Back for yet another cartomancy spread! This one is focused on change (expected or otherwise) and how to deal with it. This six card spread looks as follows:
How can I best adapt to this change?
What can I do to help myself on this journey?
What is a likely positive that may come from this change?
What is a likely negative that may come from this change?
On the heels of whitewashing accusations of Netflix’s Iron Fist, a new trailer has been released for the adaptation of popular Japanese anime Death Note. Generasian dives deep to analyze public opinion
Still waiting for the modern take on Stoker’s Dracula that preserves the source material’s epistolary framing by relating the events of the story through a series of conveniently colour-coded chat logs.
REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
I am Count V. Dracula, lord of Transylvania, graduate of Scholomance in the Carpathian mountains, soldier, statesman, and alchemist. My fortunes are extremely successful but nonetheless, I find myself curious of the advancements in the Western world. I have decided to seek residences in London, England, and it behooves you to assist me in this matter.
The land I seek has a value of approximately 15,000,000 British pound sterlings, and as the solicitor managing my purchase I would be willing to pay you 10% of this value. Simply visit my castle in Transylvania this coming Walpurgisnacht to assist me in my purchase and I will happily entertain you, as will my three beautiful women of the night in my employ.
I will fill you in with further details on your arrival. Please be advised to keep this transaction as confidential as possible.
I am so very proud to announce that KPF Productions film The Snack has been selected as one of the films that will be showing in the innovational filmfest in June! I’m super HAPPY!!!! Right now for my sister Mina and I the story The Snack is based on the story written by award winning writer Betty Dravis from her book 6pack of Fear I’m soooo excited that she allowed us to make our adaptation of her book! Mina is The Founder and I am the Co-Founder of KPF Productions our first Film Festival!!!!! GREAT JOB CAST AND CREW! We gave this short film a 80’s feel #film #shortfilm #filmfestival #innovationalfilmfestival #happy #roadtrip #proud #excited #kpfproductions #acting #books #adaptation #camera #director #producers #80’s #Cultclassic #Godisgood
Earlier in the day, the characters were removed from both the title ひぐらしのなく頃に業(“Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou”), and the episode, as per a mistake on Amazon’s part. Ano, @in_earthbound on Twitter, has posted the screenshots before said wipe.
Furthermore, in this interview with Ryukishi and series director Kawaguchi from October 4th, Ryukishi had been hyping up this next episode, with “you’ll start to see what the new Higurashi: When They Cry is all about.”
“We’d been casually talking about how great it’d be to see a remake of the anime, and I’d mentioned if that ever became a reality, I’d totally write another script for it immediately. And what I ended up with looked like a phone book,” Ryukishi says, back when the team wasn’t sure if their wishes would come to be.
“With episode one, this is a new Higurashi: When They Cry done with a new staff with a new world view, so I hope you enjoyed that. But starting with episode two, you’ll start to see the little things here and there that I mentioned before. So I hope you all, er… I really can’t say anything right now,” as he laughs with frustration, continuing with “things are finally going to start moving with the next episode, so I hope you watch carefully from episode two on.”
The webtoon adaptation of the romantic drama “Discovery of Love,” which aired on KBS2 in 2014, has been confirmed.
In the drama “Discovery of Love,” Jung Yu‑mi appeared as the protagonist, Han Yeo-reum. She is in love with her boyfriend, but her ex-boyfriend arrives in front of her and wants a new start with her. Eric Mun, of the boy band Shinhwa, portrayed Han Yeo-reum’s ex-boyfriend. He is well-known for his his attractive looks and self-assurance. Seong Joon played Han Yeo-reum’s current boyfriend, who has a loving and caring personality.
The drama “Discovery of Romance” has created a fandom to the point where it has been called the “standard of romantic comedy” until now, 7 years after it aired. Interest is gathered in how the charm of the refreshing romantic comedy genre will be conveyed through the webtoon “Discovery of Love.”
