Random Fred Headcanon

Random Fred headcanon

Okay, so like, it's well established Fred isn't very much into science like the others, he's a nerd for comic books and a general weirdo but he's not some like genius or scientist. Buttttt what I would think would be really funny and kinda cool was if he was a historical armor nerd. Like, hear me out. He's established to be a sci-fi and I'm not fully sure on if he likes fantasy (I haven't finished re-watching BH6 the series) but I'd imagine he probably does. And I think he'd probably get really into a DnD style game, look at the armor, get mildly interested, then start reading it inbetween the different comic books he's into and then get really into historical armor. He comes from wealth so I think he'd probably try to collect historical armor and maybe try to make some cosplay historical armor. Like, I feel like he'd watch those videos online talking about female fantasy and sci-fi armor and how it isn't protective and would learn about some of the arteries and organs that you'd need to protect and then be oddly knowledgeable about armor and like, protecting the human body with it. Like, he's no med student, but I think after a while he'd be painfully aware about how some of the team's suits don't protect them as much as they could. How I would think this is funny is that what if Hiro was trying to do some repairs on their suits and needed some new ideas and Fred just brings up some historical armor pieces, and maybe point out how like, Gogo's suit doesn't protect a lot of her vital organs on her abdomen or the arteries in her thighs, or how Wasabi's fails to protect his legs all that much while his upper body is protected, which considering that Wasabi uses Plasma blades he'll be closer up to opponents and would logically need leg protection and more fully body protection. I think it would be so funny if Fred just randomly brought up how their armor isn't super protective or covers vital areas and everyone just looks at him dumbfounded for a moment that he said something very smart yet very obvious, because like, nobody expects Fred to bring up how their armor isn't protecting certain areas. (I know this is sci-fi and they could be using materials on that area that are protective, but like, for example, Gogo's black body suit type thing is skin tight, the black parts on her abdomen are skin tight and inherently less protective than if the yellow plating type armor went further down her abdomen to protect the vital organs there. Hiro: This is going to be a pain to fix *looks at his computer trying to look at the models for the team's suits* Fred: *Peers over Hiro's shoulder* "You know Gogo's suit doesn't protect her Femoral Artery or her vital organs, you should put some protection there." Gogo: "Since when did you know what the Femoral Artery is????"

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For like, the past month or so whenever I try to comment it doens't send or just doesn't show up and I tried it on my phone and got this!

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Analyzing San Fransoyko

okay, credit to @razbotz for encouraging me to do this, I was on the fence about this, but I think I might do a full series of posts just dedicated to analyzing San Fransoyko's world-building from the perspective of a former AP Human Geo student who spent a year studying the course and applying it to world-building. The course has little practical use but it's a course I know a lot about (I can proudly say I kept an A in the class despite it being a college course I took at 13-14 when the class had a low passing rate at my school due to the fact we were WAYYYY too young to be taking the course) so now I'm going to infodump about it.

Sooo, if I continue this, then this is part 1/? of idk how many.

Okay, so cultural diffusion, as a concept, cultural diffusion is when traits or aspects of culture (clothing, language, architecture, textile works, art, religion, music, all these things associated with a culture) diffuse or move from its hearth (a hearth being the origin of a cultural trait, agricultural crop, or other things, basically, the birthplace). San Fransokyo is a really good example of the positive effects of cultural diffusion. As the name of the city implies it's a mix of San Francisco California and Tokyo Japan, we see the Golden Gate Bridge altered to use Japanese Shinto temples/shrine designs (insert image lol)

Now.. compare that with the actual golden gate bridge and you can notice the differences in design.

This is an example of multiple types of diffusion (there are 6 main types, Contagious, Expansion, Hierarchical, Stimulus, Relocation, and Maladaptive).

(Note: as not everyone may be familiar with these terms, here's some basic definitions: -Contagious diffusion is well, contagious, think of it like a virus or disease that spreads from person to person through contact, cultural traits can move within a community through word of mouth and with the advent of the internet, through social media posts and other way things can go viral, if something goes viral and spreads a trait, it's likely Contagious diffusion. -Expansion is when a trait stays prominent in its birthplace, like rice, which has had multiple birth places but has spread elsewhere while still remaining prevalent in the parts of Asia where it originated from. -Hierarchical diffusion is when a cultural trait moves up or down a social hierarchy, for example, a lot of fashion pieces move from these high-level designers in France, which is prestigious and known for fashion, and move down the social ladder to everyday people. This can also happen with rich people and monarchs throughout history, or the opposite can happen when lower class/normal people do something, the rich find out and start doing it too and it spreads. -Stimulus diffusion occurs when a trait moves from one place to another but changes, likely due to limitations of the place it moves to. This is especially common in agriculture and cuisine, immigrants move to new places where they may not be able to access the same ingredients from where they immigrated too so their dishes get reinvented or changed. This can also happen with outside influences such as the Texas German dialect which is a German dialect native to Texas among German immigrants where as certain words didn't exist at the time so they borrowed English words while Germans in Germany created new words for these in German that didn't cross over, the prolonged exposure and changes to the culture due to outside forces created a different dialect. -Relocation diffusion is pretty straightforward, it's when people from one culture move to an area with people of a different culture, bringing their culture with them, this is common amongst immigrant populations who bring their culture with them and establish groups of other people with similar cultures, like how China towns exist with people of similar cultures and ethnicities and how they serve to protect and create a space for these people. Due to assimilation throughout history many cases of relocation diffusion result in not much spread of the trait because people assimilate into the culture of the area they're in to fit in. -Our last major definition here, which is maladaptive diffusion. This is not very relevant to the conversation but I thought I'd throw it in. Maladaptive diffusion is when a trait diffuses to an area, but doesn't catch on that much or seem that relevant while not changing that much. A common example is when people are playing soccer/football in snowy climates, the game doesn't make sense for the area but people still do it, it isn't that relevant but it remains unchanged.

