#Nazca Lines Made

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 9: Ancient History II and Earlier

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#Trilobites #Time Travel #Malapa Caves #Uffington Chalk Horse #Moche Culture #Nazca Lines Made #Homo Naledi #Cucuteni–Trypillia Culture #Scythians #Yayoi Culture

[the-breloominati]

girl what do you mean there are trees in the sechuara desert what do you mean it used to be a forest until extensive deforestation and use of the land for agriculture led to the desertification of the region what do you mean there are people cutting down these remnants of that forest for charcoal

#hi. i just watched a show about the nazca lines #also what do you *mean* there’s these groups of people that engage in actual combat like once a year or so ritualistically????? #like people can get injured and die and everything #like I just. i didn’t. i didn’t know people did that #and apparently they don’t hate each other or anything they’re cool they just. meet up to fight #OH FUCK I ALMOST FORGOT THERE’S FUCKING. LINES ON THE HILLSIDES #people always talk about the nazca lines on the ground but there’s geoglyphs on the hillsides too!!! #and apparently they were made by people that predated the nazca!!!! #what!!

[fatehbaz]

Headline, image, and caption above published by: Reuters in Lima. “More than 100 new designs discovered in Peru’s ancient Nazca plain.” The Guardian. 19 December 2022.

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As Vice reports:

The Nazca Desert in Peru is decorated with hundreds of mysterious figures, called geoglyphs, that were etched into the soil by the Indigenous peoples who lived in this area between 2,500 and 1,500 years ago. The ancient drawings, collectively known as the Nazca Lines, cover an estimated 170 square miles of this arid terrain. Many of the figures are visible only from an aerial viewpoint [...]. Now, an international team of researchers from Japan and Peru have discovered 168 previously unknown geoglyphs in this Peruvian desert, including depictions of humans, birds, orcas, cats, snakes, and camel relatives, according to a statement from Yamagata University released on Friday [9 December 2022]. The figures date back nearly 2,000 years, according to preliminary research, and were identified with the help of high-resolution aerial images captured by drones during field surveys from June 2019 to February 2020. Many of the newly discovered geoglyphs are relatively small, measuring only ten to 20 feet across, which kept them hidden from past searches. [...] Researchers led by Masato Sakai, an archaeologist and anthropologist at Yamagata University, made the discovery in collaboration with Jorge Olano, a Peruvian archaeologist based at Panthéon-Sorbonne University.

Text as published by: Becky Ferreira. “Scientists Found 168 More Ancient Figures Etched Into the Peruvian Desert.” Vice. 14 December 2022.

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Photos below -- of some of the newly documented glyphs -- by Yamagata University. Captions as published by: Aspen Pflughoeft. “Watchful cat, slithering snake among 2,000-year-old drawings found in Peru. Take a look.” Miami Herald. 14 December 2022.

[docholligay]

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

Nonspoilery: This is a super fun read that is very much in keeping with how I like my fantasy. I wish it were slightly more on the con man side, but I recognize that those are very difficult to write because one needs to actually be clever enough to come up with the insanely clever plan that unfolds, and, you know what, I'm not there either. But it absolutely is a fun crimey fantasy novel, well written that expects you can actually follow a line of description and maybe even look up a big word, that tries very hard not to bore you with needing to refer to a glossary or map.

I will say, and I'll talk about this more below: There are basically no women in this novel. it's a little disappointing. I still overall think it's worth it if you like this sort of thing though.

SPOILERS BELOW:

THIS is the kind of thing pitchless draw was made for. You could not have talked me into reading this book. Unless you possess an incredible skill--I'm not sure *I* could have talked me into reading this book, and supposedly no one knows me better.

But I did really enjoy myself. This is a flat out FUN novel, that doesn't mind being long but never feels long. I LOVED the long bits of description in this book, I BEG for flavor in some many modern novels that strip away anything that isn't an immediate moving of the ball. Actually, one of the things I would say that's not a criticism so much as a preference, is that I feel like this book, and probably this writer, remembering his short story from Rogues, is more plot-driven than character driven. I am a girl who loves a really interior novel, and this isn't that, but it did not stop me from having a GREAT time. It's a romp.