Two male #beluga at the #sheddaquarium play with a rubber ring #enrichment item. They spent easily half an hour dragging around their pool, balancing it on their rostrums and diving through it. In the first photo, you can see how flexible their necks are; the cervical vertebrae in #belugawhales are not fused (unlike most #cetaceans ) which is likely an adaptation that helps them maneuver under ice. #whales #belugawhale #adaptation #animaladaptations #environmentalenrichment (at Shedd Aquarium) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnHg9FUAoHW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1q88bdzu3oldl
“Okay, okay, I’m going to tell you what Hermione sees in Ron. A trio is a balancing act, right? They’re equalizers of each other. Harry’s like the action, Hermione’s the brains, Ron’s the heart. Hermione has been assassinated in these movies, and I mean that genuinely—by giving her every single positive character trait that Ron has, they have assassinated her character in the movies. She’s been harmed by being made to be less human, because everything good Ron has, she’s been given. So, for instance: “If you want to kill Harry, you’re going to have to kill me too”—RON, leg is broken, he’s in pain, gets up and stands in front of Harry and says this. Who gets that line in the movie? Hermione. “Fear of a name increases the fear of the thing itself.” Hermione doesn’t say Voldemort’s name until well into the books—that’s Dumbledore’s line. When does Hermione say it in the movies? Beginning of Movie 2. When the Devil’s Snare is curling itself around everybody, Hermione panics, and Ron is the one who keeps his head and says “Are you a witch or not?” In the movie, everybody else panics and Hermione keeps her head and does the biggest, brightest flare of sunlight spell there ever was. So, Hermione—all her flaws were shaved away in the films. And that sounds like you’re making a kick-ass, amazing character, and what you’re doing is dehumanizing her. And it pisses me off. It really does. In the books, they balance each other out, because where Hermione gets frazzled and maybe her rationality overtakes some of her instinct, Ron has that to back it up; Ron has a kind of emotional grounding that can keep Hermione’s hyper-rationalness in check. Sometimes Hermione’s super-logical nature grates Harry and bothers him, and isn’t the thing he needs even if it’s the right thing, like when she says “You have a saving people thing.” That is the thing that Harry needed to hear, she’s a hundred percent right, but the way she does it is wrong. That’s the classic “she’s super logical, she’s super brilliant, but she doesn’t know how to handle people emotionally,” at least Harry. So in the books they are this balanced group, and in the movies, in the movies—hell, not even Harry is good enough for Hermione in the movies. No one’s good enough for Hermione in the movies—God isn’t good enough for Hermione in the movies! Hermione is everybody’s everything in the movies. Harry’s idea to jump on the dragon in the books, who gets it in the movies? Hermione, who hates to fly. Hermione, who overcomes her withering fear of flying to take over Harry’s big idea to get out of the—like, why does Hermione get all these moments? [John: Because we need to market the movie to girls.] I think girls like the books, period. And like the Hermione in the books, and like the Hermione in the books just fine before Hollywood made her idealized and perfect. And if they would have trusted that, they would have been just fine. Would the movies have been bad if she was as awesome as she was in the books, and as human as she was in the books? Would the movies get worse? She IS a strong girl character. This is the thing that pisses me off. They are equating “strong” with superhuman. To me, the Hermione in the book is twelve times stronger than the completely unreachable ideal of Hermione in the movies. Give me the Hermione in the book who’s human and has flaws any single day of the week. Here’s a classic example: When Snape in the first book yells at Hermione for being an insufferable know-it-all, do you want to know what Ron says in the book? “Well, you’re asking the questions, and she has to answer. Why ask if you don’t want to be told?” What does he say in the movie? “He’s got a point, you know.” Ron? Would never do that. Would NEVER do that, even before he liked Hermione. Ron would never do that.”
— Melissa Anelli THROWS IT DOWN about the way Ron and Hermione have been adapted in the movies on the latest episode of PotterCast. Listen here. This glorious rant starts at about 49:00. (via karakamos)
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Steve Kloves is a hack
Steve Kloves is the textbook example of a mediocre white guy doing the bare minimum in his screenplays, and getting continually rewarded for it.
