“Oh you had a plague? Come back to us when you had a World War, brand new unconventional weapons, and a new international order.”
I apologize.
insert that YOU chihuahua post where theyre being pinned down i cant for the life of me find it
This one?
Oh, Charles. The hubris. Honey. You had to know this was a possibility. Why would you tempt Apollo like that.
I love how we don’t even need Apollo to be captioned, it’s just “he’s holding a dodgeball and looks Greek statue, of COURSE it’s Apollo delivering the gift of prophecy unto unsuspecting tumblr users”
It’s that time of year again and the hype is here, its E3 week!! I’ve made an E3 bingo card for the 3rd year running and it’s probably full of spelling mistakes but who cares. This isn’t to be taken too seriously as the whole bottom row is just things I’m hoping for not what I think will actually happen. Reblog away and/or let me know what your predictions are for this years show!
Nintendo hosting a Pokemon Direct tomorrow ruins one of my E3 predictions that I haven’t had a chance to make yet. I was going to guess that a main Pokemon game will come out for the Switch so if it happens tomorrow, I can say I told you so!
We are now only one week from E3 which means its time for some predictions!! Long time followers of mine will know that for the past two years I’ve made an E3 bingo card of what I think we will see/what I’m hoping to see. I have a few ideas of what I’m going to put on it but I need more. What do you think we will see this year?
IBM 5 in 5: Unbiased AI will help people trust machines
In the next five years, new solutions will be developed to help control bias in artificial intelligence. AI can be a powerful tool for helping people make decisions— for example, lawyers are using AI to help them conduct legal research and stay up to date with the latest legislation. But when AI is trained using biased data, the bias can be passed into the decision-making process—an issue requiring immediate attention as humans and AI increasingly work together. IBM researchers are developing new solutions to help remove implicit racial, gender, or ideological biases from data sets. Balanced data means balanced decision-making, building a future AI as intelligence we can trust.
IBM 5 in 5: Lattice Cryptography will outwit hackers
The scale and sophistication of cyber-attacks escalates every year. But within the next five years, a new security method called lattice cryptography will help create an intractable barrier for black hats. The key is hiding data inside complex math problems called lattices, designed to protect data from the threat of crypto-breaking quantum computers. Current encryption protocols are being outpaced by advances in computing technology, but with lattice cryptography, we’re working to get ahead of the problem. Hackers gonna hack—but we’re coming prepared.
IBM 5 in 5: AI-Powered robot microscopes will help save our oceans
Oceans are vast—and vastly complicated. They’re difficult to study, as even the most technologically advanced sensors struggle to analyze such a complex ecosystem. But over the next five years, IBM is working to tap the help of tiny little creatures—plankton—whose changes in behavior can point to hard-to-spot changes in the environment. IBM researchers are building a real-time network of autonomous microscopes that will monitor ocean plankton—the more data they collect, the better they’ll be able to predict threats like red tides. And in the future, AI technology can equip these microscopes to report abnormalities in real time. It’s a microscopic innovation with a massive effect.
IBM 5 in 5: Blockchain and crypto-anchors will help knock out knockoffs.
In the next five years, cryptographic anchors and blockchain technology will help ensure a product’s authenticity—from its point of origin to the hands of the customer. Knockoffs aren’t always easy to spot, and it can be difficult to pinpoint when and where they are substituted for genuine items. Complex supply chains demand an immutable solution to keep counterfeits from replacing authentic products, goods, and medicines. IBM researchers are developing crypto-anchors are digital fingerprints that can authenticate a product’s origins and contents against records kept in a blockchain ledger, so you always know what you’re receiving. Knockoffs beware—your days are numbered.
In the next five years, we expect the effects of quantum computing to reach beyond the research lab. Industries will begin to leverage quantum to work through what are currently perceived to be unsolvable problems, such as the development of personalized drugs or discovering more efficient and sustainable energy sources. As it proliferates into the mainstream, quantum will become a pre-requisite technology taught in science and engineering classrooms worldwide.
Honestly, I saw the promos for 12x09, so I kind of know what’s going to happen to Meredith. And it really crushes my heart. And surprises me. So for those of you who haven’t seen the promo, I would do so.
