I’m all scratched up and I can still taste spray paint in my mouth and my husband almost fell out of a tree BUT THE GHOST SCULPTURES ARE FINISHED!
They’re finally finished and I’m so happy with them!!
Some progress shots:
Wow!!!
Elsa Martinelli in The Belle Starr Story/ Il mio corpo per un poker (dir. Piero Cristofani, Lina Wertmüller - 1968).
1928 Callot Soeurs created this unique evening dress. It has been carefully devised to appear as though it was simply a long silk scarf that has been draped about the frame. In reality the black silk crepe chiffon of the dress has been expertly embroidered in a manner that enhances that illusion. There is a narrow band of black silk panne velvet that borders the chiffon and gives it a bit more structure. The dress also has a silk satin underdress that exists primarily as a support structure. From Attire’s Mind, FB.
Can we go ahead and stop teaching corvids how to use tools, it's getting spooky
he was sooooo pissed this dipshit was getting those blocks stuck in the pipe
St. Brendan the Navigator giving Holy Communion to a mermaid
▪︎ Pocket compass and sundial.
Artist/Maker: Michael Butterfield (1635-1724)
Place of origin: Paris, France and England
Date: early 18th century
Medium: Engraved silver, engraved brass
How to jump on the bridge: Follow Worf’s example or don’t jump at all.
Found it 😁
That’s what the railing is there for, clearly.
I give Chakotay the best in overall performance. Worf the prize for most awkward yet efficient, and to Tasha goes the elegance under fire award.
There’s also alternate Picard
Simple, economical, saved 10 seconds doing that.
Harry can do it while holding a clarinet!
I think we need to especially note that while Picard, Chakotay and Harry did a Needless Railing Jump to get somewhere, Worf did it….to point a phaser at someone
There was literally NO REASON for him to do this
Its a long range weapon, there is nothing between him and the target he’s pointing it at before or after, pre or post railing jump its someone who is still directly in front of him with no obstacles
He could have just pointed the phaser at them from where he was standing and nothing would change
There was not even the flimsiest of reasons for this other than Worf is Extra O.O
Also, looking at the GIFs, I think Dorn is the only one who was on a wire - and if you look real sharp you can see it for a fraction of a second
“Prepare for the ULTIMATE WIRE FIGHTING MANOUVER!”
Obi-Wan Kenobi vs. Darth Maul and Savage Opress, pt.1
The Clone Wars
Season 5, Episode 1
"Revival"
I love this duel not just cause it’s hot (though it is) but also because it happens not too long after Obi Wan getting his ass kicked by these two, and what that says about Obi Wan. In the intervening period Obi Wan apparently prepared, studied his memory of their encounter and practiced his style and strategies to match them. And also if you watch closely you can see him repeated targeting Savage’s left knee over the course of this fight until it snaps, which is very deliberate. All in all it’s very sexy of him.
Exactly, and more than just training skills-wise, he’s gotten better at staying focused and in control of his emotions. The last time they fought, which was very recent iirc, a couple of weeks at the most, Obi-Wan got so enraged over Maul’s taunts about Qui-Gon that he got his ass handed to him because he’s a terrible fighter when he’s angry. Here he has JUST lost Adi, so it’s a very fresh loss instead of a decade old wound, and he pulls himself together and kicks their ass. Even though he’s really broken up about Adi’s death (you hear it when he tells Hondo).
(Also he beats them using her lightsaber as well as his, just like he beat Maul with Qui-Gon’s saber the first time around. Obi-Wan’s story always comes back to pushing through grief.)
You are very right. Love this and also I had not noticed the detail that Adi kickstarted the fuck-this-knee-in-particular campaign:
also adi is the one who hit savage in the knee first#and obi-wan evidently notices savage’s subsequent weakness and exploits it#meaning he’s centered enough to not just go off what he’s trained for but to observe and adapt as well#cause he’s in control of his shit
It’s these kinds of things that show me the way Obi Wan worked as a General- though he most likely had no direct experience (I am never gonna count melida/daan for that sorry not sorry), it’s not hard to imagine this kind of approach he has as letting him adapt and learn quickly. He’s human, he makes mistakes and gets overwhelmed sometimes. But you can see how he applied himself and kept up with his jedi therapytm and does it better next time.
Me duele la cabeza
This is actually examples of the field of mathematics called topology and it’s fucking bullshit wizard shit.
finally, applied mathematics
Don’t worry mathematicians had a very similar reaction at first
Basically around the beginning of 20th century mathematicians were arguing about how to eliminate paradoxes from coming up in maths, and they were questioning whether the bases of maths, known for thousands of years, are complete / correct
In geometry there were those five principles from which everything else was derived, and mathematicians were like: „See, we’ll prove that geometry is sound and complete bc without any one of those principles nothing will make sense!”
And then it made sense. It made too much sense in many weird ways when they removed the 5th principle.
And so, topology was born, simply because mathematicians were so sure it wouldn’t work they decided to try it out as a joke
One example is the assumption that “if two lines are parallel then they can never intersect.”
So… pretend they can intersect twice. That’ll mean things break, right? So you start doing geometry with that, and you get weird results, like “a triangle can have three 90° right angles.” Which is bonkers, but not inconsistent… And it keeps going, the geometry is weird, but it’s not broken, and then someone takes this strange set of rules and slaps them over a globe.
