even the depths of the night cannot blind me

I'm just a nerd, any pronouns, if you see me reblogging about one subject, good luck, that's all youre gonna see for a while.

[nitramaraho]

[cumleak-deactivated20210627]

this is probably the best compilation out there

[adamjk]

it’s hard to believe this entire moment in our lifetimes has come and gone

[luren-away]

first meeting

[electricheart]

a little reminder! by annalaura_art

[keepsdrifting]

Megamind is so funny to me. Several things are easily and beautifully established in the first few scenes of the movie.

Probably the worst crime that Megamind can actually be persecuted for is kidnapping. Some destruction of property. Otherwise, absolutely nobody is actually scared of him. There's no evacuation when he "takes over" (unlike later when Tighten takes over and there's a mass-exodus.)

He has some form of probably legitimate income since he purchases and ships all of his "evil lair" accessories from an outlet store, of all things, in Romania.

He has fans. (Fucking Bernard)

He probably hasn't killed anybody ever. (He told Roxanne to evacuate the Metro Man museum "we're having the walls and ceiling removed")

He purposely mispronounces things. (Says spider correctly initially, and then "corrects" himself.)

He unintentionally mispronounces things. ("Ollo?")

He doesn't know what windows are???? Has to be explained to him, despite his lair having them???? And the jail he was raised in has windows???? And the school he went to had windows????

His alligators (from the alligator pit) are very obviously well-loved and cared for. They have a disco ball, their own room, and piles of toys. They looked like they were having a great time, actually.

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

[drizzledrawings]

☆tiger☆

[wolfythewitch]

Would you mind if a gal does a little retconning

[wolfythewitch]

Okay for context and sorry im rambling sm about this i need to get my thoughts out somewhere LMAO. UM. that specific comic I tweaked is important to me because its sort of like the first big talk they have, but like its only one conversation. Neither Rocky or Adrian or Grace are fully alright but at least for Rocky and Adrian specifically (since that particular comic strip focuses on them) the love they have for each other has never really been a question. In that aspect, they get to have this assurance early on that both do love each other and do want to have each other to weather whatever's coming their way. It's just Rocky is also Not Okay mentally at all (planning to explore this soon hopefully) and Adrian is keeping so many things under wraps and close to their chest and both of them will have to deal with that as well. It's not a healthy relationship just yet but the goal is to work towards one,,, hopefully,, Grace also has issues that will need to be explored later on haha he and rocky both will get some more exploration later i just really like focusing on Adrian right now

For context, I just changed rocky's lines in the fourth page a little bit to imply that it's not so much just the fear of what Might happen but also shame of what has already happened. To allow some leeway for the next part

[stixy]

Bro is cooking

[vv0812]

I have come to the conclusion that I need more dork and awkward Simon.

Like we know he has everything in him to suffer and have drama, but I just want to him to feel safe enough to start acting silly and been a complete dork. When I say awkward, I don't mean quiet edgy guy whose awkwardness makes you feel stupid and he look cooler, NO! I mean doing a bad joke that no one else gets and staying there in silence awkard .

Let him try to be normal, but failling to be normal. Like trying to say hi to someone and been too intimidating, and he knows he can look very intimidating so he tries to make a joke to break the ice but it is just too too dark, or too stupid, or too niche to be funny.

Give a Simon who has troubles with his hair and his only solution is blewing that thing off, because he forgot he has a elastic band. Give me a Simon that for once in his life had access to clothes with color and went ballistics with his outfit.

I just imagine him taking this second chance to live kinda seriously, so he tries really hard to have fun and be funny.

Extra + Grace and Rocky:

Let Simon, after the fear and paranoia calms, to be mesmerized by xenonite because he always was interested in creating things, and when Rocky starts teaching him how, he sucks at it, but he is stupidly happy to have created a happy face with xenonite.

Let him be like a child in those first calm interactions with Rocky, because he is a rock who sings, for Simon naturalist been this has to be the most awesome thing ever.

Give me a Simon who is trying really hard to connect with others without the whole this is a violent cult interaction in between, but he hadn't have an experience that wasn't taunted by that since he was a child so he is super rusty with his social skills.

Give him a jokes book (yes you heard/read me a jokes book) and he spends hours trying to get Grace or Rocky to laugh, but he always mess up the joke.

Let Simon be the one bombing Grace with questions about Earth, (i love the idea of Grace asking Simon about Mars, but let my boy have his chance too), while his eyes shine in wonder: "Did you really have forest covering kilometers and kilometers?" "Did you really learn how to swim in a real water ocean?" "Did animals just live freely around?" " Why does Rocky say that you are like a dog? What is a dog?" "How are the mountains? What is snow?"

Simon who is fascinated by Grace's sweaters and shirts, because they are soft and they have jokes too! Simon ugly laugh (ugly laughing should be permitted) by the jokes of those shirts.

Simon over sharing because he once heard that you can tell everything to your friends and that is easy to talk and share with them, and Rocky and Grace told him that they are his friends so he is trying really hard to accomplish his role as a friend.

