#all my opinions

[k-asternix]

In honor of the new life series supercuts we've been getting, here are my rankings for each life series season. From least to most favorite, with explanations for each ranking.

4. Last Life

I'm sorry but this one wasn't all that memorable. There was nothing wrong with it per se but it just felt a tad...incomplete compared to the others. I don't really have much to say about it. Like, yes there were interesting moments but as a whole the series didn't quite "tie together", you know? Not a bad series but not my favorite either.

3. Limited Life

This was a good season. There were a lot of great moments (I loved the judge Judy and Executioner plot). Martyn's win at the end of the series, and the lore that followed, was great. But I feel like this one suffers with a lack of narrative weight when it comes to the deaths of the characters. In the other series when a character died, regardless of the cause it was always important and had an influence on the plot. Here because of the game mechanics used (timer instead of set number of lives, keep inventory) each death felt less significant than I would have liked.

2. Double life

My second favorite. I feel like this season gets a bad rep, people say that the alliances were predictable or "forced" because of the soulmate mechanic. Or that the relationships weren't interesting because the alliances (in general) in this season lacked the kinds of tension and betrayals that they had in other seasons. I don't agree with that assessment at all.

First, not everyone stayed with their soulmates. Scott and Cleo chose thier own alliance with each other. As for the other groups, nobody is forced to stay with anyone else. They all chose to stay with their soulmates for their own reasons. Nothing forced about it.

Second, the dynamics in double life are interesting! And there's all kinds of tension and betrayals! Heck! The season even opens with Scott, Pearl, Cleo and Martyn all betraying each other! It's big! It's dramatic! It changes the course of the season!

That's not even mentioning all the smaller, more personal betrayals. (Think: secret soulmates).

Personally I found each soulmate pairing to be interesting in their own ways. And in terms of storyline this season was super solid!

Pearls decent into madness! Her eventual win! Beautiful! Tragic! Everything you want from a season of the life series!

(Plus it gave us the ranchers. What more could you ask for, really?)

1. Third Life

They. They. They never....left....the desert....they never left :(

[f1-disaster-bi]

Do you think we’ll see a female in f1 within 10 years and if so who do you think it’ll be/who do you want it to be

I would love to say yes, but I think there is a alot that would need to change in the next few years for this to happen. This is all just my thoughts and opinions and sorry that its long

W series (RIP) and F1 Academy are steps in the right direction....kind of. It is showcasing females in motorsports, but again it's not promoting them to the formulas where they can race against male drivers and gain the same type of opportunities. Even if we look at F1 academy, most of the drivers are running liveries with some support from those teams....but which of them are actually in drivers programs with the teams aside from Bianca who just got announced with McLaren? F1 Academy is great and important, and as Susie has said, change won't hapen over night and they need more support from drivers, teams and sponsors to give the girls equal opportunities to race

And that is a huge issue.

Drivers academies, teams and sponsors are more willing to take the risk on a young male driver than on a female one. They tend to be given the support whereas female drivers often have to bow out because of a lack of funding. I know its not every male driver that benefits, I know that, but when it comes down to it, a sponsor or team will back a male driver over risking investing in a female driver. This attitude needs to change. They need to be considered equally and investing in a female driver with a stronger talent shouldn't be seen as a risk.

This change also has to come from within the FIA and the structure of the entire series and feeder series. I was talking to a friend about this ask, and how to answer it, and they made a great point that another thing that is failing drivers (male and female) is the feeder series which no longer works. This was a series meant to promote drivers into F1, but teams are now retaining drivers, re-signing drivers that have been out of the sport, instead of signing younger drivers as is the purpose of the feeder series. The last time this worked, my friend pointed out, was really 2019 with the rookie trio coming to F1. Possibly 2020 with Mick getting a seat for 2021.

There are so many hurdle in place already for young drivers, and those hurdles are twice, if not ten times, harder for female drivers. From how some fans react to them (the way they spoke about Bianca in comments is disgusting), to how female drivers are compared to each other so much so that if a female does bad in the feeder series suddenly all female drivers are bad and teams won't sign them, to money and sposors and just it being impossible to get the opportunities that male drivers do.

I really hope we get to see a female driver in F1 in the next ten years but I do think there is a lot of work that needs to be down before that. Some of which I don't see happening any time soon sadly, but I am hopeful that time will prove me wrong

I do suggest listening to Jessica Hawkins interview after her test laps on her expereinces. I can only speak as a fan and observer. I cannot speak for female drivers because I am not one

As for who I'd like it to be? Honestly, all of them deserve their shot at F1, just like the F3 and F2 guys do. Ngl, I would like to see Bianca Bustamante up there some day, but any female who makes it to F1 would deserve it and be amazing to see

[ginnysmovie]

One of my favorite movies, 10/10 (best in franchise! In my opinion)

Dane DiLiegro as Feral Predator/Predator in Prey (2022) 03/??

