Time is dead and meaning has no meaning!

[sideblog:] expect lots of puppies and sobbing over fictional characters

[restekova]

all of the adults in hunter x hunter consecutively and repeatedly fail all of the children in hunter x hunter as a direct result of the fantasy culture. like the entire world in hunter x hunter is ridiculously broken. no one stopped a six year old who was abandoned at a pro fighting ring and asked him if he was lost. no one tried to call his fucking parents. killua doesn’t even realize there was anything wrong with how he was raised. gon (a child’s) reaction to being hit (while literally helpless and paralyzed) by hisoka (an adult, with all the power), then told that gon owes him for being allowed to live is not “holy shit i need an adult” but “i have to prove that i don’t owe him”. if you’re powerful enough there are no consequences for breaking the law because the mainstream police don’t have nen. the zoldycks can literally have everyone in the vicinity knowing where they live and what they do with no consequences. the outside of their house is a fucking tourist attraction for chrissake. the phantom troupe can literally massacre people whenever they want. all meaningful power lies in the hunter organization which is capricious and poorly run at best and downright corrupt and self-serving at worst and which actively condones child soldiers among its ranks. becoming a hunter essentially makes you a special kind of citizen and the easiest way to become a hunter is be very good at violence. the world is built in a way that allows the staple fantasy narrative of “adventure and conquering over enemies through physical violence is heroic” to play out and togashi, from the start, makes us aware of how dysfunctional a world that would be. that’s the core of why i say that hxh is a criticism/engagement/takedown (“deconstruction” is technically the wrong word) of YA combat-glorifying-type adventure fantasy. LOTR, Harry Potter, etc. i could go on about this for years

[restekova]

(- @kallutozoldycks)

hi nice to meet you i love you

[agameofcharades]

# meta x meta # hxh is literally so good # like if you didn't understand the fact that the hunters are meant to be a morally ambiguous organization # the leader of the hunters literally drops a nuke # which in japan has always carried insanely more negative connotations than it has anywhere else # especially about the person who makes and justifies that decision to drop such a powerful bomb # and the person most alike to the previous hunter chairman in personality is # fucking pariston of all people # yeah i'm sure netero was sponsoring a healthy mindset in his organization by creating an environment that enabled Pariston # Literally the entirety of pariston's character is that he doesn't actually have any negative intentions as shady as he may be # He just does things because they're fun and he can # But that lack of having any true goal when you wield so much power can itself be harmful # The same way that Ging literally caring only for adventure and not giving a shit about other people # makes him such a hatable human being in everybody's eyes especially when he has a son # he doesn't even specifically hate gon he ju # st doesn't care about gon the same way he doesn't care about anyone else (via @linkspooky

The reason everyone other than Leorio, the only remotely Good Adult in the entire world, hates Ging is that Ging flaunts his assholeness and is an ass to everyone. The fact that he abandoned his kid is like. secondary. 

But yeah, i love the way this is so in your face but so backgrounded by the manga itself. I mean:

This is considered a reasonable and acceptable answer. You can’t really get more blatant than this, but the manga keeps moving on - the manga keeps the tone and pacing and dynamics of a typical adventure story even while it shows you things like this, at least until the end of the Chimera Ant arc when it does explicitly show you the horror of everything in the narration and pacing for a bit there. But only for a bit.

[background-alien-deactivated201]

nothing tears the fragile veil between fiction and reality like the phrase “star trek: voyager got obama elected”

[background-alien-deactivated201]

ok so @thefordokami asked me to explain this and explain i will because it’s one of my favorite weird star trek stories

so in the early 90s jeri ryan was married to a guy named jack ryan, who worked for goldman sachs and had some political aspirations in chicago. when jeri got the part of seven, she commuted to la from chicago and it was a big strain on their relationship and the marriage kind of fell apart. they got a divorce. later on, jack ryan was running for one of the us senate seats for illinois and the press (who were looking for a way to make a senatorial race interesting and decided that diving into ryan’s former marriage to a celebrity would do the trick) unsealed the divorce case, revealing that he had done some, for lack of a better word, turdish things during their marriage, he dropped out of the race, and his replacement republican was handily defeated by young barack obama. so without voyager, it’s possible that obama’s political career, which eventually led to the presidency, would have been very different, and basically the world is a weird place and everything is connected and if i ever got kicked back in time i’d just stand in one place sweating because literally everything leads to something else that you’d never expect and the timeline is unimaginably intricate and delicate

[mintamenapie]

Shout out to all your internet friends who are gone.

Those messenger screen names that haven’t logged on in ages, some before detailed profiles were a thing on those services.

