Left It Here Somewhere

Having rewatched Pirates of the Carribean several times, I have noticed something interesting. Will Turner is often the only survivor of massive shipwrecks, like the one that killed his mother or the one with the kraken. Other times even when hes alone he survives drowning in ways he really has no right to, like the destruction of the Interceptor. He just often conveniently finds a perfect sized piece of driftwood or something. Remember what Calypso said? About him having a “touch of destiny?” I think that the sea could never kill him, will always cradle him and protect him, because all along he was destined to be the captain of the Flying Dutchman. The sea could no more kill him than a human could cut off their own arm.

#gonna mentally pair this with that post about how elizabeth heralds death #every man she kisses shortly afterwards dies at sea #and she sees the ghostly black pearl as a girl when no one else does #and at the start of the story elizabeth - the sea's own psychopomp - sees will floating past and sounds the alarm to save him #and she falls in love with the one man the sea will never kill (@aethersea​)

Hold on I’m Jewish I gotta look some things up

Yeah this is pretty funny

just woke from a dream where the new big discourse going around was that if you were upset your parents were divorced/divorcing then you were actually super cringe for irl shipping your parents and it was disgusting to want to see your own parents together and that you were disrespecting them by placing your shipping expectations on them

PEOPLE ARE DRAWING MODERN AUS OF PRINCESS MONONOKE? CUTE TEEHEE WE HAVE AN APARTMENT AND TWO DOGS AUS OF PRINCESS MONONOKE? You are insane. San would be in Jail

Shes not living in some cute apartment wearing miniskirts with two fluffy dogs San is an ecoterrorist making clothing out of shopping bags and bailing twine and builds pipe bombs in her free time

Ashitaka meets her when she tries to blow up the car of the dignitary hes shadowing & saw her for the first time when she was getting arrested and spat a bloody tooth into a cops face and fell in love on the spot. They are not living a cute life

Every time I see this post I cant stop fucking laughing

oh this is such a happy tale

I had some other work to do this morning (Figuring out some algae stuff involving 1000 L mesocosm up a mountain) so mystery species has been sitting alone in the lab all morning…..

I for one welcome our new plant, algae, or fungi overlords.

I was about to say “in a sensible lab people wouldn’t waste time with this, they’d autoclave the bottles and move on” but on reflection I can’t think of a single bio lab I’ve been in that wouldn’t immediately go “ooh, mystery algae, that sounds like a fun challenge; let’s devote multiple hours to identifying it for no reason”.

I need updates tell me about the algae

The mystery algae/plant/fungi/alien is stuck in the university growth chamber. With everything going on I probably won’t get to check in on it until September, possibly not until 2021.

So by that time it will have developed what, writing?

God I hope so, then I can train it to write my thesis!

This entire post is the most on-brand biologist thing I have seen in my entire godforsaken life. The moment this pandemic is over these guys have another crisis ready for us.

Can we get an update cause this is crazy

Update: Due to the global pandemic, the algae has been left alone in a weird hidden growth chamber for a year and will likely stay there for another year. Enjoy that information!

I love getting unaccompanied minors (kids flying alone) who so clearly just. Don't want to be here lol. Sometimes I get to know a little of their story, like their parents are divorced, or a family member died and they're heading to the funeral, but usually they just don't want to talk about it and that's fine. But I always treat the flight like it's a challenge to make them smile. I offer them snacks and soda but that's never enough, that's whatever, they could get those from an airport vending machine. Chump change. So then I tell the worst jokes. Just the most embarrassing, kindergarten teacher, annoying dad jokes you can think of. And those always get a groan, or a "Seriously??" And that's my in! Now I can say "Why, what's your idea of a good joke? No, come on hotshot, make your best joke, let's see it." And they hem and they haw but of course they eventually tell me their very best joke because kids are little competitive comedy goldmines. And it's always super funny, so I laugh, and that's where they slip up. Because you know what you almost always do when your joke successfully makes someone laugh? You smile. And I'm like. Gotcha. Rookie move. Now you're going to end up having a good time in spite of yourself. I win.

