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shychick-52 · 1 year

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Gyro's conflicting feelings about Boyd in 'Astro B.O.Y.D.'

Welp, like I said in another post, I planned to repost my posts from my defunct blog analyzing my favorite DuckTales episode 'Astro B.O.Y.D.' in honor of its 3rd anniversary this Tuesday. (I've already posted a two-part analysis on how Akita's treatment affected Gyro and how he rose above it, as well as Fenton's hero-worship of Gyro and why that probably made Gyro uncomfortable). It's such a deep episode with so much going on (writing, animation, emotion, heart, voice-acting, action, symbolism) that's easy to overlook, but I love to share what I see makes it so special in these posts.

**Long post ahead** (Quotes from the episode are in bold).

Throughout most of 'Astro B.O.Y.D.', Gyro never directly interacted with Boyd. He refused to speak to him, and he barely even looked at him. In one scene (it's from the 0:23-0:24 mark in the video), instead of telling him to have a seat so that he could examine his programming and memories, he just stiffly motioned with his head for him to sit down. It's subtle moment, but brilliantly subtle, because it spoke volumes on how Gyro wanted to acknowledge Boyd as little as possible.

This is because he made the 'mistake' of getting attached to him once before, and all these years he thought Boyd malfunctioned, destroyed the city, and cost him his reputation. In fact, before they left for Tokyolk, Gyro warned Huey against his new friend: "I understand 2-BO only too well. Don't... get close to it." He didn't dare talk about his experience, but he was trying to warn Huey the only way he could. Gyro had cared about Boyd like a son, had argued to Akita that he was more than just a robot designed to serve humans. When Boyd went rogue, a big part of Gyro felt betrayed. He 'realized' how naïve and idealistic he'd been, and that not only was it merely a machine after all, but a killer machine at its core. He transferred half the blame he had for himself, for what he thought was his failure, onto Boyd- most likely as a way of coping- and only saw Boyd as a failed experiment from then on. He always saw both of them as failures.

Gyro was not only terrified what Boyd was capable of, but I think he was also afraid of even slightly seeing him as the real boy he once did, let alone feeling any sort of endearment for him again. So, he emotionally distanced himself to protect him from pain and heartbreak all over again, as well as to keep himself from having second thoughts about his real motive of shutting Boyd down for good for everybody's safety (in other words, he was determined to take responsibility for his first and greatest failure in order to finally gain closure).

Gyro almost did suffer a moment of weakness when he came across an old framed photo of him and Boyd in Akita's old lab, in which it was clear they were very close (also, the crack in the middle of frame between Gyro and Boyd is subtly powerful symbolism of their damaged relationship):

The way he murmured “So idealistic”, it was obvious he was wistfully looking back on what was a better time (except for the way Akita treated him, of course). Back when Gyro was younger, bright-eyed, and full of hope (so very much like his intern). Before the whole ‘illusion’ shattered (not only the illusion of Boyd being a real boy and his son instead of a deadly weapon, but that the world was anything but a cold, cruel, and pain-ridden place), forcing him to become the hardened, cynical scientist he was for the last twenty years. Back when he knew what it was like to truly care about someone and be cared about. He missed 2-BO, the 2-BO he thought he knew. He missed the man he used to be, whose death he never thought he’d actually mourn. Maybe he even missed the bliss of such ignorance. And he definitely wished things had been different.

But then, of course he hardens his heart again and snaps himself out of it, tossing the picture away from him:

Later, Boyd pleads with his creator: “Dr. Gearloose, please! I’m a definitely real boy! Why can’t you see that?”

Now, look at Gyro’s expression below as Boyd addresses him. It’s not quite as hardened as it’s been throughout the majority of this episode, but definitely softened with guilt or regret (it’s subtle, but it’s definitely there if you look carefully). He’s actually directly facing Boyd this time, not avoiding his gaze:

After actually letting Boyd speak to him and hearing him out, Gyro realized he couldn't keep his past from Huey and Fenton anymore. It’s the only way they’d finally understand. At first glance, one might think his reaction was from the difficulty of revealing his most painful, shameful secret, and you certainly wouldn’t be wrong! But given the context of my above point, I think there’s even more to it than that. Gyro’s softer side about Boyd- especially after the little guy caught him off-guard by directly facing him with those hurt, confused eyes of a child (making it harder for Gyro to deny that his emotions are real, at least for the moment) and appealed to him so earnestly and innocently- likely broke Gyro’s heart more than he wanted to admit, filling him with regret for his intention to permanently shut him down. Not only that, but he decided he at least owed Boyd the truth before going through with it. He succeeded in not allowing himself to be so sentimental to actually change his mind (and maybe he was even tempted to there), but just enough to allow this last moment of kindness. Think about it- he easily could have ignored Boyd, and explained the ‘truth’ to Huey and Fenton after shutting him down, but he wanted Boyd to understand too!

After sighing, Gyro says- actually handing Boyd his tablet with the footage of what he thought was his core memory, so he could see for himself (which, again, he didn’t have to do)- “Because deep down… you're this."

Gyro explained that before Boyd suddenly turned evil and went on a destructive rampage city during a test of his systems, he was created to be Tokyolk's protector (like Gizmoduck became for Duckburg). Finally, Inspector Tezuka managed to take him down:

Boyd is horrified as he finished watching the footage:

Gyro's voice wracked with years of suppressed pain (and it's among some of the best voice-acting Jim Rash has delivered in the entire show, and there were lots of amazing examples of his in this episode), he told everybody, “2-BO was the first machine I worked on that turned evil, and I have spent my whole life trying to live that down! 2-BO, Boyd- whatever- is evil. Down to its core.”

