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3liza · 5 hours ago
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after meaning to get around to it for years i finally listened to almost the entirety of Sold a Story and it is as groundbreaking as everyone says it is. it's also the most confusing, to me, single event in American culture in my lifetime and my reasons for thinking that are pretty complex so im not sure theyre fully formed yet. there's a list of shit in this podcast that made me feel like i was going insane
i KNEW something was going on at a population level, i've been noticing it for years, people kept telling me i was imagining things, but i was RIGHT, two generations of kids have been reduced to barely-literate levels of language function because of this shit and you CAN see it and hear it while talking to people in the world!
the entire adoption of the Calkins programs in the first place were based on the majority of people responsible for American child education deciding basically overnight that "children don't need to learn phonics in order to become strong readers" which is literally and not figuratively equivalent to saying "children can learn algebra without learning what numbers are". it is so self-evidently false i dont even know how to respond to such an assertion. you have to be fundamentally devoid of common sense to think this is true. language is comprised of sounds (phonemes), sounds are represented by letters, letters make up the alphabet, the alphabet makes up words, and words make up sentences. you cant just skip over the parts of this you dont like, it's the basis of our entire civilization. "i dont need to learn individual notes i just want to play to saxophone" okay well. too bad? you cant
american primary education apparently has no communication whatsoever with the scientific fields of human behaviorism, pediatrics, neurology, linguistics, the science of learning generally, and there is next to zero communication between teachers who are actively responsible for educating children and the entire research field of educating children. they just dont talk to each other, at least in huge swaths of the country. in retrospect this is obvious, i just have been assuming incorrectly this entire time that maybe, surely, some aspect of how our public schools are administered is in some way being guided by scientific evidence and research. this has apparently not been the case for 20+ years. Lucy Calkins herself claims she "didn't know" that the research on how children acquire language had been essentially settled by the 1990s, she just wrote her stupid book based on her own self-assurance that what she THOUGHT children were doing when they learned language was correct. she ddin't check, she didnt ask about research or studies, she didn't test her hypothesis, she just told everyone she had figured out how to teach kids to read based on nothing but her own untested assumptions. and everyone was like "okay sounds good". every single person involved in this process is or was in a position of responsibility for educating american children. and almost none of them thought to ask "okay, but have you tested it? does it work?" because they didn't test it, and it doesnt work, and for some reason that was never even brought up
teachers kept being interviewed on this podcast who kept saying things like: "they never taught us how to teach children to read" and "they didn't teach us how children learn so i had no idea how it worked" and then explaining this was why they were so easily hoodwinked by the Calkins program. i don't understand this. what is actually taught during the two year degree programs at teaching colleges? if it's not child psychology, pedagogy, neurology, and actual techniques for teaching children, what are they teaching you to do there? one of my friends who went to a teaching college told me they mostly provided classes on lesson planning.
individual teachers apparently are not reading books or articles or papers on any of these subjects either. so having graduated from a teaching college knowing nothing about children, teaching, or even basic english literacy ("i didn't know how to teach phonics and no one told me" is another thing actual teachers kept saying on the podcast. girl, SESAME STREET can teach basic english phonics, and it does), almost none of them actually do any investigation on their own. they just show up to their workplace (the school) and "teach" whatever admin hands them. ?????????????? how is this possible?
i realized last night in a fugue of post-exertional malaise that the three-cueing method of teaching reading is training children to approach language very similarly to how a large language model does it. they laboriously instruct the children to guess what the next word in a sentence will be, often by actually covering the word with a post-it note and then cajoling and badgering the child until he guesses the word under the post-it, based on the vibes on the sentence he's reading. this doesnt teach you to read, it teaches you to act like youre reading
this isnt directly addressed in the podcast but we used to just teach everyone english like it was an actual system that has parts and rules and structures, because that's what a language is. everyone would start with phonics and the alphabet, then later do stuff like sentence diagramming and grammar, neither of which have been taught in primary schools in decades. i think i was probably the very last generation of kids to get ANY of that stuff unless they went to an exceptional school, and it was only because my 8th grade teacher knew it was important and went against school admin's instructions in order to teach it. the couple days of sentence diagramming and grammar he gave us, out of SPITE, have been more useful to me in reading and writing than the entire rest of primary english education i received in public school, and i didn't even go to a school that had adopted three-cueing stuff yet.
