is used to try to appease them in TE). So frankly I think James'd be less of a challenge for Topham Hatt⊠Indeed, you might chalk this up as a bad thing. Much like Henry I's unsatisfactory design and his troubles challenged Hatt to become more flexible and compassionate, maybe Gordon's flirtations with revolt made Hatt steelier. Flint sharpens flint and all that.Â
Furthermore Topham Hatt's experiments with Big Engines (two of which, at least, were successful) made the railway as a whole far more ambitious than it had any right to be. (One example that we know of, which I think stands in for others we must imagine: when Henry is made reliable on Welsh coal, Sodor seems to finally have a mainstay for what has to be one of their most important trains. Who was even taking that thing before Henry? Could be one of the failed loaners, who Hatt was able to get rid of once Henry was made well, or could be they had to contract that lucrative job out to the L.M.S., which would frankly kinda suck.) The presence of a Gresley Pacific and one of the venerable class of Engines Who Won the War must have lent a certain⊠seriousness to the N.W.R. operation that it wouldn't have otherwise had, made the prospect of letting it be "its own region" somewhat less ludicrous because Gordon's and Henry's presence made Sodor seem like a small but weight-carrying piece of the overall rail network. Indeed it was probably Sodor's war performance that allowed it its postwar autonomy, which surely they couldn't have been granted if they had needed bailing out from outsiders. Could Sodor have kept up with its war duties with one aging Robinson Atlantic in the place of Gordon and Henry? I mean who knows, maybe it was the Superman of locomotives. But it's safe to guess probably not. So the railway needs outside assistance during the war, and can't position itself as semi-independent afterwards. This spells the beginning of the Bad part of the timeline for Our Friends (đđđ). The Modernisation Plan will come for their home. The Hatts don't already have a Major Miraculous Engine Restoration under their belt; who knows, without Henry I, if they ever developed that stomach or that sense of responsibility? Maybe James, once he starts feeling the existential pressure, goes full-on Small World!Gordon. Once things finally start getting back on this much more fragile railway (and they will), they could get very, very bad indeed.
But again, until WWII, I think the dynamic on Sodor with James in his full glory, with 'most all his dreams of superiority fulfilled, would have likely been rather⊠pleasant, on the whole. Pleasant small backwater railway vibes, nothing moreâbut also nothing less.Â
