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I went to this Northwest Passage museum once where they had the white explorers' journals on one side of the exhibit and the native people's accounts on the other side of the exhibit and the explorer journals were like "our canoe had almost sunk when we encountered some kindly Indians" and the native histories were like "we watched a bunch of strangers come down the river in the shittiest canoe you'd ever seen. Also, they had no rain gear"

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Their facial expression says it all.

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One thing I really like about Makuta's movie design is the lack of a heartlight. It's a very simple detail, easy to miss, easy to not make a big deal out of it. But also that could be a very significant choice on the part of the designers. It works for Teridax of course, he's literally heartless, but I often think about if the same would be true for the other Makuta as well. They do have life-force, but they're not the same kind of creature as anything else in the MU, just sentient energy-gas contained in mechanical armour. They don't have biological processes for a heartlight to indicate. Maybe they once did, when they were biomechs like everything else, but after their evolution those little system-function lights were removed for being extraneous. But then, we know from Teridax assuming Dume's form that Makuta can shapeshift to have heartlights, so it could be down to personal choice which still present one and which don't bother with it or actively choose not to have one in a display of strength.

And of course all of this is further complicated by the dubious canonicity of heartlights to begin with. The movies have them, some of the books mention them, but the sets never did, so we're left guessing about them a lot of the time. But I don't know, assuming we can count them as canon and something that would be present in most MU species (Nidhiki, Krekka, and Sidorak all have them in the movies, and I can't really tell for Roodaka. There might be something there in the cavity that gets filled with the Makuta Stone? Oh and the Turaga Metru don't have them, for some reason[??] Lhikan and Dume do though) Makuta not typically having them feels like that much more keen attention to detail.

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thank you Canada 🇨🇦

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Can I sleep with you tonight?

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You ever think of the volume 7 discourse and remember how wild it is when you take a step back from it?

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Parent with siblings vs parent with no siblings amiright fellas

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A Deal With The Devil

So lately I’ve been thinking that maybe this is how it all went down on Kris’s end!

Happy Halloween and Happy Anniversary, Deltarune! 

EDIT: There’s also a short follow-up comic: Some Self Reflection

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Per @arinrowan's recommendation, I'm watching Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster.

And let me just say these Coast Guard guys at this hearing appear to be REALLY feeling this image:

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A flock of lawn flamingos can pick a T-rex clean in under 90 seconds

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(this story will continue tomorrow.)

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Adaption 4 (2025)