#well SECOND coolest

[oiblackestsheep]

Workplace F-Bombs

*INTP enters the finance office at work to discuss special payment methods*

Accountant: Let me just look up your account number…

Accountant: Of course, how you find it doesn’t make any fucking sense— UHH I mean…

INTP: *stares blankly*

Accountant: I’m sorry, it’s usually just me and one other person in here… that was… unprofessional language…uhm…

INTP: …

INTP: You can say whatever the fuck you want in front of me

Accountant: LOL oh thank god I was so worried

INTP: I think the occasionally well-placed F-bomb helps keep the workplace alive

INTP: Uh, don’t tell anyone I said that.

Accountant: Your secret’s safe with me!

[fictionadventurer]

Actually, the most impressive thing about Skeleton Crew was how it understood the value of keeping the story small.

When your heroes are small, sheltered, inexperienced children, everything feels huge and threatening.

When none of the characters have the Force, you don't need characters who can move buildings with their minds. The guy who can do a teeny bit of stuff with the Force has a terrifyingly huge advantage.

Barely using the Force means that little examples of using the Force--like making a small object float--can invoke a major sense of wonder.

When only one character has a lightsaber, you don't need huge sword battles. A single blow from a lightsaber becomes a terrifying dramatic moment.

The villains don't need to have weapons that can blow up entire galaxies. If you have a few villains who can put the heroes, their families, and their home in danger, the stakes are as high as they need to be.

You don't need to draw characters and plot points from fifteen other stories. You just need to set up plot points that are well-foreshadowed in this story.

It keeps the story grounded, relatable, and understandable, while still having tons of tension and excitement and adventure. You don't have to make the story big. You just have to keep the heroes small.

[b4kuch1n]

glorioso from last years twitterin

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

Sophie Oliveira-Shepard Alenko-Oliveira and Kaidan Alenko-Oliveira - ME3 (2/?) "I want to be your strength. Your soft place to land." Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021) + Bonus

[narutotravesties]

Sometimes you glimpse a character who barely shows up but has such tantalizing implications and possibility of depth that it haunts you forever

[datasoong101]

OKAY GUYS LOOK AT WHAT I GOT

LOOK AT HER SHE'S LITERALLY GORGEOUS WHAT THE FUCK UDBEJVHDMFIWBDJSNN

A family friend got this from a flea market and bought it for me, I now owe them my first born bc what the hell that's the best present ever help meeeeee!

[quietbreeze97]

Well, folks, I finally watched Sonic 3. And I had the absolute best time with it.

[iholli]

bestie and I wanted to get into some comics (they want Whirl I'm tagging along for idk. lore probably. but Whirl is a big plus, I think he's neat) and I gotta say, I'm not a big comic reader but I'm having a great time. no wonder y'all love the comics. I mean there's so much fucked up shit in here and the lore is insane

[hickeygender]

forgot to post that my pants from @sturgeonsdesigns came in the mail monday and i'm absolutely in LOVE!!!! so happy i snapped them up before anyone else did, and i'm overjoyed with how they fit! ❤️

[unproduciblesmackdown]

maybe i already expressed specifically this amidst a thicket of tags but speaking of the Unexpected & Dynamic all throughout bsol's finale of a [hey all the characters are in the same place] beautiful stretch of vivacity, it's great that like. i mean one figures you're not gonna get [villain immediately kills hero] & you're right b/c that would be a surprise & slightly humorously so but too unrewarding in all other ways to be worth it as the end of a whole entire story & arcs here....but then the ways that banana has this like totally Self Imposed arc about wanting to be able to do whatever it takes to help the musician in return / in general, self imposed b/c the musician himself is like no you're good you're perfect my special little guy i will die without, & we're not exactly subject to any other characters' input like um btw banana you & your Failure to be as heroically bold & brave as to do whatever it takes, as the musician does, except when he feels he can't at some points including if he doesn't have banana with him on this journey, but not b/c he asks anything more of him but to be there with him on this journey....

that is to say, i say as i go "wait what was the specific thing i was gonna talk about in this specific post," that like it's a surprise banana might die of his own self imposed doing whatever it takes, but one of the Least surprising surprises perhaps, like ah yes the funny little guy devoted sidekick? what else would such a guy be For, even if the musician doesn't feel that way, see also: me taking 990 words to say it's fun how at the beginning we could think banana is misguided about the musician encouraging him with his heart words not his mouth words to dance, but then we would be proven wrong when the musician is like cough argh augh i Need banana & i will be encouraging him to dance with my heart And mouth words....but so that yeah even as it may be like Nooo & have stakes & suspense it could still be like ah well yeah that'd be what banana is for, alas, & That is the surprising & not "this was a total success for our heroes" downside to this finale. but it isn't, & banana getting miraculously saved himself as he nonmiraculously protects the musician b/c he wanted to do that himself too

