Theory: The Clone X was not Cody like some people think or even Fives (I know he's been dead for a very long time but so was Boba Fett and look where we are. Plus, Echo was supposed to be certainly dead too; making him Winter Soldier-esque storyline wouldn't be that surprising) or not even Slick.
((Also, now that we've seen his face devoid of any tattoos or scars I think first two takes are definitely not applicable anymore; they wouldn't put that much effort to make him unrecognizable))
Back to the point: In my opinion, The Clone X was none other than...
Fox.
Now let me explain.
Who else, other than X, was loyal to the law and justice dictated by it over any moral or ethic code?
Fox.
Who else was portrayed with such single-minded focus on hunting down traitors of the government he served, regardless of what it was?
Fox.
Who else could know not only Coruscant so well but also identify Rex like they knew each other?
He already was a remarkably successful tracker of traitors, why not make him more efficient by pointing them out for him?
Good soldiers follow orders, after all.
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I woke up with a realization. One reason I struggle to write longer works is impatience. I don't want to write, I want to have written something. So the secret is learning to enjoy the journey instead of always rushing toward the destination.
For context, I just watched a Youtube video about training yourself to read longer works by learning contentment--enjoy living in the world of the book instead of rushing through a reading list, because constantly watching how many pages you have until the end makes it more stressful so you're likely to abandon it halfway. I'm guilty of reading lots of short books because there are too many books I want to read for me to have patience for longer books.
This morning it hit me that I have the same problem with writing. I can't sink in to longer works because when I start one, I stress out about how long it takes to finish one scene, so imagine how long it'll take to finish the whole thing, and it's much easier to write only short works. But if I learn to luxuriate in the writing process and don't worry about reaching the ending, I'll enjoy writing a lot more and I'll be more likely to eventually finish.
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internship phase2 to-dos // 27th apr 2024
[ phase 1 task list here ]
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dataset (re)construction
✅ zip and backup old protein setlist
✅ add info for updated proteins
✅ uniprot retrieval and validation
dataset description
✅ run MSA and get phylogenetic tree for dataset
☑ Clustal Omega
☑ ClustalW
→ parse the SPF output files for each protein
dataset annotation
✅ update new proteins + pocketfiles
☑ run pocketfinder1
☑ run pocketfinder2
↺ run pocketfinder3 [18/24]
📌 check for crystal structures for proteins in dataset
↳ possible pocket validation
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Got my Dirk shirt all remade now, over a decade later, lol. The first one (from either 2011 or 2012, I don't remember) was on a thrifted shirt (bad idea, because it was already thinning, and costs the same, and it's RARE to find plain white shirts in a thrift store, so you don't get to choose the size - I had to alter the old one). I also accidentally bought shimmer paint because I thought "Pearl" meant the paint was matte. (Pearls are matte, they're not shimmer glittery!!) And I only had one size of good quality paint brush to use.
Now, I have new materials (still the wrong paint, because the store only had the 3D/textured paint in orange, but I made it work), and more brush sizes I can use. I still traced the shape and placement from the old shirt, both to save time, and also because it's like, using something from the old one to make the new one, like handing down the torch, or whatever sentimental reason. (The old one was traced off my old laptop screen, I think.)
I already made a mistake when I tried scraping off a microscopic paint fleck off the sleeve and accidentally held the black brush in my other hand and painted all over the shoulder and it wouldn't wash out, but I've decided that, that will be a grease spot from patching up Squarewave, so if you see the splotch in my future cosplay, 'it was intentional.' \></
So yeah. Here's to many more years of Homestuck cosplay, lmao.
