Taking the Plunge

Day 4: "Mythical" of @burgertimewifi 's trsot week!

Have you heard about the great king Pure Vanilla? Sage sure has!!!

The artwork I commissioned for my ninjago OC Soren! Artwork made by: @ghm00n

(THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!)

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

Oooh, I like this idea! I'm picturing him being one of the "main villains" you'd face off against in your magical girl form...and throughout your encounters, he becomes more and more intrigued with you. Probably also tries to theatrically flirt with you in the middle of your battles...but can you trust that the Beast of Deceit genuinely means any of it?

Of course, with some sleuthing on his end, he figures out your civilian identity (plus the identities of any allies you may have). But while he could share this with the others (the Beasts plus Dark Enchantress)...he keeps it secret, knowing they'd all hunt you down once they knew who you were.

I mean, I think I was also mind-blown by the fact that people have been talking and writing about aliens for all of recorded history, even before there was any scientific precedent to guess that they could exist.

But that very thing (asking questions without a scientific precedent) was instrumental to proto-scientific thought ever becoming a formalized scientific method. These guys had a baseline for asking questions. So there are these scholars in the 1600's seriously articulating ideas like "So if God created the universe, doesn't that mean it's likely that every planet is inhabited, since it would be created for a purpose?" And "No, no, that doesn't make sense, Jesus would have to come to every planet and die, and that would be messed up." And then "Okay, but what if the people on other planets never sinned?"

And they speculate in great detail about the composition and environment of the other celestial bodies, and it was a real paradigm shift for my mind because of just how little they were working with. They had to debate questions that never occurred to me because I took the foundational knowledge for granted, like "Could the Sun be inhabited?" They thought that maybe if you viewed the Earth from outside, the outer atmosphere would appear bright like the Sun from a distance, so the Sun might be the same "kind" of celestial body as Earth.

I think we often misrepresent the misconceptions of the past too—the geocentric universe wasn't accepted just because of the Bible, it was also because we hadn't cracked chemistry yet and we didn't know how gravity worked, and our models had to explain why everything seemed to be attracted to the center of the Earth.

like, chemistry and biology are fundamentally built from things that aren't directly observable without certain technology that is very difficult to make. We can't directly observe microorganisms using any of our senses. We can't directly observe how chemical elements are different. The guys who first cracked important parts of chemistry did so through stuff like evaporating the solids out of gallons and gallons of human piss.

you have been turned into this cat breed!

All of them would step in to help you in some way, of course.

Dark Cacao would stand between you and the other Cookie...probably wrap a hand around your shoulders and give them a fierce glare, telling them gruffly to leave you be.

Golden Cheese doesn't hesitate to tell the other to stay away from "her greatest treasure!" (maybe even pointing a spear at them) before carrying you away...perhaps even scooping you up and flying far away with you, to make the message clear.

Pure Vanilla focuses on holding you close, asking if you're alright...he'll firmly tell the other to leave you alone, but his main goal is to get you away, to safety...somewhere where you can relax and he can make sure you're okay.

Hollyberry steps between you and the other with her shield, prepared to defend you! Once they back off, she'll take you someplace cheerful, probably treat you to a drink or two to help you feel better after the experience.