Emma Lynn

Because the moths themselves don’t eat and only live long enough to mate and then starve to death, the entire culture is made up of children and adolescents. The older children raise the younger ones, with families being made up of hatchmates from different years.

Because molts and eventual transformation into a short lived adult happen on a set schedule, families have a cycle— when your oldest set of siblings cocoon to become adults, you wait at the mating grounds and try to adopt their newborns after they pass. If that fails, you take any ‘orphans’ you can find.

Because death and birth are nearly simultaneous, they have a religion based around reincarnation, and infants with markings similar to a parent are often given their name. Claiming the offspring of a beloved family member is vitally important, because you want to be able to protect their soul and keep them close.

Because it’s hard to track the offspring of your male family members, there are sometimes major fights when a family sees an infant with familiar markings in another family’s clutch.

They don't just have a brain, but are composed of three separate intelligences; the crown, the reach, and the guise.

The crown is the emotional, conscious mind. It has no concept of how to achieve tasks or make change on the world, but it feels and wants.

The reach is literally the tentacles of the octopus, which contain neurons. Their arms themselves perform all the math and enact change on the world to the best of their ability, directed by the crown. The crown has no knowledge of what the reach is thinking. The crown has emotions and desires, and their arms just do their best to solve equations and puzzles and hunt to fulfill those desires.

The guise is the camouflage skin of the octopus, which unconsciously expresses the emotions and desires of the crown. All communication happens guise to guise, pure emotion, while their reaches communicate in other ways, pure logistics.

not Saw specifically but a slasher with a legit body count. Summer camp slashers are overplayed but I think it really works because it's the type of thing the Scooby gang WOULD get caught up in.

like some of the counselors didn't show up (got got) so the head counselor calls his younger cousin to see if him and his friends can fill in last minute. They show up and they're a bunch of nerds, one of them even has an anxiety dog, and they don't have a big role at first. It seems like the movie is setting them up as cannon fodder.

Fuck the slasher movie just effectively becomes Home Alone but with Four Kevin McAllisters

"After they overheard that ICE was at the courthouse to arrest someone, they improperly accessed court databases to determine who was not born in the United States," a DOJ detention filing says. "They then snuck every suspected illegal alien who was at the courthouse out a back door, where ICE, who was waiting in the parking lot for their target to leave the building, could not see them."

both of these designs are stacks better than my first eene girl designs so yea

This will be the first of at least two (likely three) reblogs due to limits on images per reblog. It'll take me a little time, but they will all be up soon!

[Disclaimers: the results are a ballpark estimate. There are complicating factors for getting an exact height for each of them, but the results I yielded are at least pretty damn close. I also did not include the Recognizers from Uprising due to lacking a measurable real proxy to compare them to.]

First: the '82 Recognizers

The first thing I did for each Recognizer iteration was to find good screencaps to use. I ended up needing more for '82 than the latter two versions combined, since we don't get a single shot with a lone Program (or Flynn) and a full Recognizer in frame. That posed a bit of a problem, so I started by looking at these two images:

On one hand, we can see that the physical set and digital model don't match 100 percent. The ledge above their heads in the second image is absent in the first, where the 'roofline' slopes down to about the height of where the bottom of the ledge should be. Close enough for us to figure out what the height of that area should be for the digital model.

And alas, poor Ram. But what's helpful here is Flynn, since he's standing mostly upright in the entrance to the cockpit. Were he fully upright and at the exact top of the slope, it would be safe to guess that his height would more or less equal the height from the floor to the bottom of the ledge just above the entrance. Hence, the unit I used for this one was Kevins.

Then, we have this image, which is the clearest head-on shot of a Recognizer in the movie:

... the only problem being, though, that it's shown from behind. Compare that to this shot from the front, which is slightly more skewed and blurrier:

Yeah, not the most helpful on its own.

But layer the two as closely as possible?

Now we're getting somewhere. We can put in a unit line (one Kevin) from floor height to the bottom of the ledge, and start duplicating from there.

Ultimately, the '82 Recognizer was 70.5 Kevins tall. But how tall is a Kevin, anyway?

We'll round a smidge and call that 6 feet. Then it's just a matter of converting Kevins to feet, which gets us...

Second: the Legacy Recognizers

This one was by far the easiest to figure out, in part thanks to this great shot:

... and the fact that these are seemingly the Weenie Hut Jrs. of Recognizers.

Logically, the unit for this one is Sams. It's hard to see exactly where the top of his head is, but we can get close given that the top of the head aligns roughly with the elbow with an arm raised like this. And how tall is a Sam?

We'll round again to 6'3", or 6.25 feet.

So how tall is this itty bitty little Recognizer? Just 6.75 Sams, or in other words...

'Only' about 42 feet!

Third: Ares Recognizers

This one wasn't as quick to do as Legacy's, but still fairly easy. There's a good wide shot of Athena's Recognizer:

It's hard to tell exactly where she's standing at first glance. A closer shot shows that where she's standing as she pilots it places her feet level to the entry floor, and her head a little below her screens.

Going back to the first image, we can get a one-Athena unit for scale.

Now there is a tiny bit of the bottom of the Recognizer's legs that's cut off in this image, so the bottom line for measuring needs to be cheated a tad low. Still, we can yield a pretty good number of 26 Athenas, or in other words...

And here they are with the Pyramids of Giza for comparison, the tallest of which at 430 feet is just seven feet taller than the '82 Recognizer!