Bystander #3

This is my place to post things that I like. Things that I like include comic books, superhero movies, and sci-fi TV shows.

[strange-destinations]

completely realistic and plausible au where ace stayed in contact with the doctor during her time on gallifrey

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[bystander3]

Doctor, the timer.

Hey, Doc...???

DOCTOR! YOUR TIMER!!!!

[mndvx]

CYCLOPS and MOON GIRL in MARVEL RIVALS SEASON 8: SINS OF ALCHEMAX

[ngefigure]

Not exactly a warm welcome, Nueva York!

[usergambit]

CYCLOPS Marvel Rivals - Season 8

[bystander3]

Yes!!!!

They fixed his chest strap thing so it actually makes sense!

[piedpip3rrr]

Quit ur job join our child army

[kaylabeemarie]

Bat babies 🦇

[bystander3]

A.) Cute.

B.) Why has Tim stolen his sweater from Adric!Doctorwho?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I love Andy Weir's books but this man is dumb as a bucket of rocks. Dude you have your characters turn to the reader and explain what the social commentary of the book was. You know it's there because you include the sparknotes in the story itself. What the fuck are you talking about.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This is the real actual ending of The Martian.

This is in the last chapter of Artemis.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This man does not know what the words "politics" or "social commentary" mean.

[ashr202]

Dude is extremely good at exactly one thing and that is extremely well researched near future hard scifi and is somewhere between mediocre and dogshit at basically everything else

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#what's crazy is that project hail mary is SO FUCKING POLITICAL#he names Rocky's partner a male name#he talks about global warming and mass extinction#he discusses the demolition of the biggest desert on the planet#talks about heterosexuality and war and famine#he doesn't have a clue what politics is which is crazy because he puts it in everything he writes

Mostly true but, as a small point of correction, Adrian is named after Adrian Pennino.

Adrian is Rocky Balboa's love interest, and later wife, in the Rocky movies. She is a woman. Ryland named an alien Rocky because they looked like they were made of rocks, and when he had to come up with a name for their spouse, named them after Rocky's spouse.

[atrusofmyst]

It's still hilarious that Weir chose a name that is gender-neutral but also historically mostly used by men for the partner of his human-gender-does-not-apply rock engineer and apparently didn't mean a thing by it. Dude does a simple Rocky Balboa joke and unintentionally becomes a pro-trans pro-equal marriage supporter.

Which, along with everything above, brings me to think that Andy Weir has that quirk that I have seen in many white-cis-straight Americans (not only among them, of course, but it's very prominent in those whose life has not been Political by default) where they believe that social issues and politics are two completely separate, non-overlapping things: one has to do with Real People Issues, and the other has to do with parties and politicians and who gets to have a seat in the House.

Under that worldview, you can justify just about anything as non-political as long as you don't explicitly mention the left or the right, even when the subject matter you're writing about (like, I dunno, the whole world working together and handing the reins to scientists to solve a problem, and two completely alien people figuring out how to talk to each other and form a bond of friendship and (almost) giving their life to save each other's species) is extremely political for anyone who has eyes to see.

[bystander3]

As a big Trek nerd, I'm still stuck on the sentence that starts, "As a lifelong Star Trek fan..." and ends "...I just want to watch Romulans and the Federation shoot at each other."

Like, everyone experiences media differently, and we all bring our past life experience and preconceptions to the text, yadda yadda, but my brother in Christ:

...What the fuck are you talking about???

Most Trek stories hinge on the fact that the Federation and the Romulan Star Empire are, notoriously, NOT shooting at each other; they are spying on and sabotaging one another, because there is a fragile Neutral Zone between them maintaining a precarious, uneasy truce because this is a Cold War and nobody wants it to go hot, and these stories were written in 1966 and 1989, and there is a De-Militarized Zone between North and South Korea and a Wall between East and West Berlin, and a cloaked Romulan warbird poses an undetectable threat exactly like a submerged nuclear submarine, and don't you think that, maybe, these stories contained commentary on the politics of the moment, like from the very beginning?

I am baffled that anyone actual consumes Star Trek this way. Trek's stuffy, pedantic insistence on trying to solve all its problems with diplomacy, curiosity, and moralistic philosophizing instead of phasers is what I love about it.

Gang, what are we even doing?

But no: space war fun, shoot alien, pew pew, I guess.

[incorrectgallifreyquotes]

Leela: Good people of Gallifrey, it is true the Regenerators have three to our every one. And you are right to worry, because how can so few of us dig the graves of so many of them? Sura: She twisted it. Leela: If you want to leave, leave now. I will not mind. For it will leave more glory for the rest of us! Sura: She twisted it again!

[velvetys]

How is bnha anime of the decade...... they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second

[grimeclown]

The notes on this post were so toxic that staff just axed em

[abraxasrinbalt]

1969.........

[harperhug]

Yes, when the original post is deleted from the server (not just the blog, but the Tumblr servers), there is no root post for notes to be added onto, and also no root post for time to be counted from, so it starts from zero. Most computer operating systems use Unix, which was launched in 1971 with t.he epoch date of midnight on January 1, 1970 as 1. Therefore zero is one second behind that date: December 31, 1969. Also, very unfortunately, this also means nobody except you and anyone you reblog it to will see this explanation, as you cannot open the notes to see comments when there are no notes.

[ti0mumu]

[nick-nonya]

Tumblr is truly one of the webbed sites ever

[solnight99]

ohmg

[aroace-ryland-grace]

[thegreatlazule]

post's haunted.

[qqueenofhades]

Judge orders 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father be released from immigration detention | CNN

A federal judge has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dil

I strongly suggest you read the three-page opinion. To describe it as a scathing judicial bitchslap doesn't even come close. Damn, son.

[the-sacred-now]

"Apparent also is the government's ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence." Get their asses.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned.

JESUS CHRIST

[god-sent-gender-bent]

I think the best part of all this is the fact that he included the photo of the little boy along with a bible verse specifically about christ loving the little children as well as the verse that (in context) is about Jesus mourning his friend's death.

Matthew 19:14

14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

John 11:35

35 Jesus wept.

He's quite literally using their supposed "beliefs" against them while also indicating that his judgement was based off those same beliefs. Brilliant.

[illyanarasputinfan]

Christopher Fokken

[bystander3]

I love this for the Krakoan-era lunacy.

I just love X-men comics.

[shamlesspandanerd]

[iconuk01]

Roberto da Costa in action...

I mean, you have to admire his commitment to the game if nothing else.

[gytrashshuck]

extended universe gallifrey ✨my beloved✨

trying (and failing) to be normal about the wealth of stories of gallifrey across audios, tv, and novels

[heimeldat]

This is my first time trying one of these, so of course I had to make it more complicated by adding a third column.

[iconuk01]

First Class - by Lukas Werneck

[ava-deb]

Thank you for saving my life. I just asked myself, What Would Enid Do?

WEDNESDAY: S02E06, "Woe Thyself"

[bystander3]

Spirit?

[marveldaily]

The Fantastic Four: First Steps dir. Matt Shakman | 2025