The first half Newt is confused, he’s not sure what I want but I just finished rewarding him a small treat for a leg+wing stretch. He realizes that it got him a small treat, but not a huge reward so there must be something not right about the stretch. To figure it out he breaks down the stretch in to its individual parts: a body lean, the right leg moving, the left leg moving, and finally the wing where he’s rapidly rewarded. He gets super excited by this discovery, tries one more grooming behaviour (the scratch) before honing in on the wing movement which he gets jackpotted for. You can see the instantaneous “ah hah!!!!” Moment when his demeanour shifts from slow critical thought to extreme excitement as he’s getting closer to solving the puzzle.
The second half we continuously see that excited demeanour, although still a little bit uncertain his movements are quick as he’s flashing through all the potential solutions. He tries known cues (lifting his legs) before trying to offer more scratching grooming behaviours (leg movements have been heavily reinforced throughout his life so he’s very focused on that). He tries the stretch again and gets a small treat, you see that excitement and focus kick in as he leans and stretches for the treat even after the hand has gone and he immediately remembers that the wing movement got him a jackpot before and quickly offers the vertical wings over and over again. He got it!
Shaping - a temporary shift in identity/personality/etc. caused from a specific source.
Reshaping - a more permanent shift in identity/personality/etc. caused from a specific source.
these (re)shapes can cause many changes to identity; such as gender, orientation, nonhumanity, etc.
etymology: shaping/reshaping
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"Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires."
- Anne Bradstreet
How Andor Is Shaping Mon Mothma Into a Rebel Leader
How Andor Is Shaping Mon Mothma Into a Rebel Leader
Andor, at its core, is about change. Diego Luna‘s titular character is slowly but surely changing into the man we meet in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The Rebel Alliance itself is growing into a force to challenge the Empire. Overall, the series has explored how the galaxy changes into the place it is during the original Star Wars trilogy. That trend continues with the latest episode,…
sleeping arrangements (not sure tara would ever actually deign to sleep in the same 20ft radius as shovel but who can resist those big shiny insectoid black eyes 🥺)
every time i ask people if they do any new years resolutions its all ooooo i dont like making them bc i fail or ohhhhh no i couldnt keep up wiht that and then when they ask me and i tell them about Pasta Quest (i am eating as many different pasta shapes as possible in the space of a year) or when i did Fruit Adventures (every time i saw a fruit i had never eaten before id get one and eat it and read the wikipedia article about it) theyre like hang on i forgot you can make Fun Ones i want a fun one
So usually when an imaginary friend is a real thing in a story, it’s either a demon or a ghost or some supernatural boogeyman that probably wants to eat the kid they’ve befriended (Mama, a couple of the Paranormal Activity movies), or “imaginary friends” are just treated as a real thing in the setting, and if a child just thinks hard enough they can manifest a friend into existence (Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Happy).
And somewhere in the middle is an area where the imaginary friend in question is real and they are supernatural, but they aren’t malevolent, and they aren’t entirely honest about what they are. Like maybe they’re a fairy or a god or some kind of boggle from mythology, but they just got caught by a six year old and they don’t have time to get into it, so they just go “…Yes. I’m your imaginary friend. We haven’t met. How do you do.” And then they stick around because they do love this kid, and if you’re a boggle from mythology in the modern day good food is really hard to come by.
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