#living under the .. development

[homosexualslug]

when you and your friends are joking about how there's going to be a mattel cinematic universe now after barbie was so successful only to realize that's exactly what has already been in the works for the last few years

note: blumhouse is thankfully no longer attached to this one

#WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY #I hope all of these all die in development hell #but especially the polly pocket one #barbie #barbie movie #mattel films #mattel cinematic universe #barbie 2023 #hot wheels #american girl #polly pocket #major matt mason #also it's not under mattel films but worth noting that there was a GI crossover in the last transformers movie #.txt

[identityquest]

here with me

#sketch #comic #ocs #oc:romsir #oc:penny #oc:end #this was intially going to be a dtl comic would you believe that #anyways this is about the character development romsir goes through at the beginning of deep breath #they go from being listless and kinda unreliable to having something to live for and work towards #they and penny bond extremely closely after the collapse. each was under the impression that no other humans survived #they experience a similar bond w jia but thats more paternal/fraternal in nature #penny and romsir have something borderline unhealthy going on #but theyre deeply in love and by the end of the narrative theyre in much better places #also im so glad i could draw romsirs fucked up skeleton arm finally. they only have it for a little bit before it has to be amputated #but i think its so funny #BTW THEY ARE NOT JUMPING OFF A BUILDING. THATS NOT WHATS HAPPENING #the 4th panel out of those 6 is the collapse closing in on them and their hand being fucking vaporized #3 seconds later daemos pulls them out of the collapse but theyre like chewed tf up by then #and 5th panel is them ~8 days after dying catching their first shard of the end #this being a dtl comic would have been so funny actually maybe i should revisit it #ANYWAYS GOODNIGHT MWAH

[helpimstuckinafandom]

"Oh so they're capitalists now" motherfucker it's all capitalism. Youtube having 50 ads a video with an in-video sponsor read that takes a quarter of the video is capitalism. Be real

#you're not a dirty capitalist because you have to live under capitalism #you're not a dirty capitalist for trying to get sustrainabke revenue for your independent company #until there's fucking screen limits and bans on password sharing it's not a malicious move to make their own service #they aren't deleting everything. they're still gonna give access to first episodes of new shit #it's the dropout model #i get that it's a big change and i agree that the issues for international viewers will have to be dealt with because that's a PROBLEM #the issue isn't them moving to this model over youtube #there will be new shows #shit will develope #watcher #watcher entertainment

[cleromancy]

god ppl trying to claim jasons "we're the not so different you and i" villain speech to mia WASNT incredibly unsubtle subtext... that they went through the same trauma... like he says theyre alike. she says he knows nothing about her. he lists what he knows. and then he repeats that they're alike.

that's only barely subtext and not text itself, man. trying to argue that isn't the intention that jason was also a csa victim is just willful misreading at that point

#also i love it when ppl only ever bring up mia when they want to shit on jason #and very transparently pretend to care about her and be Very Angry about all the traits that jason ~stole from her #conveniently ignoring that winick (who liked exploring the connections btwn bats and arrows) actually tweaked mias backstory 2 make it more+ #like jasons (adding in the homelessness vs smiths version which was the less sensationalized familial trafficking) #because... get this... the characters were canonically in conversation with each other... the text explores what they have in common... #yknow. like stories do. #almost as if that was why jason was IN MIAS STORY IN THE FIRST PLACE #ALMOST AS IF JASON WAS THERE FOR HER CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND #WHAT DOES IT DO FOR MIAS CHARACTER IF YOU PRETEND THAT SUBTEXT ISNT THERE? #the whole reason he could get under her skin the way he did was because of what they had in common. thats why shes so rattled #what does it benefit mia if you take that layer away lol. how does that enrich her story at all #trick question none of these ppl have given mia a single thought in their fucking lives

[puppyeared]

