#scientific measurements

[caramelcove]

Ah yes, my favorite episodes of smiling critters

It was originally just supposed to be this

Man...

[lokilysolbitch]

"you have to write down every detail of every spell you do so you can go back and evaluate it or recreate it or tweak it so you can advance effectively as a witch" babs all of my spells are the equivalent of Whatever-Leftovers-Are-In-The-Fridge Soup and i'm not tryna be gordon ramsey. as long as i have heat and seasoning we'll make something work

[despazito]

[httpiastri]

idk if it's just me but... paul looks so broad and tall ??? i am just melting 🫠 i knew he was tall but idk, this is doing things to me 😮‍💨

(also his hair looks so cute & messy, i love it 🤭)

OMG!!! bestie you're so right!!!!!!

1. the height and broadness:

help? idk if it's something with the white making him look extra broad?? is that a thing???? someone pls let me know…. tbh he always looked so broad in his old white fireproofs too 🫠 and the height too omg!! he looks taller than franco even when leaning, and franco isn't short right? i've seen him look tall next to logan (who looks MASSIVE next to oscar) so………? 😭 (and he's taller than taylor too but idk how tall he is so…)

2. the hair:

omggggg 🥺 in your pic it's so cute, so fluffy and the curls are so defined 🥺 but when taking the f2 rookies pic it was so flat and pointy forwards that it looked like he was wearing a cap 😶 and pls the middle pic? he looks so funny????? the hair is so 😭 he's just a few % of humidity away from looking like albert einstein

[meraki-yao]

Chinese RWRB fans are some of the most unhinged RWRB fans in the whole fandom

Remember when I said I watched a Bilibili video creator make a whole 25-minute video speculating on everything that firstprince did during their night in Paris by analysing marks on Henry/Nick's body?

Well I just saw on Weibo a RWRB fan who's a forensic analyst who wrote a "scientific" report proving Nick is scientifically a babygirl by analysing his skull structure 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

And no I'm sorry but I won't be translating this one, it's phrased too academically for me to handle it 😅

[flavia8]

Me, reading a book where people live underwater and the mcs are scientists: :D

Me, when those characters describe something as "half a waves-breadth long:" D:

[i-like-books-and-women]

Okay so I just bought the itgo audio book off of spotify cause I've been too busy to actually sit down and read and I found some clarification on the hight thing. In the first chapter after they get off stage Angel cuts in between Zach and Ruben and puts his arms around their shoulders and Ruben says "given Angel's half a head shorter than me, while Zach clears six feet, this isn't an easy task for him"

[fisheito]

do u think yakumo would be a borzoi or a weiner dog

i have had zero experiences IRL with borzoi and SOME experience with weenie dogs, so. incoming bias

between these two long boyes, i'd place yakumo next to borzoi. just, disproportionately long. and those big eyes 🥺 he seems quiet and elegant at first but..? all i really wanna do is *grabs one end of a garden hose and flings it all over the place*

my bias comes in the form of my cousin's dachshund. dogsitting her was uh, challenging. she was a diva. loud and stubborn. if we're on a walk, she will NOT go anywhere she personally does not want to go. she'd die before she obeyed me. smart but evil. maybe she would act more yakumoesque if i was her favourite person?? so the legends [internet articles] say.

but i was not her favourite. thus, i was subjected to kuyaesque terrors in tiny hotdog form.

[blujayonthewing]

had the thought 'it might be interesting to also collect a cicada nymph before it can molt and keep it as a wet specimen' and then immediately the concept of a cicada quietly growing underground for thirteen years to finally, finally emerge into the world only to get killed and put in a jar before it ever has a chance to stretch its wings just because some idiot thought it'd be neat nearly made me cry

[aedesluminis]

Oooh wow!! Jérôme Lalande was so based!! ... Hey, hold on a minute:

Lalande you are a savage, basically the Danton of science. -_-

[transprince]

Watching pony factory... why am i fucking enamoured with the concept

[scribefindegil]

what's your favorite hyperspecific unit of measurement mine is Degrees Brix

[shinybulbasaur]

gonna be a bitch for a second but "ohhh they're FINALLY teaching usamerican kids metric" 1. they've been teaching metric units in usamerican schools for decades because 2. they are the established common units of science that ALL equations are built around because 3. they're technically not metric units, they're SI (système international) which is the modern standardized form of metric and many units were redefined around standardizations that would allow for their use in these equations (for example, redefining a meter around the distance traveled by light in a set amount of time, or using kelvin rather than celsius). like yeah yeah it's funny to laugh at the usamericans using their weird measurements but if you're gonna act all high and mighty at least know your history

[danmeichael]

im so glad people appreciate how smart i am for making a character transmasc when his dick being gargantuan is a major plotpoint in the novel

[wuxian-vs-wangji]

Okay but what is this class?

