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requested ladrien sketch!

#mira #art

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#idk

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I've been bingeing paleoanthro docs lately and have learned some interesting things:

Populations in sub-Saharan Africa do have Neanderthal DNA, just way less than other populations. This DNA came not from European colonizers, but rather from ancient European populations of H. sapiens sapiens that returned to Africa after bumping around up north.

Sapiens and Neanderthals coexisted in Eurasia for around 14,000 years. The dawn of human agriculture was somewhere around 10,000 years ago. This means that the two species had overlapping ranges for longer than our modern species has had agriculture. Plenty of time to hybridize.

Most of the Neanderthal DNA that survives into our modern genome is functionally useless junk DNA.

By the time Sapiens reached Europe, Neanderthals were an endangered species, and already in the process of going extinct. They had very low levels of genetic diversity, and first-gen hybrids between them and Sapiens likely were not terribly healthy or hardy. This is likely why only their junk DNA survives: There just wasn't a survival advantage conferred to hybrids, and their most viable offspring would have been produced by mating back to a Sapiens. Did not stop our ancestors from boinking Neanderthals, though.

Neanderthals show more adaptations for sprinting than Sapiens do, including a higher proportion of fast-twitch muscle fibers and a longer heel. Their proportionally shorter legs would have had a higher turnover rate during a sprint. This is probably the wildest fact to me, because every sprinter I've ever known has been leggy and lean... but every sprinter I've ever known has also been a Sapiens.

Neanderthals did, in fact, make cave art. We've found art in Spain that predates the earliest Sapiens presence in Europe, including hand stencils that better match the proportions of Neanderthal hands.

#archeology

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worst relationship status to have w someone is “objectively they’re a fine person who is nice but i don’t enjoy their company as much as they enjoy mine”

#idk

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CDs ARE digital, but yea.

HOLD THE LINE!! KEEP PUSHING!!!!!

#technology #music

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Update

I think Princess Zelda lost her pregnancy :( Or else she gave birth and killed the babies, which is particularly sad because Samus is the one who impregnated her. At any rate she isn’t pregnant anymore.

To recap for anyone who missed it, Samus was found dead behind the castle a couple of weeks ago. Link died not long after that, so it’s just been Zelda, Bayonetta, and Pikachu chilling out with some snails. 

Of course, none of those three can impregnate each other so no one is pregnant or coupled off right now. Pikachu’s babies are growing well. There are six still living. There were seven, but one escaped and Bayonetta ate it. 

Because of course these updates always have to involve someone eating someone else. *sigh*

#*g* #gaming

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#technology

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Round 2 A Match 2

Propaganda under the cut

Telephone Wire

This made me cry when I saw it in the theatre.

On a drive that will turn out to be their last night together, Alison (gay) struggles to connect with her father (also gay). She internally tells herself to say something that she isn’t able to actually say, he remembers a boy from his first year of college (and we’ve just seen Alison fall in love with a girl in college).

It’s a heartbreaking, moving moment that also perfectly captures what was going on in the very different graphic memoir the musical is adapted from

Die Schatten Werden Länger

It's a duet between Kronprinz Rudolf (the only son of Empress Sissi) and his suicidal thoughts personified in the form of the grim reaper, who has been following Rudolf sincw his childhood and urges him to join him.

The writing is beautiful, Uwe Kröger plays Death/the grim reaper like an otherworldly entity

The choreography and staging works really well to show Rudolf desperation and helplessness and symbolizes how he feels trapped and only sees one way out.

It's like a creepy subversion of the classic love duet in the way how, as the song progresses, Rudolf gets less and less resistant towards Death's advances.

The choreo also very erotic at times which makes sense because in the show Death is portrayed as a lover to those he wants to take and he kills his victims with a kiss

sopping wet pathetic gay prince got seduced by sexy eldritch entity representimg his suicidal tendecies and mental illnesses

#theatre #fun home #musical elisabeth #would've voted for the German one #but the winning argument would've been the fact that there still has been no english language production of Elisabeth and that is a crime #and i guess how that song literally was how I was introduced to the german musical scene #ironically in japanese #where death was sung by a woman

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The moment in Fun Home (the novel and the musical) that makes me sob like a baby every damn time

#theatre #comic #fun home

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Thinking about how many musical tragedies feature the narrative almost as a character of its own. Like a force within the story, divided from the characters. Out of their control at times.