Once again, Boyd looks right up at Gyro with those eyes full of emotion- now including fear- as he starts to back away from his creator. “But… you said you’d fix me. So I’d never malfunction again!”

And once again, Gyro bravely faced that poor, innocent face as he bluntly replied while advancing on Boyd, “Yes. By shutting you down for good.” And it is so frigging obvious from his tone (it may sound cold on the surface, but you have to really listen carefully) that he’s trying to fight the heartache and guilt he’s feeling. In fact, his tone clearly says ‘This hurts me more than it hurts you.’

Here's almost the whole scene where Gyro interacts with Boyd (almost- I can't find footage on YT for their exchange from the above two screenshots). Not only is the emotion in Jim Rash's voice-acting INCREDIBLE like I said, but the animation in the range of Gyro's body language and expressions is SO SMOOTH. In fact, I highly encourage you to closely look at the footage frame-by-frame- it's such a visual treat!

#reposted from my defunct blog #ducktales #ducktales 2017 #gyro gearloose #boyd gearloose #b.o.y.d.#astro b.o.y.d.#character analysis #headcanon

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missis-maple394 · 1 year

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04.09.2023 - POPPIN’ BIRTHDAY

DO NOT REPOST / EDIT / TRACE / MONETIZE MY ART FROM OTHER SITES.

Author’s comment:

THE FINAL DAY OF MY PERSONAL PROMPTS, It’s my birthday!!! I drew my OC Chaldene Andromeda holding a BIG strawberry cream cake to celebrate it today! Thank you all for watching me draw whatever makes me happy to share my personal art journey, please support me the way I will delivery wonderful pieces to you; that I will keep drawing and improving until I’m happy to the fullest!

For those who’s curious what’s this prompt about; it’s called “Countdown to ten drawings”! it’s my personal art prompt based on April’s anniversaries from media franchise or can be actors/holidays etc.! You can do it for 7 streaks for less pressuring work, and varied styles you can easily get it done to catch on time! It can be any months too if you want to make birthday for yourself!

So in order, I drew it each day without missing a streaks! I have drawn few were:

Amano Pikamee’s congratulation (10th day, March 31)

Doraemon’s 1973 first animated show aired (9th day, April 1st)

Final Fantasy VI released (8th day, April 2nd)

CMYK STATES wip project (7th day, April 3rd)

Diamond’s Birthday on DDPT Manga (6th day, April 4th)

Jewelpet first animated show aired (5th day, April 5th)

Astro Boy 2003′s anime first aired (4th day, April 6th)

Cardcaptor Sakura first animated show aired (3rd day, April 7th)

LUCKY STAR first animated show aired (2nd day, April 8th)

My birthday on April 9th! Celebrating my whole life as an artist! (Last Day!)

Author’s note:

Do not start a roleplay/venting/fanfiction using replying / reblogging / DMs with my artworks.

Do not tag and marked as a kin/me/morally questionable content etc.

DO NOT claim my artworks belong to you, and removing / cropping my watermarks away.

Please DM me for inquiries such as commissioned work or reporting my artwork has been reposted or edited.

#missmapleart #msm2023 #my art #myart #MSM-ARTPORTFOLIO #ART-PORTFOLIO #digital art #digital drawing #artist on tumblr #artists on tumblr #MsMapleOCs #oc #ocs #original character #Character design #concept design #A.I. GARDENS #Chaldene Andromeda

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moonjinsan · 1 year

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★ ASTRO Schedule ★

📆 14 - 20 November 2022

⚠️Scheduled activities below may be subject to change depending on the ASTRO members' individual schedules and changes/updates which maybe posted depending on official confirmations

⚠️ All activities to occur are without MJ unless contents are pre-recorded

⚠️ All UNIVERSE Contents can be watched exclusively on the UNIVERSE App

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📆 14 November 2022

MOON BIN and YOON SANHA arrival at Incheon Airport, South Korea

📆 16 November 2022

🌟 'DECIBEL' <데시벨> Official Movie Premiere (and #CHAEUNWOO's Debut Movie) <1 hour 50 minutes>

👉🏻 Lists of cinemas/theatres to show 'DECIBEL' to be updated on their Social Media Accounts.

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https://instagram.com/decibelmovie2022?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

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📆 17 November 2022

🌟 6:00 PM

Universe App Originals

DND+ (Do Not Disturb+) #ASTRO EPISODE 3

📆 18 November 2022

🌟 Official Release of 2022 PHOTOBOOK 'MAGAZINE' CHA EUN WOO

📆 19 November 2022

🌟 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM KST

Jeju Eco Music Festival #MOONBIN #YOONSANHA

Venue : Saebyeol Oreum < FREE Concert - Standing Outdoor Event>

👉🏻 Gates Open by 11:00 AM KST

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🌟 2:00 PM KST

Apple Music ~ 2022 PHOTOBOOK 'MAGAZINE' JINJIN and ROCKY Face to Face Fansign

Venue : Ilji Art Hall, Seongneung-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea

