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Hey can we get a ‘we love you Claudia’ going on like for Brendan Fraser because Claudia Black is amazing and deserves amazing roles
My respect for Claudia Black as an actress was already totally solid, but it’s always nice to find out they’re awesome people too!
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS! I'm almost never on Twitter and this is fantastic.
Stuff I'm happy about...
Stuff I'm happy about (in no particular order) and other random things on my mind:
I have a new job! And it's working out great, so far!
Lea Salonga is going to be part of a new American TV show and has just started filming. It's "Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin." I confess, I never watched the original PLL, but I get the sense this is really a wholly separate show that will stand alone. The first and last time Lea was a series regular on an American TV show was 20 years ago - 6 months on the soap opera "As The World Turns."
Ming-Na Wen is starring in a LGBTQIA+ jukebox feature musical (along with Missi Pyle) titled "Glitter & Doom" which is told with the music of the Indigo Girls. She is filming right now.
Wait - two of my favorite performers (Lea Salonga and Ming-Na Wen) are both currently working? And Ming-Na Wen is going to be singing in a musical film while Lea is part of a non-musical TV show?? Hoping this means I'll be seeing/hearing from a both of them a lot in the near future promoting their projects! (Lea was also part of "Centaurworld" which dropped this summer and Ming-Na has upcoming projects "The Book of Boba Fett" and "Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai.") Hey, Kelly Clarkson! Why don't you have Lea and Ming-Na as guests at the same time one of these days? You can talk about how they both played Mulan and Lien Hughes ("As The World Turns") and then all the great projects they have coming up! #asianrepresentation
I've taken in one concert and two plays in the last three weeks. I've been able to see and spend time with many friends in the last three weeks. #Missed people #Missed hugging #Blessed
so I guess no one’s gonna mention that The Woman in Centaurworld was her majesty my queen Lea Salonga huh
this show is CHOCK FULL of other Broadway powerhouses also
Centaurworld is really bizarre and sort of defies classification, but I really enjoyed it. And I think if you're a Lea fan you really have to stick it out and watch all 10 episodes.
P.S. There are several Broadway people involved in this show and I hope there will be more episodes and more Broadway people involved.
i’m going to fucking explode
the spacex all-private inspiration4 mission (which is being run as a reality tv show) is using apple watches for its biometrics. they’re flying in a space capsule with all the equipment and controls stripped out to make it look smooth and pretty, in spacesuits designed by a marvel costume designer instead of engineers, wearing fucking apple watches for biometrics
the ship’s built like a fucking tesla and it uses a fucking touchscreen for controls
op’s not the only thing that’s going to explode
Okay I sent an ask to my mutual about this because we’re both Aerospace Engineering students, myself specializing in Astronautics, but y'know what fuck it I got nothing better to do and I just wanna go over some of SpaceX’s…design choices.
So completely ignoring the whole issue with privatizing space travel and Night Sky Clutter with the whole OneWeb/Starlink issue, SpaceX makes very questionable and sometimes outright idiotic design choices. With the Dragon Capsule alone, the decision to remove virtually any form of manual control and to have all of your inputs be done via touchscreen is just…not smart. At all. The suits they wear are purely designed for aesthetic and lack any form of personal protection and seemingly lack any form of life support or survival equipment. For comparison, the LES and ACES suits all include some form of limited life support in the event that your mode of transportation has a critical failure while also being pressure suits or at the very least partial-pressure suits and carry multiple survival aspects such as parachutes, inflatable life rafts, and other tools to help an astronaut survive and be recovered from emergency landing sites that will usually be in the wilderness. The SpaceX suits, well, we don’t KNOW what’s in the suit because Musky boy won’t tell us. It’s privatized, what do you expect, they care more about keeping their tech to themselves than safety or transparency. It’s claimed to survive a “vacuum chamber” just fine but no actual test results have been shown. Musk himself claimed that the suits are an improvement from the old LES and it’s replacement the ACES suits because it’s sleeker and with a cool white design. Now lemme say something on this, there is a fucking reason that the old suits are bulky and orange. Why? Because they’re pressure suits with survival equipment and life support built in. They’re not sleek because how the fuck are you gonna fit air bladders, a parachute, survival kits, aid kits, and air systems on a sleek suit? That’s why the old suits were bulky because they worried about the SAFETY of the wearer not how fucking cool they look. Also the orange? Y'know why they’re orange? So we can fucking seem them if they end up stranded in the ocean or wilderness after an emergency landing. In fact, one veteran astronaut who flew on missions STS-129 and STS-135 compared the suits to the old Soviet Sokol suits. Now I don’t know how many of you know about Sokol suits, but these are basically backup “everything has gone to shit” suits. However even the Sokol suit contains some form of life support which is more than can confidently be said about the SpaceX suits.
