Zeta Sigma

She/her. Early 30’s. Bachelors Degree in Literary Studies. A+ nerd.

[jkottke]

The Color Game. “Humans can’t reliably recall colors. This is a simple game to see how good (or bad) you are at it. We’ll show you five colors, then you’ll try and recreate them.” I scored 39/50 but got a perfect score on one color.

[homunculus-argument]

The Odyssey but retold as a low-stakes modern adventure of one guy out with his girlfriend leaving the bar with his buddies to do just one (1) simple thing real quick, it'll take like 15 minutes tops, he'll be right back, but then some bullshit happens and the trip keeps getting more complicated as more bullshit keeps happening while he just tries to get back to the bar because he promised his girlfriend that he'd get back and he knows that she's still there because she told him she'd wait there.

And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and

[incorrectgallifreyquotes]

Narvin: Not gonna lie, I'm kind of afraid of Romana... Brax: As you should be. Narvin: No, for real, she's kind of- Brax: As. You. Should. Be.

[varpusvaras]

I think one of the best and unintentionally funniest worldbuilding aspects in Star Wars is the reasoning of why did Bail and Breha adopt Leia instead of having their own children. Leia is first established as the princess of Alderaan before she is written to be Luke's sister. So now we need to figure out how she got to Alderaan. She was adopted because she needed to be hidden and separated from her brother. Bail was placed there to be one of the only people who knew so there would be a reason why it was them who got her. They specifically wanted a daughter. Why? Because Alderaan is a matriarchal society, so they needed a princess. Why didn't the Queen and her husband have biological children? Because they can't. Why? Because the Queen can't have kids. Why? Because she got injured as a teenager and got her internal organs replaced and her body can't handle a pregnancy. How did she get injured so badly? She fell off of a mountain. How did that happen? She was climbing it. Why was the future Queen climbing a mountain in the first place? Because she needed to go through three challenges in order to inherit the throne and one of them required her to go through something physically impressive. Why? Because before that they just held a Battle Royale for all the heirs and the one left alive got the throne and they at some point figured out that maybe they shouldn't be doing that, actually. Oh, okay.

[eightbitpale]

I am once again reminded of this image

[bougiebutchbinch]

ranking the best things I have heard surgeons say mid-surgery:

1. "Five second rule!" while scrubbed, after dropping a sterile scalpel on the floor (no they did NOT pick it up again but I swear everyone's buttholes puckered)

2. (spoken during the closing of a particularly long and difficult case) "Nurse - my tunes." :heavy metal starts blasting:

3. Gently to a fretful patient, pre-anaesthesia: "It's going to be okay. I promise, I've dealt with worse." As soon as the patient is unconscious: "This is literally the worst thing I've ever seen."

4. [okay this one was a med student] "Wowwww, that's so gross!!" Reg: "Please remember that [patient] is awake for this procedure." Student to patient: "Oh my god. I am so sorry, that was really unprofessional - " Patient, cheerfully, also engrossed with what's happening inside them on the screen: "Nah - it's, like, super gross, right?"

5. [another procedure where the patient couldn't be put under GA] Patient: *starts singing country roads midway through the procedure* Surgeon: *shrugs and joins in with surprisingly good harmony*

[bougiebutchbinch]

okay okay there's more

6. Elderly surgeon to the anaesthetist who is gossipping with their reg: "I need you to pretend you're in church." [weirdest way to ask people to be quiet, but whatevs]

Anaethetist's new reg with big, horrified eyes: "You mean we should start praying???"

7. Panicking rad tech: "Uhhhh my machine broke. I need to jump on this part and kick it, but I am not paid enough if I break it. Can you - "

Surgeon, casual as: "Yeah, sure."

:violently beats up the C-arm until it starts pumping out those sweet, sweet x-rays:

8. ODP to theatre assistant: "Saw the new tasche earlier. Suits you."

Theatre assistant: "Thanks! it grew on me :)"

Surgeon, pleadingly, within accidental snipping distance of the patient's spinal cord: "Guys, do NOT make me laugh."

[bougiebutchbinch]

OH MY GOD I FORGOT -

9. Surgeon using the electrocauter, leaning over the incision and inhaling deeply: mmmmm, that smell always gets me hungry. I'm having barbeque tonight.

New med student: 👀

[bougiebutchbinch]

and the classique:

Spinal surgeon: hey, that scoli's getting bad. want me to fix it for ya?

Me: I mean. There's a pretty long wait list

Spinal surgeon: yeah but I could do it tonight

Me: that would be very illegal, Jeff

Spinal surgeon: only if they catch me

[filmtvtoday]

GAME CHANGER - ‘Second Place’ 6.01

[theinformationcollector]

TIL Dr. Sigmund Freud was addicted to smoking and failed to quit for good throughout a 45 years long battle that included 33 operations for cancer of the jaw, an artificial jaw replacement, and attacks of “tobacco angina” exacerbated by nicotine . He was known to smoke up to twenty cigars a day.

via reddit.com

[blurrymango]

Jesus ffucking christ bro.

