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[dockaspbrak]

Oh my god i only ate one meal yesterday i think the holidays are making me nervous. Its fucking sunday at 8 am why am I awake why am i nervous about work tomorrow?!? It will be EASY

[bruciemilf]

“…Clark, are you… Jealous of Pa?”

“What!? Ma, that's absurd!” He scoffed, casually putting a whole tractor down like a toothpick.

Regrettably, Bruce wasn't there to witness it. Which was the partial reason for this mini vacation.

“I mean— why would I be? Why, because Bruce follows him around like a street cat? Which, I'm not sure HOW that happened. I've been dating the guy for 7 months and he can't even make eye contact with me, but there goes Pa with his amazing Bruce herding skills, I guess.”

Ma Kent’s lip presses down in an ironed line, knowing and quiet.

“I mean— no, I'm not jealous! I just — don't GET how Pa just talks to Bruce so easily. And get him to laugh. And not the laugh he does when he's too scared to be silent,he laughs like MY Bruce. And that's FINE”.

“Honey,” she raises a fond brow and her laugh lines sketch over, “You broke the tractor.”

“Ah, darn.”

—-

Meanwhile, Pa Kent and Bruce have been building stuff around the barn in complete silence for two hours.

“Hey, so, you know Clark’s an alien, right?”

Bruce simply nods. “Hn.”

“…I bet you 50 dollars he doesn't know you know.”

“Hm.”

“100? You’re on.”

[mightaswelljxmp]

hm ok so interestingly, bdubs’s courthouse is built on an odd number of blocks. note the roof of the facade coming to a point, but more importantly, the nine pillars….

you don’t use an odd number of pillars. like ever.

let me get this out of the way first: i get why you’d build with odd numbers in minecraft. i usually do it myself, to not run into problems like double doors or two-wide pointed roofs or frustrating spacing/symmetry between decorative elements. however. to not even out the design of something so unequivocally done in every other example of columns and pillars…. fascinating implications…

every other example guys. every other building with columns like this has an even number of them.

doing so sets the line of symmetry at an invisible point between two pillars, an even number on each side. but an odd total number of pillars makes the central pillar itself the line of symmetry. this does a couple things.

one, it upends the sense of community and equality. which i know sounds crazy, but really, a group of columns are all put there to hold up a structure. there’s no focus on one because they are all are working as supports.

symbolically, at least when first used in ancient greece, pillars represented people. and it makes sense for courthouses, especially, to want to show an even, fair, equal number of people on each side. no focus on any one, no inherent bias right off the bat just looking at it.

with an odd number of pillars, though, one will always be placed front and center.

and THEN. and then you walk in the courtroom itself (also odd-numbered blocks) and you are immediately opposite the judge, bdubs, located exactly centrally. and true, courtrooms are often set up like this anyway. but bdubs ups the ante and reaffirms that no, focus is on him by staging it all as a daytime court show, boom mic just over his head, cameras pointed in, spotlights on him.

literally by design, it was not built for justice. it’s built for show, for entertainment. and just look at the credits to know exactly what sort of message you’re supposed to be getting from this show.

the biblical story he used, with king solomon. it’s about king solomon. isn’t really about the trial itself, or the babies, or the women. it’s about showing (off) how wise and just he is. that’s the point. hm. interesting.

now, getting to the second point that etho also picked up on: it feels like a prison.

it’s not just the color palette. when your eyes naturally draw to the center point, you aren’t seeing an open space. instead of feeling like an arch or gateway or otherwise some kind of opening, the pillar there makes it feel closed off. the overall effect is that of prison bars. not pillars lining the entrance to a place of order or a temple. bars of a cage, a cell.

imagine the lincoln memorial were set up with 11 or 13 pillars. he’d look so much more trapped in there.

having a central pillar blocks the entrance. it’s not welcoming. you have to go around it; it’s immediately inconveniencing you. and when you go to leave, it’s there blocking you again.

this courthouse was not designed and built to be fair, nor accomodating, nor equitable, on any terms. even if unintentional, i wouldn’t call it so much coincidental as i would… subconscious.

after all, y’know. form follows function.

[twigs-sprigs]

recent pa au doodles because um um ummmm i'm cooking up some other Stuff in the meantime (silly harumi under cut trust)

[pokimoko]

If you’re doing pride animals still do you think you could make a pan tiger maybe? If not that’s ok ofc :)

I can absolutely do that for you, my friend. Here you are!

[theonekierce]

something gay and self-indulgent :)

(fully stole this pose from an 1883 painting btw, because it looked so much like them already - The New Bracelet, Henryk Siemiradzki)

[babacontainsmultitudes]

OUGH call me Big Shane Silva the way that episode had me falling over and torn into pieces fuuuuuuuuuck oh the Trudy and Francis heart-to-heart... The group hug... The gunkata... The middle-aged witch yuri... The hole in the stars... MAN.