And beyond just this photo we also have Elon insisting that satellite casings and thermal control systems be painted BLACK because it makes them look cooler but here’s the thing, the reason satellites typically have white, beige, or gaudy ass chrome foil covering is because the sun is a hot motherfucker and electronics, and well electronics my friends, don’t like heat. Guess what black does? It absorbs heat, well technically visible light but whatever. So we put light colors and reflective covering on satellites and components designed for space so they can reflect heat and try to keep them cool. SpaceX on the other hand has to include more intense cooling measures because their idiot leader follows the rule of cool which ironically makes things less cool. Oh and there’s also the whole issue with the first rocket blowing up due to fuel sloshing which, I should add, is the first thing you learn not to do and how to AVOID in any form of aerospace engineering so, y'know, the fact that their rocket suffered from that is, well, telling.
Anyway this got a lot longer than I intended but fuck it man and fuck Elon, and fuck SpaceX for thinking Star Trek aesthetics are more important than, idk, the entire collective knowledge we’ve gained about space travel and flight safety.
I always go back to this riff from Crow T. Robot because it’s so damn important when it comes to space travel, technology, and science in general that idiots like Elon Musk cannot grasp because they are not thinkers and builders, they are wheelers-and-dealers, users and financiers who think they have all the knowledge because they know where to invest the money, rather than having to spend a single day of their lives actually doing the work: “Just because it’s futuristic doesn’t mean it’s PRACTICAL.” Design is often made not because of aesthetics but because it actually NEEDS to be there. Form follows function. Sure, often as we work on technology we get better at how it can be designed, figure out something more efficient or a better way of doing something… but that sort of process takes A LOT of time and research and money. The original space program did a crapton of work before they even thought about setting foot on the moon, and even when they got to that point, they had to completely rethink how they were approaching the problems they were running into and the base assumptions for why we do things the way that we do. Elon wants to run before he can crawl. He’s the guy who thinks the windows need to be huge so the astronauts can see where they’re going and won’t be persuaded to see things a different way. Because optics are more important than the actual job. I really do feel for all the people working at SpaceX trying to make this idiot’s dumb aspirations a reality on budget and within his ludicrous parameters.
Top 10 Melinda May Fight Scenes (as voted by my followers) 1▸2x04 May vs “May” (83.3%) [Part I | Part II | Part III]
“I can’t believe I’m the only one seeing this right now. He’s got the painting. You good?” “I’m good.”
In celebration of Ming-Na Wen getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Old enough that this doesn’t feel like it defines “old”.
I used these to write reports for school (and actually had a set in my home):
Same w Marvel promoting tf out of Captain Carter when they barely promoted Sam Wilson as Captain America.
𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚙, 𝚘𝚏𝚌.
Also this:
Shang-Chi star Simu Liu took to social media on Saturday to respond to Disney CEO Bob Chapek’s recent comment, referring to the release of h
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Appreciation Week (Day 1)
Yeah, I’m late (to this event and to the show in general) and I can’t gif but here we go anyway…
Favorite character:
M E L I N D A M A Y
Why? She’s a tiny little Asian woman who can kick the ass of anyone she comes across, human or alien. She don’t need a gun to stop you. She can fly anything. She rocks a leather jacket and aviators. She is a woman of few words but the ones she says count. She’s a chameleon undercover. Fabulous hair. Bad attitude. Big heart. Mum to all the chaotic kidlets. Loves her nerdy S.H.I.E.L.D. husband. Thinks mortal combat is therapy. Loyal. Sardonic. Steely. Sensitive. A quiet human heroine.
Not convinced? Tell her that:
Love this post for the very obvious reason that I love Melinda May!!!
agents of shield appreciation week ❀ day 3. favourite dynamic
MAY AND DAISY / I don’t give a damn about your powers - they’re not what made you an agent. I did.
