#ahead by a century

[mydreamsarentrare]

The Anne With An E theme song in TUA???

[darkzonez]

Ahead By A Century

The Tragically Hip 🇨🇦

@darkzonez

[pixiedust111]

Ahead By A Century (4K subs + International Men's Day Tribute)

It had to be published ahead of the actual date 😂😂 hehe!

[mrthemovieman]

The Tragically Hip - Ahead By A Century (Official Music Video)

[you-just-said-that]

Anne with an E Soundtrack/ Tragically Hip - Ahead by a Century

[hotcinnamonsunset]

proof that you CAN use math in every day life😌✌🏼

[julieverne]

As The Tragically Hip once said, he was ahead by a century (and disappointing him is getting me down)

A Century Ahead Of Our Time

After his unfortunate laboratory fire in 1895, which destroyed nearly all his work and research, Nikola Tesla was immediately back in a new laboratory experimenting with his wireless theories. As early as 1896, Tesla was already sending signals from his laboratory in New York City to West Point, located roughly 30 miles north of his lab. He continued these experiments and many others until he realized he needed more space than what the crowded city could offer.

In 1899, he developed a laboratory station in Colorado Springs, Colorado in hopes of developing a transmitter of great power, to perfect means for individualizing and isolating the energy transmitted, and also to ascertain the laws of propagation of currents through the earth and the atmosphere. Tesla ultimately believed that it is practicable to disturb the electrostatic condition of the earth and by developing large enough machinery he could grip the earth with electricity, use it as a conductor, and transmit signals and power through it.

While in Colorado, Nikola Tesla was informed numerous times by his secretary about the many other competitors in the wireless art. There was George H. Clark, who was sending messages up to 3 miles. There was also Professor Marble in Connecticut, Dr. Riccia in France, and Professor D'Azar in Rome. Guglielmo Marconi was the biggest competitor who was sending messages up to 20 miles in America at the America's Cup boat races. Although Tesla's secretary was worried that Tesla might be wasting time in Colorado while others were getting the jump on him, Tesla confidently replied:

"Do not worry about me. I am about a century ahead of the other fellows."

In January of 1900, Tesla would leave Colorado fully convinced that he accomplished all he set out to do. He would then set out to engineer and build his machines on a large scale, but ended up lacking the investments and funds to finish his work in its entirety. Some say he failed because his idea didn't work, but that's not true at all because his Colorado experiments proved that they did. He simply underestimated the cost of his system. Unfortunately, his failings to fulfill his dreams and finish his work would leave him with the public persona as being the mad scientist who had unrealistic ideas for the future. Although we are advancing with great strides in technological achievements, we are still a century behind the future Nikola Tesla hoped and dreamed for.

[ssmhhh]

I just think it’s funny how—

[legionofpotatoes]

they took all the whimsy out of her :(

[liesmyth]

would you be able to give examples/explain more about how race only impacts gideon in the tlt-universe? not being facetious or condescending, genuinely asking. thank you!

Hi anon! If you mean my tags to this post, I wrote

#earth conception of race doesn't impact any character in the series except the canonically brown main antagonist

By which I mean my Worstie and main antagonist of the series, John Gaius (PhD).

I don’t think TLT as a series engages with race in any especially meaningful ways. It’s set in a post-Earth society with entirely different social norms, and there’s no concept of race and ethnicity within the population of the Nine Houses. Physical descriptions of the characters are scarce to say the least, and they rarely spell out the kind of features that suggest specific racial connotations, because the POV characters don’t seem to think it’s something worth remarking upon. iirc, it takes until halfway through HtN for the narrative to confirm that Harrow has brown skin.

[See also Tamsyn’s GtN characters description post. It quotes passages from the book, and you can see how minimal the descriptions are, and she repeats several times that her characters’ appearances are up to the readers’ interpretations. It just doesn’t seem to be a big concern of hers]

Then there’s John, who grew up in twenty-first-century New Zealand and IS explicitly Māori in a way that absolutely impacted his character arc. It's not A major theme of his Nona chapters, but it’s there if you read between the lines. The boarding school he went to, which IRL had a high percentage of low-income Māori students on scholarship. The depth of his climate anxiety, his uncompromising “Nobody left behind” stance before the cryo project was halted, and his fervent hatred of ‘the trillionaires’ afterwards... these are all informed to some extent by his background as an indigenous man imo, and so was the global reaction to his developing powers. The “We were going to put you fellas in jail, weren’t we?” the way his initial attempts at publications are all flat-out ignored by the scientific community and dismissed as culty gimmicky faith healing until he leans into it.

John being Māori is just one of the many pieces of his backstory, and far from the most impactful to what eventually went down, but my point remains that he is the ONLY character in TLT whose racial background 1) affects his story arc and 2) is relatable to the audience. Everyone else is ten thousand years removed from Earth, and I’m just not very interested in using racial identifiers when exploring these characters and their dynamics, because the characters themselves don’t care and neither does the narrative.

[electroniccollectiondonut]

I have not been in this fandom long enough to reasonably judge others' takes however. "EPIC fans are so silly to characterize odysseus as feeling guilty for his actions don't you know he's a war criminal" is definitely a wild one. like first of all to each their own so settle down and let people enjoy things ok. and secondly making choices with a bad outcome, even knowingly and deliberately, does not exclude the possibility of feeling bad about it later. in fact it makes for a much more in depth character because then you get to explore what he does or doesn't feel guilt over, and why, and if that guilt ever edges into regret or not.

[jstor]

This is your sign to go ahead and buy the $7 coffee you've been craving. Happy National Coffee Day (U.S.) from all of us at JSTOR!

"The Woman taking Coffee." Louis-Martin Bonnet (French, 1736-1793). From the Cleveland Museum of Art's Open Access collection, free and available to all on JSTOR.

[kh-daybreak-cult-au]

Not relevant quite this second but out of the character's listed...

You'll get to hear all of them eventually, just lets me know who I should focus on first (since it'll require a bit more prep and detail than the asks)

[lgwilt]

Seven Sentence Sunday

Another snippet from my @lokiusbang fic, based on art by the brilliant @wolfpup026

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“Careful,” Mobius cautioned, gently steering Loki away from a particularly treacherous patch of mud. “This part’s slippery, and I’d rather you didn’t sprain your ankle; you’re already in danger of catching a chill.”

“I haven’t the slightest intention of doing either,” Loki retorted. Did Mobius take him for the helpless heroine of a Gothic novel?

“Famous last words,” said Mobius, neatly sidestepping a fallen branch. 

“Yet it is you who chose to venture out into a thunderstorm in little more than your shirtsleeves.”

“Only because I glimpsed you from my window, standing forlornly in the pouring rain.”

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Tagging @loki-is-my-kink-awakening @insert-witty-user-name-here @in-my-loki-feels @mirilyawrites @blackbirdofasgard @dewdropreader and anyone else who'd like to join! I always love these tantalising snippets 💚

[sezja]

I am so deeply fascinated by the lost/forgotten histories of the First and how so much has been changed or lost forever in only a hundred years but also, also, what depresses me most about FFXIV existing in a time bubble forever is that it means we're never going to get to see what they make of the future. The restoration of the Empty means they have a whole world to explore and reclaim. They've got so much to discover! So much land to lay trolley tracks on! This is a doomed world that has had its future restored to them, and I'm a little sad that we won't see it.