Fevered Scribblings

[tfoutofcontextcomicedition]

THE PRIDE MONTH POST

freedom is the right of ALL sentient beings 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[frownyalfred]

There’s actually something so sickening about Clark crashing out when Dick takes over as Batman and wears the suit. Dude flipped out and lost it on his favorite Robin, the kid he and Bruce helped raise together. He screams in his face and fucking crashes out because he’s grieving Bruce and here is Batman standing right in front of him but it’s not him. And it should be easier to bear that transition because it’s Dick, but it isn’t.

also this reddit comment I found when looking for additional panels took me out at the knees:

[owenhcrper]

i just love all the stories about production on project hail mary. they didn't use a single green/blue screen in the whole film. they built the whole interior of the hail mary. the petrova line scene was done practically by putting infrared lights on a chicken wire cage. rocky's voice was one of the puppeteers because he did such a good job during filming that they couldn't imagine anyone else voicing him. and rocky was a practical puppet/animatronic! sandra huller picked sign of the times as her karaoke song and she asked her daughter if it was still a cool song. i just feel like there was so much love making this film and im obsessed

[cauterizedheart-deactivated2025]

Yes, I wear foundation. Yes, I live with a man. Yes, I’m a middle-aged fag. But I know who I am, Val. It took me 20 years to get here, and I’m not gonna let some idiot senator destroy that. Fuck the senator. I don’t give a damn what he thinks.

ROBIN WILLIAMS as ARMAND GOLDMAN in THE BIRDCAGE (1996) dir. Mike Nichols

[alexxuun]

Fist my bump!

Wait until you hear about fist me…

[throwusaboner]

murderbot and arts first meeting is literally so funny. like imagine you meet a biblically accurate angel and instead of being all 'be not afraid' it says actually you SHOULD be afraid. and then when you are in fact afraid it goes oh shit oh fuck. not THAT afraid, sorry. wanna watch tv? and then you watch tv with it and it keeps telling you to pause it when its favourite characters are in danger so it can calm down. and then it asks to do surgery on your bones. Asshole Research Transport character of all time

[larkscape]

op your tags are so important

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[athousandgateaux]

Policing the use of sanist language has got to be the most useless and counterproductive way to be anti-psych.

[athousandgateaux]

Tbh, I'm significantly less concerned with people casually using the word crazy to mean busy or overwhelming or something than I am with people adopting clinical psychiatric language in an attempt to appropriate the pathologizing function of psychiatry for themselves (as in the case of people using "narcissist" to essentially mean "evil person" and diagnosing everyone in their life as a narcissist).

[athousandgateaux]

Everybody is anti-DSM until they want to diagnose someone they dislike with ontologically evil disorder (aka rancid bitch disease).

[rvllybllply2014]

His sugar work is more impressive than his chocolate work at this point

[iamarobotguys]

I’m not personally neogender or use neo pronouns, I’m a binary trans man, but you guys are SO cool and I hate how much you guys get hated on. If you use ze/zir or something like angel/angelself you are SO COOL. Never let anyone tell you otherwise 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

[fangs-4-fags]

This world is so beautiful. People are shipping Ryan gosling and markiplier. Because they were both in space movies you see

[fangs-4-fags]

Tumblr users love to do things like this. I DO NOT mean this in a mocking way to be completely clear. I think it's cute. It reminds me of back in the day when people shipped jack frost and elsa cause they both have ice powers.

[fangs-4-fags]

Or like the superwholock thing. Tumblr users like to go "I like this thing AND that thing.. What if my FAVORITE CHARACTERS met each other? Would that be cool or WHAT!" And the thing is it's absolutely adorable

[fangs-4-fags]

You can say it's cringe or bad or missing the point of the movie all you want but I don't care. Yeah man, I bet it would be really cute if there was a happy ending and the blood murder man (in space) got saved by the dorky science teacher (in space) and they had yaoi moments. I'm so glad you're having fun

[carnivalseb]

I'm pretty sure this is the reason that the Arthurian Myths are Like That; there were these stories and they were all pretty cool, & then people said 'but what if all these rad dudes were on the one team, like some kind of magic monarchist Avengers?', and so the Knights of the Round Table were created, probably.

[fangs-4-fags]

This world is so beautiful. People are shipping Ryan gosling and markiplier. Because they were both in space movies you see

[fangs-4-fags]

Tumblr users love to do things like this. I DO NOT mean this in a mocking way to be completely clear. I think it's cute. It reminds me of back in the day when people shipped jack frost and elsa cause they both have ice powers.

