i feel like keith could absolutely terrify normal/rational people (hunk, lance) by coming up with the weirdest most complicated way to fix the most simple problem. shiro is very used to it so he isn’t scared anymore
i think keith and pidge are two sides of the same raccoon-macgyver-packrat coin, but whereas pidge is a #WomenInSTEM👩🔬, keith is an unhinged liberal arts major
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Guess who noticed a really interesting tiny detail again?
Beloved mutual torterrachampion recently pointed out to me that the special thanks page in each vnc volume always has a nice crisp lineart version of the frame from its cover, and there's some really interesting details hidden in there. A bunch of the thanks pages even show extra details that aren't there on the actual color covers themselves!
In particular, volume 2's frame has this whole bottom bones/flowers arrangement that's totally left out/hidden on the actual cover:
And right off the bat, there's a couple things about that bottom arrangement that really catch my eye.
First of all, the position of the hands there strikes me as pretty important, since uh
reaching out and down toward Vanitas is a pretty major recurring image for Noé. It makes a lot of cool symbolic sense that this shape of reaching hand would show up in his frame, since it seems to be so important to his story.
Even more interesting than that, though, is what's going on with the left eye of that bottum skull. It looks like the skull's been partially shattered there around the eye, and while Mochijun does generally seem to enjoy a bit of cracked bone imagery, this one stands out to me because:
Something happened to Noé's eye when he was a kid, but he's never once acknowledged it, and we've never gotten a single hint at what it was beyond it happening with the traffickers. And now the one skull featured on his cover's frame has a huge crack around its eye.
This doesn't actually give us any new information beyond just drawing yet more attention to the eye mystery, but. DAMN.
The rest of the imagery in this frame (the book and pen, the mourning lilies, the reaching hands) is all pretty central to who/what Noé is as a character. So while the cracked skull is/could be just a clever little nod to the existence of the eye mystery, its surroundings make me wonder just how relevant that injury is going to be.
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day 20/366
started my first class as a senior today :)
took lots of notes with the responses of those asked what protocols or practices they follow in their current institute (yk as a baby intern) and then I was asked by my prof which research group I would like to jump in so it would be less difficult for me considering my placement for internship as well, but initially, of course, I said it would be unfair since they already completed chapters 1-3 without me
but then, my friend which I had helped from their chapter 1 wanted to adopt me and soooo instead of completing the last research proposal I've been working on, I will review on that research instead - proofread, make notes of and etc since there's a proposal defense on saturday with the university's research head
also had a wholesome chat with a convenience store manager. before we had a chat i felt frustrated at myself for not checking the operating times of the office i needed to visit and just went there but then it's closed every weekend so i hung out at the store for awhile (i also did not know my way home that time, HAHA) but yeah. i was touched by the conversation we had because we both helped each other in a sense that he's preparing financially for his kids' college funds (which he asks me abt tuition, etc + his kids are adorable 🥹 he showed me a photo of them) and he told me how he wants even just one of his kids to also pursue respiratory therapy because it seems like a great field, esp abroad + how he wants them to grow up like me ??? like, im a legit stranger, he doesn't know me but somehow i made that good of an impression, hahaha and he also reminded me that family is a blessing, daily necessities are always miraculously provided but tuition fees are not and that he said it was great i stumbled into their store, hahaha
it's a very long story BUT as a socially awkward introvert, it was a great talk :) also as i post this, i got home safely, probably just guided by God on the way back home because i legit had no idea where to go but then my feet just walked awhile until we reached the terminal for transport
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okay so hear me out: if faith was introduced in S3 as the same age as dawn at the time (so 11-12), they’ve would’ve been absolute besties. i’m imagining a scenario where faith and her parent(s) moved to sunnydale. she wouldn’t have been a slayer yet, she’d just be a sad awkward little girl. dawn already felt like the outcast of her family so they’d be two peas in a pod. i think she’d understand faith in a lot of the ways buffy didn’t. and she’d offer her a place to stay when it wasn’t safe for faith to go home. they’d be attached at the hip for years, and then maybe have a sort of difficult phase where dawn felt self-conscious because faith became the “more attractive friend” and got all the attention from guys. this would coincide with S5 and dawn’s paranoia about being “something horrible” in everyone’s eyes (which faith could very much relate to). then when buffy jumped off the tower in the end, i’m thinking about the absolute chaos that would ensue when faith suddenly developed her powers and had to follow in buffy’s footsteps (assuming kendra hadn’t already been called before). that would really be the test of their friendship -- whether faith and dawn could still be there for each other in the aftermath, with dawn grieving and faith learning how to be the slayer (oh my god imagine little faith training with the buffybot). maybe they’d be each other’s inspiration to graduate high school and they’d be college roomies like buffy and willow...
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As the seasons drift into one another
I'm back to square one,
Waiting anxiously,
As another chapter unfolds.
Long story short, I'm in uni and working my way through a double major in finance and international business.
I'm gonna do a ba in English simultaneously-
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31.08.2022. August did slip away into a moment in time with me trying to cram every minute with some kind of activity in an attempt to make up for a 2 year hiatus from work. I tried to be productive half way through the month and it worked out? Sort of?? In any case, having a quantitative list added some structure to the day, something I’ve been struggling to do since the pandemic. Some of these are genuinely important tasks that I want to make a habit of doing like reading, writing, or researching academic content. Others, like reminding my anemic self to take my pills on time or going for a walk are easier goals I included just to fill out the boxes and take some of that stress/guilt from not being able to accomplish all my tasks; this is supposed to help with my mental health, not aggravate it. Now that I’ve gotten a little used to this I’ll try to add on more important assignments for next month and hopefully do a better job of completing them.
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