Orpheus had to turn around, that’s just how it goes. That’s the way the story is told.

Tony had to go and get himself killed. Of course he did. He’s Romeo. The story wills it so.

Jesus must die. No matter how much he wanted to live, no matter how much the people around him wanted him to live. It’s his role to die.

Alison can’t go back and change the events of that last car ride with her father. It’s set in stone, there in the past where it will always remain.

And then there are musicals like Once On This Island and Ride The Cyclone that embrace the role of inevitability in their stories and find joy anyway.

And then on the exact opposite side of the spectrum there’s the radical freedom from the narrative that’s seen in Into The Woods. The narrator is dead and now the story is no one’s but the characters. And there’s the lack of protection that comes with that, the chaos and confusion. But it’s theirs and it’s tragic but they make the best with it.

Those themes of Inevitability vs. Freedom and the meta understanding of story within a story. I can’t seem to get enough.

#storytelling #theatre #musical

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#pokemon #the internet wins

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Classic

#mira #meme

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As an omnivore who likes vegan and vegetarian cooking I think the mistake a lot of people make when trying to convince meat eaters to go plant based is trying to convince them that something you’ve got will replace meat for them.

I like vegan nuggets and real chicken nuggets for different reasons. They taste different. They only taste identical to you because you haven’t eaten meat for five years.

When cooking for myself I only eat meat maybe like three times a week because vegetarian cooking is often cheaper and it tastes good.

Like just give people the actual recipes you use that aren’t pasta. Every time you ask what to eat on a meatless day people are like. Pasta. I don’t want pasta every day.

Point out the foods people already eat that are vegetarian. Like sweet potato fries, veggie chow mein, grilled mushrooms, mashed potatoes, black bean enchiladas, peanut butter sandwiches. Tell people what you microwave when you’re drunk at 3am. Show people that vegetables are so good they’ll want them in their diet.

Also some people are just never gonna go vegan. They’re just not. I’m certainly not, and I love vegan food. But since I’ve fallen in love with vegetarian cooking I eat meat much less and I’m much more careful about picking the meat I do eat. Doesn’t that align with a lot of your goals?

Impossible burger doesn’t taste like meat. But you know what tastes really good? A mushroom fajita taco. Falafel. Potato pancakes with applesauce. Smoky vegan collared greens. Hot potato salad with herbs. Palak paneer with rice. Tofu Pad Thai with extra peanuts. Some of my favorite foods of all time, and I’m a dirty rotten meat eater. Use THAT to get your foot in the door. And be more accepting of some half-assed victories. I’m on your side for the most part, believe it or not. But stop trying to claim certain things are just like meat. You and I both know you don’t plan most of your weeknight dinners around meat substitutes.

#food #yep

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

For Kagami appreciation week’s free day, we have a cake with a surprise inside.

Thank you to @megs-ils for this piece and thank you to everyone who participated in Kagami appreciation week this year.

#mira #art

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Randomly started missing Digimon Frontier.

#digimon #digimon frontier #blah

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some pre-reaping Katniss and etccccc

Random thoughts

Hc that Katniss and Prim wear oversized pre-loved clothes bought from the hob, which are lots of men’s wear left behind by the peacekeepers. And it makes sense to get larger clothes to grow into and whatnot. So yea it doesn’t fit the best but they are mended and presentable! On another note I like the blue grey washed out aesthetic of district 12 in the movies so I tried to put that here

Anw I been struggling to draw esp with this one for like weeeeks so pls pat me on the back for finishing it /sobs

#the hunger games #art

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I implore you to watch this

Specifically to watch at least one of the sailor transformations, imagine them happening another dozen times, and then skip to the four minute mark (4:07 specifically)

#sailor moon #amazing