Not only did Kloves’ terrible screenwriting affect how many people see Ron and Hermione, but it also had a negative impact on the careers of the actors involved. It’s taken Rupert Grint almost a decade of hard graft to stop being thought of as ‘the guy who makes funny faces’ (and -even then- his reputation has only changed in the UK. The American media still largely regards him as an actor who can only do comedic sidekicks). And you can’t tell me that Emma Watson has had difficulty playing other roles because everyone assumes she can only play “badass female characters who can do no wrong” type characters.
YEP. He’s gotten a free ride on the feelings Rowling’s books evoked. The only reason so many people love the movies is that the characters exist in their heads as they read them, so the blanks the movies leave are filled in. So on top of being that Mediocre White Guy™️ he’s cruised along on the coat tails of a woman. It’s almost poetic.
Exactly; Kloves basically put the least amount of thought possible in the screenplays, just because the franchise had a pre-existing fanbase. As he’s stillcruising along on the coat-tails of the HP books, given how Rowling has brought Kloves on to co-write the next ‘Fantastic Beasts’ sequel. So I guess we can wave goodbye to the female leads in FB having relatable flaws and insecurities.
Joanne,please stop giving this man work. These characters deserve better than his g*d-awful scripts.
Also, in my last comment, I meant to write ‘you can’t tell me Emma Watson hasn’t had difficulty’ as opposed to ‘has had difficulty’. My apologies for the error; I’ve corrected it, but it won’t appear in this reblog.
tbh I think Rowling just doesn’t know much about screenwriting and I guess Kloves is charming enough to make up for his shortcomings as a writer. either that or WB signed some kind of deal with him for X number of films. it may literally just come down to him having a good agent.
Rowling had a preference for Kloves anyway, because he wrote one film that she really liked (’The Fabulous Baker Boys’), and -during their first meeting- Kloves said his favourite character was Hermione. Rowling was shocked by the latter (since -at the time- Ron was the fan favourite), and immediately gave her blessing for Kloves to write the films.
Considering that Kloves didn’t write the fifth HP film, I’m inclined to think he did it on a film-by-film basis.
I would not be at all surprised if Kloves just has a really good agent. Most of Kloves’ screenwriting credits come from adaptations of other people’s works. However, the difference between Kloves and -say- someone like Peter Jackson is that Kloves tends to implement his own ideas about the theme of the work being adapted. If -like you say- Rowling doesn’t know much about screenwriting, that would certainly explain why she keeps inviting him to write her characters, despite the complete mess he made last time.
I mean, her judgment could also just be crap (for reference, see: The Cursed Child). I don’t know. Maybe we give her a lot of credit because she wrote great characters. Her prose isn’t exactly spectacular, but it’s the spirit of the books that I think gets to everyone (and what Kloves completely fucking missed).
Yeah, that sounds about right.
You can tell he didn’t write the 5th movie, because all of the sudden Ron became this rugged sexy man who was a great friend and was more serious than ever. I loved him in that movie.
@allaboutromione Agreed. That was the first film since PS/SS in which Rupert actually got to play Ron as more than just a comedic sidekick who made silly faces. No way in heck would Kloves have written it.
Also, that film actually showed Ron and Hermione being in love with each other, which was something Kloves wasn’t a big fan of.
It pisses me off when people say that they don’t like to read and prefer to see the movies because is easier. I feel sorry for them, really, because they aren’t seeing Harry Potter, the most acclaimed saga of all times. They are watching some pathetic copy that doesn’t have any context and that is barley similar to the Books.
They are comparing a master-piece with amazing developed characters with a ridiculous and inhumane adaptation made by a man who I highly doubt that has ever read the books that sees himself as the next Alfred Hitchcock.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the movies and all the actors in them but the plot and the characters were totally ruined.
the thing all sherlock holmes adaptations get wrong is making the guy an irredeemable asshole who treats everyone like shit . not only is it not reflective of the original stories they miss that “nice, smart, well mannered dude who snorts coke when he needs to think” is possibly the funniest character ever devised
I feel like the modern equivalent is that guy you think is super well put together until you find out exactly how much red bull he ingests on a regular basis.
