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loving this asinine comment. just in case anyone needed the whole concept laid out for them
The train is coming. Naebo station, Sapporo, Hokkaido. Feb 2023
youre tellin me?
heathcliff sucks ass what the fuck is this
movie night at the house
the crazy thing about ATLA is that it's a fantasy world that's about Asia instead of Europe and the writers still couldn't stop themselves from writing The Evil Sand People and Japanchina
They did fucking japanchina twice with both the earth kingdom and the fire nation and in both cases, specifically decided to make the bad guys explicitly chinese coded visually
Been reading about the Line and Neom in Saudi Arabia and how they're being cancelled, but it's not like they didn't try to build it or it stayed at concept art, they actually tried to build that thing, even when everyone told them it was absurd and impossible. And it was. And now it's the end of the line, it's cancelled. The 21th century has the largest ruin to hubris ever made. Great.
20.000 thousand workers died for this.
An additional 100,000 workers reported missing
once you notice how normalized it is to call women who are public figures by their first names in contexts where you';d refer to any man by surname you'll start going insane
See that heap of barren space rock, Orbulox? That used to be the most beautiful planet in the cosmos -- back then, they called it Earth. From this far away, its oceans would have made it look like a shiny blue marble. Between its vast seas, there were vibrant green continents, teeming with all sorts of life. The primitive form of my species used to live there, they were known as "humans." They inhabited every inch of the planet, from the hottest deserts to the coldest tundras, forming pluralities of wonderful, unique cultures. It was a peaceful, harmonious existence up until the horrors of the 21st century.
The repressive, backwards era of the early 21st century reached its apex in Galactic Year 2027, when the despicable chieftain of the most powerful nation launched an attack against a rival culture, ultimately initiating the terminal spiral that obliterated all of the lush forests and deep blue oceans. The most tragic part of Earth's story is that this conflict, this terror -- it was all for the control of archaic, nearly-depleted energy resources, despite an effectively infinite amount of energy being available through contemporary solar and nuclear technology. Unthinkable weapons were unleashed between the nations, and most life on Earth had perished during those dreadful years.
From the ashes, the greatest minds of the remaining humans came together, tirelessly working to find a way to save humankind from ever-looming extinction. Those final years on dying Earth, they were the very brightest of its entire history; the shackles of hatred had finally been cast away, and the repression of the 21st century had been brought to an end; Earth had returned to its former harmonious state. All conflicts had ceased, and humans were allowed to have sex with dogs again. Regardless of who their ancestors were or which continent they came from, all of humanity cooperated to develop the colony-ship that ultimately preserved the human species and established contact with the Transgalactic Federation. In the end, it was not Earth that lived on -- but its legacy of resilience in the face overwhelming odds.