Why Do You Have A Sock On Your Hand?

Crab Day enthusiast 🦀 Boop War Survivor 🐈‍⬛ Hey everyone, I don't like saying my real name online so you can just call me Ace. I have so many fandoms, I can never remember all of them but some of my favorites are Gravity Falls, Star Wars (especially Rebels), The Lunar Chronicles, Ranger's Apprentice, MLP:FiM, Adventures in Odyssey, Disney, HTTYD, White Collar, Ratchet and Clank, Uncharted, Parks and Rec, and Avatar. I also enjoy webcomics, especially The Silver Eye and Space Boy. Basically I'm just a God-loving, formerly homeschooled fangirl who likes to write and draw and be creative in general. Reviews:"Excellent taste in fandoms. All of them" -captaingondor

[empire-of-light]

PROJECT HAIL MARY 2026, dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

[anonpolls]

The train takes 8 hours. The plane takes 1 hour, plus an hour to/from the airport at each end and the time it takes to get through security. Both are clean and as safe as you could hope any matter of transport to be. Both have Wi-Fi.

Which do you take?

The train

The plane

Remaining time: 22 hours 3 minutes

Thanks, Anon!

-submit your poll!-

[greater-than-the-sword]

The sitting for 8 hours physically hurts me and plus there is still also travel time and baording time for a train amd we haven't defined the urgency of the trip so there's a lot going into this but I'm leaning heavily towards plane

[aceofstars16]

….I literally wrote a 1,800 word fic in one sitting…I haven’t written that much in one night in AGES

[aceofstars16]

Someone please stop me from buying more PHM stuff I don’t need…I don’t have a steady income but these things are too good ahhh!

[moethh]

die die die

[aceofstars16]

I started playing Roller Coaster Tycoon and deciding to name a roller coaster “Project Hail Mary” is great cause now guests will be thinking “Project Hail Mary was great!” And I’m like “Yes…yes it is…” 😂

[mistress-light]

Narnia: The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe • dir. Andrew Adamson

[deervsheadlights]

they are so annoying <3

part 1

[jehovahhthickness]

Tell the truth.

Why are y'all single?

[trickstarbrave]

I have been enjoying seeing people experience food this World Cup

[kjscottwrites]

Where are you on the kinsey scale of fiction/fic reading?

0 Exclusively read original fiction

1 Predominantly read original fiction, rarely read fanfic

2 Predominantly read original fiction, often read fanfic

3 Equally read original fiction and fanfiction

4 Predominantly read fanfic, often read original fiction

5 Predominantly read fanfic, rarely read original fiction

6 Exclusively read fanfic

x I don't read lol

I wanna talk about it / results

Remaining time: 16 hours 49 minutes

I'm curious too, about the drive towards one or the other. If youre a 1-2, what makes you seek out fanfic? If youre a 4-5, what makes you seek out original fiction?

[hbmmaster]

how much does the aurora borealis weigh

[hbmmaster]

it's pretty light

[silmarienthequeen]

Just finished rereading Project Hail Mary again and it’s really interesting that Stratt is not a scientist. She’s an administrator, a politician, a leader. Not a scientist. She’s surrounded by some of the smartest people in the world, and they’re speaking in very science-y terms, and she has no idea what is going on. So what does she do? She turns to Grace and asks him to explain it to her. And he does, he explains the very complicated stuff in a way she, a non-scientist, can understand, because he’s a teacher. That’s what he does. It works very well from a narrative perspective because you, the reader, also don’t know what all this stuff means, so Grace explaining it to Stratt also explains it to you. But I also think maybe this is part of the reason Grace became so important to Project Hail Mary, why Stratt dragged him around everywhere- and she really does take him everywhere with her- not in spite of the fact that he’s a junior high school teacher, but because of it. 

