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Just a girl in the world trying not to fall into deep despair at all times.

and it's obvious that if the execution of his character was just a tinier bit worse, it would have been easier to equal him to a proper "big evil but a good dad" trope. like anyone outside of the fandom or with bad reading comprehension could just look at his actions towards gideon/kiriona on paper and go "but he's actually good? he's a good dad!"

i'm talking about this only because i don't want to even think about g/k feelings in this situation. like. he's the god. he's the emperor. he is also your depressed cringe dad who fucked admiral sarpedon. he gave you a new name that connects you to his roots and gave you his surname to show that you're family. one of the first thing you saw him do was murdering his lovers. he ordered one of his best friends to kill a girl you have a very important relationship with. he knows how you were conceived and didn't even try to kill you for that? he gave you everything you wanted before and it's rotten. he's not the best but he also is better than your mom who hated you and wanted to kill you and didn't see you as a child at all. like. where do you go from that especially if you are gideon who never had anything even resembling parental love before?

I will laugh so hard if it turns out that John is making a sincere effort at being a decent parent and it's such an awful outcome for Gideon that I feel like it's plausible. He's giving off such man who thinks of himself as a good guy confronted with oops baby vibes.

Recently, I had a thought- according to the animated series at least (I am not up to date on lore from anything else at the moment), Superman's strengths and weaknesses are both tied to radiation. He gets power from Earth's sun, and is weakened by light from Krypton's sun and whatever radiation kryptonite emits. What I'm wondering is, what if the weaknesses are related?

What I propose is that the red sun radiation and kryptonite radiation are, actually, the same radiation. Whatever this form of radiation is, our own sun does not emit it (or at least not much). The question is, though, what kind of radiation is this? (In-universe, it's probably some type of radiation that doesn't exist in our world, but I'm ignoring that for fun.) This is not an important question in any way, but I think it would make for an interesting headcanon, and depending on what it is it could open up other potential weaknesses to be explored at some point.

Because kryptonite seems to be radioactive in an unnamed unusual way (again, using the animated series for lore), I don't think radioactive rocks are the place to start here. So, I've been looking at the types of radiation red stars produce.

The first thing to do is find which type of star the Kryptonian sun is. According to a very brief web search, there seem to be three main types of red stars: red dwarfs, red giants, and red supergiants. I am not knowledgeable enough in star types to tell which one it is, but apparently red dwarf stars are quite common, so I'll assume it's that for the time being.

The second thing is to find out what type of radiation these stars emit- and there's some interesting stuff with red dwarfs here. Apparently, red dwarf stars (specifically young ones) are "strong sources of high-energy radiation, including...ultraviolet light and X-rays" (NASA website). Apparently, this radiation can make it hard for planets orbiting these stars to support life. In real life, this is because the planet's atmospheres can be destroyed. It's not too hard, though, to extrapolate this and say that if it orbited a star like this, life on Krypton could have been more resilient in order to deal with this star- and then seem much stronger when removed from it's presence. That's just speculation and not really rooted in science, which is what I'm trying to be here for.

The radiation we're looking for has to be something the sun doesn't emit much. Apparently, the sun doesn't emit many x-rays- not none, but not much compared to other wavelengths. The sun definitely does emit ultraviolet rays, but not as much as some other colors. Additionally, ultraviolet light is partially filtered out by Earth's atmosphere. Because the sun does emit quite a bit ultraviolet light, even if it's blocked, it seems for the moment like x-ray light is more likely.

X-rays also have another property that this mystery kryptonian radiation does: it is harmful to humans, specifically when they are exposed over a long period of time. X-rays have quite a few negative effects, really, which I don't feel like talking about here. I really think x-rays fit quite well. There's just one more thing: according to the theory I mentioned earlier, this would mean that kryptonite would emit x-rays, too. So, could rocks emit x-rays?

No. No they can't.

According to an internet person's math, water needs to be heated to 5000K (4726.85 °C, or 8540.33 °F) to start emitting x-rays at all (link to math). To produce any noticeable amount of x-rays, something would have to be heated to the temperature of the sun. I cannot express in any way just how much this isn't happening. The theoretical rocks which theoretically emit x-rays are literally being held by people with their bare hands. The rocks are still rock-shaped instead of plasma.

So, there are a few options here:

For handwavey reasons, kryptonite is a material that breaks the laws of physics and chemistry and probably other things too by emitting x-rays (and green light) instead of any other type of radiation. No infrared, no ultraviolet, just x-rays.

I'm completely wrong and red sun radiation and whatever radiation kryptonite has are completely different. I don't really like this from a narrative perspective. It seems more interesting if it's all the same radiation, just from different things.

It's magic in radiation form and there is no explanation.

It's actually ultraviolet light, or some other radiation that might not even be electromagnetic. I'm going to assume it's this, for now. Sometime later I'll look into other types of radiation to see if any work (unless someone else does it).

In conclusion: idk, but it's interesting to think about.

PEDRO PASCAL on set of Extraña Forma de Vida (Strange Way Of Life)

decided to do an expedition with the UI custom skin i made!!! honestly pretty fun actually!!! except that lizards wanna maul me to death 24/7 :(

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST

THIS

this is the box head im gonna make inspired by cuptoast and a ton of drawings i loved and drew as a kid

his name is cosmo crazy and hes my character im gonna use for when i eventually start streaming [and possibly make a new blog for updates]

It’s really hard to be mad at Luke, while reading the book, picturing him like this:

I’m sorry but pretty privilege is so real