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Incels bragging about being "Sigma males" are such clowns. Imagine being a member of a species that prioritizes pack behavior and working as a group, and wanting to brag about how much of a failure you are at that.

Being a lone wolf isn't a good thing. A lone wolf is just a wolf between packs or one who got kicked out of their parent's pack upon maturity. A permanent lone wolf is a freak and aberration.

#lone wolf #“sigma” #There is no such thing as sigma males or alpha males

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It will never not be funny to me when people use the phrase, "Fortune Favors the Brave." (Especially those stupid crypto Matt Damon commercials) because the person who said it, Pliny the Elder, famously died directly after saying it. Like, if fortune does favor the brave, it sure doesn't favor people who say that phrase.

#ancient rome #pompeii #dumb saying

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Can you imagine the sheer fucking fury Abigail and Magnus would have had if they hadn't died and learned that not only was Abigail expected to kill Magnus but also that their more or less adopted children were expected to kill one another? God help Jod because Abigail would have burned the nine fucking houses down for him daring to demand children to murder their closest friend.

#gideon the ninth #harrow the 9th #the locked tomb #locked tomb #abigail pent

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When the Tully’s(Kermit and Elmo) do show up for house of the dragon I really want them to just be the muppets and no one says a damn word. Like you are having this serious discussion on the war and there’s just Kermit nodding in the background obviously a puppet.

#asoiaf #house of the dragon #tully #elmo #kermit the frog #what if #it will never happen #but it would be funny

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I know we all pack bonded with Pluto and think it's unfair that it's no longer counted as a planet but what about the other dwarf planets? We have other little guys just hanging out in the solar system who are ignored.

Eris, Quaoar, Orcus, and Haumea are all dwarf planets that just never come up and that's dumb because they are so cool and interesting.

Eris is bigger than pluto and was nicknamed Xena after the show and has methane ice that just covers it. It's surface is tidally locked with it's moon and it was nearly called Persephone because of how close it was to Pluto which I find cute.

Haumea is weird as fuck and spins stupid fast to the point if it went any faster it rip apart, and it has ice made from water growing in shapes it shouldn't. And it has a legal controversy which is funny.

Orcus is called an anti-pluto which is dope, and has cryo volcanos.

And then there is Quaoar which is weird and tells the current understanding of how planets work to go to hell. It's got a ring bigger than it should be possible to have just orbiting at seven times it's width.

I'm just saying if something is classified as a planet, dwarf or not, it's a planet and should be counted and I'm upset I didn't learn about these weird rocks in school and only learned about them due to random internet searching that was unrelated

#space is cool #space #eris #Haumea #Orcus #quaoar #dwarf planet #solar system #pluto #ring

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Final round: Sophie Hatter (Howl's Moving Castle) vs Harrowhark Nonagesimus (The Locked Tomb)

#the locked tomb #harrow nonagesimus #harrowhark my beloved #Harrow is the best

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One of the more subtly horrifying parts of the Incredibles is when Bob finds the list of dead super's. Up till now he thought the others were adapting well and he was the only one struggling with it and that Syndrome was just a rich fuck who he'd beat. He assumes everyone but him is fine.

And now he finds out that not only was everyone else struggling and trying to be a hero as well, he's alone. Syndrome has wiped out almost all of the super's. His family and Frozone are some of the last ones left. There's no escaping and getting the other heroes back together to fight Syndrome or hoping that Syndrome only wants revenge on him. The superheroes have been systematically exterminated, his friends and companions are all dead and no one realized.

The government which was supposed to help them stay undercover didn't give a damn as they were wiped out. Your telling me no one noticed the super's were being picked off or their spouses didn't go to the government to try and figure things out?

And to top it all off? Those men and women died because Syndrome wanted to kill Bob. Bob is going to be blaming himself for the rest of his life for their deaths. Because Syndrome was such a shit he had to burn everything Bob cared about to get back at a man who didn't coddle him and treat him like god's gift to super's.

#the incredibles

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It’s amazing how well and poorly built humans are.

Like on the one hand we have terrible spines, our eyes are inverted, our nerves are a crime, our skulls are to big and we have to be born three months early so the mother doesn’t die, and we have extremely long developments to maturity.

But on the other side we are ungodly endurance hunters, sweat breaks the evolutionary game so to speak, we can handle insane damage other animals would just drop dead from, our hands are perfect for building tools, we are adapted to work in packs and care for our own, and we’ve some of the highest throwing strength out of any animal. Like an ape can rip my arms off but can’t throw a baseball further than ten yards. Humans on the other hand can fucking throw baseballs at over 50 miles per hour.

