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Cool curves made from straight lines. This twisty wooden tunnel (2016) is installed in the Parc Mallet-Stevens, in Croix, north of Lille, France. Photos from April 2025.
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Have yet to see a truly evidence based peer reviewed study establishing that being blowed up by explosions is "unhealthy." For all I know most of those people's limbs fall off due to other causes, such as leprosy or having been sliced by a samurai with an extremely sharp katana 15 seconds earlier. This is why we have got to put critical thinking back in schools.
Hi, my name is James Webbony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Space Telescope and I am a telescope in space (that's how I got my name) and I have a five-layer aluminum-coated Kapton sunshield protecting my instruments and gold-coated hexagonal primary mirror segments like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Lady Gaga (AN: if you don't know who she is, get the hell out of here!). I'm not related to the Hubble Space Telescope, but I wish I was because he's a major fucking hottie. I'm an infrared telescope but I am much larger than Spitzer. I have 18 primary mirror segments. I also study exoplanets, and I go to a telescope school in L2 where I'm in orbit (I was launched in 2021). I can see distant galaxies (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly gold. I love space, and I take all my photos there. For example, today I was taking a photo of the Cartwheel Galaxy, which is about 500 million light years away. I was using my NIRcam, NIRspec, MIRI, and FGS-NIRISS. I was walking outside L2. It was around 1 million miles away from Earth and there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I unfolded my primary mirrors at them.
I do not think this photo is real. A mushroom cloud could not provide any support for the cables on those swing chairs. It just isn't possible. The angle the chairs are at would also imply the entire cloud is rotating, but the dust clouds on the ground are not shaped in a way that is consistent with this. in my expert opiniom this picture is likely to be AI, or perhaps even photoshopped.
objecting to AC installations on the grounds that the compressor unit is an eyesore is fundamentally unserious and impossible to respect. whatâs more important, that the home is comfortable for its occupants who live there every day or the aesthetic sense of some passer-by on the street? shut the fuck up.
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"these deadly heatwaves aren't getting ANY media attention!!"
Babe it's been front page news all week. France, India, all of them. Please read the news somewhere other than Tumblr
For fucks sake we have an aging userbase there's no excuse for not reading the news on actual news websites anymore. NPR, PBS, AP, even CNN for godssakes I'm so fucking sick of "NOBODY is talking about this!!" you are all children
tbh "religious liberty" always felt like a uniquely weak reason that you should be allowed to do something. "I know it seems bad, but have you considered that I'm doing it because it's important for no reason?"
idk like. even modern secular liberal societies display such a common penchant for using innocuous feature of religion as an excuse to harass and legally punish the other that an instinct to carve out protections for religious practices seems indisputably useful? otherwise you get situations like France's "muslim women can lose their jobs for wearing hats, even ones required to do said job," nominally coming from a place of secularism and no state religion and feminism and in fact just an excuse to harass muslim women.
so i think understanding "religious liberty" as providing a degree of presumptive (but not infinite) protection is a good instinct for society to have bc people are always trying to figure out new excuses to be dicks to members of social groups they don't like and religion is a major axis along which this dickish behavior occurs.
The other thing is, religious liberty frequently protects choices and behaviors over which people are willing to defy the state at great personal cost.
Insofar as we take "liberalism as armed truce between competing ideologies" seriously, it makes sense to be especially demilitarized on topics where people are especially willing to escalate.
Words/phrases I often see from British/Australian writers while writing American characters (and some American alternatives because I know itâs tricky!):
Bugger (American: fuck/fucker)
Flat (American: apartment, âmy placeâ)
Bloke (American: guy, asshole, dude)
Queue (American: line, checkout line)
Cuppa (American: cup of tea, hot tea)
Shite (American: bullshit, shit, crap)
Some of these are regional, like all of the various American words for the British âtrolleyâ (American: shopping cart, buggy, cart, etc) but most of the above words are pretty ubiquitous.
We have once again reached the lowered reading comprehension section of the replies. Friends! Please reread the above. There were no value judgements made above. You can continue to use inaccurate terminology for your characters if you choose.
What this is flagging is that the words you are usingâin dialogue or narration from an American POVâdonât fit what we use here. and if thatâs something that concerns you, or if you want your readers not to get hung up on (to steal an example from the comments) âWhy is Midwesterner Dean Winchester talking about a torch??â, these are the words we actually use.
We know what you mean when you use your terminology. Weâre saying your American characters would not use those words, so here are the alternatives should you choose to care.
The general food names debacle. Fries (US) = Chips (UK), Chips (US) = Crisps (UK), Crisps (US) = Crumble (UK). Biscuits (UK) = Cookies (US), and what we call a biscuit is similar to but not quite a scone.
