Straight women who don’t understand what top and bottom mean and refer to literally being on top of someone as topping is the funniest shit ever. You are so lost
okay context for the non-italians. long story short: it’s pretty much impossible from an engineering perspective. there are very strong and swirly currents that make it not feasible to just build a bridge where the coasts are the closest - it would have to be built in a spot where the distance between the coasts is wider, a little too much for a bridge possibly, but also, like, outside of the cities, which means it would still be quicker for people to step on the ferry than drive all the way to the bridge. the ferry is quick, cheap, also they’ve introduced sustainable non-polluting boats, so, literally no one in either sicily or calabria wants a useless bridge, even if it could be built safely.
on top of that… it’s a seismic area. you really don’t want to make engineering experiments there.
governments have tried to figure out a way to build that bridge at least from the 60s, afaik, but engineers have just come to the conclusion that nope.
also: people in sicily and calabria have reason to believe that if a project like that gets given the green light, it will end up fattening the pockets of corrupted politicians and mafia groups.
pretty straightforward right? yeah… NOPE!
the italian right has been waving the proposal of building that bridge for decades. every once in a while, when you think you’re free, BAM the right-wing politician genius of the moment comes up with the law proposal to build the bridge. it used to be berlusconi, now berlusconi is dead, recently it’s been salvini. they propose to build the bridge, the left says “what the fuck”, and the right goes see!! the left doesn’t want progress and development for the country!! they want the country to languish and die!!
(in the meanwhile taxpayers’ euros go into paying commissions that need to figure out how to build the bridge, ignoring that there’s been a billion commissions over almost a century that have all come to the conclusion that nope.)
(also remember what i said about corrupted politicians and mafia groups? well try to guess the reason it’s the right-wing parties that keep insisting on building this fucking bridge.)
it’s become a total national joke. mention the bridge on the strait to an italian, they’ll laugh as they go through the 5 stages of italian political grief.
Published in “Transvestia” magazine #38 (April 1966). I think original art could be by Bob Tupper.
not sure if anyone’s added this info here but because I wanted to know more I checked and….
Every issue of transvestia magazine, which ran from the 60’s through to the 80’s is available through the uVic archives. It was a groundbreaking publication for the crossdressing and later the transgender community. Check it out.
i would be a kittypet all the way in the warrior cats universe. if i heard a bunch of guys were in the woods killing each other for survival and they think i’m the lame one for getting mediocre banquets i would be like you guys are stupidd and then when the thunderclan medicine cat comes by my fenced lot to pick yarrow i would be like what are you doing and shes like medicine so my clanmates don’t die and i’m like wow you guys really have it that rough. and she keeps encountering me and one day i’m like why don’t you come inside there’s plenty of kibble and she averts her eyes shyly and is like …no that would be against starclan and i’d go To have a little kibble? and she’s like You know what i mean. and i do. 5 moons later she is getting adopted by my people and visions of her ancestors still haunt her and she is from time to time like Did I do the right thing…? how could i be so selfish…? and i’m like my toy mouse squeaks
Its the last essay of the year and the events going on in Gaza - and similar events elsewhere - had me pondering some thoughts for those who may feel powerless and like they can’t do anything. It’s not perfect, but its something.
Hey shout out to every custodial/sanitation worker taking out and cleaning up literal hot garbage so that the rest of us can go about our summer days like it doesn’t exist
Glad to see this resonated with someone, respect custodial staff or die<3
It is inherently fun and sexy to say statements that swap the traditional genders of pronouns and terms mid-statement, such as: “I’m going to make him my wife” “She’s my boyfriend” “Who says a guy can’t be a pretty princess?” “That girl’s the coolest dude I’ve ever met” “She’s a madman who has to be stopped” “It’s not his fault he’s a material girl” Gender is a set of watercolors and the prettiest shades come from mixing the paints together.
my cats are in a toxic gay relationship. the one in the foreground is Joseph and the one who is sneezing is Lenny. sometimes they frolick together. Joseph encourages Lenny to sniff his ass. Joseph beats the shit out of Lenny, which makes him have a sneezing fit.
I absolutely love that the Pokémon universe is literally tearing itself apart at the seams. Fantastic worldbuilding, A+++
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A non-exhaustive list:
Mega Evolution comes from a meteor. The impact of that meteor literally split the dimensions apart and made it canonical that different versions of the same game are parallel dimensions (Alpha Ruby is a different world from Ruby, for instance). This is later confirmed by the presence of Anabel in Sun and Moon, who fell through dimensions from a world without Mega Evolution.
Speaking of Sun and Moon, wormholes are opening up all over Alola, letting in extradimensional beings that Pokéballs don’t catch properly. There are silver-skinned humans from one of these portals that live in a giant prismatic city.
Also in Sun/Moon, you can pass through to a mirror world where day is night and night is day. When this happens, you can catch the mirror world version of your box legendary friend.
There’s a giant space alien in Sword and Shield who’s leaking particles that cause Pokémon to briefly turn massive, which sometimes rearranges their genetic makeup.