The bridge is likely relocation because from what I understand of the wiki, the reason San Fransokyo is named that is due to Japanese immigrants, which if we can use basic reasoning skills (plus the background knowledge that people bring their culture with them when they move) we can likely reason that as Japanese immigrants moved from Japan to at the time San Francisco they brought their culture with them as they relocated.

Shintoism is what we call an 'ethnic religion' in AP human geo (which I have slight discomfort with as the terminology used in the course is often very Eurocentric, but ethnic religions are essentially religions that are primarily practiced by one ethnicity or culture, they don't try to convert people into it on large scales and mostly mind their own business, compared that with Christianity which is a universalizing religion that tries to appeal to a large number of people to gain or convert new members in different groups, ethnic religions like Shintoism are often indigenous religions that have much smaller populations) so Shintoism doesn't spread quickly, but we see it's influenced in the architecture of San Fransokyo meaning it grasped at the city and managed to take hold, moving and relocation with Japanese immigrants.

That's one form of cultural diffusion present, now here's another, expansion diffusion. Going back to Shintoism, this religion, though not super big, is still prevalent and one of, if not the oldest still standing religion in Japan, and due to the architectural influences scene with it in San Fransokyo, armed with the knowledge I previously supplied that expansion diffusion is when a trait defuses but is still prevalent in its place of origin, Shintoism likely expanded from Japan with Japanese immigrants to San Fransokyo and stayed prevalent in both places.

Contagious diffusion is another easy one to show examples for since it connects with the previous themes already. Immigrants move to an area, the traits expand outwardly, moving from person to person in the past now more rapidly with technology, and a larger amount of people pick up the trait.

For the last major one I can say without it being a stretch is likely Stimulus diffusion (I could make an argument from a bottom-to-top hierarchical diffusion since we've seen it happen with immigrant populations who are low on the social hierarchy influencing the top, but I'm honestly too tired as I type this to find examples). This is shown when we see the mixture of Japanese imagery and architecture mixed with more American and Spanish influences (as San Fransokyo is based on the real San Francisco but if there was an influx of Japanese immigrants, and due to the real San Francisco having large Spanish influences in its culture there's likely a mix of Japanese, Spanish, and American influences on the culture of the fictional San Fransokyo.) Stimulus diffusion is when traits are changed due to limitations or interactions with other cultures when a cultural trait is carried to new places, as we can see throughout the movie in the background, the traits are not completely left unchanged, there's American influences in the buildings, in the people, in the languages in the culture, plus the Japanese aspects which both change each other due to prolonged exposure to each other, changing both culture's traits and creating new ones.

I am about to hit character limit, but that's part 1 of my rambles on San Fransokyo and AP Human Geo concepts, I'll post the next instances I see when I'm not sleep-deprived at 2am, love ya'll, thanks to @razbotz for encouraging me to make this.

-Feral/Raine

Okay, so like, if any of y'all have spent any time in the DnD community then you know about dice goblins, but I would like to propose another thought; bead dragons.

There is this feral part of my brain that just wants to hoard a bunch of beads and lay on them and make bracelets (Sadly I cannot do that because beads are expensive and I do not want to clean up a pile of beads).

Just like, AHHHH, I want to collect all the shiny beads and hoard them and make a thousand bracelets, but to try to satisfying my brain I just look at craft store websites and look at the beads on there and hope to buy them one day, idk what you call virtual window-shopping but that's what I'm doing, I have a problem with craft supplies.

Can someone help me??

Heyyy, so I don't generally interact with fandom that much, I hide away from people, but I found the labels pro and anti shippers online and I'm a bit confused, can someone describe those to me? I don't think there's anything wrong with shipping (within limits), like two characters with chemistry just dating/kissing/being cute is all fine and dandy with me, but I don't like nsfw of ships (especially if they're underage characters, get that shit out of here). But I don't know what those labels mean and I just want some explanations from people in fandom. Like, I don't like NSFW of ships with underage characters (especially since anyone can see them, whether they're underage or not) and it just isn't something I think people should really be creating, but I don't understand the whole anti and pro shipping stuff. Fandoms honestly kinda scare me sometimes but I wanna understand these labels, I like wholesome cute ships (even if they're vanilla or rare, as long as they're wholesome and not creepy/illegal) and I think there is a place for exploring abusive dynamics in media (it can be healing for former victims sometimes, and it can help to normalize discussions about abuse within reason, and media can be a helpful tool for teaching children to avoid abusive situations/get help if they're already in one) but I think there are lines to be drawn, now sure if any of this makes sense, I just think we should be careful with the media we make and consume, but can someone educate me on the anti and pro shipping stuff? Love ya'll, have a good day -Feral/Raine