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Digital light.
Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run
the first law of tragedies: the end is already written and inevitable. the second law of tragedies: your actions are all your own and you can choose to get off this ride whenever you want. the third law of tragedies: we both know that you are never going to do that.
i am a man of science. i don't believe in astrology or religion. however i did go to see a wise man who diagnosed me with Inscrutable Type and now i know i am fundamentally Inscrutable. Inscrutable Types and Scrutable Types do not get along or understand each other. sometimes an Inscrutable person can understand another Inscrutable person, but often we are just fundamentally Inscrutable. Scrutable people however experience instant familiarity with each other, and they find all tasks easy to complete. this is because they were born with an intrinsic Understanding, perhaps due to a special enzyme. meanwhile, Inscrutable people were born missing the enzyme which allows them to complete tasks the same way as Scrutable type. perhaps this missing enzyme is the cause of their fundamental unknowability. the wise men are still working on this. however, no matter the cause of my Inscrutability, i understand that i have this moral failing, i was born with it, and i need to find the magic amulet that will help me become more knowable.
Ryland Grace's crash-out outfits (crashoutfits)
so after the extremely important post observing Grace is wearing Ilyukhina's dress during his crash out, i feel it is my civic duty to catalog Grace's wardrobe shifts during this sequence. important science. gender science. as if there were not enough science on that with Grace already.
This sequence is non-linear, jumping back and forth, so I'll try to put them in order.
CRASHOUTFIT ONE:
PHM shirt, workout shorts, what seem to be PHM socks, and his horrible flat sole sneakers. This is all probably his own clothes or communal PHM clothes.
(I am 80% sure he's wearing fucking KEDS. So apparently Grace does not require arch support. Or comfort. Or any grip on the soles of his shoes. Maybe this is a factor in his clumsiness.)
CRASHOUTFIT TWO:
When he's going through everyone's effects, he's in longer drawstring sweatpants, his PHM polo, and what I've determined to be a hospital cloak. It's cut the same way as the medical garb and doesn't have the same pockets/fasteners you'd expect from normal clothes.
CRASHOUTFIT THREE:
Grace really likes Ilyukhina's clothes. Read into this what you will, I know I am. But he also has plastic sunglasses, and a beach hat for the WHAM! Big Tour, which. Is wild. Ilyukhina's silk robe is the clear focal point here.
I want to note that I believe Grace has another of her dresses on the floor of the lab when Rocky first shows up. Also, Grace seems to be very careful and conscientious of the silk robe; it looks like he's hand-washed it and has hung it up on his improvised airlock clothesline.
(Why is that a dress? It has a similar look and pattern repetition to the other dress Ilyukhina wore, and when Grace briefly picks it up to try cleaning the room, the weight of it is floaty like a dress would be.)
CRASHOUTFIT FOUR:
Grace loves oversized jackets and cardigans. He seems of the opinion outwear should hang down below the hips and above/around the knees. Love that. Here, as he tries to remember who tf he is, he's in a thick, warm-looking robe and the fox mask. The mask is interesting; Eva Stratt leaves him a lil fox figurine as a gift with his effects, and we know/can infer most of the things packed for Grace were from her and the team since he was drugged into oblivion. So maybe Stratt's order was "just find fox-themed stuff and bring it to me."
CRASHOUTFIT FIVE:
There it is! But oh man this makes my heart hurt. Grace seems to be dressed in as much as he can be. The dress but also two different hats, the sunglasses, his cardigan, and what looks like another jacket under the cardigan. It gives the impression he's wearing as much of the crew's clothes as he can, as if trying to hold onto them in the only way his drunk brain can.
BONUS HEARTBREAK OBSERVATION:
Grace locates the NASA jumpsuits then makes the conscious decision to dress the bodies of Yao and Ilyukhina in their own before eulogizing them. This is apparently a detail lifted from the book, where Grace does the same thing, takes the extra time.
PHM the film you are, jfc.
ohhhhh ryland is wearing ilyukhina’s dress 🥺
Patron Saints of One Way Trips
“… only real love waits while we journey through our grief. That is the real trustworthiness between people. In all the epics, in all the stories that have lasted through many lifetimes, it is always the same truth: love must wait for the wounds to heal. It is this waiting we must do for each other, not with a sense of mercy, or in judgment, but as if forgiveness were a rendezvous. How many are willing to wait for another in this way? Very few.”
