In some long-overdue news hailing from Comic-Con International on Saturday, Warner Bros. revealed a sequel to Wonder Woman is officially on its release schedule. Gal Gadot will reprise her role as Diana Prince in the sequel to the most profitable movie yet from the DC Extended Universe.
One of Washoeâs caretakers was pregnant and missed work for many weeks after she miscarried. Roger Fouts recounts the following situation:
âPeople who should be there for her and arenât are often given the cold shoulderâher way of informing them that sheâs miffed at them. Washoe greeted Kat [the caretaker] in just this way when she finally returned to work with the chimps. Kat made her apologies to Washoe, then decided to tell her the truth, signing âMY BABY DIED.â Washoe stared at her, then looked down. She finally peered into Katâs eyes again and carefully signed âCRYâ, touching her cheek and drawing her finger down the path a tear would make on a human (Chimpanzees donât shed tears). Kat later remarked that one sign told her more about Washoe and her mental capabilities than all her longer, grammatically perfect sentences.â [23]
Washoe herself lost two children; one baby died shortly after birth of a heart defect, the other baby, Sequoyah, died of a staph infection at two months of age.
more about Washoe:
after the death of her children, researchers were determined to have Washoe raise a baby and brought in a ten month chimpanzee named Loulis. one of the caretakers went to Washoeâs enclosure and signed âi have a baby for you.â Washoe became incredibly excited, yelling and swaying from side to side, signing âbabyâ over and over again. then she signed âmy baby.â
the caretaker came back with Loulis, and Washoeâs excitement disappeared entirely. she refused to pick Loulis up, instead signing âbabyâ apathetically; it was clear that the baby she thought she was getting was going to be Sequoyah. eventually Washoe did approach Loulis, and by the next day the two had bonded and from then on she was utterly devoted to him.
*information shamelessly paraphrased from When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Masson.
Even more interestingly, after Washoe and Loulis bonded, she started teaching him American Sign Language the same way that human parents teach their children language. It only took Loulis eight days to learn his first sign from Washoe, and aside from the seven that his human handlers learned around him, he learned to speak in ASL just as fluently as Washoe and was able to communicate with humans in the same way she could.
now if yâall donât think this is the tightest shit you can get outta my face
French privateering in the Gulf of Mexico: ended circa 1830
Conclusion: an adventuring party consisting of a Victorian gentleman thief, an Old West gunslinger, a disgraced former samurai, and an elderly French pirate is actually 100% historically plausible.
OK I WANT THIS REALLY BAD SO I MADE THIS REALLY QUICK
As much as I absolutely adore this, youâd probably have to come up with a fairly good reason for them to all meet up together in the first place. I mean, MLK and Anne Frank were born in the same year, but they lived on different continents and had no opportunity to meet. Iâm not saying these cross cultural interactions are impossible, but choosing a certain region with an era isnât necessarily exclusionary. It just doesnât occur to people (or rather most writers in general) how well these eras matched up or how to connect these extremely varied backgrounds.
just make it a fighting game and ur good tho
I didnât pick those roles at random, mind. All four of them are outlaws of some description, and thus have incentive to travel outside their native range – and in particular, all four of them would have any number of plausible excuses for ending up in San Francisco during the late 1860s or early 1870s. Once youâve got them within shouting distance of each other, getting them in the same adventuring party is a simple matter of Plot.
I feel dumb for not picking up on that. :B Iâd definitely be curious to know just what kind of hijinx theyâd be getting themselves into (I can already imagine an Oceanâs Eleven-esque heist).
Out of curiosity, why San Fran? Iâm a west coaster myself, but I usually picture New York when it comes to historical fiction.
1. San Francisco in the early 1870s is both very prosperous and a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
2. Itâs more plausible for a vaquero and a ronin samurai to meet there by chance – New York is on the wrong coast entirely for that.
This is Bean aka Beancat akaa Dutchess Beansworth and we rescued her when she was six weeks old. She loves car rides, making messes, and looking smug all the time. She is mi Mija and I would die for her
I saw someone fly backwards off a treadmill today and I was laughing so hard I fell off the crosstrainer which made the girl next to me laugh so hard that she slipped off hers and it was 7:30 in the morning and there were just 3 of us sitting on the floor of the gym crying with laughter and in varying degrees of painÂ
#iâm always here for eliotâs transparent attempts at pretending he has dignity and is not a complete dork#âno i donât want an eliot signal iâm not a nerd like youâŚ.. what- what would be on this hypothetical signalâ#âcan it be a wolf maybeâ
First itâs the wolf signal
Then itâs watching Star Wars and Star Trek because everyone loves those, itâs not weird
Then itâs the HUGE debate on captains, their tactical abilities and which one of them you could take on a con not best captain because they both love Sisko and they all rock
Then itâs the 3DS Hardison buys Eliot for Christmas that comes preloaded with Mario Kart and Harvest Moon
Then itâs the Boba Fett costume because âno oneâs gonna see your face, Eliotâ
Then itâs a Wolverine t-shirt that Eliot wears as pajamas
That Eliot bought himself
Turns out it takes about 4 years to completely dorkify a hitter
I made a necklace!
The pendant at the bottom is a fossilized tooth from the rostrum (saw) of a giant sawfish. The necklace is strung on thin wire instead of string, and itâs in segments, so each section can move a bit.
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