Did this with an 11yo u.m. today and he said "What did the ghost say to the other ghost?" And I said "What?" "Nothing. Ghosts aren't real."

Another thing I can’t get past about Nile is how accepting and welcoming she is. I know the fandom is head over heels about Joe’s softness and Nicky’s caring, but I feel that Nile is overlooked in that regard. Nile has so much softness and caring and consideration in her.  The way she interacts with the child and the woman in her first scenes, she’s both kind and respectful respectively, each time going out of her way to ease the experience for the person she is communicating with, to no one’s benefit but theirs.   And on that subject, and this was very, VERY, important to me, when Nicky says the “love of my life at dinner” and points to Joe, Nile doesn’t show one flicker of surprise or shock or give us the “oh, are you gay?” moment we might expect. No. Just a “You’re the oldest?” to Andy, because Joe and Nicky being together is a fact she’s witnessed and heard about, and just like that she’s accepted it completely and without question, wich is certainly a testament to her upbringing and personal values = Nile Freeman is good people. When she wakes from her nightmare, her immediate and general “sorry’ to everyone for disturbing their rest, even though she’s known them for all of what? Three, four, five hours at this point? She considers them, even in the midst of her own turmoil at the moment? The way she relays the contents of her dream to them when Nicky asks? Low and questioning, although not demanding answers, even though the dream obviously pertains to them in some way, and she has a right to do so? The way she speaks about her mother and father and family to Andy? Quietly loving and proud? This is what and who my family is, this is what they did for me? And Andy sees and understands  - “you come from warriors,” Even the way she chooses to leave Andy is in it’s own way considerate, she doesn’t reject or do so angrily or accusingly, she simply tells Andy firmly, “I’m not doing this,” and then almost pleadingly, “I still have time with them,” and then, and THEN, she asks “Are you going to be okay?” because she cares for her family, and wants to go back to them, but she also cares for Andy now, she knows her leaving could potentially change the game for her, and she wants to make sure, before she goes that it’ll be okay for her. Then she realizes Booker’s betrayal, and with all the implications of that for Andy and the team, that care manifests, and she immediately goes back.  When she sees Copley’s wall, her first thought goes to Andy’s hopelessness and grimness, “she couldn’t see, but you could,” she sees an opportunity to better life for someone and takes on the task of delivering that message of hope to that person - - the first thing she does in the lab is reassure Andy, tell her softly, almost sweetly, that all she’s done has mattered. And throughout the fight at the end, “where is Andy?” “Put on the damn armor, Andy,” “you’re going spend it with us,”  because she cares so much, loves so much, she’s welcomed these people in already and it’s so glaringly obvious that she’s determined to make her life with them a good one. And at the very end, when she only wants an apology for Booker, yes, she’s still young and not fully understanding of the depth of what Booker did, but she knows it is serious, and she’s still ready to forgive. (another testament to the way she was raised and perhaps how her religion influences her views: forgiveness is a big thing in Christian religion, and she seems to be a Christian of some denomination) Nile is just…she has such a big heart. She’s such a good person that it fucking hurts to even think about it. She feels deeply, cares deeply, is hurt deeply, (her face when she comes into the tent in the camp and see that her ‘friends’ are packing her off) and welcomes without qualm and with the depths of her heart. Her heart is so, so big, she accepts all these people, accepts them as they are - I think this verse from Nirvana sums it up (Come as you are, as you were. As I want you to be. As a friend, as a friend. As an old enemy.) and she accepts with no small amount of grace the hand that destiny has dealt to her, and at every turn retains her personal values and inherent goodness.  In conclusion, Nile Freeman is an awesome human being, and the values she embodies and the love she’s ready to give needs to be more appreciated. And I love her @themoonwheniamlost (if it’s okay to tag!! tell me if it’s not!) You love Nile as much as I do, any thoughts?

Not going to lie, it’s genuinely upsetting to think about the new “fans” who are going to judge Legend of Korra, without knowing about all of the horrible things that Nickelodeon did to Bryke.