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kandyscorner · 3 days ago
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i've been seeing stuff all over tiktok about guardian bells. idk if you know anything about them but its like a good luck charm that you hang on someone important to you's motorcycle for safety (i think? im not completely sure myself lol) but i was thinking about a fic or a short prompt where the reader gives one to jason for his bike. if you don't want to do this absolutely no biggie but i thought it could be cool. again no pressure. love your work!!
Okay, I actually had to look this up because I thought you meant like just some random trinket as a lucky charm, but then you specifically said Guardian bells.
For those who don't know, Guardian bells, also known as Gremlin bells, serve multiple purposes, most superstitious. The bells are a wish for safety while you drive from loved ones or other bikers. it usually hangs low on the bottom of the bike. The Gremlin name comes from the superstition of Gremlins getting into your engine and breaking things. The bell serves as a hiding place for them, but once you start driving, the bell rings, jarring them and making them fall off the bike. It was kind of fun doing the research. I didn't know bikers were superstitious like that.
Anyways, onto the request!
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Jason looked like he was going for a ride. The handsome man all loaded up in his leather jacket and helmet in hand. 
He was staring at you and you were staring back, a silent conversation.
Going for a ride?
Yea
Without me?
Loser
You guff at his eye roll. 
“Give me ten minutes, please” you request sliding off the couch.
“You have five or I'm leaving without you.” He threatens but you know that's all it is. He won't leave if he knows you want to come with. You change clothes quickly anyways. 
Then you're rushing to the dresser and moving things aside to pull out the little box you'd been harbouring. You had felt anxious when you bought it online, anxious when it arrived in the mail and anxious the entire time you had it hidden in the drawer. 
Jason wouldn't shame you for it, or laugh at you but you worried what he might think. Was it too cheesy? Or would it be wrong? Jason wasn't exactly religious per say but then neither was this. 
You open the box and pull the little bell from the box. You stare at the silver thing with the blocky and cursive engraving, I fucking love you. It felt like Jason. 
You wanted him to know that you cared too. He was prone to going out on his bike when he got stuck in his head and that could be dangerous (his whole life was dangerous but that didn't matter). 
You wanted him to know that you cared about him and you loved him. You could do this. It had waited long enough.
“Sweetheart, I'm serious. I'm gonna leave without you.” You hear him yell through the walls.
“Liar,” you mutter before skipping out of the bedroom, little bell hidden in hand.
“What's wrong with you?” he eyes you uncertaintly even as he holds your jacket out for you. You answer as you slip your arms into it.
“Nothing's wrong.”
“You don't skip” 
“I just did”
“I know that's why somethings wrong.”
You huff and work your way under his arms for a hug. Sometimes, you didn't like dating a vigilante.
“I got you something.” You mumble into the collar of his shirt.
“Is that why you're being weird?” He asks, big hands skimming over your back in a soothing manner. 
You pull back to look him in the eyes, “I am not being weird.”
“Okay, you're not. What'd you get me that's got you so worked up?” You unwind your arms from him but stay close.
“I don't know if I understood everything about it but even if it's not about the spooky stuff, I just wanted you to know that I want you to be safe.” You say as you open your palm show him the little guardian bell you had gotten. He gingerly takes it from your palm. 
“You got me a gremlin bell?” he asks slowly, delicately like it wasn’t real.Your brows pinch at the question. 
“I thought it was called a guardian bell?” 
“It is, It is, it's both. Thank you sweetheart,” he drags you back into another hug, curling himself around you, pressing his nose to your neck. 
“Nobodies ever gotten me one of these,” he mumbles where he hides, “thank you sweetheart” 
You two stand there for a long time and you take up Jason's soothing strokes, hand smoothing across his back. Mostly because he's sniffling and you never meant to make him cry.
