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Star Trek is so funny. All of starfleet is so aggressively Neutral Good. Every time they're up against something they Always do the noble thing. Every one of these motherfuckers is so ready to jump on the grenade. It's so cute I love them
Starfleet officers come out of the academy with 2 things: a passion for science bordering on sexual and an incomprehensible desire for self-sacrifice
I love how this is like, acknowledged in lore, too. Like, the reason Starfleet is so full of these bozos is because it's a big non-profit where you get to Do Science and Be Noble. So only people who want to Do Science and Be Noble join up. The organization has a reputation for producing the most moralistic greater-good-loving yuppies in the galaxy. It's a straight-up hero factory. You love to see it
I bet vulcan ships gossip about how starfleet officers can't go a day without volunteering for a life-threatening mission before they start climbing the walls looking for enrichment
sending them on dangerous missions is actually a safety measure, otherwise they start tinkering with the warp drive, and you end up as salamanders
Or start tampering with subspace rifts and end becoming a galaxy-shattering vocal ensemble
It's a post scarcity society! At least, for the core Federation planets.
So what happens when your healthy, happy citizens (numbered in the trillions) runs out of things to do? You can only learn so many obscure skills, study so much art & philosophy, consume so much media before boredom sets in.
Time to explore!
Send those obnoxious grown-ass "I'm bored, mom" kiddos off to Starfleet to see the galaxy!
And the really super-intense ones end up on starships.
"So how'd you get your culture so noble and driven toward general improvement of society?"
"For generations, since the advent of warp travel, we've let our libertarians dirt farm on whatever otherwise worthless rock they find on the frontier."
"It's so bubbly and cloy and happy." "JUST like the Federation."
“It’s so bubbly
and cloy and happy.” “JUST like
the Federation.”
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
yellowjackets 2x03 textposts: milf edition
Twitter is in its death throes but the Morphy Boys still never miss
picard is great because as much as he presents himself as a quintessentially normal straightlaced rule-abiding captain there IS something unrelentingly Weird about him that i absolutely cannot pin down
(tags via @captains—blog)
People who have never read the Animorphs books, I invite you to guess: WHICH STATEMENT IS NOT TRUE ABOUT ANIMORPHS
All morphing has a small risk of death by warp-speed spacecraft.
Parasitic alien slugs can get addicted to instant oatmeal.
There is character named after a fan who only appears in two books.
The main characters permanently trap a kid on an island, as a rat, on purpose.
One of the major alien races is constantly on the verge of starvation.
A major recurring character is partially named after Gandalf.
There is a virus that can wipe a species from existence at the atomic level.
Atlantis is real.
A reality-warping alien has the appearance of a dinosaur with a human face.
A sapient hawk is the child of a human and an alien via time travel.
#i refuse to believe that atlantis is real in the aliens war child soldier brainjacking books#no i dont know why
The entire fanbase wishes that you were correct
I won't say what the answer is, but I can tell you with certainty the fact only one of these is wrong says a lot about the series.
GHGNGBGJKHGNJKFDNGKDGFNJK I saw that Tolkien Gateway was doing a giveaway of art prints if you make an actually helpful edit. so I looked at where the prints are coming from and it's this guy
Official website of science fiction and fantasy painter Donato Giancola
it's 'hot renaissance boy gollum' guy, the thumbnail's right there!!!! i mean his art is beautiful- gorgeous. love the silm dragons.
but that two towers one is just. a very interesting take
anyway, if you want to win a print you can tell the wiki something helpful: https://tolkiengateway.net/ maybe you can take one of the obscure facts on a wiki page and find/cite where tolkien actually said it, that seems to be missing a lot
"pff, hot renaissance boy gollum," I scoffed, "what could that mean?"
It means exactly that. I was not ready. Behold, "The Taming Of Smeagol":
100 FILMS IN 2015 → Jupiter Ascending (2015) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “I CREATE LIFE!! …And I destroy it.”
Here is my feeling about this movie: it is your garbage. It is garbage for you. “Is this how straight dudes feel at the movies all the time????” I hissed SEVERAL times during this movie. “Like someone carefully noted down your early pubescent fantasies and then threw 100 MILLION DOLLARS at them?”
