#the big five

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

today i learned there was more then one mass extinction in the dinosaur time

there are lots of mass extinctions! but there are the "big five" that happened during the phanerozoic that dramatically changed the course of life on earth:

end ordovician (lead to the decline of "cambrian" type faunas and was very devastating for lots of invertebrate groups)

end devonian (demise of the age of fishes, trilobites are practically extinct after but manage to pull themselves together)

end permian (largest mass extinction. nearly all life goes extinct. ends the age of the stem-mammals/synapsids, but creates the necessary conditions for dinosaurs to evolve; trilobites go extinct fully)

end triassic (kills all the triassic weirdos except a fair few, including dinos) -> note, because the triassic is flanked by major mass extinctions on either end, the triassic *is* the most unique period in Earth's history

end cretaceous (the asteroid impact extinction that killed all nonavian dinosaurs, also ammonites, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, and others)

the current mass extinction is the sixth major one of the phanerozoic.

#“dinosaur time” is now my friend #mass extinctions #major mass extinctions #the big five #palaeoblr #prehistoric life #history of life

[enemyoflactose]

I finished Noah's Arc

My descent into villainy begins.

@lostsomewhereinthegarden wanted to be tagged in this one 💕

Voice acting:

I have no clue what any new characters sound like in the sub, so this 4kids performance only.

Noah: round of applause he sounds fantastic.

Gozuburo: he needs to sound more like he smokes

The Deep Sea Warrior guy: I forgot what he sounded like

Crump: he sounds weird

Johnson: Why is his voice so deep? Why is it so deep? He sounds like a big scary monster.

The robot: I wasn't paying attention to him

Lector: nice. I like his voice.

Dark Magician Girl: it's really annoying for some reason.

Flame Swordsman: hot voice

Serenity's deck master: I don't like it.

Characters:

Yugi: that sure is Yugi. He gets more screentime than usual and that's a nice change. I love his interactions with Téa after her duel, he's so sweet it makes my dumb shipper brain go crazy.

Yami: he sure does duel. He insults Noah a few times, and is mean to Kuriboh in his first duel.

Téa: QUEEN. If Kaiba didn't exist this would have been her season.

Joey: That sure is Joey. It killed me every time he thought of Mai. Bro wants her back so badly.

Tristan: he was robbed. He deserved to duel again.

Duke: this man is so fucking rude like what the hell? I love him tho he's funny and silly.

Serenity: this poor girl blames herself so much. It was not her fault that Tristan died. It was 100% Duke's.

Seto Kaiba: why is he like this? He's so cool.

Mokuba: precious baby wanted to forgive Noah so badly. He said they were family. He said Kaibacorp would help build him a robot body and they could be twins. I'm crying.

Noah: Why was his backstory handled better than the Ishtar's? Why? This is a filler character and I felt worse for him than Marik. Maybe it's because he's a better duelist idk.

The big five: they exist

Gozuburo: his love for Noah was so conditional, I hate this man. I'm glad he's dead.

Important note

Deck Masters are a thing. I like the idea of them.

Duels

Duel 1 - Yugi vs Gansly

Yugi chooses Kuriboh as his deck master and is upset about it because it was an accident.

Gansly is his own deck master.

Most of the duel is Gansly explaining the rules to Yugi and using cards that either don't exist, or are really bad.

Yuugi wins using Kuriboh, Rainbow Bridge, and Gaia the Fierce Knight to attack Gansly directly.

Duel 2 - Téa vs Crump

There was so much Téa fan service in this duel and before this and after this duel. It would have been distracting if this duel wasn't hype.

Téa picks Dark Magician Girl as her deck master, and Crump uses himself/Nightmare Penguin as a deck master.

Crump uses Penguin cards and cards like Cold Wave (Rest in Peace King) to gradually turn Téa into an ice sculpture.

Téa uses cards like Maha Vailo, some equip spells, and Mirror force to help herself, but due to still being a beginner mirror force gets destroyed.

Téa is getting guidance from Dark Magician Girl on how to duel, and ends up using Sage's Stone to special summon Dark Magician.

Téa wins the duel.

Also, Crump wanted to build a penguin themed amusement park, but that's not important.

Duel 3 - Joey vs Johnson

Joey stumbled into a court room after thinking he found his way back to the blimp. He was tricked by Johnson who was pretending to be Mai.

Joey's deck master is Flame Swordsman and Johnson's is Judge Man.

During this duel, Joey is using his deck master's special ability to raise his monsters attack points, but then they all get destroyed.

Now Joey is putting his faith in his gambling cards, but Johnson is cheating and making it so Joey can't use them

Noah catches this and calls out Johnson, but Joey says it's fine as long as he doesn't cheat anymore.

