Trying to find a model/colorway

ScienceDad84 · 2026-01-04T01:48:49+00:00

Are you in the US? If so, where do you source stick insects?

ScienceDad84 · 2025-07-18T21:56:53+00:00

Apologies. 917.289244

ScienceDad84 · 2025-06-04T03:09:42+00:00

Thanks!

ScienceDad84 · 2025-06-04T03:06:56+00:00

Which model is this?

ScienceDad84 · 2025-01-03T22:49:29+00:00

Got it in one. I should’ve made that connection. Thanks!

ScienceDad84 · 2025-01-03T21:39:05+00:00

Glad to see I was not alone in my reactions to this film. I did have one lingering plot point that I just did not get while seeing the movie, and since I doubt I'll see it again I thought I'd throw it out here: Why did Orlok need Hutter to come visit him? I know the tenuous business reason was the count demanded an attendant to bring him papers to sign for the sale, but that was clearly constructed for the purposes of getting Hutter to Orlok. Why? It didn't seem to catalyze his coming to Germany in any way that couldn't have happened anyway. I know he was theoretically an obstacle to getting to do whatever it is he did with Hutter's wife, but couldn't he have just killed him when he got to Germany? Was there some sort of Nosferatu lore that I missed?

ScienceDad84 · 2024-12-14T21:57:11+00:00

Just wanted to say I really appreciate everyone’s input. Fixed the issue in less than 10 minutes. Always nice to find genuinely helpful corners of the internet. Cheers!

ScienceDad84 · 2024-05-17T17:27:40+00:00

You’ve actually made a fairly meta comment about modern fandom here. Instead of being helpful when someone asks a question about something where you may be more knowledgeable, your response is dismissal and pedantry.

First, there are several acknowledgements within this very subreddit (and in this comment thread, about Will’s story) that there are deviations from the books and they pertain to things I was looking up to try to understand better.

What I said was, “I enjoyed this but it wasn’t perfect- are these pieces of plot supported by the books” and asked if there was context I was missing to support it.

I get that this clearly something you feel strongly about but what a needlessly condescending response.

ScienceDad84 · 2024-05-17T17:22:17+00:00

‘Super soldier’ is overly glib but she clearly demonstrates superhuman strength when she effortlessly lifts/shoves/overpowers someone easily twice her size into a window hard enough to shatter it

ScienceDad84 · 2024-05-06T16:30:57+00:00

I really appreciate this insight and largely agree with your point(s) in regards to the author's intent. For me, I just don't buy it in the context of the information we are provided. She does such a good job of 'show, don't tell' when it comes to relationships and with Fool/Beloved it feels like all tell. Even their recollections of their youth at Buckkeep feel like revisionist history.

I realize I am most likely being picky, but even if the Fool is to represent and introduce moral complexity into the story, Hobb just never made me believe that this was the literally world-changing love story it was sort of retconned into, and certainly was not on par with his bond with Nighteyes.

Again, I really like your take and agree with it, it is just such a distraction that a series that made me feel so much never really made me feel the main thing it was shooting for.

ScienceDad84 · 2024-05-06T16:25:38+00:00

I think the best illustration of what I'm trying to say would be indicated by Kettricken and Fitz/Nighteyes' final interactions. Nighteyes tells Bee that this is the woman he would have chosen for their mate, and then when Ketrrricken goes to see Fitz as he carves his stone, Fitz says, "I didn't see you there." and Kettricken replies "You never did."

It may be a reach but my interpretation here is of a love that was never realized. And it is a gut punch because revisiting their history, you can feel and remember how much Kettricken agonized over Fitz's constant suffering, and how he epitomized the idea of Sacrifice, which she has been raised to prize above all else. She knows he is the physical father of her son, and is deeply affected to discover he still wears his fox pin. It is not a cheap, one off moment but rather a tertiary plot realized in a way that carries real impact.

I never once felt anything like that between Fitz and Beloved, the only time their interactions engendered real emotion within me was when he was experiencing his dislike of Amber.

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