Ad Astra Per Aspera

[ Lynx - Older Than U - Chilean - AuDHD - Gender/Aspec: Fluid ] ✨🥄 Here to rub my petty #Queer hands all over media for fun & self-care! 🥄✨ (Mostly.) Can't stop sabotaging leisure with Hot Leftist Takes at 2am.

[fractalspaces]

Hi, I'm Lynx! Writer wannabe, rampant nerd, late student. Everything is fascinating. I used to be a cook until my health chronically gave up on me, and then I went ~"maybe I should get back together with Academia"~, like a fool.

✨- Will post about anything but my current obsessions are Murderbot/TMBD (and Murderathin); and The Locked Tomb.

✨- I have NOT gotten rid of my previous pinned post with the Misoprostol instructions.

✨- Re: Direct Downloads -- I've got an habit of uploading stuff when the Official Route isn't accessible. Current Folders:

Interview With the Vampire (All Media + Ebooks)

Murderbot (S01 + Ebooks + Audiobooks)

The Locked Tomb (Ebooks + Audiobooks + Other TazMuir stories)

Blue Eye Samurai

Serial Experiments Lain

Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 (+ Movie)

Persona 3 OVAs

X-Men 1995 (Full)

Disco Elysium

Roleplaying Books Collection (Eng/Spa - 15GB Aprox)

One Piece Live Action (S01 + S02)

Best free, ad-less, works in all OS media player: VLC Best free, ad-less, works in all OS eBook reader: ReadEra Best free, ad-less, works in all OS audiobook player: Voice

Also, if you want me to get you anything, send me a DM and I'll try. I enjoy Being Helpful that way.

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(PS: The writing tag doesn't show on the app. #Sadness. My AO3 in English is here. My AO3 in Spanish is here but holy shit it's hella old. I just don't delete things I write :'33 One day I'll even upload the older older stuff for both languages but, y'know. Oof. )

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[fractalspaces]

IWTV / TVL REMINDERS

1- ✨ I can't and won't apologize for who I'll become once The Vampire Lestat hits.✨

2- I moved my entire IWTV collection to Mediafire so you can direct-download at leisure. Expect uploads of S03/TVL as soon as I can get my filthy mitts on each episode 8DD

(In the meantime, enjoy because i have the two IWTV seasons up there, PLUS Talamasca, the 90's movie, books, audiobooks, and a very old manga adaptation lmaooo I'm so excited!!)

AMC going "your third world money ain't no good here" years ago, and not allowing me to access the episodes legally, is the entire reason I now have a folder with Direct Downloads for... Basically everything I like and feel like sharing. (I take requests btw!) This is one of the fandoms I don't dare to write for (yet?) so it's my way of participating and basking on excitement with y'all ^^

[cineshemp]

where I end and you begin

[songbird-is-crying]

i think peak historical fiction is when there is a random ass major historical figure but as a comedic relief side character. like geoffrey chaucer being a naked gambling addict in a knight’s tale or leonardo da vinci being cinderella’s fairy godmother in ever after. like. nothing can top that.

[hmantegazzi]

Miguel de Cervantes and Lope de Vega being absolute menchildren:

[fractalspaces]

Please Queer Month I'm begging give me the energy to actually attempt getting out of this pit. I miss the five manic seconds two weeks ago when I thought maybe I could clutch this.

[questions-about-blorbos]

If your Blorbo were a real person with an anonymous Tumblr account, would their blog be famous?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 5 days 3 hours

Every poll on this blog is about fictional characters only. This request was sent to us and we made a poll in response to it. Send any Blorbo-related question you want to our inbox and we’ll make a poll on which people can vote with their own Blorbos in minds

[murderbot-moodboard]

Murderbot would definitely be famous against its will because its writing is frequently humorous and even more frequently relatable

[clouwindwing]

The Murderbot Dairies Colouring Pages!

Life is super stressful right now and I started colouring some silly fun colouring books. I wanted one for TMBD, so I decided to draw some!

2 pages per book, for all 8 books so that's 16 drawings! I'm proud of myself.

I am giving you here a variety of MBs, inspired by the countless designs in the community, as well as various levels of colouring details.

I hope you enjoy??

If you colour any, show me???

All drawn in CSP with the Pigma and Mycron brushes (with the occasional other brush for funsies). They should all be postcard ratios, and if you want the 100% rez files for printing or whatever, here they are: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2446ac4563s2psb20d7fj/TMBD_Colouring-2026_ByLunarBlade.rar?rlkey=nt7fh8w4brap7kcqob24gbhum&st=gmrvdjx0&dl=0

Be good to each other and enjoy! :D

[ivipl1]

nastiest trick in the book is getting you genuinely deeply attached to a character whose name sounds fucking stupid in any other context. this WILL happen to you at some point in your life.

