#adaptive responses

[aanews69]

Entregamos historias. También te damos guías, consejos y trucos sobre cómo crear el tuyo propio. Este canal está dedicado a cosas aleatorias que pasan por nu...

[attleboy]

Can you give some tutorials on how to/how you draw Pomni? I struggle with drawing her hat. XD

oh yeah of COURSE!!! :D i've waiting for this moment... literally! i've most of this sitting around for like, a month but, idk, i worried it'd be like, egotistical(????) to post a pomni tutorial unprompted..? but now i have been prompted so the floodgates shall open!!! >:D pomni be upon thee

(here's goose's pomni expression sheet in case you haven't seen it yet)

and if you're interested in how i draw her with sharp teeth, i've already made a tutorial on that!! check it out here :D

[fishing-lesbian-catgirl]

I don’t know if there’s anything as explicitly horny In Arknights as Pudding’s operator record tbh

[hotteacocoa]

I was watching a woman interview pro-life marchers, and one of them was holding a sign that said “four of my siblings were aborted. Choose life.”

This marcher said she was raised in a family of pro-abortionists, and the siblings before and after her were aborted because the mother “wasn’t ready” at first, and after she gave birth to the third baby, the mother just “didn’t feel like going through another pregnancy.”

That alone hit me so hard. But the part that hit the hardest was when the pro-lifer said “the reason why I was had is…because I was the more conveniently timed one.”

Why do we have to boil down the lives of children to one’s “convenience”? Why? This poor girl has 4 siblings who have no graves, no dates, nowhere to mourn or place flowers, all because her mother chose to think of herself before her children.

It’s so sad. It’s so so sad.

[thunderpoolisawesome]

I’m in love. I’m in love guys.

WHY DID THEY FUCKING DO THAT. ERIK NOOOOO

[feyclowns]

small note but HP and nana von strangle are bitter exes btw

[bethanydelleman]

Have you done a ranking or a review on the different Darcy portrayals in the adaptations?

If I must. I prefer Book!Darcy above all others and I don't think he's ever been properly portrayed. I'm also not the best person to answer this, most of the Pride & Prejudice adaptations I've only watched once. But here we go, best first:

#1. Lewis Fiander, BBC 1967 miniseries. He was snobby, he made jokes with Caroline, he was different in different situations. He's my favourite Darcy hands down and I think the best representation of this complex character.

#2. David Rintoul, BBC 1980 miniseries. They really played up the "stiff" but I still like him better than the others. He's not broody at least.

#3. Laurence Olivier, 1940 film. He's way too charming to be Darcy, he has charmed me...

#4. Martin Henderson, Bride & Prejudice film. He is snobby, he is rich, he takes care of his baby sister. I don't like his voice for some reason but he's a fairly good Darcy.

And then the rest:

Broody McBroodface, ShyBoiTM, Raspy Voice, and Idiot

(Aka: Colin Firth BBC 1995 miniseries, Matthew Macfadyen 2005 film, Sam Riley P&P&Z film, Elliot Cowan Lost in Austen miniseries)

To be honest, my dislike of 1995 and 2005's Darcys have less to do with the portrayals themselves than the way they've overridden the character in the novel and become faux canon. Also, I'm immune to Colin Firth, don't find him attractive at all, even in a wet shirt.

[hamable]

Hhhh bnha 419… Deku has given this fight everything he has. What happens next is literally out of his hands.

[lollytea]

Huntlow situationship gives me such intense brain termites you don't get it

[pkmnherpetology]

as many of you may have observed, clodsire, when threatened, will protrude large bony spikes from their back to defend themselves. these spikes are, in fact, highly modified rib bones that protrude through tubercles (the white spots on a clodsire’s back). the method of protrusion does in fact involve breaking the skin and forcing the bone through to the outside.

when a clodsire feels provoked, it will not immediately elect for this option. the level of stress and pressure a clodsire must feel to perform the rib-exposing behavior varies from individual to individual, but is consistent within an individual’s behavior (that is, the same clodsire will perform the behavior after the same level of provocation more-or-less every time). clodsire will usually initially defend themselves with their sticky white secretions first and foremost and may wail or bite in self-defense as well.

however, if pushed to the point of exposing their ribs, a clodsire will then use its powerful back muscles and the joints attaching the ribs to the vertebrae to force the bone through the tubercles and out of the body. following this, the clodsire will then secrete its own antimicrobial to prevent infection and accelerate healing.

it is unknown why this behavior evolved. unlike some of the adaptations taken on by the larval stage (commonly called wooper), evidence suggests that this ability existed prior to the habitat fragmentation that, over the last few centuries, has forced clodsire to maintain a more terrestrial lifestyle than quagsire. young paldean wooper, the most vulnerable stage of a clodsire’s life cycle, do not demonstrate this ability until shortly before or after metamorphosis, instead defending themselves primarily by expelling concentrated toxins from glands near their gills. while small subadult clodsire may experience some threats of predation, adult clodsire have few if any predators, particularly if they reach the species’ maximum size of nearly six feet long (which is rarer without an ideal habitat available but still possible).