And then suddenly it intuitively makes sense. Longitude lines are parallel at the equator, but they do intersect at the north and south poles! If you take one eighth section of the sphere, each edge of it is “straight,” but each angle is also 90°.
So you start doing other rule changes, and they also make self consistent geometries. You get hyperbolic geometries where lines that are parallel get farther and farther from each other. You start to make weird lumpy geometries and they work!
And eventually you end up with a russian professor teaching a class where his sentence structure only makes sense if you mentally translate everything he says word-for-word into russian and your mind opens up and you can see the layers, you can see just how an Irish hero can walk from the mortal world to the fairy realms and never do more than just walk, you can see how paths to the shadow realms take you from layer to layer of reality.
Geometry.
Even better, the comments to this Twitter post were an absolute FIRESTORM of mostly dudes explaining to her that dials can’t only have 2 positions (not true) and that it wasn’t a very good piece (not true) that she was being disrespectful to her teacher (don’t care) and that it was a sign of her stupidity/rabid feminism/intellectual laziness/misandry/etc. that she couldn’t see any “middle ground.”
It became, in its way, a performance piece. I was absolutely mesmerised, even as I wished I could cock-punch people through the internet.
Personally I hope that knob goes to 11 and stays there.
“Dials can’t have only 2 positions” is also missing the point. Even if it doesn’t have only 2 positions, the point stands that getting less of/farther away from “raging feminist” requires getting more of/closer to “complicit in my own dehumanization.” You should always be at 0% having to be complicit in your own dehumanization.
Also, the point that it has two positions is IRRELEVANT, because this isn’t an on/off either/or mechanism. The meaning is obviously clear. A line indicating a level that can fluctuate between two points.
Also, here’s the thing about art. It’s hoping it’s audience has some basic fucking comprehension, but even if they do they’ll feign ignorance so they can further complain about something they didn’t like in the first place.
Absolutely, there’s nothing in that piece that says the dial can only have two settings. It’s just indicating two opposing positions, with the possibility of setting the dial anywhere between the two, and invites the viewer to think about where exactly the artist should be positioning the dial.
There are not enough fics of Jason just reacting to all the shit that happened while he was dead/in a coma/braindead/gone.
"Dick and Kory broke up???"
"Apparently Miriam Delgado is a name I need to add to my list :)"
"Danny is dead?"
"SUPERMAN DIED HOW THE FUCK DID THIS DOOMSDAY GUY JUST PUNCH SUPERMAN TO DEATH HE'S SUPERMAN."
"Also apparently Superman has a clone now???"
"who the fuck is this bane guy and how did he break B's back."
"What the fuck is the speed force."
"COAST CITY DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE - WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE?"
"Are the Green Lantern Corps around rn?"
"Hal Jordan became evil?"
"So Green Arrow also died and came back?"
"How many Green Lanterns are there anyways?"
"There's a Green Arrow 2.0 and he's the first one's kid? Poor guy."
"What the fuck do you mean the sun almost got eaten."
"Iris Allen is alive and time travelled here from the future with her grandson apparently??"
"Blockbuster is smart now?"
"Wait who the fuck is Neron."
"Dick moved to Bludhaven and became a fucking cop?"
"So Dickie finally got adopted."
"Martians almost took over the world?"
"Apparently while I was gone Gotham was targeted by a deadly plague, got hit by a giant earthquake, and basically got kicked out of the US?"
"Someone actually decided to date the Joker? Is she insane? Don't answer that."
"The entire population had to run so that the flash could siphon the energy to run a fucked up hunger games/olympics crossover race set by a pair intergalctic alien gods so they wouldn't Alderaan earth?"
"YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT BASICALLY EVERY HERO GOT THEIR AGE TEMPORARILY FUCKED UP? I NEED PICS ASAP."
"y'all went to war with a guy trying to literally hollow out the universe? damn."
"One of the Pretender's friends was a ghost that was actually an interdimensional portal to Apokolips?"
"The JLA kicked B out and almost fell apart because they found out he had made contingency plans to take em all out? You're telling me they were actually surprised? Old man's paranoid as fuck of course he has contingency plans."
"B and Supes told the rest the JLA their secret identities? I didn't think they had it in them."
"somehow the entire population got mind wiped and no longer remembers that Wally West is the Flash or that his identity used to be public. hm."
"B got arrested and put on trial for murder? lmao."
"WAIT HE WAS FRAMED BY BATGIRL 3.0'S DAD?"
"Jericho is alive???"
"Raven is also alive and a teenager now???"
"Blockbuster murdere- Catalina Flores? Ah, another name to add to my list, I see."
"Why did Gotham become a war zone- oh it was one of B's contingencies? That tracks. Wait another Robin died? I don't care if she wasn't actually using the name Robin when she died what the fuck B?"
"You were actually on to something working with this Orpheus guy but of course he got murdered too-"
"since when did deathstroke have a daughter and why is she missing an eye too?"
"DONNA DIED AND CAME BACK TOO?"
"The Atom's ex killed the Elongated Man's wife and hired Captain Boomerang to end the Pretender's dad? Damn."
"Look is Hal Jordan alive or not."
"EDDIE IS A SUPERHERO NOW?"
"is Jericho evil or not?"
Like there is so much that happened and so much to freak him out over.
