Throw It All In There

A Queer who likes Space enough to do a degree in it. Any pronouns will do and I generally answer to Cinn(a)[mon] or variations on that theme. Feel free to send asks, though I may not answer them. I don't know how to follow people on sideblogs so please look away if I followed your professional account in the twitter reverse exodus.

[cinnamonandpancakes]

[cinnamonandpancakes]

Item: A Glass of Water Rarity: ✦ Uncommon

Best video game water level?

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I play city builders, I don't really know water levels...

[cinnamonandpancakes]

Item: The Friendship Bracelet Rarity: ⏶ Common

Which game character felt like a genuine childhood friend?

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Probably like... Chikorita or something.

[cinnamonandpancakes]

Item: A Fancy Mirror Rarity: ✦ Uncommon

Which video game character do you most identify with (and why, if you like)?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Thats a good question that I don't really know the answer to.

[cinnamonandpancakes]

Item: A Crumpled Manual Rarity: ⏶ Common

Do you skip tutorials as fast as you can?

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Yes, next question.

[1percentcharge]

I’m an omnivore but a hot take of mine (albeit not a hill I will die on) is that it was counterproductive to turn vegetarian/vegan into strict identities and shame anyone vegetarian-adjacent who eats meat once in a while as weak-willed or a hypocrite. I think someone who has a pork dumpling every now and then still exhibits discipline and has more in common with a vegetarian than someone who eats steak and bacon every day and turning reducing meat into an all-or-nothing thing just discourages people

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I hate when you catch yourself having a thought that hints at deeper insanities than previously imagined

[hypokeimena]

[darklightluna]

TBH those kinds of thoughts should be acknowledged - and treated as a symptom that signals that you need to evaluate your physical or mental health.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

evaluated. it’s the ocd. on to the next question.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

anyway I actually think it’s better advise to get into the habit of going “well that’s fucking stupid” and dismissing them immediately when you have these thoughts rather than ruminating on them, perhaps obsessively

[swordshapedleaves]

Many years ago I saw an advice book for expectant fathers that had a question from a guy whose wife was visibly pregnant. He was anxious and embarrassed about going out in public with her because everyone could see the evidence that he'd had sex with his wife. Should he go out with her in public anyway? And the response was "Yes. Sometimes your feelings are stupid and wrong."

And that phrase has been my mantra against my bizarre anxieties and self-conscious paranoias ever since.

[ndnbutch]

fyi. being intensely self critical is not the same as being self aware. if you’re really self aware you’ll be aware of the good stuff too. just in case anyone needs to hear it. don’t mistake constantly dissecting what you see as your flaws for some kind of personal enlightenment.

[duckprintspress]

Sapphic Stories: an itch.io bundle!

February has ended up really active for itch.io bundles. I mentioned the Friendship-centered SFF stories bundle a few days ago, and the aromantic characters bundle I organized launches in 9 days. Here’s another: a Sapphic stories bundle!! This bundle includes 22 wlw stories by many authors and in many genres, including two of our e-books – Moongatherer by Willa Blythe (a novelette) and Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley (a novel).

Check out the whole Sapphic stories bundle here!

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[youremysunshine8]

This dog's face is sending me. New reaction image

[ra-meat]

As i was cropping it i thought the "no he'd die" was really funny so I kept it

[silly-jellyghoty]

I'm stealing this. Thanks.

[notatzimisce]

You know, one of the most shameful consequences of scifi/game authors not knowing shit is cyberpsychosis, or Essence, or whatever in-universe asspull for a mechanical limiter on how much cyberware you can cram into a character sheet.

There is an easy excuse in real life! You may not be able to get both a pacemaker and a DBS device because they're both pieces of sensitive equipment that could theoretically interfere with each other, and nobody engineered them not to. Trivially you can extrapolate this to all cybernetics. If your various augs weren't Specifically designed not to mess with each other (and of course the various megacorps might take things a step further, making their shit actively hostile to mix-and-matching), you might have problems; and obviously, the more pieces of hardware you've patchworked yourself with, the worse things get. You'd have to be one real crazy motherfucker to tell a back-alley doctor to load you up with whatever they've got.

It's more grounded and more realistic and less shitty and it actively enhances the atmosphere of cyberpunk in a way that "losing your humanity" does not. we are missing out on much because none of these writers know anything about how medtech works

[dancecinema]

GREGORY HINES & MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV White Nights (1985) dir. Taylor Hackford

[fandomwithjoy]

Masters of their craft.

[trollprincess]

My favorite thing about this sequence is that if you don’t know who Hines and Baryshnikov are, and I tell you one is a ballet dancer and one taps, you should be able to figure out who’s who based on their specific movements, even though the choreography is the same.

