Fidus et Audax

I have a vault full of pseudonyms. I'm something of a collector. Iddy Cauthon. Doctor Calamity Jones, at your service. Unless you'd prefer C for simplicity. They/them. Writer and maker of things. Professional imaginary friend. Part time muse, full time enabler. Gifted faker. Weird as fuck, ace as hell. I rule me.

[yayxstitch]

[taylortaylormoon]

A jack of all trades? Nah, of course not! I am a Hoe of all hobbies

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

hearing anything about the nolan odyssey is so funny. it's like "they cut the extremely important and infamous nobody scene" "the cyclops is a giant puppet that they put in an actual historical cave + gave circe animatronics for her pig transformation instead of cgi" "they dumped plastic skeletons in an environmentally protected location they were not supposed to be in" "they recreated ancient greek instruments in order to have an accurate score" "all of odysseus's agency is basically gone" "anne hathaway actually learned how to weave ancient looms" "the women in this movie are treated like shit" "they actually buried actors alive to get those underworld shots" "did you see what the fuck zendaya was fucking wearing holy shit you can't DO THAT, MA'AM" "what do you mean there was a legitimate epic the musical reference" "NOT A SINGLE FUCKING GREEK WAS CAST IN THIS MOVIE"

like did nolan have two guys standing at his side at all times whispering ideas in his ear and one told the truth and the other told lies and they didnt tell him which was which until they wrapped production cause

[grammarpedant]

Everyone agrees that Murderbot is a #relatable neurodivergent mood, but we don’t talk enough about how ART is also extremely relatable. I, too, am intensely overbearing, Need To Be Right at a fundamental level at all times, and default to the maximum force necessary in response to difficult challenges.

[grammarpedant]

I am half-joking but also deadly serious. These traits of ART’s are part of the beauty of its dynamic with Murderbot.

ART and Murderbot are excellent partners in mutual administrative assistance precisely because the features of their thinking, their existence as themselves, mesh so well together. They are not connecting despite their neurodivergences, but are enabled to support each other’s strengths and cover for each other’s weaknesses because of it.

ART’s overbearing processing power and huge knowledge base make it powerful tactical and medical support on Murderbot’s missions. Where ART gets caught up in detail and proving unknowns, Murderbot can take decisive, competent action with incomplete data. ART can speak up assertively, even aggressively, for Murderbot’s benefit when Murderbot’s anxiety prevents it from standing up for itself. ART might have difficulty with empathy, such as with processing the full emotional context of human media or intimidating every bot it meets, but Murderbot can provide that empathetic filter and act as intermediary. And the mutual extreme lengths that they will go to for each other are irrefutable evidence of the care they have for each other (proof of being loved which Murderbot’s anxiety and fear of abandonment cannot so easily dismiss).

Which is not to say that there aren’t misunderstandings and missteps that they have to work through in order to get to trust and communicate with each other on this level. But the effort they put into connecting with each other and making it work is just another part of why their relationship is so important. They are two characters whose neurodivergence-coding is integral to the beauty of their relationship.

[liminalbeauty]

I, too, am more like ART.

I have commented to my spouse on a couple of occasions over the years when a purely academic mental exercise plan for revenge on someone was… possibly beyond the pale… ‘I’m not evil. I’m efficient.’ This was long before ART was a twinkle in Martha Wells’ eye :) The laugh was the best part.

[calellon]

unfortunately i could never be nonchalant because i am not well in the head and also my soul is on fire

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[helpimsotired]

Justin McElroy talking about accessibility in live theatre (June 9, 2019)

[formichi]

[quasi-normalcy]

“Art is happening everywhere all of the time” but an awful lot of it seems to only ever happen in New York and London, doesn’t it?

[dochkavurdalaka]

chilchuck going "sorry leave me outta this one. i cant fight" but then hitting literally every precise shot with an arrow or projectile he ever made in the story INCLUDING PIERCING A RED DRAGONS EYE BY THROWING A KNIFE WHILE LEAPING AWAY my bro is a rogue with dex 20 and wants no one to know biggest liar in history

[appendingfic]

As a fellow union man i can relate - you do not let your employer know you can do anything you don't want to become your job

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

a while back I reblogged a post pointing out that it's totally reasonable to have a crush on someone and just Not Act On It, Ever, At All, and I cannot stop thinking about the sweet souls in the notes who seemed baffled as to why anyone would ever want to leave a crush unspoken. absolutely fascinating life experience you must be having if that's not a possibility that's ever even cropped up, I have to say. I don't think it's unforgivably naive or anything but it does warrant further study.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

every post I make summons people who are inventing totally new and exciting struggles

[grynwood]

"I don't let go. It's my one thing"

[mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026]

I wish there was a way we could all just use the same Netflix account, I wanna know how chaotic that would be

[bunzy]

Is this like a system thing or an every human on earth thing? Cus honestly if all 8 billion people used one Netflix account it would probably crash the whole internet

[mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026]

I meant it as all the people of tumblr but I’m now fascinated by the thought of all of earth sharing an account

[grootficguy]

i tried explaining to this girl at a party once how i could be gay and asexual at the same time and it basically boils down to never being into anyone but like once a year i’ll find a man attractive. and she was like “so what am i if i only like girls, and i’ve never found any of my boyfriends attractive and and i just wanna do cocaine all the time?” i was like “you’re a lesbian with a coke addiction?” and she was like “woooooah”. she broke up with her boyfriend that night and had a threesome with two girls in the bathtub. rebecca if you’re out there, i hope you’re going places. well, not far, since you’re electronically tagged. but spiritually.

[respocked]

most start trek aliens wear very modest fashions so the special effects don't have do the make-up other than the hands, neck and face - which just makes sense, imagine the added cost of making more prosthetics just so they can have cleveage or whatever. so nothing shocked me more in discovery than saru going shirtless. i wasn't prepared for this as an option. he was asking michael to kill him and everything and i was like man i can't believe this *squinting to see if he has nipples* man how many hours did that take

[lady-lazarus-13]

Doug Jones truly deserves way more praise for his acting and dedication to his craft.

[respocked]

he does! have some cute BTS photos from the discovery set (from trekcore)

[elucubrare]

You’ve heard of “i didn’t say it was good, i said i liked it,” get ready for “i said it had some technical problems & didn’t fully deliver on its themes, not that i didn’t like it”

[elucubrare]

#I voiced a criticism of some of its aspects#which in no way implies I did not like it#“and especially does not imply that I would like to hear a defense of it of the form 'shut up and let people have fun'”

REALLY endorsing these tags from galileosballs

[f0restnympho420]

it’s sex in the forest weather rn

[trashcanprince]

first sunlight in 200 years

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[alexaloraetheris]

Chocolate Guy's Wario

[godkissedme]

i think i deserve financial compensation for everything. all of it. i’m not even gonna specify