sometimes im like "wow holy shit im being really fucking annoying. i should stop talking" and then i pull out my magic 8 ball and it says "youve always been annoying and your friends chose to talk you anyways. youll be fine" and im like wow thanks magic 8 ball. and then the ogre attacks me
Not to be a hopeless romantic, but was anyone going to tell us that 2023 was the year scientists were able to visualize quantum-entangled particles for the first time and they literally look like yin and yang??
Full article published in Nature Photonics here, though I read a lay reader friendly explanation here!
Still working on that 'Bridges reboot. Feels like digging with my hands some days, but it's coming along, and I'm excited about the new and refined elements it's got.
However.聽
The hornet's nest/ping-pong ball I call a prefrontal cortex likes doing things in tandem, and has also latched onto a Transformers AU involving Megatron developing a reputation as a sparkeater in the death-matches he fought. (Because unnecessarily amping up already-ridiculously-powerful comfort villains is my Thing.)
He's still a smooth-talking, manipulative, cool bastard of one, though. Borrowing elements from various different continuities, but cranking up the Unicronian vibes with some good old fashioned cannibalism and necromancy. Got a favorite quote for him:
"Confirmation bias means that the best deceptions are the ones we already believe. Show me what your enemy wants or expects to hear, and I'll show you a leash by which to drag them."聽
(Like with Eldritch!Gunmar, I like villains who play with others' expectations and beliefs. It just scratches my brain right.)
favourite selfship dynamic ever has GOT to be "this is an objectively evil character But What If I Was Their Favourite" . literally SO fucking real . and i AM their favourite . they told me so and they would never lie to me. sorry that they lied TO YOU but they wouldnt do that to me. im just built different
passenger princess? No, I鈥檓 the passenger knight. I鈥檝e sworn an oath of homoerotic loyalty to the driver and will protect them until my last breath. I will carry out her road rage. I鈥檓 why the front passenger seat is called shotgun