imagination (1963) - harold ordway rugg

"chekhovs cat / schrödingers razor / occams gun"

Just a couple panels I did for the latest episode. I'm rather proud of the first two.

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Bloody loved the new episode. Sat in class drawing this in a fever since I watched it. Love Occam, even if he looks more like a vampire than the vampires do. I shall be purchasing a Kevin as well. I will throw him at someone.

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A shoulders up digital illustration of Occam. It's drawn to look like the end scene of episode 4 of Hunter the parenting. Dual light sources, a standard white light from above and red light from below. Bold shadows and highlights.

Happy completely serious Valentines Day from various plant boys!

YEARN

ok ignore that the other ask is taking forever.

Shiftnapping ^_^ permanent sleepover. wake up and make banana bread or whatever u like idk. kiss on forehead /p. play stupid games together ...

Also urmm some violence :3 yay

A card representing sacrifice, waiting, uncertainty, and a lack of direction.

On my last rewatch of The Patriot I stuck around for the end, which I have done so rarely in the past 20 years that it is practically as new for me as the scenes cut from the original release that were added back for the extended cut.  Needless to say. there is a lot to unpack.

An idea that is repeated multiple times in the film’s last ten minutes is that the American victory made a drastic and immediate difference in the lives of most people. Writing to Charlotte after the Battle of Cowpens, Martin says, “My hope and prayer is that the sacrifices borne by so many will spawn and fulfill the promise of our new nation,” A similar sentiment is present in General Cornwallis’s regretful words to General O’Hara once the war’s outcome becomes certain: “Everything will change.  Everything has changed.” 

Has it really, though? In the film’s final scene, Martin arrives at the site of his home that Colonel Tavington burned with his five surviving children, a new baby, Charlotte, who is now his wife, and Cornwallis’s two Great Danes. A group of men, including two members of the South Carolina militia, are building a house with the same outline as the one that stood there before.  Occam, the Black man who had earned his freedom by serving in the militia, explains: “Gabriel said if we won the war we could build a whole new world.  Just figured we’d get started right here with your home.” 

In spite of what the audience is told about change, what we actually see is everything being put back just the way it was.  Before Martin returns home, he learns that his friend Harry Burwell has just become a father and named his son Gabriel, and now he has a new child of his own. Two new babies to replace to two sons Tavington murdered.  I can’t help thinking of that Tumblr post where Lestat de Lioncourt, another callous bitch, says this in reference to his husband Louis’s anguish about having almost eaten his nephew: “And then he got so upset about the baby, like they couldn’t just make another one!”

The only family member present at the film’s end who is not there at the beginning is Martin’s wife, but Elizabeth, recently dead when we meet the Martin family, was Charlotte’s sister.  Martin got as close to simply replacing her as he possibly could.  He even has a brand new Not A Slave A Free Man to replace the ones Tavington kidnapped who also, apparently, lives to serve him out of gratitude.

 Before the war, Martin was a respected landowner and famed war hero, but after . . . wait, no, he’s exactly the same.  The question remains: is Benjamin Martin a man who has made great sacrifices in the cause of independence, or a man who is rewarded for his service to that cause by having every person or thing he has lost--and given The Patriot’s treatment of women, children, and Black people, there is little distinction between the two--restored to him?  As I’ve found myself saying about this infuriating movie many times before, It Cannot Be Both!

I was toying with designs for Occam (as in Razor, as in “Haha! This guy is super dumb so his handle is a sly dig at how his problem-solving skills tend to not get further than “Apply bullets until problem goes away!”) and his face having a removable panel so he can, yannow, eat and stuff, BUT THEN I stumbled across the Junkyard Jaw and fell in love with the concept of like. Occam having “a trick” to opening stubborn bottles that just ends up being “Bites the end of the bottle off.” 

While we lose the initial design element of “This guy wears a mask/respirator because half his face is missing” we get to keep the “This guy wears a mask/respirator because half his face has been replaced with a very illegal robot jaw that can bite through glass and metal.”

«Frecuentemente se ha recordado el uso constante que Ockam hace del principio de economía de pensamiento: no hay que multiplicar los seres sin necesidad. Pero el modo tan característico que tiene de emplear ese principio aristotélico, contra el mismo Aristóteles si es preciso, no podría explicarse sin la preminencia indiscutida que Ockam reconoce y desea asegurar al conocimiento experimental. Si nunca se debe afirmar que una cosa existe, cuando no se está obligado a ello, es porque la experiencia directa de la existencia de una cosa constituye la única garantía que podemos tener de su existencia. Por eso, Ockam se dedicará activamente a explicar las cosas del modo más simple posible y a expurgar el campo de la filosofía de las esencias y de las causas imaginarias que lo obstruyen.»

Étienne Gilson: La filosofía en la Edad Media. Editorial Gredos, págs. 594-595.  Madrid, 1989

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Occam

Occam's Schrodinger: the simplest razor is often the best one

or it could be the worst, you won't know till you check the box

Occam-Chekhov's Bayonet: The simplest solution will be used. While I have you here, Schrödinger's Metamorphosis and Pavlovian Trick or Treat

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