Devil With A Bird Dress On

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[palesweetdeeer]

I love the idea of Rocky extending Grace’s lifespan to Eridian levels without telling him

[paperpatchnotes]

In theory this will turn into a full comic but I got...distracted lmao

Beats doing a full character design lineup tho. Farai, Nana, Secunit, and Sofi left to right.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

So, do we think Stratt tells people about the Grace thing after the mission left?

Cause like, she definitely doesn't have to. Yes the guards and Carl and people are in on the secret, but they've probably been sworn to secrecy and also aren't likely to be broadcasting that they're accessories to murder.

And people liked Grace. He was a popular person on the project, he was Stratt's fun little sidekick who ended up being the only guy who could save humanity. People are going to want to believe that he was brave and he went voluntarily.

If Stratt says “Grace panicked at first but then realised he had to do it for humanity” people will likely go along with that.

Stratt won't go to jail for ordering his murder on top of all the other things she's definitely going to jail for. (Listen, regardless of whether it saved humanity, what they did to Grace is definitely murder legally.) Grace will be remembered as a hero, like she promised.

And she will watch this one act that she knows he didn't do eclipse everything he ever actually did in his life.

Who's going to really remember the fun science teacher? The guy who did experiments with stuff he bought from the hardware store? The goofy guy who kept everyone's spirits up on the aircraft carrier?

If Grace's story ends with him nobly sacrificing himself to save humanity, then everything he did up to that point is re contextualised. Stratt will watch people memorialising a man that she knows never really existed, while the real Grace and all the good he actually did is wiped from history.

Equally though, if she tells people what really happened, then everyone is definitely going to judge Grace harshly.

Like, never mind that he only had a few hours to decide, never mind that he had already voluntarily done so much for the mission, never mind that he was scared to die (never mind that Stratt can still see the look on his face when he realised that he had no choice). He's the guy who tried to put himself over all of humanity.

He was empirically the most selfish any human has ever been, even if only because no human has ever been put in a position to be that selfish before. Sure, a lot of people would probably react the same way in the same situation, but nobody's going to admit that out loud.

People are going to compare him to the other astronauts on the mission (who had months to come to terms with their decision) and he's going to look like a piece of shit.

Everyone on Earth has a personal stake in this decision. Everyone will have strong feelings about it. Grace is either going to be the martyr, the saint, the saviour of humanity, or the guy who tried to destroy them all to save his own skin.

Eva Stratt has to live with the knowledge that she killed Grace (at least the version of him that lived on Earth) more totally than she thought she could, because no matter what she does, nobody but her is going to remember him as the good but not perfect man that he really was.

[eomerofrohan]

Hera, Princess of Rohan, gives you permission to stab bigots with a sword

[shutoffthelights]

to me, there's an innate horror in tradwife content. it's always a pretty young girl in her late teens, early 20s. she's so young. she's basically a baby herself. maybe she's about your age. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

either way, she always has at least three kids, sometimes more. you don't want to ask when she had them, but she had to have them young because her youngest had to have been born when she was at least seventeen based on how time works. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

she's smiling but there's something missing in her eyes - a spark that should be there. there's no passion, there's just the movements of the day. sometimes she'll give an interview where she says she barely feels like getting out of bed, and other times she says nothing. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

her world isn't real - it's neat kitchens and made from scratch cheese. she tells you how she doesn't need feminism because she likes this life, she likes wearing pretty dresses, don't you dare pity her. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

you scroll up to an ex tradewife in her forties talking about how her husband divorced her and left her for a younger girl, leaving her destitute and penniless and twenty years out of the workforce. you scroll again to a pretty young girl saying she doesn't need a job, her husband will take care of her. you scroll again. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

another woman, this time in her early thirties, talking about how she just managed to leave her abusive husband and has nothing and he took the kids, warning and pleading young girls to not fall for tradwife lies. you scroll again to a young tradwife girl saying that would never happen to her, and you're just jealous of her. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

you scroll again. a teen girl tells you that she'll just track her period, she doesn't NEED a toxic chemical like birth control. you scroll again to an obgyn pleading with young girls to understand birth control is just hormonal, and that period tracking isn't effective. you just watch happen. you can't save her.

you scroll again, and it's jd vance saying how women belong in the homes and shouldn't be allowed to vote. that their husbands should decide how they should vote. you scroll again to a domestic abuse counselor telling women their vote is private and they can lie to their husbands. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

she doesn't want you to save her. how dare you pity her. you just watch it happen. you can't save her. a horrible feeling washes over you. you just watch it happen.

