Sunshine Challenge: Blue
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impala_chickThe color blue immediately reminds me of the ocean. I'm a water sign (pisces) and I've always felt so calm by the ocean, although I'm a pretty bad swimmer. Anyway, the ocean reminds me of a particular conversation I had with my husband a few days ago...
I was hypothesizing about why humans have not adapted to live in the ocean or underwater. We all know the Earth has a ton of huge oceans, so it doesn't make much sense why some distant ancestor didn't just wade out into the water and not come back (okay, evolution doesn't work like that but you see my point). Maybe I just really want to believe in Atlantis?? My husband then reminded me that dolphins and whales are the humans of the sea, considering they are mammals with large brains, a communication system, and social groups. They even have their own names!
I like how that article pointed out that we shouldn't think of being human as an "endpoint" to evolution - but we can still appreciate just how intelligent and social cetaceans are as a group and compare them to our own social groups. Whales are so beautiful to me: Smart AND huge/terrifying, it seems like the best of both worlds.
Speaking of Oceans, maybe I should check out some more shark/whale/dolphin themed films in honor of this prompt. I have a few on my list but I am accepting reccs!
Fandom-wise, my curiosity for (and healthy fear of) the ocean makes me feel just a little bit closer to David Webster, and I think that is both very emo and very sexy of me.
I was hypothesizing about why humans have not adapted to live in the ocean or underwater. We all know the Earth has a ton of huge oceans, so it doesn't make much sense why some distant ancestor didn't just wade out into the water and not come back (okay, evolution doesn't work like that but you see my point). Maybe I just really want to believe in Atlantis?? My husband then reminded me that dolphins and whales are the humans of the sea, considering they are mammals with large brains, a communication system, and social groups. They even have their own names!
I like how that article pointed out that we shouldn't think of being human as an "endpoint" to evolution - but we can still appreciate just how intelligent and social cetaceans are as a group and compare them to our own social groups. Whales are so beautiful to me: Smart AND huge/terrifying, it seems like the best of both worlds.
Speaking of Oceans, maybe I should check out some more shark/whale/dolphin themed films in honor of this prompt. I have a few on my list but I am accepting reccs!
Fandom-wise, my curiosity for (and healthy fear of) the ocean makes me feel just a little bit closer to David Webster, and I think that is both very emo and very sexy of me.
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Date: 2020-07-21 05:10 am (UTC)If you haven't seen these, there are oodles of these fake pitch meetings for movies that generally tend to highlight the weird bits that didn't make sense.
When I was a kid we watched a lot of The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. So now I'm feeling nostalgic for that. I may have to look up some episodes tomorrow. It appears to be on YouTube.
In the meantime, I give you John Denver's "Calypso" (the name of Cousteau's boat) https://youtu.be/q3EE83q6tzw
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Date: 2020-07-23 04:34 am (UTC)Oo I've never heard of the Jacques Cousteau show. Thanks for the recc!
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Date: 2020-07-25 03:49 am (UTC)My father vaguely disapproved of fiction as a waste of time. We weren't forbidden from watching our cartoons and Star Trek reruns et cetera, but the parents rarely sat down and watched those things with us. So family TV consisted largely of documentary programs. (Mister Rogers was the only kids' show that he thought had any merit. It always kind of impressed me that my dad the TV-snob gave Fred Rogers his seal of approval.)
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Date: 2020-07-25 05:00 am (UTC)https://www.misterrogers.org/watch/
(They upload 5 episodes every other week. And it alternates between the 1980s and the 1960s, so once a month it's 5 old black-and-white episodes which was before my time, but I watch them anyway.)
I can't get over how slow the show was in comparison to modern TV. One week they had a running backstory of Mr. McFeeley's birthday coming up on Friday so Mr. Rogers was going to weave a basket for him and another character was going to bake a cake and another was going to give him a book. And it would just be mentioned each episode that Mr. McFeeley's birthday was this Friday until the Friday episode had the party. It's hard to imagine a show taking five days to tell a story like that.
And Daniel Tiger painted Mr. McFeeley's name on a glass and just as he was putting it into the box, he dropped it and it broke. And there was this really long segment where the puppet just cried and Lady Aberlin just stood there looking sad (and didn't once tell him not to cry or try to cheer him up) and she agreed that she understood why he was so upset that he broke the glass. And then when he was a bit calmer asked if he had a broom and dustpan so she could clean up the broken glass so no one got hurt. And only after he was calm, she suggested she help him paint another glass.
As a kid, I probably would have just been sad too, but watching it as an adult, I was just in awe at how brilliant it was. They went so out of their way to model good healthy behavior.
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Date: 2020-07-21 06:32 pm (UTC)Ocean is a great and terrible thing. Sometimes I kinda wish it would just rise and swallow us all.
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Date: 2020-07-23 04:36 am (UTC)At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if those rising sea levels took us down.
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Date: 2020-07-21 07:57 pm (UTC)Curiosity and healthy fear of the ocean-sounds about right! :D
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Date: 2020-08-02 09:48 pm (UTC)Webster will always be my favorite. I actually have his book on sharks! It was an interesting read
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