[kawaii-pigeon]

Seems like he had an oral fixation… Almost as if he were replacing the cigarette with… No i shant say…

[gearboxpraexology]

Then we’ll all say it together

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[anjew-jackson]

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[nemo-the-goat]

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[anjew-jackson]

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[dogsagainstbenitojuarez]

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[geminiagentgreen]

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[anjew-jackson]

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[facelift90]

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[anjew-jackson]

[stillthesunkenstars]

presented without comment

[pointnclick]

Lol just found McDonald's doordash on someone's doorstep #hunter #gatherer

[plum-soup]

That’s literally gathering not hunting or did your dumpy ass kill the burger yourself

[pointnclick]

I killed the dasher

[plum-soup]

Okay W

[wytrykusarchives]

The Milt Kahl Head Swaggle (Source: Cartoon Brew)

[spootywabbit]

I love it when you can pick up an animator’s quirks. 

[kaseylgifford]

     I’ve read in old interviews with Milt Khal’s fellow animators that he did the swaggle to purposefully show off. Moving the head in 3-d space is an exceptionally hard thing to do but Khal upped the level of difficulty to a place many animators wouldn’t go.      Not only are they all doing the swaggle you’ll notice they are all TALKING while they are doing it. This is back in the days where you had to use a timing sheet to pace your animation and a head swaggle doesn’t work if its too slow or too fast so he had to figure out the right speed so it looked natural while the character finishes what they have to say while not interfering with the distinct mouth shapes.       Not only did Khal do it without any shifting weight problems or timing issues he would often do it while moving the rest of the body. This isn’t his signature move just because he was good at it.This is his signature move because he was one of the only people skilled enough to DO IT AT ALL.

Milt Khal was a MASTER.

[riverthunder]

God, I can’t express to you how fucking DELIGHTED I become whenever they Milt Khal Head Swaggle Post graces my dash with its presence again.

[vivvision]

Gallifrey Cast Panel - Gallifrey One 2025 Highlights

1. Gary Russel bringing up “the Leela and Narvin romance” (and Miles Richardson saying he’s jealous) and saying he played it a bit Romeo and Juliet

2. Miles saying he was trying to be “sexy and appealing” during the first scene of series 4

3. Just. THEM!

4. “Seán, how does it feel to have a fanbase?” (Referring to the narvinettes)

5. Miles talking about going to dennys and saying he got the Benny breakfast because “I couldn’t not get the Benny breakfast!”

6. Jason and Scott bullying Gary Russel

7. Scott Hancock and Louise Jameson confirming she’ll be doing more with her Torchwood character who, in Louise’s words is “neurodivergent, probably lesbian, and alcoholic”

8. The boyz

More photos:

[vivvision]

More? HAVE MORE! (I took like. A million so I’ll be slowly weeding through them as quite a lot are blurry!)

[zetasigma]

This really was a spectacular panel. So much fun to have these three together to talk about our favorite series.

[alibonbonn]

one of the most ship dynamics of all time

[mixelation]

there's a secret good sequel series that lives only in brain where finn and rey are force-sensitive foils to each other and they still spend movie #2 entirely apart but it's because they're exploring parallel and at time opposite relationships with the force and their place in the universe

and in my secret good version. okay hear me out. the han-leia kid is a hot lady. okay. are we following. and she DOES abandon luke's new jedi, not by falling and murdering people, but by stealing the millennium falcon and running off to escape responsibility and swaggers around with incredible han solo "loser pretending to be cool" energy. and then. she accidentally picks up two force sensitive teens on jakku and she's like. are you KIDDING me

[mixelation]

listen my OC would be so good. she's introduced in like a space bar and you're just like "oh okay, the han solo character is a lady in this movie, okay"

but THEN some sort of shit hits the fan and you get that sexy, sexy lightsaber reveal. DO YOU SEE MY VISION

[official-kircheis]

[thememedaddy]

[byebye-cupid-lol]

spin this wheel for a prefix, and then spin this wheel for a suffix

do YOU like your new goverment assigned warriors name?

rlly cool!

its fine, nothing special

nope :/

click this if you got moonmoon'd

Voting ended onFeb 3, 2025

as a bonus you can spin this wheel to find ur role in the clan (note: spin twice if you get apprentice)

[towerofglass]

[tredekim]

[vivvision]

GALLIFREY FANS: 3 FANLETTER BOOK PROJECTS ARE NOW LIVE!

Seán Carlsen, Miles Richardson, and Louise Jameson will all be attending Gallifrey One in 2025. The goal is to collect fanart, fan letters, and more to compile into booklets for each of them. Whether you're attending or not, please consider writing a message or sending in some art for these three!

DUE DATE IS FEBRUARY 1st, 2025!

Link to Seán booklet submission

Link to Miles booklet submission

Link to Louise booklet submission

Please RB to spread the word, and message me for any questions!

[vivvision]

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