Joey ends up winning.

Duel 4 - Tristan, Duke, and Serenity vs Nezbit

I wasn't paying attention to this duel until Tristan died.

I still wasn't paying attention after he died.

Duke and Serenity win, but Nezbit got to take control of Tristan's body and now Tristan is Robot Monkey Tristan.

Duel 5: Kaiba vs Lector

This duel was too short.

Lector's deck master is Jinzo and Kaiba's is Lord of D.

During this duel, Lector is using cards like Jinzo and Imperial Order to make sure Kaiba can't use spells or traps. He also uses Injection Fairy Lily. I miss her. I miss my Lily.

Kaiba catches on to Lector's plan and makes him lose too many life points to keep Lily and Imperial Order on the field, then he summons Blue Eyes White Dragon and destroys a Satellite. I'm pretty sure 4kids censored this scene, because there was a weird jump cut from Blue Eyes attacking, to the debris falling.

Duel 6 - Joey and Yugi vs The Big Five

The big five are using Tristan's body to duel, and they're doing alright with early Umi Control. Then Johnson ruins it.

Yugi and Joey fuse their deck masters The Big Five fuse their deck masters.

Uhhhhhh

Yugi and Joey win and we never see the Big Five again.

Important stuff that happened

Mokuba got kidnapped and brainwashed.

Kaiba and the gang found out that Noah was Kaiba's step brother.

Noah is being really creepy to Mokuba.

Duel 7 - Yugi and Kaiba vs Noah

This duel is so long

Kaiba is really trying his best and is kind of winning, but Noah is reciting the Bible and using Mokuba as a shield so Kaiba loses because he is a hardcore reddit atheist and loves Mokuba.

Yugi calls Noah a hypocrite and combines his and Kaiba's deck.

Kaiba and Mokuba are turned to stone at this point.

Yuugi keeps talking shit and then Duke gets turned to stone. Nothing of value was lost.

Noah has to activate his deck master's second ability because Yugi destroyed the first one, and now Yugi has to fave Shinatu or whatever his name was.

Noah keeps raising his life points and he's using Spirit Monsters

My honest reaction to spirit monsters.

At least we saw Yatagurasu.

Noah is turning Yugi's friends to stone every turn, but Téa gets to stay alive for one more turn because she's just cool like that.

Yami summons all three Dark Magicians that he has ,but Noah destroyed all of them.

Then Yami summons Blue eyes and wipes out Noah's life points.

Yugi won and Kaiba wasn't happy that Yugi used his deck.

Duel 8 - Kaiba vs Gozuburo

This duel was also too short.

Gozuburo has Exodia and it gave Kaiba PTSD.

Kaiba has to send all 5 pieces of Exodia to the graveyard so that Gozuburo can summon Exodia Necros.

Necros is invincible and Kaiba's all like "You still take damage dumbass"

Gozuburo raises the attack of Necros, and Kaiba banishes (or puts them back in the deck I forgot) the Exodia pieces that were in the graveyard.

Kaiba wins and Gozuburo tries to take over his body anyway, but Yugi saves him.

Important stuff that happened

The squad was looking for an exit with Noah

Noah was told he was disappoinment so many times.

Mokuba accepted Noah as part of his family

Noah went to the real world to help the gang get their bodies back.

The island is about to explode.

Téa, Tristan and Serenity get their bodies back first

Then Duke and Joey

Then the rest of them.

Noah traps Gozuburo in Cyber space.

The island exploded

The End

#yugioh #Noah's Arc ygo #yami yugi #yugi mutou #tea gardner #tristan taylor #duke devlin #joey wheeler #serenity wheeler #seto kaiba #noah kaiba #mokuba kaiba #gozuburo kaiba #the big five

[ygoartreviews]

Spring of Rebirth

Finally. For once, Konami said "Naked allowed." Although I guess to be fair, there’s really nothing to see, and thus no reason to censor anything. Not that this fact has stopped them previously (or even with much more recent cards).

Anyway, I really like the framing of this card. The intended view of this scene is probably something like “a winged humanoid stands guard over this magic healing fountain,” but I feel like “person leaps out of fountain, newly healed, showing off their sick new wings.” I mean, why else would they have that blue radiant effect, right? I think this card would look better without the Matrix looking green and black blobby background, as it really does look completely separate from everything else.

