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Main blog, you can call us Nova. This blog has no theme. We like cats. (24, They/He Pronouns) Plural system, check us out at: @the-nova-council

[apollo-zero-one]

If it seems like I am in two or more moods at once, it's because I am multiple people and we are in different moods! We just happen to share the same flesh prison and so are online at the same time. Hope this helps!

[darkestbrook]

Oh waiter! Waiter! More art of them cuddling, please! Yes, yes, with the xenonite barriers. I like my fluff with a pinch of angst.

[thee-orange-vibes]

My thoughts on the PHM movie after reading the book first: a play by play

“why is there a *lots of smart words* telescope? WHY DO I KNOW THAT? AMISMART?” - amazing start to this movie

Emperor Comatose my beloved where are you

“Operation go home! In effect!” - ok ryan gosling was 100% the correct guy to play ryland grace

Aren’t they supposed to be 13 years away from earth not 11?

*pained* That’sNotOurSun

It’s interesting how ryland was actually deflecting questions about Astrophage in his class instead of answering them straight up like in the book

Oh he already found the vodka lol

His list 😭 “always muscles?” “Ok w/ cilantro” “good at cursive?” And him wearing ridiculous outfits 😭😭 this guy is so depressed omg

“Wow! You’re not gonna believe this! NOTHING HAPPENED!” - I really love how they encapsulated Ryland’s sass into the movie. Him interacting with the people watching him was hilarious

I love how they made the security guard Ryland liked into an actual character 🥹 look at them being dorks in ikea

The security guards snacking while watching carl and ryland 😭 this is already a 10/10 movie and it’s been 23 minutes

HIM THROWING PILLS AT HIMSELF WHILE FLYING 😭 and using the cone for him throwing up

“As soon as they detected CO2 they were like…WhOOp tHerE It iS” - ryland get ur shit together you’re on live

I wish they’d kept the part where Ryland says “i commend you to the stars” during Yao’s and Ilyunkhina’s funeral

Oh my god his scream when artificial gravity cut off

ROCKY’S SHIP!!!! Woah that is way bigger than 3x Grace’s ship…Im surprised he’s running away instead of being extremely interested that there’s alien life in front of him

LOL ROCKY MIMICKING HIS SHIP MOVEMENTS. And so it begins…

“SHIELDS UP!” “There are no shields.” “WHY NOT????”

“Xenome’s a gas! This thing’s broken.” *fucking breaks expensive equipment*

Rocky: look at my future best friend dawg what the hell is he doing

Gracw creating a rope system for him to follow during zero g is SO SMART

I love the music they use for montages

Him calling the ship Mary is so cute

Guys i love rocky you don’t understand, i wish he was wearing his clothes tho 😔

RYLAND MADE ROCKY A SHIP TOO OH MY GODDDDDD - “it’s ramen” this man has a phd in molecular biology btw

THEY’RE DANCING! ryland’s such a dork

Rocky’s jazz hands 🥹

It’s weird hearing rocky “talk”. In the book Ryland actually learns Rocky’s language (and vice versa) and becomes semi-fluent in understanding it

“Rocky watch crew many days” STOPPPPPPPP

Ok this movie did AMAZING things for Stratt LOOK AT HER SINGING SHE’S SO GOOD

THE BOT IS NAMED ARMANDO!!!

The patrova line is gorgeous oh my god

“I can’t even MOONWALK” CARLS HEADSHAKE LMAO

Woah i didnt know Grace got to see rocky’s ship in this version??? THEYRE SUCH GOOD FRIENDS HHHHHRRRGGGGG

Watching Grace get apprehended for the mission was PAINFUL. The way Ryan Gosling’s voice cracked when they gave him the sedative :(((

My god. The ending. I cried genuine tears of joy seeing all the little Eridins so excited to be taught by Grace 🥹🥹 i need a moment think. 100/10 movie, 100/10 book, no notes, i gotta go write phm fanfiction now

[pineappical]

i've always wondered what human speech would look like visually in the POV of eridians in the same way eridian speech is written as music notes in the book and my favorite version of it i've seen in fics is when words are written as phonetics in rocky's POV :-) oh and also that one post about rocky and grace figuring out random words they can say in the other's language

[lewadny]

happy june to everyone, especially my fellow aroaces

[lewadny]

Listen

LISTEN

I'M SCREAMING THE MAIN SEQUENCE *IS* THE AROACE FLAG WHAT

[paranoidghosts]

happy pride month!! from susie superman sonic and miku!!!!

[apollo-zero-one]

For some reason I was sure Grace would die at the end of the book like I was positive this book would not have a happy ending so the fact that it does has me on the floor sobbing in a good way

[finnglas]

when i was a tiny baby queer (aka a 24-year-old), i went to my first pride festival probably three months after i kicked ex-gay therapy to the curb and came out to my parents. being the people they are, my parents came with me. they weren’t really sure about this whole gay thing, but they loved me and wanted me to be safe and happy and wanted to be involved in what was important to me, so they came along. (i also think my mother still might have thought i might get drugged or murdered or beaten by a protester of which there were plenty.)

anyway i wanted a memento of my first pride, you know, and this one vendor was selling keyrings, and i liked it, so i bought one. do you remember those italian charm bracelets that were all the rage like 10-15 years ago? it was a keychain like that, and it had a rainbow rooster, a rainbow cat, and then just a rainbow, and so I bought it.

i run into my mom a couple of vendors over and she goes oh you bought something? what’d you get? so i showed her, and i was like, “I’m not sure why it’s a rooster and a cat. Seems kind of random. But I liked the rainbows.”

and my mom, who was some form of minister’s wife for most of my childhood and teenagerhood, stares at me like she thinks i’m joking.