Atla live action 😐

#thats my honest reaction 😐 #to be fair ive only seen 20 minutes of the s1 finale bc my parents are watching it but. mmmmm kinda mid #like. the casting is definitely an improvement since the last time they tried a live action but it feels like the writing falls flat #or maybe im being harsh bc ive only heard negative criticism on it beforehand. but fr anytime u bring up the original its already #good and not just because its the original. so much fucking detail went into it to the point of someone noticing azula wielding mai's knive #to how well thought out irohs character is used as a way of uniting the cast especially as zukos foil #i heard that sokkas sexism was toned down and i have to agree that feels like a cheap move. like i get WHY they think it would be better #but its not about how that reflects on real world its about how it affects the story. sokka starts out as a misogynistic asshole because #it makes it that much more impactful when he changes. toning that down makes it flatter and makes his character development weak #and someone pointed out they didnt even make him wear the kyoshi warrior uniform and i know it feels like such a small detail but #come on man. they did that in the original because not only does it help him really walk in their shoes - wearing 'feminine' clothing and #makeup and having suki explain its significance but it also ties in with the shows theme of harmony and intersectionality #i was also disappointed when they had the fire sages explain how the water tribe draws power from the moon because in the original it was #IROH who explained it to aang and everyone else BECAUSE we as the audience is under the impression hes with the 'bad guys' #and it builds up to how he learned from the other nations which reconciles his past as a war general and his character overall #AND its an excellent starting point for the cast and audience to understand how the nations arent as closed off as you would think #plus you would think its only fire nation doing propaganda but they expanded on that with earth kingdom censorship and it WORKS #a lot of things in the live action also feel arbitrary like. they gave momo a near death experience for 5 minutes for no reason #im firmly on the stance of bringing back filler moments instead of putting major events right after each other so that u give your #audience a sense of time passing and to really absorb the story. but i think thats more like shock value than filler and yeah its a small #thing to gripe about but those things build up and its really annoying. the thing abt avatar filler moments is that however small #its at least meaningful. hell even the beach episode emphasizes how isolated zuko and his friends are as child soldiers #i also swore to never watch the first live action since it was that bad but i really liked the stylized tattoos they used for aang #anyway. those arejust my thoughts. im not gonna watch the rest because im a ride or die for the original aftr growing up and #rewatching it at least 20 times as a kid. but theres definitely room for improvement and i wish ppl wouldnt take it as 'better' just cuz #netflix is adapting it. i wouldve killed for them to just reanimate the entire avatar series and touch NOTHING ELSE no redub #no changes to the story. just reanimate the thing and leave the rest alone and youd make easy money just the same #ALSO its very jarring not hearing jack desena and dante basco voicing sokka and zuko cause their voices were the most recognizable to me #i get that its because its live action but im allowed to feel a little sad abt that. and uncle irohs accent was really soothing #yapping

[emmster]

Halle Bailey’s dress was so pretty! I hope we get a similar dress for the purple one and not some knock off prom dress

#halle is ariel #halle bailey #the little mermaid live action #the little mermaid #mermaids #Disney #Disney fanart #ariel fanart #disney princess #under the sea #my art #digital art #art of tumblr #procreate #artists of tumblr #fan art #visual development #procreate art #art on tumblr

[pumpkinrootbeer]

Sorry not to be a haymitch apologist but actually I'm not even saying his behavior was the correct choice but his decision to not tell them about the escape plan in catching fire fits perfectly with a person who didn't even trust the water in his games.

keep in mind just before the games started peeta and katniss showed they couldn't be trusted when they went in for their private sessions. Their actions were only to prove to the game makers they were more than their game and haymitch is so upset when he sees their scores he can't bare to look at them. These two, god bless them, are not rational thinkers in the best of times! haymitch is also concerned with getting his friends out alive.

and yeah, it was a dumb decision that got people killed but there is reasons for it and the biggest one is haymitch does not trust, ever. he certainly doesn't trust people to make the correct decisions when lives are at stake.

#:V #the hunger games #haymitch abernathy #we also have to consider the fucking stress he's operating under it's literally the end times for him #he knows he's going to watch all his friends die and God. #two assholes teenagers keep telling him he needs to be the arbiter for who lives or dies between them. #he's in an IMPOSSIBLE situation and he's not just going to develop the capacity to trust overnight #especially when they show they are not good at decisionmaking #and . again haymitch was wrong to not share the plan. #but have you considered. I love him and it made for good drama

[pickapea]

my job is reactivating and rehabilitating patients in post surgery care and one of the first things i tell them once they've tried to drink some juice and stand on their legs without throwing up is "every bite is a good bite" and i think that's a good sentiment for everyone

