downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because

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is such a funny sequence

i find most people who haven't seen it in person don't know that cairo is RIGHT THERE

I loved these perspectives so I took some of my own when I was in Cairo and yeah, they're literally just. Right there. Pass em on your way to work, nbd

No, y'all don't even understand.

There is literally a Pizza Hut across the street from the pyramids.

That Pizza Hut among other things is why Egyptologists laugh their asses off when we see another piece of media where the protagonists get "lost in the desert near the pyramids", because it's like... just turn around my dudes you're only a seven min walk away from the nearest fastfood shop

Yall don't know how much I adore all of this

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as soon as the internet decided depression and anxiety were the everyman mental illnesses and therefore not to be taken seriously we were all fucked tbh bc the fact that i have to feel embarrassed to admit i have debilitating anxiety because people will think im just an uwu dont call me out coward is ridiculous. its insane that i have to clarify that my depressive episodes are like life threatening and not whatever dipshit dumbed down idea of depression people seem to have like oh yeah i just wanna watch netflix and eat ice cream and not text people back. like bro i think im the devil

like maybe depression and anxiety are household names now but they do still kill people. like. theres a reason they fucking kill people.

It’s like the flu. To some people the flu will enter and exit their lives in short bursts with minimal consequences. You’re laid out for a week, maybe two if you’re unlucky. For others, with other combinations of factors, the flu can be life changing. The flu can lead to long term chronic, debilitating sickness. The flu can be lethal. But people don’t take it seriously because it’s “just the flu”. People who are generally healthy do not understand chronic illness, mental or physical.

The war on drugs is rooted in racist policies . The failure of the war and drugs is obvious. We need to find a better solution, because people of color should never be the victims of racist policies. White Americans are more likely than black Americans to have used most kinds of illegal drugs, including cocaine and LSD. Yet blacks are far more likely to go to prison for marijuana, which is not a hard drug. Moreover , even when white people get caught , they get less time in prison. 

…is that Rachael Leigh Cook, the same actress who did the original anti-drug ad when she was a teenager?

It is indeed.

She grew up, realized she’d been exploited to further a racist government agenda, and turned around to bite the hand that feeds. Awesome.

Hell of a move

I don't Think ive seen anyone on here talking abt some US states forcing teachers to remove all books from their classrooms and force them to only have pre-vetted books available or else face possible JAIL TIME ???

Not to sound like a twitter user but why aren't people talking about this omg

(link to this cnn article) ^

Please note the third degree felony???

(link to this tweet) ^

Also lots of articles if you search "Florida book ban" or smth similar online. I'm just shocked I've not seen much about this, maybe people don't know it's happening??

If you're not completely plugged in Ron DeSantis, the governor doing this, is the republican front runner for president next year.

This is bad. Really bad.

But I bet the school aged kids this law affects are suddenly really interested in books, especially the books Republicans don't want them to read.

me: what about kudos??

ao3: you’ve already left kudos

me: i’ve left one, yes. but what about Second Kudos

In Act 3 of the Manga Mamoru is confirmed to be a 16-year-old high school student whereas in the anime he is a college student. Whilst this might mean he is 18, according to the Sailor Moon R Movie Memorial Album, Mamoru would have been 17 at the very start of the anime and turn 18 later on. Fans often point out/complain about Mamoru being aged up in the anime and have struggled as to why for years, often presuming bad faith on the part of the anime staff.  

There has never been a confirmed reason to my knowledge, but I have come across something that seems to make a lot of sense to my mind.  

Ultimately, this hinges upon the production realities of the Sailor Moon anime, which were atypical for how most manga-to-anime adaptations work. Whilst an episode of an anime can be produced from scratch in about two months, usually the manga the anime is adapting is many months, maybe even YEARS ahead of the anime. That wasn’t the case for Sailor Moon.

The Sailor Moon anime began airing on a weekly basis on 7th March 1992. But the first chapter of the manga (which episode 1 adapted) was released on 28th December 1991, the manga then being released monthly thereafter. This accounts for why there were SO MANY filler episodes in Sailor Moon, but it also speaks to the insane deadlines the anime were operating under.  

