rambling librarian

"Caine didn't know how to help her get out of the closet, so he gave her all the keys he had"

link to the podcast, this section below is from timestamp 24.35

“andy weir provided a packet to the creature shop that was like a packet of eridian biology and stuff but there wasn’t much about eridian culture or eridian sociology and i made a bunch of choices going in because i just needed to have like a ‘who am i?’ right? 

[…] and i made a decision that rocky’s species, that eridians are really social animals that in fact are like a beehive or a pod of dolphins - it’s a unique and really integrated ecosystem of everybody doing their [specific] part. and the fact that rocky had to fly that ship for about 45 years - longer than grace has been alive, i wanna point that out - he’s been alone on that ship, having to run that by himself and- ryan and i would talk about that, one day we sat down and he was like “so what’s the movie from rocky’s perspective?” and i was like “oh it’s like ‘alien’, […] like he’s in a ‘contagion’ movie by himself and he has no idea what’s going on.”

he’s basically in castaway by himself which of course ryan is too but like, one reason why we never cut to the past of rocky is like, i think it was really horrifying! i don’t think rocky has slept in however many years and so a thing i was really struggling with is this idea of like “rocky must watch sleep” because how do you make that a need as opposed to like, a cute idea? and i just had to make the decision that […] he has a lot of unprocessed trauma around the things that he doesn’t understand and how much he is blaming himself because he’s the guy who fixes, he’s the guy who fixes and there was something really freeing about deciding that rocky was a deeply emotional, deeply anxious, deeply horrified person - being - that is trying to move through that in some way and how that affects the early scenes with him until there’s a point in the story where you can see we’ve physically softened rocky’s behaviour, because he’s finally feeling more safe and ok but all of that lore, all of that information [was essential].

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

„The sunset… will it ever be this beautiful again?

I really like whole fight with Pink, her design and everything

But that moment when, after defeathing her, we return to the shop and see her with Orange, watching sunset and enjoying every moment they still have left to spend together… that’s really moved me to the core

I also wanted to draw what Pink might look like in the shop, without all the stage accessories

do you think any of the patrons looked at zukos scarred face - obviously done by a firebender - and immediately think jet was an asshole? like

jet: hes a firebender!!!!

patrons, thinking about the backstory they concocted for zuko and iroh where their home was invaded by firebenders and they barely survived with their lifes so they could come and have a peaceful life selling tea in a city the war doesnt touch:

Trump asks FIFA to lift a red card on a USA player

FIFA agrees

But apparently, there's a rule that any government intervention in the world cup would result in the country being banned from playing. Belgium, the country USA is playing against next, complains about the special treatment and asks for an explanation

FIFA quotes a section in their rules to justify the decision, but which actually doesn't apply to the situation because, as mentioned, no government is allowed to intervene. And any referee decisions in a match are supposed to be final

Belgium wins the right to file an appeal, opening the floodgates for other countries and football associations to file complaints on all the unfair referee decisions throughout this world cup

Context: One of Croatia's goals was disallowed because technology showed "it touched the hair on a player" even though no camera angle shows it touching...