#curiosity: piqued

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - San Fransokyo

[descendant-of-truth]

This was presented with a very whimsical tone and I enjoyed it for that but also. it's such a specific side effect that I can't not analyze it

Like, on principle it makes perfect sense. Give an already fast and energetic character who talks to himself all the time a boost to his abilities, and he becomes twice as chatty to compensate.

But his external monologue has never taken the form of a conversation between two people before, and in a show that's all about having alternate versions of the same character, that's worth taking note of. Especially since this started after he was given energy from the Paradox Prism, the thing that presumably made all of those alternate versions to begin with.

(And even more especially since the show already played around with the idea of there being two Sonics only a few episodes ago with the existence of Chaos Sonic)

So, the other oddity regarding this whole thing is how one side is consistently just. uncharacteristically mean and deadpan towards the other?? I showed one example earlier, but there's two more, and that accounts for almost every instance of Sonic talking to himself in this form

Sonic's never really talked to anyone like this before, not even himself. It almost comes across like an emulation of Shadow more than anything else, which is just. so bizarre?? Especially when Shadow's literally right next to him in the last scene, and thus he has no need to substitute his presence.

In fact, he seems to catch himself and stops doing the self-banter thing entirely as soon as Shadow acknowledges him doing it

And he looks surprised when Shadow speaks, too, like he already forgot that other people can hear him. It really comes off like he's in his own little world, and again, this is a show about multiple worlds, so it's pretty fitting.

I'm not letting Shadow's phrasing off the hook, either - "a Sonic," hm? As if there's more than one?

Even Sonic gets confused about how many of him there are, which has quite the loaded implication for how short of a moment it is; something that could describe everything about this form, honestly.

It all gives me this impression that we're not quite done with this concept of there being multiple Sonics, or at least not done with this form being used in general. There's a lot of potential in what they've already set up for it, and I'd love to see it explored further.

Plus, this one frame of Sonic after he first gets it still gives me the impression that there's something... off about it

And I want to know what that something is

[isagrimorie]

Star Trek Voyager 4E09 - Scientific Method

The Janeway Moment for Seven of Nine. (The First of Many).

Part 1, 2

[himeofshyness]

I just couldn't help but envision my Farmer from Stardew Valley and my future Farmer from Fields of Misteria as being related, perhaps as cousins. This could lead to an interesting story where one visits the other's farm from a different place and explores the areas.

[grahamcore]

will calls himself bait and tbh it’s true because i have definitely used pictures of hugh dancy to convince people to watch hannibal and it has been effective every time

[giselles-dumping-hat]

oh….. oh that’s why she keeps switching between saying she has a sister and saying she’s an only child… Oh…………

[statementlives]

why are we not more curious about sam searching the database for "magnus protocol" ?? especially when jonah magnus' protocol was body-hopping as a means of immortality in a quest to bring about the apocalypse... and yes it could be unrelated but we should probably still be worried if private military contractors are being deployed to hide information about a magnus-related protocol, right ??

[gloomy-prince]

I asked this at the beginning of the year so I want to ask it again, since it’s been a year and also I feel like I’ve been getting more people recently who’ve said they’ve never seen/read IT. Here’s how it shook out the first time

[ilovedthestars]

re: the Epic of Gilgamesh: it’s absolutely worth reading! And not too dense. I would 1000% recommend finding a twenty-first century translation, though—archaeologists find new tablets and fragments every once in a while, so anything older than the 2000s won’t be complete to what we know now. Something significant was discovered in 2016 iirc, so, if you can find a version that takes that into account, I think that would be ideal. I read Maureen Kovacs’s translation from the 1980s which was definitely composed for an academic audience rather than a popular one, which I did like but also I know it’s out of date and I’m also looking for a more modern translation… I hear good things about Stephen Mitchell’s 2004 translation, tho it takes liberties. Benjamin Foster’s (2019) and Sophus Helle (2022) both sound promising.

Oooh, thank you! Good to know that i should look for something recent. In looking up the ones you mentioned I found an interview with Benjamin Foster where he says his intended audience is a college literature class and he prioritized an engaging reading experience over including a lot of academic detail, so that sounds like a pretty good fit for my level of knowledge & what I'm looking for (I am no Assyriologist lol, just interested in the story and wanting to experience a relatively-close-to-original version of it). Sophus Helle's also looks interesting, I'd be curious to read the essays that are included in it. Alas, it looks like my library has neither, so I'll have to look farther afield. Thanks for the recs!

[colourme-feral]

Shared + spotted in: Koi wo Suru nara Nidome ga Joto / Love is Better the Second Time Around and Jack o' Frost

As pointed out by @blmpff

IRL: Chuo-Ohashi Bridge as seen from Shinkawa Park (Sumidagawa Terrace), 1 Chome-32 Shinkawa, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-0033, Japan

[red-moon-at-night]

Hey this MV sure has a LOT of split second graphics huh

A very short MV but maybe, just maybe, I'll forgive the milgram team with the love letter to graphic design (you know, because that's mikoto's job) and sheer volume of semi-decipherable and semi-indecipherable text/iconography/colour choices...

Do with the following images what you will:

[nevesmose]

Quirky lobotomy t-shirts, a collection for @charnel-doll

[hellspawnmotel]

Hi Hellspawn, just curious if you've played Undertale Yellow yet or if you plan to? I'd love to hear your thoughts on the game as a whole or any specific characters if so - you've always got such awesome thoughts and ideas regarding Deltarune and its characters!! Thanks so much, love your work to bits and hope you're having a great day <3

huh, I dont even know what that is. I assume it's a fangame? lemme take a peek......

.....hm! okay. seems neat. I've never been super interested in fangames (except for pokemon) so I wish I could say I'll check it out but honestly. I probably. wont lmao. nothin against it, I've just got so many other games already in progress currently. I'm in the middle of playing breath of fire 2, specter of torment, totk, gotta get the scarvi dlcs at some point, replaying golden sun so I can finish golden sun 2, I just started another oras file instead of doing any of those things, you know how it is with us gamers. but yknow, best of luck to the team, if it's been successful enough that it's being hyped like this I'm sure they did an excellent job.

[variousqueerthings]

@autistic-puffin tell me more about the actress who plays madi??? 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

[asklesbianonceler]

👀 Oh I see why so many folks I follow have been bringing up the value of coming up with your own ER theories and doing your own exploring and such today.

[1800duckhotline]

if one such as myself were interested in playing denpa visual novels specifically. does anyone have any recs

definition of denpa: