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I feel like a lot of people don’t quite get what a butler is. The role tends to get rounded off to ‘male servant’ pretty regularly in some media, whereas actually butlers are typically not just servants but chief servants. The butler was generally in charge of either all male servants or just all servants, period, in the household of an aristocrat or other very wealthy person. This meant that butlers have often been fairly powerful and influential people, and sometimes even had a manservant or two of their own.

(Also, fun fact: Mary Roberts Rinehart, the early 20th century mystery writer who is widely credited with popularizing the whole ‘the butler did it’ trope was nearly murdered by one of her own servants, a chef whom she had passed over for promotion to butler. He came at her with a pistol, but it jammed, allowing her chauffeur time to wrestle it away and restrain him.)

You didn’t answer the key question things brings up: did she popularize the trope before or after the would-be butler tried to kill her?

according to wikipedia, before

There’s something glorious about the fact that the author who popularised “the butler did it” had a servant who a) failed to become the butler and then b) failed to do it.

If he’d been butler material, he’d have finished the job.

I just finished playing Ghost Trick and for a split second right before Ray’s identity was revealed I fully thought it was going to turn out to be the spirit of the rat that keeps getting fucked over throughout the game and it was actually going to be the ultimate villain and was about to create another, even worse timeline that you would have to counteract.

And like the actual truth is much more fitting for the tone and themes of the game but I do also think “sudden death evil rat timeline” as the final level would’ve been. Very funny.

ghost trick is such a good game i love when [redacted] goes and [redacted] and he [redacted] because [redacted] <3

(you can get these as stickers on my redbubble if you want btw!)

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Obi-Wan's shit eating smirk is EVERYTHING.

Every second of Obi-Wan's life from the beginning of time to after his death has been shaped and influenced by the Force. He's seen things some of the greatest Jedi Masters in history - some Sith Lords - couldn't conceive of. He's stood on a planet that was the Force, he's trained the son of the Force and embodiment of the Force's destiny, he's currently staring right at the grandson of the Force. He's spent years in hiding because his only hope was Luke's destiny, and now that destiny is in motion, proving his hope wasn't vain. He can feel the hum of every life in the universe on his skin, in his mind, in his heart. He can touch the fabric of the universe and has been doing it practically daily since he was a toddler. He has lost EVERYTHING and EVERYONE to the gigantic cosmic clash of the agents of light and darkness and yet he's still fighting because he knows the Force so well that he's sustained by the knowledge that good will prevail.

AND THIS GALACTIC IDIOT

WHOSE WOOKIE BFF WAS FRIENDS WITH YODA

WHO IS TRANSPORTING GENERAL OBI-WAN KENOBI AND THE SON OF ANAKIN SKYWALKER TO MEET WITH LEIA ORGANA

IN THE MOST FATED ENCOUNTER OF THEIR TIMES SINCE OBI-WAN AND ANAKIN'S

IS TELLING LUKE SKYWALKER

IN FRONT OF OBI-WAN KENOBI

THAT THE FORCE IS HOGWASH

Obi-Wan is DYING this is the most fun he's had since the early days of the Clone Wars the trip was worth it for this moment alone

Someone help him

oh I do love the Leverage Gloat when the mark has only met one or two of the leveragers. POV you are being arrested for corporate malfeasance and your company’s inept new IT guy, a european duchess, and three random weirdos are lined up with their arms folded smugly like a boyband

Anakin and obi wan are on a mission and Cody's flying in to extract them. Obi's comm broke so cody gets a hold of anakin's and messages him from a locked number.

Cody: Hey get back to me asap

Anakin, panicking: i'm married

Cody: Congratulations. What side of the building are You gonna jump out off?