When he finally does pull away, he stops to look at the bell. A smile works its way across his lips.
“I fucking love you too, sweetheart. Thank you.” He leans in and presses a kiss to your cheek and the corner of your lip. 
“Stop Thanking me, handsome.” You bring your hands up to face and thumb at the stray tears and pull him in to kiss him straight on the lips. 
“Now,” you say slowly, “let's put it on and go for that ride, yeah?”
“Yeah, let's find out if I have gremlins on board. Aside from you of course” His stepping away from your reach before you can smack him. 
“Jason Todd”
“Don't take that tone. It says right here that you fucking love me. That tone’s not allowed!” He shouts but doesn't stay for long, already racing out of the apartment with both the helmets.
“Unbelievable.,” you mumble before snorting, “you forgot your keys” you say in sing songy voice even though you know he can't hear you. You grab them from the ceramic dish and follow after him locking up the apartment. 
He’s lucky you did fucking love him.
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Also for reference of what the bell looks like here
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fallandfigs · 11 hours ago
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Oh, that's really interesting! I have a slightly different read but I think a lot of it's in the same vein.
I've been doing some research around the point system for fic purposes and was playing around with ways Henry and Trapper might have been sent home while Hawkeye still needed more points. My goal was really just trying to see if there was a way for Trap and Hawkeye to have enough of a point differential to account for Hawkeye still being there for the point increase in Peace on Us and that research has kind of influenced how I think about Trapper's experiences.
The sparknotes version of the point system for Korea (which was different than the point system in WWII) essentially assigned points based on posting. Close combat postings (such as an infantry attachment, medic posting, or aid station) would get you 4 points a month. Rear-echelon would get you 2 points a month, and other Asia postings got you 1 point a month. There was also some kind of carryover point system (which Henry probably benefitted from as he has a WWII occupation medal on his Class As) but I'm still researching how that works. Officers needed 55 points to be eligible for rotation home.
Anyway, back to Trapper. On the assumption Trapper was drafted first (and ignoring that actual drafted doctors didn't show up until 1951 the earliest), I tend to think his first posting was actually a close combat designation. He could have served 2-3 months there before being rotated into the 4077th and I've found a few accounts of actual MASH doctors who had similar positing situations. This would actually give Trapper a meaningful point boost over Hawkeye. Just 3 months in active combat posting would give Trap a full year up on Hawkeye point-wise. Playing that forward, if Trap has 2-3 months close combat he would be rotating home around Summer/Fall 1952 which actually lines up well-ish with the dates given in late S3/S4.
I don't think this disturbs any dialogue we have either as Trapper could be rotated in to the 4077th, where Frank is already posted, and then Hawkeye follows a few weeks later. I think it can also add some color to his compartmentalization, potential disassociation, cynicism, and provides additional basis for those nightmares he seems to have whenever someone wakes him up. Plus it adds a little color to the hypothermia story in Bulletin Board as that was apparently an issue that came up a lot for frontline service medics (although still researching that to better understand the issue).
Either way I do agree, when he gets to the 4077th it's a lot of just...not really being present. If you take Frank at his word that they got along, I think it's more likely that Trapper was just too burnt/tired/withdrawn to bother engaging in anything more than pleasantries regardless of how he felt about Frank (which probably not great lol). But I'm still working through/refining all my thoughts here...
I was actually debating a proper post on the point system at some point. TBD on if I ever get around to it and/or if anyone is interested haha
I’m really interested in what Trapper’s experience in Korea was like before Hawkeye because we sort of pick up in the middle, right? When the show opens, all the major players are at the 4077 and Hawkeye and Trapper are already friends. And over the course of the show, we get to see how important that friendship is. And then Trapper leaves and we, the audience, get to see what Hawkeye’s life is like after. We get to see the space Trapper leaves in Hawkeye’s life and even the differences in the friendships that follow. But presumably if Trapper goes home first, he was in Korea first (or, at a minimum, at another posting for at least some period of time where he could have racked up rotation points). But we never get to see that. To actually see the impact Hawkeye’s presence had on Trapper. And I find the idea of who Trapper was in Korea before Hawkeye endlessly fascinating because I’m firmly planted on the hill that “you made it bearable” isn’t just about how Hawkeye leans on Trapper, but about how Hawkeye showing up might have brought Trapper back to life.