🌟 4:00 PM KST

Apple Music ~ 2022 PHOTOBOOK 'MAGAZINE' JINJIN and ROCKY Vidro Call Fansign

🌟 6:00 PM

Universe App Originals

DND+ (Do Not Disturb+) #ASTRO EPISODE 4

🌟 6:00 PM

Universe Radio Originals

ASTRO School Newsletter EP. 41

📆 20 November 2022

🌟 Happy 3rd Anniversary to ASTRO's 6th Mini Album, 'BLUE FLAME'

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youtube

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🌟 6:00 PM

Universe Radio Originals

Catch Up! ASTRO EP. 41

#astro #아스트로 #mj #jinjin #cha eun woo #moon bin #rocky #yoon sanha #ASTRO Schedule #Youtube #Spotify

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weirdstuffthathappens · 6 months

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WSTH April 22 archive

April 2nd

Today I am launching a website. My name is Frank A. Bennetto. I'm a 24 year old and that's enough for you to know about me for now. I'm launching this website as a sort of oddball "today in history"-ish project. Each day, I'll have a short passage on a specific topic on the site. Topics will include both the dorky and the bizarre. In these first three days I'm talking about anime robots, a horror ARG, and a NASA spacecraft, and topics spiral from there.

I do have a few disclaimers before we begin. Don't expect anything in depth. We are just inspecting the entrances to rabbit holes, not going down them. Obscurity is subjective. you might have heard of everything on this site before or you might have heard of none of it depending on your age, location and how much you look for this kind of stuff, and how strict your parents were/are. If I make any mistakes, message me at: ([email protected]) so I can correct them and put the mistake in the "Human Error Gallery". Same email also works for any other questions, suggestions, complaints or other inquiries.

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April 3rd

Today, 70 years ago, the first chapter of Astro Boy (Mighty Atom In Japan) was published. Astro Boy is a good series to get into if you want to get sad about robots. It's about a man who replaces his dead son with a weaponized robot, and then starts being an abusive father to said robot for not being exactly like his dead son. Anyway Astro ends up getting sold to the circus, but the Japanese government gets him out of there and he ends up becoming a superhero.

For the record I don't specifically recommend the original manga, because while it was considered progressive when it was first published in 50's -70's Japan, and was intended to be anti-racist, nowadays… well, there are a number of individual stories that have aged like milk. If you are interested, I recommend the 80's anime that I haven't watched in ten years (I need to rewatch it) but I know is a lot milder, or even the Naoki Urasawa manga "Pluto”, which retells the "The Greatest Robot on Earth'' story arc in a very 00's way.

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April 4th

Today is the birthday of the fictional character Alex Kralie from Marble Hornets. Marble Hornets is a horror web series and alternative reality game that ran from 2009-2014 for five years on the date. It's about a Something Awful goon named Jay Merrick investigating why an indie rom com he worked on in college never got finished. The answer is Slenderman, and he has to deal with the answer being Slenderman.

The web series debuted 10 days after the original Slenderman pictures were posted on the Something Awful "make paranormal images" board and honestly I wonder how weird that was for the guy who made Slenderman. Like, you post a photoshop, and two weeks later some guys in Alabama have a video of your photoshop monster. Anyway, I know Slenderman isn't real, because he would have killed me in 2014 if he was.

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April 5th

Today is National Caramel Day. Caramel is what happens when sugar is heated up, usually with an amount of usually dairy-based fat, enough so it gets brown and tastes great but not hot enough it burns and tastes awful. Because of this, it is probably one of the easiest places to point in a kitchen and exclaim like, "yep, that's chemistry".

Caramel is easily as pretty as it tastes. Something about that golden transparent color just always catches my eye.

One funny thing about caramel is people like to argue about how it's pronounced. The argument is usually whether it has two or three syllables, and in the United States at least usage is regional enough that people have made maps of where people say it which-way-where. Turns out it's an "east coast vs everyone else" split. Personally, I say both interchangeably.

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April 6th

Today is the anniversary of the first Tony Award ceremonies. For the unaware, the Tonys is the big boy award show for Broadway theater. It maintains its place as the least culturally relevant of the "Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony" combo by being a form of media where unless you live in the right place with enough money to go to these things regularly (or are knee deep in theatrical bootlegging) you definitely haven't seen anything getting an award that year, and can only hope to pick out someone to root for based off soundtracks or the media that the play is based on.

The Tony awards are named for Antoinette "Tony" Perry, an actress best known for having the Tony awards named after her. There wasn't really a "best play" at the first awards, more of a lot of general honors for a bunch of plays I've never heard of before, and unless you are a theater buff that already knows more about this than me, you probably haven't heard of em either. One of them was titled "Happy Birthday" though, so that's fun. Regardless, I hope anyone who was there in 1947 had a good time.

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April 7th

Today in 2001, a bunch of NASA scientists sent up the Mars Odyssey off to Mars. Its mission is to hang out around the outside of Mars with a bunch of science tools and both record its own data and help earth communicate with the rovers. As of 2022, the craft is still in operation over twenty years later.

The craft shares its name with the classic Greek epic, but it was named for the book "2001: A Space Odyssey", which is best known for its film adaptation. It was kinda too perfect not to do, and plus they politely asked the guy who wrote the book if they could call it that and he was honored so they went for it.

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April 8th

Today I'll be telling you about one of the first animations. Ever. "Winsor McCay: The Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics" aka "Little Nemo" was an early theatrical short made in 1911, when cinema was still a baby and animation was but a metaphorical fetus.