Rating: 7/10

#Spring of Rebirth #yugioh #yu-gi-oh #ygo #Duel Monsters #The Big Five #Noah Kaiba #Continuous Spell

[thewittyphantom]

I found a really neat story told in news articles where, at the end of DSOD, the Quantum Cube explodes and spreads psychic monster-summoning powers all across the world, and things start to change on a worldwide scale.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14327472/1/Yu-Gi-Oh-Minus

"It's time. Mokuba, you're in charge." They were the last words he heard from his brother. Mere moments later, Seto Kaiba would vanish in the Quantum Cube's unexpected explosion. As the world is left to pick up the pieces, something incredible happens. Only time will tell if this miracle is for the better... or worse.

#yu gi oh #fan fiction #seto kaiba #mokuba kaiba #the big five #zigfried von schroeder #yugi mutou #blue eyes white dragon #exodia the forbidden one #ishizu ishtar

[thy-spicy-orange]

An Au where instead of Karasuma teaching in E-Class he’s put in as the A Class teacher to ensure these kids don’t find out about Korosensei and it stars the Big Five turning into feral conspirators and investigating Karasuma so hardcore that he’s not even irritated just concerned.

#assasination classroom #ansatsu kyoushitsu #asano gakushuu #ren sakakibara #seo tomoya #koyama natsuhiko #araki teppei #karasuma sensei #korosensei #e class #the big five #the five virtuosos #five virtuosos

[decadentrot]

First of all, thank you so much for blessing us with such good art! Its so fun and colourful, esp that last one!

Bc of that, I would like to request another set of characters for their own Wonderland AU, which would be the Big Five.

Alternatively, if five characters are too much for you, then you can just draw Asano in that Caterpillar outfit you gave him. 👀

Whichever you do, I thank you in advance!

the big 5 plus mad hatter gakuhou in wonderland (but for shuuboy its more like wonder 'why the fuck my dad is here' land)

Anyways thanks for the kind words and i hope you enjoy this <3

#assassination classroom #assclass #assclass fanart #asano gakushuu #asano gakuhou #ren sakakibara #araki teppei #natsuhiko koyama #tomoya seo #the big five #drawing request #alice in wonderland au

[theladysilvermoon]

Okay so a new thing they will be doing at this years Eurovision, is that the big five: Germany, France, Spain, United Kingdom, Italy plus the host country Sweden will also be performing at the semifinals - even though they're already qualified for the final.

In the first semifinal, United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden will perform their entries during the show, and in the second semifinals it will be France, Spain and Italy.

Don't know how I feel about that....

#eurovision #esc #esc 2024 #eurovision 2024 #eurovision song contest #the big five #united kingdom #france #spain #sweden #italy #Germany #esc semifinals

[ebookporn]

The acquisition vastly increases the influence of financial interests over book publishing. This worries me because it continues a trend that began years ago — elevating profits above the love of publishing books. When I published my first book decades ago, the purpose of most publishing houses was to publish books. Publishers made money in order to publish books. They earned enough on their big bestsellers to take chances on unknown authors like me and put out books that delighted small numbers of enthusiastic readers but never showed a profit. But in more recent years, the major purpose of most book publishers has switched from publishing books to making money.

#book publishing #indie publishing #the big five #private equity

[nigellica]

I know Eurovision is over for the year, and I'm still mourning Finland's loss and cursing the jury. But still.

I get the whole big five thing, but I just think, maybe every four years or something they should have to fully compete, go through semifinals and everything. Maybe then they'd appreciate and take things more seriously.

Make them fight for it, then maybe they'd go harder than what some of them do?

And maybe then they'd be less resented.

Maybe.

#eurovison song contest #eurovision #esc #esc23 #the big five #fight fight fight #it just seems like the uk barely watch the semis #or even care about semifinals #because why would they? #couldn't even find a pub in London to watch the semis #here we have to wake up at like 5 but we still do because dedication #every four years in honour of the Olympics everyone fully competes #level playing field #work for it #time to bring your a game

[tuulikannel]

Ok, instead of doing anything sensible I ended up playing around on picrew trying to figure out what my female B5 might look like XD

This is totally pointless also in the sense that most likely I've by tomorrow forgotten whatever I ended up with here, but whatever. It's still fun you know? So, saving the pics here, just in case.

First, Himeki. (She's more fond of the phenomenal part of her name than the princess part.)

Sachiko (the only canon one. We've got some kind of a pic of her in the graduation album, on the bottom right there)

Iori. I don't know why she turned into a disgruntled librarian on her way to a funeral or something.

And, uh, from the looks of it, Julia might be an albino, I guess? >_>

And then freaking Satsuki became a female Karma. I didn't mean for that to happen, I realized it only after finishing the pic. But. Then I decided that yeah, she could look like Karma, and to her chagrin people think that they're related (and perhaps somehow similar). She's in fact the nicest girl. I could see her being friends with Kurahashi (if we didn't have the E class situation). (And saying that made me realize she kinda reminds me of Kurahashi too. Oh well.)

