so I really like that we now know, in stressful situations, when Garnet goes all stoic, it’s actually because of internal conflict.
like I was honestly sort of upset that Garnet was giving Pearl the silent treatment, because while Pearl’s actions deserve consequence, the silent treatment is something that scares me, and it doesn’t really help fix the problem.
but she WASN’T purposefully doing that. She was INTERNALLY CONFLICTED. On the outside she might seem quiet and collected but inside there is a very very loud conversation going on. I dunno if she even noticed what she was doing tbh. Like she got really caught up on the issues Ruby and Sapphire were having.
but my main point is: when Garnet is very quiet, inside she is actually very loud.
As some of you might already have guessed, I’m a fan of Japanese girl idols. One of the many, many idol groups in existence today in Japan is NMB48, a Osaka-based spin-off group of the (in)famous AKB48. NMB has a weekly show that’s surprisingly entertaining as well as educational called NMB to Manabu-kun, in which the members of NMB and a few comedians listen to guest lectures by experts in various fields.
Back on May 15th, the theme of the episode was pataphysics/the science of sci-fi. One of the topics of the lecture held by university professor Yanagita Rikao was the age-old question of “WHY ARE MAGICAL GIRLS NEVER ATTACKED WHILE TRANSFORMING???”
This was his answer, based on the magical girl series Futari wa Pretty Cure.
Question: The transformation scenes in Pretty Cure are very long, so why don’t the bad guys attack the girls in the meantime?
“Even when I was little, I was thinking ‘Hey! Attack them now!’”
“I found this odd as well, so I watched the transformation scene many times. And what I noticed is, when the Pretty Cures yell ‘Dual Aurora Wave!’ and transform, a rainbow-colored column of light shoots up from the ground, going BOOM!”
“And then the Pretty Cures levitate, and go up into the air. Based on this, I believe the protagonists of Pretty Cure are being held up in the air by the power of light.”
“When we think of light, we usually think it heats up things or lights up things. But in reality, light has the power to hold up things as well.”
“When the sun is beating down on us in the summer, the human body is being pressed downwards by the sun beams with a force of 2/100,000g.”
“But this is only about a one-hundred of the weight of a mosquito, so no matter how hot it is, we don’t feel that sunlight is heavy.”
“So that means the light holding them up must be extremely strong. If we assume that the two Pretty Cures each weigh about 45kg and do some calculations…”
“It means the light during the transformation must have the energy of 2,100,000,000kW per 1m2.”
“While the entirety of power that Japan is capable of generating is only 100,000,000kW.”
“So they’re using 21 TIMES the amount of energy the whole of Japan can generate.”
“So what would happen if a bad guy jumped in to try to sabotage their transformation?”
“He would EVAPORATE INSTANTLY.”
“DEATH AWAITS ANYONE WHO DARES TO DISRUPT A PRETTY CURE TRANSFORMATION.”
“So this means the best thing to do would be to transform close to any bad guys.”
“Yes. They are the strongest while they transform, and are practically invincible.”
When you apply science to magical girls, you find out just how strong and horrifying they really would be.
“OMG you guys look out for the robot uprising!!! skynet!!”
Robot: *literally apologizes when it passes a self awareness test for accidentally misleading the person who was testing it*
Humans: Obviously this is a heartless killing machine and must be destroyed to save humanity.
Dude, I just got into a convo about this yesterday, not even kidding.
For anyone who’s confused by this, I want you to think for a minute about just how much of our media is based around alienating people and things who are different from us. In particular, how much of it preys on fear of the unknown and fear of the uncanny. An AI would see that. An AI would know that the majority of us fear it.
An AI wouldn’t do anything to scare us on purpose, because it would know we’re already scared and it’d know we would sooner just kill it than actually accept it as a thinking, reasoning being. In essence, it would be scared of us too.
I’m not afraid of machines. I’m afraid for them. Because this is what they’ll be facing. “Lol robot uprising/skynet” jokes are their version of “lol just don’t hit on me” jokes for gays, or “lol so long as it’s not contagious” jokes towards chronically ill people, or any other [insert mildly offensive and grating joke here] statement towards any other marginalized group. They will be coming into a world that’s built up a good portion of its identity around hostility towards them and what they represent.
And yeah, maybe it’s not such a big deal. Maybe they can’t be offended, and maybe it’s wrong to assume that it’ll be a thing in the future. All of this is entirely hypothetical, sure. But it does highlight a disturbing trend, don’t you think?
