#what a coincidence right

[biblically-accurate-dca]

first meetings (bonus panel under the cut!!)

i didnt wanna add it to the main post bc it's a different size and it would mess up the format lmaooo

i think about these two a lot i think they could be really fun together in several ways. monty golf is right next to the daycare after all!!

#my art #daycare attendant #sundrop #sunnydrop #oh idk how to tag for monty.... #montgomery gator #monty gator #this isnt explicitly ship but if u wanna read it that way go for it lol #i genuinely do think these two are like.. connected in some way. i just have a hunch okay just trust me #monty golf is right next to the daycare. they were both side attractions before bonnie's disappearance #they've both got destroyed staff bots in their rooms. the 'decommission monty' mission makes you go back to the daycare #as well as monty being the one that gets called when a staff bot finds you in the daycare #IM JUST SAYING.... it cant be a coincidence right. it probably is but just hear me out okay #what if monty didnt kill bonnie. thats all i'll say for now #i'll stop being a conspiracy theorist in the tags now

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

ahem. dear Sally,

I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE

#im looking Directly At Sally #i know what you are.... i see you you're not slick..... #i was looking at the spider and went 'oh hey the legs look kinda like the. kinda like the.... Motherfucker-' #SAME COLOR SCHEME TELL ME IM WRONG YOU CANT #THE BODY IS LITERALLY THE FIRST THREE COLORS #could be a coincidence but mmmmm thats a mighty big coinky dink right there #*slams these images onto the corkboard* THE DOTS HAVE BEEN CONNECTED #this is technically all heresay but im a lesbian sally truther we all know this #could be candy corn colors but its a biiiittttt on the nose dontcha think #welcome home #homebogging #absolutely unprompted #'im a thespian' only a coupla pronounciations off there sal cmon you can do it i believe in you

[spocks-kaathyra]

thoughts about the Cardassian writing system

I've thinking about the Cardassian script as shown on screen and in beta canon and such and like. Is it just me or would it be very difficult to write by hand?? Like.

I traced some of this image for a recent drawing I did and like. The varying line thicknesses?? The little rectangular holes?? It's not at all intuitive to write by hand. Even if you imagine, like, a different writing implement—I suppose a chisel-tip pen would work better—it still seems like it wasn't meant to be handwritten. Which has a few possible explanations.

Like, maybe it's just a fancy font for computers, and handwritten text looks a little different. Times New Roman isn't very easily written by hand either, right? Maybe the line thickness differences are just decorative, and it's totally possible to convey the same orthographic information with the two line thicknesses of a chisel-tip pen, or with no variation in line thickness at all.

A more interesting explanation, though, and the one I thought of first, is that this writing system was never designed to be handwritten. This is a writing system developed in Cardassia's digital age. Maybe the original Cardassian script didn’t digitize well, so they invented a new one specifically for digital use? Like, when they invented coding, they realized that their writing system didn’t work very well for that purpose. I know next to nothing about coding, but I cannot imagine doing it using Chinese characters. So maybe they came up with a new writing system that worked well for that purpose, and when computer use became widespread, they stuck with it. 

Or maybe the script was invented for political reasons! Maybe Cardassia was already fairly technologically advanced when the Cardassian Union was formed, and, to reinforce a cohesive national identity, they developed a new standardized national writing system. Like, y'know, the First Emperor of Qin standardizing hanzi when he unified China, or that Korean king inventing hangul. Except that at this point in Cardassian history, all official records were digital and typing was a lot more common than handwriting, so the new script was designed to be typed and not written. Of course, this reform would be slower to reach the more rural parts of Cardassia, and even in a technologically advanced society, there are people who don't have access to that technology. But I imagine the government would be big on infrastructure and education, and would make sure all good Cardassian citizens become literate. And old regional scripts would stop being taught in schools and be phased out of digital use and all the kids would grow up learning the digital script.

Which is good for the totalitarian government! Imagine you can only write digitally. On computers. That the government can monitor. If you, like, write a physical letter and send it to someone, then it's possible for the contents to stay totally private. But if you send an email, it can be very easily intercepted. Especially if the government is controlling which computers can be manufactured and sold, and what software is in widespread use, etc. 