Japril:
According to the latest press release, 12x09 will not have many japril scenes. (sigh). But I do know that 12x11 is a very Japril centric, with flashbacks and everything. Also I would like to point out that every season’s eleventh episode has been Japril-centric
9x11- Japril official breakup, Jackson moving on with Stephanie, and April’s iconic line “Standing here, looking at you, and all I want to do is kiss you.”
10x11- Get Up Stand Up, when Jackson stops April’s wedding, (my favorite episode of all time)
11x11- Samuel Norbert Avery’s birth and death
12x11- prediction: Jackson and April finally discuss what they really want, fingers crossed that they resolve their issue and get back together.
Owen and Riggs:
Based on all the stipulations and facts concerning whatever Owen’s big dark secret concerning Riggs is, my guess is that Riggs was once married to Owen’s sister or something. And somehow Riggs is responsible for her death. (If she’s even dead.) Maybe something like that.
Amelia:
Honest to God. I have no idea what is up with Amelia. Is she going to relapse into being an alcoholic. Is she going to start dating Riggs, straining Owen and Nathan’s relationship further. I have no freakin idea.
Jolex:
No clue. I think she’ll accept. BUT, probably not in 12x09, probably 12x10, based on what happens to Meredith in 12x09, there is absolutely no room for Jolex drama.
LeoGetting down with a really, really good book and taking some time to get into this other world. Baking some bread and eating it with too much butter. Getting a flower from a shop or from the vase in your house and wearing it behind your ear, just to feel cute.Showing yourself some kindness and treating yourself to a massage that you give your own hands, to remove the tension and relax every muscle in your fingers. Feeling like you owe the world nothing, but you owe yourself the world.
Virgomaking some Art today, doesn’t matter if it’s good or not, just some painting, or some music, or crocheting or finishing a home project. Making something. Then having a calm moment, taking a walk and smiling at all the dogs that cross your way, and the owners too, if they seem friendly. When at home, using some of that good skincare product that you don’t want to use everyday because it was expensive. Indulging in the knowledge that you have to be nowhere today, you have no social obligations, you can just do what you want.
Librathe day could feel heavy, but heavy in a good way, in the soft, velvety way of knowing exactly what you want and the delicious hope that you’re gonna get it eventually. Making some good tea, putting on a coat and boots and drinking it out on the balcony in the freezing cold. You drink the hot tea and the air is so clear and good for you. Today, your realize the depths of one of your friendships and the true meaning of soulmates.
ScorpioUsing the day to do something you’ve been wanting to do for a while, like finishing a sewing project or even just calling a friend you haven’t talked to in a while. Showing your plants some love and watering them, spraying them with water, maybe taking some cuttings. Doing your eyeliner just so, and feeling really confident in your body because you should be, and you’re absolutely stunning. Laying naked on your bed without any reason and maybe painting on yourself with watercolor, just for the joy of the colors.
(I let Alan do my column this month. Let’s see how he did.)
Capricorn
The Moon sneaks a peek at Venus - which she wasn’t happy about as she was sunbathing on the beach outside her house at the time -while at the end of the solar system. The Sun provides the perfect shade for Mars and Jupiter as they floss in the vacuum of space. Your stars are in alignment with the cookies of Oreo.
They are telling you to stop being a wuss and ask out that good looking Astronaut that has been flirting with you over the last slice of Arctic Roll in the cafeteria. You are in control of your life and you need to be brave enough to take the plunge.
Aquarius
Pluto and Neptune are throwing hands on the steps of an asteroid belt, obstructing crucial space communications. Wednesday is going to be a collision of galactic gravitational forces, obscuring your aura from the warmth of space radiation.
Don’t buy that sweater, the colour doesn’t suit you and it’s twenty years out of date. My dad would wear that. Besides, it’s totally over-priced even in the sale.
Pisces
Jupiter’s moons are hanging lower than normal and swinging backwards. The far off suns of the Milky Way are exploding causing ripples of distortion across the cosmic fretboard of time and space. Can you hear its echoing melody? Don’t tell Virgil, he’ll try to copy it and it sounds like a cat wailing. This disturbance will all come to a frightening head on Monday.
Go skiing with Chad from finance over the weekend. He’s been doing CrossFit and he’s looking to show off his new set of abs, though they will be nowhere near as nice as mine. He jelly.
Aries
Mercury has skipped town with a cute little moon just a few lightyears travel away from Saturn. A supernova in the proximity of the Cornetto quadrant has wiped out the only other signs of life in the galaxy but your Tuesday is looking to be pretty rad.