Whilst I couldn’t find the original sources for this, this article by Tuxedo Unmasked explains that Naoko Takeuchi was involved in the production of the anime, at least somewhat early on in the first season. How involved is a little unclear and it is likely that as the manga pushed forwards and Sailor Moon became more popular she became busier.*  

It is extremely likely that Takeuchi was giving the anime staff notes before the first episode even aired, the better to give them stuff to work with to generate filler episodes. It just so happens we have access to some of Takeuchi’s early notes for Sailor Moon in the form of the Materials Collection:

Note how Shingo’s note lists ‘Mika’ as one of his weaknesses. In the manga, no character by the name of Mika ever appears, at least not affiliated with Shingo in any way. However, a classmate of Shingo named Mika does appear in episodes 5 and 18 of the anime and he does in fact have a crush on her.  

Whilst specific release dates for the manga are not confirmed (merely publication dates which are not the same thing), if we presume Sailor Moon kept to a regular monthly release schedule the character of Reika Nishimura would have appeared in late October 1992, specifically in Act 11 of the manga. This would have been around the same time that she debuted in the anime, specifically in episode 29 on 24th October 1992. Regardless of which came first, obviously the anime staff wouldn’t have made an episode from scratch in such a short space of time. They clearly knew about her ahead of time.  

So, to some degree Naoko Takeuchi was feeding the anime staff ideas and notes on her story. Here is the problem though…her story was an evolving process. Case in point, Takeuchi originally intended Ami/Sailor Mercury to be a cyborg and there is even a hint of this in Act 2 of the manga

Clearly she changed her mind about that, and this wasn’t an isolated incident either.

In her linear notes for Act 3, Naoko Takeuchi herself states that she pitched three different ways Jadeite could become involved with the Hikawa Shrine in the anime. But when it came time to make Chapter 3 of the manga, she changed her mind last minute so that Jadeite was never involved with the shrine in the manga, but was nevertheless working there in the anime.

The Materials Collection is perhaps the ultimate example of how Takuechi revised the story she was telling as she went along.  

Remember how Sailor Mars occasionally didn’t wear gloves and shot lasers from her fingernails?

Me neither.

With all this in mind, lets take a looksee at Mamoru’s pages from the Materials Collection:

Oh me oh my. As you can see, early on, Naoko Takuechi herself intended Mamoru to be roughly the same age as he was in the anime.  

In other words, what seems to have happened was that the anime didn’t not age Mamoru up. They simply depicted him in line with the original intentions of Naoko Takeuchi. And then at some point before or during the production of Act 3 of the manga, she simply changed her mind.  

*This in turn might account in part for why the anime gradually deviated from the manga more and more, to the point of not bothering to adapt anything after chapter 4.  

P.S. Check out how Mamoru is depicted on the next page of the Materials Collections:

Yep…he is holding a red rose.  

Could it be the other major difference between Manga and Anime Mamoru was also thanks to Takeuchi’s early ideas?

Checks out to me.  Especially if you read her notes in the Artbooks. She talks about some ideas or her thoughts both as the 90s anime continued but also the influences between the two or differences she comes across.

Like how Chibiusa ended up with Pink hair primarily because she was going to give it to Usagi.

Or the fact that the Opening Sequence to the first opening.  I can’t help but wonder if the Butterfly Masked Mamoru (it’s clearly him) was inspired by an early name idea of naming him like Mysterious Mask (some number) and she was said to be later baffled by this name idea.

Still collecting the full alphabet of the “live, laugh, love” variants if anyone has some good examples.

Bonus if they can fit the “We can’t ___, _____, ____ our way out of this.”

#fight flight freeze for f

I suggest Fight Flight Fuck XD

Waiting out the rain…

Been thinking about this for days so I sketched it out now before I forget, maybe I’ll do a proper piece later..

This is the most German comic I have ever seen. And it’s not even about Germans.

Ok I just now noticed the birds. I thought this was just a comic about bread and respectful distance. I stand with my point though.

I genuinely think @staff should give us an official Bot Kill Count where it ticks up every time a bot you reported is officially taken off by the tumblr team and when you hit a certain number you get gruesome little trophies. Gamification can be of the devil but in this particular case I need a little treat for doing my daily chore of taking out the trash

The rich siphoned your labor value in a rigged system. You just want it back. #TaxTheRich

Friendly reminder that this world was designed for neurotypicals and if you’re neurodiverse or mentally ill and you’re struggling, please be kinder to yourself because you’re doing your best in a world that wasn’t designed for you