Am now trying to come up with counter examples of evil guitarists. I wanna say thereās one in Scott Pilgrim, but I think that guy is a bassist.
Contemplating why the evil piano trope works, I think itās a combo of piano and organ music being able to get pretty bombastic for a solo instrument and the fact that nonchalantly showing your back to your opponent is a power move.
love when an evil guy in an action movie plays the piano. itās such an evil coded instrument. good guys play the saxophone or guitar
How about Bertie Wooster? I mean, itās not exactly in the action genre, but there is a certain amount of falling into lakes involved.
Every time that āthe music is actually diegeticā trope appears, I eat that shit up. So delightful.
The only way to prevent gigantic SUVs & pickups from killing pedestrians is to reduce car bloat. Technology alone wonāt do it ā even if automakers claim otherwise. Me, in Slate š§µ slate.com/business/202...
Oh my god, truly. I blocked the word āvoteā on Tumblr and some days I seriously consider doing it here.
Anyway, sable shearwater is an excellent name, and Iām not just saying that because Iām biased (named my cat Sable).
I see the same nasty talking points come up every time thereās an effort to decolonize names, whether itās those of birds or natural landmarks. The local paperās letters to the editor were even worse than usual after they reported on the prospect of renaming a nearby mountain.
A feathered past, and present: calling out bad birding behaviour - in which we detail some of the appalling messages we received after suggesting a new common name for Ardenna carneipes (with receipts) adriftlab.org/news/a-feath... #seabirds #ornithology #BirdNamesForBirds
Adrift Lab responds to gaslighting and bullying associated with our recent paper proposing a new name (Sable Shearwater) for Ardenna carneipes.
Just hit 1000 Frog Facts! Just... Um... 4000 to go to fund @skypeascientist.bsky.social for 2025 lol this will be fine! lol!