#i tell them “if you have to eat 5 panacottas and nothing else today then that's a win” and then i give them panacottas #actually it's not a win bc they need way more than that #5 panacottas and a few supplementary nutritional drinks and then we're all set #caramel flavoured chocolate pudding is also a good option #an option anyone outside a hospital would discourage to be the only thing you eat in a day. but we will nag and bug you until you eat 2 #ive seen a lot of people here on tumblr talk about the need for a neutral food view #that morals don't exist in food #and it's true #to become healthy after your body has kind of been under the greatest toll ever (stomach open wide) there is no such thing as bad food #pickapost #tho of course you will develop some health issues if you don't have a proper diet #like scurvy or kidney stones #that's no good #or blood fats that will lead to health issues later in life #but compared to malnutrition those are irrelevant #nutrition comes first otherwise you cannot live #and when it comes to nutrition every bite is a good bite

[letters-to-rosie]

so a big part of my interest in media studies (and part of why I wanna teach it someday) is questioning how real-world categories and schema are imported into nonreal-world settings and how they are not.

there's the very obvious answer of "the audience lives in the real world, so that makes it easy for them." but then you read something like Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, which takes place on a planet inhabited by beings who are normally sexless and get either set of sex organs during their mating period at random. and then you can, you know, question the arbitrariness of gender.

or you watch Arcane and real-world racial categories are eschewed for a racialization of a subaltern group that has been compared to what the English have historically done to the Irish. and then maybe you go "huh, is there a connection between economics and the production of race? and maybe race isn't a fixed category but something that can shift and change?" (or at least i HOPE you do i HOPE you do)

and there are the things that sometimes get questioned less in fiction. like why are there so many kingdoms? what about alternative political formations? it's not like every society in the history of the world was a kingdom before, like, 1800. if we can have aliens and dragons and magic and stretch our brains for that, we can stretch in the social/economic/political too. why do we have capitalism in those settings? in the real world, capitalism is the result of the way our history played out. but it's historically contingent. as are our concepts of race and gender.

so why does any of this matter? well, I think that it's very important that we deal with reification: the way things in our society are naturalized to us. if we want to change things, it helps to recognize them as arbitrary and not necessarily facts of life we must live with forever. as we can tell from current events, the ways the world is currently organized really sucks, so cultivating and then acting on that imagination is urgent.

#media analysis #ursula k. le guin #the left hand of drakness #is interesting because she got so interested in gender because #it was naturalized in her earlier writings #like okay we have a super cool magical world #why are gender politics the same #and so she explored that #in the case of #arcane #it's wild because it historically situates the financialization of the economy under neoliberalism (as we live it now) #but not the development of capitalism wholesale #because it's produced under capitalism #but it's a great to pull it apart and reveal the contingent nature of capitalism as well

[daily-linkclick]

im gonna miss xixi every day until forever, lowkey want the og timeline to be restored so that she can live

oughgh... sometimes i delude myself into thinking she can still be alive through qiao ling NOT in the sense that her powers transferred to ql (i actually hate that idea) but in the sense that her soul transferred to ql but not in the intrusive way it's like now ql has a little tianxi ai who she can talk to . for fun

#link click #think of it like ql is piloting a mech and tianxi is on her overlay at all times #mech au.... but specifically with ql and tianxi #TIANXI DID NOT DESERVE ALL THAT!!! SHE LITERALLY SUFFERED FOR ALL H ER LIFE!! GIRL DID NOT DESERVE ANY OF THAT!!!! #i like how the narrative tried to make us feel bad for tianchen and like i do #but my god. my god why use your SISTER in your MURDERS. under the idea of HELPING HER. #SHES JUST MORE TRAUMATISED #ALSO HE DIDNT EVEN CRY FOR HER??????? IT JUST FULLY FELT LIKE SHE WAS USED FOR TIANCHENS CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT?!?!?! #bring back tianxi i cannot take this anymore SHE DESERVES TO LIVE !!!!!! #i have sooo many thoughts on s2 . but if i speak i will never stop speaking LMFAO #both good and bad things #but i overall still like the series so. very excited for the manhwa <3 #sorry op im just rambling in tags lol

[hyp3rfixation-h3ll]

unused and majin are gay married and the unused & majin show is essentially their meetcute . in this essay i wi

