Captain Null's Playground

Hello! I am Captain Null. (He|It) I am a transmasculine individual who enjoys crocheting and playing video games. (I am the creator of both my profile picture and my banner image.)

[captain0null]

Hello! I am Captain Null. (He|It) I am a transmasculine individual who enjoys crocheting and playing video games. Below you will find information about my various side blogs.

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Captain0Null - You are here! This is my primary blog with no particular focus. I seldom make posts (if I do, it is often about my crochet projects) and I reblog heavily.

NullsGameArt - This is one of my side blogs that is dedicated to pictures and screenshots taken from a variety of video games.

NullsClosetofSkellies - This is one of my side blogs that is dedicated to the video game Undertale with a particular focus on OCs I have made for the fandom.

GalaxyofmyLonelyMind - This is one of my side blogs that is dedicated to my original projects: The Wilds, a medieval fantasy setting planned to become a trilogy of books; and Mythos, a Solarpunk setting with no concrete plan.

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You may find links to my other social media accounts on my Carrd.

[nasa]

Send Your Name to Space with Roman!

Send your name to fly on Roman and download a boarding pass like this one with your name on it!

What’s the farthest you’ve ever traveled from home? Want to beat your record by about a million miles? Submit to have your name added to a memory card that will be attached to a plaque on our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope traveling a million miles away!

Prior to Roman’s launch, an SD card loaded with submitted names will be attached to this plaque where the square outline is.

After launch on August 30, Roman will journey way out to the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2), the same orbit as our James Webb Space Telescope. At L2, the gravity of the Sun and Earth, together with an object’s motion around the Sun, let it stay lined up with Earth as they orbit. That will give Roman a relatively steady orbit without using much fuel. Like Webb, Roman will trace out a large orbit around the actual L2 point — much larger than the Moon’s orbit around Earth — and the two will easily be kept far apart.

Telescopes at L2 also have a constant, unobstructed view of a wide swath of the sky. Earth won't block much of Roman's view since it will be so distant! And at L2, heat from Earth, the Sun, and the Moon have less effect on infrared telescopes, which “see” heat.

The Roman Telescope model has its boarding pass! Do you have yours?

Send your name here. Submissions close July 16. Follow along with Roman’s road to launch at science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman!

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

Have you seen Daicon IV Opening Animation (1984)?

Yes

No

Haven't even heard of this movie

Remaining time: 1 day 3 hours

[thefloatingstone]

WHJAT THE HELL: IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE??????

WATCH IT

WATCH IT RIGHT NOW

IT'S NOT EVEN 8 MINUTES LONG

OMFG

[aomitois]

rb and tag your favorite song that's not in english, japanese or korean

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Voting ended onJun 11

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Voting ended onJun 11

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Voting ended onJun 11

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[thefloatingstone]

(this image came to me in a dream)

You never know when you too might get shot into space and meet the best friend of your life.

Alt:

[thefloatingstone]

I actually can't tell you guys how important it is to me to see a movie where the non human character is treated as a person with complex thoughts and feelings and isn't just relegated to "mascot".

[keyfili]

PROJECT HAIL MARY 2026 • dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

[captain0null]

Project Hail Mary has been infesting my brain all day every day and what do I have to show for it? Shitty whiteboard art.

[mouse-doubleo100]

the thing that i adore the most about project hail mary is the fact that, after travelling god knows how far, saving multiple worlds, and living on an alien planet, grace ends the film not as some big hero, but as a teacher

its just so nice that the film sits there and says ‘ryland graces job as a teacher is important’, because its very common in these kinda films that the protagonist starts off as a teacher purely to give a bit of exposition before the government person shows up and goes ‘youre the best (insert science here)ist in the world, and we need your help to save the world’ or whatever, and i assumed at first that thats what this film was doing as well

but its not

grace starts the film as a teacher, he goes through the film as a teacher, and he ends the film as a teacher. he is a teacher to his students. he is a teacher to the astronauts. he is a teacher to rocky. and at the end of it all, he is a teacher to his students.