Top marks go to evil space royal Eddie Redmayne, whose breathy ennui is offset by bouts of mummy’s boy shrieking, all delivered with a “petite-mort” look on his face that suggests he is being fellated by eternity itself.
Someone on tumblr described it as the novel all girls wrote when they were 14 and frothing with a mix of swelling hormones and fading Disney fantasies, which I have to say is accurate to the point of pain. I mean, gorgeous Russian toilet scrubber finds out she is actually a space princess when a werewolf space marine rescues her from death at the hands of Greys? Pardon me, werewolf ANGEL space marine with a Sad because his wings are gone. And then everything is Alexander McQueen dresses and melodrama and bees, for some reason, and Eddie Redmayne doing his best heroin-addicted Voldemort impression.
The plot is this: the Wachowskis were given an extraordinary amount of money to make whatever the hell they wanted, and what they wanted to make is exactly what we all, secretly, deep down, want to make: the big-screen adaptation of that Stargate fanfic you wrote when you were fourteen that really went off the rails and began to inhabit its own universe, complete with original characters, wolf-men, and bees. That’s Jupiter Ascending.
I feel so seen
One of the worst feelings is when you feel a hyperfixiation slipping.. Like no.. Youre so sexy pls keep giving me happy chemical
Girl help I'm losing my fixation
That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losing my fixation
A field surgeon in a fantasy world has performed life saving surgery on many an orc war band before, unwittingly becoming blood brothers with most of his patients. In his darkest days, his extended family comes to offer their hands.
Hyrea the Healer was not a difficult goddess to serve.
Which was not to say that service was easy. Service to Hyrea took one into dangerous places, and dangerous work. A dedicate of Hyrea went into war, and plague, and famine. Risked death a thousand ways, over and over again. And yet it wasn’t difficult to serve her, if you were the right kind of person. For a person who looked at the sick or wounded or starving and longed to help, it was the easiest thing in the world.
Hyrea marked her devotees in a way impossible to disguise or to mistake. It was possible to replicate the blue tattoos, to an extent, though the ‘blindfold’ was hard to do, eyelids being difficult. The bands around the wrists were easier. But only Hyrea could make them glow with that faint, spectral light. No-one could look on that light, and not know exactly who they were looking at. There were stories about it – about the six healers who had walked onto a battlefield and stood between the two armies, and stopped the battle cold, for neither side had dared to lift a hand against the healers. About proud gods who drove out the humble Hyrean healers, so that only their own priests could heal, and cities emptied by disease spreading from the poorest quarters, where the proud priests would not go. About the warlord who, having struck his enemy down, saw a Hyrean healer kneel to help the man, and in fury struck the healer down as well – and died the next moment, with a dozen arrows in his back, fired by his own men. About villages struck by plague, who saw the blue lights approaching through mist, and opened their barricaded gates to hope. About terrible battles that lasted from dawn until dusk… and then nights full of pale blue lights, moving among the fallen, and a hundred or two hundred or five hundred men found living on the field the next morning.
Temples of Hyrea rose in odd places. In busy cities, in border towns, in little villages, with no apparent rhyme or reason. Only a certainty, in the part of some priest or priestess, that here there would be need of them. They were good at predicting need.
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In my astrophysics classes we mentioned the TMT & I offhandedly asked my professor how pivotal that is to current astronomical research
He said something to the effect of "it'd be really cool but there are other projects that would probably supersede it within a decade or two"
That's whats at stake for Western science - a nifty addition expected to be at parity with projects already underway within one lifetime
As opposed to thousands of years of traditions & a fight against hundreds of years of colonization
love triangles can’t exist without at least 1 lgbt person. cishets just don’t know how shapes work
I’ve created this helpful info graphic
Most of the characters that people call a love triangle is really just a love corner. And the woman is usually backed into it.
it's a nice day to check my inbo--
never mind .
What do you mean “never mind” this fucks
as it should be
Queen shit
Sorry to second reblog but if we took away 90% of Bezos money he would still have 18,650,000,000.
18billion.
650million.
Dollars.
HE WOULD BE FUCKING FINE
MAKE IT 99%
even if it was 99%, he'd still have nearly 2 billion dollars.
just kill him and take all his money.