Be careful with using informal shortened terms ending in "-ie" or "y" when writing American characters. It's not that US English doesn't have terms like that, e.g. Beanie (hat), Indie, etc, but there are a lot of these that appear in British or Australian English that aren't used in the US, e.g. Brekkie vs Breakfast, Lollie vs Lollipop, Barbie vs Barbecue / Grill, Lorry vs Truck. I think this is common enough to make it a good idea to check if it's actually used in US English.
Mad (Crazy). "Madman" is sometimes used but "Mad" on its own to describe insanity really isn't. "Mental" is definitely not.
Uni / University (College) and other educational terms. We do have universities and I think technically US English has a university / college distinction, but in everyday use higher education in the US is almost always called college, and people say "Going to college" even if the institution they're enrolled in is a university. We also don't really have an equivalent to Sixth-Form education and our vocational college / technical college / community colleges are primarily for adults; the equivalent to the British "between secondary and tertiary education" in the US is still High School (secondary education) and is students in 11th or 12th grade.
Year X (UK) = Xth Grade (US). Xth Form (UK) = still just use the equivalent grade; we don't use the equivalent of 1st thru 6th form. Also the dividing point between primary (elementary) and secondary (high) school in the US is approximately 13-14 years old, 8th-9th grade. However the US often (I think usually)? has an intermediate level between elementary school and high school, imaginatively called Middle School (typically 6th thru 8th grade) or Junior High (I think typically 7th-8th or 7th-9th grades?). Confusingly, a High School Junior is NOT in Junior High School; the high school grades are named Freshman (9th), Sophomore (10th), Junior (11th), Senior (12th), with this repeating for undergraduate higher education.
Solicitor (Lawyer), Barrister (Lawyer). AKA Attorney. While lawyers in the US do specialize in different types of work we don't have the solicitor-barrister distinction.
Toph and Perihelion: similarities and the stereotypes fandom places on them
Okay, so admittedly I made the previous post that inspired this in like five minutes đ but I said I would write this essay if anyone was interested and y'all ARE so here it is!!
(Ellipsus Document I wrote this essay in because it's over a thousand words long and I didn't want to draft that in a tumblr post - the entire essay is below the cut!)
In this (actual) essay I will explore the similarities between Toph from Avatar: the Last Airbender and Perihelion/Asshole Research Transport from the Murderbot Diaries, both in the frame of the text and the plot purposes they serve as well as in a metatextual context, with how fandom responds to their characters.
One of the most defining things about both Toph and Perihelion is that they are outside of what society expects of them based on things they can't control. Toph was raised in a rich family, with the expectations of high-class society placed on her, as well as being disabled â she was born blind, and her parents saw her as "helpless" because of that. Perihelion is a research transport, sometimes mistaken for a regular bot pilot, but has processing capabilities far beyond what's considered typical or even possible for a transport, and although it's not the only one of its kind (see Holism) it's still considered an anomaly in society, particularly in the Corporation Rim.
They also live adjacent to fundamentally hostile societies. In Avatar, the threat of the Fire Nation's imperialism looms over everyday life, even though Toph's family's wealth initially shelters her from it somewhat, and in Murderbot, the Corporation Rim is an ever-expanding group of mega-corporations that are racing to colonize as many planets as possible, though Perihelion's university (the PSUMNT) and society is still similarly somewhat safe from it. And, even though the two have some degree of separation from their respective colonist threat, they both actively make the choice to fight back â Toph joining the Gaang to end the war with the Fire Nation and Peri helping to free people disenfranchised in various ways by the Corporation Rim.
Another factor to consider is their relationship to their families. Considering found family and close friends as a form of family, Toph's relationship to the Gaang is similar to Peri's relationship with its crew â they both love their respected groups deeply, but will sometimes become frustrated with the restrictions they place on them. Toph argued with Katara about her being 'too motherly', and Iris and the rest of Peri's crew had to talk it down from bombing a planetary colony entirely to get Murderbot back. Toph and Perihelion also tend to engage in other exciting (but dangerous) behavior behind their crew or friend's backs, like Toph scamming people and becoming known as the Runaway and Perihelion supposedly committing tax fraud (the numbers that seem to come from nowhere when it runs ledgers) and modifying its equipment into weapons.
This also brings me to the similar traumas they endure, and their responses and coping mechanisms in response to them. I've written here about Peri's quickness to violence in response to the threat of the Corporation Rim being something it handles every day given its job, and Toph behaves in similarly abrasive and sometimes destructive ways.