In Scarlet and Violet, reality is splintering. There’s a hole to the future/past that generates paradox Pokémon which are heavily implied to have been materialized out of a researcher’s desire to see them rather than actually from their future/past. The same energy that supposedly made them enables Pokémon to become any type they want and caused a robot to gain human sentience.
In the hole you find the paradox Pokémon in, you find buried monoliths that nobody knows where they came from. The very material they’re made of is canonically unidentifiable.
Time and space were briefly unraveled in Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum as a maniac tried to overwrite the current world and make a new universe out of it, and in the Platinum universe, this opened a hole to another dimension where a banished god lives. The banished god was pissed off about this and abducted the guy that messed with time and space.
People sometimes slip through the cracks and become Pokémon in Pokémon-only worlds (the Mystery Dungeon series) or drop through time to different eras (Legends Arceus’s protagonist and Ingo).
In Mystery Dungeon, time is eroding (Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky), and the world is warping and distorting into areas that scramble themselves every time you enter them and make the inhabitants of those areas agitated and hostile (entire series).
the thing about mystery dungeon tho, and in particular explorers of sky, is that they were the FIRST games in the franchise to do multiverse shenanigans wayyy back in the ‘00s. i mean the very premise of “human from a world with both humans and pokemon comes to a world with only pokemon” implies that these people are either coming from the main game universe(s) or something similar.
(spoilers for the explorers games, particularly explorers of sky, beyond this point)
then in explorers, they introduce TIME-TRAVEL, wherein the hero isnt actually a human from the human world, but a human from the FUTURE of the world youre playing in, a future where time froze because the god of time went insane after his house started falling apart. and by the end of the main plot, you stop his house from doing that, thereby erasing that future (and therefore yourself) from ever existing, marty mcfly style. but then to thank you, and to soothe the grief of the friend you left behind, the time god says “hey bud sorry about that, lemme just—” and just Brings You Back
and THEN, in explorers of sky, they added special episodes that center around side characters. and in the fifth and final version of this, you play as grovyle (the player character’s former partner from the future, who sacrificed himself to bring a bad guy BACK to the future to get him out of the way) as he journeys through the frozen future to try and defeat the insane time god on HIS end. and at the end, the world begins to unfreeze as the effects of your victory in the past begin to ripple forward. everyone—grovyle, his allies, his enemies, even the time god himself—is erased from existence while watching the first sunrise in eons as their entire timeline collapses…
but then they wake up. everyone is fine. everyone turns to the time god to ask wtf happened, and he says “idk man wasnt me. some power beyond me must have done this.” and they all just,,, go on with their lives. the implications of this are that a bunch of heroes stopped the bad future from ever happening, but then some nebulous and omnipotent force (thought to be arceus, the ultimate god of all pokemon) just Brings It All Back, meaning there are now two PARALLEL futures, one where the world sucked for a long time, and one where presumably it was totally fine (we dont get to see this future but obviously time DOESNT stop in this version), and suddenly you’ve got an explicit, discrete, canonical multiverse, years before the main series ever touched the idea
so anyway TL;DR: in mystery dungeon, you erase the future from happening, but a capital-g God so powerful even the god of time doesnt know them says “actually no” and un-erases it as its own alternate timeline simply because it wouldve been sad not to, thus creating a multiverse.
theres a reason its my favorite game of all time shskfhskf
also no the shit about time god’s house is not an exaggeration, the god of time is a pokemon called dialga and he begins to go insane as his home, temporal tower, slowly collapses. its ultimate collapse (and his insanity) is what causes time to freeze across the world. now really all this means is that the inanimate world (rocks, trees, rivers) become petrified, but only SOME pokemon follow suit. how anyone at all survived is a mystery (dungeon. heh), but evidently some DID because YOU are one of these survivors.
I wonder what kind of symbolism they’re trying to get at
“There are a lot of giant robot shows in Japan, and we did want our story to have a religious theme to help distinguish us. Because Christianity is an uncommon religion in Japan we thought it would be mysterious. None of the staff who worked on Eva are Christians. There is no actual Christian meaning to the show, we just thought the visual symbols of Christianity look cool. If we had known the show would get distributed in the US and Europe we might have rethought that choice.” -Kazuya Tsurumaki, assistant director/art director on Neon Genesis Evangelion
something about foreshadowing being more prominent the second time around reading a story but in a way that the meaning is changed forever and you can never view a story the same as you once did before. do you know what i mean.
literally so insane how you can never go back to the innocence of it all. you see all the signs coming and you know how it ends. but there’s nothing you can do to turn a blind eye to it anymore. it hits you and you just have to keep going.
my favorite song is “Intro” and my favorite album is “Greatest Hits” and my favorite tv episode is “Pilot” and every midnight a deliicate raven flies in through the window and puts me to bed so I can have my scarydream
everything about the gestures o the hands convey the concept of a robot that is absolutely fucking pumped to pet a cat and then panics when it doesnt go right
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