#nothing ever fucking happened

[literallygwenandjinx]

my favorite part of arcane season 2 was when ekko and jinx got married and raised isha and ruled over zaun together. truly an amazing ending wouldn't change a thing haha

[kedreeva]

In case you haven't heard yet, Colossal, the biotech company that earlier this year showed off their "woolly mouse," has announced that they de-extincted "dire wolves." I put this in quotes, because just like with the mice, they didn't truly bring them back (nothing can actually do that, yet) or even really make them.

What they actually did was kind of neat; they copied genes sequenced from dire wolf DNA and inserted them into the grey wolf genome (replacing grey wolf DNA, as they said gray wolves shared a significant percentage of their genome (which isn't saying a TON considering how much the human and chimp genome have in common without being nearly the same animals, but it's better than taking, say, a turtle's genome or something else super unrelated), to create a wolf with genes that dire wolves had.

And while that's not really the same thing as building a dire wolf completely from scratch, so to speak, and it's not really "cloning" them either, it's still pretty cool science, and just like with the woolly mouse, the work (ie, altering/editing multiple genes at once from sequenced DNA of deceased individuals) COULD apply to conservation of actual species (for example, having the ability to widen the genome of remaining breeding individuals of an endangered species, with DNA from deceased individuals). I'm not sure if it IS applying to other species right now (at least not through this company, despite their stated claims to want to), but it is one of their stated goals and it would work.

Also, they're pretty cute

As they were born in October 2024, they now have their own 2,000 acre reserve where Colossal is monitoring them closely. There are two males and one female, but as they've stated they do not have plans to breed them, I'm not sure where the female is being kept in relation to the males, but I suspect she's the solo-wolf pictured, vs the pics of the pair.

Anyway, that's all happening.

[sfw-mlm-thoughts]

anyone else need a hug so fucking bad. anyone else feel crushingly empty inside. like physically. or is it just january again

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

Me when I really want to draw fanart for a fandom because it looks so cool, but I haven't the slightest idea about any deeper lore than surface level plot and symbolism

[exoid-the-locomotive-monarch]

>be a webcomic

>decent popularity and critical support from the fans at the start

>immediate drop in quality over next bunch of updates

>fans hate it

>gets so bad writers and artists are harassed to the point of leaving the team

>endless controversies between writers acting shitty on their personal Twitter account to fans to accusing discord mods of being 4Chan nazis

>comic loses half its funding 8 months in

>bimonthly updates 4 months in return to the sluggish once a month updates from the start

>pause 14 months into the comic’s intended 5 year run.

>announce a month later indefinite hiatus

>radio Silence for THREE YEARS AND NINE MONTHS

>be almost 4 year anniversary of the webcomic’s start, 17 days away to be exact

>drop 4 DOZEN pages

>new director

>new writers union

>new EVERYTHING even the title of the comic changed

>the “it’s so over” from the fandom supercharges back into “we are so fucking back”

>its name is enough to scare half this website into shock

>look at tags

[hivemindscape]

im a big fan of esper powers slipping loose in harmless ways when they're happy

[tommygotwrittenoff]

when they let eddie diaz out of that mf closet, i am going to become the most petty bitch alive

[witha-boxofscraps]

Walter Hartwell White makes me so inexplicably angry because oh my god at one point he’s like “Jesse. Do not call here. Do not come here. Do not contact me in any way ever when I am at home. Do not call when I’m at work. Do not come to my work. Do not contract me in any way ever when I am at work.” Which, you know, when they’re running a highly illegal meth lab, is a pretty valid ground rule to lay down.

But the next second he’s like “Jesse. Pick up the phone right now. You have nothing more important to be doing. I’m calling from my home. I’m coming to yours. I’m demanding your landlord gives me a spare key to let me in. I’m breaking down the door.”

One second he’s shouting “You’re a pathetic, useless junkie who can’t follow simple, rudimentary instructions.”

The next he’s like “Jesse. Jesse, listen to me. I am the only person in the world who understands what you’ve been through. The only person in the world who understands you. You can trust me, wholly and utterly. I am responsible for making sure you make Good Choices. I will save you from yourself. I call you son when I’m worried about you. I missed the birth of my daughter but I’m not as angry as I should be because I’m still worried about you. I called my own son your name by accident.”

And then the fucking next it’s like “I know where Pinkman is.” And he rats him out to be killed, only to let him be taken and tortured for 6 months by fucking neonazis.

And by that point, you think it’s over.

BUT THEN HES LIKE LOOKING AT JESSE WHO LOOKS LIKE A BEATEN DOG AND JESSE CANT MAKE EYE CONTACT AND HES NOT SORRY. HES NOT. BUT ITS STILL, AFTER ALL THIS TIME, “I’ll save you. I’ll save you from them. I’ll save you from yourself. But more importantly, I’ll save you from me.” AND HE FUCKING PUSHES JESSE TO THE GROUND AND SHIELDS HIM WITH HIS OWN BODY, TAKING A BULLET IN THE PROCESS THAT ULTIMATELY KILLS THE GREAT HEISENBERG.

I FUCKING CANT.

[bakudekublogblog]

this is izuku remembering kacchan being stabbed btw

[chaosgenasi]

I’ve had a life. I think a lot of us here have had a life. And I can count the really good days practically on two hands.

[navree]

Incorrect, the fact that Biden has dropped out and a candidate with history of supporting medicare for all and being more receptive to a ceasefire in the I/P conflict has made me go from "I cannot morally support the Democratic nominee" to "I am voting for the Democratic nominee despite the fact she isn't perfect in every respect." I'm really happy this played out. The Dems for the most part abandoned the old Obama platform and it feels like its possible an actual progressive agenda could come to pass in my lifetime.

Kamala 2024!

If you weren't going to vote Democratic in this election before Biden dropped out you're a dorkass loser who does not care about any of the issues you're yammering about here and also a fundamentally bad person, and I hope you get run over by a bus.

But you got one thing right in all of this gibberish, Kamala 2024.

[viciaam]

GO NIGHTHAWKS!!!

[azuree1733]

Bro I forgot I draw sometimes 😟

[kitabearuwu]

Anyways

Look how happy bro is to see his beloved I’m actually gonna be sick BENNNN I LOVE YOU BENNNNNNN

[its-just-sand]

crazy to think this guy becomes one of the most feared pirates in the new world

credit for meme: p00sy-d3stro7er

[shitpostingkats]

Thinking a lot about how Ignis is given a prophetic vision and then immediately after loses his eyesight.

He sees himself, ten years from now, scars down his face, vision clearly gone, and still, still he doesn't hesitate to put on the ring. He knows, without a shadow of a doubt, that his eyesight won't come back, because he's seen it, seen himself, but he still tries to play it off for a while, give the others hope that his disability isn't permanent. How this makes his comment near the end of the game that he can sense light suspect, because we the player know he is 100% willing to lie about these things to make the people around him feel better.

And just. The fact that he also knows without question that their king will return. He has Seen it. The idea of him reassuring the others, burdened as he is with the knowledge of what will come after, that Noctis is coming back, he just Knows it. And he knows it's going to take a long time. Of course, he could use his vision to guess when it starts getting close, could know it by the length of Gladio's hair or Prompto adopting a goatee. But those details are a lot harder to keep track of when one's blind.

And of course, the fact that he doesn't need to see when they open up the door to the throne room, because he already knows what's going to be in there.