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asystolle

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003), dir. Peter Jackson

Éowyn, Éowyn! Éowyn how come you here? What madness or devilry is this? Death, death, death! Death take us all!

ehcanuck

The amount of grief on Karl Urban's face here...

☆°•~*acting*~•°☆

starlightxraven

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

appalachian-werewolf

"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."

It fucking better.

mrsjdavis

Like to charge, reblog to cast?

newbarktownalumni

bearcosmic

Dick: No. I refuse, get somebody else to do it.

Tim: Dick, no one else is even in the running. please be so fr right now

Damian: What are you arguing about?

Dick: Damian! Damian can do it! He’d be great at it.

Tim: No, Damian’s gonna follow his paternal grandfathers lead and be a doctor. Everyone only has to take on ONE element of Bruce. Try again

Jason: They are arguing about which one of us should be the newest representative for the Justice League for when Bruce finally conks it.

Damian: That would be an honor no? Richard you would be a competent ruler.

Cas: Leader

Damian: Whatever. I assume Timothy will be taking on WE in the event of father’s passing, so wouldn’t Jason also be in the running?

Tim: No i called dibs on Jason

Jason: What? What are you talking about. You can’t call dibs on me. What if I want to run the Justice League?

Tim: You don’t. You are going to run the Wayne foundation. Take from the rich give to the poor. Modern day Robin Hood—Very on brand for you. Don’t worry I have the contracts and everything ready.

Jason: …

Jason: Ok deal. Sorry Dickie, looks like your going to rule the interplanetary alliance :P

Dick: I don’t wanna!

Tim: What, do you wanna switch?

Dick: Well, no—

Tim: Also you’re the only one that makes sense.

Dick: I’ll do anything else, please that’s too much responsibility.

Tim: Okay. Be Batman.

Dick: …

Dick: Yea never mind. Running the Justice League won’t be that hard.

Damian: Wait so who will be Batman?

Cass: Dibs

Damian, Tim, Jason, Dick: Fair

Bruce, who’s been sitting at the dining room table with them the whole time: Are you done dividing my assets and responsibilities between yourselves now? Can we eat our dinner?

haigidal

Doodles and a failed attempt at coloring Tobirama. The third one somehow looks like a caveman.

the-big-mood

myfairynuffstuff

Erika Toliusis (b.1969) - Pacific Angel. 2022. Oil with palette knife on canvas.

sunshinetheinspiration

@teaboot

teaboot

Painted with a FUCKING PALETTE KNIFE?

zechery-deactivated20220114

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

thebaconsandwichofregret

No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing

shadows-ember

This is humanity

siawrites

Happy Birthday, Curiousity.

labelleizzy

Happy birthday, Curiosity.

the-cimmerians

Happy birthday, Curiosity.

icarus-suraki

Happy birthday, Curiosity!

lesnby23

Happy birthday, Curiosity!💕

emmathefanficgal

Happy Birthday, Curiosity

boatemholes

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CURIOSITY!!!

ehcanuck

It finally occurred to me why I love Project Hail Mary so much. It's not just because it's a great story - though it is - but it's also that I love Lord of the Rings and I just realized there's actually a whole ton of parallels to it if you just boil it down to the simplest elements.

Stay with me here.

I know they're quite different with specifics - one's fantasy and other sci-fi, of course they are BUT at its core, they're both stories about facing overwhelming odds and retaining humanity and love in the face of hopelessness.

They have a Mission that starts as a group collaboration of essentially the Best that they can get together in a short time... which then devolves into a small group of people with the specific skills needed (the Council of Elrond/The Fellowship, Stratt's Vat/Yao, Ilyukhina and Dubois)

...but ultimately ends up being two of the most Ordinary People - Frodo/Sam and Ryland/Rocky who manage to get the MacGuffin (the Ring / Taumoeba) where it needs to go at considerable personal risk.

They're all varying degrees of reluctant heroes : Frodo and Sam do not want to go into Mordor and die - they'd much rather stay in the Shire - while Grace was made to go on the mission last minute and Rocky found themself the last survivor trying to solve a science problem as an engineer - but they all pulled together and pushed on because they were the only ones that could in that moment and knew that if they didn't that the world as they knew it would end.

They're both stories that look at the worst case scenario, and instead chose to show hope, resilience and cooperation.

And in the sea of Grim-Dark Nitty-Gritty realism stories, I adore the ones that instead choose to explore the best of humanity instead of the worst.

ehcanuck

You know what, I'm not done, I have more thoughts.

I mentioned it briefly above, but another thing I love so much about both of these stories is how much of a role love plays in both stories.

Specifically platonic love.

I just greatly appreciate their motivation isn't boiled down to being for the love of a girl/boy but a focus on these connections that make us human. That these connections are shown to be worthwhile, worth dying for.

