Wicked Spectator

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GIANT WIFE AND TINY WIFE

Reminder that people aren't entitled to see into your decision-making process unless you've agreed that they are. Just told a business acquaintance that I'd "just finished up my previous commitment". It's not their problem to know that it was DND.

Just to make sure no one schedules meetings on top of my D&D sessions, BUT ALSO to avoid any chance of my coworkers figuring out when I’m playing D&D, I always block sessions out on my calendar with the appointment title:

“Conflict Resolution Seminar”

It’s not a lie, I’m discussing with a small group how to resolve conflict. Not my fault that the answer is often violence.

Bro I love you but if I saw in the communal calendar that one of my coworkers had attended thirty conflict resolution seminars over the last year then I would immediately assume they had committed innumerable acts of workplace violence and management was too scared to fire them

Ghibli-inspired Inktober by Anne Leblanc

He's waving hello to you

.... or maybe he's getting ready to take off

Astronaut readjusts to life back on Earth

HE GRABS THE CUP BUT THEN HE DROPS THE PEN 0.0003 SECONDS LATER

AND HE LOOKS UP AT THE CEILING INSTEAD OF AT THE GROUND WHEN HE CAN’T FIND THEM

I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING HE JUST DROPS IT

IT’S NOT FUNNY IT’S VERY LOGICAL THAT HE WOULD HAVE ADJUSTED TO LIVING LIFE WHILE HE WAS IN SPACE BECAUSE IT’S DIFFERENT FROM EARTH BUT I CAN’T FUCKING BREATHE

*THUNK*

i love it so much every time i see it

“ugh stupid gravity” 

IM FUXKING CSHAKING

I haven’t seen this post on my dash in *years* bless this

Bless, this is absolutely amazing

I love this. It’s so gestural and he’s so exasperated about gravity.

The perfect comedic timing of the NASA logo.

I will always reblog this if I see it again after a while.

The first simulated image of a black hole was calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978.

the romance of hand-plotting. this guy looked at the numbers and drew each of those dots manually, and the image emerged. we can only imagine how he felt

Cosmic horror

Something that’s always bugged me: Why hide the Emperor’s identity? It obviously weakens his power—and we know the Yeerks LOVE power.

Officially, it’s to “protect him from assassination attempts.” Attempts that could come either from the Andalites (clearly the main threat, I’d assume) or from other Yeerks. But to me, if we’re talking about internal Yeerk threats, the number one suspects would definitely be… the other Council members.

Okay, so maybe hiding the Emperor’s identity has its advantages. It makes it harder for outsiders to figure out who to target. And within the Council itself, it sort of puts the Emperor on equal footing with the other Councilors, which might make them less envious—and therefore less likely to want him gone.

But yeah… that all feels like a bit of a stretch, honestly.

So here’s my personal headcanon:

There was an Emperor once—Akdor. But after his death, no one took his place. And for political reasons, to preserve unity, the Council of Thirteen decided to declare that the Emperor still sits among them, without ever revealing who it is.

I’m too lazy to go deeper right now—hope you don’t mind too much. Back to translating my next chapter. :)

My theory about why it'd make sense to hide the emperor's identity: that way every single member of the council has the same amount of soft power or social capital. If any one of the thirteen rolls up to an invasion front or an outpost, that one person is the most powerful person in the Empire. There's no "can you mention this to the emperor, Irma 123?" or "I hear Irma 123 is in/out of favor with the emperor." For all intents and purposes, Irma 123 is the emperor, because Irma 123 could be.

“Does a 31 hit the Pope?”

Long shots

Star Wars is Greek; Star Trek is Roman. 

The comments have very valid points, and if you see this reblog, you should read them as well, but the initial idea was that Star Wars has a lot of focus on individual heroism - there are teams saving the day, but in the end the OT is centered on Luke’s personal struggle with himself and the Dark Side, and there’s much more of the sense that a single person can affect the galaxy with wits and/or a lightsaber - it’s more Iliadic or Odyssean. 

Star Trek, on the other hand, is about crew cohesion and bringing the ideals and material benefits of the Federation to other worlds, and serving the Federation or your crew above yourself, which feels like the ideals of Republican Rome - you’re not going to get Scaevola, sacrificing his hand, not for personal ideals but to show the virtues of his people, in Star Wars, but you might in Trek. 

Every ship captain we see in Star Trek (but especially Picard) is a philosopher-king, while Star Wars has the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire.

I guess you can go either way with this question, depending on whether you’re comparing the series to Greek vs. Roman art or Greek vs. Roman politics.

I love finding things like this on this site. It’s like coming across graduate-level discussions free-range

the "canon isn't real we make our own rules" to "i am begging you people to revisit the source material" pipeline

#you have to know the rules so you can break them with intention and precision#otherwise your work will never be truly transformative

literally the first step in jazz is to get the original piece down, that's the only way you can riff in a way that works

Our favorite phrase for advice for people is "you learn the rules so when you break them it means something" and it's very nice to see other people getting this idea

Here is my little Pippin & Boromir Comic about Courage!!

To give a little bit of Context, first of all I completely made this up haha I imagine this happening sometimes after setting off from Rivendell but before the Mines of Moria! So in the book after Pippin was alone in Gondor for quite some while, he felt very isolated and alone, very little and weak. (especially after being separated from Merry) and there were times where he stood at the walls of Minas Tirith and looked into the Horizon and could see that you know things are about to happen haha so i asked myself if Pippin ever thought about Boromir during that time, I always felt like that they shared a special bond. Maybe Pip reminded Boromir of Faramir especially when they were younger!

Anyways I really hope that you enjoy this little comic, it was so much fun to work on!!

its been a whole year since i made this!!

I’ve had enough historical events for one week. What do you mean it’s only Tuesday.

what do you mean it’s only Wednesday.

In the span of one week:

-South Korea had its first declaration of martial law in 44 years, rescinded almost immediately, but failing to impeach the guy who ordered it

-France’s government collapsed, voting no confidence with their prime minister after less than 100 days of them in office

-Bashar al-Assad’s regime completely collapsed with his whereabouts unknown, ending 53 years of Syria’s rule by the Assad family

-Romania annulled elections, declaring the front runner was likely such because of foreign (Russian) interference

-Georgia (the country) protests over fraudulent elections heating up in an eerily similar way to Euromaidan

-US President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden

-American healthcare insurance provider UnitedHealthCare’s CEO got assassinated to great merriment (gunman still at large)

-California had a fortunately canceled tsunami warning

-The Pope has a new electric vehicle

This is some of the most beautiful animation I've ever seen.

still not even a little over this 🥹

A friend sent this to me. I'm fucking dying!!!! 😂💀🤣💀