Hell I’m not even going to get into our early hunting methods of running something down until it dies of exhaustion or setting entire forests on fire to drive out whatever we decide looks tasty. I mean, the entire reason no megafauna outside of Africa exists anymore is because we ate them all.

Humans are both uniquely terrible in how they’ve adapted and incredibly broken in other ways.

#hfy #evolution #humans are terrifying #humans are strange

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if this post gets 1k notes I'll draw a picture of the horrors

#Draw the horrors #Or don't #It's up to you #But please draw the horrors #Wait #What are the horrors?

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How well do you think the various cosmere characters would do just in a modern au slice of life? Like I'm sure Kaladin would be happy but Keliser is 100% going to go and kill someone and Jasnah will one hundred percent do sketchy shit.

Hell I can't see Vin not killing some asshole Karen as Vin works as a barista in the hypothetical coffeshop/modern au idea I made up on the spot

#mistborn #cosmere #stormlight archive

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There’s something deeply funny and sad about Babs death. Sure he’s a test and kinda an asshole but there aren’t any signs he was a bad person, just arrogant and kinda full of himself.

And when he’s killed no one cares. His murder is the least interesting thing in that room. Ianthe is already digesting him, corona is upset she wasn’t killed, and the rest are briefly horrified before being weirded out by corona and ianthe and all the plot stuff happening.

No one gives a shit about him. He dies, betrayed by his charge and no one even mourns him. The most important thing to happen to his body is that ianthe puppets it and acts creepy with corona. His own family doesn’t even get to have his body back because ianthe wants to be a soaking wet pile of creepy. There is something so funny and depressing about that to me

#locked tomb #babs #tlt series #gideon the ninth

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Poor Ortus

tbh I think people deeply misunderstand the dynamic between harrow and ortus. imagine ur thirty years old working a minimum wage job and living in ur moms basement. ur manager is an overacheiving high schooler who knows the employee handbook by heart. like she will garnish ur wages if u don't upsell vigorously enough but also she needs a ride home because her learners permit says she's not allowed to drive past 8 pm. ortus nigenad is victim of the alienation of labor, send tweet.

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the king and his knife

(I just started book 3 pls do not spoil anything I’m beGGING)

#I adore them #mistborn #vinlend #vin venture #elend venture

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We know you tried your best Nona!

MAJOR spoilers in this one, folks. if you haven't read nona yet, read at your own risk

gideon ignites a debate, john gets defensive, and gideon exploits harrow's trauma for laughs

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Wait but is this on the mythrium? Will she raise Gideon in a closet to hide her from the other lcytors?

AU of pyrrah finding her instead...

#gideon the 9th

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Random thought but the ardents probably have a lot of trans members. The ardentia is a place where you can purse arts that might be against your birth gender but since ardents are technically genderless a trans member could pursue arts suited to their transitioned gender without any discrimination.

#stormlight archive #ardents #cosmere #stormlight #transgender #lgbtqa

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So I was thinking vaguely today about hive minds and how we generally see them in science fiction—you know, a whole bunch of tiny brains in a bunch of tiny bodies, but each one has a shred of extra processing power, so if you add them all together, you get a Super Intelligent Brain that usually winds up called the Queen, because we have perfectly good eusocial insects on earth and why waste nomenclature.

Which is fine for what it does! No argument!

But y’know, running a body is a REALLY brain-intensive process. Like, it takes a metric assload* of evolutionary time before you get a brain that can do more than make sure its owner breaths, blinks, and swallows occasionally. Which makes me wonder about the tipping point for an alien hive mind.

You gotta figure that there is an energy cost, however small, in linking the whole system together, so is there a point where you just have too many bodies to multitask for? A hive horizon, as it were? Where the existence of so many bodies that need regulating becomes a drain on the system instead? Maybe the Queen hatches a mal of new workers to grow the brain bigger and instead just winds up making way too many bodies that all need brain power to breathe and thermoregulate and Jesus Christ, they all need naps, how am I supposed to solve these differential equations about FTL travel when everybody insists on blinking and swallowing all the damn time?!

As an outsider, can you tell if the Queen is losing her shit based on whether the hive members all started doing things simultaneously? Everybody starts blinking and swallowing in unison as the Queen pulls brain power to try and cope with some particular crisis? Chunks of the hive are just left to asphyxiate because sorry, we really need that processing power you were using for semi-voluntary functions like breathing? Are there legends among queens about how if you grow too large, your brain falls apart?

…anyway, these are the things I think about when I’m in the shower.

*this handy unit can be abbreviated as “mal” for ease of notation, as in “Holy shit, there were 3 mal of dead tourists in that guy’s basement!”