While the Greek root of the word nostalgia, 'nostos', means 'the return home' — anyone who has been there knows that the return home is never without pain. Nostalgia feels like getting the blues. According to the Oxford English dictionary, 'nostalgia' is 'a form of melancholia caused by prolonged absence from one's home or country; severe homesickness'. Indeed, 'Nostos might hold out the promise that, yes, you can return whence you came, but nostalgia happens because you can't go home again.'
Carol Mavor, “A Bolt From the Blue”, Blue Mythologies
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“Except for her, and him.”
Check. No dustpan. No peanut butter.
Omg. So, is he safe?
I was like… well I mean there’s benefits to that, too… mafia ish.
If you can own a man, you’re rich I reckon
Americans like my old friend don’t get it. People. Identifies apparently with others things for ego.
Plastic. I mean, nonsense.
Americans are fragile now. Most whites here are naturally ugly. And steal.
They kept saying they wanted garbage and corruption. So cute!
I’m afraid Josh raped his rent a niece
Or nephew. In America, they pretend to like Irish people but they wanna really butt rape them
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ive been thinking about trans stress who thinks her friends are all really good allies and doesn't realize all of them never even considered that she might see herself as . really really masculine looking. and there's been this little comic-not-comic playing around in my head. like stress goes all "it's really awesome that you guys have never once mistook me for a guy even though i look so masculine all the time" and every single one of them goes huh. and then iskall goes "well i figure masculine looks really good on you."
n then shes presented with the idea that none of them thinks shes at all masculine and she goes "what??? but i'm so much shorter than all of you! and the ends of my hair are such a bright pink! and when i'm a monster, my claws are so white!" and they're all going okay. what does this mean to us
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Jean-Michel Maulpoix, excerpts from "The Blue Look", in A Matter of Blue: Poems (trans. Dawn M. Cornelio)
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Decided to do a quick little project in my sketchbook, this is the work I’ve done so far!
Each one of them will have a little section made an them :)
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Has Copperhead's eyesight changed at all as his mutation has progressed?
While Copperhead lost the ability to close his eyes, his sight improved significantly, making him able to perceive his surroundings much more clearly in low levels of light than ordinary humans can. Not only that but the cones in his eyes are much more receptive to colours in these conditions - snakes aren't renowned for having great eyesight but Copperhead is built different, quite literally since even in near total darkness, he can perceive blue and green when most other nocturnal creatures are limited to black and white!
His eyes are also great at handling UV lighting, be it high levels during the day or low, low levels at night? Copperhead is comfortable operating at either time of day, even when living in sunny places like his native state of Arizona but rapid changes can and will cause temporary blindness since Copperhead cannot close his eyes against sudden flashes.
This temporary state of blindness hinders him less than you'd expect; he goes through this during shedding periods, eyes filming up and glazing over when his skin is preparing to renew but getting flashbanged hurts and will almost certainly piss him off.
During the day, he can see about as well as a human with perfect eyesight and very good ability to track moving objects, therefore responding much more quickly due to his Metahuman capabilities but it's at night when his abilities truly comes into play, making him a much more formidable hunter when others are stumbling around blind in the dark.
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