Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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izzy's playlists!
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Jules of Nature
we're not kids anymore.
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Mike Driver
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@beepboopfandommachine
I understand it intellectually, but it still bewilders me on a spiritual level that people create separate tumblrs for obsessing over each specific interest, because I’m just here unendingly like BEHOLD, THE COLLAGE OF ME.
Ahahahaha yes, that is this blog! It is a mess but it's home!
It's a good thing Suki taught Sokka feminism in season one bc if she didn't it would've been up to Toph and I don't think Sokka could've survived that lol
She would've left him in that hole
For years, sci-fi has asked, what if aliens were wetter than us. Project Hail Mary posits a new, daring question. What if we are the wet aliens
i just know grace and rocky are going to be linguistically unsalvageable after so long alone together in such a high stress environment.
the mixing of eridian and human languages (and not just english! even english speakers use phrases from other languages! youre telling me grace isnt c'est la vie-ing this entire goddamn trip?) and idioms and body language and various non-word sounds is going to be a sonic nightmare for humans and eridians alike.
in the short window of the story they've already morphed several, now multiply that across the entire trip!
i keep thinking about rocky picking up gesticulation from grace, but on erid it's the equivalent of a human talking with a hand in front of their mouth.
and i shudder to imagine all the scientific short hands they come up with to speed up research! hey rocky thanks for solving the astrophage problem too bad no one knows what the fuck you're trying to explain to us!
manners! social customs! they're fucked!
their shitty little culture of two
has anyone done this yet
Landscaping
lmao why do people think louis is our woke socialist protagonist. “louis would never hoard wealth” you guys don’t deserve himmmmmm
Such Lovely wolf lover 🐺
Good to see that wire and bead toy survives into the 24th century
good not ok
Names...
It's funny how some names survive when others don't.
I had a strong vision for this one.
It is Draw a Terrible Comic Day so I thought I'd join in with the joy that are stick Eridians. And culture things. Can you imagine if you went to space and the aliens also were weird about having to wear clothes At All Times
Behind the scenes:
My vision here is less that Rocky is uniquely Weird, because I think it's way more fun if this is a cultural difference between Eridian cultures that Rocky doesn't bother to explain to Grace until they arrive on Erid.
Here, the Eridian equivalent of Project Hail Mary is an equally international one, with the best and brightest minds on Erid being brought together from across the world: of course. But representatives of one country/region on Erid kind of dominate - whoever has the most resources and geopolitical power is probably gonna be one of the heavy hitters! The director of the project and a lot of the important scientists, technicians, and decision makers come from the ♫♫♫ country. However, ♫♫♫ is in the northern hemisphere, and you can't build a space elevator anywhere but the equator. And Rocky is from the not-nearly-as-politically-powerful equatorial country where the space elevator was actually built - that's how he first got involved with the project.
So it's a culture clash thing: Rocky's equatorial country culture sees clothing as entirely optional, something you put on as necessary for weather conditions or to decorate yourself for an event. But in everyday life? Who cares who caaaaares if your carapace is out. You ♫♫♫ans are SO weird about this. But because ♫♫♫ culture dominates the Tau Ceti Project, wearing clothing is expected on the job even though Rocky thinks it's stupid and is not shy about saying so.
At the end Grace is living and teaching in Rocky's equatorial country ("near the space elevator" but also "do not separate them") so the Eridians he sees in daily life are generally not wearing clothes, but a Lot of the doctors and scientists he'd be working with from across the world are.
This also means that culturally it's the reverse of Grace only teaching Rocky American English: as they get closer to Erid, Rocky is like. Okay. There will be a lot of scientists who will want to talk to you. You should PROBABLY learn to speak at least a little 𝅗𝅥♫♫♫♩♩. And Grace is like what. I've gotten pretty good at Eridian! And Rocky is like no you've gotten okay at 𝅗𝅥♩♬♬𝅝♩♩. But uh the main language of the Tau Ceti project was 𝅗𝅥♫♫♫♩♩ and that's what most of the scientists speak, as a first language or otherwise. And Grace goes oh. I never considered Erid had multiple languages too. Maybe I'm a bad person. Why did you speak in 𝅗𝅥♩♬♬𝅝♩♩ then? And Rocky goes because that's my language?? When we met and I first started talking to you, I didn't exactly expect to be taking you home with me!
So cultural preparation focuses on another round of language crash courses, which Grace is not very good at because he can't really tell what makes 𝅗𝅥♫♫♫♩♩ sound any different from 𝅗𝅥♩♬♬𝅝♩♩ and Rocky is not the best at explaining because 𝅗𝅥♫♫♫♩♩ is his second language so like. He can't explain WHY any of it is the way it is, that's just how he learned it okay!
Rocky genuinely forgets to explain the clothes thing until they land and Grace is being treated by a bunch of doctors and prodded by a bunch of scientists most of whom are wearing clothes and goes. hey Rocky is there something you wanna tell me
I'm struggling to put it into words but lately I've been thinking a lot about scifi books fundamentally about empathy between humans and people who could not be more different from humans. Aliens who are above all else alien, in every possible way, and how they connect with each other. This deeply hopeful idea that it is the nature of sentient civilization to care about each other, no matter how different they are. Project Hail Mary's deep friendship between two people who can't even share the same atmosphere, much less the same biosphere. Children of Time resolving the core conflict between humans and giant alien space spiders with an empathy virus. It's sequels establishing an interstellar civilization whose main goal is to explore the universe and find others, because that's all there really is. The Wayfarers series being all about connections between characters from cultures and planets that could not be more different. Kitty Cat Kill Sat sums it up really well with the Last Oath:
"At the end of all things, all of us, together, against the darkness."
SIFU TOPH AND AVATAR AANG !!
more atla fan art to come, i’m doing a rewatch of the show :] also on summer break now so super excited to get back to being alive!!
She was forced to eat 200 souls of the ninth house when she was conceived 💔 Griddlehark as kids
My job had a training on AI and I was surprised how honest it was about AI’s limitations and problems, and we spent our activity time finding errors and issues with responses made by AI. But it did beg the question, why would I use this
The trainer was like, think of AI as an intern, student worker, or new coworker! They can do tasks for you, but be sure to carefully check their work.
We just established that this “new coworker” is racist, sexist, and can’t do math - why would I ask for their help??
