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wizard

thats plectronoceras its the first 100% definite cephalopod in the fossil record, wizard friend :)

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLE (2010) dir. Zack Snyder

(Source) I swear this scene is made of magic

Joaquin Phoenix as Max California in 8mm (1999)

If you get this, I am sorry

i met a traveller from an antique land, who said—“two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. . . . near them, on the sand, half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, tell that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, the hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: my name is Ozymandias, king of kings; look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! nothing beside remains. round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away."

- Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelly

Martin Mystery Ending Credits Promo

Here is a different version of the video. 

To go on with my list of the video’s content: 

# We see again the snowy mountains, but this time, the scene seems to be in bright day (while the Yeti scene was rather in the evening). The main team is on skis (well, Java is on a snowboard), followed by guys, dressed as Egyptian Pharaohs. That are also skiing (from the dialogue I guess Diana told Martin that these guys must be bad skiers, but when they reveal themselves to be good skiers, Martin mocks her by telling back what she previously said). The Pharaohs are armed with golden staff, with two eagles on top, and they use it to shoot energy orange rays. One of the Pharaohs is on top of Martin, hitting his head.

# We see the classic moment from the opening credit where the team, all smiling, ends up covered in slime. I don’t know if it was supposed to be part of the pilot episode, or just of the opening.

# The team is in front of the giant well I mentioned earlier. We see that it is filled with white light/energy/electricity, and from there electricity-made demons wriggle. The energy emitted from the well pulls back the team, Java having to hold on the bordure of the well with one hand (we see again the giant roots, this time on the border of the well).

# We see again the alien policemen, holding an alien gun. They are inside a black helicopter, floating on top of a city (again a modern one full of skyscrapers). The light coming from inside the black helicopter is red, while the one filling the city is orange-yellow, and the sky is blue-grey, like if it was night. It looks like the city that was overfilled with jungle, but I can’t see any vegetation. Java is holding to the hands of a giant clock, and the rest of the team is clinging onto him. Under them, there are people and cars. But more importantly there is what seems to be the source of this orange-yellow light: some sort of vortex trying to aspirate the team.

# We see Martin, crawling in dark gray-bluish brick tunnels, before they are flooded with green slime. We see the rest of the team being washed away by the slime flood.

# Martin and Diana, in the red temple, surrounded with orange energy/flames. Diana is on the back of a minotaur, holding its horns, while Martin is on the back of some fish-like creature.

# We see again the stone tunnels, with Java crawling inside of them, while the location trembles and dust falls from the ceiling.

# Another fight in the red temple. The team fights a bunch of mummies, Martin armed with a big stick. Each time the mummy are hit, they explode in a green slime.

# Another moment in the red temple. Diana gets up, angry-looking, and shouts “That’s it!” at the boys (who answer “okay”).

# Another segment where the team is covered in slime, but time from the slime is thrown from a different angle and the background is red instead of purple.

# Again, a ton of fighting with mummies. The mummies seem to obey a man wearing a golden mask (that looks like the giant stone face). To me, it looks like the bald priest/magician from earlier, wearing royal garments. People referred to this character as an “Inca god”, but I have to mention that, while the design looks like Inca, the red temple/pyramid also hosts hieroglyphs and sphinx, clearly Egyptians. Plus, anyway, the temple is apparently located on another planet, or maybe even another dimension, so… Diana is also seen carrying a staff similar to the ones hold by the Pharaohs earlier, but bigger, with top great wings on top, and it is shooting green electricity.

# The clip ends up with a reference to the “Twilight Dimension” TV show. Diana and Martin are on a plane, in holiday clothing. Martin sees a gremlin on the wing of the plane, destroying it. And when Diana asks “What is it?”, he says “Don’t worry, everything is fine” and closes the window.

 Some here are some of my personal thoughts on this clip and what may have been the plot :

The bad guy here is clearly the priest/magician, who is also the masked man residing in the alien temple. He seems to be the one behind most of the monsters: the Pharaohs on the mountains, the mummies and other monsters of the temple… The red temple is also where the green slime appears for the first time, and it is apparently what fills the mummies. My guess is that the green slime is some supernatural energy used by the priest-magician (maybe this episode was supposed to explain why there is green slime every time there is a supernatural activity involved). The fact that the temple is located in an alien landscape may also explain the involvement of the “alien police officers”. I guess the actions of the priest, from his alien world, ends up directly affecting our own world…

It may also all be linked to the well of energy and the light balls that fly from it. After all, one of them ends up roaming the “modern town”, and later it ends up filled with plants, monsters and aliens.

Talking about the “alien police officers”, have you noticed that they are in black helicopters? An obvious reference to the urban legend of the black helicopters (if you don’t know, it’s basically like the men in black, but with helicopters). The fact that they are here, alongside with other well-known or mythological beings, like the Yeti, mummies or a Minotaur, leads me to believe that the force of the priest-magician seems to have “brought to life” legends of our world, whether they are mythological or urban. This is purely a theory, nothing proves that (and there are beings I can’t fit in this theory, like the weird eye-tentacle thing). But it explains why for example there would be a gremlin at the end of the episode, and in such a “cliché” situation.