[fangs-4-fags]

Or like the superwholock thing. Tumblr users like to go "I like this thing AND that thing.. What if my FAVORITE CHARACTERS met each other? Would that be cool or WHAT!" And the thing is it's absolutely adorable

[fangs-4-fags]

You can say it's cringe or bad or missing the point of the movie all you want but I don't care. Yeah man, I bet it would be really cute if there was a happy ending and the blood murder man (in space) got saved by the dorky science teacher (in space) and they had yaoi moments. I'm so glad you're having fun

[lucylehane]

move over hudson and connor, hearing jacob tierney talk about workers' rights has me all hot and bothered 😍 It's Open With Ilana Glazer

[gender-trash]

if astrology was real it ought to be affected by anthropogenic space objects. imagine being like yeah this month has sucked for me bc the iss is in sagittarius

[gender-trash]

"ok but the iss orbital period is 90 minutes it would only be in sagittarius for <10min at a time"

is this a safe space to confess i don't actually know what it means for an object to be "in" an astrological house?

[goelzma]

My understanding is that you split the universe into twelve orange slices centered on earth, vertical to the equator and fixed relative to the stars.

So sagittarius refers to a particular area/volume of the sky, and an object is in sagittarius if it's physically located there.

[vacuously-true]

That is basically correct.

We know now that all the stars in the universe are in motion, and very fast as well, but, they are so far away their apparent motion on the 2D surface we see as the sky is essentially zero. So the vast majority of the surface of a sphere we see looking up at the sky is a fixed tapestry, unchanging, at least on the scale of human lifetimes. It can be carved up into regions, which we call constellations, and which are named for the prominent asterisms in those regions.

"Planet" comes from Greek for "wanderer." The seven planets, in that sense, are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Luna and Sol (the moon and the sun) and they are called wanderers because they "wander" with respect to the fixed stars. We say they're "in" a constellation when they visually appear in that area of the tapestry. It actually tells you where they are in the sky if you want to look for them.

We name other stuff after the constellations they're in too. You may have heard of Proxima Centauri b, an earth-like planet. It orbits the star Proxima Centauri, which is in the constellation Centaurus. Proxima Centauri is in the Alpha Centauri star system, which has three stars, and is labeled on this map. Beta Centauri, another triple star system, is also labeled on this map.

Because the planets are all in the same plane, they only move through 12 constellations. That's the red line on the constellation map. The ISS actually doesn't orbit in the plane of the solar system tho, so I'm pretty sure it's capable of passing through constellations off of the ecliptic. I'm also suspicious that low earth orbit might be close enough to the ground that different locations on Earth's surface would see ISS as being in different constellations at the same time. Here's the ISS orbit inclination, as well as Hubble:

That means we could get REALLY weird with it if we wanted to. Why bitch about ISS in Sagittarius when you could bitch about it in Pegasus or Hydra? Hubble in Lepus or Lynx?

[vacuously-true]

The Stellarium app has satellite info and I can tell you that as I post this, ISS is in Carina and Hubble is in Sculptor.

This does appear to vary by location on Earth. I'm in Minneapolis, USA, but when I changed my in-app location to Santiago, Chile, these satellites were shown in different constellations. So yes, LEO is close enough to earth that Earth location changes what constellation satellites appear in.

[vacuously-true]

To clarify, I do not endorse astrology, but saying the Sun or Venus or ISS is "in" a constellation isn't astrology, it's not pseudoscience, it's regular science. It's just understanding how a star map works. That's astronomy.

[carnivalseb]

what I'm getting is that with geosynchronous orbits we can put whatever we want into whatever constellations we want

[gender-trash]

if astrology was real it ought to be affected by anthropogenic space objects. imagine being like yeah this month has sucked for me bc the iss is in sagittarius

[gender-trash]

"ok but the iss orbital period is 90 minutes it would only be in sagittarius for <10min at a time"

is this a safe space to confess i don't actually know what it means for an object to be "in" an astrological house?

[goelzma]

My understanding is that you split the universe into twelve orange slices centered on earth, vertical to the equator and fixed relative to the stars.

So sagittarius refers to a particular area/volume of the sky, and an object is in sagittarius if it's physically located there.

[vacuously-true]

That is basically correct.

We know now that all the stars in the universe are in motion, and very fast as well, but, they are so far away their apparent motion on the 2D surface we see as the sky is essentially zero. So the vast majority of the surface of a sphere we see looking up at the sky is a fixed tapestry, unchanging, at least on the scale of human lifetimes. It can be carved up into regions, which we call constellations, and which are named for the prominent asterisms in those regions.

"Planet" comes from Greek for "wanderer." The seven planets, in that sense, are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Luna and Sol (the moon and the sun) and they are called wanderers because they "wander" with respect to the fixed stars. We say they're "in" a constellation when they visually appear in that area of the tapestry. It actually tells you where they are in the sky if you want to look for them.

