I feel that the manager has extreme stage fright, and that’s why he’s so talented yet taking a backseat role. He was going to talk about Franchouchou at the bike event, but completely forgot what he was going to say. The reason he acts like an ass to the girls is so he’s putting on a “character”, and thus not directly speaking to them
I love what fleas look like from above vs. from the side
I didn’t realize this was surprising to so many people!
This lateral flattening allows the flea to “swim like a fish” through fur, aided by the many backwards-facing barbs and hairs along their sides.
If you’ve ever tried to pick them off a dog or cat you’ve seen this in action, it really is like they’re gliding through a liquid environment and amazingly fast, hardly even using their legs to do it.
This is also why they don’t have wings, which would get in the way of this trick, but they compensated with incredible jumping ability that may as well be flight.
Hundreds of millions of years ago, though, fleas couldn’t jump and they were flattened top-down:
This is because fleas were originally parasites of dinosaurs, and while dinosaurs often had feathers, feathers have a different density and the “fur swimming” wouldn’t have worked yet.
The first fleas similar to today’s fleas probably began evolving towards the end of the dinosaur’s run, adapting to the increasing number of our ancestral mammals. Dinosaurs shrank into modern birds so rapidly, it seems, that their original fleas vanished entirely.
So basically whenever you get bit by a flea, you caught that from a dinosaur.
I was thinking about this again earlier and do that many people also know that a sperm whale’s mouth has the same flatness?
every single cartoon and game assumes they have this huge wide gaping maw because I guess you usually see a side view and just assume there’s more of a third dimension
ALSO IMPORTANT:
They have only lower teeth, no upper teeth, and a teeny tiny throat. This set up is for slurping up squids like pasta and nothing else.
Basically no big whale exists on our planet at all with the giant, open toothy mouth of Monstro.
I was talking with a friend about how I love
SPOP, but Adora’s attitude through Catra’s feelings is bothering me. Adora goes
from a mínimum empathy, to total disconcern. Cuz it looks as if Adora forgets
about Catra’s existence and she only rembers her when they’re face to face.
It’s all the other way on Catra, who has made
Adora the centre of her world. This is unfair because Catra doesn’t seem to
recieve any kind of comfort from Adora, for all the abuse she suffered as a
child.
Yes, Adora was with her all the time and even
defended her once from Shadow Weaver. But being trained both of them with the same
goal in mind and with nothing else in their lives, it makes sense that they
spend all that time together. As Catra said, Adora always was concerned about
Shadow Weaver’s opinion, so it is correct to asume that Adora never got
involved except if Shadow tried to physically abuse Catra.
Don’t misunderstand me, i’m not saying that
Adora didn’t care for Catra at all, but it isn’t strange that she never seems
to take an active rol in wanting to rescue her from The Horde? Adora only
proposed Catra to come with her when Catra told to her face about her abandonment.
The rest of the time is not that big of a deal. I understand Catra has rejected
Adora’s proposal, and she is really occupied with the rebellion.
But again, it doesn’t seem to be an active
interest in Adora for Catra, not now and not before. That’s why is painful for
Catra watching Adora getting closed to her new friends, Bow and Glimmer, to
wich Adora is willing to protect.
And then, it came to me: Adora is not getting
involved with Glimmer’ and Bow’s fellings, Glimmer and Bow are the two getting
involved with her.
It makes so much sense, that i can’t believe i
didn’t notice this before. Adora had been raise to be the líder of a fascist
force, and believe that they’re the good guys, a force that rejects any kind of
weakness. It’s not that Adora doesn’t care for Catra, but she isn’t capable of doing it in a require deeper level. The only three times that we see Adora comforting Catra is when little
Catra was in tears, to be punsihed or crying in horror… visible proof that
something is not ok.
And we see the same whit Bow and Glimmer. Adora
doesn’t seem to understand why Glimmer is so upset for Bow and Perfuma going
together to the ball until she has to explain it to Adora.
It really took me by surprise: The horde raised
Adora and Catra so they don´t express any weakness, seeing as negative things
like feelings and emotional attachment. Adora, being the favorite of Shadow
Weaver, didn´t struggle in disconnecting with her empathic side. But Catra, a
more emotional person, obligated herself to hide all her frustrations and
feelings, even the good ones.
That’s why Adora can´t realize how she made
Catra feel all this years, and her feelings now that she has join the
Rebellion. Catra hides, and Adora doesn’t know how or what to look for.
Adora is tottally moral and follows her basic
instincts: Protect people from the bad guys. If Catra decides to stay with the
Horde, Adora is not going to understand why, and without that, without acknowledging
that Catra wanted Adora to choose her, and now to be free from her feelings for
Adora, proving that she doesn’t need her, they will never be able to join
again.
It’s a defect that makes Adora a very human
carácter, contributes to her background and to the tragedy of both.
So, this is just a little reflection on why I find SPOP
interesting.
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