#unused and majin show #THEYRE SO YAOI TO MEEEEEEE #THEYRE SO SILLY THEYRE SO SILLY . I WANT THEM TO THRIVEEEEEE WAAAAAAAAUGH #majin is the type of absolute BITCH to go “WHAT NAHHH i dont like him like that” and maybe he didnt fall first #but oh my god did he fall HARDDDD #on the other hand . unused to me has a very flirty dork ass type of mentality. he fumbles the bag REGULARLY trying to be smooth #but all it does is make majin fall for him HARDER #neither of them know how to confess properly so their relationship just develops and they dont SAY theyre dating #but everyone knows theyre crazy about each other #they LIVE IN THE SAME APARTMENT AND SHARE A BEDROOM #IDGAF *WHAT* the creator of the show said btw they sleep in the same bed to me #it was under the excuse of “more space” in the room but deep down they both know they just wanted to cuddle each other #and neither have the balls to ask

[wundrousarts]

hi I hope this doesn’t sound like a demand lol but I love how you draw jupiter and I hope you draw him more

your art is so cool by the way I really like your character lineup 🥺

Thank you so much!! I literally never draw Jupiter, on account of my inability to draw 1. adult men and 2. beards, BUT it’s something I need to / want to get better at. The only other time I’ve drawn him was that lineup which I did super quick, so it was fun to try and think of an actual design so I can try to draw him more!

[ID: Three half-colored digital sketches of Jupiter North from Nevermoor. They show him as a kid with messy hair, a young adult with a mullet and mustache, and an adult with longer hair and a fuller beard. End ID.]

Details on my Jupiter design / headcanons (?) for his life under the cut:

I started with the middle— in my layers, I dubbed him to be “teen” Jupiter, originally intending for him as a senior scholar, but as time went on I figured he was more like, early 20s young adult Jove. The Wunsoc sweater is just still there on the adults because I didn’t want to redraw <3

I feel like Wunsoc, especially with Dearborn and Murgatroyd prowling the halls, holds its student’s appearances to a certain standard. Sure, society members are representatives of the society for the rest of their lives once they graduate, but their time in school is their first introduction to that life. It's their debut as society members. We see this in a lot of stuff with Holliday, in Hollowpox and in the one Silverborn snippet, how she's manufacturing an image for Mog and co. and physical appearance plays a part in it.

Going with this: I feel like Wunsoc would expect their students to keep their appearance clean and approachable somewhat. Jupiter gives me a vibe of the kid who had a crazy growth spurt, and was able to grow a beard before graduating– BUT I don't know if Wunsoc (really just the Scholar Mistresses) would be crazy for that. So I imagine that he's relatively clean-shaven for the most part, nowhere near modern Jove, and then starts to grow out his facial hair a bit more as a senior scholar where I imagine things would lax a bit, and then just commit fully to growing a beard once he properly graduates.

So young adult Jupiter is perhaps in his early 20s, a somewhat recent Wunsoc graduate. I'm a mullet Jupiter truther, where his hair is longer in the back, and had to represent that. Younger Jove's is messier and more fun; he's not too concerned about his image as he hasn't quite reached that laundry list of titles and accolades yet.

Present-day adult Jupiter is still rocking the mullet style, just now it's longer and styled a bit more professionally. But let's be real– it doesn't stay this way. It totally gets easily messed up from his hats, and Jove loves to have fun and entertain people, Plus, he's a busy man, constantly stressed and running around. While the hair here might be great for say, a formal meeting or a magazine cover, the hair most folks end up seeing him with tends to be a bit more wild. He definitely starts to resemble his younger self's hair more after a rowdy night or a stressful endeavor.

Kid Jupiter– not much to say here, tbh. I figured I'd stick with the longer hair he has as an adult, kinda rowdy. Not a mullet yet, though! I was thinking of the part in Nevermoor where he starts talking about the rules he broke and stuff he got up to as a Wunsoc student, and how Hawthorne started taking notes, and made his hair similar to the rowdy hair of our favorite bestie. However, while Hawthorne's hair is curly, I'm of the belief that Jupiter's hair is definitely pretty straight. So no curlicues for him </3

Hopefully now that I've started to nail down a design for Jupiter, I can draw him more!! I always have soooo many Nevermoor ideas circling around in my brain. I love thinking about designs for various characters and the reasonings behind different aspects of their appearance.