Also tried the glasses on Himeki. Perhaps she uses them for reading (as she studies way too much). Also, true to her position as the female Gakushuu, she might also sport bags under her eyes.

#assassination classroom #ookura sachiko #the big five

[heyhellohihowareyou]

Saving these for later

#Out of sync again 🫤 #assassination classroom #ansatsu kyoushitsu #assclass #the big five #five virtuosos #gakushuu asano #teppei araki #tomoya seo #ren sakakibara #natsuhiko koyama

[travelinglibrariansdesk]

Three Books That Made Me Smile Today

I spent most of my time at work today learning how to accept passport applications, so my blogging got cut short a little.

Also, a quick note on the links: I wanted to link every book I mention so that anyone reading this can find out more about them or where to find them - but I don't want to link to Amazon or any other commercial site. I don't want to market anything here, and I would like to encourage readers to use the library. So a colleague suggested I use WorldCat, which tells readers about the book, what nearby libraries might have it, and where you can buy it. Henceforth all title links will go to WorldCat - but you can always look in Amazon yourself if you're so inclined.

I'm no authority on children's books, though I have studied them off and on since ed school in the 1990s. Finding good professors in ed school is tough, and one of my favorites was an expert in children's literature, so I took a couple of classes from her. I hope to do the same at Kent State, once I get the core classes out of the way. Both in video (TV, movies) and books, the best children's literature makes adults smile and laugh along with their kids - think Bugs Bunny vs. Teletubbies or Barney. I imagine most parents want their kids to settle on favorite books (the ones they'll be reading over and over and over and over and over...) that bring a smirk to an adult face, too.

So even though I don't normally comment on children's books that just demonstrate rhyming words, Jan Thomas's Rhyming Dust Bunnies caught my eye today. Partly I think this was because I spent yesterday ridding my bedroom of dust rhinos. LOTS of rhinos. What cracked me up about the rhyming dust bunnies was the occasional interruption of their "teaching rhyming words" by the broom, the dust mop and the vacuum cleaner. One of the bunnies always interrupts the list of rhyming words with a full sentence like "look out for the broom!" and the others criticize it for not rhyming. Just a good giggle, that book.

Then I grabbed This Is Not My Hat from the cart. Something about the potato-print/batik quality of the art and the very-large-ocean, very-tiny-fish appealed to me. If This Is Not My Hat preaches anything, it's don't steal, and if you do, excuses won't help. But author Jon Klassen shows much more than he tells, and leaves the reader hanging a little at the perfect ending regarding the fate of the sassy little fish narrating.

The last one that grabbed me today was The Ugly Five. If you're not familiar with safari lingo, The Big Five (lion, elephant, leopard, rhino and buffalo) are supposedly the most desirable animals to catch on film when traveling in sub-Saharan African countries. Safari companies marketing the local wildlife have followed this list with "The Little Five" (leopard tortoise, elephant shrew, ant lion, rhino beetle, buffalo weaver), "The Shy Five" (porcupine, aardvark, aardwolf, meerkat and bat-eared fox), and "The Ugly Five". Author Jan Donaldson heard a reference to The Ugly Five while on safari, and determined to write about them. She created excellent singsong chorus dialogue between the wildebeest, the hyena, the vulture, the warthog and the marabou stork that I imagine will appeal to children, and she includes delightfully specific details about the animals that any kid would enjoy - especially how dirty and smelly scavengers like the stork and the hyena are. I expected a fairly silly book, but this has it all - information, rhyme, affection, charming art.

#rhyming dust bunnies #this is not my hat #the ugly five #the shy five #the little five #the big five #julia donaldson #jon klassen #jan thomas #safari for kids #children's book art #children's books

[yu-gi-poll]

ROUND 1C! MATCH 4 OUT OF 16

Monster Stats & Propaganda Under the Cut:

Insect Queen is used by Insector Haga ("Weevil Underwood" in the dub) and Katsuya Jonouchi ("Joey Wheeler" in the dub). Its stats are the following:

Attribute: EARTH

Level: 7

Type: INSECT / EFFECT

Effect Type: CONTINUOUS / TRIGGER

Effect (according to the anime): "This card cannot declare an attack unless you Tribute 1 monster. This card gains 200 ATK for each Insect-Type monster on the field. During the End Phase, if this card destroyed an opponent's monster by battle this turn: Special Summon 1 "Insect Monster Token" (Insect-Type/EARTH/Level 1/ATK 100/DEF 100) in Attack Position."