The animation itself is very fluid, and while some of the character designs look kinda "aged bad" they are extremely animated for being from a time when animation wasn't really a thing, and some versions of the short have a prelude of McCay's friends laughing at him for trying to make comics move. And the animated part is even in color.

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April 9th

Today is the birthday of the guy that invented Jell-o shots and "Geek Rock", Tom Lehrer. As of writing, Lehere is still with us and is turning 94 today. Lehere is best known for his satirical music stylings and "The Elements Song", in which the periodic table is recited to the tune of "Modern Major General.

One thing that's really cool is that Leher has put all his music in the public domain, which means you can do whatever you want with it pretty much. This is really great; he did that because the public domain system is constipated for no good reason. If I ever do anything cool, I'll put it in the public domain when I die. If this website is the cool thing, well, I don't have anyone else to run it if anything happens to me at the moment. I'll look into fixing that.

[EDITOR’S NOTE: You do now, Tom.]

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April 10th

Today we are talking about probably one of the most recent topics I'll cover, because only two years ago, scientists got the first actual image of a black hole. And the image was mostly orange, which is kinda a contrast to most people making them purple or blue beforehand.

I remember hearing a few people say the images looked a bit blurry when they came out, but you also have to realize how far away it was. 55 million light-years away, which technically means the imagery as it hit our planet was 55 million years old. After they get big enough numbers start to feel fake, but you have to appreciate how old and far away it was just for us to manage to take its picture.

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April 11th

Today is National Pet Day. Pets are a thing I'm glad exist. We really went right when we decided to just have animals around for companionship and started the process now known as domestication. They say unlike most other domestic animals, cats domesticated themselves by just showing up on farms and eating the mice and moles that would eat the crop and the farmers would let them stay because of free pest control.

People tend to forget pigeons are domestic animals, being domesticated doves. I don't know if any of the reptiles, amphibians and fish we keep as pets are domesticated the way mammals or birds are, but a number of them make good pets from us simulating their habitats for them in our own homes to sadly mixed results. Always do research before getting a new pet because the needs of an animal can be very specific.

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April 12th

Today Disneyland Paris opened for the first time, but it wasn't Disneyland Paris yet. When it first opened it was called Euro Disneyland. Out of the 6 "Castle Parks" Disney has, it is the third and the first one outside of the US. Disneyland Paris is the only Disney park in Europe.

[EDITOR’S NOTE: OBJECTION! EuroDisney, as it was colloquially called, opened today in 1992, but Tokyo Disneyland opened on April 15th a whole nine years earlier. The Parisian park was the FOURTH castle park, and the second non-US park. You better put on this little green hat and several questions about your anthropomorphic relationship to Pluto, Tom, because you’re a goof now.

Also, while I’m here? Nobody in Europe uses “Euro” to refer to continental matters, so Disney was being extra cultureblind here. They named their failed moneymaker “Dollar Disney.” Appropriate.]

When it was built a lot of people were pissed off that they were bringing the very American concept of a Disney park to France, and nobody showed up until they made Space Mountain. This space mountain was themed to the book " From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne. A lot of people said it was even better than a regular space mountain!

So then they took out the cool parts and changed it to be Star-Wars themed. Because Star Wars.

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April 13th

Today is the birthday of a board game I'm bad at: Scrabble. Scrabble started off as a game called Lexiko, which got reworked into Criss-Crosswords, which got reworked into Scrabble. And then Captain Macy's got into it and now it belongs to Hasbro.

My friend Mouse, who is in a board game club, says the key to being good at Scrabble is to memorize the dictionary. I think she's right because of a guy named Nigel. Nigel Richards won the French scrabble championship after memorizing the French dictionary, and he didn't even speak French.

[EDITOR’S NOTE: While it’s come in handy at Tabletop Tuesdays, I actually learned the dictionary thing from my dad. It’s true. And to everyone who has a different, much stronger association of what this day is? Don’t tell Tom. We must keep some innocence in the world.]

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April 14th

Today, 2001 ago, the first Animal Crossing game came out on the Nintendo 64 in Japan, a game that never hit the states, Dōbutsu no Mori, or Animal Forest in English. Unlike the GameCube game that came to the English speaking world a year later, Animal Forest was deemed too wordy and Japanese to translate, but they changed enough content when they ported it to GameCube that they decided to translate it.

While not an entirely different game, there were a lot of little and less little changes. They didn't have the clothing store or the boat rides. Holidays were reworked. They removed a blood splatter shirt and replaced it with a fish bones shirt. Stuff like that.

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April 15th

Today a bunch of years ago Cartoon Network got it's first tv show, not counting the Moxy show which was more of a tv block, but that's it's own can of worms. We are talking about "Space Ghost Coast to Coast" today. A show with the simple premise of having "Celebrities" interviewed by old Hana Barbara characters.

The show did remarkably well, running for 11 seasons and 108 episodes, 2-5 spin off shows, and it's also the reason Adult Swim is a thing. It's hard to decide what to say about this one as the show did a lot of weird and fun stuff, but this one sticks out off the top of my head. They had an episode where the episode didn't really have an ending, and if you wanted to know the ending you had to buy the script off eBay. I think that script is lost in the lost media dimension now, assuming it was ever real.

