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[fern-spotting]

What is fern spotting?

Fern spotting is a game. The rules of fern spotting are simple:

Watch television and look for a fern to appear on screen.

The earlier in the episode the fern appears, the better!

If you're a competitive type and are watching with a group, the first person to spot a fern wins.

If you imbibe, you may drink every time you see a fern. But if you watch a 70s show, watch out.

You can fern spot any media you choose, but the show that inspired fern spotting is iconic midcentury American crime drama Columbo. As my husband and I watched the show, I noticed that Boston ferns -- a popular decorative plant in the 1970s -- appeared in almost every single episode. It became an in-joke to shout "Boston fern spotted!" whenever we saw one.

I couldn't keep it to myself, so please join me as I fern spot Columbo episode by episode. Keep a sharp eye out for the ultimate fern spotting combo: Columbo himself sharing the frame with a Boston fern.

See a spreadsheet of all fern sightings (spoiler alert -- runs ahead of the queue!)

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[hinamie]

*catboys ur shounen protag*

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Unsolved Mysteries.

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[lygma-nygma]

Being a batfam fan is funny because people will make a post like “here’s my headcanon-“ and it’s just something that’s directly canon to the story then post about major canon events and get everything wrong.

[asaka-lucy-dr-rc]

[kjones-fandom]

Andrew is the good cop/ Fun uncle

Nail is the bad cop/ scary uncle

You call Andrew when you want to talk shit and you call Neil when you need tires slashed.

Also, clearly Andrew and Neil are the favorites of the foxes kids but in the way that when they are babysitting the kids always ask Andrew for things because he will say yes. When Andrew does say no though the kids know not to push because Neil is litterally the coolest and kindest uncle until he uses his adult voice.

[calpalsworld]

yuuuup fixation on obscure game again

[bumbleboa]

If you hang out in my streams and collect channel points, you can trade them in for a super quick sketch of mine!

I have drawn several bloody Zoros for @calysto1395 before, and this is the newest installment.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

cant stop thinkin bout charles and erik readin together on the couch but instead of reading with him charles is listening to eriks thoughts while he reads. Live mind commentary ……..

[starcurtain]

One thing I wish I'd see more of among Ratio fans is some thought about how he views himself as a teacher.

Like yes, of course he refuses to compromise on the quality and rigor of the education he imparts, and he would find it unforgivably unethical to lower his standards in order to pass more students who had not genuinely learned the material. This is core to his character.

However, as someone who is a teacher IRL, I know the absolutely miserable feeling setting that kind of standard can cause. There's the obvious disheartening sense of disappointment ("Are students these days really not capable of doing the work correctly? Is our future in danger, if this is the highest level of understanding our current generation of students can achieve?"), but even worse than that is the self-doubt.

"Is this somehow my fault? Am I not teaching this material in the right ways for the students to learn? Is there something I could have done differently to get through to these students? Would a better teacher have a higher passing rate?"

We know that Ratio does (or at least did) struggle with feeling inferior to the Genius Society, so I think it is also likely, as much as he absolutely will not budge on his academic standards, that he has doubts about his teaching ability as well.

This is the man who wants to educate the entire world to cure the disease of ignorance, and yet only 3% of his actual students are able to get there. How can someone who gets so few of his direct students to a state of enlightenment hope to enlighten the whole universe? If so few students are successfully learning the material of a given class, doesn't that mean the teacher is doing something wrong?Would a better teacher--would a genius, maybe--not be able to impart their knowledge more efficiently and educate even the most challenging of students?

As someone constantly struggling with that balance between keeping academic standards high while also meeting the needs of today's students, I think the passing rates of his courses must affect Dr. Ratio much more deeply than I've seen fans discuss. I think he would question himself harshly over his class success rates, and I think he must be constantly trying to push himself to become the best teacher he possibly can be.

tl;dr: I hope one day the HSR fandom will stop sleeping on the fact that Ratio is an actual practicing professor who probably has astronomical levels of teacher angst. 😂

[witchofthemidlands]

The Modern Count Draculas'

Keith Lee Castle as Count Dracula ('Young Dracula 2006-2014') Luke Evans as (Count Dracula) Vlad III "The Impaler" ('Dracula Untold 2014') Thomas Doherty as (Count Dracula) Walter De Ville ('The Invitation 2022') Nicolas Cage as Count Dracula ('Renfield 2023') Matthew Goode as (Count Dracula) Kristof Lazaar ('Abigail 2024')

[fern-spotting]

Columbo S5E3 “Identity Crisis” (1975)

Another 0:00 fern spotting: this thicket of Boston ferns in the first frame!

This is another McGoohan-directed episode. He also features in it, where his character is a CIA agent with an incredible office. Check out that Australian umbrella tree (left) and rubber tree (right).

Another recognizable star in this episode is Leslie Nielsen, who also plays a CIA agent.

[lil--nuggett]

i'd be crying if i looked like that too bruh. that's fucked up what they be doin' to y'all. fuck it though, bro, it's your life.

[arealtrashact]

Ignore my previous post. My favorite character isn't Homelander anymore - it's this guy.

I'm so serious.

I've rewatched this scene about a dozen times now simply because I get a kick out of seeing 'Homelander' moving so freely / fluidly. Don't get me wrong, I love how composed the real Homelander is (almost) all the time. Hands behind his back, sometimes on his hips if he's feeling really sassy. . .

But I tend to draw him in some very exaggerated poses ( flaunting some pretty out-there color palettes ) so getting to see an iteration of him moving so animatedly while wearing this delighted me on what can only be described as a primal level.

[idioticbat]

160x144 feels so tiny when i can't reuse a 256x192 thing i made for the zx spectrum...

[sunderedstar]

for a kid's movie (obligatory) Transformers One was fun! featuring the funniest Shockwave in cinema, Knifehands 'goes into a dissociative state and commits atrocities' Bumblebee, and the sickest Quintesson ship design. the sequence where Sentinel popped off against Megatron and then the sequence where Megatron popped the fuck off against Sentinel compelled me.