Always happy seeing May on my dash. And May relationships with other characters (since we never got enough of it).
Melinda May’s Top 10 Fight Scenes
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Rewatch: Characters Per Episode
⤷ 3.06 Among Us Hide …➤ Melinda May
Always happy to see Melinda May/Ming-Na Wen on my dash.
Feedback requested: any purpose to empty Tumblr?
I will confess, I very rarely post or reblog things on Tumblr, but my dashboard isn't actually empty.
Do you think I should block people with an empty Tumblr? I mean, I would be OK with someone who just had one post - as long as it wasn't naked photos and such.
Am I missing something? I would love some feedback. Thank you.
Some of the empty tumblrs who follow me like a ton of stuff and reblog under their sideblog urls. i think they just aren't comfortable with main blogging for whatever reason. that's their business and i don't question it.
if the empty blog has a porn star as their icon and/or a two word url hat ends in two digits, i block them. no offense. I came here specifically to see if you were legit XD
Thanks for this response! Very helpful!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Philinda with a little bit of Philindaisy. Angst and feels, y’all. ~2200 words. Rated T. TW: blood, knives.
May’s vision blurred, going black at the edges, and she shut her eyes tight, praying Phil would find her before it was too late.
Sharing the sadness.
Transcript:
“Most of what you think you know about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is wrong.
This is the model that we all learned in psych 101 is wrong [image of Maslow’s pyramid is shown] where our basic physiological needs are at the bottom of the pyramid and achieving one’s full individual potential is at the apex.
What you may not have known is that Maslow spent 6 weeks with the Blackfoot First Nation in the summer of 1938. He learned about their worldview and the Blackfoot Tipi, appropriated and misrepresented their perspective to establish his own Maslow’s hierarchy, and then didn’t give them credit.
[Image of Maslow’s pyramid and Blackfoot tipi shown, described below]
According to the Blackfoot Tipi, self-actualization is at the bottom of the pyramid. In the middle we have belonging and community actualization, where people take care of each other and help each other with their basic needs. And at the top, we have cultural perpetuity, which is teaching each other how to live in harmony with the land and achieve community actualization through generations.
It makes so much sense, right? Taking care of oneself is not enough. We need to take care of each other and our community.
This is why we need to decolonize psychology.”
Feedback requested: any purpose to empty Tumblr?
I will confess, I very rarely post or reblog things on Tumblr, but my dashboard isn't actually empty.
Do you think I should block people with an empty Tumblr? I mean, I would be OK with someone who just had one post - as long as it wasn't naked photos and such.
Am I missing something? I would love some feedback. Thank you.
i want you all to know that there is an artist (carmen papalia) who, after he started using a white cane, assembled a 12 foot long white cane and began using it in downtown vancouver. the length of the cane made it functionally useless as a device and the only purpose it served was making him an obstacle for sighted people. dare i say… 2019 goals
therapist to sighted patient: long cane isnt real and it cant hurt you
carmen papalia:
[id: a dimly lit photo of carmen papalia using his 12 foot “long cane” piece. he walks casually behind it. the cane takes up the majority of both the photograph and the sidewalk.]
Okay I went to a conference where this guy was a keynote and he’s so fucking cool. He’s done a ton of art around disability rights. The twelve-foot cane is really cool, but here are some of my other favourites:
From the series on replacing his cane, this is one where he replaced his cane with a megaphone and would stand at intersections repeating “I can’t see” until somebody would stop and help him cross the street
Another cane replacement, this time replacing it with a high school marching band who would change the music depending on if there was something in the way or not.
A museum intervention where he got people at the MET to go through the museum with their eyes closed and experiencing touching things he’d gotten permission to touch (the floor in this image) and just exploring a visual art museum blind.
The Blind Field Shuffle, in which he has dozens of people form a conga line behind him with their eyes closed and leads them on a blind tour of the city - literally the blind leading the blind.
Wish I could find a better photo, but this is a museum gallery he curated where the works are almost at floor height, making them accessible to children, little people, and people in wheelchairs, but requiring abled people to bend down or sit on the floor in order to see them properly.
In short, this man is amazing and I love his work.
……okay, that last one is my absolute favorite