In LOTR, these platonic bonds are everywhere. Frodo wouldn't have gotten very far without Sam's love and support, and Sam's loyalty and endurance is connected back to his love of Frodo. What Merry and Pippin go through, they managed to because they hold on to each other and they were looking out for one another. Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas do the same as their branch as the story plays out - the bonds of fellowship, of friendship, pushing them to stick together and cooperate. There's connections outside the main groups too: the friendships of Merry and Eowyn, Merry and Théodin, Boromir and Aragorn, Merry, Pippin and Treebeard, Aragorn and the Dúnedain Rangers, Pippin and Beregond, Beregond and Faramir and so so so many more. And sure, in the fandom, some take these through a romantic lense (and, of course, you do you) but, for me, these are examples of what makes us human. Of pack-bonded with something and going: you're mine now and if anything were to happen to you, I'd kill everyone in the room and then myself. Just love that has nothing to do with physical beauty, blood relation or intimacy of the naked kind, but just care for the other as a person and for their well being. They throw themselves at times into terrible danger when these connections are at risk (Merry and Pippin vs Cave Troll, Sam during the final stretch of Mt. Doom, Boromir during the Uruk-hai raid...) to make sure the other(s) survive(s) - and live. And sure, the arguement could be made for duty, but I would argue in turn that while duty may be present (like with Beregond) it is ultimately love that pushes their actions to greater heights.

Ryland Grace's story is, of course, much more isolated but it is still his friendship that he builds with Rocky that saves both their planets in the end. It's the deep friendship he forges with Rocky that helps him find and keep his courage, to put his life on the line, even as his memories come back. Their friendship is what pushes Rocky to enter Ryland's oxygen-filled side of the ship and simultaneously catch fire and freeze while, shortly thereafter, Ryland repays the favour by hauling Rocky's incredibly heavy body up a ladder and instantly char himself and flash-burn his lungs. Ryland abandons his chance to go home and his future survival in order to go back for Rocky. The dialogue in the book goes pretty hard here:

"I can go home. I really can. I can return and spend the rest of my life as a hero... ...but then Rocky dies. And more important, Rocky's people die. Billions of them... ...So that's what I'm left with. Option 1: Go home a hero and save all of humanity. Option 2: Go to Erid, save an alien species, and starve to death shortly after... ...All I see when I close my eyes is Rocky's dumb carapace and his little arms always fidgeting with something." (P. 454-455)

Like he acknowledges what would happen to Rocky's planet if his friend is unable to get home and deliver the cure, but the book strongly implies that the reason that Ryland turns around is because of his friend! He can't stop thinking about him and is afraid of what would happen to him stranded in space. Rocky is what motivates him to turn around, not Erid itself!

Sure in both LOTR and PHM, the world was at stake, but humanity has a hard time grasping stakes that large. After all, as the infamous saying goes : "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." These characters are so human because the insight we get into their thoughts show them concerned for the Shire, for their friends, for a beloved commander, for their families, for their people/culture - for the people in their lives they love - not so much focusing on Middle-Earth or Earth/Erid as a whole.

There is Good in the World. And it’s Worth Fighting For.

#project hail mary #lord of the rings #lotr #phm #ryland grace #rocky the eridian #samwise gamgee #frodo baggins #Thanks for coming to my ted talk #platonic relationships

shrugsinchinese

Coltland Pacific Rim au, but it’s just fanart for All These Words by anon on ao3!

Go give it a read! The drift compatibility goes insane for this one

witchchild

byjove

I never thought I would be siding with the pope’s involvement in politics and cheering him on. I will say that.

byjove

foralittlewile

Tbh, I think everyone getting very attached to Tall Adrian™️ kinda makes them miss the potential of the canon reality that Eridians average at 50cm tall.

Grace is living on a planet of toddler sized rocks with twice his strength. If at ANY point he forgets to look where he’s going he is Going Trip Over An Ambassador. Unstoppable force vs. immovable object except Grace is very much stoppable.

Eridians either get used to talking to his shins, craning on their tippy toes to get a good look at his face, or begin forcing him to sit criss-cross applesauce for literally any important meeting. Picture him joining the Erid equivalent of a UN press conference and having to curl up his awkward water body and hug his knees for the whole thing.

He can conceivably be picked up by an alien the size of a hard helmet against his will. He’s surrounded by space roombas with perfect memories and attention spans shorter than his San Francisco classroom who can’t believe he’s incapable of solving complex math in three seconds. He has step stools around his house for them to climb so he can feel like he’s “looking them in the eye” even though Eridians think that’s stupid since they lack both eyes and directional perception.

His students are probably all palm sized. Once he starts teaching he’s fighting cuteness aggression all day every day. They could all break his fingers with hands the size of a button. That knowledge does not stop his cuteness aggression. THIS IS GRACE’S REALITY.