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c-is-for-circinate:

Something else I’ve been thinking about, wrt Pacific Rim and its resonance with millennials.

It’s a disaster movie, an apocalypse movie, that’s not afraid of technology. Machines, computers, the work of human hands–they’re going to save us all.

This isn’t a story about robots turning on their creators.  This is a story where the most intimate connection you can experience with another person, the Drift, exists because somebody built a machine to make it happen.

You get so many apocalypse movies that are a little bit afraid of technology, of robots, of science.  Where the too-proud scientists went too far and called disaster down upon us, or humanity tried to play god and created a plague/a weapon/woke something bigger and greater than us.

This is an apocalypse movie where (besides one throwaway line about the atmosphere) the end of the world isn’t our fault.  Where the things that humanity strives for, to gain more knowledge, to make us greater, don’t all backfire on us due to hubris, they actually make us greater.

And maybe previous generations are used to being told that the end of the world isn’t their fault, but for us?  It’s all cell phones, iPods, computer games, bloggers, they’re ripping society apart at its seams.  Movies give us zombie viruses and Skynet and Cylons and culture tells us convenience is bad, it’s greedy, it’s wrong even as we’re inundated with new technology on every side.

This is a movie where humanity didn’t accidentally destroy the world by wanting more.  Where technology, the sort of thing our generation grew up loving and using and surrounding ourselves with, the sort of thing that older generations are still a little afraid of, isn’t evil.

We’re not evil, as humans, as people who are curious, who want to invent, who like gadgets and wires and talk to each other through machines.  Curiosity-technology-innovation may be dangerous, drifting with a Kaiju may be dangerous, but it saves the world.  Giant robots save the world.

Score one for the generation that grew up on the internet.

gallusrostromegalus:

doctor-basil-puntastic:

kintatsujo:

thebibliosphere:

vampireapologist:

vampireapologist:

puckthefaerie:

vampireapologist:

lonelygingerpies:

vampireapologist:

actually I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, weather and landscape wise, Scotland and Ohio are weirdly similar and if you could somehow walk out of a field or pasture or small town in one and into the other you’d be hard-pressed to notice for some time.

If you walk through a fairy ring you are unceremoniously dumped in a field in Ohio for your disrespect

this is true.

I nominate Scotland and Ohio to become the faerie capitals of the world, and to establish teleportation betwixt the two with the aforementioned faerie rings

they opened a brewdogs in ohio that’s already the portal

if you get day drunk in the brewdogs in ohio and go to the bathroom alone when you come back out ur in Stirling

This feels alarmingly plausible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_(lake_monster)

Ohio even has its own Lake Monster

@gallusrostromegalus this sounds like your stuff, except not in Colorado.

That’s because most of Colorado and Wyoming opens up into Mongolia, but only if you’re on horseback.

thewinedarksea:

mythology meme: demigods (1/8)
— achilles

in greek mythology achilles was a greek hero of the trojan war and the central character and greatest warrior of homer’s iliad. his mother was the immortal nereid thetis and his father, the mortal peleus, was the king of the myrmidons.

achilles’ most notable feat during the trojan war was the slaying of the trojan hero hector outside the gates of troy. although the death of achilles is not presented in the iliad, other sources concur that he was killed near the end of the trojan war by paris, who shot him in the heel with an arrow. later legends state that achilles was invulnerable in all of his body except for his heel because, when his mother thetis dipped him in the river styx as an infant, she held him by one of his heels. 

andyrussellgarfield:

“So, maybe I’m a prophet. Not me, alone, all of us, the ones who’re dying now. Maybe the virus is the prophecy? Be still. Maybe the world has driven God from Heaven. Because I do believe that, over and over, I’ve seen the end of things. And having seen, I’m going blind, as prophets do. Right? It makes a certain sense to me.”

Angels in America: Perestroika, Act 2, Scene 2