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doomcogs · 7 months ago
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low key glad that the whole "moo deng is actually in a very abusive enclosure" thing got called out by actual people who have gone to the zoo / are from the area, like seeing a baby hippo be silly and instantly assume "oh yeah these non whites are gonna abuse her for internet clout and are keeping her in an unsafe enclosure and shes gonna develop to be violent" as if the US doesn't also have absolutely shit zoos (seaworld anyone?).
just cause it isn't one of the few "world renowned" zoos in mainland USA doesn't mean it's run by your racist caricatures of uncivilized not-whites, jfc.
and also, there are probably areas to improve upon in the enclosure, but the zero research before saying "actually this is the worst and she is suffering, all because i don't know the zoo cause its in some third world country i don't bother to investigate about" (and I mean even when its in a third world coutnry it doesn't really mean its instantly bad? people are passionate about keeping animals healthy if they're qualified then even with low resouces the animals will be happy and safe, but again, no research before throwing out, it's 'foreign so its bad' ideas.)
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royalarchivist · 3 months ago
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Tubbo: I don't know my left and right!
Bad: What do you mean you don't know your left and right?!
Tubbo: I'M DYSLEXIC!!!
Bad: That's got nothing to do with left and right!!!
Tubbo: Oh my god, it literally does! That's not even a bit, it's like the main thing of dyslexia! [Laughs]
Bad: I thought it was just like, mixing up the letters! You're saying you actually mix left and right difficult?
Tubbo: MATE– EVERYTHING'S MIXED UP!
Foolish: You know what, we'll see you on Twitter, Bad.
Bad: I– didn't know that, ok? I feel like– that's not a real thing!
Tubbo: WHAT?!? I'm sat right here!
Fit: Hmm... That's a little problematic, isn't it? It's a little problematic. đŸ€š
Tubbo: This is just like the chairs! He hates everything about me as a person!
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Bad: Go to the left, go to the left and–
Tubbo: I don't know my left and right! This way?
Bad: Left. Left left left!
Tubbo: [Shouting over him] SORRY!
Bad: What do you mean you don't know your left and right?!
Bad: You got it!
Tubbo: Thank you.
Bad: Yippee!
Foolish: [Laughs as he imitates Tubbo] "I don't know my left and right!"
Tubbo: I'M DYSLEXIC!!!
Foolish: [Chuckling] That was awesome.
Bad: That's got nothing to do with left and right!!! I think you're just dumb!
Tubbo: Oh my god, it literally does! It literally does.
Bad: No it doesn't!
Tubbo: I feel– Dude, I– [Puts his head in his hands] Mate.
Bad: [Sounding a little less-certain] ...Does it?
Tubbo: Yeah, it does!
Bad: Does it actually?
Tubbo: Yeah, it does!
Bad: Wait, really???
Tubbo: YEAH!
Foolish: Way to go Bad, now you're just an asshole.
Bad: Aw... :(
Tubbo: That's not even a bit, it's like the main thing of dyslexia! [Laughs]
Bad: I thought it was just like, mixing up the letters! You're saying you actually mix left and right difficult?
Tubbo: MATE– EVERYTHING'S MIXED UP!
Foolish: You know what, we'll see you on Twitter, Bad.
Bad: I– didn't know that, ok? I feel like– that's not a real thing!
Tubbo: WHAT?!? I'm sat right here!
Foolish: [Laughs]
Fit: [Sarcastic] Yeah, it's not real guys, it's not real.
Bad: No, I feel like he's making this part up!
Foolish: You see how he was mansplaining it to you? He was kinda mansplaining it too...
Tubbo: [Rubbing his temples] Just mansplaining to me dyslexia.
Fit: Hmm... That's a little problematic, isn't it?
Bad: No! I'm just asking if he's being serious or not!
