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Green Milk Bottle - Susan Ashworth , 2020.

British , b, 1968 -

Oil on board , 40 x 40 cm.

For years, sci-fi has asked, what if aliens were wetter than us. Project Hail Mary posits a new, daring question. What if we are the wet aliens

#yes #project hail mary

holespoles

"Shimmering night" by Inaslind.

#PRETTY #art

catchymemes

wumbreon

May we all know decadence such as this

#manifesting for u all godless beasts

queerorthodoxy

Dance as an act of rebellion. Dance as an act of joy.

#yes

Per the notes on your reblog—I also switched to duckduckgo recently, and it does have a translate feature like google, it just requires that you search "translate" first from my experience (as opposed to being an immediate pop-up?). Hope this helps you out a little :)

Hi there!!! Thank you for this, it does work, I just checked. If you type „WORD translate into English” (or some other language), it will also then fill in the fields. That’s awesome. And the unit conversion calculator also works, I learned that today by accident too haha (“100 feet to m” for example).

#Thank u dear anon!!!

banchie

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

#I switched to duck duck go and it’s pretty ok #I miss the Google translate pop up when I look up simple words or phrases #duck duck doesn’t have an equivalent which is fine but I miss it #I also miss some of the operators like unit conversion #but i actually love how easy it’s to switch off the ai summary

davidfosterwallaceandgromit

oh buddy it’s only monday monday

#oh buddy

stahsm

“Cleaning the House” painting by Sally Welchman.

#oh god #oh sweet Jesus #I love this so much #little guy #with another little guy #art

simply-a-dream

“don’t take it personally” how would you like me to take it then? professionally? romantically? academically?

creative-anchorage

suriandtaal

#incredible

fansplaining

For fans in Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi, “uncringing” non-English fanfiction is an endeavor in decolonialism.

Our latest piece is live! The brilliant Soila Kenya writes about the dominance of English in fandom and especially fanfiction spaces, and why for her and the fellow fans she interviewed from Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi, this is partly about the global dominance of English-language pop culture, but especially about the legacies of colonialism:

The deep psychological imprints of this language disparity remain. And therefore, when I encountered fanfiction, it didn’t even occur to me that there were fanfics written in any language but English, let alone Swahili or any of the 42 indigenous languages in Kenya.

Click through to read the whole piece or listen to a full audio version! And if you enjoy it, please consider becoming a (free) member or especially a paying subscriber—we want to commission more pieces from Soila and other smart writers and we need your help to pay them!

(As a reminder, we have a discount rate for anyone who wants it, no questions asked—if you're a student, educator, un/underemployed, have a lower income, or literally any other reason, just email [email protected] and we're happy to provide!)

elizabethminkel

This piece is SO good—absolutely worth your time to read or listen (I always love hearing the writers read their work, but since the focus of this piece is language, it was especially great hearing Soila read it). If you enjoy it, please share widely: I know what Soila writes here will resonate with so many people across fandom.

#fanfiction