[elljayvee]

ABSOLUTELY. It’s so obvious in the way they move, and things like the positioning of the hips as they do the same step. Where the weight is in the leg. All those things. It’s one of the things that makes the sequence such a pleasure to watch – you can see that both of them are amazing dancers and you can also learn a lot about their specific disciplines and the differences between them watching it.

[elljayvee]

OK OK I am actually going to go through those gifs one by one to talk about the things that really strike me in each one as demonstrating the two styles of dance. I’m sure I am missing some things, this is just what is obvious to me.

1. Look how they lead the movement as they step back. Baryshnikov moves his leg following a hip/torso movement. Hines comes very close to leading with his knee. You’ll see that knee-leading motion in a later step, too. You can probably do this yourself: stand with your feet and hips square to the front, then turn your hips towards the left and use the pull of it to lead your leg into the step. Then go back to square, and take a step back by letting your knee open to the side and go backwards. You should be able to feel the muscles working pretty differently – the first movement engages a lot more of your core, the second relies more on your various thigh muscles.

2. The leg extension in the air – that perfect straight leg is ballet to the core – and look at how differently their hips and feet are when they land! Baryshnikov’s hips are squared to the side and his feet are aligned; Hines’s hips are angled and his back foot faces the front and is flat. If a ballet dancer had his foot like that – and he might – his hips wouldn’t be doing that angle.

3. This is a tap sequence and it’s where that knee-lead comes in again. Hines’s hips are loose and his knees seem to be leading the movement – almost like they are pulling both his hips and his ankles along for the ride. You can see where his feet will strike by watching the knees. Baryshnikov is not a tap dancer and it really shows here! Once again you can see that he moves his hips in order to shift his knees and weight.

4. There are a few things here but the biggest to me is how they land out of that jump. Hines lands…well, like a tap dancer. He comes down hard and flat – you can see the little jolt as he hits – like he’s slammin’ that tap shoe down to make a big ol’ noise. Baryshnikov’s landing foot isn’t as easy to see, but he comes down toe-first, as is correct for ballet.

5. Again there are a few, but what I find most striking is the looseness/rigidness of posture. Both of them have immense body control, but Hines is letting his joints flex more in the air. It looks to me like again he brings his heel down harder, as well, on both back and front legs – in fact I kind of wonder if the heeled boots Baryshnikov has on are to make it easier for him to match Hines’s foot movements in certain sequences, since he won’t have to bring his foot down as far. (They’re both in shoes with some degree of heel, but Hines’s are much less so.)

6. Aaah both of these are lovely spins. Again with the rigidity vs looseness in the joints, but also, Hines traces MUCH more of his foot on the ground, which is common in tap spins but uncommon in ballet. His weight is slightly less centered over the support leg, and you also can see the knee-lead vs hip-lead here as well – look how Baryshnikov shifts his weight, then look how Hines does it. And as they come out of it, Baryshnikov has his toe pointed and his heel up, while Hines snaps his heel down against the floor.

[brainfuzz]

To me, a non-dancer, their dance styles are like comparing French and German - one is all crunchy sharp hard stops and the other is fluid smooth and soft. And something that is specific (I believe) to Baryshnikov is during the jumps - when Hines is in the air, it looks like he’s fighting gravity and is actively going up and then coming back down. Baryshnikov on the other hand looks like he is flying and is choosing to land. IIRC from when I was young and this movie first came out and Baryshnikov became my first blorbo, the amount of time he spent in the air and how gracefully he did it was a thing that even people who knew ballet were baffled and impressed by.

[cinnamonandpancakes]

I'm fascinated by all these fighting kicks in this sequence, my kung fu instructor would love them!

[armandageddon]

who gives a shit if the heated rivalry actors are queer or not. if they're queer then good for them for getting to play queer roles and if they're straight but this cheerfully willing to have hot sweaty gay sex with other men on television for our entertainment then more power to them too. other straight men should take notes. whats the issue here again

[melancholic-pigeon]

reblog to give prev a fUCKING BREAK in 2026

[niyarest]

[queenie435]

[floodnetworks]

Credit: @refrigerator-art // Original Post

[toskarin]

admittedly a toxic trait, but I think it's totally fine to be an elitist about art and similar frivolity like that. feels like a pressure valve that lets the steam out before it can metastasise into something much worse, not that it can't still happen, but you know how it goes

[toskarin]

some of the nicest people you'll ever meet will answer "you think you're better than everyone else just because you like [thing]?" with a half apologetic "you won't like the answer so don't make me say it" and some of the cruellest most volatile people to walk this earth are drafting up a Let People Enjoy Things manifesto

[toskarin]

if you wanted to boil that down into a more coherent ideological statement, it would look like "the human spectrum of emotional responses contains negative emotions, and if you disallow a petty expression of low stakes negative emotions, you'll guarantee that they go unaddressed, uncontested, and unchallenged until they've formed into a much more severe and serious sort of hatred that cannot be addressed because it cannot be internally identified as what it is"