“What?” i say.

“…it’s a cock and a pussy, Jules,” she says flatly, and that is the story of how i died at the age of 24 while attending my first pride festival.

[finnglas]

I love how every June this one gets dug up and passed around again, lmao.

[finnglas]

oh no is this what we’re doing now

[finnglas]

…relic…

*crumbles and blows away on the wind*

[tavina-writes]

Do you have an internal monologue

I am monolingual and have an internal monologue

I am monolingual and do not have an internal monologue

I am multilingual and have an internal monologue

I am multilingual and do not have an internal monologue

Infinite nuance (please tell me in the notes)

Voting ended onJun 6

An internal monologue being defined here as "the voice in your head that your thoughts are thought in." And for the multilingual internal monologue havers - which language do the thoughts appear in?

Please reblog for reach, etc.

[duckprintspress]

Pick up your ticket for Pride!

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[velvetys]

Everything used to be 20 dollars and now that I finally have 20 dollars everything is now 200 dollars

[scarlct-vvitch]

grace, who has been alone for five minutes: oh my god. an alien! im not alone anymore! i hope he wants to be friends :)

rocky, coming up on 50 years of solitude, imprinting on grace in ways baby ducklings can only dream of: if you leave me to sleep where i can't watch your heart beat i am blowing up this tunnel with us both in it

[scarlct-vvitch]

free fic idea up for grabs. godspeed

[the-punforgiven]

I'm just saying, if you're going to worldbuild magic being a "raw, primal force, akin to and interweaving with nature itself" you gotta explain to me why animals don't use it

[the-punforgiven]

I know the normal answer is "they just aren't smart enough for it" but idk I've seen enough media where a character uses a spell in a moment of brain-off panic ilI feel like animals could probably stumble into a spell or two like, accidentally

[the-punforgiven]

Also how funny would it be to see a completely normal regular bear cast magic missile outta nowhere

[the-punforgiven]

Also there is no way ravens wouldn't figure out spells, tbh

They're smart fuckin birds, I believe in them

Either through observing or just figuring shit out ravens could 100% learn how to cast spells I'm sure of it

[the-punforgiven]

Dogs can also cast Magic Missile but every time they do the projectile is shaped like a bone or a stick and they chase after it

[rathayibacter]

group of wizards who ask this in-universe, and after extensive study learn to their surprise that animals are casting spells all the time, just that their magic is so fundamental as to be unrecognizable to humans. turns out the only reason acorns grow on trees is because squirrels keep wishing for them.

[sandersstudies]

Yesterday I almost cried because my baby cousin ran up to my grandmother and was like. “Ha! Buhbuh ba ha.” And she said okay you want to show me something? And he led her over to the garden patch and crouched down and pointed at rocks and plants and was like. “Ah. Habah ba ah” as she listened attentively.

And I was like that happened 1,000 years ago. Probably 10,000 years ago. Maybe 100,000. The youngest human in a group went to the oldest one and said to the best of their ability “come see.” And the adult went.

[3liza]

this is such a beautiful post it doesn't need my dumb addition, but i can't fit this in the tags. at the archaeological site Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic there are a bunch of really really fascinating finds and I'm only going to tell you about one tiny detail of one of the most interesting sites in the world.

at this settlement 20-30,000 years ago there lived a person who appears to have been a sort of sorcerer-grandmother-ceramics artist and her workshop was preserved very well in the sedimentary layers. her hut where she had her kilns was full of little sculptures of animals and people that seem to have been made to explode in the kiln on purpose, we're not sure why but nevermind. the relevant detail is that when you sculpt something with your hands and then fire it, your fingerprints can be preserved in the surface of the clay forever, so we have fingerprints of ancient ceramics artists that have survived for tens of thousands of years. and one of the major artifacts from Dolni Vestonice has a fingerprint on it that is so small it could only have belonged to a child

so this shaman-grandmother-sculptor, who was buried with her pet fox by the way, had children running through her workshop and touching everything she made while she was at her mysterious work of creating the world's oldest ceramics, none of which appear to be bowls, bottles, pots, or any "useful" items at all, but rather a collection of animal and human and sometimes anthropomorphic figures, some of which appear to be self portraits. exactly the same as sandersstudios' grandmother being led to the garden by an excited baby. we've all been the same for 30,000 years.

[zookie-art]

I genuinely can't stop thinking about these two. Help

(Prints in bio if anyone wants!)

[fairycosmos]

does it ever stop feeling like a moral failing

[vendetta06]

i am a Lover of Stuff and Things. i cannot change. i hope you understand