#asks #nevermoor #nevermoor fanart #jupiter north #I have an issue of drawing super small on super large canvases so. sorry for blurry screenshot lol #my references board was just. ewan mcgregor and domhnall gleeson lol. heavy on him tbh #if you saw this in the discord I moved the eye highlights. no reason other than vibes. ​idk how they work tbh it’s just for fun. #I can always expand on my general philosophies (?) for when it comes to drawing characters progressing thru time #/ at different stages of their lives. I have lots of thoughts. #it's easier to apply to adult characters like squall + jupiter and then characters with active development throughout the series like mog #meanwhile other characters like 919 and etc haven't really been through anything Revolutionary yet that I feel would change how I draw them #anyways I'd love to elaborate if anyone has any Qs. was gonna include in this but didn't want to hide it under a cut after a jupiter ramble #i really need to post more nevermoor art. I look on here and realize I've actually barely done much lol. #but also I'm the busiest person alive and never draw and just think abt it so. oops. 🤷

[mariocki]

Black Moon Rising (1986)

"Mr. Quint and I go back a ways. We used to be... what, in competition?"

"I never considered you competition, Marvin."

"Aw, that's not nice, Quint. We had our moments."

"You must've had yours in private."

#black moon rising #1986 #american cinema #harley cokeliss #john carpenter #william gray #desmond nakano #tommy lee jones #linda hamilton #robert vaughn #richard jaeckel #lee ving #bubba smith #dan shor #william sanderson #keenan wynn #nick cassavetes #richard angarola #don keith opper #lalo schifrin #william marquez #decentish techno thriller but never quite hitting the levels it should. TLJ is a good charismatic lead‚ and apparently adlibbed a lot #of his own dialogue (but was also reportedly difficult to work with and particularly clashed with Hamilton; he was struggling with #alcoholism during filming) and there's a lot of heavy hitters in that cast but it perhaps spreads itself too thin: i always enjoy seeing #Keenan Wynn turn up (and this was his final film) but his character is under developed and adds nothing to the plot‚ and should #probably have been cut... and maybe more time given to Robert Vaughn's big villain‚ whose deeper motives (beyond stealing fancy cars) #remain largely unexplored. the super duper future car is pretty cool‚ even if it does test the limits of belief at times. idk i think it's #just taking itself a little too seriously in places‚ forgetting to have fun with what is essentially a pretty silly idea. this was a john #carpenter script‚ but his involvement ended there; can't help but feel that if he'd directed it then it would have been more successful #and matched the campy tone of Christine or They Live. a slightly missed opportunity but not a waste of time by any means

[hecksupremechips]

Girl like. The reason he said "this is how it should be" and faced death with a smile....is cuz he wanted to die. For 2 years he sat there thinking he was worthless and deserved to die. If he hadn’t be shot, his death would’ve been suicide, he was fully planning to die in a gutter somewhere undetected. When saying "this is how it should be" hes literally saying "don’t cry because I’m dying, my death is a good thing actually because I fucking suck and you are better off without me". I don’t think that’s badass even slightly, it’s actually really sad and really shitty. Shinjiro is so convinced that he deserves to die and hates the idea of anyone giving a shit about him because he literally can’t wrap his mind around the idea that he will be missed when he’s gone, that his death is a bad thing actually. And his last words were meant to be comforting because he fully did not intend for anyone to be there when he died, he intended to die alone, so he says them as a reminder that he’s not worth crying over

Personally, if it were me, if I was holding my dying best friend in my arms who was deeply depressed and suicidal and he said "this is how it should be" uh. I wouldn’t admire him for it??? Like am I losing my mind when I say the way this game handles Shinji is bad or is anyone else seeing this too 😰

