Gender am I right

Just reblogging :)

[tiffycat]

A compliment every now and then wouldn't kill ya

This dumb idea has been bouncing violently round my skull

[skullitz]

taht one glee plot point where they thought sam was quinn and kurt’s mistress was so funny to me, puck going “not cool sam, they both have boyfriends” because thats so cool of sam, my bisexual king

[lasagnaforem]

UGH reading the Martian for the first time and yes

I know Mark goes out of his way to ENSURE the others don't feel guilty about his "death" (this kind soul omg)

But I also really like the way, posing for his first photo, he makes sure it's something that can't be (or is hard to be) spun into a negative light. Like yeah he knows PR is going to try to kill NASA for such a stupid mistake, and that picture is going to be in every news story, negative or positive. And he can't control that. But this is something he can control.

How much harder is it to slander a space company when the first picture you get of the abandoned astronaut is him giving you a double thumbs up emoji, him going 👍"ayyyyy!" 👍 I mean.

Just look at him, look at the expression here. Positive and uplifting. Mark is going to make this a heartwarming story whether you want it to be or not.

[millionsknives]

i love love loved how the martian novel ended. mark doesn't do it alone. he's not a hero who flies out to hermes and rescues himself. after a year and a half of lonely survival he has to (he gets to) surrender and put his life in his friends' hands. they don't throw him a line and tell him to grab it, it's not distant and impersonal like an escape pod docking to a rescue ship. beck gets to go out there and bring him home. when mark sees beck coming down to him he has a startle response, like it's been so long since he's seen another person that his body recoils in fear. it's important that the rescue is so personal. beck holds on to mark with his own hands and tethers their bodies together and carries him back to the ship and mark's only orders are to relinquish himself to being saved

[eats-all-your-shoes]

in universe after mark gets home he obviously does interviews about being on mars, and like, this logs are public domain by this point, but unlike us it isn’t Nicely Formatted Book With Breaks For NASA POV it’s Long Ass Science Document With a Lot of Useless Rambling

and like yeah theres a LOT of youtubers and documentaries and he’ll even movies about it, but that takes TIME! so for a while your average guy doesn’t really know what mark was doing on mars apart from what NASA was saying for i’m imagining a lot of interviews going like this:

Mark: I mean i made 600L of water so that was one thing i didn’t have to worry about too badly

Interviewer: wow that’s incredible- what do you mean by “make water”? how did you do that?

Mark: oh NASA hated this one: i burned hydrazine in the Hab and mixed it with oxygen!

Interviewer: … i’m sorry? How did you not blow yourself up??

Mark: easy, i did blow myself up.

[millionsknives]

the martian novel believes so strongly in hope that i never once considered that mark wouldn’t be rescued. from day 1 page 1 it was a given and i don't know why. i can't put my finger on it. i don't think it can entirely be chalked up to the humorous tone of the book bc there are tragicomedies out there that silly their way into an inevitably doomed ending. i think there's something about the book itself existing that presupposes mark's survival. even if the blurb on the back of the book is like 'will he survive?' that's not what the book is about. it's about how he'll survive. because even when he doesn't think he'll last or earth's rescue attempts blow up, we the readers just know he's going to make it. i think somehow the presupposed outcome is in the nature of a problem-solving book. i don't know how to explain this but i think andy weir's dedication to scientific accuracy is what promises mark's survival. unrealistic hope built on technical realism. you can tell he wrote the book from a framework of 'mark is going to survive. how do i realistically get him there' instead of 'would a person feasibly be able to survive on mars'. if it were less believable it would be less hopeful. can anybody hear me

[teenagecriminalmastermind]

project hail mary and the martian are perfect foils of each other.

the martian is the story of one man stranded on mars with barely enough food and supplies to last him a calendar month, let alone the 14 that it inevitably takes to bring him home.

mark watney's rescue means millions of dollars in unplanned expenditures, cooperation between multiple nations that frankly have no stake in the life of one american astronaut, and risking the lives of 5 of his crew members. it is a story that makes you tackle the fundamental question of: "how much is one human life worth?"

the answer, the book (and its equally well-executed movie adaptation) offers, is everything.

they could have simply called it a day and told him that it was untenable, that they cannot possibly be asked to risk the lives of the rest of the ares iii crew. but they did not. they did not, because they deemed that no cost was too high if it meant that there was even a snowball's chance in hell that they could bring that one man home.

project hail mary, on the other hand, is a complete 180.

here, the fate of an entire planet's survival rests upon the shoulders of one rather unremarkable man. ryland grace is a middle school science teacher, whose only claim to fame is a controversial research paper. it is a story that forces you to confront the question: "how much do you personally owe humanity when its fate hangs in the balance?"

once again, the answer is everything.

ryland is not the brightest person on the planet, nor is he the bravest. he doesn't choose to be involved in saving earth, and he certainly doesn't choose to be sent on a suicide mission away from it. in project hail mary, one man has no choice but to shoulder this burden for the sake of humanity. and, it turns out, he's not the only one carrying this responsibility.

