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CATS US Tour Report - 2022/01/01
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New season 2 bts!!! [x]
IS THAT CHING SHIH? ZHENG YI SAO HERSELF? ARE THEY GOING TO MEET HER???
I’m so ready for everyone in this entire show to get their asses handed to them by the only woman who actually deserves the title Pirate Queen
I STEPPED OUTSIDE OF THE FRONT DOOR OF MY OWN HOME ONLY TO FIND THE DEER THAT TRIED TO KICK MY ASS LAST YEAR STANDING RIGHT THERE IN MY FRONT YARD. BOLD AS BRASS.
AM I NOT SAFE ANYWHERE ANYMORE
for those of you who were not here last year: this deer is the most obnoxious, unnatural red-orange color I’ve ever seen, only appears when it’s raining, and once chased me a quarter mile through the woods. her name is Hot Cheeto Hatred and she is my nemesis
dude, i think that’s a fairy
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I learned in a Latin Studies class (with a chill white dude professor) that when the Europeans first saw Aztec cities they were stunned by the grid. The Aztecs had city planning and that there was no rational lay out to European cities at the time. No organization.
When the Spanish first arrived in Tenochtitlan (now downtown mexico city) they thought they were dreaming. They had arrived from incredibly unsanitary medieval Europe to a city five times the size of that century’s london with a working sewage system, artificial “floating gardens” (chinampas), a grid system, and aqueducts providing fresh water. Which wasn’t even for drinking! Water from the aqueducts was used for washing and bathing- they preferred using nearby mountain springs for drinking. Hygiene was a huge part if their culture, most people bathed twice a day while the king bathed at least four times a day. Located on an island in the middle of a lake, they used advanced causeways to allow access to the mainland that could be cut off to let canoes through or to defend the city. The Spanish saw their buildings and towers and thought they were rising out of the water. The city was one of the most advanced societies at the time.
Anyone who thinks that Native Americans were the savages instead of the filthy, disease ridden colonizers who appeared on their land is a damn fool.
They’ve also recently discovered a lost Native American city in Kansas called Etzanoa It rivals the size of Cahokia, which was very large as well.
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Makes me happy to see people learn about the culture of my country :D
Also, please remember that the idea of a nomadic or semi-nomadic culture being “less intelligent”, “less civilized” (and please unpack that word) was invented by people who wanted to make a graph where they were on the top.
Societies that functioned without 1) staying exclusively in one location or 2) having to make complicated, difficult-to-construct tools to go about their daily lives… were not somehow less valid than others.
its unreal how all of my favorite characters have exactly the same traits and hobbies and diagnoses as me
oh, have you been tricked into loving yourself?
oh my fucking god is that what just happened
And now because I process my own emotions and issues through hyperfixation lenses in order to deal with them: a mini-essay on part of the reason people misunderstand Miguel’s character (imho).
The lesson of Peter Parker’s Spider-Man is “With great power comes great responsibility.” Ofc. It is the lesson Peter has to learn again and again. Even in ItSV, it was the lesson Peter B was learning (take responsibility for your emotions).
Miguel was created to be the opposite of Peter Parker (as stated by his creator), but it’s not just a matter of his mannerisms and personality. It is not just that he is a ‘dark, edgy Spider-Man’.
Spider-Man 2099’s version of the famous saying is “With great power comes great guilt.”
Miguel is not a character who needs to learn to responsibility.
He is a character who has taken so much responsibility that it is crushing him.
Taking on too much responsibility is just as debilitating taking on none at all. It is the single father working three jobs to provide for his kids and still saying yes to letting his elderly mother move in. It is the businesswoman who is already working a 50 hour week but says yes to leading a new project because no one else can take it. It is the friend who goes out with their drunk buddies even though they don’t want to because they’ll feel guilty unless they personally get them home safe.
Miguel has taken responsibility for fixing the universes. All of them. Himself. He even says this in his intro. He is the “only one who can do what is necessary”.
He’s leading an army of hundreds. He’s building the tech. He’s paying the bills. He’s organizing missions. He’s going on missions personally. He’s making all the decisions.
If you’ve ever had too much responsibility, you know it can slowly smother you. “I have to do this because no one else can” is a mantra that leads exhaustion and depression and angry outbursts. And horrifying amounts of guilt when you inevitably fail.
And it is so much worse, so much keener a pain, when you make yourself responsible for a life. When you look at another living, breathing being and say “I am responsible for taking care of them”.
Because they are going to make choices you cannot control. They are going to get hurt by forces much more powerful than you. Sometimes you’re going to make a mistake that hurts them.
Sometimes they are going to die.
And the weight of that failure? Is the worst thing I have ever experienced. I’ve felt it multiple times in various different ways, but every single time I feel like my heart has broken open and I should just let myself drown and die.
Miguel feels that way about his own daughter. And not only her. He feels responsible for the death of an entire universe. Billions of human lives.
Whether Miguel is wrong or right about canon, from his point of view, with what knowledge he has to work with, Miles is standing in front of Miguel telling him that he will let an entire universe die just to save a single man.
To Miguel, a man who feels guilt for the death of one universe already, a man who feels responsible for making sure it never happens again, he is the only one who can, who will, stop billions of deaths. And in a way he is right. When Miles gets into the Go Home Machine, every single other Spider lets him go.
Every single other Spider is willing to let Miles try to save his dad when the cost of being wrong is the death of billions of innocent people.
