bookish astronaut

books, mountains, math, space, electrical engineering

[midnightssea]

it’s amazing how women are able to navigate crowded rooms without ever touching a palm to a man’s lower back

[txttletale]

when someone–i think it was muire lo but i can’t remember exactly–was like ‘baru, you stupid fucking idiot, your plan didn’t work because you forgot other people are like real humans with agency who do things’. i have never related to a protagonist’s flaw more

[literary-illuminati]

Extremely possible Muire said the same thing, but the line I’ve got saved if Purity doing it (which, like, rich in thematic irony)

Your error is fundamental to the human psyche: you have allowed yourself to believe that others are mechanisms, static and solvable, whereas you are an agent.

[thepantyreckless]

Baru: tell me about myself

Purity: you’re gay

Baru: wait, no, not like that

Purity: you’re a narcissist

Baru: not like that either!

[laerugo]

baru immediately proving purity’s point by not addressing anything he said at all and instead thinking about what a cool and awesome tool he is

[ceruleanheaven]

religion is so fucking funny the world is just too beautiful there must be a higher entity behind all this. lets oppress women

[deervsheadlights]

look even if you arent into grace/rocky you just HAVE to admit they explored each others bodies on the journey to erid. just to see whats up. the scientific boundary-crossing is already canon. and you wanna tell me those two intellectually curious guys trapped in a tin can for 3-4 years didnt at least get up to some weird shit for enrichment? dont make me laugh

[luna-isapuppyfag]

not to be a downer but they literally cannot touch without catastrophic harm to both of them

[deervsheadlights]

bold of you to assume they need to be physically touching each other to get weird with it

[algebraic-dumbass]

"wow ur so good at math" ah ha but you see. you dont ever get good at math. you stay bad, but now youre bad at harder math

[elamarth-calmagol]

Isn't there an Einstein quote about this

[algebraic-dumbass]

you can misattribute this post to Albert Einstein if you want

[baejax-the-great]

Somewhere out there on a planet very far away is a civilization that has included our sun in a beloved constellation of some animal we couldn't dream up if we tried

[ilions-end]

as someone who is lowkey obsessed with how the odyssey is structured i find this diagram by james redfield very satisfying:

"[A pattern] based on strict alternation. Odysseus faces two kinds of dangers; he may be killed before he gets home, or he may be induced to stop on the way. He faces violence and temptation." (from Redfield's 'The Economic Man')

[pmamtraveller]

Textile art featuring a school of koi fish, by artist Lin Xia.

[luna-azzurra]

If you're a new writer and you're asking yourself "is this too personal, is this too much, will people think this is weird" that feeling is the exact location of your actual voice. The stuff that makes you want to close the laptop is the stuff nobody else could write. The safe version is always worse. Always. I have never once read something and thought "this would have been better if it was a little less honest." go further. It's always go further.

[stranglingfruitloop]

"In fact, when I finished it, I handed it to my wife, and I said, 'I think I just wrote something incomprehensible about four women wandering aimlessly on a hiking trail in North Florida. Could you please check for me?' She read it and thankfully gave it the stamp of approval and said it was actually a novel and actually made sense."

Jeff Vandermeer about Annihilation, Clarkesworld magazine, July 2014.

[st-just]

tumblr has a fascinatingly large population of the type 'I am a revolutionary communist, and also if you're a woman/POC/visibly queer leaving the house is horribly dangerous and you should live in fear'.

These things aren't like, necessarily mutually exclusive. But in practical terms I feel like revolutions require a bit more risk tolerance than what is usually being put down y'know?

[wingsseni]

yuna and baby shane 🐞

[stringcage]

It's because you're always on that damn the dream thieves (2013)

[m1stl3t03]

im a victim of hockey yaoi propaganda .

[artmagine]

The beautiful art of Thomas Blackshear II

[kingfucko]

i went to his website and saw even more great art! sharing some more which i particularly appreciated

[valtsv]

basically the best thing any character can do is decide they don't want to be afraid anymore - in fact they never want to be afraid of anything ever again - and take action so drastic they fail to realise that this too is a decision motivated by fear. or to account for the Consequences of that.

[currysideplate]

Just making use of my free will

Inspo🖼:The Meeting on the Turret Stairs