#idk I was going on a deep dive

[my-opinions]

I am genuinely curious, but how does Zhou travel?

Like if you look at where the Chinese passport can take you without a visa is like nothing, so how does he travel everywhere? what types of visas does he have? How full is his passport? If anyone has an answer let me know because I really would like to know.

[machinthemachine]

Now seems as good a time as any to reveal I've been a VIP since 2011

[uncouth-the-fifth]

pictures of jared to think about

[roachesbf]

Spiderman Noir With a Superman Anomaly Reader

Stumbling into Noirs universe was a complete accident. You were doing some simple patrolling when you stumbled upon a weird portal, of course you did the responsible thing and reported in to Bruce. Telling him about your findings and from his mic you could pick up your uncle Kal, yelling about no matter what, don't go messing around with it until they arrive to check it out. You tease him a little about it, saying how you’re not that stupid to mess with something you know nothing about by yourself. Of course you’re above simple mistakes…such as tripping on your own cape, managing to get sucked into said other wordly portal. 

It’s very easy for Noir to spot you because of the weird getup you’ve got going on. I honestly think one of his first instincts would be to web you and investigate what/who you are. But upon being webbed you manage to break them, brushing them off as you concerningly ask what the fuck was that. He’s a bit perplexed after that because there’s no way you got out of his webs that easily. You don't seem like an initial threat at first but he keeps his guard up in case. You explain your situation with the whole portal, of course skipping out on the tripping part because he doesn’t need to know that. After his whole ordeal with being in another dimension he knows your telling the truth and loosens up a little. 

The two of you are sitting on top of a building ledge as the both of you exchange different information about each other's universes. He admires that the symbol on your chest stands for justice and truth, happy that the people in the universe have heroes like you to protect them. Noir probably also makes a comment about how you don’t wear a mask and he truly feels your dedication to being a hero to others when you say you want people to trust you. Noir finds your attitude interesting, considering how bright and fun you contrast to his monochromatic world. He’s 100% amazed by what you can do, comic books are barely becoming a thing in his time and age but you’re exactly what he imagined they’d be like. He’s really curious as to what you can do, and doesn’t believe half of them. He’s a little suspicious when you say you have laser vision but he’s not willing to take the risk of you showing him, simply brushing it off by saying “Okay okay I believe ya, now put those eyes away before someone gets hurt.” Once he knew you could fly and had super strength he let the best get to him and asked if you could lift him. 

Of course always eager to show off you flew up and picked him up by his underarms. He knew it was coming but seeing you actually fly and lift him up is still something that could startle anyone. He lets you have your fun for a little bit before asking to be put down and you agree, fixing his hat on his head. Noir eventually asks you if there’s any way for you to get hope and you simply pop out with a nope. He murmurs to himself for a bit to see if there was a way for him to help you, so far your circumstances were different that his, and he was sure there was no one in his dimension trying to open any other dimension portals so this just must’ve been a fluke of nature. 

He invites you to stay with him until you somehow get home, in return all he asks is that you help with his crime fighting. He totally admires you even more once the two of you get down to business, throwing in a few compliments on your form here and there as he lands a punch. After a while of getting to know each other he’ll help you blend in properly by letting you borrow his own things since this motherfucker is built like a brick. He’ll have you wear his coat + hat when you’re out in public. Sometimes he’ll catch himself staring too much at you in his clothes but in my head he resembles that one joke that's  “I’m probably nonbinary but I have a job so idrc about that rn” except how he’s totally gay for you. 

Once Bruce finally manages to get you back, you were out doing normal things with Noir before you get dragged into an alleyway. Of course Noir senses this and follows behind. Seeing a man who looks like you along with a man in a batlike costume. He ask if this means you're finally going home, Bruce says its where you belong and hurries for you to follow along through the portal. You ask him if he wants his coat back but he insists that you keep it, saying that it'll be a memory of the two of you.

"Will I ever see you again?"

"I don't know."

[factcheckingmclennon]

what if i go through and literally everything winds up being true after leading me down several rabbit holes. that would be so funny. i truly hope john said at some point that him and paul fucked i'd love to discover that one

[bulbabutt]

no offence to people who genuinely enjoyed james somerton and feel cheated but you could kind of tell he didnt give a shit about anything he ever said. there was no passion or personable anecdotes in anything he ever made, and the fact he was constantly posting videos was crazy. like if you watch your more popular video essayists theyre always coming from a point of 1) education in a field 2) passion in a subject and 3) being open about themselves

like , this man hopped on the video essay train because of the popularity of his peers and just tokened himself into "the gay video essayist" as if so many other people werent already doing that? and the lack of care for intersectionality was obvious. i stopped ever watching him after he took it personally that some marvel show was about black exploitation in america and not about two men kissing each other, cuz it became abundantly clear that was the only experience he gave a shit about (his own)

[lesenbyan]

I keep thinking about Garlean technology versus Eorzean but this time I'm specifically on the medical sciences bc like.