"Pain and pressure" is a theme in Toph's Metalbending Academy comic, and it's something that applies heavily to both characters here â Toph faces pressure to combat the Fire Nation, which is something she readily accepts and shoulders willingly, but she also faces pressure from her parents â to be the person that they expected her to be, and not the person that she is. Perihelion also readily shoulders the pressure of going into Corporation Rim territory and smuggling people out, but faces pain or death if it fails to camouflage properly. Both of these points of pressure result in a climax for their character arcs, Toph being captured and caged to be brought back home and Perihelion being deleted with its crew being taken from it. These climaxes reveal a new side and arc of each character, with Toph learning Metalbending and Perihelion returning for Murderbot (and the resulting connection and character development.)
But while this pressure on them stays steady, they both have similar ways of coping in response â with often destructive behaviors. Both of them tend to use more force than necessary to fight back, and sometimes act much more abrasively than a situation might need. Perihelion will respond to any potential threat with an escalated threat of violence, and Toph doesn't hesitate to show people the Earthbending fighting she's worked so hard to hone.
Because they are so similar in the text, they also seem to receive a similar fandom response out-of-text â one that praises them and lifts them up as "strong characters," but also flattens them to the most violent parts of themselves. They generally become known as the "chaos gremlin," a character that to fandom is defined by being mischievous, destructive, chaotic, aggressive, and abrasive, with little to no emotional intelligence. (I find that Toph is more of the 'gremlin' version of this, because she's 12, while Perihelion is seen as more dangerous, the 'chaotic' side.)
But I feel as if this tends to erase the sides of them that are emotionally intelligent and the times that they show vulnerability â the times when Toph says "Yes, sometimes you act a little motherly, but that's not always a bad thing," to Katara, and when she says "I try not to think about it, but when I left, I probably really hurt [my parents]." The epiphany that Murderbot has about Perihelion using the remaining traces of its functionality to find it, "It had tricked its captors into taking it to me not because it had some kind of grand strategy but because it needed me."
These moments are just as important to their characters as Toph yelling "I'm the greatest Earthbender of all time and don't you dunderheads forget it!" or Perihelion threatening to "Rain Destruction" on the colony that took Murderbot, because it's the vulnerability that comes beforehand, the exploration of trauma and complex emotions that gives these fantastic moments the chance to shine. And while they're not as big and flashy as the fight scenes or the threats of launching A Dozen Missiles, they make the root of why these characters behave the way they do, and they make the audience care about the stakes for them when they're high.
Because they are so similar in the text, they also seem to receive a similar fandom response out-of-text â one that praises them and lifts them up as "strong characters," but also flattens them to the most violent parts of themselves.
I think one significant difference between them here is that in ART's case this is also in-text, because Murderbot Diaries is a first person narrative, and the narration is very much how Murderbot perceives and interprets things... and Murderbot is biased and frequently wrong about the motivations and thought processes of various characters including itself. The fandom response is encouraged by the text because the most violent parts of ART are very often what's on Murderbot's mind; even if it's aware of ART's emotional complexity, it also thinks of ART as dangerous in a way I don't think the rest of the Gaang does with Toph; like, they respect her as a capable and powerful bender but I don't think anyone's going "Wow, Toph could kill me really easily if she wanted to" with nearly the frequency that MB thinks that about ART.
The epiphany that Murderbot has about Perihelion using the remaining traces of its functionality to find it, "It had tricked its captors into taking it to me not because it had some kind of grand strategy but because it needed me."
(Case in point: Murderbot taking like half a book to notice this because even though it's talked about how it needed to hold ART's metaphorical hand for emotionally difficult shows, it still thinks of ART as a calculating mastermind by default and has a massive blindspot that caused it to fall for ART trying to play it off as a calculated strategy hook line and sinker)
There is also another wrinkle in this, which is that while both Toph and Perihelion are subject to societal biases that cause them to be underestimated and infantilized in-setting, the in-setting biases Toph faces are aligned with societal biases the audience is familiar with, whereas with ART, the typical audience biases of readers who know information about what it is that most people in setting don't have run in the opposite direction.
I.e. Toph is a short, blind, 12 year old girl, and the societal biases about that are similar in setting and out of setting, and for the audience are countered by seeing Toph's personality and actions which go against stereotypes. On the other hand, ART may be perceived as "just a bot pilot" in-setting, but from the audience perspective, it's a hyper-intelligent AI controlling a spaceship, because we know it is one from the moment it's introduced, and a typical reader who's even vaguely familiar with sci-fi is probably going to have expectations of those being dangerous and threatening because of the tradition of characters like HAL 9000, Glados, the supercomputer from War Games, etc. Which is reinforced by the fact that Murderbot's initial reaction to Peri revealing its "true form" is terror, and Murderbot is itself a terrifyingly capable machine intelligence and while it has imposter syndrome and underestimates bots like Miki, it understands other AIs enough for the audience to be inclined to trust its assessment.