Modern Sherlock is that very nice English Professor-seeming guy who you bring a problem and while walking from the door of his office to his desk he starts explaining the entire solution you need
And upon reaching his desk he’s like “Excuse me one moment.” and pulls out one of those huge Monster canisters they legally aren’t allowed to make anymore, cracks the whole thing, chugs it, takes a deep breath, and then nods at you and is like “Alright, and then what you need to do is…”
Imagine how much better the dynamic of bbc sherlock could have been if they did this.
why even modernize it to energy drinks??? coke didn’t go anywhere. we still have coke. energy drinks aren’t NEARLY chaotic enough.
Its is more like you hiring some guy to do private investigation about how your husband maybe cheating on you and Sherlock comes to your house high as fuck. Walks into your living room and without taking a moment to even talk to you or sign any paperwork, he turns around—pupils as big as god—and just says
“Its your best friend Brenda. I’ll email you the invoice.”
and walks right out of your house.
Because when it was written cocaine was legal and even considered healthy and useful by some laypeople, even though doctors knew it wasn’t, and Watson was always trying to stop people from encouraging Sherlock’s addiction because HE KNEW BETTER.
So consider this, Holmes, at 2am, desperately searching the flat for the stashes of NOS cans, only to keep coming up with passive aggressive pamphlets about the dangers of caffeine overdose.
Watson wakes up to a stench like Satan’s ass to find Sherlock sitting by his bed with a re-heated pot of cold brewed Deathwish Coffee that had been hidden in the back of the toilet tank (brewing) for five months. Sherlock is trying to say he’s proud of John’s cleverness in finding most of the stashes, but he’s passed into the fifth dimension and all John gets is a creepy vibrating grin and a sound like a shaken cat.
TLDR, Sherlock did die when he fell off the Falls, but he was so coked up his body didn’t stop moving until like a decade later.
Sherlock as one of those cryptid types the baristas talk about (there’s a post floating around somewhere) who comes in and orders a venti with as many shots as they are legally allowed to add, plus a few more for good measure (and a hefty tip) and then adds energy drink on top of it before chugging the whole thing, to the absolute horror of the cafe staff.
This is the kind of Sherlock Holmes discourse I demand on my dash. Bring me more!
Further discourse! Everyone is missing the fact that Sherlock used cocaine to “escape from the commonplaces of existence” when he didn’t have a case. The drugs are a substitute. Which means that when you hire him he’s stone-cold sober and JUST AS WEIRD.
So it’s more like realizing that your flatmate with the caffeine/sometimes drug death wish will only chill the fuck out when he has some strange mystery to unravel, so you spend your free time scouring reddit posts that might actually feature a real missing person. Or a ghost. You really don’t care which at this point. When you finally find something your flatmate is THRILLED and straight up stops eating because he thinks he can survive on intellectual curiosity alone, and yeah that’s not good, but it’s better than what he was doing to himself before. Your success is comparative, okay? You stick around for the meeting partly because you’re curious, partly because this is your home too remember, and partly because you’ve found that writing up these insane excursions helps pay off your student loans. Your Patreon is thriving. The entire time your flatmate is interviewing this poor SOB he keeps breaking into manic grins and you’re kicking him under the table, trying to help him remember that others aren’t happy about a death in the family. Halfway through he pulls a cigarette from a stash in his smelly bedroom slipper, offering the client one and yeah, that’s very nice, but… no. No thank you. He’s dressed impeccably and has a violin worth millions just lying on the floor, but the flat as a whole looks like a tornado just blew through and there’s something growing on the walls beside the makeshift lab. Is he rich? Dirt poor? Impossible to tell based on the surroundings. The entire time he rattles off observations about the client not at all related to the case and his continuing good mood depends entirely on how impressed the guy is. If he mentions “magic tricks” or “I saw that on Youtube” you’re prepped for damage control.