So, within the film school were 3 areas of study, and you had to pick ONE to do:

Telecommunication law and policy.

Media Sciences (The academic studies. If they could show you something and put electrodes on your head to read your brain, they're happy)

Design and Production-- actually making shit. Scriptwriting, studio, field production, sound design, editing, etc.

I did a self-created hybrid major, bridging Media Sciences with Design and Production.

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Laid that ground information because I can only describe the classes from the way I approached them. The media psychology students got something totally different out of it and my brain just doesn't stop where theirs stopped.

If I mention the sex class, I'll end up writing that 100,000 word essay on how it is applied to LITA, so let's talk the horror one (my fav).

What the class does is get into physiologically, what happens to a person while watching horror? A lot of that is really obvious- you can become tense, anxious, your stress levels actually go DOWN overall (which is not how it feels in the moment), and you experience a rush of adrenaline.

Then you dig deeper. What is contributing to the tension? The human brain processes things at different speeds, sight is slower than sound. So sound mixing becomes both critical to creating a horror atmosphere, and also a cheat code. Anything becomes spooky if it SOUNDS spooky.

Monkey brain hear spooky, monkey brain no like spooky. Now it's dark. Monkey brain cannot see danger approach. Monkey brain fight or flight grow big.

Now, if you don't have a valve to bring the tension down (something scary, jump scares are the most lazy way), monkey brain get bored. Monkey brain start adapting to the adrenaline and your adrenal gland is like "Guys this party sucks".

And that's why M. Night Shamalan movies blow. Level tension. So at the end when he tries to ramp it up your brain has already gotten bored and gone home so it's just like "Who the fuck cares".

What else is in horror movies? Violence!

But guess what? Monkey brain feel things if they see gruesome stuff. Boy monkey brains especially.

But what's this? Girl monkey brains are different than boy monkey brains. Girl monkey brains have SO MANY MORE nerve endings (that equals empathy). You show gruesome to girl monkey brain, girl monkey brain is like "childbirth and periods are more gruesome than this" (girl monkey brain not the most feminist, the feminism comes from evolution and enlightenment).

But you show a girl monkey brain the FACE of someone in pain- the agony and the terror... That's going to slam into those nerve endings and activate Empathy Mode- and now you can imagine how that violence FEELS.

Know your demographic- based on your subject matter, the likely ratio of boy monkey brains to cater to vs girl monkey brains. Set your balance of violence and face shots to keep both on the same page with that tension you are rising and lowering.

And I did say I didn't want to get into the sex one because I don't want to rabbit hole, but sex and horror tend to walk hand in hand because they're such primal triggers.

That's the "monkey brain" theme up there. They are not speaking to you as a rational human person. They're speaking to the root code of your DNA (do not try to hijack my post to argue anti-feminist things because of monkey brain, I'm talking horror and sex).

They're poking at instinctive responses you do not consciously control on average.

So yeah

I created a hybrid major track for myself within the department (I love that my uni gave students the freedom to do that) to study media psychology and apply it not to research on the human condition, but to learn to basically brain wash and mind control my audiences.

To reach into the monkey brain and hypnotize them until they end up- as the video game design majors would say- in a flow-state where time stops existing. Just the story is left. Like a dream you don't realize you are dreaming.

... ... ... When my professor realized how I was mixing the two tracks, he started calling it the Super Villain Major.

I have no regrets.

[zevranunderstander]

this person doesn't even particularly seem to understand what IQ tests have to do with eugenics (though I totally would get what they are trying to say here if the other examples would make any sense at all), but someone claiming that the MBTI test and the HOGWARTS HOUSE TEST were designed to group people into hierarchies so we can kill or eradicate certain groups has got to be the most insane thing ive read this morning