[shutoffthelights]

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My friend started watching The Librarians last night and long story short

Dean Devlin specifically LOVES putting Christian Kane in Polycules/throuples.

Leverage, The Librarians, Almost Paradise.

and i got to give it to them too. the character dynamics are still different and it doesn't feel like they're just putting new wallpaper up for each new show. while you can say it's "Christian Kane and his new polycule" each show is still unique.

[parhelion-studio]

The newest print in the series looks SO GOOD 😍

11x17 prints available here! 5x7 versions are available in another listing, I just haven't gotten new photos taken yet!

[somepomegranatetea]

she's platonic about it but in my opinion, stratt 100% treats grace as her dead wife. she keeps a tacky fox trinket in her coat pocket. there's a framed photo of him in her study . he's grinning goofily in it (bc he's a dork). new guy like: is that her husband? / no, dumbass, it's dr. ryland grace, 1/3 of the hail mary mission. / oh, fuck. were they... ? / yeah, it's unclear. black-and-white montages of grace messing around in high-level meetings play every time stratt contemplates committing more environmental crimes. she looks up at the night sky and vaguely wonders if he's enjoying his space ramen. that's her dead wife. she killed him.

[depsidase]

[jdawg696911]

Captain Picard tries out his new trampoline on the bridge

[buried-in-stardust]

OP: "I've seen lion dancing and dragon dancing before, but this is the first time I've seen realistic lobsters fighting clams."

[everythingitmeans2b]

Eva Stratt, Patron Saint of Impossible Odds

[catchymemes]

[dideveryonegetcake]

fang: we've worked together for 20 years

ed: i know but like. what do you do, exactly

[goatmilksoda]

A question I get asked a lot while working at a public library is "how do you deal with homeless people?"

And the answer is, we don't.

The unhoused people who come here seeking refuge 99% of the time understand that they will be kicked out if they misbehave.

The people you have to watch out for are Jessica, who only came because the kid she didn't want had to visit for a homework assignment and she just *needs* to yell at her child for asking to borrow two books or stay an extra five minutes, or Michael, who came in to look at porn on our computers for whatever fucking reason, or Karen who just wanted to come by to throw a fit that the particular book she wanted was checked out and harrass our staff about our collection being too limited.

99% of the time, the people we need to ban are middle to upper-middle class white people while the homeless and mentally ill/disabled people mind their own damn business and are honestly some of the best patrons we have.

[goatmilksoda]

I bring this up because today we had a man come in. He stopped at the desk, pulled up a chair and said "I'm newly homeless and was living in my car. I'm disabled. It was impounded. It's raining. I don't have a phone and I don't know where to go tonight."

And we did what we could to help. He was incredibly kind and patient despite his obvious anxiety and stress, more than most able bodied, housed patrons are to us under much less dire conditions. I liked knowing that we were the first place he came.

We have so many people like this who come in everyday. Many are quiet and keep to themselves, but sometimes they talk to us.

They tell us about how they're taking a few courses on a scholarship they applied for from our library's computer at the local community college to get their diploma. Or ask about a manga or dvd or book we might have to help them pass the time.

One woman, who comes in daily with her tattered walker always says hello to me and likes to work on the new jigsaw puzzle with me when we set one out.

So like, treat unhoused people like people. Treat disabled people like people. I don't want my library to feel like the only safe space in the world, but I'm glad it can be one of them.

I'm so sick of hearing about how "the homeless are ruining everything" when they are some of the kindest, most respectful people here. Sometimes they mutter, might not have had a place to shower, and might need a little extra space for their backpacks but that's FINE. It Doesn't Matter Actually. None of that is a problem or any of my business to care about (unless they request help/services), and I also don't think it's any of yours.

[yeoldecryptid]

Reblog forever because people are forgetting the library spirit.

[catstronaut-one]

Ineffable cyanotype 😈😇