By 8:00pm you’ve finally convinced your flatmate to look up from his research and go half on a pizza, but the second it gets there he shrieks in excitement and runs out the door, demanding that you follow with your legally dubious gun. You apologize profusely to the delivery guy and double his tip, begging him not to call the cops. No, not because you’re afraid of arrest, you just know the head of the local precinct and he’s a pain in the ass.
You run after your flatmate knowing damn well you have to be up early tomorrow because despite maintaining a private practice you stilldon’t make enough to get your own apartment.
You are living your best life.
That last post…nailed it
Reminder that most of Sherlock Holmes is now in the public domain.
Like…. just saying.
Personally I see Sherlock as ADHD and no one will ever convince me otherwise
I mean — it’s textbook hyperfixation/understimulation right there — I Also forget to eat and sleep and do Human Things when I’m vibing with whatever makes my brain go, and I Also take (medically prescribed) stimulants when I need to think. AndAlso adhd understimulation makes mundane existence an agony that one will do nearly anything to escape but at least in the modern day we have things like video games and netflix so it’s a little easier to actually get that escape without y’know completely self-destructing along the way (Sherlock Holmes plays Among Us to fill the void between cases change my mind)
And while it’s entirely legit that a modern ADHD sherlock might self-medicate with energy drinks and home-brewed toilet-tank-coffee, I’d LOVE to see an adaptation where Sherlock just. has a prescription?
So instead of hunting down his secret Bad Habit Stash, John could be like “hey, sherlock- the pharmacy called, your meds are ready” and then sherlock would be all “LATER JOHN IM ON A CASE RN I DONT NEED THEM” and John’d be like “sherlock no that’s not how that works”
And then later once the case has been solved and the existential agony of understimulation sets back in, Sherlock could be like “hey John pass me my meds” And John might be “sherlock you already took them this morning I saw you” “yeah but they’re not working yet” “dude it takes time for them to kick in” “sure sure OR I could just take more. I missed some days y’know I gotta catch up” “sherloCK NO I am a DOCTOR that’s NOT HOW THAT WORKS” And then sherlock heaves a gigantic sigh and grabs a can of RedBull that’d been stuffed between the couch cushions and John like swats him with a shoe or something because SHERLOCK NO do you KNOW what that stuff DOES to your HEART PLEASE STOP
Me reacting to Lord Peter Wimsey’s dialogue as a book: ohohoho he is so charming and clever and well educated, how I like him
Me reacting to Lord Peter Wimsey’s dialogue as an audiobook: if someone doesn’t shut this idiot up I shall get a mallet
Me reading about Peter Wimsey’s amiably stupid and ugly face like a maggot spontaneously generated from Gorgonzola cheese: this is ideal. This is hugh jackman in a soft sweater levels of giving the audience what they want. This is the only way to write about attractive men
Me seeing any given actor in a role of Peter Wimsey: oof, unfortunate, im glad British men aren’t real and can’t reach me
Mob Psycho 100 Season 2 episode 1 has one of the most beautiful & emotional climax in anime that I have seen. In this video I talk about its impact and meaning for Mob and Emi as characters and people.
(Note: This scene was from chapter 52 of the manga which was named “Biri Biri” which are the sound effects used for sound of tearing paper)
A new YouTube series by me in which I ahev comedic take on anime/movie/TV shows/misc. And this one is on the first episode of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
I was given the high honor of interpreting Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony” for the latest installment of the Graphic Canon series. Published by @7StoriesPress and edited by @russkick, GC of Crime and Mystery, Vol. 1 is out now!
A Whole Summer’s Worth of Links Crammed into a Two-Weeks-Sized Bag
A Whole Summer’s Worth of Links Crammed into a Two-Weeks-Sized Bag
Some of my own stuff that’s gone up lately: Grad School Achebe #3: No Longer at Ease, my review of Lynell George’s A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler, “Science Fiction and Utopia in the Anthropocene” from American Literature 93.2, and my scorching hot take on Loki and Black Widow.(There’s a mini-scorching-hot-take on Loki and The Suicide Squad in this Twitter…
Rampe pour fauteuil roulant, dessinée par Chan Wen JieChan Wen Xia. Une solution réversible pour faire cohabiter sans difficultés les besoins des personnes en fauteuil roulant et des personnes valides (bien utile aussi pour les poussettes)
Wacky, under-appreciated comic book adaptation, Tank Girl – about a dystopian hero, played by Lori Petty, who takes on the tyranny of a mega-corporation run by villainous Malcolm McDowell – dropped on March 31, 1995.