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April 16th

Today is the birthday of an artist you have probably seen the work of but don't know by name. Florentijn Hofman is an Dutch artist best known for his giant, often inflatable statues. While his 21 meter inflatable hippopotamus "Hippopothames" and his 82 ft tall "Moon Bunny" are marvels in their own right, he is best known for a particular duck.

If you have ever seen that picture online of a giant rubber duck in a harbor, dwarfing boats and making men look bug sized, you have already seen "Rubber Duck", Hofman's best known work. Sponsored by " Yogho!Yogho!" This giant duck was actually 4 or so different ducks varying in size, situated in different cities, but they were all modeled after the same base duck designed by Tolo Toys.

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April 17th

Today is Bat appreciation day and if you think we need to wait till October to be talking about bats get off my website. Anyway bats are mice evolved to have superpowers that would be extraordinarily powerful if it wasn't still mouse sized. They have two main tricks. The first is that they can fly with weird wing arms, not gliding like squirrels or sugar gliders but flying like birds do. The second is echolocation which is self explanatory, they use echoes to location.

All of this might be painfully obvious If you are old enough to be on this website (it's 14+ here if you skipped the FAQ) but sometimes it's worth restarting the obvious, just for calibration. That being said, the biggest type of bats are known as flying foxes and those guys are pretty big. The actual vampire bats that eat blood are actually really tiny, like golf ball sized.

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April 18th

Today is the release anniversary of a classic video game, Portal 2. It's actually turning 20 this year. Portal 2 is such a classic at this point it feels weird looking back on that first playthrough, I got it because I had thought the robots looked cool and man I was blown away. I kinda wish I played Portal 1 first but I was like, kinda young when it came out.

It's hard to pick out one detail of portal two to point out as something odd and wonderful. I mean everything from the ratman to the music to the potato ARG, to the old 2013 online culture around it. Or it's weird crossovers in the Poker Night 2 and LEGO Dimensions games. I'm just going to heavily suggest you play it if you haven't before.

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Nintendo and Valve recently announced a re-release of both games as part of the Portal Companion Collection for the Nintendo Switch, if you’d like to pick up both for a total of $20, though they haven’t given a release date outside of “2022”. Also, if you think we’re sponsored, you’re insane.]

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April 19th

Today is the publication anniversary of a very interesting case of someone predicting the future and being fairly accurate. In 65', Gordon Moore, who is now known for co-founding Intel, made the prediction that "the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years".

If you don't know what that means, it means the power number on a microchip, well, doubles about every two years. The funny thing is he was right. Was being the key word. Scientists are about to the wall where we can't get 'em small enough fast enough. That being said we did go from that transistor number from the 10⁴s to the 10¹⁰s in that time, and that's nothing to sneeze at.

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April 20th

Today is National Banana Day. Bananas have a dark secret I'd love to talk about. We might lose bananas as we know them and it wouldn't be the first time something like this happened. Until the 1950's the go too banana was the "Gros Michel". The problem was disease struck the variety and wiped out the crop.

The reason the problem got so big was because of the way bananas are grown, as there's not a ton of genetic variety from the asexual way they usually reproduce. Anyway, they swapped banana varieties to "Cavendish" and it's been going great for years but Cavendish has the same genetic vulnerability of its successor. We can only hope the bananas stay healthy.

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April 21st

Today is the anniversary of the Broadway debut of the musical Annie. You probably already know this one but on the off chance you don't it's the story of a little red haired orphan girl who's adopted by some rich old guy who wants a boy but starts to adjust to being a girl dad. I won't spoil the rest for you but if you've somehow seen the Stuart Little movie before this one the plot will feel familiar even if it did it first.

There's two places where it gets weird. The first is that it's actually based on a comic strip where her foster dad's wife keeps kicking her out of the house, until he died because he hated that Franklin D. Roosevelt got re-elected as president. But her on-and-off dad wasn't really dead, just in a coma, that he came out of once FDR died. The second is that in the musical Roosevelt is the big good guy who fixes everything. I don't know who made that change but they definitely knew what they were doing.

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April 22nd

Today is Earth day. A day dedicated to that lovely little rock in an ocean of void we all call home. If you don't call earth home, e-mail me. Anyway, Earth. I'm going to share some classic Earth Day fun facts, true of 2022 when this was posted.

The highest mountain is Mount Everest at 29,031.7 ft tall. The lowest trench is the Mariana Trench 36,037 feet deep. The biggest animal is the blue whale, and they are usually 80 feet long and 300,000 pounds heavy. About 71% of the surface of the earth is oceans and water.

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April 23rd

Today, too many years ago by now, the first YouTube video was posted. "Me at the zoo" was posted on a blank YouTube, a website barely resembling the current juggernaut of a website it is now.

The video itself is exactly what you'd expect from something called "me at the zoo". It's a 19 second clip of home footage of YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. He's standing in front of the elephants and telling the camera they are cool because of their long trucks. You gotta apprentice how mundane it is. A video that would have just been sentimental at best if not weaved into the history of one of the most popular websites on the internet.

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April 24th

Today in 2006 Pluto got demoted from an outer circle planet to a dwarf planet. A lot of people say Pluto is no longer a planet but I feel like this is misleading. Pluto is now classified as a dwarf planet and is one of 5 named dwarf planets,the other four being: Ceres, Eris, Haumea, and Makemake.