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i need someone to make a post just based on how this episode showed you the two big relationships of hen and chim which is a friendship and buck and eddie which is so much more.
ok you know i thought i didn’t have much to say about this but actually i do. because it’s actually really interesting how (in another penultimate episode just like 4x13) hen and chim went through this terrible near dear (well. death death for chimney sorry bestie) experience together just like buck and eddie. and more than that, the circumstances around hen and chimney’s nde were Strange: hen thinking he would go after karen, but jonah actually being jealous of her other partner/chimney, the way jonah talked about it (“i don’t know what you see in him”), if it were literally any other duo it would be incredibly suspicious. but it’s not! bc it’s HEN AND CHIM, the single most solid platonic relationship on this show.
and as bestie grace @adamsparirsh pointed out when we were talking last night, if this episode had happened with buddie instead of henchim it would have been filmed differently. because the hen chim jonah stuff was filmed like a (really good) thriller or an episode of criminal minds. it was dark, intense, fast-paced, focused on the action of jonah’s violence and chimney’s save. compare that to the shooting, which was Bright, where everything slowed right down, when the focus was on buck and eddie just looking at each other before eddie fell and mehta got buck out of the way. even the aftermath, with buck dragging eddie out and saving him in the truck, was focused exclusively on eddie and buck. the sniper played 0 part in what happened in the shooting. he wasn’t even visible. the thing with jonah was about heroes, about jonah as a murderer vs hen and chim as actual heroes. the shooting was about...buck and eddie. hen and chim were targeted, eddie being shot (buck being there, in white) was random.
and then there’s the aftermath, the hospital scenes, where hen and chimney are immediately able to put a name to what they are to each other: the best friends they’ve ever had, people who don’t know how they’d ever live without each other. obviously those things are obviously true of buddie too. regardless of your feelings on romantic buddie, i don’t think there’s any denying that buck and eddie are each other’s best friends and that they’d be lost without each other — but buddie never put words to it. aside from buck’s comment to maddie in 3x03, they’ve never said what they are to each other and they’ve never actually talked to each other about how they feel. they’ve shown it of course, and they’ve talked around it (buck telling eddie he broke down after the shooting, buck telling eddie he was scared after eddie’s breakdown, eddie’s “there’s no one i trust more with my son” and “no one will fight harder for my son”) but it’s always been in the context of christopher (a proxy hen and chim never have, hen and chim are rarely if ever shown to have that kind of relationship with each other’s children). even in the aftermath of the shooting in their two hospital scenes, they’re talking about christopher. buck says it would be better if he was the one shot for christopher, eddie says buck’s not expendable because of christopher, and while neither of those things are 100% about christopher, buck and eddie just. aren’t able to have that conversation without christopher to hide behind.
and hen and chim not only talked about what they mean to each other, they talked about what the nde specifically meant for them and their relationship. they admitted they were afraid to lose each other, they talked about how terrible it was. buck and eddie even now have never talked about what the shooting meant for them together. the times it’s been mentioned have always been framed around eddie’s healing (buck referring to the shooting when talking about eddie’s panic attacks in 5a, buck bringing eddie to see charlie in 5x14), not about the Buck And Eddie of it all. and it’s clear from hen and chim’s experience and conversation that a trauma like that doesn’t just impact the person who is physically hurt, it impacts hen too. it almost impacts hen more than chimney (mostly because hen was the ultimate target, even if chimney was the one was physically hurt, but also bc she had to see her best friend die and she was ahem just the girl standing there who couldn’t do anything about it). but even now, even a year later, buck and eddie can’t talk about it. eddie still looks away when it’s mentioned.
and there could be a number of reasons for this — the fact that hen chim and buck eddie are simply different characters who react to things differently, the fact that buck and eddie both have prior traumas that prevent them from being entirely open about how they feel, the fact that buck Doesn’t Understand The Unwritten Rules of Male Friendship — but it could also be this: hen and chim aren’t hiding anything from each other. there’s no stone left unturned for them, they’re just best friends. there’s no other potentially messy or potentially intense layer there. i don’t mean that it’s any less than buck and eddie, because it absolutely is not, but it’s different. buck and eddie can’t talk about that first thing — what they are to each other, just how much they care for each other without christopher in the middle — without opening the worlds biggest can of worms. there’s a degree of baggage and other meanings and a whole host of other things that gets in the way of just being honest about how they feel.
this got away from me but basically: hen and chim are best friends, and they’re best friends who can say they are best friends, who can tell each other exactly how they feel even in the face of incredible (joint) trauma. buck and eddie are best friends, too, but there’s something under that that they can’t address or even look at themselves because it would reveal too much.
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