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Every now and then, I come across a place that makes me feel welcome and at home. This is difficult being a black woman in the south. We have to find spaces that treat us well. I had a great experience at this bookstore. I hate greedy corporations and would rather buy books locally. Red Stick Reads has a nice atmosphere, cute stickers, books by local authors, a funny owner, children's books, and he has books written by poc. If you are in Baton Rouge for whatever reason and happen to be a book nerd. Please check this place out. We need to support small businesses! ❤️
Human beings are subconsciously moved by big eyes, round heads, chubby cheeks and pudgy extremities. It is widely believed that when we see them, a dark recess in our brains – the amygdala – initiates a surge of nurturing affection, telling us that we are encountering a child and should conduct ourselves accordingly. Only, the amygdala is evolutionarily quite old and easily fooled. We experience similar sensations whether we are looking at baby humans, baby animals, cute cartoons, or even inanimate objects such as tables or chairs
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Children like them because they're colourful and because of their powers. Every child dream about being able to run lightspeed like Sonic and Shadow, being able to teleport, to fly, to be as strong aas Knuckles or as smart as Tails (children also love Tails because he is a child too). Children also love cuteness. Knucles is among the less neotenic of all. The most neotenic characters from Sonic series are Sonic and Shadow (Shadow in particular is interesting in that, you see this contrast between sombreness and cuteness and you wonder)...
One of few Shadow's tame expressions
Adults like Sonic and the others because they're cute. Human specie is among the most neotenic animal around so we are particularly sensitive toward cuteness. But cuteness is also a defensive features. Many mammals cubs are cute to decrease attacks by predators. Some animals, like cats or mices, become cuter and rounder when they're adult. other animals never change, size aside, like fennecs and porcupines who look the same as cubs and as adults.
The same principle is applied in anime or in Disney movies. Neotenic characters are mostly based on cats.
Althoug a caricature, eggman looks pretty much like an adult man. He even has realistic proportions in most Sonic games and show (8 heads tall). Evil characters thend to be characterized by less neotenic/pleasant features, more realism and smaller eyes. Or they might loo 'ugly', and angular like Fang.
The contrast between angular, sharp Fang's features and cute, soft Sonic's features.
With reports of intense physical abuse, strip searches, body cavity searches, and police avoiding accountability, this "torture chamber" warehouse is what nightmares are made of.
New Yoke City. Chaos Council is officially in Charge while Rebel is in charge of the Resistance.
Boscage Maze. Thorn controls The Forest while Prim is in charge of The Scavengers.
No Place. Dread was Captain until Batten took over after he abandoned ship.
Ghost Rouge is right. One might not always like the way she does things but she definitely wants to get things done.
Rouge was the only person who could convince a trigger happy, angry & rebellious robot that craves explosions and a jaded, amnesiac, confused Ultimate Lifeform - who both attacked one another - to form a truce and become a team.
She founded Team Dark. She has good leadership skills. And while she isn't officially the leader of that team, she's the one keeping her favorite boys in line and calling the shots when Shadow can't.
I love how all her counterparts take charge when no one else could. Rouge is smart, strategic, crafty and also caring to those she considers friends and no matter how subtly, it shows.