All in all, this episode reminds me a lot of the season 2 finale, “They came from the gateway”. A strange guardian-like figure in a lost temple, invoking and unleashing the fury of monsters? With a lot of portals and vortex, and strange light balls in the sky? (Bluish-green-white in the pilot, red-black in They came from the gateway).

Also, note a very important detail here… There is NO CENTER. We never see Billy or Mom or the Center. The team doesn’t use their investigator cards, like usually. And look at Martin’s wrist: THERE’S NO U-WATCH (Chronoscan)! In this pilot episode, the team is basically just a bunch of friends, led by the over-imaginative Martin into a weird quest. (It is mentioned that they are following a “legend”). It also may explain why Diana is so skeptical and obvious to the supernatural, and why in the end at the red temple she screams “That’s it, I’m done!”.

My very wild guess it that this pilot episode would have explained how the team got recruited by the Center. Again, there is no proof of it, it’s just me making theories. Given that Java was already here, I guess he must have had a different backstory at the time.

what if these two met...

sequel and prequel bitches

Stalker (1979) Andrei Tarkovsky

the way the professor was the only person to bring food on what should’ve been a day hike to this room. That and outside of some poison got just in “case”The writer brought a bottle of liquor and a gun. Stalker ain’t have nothing but like seven bolts on a string and some hope.

She’s just a real powerhouse. She made me embarrassed to take my shirt off and I go to the gym 5 days a week. - Walton Goggins (on Alicia Vikander)

The Martian (2015) dir. Ridley Scott

Filianore visually reminds me of Míriel Serindë.

"Miriel's hair was described as being silver in appearance, an unusual colour for one of the Noldor."

That's it thats the post.

Y’all fucking NEED to listen to Derelict I swear to god—interstellar corporation Maas-Dorian funds a research project on Earth studying a massive, ancient vault found at the deepest part of the ocean floor. Grieving mother Dr. Eva Graff becomes convinced that to put her own life back together, she has to open it up. The station’s AI Mac is disturbingly keen to help her. And Agent David Blayne is trying to figure out why researchers are hearing voices telling them just how they can do it.

If you’re a fan of the alien franchise, cosmic and maritime horror, lesbian atrocities, cyborg wifeguys, and coping with trauma via banter, then this is THEE podcast for you.

it took me over an hour and a half to get through the first episode of lessons in chemistry because i just kept rewinding it to rewatch that shower scene

Me? Fantasizing about being a 1950’s housewife for Calvin? While I’m ovulating, more likely than you’d think.

Look at this man

Okay, sorry, but I need one more rant for the night.

One of the podcasts I listen to is a sci-fi one called "Derelict." This rant is specifically about the first season of the show, "Fathom", a prequel of sorts to the main plot of Derelict in season 2.

So, Fathom takes place in an underwater base approximately 20,000ft (>6000m) below sea level on the ocean floor. For all intents and purposes, it's a good show. I certainly prefer the sci-fi heavy first half over the more action focused second half, but it's science, and AI and underwater and ticks off a lot of boxes that make my geeky self happy.

But!

There's one bit of it, that's repeatedly used and brought up, that almost instantly pulls me out of the story every. single. time.

Leaks.

Spoilers ahead

The igniting incident of the story is that a tidal surge hits the base and knocks out one of the support pillars, causing an area to collapse and water surges in parts of the base flood before watertight doors seal off the worse of it.

Bitch. I'm former Navy. We got trained on things like crush depth, and older vessels had a crush depth of not much more than 500ft. Ships and submarines only few hundred feet down have sealed bulkheads IMPLODE at those pressures.

YOU ARE 20,000 FEET DOWN!!!! That means you're under almost 9000 POUNDS of pressure PER SQUARE INCH!!! 61 MEGAPASCALS!!! More than 6 HUNDRED ATMOSPHERES!!!

You don't have a leak; YOU HAVE AN IMPLOSION!!!!

The water isn't going to flow in and slowly fill a room. It's not going to trickle in. As soon as a portion, even a pinhole, gives way, water is going to rapidly enter the space in an attempt to equalize the internal and external pressure.

There's only air outside of these vessels. Now imagine there are a few miles of ocean overhead trying to get in.

In Bioshock, sure, it could be a leak. Because of the gardens grown via sunlight, Rapture has to be firmly in the epipelagic, or sunlight, zone and less than 200 meters down. Even at the maximum 200m depth, you'd experience 291psi (~2MPa). Dangerous, but doable, and vessels can be designed to withstand high pressures.

But those also rely a lot of using a cylindrical or spherical shape to evenly distribute the pressure. Ideally, the base would be hemispherical and placed directly on the ocean floor to disperse as much pressure as possible.

