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Rito. main, here to scream into the void about whatever currently interests me

[homoquartz]

“i want shows with more women” deadloch “i want women who are complex and diverse” deadloch “i want women who are gross and weird” deadloch “i want women who are fucking gay” deadloch!!

[statements-end]

Listen I understand why many people find Jon's paranoia thoughtless or even stupid. And I also get the people defending and justifying it (me included I'm a full time Jon defender). But in all the discussions about Jon's behaviour everyone seems to forget that no matter how irrational his actions may have seemed at the time, in the end he was literally right. One of his coworkers WAS an imposter. Someone in his close environment DID kill Gertrude. The world WAS out to get him specifically. Calm and rational reasoning be damned my man was spot on

[venus-is-in-bloom]

i enjoy video games because they let me live out my wildest fantasies, like being assigned a task and then completing that task

[partywithponies]

Every taskmaster lineup needs:

Confused yet fuckable old man

Increasingly furious

Unexpected bromance

Probably autistic

Exclusively For The Sapphics™️

Always eager to do some arts and crafts

Behaves like they're here by accident and don't even know what this show is

Just having a lovely time

[quietwingsinthesky]

you can’t call something a crackship if they have multiple scenes together and insane sexual tension. not even if only a few people ship them. that’s just a rarepair. the line must be drawn here.

[brickylittle]

oh my god I just realized this is the year people will stop being born and stop aging and stop dying

[trippin-on-apple]

What football will look like in the future

Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong.

[jewishtransdyke]

Today's the day. Better get to work coming up with weird new football variants, or else you're gonna get real bored over the next 15,750 years.

[mollyjames]

I think the thing I like about "slop" as a term, despite certain efforts to the contrary, is that it's irrevocably linked to corporate art-by-committee AI paint by numbers content. There is indie art that might not be good, fanfiction like a cake that's 99% frosting by volume. But I would never call those things "slop"

[mollyjames]

yeah, you get it

[heflapper]

Listen, I know it's soft sci-fi and we're not meant to think about it in depth, but also I love to imagine that Murderbot sorta just doesn't know shit about fuck when it comes to its own organic parts, like

MB: I don't take in nutrients like humans do. I don't need food or water.

Incorrect. Resupply lines are mentioned in the first book. At the most basic high-school biology level, if you need oxygen at all its because you're undergoing cellular respiration so you also need glucose. Not to mention potasium, sodium, other electrolytes and WATER!! All that shit is coming from somewhere. Either your one dinky little lung is pulling it out of the air somehow (I'd buy it for water at least) or the resupply lines function as parenteral nutrition.

MB: I don't produce waste.

Incorrect. Aerobic or anerobic, cells produce waste that needs to be filtered out of the blood, not mention cellular breakdown from trauma or natural death. Either there's some sort of internal recycling system going on, or the resupply and repair lines also function as dialysis. My bet is some combination of both.

Show MB: There's no dopamine there.

Maybe romance doesn't trigger dopamine release for you MB, in which case sure, but if you mean constructs don't have dopamine that's INCORRECT AGAIN! We know you have muscles, if you can move those muscles you have dopamine. If you have organic motivation to do ANYTHING you have dopamine. And we know you've got epinephrine, which is made in the same place as dopamine so you def have dopamine.

Show MB: Neural tissue is one of the best data transport material there is.

This one I fully fucking believe, because unlike wires you can send more than just On or Off. Neurotransmitters are so fucking complex if we could use them as WIRING!?!?!? No wonder every ship and system in MB has fucking emotions. No wonder a bot pilot can "Scream and die" when faced with killware. What the fuck is killware btfw??? Do we think it's part computer virus part datapacket that gets translated from binary to mRNA that then hijacks organic cells to fucking kill them?? Do you think there's killware that's turbo brain cancer or digital rabies??

There is so much biopunk potential hidden in the cyberpunk and I'm scrabbling for the crumbs. Martha Wells PLEASE I need ANSWERS!!!

[cranberrylimes]

it's good friday,,, just like in wake up dead man

[areyoudoingthis]

babe wake up ao3 came up with the only funny april fools joke in the history of the world

[justplainsalty]

The blog post is pretty great too.

[theriu]

For as popular as the idea of a "hivemind" is we never talk about how it doesn't exist in nature. There's no animal colony that connects and controls all its members through a psychic connection. Even bees, the eponimous hivemind, communicate by pheremones and, more importantly, interpretive dance. My point is when are we getting a movie about an intensely organized alien race that mainly communicates via sick dance moves, why are we sleeping on this.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[psychotic-gerard]

me, every single time i see people (especially women) talking about the divine feminine energy, or the sacredness of the womb or whatever it is now:

[image description: a two-panel photo of a person dialling a number and then placing the phone to their ear. the contact is saved as ‘Ursula K. Le Guin’ /end ID]

context is this quote by her:

But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?

[gayteensupreme]

would you still love me if i was a worm? ❌️

would you still love me if my name wasn't ernest? ✅️

[skarabrae-stone]

[ghostapop]

i feel like a lot of fandoms pride themselves on being gayer than the source material but have they considered being less racist and less misogynistic than the source material as well . could be revolutionary

[sophistopheles]

watching doctor who is so funny because it’s a fairly harmless family show most of the time. but every few years This Guy shows up, clearly in some deeply dysfunctional, visibly sexual relationship (which they NEVER fully explain to you) with the otherwise normally family friendly main character.

he’s in maybe 3 episodes and then haunts the narrative for at least the next season. you look him up and this has been happening reliably since the 1970s and also he’s been, at various intervals, a cat, a skeleton, and a snake made of goo, during all of which the toxic yaoi has continued undisturbed

[megamindsupremacy]

The Mechanisms are Jon Sims’ College Band is an incredible headcanon for a wide variety of reasons including “mr. repression himself even MORE repressed than previously assumed” and “so he def has the logo tattooed somewhere on his body” but my number one favorite thing is what that means for Jon and Basira’s relationship.

Like. yeah I’m a cop and he’s the guy I’m slowly building a murder case for by manipulating him via slowly feeding him statements. And i know this will work because we uh. Went to college together. And. Cosplayed as immortal dimension hopping space pirates who sing about tragic yuri situations based on fairytales. And now i am a cop and he is a librarian. They meet again at TMI and Bastia walks in. Stops dead in her tracks locks eyes with Jarchivist Sims and there is a moment of soul connection where they both perfectly communicate don’t say a fucking word with their eyeballs and thus begins two whole entire years of acting like their first meeting was Basira trying to pin him for murder. They’re both in hell. Their other bandmate is the pest control guy. Someone is constantly one Reddit deep dive away from finding a Mechs group photo and exposing them both. Their other other bandmate was Nikola Orsinov on vacation. It’s so over.