Ectojester

Grimm, Back to the Future, Batfam, Project Hail Mary, miscellaneous. All my Danny Phantom stuff is @just-another-dead-guy . Art is @ectojesterdraws . Feel free to send asks or DMs if you want to chat.

[dudethatsmypillowcase]

Happy pride month to these three goobers

[cloudabserk]

comforting head bonk to make up for my feeble human lifespan

[phaeton-flier]

Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.

[phaeton-flier]

The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there

[theaudientvoid]

[centrally-unplanned]

Regular bears tell stories of angel bears sent by the Bear God, pure white and twice as strong as any normal bear could be, who rule the summit of the Earth and kill all who stand in their path.

And they are right, those bears exist and totally do that. Humans just have fake angels as a cope.

[theabigailthorn]

love the idea of bears being the chosen species actually. having a near death experience and glimpsing heaven and realising it's just full of bears, no humans at all, humans not ensouled actually, humans an accidental byproduct of God's plan for bears

[feriowind]

here have a quick sketch of plant angel grace for your consideration

[twiggy-boy]

"what is this BABY doing in space!???"

-Rocky, probably

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

[yourunderwaterskies]

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

[aloeverawrites]

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

Humanity in War

Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,

Kaya

Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu

[cloudabserk]

grace is like rocky be honest am i too clingy? and rocky is like grace i would mind meld with you if i could.

[spoon-the-raccoon]

"We need more weird queers!" You can't handle actual queerness. The only queerness you can handle is heteronormative queerness of top and bottom same sex couples, strict binary trans people and Non-binary folks as a third gender. Don't even get me started how you can't handle anything above monogender, monosexual or monogamous. You can't handle arospec and acespec and any mixture of the two, especially aroallos. You can't handle intersex people just existing to be honest. Anything that challenges your shallow worldview of how things work is 'made up' or 'trying to win the oppression Olympics'.

You can't handle real queer people in the real queer world. If you said any of your shitty takes in real queer spaces nobody would trust you.

To you, being queer is just cishet+

[aroace-ryland-grace]

augh I miss being able to talk about the book :((

[aro-ace-chaos]

I’m so tired of the “why do people hate aspecs, they aren’t doing anything?” argument. I know that it is an attempt to support us, but it fails so spectacularly to understand aromanticism, asexuality, and any other aspec identity that it’s actively frustrating.

We are doing something. We’re rejecting allonormative ideals and that’s a massive thing to do. We’re actively fighting not just to help other aspecs, but to help everyone, because amatonormativity (and allonormativity as a whole) hurt everyone. Single people who want to find a partner but can’t also deserve to be able to exist.

There are so many issues with the expectation of marriage, including:

A single income isn't enough to get by anymore

Having a spouse is almost necessary under the current medical system

Society shames and pressures people who are single to get into relationships constantly

Rejecting allonormativity means fighting against these things that hurt everyone.

So, no, aces and aros and other aspecs aren't "doing nothing." We're doing quite a lot.

[stiffyck]

Heck, if he wanted to do open-heart surgery on me, I’d probably let him.

[emptyingthespiral]

i am now having colt and julian worms

one of the posters in toms trailer (or also a blown up banner in the stunt tent in the extended ver) is a boxing movie.

so whoever, manages to get some of fight choreographer or a consultant or smth

and low and behold one of the consultants just so happens to be julian, a guy he met while they were shooting in thailand.

now (this would mean canon divergence and julian lives, which is actually a fic im also scheming) what julian would be doing, idk. He could be taking over the mother side of business or he could be trying to go on the straight and narrow.

but yea. Brainworms.

(Thank @wendihoe for the brainworms)

[aliumfungus]

Yeah the ship is called heavenlydive.

Also I interpreted the end of Only God Forgives as a(nother) dream sequence of Julian's. In my head he's alive and well (maybe not mentally well but when was that ever the case for our boy) and maybe he's trying to get out of the whole organized drug- and sex-trafficking businesses.

Maybe he's running a boxing gym or maybe he took off out of Thailand entirely and ended up in LA or Sydney. Maybe he's involved in film because action movies need mooks to beat up and he knows how to train people to take a hit or two (or at least pretend to take a hit, which he thinks is pretty stupid because somehow pretending to fight is humiliating whereas actually fighting is something he can respect).

Maybe he's on some set where he's bored and thinking of Thailand and how much he wishes he could do something with his hands other than hurt things. Maybe he sees some dumb guy with highlights in his hair and the kind of breezy arrogance that makes Julian want to stop and squint like he's caught a glimpse of something lovely when he didn't expect it, like a perfect sunset seen from a grocery store parking lot.

And Julian has always been something shameful and secretive and nefarious which is why he knows this gorgeous slice of summer wouldn't want anything to do with him, but Julian still wants to pull on that blonde hair. Cuteness aggression. Or just plain aggression. Or even desire. He's not sure which one. Maybe all of them. Definitely the last one.

