Hi, I'm Light. Jellyfish enthusiast, apocalypse hobbyist, microbe fan, writer, once-upon-a-time SCP Foundation staff. Come for the existential terror, stay for the axolotl facts.
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This might be me drunk but the whole light Jesus Christ thing and marine biologist thing partially implies that Sophia light is a member of the Joe star bloodline
Common misunderstanding! This is actually totally normal. <3
… Which is to say, yes, it is a special interest thing, but Dr. Light being really into marine biology is actually a direct result of me being into marine biology around Troy in the site chat. It is very much true of Dr. Light as well now but I haven’t like built up around it, because, like, wait, that was just me XD
I’m here because I had a really good marine biology class in high school. But I think Light didn’t grow up on the coast, so she wouldn’t have had the same kind of experience. …So yeah, let me figure this out right now:
At some point as a kid she was like learning about biology and reading textbooks from the library on her own, and was like, okay, so fundamentals of evolution. I understand this. Makes sense. Then she got to some somewhat-outdated basic tree of life, like this one:
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Well, okay, this is a lot. So, she thinks to herself – and this is at 12 or so - to fully understand biology, something that’s definitely real and possible to achieve, I should break this down into every group of animal, and I’ll learn everything about them, and then when I’ve done all of the groups, I will understand everything about animals.
So we’ll start at the base of the tree and then work our way up –
This might be me drunk but the whole light Jesus Christ thing and marine biologist thing partially implies that Sophia light is a member of the Joe star bloodline
where did lights love for marine biology come from? is it her special interest?
Common misunderstanding! This is actually totally normal. <3
… Which is to say, yes, it is a special interest thing, but Dr. Light being really into marine biology is actually a direct result of me being into marine biology around Troy in the site chat. It is very much true of Dr. Light as well now but I haven’t like built up around it, because, like, wait, that was just me XD
I’m here because I had a really good marine biology class in high school. But I think Light didn’t grow up on the coast, so she wouldn’t have had the same kind of experience. …So yeah, let me figure this out right now:
At some point as a kid she was like learning about biology and reading textbooks from the library on her own, and was like, okay, so fundamentals of evolution. I understand this. Makes sense. Then she got to some somewhat-outdated basic tree of life, like this one:
ALT
Well, okay, this is a lot. So, she thinks to herself – and this is at 12 or so - to fully understand biology, something that’s definitely real and possible to achieve, I should break this down into every group of animal, and I’ll learn everything about them, and then when I’ve done all of the groups, I will understand everything about animals.
So we’ll start at the base of the tree and then work our way up –
Apparently a famous Argentinian twitch streamer (ElSpreen) is spending 24 hours streaming from the top of the giant obelisk in Buenos Aires. Not the way I would have expected for stylites to come back but it’s nice to keep old tradition alive.
i know an engineer-type dude who said fiction bored him, because fiction is mostly-formulaic and tropey, and you can generally guess what’s gonna happen next, and yada yada
so his solution for this problem was… to solely read serial web novels in languages that (1) he did not speak, and (2) for which there was no actual translation, fan or otherwise
apparently, the combined forces of “trying to figure out WTF is going on via the power of Google Translate" + “cultural differences in storytelling conventions” + “the inherent randomness of where the hell amateur authors are gonna take their plots”—those all mashed up to make stories that were unpredictable enough to keep him guessing all the time
then he described to me this totally batshit-sounding Hungarian story he’d been obsessively reading once a week for years
and god i think about him all the time. like. that is the most wild way to process fiction that i have ever heard of, but also, i’ve gotta admire the sheer chaos energy of it
like i tried to tell him suspense isn’t about having no fucking clue what’s going on, it’s about having expectations subverted in novel and interesting ways that nonetheless accord with one’s understanding of the story’s universe, etc
and he’s just like “no. suspense is when i cannot guess what is happening next, full stop. quantum physics is a suspense novel”
yeah, it’s the QSMP. This person has some videos that act as a pretty good catch-up (until, like, 2 months ago or so.)
^ me shocked that normal people don’t know ben drowned lore
I’m gonna take a wild guess and say that Ben drowned.
you cannot begin to imagine what happened to ben
if anyone wants to tell someone about –maybe even give an exposé on– creepypasta lore I’d listen to that rant for hours
i actually have a podcast about creepypasta, and it may not be exactly what you’re looking for but we do certainly rant about creepypasta lore
CAN CONFIRM THIS PODCAST IS VERY GOOD. The hosts are smart and funny and know their stuff. If you are interested in creepypasta discussion/analysis you might really enjoy this.
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