In the Twilight universe, “vegetarian” vampires have golden eyes from drinking animal blood, a more ethical source than human blood, which would give them red eyes. It has also been established that a diet of human blood makes vampires physically stronger. So, if the Cullens wanted to become stronger without jeopardizing their morals, could they consume mosquitoes instead? How many mosquitoes would they have to eat to survive? Since mosquitoes drink from both humans and animals, what color would their eyes be? Orange? In this essay, I will
on average an adult has about 4.5-5.5 liters of blood circulating in their body. a female mosquito, when completely full, can hold up to 0.001-0.01 milliliters of blood in their abdomen depending on the species. if we take the average of both (5 liters & 0.0055 milliliters), it would take around 909,090 mosquitos to equal the amount of blood in a single human. although there isnt an exact number of the entirety of the mosquito population, we can use fermi estimation. there is about 57 million square miles of total land area on earth, while say 50 million square miles are habitable for mosquitos. with a rough of estimate of 1 mosquito per 50 square feet (overestimate due to area and time of year). after multiplying the numbers and fixing the units, there is a rough estimated 70 quadrillion mosquitos. theoretically, if a vampire lived in a mosquito dense area, such as brazil, indonesia, malaysia, thailand, etc, and could sustainably hunt around a million mosquitos to fill themselves every time they needed to feed, there would be enough mosquitos to survive on due to their large population and fast reproduction.
This is honestly everything I have ever wanted thank you for your contribution to the cause
Hey guys I think I figured out why vampires can turn into bats
That’s ONE millionaire. Imagine what all millionaires and billionaires could do for this country if they actually put their obscene wealth to practical use.
this is why you fucking tax the rich folks
wow it’s almost as if poverty, crime, lack of education, and lack of childcare are intrinsically intertwined and there’s a really simple solution to it
*sobs* IT’S THE ONE THING THEY DIDN’T PLAN FOR. Obi-Wan’s got a well-worn spiral notebook he takes with them everywhere that’s got everything from “Faked Own Death, Then Died For Real” to “Escaped Zoo Animal Stampede”, but not one scenario addresses what happens if either of them Go Darksider.
Obi-Wan fills out a blank page at the end of the notebook later. It’s stained with tears.
Oh no, we cannot have this! Lets see what I can do to make this less sad…
Nope. I got nothing. Except something to make it worse.
There was a plan. It was written on a folded piece of paper hidden in a secret compartment in the armrest of his council chair. It’s addressed “To Whoever is Left” and contains a meticulously detailed set of instructions to take down Obi-Wan should he fall. There is no message for Anakin. There doesn’t need to be. After all in this scenario he’s already dead.
*recoils from the screen* OH MY GOD WHY.
DOES VADER FIND IT WHEN THE EMPIRE WAS CLEARING OUT THE TEMPLE??? HE DOES. YOU KNOW HE DOES.
He does.
He finds it and it’s like that day all over again, like his mind and soul are on fire and he wants to scream but he can’t because WHY!? WHY NOW?! Obi-Wan did not fall for Qui-Gon. Obi-Wan did not fall for Satine. Obi-Wan did not fall for the death of his entire way of life. But he would have fallen for him. WHY!!!? WHY!? Why?…
Kenobi could not have found a more effective way to hurt Vader if he tried.
*buries my head in my hands* AHHHHHHHHH.
Vader is extraordinarily quiet for the next few days. He barely leaves his room at his castle. He even misses out on a raid of a secret rebel hideout (it was on a very windy planet, too! His cape would have looked AMAZING.) His servants are concerned. Sidious can’t put his finger on what’s gotten into his apprentice.
Vader knows he should throw the note away. If Sidious ever finds him hanging on to something like this he’ll be getting one hell of a lecture at best. Darth Vader does not care about things like this. He’s moved past it all. Obi-Wan didn’t mean what he wrote, anyways.
Vader knows Obi-Wan meant it, though. And he knows he – no, Anakin Skywalker, that weak traitorous failure – will never be able to throw the note away.
Also though, wouldn’t Vader have some thought as to ‘wait, if Obi-Wan fell?’ Obi-Wan didn’t write a scenario for the possibility of Anakin falling. Obi-Wan didn’t write a scenario for the possibility of Anakin falling.
And then Vader realized, his heart clenching painfully, that Obi-Wan only envisioned himself being susceptible to the Dark Side. He hadn’t thought Anakin capable of it, for in his eyes Anakin had been so pure and the centre of light in the galaxy and oh no why was Vader realizing this now it’s too late and suddenly everything hurts again because Obi-Wan had had absolute faith in him and he’d messed up so badly and kriffing Force why had he been such a fool?
(A moment later he finds that he’s back in his meditation pod and there’s something akin to tears stinging his scarred cheeks and it feels as if he’s been punched. The note is held carefully in his gloved hands, and Vader curses Obi-Wan’s slender handwriting as the taste of ash fills his mouth.)
😭 Of course Obi-Wan never wrote anything for the opposite scenario. Anakin wouldn’t fail him. He never has. Even knowing everything people had said to him about Anakin, or warned him about, or even those flashes of intense anger he sees in Anakin’s eyes now and again – the idea is just…inconceivable. He’s the Chosen One.
(I totally subscribe to the idea that while Vader was indeed the Empire’s Unstoppable Killing Machine and largely into the Evil Cause and whatnot, Vader absolutely also had Haunting Thoughts about a LOT OF THINGS FOR A LONG DAMN TIME. Crying in the Vader Pod happened. It did. That whole Last-Minute Light Side Conversion was in the works for a while, however minutely.)
ok, i’m gonna make a lotta connections here, but trust me and follow along
griffin had the plot figured out pretty damn well by crystal kingdom. he had determined:
who the seven birds were
that the red robe was barry and one of the seven birds
red robe/barry was in love with the red robe in the cave to whom the umbrella belonged
this cave red robe was lup, taako’s twin
that barry/red robe was a lich, so it is VERY LIKELY he had also planned that lup was a lich, bc i doubt he ever intended to permanently kill taako’s sister
i would like to posit that, based on these decisions, griffin had also:
realized the OP-ness of two in-control, immortal, undead characters
decided that he needed some sort of way to keep that in check
introduced the idea that barry (and by extension, lup) are not infalliable and can lose control as a way to check that
determined that, since this would no longer matter if/when lup and barry are reunited, he needed a stronger, larger control over their power
created an arc based around the dangers of messing with necromancy and introduced a character and deity whose purposes are to prevent reanimation and protect the sancitity of life and death
so what i’m getting down to is that kravitz/the raven queen were introduced in order to show that the constant resurrection of the ipre and, more specifically, barry and lup’s lichdom have consequences
let’s suppose that i’m right. let’s suppose that i managed to guess the actual line of thought behind the crystal kingdom arc and kravitz’s insertion into the plot.
then can you imagine griffin mcelroy’s fucking face when justin announced that taako, brother to two liches, was going to romance the grim reaper
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