Curate, connect, and discover
Hell yeah!
Showing an intense interest is how we get anything done, so be curious! Ask about what kind of bug that is on the road, question why so many of this one type of plant is in this one area, show interest in learning about that one animal you saw on a walk! It is never a bad thing to try and explore the world around you, we are stuck in it after all.
A dinosaur obsessed 12 year old studied fossils and found a 69 million year old hadrosaur skeleton embedded in rock while hiking. A fisherman in Australia noticed tiny shrimp in his net that looked slightly different from the others and he sent a few specimens to biologists for testing. Turned out to be a never before described species, going unnoticed in a popular lake. I posted a pic ~here on tumblr~ of a weird parasite on a dead fish and a parasitologist found it and asked to report it as the species has never been seen in my area before.
There is so, so much out there we literally don’t even know. And the best way to find that stuff out is to be intensely curious about everything you see. You might not discover a new species but you absolutely will gain a deeper appreciation for the world around you.
Man, I love scrolling on AO3 and finding a book with like... 400 words max, 1 chapter, get a wall of tags. Like an absolute bucket load of them just dumbed out on the table for someone to play a weird version of Scrabble with, and when you go reading through them you find the most absurd tag in there! Like "Rignle is fixing the spongus, as a treat." So you just sit there with the most... Wtf face ever because there's like no other context! I guess Ringle can fix the Spongus! I dunno!
Welcome to Rave spits out more stuff for fandoms after they knock around in their head for too long!
Today's episode: Limited Life, 3rd life, and Solidarity/Jimmy's canary curse :D So! To begin with, this will be using the... Head cannon? Fannon? I dunno, the thing where the Watchers pushed Jim off.
Anyways, so! Jimmy was pushed off the Skynet by the watchers. Why? Because they wanted the canary curse to continue. Standard boing stuff. Now! The stuff that has been rattling around in my head: we pushed Jimmy. I know, I know, sounds ridiculous, but hear me out-
As told in the Evo SMP, we the viewers are the watchers. We are the people who watch what they do. As such, we the views, the "watchers" are the ones that caused some of the curses to rear their head. Because we believed in the curses (The canary curse, the curse that Grian will lose his loved ones, etc etc.) we caused them to become true. As such, we are the ones to blame for Jimmy's death. We pushed him to make sure he would be the first to fall, making him the one to be forever trapped in different walls.
Okay, like... Hot take/random thought.
So like, hi. I want to become active in this community here, so I'm just gonna start posting stuff like this.
Moving on, I've been reading a lot of fanfics and comics lately, and one thing I've noticed a lot of is Remus being envious of his brother. While yes, I agree he would be jealous of the attention Roman gets, its not for the soft reason others like to portray him as.
Remus isn't upset that Roman is seen as the "good" creativity, or that he gets major creative sway over what is done, it's that he gets more attention then him.
Remus is intrusive thoughts, so his goal is to be as nit picky with C!Thomas as he can be. He wants to have every chance to insert himself into his life, and be the spotlight! With Roman being there, it's harder to get into C!Thomas' mind with a creative view here already.
Now, moving on from that, another thing I see is people portraying Remus as deviated when Janus said his very major line to Roman:
"Thank God you don't have a mustache Roman, otherwise, between you and Remus, I wouldn't know who the evil twin is."
Now, while this would seem like it would hurt Remus, coming from possibly his best friend, it's not. He would love this comment.
Now, I get if you want to portray Remus like this in your comics, fan fics, whatever, that's great! Still will love your work, support you, and all that. I just wanna point out why he wouldn't respond that way.
Now, why would Remus like this? Because he'd see it as a compliment. Think of it, he's intrusive thoughts. He wants to bug C!Thomas any way he can, and this is an amazing way to do it. Why? It's straight up saying C!Thomas is a bad person.
That statement directly tells Thomas he's not a truly good person all over again. Yes, he got that from DWIT, but now he has been bluntly told a part of him is evil, and that only serves to make Remus stronger.
Remus gets his power from bothering Thomas, and this is his biggest step up. After a moment where he was told the truth from a side named deceit, he knows that this sentence is true. Thomas is then left with this line and must come to terms with what he is. And that's hard when your morality is already thrown into wack.
That line is one of the major stepping points in the series that I think will play a major roll in this upcoming finally. Remember, Remus said he had a big surprise coming for him.
That's all from me. And remember, this is just my opinion. You're free to think anyway you want, do what you want, I am not saying everyone has to do things this way. I'm more so saying this as a way to show people how I think. My apologies if someone has posted this, not my intention to copy them, I just haven't seen something like this and wanted to voice how I see our local rat man.