#which is alienating to say the least

[dreadark]

bugs me a bit when people assume Ivan is some kind of genius or somehow naturally talented

he's really not at all. he just works ridiculously hard I mean we've seen his schedule what is this

literally anyone who put in this amount of work would end up getting good grades... if they didn't have a complete breakdown first guess you can consider that his "talent" can't break if you're already broken

Sua does actually seem like a natural genius though, she's tied with Ivan despite not doing... all that well she basically says as much

and she worked as a model (among other things) while attending Anakt Garden, so she managed being top of the class while also already having her career Ivan didn't do any of that, he only got popular after round 3 (idk what these rankings are out of, but if he's only 78th when Till was 5th...) despite being a top student I suppose Ivan didn't actually stand out much at first?

interesting how out of all of them, Ivan seems the least suited to singing on stage Sua's clearly talented, Till is a musical prodigy, and Mizi genuinely loves singing Luka is literally made for it, and Hyuna also loves singing and seems to have this natural stage presence

but all Ivan's good at is following orders

[vaguely-concerned]

for various rl and depression reasons I haven't actually gotten to play da:tv for quite a few days now, and I cannot adequately convey to you the sheer hilarity of the effect hearing lucanis' voice again just had on me. I was fully in the deepest trough of a depressive slump, still breathing but by no means what I would describe as 'alive', heard him Say Something (as he does), and immediately something in my soul went 'oh yeah no this changes everything actually I just forgot for a moment there sorry for the inconvenience'. like my depression is not healed or anything (it never is :') ) but it did lift its crushing weight from my entire being by a significant amount and let discernible light in where there had been pitch dark unshifting misery before. this is so funny. no real life human contact or warmth, no high ideals, no wise words encouraging hope, no awe nor curiosity over the infinite complexity and wonder of the universe has managed to do what lucanis dellamorte breezily coming to terms with the grand necropolis by grasping its role in nevarra's financial system just did in an instant, 'what like it's hard' style. no one is more baffled than me to find that it's not even a bit he just does that to me. that literally just happened. mary kirby I unironically kind of owe you my life

[squireofgeekdom]

Oh no. Don't let me start plotting out a Leverage Redemption / Moon Knight crossover. I don't need more wips. Help.

[amyoffline]

i don't know how to feel about lilo and stitch being adapted better by KINGDOM HEARTS than by [checks notes] disney

[pickaropoprocks]

Day 93!! Happy Pride!!

[eighthwholove]

Paul McGann and his theater work throughout the years.

John, Paul, Ringo, and George (1981)

Oi! For England (1982)

A Lie of the Mind (1987)

Sabina (1998)

Morning Becomes Electra (2004)

The Gigli Concert (2005)

Helen (2009)

Sonnet 155 (2010)

Butley (2011)

Three Sisters (2014)

Gabriel (2017)

The Forest (2022)

The River (2024)

[elbiotipo]

The funny thing is that I do kind of agree that if alien civilizations do exist and have to manage resources like us, they would also have class conflicts and a version of dialectics and communism. Though this is wholly speculative of course.

Hmm. Maybe I SHOULD read Posadas.

[cinerins]

A detail I love about Farscape is that it went with a Star Trek universal translator approach to explain how our regular human protagonist can understand all of these aliens by injecting him with microbes that take over your brain (this is normal).

What makes this so fun to me is that it's brought up in different ways—my favorite being all the little cases where the translation fails on idioms and references, as it's revealed by the alien characters repeating what they heard the human say.

[whattadroid]

apparently there are TWO androids in alien: romulus and I am so fucking excited

[batsplat]

