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Andi | 31 | they/them

[rockrockgrace]

Do you think Eridians have some sort of 'rock skipping' sport, where the ones with flatter carapace shoot themselves across a lake and and the ones that go the farthest/have the best form win? Kind of like human diving competitions, but horizontal??

@forestglade YOU'RE A GENIUS YOU KNOW THAT RIGHT

(It's one of Grace's favourite Eridian Sports!)

[cookieiswriting]

@stick-eridian-collection

[andisupreme]

I can't stop picturing some kind of merch (intended to be derogatory) combining the confederate flag and the phrase "Let your Freak flag fly" but I can't risk making it because I fear it would be taken as sincere support and the wrong people would eat that shit up and buy it to wear unironically and I can't risk it

[andisupreme]

I'm genuinely so surprised that the PHM Crossover that took off was to ship him with Markiplier and not Mark Watney. Although AroAce Grace is near and dear to my heart, I would absolutely permit some reality bending to have him meet The Martian. Strand him on a different planet closer to Erid and have them detect his broadcasts sooner than Earth does, idk. Erid now undergoing the same race to make a human-friendly ship that's built to withstand the trip through the new planet's atmosphere. Go wild.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

Tumblr being the "piss on the poor" reading comprehension site makes sense when you realize that 79% of adults in the US are functionally illiterate. Same goes for Twitter and TikTok.

that's a real high number, sport. where'd you get it?

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

hey anon

please tell me you didn't google "US literacy rates" and then make the funniest possible mistake one could make in that situation

[kitkatopinions]

[tributary]

rent-lowering gunshot time. i think a reflexive anti-AI stance can be reactionary because there are legitimately good use cases for the technology in scientific research, although it is often overhyped. i also think most people use AI in incredibly stupid ways

[tributary]

unfortunately it’s not that simple. generative AI can be used to design new drugs for hard-to-treat diseases. analytical AI can pose data privacy risks and worsen bias in policing (and analytical AI is only as reliable as the data it processes).

it’s better to describe a model by what it does rather than what it is.

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The Little Art Connoisseur (1863) August Friedrich Siegert

[darnitjack]

Last time this came around I showed my three year old and he said "He's little like me!" and stared for a whole minute (v. Long in toddler time).

[haydenthewitch]

and okay like. everyone hold my hand. can- WITH LOVE. can I, with love, talk about how I hate the fan-perception that grace cries too much. you guys. he cries a NORMAL AMMOUNT for a MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER who was KIDNAPPED and sent to SPACE!!! WITHOUT HIS CONSENT!!! yes yes leaky alien blob leaky leaky leaky I GET IT okay but like. the first time I watched phm every time ryland cried I was right there CRYING WITH HIM. this is just what happens when we've stopped normalizing the "male main charcter doesn't cry" thing, okay??? there is not a SINGLE time in this movie where we spend time on the ryland tear ducts that doesn't make sense / deserve it!!! I will always fight and say that Dr. Ryland Grace cries A Normal Ammount considering the circumstances he's under!!!

[parkayquarts]

im not even the type of guy to go "actually it's frankenstein's MONSTER" because a painting by rembrandt or picasso or any other artist is often called "a rembrandt" or "a picasso" as shorthand. so in this respect frankenstein's monster can be considered "a frankenstein"

[parkayquarts]

darling I love your 8 foot tall patchwork flesh creature, it really livens up the place. is that an authentic frankenstein?

[parkayquarts]

it's only a true frankenstein if it was produced in the frankenstein region of switzerland. otherwise it's just a sparkling homunculus

[andisupreme]

My cats are my children, yes, but also they're my little siblings. They exist to love and to cherish and also to bother in incredibly funny ways so I can laugh at their visible annoyance with me in exchange for them finding ways to very deliberately annoy me back.

[cryptotheism]

I just felt someone Z-target me

[search-queery]

[clearly circle-strafing you] don't be ridiculous

[andisupreme]

A case on Jax's pronouns (from a trans person. Not that I think it should have to be said but if a few less knives come out immediately then cool.)

I am fully onboard with she/her Jax, I think she would be happier this way. I think that is what her fully-realized self would be. I think the people who try to deny Jax is trans are idiots who can't read subtext if it bites them on the nose.

That said, when talking about the show and the character as is I still find myself defaulting to he/him and I thought I'd offer a more nuanced case against all these posts of "if I see you misgendering Jax you're transphobic and I'm blocking on sight." A headcanon somewhere between Jax being fully out and the stupid take of refusing to acknowledge the gender struggle at all.

I think Jax in the show is in a... delicate work in progress stage.

I've personally met a few people in my life who would be so much happier if they accepted being trans, but they're so deep in denial or so full of self-hatred they won't do it. And even once that egg is cracked, once they accept that this is how they feel inside, you can't force the chick out of the shell. To run with the metaphor, pulling the shell away from the chick can actually hurt them. And even if you know in your heart of hearts that if they would just rip the bandaid off they would be happier, calling someone by pronouns they don't want and aren't ready for is going to endanger that journey of self-actualization. I know from experience how awkward it is addressing these people because I feel like I'm misgendering them, but they aren't ready and I have to respect that.

If Pomni hadn't called Jax "man" at the end, if the pair had blatantly acknowledged it out loud, that would feel like Jax accepting it and the switch could fully flip in my brain. But even Jax's internal selves on a subconscious level were so mocking and misogynistic and dripping in toxic irony that I don't think she's ready. To me, this feels like a deeply miserable egg who WILL one day be a happier woman IRL. That person may even be on that journey out in the real world right now. But just like Pomni feels that there's a distinction between herself and Abigail, I don't think Jax made it to that point before the end.

Tbh I think this is even the root cause of what happened with Ribbit. Ribbit knew what was going on just like we do and took a good-hearted swing at trying to make Jax feel accepted and safe. She wasn't wrong to do so. But acknowledging the gender issues before Jax was ready ended up causing him to shut down and throw up every single wall he could. He ran away from it, he was terrified of acknowledging that precipice of no going back, it was the end of him and it was the end of Ribbit.

In summary, don't come for me if I accidentally he/him Jax in the tags of something or whatever. I'm all aboard the Trans Jax train, but in my head this lady's still cooking. Pronouns are something for her real self to figure out and the circus gang if they ever manage to fix the abstraction problem.

[ultirex]

“feeling like a person again” collection

[olidel]

[pastelispunx]

My emotions about space travel, and the history of, are strong today.

[kiapet2]

My explanation for the book v. film difference on Eridian eating customs is that movie!Rocky was full-on bluffing.

Like he was just calling human eating disgusting, what was he going to do, say "okay actually the way Eridians eat is so incredibly gross we do it in private sound-proofed rooms"? And cede the conversational high-ground and sense of species superiority to Grace??? Nah, it looks beautiful, definitely.

Then Grace says "show me" and Rocky is stuck now, he's committed. So he just bucks up and goes all-in. It's not like he'll see the human after this is all done, he can pretend it's totally normal just this once.

Eventually before they reach Erid Rocky is gonna have to come clean, and Grace will laugh at him for an hour straight.

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[lemondoddle]

[Description: a looping bouncy animation of grace and Rocky from project hail mary. Grace throws himself onto rocky for a hug, smiling and nuzzling his face to the top of Rocky's xenonite covered carapace. Rocky brings a claw up to ruffle Grace's hair and grace throws himself even more on top of rocky, rocky wrapping his arms around grace. End description.]