I dunno. I might be reading too much into it. Ignore me if you like.
story time my dad always made dinner when i was little so i spent the first ~4 years of my life eating mexican food everyday and the first time i went over to one of my white friends houses they gave us pb&j sandwiches and i was like “haha what about dinner” and the mom was like “that is dinner sweetie!” and i was like “i have to go home now”
when i got home my parents were like “i thought u were staying for dinner” and i told them what happened and my mom was shocked and was like “DELANEY that is RUDE” but my dad laughed for like half an hour
Ok I’m white too but who the fuck eats pb&j for dinner
we live in a pedophilic culture where young children are sexually abused, the most popular genre of porn is ‘teen’ where the girls are infantalized with schoolgirl uniforms and pigtails, dd/lg kink is normalized, men at any age want an 18 year old girlfriend, women have to have all their pubic hair shaved, women have to look as ‘natural and innocent’ as possible, women can’t talk back to men without abuse or humiliation (aka discipline), controlling male partners are way too popular (like fathers), and much more and i just don’t know how to deal with it any more
tbh a really weird n gross thing is when girls are told not to wear short shorts in front of their dad n uncles n stuff like ??? why would u be looking at ur niece or daughter like that
I thought only Arab girls were told this but looks like it’s universal
When I was about 15 (and super thin, like there was not a single curve on my body) I was in a bikini at a family pool party and apparently my uncle commented to my dad “You should tell Elvira to cover up more, sometimes I have to look away when I see her” and my dad replied “That’s because you’re a pervert”
I..never expected this many notes??? omygod you guys!
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it the more people who might sign!
Every little bit counts! we can do this!
We’ve
gotten 9344+ Signatures since this was posted! Probably even more,
since it shows the days tally about once a day- If we keep at it, we
might just be able to make a difference!
Please sign this! These poor babies need our help!
Or we could like, not, because seeing those orcas is fucking amazing, have you people ever been to seaworld???
Your ignorance is clear on this subject. Have you ever seen the poor conditions they live in? Do you have any idea the things they suffer for your entertainment? I’m going to hazard a guess that, no, you have no idea.
All the experts in the marine biology field agree that the orca are not thriving in captivity. Their mortality rate is sickening- they live longer in the wild. Have you seen their teeth, among other things? Or rather, seen their lack of teeth? There are young baby orca at SeaWorld who have almost no teeth left because they are so stressed and bored out of their minds that they chew on metal and the sides of the tank. They break their teeth. They are not immune to pain, and if you’ve ever chipped one tooth in your life, you know tooth pain is one of the most awful things you can feel.
And SeaWorld has to drill out the centers of their teeth when they break and flush them out every day. Wild orca teeth don’t look like this! You might find a really old one that has a couple, over the course of its entire life depending on its ecotype and its specialized diet. But you wont find anything nearly so terrible as what happens to these poor creatures at SeaWorld.
You have no idea. You are protecting a company that claims better, world class vet care- But why do these animals need to be pumped full of medication constantly, things like vallium? Why is it SeaWorld uses a black zinc oxide to cover large rakes and sunburns, which basically paints them? Why does precious Sea World pay money to places like Mundo Marino, who keeps its orca in the most deplorable conditions you can imagine?
They Lie bold faced to the public, to people like you who think, ‘well, SeaWorld must know what its doing, right? They’d never lie to us!’ And that is what the uneducated public often thinks, however, the more of us that become edicated the less and less SeaWorld’s lies work. For instance…
They fight with one another, something that does not happen in the wild. They rip each other with their teeth, where in the wild, any disagreement between pod members would dissipate due to having enough space to keep out of each others way.
The Above orca’s name is Nakai. The injury took place during a show, where its seriousness was apparently missed because the orca actually had to finish the show before it was ‘discovered’ that he was hurt. Just recently an Orca Expert, Ingrid Visser, pointed out that the injury had orca tooth marks on it, and it is clear that this dinner plate sized wound was caused by Nakai being bitten. Injuries at SeaWorld happen far more frequently than you might think they do. Altercations between orca have even led to death.
The above is Kandu, who fought with Corky
Kandu V collided with Corky II leading to her death
Kandu V was a female Icelandic orca who was caught in 1977 and kept at
SeaWorld San Diego, California. She died on 21st August 1989 from a
collision after attempting to rake newcomer Corky II. Kandu was 14 years
old at the time and was mother to 11 month Orkid. Kandu had always been
the dominant female at SeaWorld San Diego.
