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So I've seen some people protray Krypton as this harsh, unforgiving hellscape that gave birth to Doomsday from the get-go, I've seen other people portray Krypton as this planet that was once a beautiful, thriving paradise that the Kryptonians gradually ruined over time, leading to its tragic end by the time Kal is around. Speaking of which, I've seen some others portray Kryptonians as this cold, detached race to contrast them in conparison to Humans and put more emphasis on Kal's humanity(1/2)

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and others who portray Kryptonians as these saints, these gods who had sent one of their own to act as a guiding light for the natives of the planet he was sent to, neither of which I really like, so I wanted to know how you think Krypton and its' people should be portrayed as and how this portrayal would play a part in how Clark figures himself out growing up and lives out his life from the moment he learns he's an alien, a Kryptonian. (2/2)

Krypton needs to be shitty enough that we understand why it died, but likeable enough that we feel bad it did.

Reason being that it's not much of a tragedy if it was a decrepit hellhole that deserved it's fate. Would you feel sad in-universe if Apokolips or Warworld blew up? Maybe if their slaves were still on-site when it went kaboom, but otherwise I doubt most would shed a tear. Seeing Superman shed tears over a Krypton that clearly sucks creates a disconnect between him and the reader. Of course as a Kryptonian himself he's probably going to feel a stronger connection than we would, but plenty of fiction has gotten people attached to places that never existed and we can never go. Look at Narnia, Middle-Earth, Hogwarts, the Jedi Temples, or any other location. You can still make the reader care with a little effort.

My preferred take on Krypton is that society as a whole tended to be arrogant, stratified, repressive, and xenophobic. Aliens they may be, but they're pretty recognizable in terms of mindset and flaws. This isn't a world that's completely outside the realm of human understanding. Nevertheless it's also generally technologically advanced, culturally rich, free from poverty, disease, or war, and aesthetically colorful. It's a world full of amazing locations such as the Quantum Jungle, with animals that can read your thoughts, and machines that do the menial labor. The worst of Krypton we can recognize, the best of Krypton we can only hope to achieve one day.

Personally my favorite depiction of Krypton artistically has to be Rocafort's depiction of it during the New 52.

That art kept me going even with how boring the writing was. Just absolutely gorgeous science fiction art. Doesn't that Krypton look cool? Doesn't it look like some place you'd want to explore or live even knowing how it ends? Does for me anyway. Not a fan of Krypton as a "retro" place, it needs to be the Planet of the Future where Superman hopes that the best of Krypton can live on in Earth and the worst can be averted. Gene Ha and Andy Kubert did a great job of reinventing Krypton with Morrison for the New 52, and I do wish more of the New 52 Krypton had carried over to Rebirth.

Do like the Johns/Rebirth idea of representing all the different takes on Krypton. A trope in scifi that I hate is when every member of a species or an entire planet can be summed up to one attribute. There should be Kryptonians who are emotionless and obsessed with cold science like Byrne, but also Kryptonians who are much more emotional and human. Kryptonians who are genetically engineered test tube babies and Kryptonians who are natural births. Kryptonians who are devoutly religious, with worship of many different gods or followers of different philosophies, and affirmed atheists. Kryptonians who are ascetics and Kryptonians who are hedonists. Hell you can even include some retro throwback people as the Kryptonian equivalent to the Amish or hippies if you want. The society of Krypton might have a general shared culture, but individuals could vary wildly. In short they are a species and like us they had saints and sinners and uncountable people who lived uneventful yet meaningful lives that we'll never know about. You can't easily summarize what Krypton was, it's too vast and big for that. Hence why it's such a tragedy that it died.

For Superman personally, Krypton is a source of fascination just like second-gen American immigrants typically want to know about the countries their parents came from. Absolutely show him taking an interest in learning Kryptonian languages, or studying Kryptonian history. Would love to see some bonding between Kara and Kal over celebration of Kryptonian holidays (could definitely get some Passover vibes which would be welcome). Kal is able to more clearly see Krypton's flaws than Kara would be (for her nostalgia and homesickness will always color her perceptions). Both he and Zod would agree that the Science Council were fools for ignoring Jor-El, but Kal would still appreciate the good of Krypton while Zod can only obsess over "fixing" the flaws in a New Krypton. As a child of both worlds Kal can see how similar the two were and are, and that adds a sense of urgency and dread to his mission.

Krypton's role in the larger Superman narrative is to be one of the potential endgames of Earth (something Red Son played with beautifully). If we don't get our act together, we're going to end up just like Krypton did. A warning that only grows more and more relevant given the impending environmental collapse we seem incapable of handling (take no pleasure in Superman becoming more and more "realistic" in how it handled the death of a planet). The best of Krypton lives on in Kal and his family and the records/artifacts of the Fortress of Solitude. The worst lives on in the Phantom Zone prisoners, the various experiments and artifacts that survived across the cosmos, and the Kryptonian mindset of believing they're infallible which sadly isn't restricted to them as Superman knows all too well.

