Favourite pictures v2.0

[Cheb]

An infamous parody:

Absolutely love that one. For a time I was even itching to make an Open Arena skin based on the character design.

spun-up-to-dizziness Sailor Moon

Great idea, why was it never used in fanfiction?
This gives me ideas about Shantae who has comparable hair length.

[Spica75]

For a time I was even itching to make an Open Arena skin based on the character design.

[Té Rowan]

Great idea, why was it never used in fanfiction?

Dunno, but there was one author that used an explicit 'graceful in battle, clumsy out of it'. And Ranma does, in one R/SM crossover', mention that clumsiness is natural for a fast-growing teen whose limbs feel longer today than yesterday. Or something like that.

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

Dunno, but there was one author that used an explicit 'graceful in battle, clumsy out of it'. And Ranma does, in one R/SM crossover', mention that clumsiness is natural for a fast-growing teen whose limbs feel longer today than yesterday. Or something like that.

Desaix used a very similar idea, though speaking of social clumsiness rather than physical, in Definition of an Uncute Tomboy. It's less than a thousand words, and well worth reading. Gave me a whole new view of their situation.

[Spica75]

Dunno, but there was one author that used an explicit 'graceful in battle, clumsy out of it'. And Ranma does, in one R/SM crossover', mention that clumsiness is natural for a fast-growing teen whose limbs feel longer today than yesterday. Or something like that.

In my still nowhere near posted story, i played around with something like that a bit, having Usagi be "intuitively clumsy", especially in fights, as in "accidentally" avoiding hits, improving position or even striking, while out of fights, her clumsiness keeps her from worse things happening.
It's quite a funny concept to play with really.

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

In my still nowhere near posted story, i played around with something like that a bit, having Usagi be "intuitively clumsy", especially in fights, as in "accidentally" avoiding hits, improving position or even striking, while out of fights, her clumsiness keeps her from worse things happening.
It's quite a funny concept to play with really.

Ah - the old "drunken master" concept. For Usagi, "drunken mistress" might be more technically accurate, but sounds terrible.

[Té Rowan]

Now that you mention it… I'm pretty sure there was an omake in which Sailor Moon used Drunk-fu to a devastating effect. Devastating for the enemy, that is. Now I only need to find it.

Edit: Found it.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7644262/1/Drunken-Sailor-Moon
It's a two-shot, where Sailor Moon smashes youma while smashed after drinking the Shitennou under the table. And I mean smashed as in this grade of smashed:

[Spica75]

Ah - the old "drunken master" concept. For Usagi, "drunken mistress" might be more technically accurate, but sounds terrible.

*lol* Yeah, except without the drunken part. Clumsy mistress style? Mistress of Oops?

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Edit: Found it.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7644262/1/ ... ailor-Moon
It's a two-shot, where Sailor Moon smashes youma while smashed after drinking the Shitennou under the table. And I mean smashed as in this grade of smashed:

Not bad.
It wasn't the one i thought it was going to be though, so there's at least another one similar somewhere on FFN.

[Cheb]

"intuitively clumsy", especially in fights, as in "accidentally" avoiding hits, improving position or even striking, while out of fights, her clumsiness keeps her from worse things happening.

I am absolutely sure that goes IRL, for all of us, but it's so subtle no one ever notices and no one ever tried experimentally because using human test subjects that way is for dr. Mengele.

You cannot convince me otherwise, not after that time when my hands glitched while I was tying my shoe, exhibiting inexplicable clumsiness or even refusing my brain's commands outright... For exactly long enough for me to miss a date with a bathtub-sized chunk of ice that fell from the roof 8 stories up.

I don't know how it works, probably some brain cells evolved exploiting some quantum effect. May have to do with time being a secondary byproduct of matter interaction insted of something fundamental as people thought in the past.

Must suck enough, though, that it haven't prevented life from evolving sapience. People aren't always avoiding death, right?

P.S. Or it simply only works well in PVE and such systems negate each other in PVP thus necessitating sapience.

Ah - the old "drunken master" concept.

Drunks are often exceptionally lucky IRL, surviving events they shouldn't have. Maybe because of not having conscious thoughts that usually override the subtle manipulations of that system. It had to evolve adapted to animals, not stubborn thinking beings.

But one has to be very drunk, at the stage of not having conscious thoughts.

in Definition of an Uncute Tomboy. It's less than a thousand words, and well worth reading.

Favorited it immediately!

And I mean smashed as in this grade of smashed

Lol
But in canon Usagi is a merry drunk, as the older anime series shows us.

[Spica75]

May have to do with time being a secondary byproduct of matter interaction insted of something fundamental as people thought in the past.

Wait, WHAT??

Damnit, this is what happens when you use math blindly, assuming that the math IS reality, instead of the REPRESENTATION of reality that it actually is. Dangerous. Always logic-check, always see if you can get the result with pure theory or nonmathematical modelling before assuming it's correct.

It's the kind of thinking that ends up with results like "if you go faster than light you travel backwards in time", which is obvious rubbish. It can be said to be based on that if you travel FTL away from something, then you will effectively be able to move your PERCEPTION of time of that something backwards in time, but there's absolutely no timetravel involved.

TIME is a fundamental thing, and also definitely not a dimension, however, PERCEPTION of time can be "bent", and perception of time is what is affected by matter and gravity.

IF time was a byproduct of matter interaction, well then we would be seeing some really weird shit, like a universe where different parts had different ages depending on their "local" matter clustering frame of reference. And events potentially happening at the same time and place despite not directly interacting because their "local" timeframes are different.

