Hello! we've been doing a couple of lessons on classification recently, and i told my teacher about your genus of mini frogs. she was delighted and they have now been added to her powerpoint :)
I like to think of them as everyone's genus Mini. We all need a bit of a laugh sometimes. Things are always much too serious, especially in jargon-rich fields like taxonomy. It's helpful to lighten the mood. And perhaps if we all think of them as ours, perhaps we will be better at ensuring their future.
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Just thinking about how Calamity is such a dark miniseries but it can be filled with such small magical moments and things. Ever since Brennan introduced the spell kites in episode one I’ve been in love with them and what they symbolize.
They’re the first thing to welcome Avalir back to Domunas miles and hours before it ever touches down with little gifts, letters, favorite foods, and well wishes from loved ones in Cathmoíra that have been working for weeks and months leading up to the return of their sister city just to let the people in Avalir know we’ve been thinking of you and happy you’re home
It’s the first time in seven years you get to hold something tangible that was made by people who love you and all these emotions are carried by scraps of paper, ribbon, and magic that fly hundreds of miles up into the atmosphere where any regular kite would be torn apart but really it’s all held together by the love and joy of friendship and family that will find you no matter the distance you go
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one of my fav things about the untamed is the seemingly unlimited number of disciples like. there’s the final battle against the wens. dozens of disciples die, literally only the main characters survive. there’s talk of total loss and destruction, everyone is gone. cut to next scene: every sect is shown to have nearly as many disciples as they were depicted as starting with. rinse and repeat after every battle.
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Ok. Good news and Bad news.
Good news is that, thanks to a friend I barely managed to get my most important files and back them up. Meaning I thankfully didn't lose any progress on everything I've made.
Bad news is that my pc is still dead. It works for a few minutes and then it freezes, which is better than it not starting up outright like before but not really. So, I'm sending it for repairs anyway as it's most likely a hardware issue rather than a software one.
I will try and post some of the drawings and music I've made prior to all this, so hopefully the fact that my pc is not working won't be as noticeable.
Writing is not out of the question either, though whether I can get anything good while using only my phone, I'm not sure.
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the problem with shipping and han is that he flirts with everyone and everything, be it men, women, enbies, aliens etc., old friends, new friends, older, younger—doesn't matter. ( note: minors not allowed and will only ever get babied relentlessly, until his obnoxiousness drags out their immaturity, which he will then proceed to point out and poke at because he's unbearable ).
anyway, alien humanoids are the best case scenario but not the rule. so long as there's a pulse and verbal communication, han will likely still try to flirt with them. he is incorrigible.
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Memory, cover by Zhou Shen on Super Vocal (2018)
Translation below the cut if you need it, but if you can understand or read Mandarin Chinese I highly highly recommend watching this all the way through.
I didn’t see it coming, so my first time hearing the part starting from 3:59 was an Experience. An experience I would really love to share! So... here is the Chinese version of the last two verses that Zhou Shen adapted himself.
This was supposed to be from Grizabella’s perspective, but I think it is also Shenshen’s and ours as well. Ah, it resonates hard with me anyway.
我像一片落叶飘零
wǒ xiàng yī piàn luò yè piāo líng
I, like a fallen leaf adrift on the wind,
只有回不去的曾经
zhǐ yǒu huí bù qù de céng jīng
have only a past to which there is no return.
仿佛早晨田间一朵野花
fǎng fú zǎo chén tián jiān yī duǒ yě huā
As if it were a wildflower in the fields from the morning,
这记忆也在凋零
zhè jì yì yě zài diāo líng
this memory is withering too.
请你
qǐng nǐ
Please,
一点点向我靠近
yī diǎn diǎn xiàng wǒ kào jìn
little by little, come close to me;
哪怕一步的距离
nǎ pà yī bù de jù lí
even the distance of one step,
留我在孤单里
liú wǒ zài gū dān lǐ
leaves me in this loneliness.
只要你愿意
zhǐ yào nǐ yuàn yì
So long as you are willing,
你也会感到我的真心
nǐ yě huì gǎn dào wǒ de zhēn xīn
you can feel my heart too.
看 那晨光
kàn nà chén guāng
Look - the light of dawn
已来临
yǐ lái lín
has come.
Original English Verses:
Sunlight through the trees in summer
Endless masquerading
Like a flower, as the dawn is breaking
The memory is fading
It's so easy to leave me
All alone with my memory
Of my days in the sun
If you touch me, you'll understand what happiness is
Look, a new day has begun
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and sort of a follow-up about tragedy because. the moment anyone steps into the Akbadain chambers with Randall in their adventure party, someone is going to fall. it doesn’t matter who. but someone is going to do it. it's inevitable. it always ends the same way -- someone slipping out of the hands of someone else.
(this is the pretentious way of saying that I think the only way to get an AU where Randall doesn’t fall and no one else does instead is to just. Cancel the expedition)
Everything about this conversation so far has me imagining a (dumb) scenario where Hershel falls and Claire flees to college where she meets Randall for the first time.
Randall asks one day, "What made you come to Gressenheller, anyways?"
Claire says, "I feel responsible for the death of someone I cared about a lot, and I needed time and space to look for answers."
Randall's like, "What a coincidence! I am also consumed by grief and guilt over a loved one's death. I will not elaborate on this ever. You and I should become time-traveling supervillains and bring our loved ones back. And make out about it in the process."
And so that's what they do. Maybe not the supervillains part, but they're certainly a mad scientist power couple. They stare lovingly into each other's eyes while the lab burns down around them.
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