Honestly I'm not sure we need any more stories about it's final days, but I would like to see stories set in earlier eras. We're getting another retelling of the final days soon with Venditti's World of Krypton but it looks to be covering Kara's coming of age. Really enjoyed how he wrote her in that Annual so I'll check that out, and Oeming drawing Krypton stuff could be very exciting! Man knows how to do trippy scifi. Would be interested in seeing PKJ write a big space fantasy epic about the rise of House El, his talent for world-building would serve Krypton well here. Seeing the lives of those who lived on the planet helps enhance the loss of it for me at least.

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every day there is some future fucking lib congressional staffer in my notes saying "sure what biden is doing now is bad but if Trump were in office he'd be doing X" and then biden does X the next day

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last night my partner held a somber little passover seder to show me what it’s about and when they got to the part where they were supposed to open the door for elijah they paused, frowned, and said “oh. huh. there is a clown.” and I looked out. and sure enough. there was a clown.

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It makes me happy when they listen

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this is the most annoying phenomenon in the world bar none

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This little asshole keeps getting into a bird feeder, so we need to test how small is *too* small

3 inch opening: no problem

2.75 inch opening: Easy

2.5 inch opening: doing fine

2.25 inch opening: Bit of a struggle, but as Mr Meeseeks says: CAAAN DOO!

2 inch opening: Alright, lets try chewing the opening a bit, As long as we get the nuts into the mouth (huhuhu) we good I guess…

Uh-oh… Steve is getting greedy

:insert grunts of effort here:

Taking a break…

The guy who made the original video decided after a long struggle to help Steve out.

A New Challenger approaches!

1.75 inchs: Quote Mr Meseeks: “OOOHHH HE’S TRYING”

GIMME GIMME GIMME

He ends up giving up.

Source: Chris Notap - Squirrel ● literally ● bites off more than he can chew ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS4ach0CwN4

via imgur

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I love this

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Hell, I'm a christian (anarcho-leftist flavor) and I'd rather believe that there are many gods but the christian god is just the one we follow.

hey good faith question- do you mind elaborating on judaism’s belief of g-d not being the ‘one true g-d’ and just the ‘g-d of the hebrews?

sure, but keep in mind that I wasn't raised in a religious house, so I'm not an expert and this could be inaccurate, you could wait to see if other people would elaborate in reblogs or replies.

a lot of religions have the belief that they worship the true g-d(s) and everyone else is wrong and are worshipping (a) false g-d(s). I believe Christianity works like that.

in the Tanach, there is no claim that other religions' g-ds don't exist, in fact, there are instances were miracles from other g-ds happen, but the jewish g-d is described as unique and stronger than others.

for example, in the story of The Exodus (is that how יציאת מצרים is called in english), when Moses comes to the Pharaoh for the first time to ask to release the Hebrews, he showcases Hashem's (the Jewish g-d) strength by turning his staff into a snake, the Pharaoh's magicians(?) then proceed to also turn their staffs into snakes, but Moses's snake eats theirs. the story doesn't show their g-ds as non-existent, they gave the magicians the same powers as Hashem, but the power of Hashem was stronger and thus Moses's snake won over the other snakes.

foreign worship is banned in Judaism, not because the foreign g-ds are false, but because they're not Hashem, I don't know how to explain it but that's how it works.

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Sounds like they got clicker-trained in driver's ed

it's so funny when people are surprised that they can be clicker trained like a dog. of course you can, you're an animal too. thing is, when you clicker train dogs it's actually harder to.

dogs don't know they want it already, after all. you could be trained in a week.

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Oh that's super cool! TIL

When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

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Grampa Alfred

Complete based on this

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desire

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Elon Musk bought the company. He has nothing to do with the development. #CosplayEngineer

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Justice League identity reveal where they don’t know who Batman is and one day a bunch of them walk in on him just casually eating yogurt in the cafeteria with his cowl off. A bunch of them recognize him, a couple don’t, and they’re all shocked.

Turns out Batman didn’t realize none of them knew who he was, since it had taken him all of ten minutes and three google searches to put everyone’s secret identities together and he just assumed they had all figured it out by this point. Or maybe he had meant to tell them and then just forgotten. Either way, he regularly interacts with half of them outside of hero stuff and hasn’t bothered with the whole separate persona thing with them in years. Shouldn’t they really have figured this out by now? So what if he forgot? This is clearly on them.