Popping back on Tumblr for a hot sec because no one irl that I know can appreciate this but...
MY PROF WORKS FOR MARVEL AS A CONSULTANT FOR ALL THEIR SCIENCE-Y SERUMS!!
She literally told us that she helped to develop what the super soldier serum would be if it actually existed and how it would impact a literal human being to make it more realistic. She also said she developed other things for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and other Marvel works??? But didn't go into detail about all that stuff. I am just LOSING my mind!!
She's going to San Diego Comic Con, Dragon Con, and a few other big cons this year (and goes to them a lot) as a Marvel affiliate scientist and speaks at panels on the works she's done for them
And she just causally dropped this in class and now I am losing my mind
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One of the recurring philosophical questions is:
"Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one to hear?"
Which says something about the nature of philosophers, because there is always someone in a forest. It may only be a badger, wondering what that cracking noise was, or a squirrel a bit puzzled by all the scenery going upwards, but someone. At the very least, if it was deep enough in the forest, millions of small gods would have heard it.
Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history...ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just...well, things happening one after another.
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
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"haha wylan walks in on jesper kissing the wrong guy" yes funny but moving on, have you ever wondered why Wylan was up there in the first place. Because the last he'd seen of Jesper was him being yelled at by Colm to explain what was going on or Colm would "tan your hide so bad you won't be able to sit down for two weeks". Everyone else finds Jesper getting full government-named very funny, but to Wylan this threat would not seem empty - that is just what happens when sons make mistakes. Consider that he wanted to check on Jesper, to see if he was alright, because though it's not really addressed directly, the story gives us several moments of Wylan not trusting Colm and trying to "protect" Jesper from him. Wylan had been isolated to the point where he only knew one father-son relationship, or even one relationship at all, which was between him and Van Eck. Why would he trust Colm? Maybe he just wandered into the room for a silly plot convenience, but I think he was there to assess the damage and be there for Jesper in case the thing that happens between fathers and their sons happened to him.
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ELIO DE ANGELIS testing at CIRCUIT PAUL RICARD, 1983
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I honestly forgot that when Van Eck first tried to offer Kaz the Ice Court job Kaz just stared at him for a minute and then burst out laughing.
I remembered that Van Eck offered it, Kaz was pissed that Van Eck had "wasted his time", and that Van Eck kept upping the reward whilst Kaz sarcastically thanked him for kidnapping him.
Kaz laughing however?? Yeah, I completely forgot about that. Imagining it however, deeply entertains me.
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I'm not saying I'm officially back, but I've queued autumn & halloween things for this month, as well as some new tiktoks after that. thank you for all the kind asks- I have seen them all and I appreciate you <3
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It's truly incredible to me that whenever someone points out the, let's say, extremely marked ageism of a lot of contemporary fandom, I always see people going, "oh, but that's only against predators or freaks, it's never used against normal people."
For one, this is so blatantly false that it takes some very heavy blinkers or straight-up lying to say. I, at least, continually see posts sneering at older people in fandom, often for supposed reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with age. But for another, all this rhetoric around freaks and degenerates in fandom of all places, and refusal to distinguish between "freaks" and real predators, is such a strange and disappointing trend.
It's like ... sorry, but no matter how many older fans you throw under the bus, most people are still going to see your fandom habits as freakish and cringe. Respectability is both a bad goal and an unattainable one.
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