[kenapiece-main]

Can you believe I'm having to make this meme even after successfully finishing up taxes and applying to job

[ollydee]

Is media literacy in crisis?

[arcanefanpage]

[ginnysmovie]

this movie was awesome, my fave since skull island/Godzilla king of monsters

First look at Godzilla and Kong in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

[screaming-in-the-corner]

Something you need to remember is that journalistic photographers are still artists at heart. When you are providing a source of information that is to be seen as "the truth" you are going to frame things to look a certain way.

You will publish the ones that look like what you want. The framing of Luigi Mangione's transportation is incredibly evocative of paintings of Jesus being arrested. It also (not so) coincidentally is often the framing of a hero being captured for the greater good.

This is ON PURPOSE. Do not discredit the artist by calling it a mistake. This was on purpose. The artist supports him and is framing him as a hero.

No matter how much corporate news may attempt to drown out the support for Mangione, artists always have the ear of the people. A picture is worth a thousand words, isn't it?

[deep-space-netwerk]

So Venus is my favorite planet in the solar system - everything about it is just so weird.

It has this extraordinarily dense atmosphere that by all accounts shouldn't exist - Venus is close enough to the sun (and therefore hot enough) that the atmosphere should have literally evaporated away, just like Mercury's. We think Earth manages to keep its atmosphere by virtue of our magnetic field, but Venus doesn't even have that going for it. While Venus is probably volcanically active, it definitely doesn't have an internal magnetic dynamo, so whatever form of volcanism it has going on is very different from ours. And, it spins backwards! For some reason!!

But, for as many mysteries as Venus has, the United States really hasn't spent much time investigating it. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, sent no less than 16 probes to Venus between 1961 and 1984 as part of the Venera program - most of them looked like this!

The Soviet Union had a very different approach to space than the United States. NASA missions are typically extremely risk averse, and the spacecraft we launch are generally very expensive one-offs that have only one chance to succeed or fail.

It's lead to some really amazing science, but to put it into perspective, the Mars Opportunity rover only had to survive on Mars for 90 days for the mission to be declared a complete success. That thing lasted 15 years. I love the Opportunity rover as much as any self-respecting NASA engineer, but how much extra time and money did we spend that we didn't technically "need" to for it to last 60x longer than required?

Anyway, all to say, the Soviet Union took a more incremental approach, where failures were far less devastating. The Venera 9 through 14 probes were designed to land on the surface of Venus, and survive long enough to take a picture with two cameras - not an easy task, but a fairly straightforward goal compared to NASA standards. They had…mixed results.

Venera 9 managed to take a picture with one camera, but the other one's lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 10 also managed to take a picture with one camera, but again the other lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 11 took no pictures - neither lens cap deployed this time.

Venera 12 also took no pictures - because again, neither lens cap deployed.

Lotta problems with lens caps.

For Venera 13 and 14, in addition to the cameras they sent a device to sample the Venusian "soil". Upon landing, the arm was supposed to swing down and analyze the surface it touched - it was a simple mechanism that couldn't be re-deployed or adjusted after the first go.

This time, both lens caps FINALLY ejected perfectly, and we were treated to these marvelous, eerie pictures of the Venus landscape:

However, when the Venera 14 soil sampler arm deployed, instead of sampling the Venus surface, it managed to swing down and land perfectly on….an ejected lens cap.

[demaparbat-hp]

She will (and he'll let her)

[ginnysmovie]

The scarlet letter modern retelling , romcom style, one of the best movies of 2010

Easy A (2010) dir. Will Gluck

[8dayrain]

first day of school

[dekariosclan]

Reactions to Mystra’s Orders for Gale

The companions: Mystra is selfish, petty, and incorrect in her assessment of Gale’s worth. Unbelievable. Poor Gale :(

Tara: I WILL HUNT DOWN EACH AND EVERY GOD FOR SPORT

[d-does-art]

*crawls out of art block dungeon*

Here's a page of a comic I've been thinking of. I don't know if I'll finish it, but posting might help motivate me. Or I'll move on to the next thing, haha.   

[ginnysmovie]

Rewatching planet of the apes movies in prep for the new one, kingdom of the planet of the apes that comes out on may 10th

8.9/10 for rise of the planet of the apes

Rise of planet of the apes was great, despite abuser James franco being a main. BUT Dawn of the planet of the apes was incredible, and I find myself crying multiple times each rewatch from how good and raw it is. 9.5/10 for Dawn

Also fuck Koba with every fiber of my being.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) dir. Matt Reeves

[oifaaa]

Just realising most of my grievances with popular bat fanon really boil down to "Character flaws are good and interesting actually and I don't like when you try and take them away to make the character more palatable"