[liones-s]

AI has made the internet so much less fun. I don't want to question whether a photo of a bunny is real. I don't want to worry about someone making a deepfake just because I posted a pic with my friends. I want to read a recipe and know that the photo is a real cake they made. Yes I know I need to touch grass but also I think I should be allowed to interact online without second-guessing whether someone fabricated every image for personal gain

[liones-s]

btw this is about the tragedy of the commons. it's not about spending too much time online or whatever - it's about the fact that a handful of people are polluting the collective space to the detriment of everyone else, and that there is no way to stop them from doing that. it sucks and it's killing the internet, and I'm mad about that

[fictionadventurer]

One of my biggest literary pet peeves is when historical or history-inspired fiction pretends that "courting" is a synonym for "dating". Usually it's just a one-to-one word swap--in a modern context, these characters would be dating, but this is olden times, so they call it courting instead. Sometimes they'll pretend there's a shade of difference, and that courting is a more serious exploration of marriage or something. But I read a lot of fiction that was actually written during these historical eras, and the word "courting" is never used like that.

Two people do not decide that they are "courting". One person decides to "court" someone else. It's an action, not a stage in the relationship. A man decides to court a woman because he wants to encourage her to have romantic interest in him. He's trying to win her favor. It's not an exclusive relationship--a woman could be courted by multiple men at once. She'll spend time getting to know the guy who's interested in her, but they won't officially define their relationship as one where they only show romantic interest in each other. If they reach a point where they want it to be exclusive, that's when you propose.

There's no middle ground--either you're getting to know each other, or you're committed to marrying each other. This idea of a period where you kind of commit to each other until you decide you definitely want to get married is a modern one, and it occurs in eras where they use the word "dating" to describe it. The closest equivalent I can think of are times and places where they'd talk about a couple "stepping out together", but they're still not calling it "courting". Words have meaning, and the word "courting" has never meant that, so stop using it that way!

[duckdotcom]

would you put a discarded fruit sticker on my forehead in whimsical jest yes or no

[finleycannotdraw]

reblog to put a discarded fruit sticker on the forehead of the person you reblogged from in whimsical jest

[scaremoonturkey]

[bethanydelleman]

Maybe it's naive of me, but whenever I see portraits like this, with just a father and daughter, it restores my faith in humanity a little. Because people seem to love this idea that fathers never loved their daughters in the past and only saw them as bargaining chips for marriage or whatever, but look at the guy in the first portrait on the left, he loves that little girl! And the dad trying to do his work while his daughter bothers him with an Old Timey Barbie. The man teaching his daughter geography, his expression is so soft! The way the man in the last portrait holds the little girl's hand! And none of these are incidental, these aren't photographs, someone (probably the father) paid good money and sat down for hours so that they could have a painting of themselves and their daughter. Probably because they loved their daughter.

From left to right: 1795 Michał Jerzy Mniszech with his daughter Elżbieta - Marcello Bacciarelli; Christopher Anstey and his daughter Mary Ann by William Hoare 1776; A Musician and His Daughter by Thomas de Keyser 1629; The Geography Lesson (Portrait of Monsieur G. and His Daughter), 1812; Jean-baptiste Isabey And His Daughter; Portrait of a Young Girl and Older Man by William Harrison Scarborough

(this is probably somewhat related to my other favourite genre of painting, Husband With Multiple Kids Making Come Hither Eyes At His Wife)

[janeeyreofmanderley]

oh I love those! People being people is one of my favourite kinds of paintings and an important reminder that people in past times were not all that different. There were dads who loved their daughters fiercely. There were fathers who happily looked after their babies too. The German reformer Philip Melanchton for example had a cradle in his office. His wife was busy organising a household for 20 people- she was out and about, he mostly worked in his office, it made sense for him to look after their babies too babies while she dropped by at snack time.

in fact often if it was kind of safe dads had the babies in their workshops for just that reason as we can see in these paintings:

The left is “the busy father” by Theodore Weber, the right one is “At the china repairer’s “ by Wenzel Tornoe. All dads who are actively involved in childcare and a painter who thought it was a cute topic rather than anything ridiculous.

[obi-troll-kenobi]

I raise you:

First Lesson by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865 - 1931)

Un Coup De Main (The Helping Hand) by Émile Renouf (1845 – 1894)

Italian Winegrower And His Daughter by Francesco Baratta (1590-1666)