Fit: It's a little problematic. đŸ€š
Bad: So it really isn't obvious, like your words?
Tubbo: This is just like the chairs! He hates everything about me as a person!
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katerinaaqu · 2 days ago
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Oh absolutely you do not even need to agree. I am only expressing my own personal opinion and why I have the stance I have but of course you can like it is up to you and of course you can be eager on it or see only the positive it brings. It definitely is your opinion. I respect it. 🙏 I only express why I do not like it
Yup exactly or that people think that in order to do something "trendy" instead on focusing on making it more accurate they do exactly what you say. Basically use the popularity of an old tale to do their random and original stuff they just use the names for popularity and then Basically not do anything of that tale they adapt said or stood for.
Yup you get it. Or worse that you do not matter. "It is popular so who cares?" "There are versions so this is equivalent to your ancient history" or "it is a fake story and fanfiction who cares?" And as you said use it only for anesthetics and fun instead of truly appreciating it. Do we feel happy that our stories continue to inspire? Sure. But why do we need to pay the price of being used like a happy meal advertisement all the time? (By the way I would love to hear more about your culture too)
Oh please not at all do not feel like that because as I said you did your research you actually got curious and showed interest. This definitely is how you are being respectful and you do use your inspiration and enthusiasm for actually delving into it and that is definitely the best way to do it. The fact that you liked the result doesn't make you morally inferior in any way absolutely not. You must never apologize for the things you like especially since you delve into the roots of this culture.
Please never apologize. You must never apologize to anyone since you know and you do separate some things. You enjoy music and you enjoy the feeling of coming together and you definitely bring a good point that indeed in a world where art is underrated (and I know because my brother is a professional musician and barely manages to work at celebrations) artists managed to elevate their careers and make a name for themselves and push forward and indeed that is great the same as it is great that people like you come out of it that actually delve deep and do not consider the retelling as 5he source
But yes speaking on sources should have been the rule not the exception and unfortunately it isn't happening. I definitely understand how such efforts are appreciated which is why I am disappointed because it would have been so awesome if he had used that talent to actually promote the Odyssey instead of something that just uses the Odyssey as a name.
Here's one example that I discussed with a friend; instead of the ridiculous culturally "600 strikes" that made Poseidon one of the most powerful gods look like a boasting idiot and his previous "get in the water" badass song appear like useless empty threats Here's an idea:
Why on earth didn't he put a duet battle between Poseidon and Leucothea?
Like Leucothea appearing giving him her belt. He could play again with the "get in the water" pattern but this time Leucothea encourages him. Then she fights with Poseidon to protect Odysseus..maybe fails miserably but keeps going on occasion singing "get in the water" Odysseus struggling in the water calling for help or chanting the names of people he lost as he struggles. He could make use of the suffering pattern here like Leucothea singing to Poseidon to take the suffering from him.
Even better use the same voice actress of Penelopw to play Leucothea and use the same pattern of Odysseus finding strength hence etc and that is only one example that one could use and make it loose but still be more respectful to the text but given the changes it wouldn't mean much at that point but GOSH would I appreciate it more than whatever the hell happened in that saga!
Thank you for understanding and please do not feel the need to change your taste or opinion on the musical swayed by this only. But I am happy that you understand where I come from and of course I will continue my work even if no one sees it because that is MY passionate project!
Most people on Tumblr: Yay! We can have a musical based on the Iliad! Me after seeing what happened with Odyssey plot especially the last saga and the fandom logic inserting the ancient sources (again):
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sunn-mechanic · 3 months ago
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More wartime/SiB timeline sketches, this time with some Goats :D
Asmund and Gormflaith are my ocs! I'm a big fan of when ppl use Asgore's old design as a base for his dad, so, of course I had to as well, hehe. And then I wanted Toriel to have a cool maiden name so, Eldis :>
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wikitpowers · 1 year ago
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kitty and merthur parallels bc i'm sad pt.2 (beware of spoilers!)
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il3x · 7 months ago
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Any idea how more power solves the problem of being a good person?
