#ask laser

[stealingpotatoes]

In Skywalkers Apart:

Why doesn't Anakin go overthrow the Emperor sooner? (since it appears that the Empire is still in power around the Rebels time period)

What do Anakin and Sabine think of each other? Bc I think they'd get along quite well 😉💣

What does Anakin think of Chopper and AP-5?

anakin & sabine would get on GREAT (especially bc this is ultimate girldad au anakin) but uh. on the first point. i think you're overestimating anakin a little like you've gotta think abt that matchup

[purble-turble]

Any request for Mk who accidentally turns into a baby and is using his powers

Excellent request- I love baby MK 😍

[skiplo-wave]

She’s back and new outfit that’s slay.

The replies are exactly what you think and I hope they all get vaporized :)

[chubbychiquita]

I've been following your gain for years now and it's wild to see how utterly immense you've become. These last 50 lbs or so have catapulted you into an entirely new class. The shape of your face has changed, your belly is massive. It's impossible to imagine that you were ever not fat. 400 seems to be inches away and it makes me think back to a video from several years and several hundred lbs ago when you ate an entire cake, as if to prove you were destined for sheer gluttony and enormity. #SSBBW

you're right about these last 50 lbs, the world has become uniquely tough to navigate in ways that i hadn't experienced as *just* a ~315 lb girl 🥵🥵🥵 seatbelts, arm rests, booth seating, bar stools, bathroom stalls, store aisles, public transit, theaters, salons, dentists offices, finding 5X clothes or furniture rated to 400+lbs, and at a recent checkup, my doctor had to tie two gowns together bc their XXL didn't even come close to covering me 😩

[ma-re-zo]

Monty Python Arthur x hetalia Arthur lol

Sorry for being absent for so long, things happened.

[hellscap3]

Well drawing I was thinking of his first time playing vs his 100th. You may notice in the top left one of these bullets is not like the other..

[dazzelmethat]

Fishkeeping is hard.. not because water perimeters is too hard or keeping plants alive or any of that. But because I only ever learn about a common problem a fish has when I'm googling symptoms.

I've been dreaming about a dwarf gourami for 3 years and just now I find out that 70% of them in the market die from a virus they are susceptible to?

It's so hard to imagine little fishes as a cog in the capitalistic machine that doesn't care about the health of those fish when they are just little guys. They are just so little..

Where do the fish people of tumblr get your information from?

[reality-detective]

A man's talent to be envied to create this laser show. 🤔

[journeytothewestresearch]

Is there any sort of symbolism for Sun Wukong's shootling lazers out of his eyes after bowing to the four cardinal directions? Also is there any other mention of his lazer eyes or is just this one time in the beggining of the novel?

The laser beams only appear in the beginning of the novel.

I've previously suggested in this article that they are one of several events from the historical Buddha's biography that the author-compiler of Journey to the West borrowed in order to make Sun Wukong's early life more familiar. The pertinent section reads:

Upon his birth, the Buddha is said to have “shed in every direction the rays of his glory” (fig. 3) (Beal, 1883, p. 3). The source continues to describe this light, as well as the Bodhisattva’s first few moments outside the womb:

His body, nevertheless, was effulgent with light, and like the sun which eclipses the shining of the lamp, so the true gold-like beauty of the Bodhisattva shone forth and was diffused everywhere. / Upright and firm and unconfused in mind, he deliberately took seven steps, the soles of his feet resting evenly upon the ground as he went, his footmarks remained bright as seven stars. / Moving like the lion, king of beasts, and looking earnestly towards the four quarters, penetrating to the centre the principles of truth, he spake thus…” (Beal, 1883, pp. 4-5).

The historical Xuanzang (on whom Tripitaka is based) notes in his travelogue that the Buddha even walks towards the cardinal directions: “After he had been born the Bodhisattva walked seven steps unaided to each of the four quarters … [u]nder each step a large lotus flower sprang up from the earth” (Xuanzang, 1996/2016, p. 158).

Wukong too produces a great light in every direction: “Having learned at once to climb and run, this monkey also bowed to the four quarters, while two beams of golden light flashed from his eyes to reach even the Palace of the Polestar” (fig. 4) (Wu & Yu, 2012, p. 101).

Therefore, both shine their lights in the four cardinal directions.

Fig. 3 – Baby Buddha producing a radiant splendor upon his birth (larger version). Artist unknown. Found on this article. Fig. 4 – Bright beams of light shine from Wukong’s eyes as he bows to the four directions (larger version). From the Japanese children’s book Son Goku (1939). 

Sources:

Beal, S. (Trans.). (1883). The Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king: A Life of Buddha by Asvaghosha Bodhisattva. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/foshohingtsankin00asva/mode/2up

Xuanzang (2016). The Great Tang Dynasty Record of the Western Regions (2nd ed., R. Li, trans.). California: BDK America, Inc. (Original work published 1996)

Wu, C., & Yu, A. C. (2012). The Journey to the West (Vols. 1-4) (Rev. ed.). Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.

[habken]

What kind of fun activity would izuku do for a birthday party?

Idk laser tag

[stealingpotatoes]

The Daleks would destroy all Star Wars factions without the Doctor

yeah no counterpoint:

[skonksrus]

Neon Tigre

[ikol-art]

Everyone always assumes Arthur is gonna come back in 'our' time in fics, but when is someone gonna write an 'Arthur returns because Aliens have invaded Earth' futuristic one

[askthenewritoelder]

ESTABLISHING PSI-CONNECTION WITH INDIVIDUAL "TEBA."

STAND BY . . .

Note, you may feel a slight stinging sensation in your head as the connection is established. This is not a test.

(@askvahmedoh)

Hey, Medoh. You remember that one time I tried to blow you up in the sky when you were possessed by the Calamity? That’s water under the bridge now, right?

[caydeus]

Based on a conversation I had

[qyuubu]

naaawt to be the annoying shipper and overanalyze a silly lil tiktok from the creator but-

i would expect gun to immediately hit goo back. he always has. and he’s fast. goo acts up and gun puts him in his place (unless charles explicitly tells him to stay put, like when they were recruiting big deal for the 4 major crews).

this time, he didn’t. he was pissed at goo, for sure. but he didn’t make any attempt to escape his handcuffs. shit didn’t even rattle.

i mean yeah, he has let goo land a few punches back then. gun didn’t bat an eye. i mean, it’s not a big deal. but a hard punch like that? gun wouldn’t let it slide.

maybe gun did hit him back off camera, but i’d like to think he restrained himself just a bit. maybe it’s bc charles isn’t around anymore. maybe it was bc he’s in jail. maybe it was the handcuffs. but fuck, he held back.

do you think gun can ever get rid of the image of goo lying there, sword piercing right through his chest? though, gun doesn’t feel as bad as you’d think he does. goo’s alive anyway so there’s no need to pay respects. but gun does think about it. and that’s all he needs. he’s second guessing. a single thought, and now he watches his fists.