Personally I think we should count the dwarf planets in discussions of our solar system, as even if they are small and wild, they have enough of a level of consistency among themselves. If anyone asks me how many planets there are, I'll tell them 8, still, probably, if I don't have time to explain. But if I do have a chance to make my case, my answer is 13.

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April 25th

Today we celebrate a funny little bird. That's right it's Penguin Day. Penguins are funny little dudes who live south of the equator, and contradictory to popular belief, they don't all live at the south pole. Along with one variety that lives on the equator, and there are a number of Australian penguin subspecies.

Probably the best known penguin breed is the emperor penguin. Of all the kinds of penguins they are the tallest and they are known for doing this egg thing. The thing is the male penguins hold the eggs a majority of the incubation while the mama penguins go hunt. On the flip side, the smallest type of penguin is the blue penguin, and it is actually blue.

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April 26th

Today is the oldest date I can find for a YouTube video that won't leave my head. One that objectively has meaty organs in it but it always makes me feel something. Teddy Has An Operation by ZeFrank was a video made for the BuzzFeed website and true to the name a guy performs surgery on a teddy bear.

The thing is the bear has organs. Non plush organs. This is not a video for a squeamish and I've seen people kinda compare it to "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared", but it's kinda a different flavor of irony.

There's just something oddly genuine to the short. It feels childlike in a "what kids are actually like" way. Like if you asked a kid what happens at a stuffed animal hospital this is what they would describe as what would happen there, or maybe just me. I was a weird kid.

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April 27th

Today is the anniversary of a famous television broadcast interruption that isn't the Max Headroom incident. In 1986, a man going by Captain Midnight hacked the satellite video feed of the channel HBO, his message was one of frustration:

GOODEVENING HBO, FROM CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT, $12.95/MONTH? NO WAY !

[SHOWTIME/MOVIE CHANNEL BEWARE!].

Nobody who watched it was really that concerned but the HBOFCCFBI combo definitely were. The guy got hit with a fine and probation, and they made the laws stronger to make sure people didn't do it again. To this day, the guy who did it maintains he just wanted to give HBO a polite message and he was just disappointed with the $13 a month.

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April 28th

Today Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon'' was first unleashed to the masses. Aside from its iconic album art and being a good record, it's best known for people playing it over the Wizard of Oz, and there being some points where it lines up too well. Some people swear the band somehow did it on purpose but it's all coincidence.

The thing is it is all just confirmation bias, as people have tested the album with other, silly movies like Shrek and Paul Blart 2. So I think the album just lines up with stuff well. I like the one guy who did different They Might Be Giants songs over the Wizard of Oz, that was cool.

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April 29th

Today it's time to get down. It's International Dance Day. Chosen for the birthday of Jean-Georges Noverre aka the guy who invented "modern ballet", this holiday is about dancing. I'm going to use this as an excuse to tell you about the dancing plague of 1518.

So in 1518 a lot of people, usually guessed to be around 50-400 people, just started dancing and kept going for a couple months. A lot of people say most of them died but other sources say that's bullcrap and there were no casualties reported at the time, and it was so long ago I imagine there was a lot of telephone game about the situation either way. But regardless, the 1500's were wild.

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April 30th

Today Pokémon Emerald was first released in the United States. Now I'll admit I probably care about Pokémon more than the next guy. Not the most spicy confession but if you haven't figured out I'm a dweeb yet, I can't help you. Anyway yeah Pokémon.

But this is a mostly sentimental entry because Emerald was my first video game. I had gotten hooked on the anime, and there was a Gen 2 Pokédex book in my elementary school library I had already memorized by the time November hit. So My folks decided a black Gameboy SP with the new Pokémon game would be a good gift. I wish I still had that Gameboy.

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I don’t know if you want my opinion or an ask - feel free to disagree . You can be delulu in private or with your friends but maybe not in public especially in front of your favs. I don’t know if you saw the TikTok about which Kpop idol you think you can pull which received backlash but that is harmless and I don’t know about you but I think I don’t want to be perceived by my favs and I wouldn’t want to date a celebrity. I heard you can rent out a Kpop idol to hang out with you for $40k (minimum base rate). Some of the fan calls are insane but I won’t start on that. My dad witnessed seeing fans using ladders to take photos of their favs and crowd them at an airport and he was shocked

Today there was an article published that a fan approached 97 line (NCT Jaehyun/Astro Eunwoo and BTS Jungkook) for an autograph and said no and then after they had finished collected their cups and kept them. I think the article was deleted but I saw the fan was defending their actions, there was probably more to the article but I skimmed it.

I feel like now people just want their Y/N moment? I saw there was a concert and the artist had to say this isn’t a fan sign and people were leaving during the concert because they got their moment. I feel like there is a big change since I have joined (early third generation) and I mainly stan 2nd/3rd generation.

Even though wonho will not join monsta x again, I hope we can get interactions between them. Maybe things are getting more laxxed. I don’t know if you are familiar with TVXQ but the members who left and were black listed in Korea are now promoting and have their own programs.