With more POWER, you can protect your teammates. With more POWER, you can defeat the Aberrant criminals who kill and extort and farm children for Rapture. With more POWER, you can avenge Jaeil. With the right kind of POWER, you could reform the Aberrant Corps from a killer, his killer, into a true hand of justice. You could impose Goodness across the entire world. With enough POWER, you wouldn't even need violence to do it.
And on the smaller scale... POWER can erase your mistakes. Good? You could be perfect.
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green-tea-lemonade · 2 years ago
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hii can you please draw applebees/davesol/soldave/honeycrisp... they are my lifefurce....
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Heeeeey anon
Sorry that this legit took so long to get to but this one and another actually stumped me a bit! But lets go ahead and talk some Honeycrisp!
It's funny but as I'm starting to go through ships, I actually find that Sollux is surprisingly moldable to ship with in most quadrants with any character with just a few characters that I think it's pretty obvi he'd be one way or another with them. Dave is one that I can actually see these two being an all-around deal. I think it's actually extremely easy to see either of them together in a red, pale, or pitch manner. Personal opinion though, I think I could see them shift from pitch to pale. However, I do understand the idea of them in red! Trying to go down a little bit of the more romantic route, Dave can somehow get Sollux to be pretty talkative when working if he says the right things. Both of them are pretty tall so there is a pretty frequent amount of them coming up behind the other and attempting to use them like an armrest just for the hell of it. Sollux's constant amount of electronic-like noises from his powers is actually fuel and used snippets in some of Dave's music. I see them being somewhat private about affections towards one another mostly because they don't feel like its anybodys business to glimpse into those parts from the outside of their lives. They're really casual about it though.
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itslilacmoon · 8 months ago
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will you guys still love me if i make the occasional lunter shitpost
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riiviir · 6 months ago
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hey guys so I just started reading Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott and OMG AHSBNSBSBSNSNBSHZHSHDBFHGGHFHGRJ2KSHSBSNSK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I LOVE THINKING ABOUT THE RELATIVITY BETWEEN DIMENSIONS!!!!!!
#probably the nerdiest thing i will ever read in my entire life but I AM SO HAPPY#Its the unabridged and corrected 1992 republication btw. if you wanna get specific#the only book in which i have actually decided to read the introductory notes and i do NOT regret it because the editor's one IMMEDIATELY#brought up the “oh but surely the second dimension has thickness how else would flatlanders see anything” AND GAVE A REALLY GOOD ANSWER.#which i cannot tell you here. bc it is several paragraphs long and idk how i would shorten it. i would hit tag limit. if thats a thing.#anyways. I'm only a little bit into the first part which basically explains how Flatland works as a society so i haven't even gotten to the#sphere yet but OH MAN I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO EXCITED ABOUT A ROUND OBJECT IN MY LIFE#IM LOSING IT OVER THIS BOOK AAAA :D#me: im so glad i dont have a math class during my senior year! now i dont have to learn anything math-related!#also me: but what if i started studying a complex and almost entirely theoretical part of geometry#bc YEAH i didn't just buy this book bc of gravity falls. I BOUGHT IT BC IVE BEEN RESEARCHING THE 4TH DIMENSION WOOOOOOO!!!!!