I think, considering the posts I’m seeing, people are getting confused on what a canon event is because the way Miguel defines it to Miles vs how he talks about his own “canon breaking” just don’t align neatly with one another, and are probably foreshadowing a loophole Miles will expose if the writing doesn’t go the route of entirely tossing out canon events.
They are, as Miguel explains them to be, specific story beats that will just happen naturally to every Spidey. They can be interfered with yes, but to catastrophic consequence to his mind. Simply existing in another dimension like the spider society or nicking gizmos like Hobie isn’t canon breaking, because it isn’t touching any story beats.
This feels confusing because the way Miguel talks about his adopted universe disintegrating makes it sound like he thinks his very continued presence did damage to it. Unless his counterpart’s death was specifically supposed to be a canon event for Gabriella, I can’t see how it fits into the previous model.
But that’s not the way the story is presented, and I think Miguel’s emotional vulnerability about that trauma, combined with the dissonance between both “definitions” is supposed to draw our attention to the idea that while this character is operating out of a sincere desire to prevent this every happening again, his understanding of what caused this disintegration is flawed and not immutable.
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Disrupt: Make your Mark pt.3
I then looked at my piece as a piece of clothing, I draped it around this mannequin torso in different angles and position and I quite like how the pattern looks as a piece of clothing. I might evolve this pattern to make a piece of clothing in the future.
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Third major character from my capstone project. This is Hedrek. He's a monk from monotheistic religion that was brought to the Island during the rule of the Empire. He's caught in the middle of the conflict between his people, the ancient natives of the island, and the migrating tribes the other characters are from.
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Fun fact: I would never get up early on the first day of my vacation, except Foundation was more important than my laziness. I even got up earlier than I normally do for work. Hari Seldon, you miracle man. 🤣
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Science Saturday
There are a plethora of prominent examples of the mutual influence between the arts and sciences: Leonardo De Vinci, Albert Einstein, Maria Sibylla Merian, Hedy Lemarr, Geothe. The painter behind today’s Science Saturday offering, Abbott H. Thayer, did indeed make some lasting contributions to natural science, most notably on the role of countershading nature, sometimes referred to as Thayer’s Law, and on disruptive patterning. His writings on animal camouflage were influential in the development of tactical camouflage during World War I, urged on by Thayer himself.
Published in New York in 1909 by Macmillan, Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of Disguise Through Color and Pattern: Being a Summary of Abbott H. Thayer’s Discoveries was the culmination of Thayer’s work on the subject. Authorship is credited to Gerald H. Thayer, with his father Abbott H. Thayer’s contributing an introductory essay and many of the illustrations. The elder and younger Thayers collaborated extensively on the book, which was printed in New York at The Trow Press, with lithographs and half-tone prints by A. Hoen & Co. of Baltimore.
Despite the aforementioned lasting contributions, the book received scathing criticism from the scientific and naturalist community, including being roundly mocked by Theodore Roosevelt. While some of Thayer’s observations were sound, he insisted that every aspect of animal coloration was rooted in camouflage, a theory that lacked scientific rigor. Take the example of the flamingo (illustrated in the final image above): Thayer argues that their vibrant plumage is camouflage because, for a brief period during sunrise and sunset, the animals might appear to blend into the horizon when viewed by predators from below the water line. There is no attempt to explain how their bright pink hue might help them escape predation for the other 23 or so hours of the day.
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-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern
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Project: Shawl #10 (i’m looking for ways to keep my posts more organized and figured numbering projects would be the easiest to remember/most efficient. I don’t actually think this is my tenth shawl, probably closer to 15th, but that’s all the ones I can find on my ravelry/tumblr/remember in my human brain)
Started a new construction. This guy is going to be a bit more slow going because the yarn is very splitty and the pattern is very complicated (the legend has purl2tog through the back loop and i’m already not looking forward to that). But when I was looking through the knitpicks books I got for cheap and saw this pattern I couldn’t not want it in this yarn.
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