just bringing all that back up to say i was thinking again about like "you wouldn't expect a private little moment following banana but you get one" and "and it's so earnest all throughout & with the more wrenching shift amidst the still perfectly [funny little guy] material & it Does make me cry" and then i was like :( and if he Had died i would have to cry about that too like nooo not banana for would-be dispensibility of the funny little devoted sidekick guy after it was like nooo banana :( (also held hostage in the evil marriage normativity larping but again also all the more "successfully" so b/c his guntoting spouse doesn't actually care about the mutual genuine affection you're also Supposed to have with this) & nooo banana :( (singing his beautiful sweet earnest prayer in this relatively brief song bookended with relative levity (relalelalevity) but still earnest b/c it's all earnest b/c where do you think we are) like yeah basically like i weep at that little moment with him Expressing the depth of his feeling about wanting to do this for the musician despite the musician being like huh wha of course i don't ask that it's nbd, if it paired with "& he does Resolve this by dying about it later" like noooooooooo. tambourine miracles (again thinking of a real tambourine with a disclaimer waiving liability for acts of god associated with? channeled through? that tambourine. sure)

wrapping up a post even less sure if i said anything novel or clearly enough what i wanted to say b/c i went on a journey like maybe it's about something else now, but i don't think so, i think it was just me like wah if banana died i'd be all the more like Oof Augh about his little solo packing its punch of perfect earnest real depth of feeling b/c Everyone's presumed to have that, and they do, and it shows, funny little nonprotagonists or no(s)

[britneyshakespeare]

Also re: my little cousins I gave a bunch of my old comic books to I feel it's only fair that they have my old Spider-Man and Wolverine books since I have a bunch of their grandmother's poetry books from the 50s-60s. It's a circle of life thing.

[calsvoid]

i cannot spend five minutes with my mom before she drops the most insane lore what the fuck do you mean my uncle had a pregnant wife who miscarried and then divorced him leading to his mental health deteriorating

[i-am-church-the-cat]

Someone on tiktok: that sprint was so exciting

Me while watching the sprint except for 3 moments: this is like if f2 was boring

[sweethydrogen]

Currently doing the gayest thing I’ve ever done: building a skyscraper 🫡

[reasonsforhope]

"A century of gradual reforestation across the American East and Southeast has kept the region cooler than it otherwise would have become, a new study shows.

The pioneering study of progress shows how the last 25 years of accelerated reforestation around the world might significantly pay off in the second half of the 21st century.

Using a variety of calculative methods and estimations based on satellite and temperature data from weather stations, the authors determined that forests in the eastern United States cool the land surface by 1.8 – 3.6°F annually compared to nearby grasslands and croplands, with the strongest effect seen in summer, when cooling amounts to 3.6 – 9°F.

The younger the forest, the more this cooling effect was detected, with forest trees between 20 and 40 years old offering the coolest temperatures underneath.

“The reforestation has been remarkable and we have shown this has translated into the surrounding air temperature,” Mallory Barnes, an environmental scientist at Indiana University who led the research, told The Guardian.

“Moving forward, we need to think about tree planting not just as a way to absorb carbon dioxide but also the cooling effects in adapting for climate change, to help cities be resilient against these very hot temperatures.”

The cooling of the land surface affected the air near ground level as well, with a stepwise reduction in heat linked to reductions in near-surface air temps.

“Analyses of historical land cover and air temperature trends showed that the cooling benefits of reforestation extend across the landscape,” the authors write. “Locations surrounded by reforestation were up to 1.8°F cooler than neighboring locations that did not undergo land cover change, and areas dominated by regrowing forests were associated with cooling temperature trends in much of the Eastern United States.”

By the 1930s, forest cover loss in the eastern states like the Carolinas and Mississippi had stopped, as the descendants of European settlers moved in greater and greater numbers into cities and marginal agricultural land was abandoned.

The Civilian Conservation Corps undertook large replanting efforts of forests that had been cleared, and this is believed to be what is causing the lower average temperatures observed in the study data.

However, the authors note that other causes, like more sophisticated crop irrigation and increases in airborne pollutants that block incoming sunlight, may have also contributed to the lowering of temperatures over time. They also note that tree planting might not always produce this effect, such as in the boreal zone where increases in trees are linked with increases in humidity that way raise average temperatures."

-via Good News Network, February 20, 2024

[griddlegold]

my knowledge of star wars is almost entirely from cultural osmosis and my gf is a huge fan so we've started watching them together. was no one gonna tell me darth maul literally only has like five minutes of screen time