#one thing i will say i dont like. introductory note suggests the the 4th dimension might be time. this is ok tho bc its followed up with#also saying that time is not a spatial dimension and exist across the 0 1st 2nd and 3rd dimensions which. that epuld mean we live in 4d#already. so. i was worried for a second but THANK YOU THANK YOU OH MY GOD PEOPLE TRYING TO SAY “OH THE 4TH DIMENSION IS TIME” I HATE THAT SO#MUCH AAAAGGHHHH AT LEAST RECOGNIZE ITS NOT SPATIAL!!! TIME IS NOT A SPATIAL DIMENSION!!!!!!! IF IT WAS THEN 4D TRAVEL AND TIME TRAVEL WPULD#BE FHE SAME THING AND DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY MUCH COOLER POSSIBILITIES WPULD BE THROWN AWAY IF THAT WAS THAT CASE!!!!! AND. AND. IF THE 4TH#DIMENSION IS TIME. THEN WHATS THE 5TH?? 6TH?? YPU CANT KEEP GOINF ON FOREVER LIKE THAT. YPURE JUST MAKEING MORE 3D WORLSS WITH STUFF IN#ADDITION TO TIME. INTERESTING BUT THAY IS NOT ABOHT HIGHRER DIEMSBSJSNSBAKAJSHDHDHHDHDHDJ#sorry for the rant. jsut. agh i want a spatial 4th dimension. i dont think tesseracts exist through time that would just be an aged cube#anyways yeahhh i love the 4th dimension. new hyperfixation or new special interest? ill have to wait and see. anyways i have done it i have#an oc whos 4 dimensional now and she is the coolest ever i love her#but yeah this book is sosososo good i am literally gonna bring it to school to read instead of draw bc i would lose it if i didn't#10/10 would recommend to anyone who wants to Think
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meu-meu-kissy-ceutie · 10 months ago
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Thinking about it, we've had quite a few pokemon rivals go from "I want to be a champion" to "I want to be a researcher", I want the opposite to come up in the next game. I want a rival that starts off taking the gym challenge so they can get strong enough to go to harsher environments and study stronger pokemon, and in the process discovering they like battling more, eventually leading to them (as i think should happen way more) becoming the champion before you! I know some people don't like rival champions because its like "How can they be the best if I am" but that ignores that 1. Strong trainers (like blue) come back in future games for fights and 2. In any actual competition no one is the best forever, maybe you're better than someone today but maybe not next time. There could be something about this even with a hint at the rival talking about traveling and getting stronger so they can meet you, and for post game battles randomizing their team (aside from their starter) with a ton of new pokemon they captured and trained during the interim! Neway, this became waaaay longer than i thought, but, maybe ya'll agree, i know this would be hype as fuck for me.
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o-wyrmlight · 1 month ago
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Okay so first of all: dire wolves cannot be de-extinctioned. They are a part of a genus that went extinct over 10,000 years ago alongside them, and none of the modern members of their subtribe are remotely close enough in relation to re-evolve them. This includes both grey wolves and jackals. Despite what some people may say, dire wolves are the same amount of related to both, which is not nearly close enough to be made from either. So this whole thing about trying to bring them back is nothing more than a publicity stunt for fans of George R.R. Martin's works and other similar fantasy series because it is literally impossible with what we have left of the evolutionary tree.
Secondly. WHAT'S EVEN THE FUCKING POINT OF BRINGING THEM BACK. THEY AREN'T DOGS SO THEY CAN'T BE TAMED AS PETS BECAUSE, GET THIS, DOMESTICATION IS NOT AS SIMPLE AS TRAINING AND TAKES A FUCK TON OF EVOLUTION AND TIME. AND THEY CAN'T BE RELEASED IN THE WILD EITHER. CAN YOU FUCKING IMAGINE? THEIR PREY IS ALL EXTINCT!! THEY'D JUST BE AN INVASIVE SPECIES LITERALLY EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD!! THE ONLY THING YOU COULD DO IS SLAP THEM IN ZOOS AND A) BRINGING A SPECIES BACK TO LIVE AS NOTHING MORE THAN AN ATTRACTION TO BE GAWKED AT IS CRUEL, AND B) THAT TAKES UP SPACES IN ZOOS FOR ACTUAL CONSERVATION WORK AGAINST EXTINCTION.
Thirdly. Why are they putting so much effort into de-extincting animals from the tail end of the ice age instead of, I don't know, animals that have recently gone extinct or are at risk of extinction? They claim to be doing this with the red wolf, but actually they did it with coyotes that have red wolf genes in them instead of an actual red wolf population. Which y'know, not nearly as helpful. And on the recently extinct part, in Spain in 2003, the first ever extinct animal was actually cloned. A pyrenean ibex, which at the time had only been declared extinct three years ago. Granted, the calf did die in minutes due to lung complications, but imagine if more work had been put into making stronger, healthier clones. The species may have been saved in a short enough time span that reintroduction was possible and attainable. But no such work into the pyrenean ibex or any other recently extinct species has been made.
