slowly easing myself back onto Tumblr, after a mumbledy year hiatus
bc of a fandom I tripped into a decade (or two, or five, who's counting) late
(hi from star wars hell)
slowly easing myself back onto Tumblr, after a mumbledy year hiatus
bc of a fandom I tripped into a decade (or two, or five, who's counting) late
(hi from star wars hell)
welcome to the danger zone ♪♫
How it feels to read a really good fic and find the author has dozens more like it
character who accidentally gets cloned, but instead of the Evil Twin trope or arguing over who is “real” or trying to murder each other (why???) they just…get on with their lives. they acknowledge that they are two virtually identical people with the equal right to exist, and decide to share their social group & living space. eventually their parents & friends get used to the idea of having unusually identical twins around
#after awhile no one even brings it up. so whenever someone new join the friend group, they naturally & reasonably assume they have befriended identical twins. until months later when someone randomly mentions the Cloning Incident during movie night
…How do they get to decide who gets to keep the original name? Rock Paper Scissors?
They’re both so excited about choosing a new name that they spend a bunch of time arguing over who gets to, before they realize there’s nothing stopping them from both choosing new names
#it is later discovered they’re both trans #in hindsight neither of them is much surprised
excavated from the tags: #one of them comes out and everyone turns to the other all expectantly
literally: El Goonish Shive
rb this with ur opinion on this shade of pink:
This is magenta, and not pink. Unlike pink, magenta doesn’t actually exist. Our brain just invents magenta to serve as what it considers a logical bridge between red and violet, which each exist at opposite ends of a linear spectrum.
TL;DR this color is fake (and also I hate it)
Wait til you learn about Stygean Blue
Your brain is a badly-designed hot mess of bootstrapped chemistry that will tell you that all kinds of shit is happening that has no correlation to physical reality, including time travel. It just makes things up. Your brain is guessing about what’s happening when your eyes saccade, what’s happening in your blind spot, and what the majority of the visible light spectrum looks like, and you don’t know it’s happening because it doesn’t aid your survival to become aware that a lot of what you see is fake.
The human eye only has three types of color sensitive cones, which detect red, blue, and green light. Your brain is making up every other color you perceive.
Let’s have a little fun with that thought. This is the visible spectrum of light.
You will of course note that yellow is on the chart. Yellow has a discreet wavelength, and is therefore a distinct physical color. But we can’t see it.
“Sorry, what the fuck?”
What we call yellow is just what our brain shrugs and spits out when our red and green cones are equally stimulated. We have light receptors that can pick up on the physical spectrum of light we call yellow: that’s why yellow things don’t just look like moving black blocks to us. But your brain has no fucking idea what the color yellow looks like.
Some animals have eyes that can perceive the color yellow! Goldfish have a yellow cone in their eyes. If they could talk, they could tell us what yellow looks like. But we wouldn’t be able to understand it.
What your brain actually sees of the color spectrum:
We can measure the wavelength of light, so we know that when we see ‘yellow,’ we are seeing light in that 550-ish nanometers range. But we don’t have a cone in our eyes that can pick that up. Your brain just has a very consistent guess about what color that wavelength of light could be. We decided to name that guess ‘yellow.’ We can’t imagine what yellow really looks like any more than a dog can imagine the color red.
Here’s the funny thing: your brain is never perceiving just one photon of light at a time. Something like 2*10⁸ photons per second are hitting your retina under normal conditions. Your brain doesn’t individually process all of them. So it averages them out. It grabs a bunch of photons all coming from the same direction, with the same pattern, and goes, “yeah, that cup is blue, fuck it, next.”
That’s how colors blend in our eyes. So sure, if a photon of light with a wavelength of 550 nanometers bounces into our eyes, we see what we call “yellow.” But if we see two photons at the same time, coming from the same object, one of which is 500 nms and the other of which is 600 nms, your brain will average them out and you will still see yellow even though none of the light you just saw was 550 nms.
So how does magenta factor into this?
Well, as we’ve just established, when your brain sees light from two different slices of the visible light spectrum, it will try to just average them together. Green plus red is yellow, fuck it. If it’s more red than green, we’ll call that ‘orange.’ Literally who gives a shit, we’re trying to forage over here. There are bears out here and it’s so scary.
What happens if you take the average of blue and red light, which we perceive to be magenta? What’s the centerpoint of that line?
Fucking green.
Hey, that’s not gonna work? We live on a planet where EVERYTHING IS GREEN. If something is NOT green, that means it’s either food, or a potential source of danger, and either way your brain wants you to know about it.
So your brain goes, WHOOPS. Okay - this is fine. We already made up yellow, orange, cyan, and violet. We’ll just make up another color. Something that looks really, really different from green.
And so it made up magenta.
So, physics-wise, is magenta “real?”