Those emails that are long since abandoned, some with domains that no longer exist.

Those online friends you knew years ago and who then helped shaped you in some way, who you just can’t FIND anymore.

Those people who once were, and hopefully still exist IRL, that seem to have no known internet life anymore.

And those who have actually passed on, and their online lives are now a memorial to them.

I miss you all. I hope life is/was kind to you, and maybe one day, we’ll somehow connect again.

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[nicollekidman]

all the reviews for atomic blonde are like “its an empty aesthetic film where charlize theron just dresses up in nice clothes, kicks the shit out of dudes, and has random sex scenes with women” as if that wasn’t my dream action movie 

[myrosecolouredgirl]

a bond movie. it’s a bond movie. an empty aesthetic film with the hero in nice clothes kicking the shit out of dudes and having random sex with women is every single james bond movie ever made.

[zoozve]

who’s gonna pay for property damage

[chamiryokuroi]

Mabel & Dipper Pines, the Mystery Twins, paranormal investigators.

I just want to think about them being older, summers are no longer spent on Gravity falls (is not summer if it is where you live full time), now they go driving around the states on Stan’s car (a gift for the twins 18th birthday) documenting everything paranormal they can find.

[just-shower-thoughts]

Uber and Lyft should have a “do not disturb” option so your driver knows you don’t want to chit chat for the entire ride….

[penmeetspage]

New Satellite "Mayak" Might Light Up the Sky - Sky & Telescope

Russia's first crowd-funded satellite, named Mayak (Russian for "beacon of light"), promises to be the “brightest object in the night sky next to the Moon.”

Mayak is Russia’s first crowdfunded satellite. Built around a standard 3U cubesat body measuring 34 × 10 × 10 cm, Mayak was designed by engineering students at Moscow Polytechnic University. The satellite will test an aerodynamic braking system that could de-orbit satellites without using an engine, and it comes equipped with reflectors to provide data on the satellite’s visibility and distance.

To that end, the satellite is set to deploy a large tetrahedron-shaped reflector. Each triangular face is 4 m² (43 ft²) in area and should be readily visible from the ground on a twilight pass. In fact, the team claims, Mayak will be the “brightest shooting star” once unfurled with an estimated magnitude of –10, so glints from it might be almost as bright as the full Moon. Mayak could be visible in bright twilight and perhaps even during daytime passes as well.

guys this is so cool 

The plan is to fly Mayak in a stabilized mode for the first four weeks, then set it tumbling on all three axes, setting off a brilliant twinkling pattern. The team’s site mentions using brightness estimations from Mayak to gather information about air density at high altitude and to calibrate brightness estimations for future satellites.

Once the reflector is deployed, both solar-wind pressure and atmospheric drag will accelerate the craft’s reentry. Such devices might become a standard feature on future satellites, enabling them to de-orbit shortly after their mission ends rather than adding to the growing tally of space junk in low-Earth orbit. Nanosail-D2tested a similar technology in 2011, and another mission recently dispatched from the International Space Station, InflateSail, is currently testing the same method.

[deep-space-diver]

You know what doesn’t fuck around?

Australian children’s books on animals

[bowditch]

This reminds me of the Peppa Pig episode about friendly spiders that was banned in Australia because their response was basically, “um, oh, no, you can’t, uh, you can’t tell our kids that. spiders here will kill them.”

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Logging onto Tumblr

[phoenixfire-thewizardgoddess]

It might seem a bit mad, but there’s nothing wrong with using toilets as Transportation…

…if you end up…

…in a magical place….

…full of like-minded and diverse peoples.

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[thatgirlwiththememes]

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

An Uninvited Guest (1844 / Watercolor, pencil & ink) - Adolph Menzel

[bundyspooks]

let him in

[agameofcharades]

yeah, let me in

[glamourweaver]

Here’s an alternate history setting I haven’t seen before - General Sherman’s orders weren’t rescinded and every freed family received 12 acres and a mule carved from the lands of rebel slave holders.  Southern blacks were never bound to the repressive sharecropping system, and instead were as able to economically progress as the whites who benefited from the homestead act.  The facilitates an alternate present that is far more socially and scientifically advanced as the backdrop for science fiction stories - and makes a much stronger and more cutting statement about institutional racism than “man, things would sure be worse if the Confederacy and 19th century style slavery still existed!”. Hell - it liberates you to present a world where the United States can be unambiguous good-guys, but rather than white washing reality, it is a criticism of the reality by juxtaposition!

[skull-bearer]

I love it. Someone should do an anthology of ‘what if history wasn’t so shit’ Alternate History short stories.

[peopleofearth-tbs]