Bophtelophti?

Imagine that Adrian, as a planet, is in an equivalent era to our 1930s. Maybe minus the wars, I'm mostly thinking about technology. They have radio. They have telescopes. Crucially, there are genuinely respected scientists on Adrian who consider spaceflight a possibility and are working towards it, but unlike earth (military dickmeasuring) and erid (oh fuck the sun is dying), they probably don't have any pressing reason to do so in a hurry.

But there are people observing what happens in space. They're paying attention. Spaceflight is considered a future possibility, and there might even be people out there somewhere.

And then a comet appears.

And drops a bunch of shit down. And LEAVES.

The stuff the comet left behind is clearly artificial. Damaged, yes, but it's clear someone made this.

This was aliens. This was first contact. First contact lasted for a few minutes, and then the aliens LEFT.

Even if the general population isn't made aware, could you IMAGINE being the president of the USA (united states of Adrian). The UASR (united Adrian socialist states) calls you up like hey was that you? No? What the genuine hell-

You now have irrefutable proof that 1) Aliens exist, 2) they came to your planet and 3) THEN THEY FUCKED OFF. And the more time you spend trying to decipher the objects they left behind the clearer it becomes that they didn't even leave a message.

So stoked to share the official trailer for the Avatar Aang movie, now releasing JULY 25th on Paramount+!!

Someone linked me this beautiful poster, and I'm just really impressed.

My contribution:

+ bonus, Maisie wins the episode and her doors

Small fluff

every leverage dynamic ⮎ alec hardison & parker

We are told that knights were chivalrous slayers of dragons and rescuers of princesses. In reality they were groomed from birth to be shock troops. We are told that samurai were paragons of honor and duty when they were really mercenaries happy to change allegiances. We are told in the original trilogy that the Jedi were honorable mystic warriors and then in the prequels we see them use their mystical Jedi mind powers to try and save a couple bucks.