[fuckthemforthis]

U ovom gradu mene žene strašno vole, kažu da sam tako sladak i drag / U ovom gradu ne mogu da mi odole, dok na oči mi pada mrak

[ladyluckqueen]

Chat I am not Ok

[polari]

[It is abominable, unquenchable by touch] by Diane Seuss

It is abominable, unquenchable by touch, closer to the sublime than sentimental, more animal than hominid, I've seen it in the eyes of birds weaving on a stem of ragweed, voracious, singular, there is no one like me, Dickinson in her narrow bed, her cold clenched hands, her penmanship unreadable, even following a recipe for black cake, her black cake came out strange, lusher than the template, and every freak I ever met had that same look in their eyes, armless, threading a needle with their lips and teeth, legless, rounding a corner on their cerulean cart, monarchic, imperious, wild, sad, and like every virgin queen, the need for love revolting and grand.

[loveisonlyforthebrave8]

Well shit, seeing my name up on the big screen for the first time is a literal dream come true. And what a first movie to be credited on. Excuse me whilst I cry and scream and flail and cry some more.

[chiruzzah]

navigator stars are just the sparkle dogs of project arrhythmia

[luna-the-cretar]

The fire sprites doing the dancing thing while setting the balloon factory on fire made me think about how Gideon—a fire genasi—enjoys dancing, and was probably pretty damn good at it before he traded away his rhythm. And now I’m just picturing that all fire-kin all just enjoy dancing.

[doublel27]

Something something every time Ongsa messaged Sun as Earth, she imagined them chatting in a field, and then they shared their first kiss in a field.

[zagreusm]

💜Lovefebruary Day 17! - Arven/Damian💜🤎

[pokemon-academy-official]

Hello, Academy;

I'm a big fan of yours and find this blog a very good idea to share interesting facts about the world!

I have a special interest on Ghost-types and the special organs that help them have abilities like passing through walls, levitating, sucking "life energy", etc. In fact, I'm doing a final year project on that!

I thought it'd be good to ask here for some info. Thanks in advance.

Thank you for the ask, and for the kind words! As you're likely aware, this is a quite advanced topic. We'll go over each of the unique or signature abilities of Ghost types, and how they work, briefly. For more detail, you may be interested in the works of Cedric Juniper of Unova and Jacq of Paldea.

Note: some of what will be shared here is far from conclusive, and more research into the functionality of the organs of Pokémon is required. (See this post from @quillpokebiology for a related recent breakthrough)

Intangibility

Considered to be the "signature" trait of Ghost types, voluntary intangibility is made possible by a series of near-identical organs throughout the Ghost type Pokémon's body. Controlled by the central nervous system, these organs simultaneously allow the surrounding area to pass through solid objects. While the exact mechanism is currently unknown, it is suspected that these organs manipulate the charge of the particles making up the Pokémon's body, allowing it to pass through unaffected by electromagnetic and strong nuclear forces.

Invisibility

As alluded to above, some Pokémon have modified versions of the organs described above that additionally allow them to make themselves invisible at will.

Energy Absorption ("Life Force" and Empathetic)

The ability of some Ghost type Pokémon to "absorb" the energy of other creatures (such as Palossand draining life essences, or Mismagius feeding off of fear) is not done in a single way, and appears to be a case of convergent evolution. For this reason, we cannot go over it in any detail here, but feel free to ask about a specific Pokémon!

"Possession"

There are many stories (though none have been verified at the time of writing) of Ghost type Pokémon "possessing" other creatures, including humans. Since no scientific studies have recorded this phenomenon, it's difficult to make any conclusive claims. However, descriptions closely match some forms of mind control, specifically the "full control" variation most famously performed by Beheeyem. How Ghost type Pokémon would be able to accomplish this feat is unclear.

Levitation

Surprisingly, one of the most common and, on the face of it, simplest abilities of Ghost types is also one of the least understood. Levitation is achieved by Psychic types through application of their psychic abilities. For many Ghost types, this explanation seems perfectly applicable (especially given the strong overlap in abilities between Psychic, Dark, and Ghost type Pokémon), but there are plenty of Ghost type Pokémon such as Shedinja which do not display any latent psychic abilities. For these Pokémon, it has been suggested that their light weight allows them to float, but other light Ghost type Pokémon such as Galarian-form Corsola that do not levitate.

In short, more research is certainly required to fully understand Ghost type Pokémon. That said, it's not as if we're completely clueless!

Happy Halloween!