Give yourself a well-deserved long weekend off. Call in sick and leave a burning bag of poop on your boss’s front porch, go to the spa, have a facial and work on that acne. You’ll feel tons better.
Taurus
The multiverse is in chaos, even The Doctor is worried. Godlike beings like the Lazoons are playing snooker with countless realities, the time lines are in chaos! The screams of your doppelgangers are confusing the hell out of John, because he’s sure he logged that call twenty minutes ago. This will encourage thoughts of procrastination on Tuesday morning, but it’s fine, because you can put it off until Wednesday.
Don’t eat it. Don’t pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about, Gordon said the same. Don’t touch it — don’t even look at it!
Remember that things aren’t always as bad as they seem, that there are still good people out there and good times in the future. Remember to reach out to your friends and check in on them, because we’re all in this together.
Gemini
As Marina C is slowly but surely swallowed by a black hole throughout the next month, Captain America will rise and obscure alternate heavenly bodies in accordance with the Titanic model, resulting in an overall crap storm of epic proportions.
Go ahead and sign up for that windsurfing class. Francesca will realize what she’s missing, just give it time and she will come crawling back.
Cancer
The geocentric orbit surrounding Earth this week may pull in several unexpected objects, including three satellites, two stars and an asteroid in the shape of Mickey Mouse. This in turn will affect the stability of spacetime, so avoid any heavy lifting on Friday, make Virgil do it, it’s easier.
Carefully read through all written work you come across this month, even if it’s from Brains, because otherwise you will be cloned and your evil doppelganger will take over your life while you remain locked in the cupboard in Colonel White’s office. He has far too many comedy ties but he never wears them. It’s just weird.
The world is still in chaos but that can’t be helped, five planets are retrograde and Selene says that always makes things iffy. I asked Scott what his advice was in regards to dealing with the world in general and he looked me dead in the eye and said “Make a completely normal approach, and keep your head.” I don’t know what he means by that but it seems important.
Leo
Saturn spins a sick beat on its new decks, rocking the universe with its slick beats. The little dipper spills cherry coke on the Andromeda constellation, initiating a sticky rain cloud that will fall only on Edinburgh.
Go back to bed, it’s fine, in fact, don’t even bother with bed, the floor is surprisingly comfy. Don’t worry, you won’t miss anything, absolutely nothing of interest will occur this month because everyone is still focused on themselves.
Virgo
The steady movements of the second star to the right will bring a sense of clarity to your life and you will recall moments of your childhood that you had previously forgotten. However, interference from Cygnus may work to confuse things more — watch out, because your Teddy Bear isn’t the good guy here! It will only get worse if you ignore it.
Those whispers you hear at night aren’t in your head, it’s aliens I tell you! You should probably Alien-proof your house. But don’t worry, if you don’t get abducted by Saturday your chances of living improve by 15 per cent! Buy that lottery ticket.
Don’t forget your masks when you go out in case someone coughs on you , we never do. There was one time that I didn’t bring mine and Gordon farted and let me tell you, I regretted it that day.
Libra
M-type main-squeeze star Alpha Bravo 6 will jumble up the celestial flow and likely have a huge impact on the double star of Teflon, possibly even all of Aluminium. Make sure to factor this in before making any decisions or building any Robots.
Watch out for banana peels, pool water and make sure to keep a box of band-aids with you. You’re going to be clumsier than John this week.
Scorpio
There has been an awakening in a distant galaxy. The dark side of the force is moving in to battle the light. They have been locked in an eternal conflict for the last six minutes and it shows no sign of stopping. As such, this will infect your Thursday evening with mean thoughts towards your best friend’s sister. Do not pull her hair just because stole your bike one summer.
Stop what you’re doing and go see Star Wars again. Don’t even think about it, it’s a great movie, buy me popcorn and I’ll come with you, I just have to wait until John we have an off week…so sometime in the next six to eight months suit you?
Sagittarius
A white hole off the tip of the Sombrero ring is spewing glitter at an alarming rate across the cosmos. A colony of sentient space mushrooms are drifting through the galaxy and set to collide with the Downward Dog.