I had a friend

buried within the eleventh doctor's onscreen characterization is a really good incarnation that most crucially isnt a sex pest

in the Good Universe where doctor who is a good show 11 is basically written like dirk gently from the dirk gently netflix show

Troy Quane, co-director of Nimona the only man I've ever trusted

(Link to article)

And here's the movie, it's real!

accidentally nudged my mouse and paused the anime im watching without realizing and was like wow theyre really lingering on this shot they dont normally do that

Favorite bit of adventurers bible lore is that Marcille was a researcher developing new healing magic before she joined the party but then learned all the offensive spells we see her use in a single day. Insane behavior. Imagine knowing the top med student in the country and one day she drops out of her cancer research program and perfects the art of making pipe bombs in 24 hours.

Love how you can feel his sanity slipping away…

This is a classic fucking prank type

Cody: I wouldn't trade my general for the world. There's no one else I'd rather serve with.

Obi-Wan: Aww, my dearest commander-

Cody: It took me so long to get him clicker-trained. I'm not going through that process again.

went and saw my dad today for the first time in over a year now that im back in the state and he was telling me about his newly diagnosed sleep apnea and he said "I die several times in my sleep every night but come back to life because God doesn't want me" and then i went into his bathroom and this was there instead of a mirror so im glad to see hes the same as always

went and hung out with my dad again yesterday he was wearing this shirt

Me when they interrupt the ending to YMCA to start playing Hayley Kiyoko at the bar

I lost the post on my dash where this would have been a fun addition but these are the krill that blue whales eat! Some people think krill are like nearly microscopic or something but they are very decently sized shrimps

Lots of notes pondering this but I have definitely seen educational materials calling them "microscopic," and sometimes "microscopic plankton," and I think those sources are misunderstanding what it means that krill are, in fact, a type of plankton.

The thing is, "plankton" does not refer to the size. At all. "Plankton" refers to any living thing that is naturally carried by ocean currents more than it actively chooses where to go.

This deadly man o war with 10 meter tentacles is plankton. It doesn't swim at all and just floats idly.

This giant colonial pyrosome is plankton, such a weak swimmer that it can "steer" a little bit it can't fight against a current.

Being capable of bursts of speed but usually just drifting the MOLA MOLA is a plankton. Sometimes the term "megaplankton" is tossed around for clarification.

Obviously, large plankton are outnumbered by microscopic plankton trillions to one and the microscopic plankton are what feeds the sponges and corals and mussels and baby fish (who are also plankton) as the basis of the whole food web, so when plankton is being discussed, biologists are just statistically more likely to be talking about the tiniest kind is all.

Sometimes they specify "microscopic plankton" but the average person just thinks this is to clarify what they assumed was the basic definition of plankton. I've seen the very phrase laughed at for being "redundant!"

So krill are plankton, and the significance of that gets lost in translation so easily, even a professional might mistakenly call them "microscopic plankton" when they have to write, say, a page in a children's book or an informational museum plaque about whales, which isn't the kind of thing you feel pressured to do long hours of research for, but it is where way more people are going to hear about any of these things.

OK but then why did I think, until this very moment, that plankton was specifically a type or category of plant?

So much of my reality has changed in one post.

Because over half of it is photosynthetic algae! Though technically algae aren't plants, but single celled organisms that can be either protozoa or cyanobacteria. Many types of algae cells even swim, with a little tail (flagellum)

Most "Seaweeds" including kelp are actually huge giant multi celled algae, so also not related at all to plants! As different from plants as we are from fungus!

Literally this here is a forest of the planet's largest protists!!

But yes a great deal of microscopic plankton consists of animals, and it's worth noting a great deal of these are the larvae of larger sizes animals. All kinds of fish and shrimp and things start out microscopic!

Also as some have posted already the Mola MOLA is no longer considered plankton, we found out it swims really well when it wants to! But in theory there is no size limit on a planktonic being.

Sometimes they're All Freaks and I love that for us

character who is sun-coded but not in the traditional ray-of-sunshine way. character who is sun-coded in the sense that they burn hot and bright and powerful, that they're a raging fury of fire and passion, and that maybe, just maybe, they are destroying themselves as they do so.