Adaptation : “The ‘constellations drawings’ are a series of sketches by Pablo Picasso drawn on sixteen pages of a notebook in 1924. Black dots are connected by thin lines to produce different kinds of figures, some geometrically controlled and others more leaning toward a free composition.”
BIG NEWS. Very excited to be able to share this. And very excited to be working with Mike again on this simultaneously new and old adventure. Give him a follow too if you haven’t already, as we chronicle this journey: @michaeldantedimartino
Here’s our quote from the press release: “We’re thrilled for the opportunity to helm this live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender. We can’t wait to realize Aang’s world as cinematically as we always imagined it to be, and with a culturally appropriate, non-whitewashed cast. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance to build upon everyone’s great work on the original animated series and go even deeper into the characters, story, action, and world-building. Netflix is wholly dedicated to manifesting our vision for this retelling, and we’re incredibly grateful to be partnering with them.” — Bryan Konietzko & Michael DiMartino
eucalyptus trees are full of flammable oil that causes the trees to explode during forest fires, killing other trees and spreading its seeds to grow in their place. koalas survive solely because nothing else in their environment Wants To Eat The Fucking Bombs
oh u like that? try this one: the main natural cause of death in koalas is starvation, because
1) their dumbass teeth are SHIT. to be a herbivore and chomp cellulose all day u need some real tough grinders in there, and almost every other herbivore in nature has SOME sort of dental adaptation to make sure they dont run out of tooth by the time they hit middle age. horses have big tall teeth, wombat teeth grow forever, kangaroos have got a little conveyor belt system goin on, etc etc everyone’s doin SOMETHING except fuckign koalas. idiots have tiny fuckin shortass normal teeth that do an okay job for maybe like 15 years and then wear down and leave them with ridiculous fuckin useless old man gums that do shit all. but thats fine bc all koalas do anyway is sit in trees and sleep 22hrs a day then wake up and scream and eat poison and they do this all day every day until they run out of teeth at which point they just fall out of the tree and die
2) idiots can’t die any other fuckin way bc nothing in nature wants to eat them bc their bodies are chocker block with LITERAL poison. fuckin USELESS their flesh just sits around and slowly rots bc its too gross-tasting and toxic for any animal w half a brain cell to think abt going near it. have yall ever seen koala viscera. bc i have and let me tell u that shit is RANK. looks like the inside of a smoker’s lung from some fuckdamn nicabate ad bc the tannins in eucalypt leaves stain their organs like khaki black. like some fuckin dark!steve irwin costume well better piss ur way right off from this one anti-steve bc thats a natural defense mechanism meant to warn u that koalas should in no way be alive and if u touch them theyll drag u into their stupid evolutionary dead-end where they get to sit around all day doin fuck all and pumpin themselves full of brain-killing poison while we run around makin them our olympic games mascots and pretending theyre cute and honest to god looking for ways to save them from the brink of extinction which actually is unnecessary bc a) theyre not really endangered at all, nature is a fuckign miracle and b) the drongos clearly want to die so i say let em
by the way i never elaborated on “koalas sit in trees all day screaming” but heres a lil fuckin. heres a fun nugget heres a lil soundbyte this is what koalas sound like
Also, it doesn’t matter that they’re eating brain-killing poison, because their brains are already tiny, and smooth rather than folded they way most animal brains are to increase neuron surface area. Also full of holes? These animals are so fuckin dumb, they’re basically like if vertebrates tried to evolve a scale insect.
