Birdie

[verenakauer]

I feel so many feelings about Rocky during the first contact. He wants to connect SO BADLY. Do Eridians have horror stories about scary aliens? If they do, Rocky doesn't care. He wants this alien to be friendly. He does everything he can to accommodate. Here, a little gift I'm sending your way at the speed you're comfortable with. Please be there. Here, the next gift is going right into your airlock so that it's easier for you to catch. Please don't fly away. You made a strange gesture with your limb, I'll make my robot make that gesture back. Please belive that I'm friendly. Here's a tunnel to connect us, I'll make sure you can breathe in it. Please come meet me. I'll let you choose the material for the wall separating us; I'll rebuild the whole wall if it makes you more comfortable, no trouble, just please let's talk. You're all alone on your ship, I can hear it, please come sleep here where I can watch you, it's unsafe for you to be alone. I'm alone and scared, it's been 46 years since I felt safe while sleeping, please please please watch me sleep too. I'm very vulnerable when I sleep and I trust that you won't use it against me. I want to visit your ship, am allowed, question? I'm moving in with you. Let's save the stars.

[egberts]

i got that dog in me but it's poorly socialized and i don't take it on as many walks as i should

[freedominthedarkmp3]

One time this man approached me in a bar talking in Spanish. So I assumed he was Spanish and we started speaking, we had a whole ass conversation and at some point he was like. So what part of Spain are you from? And I said well I’m Italian actually. What part of Spain are you from? And he was like. I’m Greek.

[pastelpinkcheeks]

One time I was in Argentina and I was so tired of trying to speak Spanish because I’m not very good at it lmao so I broke into exasperated English and the retail seller girl quickly understood me and engaged me in conversation. We talked for a while, she introduced me to a makeup brand, and then I decided to buy it. While she was packaging the purchase, she asked me if I were from the US or perhaps the UK and I just said “oh no I’m Brazilian hahah” and she looked me straight in the eyes and said, in clear Portuguese, “I’m Brazilian too”

[ex-evil-genius-deactivated20220]

When my dad went to China on a work trip, his Mandarin speaking wasn’t great but his listening was fine (his first language is Cantonese) and he encountered a German guy who had moved to China to work. My dad knew how to speak German because he studied it in university (but wasn’t great when it came to listening to new vocab he hadn’t studied before), and the German guy knew Mandarin because he lived and worked in China, so they had a conversation where my dad spoke to the German guy in German and the guy responded in Mandarin. I’m sure it confused a lot of their coworkers who just saw the Asian guy speaking German and the white guy speaking Mandarin.

[theriversdaughter]

Some years ago, I worked for a manufacturing company that had a service depot in China.  One of the engineers from the main office here in the US spent most of his time at the depot.  The problem was that he didn’t speak *any* of the various Chinese languages, and no one at the depot spoke any English. They all, however, spoke Spanish.

[1stsana]

I love the world

[lesbiansforboromir]

You actually cannot skip to being good at a creative endeavour that you haven't put much practice into. You cannot trick your way out of the 'knows that your work is not what you want it to be but don't know how to improve it' stage by planning or reading or talking about it really really hard. At some point you just have to craft through it until your brain finds it's own unique way back to the 'everything I make slaps' stage and be prepared to start the cycle all over again. You just have to make that project you're excited about slightly less good than you want it to be. (Says this standing in a pool of blood and covered in blood and also coughing up a little blood)

[eldr1tch-cr0w]

number one rule! never believe ur thoughts after 10 pm . unless its about The Character then believe all of your thoughts wholeheartedly

[scolop98]

man I wish A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking had an active, fanfic-writing fandom. my biggest “complaint” about the book was that I just wanted more baking-magic shenanigans and more follow up on the anti-establishment and heroics-is-traumatizing themes and that’s literally what fanfic is for. Ao3 and tumblr culture would make great things out of these themes. In my ideal world this book would have a healthy fandom tradition of angsty and hurt/comfort one shots and also a thriving crackfic/shitpost community coming up with increasingly ridiculous ways to weaponize bread

[tendebill]

[part 1] rocky learns about the Denmark incident :]

[ramqiu]

the upgraded xenonite suit was invented shortly after

inspired by this tweet

[wolfythewitch]

all all all

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[for-those-who-wait]

Well. He's as close to being "on Rocky's chest" as possible considering the circumstances

[spam-monster]

Iron Lung and Project Hail Mary as "men who persevere against impossible odds and find courage in the depths of despair"

Versus Obsession and Backrooms "men will willingly stay in a literal horror movie situation over confronting their mistakes and taking responsibility for their actions"

[dominiqueramseyart]

When I tell you that you have to be leery of who critiques your art, your life will depend on it. The wrong person giving you critique can have you fighting with your own creativity leaving you mentally unwell. Especially if you do not have enough people around you telling you how much they appreciate your art.

You will begin to doubt yourself not in just art, but every other aspect of your life. If expressing myself harmlessly is not encouraged, then what other harmless thing am I doing that is wrong? Once you stop believing in your own self will it's joever.

It has taken me nearly 4 years to shake this.

[my-balls79]

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

English sauce I'm cryinggggg

[crappyyuki]

Read from Right to Left.

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Gary wants to see if they can make Clembot malfunction.

[loveridden1999]

top 3 hobbies for young adults:

1. borrowing misery from future

2. carrying grief of the past

3. agonizing over the present

[scamguy]

i would like to officially thank sesame for its seeds, its oil, and of course its street

[magicalmrmephistopheles]

couldn’t leave this in the tags