When no one is watching pull that fire alarm. Free your brothers and sisters from the capitalist regime and the social niceties of life.
okay this is just the first couple watch throughs (and I haven’t been able to figure out any of the text but) here are my initial thoughts of what I think I can identify on the map in the new TDP S4 intro
First to get the Obvious ones out of the way
What looks like baby / a much, much younger Aaravos, close to Ezran’s age if not a little younger
Then we have Sol Regem at the top of the map, the same way we have Thunder / Avizandum at the top of the Arc 1 map
The constellation below Sol Regem on the right looks like a Bumblescorp, which Claudia famously mentions in 1x06 to Viren (a joke set up for the “If you must make a choice between Soren and the egg, choose the egg”)
The constellation to the left of Sol Regem looks like a Sunfire dragon like Phyrrah, the one the boys and Rayla rescue in 2x07 and returns in 3x09 for the battle
Then a constellation of what I thought at first were fish, but upon closer inspection they’re actually like our favourite grumpy friendly Bait - a pair of Glow Toads (reminiscent of Pisces)
To the far northeast of the map we have an elven combatant who seems to have a skull at the front - perhaps Garlaf the Annihilator? Although it’s hard to tell if he’s Moonshadow with the horns, so maybe not
We have some kind of many-legged creature (like the Startouch panda-bear from Tales of Xadia?) playing a string instrument, which could be a reference to the strings in the sneak peek S4 song “Of Love and Loss” that a character in canon apparently will play
We have birds, a book, and a tree in the far midwest. It makes me think of the tree in Katolis’ courtyard, as that seems to be linked to Aaravos and the Orphan Queen (planted 300 years ago), this map is clearly much older. Trees of knowledge are common in mythology and the two birds represent freedom, family? This also may have increased importance as its the one clearly Nature motif constellation and S4 is going to be Book 4: Earth.
We have a unicorn near the bottom, which makes sense as they were around aplenty before humans hunted them to near extinction for dark magic, and they’re canonically connected to the Star Arcanum. This is the second constellation with a possible Claudia connection (as she hunted a unicorn for the Avizandum slaying spell) next to the Bumblescorp.
A very bright star all on its own, near the south east of the future Pentarchy side of the picture. The South Star perhaps that people use to navigate?
Crown in the very middle of the map, which is clearly important (perhaps why the King of Dragon is always portrayed aligned with it) but the significance / meaning is otherwise unknown.
What looks like the Mama Banther and Baby Banther that Callum mentions in the “Written in the Stars” skit, or something comparable to wild boars (if very hairy)
This figure reminds me of Lady Justice due to not really having a face and the robes. It also seems like she’s holding one hand up that’s cupped and one hand straight. It’s similar but it’s hard to tell to a common gesture in historical Christian art that means “Speaker”
We have a second elf who seems to be Moonshadow, judging by the regalia. It doesn’t seem to be Queen Aditi - but, maybe? She / they seem to be frowning or upset about something and the headpiece is reminiscent of the Sunfire queen crown / Sol Regem’s horns
Last but not least we have whatever eldritch abomination this appears to be, right in the middle of the Xadian side of the map. It seems to have eyes and something of a face (is even a little similar-ish looking to Aaravos’ insectoid conduit) but I wonder if it’s supposed to be a whirlpool, or even reminiscent of the essence of Magic itself? It gives me eldritch but accurate Biblical angel vibes
And of course the map has the six primal sources near the bottom, with Star glowing purple at the top
Also worth noting that not all the constellations have little name tags, but the ones that do goes as follows:
I’m thinking about how Zym (and Thunder) are associated with storms this season, but so is Callum - and this metaphoric association is in s1 even then. Ezran is scared by the storm (much like Callum’s temper) in 1x01. Rayla is illuminated by it, and then has to deal with Callum routinely seeing through her in their first encounter and in 1x06. And of course, Callum went into the storm in 2x04 in order to Sky - storm - magic after releasing it from his primal stone. We return to this again in 2x08 with his dream. Perhaps Viren will feel a cold dread again someday, but because of the boy wielding a storm, instead of a dragon?
The new grass starter trades in his stick for retractable leaf blades when he fully evolves! :O Before the real evolutions actually get shown, I wanted to jump onboard the evo prediction train! So until they are, I’m def. going with Grookey, and hoping for this mighty monkey in my party!
(I know he has a glaring weakness to flying, but I’m giving him Ice Punch so there! :P)
