Let’s not forget to acknowledge Alexandre Dumas this Black History Month
The writer of two of the most well known stories worldwide, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo was a black man.
That’s excellence.
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The signs as elements ACCURATELY BECAUSE SCIENCE:
Aries: Barium because its symbol is Ba, and that’s the sound rams make. Barium scatters X-Rays in much the same way a ram’s horns can scatter small children.
Taurus: Bismuth, the heaviest element that isn’t radioactive. The symbol for Taurus and the alchemy symbol for Bismuth are almost identical. Bismuth is used in medicine to calm the stomach.
Gemini: Carbon, the base of life, yin and yang, night and day, charcoal and diamond. The most abundant double bond in the universe is the bond between two carbon atoms.
Cancer: Copper. Crabs and spiders, unlike most animals on Earth, have copper-based blood. Copper is soft, flexible, and conducts electricity and heat well, but although it seems common and simple, it’s a profoundly important element.
Leo: Platinum. The majority of you comes from Africa, and you’re heavy and rare, and you never tarnish or wear out. The physical international standard for measurement of the meter is made of platinum.
Virgo: Magnesium, the lightest useful metal on the Periodic Table. Magnesium produces a super bright white light when burned, and it’s very strong, very flexible, and used to build everything from delicate electronics to warships!
Libra: Zirconium is balanced in the middle of the Periodic Table, and it has no biological applications, just as Libra is the only inanimate sign.
Scorpio: Plutonium. The scariest and most dangerous element. Heavy and intense, plutonium is found as a trace element on Earth—secretive, crystalline, and hard to come by, quiet and mysterious, plutonium must be conjured and warped into existence from uranium in a fission reaction in order to be exploited as the explosive ingredient in nuclear weapons.
Sagittarius: Tungsten, a hard, difficult metal that can be combined with carbon to make the sharpest, toughest weapons. Tungsten has the highest boiling point of all the elements (very suitable for a sign that dwells at the coldest part of winters in the North and the hottest part of summers in the South), and is the heaviest element known to exist in lifeforms.
Capricorn: Hydrogen, the most abundant and hardworking element in the universe, mirrors Capricorn, the most ambitious and hardworking sign. It’s a clean element that makes up the water we need to survive—on its own, it’s quite stable, but given a mission, it can make a star.
Aquarius: Mercury, one of only two elements to exist as a liquid at room temperature. Mercury loves to form alloys, but it hates losing electrons—like an Aquarius, Mercury refuses to be less than itself. Alchemists thought Mercury was the first primitive element—prima materia—the base of all other elements.
Pisces: Cobalt. Pisces is one of the most romantic and loving signs, and Cobalt, similarly, is always found joined with other elements. It doesn’t exist by itself on Earth. Cobalt pigment is deep sea blue and has been used by humans for centuries in art, pottery, and glassmaking.
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Did they just…
ALL I WANNA DO IS SEE YOU TURN INTO A GIANT WOMAN, A GIANT WOMAN!
Alt mode: space truck
SU blurred my vision of TF forever X)
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How hilarious / You just set off my trap card / Your death approaches.
Now it’s time to study *sigh*
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also on the subject of carolina: why does she get one name, when carolina refers to two states? was there another carolina, but only she survived? did the director specifically gift her that name for some reason, or was she allowed to choose it, to make herself bigger, to be two in one, (to be both herself and a copy of her mother), a level of ambition both she and the director have always exhibited?
or was her name always carolina, was the little redheaded daughter born to leonard church named carolina from the outset, and the idea of naming freelancers after states came from that?
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