Fucking dumbasses I love them
so they’re the terrestrial equivalent of sunfish?
im crying omg
What’s the bird equivalent
WITHOUT A DOUBT it is the kakapo, the cutest yet worst-evolutionarily-pranked bird in existence
their natural instinct when faced with danger is to just…freeze and not move….which is basically one tiny step above just walking into the hungry maw of the invasive cat/ferret/rat/raccoon/etc etc
they are also Very Bad at mating and, oh btw, mate only ONCE EVERY 5 YEARS OR SO when one particular berry (the Rimu fruit) has a good year
anyway they are the worlds heaviest parrot and only flightless one, can weigh like 4kg/9 pounds (BIG FRIEND), and if they can avoid being blissful evolutionary dum dums can live 60 TO 100 YEARS if only they can keep it together, bless them
Oh my god
It is illegal for me to not include this video
They don’t ‘forget how to fly’ - Kakapo’s will climb trees and then yes, jump to then glide down. Its not always elegant.
I don’t think people understand how the kakapo literally evolved to suit it’s enviroment and it was super well adapted!!!! Until settlers brought cats and dogs and foxes becauseNEW ZEALAND HAS NO NATURAL MAMMILIAN PREDATORS because birds like the kakapo and the kiwi only had to worry about like, hawks and eagles. And that’s it. They’re not dumb! They’re not evolutionarily backwards! They are literally dying out because of introduced species killing them that they naturally have no defense against!
If you only had to worry about flying birds, you wouldn’t have to worry about anything finding you by scent; which means you can afford to be slow and conserve energy. Kakapos freeze when they meet a predator because their plumage is super suited to blending in seamlessly to its natural habitat. If your predator uses sight to track prey and if that prey can camouflage then buddy!! That’s a good defense mechanism!!
People often assume that evolution is a process like levelling an RPG character into an unkillable god.
It is not.
Evolution is basically a guy who puts character builds together for the sole purpose of exploiting the game mechanics for funsies.
Meet the skimmer.
Skimmers have evolved to fly along the surface of the water with their lower bill partly underwater, grabbing whatever they bump into.
This is a completely ridiculous means of feeding and nothing besides the three skimmer species does it. Dragging their bills through the water creates huge amounts of drag, so they need more energy to fly than usual and specialised skull and neck adaptations to avoid ripping their own heads off. Skimmers also cannot see what their bills touch underwater, they just stick them in the water and hope for the best while trying not to crash into stuff and break their bills (which happens).
Skimmers are exactly as ridiculous as koalas but by god they’re going to do their thing.
“Evolution is basically a guy who puts character builds together for the sole purpose of exploiting the game mechanics for funsies.” is one of the best descriptions of evolution i ever heard. It doesn’t matter if your build is a joke build, it just has to work. A good part of the fun in studying evolutionary biology is finding out HOW IN HELL do these joke builds actually work. Everyone can look at a wolf and say “what a perfect predator, the terror of every herbivore, i stan”, but finding out why his distant cousin, the maned wolf, decided to walk on stilts,eat berries and practiced what’s basically ant-assisted agricolture? That’s when the fun begins.
“The Father”, one of the movies nominated for Best Picture at the 2021 Oscars, tells the story of Anthony, an aging man dealing with dementia and the inability to make sense of what is happening to him. This is the directorial debut of Florian Zeller, who co-wrote the screenplay, based on Zeller’s play “Le Père”. The play is in French, and the main character is called André, but Zeller decided to write the screenplay in English and change the name to Anthony because the only actor he could imagine playing the part was Anthony Hopkins.
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“The Father - Nulla è come sembra”, uno dei candidati nella categoria Miglior film agli Oscars 2021, racconta la storia di Anthony, un uomo anziano che soffre di demenza senile e non riesce più a capire quello che succede intorno a lui. È l’esordio alla regia di Florian Zeller, che ha co-scritto la sceneggiatura basata sulla pièce teatrale di Zeller “Le Père”. Il copione teatrale è in francese, e il protagonista si chiama André, ma Zeller ha deciso di scrivere la sceneggiatura in inglese e cambiare il nome in Anthony perché l’unico attore che riusciva a immaginare nella parte era Anthony Hopkins.