Give me a Simon that doesn't understand that his life was quite traumatic, so he shares one of the most horrible details of his life and then procedes to do a dad joke, even when he is not a dad, because he hasn't understand what dad jokes consist yet, he just knows they are jokes and he founds them funny.

Simon singing karaoke as if is a duty because Grace told him that it was something that he used to do with his cowokers and friends in earth to loss the tensions, relax and connect, and Simon is like: "Relax and connection? I got it" and then sings "call me maybe" with the seriousness of a coronel in the middle of war.

If he is suffering from scurvy and starvation with Grace in their way to Erid he would make jokes about it, Grace would have kill him for how annoying he was, but he didn't have the energy to do so

Extra + Adrian:

When Simon and Adrian were introduced, Simon made one of his bad/dark jokes and Adrian laugh, truly laugh, and in that moment Simon realized that they were going to become best friends.

Extra + Mutation/ Amputation:

If Simon was mutated he would be the first one to made fish jokes.

He also love the "can you give me a hand" jokes.

Grace and Rocky don't know if is worse to laugh with him or not.

Extra Extra + Bloodymary:

When Grace falls in love, he would be laughing at those jokes super hard. He always tries to laugh at them, because Simon is trying, but if he is interested in Simon, Rocky would go "I know what you doing" and tease him.

When Simon falls in love he is trying all the pick up lines he had ever heard, read or learn.

He will accidentally use or made doble meaning jokes and pick up lines, but he would not know this and Grace is just blushing and dying in silence. Rocky laugh at the situation and Simon is super proud thinking it was thanks to his joke.

Grace would fall in love to this man who can asfixated you with a single arm, do a bomb and interpreted a map without problem, but couldn't throw a joke, be funny or tell an anecdote on the spot without messing it up even if his life depends on it.

[trexiva]

Sorry I'm thinking Simon's tendency to apologize to inanimate objects rn

Grace gets frustrated with a tool or something and tosses it to the side as he does. And Simon picks it up and mutters an apology on Grace's behalf under his breath. Cut to Grace absolutely breaking down to Rocky later, taking off his glasses as tears stream down his face bc, "he apologized to the tool, Rock. I threw it and he felt the need to apologize. On my behalf." Him feeling a bit like an asshole for throwing a fit

Ok that's it that's the post hit send

[thatonegreyghost]

@to-be-kind-takes-work on the subject of Grace's temper tantrums

[to-be-kind-takes-work]

This is actually one of my favourite things and I want to put it in a fic somewhere. I love this so so so so much

[nordreys]

james ortiz provided some of his own personal rocky backstory on the sag aftra podcast, transcribed by me because we all have to be miserable about it together.

link to the podcast, this section below is from timestamp 24.35

“andy weir provided a packet to the creature shop that was like a packet of eridian biology and stuff but there wasn’t much about eridian culture or eridian sociology and i made a bunch of choices going in because i just needed to have like a ‘who am i?’ right? 

[…] and i made a decision that rocky’s species, that eridians are really social animals that in fact are like a beehive or a pod of dolphins - it’s a unique and really integrated ecosystem of everybody doing their [specific] part. and the fact that rocky had to fly that ship for about 45 years - longer than grace has been alive, i wanna point that out - he’s been alone on that ship, having to run that by himself and- ryan and i would talk about that, one day we sat down and he was like “so what’s the movie from rocky’s perspective?” and i was like “oh it’s like ‘alien’, […] like he’s in a ‘contagion’ movie by himself and he has no idea what’s going on.”

he’s basically in castaway by himself which of course ryan is too but like, one reason why we never cut to the past of rocky is like, i think it was really horrifying! i don’t think rocky has slept in however many years and so a thing i was really struggling with is this idea of like “rocky must watch sleep” because how do you make that a need as opposed to like, a cute idea? and i just had to make the decision that […] he has a lot of unprocessed trauma around the things that he doesn’t understand and how much he is blaming himself because he’s the guy who fixes, he’s the guy who fixes and there was something really freeing about deciding that rocky was a deeply emotional, deeply anxious, deeply horrified person - being - that is trying to move through that in some way and how that affects the early scenes with him until there’s a point in the story where you can see we’ve physically softened rocky’s behaviour, because he’s finally feeling more safe and ok but all of that lore, all of that information [was essential].

i also decided, this is just a small nerdy thing, that there was actually some of his family, was on that ship too.”

[aomaoe]

i pulled you out of the icy depths, why are you still so saturated in blood? better yet, where the hell did you come from?

(quick sketch inspired by this post by @spotforme)

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 5 days 16 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 5 days 16 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 5 days 16 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[kaidenchii]

Revelations 16:3

“Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man; and every living creature in the sea died.”

[ghosthosters]

This came out way more bold than intended.. Whoops !

[ur-favorite-fishgirl]

if you vote me for president i vow to make everything the ocean again. no more land only ocean. this will solve all of our problems and replace them with new, far more interesting problems

[subversivegrrl]

[applejuicewerewolf]