ATK / DEF: 2200 / 2400

Propaganda:

[None Submitted]

The Legendary Fisherman is used by Ryota Kajiki ("Mako Tsunami" in the dub), Katsuya Jonouchi ("Joey Wheeler" in the dub), and the Big Five. Its stats are the following:

Attribute: WATER

Level: 5

Type: WARRIOR / EFFECT

Effect Type: CONTINUOUS

Effect (according to the anime): "While "Umi" is on the field, this card is unaffected by Spell effects and cannot be targeted for attacks, but does not prevent your opponent from attacking you directly."

ATK / DEF: 1850 / 1600

Propaganda:

Dilf story.

#yugipoll #round 1 #round 1c #poll bracket #poll tournament #polls #yugioh #yugioh duel monsters #duel monsters #yu-gi-oh #yu-gi-oh duel monsters #katsuya jonouchi #joey wheeler #insector haga #weevil underwood #ryota kajiki #mako tsunami #the big five

[isitthemoon]

hi gio! i'm one of moon's followers and i saw your long mbti essay, good job on it!! i've only skimmed through it so far but i did read the first part and i wanna add more to your point you made about modern MBTI now being based on the Big Five -- because it's something that *i* personally care about, i'm a grad student in personality psychology and this *is* something i've read about a lot for my studies. (1/5)

Okay, so first thank you for reaching out and for explaining about the Big Five ^^ It really does work differently from MBTI and that's exactly my issue with sites like 16personalities. They're different but I guess they're somewhat similar, so people can correlate them. See here (from this site, that for the first time I'm actually showingkkkkk):

Both work very differently, but these concepts can be related to each other. I'm not saying I necessarily agree, since I don't understand the Big Five in depth, but there were people who made the analogy and somehow popularized mbti this way.

I think this did more damage than good for BOTH the Big Five and MBTI, since MBTI lost its Function aspect (making it only 4 individual letters with separate meanings, as well as adding another that was never there in the first place) and the Big Five also lost its depth (being used only as a reference instead of being used as its own thing). Even the stats thing, I assume was taken from the Big Five but then twisted from its original meaning. It certainly doesn't mean "I'm 70% extroverted and 30% introvert", but it became popular in this way.

My main goal with the rant/essay was to clarify/introduce people to what actual mbti and Psychological Types are, through the lens of Jung. And also to clear some misconceptions. Thanks to you now I know WHERE these misconceptions came from.

Also, the limited/superficial understanding of "true" mbti being so widespread turns into things like these (click for full photos)

This is from this site:

And also things like this:

From this link:

Which is a shame, not only because Analytical Psychology itself is undervalued and often not that well understood, but also because two great systems that people could use together (like people often put in their bios astrological signs with mbti, enneagram, temperament and other stuff) were taken out of context and then somehow put against each other.

Also I just realized I got too sidetracked from what you actually said, I just used this opportunity to develop some ideas I put aside and didn't make it to the rant. As I said there, these are just my 2 cents, so take it with a grain of salt.

What I mean to say (aka TL;DR) is: Thank you for explaining the Big Five ^^ I agree with you and I hope you can learn something from me like I learned from you. Stay healthy. Have a good day/afternoon/night 💜✨️

#🌙 gio talks #mbti #also #long post #the big five #personality types #psychology #analytical psychology #jungian psychology

[thewittyphantom]

I found a really interesting fanfic about the Duel Monsters cast facing the aftermath of 5Ds’ Zero Reverse incident, and Joey in particular has a tough time. I wonder if the GX cast is okay or not...

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14229396/1/In-the-Midst-of-Yesterday

They were unable to stop Zero Reverse. Now they try to deal with the aftermath. Joey especially struggles with this, while his loved ones worry.

#yu gi oh #fan fiction #yu gi oh 5ds #yugi mutou #joey wheeler #tea gardner #tristan taylor #ryou bakura #serenity wheeler #duke devlin #mai valentine #solomon muto #the big five #seto kaiba #rex goodwin #kalin kessler

[thy-spicy-orange]

I feel like my Tumblr is just the place I go when I have things on my mind about characters and I want validation for said things so I post them here.

Also mutuals 💕

#assasination classroom #asano gakushuu #ansatsu kyoushitsu #asano gakuhou #gakushuu asano #korosensei #gakuhou asano #ryoma terasaka #assassination classroom #terasaka gang #the big five #anime #araki teppei #five virtuosos #hunter toh #koyama natsuhiko #seo tomoya #the owl house #dazai osamu #ren sakakibara