No; there’s no single wavelength of light that corresponds to magenta. But you’re rarely seeing only a single wavelength of light anyway. And even when you are, every color other than RGB is a dart thrown on the wall by your meat computer. This is the CIE Chromaticity Diagram:
Explaining this thing is a little more than I want to take on on a Saturday morning, but I’ve included a link above that goes into it a little more. The point is that only the colors that actually touch the ‘outline’ of the shape actually correspond to a specific wavelength of light. All of the other colors are blends of multiple wavelengths. So magenta isn’t special.
Given that color is just a fun trick your brain is playing on you to help you find food and avoid danger, is magenta real?
Yeah, absolutely. Or at least, it’s just as real as most of what we see. It’s what we see when we mix up blue and red. It would be disastrous from a survival standpoint to perceive that color as green, so we don’t. Because it’s not green. Light that’s green has a wavelength of around 510 nm. Stuff that’s magenta bounces back light that is both ~400 and ~700. Your brain knows the difference. So it fills in the gap for you, with the best guess it has, same as it does with your blind spot.
The perception of color exists within your brain, and your brain says you see magenta. So you see magenta.
So I googled Stygian Blue and…
Yall.
HOW TO SEE THE FORBIDDEN COLOURS
Hyperbolic Orange is the color my soul is
Dark tumblr show me the forbidden colors
We are back on this again.
see, this just makes me wonder if it's possible to like, inject the aforementioned goldfish yellow cones into human eyes and become able to perceive it, or if it requires special brain wiring too
“poison is the coward’s weapon” boo hoo sounds like someone’s sodium channels are easily inhibited
if your deoxyribonucleosides depurinate I just don’t see how that’s my problem
like, it’s not like I asked your vesicle fusion mediating proteins to cleave and block acetylcholine release... you can’t keep deflecting responsibility for your own actions onto me just because I “put something in your food”
“you’re trying to kill me” yeah well have you tried being less sensitive
to poison
like why’s it gotta be so accurate
What’s fascinating to me is realizing that we simply ignore the glottal stop in every word that begins with a vowel when we speak quickly. Like unless you’re enunciating or speaking slowly you simply tell that glottal stop “fuck you” and hook the vowel to the previous consonant sound. Amazing. Glottal stops more like waste of time amirite
Wtf we actually talk like this don’t we
@doggoneloser tho i think you already know this? Sjejdjj
yes!! this page specifically is a study in reduced sounds, and it’s because of things like these that ESL’s think we talk so fast. we’re shortcutting the language without even realizing it, and it happens on so many levels, from sentences to syllables.
as for sentence level, there are two categories of words—content words and function words. they’re pretty self-explanatory; content words are your nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, whereas function words are the words that don’t mean anything, like conjunctions (and, but, or, nor, etc.) and articles (the, a[n]). prepositions vary depending on the language.
you’ll notice that function words are the ones most commonly reduced, and that’s literally because they don’t mean anything. the only value they bring to the sentence is grammatical, and when we speak, we’re trying to get our meaning across. you can hear it in our intonation.
“He GOT an F in ENGLISH.” or, as it’s more commonly said, “He got’n ef’n English.” because we talk like this, ESL’s tend to not pick up function words at first. but because function words don’t mean anything, that’s also why if an ESL said “Yesterday I go store,” we know exactly what they mean (which makes teaching the importance of function words difficult, but that’s for a different post).
as for syllabic level, if you look at “more or less,” we say it like “morr less.” the “or” gets reduced because it’s repetitive—we already say it in “more,” so physically it’s easier for our mouth to elongate the “R” sound rather than repeating it.
PS. this is not just an English thing, either. every language has its own short cuts that native speakers use and don’t realize. to any second/foreign language learner, their target language will sound ridiculously fast until they learn the shortcuts.
tl;dr - language is lazy, and will do anything it can to avoid repetition
This is better than any snl sketch
started another pattern design project, for a captain america shield beret, buuuuuut unfortunately I a) misjudged the size calculations and b) didn't take into account how the decreases in the stars would warp the stripes into a pentagon.
I was trying to be fancy and include some methods from shaped intarsia (mistake c: bc I don't normally do color working, I realized too late the utter incompatibility of intarsia and knitting in the round), which piled up increases and decreases at the points, and I didn't think to balance the decreases elsewhere.
guess I better go read up on stranded color working instead. wanted to finish this pattern as-is to check the dimensions, but it's pretty discouraging.
The Shape of Water (2017) Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Mando’a isn’t a conlang Mando’a is a vocabulary list with a few possessives thrown in
it's a not-yet-conlang I want to be grammarized in a non-Anglo way
Like, maybe Chinese inspo due to the lack of given...verb rules, in general (but especially conjugation details) but it's hilarious to my inner linguistics nerd to slam it into SVO
Fighting the Empire by moonlight, avoiding accolades by daylight, never running from a real fight (even when running would be the smart thing to do)…it’s the Bad Batch!
A few notes from me:
This piece is lovingly titled, “Wait…What - What the Fuck - *Hysterical, Delighted Laughter* - Holy Fuck,” because that’s what my husband said when he saw it.
Close-ups of each clone under the cut!
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just switched to the "goth rave" theme on mobile and wow, severe flashbacks to my livejournal circa 2007