Anyway this is like 6 different topics in one ask lol sorry for the roller coaster ride. Happy to debate or talk more about stuff. Have a good day!

yeah that's who i was talking abt the other day when i posted that text post abt being delulu.... like YEAH my and my friends are SO DELULU in our private chats it's actually crazy but the whole "who do u think u can pull" is just....😬 it's not even new, someone else started the "trend" a while ago too and it went down pretty much the same. it sounds harmless enough in the grand scheme of delulu things kpoppies have done but it still feels off imo... i can't put my finger on it.

yeah i saw the girl talking abt the hiring idols for 40k too but tbh i don't believe it... logistically it doesn't make sense. it's too much of a risk for companies to just put their artists in a sitation like that and have it leak to the public. especially since a huge part of the idols' imagine is the whole being 'unattainable' thing. plus, if that was a thing, kazakhstan's princess wouldn't have KIDNAP vixx to meet them (true story) sldkjflfsjfls

you're right... fans seem to be getting more and more delulu and i think it's at least partially caused by the videocall fansigns... like ofc the more you give them opportunities to play pretend gf with their oppas the more delulu and entitled they get! god.... the things they sometimes ask idols to do on these phonecalls are appaling.

yeah :((((( i heard abt that!!! I'm happy that the industry is finally starting shift a little bit... i truly hope that by the time monek are finished with their military duties (around their 10th anniversary) they get to celebrate it with wonho even if he doesn't rejoing the group. i think its unfair to exclude him from their milestones since he was part of the group for most of it and is responsible for so much of their achievements...

#ive definitely talked abt the whole fansign stuff and fans being delulu a bunch of times before but #im the same!!!! i DO NOT want to be percieved by my faves in any way!!!!#like even at a concert id rather be at a safe distant so they couldn't see my face lsdkjflskdjf #so i don't really understand the whole 'i can pull him' thing...#like yeah maybe it's harmless to make a tiktok video abt it but this could very well be the start of someone believing they can 'pull' -#-their fave and if they (even accidentally) see them somewhere they approach them and practically HARASS them when they're with friends #someone was arguing on the twt repost of that tiktok and was like 'they're still men and have preference'#like girl... i don't think you've ever seen real grass your entire life lsdkjflsdjf #i honestly want all idols to pull a Chen slkdjflsjf #ask #anon

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pcrkmin · 5 years

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HAPPY 3RD ANNIVERSARY ASTRO ✫

to our six beautiful angels; thank you for working so hard over the past three years, you finally got your well deserved first win after so long and we are so proud of you! thank you for constantly making us feel happy and loved, i hope we can do the same. please stay happy and healthy, we love you always. happy anniversary!!! ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡

#astro #astro 3rd anniversary #happy astro day #happyastroday #jinjin #eunwoo #mj #moonbin #rocky #sanha #park jinwoo #cha eunwoo #lee dongmin #kim myungjun #moon bin #park minhyuk #yoon sanha #m.gifs

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softbinu · 5 years

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ASTRO 3rd Debut Anniversary ☆

#another edit!!#i actually made this first but i didn’t really like it that much so i ended up making the one i posted earlier #and homestly i wanted to add more to this but then again it would have been too much :( sad #anyway i love my boys and i treasure them with all my heart!! thank you for everything ilu <3 #also i love u rohas!!! 💕🌷 u guys are so sweet and kind and nice i cri #astro #happyastroday #astro 3rd anniversary #ot6 #e: all light #mine!

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astro-imagines-that-are-bad · 5 years

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Happy Third Anniversary Astro

Honestly, this post is hella late and this is a rant but here goes.

Astro is so much more than a band to me. K-pop isn’t the first long running nerdy obsession I’ve had, but right now, it’s what makes me happiest in a time of stress and fear almost every day.

I’m not an ancient aroha, I’ve been here for just about a year and a half now, but even in that time I’ve seen these boys grow up so much. Sanha, my first bias, inspired me to take life less seriously and work towards my dreams, motivating me to get out of bed every day. Rocky, my current bias, shows me what’s good about myself. I look at him and see how he quietly supports his members and works so damn hard and it helps me see that in myself and love myself for it.

I found Astro less than half a year after my best friend committed suicide, in one of the darkest years of my life. They popped into my days with bright energy and new songs and everything I needed. I didn’t need sad love songs, I didn’t need to wallow in grief, I needed to dance and sing and find friends. Astro did that. They bounced into my heart and kept me sane when I was at my lowest.

Astro has created so many pathways for me. Though most I don’t keep in contact with now, the Aroha I’ve befriended throughout this year and a half are some of the sweetest, most talented people I’ve ever met. (I’m looking at you strong berry chat). In a time where I feared telling people at school about K-pop bc I didn’t want to be seen as cringy, I found people who were saved by Astro just as much as me.

I was lucky enough to meet Astro just over 1 year ago. I remember crying tears of joy for the first time in my life when I saw they were coming within 2 hours of me. And I remember crying again when I got front row tickets. To this day, the bright pictures of that day come to me in my dreams and I feel like I’m flying. It is honestly the best day of my life I can remember.

I think that’s it. I’ve gone through points of being less and more interested in these beautiful boys, but whenever I really take time to look, they make me feel like I’m flying. They make me feel like I’m loved. And even now that they have moved on from the cute concept, they make me giddy inside thinking about how they achieved their dreams and have helped me and so many other arohas through hard times.

Happy 3rd anniversary Astro, here’s to many more years of love and support.

#i speak #not writing #astro #astro 3rd anniversary #soft hours #here's my post #sorry its not very good #but i love them #so much #i posted this to my main on accident #oof

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moonbyxing · 5 years

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I made an ASTRO edit for this 3rd anniversary, I hope you like it~

Sorry if i made you cry :'c

#astro #happy astro day #astro 3rd anniversary #AROHA #190223 #160223

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bruce-waynes-mascara · 5 years

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Group Title Tag!