casey is obvs funny with this rivalry stuff because on the one hand he's very 'well I don't care who I beat' (lie) and 'I don't motivate myself using my rivals' (also a lie) and then he's also repeatedly emphasising that valentino was ONE of his biggest rivals and he only competed against him a few years... like a lil side quest in the story of his career. Those Few Years where valentino was his big rival. whereas dani and jorge were his cohort so he did compete with them for a greater span of time... and this is technically true and does MATTER but it is also extremely noticeable in his output which rivalry he has the most thoughts about. and yes casey would say that this is because everyone ELSE cares the most about That One Rivalry the most and also his opponent being an annoying dickhead means it's the one he has the most complaints about... but at a certain point, it doesn't really matter, because there's still one rivalry you're talking about way more than any other. you can tell that he's at least given jorge's interiority a bit of thought, kinda went 'well he was arrogant but also Learnt From The Error Of His Ways and was maybe misunderstood so' -- but also he's not going beyond that, he's not examining jorge's soul, and he's not even doing any of that with dani. it's very much a rhetorical commitment to those other two rivalries. ultimately the point is that he's doing what he can to not talk up his biggest rivalry TOO much, because, you see. he Did Not Care That Much. (lie.) now objectively speaking this kind of framing literally does not matter, who cares which one of these was the most meaningful rivalry, but it's interesting that it matters to him!! casey's problem is that he is extremely sensitive and cares deeply about what other people say about him, but one of the things he's most sensitive about is the idea that he could let himself be mentally affected by ANYTHING, worst of all his rivals. they cannot be granted that much power over him. and all of this has kinda funny consequences in that he has pretty rigid patterns in how he talks about this stuff that are at times quite convoluted because he has to simultaneously emphasise that a) none of his rivals massively mattered to him, b) That Rival didn't matter more than the others, c) what That Rival did to him was completely beyond the pale, and d) none of that affected him mentally whatsoever. at most one of these is true. there are so many things casey wants so badly not to care about but it keeps spilling out of him anyway, this oozing sludge of resentment and repressed hopes and desires and frustration and longing and bitterness. he keeps giving himself away... he cares so much and he can't stand it

[my-world-my-stories]

New lore drop for the Yautja verse! Specifically, the clan from which my Yautjas come from!

The Red Jungle clan

Named after their particular environment where a specific tree grows in abundance, called the Crimson Spills, due to the bright scarlet leaves it grows all year and the red resin it produces, which can appear like blood to the untrained eye. This in turn creates thick vegetation that's mostly colored red and even the river that passes through their territory can have shades of ruby colors due to minerals in the soil. 

As a result, a lot of Yautja that hail from said clan have red scales or accents of it, which is quite eye-catching, but they make up for their lack of camouflage with their strength, fiery spirit and cunning hunting strategies.

It is said that if you give birth or bathe a newborn pup in the waters of the Ruby river, their scales will turn red, but that's more or less just a myth. 

Wy'ld was born into the clan by Kuuma (Sire) and Wuut'ka (Bearer), which are also life mates and they raised her together. However, Sam'wa and Sav'kat were adopted into the clan.

Sam'wa parents are Ther'va and Zan'ab, two males who are also bonded for life and are Ex-Enforcers, who left their team to raise her. They are still called upon occasionally to take care of 'special tasks' for Elites. Sam'wa original bearer died because of a Bad Blood and that's how the two found themselves adopting her. When they settled down into the clan, Wuut'ka is the one that taught them how to look after pups and that's how Wy'ld and Sam'wa ended up growing together almost like sisters.

Sav'Kat original clan almost got wiped out due to a Bad Blood attack, until the Red Jungle clan intervened to look for survivors. Sav'kat original sire was a very close friend of Kuuma, and they made each other a promise to look after their pups if something were to happen to the other, so he adopted the little one without hesitation. Along with a hunting hound, which protected the pup during the attack. And that's how Wy'ld and Sav'kat became adopted siblings.

Bonus fact: During mating season, the males purposefully dye their 'quills' red to make themselves look more attractive to females and show their rank. The redder the hue is, the more status they have. The red dye is made by mixing the leaves and resin of the trees into a paste or by grinding into dust the rocks in the river bed.

(This takes inspiration after the Bearded Vultures in RL, who are known for also coloring their feathers in red mud for still not very clear reasons, but the look sick as hell)

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

rewatching 13s era for me is not so much diminishing returns as it is something opposite and eviler...............increasing losses? increasing losses

[defokelore-13]

I wish Coiny was appreciated as his own character more outside of ships

[missmarthanightingale]

i just think maybe the interstellar song contest would be easier to understand if we interpreted it as an episode about terrorism instead of an allegory for palestine. because i'm pretty sure that's what it was

[united-federation-of-trek]

hahahahahaha I hate it here.

Danielle Smith: I don’t want young kids to permanently change their bodies!

Danielle Smith: So they won’t be allowed to use puberty blockers, the effects of which are basically entirely reversible, until they’re fifteen, which is well into puberty and often towards the end of puberty for AFAB kids!

Danielle Smith: this makes sense and I am so smart! This will not have the effect of making trans youth even more vulnerable than they already are and that definitely wasn’t my intention.