I like Locke, and his whole backstory. I wish he were a woman. Specifically, I would love to see a femme con artist, second coming of Minako Aino, Becky Sharp ass bitch. THAT would be my dream for Locke Lamora. And I know my friends who have read this book all want butch Locke and I love that for you, and I know y'all have known me long enough to know I love a butch, but I deserve a treat as well, and I LOVE con artists, and goddamnit, if I could change one thing about this novel, Locke Lamora would be a femme lesbian and I would change NOTHING else. You wouldn't even have to. One fo the great things about Lynch not being a real interior writer is literally any of the mains could be a woman and it would change nothing.

This does segue into the big problem here--there's no women in this novel. It's a 700 page book and I could condense the lines said by women into like two or three pages. I actually DO get it. I think we're reaping a little bit of what we've sown, as a community, with the requirement for perfection in our representation that leads to very boring and safe choices. Everyone is a man. We're only swarthy at best. Can't be criticized for bad identity writing if you don't write them at all! ANd this isn't me being salty, I get how that happens, I have also sometimes fallen into making any character of identity boring as fuck or not writing them at all to avoid any criticism. And no one cares about ME, I'm not a best seller. I do think, maybe, people will get better about this. Pendulums and all. I miss the awkward, good faith 90s where you had the United Colors of Benetton and one character who randomly celebrated Hanukkah. We'll see.

ANYHOW NOT RELEVANT. But I do find it irritating that because of this, we don't see women in this huge story at all. None of the gang, even though it would have been easy as fuck to make, say, Bug a girl. Even doing something like making Nazca Barsavi the actual heir apparent, and to have her marrying Locke because she knows he won't try to be Capa, and she'll let him do whatever the fuck he wants, can play the henpecked husband while being the Thorn of Camorr, could be really fun and would do more for Nazca and also play up their friendship. It could make her death mean a lot more, if they were running their own little Barsavi con.

Anyhow, the really fantastic behind the scenes worldbuilding was how I wish more fantasy novels did it. It didn't often try to explain things to me, it spoke as if I mostly understood them, or had cahracters say them in ways that made sense to the story (In this capacity, Lukas Fehrwright is fucking BRILLIANT as Someone That Must Have Camorr Explained). So I didn't feel like I was being sat down and told the history of a place I barely know, while having stupid fucking vocabulary words thrown at me. We never define any physik or magic beyond what needs be done because fuck you that's why. I love it. Thank you for not telling me what alchemical botany can or can't do. Thank you for dropping literally only what I need to kjnow about wraithstone into the plot. You have a crown in heaven.

Or I know I said I wish it would have been more con-ny and less "kill the new mob boss" at the end there, but oh my fuck, how much did I love the whole job at the counting house. I SCREAMED. It was so good, I had no clue where it was going the whole time and I would never have gotten there, but I LOVED it. What a great time.

One...weakness, for me, I guess I'll say, is that lack of interiority makes it hard to really feel the weight of some things. We don't get enough about Galdo, Calo, or Bug to feel anything for them, and I knew Bug was dead from the time he showed up. Actually, I thought we were going to kill jean Tannen, because that was the only relationship REALLY laden with emotional weight in the book. Didn't bother me enough to not recommend the book, as I'm mostly recommending it on fun, but I did notice.

ANYWAY, uh...any specific questions I'm happy to take!

Unfortunately, this means that @verbforverb nabbed me again. So, I had a great time reading the book but at what cost

#Doc reads

[1863-project]

What the hell happened in Area Zero before the Expedition Team got there?

Evidently something was there before them, and that something was likely sentient.

Area Zero has interesting geography. I’ve been grinding down there - defeating Paradox Pokemon gives you huge amounts of EXP, so it’s a good place to work on evolving things for your dex - and I’ve been looking around and exploring a lot. I’ve been investigating what previous groups of researchers have left behind down there, but there are things that absolutely predate even Heath and the Expedition Team, who were down there approximately 200 years before the events of the game.

Spoilers for Scarlet and Violet below the cut.

The Expedition Team found this thing when they got down there, as it’s mentioned in the book. Whatever the metal was that was used here, they were unable to even scratch it, leaving them to ponder the mystery of how it was etched. It’s unclear what it represents, but it does have an hourglass shape, and hourglasses are often used in time symbolism. Additionally, there’s a map of Paldea depicted with dots where each major city and town is, as well as the Great Crater. This thing was likely made after the crater was formed, but was clearly there well before the Expedition Team got down there. Here’s Heath’s description of what he found:

Someone appears to have placed it on a nice plinth for people to look at if they happen to be down there - not that people are usually down there - but it did make it easier for me to screenshot it and get a good look at it myself, as seen above.