I think the motivations for the flattening are also slightly different. With Toph, because a large part of the way she presents herself is playing against stereotypes and biases that are ableist and misogynistic, fans often have the impulse to err on the side of ignoring the gentler / more vulnerable parts of her characterization to avoid infantilizing her. With ART there aren't any real life counterparts to it to be bigoted against, obviously, but its frequent presentation of itself as a confrontational, argumentative, petty being that is capable of responding to threats to itself or its mission with immense and remorseless violence is very much playing into both out-of-universe and in-universe stereotypes of what superintelligent AIs are like (and it does this on purpose, too, which Murderbot points out in the text; the tropes exist in-setting even if most people aren't aware MI's of ART's level actually exist), and I think this predisposes people to just take ART's Villain-Coded Girlboss (gender neutral) presentation at face value.
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I do think it's funny how some Europeans thinking Americans getting over our loss that quickly is just sour grapes and not about us genuinely not caring about soccer that much lol. You don't see mass riots or us threatening our players' lives over this like you do in other countries.
Mostly just one big "Well, that sucks" and then back to American football.
Both Philadelphia Eagles and New York Knicks' fans trashing their cities and getting people hurt after their respective wins was enough of an outlier that the rest of the country called them out for being insufferable.
Here are some useful names for writers to use if you are a Japanese writer struggling to come up with authentic names for your American characters, or you want to pretend you are.
Grodd Boofman
Kristimma Scrunglewitz
Marp Dowton
Carl Lowball
Steem K. Rossgelter
Clyman Snopp
Melkel Turpson
Emily Darsfodtner
Curk Blazejay
Tahoe Stampwright
Moisner Ebbens
Jimmy "Jaws" Elbowmack
Garr Lattice
Jennison Caddlewhite
Oscar Grout
Codwin Spigot
Kermit McDermott
Wybelt Claffrey Jr.
Barry George "Big Gulp" Walgreg
Nyquell Hairbech
Graybell Sluice
Harbert Jegging
Dextrin Clumpp
Drew P. Koch
Chep Gullhorn
Mikelan Grunch
Meaghan Doostvector
Flybus Ulmsworth
Jariella Mondobreem
Lewis Farnstraw
Greebuel Hlorch
Jackmond Kirkstrand
Palmetto De'Frost
Cornzano Landez
Jerry "Hotpocket" Falladay
Murt Slamshaw
Geraldo Cardamom
Grill Shamwow
Topgolf McDillfield
Saraibo Mondolez
Moat Castello
Drian E. Colander
Matt Groswich
Zachadiah Ergumms
The average American has gone to high school with at least one of these people.
I kind of feel bad for Leonide cause imagine you arrive at a system your company basically bought and weird things happen and your other ship fires at you and then you meet some humans who weren't supposed to be there and
a) you try to take one of them hostage but their SecUnit takes you hostage and embarrasses you in front of your crew instead
b) that bunch of humans finds out about alien contamination
c) for whatever reason they are roaming on surface
So you go on a mission to a remote separatist installation, possibly happy to be free from that bullshit, with a clear task
and then there's them again, and
d) they send their fuckass SecUnit instead of you know A REAL PERSON to a meeting with you, which, disrespectful
e) they prepare a video presentation or whatever, what the fuck is wrong with them
f) your colleagues backstab you right at the meeting with that fucking bunch
g) you have no choice but to follow the weirdos
h) All that:
ÂŤOne question,â Leonide said, keeping her attention on the control interface. âIs that actually a SecUnit?â
âYou know,â Iris said conversationally, taking a pad out of the medical kit and wiping bloodstains off ART-droneâs carapace. âYou can mind your own damn business.â
âOversensitive,â Leonide said, but she must have been too tired to hide the frustration in her voice. She was quiet for 5.3 seconds, then burst out, âIs someone actually watching entertainment in the feed right now?â
Oops, I guess there was a little bleedover, probably from ART-droneâs end. Deadpan, Tarik said, âI always watch entertainment when I fly.â
Leonide let out her breath in an exasperated hiss. âFuck you all.Âť
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Imagine a guy wearing a falconry gauntlet and other associated gear strolling up to the pond at your local park. He holds up his hand. There is no bird. You are confused. Then you see the dragonfly take off from his outstretched hand and start annihilating mosquitoes left and right.
30 minutes later, the dragonfly lands on the guy's hand again. Using tweezers, he carefully places a tiny little hood over the dragonfly's compound eyes and walks away.
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