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Anything that Fascinates Me

[depsidase]

[j-train13]

Astronauts are so funny man. Here's just a couple of things I've found hilarious from this past week of space stuff:

It's probably already been spread around here enough already, but in case anyone's missed it; 7 hours after launch, commander Reid Wiseman, dealing with tech issues, uttered the generational quote "I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working."

After fixing the issues that were afflicting the onboard toilet, mission specialist Christina Koch (who has quickly become my favourite of the four) laughingly said “I’m the space plumber, I’m proud to call myself the space plumber.”

On Easter Sunday, the Artemis II crew hosted a makeshift egg hunt, by hiding packets of dehydrated scrambled eggs around their Orion capsule.

The way the crew always makes sure to make it very clear they're in space when doing interviews. From stuff like Wiseman just hanging out floating sideways on screen or Koch letting her hair loose so it can freely span out flowing around her.

While in transit, the crew decided to record a parody of those bad 80s sitcom intros where everyone turns and smiles at the camera.

When the crew reached the furthest point from Earth in the mission, they jokingly clambored over each other in an effort to get to the far side of the capsule, so that they could individually claim to be the furthest person from earth.

At the same time, on the ISS which was at the time on the other side of earth, the 7 astronauts onboard had a light-hearted race to the far side of the station, making jokes about being the furthest humans from Artemis.

On the way back to earth, NASA actually managed to establish an audio call between the crews of the ISS and Artemis II (where they shared the above info), and Koch called one member of the ISS crew, Jessica Meir, her "astro-sister" as the two of them previously spacewalker together in 2019. Meir then responded I'm so happy that we are back in space together, even if we are a few miles apart" (a few here being 230,000).

While Jeremy Hansen was doing an interview, Wiseman and Koch were just in the background swatting the mission mascot (a little moon plush toy named Rise) back and forth between each other.

[escapismroom]

today I was wearing my “yes homo” shirt and some lady told me “you’re going to hell” and I said “with you around it’s like we’re already there” and I swear she made this exact fkn face

[escapismroom]

I cannot believe this post I made in 2015 is still going around…. anyway plot twist this same lady got famous on my town’s facebook gossip group for divorcing her husband for a woman 💅🏻✨ I like to believe my yes homo shirt pointed her in the right direction

[brightgoat]

THE UNBOUND PROMETHEUS 

Snippets from my animated music video of the song ‘Dead’ by Apashe, featuring my Frankenstein AU/retelling; The Unbound Prometheus.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyROv0mO04A

[brightgoat]

SAFIE

Outfit from this

I did an outfit meme on twitter a while back, this is one of the results, more on the way.

[libraryleopard]

it’s 2017 i deserve a retelling of frankenstein focused on safie

[bookwyrmth1rt33n]

PREACH, my friend!

“It’s 2026, I deserve a retelling of Frankenstein focused on Safie.”

There. I updated your statement for you. 😉👍

[vickyvicarious]

She thanked him in the most ardent terms for his intended services towards her father; and at the same time deeply deplored her own fate.

1818

She thanked him in the most ardent terms for his intended services towards her parent; and at the same time gently deplored her own fate.

1831

There seem to be very few changes between editions in the Creature chapters, and so far it has only been a word or two which don't make much difference in my mind (for example, from later in this chapter, changing "puerile amusements" in 1818 to "infantile amusements" in 1831, or changing "his plans were greatly facilitated" to "his plans were facilitated").

But, while the above quote is also only a two-word change, it feels like one which definitely changes the meaning. 1818 says father as Safie deplores her fate when told she's going to be married off to a stranger. This once again emphasizes the prevalence of a strained fatherly relationship and a child sacrificing their desires to familial duties, a bit more than the shift to the less specific parent does in 1831. It's an odd change, as Safie and her father are meant to be at odds, and he in fact is villainized in some pretty cliche/racist ways throughout the rest of the chapter, so that dimension of their relationship doesn't exactly go away. But while he's still called her father later in the same sentence when she is defying him, it happens later on after he's betrayed the De Laceys. Perhaps the shift to parent is meant to show how she is dedicated to her family as a concept more than this specific man who doesn't deserve it; in a sense, more to the memory of her mother's values which align her with the De Lacey family. It's kinda muddy, though, and I'm not sure how much difference it makes here.

The main change that actually strikes me here is the difference between deeply/gently deploring her fate. In both editions, after spending time with him Safie fairly quickly decides that marrying Felix is okay, actually. And that, in fact, it's the right/desirable thing to do even to the point of running away from her father (though I think you could read it as more her following an honorable course of action/not having many other decent options rather than her necessarily loving him as well). Still, at the beginning Safie was not pleased about the idea. Literally gentling her reaction feels like minimizing her distress in anticipation of this 'he's a good guy' happy ending - meanwhile erasing a sign of Safie's intense emotions, and how they were helpless to the pressure of familial expectation. Once again, something that plays into themes of at the very least the original 1818 Frankenstein family. In this specific circumstance, it also plays into female freedom or lack thereof, and such feminist themes as well.