Fourth and last. This entire talk of "de-extinction" when we haven't even truly done that yet does nothing but give politicians and corporations reasons to no longer care about conservation, because now, in their eyes and the eyes of the general public, extinction has been made trivial. The sanctity of actual conservation work is now at risk because people can just go "what's the point of saving them? They can just be brought back later." When that isn't how it works nor how it should be. But the people in charge don't care, they only care about profits. And pretending like we can bring the extinct back from extinction makes conservation work non-profitable. Colossal has potentially fucked over an unknowable amount of species.
And also, this doesn't even begin to tap into my issues with how CRISPR cloning is done in the first place. Ever notice how every cloned animal you hear about has been a mammal? I went onto Wikipedia to find a list of all cloned animals (yeah not the most scientific but it's easy and gets me more information than I could find on my own) and there are three examples of non-mammals being cloned. Ever. One was the xenopus tadpole in 1958, next was the Asian carp in 1963, and lastly was five fruit flies in 2005. That's it. That's every time a non-mammal was cloned. Nevermind that insects are the group of animals that have faced the most extinction in recent times, and have a massive effect on the entire Earth's environment. Not a single bird or reptile, either. All land mammals too; no bats or cetaceans. There's a bias here, and it does reflect in our conversation efforts.
Anyways that's my latest Rant On Things I Have Strong Opinions About. I would probably kill it if I took biotech again.
Colossal supposedly has a study coming that proves that dire wolves are more closely related to grey wolves than we thought. Egg on my face if true, but doesn't change that they didn't make [dire] wolves this time and it doesn't negate the rest of my points. Also, I should say that I don't think they purposely designed the wolves to look exactly like the ones from ASOIAF, but they're definitely leaning into that with all the publicity stuff they're doing with George R.R. Martin. - Garb's Addendum
I feel like there's a movie franchise based on this. About how blatantly immoral it would be regardless of whether they succeeded or not. It has something to do with dinosaurs. Ever heard of it?
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Literally all that I could think of reading about this entire situation is that there's a movie for this. It's called Jurassic Park, and it's specifically about the sketchy moral ethics of bringing extinct creatures back to life for human entertainment.
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angele-midnight · 1 year ago
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People on Tumblr/Twitter are being way too weird about working artists on tv shows. Knock it off.
I've been quietly in this industry for almost 6 years now, and I have to say y'all are WAY too entitled to what working artists do online and the art that they create, especially if it's the art they do in their free time.
If you're on the internet demanding an artist be fired because of the art they draw on their personal accounts??? That's insane and highly invasive behavior. What an artist draws in their free time and for fun is none of your business, nor is it the supervising artist/director's business. Any professional director will be staying out of the artist's non-professional work, and any professional artist keeps their work and leisure art separate, no matter the content.
If the storyboard/rough anim/cleanup artist is following directions, doing their assigned shots (not scenes every single scene is worked on by multiple artists stop going after one person for one scene), and working well with their team members, then you can assume their personal art is not "bleeding in" to their professional work and they are, in fact, able to keep the two separate.
"The personal art is proship/SA glorification/gives me the ick" I DON'T CARE. Don't interact with it, that's not your business, if it's triggering you don't engage with it. Get out of that artist's DMs and mind your own business, what they draw for fun is their choice and has nothing to do with their careers. The art depicted isn't real and isn't harming anyone in real life, you need to calm down.
Remember when SU crit was happening?? Remember when the internet decided to bully Lauren Zuke for the harmless art they drew for fun with characters they worked on?? Remember how they ended up leaving the show and art altogether because of that?? We are NOT going to repeat that. It's just a tv show, calm down.
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astriiformes · 1 year ago
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Sent an email to one of the professors I took a great history of science course with last spring asking if she'd be willing to serve as a faculty mentor for an independent study and/or undergraduate research project for both my degree capstone and maybe also part of my grad school applications and I am so so anxious and proud of myself at the same time.
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