ryland grace saves both worlds not because he is some big hero, but because he is a teacher. and his reward at the end of it all is that he gets to keep teaching. and isnt that beautiful

[captain0null]

The subversion of the hero trope in Project Hail Mary is one of my personal favorite things about the whole movie. (Spoilers ahead.) Ryland Grace fighting so very hard against being put on the Hail Mary, even knowing the consequences if he doesn't do it. Running away when he no longer has a choice, threatening to sabotage the mission in the book, outright telling them he doesn't have what it takes... immediately using the word "dumb" when asked for a word meaning someone who sacrifices for another. Eva Stratt doing whatever it takes to save the planet even knowing she'd be labeled a villain. Destroying Africa to breed enough astrophage for their purposes, nuking the Antarctic in order to warm the Earth even just enough for the planet to survive, sending an unwilling man to his death because he's the right man for the job... truly monstrous decisions that work. There is no divine punishment for her actions, she doesn't see the error in her ways, because it's what needs to be done even if she becomes the world's enemy. Rocky the Eridian being unable to save his crew... unable to solve the astrophage problem plaguing his home planet until he has assistance. (This is probably my weakest point in this entire post because it's not exactly tied to the hero trope, but from his perspective, it's still a subversion because he couldn't "rise above" and, in his own words, "couldn't fix" the deaths of his crew.) Hell- Carl standing behind Eva Stratt's decision to shuttle Grace into space. He had come to know that man, had helped that man with his research, even had a good time with him... and he did nothing but stand by and watch him be sent off. What I also love is that when we do see heroic and sacrificial moments in the movie, those things are done for selfish reasons. Rocky offers Grace enough astrophage to return to his planet, even knowing it would delay his return to his own dying world. He does it because he cares about Grace and also because he couldn't bare to lose his friend and leave knowing he would die. And Grace! After he fought so hard to stay on Earth, even knowing the cost, gives up his chance to go home in order to save the one person he's become close to. Anyway. I love this movie. I wish I could make a million more posts about PHM but even this is barely coherent.

[saewokhrisz]

senki se menekül

[ceruleana]

eva stratt makes me so fucking unwell because. imagine months of making hard call after hard call because you gotta, because someone's gotta, and this time it has to be you. and she keeps strong despite it, she keeps going. then the fucking pit in her stomach she must have felt, when she realized that Grace was her only option left. the horror of that realization. having to steel herself for the task. only to have him beg and plead and cry. her friend. how did she not throw up. how did she manage it. eva stratt the woman ever, how many people out there would have the sheer force of will, to be able to pull the trigger on their friend to save all humanity. and she didn't even know if it would work. she didn't know. for years. she didn't know if murdering her friend was worth the gamble. she just had to believe in him. fucking hell.

[shadowbrightshine]

I will never hate her. She went in knowing she was the scapegoat. She went in knowing this would all be blame on her. She would never been seen as a hero.

And she did it anyways. Honestly I bet she did throw up. Alone, away from everyone who could see her.

[yujateaandpi]

A guy and his dog

[littlefingies]

Sorry for us politics posting, but we have until May 22, 2026 to submit public comment to the FCC:

More info from GLAAD:

https://glaad.org/fcc/

They have some good tips about writing a comment and protecting your privacy which, fuck it, I'll just paste here:

Providing an email address is optional. If you have concerns about privacy, you may use your initials or public address in your local area, such as City Hall. Do not use a joke name. It diminishes the comment’s credibility.

Your submission does not need to be long. A single, well-reasoned paragraph is sufficient.

Do not copy/paste a template comment. The FCC values unique perspectives, and an original comment carries significantly more weight in the public record. You can explain why this matters to you without revealing private or sensitive personal information.

Here's what I said:

“Free speech is a fundamental American freedom. I do not need a warning about seeing queer people, much like I do not need a warning about women, veterans, or any other group of people.”

Here's the link to submit your comment by May 22:

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express?proceeding%5Bname%5D=19-41

[pineappical]

was like Grace with a plush Rocky that he can cuddle with 🥺... and then. yup.

[biancalattei]

fist my bump