The other location that suggests something sentient was here well before the Expedition Team is found in the cave where you catch Roaring Moon/Iron Valiant:

When you go to the cave, it looks like this:

This was clearly made by hand, carved out of the ground. Humans have been doing this in the real world for thousands of years - think of the Nazca Lines, or the Uffington White Horse - with the full intention of these things taking their proper shape when viewed from above. We call these geoglyphs. In the case of this one, there’s a nice, easy slope to climb up, and you can use Koraidon or Miraidon to get a bit higher and get the view I’ve screenshotted here. This site was clearly intended to be used, but for what purpose, and who was down here doing this? What were they trying to do? And why is this the only place in Area Zero that Roaring Moon and Iron Valiant spawn, the two Paradox Pokemon separated from the others in the Pokedex?

Heath wonders in the Scarlet/Violet Book who was down in the crater before them. We know that Paldean royalty sent teams down into the crater to search for treasure, but none made it to the bottom. Heath’s team got the closest before the creation of the Zero Lab, and they found the crystallization down there; Heath then presumably had an encounter with the Disk Pokemon, believed to be this game’s third Legendary.

Heath wrote this page whilst experiencing symptoms similar to carbon monoxide exposure:

This presumably occurred during his encounter with the Disk Pokemon. Interestingly, the Professor down in Area Zero also encountered it, roughly around the time they started to develop the Tera Orb technology:

We've determined that this energy crystallization is linked to the being we call ▊▊▊▊▊▊. The interlocking hexagonal plates that comprise ▊▊▊▊▊▊'s shell must somehow cause this phenomenon—which I've dubbed "Terastallizing."

This thing is almost definitely linked to the alleged “time machine,” if it even is one and isn’t some entity feasting upon human’s imaginations. We know the “time machine’s” structure resembles it, and Arven points out the obvious plot hole when you talk to him after the School Battle Brawl Academy Ace Tournament:

Most players likely also made this observation whilst playing the game, but Arven is there to point it out in case you missed it - the Paradox Pokemon were documented nearly two centuries before Sada/Turo built the “time machine.” The Disk Pokemon is likely at play here, since it appears to be connected to everything, but which came first, the Paradox Pokemon or the Expedition Team? Were they down there already, or did the Disk Pokemon bring them into being? Humans cannot use the alleged “time machine” - it spawns Pokemon out of itself (all appearing in Master Balls) - and the AI goes on a one-way trip through it in the end to fully shut the machine down. Whatever this thing is, it’s highly unlikely to be a true time machine and might instead be producing things based on the imaginations of people venturing into the Crater. Heath’s Expedition Team encountered the Paradox Pokemon (a Great Tusk or Iron Treads appears to have mortally wounded someone, depending on your game), but did this thing create them based on their expectations of what might be down there, or were they created from the expectations of others before them?

Was it, for example, the Paldean Empire’s expeditions down there in search of treasure when the Paradox Pokemon first started to appear? Or was it from even earlier, perhaps from a lost group of people - or non-humans - living there, as the geoglyph and the plaque seem to suggest? The land bridges also appear to be carved somewhat deliberately to create a clear path down to the bottom of the crater. Things don’t form that perfectly naturally most of the time; it could have been a procession path, or perhaps a way to get down to the bottom of the crater for other reasons. Whatever it is, it wasn’t formed naturally - it’s too coincidental for that. (Perhaps the Disk Pokemon might even be responsible here, too, in order to lure other beings down into the bottom of the crater so it could influence them. We likely won’t know until we learn more.)

In short, the evidence points pretty strongly to a pre-Paldean Empire civilization using the crater for some purpose. Whether it was for religious rituals or some other purpose, it’s clear that a very deliberate path has been cut out to get down there, and geoglyphs appearing, as well as that plaque with all the cities and the Great Crater on it, suggests it was a location of importance. To whom, however, is still the biggest mystery, and we can hope that it will be answered in an inevitable DLC for these games.

#Pokemon #Pokemon Scarlet and Violet #Pokemon SV #Pokemon ScaVio #Area Zero

[talonabraxas]

The Mystery of the Nazca Lines in Peru Gigantic Sand Drawings in the Desert of Southern Peru

[bunnymajo]

Top 10 pieces of Keroro merch?

