The Good Place

"Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave.

"And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be." Chidi Anagonye

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amulet-aurora

3 weeks ago

this feels a little TOO accurate

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amulet-aurora

3 weeks ago

A hand clicks a big play button, which magically snaps two anthropomorphized Oxygen elements with block heads together to hold hands. Two glowy white hearts pop out as the meet. In the bg, the periodic table spells out G--gle within the blocks. The gif is a loop so they are separated again shortly after.

Argon. An orange square-headed little character with "Ar" on its face, is sitting at a gamer computer set up with headphones on and a calico cat in their lap. The cat is tapping the keyboard helpfully.

Bromine. A red square-headed little character with "Br" on its face pets a dalmatian in the foreground.

Chlorine. A chartreuse square-headed little character with "Cl" on its face lounges on a reclining chair by a pool. They're posed as though they are requesting that you paint them like one of your French girls.

Fluorine. A magenta square-headed little character with "F" on its face and a white lab coat, kicks their feet up onto an office desk with a tooth model on it. The wall behind them is covered in framed awards and certificates, hopefully for dentistry.

Hydrogen. A royal blue square-headed little character with "H" on its face. They are doing a classic tourist pose where they pinch a rocket launching in the bg between two fingers, as though they are a giant.

Iodine. A grey square-headed little character with "I" on its face holds a big fish. They are standing on a pier. They are conveying few emotions beyond showing off this fish.

Nitrogen. A yellow square-headed little character with "N" on its face waves from inside a botanical garden greenhouse.

Oxygen. A cyan square-headed little character with "O" on its face holds a rose where their mouth would be while doing finger guns. Roses fill the bg. My coworker said "I can fix him" when he saw this drawing.

Sodium. A purple square-headed little character with "Na" on its face is taking a selfie while curling a dumbbell in a gym. They have a 6-pack, which I really thought someone would ask me to remove, but they didn't.

Happy Valentine's Day!! Have you ever looked at the periodic table and thought, "This would make a great dating game"?? No??? Take a [quiz] to find out which element you are, and see which elements you can bond with! I made a TON of illustrations for this Doodle. Let me know your otp.

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I loved this so much character I’m a chemistry major so of course I liked this

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amulet-aurora

3 weeks ago

a messy drawing of the sea floor with light shining on it, and some small cat-like shapes scribbled on one of the rocks on the sides, captioned “microorganisms”

from a photo

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amulet-aurora

3 weeks ago

breaking news: (wait for it)

"walking" coral discovered!

ohh...look at it go...

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amulet-aurora

3 weeks ago

[ID: An image of a Black woman in a red and white patterned headscarf and square glasses speaking, saying "all oppressed people have a right to violence."

Text below the image reads: "Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them". Assata Shakur /End description]

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amulet-aurora

3 weeks ago

Oh jeebz

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amulet-aurora

3 weeks ago

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amulet-aurora

3 weeks ago

I truly don't think I will ever be over The Good Place. Especially Chidi and Eleanor.

Chidi, who agonizes over every single decision to the point of causing himself physically pain, because making a decision to deliberately hurt or inconvenience someone, even a stranger, in the slightest way is objectively, in the binary, black and white sense of the word, bad. This man basically tortures himself his whole life (a la Doug Forcett) in an impossible quest to be, objectively, good to his fellow man. To be a good, ethical person, because that is his duty as a human being.

Eleanor, who couldn't give a flying fuck about other people. Who was, in all but the legal sense of the word, abandoned by her parents. She just wants to be alone. Why should she care about other people when, inevitably, they leave her? Why put energy out into the world when it never seems to come back to her? So, she does exactly what she wants, what makes her happy, other people be damned.

And so, these two people are put together in the afterlife to torture each other, but instead they make each other better. Eleanor teaches Chidi that it's okay to be selfish some times. Telling her to shut up when she is being annoying, does not make him a bad person. That going after what he wants without stressing over the consequences can lead to new paths that he never would have otherwise had the courage to. Chidi teaches Eleanor that life is better when we are kind to each other. Connecting with other people, even though it's scary and messy and not always good, can lead to wonderful things. That when you open up and put your best out there, you will find people that will love you and want to stay with you, even through your worst moments.

These two were put together to bring out the worst in each other, and instead, their "worst" brings out the other's best. Chidi stops worrying about the consequences, Eleanor starts caring about her fellow man. Is there a word for when two foils perfectly balance each other?

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amulet-aurora

3 weeks ago