hi.

[aevallare]

all politics about ai aside if you use it to create fanwork you're just a fucking dweeb

[aevallare]

not to show my jock colors on this my nerd blog but the whole fucking point is that it's for love of the game. sweat over it or get the fuck out. i'm no gatekeeper but if you're using ai you're not even playing. you're trying to pave over the baseball diamond and make it a parking lot.

[aevallare]

i'm SAYING

[thebeautifulcosmos]

James Arthur Lovell Jr. ( March 25, 1928 – August 7, 2025)

[columboscreens]

[lalulutres]

[i-just-like-commenting]

Text: decoupling pregnancy from femininity means accurate and more inclusive language and treatment, but it also allows cis women to refuse motherhood without refusing womanhood, which is great for feminism and terrifying for misogyny.

–THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS. As a sterile cis woman who doesn’t want to have children anyway I feel this is every ounce of my being. “Define woman” types tend to do so in a way that excludes me too, so I got to stand with my trans sisters.

[chirpasaurus]

Your periodic reminder that “divine feminine” this “magic womb” that is just patriarchy in gauze and glitter. REJECT THE BOX even when it has a makeover.

[othersystems]

[urbanpineapplefarmer]

It is really important to me that all of you learn about Al Bean, astronaut on Apollo 12 and the fourth man to walk on the moon, who after 20 years in the US Navy and 18 years with NASA during which he spent 69 days in space and more than 10 hours doing EVAs on the moon , retired to become a painter.

He is my favorite astronaut for any number of reasons, but he’s also one of my favorite visual artists.

Like, look at this stuff????

It’s all so expressive and textured and colorful! He literally painted his own experience on the moon! And that's just really fucking cool to me!

Just look at this! This is one of my absolute favorite emotions of all time. Is Anyone Out There? is like the ultimate reaction image. Any time I have an existential crisis, this is how I picture myself.

And then there's this one:

The Fantasy

For all of the six Apollo missions to land on the moon, there was no spare time. Every second of their time on the surface was budgeted to perfection: sleeping, eating, putting on the suits, entering and exiting the LEM, rock collection, setting up longterm experiments to transmit data back to Earth, everything. These timetables usually got screwed over by something, but for the most part the astronauts stuck to them.

The crew of Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Al Bean, and Dick Gordon) had other plans. Conrad and Bean had snuck a small camera with a timer into the LEM to take a couple pictures together on the moon throughout the mission. They had hidden the key for the timer in one of the rock collection bags, with the idea being to grab the key soon after landing, take some fun photos here and there, and then sneak the camera back to Earth to develop them. They had practiced where they would hide the key and how to get it out from under the collected rocks back on Earth dozens of times.

But when they got to the moon, the key was nowhere to be found. Al Bean spent precious time digging through the collection bags before he called it off. The camera had been pushing their luck anyways, he couldn't afford to spend anymore time not on the mission objectives. Conrad and Bean continued the mission as per the NASA plan while Dick Gordon orbited overhead.

Fast forward to the very end of the mission. Bean and Conrad are doing last checks of the LEM before they enter for the last time and depart from the moon. As Bean is stowing one of the collection bags, the camera key falls out. The unofficially planned photo time has come and gone, and he tosses the key over his shoulder to rest forever on the surface of the moon.

This painting, The Fantasy, is that moment. There have never been three people on the moon at the same time, there was never an unofficial photo shoot on the moon, this picture could never have happened.

"The most experienced astronaut was designated commander, in charge of all aspects of the mission, including flying the lunar module. Prudent thinking suggested that the next-most-experienced crew member be assigned to take care of the command module, since it was our only way back home. Pete had flown two Gemini flights, the second with Dick as his crewmate. This left the least experienced - me - to accompany the commander on the lunar surface.

"I was the rookie. I had not flown at all; yet I got the prize assignment. But not once during the three years of training which preceded our mission did Dick say that it wasn't fair and that he wished he could walk on the moon, too. I do not have his unwavering discipline or strength of character.

"We often fantasized about Dick's joining us on the moon but we never found a way. In my paintings, though, I can have it my way. Now, at last, our best friend has come the last sixty miles." - Al Bean, about The Fantasy.

[quicksilvermad]

The Alan Bean Gallery

[canijustbejanet]

Al Bean painted a mural at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL. It’s largely covered now, but it’s there.

[notanicedragon]

The double knitting technique is great. It has a light side, and a dark side, it binds the scarf together… you can see where I’m going with this can’t you. I only found out about double knitting this past summer and got monumentally carried away. This Star Wars Scarf is just one of the results.

Click on the knitting charts for full sized images. They are worked in order bottom to top.

Edit: For everyone asking I used UK size 10 (3.25mm) needles and the yarn was a reasonably priced dk weight (8ply). I used about 150g of each colour but I knit pretty tightly so you may want to get extra.

[sersi]

You’re a selfish prick. So am I.

Sonya Walger as Molly Cobb FOR ALL MANKIND (2019 - ): Season One

[krispytm]

You can only reblog this today or until the next Monday, June 19th, 2034.

[zippyzstuff]

[canijustbejanet]

Why did this destroy me?

[ink-the-artist]

THE WIZARD CLOAK COAT IS FINALLY FINISHED!!!!

[mostly-functional]

It just occurred to me that nobody actually watches Picard anymore, so I can just say whatever I want and you’ll never know what’s true and what isn’t. Here’s what happened episode 1:

As predicted, Beverly Crusher is played by Brent Spiner

She has a son with Picard

The son is also played by Brent Spiner

Riker is cheating on Deanna with Picard

Geordi’s daughter is a pilot (unclear if she’s blind too)

Lore has taken up hunting as a hobby

Seven of nine joined starfleet and immediately committed mutiny

Elnor helped

They made no mention of the giant plot twist from last season

Everyone hates the enterprise-d

Data came back and did karaoke

He sang Killer Queen

Yes, he did wear the moustache

[startrekuniverse]

Star Trek: Picard | 3x02 Disengage ➢ Shaw one liners.

[canijustbejanet]

He’s growing on me.

[pixiereblogs]

Pixie Recaps Picard | The Next Generation

[disteal]

shout out to everyone who participated in the january-february mass depressive episode

[feministism]

[rahulkoh]

“When you send me for a role and it says ‘South Asian, his name is Raj’ … I say ‘I don’t fucking want it.’ And then the next one comes in and it says it doesn’t have a race. ‘This is John. 30s. Handsome.’ … When it says that, I want that fucking role. So I want to take from the majority. That’s the only time I think about race.” —Rahul Kohli on Blackman Beyond podcast

[whatevergreen]

Please, please take roles from Chris Pratt.

[gingersnapwolves]

petition for Rahul Kohli to replace Chris Pratt in everything