Keroro Plush (Any)

All Keroro plush are valid but I recommend getting a larger one both to hug and to use their giant squishy heads as pillows.

2. Messenger Bag (Any)

I used one of these in college to carry stuff. Very roomy, will repel unwanted attention, do recommend

3. Keropla (Gundam model kits but it's Keroro)

very fun & easy to assemble, lots of room to modify if desired. Baby's first foray into figure mods.

4. Keroro nano Figures (Megahouse)

These came packaged with the 17th volume of the manga in 3 different editions. I like the nano figure line so I've been wanting to hunt down the Pururu one at least for ages

5. Mystic Heroines Prize figures (Megahouse)

Natsumi, Aki, Mois & Koyuki all got these nice prize figures but Mois here is my favorite but she loses points for falling apart over the years. Still think she has a really nice sculpt for what she is though

6. Keroro Platoon figures (Kaiyodo)

these figures by Kaiyodo are really decent quality for an interchangeable figure similar to Nendoroids. watch out for bootlegs though.

7. This snowglobe

Made to promote the 3rd movie, I just think it's neat it exists

8. Nazca & Dark Keroro figure

Also made to promote movie 3. Nazca's design was recycled from Mine Yoshizaki's doujinshi days so I think it's neat that she got a figure.

9. Keroro Dragon & Shion figure

made to promote the 4th movie. Kinda weird but Keroro's dragon form is cool so I think it's worth having

10. Keroro Blu-Ray discs now available from Discotek, Wow!

I still can't believe this shows in print again here, you should support Keroro's invasion efforts by owning him on home video. the 3rd & 4th seasons got released this week as a matter of fact!

#long post #keroro gunso #merch #thank you :'D #taoofshigeru

[khaire-traveler]

Opinion time with Kas:

I absolutely hate those conspiracy theories that are like, "This human wonder was made by aliens!" This is ahistorical at best, and extremely racist at worst. See, when these people make such claims, they're usually referring to non-white human wonders, such as African tribes having knowledge of math and certain star systems or the Nazca Lines in Peru. So these people think non-white ancient civilizations weren't capable of discovering this knowledge themselves or??? But obviously, it makes perfect sense if white people make these discoveries without "alien aid".

This belief system is just so frustrating to me. As a white person, I cannot speak on the experiences of minorities directly, but honestly, these types of conspiracy theories seem incredibly racist to me. I cannot imagine how extremely aggravating it must be for minorities who stem from these ancient civilizations to have their cultural backgrounds and ancient histories reduced to "oh, little green men created all of these world wonders, obviously!" I think it's really important to speak out about and address this issue because of how insanely offensive it can be.

These types of conspiracies are extremely harmful, for a variety of reasons. Please be careful when interacting with them. Keep yourself historically educated, and remember the harm theories like these cause.

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If any minorities would like to speak on this issue and reblog with additions, I encourage you to do so! I would really love to hear from those directly impacted by these ludicrous claims. Much love to you. 🫂

#ahistorical #ancient civilizations #psa

[im-just-a-dumb-gay]

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

I finally saw the movie (took me long enough lol) and....AHHHHHHHHH YYYEEESSSSSS

Idk if this counts as spoilers but I am so glad the movie didn't do that trope of "aliens build this" when talking about the achievements of actual people. The trope doesn't necessarily ruin a movie for me but it's so nice that the movie actually had it stated that the Nazca lines were actually made by the Incas.

Also, seeing an actual festival of Peru made me so f**cking happy. And seeing more to Peru than just Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu is an important to Peru, but it was so nice to see other landscapes and again...THE FESTIVAL!

I also did not expect to hear actual Quechua either!

And yes, Peru does have good food (if you know you know)

#transformers #rise of the beasts #transformers rise of the beasts spoilers? #I love Patita (it's a dish from Chincha) #and arroz con chaufa #I won't include the movie or Bumblebee in my Bayverse rewrite #I just wanted to talk about it lol #not every day a movie from a fandom I like also includes Peru lol #made me remember when I learned that Sonic Adventure 2 referenced Peru and that Tikal's design was based on Incas #I was so excited and happy when I learned that #similar feeling to seeing Peru in the movie

[angelhairpastawithherbs]

Proof of aliens in Mexico, supposedly

They're definitely not real of course, and whoever got paid to carve them must have not had enough time, those heads have a face but besides that it's just a regular rock you could find outside

also why does it have better hips than me

edit:

People are saying that not only are these things fake, but that they're also probably made from either animal parts or body parts from Indigenous People's graves, which is terrible. If you talk about this with anyone please make sure to mention that and don't support to guy who claims these are aliens, sadly it wouldn't be surprising if it was true.

