Bartolomew the Ant

Nomad between fandoms, an adventure seeking wanderer

[secondlina]

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[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.

[xtec]

"you're just fucking the hints guy for hints"

-guy who's fucking the save guy for saves

[urmumsbriskit]

Am I missing extremely important context

[xtec]

Sounds like you should've fucked the hint guy

[valtsv]

unfortunately i can never hate on a "power of friendship" narrative no matter how corny because the thing is it's literally real

[risoukyu]

🪨♫♬♩

[nebulosecloud]

Grace explaining to Rocky all of the resourceful low cost ways he is collecting materials for his Eridian students to do experiments and Rocky going "If you need something just ask. We can make it for you question?" and he doesn't understand why Grace is tearing up (His classroom budget on Earth was $100 for the whole year).

[anxious-gymplak]

umělectvo čumblru, jak poznáte, že "jste dost", abyste své výtvory prodávali?

[kreechurthecrazykat]

Yknow, after seeing Project Hail Mary I was fully expecting this website to be all over shipping Grace and Rocky, so to instead find that everyone has agreed that Grace is an aroace icon and he and Rocky are platonic soulmates is a real fun change of pace that is still oh so very tumblr

On the flipside there's the group of fans who are shipping him with Simon from Iron Lung, called the ship BloodyMary, and had them adopt Laika the space dog and call them "The Patron Saints of One-Way Trips" which is so unbelievably tumblr you just have to smile

[achesspiece]

[achesspiece]

for everyone asking for what article this is i actually went back and found it again and you'll never guess who it's about

[asteroidtroglodyte]

[trans-gothic-rebel]

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

8. into biting?

[muzzlesbian]

9. My veins had to be pierced and drained of blood before my transformation began

[trans-goat-girl]

10. Known to control wolves (puppy girls)

11. Those in the cities often form strange and debauched covens (polycules), those in the country often withdraw into their solitary subjects of fixation. Neither is prone to seeing the sun.

12. Subjected to cycles of public awareness, fixation, and self styled vampire hunters (transvestigators) as public hysteria waxes and wanes.

[moth-grrrl-mavis]

If we dip into VTM lore, the government and the Vatican are trying to exterminate us.

[keiluv-lovette]

Pracuji pro charitu co eticky odchytává pražáky. Žádný z nich nepřijde nazmar jelikož je vypustíme do lesa pro lokální hejkaly aby měli dostatek potravy a užili si lov.

Obohacení jejich jídelníčku a aktivity pro hejkaly ma pozitivní dopad na životní prostředí.

[cormorantcolors]

You make first contact with an alien and they’re so strange. Tall and thin, with too few limbs. Porous. Frail. So cold. They can only see/hear things that are right in front of them and they get disoriented when you’re even a little to the side of them. You have no idea how these things even survive, but once you learn how to decipher the alien’s strangely harsh chirping language you discover that they’ve been exploring space much longer than you have. Apparently it’s because they can sense signals that you only recently discovered, and they rely on those signals for every part of life. You are Rocky the Eridian and you have just met a human.

[bogleech]

[ravenssunshine]

a critique of project hail mary that i’ve seen is that rocky is infantilized and i think there’s genuine merit to that statement BUT i think rocky also very clearly views grace as a childish too. they’re just two very competent scientists meeting another life form and going “DAMN this guy does not know how to be alive! i’m going to teach him” and that’s the beauty of it!

[primeministerofantarctica]

rocky: im not a scientist, im like the least qualified person on this ship, the only reason i survived while the actual scientists died was pure dumb luck :(

ryland grace's internal monologue like every five seconds: oh my god this guy is like a supergenius, he's literally the best engineer i've ever seen, there's no way every other eridian is this smart, like do you even KNOW how cool you are-

[powerbottombrucespringsteen]

The thing with amateur local theater is it is almost always bad BUT keeping it alive is the most important thing

[powerbottombrucespringsteen]

The joys of artistic expression cannot be limited to talented people everybody needs it to survive

[nirruti]

This is such a hilarious take we should give untalented people who make bad art money you know just because guys

[powerbottombrucespringsteen]

Exactly. Glad you understand 💗

[fabiansociety]

good art grows from the soil of bad art, but also bad art justifies itself. it's still art

[knitmeapainting]

@powerbottombrucespringsteen

I agree, please enjoy. Acrylic on random thrift store found object, randomly selected colors and fonts from an online generator.

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[melandrops]

the aroace read of ryland grace is so personal and haunting. "you don't even have a dog." was it not enough to love the world for the sake of living in it. was it not enough to live for the thrill of discovery. was it not enough to smile at your students. was it not enough to be afraid.