We don't hear it often but Eorzea is still using the 4 humors. They have magical healing so it makes sense their understanding of biology and medicine is stunted (and then you add on the sheer destruction that comes from the calamities that often basically has everyone clawing their way back from literally nothing. I expect we only have so much of Allag left bc they had a tendency to launch shit into the sky.) Like i'm sure there are some scientifically minded people that want/do biology research in Eorzea, but I feel like there are societal rules against, like, autopsies and such much like irl societies have/had. And as far as I know, there is no evidence of surgery in eorzea in canon

On the other hand we see Garlemald and we know surgery exists bc of some of the modifications to bosses (looking at you SB.) We know they must have a comprehensive grasp of medicine to have been half as prosperous as an Empire. We see far too many old garlean men for me to believe it's all luck and genetics. I don't think they rival today's medicine, mind, but I think they know what an antibiotic is, you know?

What i'm saying is, these two practices have their benefits both but I imagine they can also treat completely different things. Like of course there's overlap but imagine Garlean medicine finding the cure to the Creeping Death? They give Eorzea the ability to triage so deep stabbings aren't necessarily fatal bc magic can't close the wound? What about magically assissted surgery? Makes it 100% survival rates bc the boost? What if we marry the two?

[dogwittaablog]

he did block an acc that @ed his old burner and based on the followers i would say it’s prob him.. but i also think that’s bc i can’t rly imagine someone taking the time out of their day to impersonate him like this 😭

So for a background info if you're not up to date or need a refresher: the user in the first account saying they got blocked by @ gollpatt after tagging the account in a tik tok talking about pro athletes seeing things posted about them. That account also follows/interacts with the same mutual burner accounts on NP's potential one too. (I didn’t know how I missed seeing this when I first peeped the account lmao).

Now we have the deleted tweets, which each tweet that has @‘d him he removed it, but didn’t block the account doing so and allowed them to follow and hasn’t deleted anything else. (I posted 1/2 of these screenshots previously).

[merge-conflict]

wondering not for the first time how having a lot of cyberware might change your caloric intake requirements. how are all those limbs powered?

[writhe]

[devondespresso]

the feminine urge to dig through every scene steve is in to compile a masterlist of any and all traits, facts, and details we could gather from canon

and not to prove a "right" way to characterize him but to give more ideas and jumping off points for us to play with. we don't have a lot of details explicitly laid out for us so we do assume a lot (some of those assumptions don't have a strong canon backing which is fine but some definitely do and a lot of people don't realize?? we're not too far off with some of this) but theres definitely stuff implied here and a good bit of it's probably intentional (you're rarely "looking too far into it" with filmmaking. there are happy accidents but a shit ton of this is intentional otherwise it wouldn't be there)

anyway would anyone be interested in seeing it? rn it's just like an impulse before i go to bed but if anyone actually wants to hear whatever i find it might actually push me to do it tomorrow

[nezuchuuko]

I'm about to sound really dumb, probably, but what are the aroace elements in The Summer Hikaru Died?

i follow the official english volume release and i’m admittedly not caught up rn, so honestly the aroace elements flew over my head despite being ace myself, but after reading sensei’s tweets i can definitely see it!! and i’m sure it gets more pronounced passed where i’m at, but it has to do with how hikaru feels and experiences love in regards to yoshiki. like he’s aware that he has feelings for yoshiki but it’s not in the “normal” way, so there’s tension that results from this unconventional way of feeling love.

[muninnhuginn]

feeling so normal about li bing and qiu qingzhi btw

[throes-of-warm-tornadoes]

cory and topanga getting married straight out of high school was an insane move

[jon-is-blorbo]

The more I think of wing aus the more I can only see Jon with sea bird wings

[bluemoonrabbit]

Man, I just watched a bunch of retrospectives on the Titan submersible and OceanGate, and now all I wish is that the CEO had not been on the sub that day. That man would have had one hell of a criminal negligence suit to deal with if he hadn't gotten turned into a paste.

It's so much worse than that he was just overconfident and miscalculated. The man decided he had to be an innovator, and he was fixated on the idea of using carbon fiber for his hull. No one else was using it! He'd be hailed as a maverick and a genius for bringing this material to the forefront of submersible technology! Never mind that carbon fiber had been very definitively shown to degrade after repeated exposure to high pressure. He had decided that it was his ticket to history and he wouldn't hear otherwise.

The entire industry told him that a carbon fiber hull wasn't safe. He himself knew it wasn't, because he'd had to replace the hull on his original prototype when it started breaking down, like everyone told him it would. Individuals and regulatory bodies reached out again and again laying out the danger and begging him not to do what he was doing, and he dismissed them all as old-fashioned and insular, trying to keep the submersible industry exclusive.

He didn't even do the industry-standard upkeep required for the materials he insisted on using, materials that, once again, had been definitively shown to degrade in deep environments. It is standard, when using carbon fiber in long-term applications, to autoclave it after a few uses to reseal some of the degradation. This fucker, born into wealth and charging $250K per passenger, couldn't stand to spend $20K to autoclave his carbon fiber death trap.

Beyond that, his marketing materials were deliberately misleading: he repeatedly pointed out that the submersible industry has an incredible safety record, pretty much zero deaths in the last 50 years. However, he was knowingly skipping all of the safety tests and best practices that had contributed to that record, meaning he benefited from that reputation without putting in any of the work required to uphold it.

Yeah, I really wish we could have seen him try to argue in court that he wasn't culpable.