D.O.

In the Source Link, you will find a gif pack of Aisha Dee in the Netflix film Look Both Ways.

Aisha plays the role of Cara, the best friend of Natalie, the main character.

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Errors, “Errors,” and Sci Fi

@strawberry-crocodile

tvtropes calls stuff like the wolf example "science matches on" which I think is a pretty fair shake

This.  This is what’s got me thinking so much about errors.  There’s a certain danger, here.  A certain way that this particular effect — delicious dramatic irony — tempts the mind when reading old stories, even true ones.

What do you know about R.M.S. Titanic? I ask my class every year, and the first hand rises.  “It was unsinkable,” the student inevitably says, and everyone is nodding, “or so they thought.”  I write the word UNSINKABLE on the board, underneath my crude drawing of a ship with four smokestacks.  It will be crossed out before the end of the hour, but not for the reason they expect.

“I find no evidence,” Walter Lord, preeminent biographer of the ship’s survivors, wrote, “that Titanic was ever advertised as unsinkable. This detail seems to have entered the collective mind so as to create a more perfect irony.”  Indeed, historians’ examinations of White Star Line documents show the shipbuilders themselves worried it would be so large as to risk collision; they stocked several more lifeboats than 1910s regulations required.

The War to End All Wars (deep breath, satisfied exhale), also known as World War ONE. Chuckle.  Shake of the head.  What if I told you that this phrase, used primarily in American newspapers after the fact, wasn’t meant to be literal? Nowadays we’d say The Mother of All Wars, or One Hell of a Fucking War, but we wouldn’t mean literal motherhood, literal intercourse.  What if I said the armistice and the Lost Generation and the Roaring 20s were all braced for another outbreak of European conflict, and yet we still failed to prevent it?

Did you know they were so confident in the safety of the S.S. Challenger that they put a civilian schoolteacher onboard? I do, because I’ve heard that one repeated many times.  Only, see, it’s got the cause and effect reversed.  Challenger launched on a day the shuttle’s engineers knew to be dangerously cold, because the first civilian in space was on board. And NASA knew its shuttle project would be cancelled entirely, if they couldn’t get that civilian’s much-delayed entry into space in the next two weeks.  So they launched on a cold day, and killed her instead.

These are all what cognitive science calls Hindsight Bias on the personal level, what sociology calls Presentism on the cultural level.  Social psychology’s a little of both, is primarily interested in why you’re sitting on your couch in a Colonize Mars shirt watching PBS and chuckling at the fools who believed in El Dorado.  It wants to know why the mind flees straight from “marijuana will kill you” to “marijuana will cure cancer” without so much as a pause on the middle ground of its real benefits and drawbacks, its real (mild) risks and rewards.

And they can paralyze the sci-fi writer, if you think too much about them. Jetsons is futurist one decade, retro the next.  “There are no bathrooms on the Enterprise,” the creators of Serenity say smugly, as if Gene Roddenberry should’ve simply known that decades later it’d be acceptable to show a man peeing in full view of the camera, nothing but the curve of the actor’s hand to protect his modesty.  “No sound in space,” the Fandom Menace says, “No explosions in space,” and “A space station can’t collapse in zero-G.”  Only then NASA burns a paper napkin outside of atmosphere, transmits music using only the ghost of nearby planets’ gravities, and logs onto Reddit long enough to point out the Death Star would implode in its own gravity field.  And now we’re the ones pointing, the ones laughing, at those earlier point-and-laughers.  Self-satisfied, smug in superiority.  As if we did the work to find out ourselves, instead of just happening to be born a little later than George Lucas.

Can u draw hilda when she eat hot chip and lie

me when I heat hot chip and lie

The House on Sorority Row (1982)

You may think that Tom can’t have a type becuse Shiv and Greg are too different but you’re wrong, things Shiv and Greg have in common:

- hair tuck behind ear habit

- millennial

- nepo baby

- emotionally unavailable

- common ancestor

- honestly don’t speak to women enough

- pretty but evil blue eyes

- can’t cook

- charge they phone

- eat hot chip

- be bisexual

- and lie

Sicko

so victoria dallon was canonically born sometime between october and december 1993.[1] Now, this sort of thing is pretty variable, pregnancy isn't exactly known for being similar to clockwork.

However, assuming that victoria is in fact born in very early october , this means that she was born a little more than 9 months after December 1992. (I promise I'm going somewhere.)

That means conception most likely occurred roughly between mid-late december 1992 to early january 1993.

Behemoth's first attack was on December 13th, 1992.

Canonically, it's entirely possible that Victoria Dallon was concieved as a direct result of the emergence of Behemoth.

Sometimes I just randomly stop and remember that the age gap between Luca and Marc is only like 3 years and it hurts my brain a little cause because of the success he had I though he’d be a lot older than the grid but he’s really not.

makes me laugh that vale and marc’s little brothers are born within like a year of each other. MEANWHILE

Mark Tuan.

In the Source Link, you will find a gif pack of Shane Harper in the short lived MTV tv show Happyland (2014).

Shane played the role of Ian Chandler, the younger brother of Theodore Chandler. A few secrets come out over the course of the short eight episodes.

Source - FabledEnigma

I think the fact that Janet Drake was a big opera fan and she and Jack took Tim to the opera many times as a child is really underexplored. Cool fun Drake family activities include witnessing the deaths of acrobats, going to art galleries, and also watching opera. Thank you to writer Jon Lewis for making me think Janet was definitely the type of mom who made sure to put on classical music for baby Tim so he would be smarter.

cc s5 ep2 spoilers

IS THIS JASPER??? auu but who is the M :') probably wont be explained but i hope to see anything else to do with the camps past. its one of the most interesting aspects of the show to me

also worth to bring up that when they talk about this david looks at them with a face of sorrow and immediately brings up another topic. maybe just to show hes claustrophobic again but an interesting time to have him do it

take me, sentence me to be your lover for life