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EMILY BADER as JANE GREY and EDWARD BLUEMEL as GUILDFORD DUDLEY MY LADY JANE // Episode 4 Bluebird is Dead

#my lady jane #mlj 1x04 #jane grey #guildford dudley #congratulations you are being resqueued

I view reading fantasy/sci-fi stuff as "this work of fiction is being translated into english so that I can understand it, meaning some phrases should not be taken literally" lord of the rings style, and then I meet people who nitpick every word or phrase that "shouldn't exist in this story" and I'm like wow you guys are truly miserable and unimaginative. and also you tend to assume that english words all popped up in the 19th century and you never bother to check the etymology of the words you're claiming "shouldn't exist in this universe"

like sorry but in an apocalyptic alternate-universe earth, the phrase "train of thought" is plausible even in a world without locomotives, because the word "train" comes from the 14th century, and it meant "to drag"

that's why we call dress trains "trains". because they drag. the word wasn't invented for locomotives.

y'all say shit so definitively like idk man I think it depends. the english language is OLD AS FUCK. a lot of words you believe are modern just aren't

artisimpossible

All of this, and also, they always nitpick the most ridiculous things. Why is it "too hard to believe" that people speaking a different language would have a phrase that means about the same as "train of thought" but totally reasonable to believe that all women wear dresses and all men wear pants when the idea of either as expressly gendered is limited to very specific cultures and time periods? Why is it reasonable for everyone to eat fruits that require highly specific environments to grow but not practical for characters to have derived similar turns of phrase to one of the many that have popped up independently across languages and cultures? It's one of those nitpicky complaints that's so annoying because it always makes the complainer feel intellectually superior, but it's *never* factually reasonable. It's always just a reflection of that person's 1. limited worldview of how things they take for granted have come to be, independently, across different places and times, and 2. a clear sign that they care more about performing some level of "rightness" over learning, having fun, or just generally trying to connect with people.

#worldbuilding #congratulations you are being resqueued

romantic-revolution-romy

RebelCaptain 🎉

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pineappical

happy artemis II moon flyby day!

#nasa #artemis ii #project hail mary #rocky the eridian #ryland grace #fan art #amaze amaze amaze #congratulations you are being resqueued

letmemendthepast

"amaze amaze amaze" on the artemis ii stream!!!

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rylandsgrace

Project Hail Mary (2026) + Trivia

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hedgehogoftime

Rereading the Lord of the Rings series recently, and it's so fascinating to me how much the series is a denial of the typical juvenile power-fantasy that is associated with the fantasy genre.

Like, the power-fantasy is the temptation the Ring uses against people It tempts Boromir with becoming the "one true king" that could save his people with fantastic power. It tempts Sam with being the savior of Middle Earth and turning the ruin that is Mordor into a great garden. It tempts Gandalf and Galadriel with being the messianic figure of legend who brings salvation to Middle Earth and great glory to herself.

The things the Ring tempts people with are becoming the typical protagonists of fantasy stories that we expect to see. and over and over we see that accepting that role, that fantasy of being the benevolent all-powerful hero, is a bad thing. LotR is about how power, even power wielded with benevolent intent, is corrupting.

And its so fascinating how so much of modern fantasy buys into the very fantasy LotR denies. Most modern fantasy is about being that Heroic power-fantasy. About good amassing power to rival evil. But LotR dares not to. It dares to be honest that there is no world where anyone amasses that power and remains good.

I guess that's one of the reasons its so compelling.

#LOTR #congratulations you are being resqueued

my-flying-sister

I love rebloging. It’s the adult equivalent of showing everyone the cool rock I just found.

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aromacaque

while i'm thinking about essek does anybody else think about how much weight the way he lost his mom adds to him saying "it's not fair" and "i have spent my whole life studying the intent to not let things like this happen to chance" to the m9 failing to bring back molly?

#essek thelyss #the mighty nein #the mighty nein animated #critical role #critrole C2 #congratulations you are being resqueued

zmeess

do you guys remember the poll i ran for my 2026 shadowgast v-day picture? 'fluffy' won, so i HAD to take that opportunity to paint the second tarot card i associate with shadowgast. took me a while to finish it, but it's here 🌟

i think the line-up of The Devil, The Tower, and The Star really suits their story, and it warms my heart to see where these two have ended up : )

The Devil is here, and i may or may not draw The Tower one day :D

tip jar!

#shadowgast #fan art #beautiful #critical role #critrole C2 #congratulations you are being resqueued

boomer-mythology-destroyer

#lol #congratulations you are being resqueued

alexanderwales

There used to be a plotline that goes something like "you're the best gamer in the world, and game was really just a covert training and recruitment tool, so now you're going to use those skills to fight aliens or whatever". It's more or less gone away, one of those speculative fiction tropes that did not stand the test of time.

I think it's a great premise though, and should start being applied to other hobbies.

"Ma'am, this regional knitting competition was actually a covert operation to find someone to run this machine of the elder gods we found buried in the desert."

"Congratulations on your silver play button, you are hereby inducted into the Paranormal Defense Force, a subsidiary of Youtube and a branch of the United States military."

"Welcome to the Olympic village. If you've made it this far, you're hereby recruited into the international super soldier program, fighting our enemies at the edge of the Crab Nebula."

eldritchwyrm

the fun part is this did actually happen in real life once. during WWII, several british women solved a crossword really well and subsequently discovered they'd been recruited as cryptographers.

#plot bunnies #writing #writing ideas #congratulations you are being resqueued

novanocturnalis

first essek

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curiousscallop

poem i foubd in a book at work recently that im completely obsessed with

#falcons #poetry #congratulations you are being resqueued

bucketofdeltav

So my beta reader for the Big Fics is an astrophysicist, right. Who is currently also writing a hard sci-fi novel about the exploration of Phobos (more power to them, I cannot with the physics required for that, best I can do is soft sci-fi/fantasy and that reminds me I should finish that story).

Anyway I was bitching about how hard it is to come up with feasible planets in Star Wars because sometimes you need a new planet from scratch and sometimes you need to know more about a planet than the 'has jungles, is probably a moon technically' than Wookieepedia will give you, and they're like 'oh yeah I can do something about that'.

So they've written (in Matlab but they swear it will run as a .exe as well and I may be conscripted to embed it as a web tool at some point) a star system generator.

You input what you know about the planet (ecosystem, population, sun colour, does it have liquid water, does it have a moon or moons, is it a moon or moons, temperature averages, atmosphere, you get me) and it will give you the... everything else about the star system, in obedience to real-universe physics. And if you input nothing you get a randomly generated star system.

And I’m like oh I know people who will be into this with a vengeance, and they're not on Tumblr, so this is me seeing who exactly would be keen on, and I cannot stress this enough, a real-physics comprehensive star system generator.

It's still in the debugging phase (last error fixed: every planet wants to have a population of exactly 5000 regardless of other factors, turned out to be a missing equals sign somewhere), but I'm psyched for this and trying to gauge interest for how high a priority 'make this an accessible web tool' needs to be.