it is easy to be a saint in paradise

my main | political & fandom posting mostly | "every good story begins with an end." | she/they genderfluid

[corvidsarecalling]

hello hello good people of tumblr!

you can call me cori (she/they) or really whatever you want

i am always up for asks, anon or otherwise, whether you know me or not! i am NOT, however, open to serious flirtation save one specific person (my girlfriend), harassment, explicit asks, general bigotry or fuckwittery, intrusions into my personal life, etc.

i always have my nose in a LOT of things...chances are there's something here you'll align with.

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i also have a mountain of sideblogs for specific interests, some more active than others

@hilberts-seaweed-coffee - wolf 359/unseen/zero hours

@turn-your-gays - tma/tmagp/mechs/jonny sims

@honor-is-dead - cosmere/branderson

@wake-up-josephh - analog/internet horror

@i-review-books-sometimes - book reviews (upcoming)

@but-so-are-lies - the x files (upcoming)

@in-the-aftermath-of-noone - music and poetry (upcoming)

@itiseasytobeasaintinparadise - ds9 (upcoming)

@call-me--ishmael - classics/lit liveblog (upcoming)

and 3 or 4 others that DONT get linked back here lmfao

nice to meet you all!

[cryptotheism]

You deny your weapon it's amazing digital purpose

[voidambassador]

[woolandflax]

This one’s for the tumblrinas

[robo-walkingto]

This was funnier in my head XD

[byjove]

watching massive franchises bomb at the box office while Backrooms has made $212 million on a $10 million initial budget has brought me hope for the future of cinema

[byjove]

audiences do NOT want Star Wars slop, audiences want a movie made by a guy who really wanted to make a movie

[ghirahimbo]

"Idiots," I say, referring to the characters I have spent hundreds of my real life hours contemplating.

[schlarklezyaoi]

the among us show might genuinely be cinema i just watched a crewmate handle an actual fucking g-string

[schlarklezyaoi]

[schlarklezyaoi]

this show is rated tv-pg yet has shown multiple shots of a character flipping us off with both hands which has led me to believe every other tv-pg director is a coward

[schlarklezyaoi]

i spent the entire show joking with my boyfriend that paramount just didn’t actually monitor the show and just released it without actually caring about its contents. what do you mean that wasn’t really a joke.

[squeakitties]

following weird horny furries who are into shit like pooltoys and transformation and stuff is enrichment. the vitamins and minerals of posting

[squeakitties]

[twinkenjoyer-deactivated2023083]

once you get over your ass and realise you will never get some people and that’s ok you are basically immune to right wing fearmongering. otherkin? none of my fucking business

[stevishabitat]

[mandate-transgenderism]

I must not fall victim to disgust. Disgust is the heart-killer. Disgust is the little-death that brings total apathy. I will face my disgust. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the disgust has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

[knivesandteeth]

Do you think Data and Bashir keep in touch? Do you think they talk about Data's dreaming? Do you think Data tells Bashir about how fascinating his emotion chip is? Do you think Data reaches out to Bashir after he's outed as an Augment? Do you think Data tells him that he understands?

[fantashic]

Average Deep Space Nine A plot: "What are you willing to sacrifice for the chance at a better world? Who are you willing to hurt? Will the pain you cause now outweigh the peace that it might bring? When both choices are bad, and you do what you think is best, can you live with yourself after? Could you live with yourself if you made the opposite choice?"

Average Deep Space Nine B plot: "What do we do with all this hot sauce!?"

[edgycarr0t]

Thinking abt a Wolf 359 x Project Hail Mary au..

[capsfromtrek]

Julian Bashir + sitting

[ourqueenwanda]

My collection. Please lmk if yall have more I would love to expand.

[conquered-gnomes]

I need everyone who’s been simultaneously posting about Project Hail Mary and Iron Lung to go listen to Wolf359. If your current special interest is men being sent to die in space you are gonna LOVE Doug Eiffel

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

I just don't get any sort of hope from the ending because there's no implication that abstraction can be fixed :( jax is just doomed forever

The way I've seen it, there's two readings of the finale, and it's on whether or not the abstractions can be fixed.

First reading is the optimistic one: Pomni was getting through to Jax, she only got kicked out because of the flashbang. Now that they're not just sticking the abstractions in a cellar, now that they have Jax in a comfortable and enclosed space to calm down and figure things out, it's not impossible she will pull through once she realizes she is deserving of love. And also when she drinks enough respecting women juice to realize that she is a woman and thus she has to respect herself

Second reading is the one of abstractions being irreversible, which the narrative does imply quite a bit, down to Jax saying "there's no going back from this." And it's that Jax is a tragedy, but her human self does not have to be. Jax repressed herself to death/insanity because she could not reconcile her own gender with her perception of the world NOR could she accept that even as a terrible person she was still deserving of a future, of the ability to grow and change, and the ability to be loved. She died regretting that she'd driven all her friends away and made the world worse for so many people. But Leeroy is still out there. In the real world, Leeroy accepted help and is figuring herself out. She has a job and a life and is visiting a queer bar! [If you look at the newspaper article, the Triangle is 100% confirmed a queer bar] In one world, Jax was trapped and fell into a horrible coping mechanism that hurt others and herself, and it killed her. In the real world, Leeroy was offered help and took it, and it's what saved her. And even with the idea of losing Jax, there is still a future for Leeroy, and that's where the hope comes in.

[klaipeda-witness]

hot DOG??!?!????

[creatingblackcharacters]

man sometimes i think of the “clanker” trend and its like man some people DESPERATELY want to be racist without actually being perceived as racist. im a Star Wars fan so when i first heard it i was like okay chuckle that’s funny I hate ai and its a reference to a thing i like and then it gained traction and people were saying it with SO MUCH like…enthusiasm and venom that it felt like yall just want to say another word. Its not subtle. Truly an insane internet experience.

Like why do y'all wanna say a slur so bad lmao. Why is the urge to be a bigot "without harm" so tempting to you? I have never in my life wanted to call anything a slur, that I would be so geeked to have the opportunity. Grow a spine and say the slurs you really wanna say, and live with the consequences!

[someoneq]

Justin Jordan made a great youtube video about the origins and extent of the trend (people made a lot of robot versions of slurs and of actual Black people). Take care if you're watching because some of the people making the clanker "jokes" he's reacting to didn't do much at all to hide the racism.