We name other stuff after the constellations they're in too. You may have heard of Proxima Centauri b, an earth-like planet. It orbits the star Proxima Centauri, which is in the constellation Centaurus. Proxima Centauri is in the Alpha Centauri star system, which has three stars, and is labeled on this map. Beta Centauri, another triple star system, is also labeled on this map.

Because the planets are all in the same plane, they only move through 12 constellations. That's the red line on the constellation map. The ISS actually doesn't orbit in the plane of the solar system tho, so I'm pretty sure it's capable of passing through constellations off of the ecliptic. I'm also suspicious that low earth orbit might be close enough to the ground that different locations on Earth's surface would see ISS as being in different constellations at the same time. Here's the ISS orbit inclination, as well as Hubble:

That means we could get REALLY weird with it if we wanted to. Why bitch about ISS in Sagittarius when you could bitch about it in Pegasus or Hydra? Hubble in Lepus or Lynx?

[vacuously-true]

The Stellarium app has satellite info and I can tell you that as I post this, ISS is in Carina and Hubble is in Sculptor.

This does appear to vary by location on Earth. I'm in Minneapolis, USA, but when I changed my in-app location to Santiago, Chile, these satellites were shown in different constellations. So yes, LEO is close enough to earth that Earth location changes what constellation satellites appear in.

[vacuously-true]

To clarify, I do not endorse astrology, but saying the Sun or Venus or ISS is "in" a constellation isn't astrology, it's not pseudoscience, it's regular science. It's just understanding how a star map works. That's astronomy.

[dailymanners]

I feel as though what drives most rude / inconsiderate behavior I experience IRL on a day to day basis comes from a place of having this unearned and unnecessary sense of urgency in situations that aren't actually urgent. I think if more people became aware of this completely unnecessary sense of urgency in situations that actually aren't urgent, it might make co-existing and sharing public spaces with other people a lot easier and more tolerable.

That text post that's been making the rounds that goes something like "Omg you made it to the same red light as everyone else but faster and more dangerously and recklessly, should we call nascar? Do you want a medal?" summarizes exactly what I'm trying to talk about.

It's like when I have to change buses at one of the bigger and busier bus stops, and the people who get off the same bus as me shove and elbow past me to get off before me, and then shove and elbow past anyone even slightly in their way on the way to the bus they're switching, only to end up on the same bus as all the people they shoved and elbowed with several minutes to spare before it leaves and plenty of open seats left.

I think this unnecessary urgency a lot of people feel in their day to day lives drives a lot of bad behavior. I'm not saying I'm innocent of this, I've felt it too in plenty of situations that didn't call for it, and regrettably was less kind than I should have been as a result. But I try to be aware of it, and always try to ask myself it it's really as urgent as my lizard brain is trying to tell me it is, and even if it was that urgent, does that still justify unkind behavior?

Is shoving or elbowing another person aside going to make the difference between whether or not you make it to the bus before it pulls away? (hint: at least where I live, most of the time that's a no because the drivers usually won't leave if they see people from another bus heading towards their bus). Is shoving and elbowing people aside in a crowded grocery store going to make any noticeable difference in how quickly you get your shopping done?

Does a few extra seconds of time actually justify cruel and unkind behavior towards people you perceive as slightly inconveniencing you?

[purlturtle]

Someone pointed out to me once how a lot of people, when out grocery shopping, amble through the aisles at a leisurely pace, maybe checking out this new product or that tester... But when the time comes to queue for checkout, all of a sudden everyone is super impatient and not leisurely at all.

That fully rewired my brain.

Ever since then I've tried to keep that in mind when I shop. If I'm not hurrying through the store, I'm not gonna be impatient in line for checkout.

[dailymanners]

#the urgency and impatience tends to drive a lot of ableism too#Gods forbid someone need help or walk slower or get stuck somewhere#people will walk into my chair because they're not looking where they're going#and I've almost gotten run over at intersections because I wasn't crossing the street fast enough even though I still had right of way#people who rush tend not to signal or say excuse me either which is both rude and unsafe

Thanks for these tags @disability-etiquette, because this unnecessary urgency (in situations that aren't actually urgent) really is a massive driving factor for ableism, and that needs to be addressed and discussed.

So many strangers have been so cruel to my elderly and disabled family members for being "too slow" in public.

And not to derail from the ableism, but this urgency / impatience also fuels a lot of fatphobia too. I've already had to block some people in the notes of this post for making fatphobic comments. People often get very angry at fat people for moving slower and/or taking up more space, and will use their unnecessary urgency and impatience to justify being mean and impatient with fat strangers in public.

[disability-etiquette]

Oh absolutely, and not derailing at all in my opinion, the struggle for fat liberation goes hand in hand with ableism! The overlap is significant - many disabilities can affect body size and shape, so it's very much connected to ableism in my eyes! You're 100% right and should say it.

[beardedmrbean]

this sounds like a party to me

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]