[agoodhandwriting]

She actually did though? Safie who is always cut from the adaptations is half Turkish half Arabic.

[bookwyrmth1rt33n]

NGL, Safie is one of my absolute favorite characters in Frankenstein media(?)…

(I think media is the right word, here). I’m so bummed they never re-introduced her into any of the future installments/updated reinterpretations, but minus the Orientalist stereotypes. You subtract the icky, obnoxious exoticism elements, & by herself, she’s so freaking awesome. This is a young, ferociously independent & educated Turkish-Arabic woman who traveled across countries(?)—during the late 18th century no less!—to gain autonomy & self-determination, cultural/legal restraints be damned.

If Safie was ever re-introduced, they could always have her character be the one to represent the themes of trying to navigate being “in-between” cultures, marginalization & resilience, aspirations of female empowerment through education & independence, etc.

I hope I managed to convey my opinions clearly—& respectfully.

[brightgoat]

CONCEPT IDEA/DESIGN. I don’t like it anymore might change some stuff but this was my first take of her.

It’s Safie. She is a self-proclaimed monster hunter and beast slayer, she travels the world getting tips from townspeople on nearby ‘monsters’.

Hopes to actually one day slay a real monster instead of the occasional oversized bear or wolf that the townspeople complain about. Also she travels around on a black horse.

part of my Frankenstein au thing

[brightgoat]

THE UNBOUND PROMETHEUS 

Snippets from my animated music video of the song ‘Dead’ by Apashe, featuring my Frankenstein AU/retelling; The Unbound Prometheus.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyROv0mO04A

[brightgoat]

Safie the monster huntress

She travels around on her horse and carriage and hunts ‘beasts’ and ‘monsters’, who are usually just large wolves or bears that the townsfolk keep complaining about. She dreams to conquer an actual monster one day.

(Frankenstein AU: The Unbound Prometheus)

[brightgoat]

Safie and Felix

(Frankenstein AU: The Unbound Prometheus)

[what-even-is-thiss]

Taking up Japanese as a side project for myself has reminded me of something.

So like a long time ago I had a professor that I absolutely adored. She happened to be Japanese American. She grew up speaking Japanese at home but never really spent a lot of time in Japan. She mostly spoke with other Japanese Americans and read books.

So one day early in her teaching career there’s an exchange student from Japan who’s having a hard time understanding a concept so she explained it to him in Japanese and then he looked absolutely rattled. Like in shock. Pale.

This is how she learned that the way she speaks Japanese makes her sound like a gang member.

Japanese doesn’t exactly have cuss words in the same way as English does but imagine that the nicest professor you’ve ever had pulls your paper over and says “Okay listen here you little piece of shit I’m gonna fucking explain this to you. Violently.”

[snailygoon]

Man, the creature probably has the most panic inducing cases of déjà vu. I imagine him absentmindedly humming songs to himself, and then becoming hyper aware of the fact that he doesn’t have a clue what the song is or where it came from. But it meant something to someone once. He can tell by the way tears he hadn’t noticed he was shedding usually accompany the tunes. 

A smell that reminds him of…someones childhood? Surely not his own? The concept of being little is so foreign to him. But the smell makes his bones ache, and he can feel the ghost of a memory of someone bigger holding him close. One that he quickly pushes away. Because wanting something so impossible makes him feel sick. wanting to feel small. To feel precious to someone. Protected.

Or saying a little phrase when he’s talking to the old man, and being confused that he didn’t laugh. But that was our inside joke? Wait, who’s inside joke? He doesn’t even know what it means. He feels like he had a sister once who would’ve found it funny. Wonders if it would still make her laugh.

[tehcherrya]

I call this dual-wielding interests

[hearthouses]

They're one and the same, they're two of the loneliest people in the world, and they share this connection, it is just us. They are two halves of one person. They can't exist without the other. [The Creature] can't exist without [Victor], and [Victor] can't exist with the Creature. So they are always tied together. — Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi discussing the relationship between Victor and the Creature.

[nicki0kaye]

ok, I wanna talk about how the Creature is almost always Wet somewhere on his face

either his eyes are dewy or his nose is running or he has spittle down his chin

so much of it has to be the prosthetics they have on Jacob, but it isn't stuff they attempted to remove if it was in a take.

What do we think about that? Is it just very baby of him? Are his systems in hyperdrive, over producing mucus and saliva? Do we just pretend we do not see it bc its kinda gross?

I wanna attack that boy with a hankey every time I notice he's got a leak, personally. It's not something that's gonna come up in my writing--it would've by now if it was ever--but its been this Thought I've had for a hot minute and haven't discussed bc idk, again, kinda gross!