renew:
shwoo:
A couple of people on Something Awful pointed out that the theme of the latest Adventure Time is probably the five stages of grief. It’s like the last one where it counts as long as a character says the word, even if the story isn’t about it.
Denial: Cinnamon Bun says “I can’t handle this denial of the light!”
Anger: While being swallowed, Lemongrab 2 starts to say “anger” just as the scene changes.
Bargaining: The Ice King says “You may have numbers on your side, but I’ve still got one trick up my sleeve: bargaining!”
Depression: Mr Fox says “See that depression? You can’t buy that. You gotta earn it.”
The only problem is that I didn’t hear anyone in the Jake jr story say acceptance. It was themed around acceptance though. Jake jr calms down both BMO and Cinnamon Bun, and Jake needs to accept that his daughter is an adult now. Maybe it was written in the newspaper? I couldn’t read it.
Finn says “acceptance” when he signs for the delivery of the time machine piece.
Ah, you’re right. I must have been distracted by the incredible awkwardness of that scene. Definitely the five stages of grief!
A couple of people on Something Awful pointed out that the theme of the latest Adventure Time is probably the five stages of grief. It’s like the last one where it counts as long as a character says the word, even if the story isn’t about it.
Denial: Cinnamon Bun says “I can’t handle this denial of the light!”
Anger: While being swallowed, Lemongrab 2 starts to say “anger” just as the scene changes.
Bargaining: The Ice King says “You may have numbers on your side, but I’ve still got one trick up my sleeve: bargaining!”
Depression: Mr Fox says “See that depression? You can’t buy that. You gotta earn it.”
The only problem is that I didn’t hear anyone in the Jake jr story say acceptance. It was themed around acceptance though. Jake jr calms down both BMO and Cinnamon Bun, and Jake needs to accept that his daughter is an adult now. Maybe it was written in the newspaper? I couldn’t read it.
Standard programming practices usually discourage altering the source code and not testing it just before releasing the software to the customer.
Title: Fatetrapped [Chapter 38]
Summary: Now that Phineas and Ferb have grown up and had kids, they have to participate in a game. But they won’t be the ones to play it.
Read More
kyuubeymon:
raptorific:
I’M SO ANGRY
SOME 16TH CENTURY ASSHOLE WROTE “GOD B W YE” IN A LETTER AS AN ABBREVIATION FOR “GOD BE WITH YE”
AND IT APPEARED AS “GODBWYE”
WHICH WAS THEN READ AS “GOODBYE”
AND THAT’S WHY WE SAY “GOODBYE”
BECAUSE OF 16TH CENTURY CHAT SPEAK
CAN SOMEONE CONFIRM THIS?
It was probably spoken that way as a contraction before it was written. It’s just much easier to see how people wrote back then than how they spoke.
I think I figured out some of the questions I need to be able to answer for my Earth science exam. Actually this is just what I need to know to answer practice multiple choice test. I wish they’d put up past exams like Linguistics does.
[What is the biological pump in Earth science?]
[What is the chlorophyll maximum phenomenon?]
[Why does it happen?]
[What is the Redfield ratio?]
[What is it used for?]
[What is good scientific practice, particularly in system science?]
[What is the K-T boundary?]
[How did it happen?]
[What was its effect on marine biodiversity?]
[What was the Cambrian explosion?]
[How does evolution work?]
[What is heritability?]
[What do the sym- and allo- prefixes mean in terms of speciation?]
[What do the -patric and -chthonous suffixes mean in terms of speciation?]
[What is vicariance?]
[What was the effect on the environment of humans arriving in Australia, particularly in regards to charcoal and eucalypts?]
[What is the Mid-Alantic Ridge?]
[What is seafloor spreading?]
[About how does the seafloor spread along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?]
[What is a foram?]
[What does it mean for a foram to be planktonic or benthic?]
[What do they show about past temperatures?]
[What is a radiogenic isotope?]
[What exactly do they date?]
[What are P-waves and S-waves?]
[How are they produced?]
[Which of them can propogate through liquid?]
[What are the main sources of geothermal energy?]
[What is the Earth’s crust?]
[How does continental crust differ from oceanic crust?]
[What is sedimentary rock?]
[What factors affect the layering of sedimentary rocks?]
[What is precipitation?]
[What happens to it after it falls on land?]
[What factors affect the conductivity of water?]
[What influences it the most in precipitation?]
[What influences it the most in groundwater?]
[What would cause the amount of a thing in a system to remain steady?]
[What is ocean acidification?]
[How is it caused?]
[What is negative feedback in system science?]
[What is residence time?]
[How is it calculated?]
[How did life respire before aerobic respiration?]
[What kind of life existed at this time?]
[Why would there be signifantly less genetic diversity of the same kind of organism in one area than another?]
One of the mistakes in creative writing I’ve noticed lately is a tendency to show, and then tell. Like this:
The woman went red in the face, uprooted a nearby tree, and hefted it above her head, snarling. She was angry.
The reader can tell that this woman is angry by reading the first sentence. The second sentence adds nothing, so it’s redundant and should be removed.
That’s one of the principles of writing, I think. If it adds nothing, it should be removed.
This can happen in dialogue tags too:
“Sorry about that,” he apologised.
“Yes,” she affirmed.
“It’s okay, I can fly,” he reassured her, informing her that he could fly.
That last one is too clunky to use even if it did add new information.
I like how, even though Lumpy Space Princess is basically a joke character, she still has a focus episode very early on where she says “I was just trying to help, but whatever. No. No, not whatever! I know I mess things up sometimes, but I’m really trying! And you’re supposed to be my friend. Not like the fake ones I have here.”
It’s nice to see a silly joke character with enough depth for introspection and character moments. Adventure Time has a lot of great characters!
Plus I can relate to that line.