somehow, both books provide the same answer and message, only in somewhat different ways. they both serve to convey that life, no matter the scale, is worth preserving.

that when it comes to one man stranded 140 million miles away, no cost is too high, no risk too big, because his life matters. he matters. and he matters not just because he volunteered to go up there, or because it wasn't his fault, or because they know he's out there. he matters because he exists, and that is more than enough to do everything possible to bring him back.

or that no personal cost is too high to pay if you are the one person that can actually save humanity. the people may be faceless, nameless crowds to you, but their lives are worth saving simply because they exist. they exist, and that is plenty reason to doom yourself to certain death if it means that there is even a single chance in hell that you will save them. you don't have to be talented, or remarkable, or necessary to matter.

you exist, and that is enough for you to matter.

[craigularory-joe]

is this anything to you guys

[blowjob-horseguy]

The acting class episode of community is so second hand embarrassment core because the whole time Troy is saying "nothing bad has every happened to me" You're yelling at the screen "Troy! You broke your own leg to get out of playing football! Your grandmother hit you with a switch, Troy! Troy, you've never celebrated your own birthday! When your slightly off-putting autistic friend told you he had a life before he met you, you went 'you were out there somewhere and you weren't looking for me?' Clearly you weren't doing great!"

[whyiamapotato]

This is one of those instances I wanted to meet those who directed the episode and wanted to yell at them "HE WOULD NOT FUCKING DO THAT" or like… bribe them into making a better episode because what the fuck were they thinking. It would have been a PERFECT opportunity to explore Troy but NOOOOO-

[gelarshiesprofruitboarder]

another dumb detail i noticed

[assiraphales]

I deadass think steve rogers ending was character assassination and conservative rhetoric (send the progressive man back to the decade epitomes with traditional values for a white picket fence life) but it was also just cruel to steve and bucky. “oh ur just mad ur ship didn’t go canon” no im mad the friendship that was the most important thing in both of their lives was tossed aside and the audience was gaslit into believing it didn’t matter despite three films proving otherwise. steve dropped the shield twice for bucky and would have died rather than live in a world where bucky didn’t remember him. bucky broke thru 70 years of brainwashing at the sound of steve’s voice. their catchphrase was essentially “til death do we part”. the fuck

[sillybillytime]

Bucky is a huge massive fucking nerd and Steve is the punk rock radical, not the other way around.

Steve’s identity revolves entirely around fighting. Fighting for the oppressed, fighting against oppressors, fighting just because. He actively wants to die fighting, that’s why he does what he does. He’s polite, sure, but never confuse that for being nice or civil. There’s a big difference. Steve was probably applying for the draft BEFORE Pearl Harbor, he’s very politically engaged, even before he became Captain America. He might wear old clothes, but rest assured he would be an actual punk if he was born today.

Bucky, on the other hand, somehow got a hold of a copy of The Hobbit when it first came out in ENGLAND. That’s an insane feat. You couldn’t even really special order it that fast. He would have had to be aware of JRR Tolkien (likely finding him through CS Lewis and short stories in nerdy fandom spaces) to have heard about it in the first place, then got a copy sent to him by mail from someone he knew in England. That’s levels of dorkery that we don’t even have the technology for anymore. Closest thing would be traveling to a different country to collect a specific unknown book. Then, he chose to go to the World’s Fair on his last night in Brooklyn. Sure, post Winter Soldier, he likes to wear black, but he listens to like. Swing music from the 40s. He’s not cool. He just doesn’t talk enough for everyone (but Steve and Sam) to discover what a huge dork he is. If he was born today, he’d be into comics and d&d

[death-the-faggot]

im so sick bc i do think that susie isnt supposed to be in the prophecy and its because of her long monologue about how she finally feels special and that she belongs and

[thesnoringknight]

Sealing away the Dark is the wrong answer.

The Dark Worlds represent everything the Lightners keep buried away in the backs of their minds. They're the places where characters go, end up confronting the things that haunt them, and moving forward and growing from it.

'Closing all the fountains' is not the Maturity Button. It is not a metaphor for growing up. It is the repress everything and become exactly like your parents who don't know how to deal with the fact that they're divorced / their daughter is gone / their son probably doesn't want to come back from college / their wife is genuinely kinda horrible toward their daughter button.

Making that choice will only lead to the darkness under everything growing and becoming even worse, until there is no option but for it to consume everything.

[trina-makes-an-entrance]

Noelle is probably Berdly's most important person in his life but some of y'all act as if he doesn't care about her and he only sees her as a way of being less lonely and getting good grades

[cozywisteria]

[whygaia]

nothing will ever match Barbenheimer but the release of the Project Hail Mary movie and the Artemis II mission happening pretty much at the same time is just as important to me personally