#outlandish stuff

[spaciebabie]

every year during summer vacation i will write 50+ pages of dialogue in a week straight for my oc story and then get so burned out i cant work on it for a year but NO MORE!! WHEN THE HYPERFIXATION GOBLIN TELLS ME TA WORK FOR 10 HOURS STRAIGHT I WILL SAY NO GOBLIN!!! I MUST PACE MYSELF SO I CAN WORK ON IT YEAR ROUND!!!!

[altcvnningham]

idk why i thought ab this but imo adler isn’t huge on pda BUTTT he is serious about silent gestures of care + affection. being cia means his head is perpetually on a swivel buttt when it comes to the mundane he is constantly in tune with what you want and need, from the superficial to the serious.

dress you did a double take at past a boutique? it’s mysteriously hanging in your closet the next time you get dressed. he hears you sigh to yourself about the leaky faucet? it’s fixed, though you never recall touching it. you start waking up every day with a crick in your neck? hm, suddenly you swear these pillows somehow feel more plush, more comfortable, different. obsessing over a certain song you keep hearing on the radio? somehow you find the whole album in your record collection.

foot rubs without question after you take off your heels you’ve worn all day; dishes washed and house cleaned even though you’re sure you’ve both been busy at work; quietly doing up a button on the back of your dress without even telling you that you’ve missed it.

he’d spoil you to heaven and back in the tiniest ways and you won’t even notice it enough to insist that you don’t deserve it. somehow, you just think life got strangely easier when adler walked into it.

[sysig]

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[impulseowlll]

*Connor talking about his TTK.* *Bart and Tim just not listening because they have heard it all before.* Connor: And that's how I officiated Batman's wedding to a toaster. Tim: Wait, what?! Bart: I'm sorry. What? Connor: Yep. It was a beautiful ceremony Alfred was the best man. And then Alfred and I started a pyramid scheme. *Tim and Bart in unison*: What?!!

[clegfly]

Happy

[maskedteatime]

sources tell me it is supposedly "Yaoi Day" so there is no better time than now to introduce these fellas...

the space dancer is atlas, run of the mill space dancer with a shorter temper but great vibes, and the cosmo dancer is orion, who is greatly fascinated with non-cosmo dancers and their behaviors

yapping below

that ends up being the reason orion falls in love with atlas, because his attitude and mannerisms end up standing out from the other space dancers, and orion being from somewhere deep in space both wants to know why atlas is special and also thinks he's absolutely beautiful (he needs to get his eyes checked seriously) so he always hangs around and bugs him specifically when the cosmo dancers go to their layer of space

for atlas on the other hand it took him a while to realise orion's intentions because he thought he was just being a nuisance (what with the space and cosmo dancers being rivals) but with orion being so chummy and having extreme cosmic swag he first knew something was up with atlas, and some time after that something was up with himself (😈)

could probably expand on this some time later. i wish i was a good writer so i could give them the romance they deserve

[pushing500]

Did Mechi believe in the existence of the Void before his Experiences on this planet, or did he think it was psudo-science nonsense?

He's always believed there's something. He doesn't think it's supernatural or magical, just technology he hadn't figured out yet. Sightstealers? Monoliths? Clones? Psycasts? It's all just unknown archotech. He'll figure it out. Aaaaany day now...

[dailykugisaki]

Day fifty-nine | id in alt(s)

She gets bored and starts saying the most weird ass shit. She just wants to see what happens.

[tabellae-rex-in-sui]

You can ignore this if you haven’t read it but is “Must we burn Sade?” By Simone de Beauvoir a decent read ?

I’ve heard it’s basically a defence/criticism(?) for Sade’s writings . Haha I don’t know the proper word to use for it .

I’m asking you since you seem very knowledgeable on de Sade and assume you read books revolving around him .

I would definitely recommend it if you're interested in how Sade's image has changed throughout the years. The 20th century saw a huge recontextualizing of his philosophy, especially in the European surrealist and existentialist circles. Simone de Beauvoir argued that Sade had been unjustly maligned/dismissed as a philosopher and redefines him as a moralist and feminist figure. ...Of course it should also be mentioned that several of the midcentury philosophers and artists defending Sade, like Beauvoir, were defendants of the abusive aspects of his philosophy as well (Beauvoir and Sartre were twice accused of grooming Beauvoir's students into sexual relationships with them).

If you follow me, you can probably tell I don't fully agree with her appraisal of Sade, but it's still a super fascinating essay, and there's still a lot of valuable analysis in it. Even just for historical/philosophical interest. I'd also recommend Angela Carter's Sadean Woman for a more modern feminist reading of Sade. And Laurence L. Bongie's biographical essay for the complete opposite lol (he argues Sade is NOT deserving of the praise he got during the 20th century, and is an overall mediocre philosopher and writer). Honestly any Sade analysis is a good read in my opinion, regardless if I agree or not.

