[r-is-for-raven]

“I learned that just beneath the surface there’s another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn’t find the proof. It was just a feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force - a wild pain and decay - also accompanies everything.”

— David Lynch

[angel-derangement]

I did some studies of some glassware pics after a very long drought of no drawing at all. pls enjoy

[ubercharge]

this had me crying laughing

[2242706]

BWAAAAHHHHH wake the fuck up everyone on earth

[setzeri]

Suuuuuck

[fwizard]

*FOOMP*

[sci-the-superb]

[jimsandfruit]

I don't think we talk enough about Graces kids. Do you think they cried? Do you think thier parents turned off the news when they came in the room? Do you think they had any idea why their teacher left without saying goodbye and never came back? Do you think they thought it was thier fault? Do you think 22 years later when the probe came back, they dealt with a resurgence of complicated emotions? Do you think they brag about having Grace as a teacher during those years or was it something sacred they held close to thier hearts?

[herewithstupid]

I really need to find a way to get a gif set of all of the outside shots of the Hail Mary when travelling through space, because they convey SO MUCH through their cinematography. From haunting and alone to drunk to on a merry trip to perilous- like, legitimately, I feel like you could write a paper on how Project Hail Mary conveys emotion just with how they shoot things

[vampirejuno]

If Grace was a linguist rather than a microbiologist, his equivalent of the Water Based Life Form thing would be an unshakeable conviction that there's nothing special about language universals. Sure, every known *human* language contains XYZ feature, but there's no reason an alien language would HAVE to conform to these rules. He dunks on Chomsky at least four different times in his PHD dissertation. He gets laughed out of academia for his weird ass xenolinguistic takes (and insulting a prominent semanticist at a conference) and goes on to teach middle school English.

Cut to him meeting Rocky and realizing with slow, dawning horror that Eridian just happens to hit every single one of those universals like a fucking bingo card.

[abzania]

Imagine being one of Grace's students and seeing his face on a news report about the "brave souls who venture into space to solve the current crisis." I feel like that'd be such a confusing gut punch. Not only was that someone you knew, but they just sent your MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHER into space to die. Insane.

[ebonykain]

“The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking sound bites to support it. “Wouldn’t you say,” she asked, “that killings like this are influenced by violent movies?” No, I said, I wouldn’t say that. “But what about Basketball Diaries?” she asked. “Doesn’t that have a scene of a boy walking into a school with a machine gun?” The obscure 1995 Leonardo Di Caprio movie did indeed have a brief fantasy scene of that nature, I said, but the movie failed at the box office (it grossed only $2.5 million), and it’s unlikely the Columbine killers saw it. The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. “Events like this,” I said, “if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; these two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. The kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn’t have messed with me. I’ll go out in a blaze of glory.” In short, I said, events like Columbine are influenced far less by violent movies than by CNN, the NBC Nightly News and all the other news media, who glorify the killers in the guise of “explaining” them. I commended the policy at the Sun-Times, where our editor said the paper would no longer feature school killings on Page 1. The reporter thanked me and turned off the camera. Of course the interview was never used. They found plenty of talking heads to condemn violent movies, and everybody was happy.”

— Roger Ebert (via flowersofthecity)

[johnschneiderblog]

How to describe it ...

Yet another label for Lord Huron’s music: “Cinematic, vaguely Southwestern-flavored folk-rock …”

That one - not entirely off the mark, I must say - comes from a writer for the Bulletin in Bend, Oregon, where the Bubs played the Hayden Homes Amphitheater a few nights ago as part of their 2026 summer tour.

With another 30-plus shows coming up, who knows how many new labels may emerge …?

The Bulletin writer did some research and seemed to surprise himself.

“Lord Huron,” he wrote, “has just over 24 million monthly listeners on Spotify. That’s a couple million more than Bruce Springsteen, nearly 10 million more than John Mayer and more than twice as many as Phoebe Bridgers…”

The Bubs play Cheyenne, Wyoming Tuesday night; then, the sacred ground of Red Rocks on Wednesday.

[mousiebites]

god i could really go for some trazadone milk to greedily dunk my cracker in

[jame7t]

i have a name

[mousiebites]

mommy revoked your name privileges, you’re cracker now

[jame7t]

yes mommy sorry mommy

[olderthannetfic]

I think a big part of the panic over “NO MINORS ARE ALLOWED TO TOUCH SMUT OR LOOK AT SEX EVER” coming from people who would otherwise consider themselves profic-adjacent has to do with the extreme moralizing that comes from everywhere on the fandom side of the internet right now. Getting constantly called a predator and lumped in with predators really does do things to some people’s brains, even if it’s unconscious. I used to care a whole damn lot about people under 18 reading the smut I wrote, and it was genuinely upsetting for me to consider BECAUSE of the constant wanking and describing every person who steps a toe out of fandom-line as a predator or someone to be afraid of. The discourse pipeline goes something like “you wrote icky smut” -> “a teenager read your icky smut” -> “you personally have contributed to the grooming of a teenager” and although in my logical brain I didn’t believe that, hearing it repeated ad nauseam made the belief imprint itself into my brain to the point of distress.

If there’s anyone reading this that’s struggling with that: free yourself. I promise it’s okay if teenagers read your smut fic or scroll through your account. You won’t get in trouble and teenagers are definitely able to find worse things to read or look at than your fandom works. It is not your responsibility to monitor everyone and you aren’t a bad person if you don’t care as much as a loud part of fandom spaces wants you to care.

--

I didn't feel conflicted about reading porn as a teenager, and I don't care if teens read my porn now. Anyone bleating about how this extremely normal activity is harmful has been poisoned by conservative religious twaddle, no matter how much they claim to be anti-censorship.

[prof-grace-aspen]

I did not become scared or distrustful of Muslims after 9/11, despite the fact my country, my state, was directly attacked. I felt no urge to join those who attacked Muslims, Muslim restaurants, and firebombed mosques here in America. Seeing Muslims in America wearing their traditional clothing like hijab or symbols of their homelands or items of worship does not make me upset or uncomfortable. I did not ask every Muslim I met if they condemn Al Qaeda or ISIS.

If you feel distrustful of Jews, that’s antisemitism. If you think it helps Palestinians to attack Jews, their restaurants, or synagogues here in America, you are antisemitic. If seeing a Jew wearing traditional clothing or items of worship such as the Star of David or a kippah or tallit makes you uncomfortable, you are antisemitic. If you feel like you need to ask every Jew if they condemn the actions of the Israeli government to make sure they’re a “good Jew”, you are antisemitic.

[rslashrats]

[soulspark]

[gallusrostromegalus]

This scene- in which a pampered housecat beats the shit out of a digimon that has already digivolved and has energy attacks- implies that, were cats introduced to the Digital World, they would be invasive, species-destroying super predators like they are IRL. I hypothesize that this is what happened in our world, where cats were introduced to the Internet as Lol cats, dominating the Internet memetic ecosystem and preventing the formation of the Digital World seen in Digimon.

[afurioushawk]

[afurioushawk]

[frustratedasatruar]

Real and growing possibility of him dying live on tv and nobody in the room noticing for minutes on end.

Likes charge, reblogs cast.

[frontmansdefender]

Oh Wikipedia. Never change