#is fascinating

[siennahrobek]

Okay but for real, the season finale for the first season is something else, just in terms of Jane’s actions. He gets all upset with Lisbon about their plan and being led to Red John and Jane has so little regard of his own life. Even when Maya is mentioned, he just. All he wants is Red John. If he can’t have a go at him, he needs Lisbon to get him, even if it means his own death.

This guy is practically allergic to guns most of the time. But the moment this guy makes a move - as obsessed with Red John as Jane is - Jane shoots him in defense of Lisbon. Like he doesn’t even think, he just picks the gun up and does it. And then his hand kinda shakes and he drops it immediately.

Say what you will about the first season of The Mentalist, it’s more episodic nature and Jane’s behavior etc., but the dude cared about Lisbon from the get-go more than he probably gets credit for. And I appreciate that.

[svenghouly]

I love stories of teenagers not only fighting against the crushing demands of society but also their own frontal lobes.

[covertblizzard]

Up till this point, they've mainly been just in their heroes identities and fighting random made up villains of their own. This is the first story that starts to mix in their other stories, mainly with Garth and the pulling in Ocean Master, a villain from his Aqua-side storyline, although there is also the mention of Dick Grayson and his guardian.

It does depend on how you count Donna's whole thing before because she is arguably the first one to have her outside of Teen Titans side of life pulled into the story, but no villains from her yet! I wonder if there'll be more of their villains joining in the story~

[frigidlyauthorial]

rewatching Bryan Dechart’s original dbh playthrough and the quiet despair in his voice when he realized that his chat tricked him into making Connor interact with Gavin is incredible

[theperksofbeingstupid]

qcellbit with a muzzle... tell me more I am intrigued

i think whatever the feds tried to do to him, he fought them tooth and nail. especially tooth. i think the feds obviously thought to tie his hands down, or put him in handcuffs, but they forget he survived off human flesh for a Very Long time.. and maybe one of them got too close .. and well.. i don't think they made that mistake a second time. i think he woke up on that day with felps in the puzzle room and his jaw was sore, and the bridge of his nose was bruised, and he never found out why

[cartcop]

I’ve said this before but it really does feel to me that Kristen Reidel has one vision for the show and the entire rest of the writing team, directors, and honestly some of the cast have a completely different vision

[ionlytalktodogs]

The nature of Tumblr is such that I’ll often see posts that make ZERO sense to me because they’re meant for a very insular community. I enjoy this because it’s a look into a subculture I’d normally never engage in. But sometimes it’s really weird

[embervoices]

I'm very confused.

Monitors work by tricking the human brain by using varying amounts of Red, Green, and Blue light in each pixel to target the cones in our eyes.

How is the 4th cone being targeted by an RGB monitor?

If you have only two kinds of cones, both are still being targeted and you're effectively missing the information from the 3rd type. (I admit to being very curious how that compares with what you see in the real world!)

It's plausible that a test like the image above might be relevant for testing a tetrachromat in physical space, depending on how they create those colors, but on a monitor? I can't for the life of me figure out how.

While I'm here ranting, the thing about the dress is seriously missing the point. The confusion isn't of the dress, it's of the photograph of the dress.

People generally aren't confused by the colors of the photo itself when they are presented void of context, they're confused by how to interpret the colors in the provided context, because our brains are used to adjusting for the color of the lighting.

Recognizing that the colors in the photograph are neither blue and black, nor gold and white, but brown and a pale cool grey is far more likely a function of training in color theory and visual arts than in having a fourth cone.

For most of us, being able to distinguish between very similar colors probably has more to do with how the brain processes what our cones detect than with the cones themselves.

My sensory processing is hyper-responsive across most of my senses, including hearing. I nevertheless have mild hearing loss in some registers. That's a difference between what my ears can actually detect and how my brain responds to it.

I can reliably see 37 colors on this monitor. On my phone and tablet I can distinguish all 39. My friends suggest to me that I'm a tetrachromat whenever the subject comes up. If the opportunity ever arises, I'll certainly get tested, but thus far I have no reason to believe the difference is in my eyes, rather than my brain holding onto information other brains filter out as irrelevant.

By the way, if you saw more than 39 section shifts, don't feel bad! I was curious about the phantom shifts I wasn't sure of, so I pulled the Tumblr version of the image into Photoshop and hue-shifted it. Lots of compression noise! There's a lot less in the image I pulled from the original article and shifted, but not none:

(For the curious, the above image is pulled from the original article and then hue-shifted in chunks by 90 degrees, and then the diagonal band shifts all 4 rows by another 45. The second row from the top is the original row.)

25% of the people have a 4th cone and see colors as they are

Given the sudden interest for the color of dresses and vision, here some of the fascinating findings we did recently.

The color nuances we see depend on the number and distribution of cones (=color receptors) in our eye. You can check this rainbow: how many color nuances do you count?

You see less than 20 color nuances: you are a dichromats, like dogs, which means you have 2 types of cones only. You are likely to wear black, beige, and blue. 25% of the population is dichromat.

You see between 20 and 32 color nuances: you are a trichromat, you have 3 types of cones (in the purple/blue, green and red area). You enjoy different colors as you can appreciate them. 50% of the population is trichromat.

You see between 33 and 39 colors: you are a tetrachromat, like bees, and have 4 types of cones (in the purple/blue, green, red plus yellow area). You are irritated by yellow, so this color will be nowhere to be found in your wardrobe. 25% of the population is tetrachromat.

You see more than 39 color nuances: come on, you are making up things! there are only 39 different colors in the test and probably only 35 are properly translated by your computer screen anyway :)

It is highly probable that people who have an additional 4th cone do not get tricked by blue/black or white/gold dresses, no matter the background light ;)

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[cottoncandysprite]

Does tumblr know about the animation union yaoi yet

[nothingwronghere]

saw someone today post about the struggle of liking rarepairs in fanfic, and the rarepair they were talking about had only thousand fics. buddy, that isnt a rarepair.

my rarepair has five fics and all five have been written by me.

[wasyago]

old art for a random au

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[lostonmyroad]

jessica really said “god forbid women do anything” and doomed an entire people to war by installing her twink son as a false prophet by stealing her cult’s 10,000 year old breeding program propaganda

[fox-bright]

Years before the covid pandemic began, author Naomi Kritzer wrote the charming, emotionally genuine short story "So Much Cooking," which was a pandemic log through the eyes of a cooking blog. The premise is that the author is a home cooking blogger raising her kids, and then a pandemic hits--and bit by bit she's feeding not only her own, but her sister's kids, some neighbors' kids, and so on, in a situation of pandemic lockdown and food shortages.

It's very good, and was prescient for a lot of the early days of the covid pandemic. I found myself returning to it often in the first couple of years because of how steadfast it was in its hopefulness.

Last year she wrote a novelette, "The Year Without Sunshine," which attacks a similar problem in a similar way; instead of pandemic, this one is about the aftereffects of a distant nuke or a massive volcano explosion (it doesn't say), which has churned a great deal of dust into the air, causing massive damage to society and agriculture. The story covers one neighborhood, pulling together to keep each other alive--not through violence, but through lawn potatoes and message pinboards and bicycle-powered oxygen concentrators.

I recommend both stories. They're uplifting in a way that a lot of what I see lately isn't. They're a bit of a panacea for constant fearmongering about intracommunity violence and grinding hatefulness. We can be good to each other, if we try.

[platoapproved]

What was that you said about memory? "A monster," was it?

[goldensunset]

did you know? if you do your laundry you can get your clothes back