[navree]

i was expecting bruce to take absolutely zero accountability for anything he did as zur so i'm choosing to find the silver lining in having him refer to the stupid fear chip thing as "what i did to you" and the way he's taking responsibility for the wrong he did to jason and not worm out and actually try to own it and potentially make amends (even tho i know what they're gearing up for is to have jason absolve him* without any real work involved on bruce's part)

*which isn't necessarily out of character for jason, he's a shockingly and verifiably incredibly forgiving person, considering that he's never publicly disparaged sheila for literally murdering him and still holds affection for willis and catherine in spite of their mistakes to the point where he was deeply upset about willis being killed and out loud said he forgave bruce for not saving him (not that he never blamed him, specifically that he forgave him, which implies both bruce's culpability and jason's own internal work to give him absolution which i wish more people remembered) and in general still has a relationship with half the fuckers in his family in spite of shit they've pulled. i just wish it was actually treated as a character trait, that jason is forgiving and goodhearted to the point where he lets things slide that he shouldn't so long as it only concerns himself and not others (cuz he's fundamentally selfless yes i will die on this hill) and not the writers never acknowledging that he's the fucking victim and that people deserve to be taken to task for stuff they do and that not everything bad that happens to him is his own fucking fault i hate dc.

[markantonys]

day 71 of asking why reddit has suddenly become convinced that the 'finn and mat's rhuidean trip are a waste of time and easily cut, and that season 3 will obviously feature him splitting off from the friends he just reunited with in order to spend the entire season dicking around with thom and getting into shenanigans, as that is much more important to his overall character arc than his 2-book waste arc

like there have been SO MANY posts like this lately and all of them are filled with comments of universal agreement! am i having a stroke? what the hell is going on???? i'll admit mat doesn't have a huge amount of specific stuff to do in the waste aside from rhuidean, but rhuidean is crucial to his character and s2 had Mat-Finn Connection Foreshadowing out the wazoo, plus the waste plotline is MUCH more fertile ground for creating additional Specific Mat Stuff and enhancing his character development & relationships with other main characters than his TDR plotline of dicking around with thom is.

[glasscandywitch]

gankutsuou + incest as the meaning of the gothic novel - ruth perry

[nereb-and-dungalef]

tbh i get the sense ppl look at the silm fandom and are like, Intimidated thinking everyone in there is like So Smart and will gatekeep you if you can't name all 500 kings of the noldor and whatnot but in reality (i personally) am more like:

if you don't have time to read the books you can literally just watch lay of leithian, the czech musicals, and nightfall in middle earth and let me explain the context and i will be 100% satisfied

[bethanydelleman]

what your thoughts on impact on Pride & Prejudice (2005)

So on the one hand, it probably brought a lot of new fans to Austen, something I assume because I was one of them. Always nice to see a new generation appreciating an excellent female writer, so that's a nice impact.

On the other hand, I blame 2005 for Darcy Shyboi (he ain't shy) and Bingley the Himbo (he's not stupid). This was a change from 1995 which had a very broody Darcy and an everyman Bingley. It's definitely had an impact on how people view those characters, even after reading the novel, and it has influenced depictions in fan fiction. I personally see this as negative, because it's not consistent with canon. Also, I feel like it's maligned my boy Bingles.

I don't know if this is an "impact" but it's certainly become a meme:

Neutral impact for that. Appreciate the hand flex all you want (though Elizabeth should have been wearing gloves...)

As an aside, the cinematography is very good and I appreciate the attempt to humanize some of the characters, specifically Mr. Collins, Mary Bennet, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. I love how everyone stands around as if they are in a tableau. But, the costumes are a mess, the characterization is wrong (especially Darcy, Georgiana, and Mr. Collins), and the movie format probably isn't long enough to do the story justice.

[catsafari25]

Sometimes there are really good nods to the films in the bionicle books, my favourite one I've noticed so far is this moment in The Darkness Below, which reverses the scene where Vakama rescues Matau from a deadly fall in Web of Shadows (and probably gave Vakama the idea later)