clark has no idea if he can call himself neurodivergent or not because for all he knows he’s normal for a kryptonian and he wouldn’t want to appropriate an identity label he has no legitimate right to
and his ma being like ‘son. at minimum you’ve got an anxiety disorder because you can hear every damn fool getting up to no good inside a couple hundred miles of wherever you’re at. as for inheriting some flavor of crazy, as far as we can tell your parents’ best idea for what to do with a baby was put it in a rocket ship and shoot it at the ass end of kansas. if you’re normal for a kryptonian then that’s probably why the dang planet exploded.’
One of the most warmly human things I’ve ever seen was an old parchment from the Irish middle ages, the scribe’s cat had walked across the page and left inky pawprints on the page.
FOUND IT!!!
Oh, here’s another:
It would appear that Asian scribes were also plagued by feline predations:
I truly am obsessed with how Knives Out was like. Hello Daniel Craig, man who has spent the past two decades of his career being alternately beaten up and objectified playing an action hero with no personality. Would you like to please put on a shirt and an incomprehensible vaguely Texan accent and flex your character acting dark comedy muscles as well as your pecs for a while. And he’s like BOY WOULD I and they made a work of art. Also love that they put Chris Evans in sweaters. Get your beefcakes then dress them nice make them soft and give them some bonkers character work to do it’s what cinema needs more of
I love that several people have responded to this with “op I forgive you cause you’re Scottish but that’s not a Texan accent” which is fair thank you I appreciate it but no two people have agreed on what accent it is which is also Absolutely fair and hilarious as a reaction to this film
Cannot stress enough that I do not know what the fuck a foghorn leghorn is but literally a hundred people have said it to me so far so I’m assuming it’s important to, like, Americans
I’m deep in the 19th century art hole and every time I think I’ve seen them all I find another painting that makes me go !!!!
?? you cant just say this and then not share the painting in question!!
you are absolutely right!!
Arthur Trevethin Nowell, 1887 - Captives
Honestly where do I start? The movement? The composition? The lighting?
Look how much more it seems like she’s leaning forward because the tree and the man curve away and around her? Like Tantalos who reached for fruit but the tree would bend away from him? That’s what this feels like. And then there are these other two, pulling her away into the opposite direction. So there’s a lot of movement! But what makes it even better is how he still stabilized the image with a lot of hidden vertical lines!
Also the contrasts? Fantastic! Like the one between the metal of his armor and her flowly dress or her light face vs the other faces kept in darkness or the light foreground vs the dark background,…
Also the edges are amazing! Everyone tells you corners are not important but here? Wrong! Her foot is like an anchor that stop the eye from falling out of the image so it’s a lot more rendered than the flower petals.
And don’t even get me started on the rendering…
Ok I’ll stop here tl;dr: BEAUTIFUL 10/10
you know what I’m not done, I found something else:
The reason why it doesn’t look like they’re senselessly pulling at her? Because the action is actually built up like a spiral, whoa! There’s a lot going on behind her back, but because of the spiral your eyes don’t linger there and instead are lead towards her body and then towards her head.
It’s not just the spiral, though, there’s another line of movement hidden in those hands:
And not only that, they’re grouped together in the shape of a pentagon! Simple shapes are easy to recognize, so it tells your eye where to go immediately.
Flags Mashup Bot is really out here trying to start World War III
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My fav part is that it is genuinely just a bot. All it does is take two countries, puts the 2nd country’s colours on the 1st country’s flag and mixes their names together.
Literally the only other thing behind it is that the bot weights picking the second country based on how close they are to the first, and basic geography + history means that’s also where you’re going to get the most aggressive relations. This isn’t some guy trolling by making things specifically to piss people off, it’s some guy who likes flags going “wouldn’t it be fun to mix flags together, let’s write a bot for that” and accidentally creating a whole meme culture of “days since flag mashup bot last tried to start WW3 = 0” and the like.