I’m in a very “late-’90s nostalgia” place right now, so let me pick up where I left off last night and ramble on about why Animorphs was so fucking great.
So, in the beginning, the series had very distinct good guys and bad guys.
Now, what made them good guys and bad guys?
Well, their goals made them good guys and bad guys.
One side was fighting to enslave humanity and destroy the Earth. The other side was fighting to keep that from happening.
And, in the beginning, that was enough.
But it’s a sixty-book series, and a little ways in, by about book sixteen, the kids are starting to ask themselves (and each other), “Hey. Wait. No. Can we honestly pretend the ends justify the means?”
“Can we honestly tell ourselves that, because we’re defending our planet, literally anything we do is automatically justified?”
“Is it not possible for us to go too far?”
“Are there moves that it’s fundamentally morally indefensible to make?”
And from that point onward, it’s not just about goals. Now it’s also about tactics. They’re the good guys because they have Limits, because they have Rules.
They say, “No, we’re not going to pretend the ends justify the means.”
“We’re not going to sink to the level of our enemies.”
“We’re not going to be cruel. We’re not going to be cutthroat. We’re not going to be inhumane or controlling. We’re gonna be clean. We’re gonna be good. We’re gonna be ethical and compassionate.”
“There’s no point fighting our enemies if we just become them in the process. We have to be the bigger people.”
And, again, for a while, that’s enough.
But if the series is about anything, it’s about how war breaks down everything you think you know about yourself. By the end of the series, all six main characters have committed atrocities on a massive scale.
There’s one book late in the series where they literally threaten to nuke their own hometown, and all the innocent people in it, because it becomes strategically advantageous.
Now, they end up not having to because the enemy folds, but the fact that they almost did it, the fact that they would have done it if they’d been pushed just a little bit farther, fucking haunts them.
But at least they didn’t, right? Like, if nothing else, at least they have the small, quiet comfort of knowing it ultimately didn’t come to that.
Oh, except, four books later, they end up nuking it, anyway.
It’s that kind of series. You’re never out of the woods.
In the beginning, the good guys’ leader, Jake, is specifically a reluctant leader. He didn’t want the job. He didn’t ask for it. If he could, he’d happily give it to someone else. He becomes the leader because he’s the one every other member of the group instinctively turns to when times are tough.
He becomes the leader because they need him to be the leader.
Not because he wants power, not because he likes it, not because he thinks he’s the best guy for the job. But solely because, when the chips are down, he’s the one they turn to. Every time.
They elect him, despite his own protests.
He is humble, and he is brave, and he’s this very idealized archetype.
He’s very much cast in the mold of, like, Pop Culture George Washington, the venerated veteran who naturally, effortlessly just exudes strength and power and wisdom and confidence and charisma but honestly really just wants a moment alone in the shade.
That changes by the end of the series.
By the end of the series, he is just a straight-up dictator. He has seventeen thousand defenseless prisoners executed just because he can.
Just because he wants to watch them die.
It’s actually pointed out in the last book, in canon, that he is, by all rights, a war criminal several times over – and that the only reason he’s not being prosecuted is because he was on the winning side.
A lot of fucked-up shit happens in the last five or ten books. Probably the most downright sickening thing is when the good guys recruit a small army of physically disabled kids, then basically throw them at the enemy as a momentary distraction. And they’re slaughtered. All of them.
But what makes the series memorable isn’t just that a lot of really dark and shocking stuff ends up happening. That’s not special by itself.
It’s that the characters spend so much time talking about it.
You know, it’s a kids’ series – these are, like, fourth-grade reading level – that isn’t remotely afraid to have hard conversations about how there’s no such thing as a good war, how even good people can be swayed to do terrible things, and how no one is ever above reproach.
I’m not going to say it’s necessarily perfect, sensitivity-wise, but it’s kind of amazing how much it doesn’t take for granted.
It’s very willing to have the debate (whatever debate happens to be at hand), show all sides, and let that play out to its natural endpoint.
And all this exists in a series that also has plots like, “I turned into a starfish, and a random little kid chopped me in half (because kids are jerks), and then both halves regenerated into a separate me, except one is good and one is evil, weirdly, for some reason, and we need to recombine ourselves by electrocuting each other.”
- Mod A.