In addition, Peru is doing an investigation into how supposedly he got both of them out of the country because if they were found near the Nazca Lines as is claimed, it would be property of Peru and he took them out of the country illegally

#aliens #mexico aliens

[anueutsuhos-touhou-profiles]

Urban Legend in Limbo:

Touhou 14.5: Urban Legend in Limbo (2015) is a major benchmark for the series.

The incident this time is that urban legends have spread throughout Gensokyo! These urban legends have tied themselves to certain people who are characterized similar to them. Apparently the urban legends are not able to materialize independently because nobody in Gensokyo fears them like they do youkai.

The Urban Legends are as follows:

• Reimu Hakurei: the Woman inside the Gap (basically Yukari is her urban legend)

• Marisa Kirisame: the Seven Wonders of the School (pretty much every high school in Japan has its own 7 mysteries)

• Kasen Ibaraki: the Monkey's Paw, (a poor substitute for her missing arm)

• Byakuren Hijiri: Turbo Granny (this gives her a motorcycle and a catsuit but it's really about a grandma running along the highway as fast as a motorcycle)

• Toyosatomimi no Miko: Red Mantle, Blue Mantle (she gives you a choice between a red cape and a blue cape and kills you regardless of your decision)

• Ichirin Kumoi: Hasshaku-sama (a Japanese Creepypasta spread on sites like 2chan about a tall dark-haired woman in a sundress)

• Mononobe no Futo: Okiku (a ghost girl who's the main protagonist of an old novel)

• Nitori Kawashiro: the Loch Ness Monster (she thinks it's just an animatronic she made but it's the real deal)

• Mamizou Futatsuiwa: the Men in Black, (it gives her a nice suit and a device that's not a memory eraser. It's just for show. Her tanuki minions are disguised as aliens.)

• Shinmyoumaru Sukuna: Little Green Men (littler than her? I doubt it!)

• Fujiwara no Mokou: Spontaneous combustion (she doesn't even realize the incident is happening for the longest time since blowing herself up is something she already does. The urban legend is mostly manifested by her fire turning blue and thus hotter.)

• Hata no Kokoro: Kuchisake-onna (Pretty? Not pretty? DIE!)

• Koishi Komeiji: Miss Mary (the CALLS ARE COMING FROM RIGHT BEHIND YOU LOOK OUT SHE HAS A KNIFE)

• Reisen Udongein Inaba: Kune-kune (another Creepypasta posted on 2chan in 2001, weird white red-eyed worm creatures that wiggle around upright seen off in the distance that make you go insane if you look at them too long)

Yes, Kasen's urban legend is not so much one as it is a well-known story that nobody thought was real. Same with Futo's.

There are also rumors spreading about seven Occult Balls, that when brought together, can grant any one wish (hey, that sounds familiar...)

The Occult Balls are tied to seven Mystery Spots:

• The Pyramids of Giza

• Stonehenge

• The Tower of Babel

• The Nazca Lines

• Yomotsu Hirasaka

• Hell Valley

• The Lunar Capital

The story itself mostly involves all these girls having whacky role playing fun with their urban legends and discovering the true nature of the Occult Balls. Right up until they go too far and almost cause the destruction of all of Gensokyo.

Strangely enough, despite the severity of this incident, Yukari Yakumo is nowhere to be seen. Instead, Kasen and Mamizou team up to fill her general role. Perhaps Yukari thought one Sage getting involved was enough, or perhaps she's just lazy.

In a rarity for the series, the status quo of Gensokyo is broken in two ways:

A human teenage girl from the outside world makes her way into Gensokyo; and leaves! She becomes a recurring visitor of Gensokyo from heron out, but never fully moves in. This provides the people of Gensokyo a way to hear more about the outside world, mostly in a negative, pessimistic light.