But he knows it's impossible, which is why it's such a shock when he catches the guy looking at him in the reflection of a trailer. And when Julian looks over and their eyes meet it's like the sun light he sees there is scorching away all the ugly neon and blood of the past few years. It's a disinfectant, after all. The best one. If Julian had any doubts about that, he has none now.

But now he definitely, definitely wants to fight this guy.

So he puts up his fists. Looks back. Tries not to hope or think what could happen or even breathe too hard in case this moment collapses like a soap bubble.

"Wanna fight?" he asks. But what he's really asking is, "Do you see what I see when I look at you?"

Do you see something you could love?

[emptyingthespiral]

…

Holy shit biscuits.

Adding fuel to the flame… yes.

in my head the two interpretations i got for the ending was that a) he died and b) it was a dream, both of where he just kinda gave up/surrendered some aspect of his life (but my dumbass casually forgot that i coulda made it into a dream sequence and instead focused on angst😭)

but oughhhhhh i love this.

…brainworm.

him and colt lightly sparring to show that ‘hey while you know how to cause pain, you also know how to control it’ or smth.

but colt knowing how to speak/listen without using words

that was shittly explained, i apologize, i am tired and have a headache🙂‍↕️

[robertreich]

Your regular reminder that trickle-down economics is a cruel joke designed by the wealthy.

[theunicorncomic-blog]

[randomushroom]

HE FOUND TUMBLR??????

[robertreich]

I’ve been here the whole time.

[spinningthehamsterwheel]

Dear god, he's not kidding...

[bulkhummus]

here are MY reasons why i know in my heart and soul ryland grace wears his glasses like that - as somebody who also wears glasses all stupid and dumb due to learned behavior from their mother and habit (knowledge of ryan gosling being a goof aside)

grace is farsighted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he only needs glasses in order to do close up work y'all hes always looking over the edge of em like at students in back of class or across the leisure deck on the ship at eva singing, and when they're on they enlarge his eyes bc they're convex lenses

the pads of the glasses get caught in your hair if you push them up on your head like a majority of glasses users do so you. dont do that. you don't because it hurts to yank em out and also you break the nose pads of your glasses.

sensory issues. brother sometimes the weight of my glasses on my nose and cheeks physically IRKS me. like the equivalent of lowering the radio to see better when driving type of sensory issues when I get annoyed /overwhelmed those puppies have to come off.

if he took them off fully he'd lose them. adhd or whatever aside, hes moving a mile a minute. but bulk why doesn't he just put them on his shirt? the man who wears collared shirts and ties to work ?? he cant put them on the collar of his shirt so the habit evolved. to. well this

he saw a student do it one (1) time and so he started doing it to match their vibe and then the habit stuck. be careful teachers it happens more than you think.

[mayasaura]

Stratt is so much meaner in the book, when she tells Grace he's going on the mission, and I love it. It's so effective. Because Stratt isn't mean. Not to anyone else. She's brusque and ruthless, but she often chooses to be kind, when she can afford to be. She's not cruel.

Except in this one scene. She tears Grace apart, she lies to him to make it hurt more, because she's furious with him. Because he's disappointed her so profoundly. Because he couldn't do the right thing, and now she has to tear her heart out of her chest to do it for him. If he had only been brave enough to do the right thing, she could have said goodbye. Her last memory of her best friend could have been of somber solidarity, of pride in their shared purpose. But no. And now she has to live with the memory of him begging her for his life instead. She has to remember telling him no.

[mayasaura]

Ace Grace real in the book too, btw. In case anyone doubted. Local scientist Shocked and Appalled when his colleagues assume he's sleeping with the woman he has been constant companion to for several years.

[mayasaura]

Honestly tho I think the Stratt situation is the least compelling of the evidence availbale to us, considering she's his boss who may or may not have definitely had him kidnapped.

In the book there's also Doctor Lokken, who is much too professional to be in an enemies-to-lovers workplace rivalry love triangle, but that said... She would definitely have tried to shoot her shot if there hadn't been so many rumors about Stratt and Grace. Fairly sure it's a good thing she didn't. The attraction is so painfully one-sided. Grace has no fucking idea, he's just happy their professional relationship is working out after a bad start.

The clicher for me tho is Annie. Grace has this huge fanboy nerd crush on Annie Shapiro, one of the crew candidates. Like, almost faints when he realises it's the Doctor Shapiro, and is so offended she's Stratt's second choice instead of her first. This is relevent because the Doctor Shapiro is an attractive woman around Grace's age, and he shows no sign of noticing. Nada, zip. She and the other science candidate openly discuss their (very active) sex life in front of him, and he reacts like they've disclosed an embarrassing medical condition.

[anistarrose]

if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"

[brainrockets]

Do not let your child suffer from spicy bananas!