havent seen ANY mech cadets art or anyone talk abt it makes me SOOO MAD IRS SO GOODDDDD I wuv this show sooo much PLEASE WATCH IT IT NEEEEDSSS A S2 SO BAD
Anyone who says there are no ‘strong or interesting’ male leads or characters in modern western fiction either have a very narrow definition of what they consider ‘strong’, don’t have that wide a palette, or are just straight-up lying.
I was sad there’s barely and fan content for this new cartoon, Mech Cadets, so i made my own. And i know it’s basically voltron but that doesn’t mean it’s not good.
Archaeologists Discover 1,500-Year-Old Tomb of Ancient Emperor in China
An inscription on the 1,400-year-old tomb shows the dead man, who was posthumously declared emperor, was buried as a duke.
The 1,400-year-old tomb of a Chinese emperor confirms a political power struggle between royal brothers and a warlord that, until now, was known only from historical records.
The official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported last week that archaeologists had unearthed the tomb near the city of Xianyang in Shaanxi province, about 560 miles (900 kilometers) southwest of Beijing.
The report said the tomb holds the remains of Emperor Xiaomin — also known by his personal name, Yuwen Jue — who is regarded as the founder of the Northern Zhou dynasty in 557. But historians say Jue was deposed and executed after ruling for only a few months and that he wasn't proclaimed emperor until decades later.
The newfound tomb near Xianyang is inscribed with an epitaph, written in characters painted with cinnabar, a red mineral form of mercuric sulfide. It describes Jue as "Duke of Lueyang," which was his official rank at the time of his death, and not as emperor.
According to the Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology, which is working on the excavations, the tomb was found in an area northwest of Xianyang that has many high-status tombs from that time.
A tomb belonging to Jue's younger brother was previously found nearby, while the tomb of yet another brother, Yuwen Yong — Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou — is about 5 miles (8 km) to the east.
The newfound tomb is a single earthen chamber about 184 feet (56 meters) long and about 33 feet (10 m) deep.
At some point, the tomb was disturbed by grave robbers, but the archaeologists unearthed 146 artifacts buried there as grave goods, including terra-cotta figurines and pottery, according to Xinhua.
Experts say the inscription on the tomb provides the first physical evidence of the political struggle that took place during the founding of the Northern Zhou dynasty, which had been described only in historical writings.
At that time, China was fractured into several kingdoms plagued by civil wars and political chaos — a period historians call the time of the Northern and Southern dynasties, between 420 and 589.
Historian Albert Dien, a professor emeritus of Chinese at Stanford University who was not involved with the tomb's discovery, told Live Science that Jue had been installed on the imperial throne by his cousin and guardian, the warlord Yuwen Hu.
Jue was the son of Yuwen Tai, a powerful general of the Western Wei dynasty who died in 556, and with Hu's support, Jue ascended the throne in 557.
But Jue rebelled against control by Hu, so Hu had him deposed and executed a few months later, replacing him with another brother, Yuwen Yu — Emperor Ming.
Hu eventually poisoned Yu, and then controlled the Northern Zhou dynasty through puppet rulers until he was assassinated in 572 by a clique loyal to yet another brother, Yuwen Yong, who had become Emperor Wu.
Jue was proclaimed the first emperor of the Northern Zhao dynasty only after Yong dispatched Hu, roughly 37 years after Jue's death, Dien said. As a result, the inscription on the newfound tomb near Xianyang shows Jue had been buried as a duke when he died, and not as an emperor.
Random Mech Cadets headcannons part two because I just watched the finale for the third time. I think I have a problem
- Olivia clocked Frank and Maya’s crushes on each other on day one and has been low-key trying to get them together the whole time. She was much more delighted than she let on when they did it on their own
- Maya really, really likes puns. Even the ridiculously stupid ones that make everyone else groan and want to die.
- Frank dresses up as a pirate for Halloween every year without fail, with a peg leg and everything. He thinks it’s the funniest thing ever and Maya secretly agrees
- Olivia is learning Spanish from Maya so that they can talk smack about other people in front of them. So far, she’s mostly learned insults
- Stanford secretly adores cartoons, but he’s kind of embarrassed because he thinks it’s “childish”, so he doesn’t tell anybody
- Frank and Maya used to arm wrestle as an excuse to hold hands. Now they just do it for fun
- Ava once tried to make a hat that robos could wear. She still has the blueprints for it
- Frank really likes stickers and sometimes puts them on his crutches to decorate them for special occasions
- Because of that, Maya leaves sheets of stickers in his room whenever he’s feeling down
- Olivia calls them both childish for it, but when Maya was out of town and Frank had a bad day, stickers still miraculously appeared in his room
- Ava loves video games and is one of those gamers who plays obsessively until she unlocks every single achievement possible