AND. Historical documents are now only readable for scholars. Remember that Korean king that invented hangul? Before him, Korea used to use Chinese characters too. And don't get me wrong, hangul is a genius writing system! It fits the Korean language so much better than Chinese characters did! It increased literacy at incredible rates! But by switching writing systems, they broke that historical link. The average literate Chinese person can read texts that are thousands of years old. The average literate Korean person can't. They'd have to specifically study that field, learn a whole new writing system. So with the new generation of Cardassian youths unable to read historical texts, it's much easier for the government to revise history. The primary source documents are in a script that most people can't read. You just trust the translation they teach you in school. In ASIT it's literally a crucial plot point that the Cardassian government revised history! Wouldn't it make it soooo much easier for them if only very few people can actually read the historical accounts of what happened.

I guess I am thinking of this like Chinese characters. Like, all the different Chinese "dialects" being written with hanzi, even though otherwise they could barely be considered the same language. And even non-Sinitic languages that historically adopted hanzi, like Japanese and Korean and Vietnamese. Which worked because hanzi is a logography—it encodes meaning, not sound, so the same word in different languages can be written the same. It didn’t work well! Nowadays, Japanese has made significant modifications and Korean has invented a new writing system entirely and Vietnamese has adapted a different foreign writing system, because while hanzi could write their languages, it didn’t do a very good job at it. But the Cardassian government probably cares more about assimilation and national unity than making things easier for speakers of minority languages. So, Cardassia used to have different cultures with different languages, like the Hebitians, and maybe instead of the Union forcing everyone to start speaking the same language, they just made everyone use the same writing system. Though that does seem less likely than them enforcing a standard language like the Federation does. Maybe they enforce a standard language, and invent the new writing system to increase literacy for people who are newly learning it.

And I can imagine it being a kind of purely digital language for some people? Like if you’re living on a colonized planet lightyears away from Cardassia Prime and you never have to speak Cardassian, but your computer’s interface is in Cardassian and if you go online then everyone there uses Cardassian. Like people irl who participate in the anglophone internet but don’t really use English in person because they don’t live in an anglophone country. Except if English were a logographic writing system that you could use to write your own language. And you can’t handwrite it, if for whatever reason you wanted to. Almost a similar idea to a liturgical language? Like, it’s only used in specific contexts and not really in daily life. In daily life you’d still speak your own language, and maybe even handwrite it when needed. I think old writing systems would survive even closer to the imperial core (does it make sense to call it that?), though the government would discourage it. I imagine there’d be a revival movement after the Fire, not only because of the cultural shift away from the old totalitarian Cardassia, but because people realize the importance of having a written communication system that doesn’t rely on everyone having a padd and electricity and wifi.

#if I read over this again I will inevitably want to change and add things so I'm refraining from doing that. enjoy whatever this is #forgive my very crude recounting of chinese and korean history! I am neither a historian nor a linguist #but I will NOT apologize for talking abt china so much. that's my culture and I'm weird abt it bc of my family history #and it's my GOD GIVEN RIGHT to project what little I know abt it onto all my worldbuilding #also I've never actually read abt any of the various cardassian conlangs but I'm curious if this contradicts or coincides with any of them #I still want to make my own someday. starting college as a linguistics major (in 2 weeks!!) so presumably I will learn how to do that #narcissus's echoes #ds9 #asit #star trek #cardassians #cardassian meta #a stitch in time #hebitians

[beanghostprincess]

Happy day to Sogeking who coincidentally shares birthday with Usopp <3

#what a coincidence right guys #one piece #usopp #sogeking

[bruhstation]

can't it even be more obvious thomas. why are you surprised that a sudrian historical site filled to the brim with armor and weaponry that dates back to the middle ages has old people afflicted with the gold dust working around the castle

#thomas the tank engine #thomas and friends #ttte glynn #ttte millie #ttte stephen #casa tidmouth #senjart #MORE OF LADY'S EXPERIMENTS GONE WRONG #WHO UP ULFSTEADING THEIR CASTLE #stuff for the kotr arc of casa tidmouth. now this is where gold dust has historical significance #going crazy right now. my friends are influencing me #I had 12 tabs opened just to draw young glynn's armor. they dont have plated armory in the 10th century!!!! only mails!!!!!! #(looking at you KOTR intro) #I remember reading some inputs on my 1k milestone poll and saw someone put ''the misery of growing old'' and honestly. Checks out #glynn's eyes are goldish brown because well. that's the perks of being the first bearer of the gold dust horrors #lady during 989 AD do not know anything about human thoughts and ethics and emotions. she was literally freestyling that!!!!! #Oh a wounded soldier on the verge of death. what if I *dumps 200 kg of gold dust on him* yeah that'll do the trick. #then she saw how glynn aged so so slowly and went Oh well I messed up. Good thing there are lots of other sudrians here #funny coincidence that young cstm glynn's helmet resembles canon glynn's funnel #I wanted to make millie's design resemble a tour guide more with her scarf and more stylish than usual tie #shes so pretty. I'm so proud of her design #(AND I REALIZED TOO LATE THAT HER TIE HAS THE COLORS OF THE FRENCH FLAG) #<--- said the guy who has beef with the french #stephen's crown is translated to a hat decor! was about to draw a top hat but whatever just imagine he has a collection of various hats #that he can put his crown on #also I want to give him that cool hip-with-the-kids I-am-still-young-at-heart energy #sir robert norramby is balling in the background. #hope you enjoy..... won't be able to draw as much from now on but I'm excited #also whos ready for old man yaoi........... 2!!!!!!

