Dreaming of space.

Maria. They/them. Adult Currently really into space and Star Trek (aren’t I always). Will reblog things about video games, disability, politics Or whatever I find interesting. If we’re mutuals call me whatever you want. Mostly on mobile. 

[asterwild]

snoozin'

[maliciouscrow]

My favorite flavor of Xena episode is when they meet someone that Xena wronged in some way (usually killing their parents) and hates her and Gabrielle is like “free my girl!! She did all that but have you seen her shoulders?”

[outquisitor]

there’s no more stars.

[caressthosecheekbones]

nasa is using a 3D world graphic for the solar eclipse thingy today where germany is still devided in east and west adjfglkafdhgadfg. buddies, it's been almost 40 years.

[chthonion]

So I showed this to a physicist and they were like "Oh! Yes! It's a figure from Fred Espenak's very old paper where he did a bunch of eclipse graphics! I've been looking at these my entire internet life, basically, for every solar eclipse! They called him Mr. Eclipse. He just passed away recently 🥺"

Anyway apparently Mr. Eclipse made 5000 years' worth of solar eclipse graphics, which you can find the simpler versions of here

So now instead of laughing at NASA for their outdated graphics I'm emotional about Mr. Eclipse and his hard work

[elizabethbeals]

My exclusive LCSD cover for IDW's Star Trek # 1!

*Local Comic Shop Day (LCSD) takes place on Saturday, September 26, 2026.

Elizabeth B.

[noctumsolis]

Maybe film would be better if everyone who wants to become a director were expected to first produce a silent film. Without intertitles. A film where the only tool they have is the moving picture.

Maybe then they'd learn to make films where WE CAN SEE.

[noctumsolis]

It's not that I don't appreciate a bit of chiaroscuro, but there has to be enough chiar to o the scur.

[appendingfic]

love watching pre, idk, 2000 movies where there is "night lighting" that tells you it is dark but the director has paid lighting engineers enough that you can also clearly see everything

[soaringsearingphoenix]

Okay but now im thinking about a satire silent film that really is just a black screen except with a little bit of flicker like it's being played from an old film reel, cut with intertitles that read like shakespeare's stage directions where the spoken dialogue essentially tells you what's going on physically:

"it sure is dark in here"

"there must be a light around here somewhere"

"was that you?"

"was what me?"

"something just brushed my leg..."

[noctumsolis]

This needs to happen.

[sloppystyle]

Happy Send Me On My Way Sunday

[thunderbottle]

he’s on his way

[nemfrog]

“They swam through the sea, were a long time swimming.” Wonder tales from Russia. 1921.

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[leucotoe-archive-deactivated202]

words of affirmation i repeat on the daily

[druidshollow]

happy 30th anniversary to animorphs <3

[achillesinhighheels]

[origami-butterfly]

We can't live like this

[yesornopolls]

Have you ever played a game to 100% completion? (If yes, give the title in the replies)

Have you ever played a game to 100% completion?

Yes

No

Voting ended onMar 28

[capriciousfenrisranger]

Ape Escape? I think.

[nattousan]

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

[nattousan]

and now, the birds

Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus

[nattousan]

Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius

[nattousan]

hoo boy, ok *out of breath*

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render

[nattousan]

speaking of obnoxious coverts:

bird 6/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it

[catchymemes]

[cinnabread]

For the love of god please be an active participant in your own life

[ellipsus-writes]

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