[alessandriana]

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is upda

Stolen from the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

[mikkeneko]

Here's a link to the EFF page that contains this information:

How to Disable Ad ID Tracking on iOS and Android, and Why You Should Do It Now

The ad identifier - aka “IDFA” on iOS, or “AAID” on Android - is the key that enables most third-party tracking on mobile devices. Disabling

On Android 

With the release of Android 12, Google began allowing users to delete their ad ID permanently. On devices that have this feature enabled, you can open the Settings app and navigate to Privacy > Ads. Tap “Delete advertising ID,” then tap it again on the next page to confirm. This will prevent any app on your phone from accessing it in the future.

On iOS 

To see which apps you have previously granted access to, go to Settings > Privacy > Tracking. You can set the “Allow apps to Request to Track” switch to the “off” position (the slider is to the left and the background is gray). This will prevent apps from asking to track in the future. If you have granted apps permission to track you in the past, this will prompt you to ask those apps to stop tracking as well. You also have the option to grant or revoke tracking access on a per-app basis.

Apple has its own targeted advertising system, separate from the third-party tracking it enables with IDFA. To disable it, navigate to Settings > Privacy > Apple Advertising. Set the “Personalized Ads” switch to the “off” position to disable Apple’s ad targeting.

[brynstellaris]

not "mine" as in "my property" but "mine" as in "my responsibility"

[ohcaptains]

[enyter]

[theash0]

😅😭

[fractalspaces]

Last Line Tag Game

Rules: Post the last line you wrote, then take as many people are there are words.

I got tagged by @thepiperofhameln! ^^ Thank you for the chance to yap afksdlj -- From Event Horizon, and what's... Shit, son, Chapter 14 actually. I am editing i swear

My own stupid, neverending panic spiral hit, freezing and burning. Gurathin was, and wasn't there for it.

And for zero-pressure tagging forward, I'm picking @wilwarindi, @sicumerat, @noirrosaleen, @lovesongs4robots, @alleyesonthehindenburg, @speccygeekunit and @aylwyyn228 uwu Anyone who wants a go, actually! Just @ me so I get to see!

[balaclava-trismegistus]

Hm. Interesting. Apparently cortisol production depletes magnesium stores. And I have a lot of symptomatic overlap with magnesium deficiency. And it can apparently help migraine. And ADHD. I think I'm going to try supplementing magnesium glycinate. L-threonate sounds really interesting too as that's magnesium that can cross the blood-brain barrier and apparently is super useful for memory and shit.

[goflowolfog]

[balaclava-trismegistus]

this can't keep happening

[sugarcoatednightshade]

[bobdylanyaoi]

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

[drunkoffthesammich]

great example would be Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Teresa, come on

and this quote from St. Teresa herself regarding the experience, COME ON!!!!

“penetrated my entrails” “made me utter several moans”

spirituality can be very erotic and there is sooooo much proof in renaissance art that they’ve been adding a dash of freak to it all

[fractalspaces]

Reblogging this version for Bernini. THAT SCULPTURE IS IN A CHURCH BTW. But yeah, Saint Sebastian is entry level stuff -- Jesus is Sophia (wisdom) incarnate and that's Mother, the wound was yonic on purpose, everyone wanted to eat it out or fingerfuck it, and descriptions of ecstasy were entangling together pleasure and agony a thousand years before Sade learned what made him blush. Canon.

Can't believe my atheist ass has to rescue this from the tags but.

[viewtiful-kim-deactivated202105]

Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube

[animatedamerican]

… I am unironically here for this

[oldfilmsflicker]

this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life

[kabesattic]

This is - legitimately - my favourite delivery of Shakespeare I have EVER seen (and I have seen some good-ass productions yo, in the Globe Theatre itself even). Like seriously, even though the words are unchanged, he’s stripped away ALL of the archaic pretense and assumed grandeur of ~presenting the bard~ that makes even the most wildly talented of actors and innovative of productions inherently inaccessible to a modern audience. Like, they’re still great, they can still communicate the message and (some) of the nuance, but they’re still always a step removed from being identifiable to any viewer’s lived experience. They’re still always reciting 15th century poetry. But this guy? This guy is like, screw iambic pentameter, to hell with being precious about the material, HOW WOULD AN ACTUAL PERSON SAY THIS SHIT?

Like this. And it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful to hear a soliloquy I loved so much already, and have it come to life in a way it never, ever, did before. I feel like I grasp his motivations, his twists and turns, no longer on an academic level but on a visceral, instinctive one. Because he’s presenting his mental and emotional journey in a way that speaks honestly, like a real person.

So yeah, this shit post? I love it. Deeply and sincerely.

[spicedtealeaves]

A post about this went round recently, and I’m delighted to announce she’s since come out as trans and goes by Jasmine 🏳️‍⚧️

Jasmine Brimsmayd

Actor and Writer

There’s a whole series of the Hamlet videos on her YouTube, as well as a bunch of other films she’s made

[mckitterick]

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.

- Philip K. Dick, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (1968)

[vivalatinamerica-deactivated201]

Valparaíso, Chile | Kathe Tarque