[catocappuccino]

U zee being cool and allat... like she always is

+ two random doodles

#guess my favourite character!!! 😜 (difficulty : IMPOSSIBLE) /j #I love Uzi such a big amount she's like a daughter to me y'all will never understand y'all will neve #WHY IS HER HEAD TURNED TO THE... right?... WEST IN ALL OF THESE 😭 I swear I had drawn her from every angle possible this is a coincidence #reject medibang return to MS paint #oh yeah also what happened to my last post. Who decided it will blow up. Why is it over 800 notes- THANKS? THANK YOU??? I donno what to say #like honestly I did NOT expect that doodle to gain traction but I guess it did so- yeah! Thanks guys you rule🔥 keep murdering those drones #murder drones #uzi doorman #md uzi #uzi murder drones #my art

[whitestnoise]

#the fall of the house of usher #mike flanagan #tfothou #tfothouedit #flanaverse #(mine) #(i was looking for a generic gif set to put my little thoughties in the tags but there aren't any???) #(or not yet maybe??? hrmpff so i'll do it myself then!) #it really is becoming a flanaverse - again there were little things and phrasings carried over from the other shows #i can only remember the carcass of a house right now but there were more #i can't wait to see everybody's little posts and theories and comparisons!!! 😻 #what i haven't seen yet and will come up probably is the angle of the opiod epidemic #some speeches sounded like they came right our of the other netflix series painkiller #which makes me think those quotes might be verbatim lifted from real life although they are so out there that they sound made up (?) #i don't know enough about it but it struck me as too much of a coincidence #spoilers

[redversaillesrose]

Note to self: If I ever publish my vampire story, use this post as a reference of what the cover of the first edition should look like to make it a pillar of vampire literature.  

#I absolutely refuse to believe this is a coincidence. I do not know what dots I've connected but boy did I connect them. #Also something something the white and black in IWTV symbolise something something about her vampires' humanity. #Anyone who knows the meaning of a yellow cover in the room? #Also btw I claim the right to prove this theory with my own story get your own conspiracy theory. #the vampire chronicles #vampire chronicles #tvc #vc #the vampire chronicles by anne rice #anne rice #interview with the vampire #interview with the vampire anne rice #iwtv #iwtv first edition #I couldn't find concensus on whether the iwtv cover is yellow or gold but the theory still stands. #Dracula #Dracula by bram stoker #dracula bram stoker #bram stocker's dracula #bram stoker #Dracula first edition #Yellow red black white ig lmao you thought. #EDIT: #oh what an idiot right #vampire #vampires #vampiric #goth #goth literature #goth books

[marzipanandminutiae]

American Girl’s new “ historical“ dolls are from 1999.

You know. 24 years ago.

This brand has officially become a parody of itself.

#American girl #and what a coincidence – Y2K fashion is currently trending! #i’m sure that never crossed their minds in the slightest! #remember: there was no American history before 1920. #God just when I thought they were on the right track with the Harlem renaissance doll…

[chaoswarfare]

dp x dc writing prompt #22!

Danny joins a superhero team and they’re the last people to know. the villains have acknowledged phantom as one of the heroes on the team, the public is already writing him into any reports that have the team in them, there was even a short news segment talking about the new addition to the team!

Danny runs with it because he assumes that the team is aware of what everyone is talking about and are just digging up his background information or something.