Except the base is built on multiple pylons. All the pressure on the top and sides of the base is now being concentrated onto the pier. So now, you have 9000psi over however many inches, plus the weight of the structure all being concentrated onto one much smaller point, increasing the pounds per square inch on the pylon.

And the bulkheads in the base are flat. Which does not withstand pressure nearly as well. Any corners or sharp changes in geometry create areas of localized stress that are going to give out a lot sooner.

But even more damning! Is the fact that seawater at the bottom of the ocean is only a degree or two above freezing. In Fahrenheit (33-34°) or Celsius (1-2°). So when a vessel fails, you're not experiencing ductile failure; you're experiencing brittle fracture, which is so much more catastrophic and dangerous.

Now, ductile failure means that the metal will experience plastic deformation before it breaks. It'll stretch, sometimes a lot, and that gives users warning and time to reverse whatever is causing the deformation before the metal fails.

Brittle fracture is sudden. Catastrophic. There is zero deformation prior to the break, meaning there's no warning, and brittle fracture is much more likely to happen at cold temperatures.

Add to that, that hypothermia will set in a LOT faster in frigid water than frigid air. There are a number of characters who have to move through partially flooded areas, and even at the surface, hypothermia can become debilitating in as little as 20 minutes and death can set in within 1-2 hours.

So, yeah, no, everyone is dead. The bulkhead ruptured? No, that water didn't trickle in. You didn't have time to make it to the next room and shut the bulkhead before the room flooded. That room imploded near instantaneously. The bulkhead failed and the entire unit imploded. Dead. Guy had to crawl through a flooded tube? People with injuries are wading through flooded areas for hours? Nope. Hypothermia. Dead. Everyone's dead. The story's done by episode 1.

And I will continue to scream at the podcast every time the water trickles in.

I can't stop thinking about Gwen in ATSV. She mentioned about how she, in every other universe, died when she was loved by spiderman/Peter Parker. Peter B., Noir, Ham, and Peni didn't talk about it, but I can't help but think about how Gwen is in this organization where literally thousands of people were in love with her and she died. When she walked through Neuva York, every Spiderman was tripping over themselves to call out to her specifically and receive a "hey :)" back. Not Spider Jess or Hobie.

And then there's Pavitr and, love him of course, but I wonder how it felt to see him talk about Gayatri. I know it's a joke but how does it feel to see yourself put on this pedestal. You can't help but compare yourself and wonder "did my Peter see me that way? How would I have acted if he did?" To see her dad in Officer Singh. To see herself trapped in a bus, desperately pounding on the window as she dangled above certain death again.

In the original Spiderman India comic, they skipped over Gwen/Gayatri entirely, and instead had Meera Jain. Which I get why they did from a meta perspective, but in universe, how does it feel to know your replacement is out there. Every Spiderman is happy with their MJ, and they think of Gwen fondly, but like.... Gwen is replaceable. She is the first love, but she doesn't get a future. It's a canon event.

The horror of being a fridged woman.

One thing I noticed about the community of Andor is that Timm was not a part of it. Like, Cassian talks to Brasso and Vetch and Bix etc, and Bix has her own contacts and friends, when Cassian is in trouble someone comes to tell her. But we never see Timm interacting with members of his community outside of like, selling them a tyre.

The miners/workers are very close knit, and the various street vendors interact with each other, even Cassian’s debtors have conversations. But Timm doesn’t.

And I think that’s important in the context of how everyone behaved during the raid. They sound the warnings, they shutter their shops, they chain a block to the ship. They know what happens when the police come, but when Timm turned Cassian in he had no idea what the consequences could look like, how much damage he was doing.

Because he wasn’t part of the community. And he wasn’t part of their preparations and their reactions. He confronted an officer thinking that they wouldn’t harm him, whereas Bix knew provoking them would get her killed.

I think that was a deliberate choice, and it works. Because of Timm not joining the community, he caused destruction within it, as he sided with their oppressors. And it got him killed by the people he wanted to badly to enable.

what's beautiful and terrible about jyn and cassian is that sort of... realization? acceptance? at the end that they found their person but they wouldn't get time. they know they'll never have the space to be in love and come together. and yet, there's still something oddly comforting about two people who were so lonely and isolated dying knowing that they found someone they could be with. they knew they wouldn't be together, that wasn't what fate had in store. but knowing there was someone who saw them, who they could have had a life with... that's not nothing for two people who lived most of their lives as outsiders, who felt they could never belong anywhere. rogue one is choosing to believe someone is listening, what you're doing matters even if you don't get to see the impact it has. and their romance that never gets to be just plays into that so well for me? they never got to be together but there was someone. there was someone, and they knew.

wow rogue one is really a love letter to the unnamed fighter. no act of help is too small, every deed causes a ripple. luke showed up to blow the death star, and there was the plan to do it–countless of people died to get him that, and luke knows none of them. how many rebel planes get shot down every battle? how many civilians die in explosions? how many died to get the plans to luke? rogue one says you. and you and you and you. every one of you. what will come of it? who knows. something.

So this is how I'm feeling rn