— Anne Michaels, The Winter Vault (via merulae)
So last month I got hit by a car and died right. Which I didn't initially realize until I watched some guy haul my body into his pickup and drive off. Which, being that it's deep in rural Michigan, I assume means my body will make some venison jerky and maybe some wall decoration, and I'll be resigned to being one of hundreds of deer ghosts floating around Saginaw, which is w/e. But then I find out the guy works at a taxidermy shop or something, and he's actually pretty good at stuffing and mounting deer carcasses, which I come to find out when I find myself face to face with my old body in the shop window. So naturally, I figure since ghosts need to possess something to interact with the living world and etc etc etc the most logical thing to do is to possess my own body, since it's basically a statue of myself. And a little surprisingly, it actually fits like a glove. Like, since it's my body, it feels like stepping right back into place. So I get out of town and back to my herd, eventually. And that's where the trouble starts coming into it, because after I get settled again, I don't know how to explain to everyone else what feels so weird. Like since I can move my body and do everything I used to do, it's functionally the same, like nothing happened. Or it SHOULD be, so I don't know how to explain how it's NOT. But it's just hard to explain it to someone who's never been hit by a truck I guess
this ask polly comment..
Stage 1: using your native language's idioms in English out of habit/lack of knowledge
Stage 2: using English idioms as much as you can to prove that you're good at English
Stage 3: using your native language's idioms in English because they fuck actually
“either take off your cross or put on your underwear” (ukrainian) to say that you can’t have both things at once is my favorite expression to ever exist in any language. i needed to put this out into the world so bad, im finally free.
I'm gonna write some:
"you can't put doors to the countryside" referring to something you cannot control
"to honour which saint?🤨" A response to someone doing such a bizarre thing that you can only assume it's for a very specific god ritual (what my mom says when I'm caught cooking a full meal at 3am)
"my mouth is dryer than Christ's sandals" or nsfw version "dryer than a doll's underwear"
"never say from this water I shan't drink" like never say never.
"to write the dots on the i's" to make a negotiation very clear, point out flaws.
"you have to feed him separately" as in 'this person is a handful'
"it's like throwing daisies to the pigs" wasteful, or useless, unappreciated act
"no one gave you a candle in this burial" you don't have permission to talk/give your opinion
"it's like going to pee and not letting even a drop" pointless, absurd, waste of time
"when the devil is bored he kills flies with his tail" when someone you hate is suspiciously idle and seems innocent (and you KNOW!!! they'll do something)
"my saint went back to the sky" meaning you were so distracted/zoned out that you didn't even notice a saint had descended to help you until it left lmao
"I'm more tied up than a Roman's leg" (refering to Roman knee high sandals) it means you're very busy
“An umbrella up the ass can’t be opened” situation is fucked beyond further fuckery
“Do what imam says, not what imam does” (pretty self explanatory)
“Don’t make stew for a meat on butchers display” don’t make plans hinging on variables beyond your control
“Vinegar that’s too strong harms its own bottle” bitter people end up hurting themselves
“You show sympathy to a cat and it’ll piss on your carpet” pricks will be pricks (an exclamation to be used for when someone who’s known to behave badly behaves badly)
“Mutt to mutt, mutt to its tail” an expression to depict cycles of abuse, (ie. husband abuses the wife, wife abuses the kids or ceo scolds the regional manager and regional manager scolds the cashier etc.)
“Hungry bear doesn’t dance” people won’t work for nothing
“Allah doesn’t have a stick…” used for when misfortune befalls a malicious figure/force. Karma, essentially
“[They] all shit in the same bowl” indicates that the figures in question all fundamentally uphold the same abusive systems
“Whoever lies with a blind man wakes up cross-eyed” people negatively affect eachother
“Hapless bedouin gets fucked by a polar bear in a desert.” Something very unfortunate happened here
Joan Tierney
"if i were eurydice i'd be so pissed" then you wouldnt be eurydice. see me after class.
What the Living Do, Marie Howe
"you don't owe anybody anything" has done irreparable damage to the minds of the youth
this ordeal of living is collaborative. we owe each other as much as we're able to give. come take ibuprofen with me.