Second, Gensokyo as a whole is poisoned down to the roots: an incident has happened that Reimu could not resolve. Gensokyo has now become a true land of fantasy: if enough people believe something is true, it will be true. The repercussions of this are explored in both mangas running at the time: Wild and Horned Hermit and Forbidden Scrollery, and would continue to be a major element of the series until around 2018, at which point it's kinda forgotten about.

Thus begins a sort of trilogy that follows with Touhou 15: Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom, and Touhou 15.5: Antinomy of Common Flowers.

Oh, and this game got a Playstation 4 release, making it the first official Touhou game to be released for consoles.

#touhou project #touhou #urban legend in limbo

[dangerously-nervoustudent]

Primal speaking quechua made my peruvian heart so happy like fuck yeah!! And when they acknowledged indigenous ingenuity with the Nazca lines!!!

#rotb #rotb spoilers #tf #stfu ly #viva peru!!! #i was lowkey worried theyd go the bayverse route of oh that was all done by The Aliens #but no they specifically didnt do that and i was so happy

[tlatollotl]

plate

Cultures/periods: Nasca

Production date: 100BC-600

Excavated/Findspot: Nazca

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

Internal painted plate with steep rim, made of pottery. Red inside and outside rim. Inside base: white circle at centre with radiating white lines that divide the base into eight panels. These have a black background and alternating orange and purple coloured irregular shapes.

British Museum

#archaeology #arqueologia #art #arte #history #historia #native american #first nations

[frasier-crane-style]

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is a blockbuster so uncreative that it has two separate skybeams in it

Actually, what it really reminds me of is The Forbidden Kingdom, you remember, that movie where Jackie Chan and Jet Li finally teamed up, only it was all focused on some douchey kid? This is the same thing--the Autobots and Maximals finally team up!--only it's all about some douche. Because representation.

I'm serious. The Maximals are barely in this movie. The Autobots aren't in it much more. But we get a lot of this random dude, whose sole characterization is that he's from Brooklyn. Brooklyn! He's from Brooklyn, you guys!

Could it be? Are these characters in... GASP... Brooklyn?

There's also this chick, who delivers each line like she just bit into a sandwich. It makes you miss the days of Michael Bay. Sure, the actresses he cast couldn't act either, but at least they weren't 5/10. Let's admit it--the CGI model is hotter.

The plot makes no sense and is cobbled together from older blockbusters, which slightly made sense. Unicron--you know, Galactus for robots?--eats the Maximals' homeworld. He's trying to get today's MacGuffin, the Transwarp Key, which the Maximals hide on Earth in prehistoric times. Earth: The Transformers' junk drawer. Is there a single fucking widget those damn bots own that they haven't stashed here?

Now, Unicron wants the Transwarp Key because it will allow him to travel to other planets and eat them. The Autobots want it because it will let them go home to Cybertron (this movie is in continuity with Bumblebee, when they all left Cybertron).

This compels a few questions. How did Unicron get to the Maximals' planet if he can't already travel through space? Why can't the Autobots just return to Cybertron the same way they got to Earth? The movie says that Unicron is 'trapped in another galaxy,' presumably since the Maximals left, which I think the movie says happened a couple millennia ago. This seems like a short amount of time to devour every world in a galaxy, since Unicron says that he's starving--maybe he can only get around at sublight speeds? In which case you have to wonder why he can't travel FTL, but his minions can easily make it to Earth. Shouldn't Unicron be able to travel in the same manner his minions do?

Anyway, you know what all this means. Our heroes have to find two halves of the plot coupon*. The bad guys get the plot coupons instead and use it to summon up the worse guys with a portal, allowing for an endless stream of faceless CGI hordes. Rhinox has no lines.

*("This is some Indiana Jones shit," our Brooklyn protagonist from Brooklyn helpfully notes, since the movie is desperately trying to do MCU style meta humor--lots of characters talking about how silly it is that they are interacting with giant space robots)

The movie even rips off the scene from The Avengers where Loki astrally projected to talk to Thanos. Same exact visuals and everything.

Also, it's Representation now, so the first twenty minutes are about how our protagonists are oppressed by jerky white people who do evil, oppressive things like refuse them medical treatment unless they pay their hospital bills and not give them jobs because their references are bad. Which makes it unintentionally hilarious that Brooklyn guy is the first minority lead in a Transformers movie and the first protagonist to meet his Autobot buddy by grand theft auto instead of buying a car. Brooklyn!