#its like okay listen i understand the basic math of any persona game they say things and everything they say is actually #very bad when you think about it for more than 3 seconds #like what theyre intending to do with the death of this character is be like oh no your sad friend dies tragically thats so saddddd #but that doesnt mean you cant live a wonderful life full of meaning you cant let grief consume you life is beautiful awagga #and i guess shinji is a specific character whos used cuz i guess its more tragic that he never realized he was worthy of life and shit #and i guess its also like ‘dont be like this guy who let grief consume him and then died you gotta Be Different’ #which i dont. love. that last part cuz if you think about shinji and what led him down this road #its like. of course hes depressed! he accidentally killed a woman with a child when he was 16! #he himself is an orphan and he just made some other kid an orphan as well and it happened cuz his persona went out of control #which very much can translate to ‘this must mean im dangerous and can hurt everyone if im not kept under control’ #so of course he isolated himself and believed he was evil and became suicidal like who wouldnt feel that way #like am i supposed to be mad he left sees and took drugs cuz uh while i dont think isolation or Evil Drug is good for his mental health #i dont think him continuing to fight in sees is something he can just easily do again given how he killed someone like he shouldnt have to #be a part of this thing anymore like how would he even safely get castor to not do that??? he cant kill more people on accident! #so yeah like using shinji as an example of bad coping mechanisms is already just. a big fucking oof to me like it just feels like the game #is saying he shouldve gotten over it and simply not be suicidal and stayed on the team. idk if thats the intent but uh it wouldnt faze me #cuz persona games are notoriously awful at writing characters who are traumatized and abused #but what makes everything even worse is how the game kinda like. acts like shinjis death is a stepping stone #like we’re supposed to use it as a wake up call and understand the stakes but keep going on anyways #and akihiko and Ken get. ‘great character development’ according to the game telling you they have now developed #but damn all akihiko is is just repressed he cries for 3 seconds and then is like I SHOULD MAN UP and then neglects a depressed child #shinjis dying words are words to live by now even though they piss me the fuck off like girl am i crazy HES FUCKING #HES TELLING ME NOT TO CRY OVER HIM BECAUSE HE SHOULD BE DEAD ACTUALLY AND THIS IS A GOOD THING ACTUALLY #like if the game wants us to still find meaning in life despite losing someone it just really hurts that shinji has to die for that to work #apparently. cuz the character i see myself in is shinji. not some perfect prettyboy who does everything perfectly and has 4 gfs #his death seems like a punishment for bad behavior. the bad behavior being of course depression and drug use. and im simply supposed to be #better than that if i want to live. and we dont get to form a connection with him cuz thats gayyyyy #and his death is like a NOBLE HEROIC SACRIFICE idk its just such bullshit to me i hate it so bad #how is killing a suicidal guy and then treating it as admirable that he said ‘this is how it should be’ supposed to make me feel #makes me feel sick personally and it ruins the entire game’s theme to me because its fucking shallow and the story is bad and im tired

[sysig]

TVAU Outfit, coming someday (Patreon)

#Doodles #Just Desserts #Villainsona #True Villainy AU #I still have Zero ideas that I haven't already touched on and rejected lol #I know what I'm Not looking for but a design that I'm happy with all the way around eludes me #It can't look too Queenly and it can't have too much of Charm's original colours or shapes #But it also can't Just look like Kaiein either! #The whole point is that he's influencing her from the shadows - he doesn't want his fingerprints to overshadow hers #Mostly for plausible deniability but it's also an ego thing for him #A kind of ''Look what I've made'' without it just Being Him Again #The real problem is that his ego is in conflict with itself he always wants the impossibly high expectation met #He both wants it to be her and not him as well as having an obvious influence but not So noticeable fdlsafjdf #He's infuriating #But that is by design :/ Damn it lol #The middle two could probably be from S2Classic! No AU needed! Wowie! #Expectation and High Standards and Living Up To Your Potential are some of his big themes - external validation thaaaaanks #Charm is under no obligation to live up to standards or expectations set by someone who's not actually interested in her happiness #''Potential'' pff just because you Can doesn't mean you Should - that's kind of her whole villainy deal lol #But that's why he's a great reinforcement-lesson for S2 #Archive - Uploaded June 22nd 2023 #There have been a few developments since then :3c #The biggest blockades to fully publishing this was the last two panels of the minicomic lol - they were in limbo for like a month #Finally finished! A sort of sequel to the set of them trying to come up with an outfit and him shouting her down #He deserves to get things thrown at him

[covenofthearticulate]

not to keep projecting but lmfao i could DEFINITELY see armand developing a hyperfixation on marine creatures

#for some weird reason when i was a kid i developed a very Intense Hyperfixation on freaky deep sea creatures #not the cute ones— like really fucked up angler fish and rat sharks and giant vampire squid #and ANYWAY i went to the aquarium today because they opened a NEW EXHIBIT on DEEP SEA CREATURES #and not only was it awesome but like....i got to TOUCH a GIANT DEEP SEA ISOPOD #they're these fucked up rolly polly looking things that live 4000 ft under water and eat whale carcasses and anyway it was so weird #and so so cool #and i think both armand and daniel would have a fucking BLAST looking at weird fucked up lil guys #daniel would stick his hand in the ice cold touch tank and pet the weird bug crustacean and be like 'omg it's just like touching you' asafgd