If you want to improve understanding, my suggestion is reading what Einstein wrote PERSONALLY on the subject, NOT what others interpret his writings as, because those two tends to be very different things.

I am absolutely sure that goes IRL, for all of us, but it's so subtle no one ever notices and no one ever tried experimentally because using human test subjects that way is for dr. Mengele.

You cannot convince me otherwise, not after that time when my hands glitched while I was tying my shoe, exhibiting inexplicable clumsiness or even refusing my brain's commands outright... For exactly long enough for me to miss a date with a bathtub-sized chunk of ice that fell from the roof 8 stories up.

Ah well, my personal experience is really the opposite, clumsiness has a very sharp tendency to be the cause of accidents and misfortune.

P.S. Or it simply only works well in PVE and such systems negate each other in PVP thus necessitating sapience.

*lol*

Drunks are often exceptionally lucky IRL, surviving events they shouldn't have. Maybe because of not having conscious thoughts that usually override the subtle manipulations of that system. It had to evolve adapted to animals, not stubborn thinking beings.

But one has to be very drunk, at the stage of not having conscious thoughts.

We-eell, there's definitely two things in play here, at least.
On the one hand, people that are drunk tend to be far more physically relaxed, something that can help prevent or mitigate injury in a number of ways, this is not something monopolised by drunks however, it's something that can be taught and is part of the basics of martial arts, learning how to fall, which is usually the first thing learned.

On the other hand however, is the fact that drunks are almost never quite as uninjured from falls or whatever, as they appear. Because they're drunk, they fail to fully NOTICE their injuries however, but they're still there.


Also, in regards to "lucky", try go read about people surviving the most extreme falls. You will not belive it. Most extreme known that i can recall is when a gunner from a B-17 during WWII fell together with a piece of the plane that got shot loose, from IIRC around ~10km height, and wasn't even badly injured by the fall. Definitely not drunk.

But in canon Usagi is a merry drunk, as the older anime series shows us.

True, but still funny.

[Cheb]

True, but still funny.

That, and also made me curious to research the meaning of this idiom: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/three_sheets_to_the_wind
Curious. I think I eveh know a roughly equal Russian equivalent in that is describing one being subjected to storm at sea. But dictionaries, even the best ones, won't tell you that.

clumsiness has a very sharp tendency to be the cause of accidents and misfortune.

There's clumsiness and then there's inexplicable clumsiness as in that case.
Though I cannot disregard the possibility of higher power at work either. When waalking somewhere I try leaving some wiggle room in my behavior and listen to small random urges, for that factor to latch onto. Once that sent me wandering on a long, winding scenic route through a semi-abandoned industrial district - while carrying heavy bags of computer cases and stuff. I even wondered why I was acting so strangely, taking so long... until I reached an unguarded railroad pass at exact same moment as two schoolgirls got immersed in a smartphone and stopped right in the way of an incoming train. I first thought ow stepping over the track and pushing them out physically - there was enough time If I didn't stumble - but then I imagined them resisting by reflex and jumping back right under the train. I'm still not sure if that was my cowardice speaking, but I limited myself to hollering at them. I don't know if it were my shouts or they managed to notice the train on their own but they looked up, saw it and jumped away safely.
That event leans more to "guardian angels at work" interpretation because there was absolutely no danger for me to avoid by taking that route. Seems like something used me as a plot device to prevent a disaster.

But in reality, the reality is probably much stranger

Wait, WHAT??

Yeah.
Lovectaft warned us. But do we listen?

If you want to improve understanding, my suggestion is reading what Einstein wrote PERSONALLY

It was modern, 21st century development. Einstein called quantum entaglement "spooky action at a distance" or something the like, there was no solution at his time. While AFAIK modern science leans toward quantum entaglement being fundamental while spacetime is secondary to it. Wouldn't that explain the quantum waveform collapse mystery nicely?

Modern scinence and tech have already "nope"ed limitations of space doing things that were thought of as fundamentally unpossible. Search for "quantum imaging". Not much open info yet because this is such a hot topic for the militaries of today, all hush-hush, but I heard that existing practical applications are already staggering, changing the world drastically. There would be detection systems that see through things formerly considered opaque, like seas and mountains. Does not bode well for boomers, secret underground bases and such. Radars tech will make a quantum leap forward. We may end with a world that is utterly transparent and nothing could be kept secret, with scientists of 2040s hotly debating the latest MRI scan of the Earth's core in hi-res.

IF time was a byproduct of matter interaction, well then we would be seeing some really weird shit, like a universe where different parts had different ages depending on their "local" matter clustering frame of reference. And events potentially happening at the same time and place despite not directly interacting because their "local" timeframes are different.

Yeah, BUT the cosmic microwave background radiation ("relict radiation" in Russian) is probably acting as sort of "reference frame" syncing things up since the Big Bang.
Is Moon really there when no one is looking? It is, because it is constantly bombarded by particles that keep collapsing its waveform.

[Té Rowan]

Yet another greybeard of an image:

[Té Rowan]

The optimal size of a party is said to be five.

… and two platoons of Marines.

[Té Rowan]

Usagi's blink-blink moment is definitely going up here.

Aside: This link (https://question-the-senshi.tumblr.com/post/46916213634/serenity-thank-you-my-dear-thats-very-kind) is the only source I know of for a more original copy the image of of Little Lady curtseying to Queen Serenity that I hung up a while ago.

[Cheb]

Down with politcorrectness, bring pin-ups back: https://www.nix.ru/computer_hardware_ne ... ?id=199544

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