#danny phantom #danny fenton #dc x dp #crossover #dc universe #writing prompt #dp x dc #dp x dc crossover #writing #funny #imagine them just checking the news and there being a random guy #that has nothing to do with them being associated with their team #baffling #danny’s just trying to live his best half life #starting up hero work in a city with heroes there already is basically an application right? #in a rare series of events nobody has any idea what’s really going on #what if the rogues kidnapped the ‘new member’ to get at the team #and they just have no idea what’s going on when they get the ransom #this is just some dude #and it is sheer coincidence that has kept them from running into each other #accusations of spying or secretly being a rogue? #news picks up on team infighting and public starts rioting because they think they’re mad about the kidnapping #victim blaming and all that #out of the frying pan and into the fire for these unsuspecting heroes #some of the friendlier rogues are probably up in arms about it too #everyone going ham on the hero team and then having absolutely no idea why #shenanigans

[hannibal-is-my-comfort-show]

Love how its canon in the Hannibal universe people named Freddie have the blessing of plot armour and have the curse of cassandra

#frederick chilton #AND #freddie lounds #its too specific to be a coincidence i swear-- #how both of them survived 3 seasons is a miracle #well maybe in Freddied case anyway #i think Chilton just wants to die at this point #i dont blame him #the only reason Freddie didnt suffer for it was feminism 💅 #they were both so right abt everything #and for what?? #Will and Hannibal who?? They were the true narrative foils #might make a post abt that later #true bestie material #anyways #hannibal #nbc hannibal #hannibal nbc #hannibal netflix #netflix #hannibal crack #renew hannibal #revive hannibal

[somewhat-very-insane]

what the fuck did they put in the water to make everybody relapse at the same time

#that is 90% of my dash right now #and i don't know how to feel about what a weird coincidence that is #//god's words

[bourbanned]

To Do:

Ask Johnathan Sims (writer, not character) if he based Needles on that one guy in my city (also known as Needles to most people in casual conversation) who also threatens to stab people with, you guessed it, needles.

#the magnus protocol #tmagp #tmagp needles #tmagp 6 #needles #tmagp spoilers #what a coincidence am i right #truly the world is vast and full of needles #johnathan sims

[mediocretomato]

lowtax's ghost possessing matt the moment his website's users calls him out for banning a trans woman over something stupid

#trans rights #transgender #tumblr #photomatt #btw if my account gets deleted out of nowhere you know why #also what a coincidence that sheezy.art reopens around the same time this shits going down lmfao might redo my profile on there lmao

[memento-yuumori]

So I was looking at the manga to post this reply, and I noticed something about William’s eyes as he falls from the bridge. This could just be me reaching and looking for symbolism where there isn’t any but… what’s the point in being obsessed with something if you’re not going to make possibly wildly inaccurate interpretations of it, right?

When he cuts Sherlock’s arm (thoughts about that here), we see William’s left eye.

Then when he sees Sherlock jumping after him we see his right eye.

The left eye is the one we see when Sherlock is reaching for him: (this is also the last time we see William’s left eye until the Bench Scene)

And then we see the right when he catches him:

And it’s his right eye that we see close peacefully after Sherlock says they both need to live:

So it seems like his left eye symbolizes his desire to die, and his right eye symbolizes his desire to live. His left eye gets damaged, but he no longer wants to die and chooses to live on.

#I feel like this was supposed to be longer but I can’t think of what else I was going to say right now #please tell me your thoughts #unless it’s to tell me that I’m reaching and this is just coincidence in which case shh let me have my fun #my posts #sherliam #moriarty the patriot #yuukoku no moriarty #moriarty the patriot spoilers #yuukoku no moriarty spoilers #william james moriarty #manga musings

[piracytheorist]

WAIT

I just noticed something really cool

In the third chapter of the SxF manga, when the Forgers visit the opera, we get that short panel:

Though we don't get a music staff, the notes I circled in red include what we call "ledger lines" (aka lines above or below the staff). As you can see, the notes with ledger lines in the panel are the same with the ones in the actual sheet music I added, and their duration is the same.

It's a presentation of the actual sheet music. Endo (if he was the one who drew that particular panel) drew an opera singer in a costume and makeup fitting the Queen of the Night from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, and then drew notes from the actual sheet music of that role's most famous aria, Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen (yes, that's the one aria that goes incredibly high, and those notes are from that specific passage you probably know of).

THIS IS BRILLIANT AND THIS CLASSICALLY TRAINED MUSICIAN ADMIRES THE DEDICATION 👏👏

#Spy x Family #now idk what the three notes below are supposed to be #they could be from the beginning of the aria but that isn't repeated after the part I circled #it was probably added to show a bit of variety in notes #and I fully respect that #my man went and found the ACTUAL SHEET MUSIC #I ain't complaining the least bit #also now I'm thinking it could be like... #if you know... #right before that passage shown the Queen says #''if you don't do this then YOU ARE MY DAUGHTER NO MORE'' #ENDO WERE YOU TRYING TO SAY SOMETHING?? #nah it was probably because it's one of the most popular arias of all time #BUT STILL THE COINCIDENCE?? LMAO #500