Cosmic Lucky ★

So unlike Mario, who continues to be essentially a void with no internality, I actually act with thoughts and intent and already did do that when writing this post.

Boy am i glad that the con has a facebook page so i can post this photo:

This was prompted by me and my boyfriend discussing handedness and being able to tell apart left and right. And me, being ambidextrous, was baffled by how do people with an obligate dominant hand mix up which side is the one with their Writing Hand and which one isn't?? And my boyfriend pointed out that I go "turn left - no I mean right" so much when giving directions that I have lost my navigator privileges.

I argued that mixing up the words isn't the same thing as mixing up the directions. Like if your mom accidentally called you the dog's name doesn't mean that she literally can't tell you apart from the dog. And he looked at me like this

i like carrots

Like they have a stable of terrifying potent mutations that they pushed the limits of blah blah blah blah blah, but those things tend to be suffering horribly, have poor longevity, are disobedient, destructive, and seldom represent the actual capability of what they're actually representing.

Everybody knows that one spiderman comic panel that became a meme of "I don't want to cure cancer, I want to turn people into dinosaurs" but the real irony is that guy's actually one of the more successful villainous mad scientist guys. That guy knows what he wants and is taking meaningful steps to accomplish and refine his model of it (turning people into dinosaurs).

Generally speaking one smart guy who is unwilling to talk to anybody else is invariably being his dumbest self. Even if he's the guy that already knows the most, the most successful way to know more is to teach, share, and connect.

Hoarding knowledge is basically the same as hoarding money. Both of these are things whose value actually diminishes the more of it someone just sits on. Cycling it through a mutualistic system that enriches everybody inside of it isn't just the "nice thing to do" it's actually the smart thing to do. Information, wealth, resources, are generative.

And I get in the case of evil mad scientist guys the point is they're wrong but I feel like way too many works that are very clear that guy's evil and wrong fall short of pointing out they're also bad at being a scientist. FF7's Hojo is one of the most famous evil scientist characters and he's also so violently anti-intellectual that it's a wonder he can find his own butt honestly. That guy isn't curing cancer OR turning people into dinosaurs, he's the world's most overpaid schoolyard bully.

Even his malicious exploitation of Lucretia raises the very plausible question of how many monsters in his personal horror show lab are even actually his work. It's debatable this man actually does any science since we know he's a plagiarist prone to assassinating his competition. And he's hardly the only example of this trope. Resident Evil's Umbrella Inc is overtly a clownshow full of petty infighting, ego problems, cult indoctrination and "we put the zombie serum into the plant. oh no the plant killed us. who could have seen this coming. at least our trustworthy friend doctor Antisocial And Obsessed With Leeches will- oh my god."

Only for Kinger to silently point up at the ceiling, prompting them to look up.

And Caine is just scuttling around on the ceiling like an excited giant spider.

(Btw I adore your art and animations so much! They always bring a smile to my face when I see them!)