If Miles kills his universe, Miguel will feel guilty because he gave himself the responsibility to stop it.
Wouldn’t the weight of that make you go a little feral, too?
The good ending is that Miguel learns he’s not solely responsible for holding the literal multiverse together. That he can trust other people, like Miles, to save the day. That every Spider can take a bit of the weight and it no longer has to crush him alone. That he can let go, and things won’t fall apart.
The unsatisfying ending is some sort of hamfisted “none of this every really mattered and Miguel was worried about nothing” storyline.
The bad ending is that Miguel is turned into a villain, an angry bully stereotype whose issues are never addressed so that the protagonists can look morally superior when he falls.
I’ve been crushed by responsibility before. I feel like I’m drowning in it on a regular basis. I don’t need Peter’s “take responsibility” moral. And I don’t need Miles’s “always try” moral.
I’m at the point in my life where I have taken too much responsibility. Where I try even when I shouldn’t.
I want to see a story where those of us with great guilt get a happy ending, too.
#miguel o’hara#across the spider verse#spiderverse#cw: death mention#is miguel right in what he’s doing? no#is he understandable? yes#i see too many people thinking Miguel is evil or making crude comments about him being mentally ill#and I just wonder#have they ever been buried under the weight of responsibility#have they ever felt like they were the only thing holding a tenuous situation together#have you ever held a living being you swore to take care of and had them breathe their last in your arms?#have you ever stepped outside and found out death has taken one of your babies from you while you weren’t watching?#i can relate more with Miguel’s sorrow and rage and desperation to keep the bad things from happening again#than I can Miles’ struggle to be his own man and to forge his own path#I want Miles to win and to succeed and to ‘do both’#every person who sees themselves in him and needs his story deserves that#but I want a story where Miles winning doesn’t mean Miguel losing#because I want to see a story where someone like me doesn’t drown at the end
This one is a little bit old but relatively you can see the whole jellicle ball in Shiki cats (some part of choreo has been changed in the current version)
This was a free event show for a local festival in Sapporo, where I saw cats for the first time…🫰
Most of actors in this video is no longer casted in Shiki Cats, but the actor of Misto (Shinya Iwasaki) still has been playing Tumblebrutus in current Nagoya Cats!
I feel like when I say ‘relatable’ what I really mean is ‘resonant.’ I don’t want characters who I feel are like me, I want characters who have emotions so strong I can feel them through the page.
I think this is important because a lot of us forget the power of stories to make us feel things about characters who are not like us, who have experienced things that we never will. The purpose of listening to someone else's story should not necessarily be identification, but understanding.
July, 1924 Manhattan’s Union Square. From New York City-Vintage History, FB.
Update from the WGA on negotiations
I didn't take two years of high school french for this to be left in the tags
everyone who hasn't heard must get the news via this meme
"India on Wednesday [August 23, 2023] landed a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, an uncharted territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of frozen water and precious elements, as the country cements its growing prowess in space and technology.
A lander with a rover inside touched down on the lunar surface at 6:04 local time, sparking cheers and applause among the space scientists watching in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru. After a failed attempt nearly four years ago, India made history by becoming the first country to touch down near the little-explored south pole region and joins the United States, the Soviet Union and China in achieving a moon landing...
Excited and anxious, people across India, home to the world’s largest population, crowded around televisions in offices, shops, restaurants and homes. Thousands prayed Tuesday for the success of the mission with oil lamps on the river banks, temples and religious places, including the holy city of Varanasi in northern India.
India’s Chandrayaan-3 — “moon craft” in Sanskrit — took off from a launchpad in Sriharikota in southern India on July 14."
-via PBS NewsHour, August 23, 2023
It’s a Tree. There was a tree there. Folks cut down a tree, they usually don’t pull the roots, it’s like a Whalefall for fungus and burrowing invertebrates. They feast for decades.
It’s tree roots. I know that’s not cool and adventurous but I promise you it’s tree roots.
No, that's where they dumped the body of my good friend, Mr. Five by Five. We called him that because he was five feet tall and five feet wide. Perfectly spherical.
‘Pumpie'
Elephant soft toy made of grey felt, dressed as a sailor in a smart, dark blue, woolen jacket and matching trousers, England, 1900.
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Pumpie and his V&A friends post-restoration 🐘 🐻🐇
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Pumpie photographed by original Victorian owners, at the seaside and with friends:
sending "?" to represent myself tilting my head like a dog
Eternal Flame Falls sounds like the coolest concept for a fantasy book. A path you follow down into a ravine until you find an ever-burning flame inside of a waterfall? That’s fuckin metal! But it’s not in a fantasy book it’s like an hour away from my house I can literally go see it any time! I remember it like once a month and lose my shit over it every time
Look at this. Tell me this isn’t the basis for a cool religion in an epic fantasy novel.
OP whats it called? Do you know how it works??
It’s called Eternal Flame Falls, in Orchard Park in western New York. 400 feet below the surface is a 400-million-year old shale formation that contains natural gas, and the grotto contains a leak where that gas is escaping. The flame can and does go out, but the gas can be re-lit with a lighter like a gas stove. It’s super, super cool from both an aesthetic and a geologic perspective!
It’s also very fun to go to because you expect this whole big hike and it’s really about a half mile at most, and then the thing itself is tiny and you can just walk right up to it. Which I feel like is also symbolic of something
There it is, just hanging out