[helmetjellyfish]

hello! this post is going to be a little different from anything i've written before, because today we're looking at fish.

this fish, to be exact.

this fish is one of the many prehistoric creatures we see in minato's dreams from ch. 48. the translation team did a wonderful job identifying several creatures and explaining them in general, but i haven't seen any specific discussion about this one yet. so i figured i'd talk about what i think this fish is and what i think it represents.

the rest of this post will be under the cut, because there's lots of images and it's going to get quite long. here we go!

so what fish is this?

let's start by looking at these three images for reference:

(you may have noticed that the head shape of the fish in the first image is a bit different from the one in the second. however, since the rest of their bodies are very, very similar to each other, i'm assuming that they are intended to be the same fish and the head shape of the second one is closer to the 'correct' bodyplan.)

to begin with, we can see that the fins are attached to the body with these fleshy lobes, meaning that this fish is probably a "lobe-finned fish" belonging to the clade Sarcopterygii.

Sarcopterygii can be split up into three more clades:

Actinistia - the coelacanths and their close relatives

Dipnoi - the lungfishes and their close relatives

Tetrapodomorpha - the tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) and their close relatives

just based on morphology, we can narrow it down to Actinistia. so coelacanths! the thing with coelacanths is that one of their most notable characteristics is their weird tail:

this is a replica of the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae), which is one of the two species alive today. here you can see that the tail is split up into three lobes: the top and bottom lobes are the same width and length, while the one in the middle is smaller and protrudes further out. their tail is diphycercal, which means that the vertebrae extend all the way to the tip of the tail and the tail itself is symmetrical.

both living species of coelacanth have a diphycercal tail. in fact, almost every single genus in Actinistia has a diphycercal tail. but our fish doesn't. its tail has only two lobes, where the bottom one is much bigger than the top, which is a heterocercal tail. why is that?

it turns out you have to look really, really, really far back in Actinistia to find fish without diphycercal tails. and when you look back far enough...

you find Miguashaia, a fish that lived during the Devonian period 365 million years ago. a fish that also happens to be the most primitive coelacanth we know.

in other (slightly more overgeneralizing) words, it's the oldest coelacanth, so old that it doesn’t even have one of the main features we now associate with coelacanths. neat!

okay. why do i care about this fish?

isn't it odd that we see this same fish following minato for multiple pages during the dream sequence, when most of the other creatures only appear for a single panel or two?

it's especially weird by the time we get to the reunion with nagiko, when we stop seeing any other prehistoric creatures in the foreground (save for the basilosaurus skeleton). but this fish still stays next to minato, and neither him nor nagiko seem to acknowledge its presence. it... doesn't really do anything either. it just hangs around at minato's side or right behind him, like it's watching over him.

doesn’t it look a bit out of place in this scene?

and then what’s stranger is that we see it again later on. when haruno voices his concerns about minato's mental state in ch. 50, the implication being that he thinks minato might follow his wife to the grave, we get this panel to go with it:

there’s the whale skeleton and lion’s mane jellyfish, both of which have been previously used to represent nagiko. there's minato, reaching out to the jellyfish with the hand he wears his wedding ring on. and then there’s... the fish again. as before, minato doesn't interact with it at all. in fact, his back is completely turned to it, but the fish is still continuing to watch him from afar.

i already had some suspicions even before ch. 50, but this panel is the one that made me go "oh, okay, so that's definitely supposed to be a person, right?".

nagiko isn't the only character in the story who's connected to a particular deep sea creature or two: there's nagisa with the flapjack octopus, shizuka with the basket star, ryou with the cookiecutter shark, etc. we haven't had anyone with a prehistoric species yet, let alone a prehistoric coelacanth, but we do have someone who's depicted with modern day coelacanths pretty frequently:

so who would be a likely candidate for its ancient relative: a fish that's distinct enough from its kin to be recognized as a separate entity, while still sharing many visual similarities?

who's the person that's the most likely to come to mind whenever minato thinks of nagiko? a person who had always been at his side in his younger days? a person that minato can't truly see or talk to in his dreams, because he remains out of his reach?

a person who still continues to haunt him, even now?

wonder who that could be.

[rolandkaros]

Saw on Twitter that Priscilla Hon posted a picture of her with Karo on a coffee date yesterday... They are really dating huh?

i saw that too...reserving most of my thoughts for a later point in time but. LOL

[archliches]

listen i tend to be a "nothing on earth is new" type of guy but having your facebook-using boomer parent send you an obviously AI generated image attributed to an artist you like, forcing u to go through the whole rigamarole of deciding whether to be a wet blanket and mention it or to swallow your pain and go "haha yup that's great ma" is perhaps - just perhaps - a uniquely modern predicament

[54625]

Anyway goodnight everyone . Thank you to everyone who commented on or sent an ask about my fantasy world/oc today, it really made my week

[raspberryzingaaa]

Combing through an Ao3 author's bookmarks in the hopes of "well they wrote a masterpiece so hopefully they've read some too" is so hit or miss. Like, just went through one (with heavy exclusions) that almost every batfam fic was just amazing, and the Harry potter and star wars bookmarks made me say out loud, "this person isn't allowed to read fanfiction anymore. What the heck."

[trenstrenats]

john would like arthur’s music short after getting his own body but as time went on he’d get obsessed with dissonances (read: those really complex jazz chords with tensions)

[rogueacolyte]

omg your mythology bot drop is like. the most beautiful thing ever! tysm

I AM SO GLAD Y’ALL ARE LIKING IT!!!! i was a little nervous it was too Out There and it wouldn’t land the way i wanted to but y’all are being so very nice thank u 🥹🥹