The movie also really wants you to know that just because the Maximals came to Earth in prehistoric times, doesn't mean they created the Nazca Lines or anything. Which, bizarrely, is done by the archaeologist lady saying they must've created the Nazca Lines and Optimus Primal saying that humans did it. So... I guess she's racist for assuming Indigenous people couldn't create the Nazca Lines? It's one of those daft moments meant only to do numbers on Twitter.

Oh, and GI Joe shows up at the end. It's supposed to be one of those 'Samuel L. Jackson meets Tony Stark' moments, but that Snake Eyes movie flopped (and the movie is set in the 90s for no reason, so anyone they get would be retirement age if they did a movie in the present day), so they just give Brooklyn guy a business card that says GI Joe on it. That's the big surprise cameo. A business card.

#transformers

[kuraudiart]

Retablo del Bicentenario~❤✨

Long time since I posted some stuff here. I made two drawings for Peru’s Independence Day~ (28th of July).

The 1rst one is from last year because it was the Bicentenary ot the Independence of Peru. And I wanted to draw Miguel with a Retablo ayacuchano.

And the 2nd is from yesterday, is the open version of that Retablo, representing the Traditional Geographic Regions of Peru.

The elements in the drawings:

Coast Featuring: The God Kon and 2 bird Nazca Lines flying, Chan Chan archaeological site, a Caballito de Totora, Peruvian Paso Horse, a Peruvian Hairless dog and some amancaes flowers.

Mountains Featuring: An Amaru, Inti, Cool Llama, Machu Picchu and Cantuta flowers.

Jungle Featuring: Gocta Cataracts, Kuelap, an Andean Cock of the Rock, an Otorongo, a Marvellous spatuletail hummingbird, and an orchid (Phragmipedium kovachii).

¡Felices fiestas patrias atrasadas! Te amo Perú ❤

#latin hetalia #LH: Peru #kuraudiart #Fiestas patrias es mi época favorita del año~ #Sorry me re olvidé que tengo tumblr ando más activa en otras redes sociales.

[semi-foldable-triangle]

I watched this video from Jacob Geller a few weeks and saw the second video from Venus Theory just yesterday, and they've had me all existential. So I have some thoughts. (Below the cut)

I started making music again, not all that long ago. I stopped years back because I felt like the expectation of me to make "good" music - structured well, mixed correctly, unique enough to "be interesting and not pretentious" - and all of that was just more stressful than it was worth. So I started again with the decision that I wasn't going to share what I made with anyone, and for that reason, I can stop myself from feeling influenced by anyone else's perception of what I'm making. I can make music just for me.

And that works, sorta. I'm making what I want to and I don't feel pressured, but deep down I'm still that 15 y/o kid that wants to seem like the "cool synthesizer guy" and it's not that I don't share the fact that I'm making music. I just don't share the music itself. So am I making music for myself? Can anyone create music for themselves if they're truly, completely honest with themself?

In what way does art have value when detached from context? An artist can't "appreciate" their own art. They can't ponder it and consider its meaning. The artist knew every bit of meaning they intended as it was being made. Death of the Author isn't applicable when you, yourself, are the author. So what is your art if you dont share it? Do you feel emotionally fulfilled looking at or listening to or reading your own art? Maybe you do while you're making it, but after all of that, when the canvas is sealed, the recording is finished, and the book is bound, what is it worth to you? The knowledge that you felt those emotions while you made it? If you are to feel deeply moved by it a second time, you have to have forgotten it first. To find your finished art compelling a second time, it has to be made by someone else. A different "you" who already knew it.

Maybe people can experience their own art and feel catharsis, but ive never had that experience, and I've never heard of musicians listening to their own albums on loop, or writers reading their own books again and again. If youre making art for yourself, what do you do with it after its made other than either discard it to make space for something new, or wait long enough for someone else to have made it? As he points out, all of the pieces Geller talks about in the video are known. Maybe City could have been kept a secret. Was it Michael Heizer's vision for it to never be known or just never seen? The Nazca Lines were undoubtedly understood by the civilization that made them, and Plexis leaves the uncut pages there for you to try to make out. These were all meant to be known. So I suppose maybe it is possible to create solely for yourself. I guess anyone who can't will just never know.