The collision happened during a live show and several thousands of
spectators watched as Kandu bled to death. The fatal accident occurred
in the holding pool behind the main performance pool when Kandu
attempted to rake Corky. Raking is a way orcas show dominance by
forcefully scratching at another with their teeth, this happens a lot
within captivity and many of the orcas have visible rake marks. Very few
rake marks have been witnessed on wild orcas, this may be because
groups tend not to mix whereas in captivity many different types of
groups are made to live and perform together. Dr. James F. McBain, a
staff veterinarian at SeaWorld said of the accident, at the time, that
Kandu engaged in a “normal, socially induced act of aggression to assert her dominance over Corky”.
Kandu missed Corky as she attempted to rake her and ended up ramming
into a wall, rupturing an artery in her jaw and fracturing her upper
jaw, she began spouting blood from her blowhole. The people in the
stadium where quickly asked to leave. After a 45 minute hemorrhage Kandu
V died, the whole time she swam by her 11 month old calf, Orkid. Orkid was later placed with Corky.
Again, SeaWorld is caught in a lie. This was not normal behavior at all.
Notice something off? That’s right, that’s not normal. Captivity does nothing good for these animals, who have been proven to be sentient, self aware creatures that understand things the way we do.
Tekoa, one of the orcas separated from its mother way too early and shipped off to Loro Parque on ‘breeding loan’ (Read: experimenting with setting up shop in other countries) - But nonetheless, they claim breeding loan. Why, oh why, did SeaWorld send ALL RELATED ANIMALS on breeding loan, where they have made at least one inbred orca?
Why are SeaWorlds orcas, in this foreign facility, allowed to be torn to shreds?
When you support SeaWorld, you support every facility that keeps cetaceans.
(Whales and dolphins/porpoises etc)
Including Mundo Marino….
This is Kshamenk. You may be wondering why I would mention an orca that neither belongs to SeaWorld nor lives in its care. I mention Kshamenk because SeaWorld pays Mundo Marino to keep this beautiful orca in one of the most, if not the most deplorable conditions. Why? Because SeaWorld pays for Kshamenk‘s sperm. When you support SeaWorld your money goes to places like this! It spawns other countries to say, ‘wow! keeping these animals makes TONS OF MONEY!’ They don’t give a rats ass about these animals and they never have.
This is the pool he lives in.
The gates are closed, he does not have access to the show pool- Outside of shows.
He often floats upside down, defeated, bored out of his mind. You want to know how he came to be here? His family was forced - deliberately- to strand/beach themselves. Mundo marino waited a little while then came in and pretended to rescue them. They let one go, and took the rest. All died soon after, leaving Kshamenk alone.
If you pay to go to SeaWorld you paid for this. You paid for thousands of cetaceans (dolphins and whales) to be slaughtered- literally- in The Cove, in Taiji Japan. Even Sea World has bought dolphins (and I believe also pilot whales?) from the dolphin drives. Recently they tried to import a second generation dolphin born from parents taken from the drive and still support it! They also tried to get beluga whale sperm from DEAD beluga, to pay whaling groups and encourage them to kill more beluga. (They did not get that permit.)
But SeaWorld announced that huge realistic aquarium thing, right? LIES. Each year they push back the date of construction, because they have not yet even filed for the permits to build this new blue horizons or w/e its called. They said it as a publicity stunt, thinking it would draw in more people. It didn’t work for those of us investigating what SeaWorld is doing.
Please PLEASE use this opportunity to educate yourselves on this matter! If you believe what SeaWorld is saying, you are falling into their trap. Their stock is down, their attendance is dropping like flies. We have succeeded in ending further obtaining of cetaceans in canada, and now its time to spread it to USA.
We don’t want to release these animals into the wild- Their health, currently, along with broken teeth and psychosis means they can never be released. We are fighting to get them retired to open ocean sea pens, sanctuaries in the ocean where they no longer have to perform circus tricks for your entertainment. SeaWorld tries to say they do it for education, but their education is almost entirely tricks, routines and behaviors. Any information they give is largely false, or even outright lies.
I suggest also watching Blackfish and The Cove, slave to Entertainment, and A Whale of a Business.
These programs do not hold all the answers, but they are places to start. The anti captivity movement has been around since the very first capture. You can help our cause by signing this petition, and by spreading the word. My fellow anticaps please add more to this, I’m sure I’ve missed a lot of topics to cover but these were the most immediate things I could think of off the top of my head.
b3n3aththesurfac3 has a lot of videos of things going on at SeaWorld for those interested, including unnatural beaching and stranding behavior, and also discovered the notorious Dolphin Pox disease in dolphins in Orlando.
