Tiny Alien Gets A Pet

Oh, cool animation

-wait it's WHAT?!

The Silver Swan, built by John Joseph Merlin and James Cox, 1773.

Source: Mechanical Marvels, Clockwork Dreams (BBC)

Always remember, kids, Spiders are ambush predators!

Yea, wonderful tactics guys. You sealed yourself in a dark cave with a man who doesn't need to see and can stick to any solid surface. Amazing Spiderman 14

NOOOOO! DAMN IT, BILLY-BARD! I love Shakespeare so much, but this one play just will not stop haunting me. I'll never reach the ends of it. It's like a puddle that goes down far enough to have angler fish.

I have been exposed to this more than any other of The Bard's work, and never once by choice. I have been forced to read this play cover to cover four times in school, including for one exhausperated highschool teacher who got the lot of us engaged by giving extra credit to whoever found the most dick jokes. I've seen it performed by every kind of troop from school kids to the actual globe theater. I once got roped into playing a bit part in a performance art street production because I happen to be walking by, and I NEVER CAUGHT THIS?!?

I tip my hat to you, thank you for showing me yet another facet to the peerless jewel I am repeatedly clubbed over the head with whether I like it or not.

It's a perfect sonnet.

14 lines. 3 stanzas in ABAB rhyme, and a rhyming couplet at the end.

It starts off with each of them speaking a whole stanza. Romeo offering up a self depreciating metaphor (a pilgrim at a holy shrine, sinful for wanting to place a kiss on her hand), and Juliet returning it (it's not a sin for a pilgrim to touch the hands of a saint. Pilgrims and the saints hands can touch. )

Then they share a quatraine, keeping the rhyme and rhythm steady, the flirting turning even more overt. (Saints and pilgrims both have lips, yeah? Well, sure, for prayer. Well if a pilgrims hand can touch a saints hand, then their lips...)

Then they each speak half a couplet (the saints dont make the first move, but if its a prayer....well, here I am, praying....), and share their first kiss.

It's flirty and silly and a little irreverent, and they become more and more in sync as they speak.

This is a heightened, fantastical, almost reality bending moment. This is a moment where two lonely teenagers, one who is having her future decided without her and the other fresh from an unrequited rejection, feel the world shift around them.

And the foreshadowing sits at the end of stanza 3. This is an act of faith, but if it cannot be, it will turn to despair.

And I just. The craft of it. The poetry of it. How the form and the rhythm mirror the metaphor and mirror the emotion of it.

#is that why doma wanted to buy out industrial illusions and kaiba corp?

^ headcanon accepted, evil magic conspiracy took over a multinational company to make custom branded merch. Makes more sense than most of the explanations this season XD

so does Doma give the evil duel disks to new members of Doma like a complimentary gift or do they need to pay for it?

~~One of these things is not like the other, one of these things is w-BETTER~~

The 4 approaches to “orphaned etymology” problems in fiction

1. Obviously we can’t call it French toast if there’s no France so we’re just gonna replace it with something else.

2. The word abattoir sounds too French so it wouldn’t make sense for it to be here without a France. Even though we use English without there being an England.

3. This is called a Ming vase because when you tap it it makes a “Ming!” sound.

4. I am JRR Tolkien and every single word I write has a fictional etymology attached to it that I am translating into English for your convenience.

The trick is to specifically cultivate this cycle such that the interest-fields of one fandom rest and lie fallow just when another comes ready for harvest >:D

i feel like being in a fandom long-term has a very specific repetitive cycle that kind of looks like this

Can you imagine the committee meeting? Bureaucrat 1: "But what evidence is there that this is necessary?" Bureaucrat 2: *Pulls up picture of the enterprise* *Pulls up picture of James T. Kirk.* *Gestures frantically between them* Rest of the Crowd: *Sighs, nodding, one man from the PR department puts his head in his hands and starts sobbing* The decision would be unanimous...just as soon as Captain Kirk finally retires. Every time they tried before that he talked them around somehow, no one could figure out how.

one of the funniest things you can realize about star trek when you think about it is that at SOME point between Kirk's captaincy and Picard's, the federation regulations changed so that captains were no longer able to generally go on away missions unless it was absolutely necessary. this regulation clearly doesn't appear until the 24th century, which leads to a logical conclusion that Kirk was such a hazard with the enterprise by leaving it on damn near every away mission that they had to CHANGE THE REGULATION

Juuuust when I thought I'd found all the ways the works of take-my-heart-gently-in-his-hands-Tolkien could bring me to tears youse gotta hit me with a take like this. How dare. Well played.

Once again thinking about the “Tolkien elves are physically superior to humans in every way” thing as a disability parallel

I finished reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time in my life. With all of *vague gesture at everything* this going on.

I Am Not Okay

I don’t think any movie will make me feel the same ethereal sense of otherworldly sorrow and disembodied awe as that scene in Lord of the Rings where the loyal son is sent off into a doomed battle to please his vindictive father while Pippin sings a mourning song of his people

I was like 12 and high off this shit