Tagged by @minicovaa Thanks, this was fun! I had to get creative with some of these.

Group? In honor of their anniversary, I’ll be using Astro’s discography!

gender? Puss in Boots (get it because... never mind)

currently feeling? OK! Ready To Go

if you could go anywhere? Merry-Go-Round (I love amusement parks but they don’t have a song called Roller Coaster so)

favorite mode of transportation? Love Wheel (like you know a car or something)

best friend? Treasure (because she is)

favorite time of day? Every Minute (I don’t really have a favorite time of day)

if your life was a TV show? Better With You

relationship status? Lonely (lol rip)

your fear? Growing Pains

tagging: @edusk-til-edawn @cuteez and @miatsubaki23 but only if you want to guys!

#tagged #personal #astro #astro 3rd anniversary

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rocky-swag-blog · 5 years

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IN CELEBRATION OF ASTRO’S 3RD ANNIVERSARY: Reblog this with a story of how you found ASTRO / how you’ve changed since stanning them!

#astro #fantagio #all light #rocky #sanha #moonbin #jinjin #cha eunwoo #mj #park minhyuk #yoon sanha #moon bin #park jinwoo #lee dongmin #kim myungjun #happyastroday #happy astro day #astro 3rd anniversary

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snibnoom · 5 years

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I’ve been struggling all day with how to put my thoughts into words. I have so many thoughts and feelings when I think about ASTRO. There’s warmth and pride and happiness. There’s a cold spot of bitter anger still residing from the events of the previous year. I think about Bin, less than 2 days younger than me, 11 years old when he started on this path, and I think, wow, what a life he’s had. But because of him, because of ASTRO, I’ve had a few good years, too, and I’ve come to accept that it’s okay if not every day is a good one.

Sometimes I see AROHA’s responses to ASTRO, and I feel strange. Perhaps it’s a show put on for the sake of keeping with the internet culture that’s come to be, but the all-caps posts and the reaction images and the masses of emojis make me smile. Sometimes seeing AROHA’s responses to ASTRO make me smile physically more than whatever ASTRO just posted. And that feels weird. I feel like I should be like that, too; I feel like I should be crying or laughing or rushing to respond.

And then I realized that I feel comfortable. ASTRO are my comfort. They’re my safe place, and my love for them has become so much a part of who I am that it affects literally everything I do. Those wild feelings of happiness that I used to feel when I first was a fan are now my normal.

I found ASTRO in November 2015 by mistake. I was browsing dance cover videos on YouTube and saw a title in Korean. I was just beginning to teach myself Korean and I thought it’d be good practice to try and immerse myself more in Korean media, but I couldn’t have guessed just how far that single video would take me. That video of a couple of guys dancing in their practice room, laughing and chasing each other and falling all while looking like they’re having the times of their lives. That video is the reason why I’m here, and that video has led to my life completely changing.

I graduated high school about four months after ASTRO’s debut. Through high school, I’d developed terrible anxiety and bad habits and I was constantly stressed. My friends were no longer around; they never included me in weekend plans or made an effort to hang out after school. And after graduation I was miserable. I was, quite frankly, alone. I was bitter and angry and, honestly, a pretty shitty person. (In retrospect, a lot of the issues I went through were self made, but that realization alone isn’t one I could’ve had without having ASTRO be a part of it.)

And then ASTRO had a comeback.

I was away for a concert for another group on the day of the comeback. I didn’t get to watch the showcase as I had for debut; I was busy greeting other idols at the airport. I didn’t listen to the album until late at night; I’d been busy singing until my throat was raw along with other fans.

But as I sat in the chair in the hotel room at a time far past midnight, I listened to Summer Vibes, and something clicked. My Style began to play and I began to cry (not unlike a child, trying to hide my tears because this was stupid, why was I crying over a song?). I’d had a similar reaction months before, but it was different. Where I’d nearly cried tears of joy at hearing Puss in Boots in the highlight medley of Spring Up, I was now crying of relief. Everything that I’d held back, bottled up, and thrown chains around was released by this one song sung by 6 boys on the other side of the world. I read through the rough translations of lyrics with wildly wrong grammar and nowhere near as poetic as the actual lyrics, but I cried. I still get near tears listening to My Style if I think about the lyrics too much.

I spent a lot of time reflecting on My Style and the lyrics of ASTRO’s other songs. What had been a relatively tame interest until then grew into a monster I had no wish to tame. My love for every member grew ten fold. My love for the fans and friends I’d met multiplied. And for the first time, the thought of self love didn’t seem that far fetched.

If someone had told me right out of high school that one day I would come to love myself, I would’ve laughed. If someone had told me that one day I would be okay with having bad days, I would’ve said that’s impossible. If someone told me that one day I wouldn’t be miserable, that I wouldn’t be so anxious, that I’d live life for love and happiness, I would’ve called them crazy. But I am. I’m still growing and learning and trying to be a better person. I’m still training myself out of years of bad habits and self-deprecating thoughts, but there’s a light. There’s a spot of brightness that’s growing with ASTRO and my love for them, and now myself, at the center.

And this is still just the beginning.

To ASTRO, who may have literally saved me from myself, thank you.

#astro #3rd anniversary #are there tears? yes #is this the most open ive ever been about why i care so much about astro? absofuckinglutely

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