Ambivalent Ace

she/her | 20 | Pure Chaos 🖤🤍💜

[raviolireptile]

I redrew this meme cause i love it

[chalroe]

grace doodles!

[coloredlion]

Day ONE of filling this with aro and/or ace characters

Starting off strong with Ryland Grace from Project Hail Mary!! While he is not canonically aroace, I felt as though he’s really spearheaded the aroace community these past few months and helped many people feel seen and accepted :)

[steamclouds]

happy pride ✨

[lewadny]

happy june to everyone, especially my fellow aroaces

[snoobinn]

listen i know ryland watts

[duketod]

[sharrrrknight]

Happy pride :)

[ratsoupee]

field trip cancelled

Based off hit tumblr post:

[i-am-katerine]

Ryland Grace wasn't even hiding, that's what breaks my heart. He wasn't curled up in some bunker ignoring the issue and waiting for it to blow over. He was roped into the PHM and he stepped up - he upended his life basically overnight and moved to the facilities to help. He became essentially the second in command after Stratt, THE expert on Astrophage, training the candidates for the mission. He was going down with the sinking ship of Earth descending into hell

His fatal flaw is that he panicked. Like a human being would, especially one not trained to deal with extreme pressure in extreme conditions, like astronauts in space (which is why he thought he wasn't a good fit for the mission). "well, we're all gonna die (one day in some distant future)" is veery different from "OMFG you're dying Right Now, the clock is very much ticking" The walls closed in and he panicked about it.

Just consider: you have mere hours to say goodbye to your life and to Earth. In a few days you'd be sent into space (for the first time in your life), put in a coma, so you'd wake up years later, spend months working out a solution (which may or may not even work) and then you'd just... die. Your past, present, and future. Process all that in HOURS. Like you know that moment in the movie where he scrolls and scrolls and scrolls from Tau Ceti to Earth and just gets sad? Yeah, could you schedule your existential crisis over the shear scale of the universe into the allocated time? Please and thank you

To add insult to injury, they give him time to make his decision only to reveal that the decision is already made. If the backup plan already involves lying to the public that I went willingly, then just do that. Don't give me hope that there is an option of not going

This might be an unpopular opinion but I think if the launch wasn't so soon and they had more time, they could've fully persuaded Grace to go. Give him some mental health time to panic, maybe do some specific crash courses on astronaut things and he would go along with it (I'm not saying he would've been thrilled but if he knew from the get-go that it was non-negotiable, he would've adjusted). Just look what he did on Hail Mary in the movie - he moped around drinking vodka for a while and then he got his ass up to work

[one-real-wrimonkey]

No absolutely this, I was gonna make my own post about this but yes they definitely could have convinced him if they’d had more time and it hadn’t been sprung on him.

This is the same man who left the project and went back to his school for A DAY before realising he couldn’t do nothing when he had the ability to give his kids a future. As you say, he tends to need processing time, and then he commits all in.

If they’d made it clear from earlier on that he was the ‘backup backup’ or just generally given him more than a few hours to process it and make a choice, I fully believe there was every chance they could have convinced him.

But the human survival instinct is a powerful powerful thing and to panic is so human and that’s exactly what Grace does.

[onlyplatonicirl]

Oh man I haven’t had a new interest in a while. It’s always been the same three things on repeat. I wonder when I’ll st-

Ok.

[cassassinated]

I miss the days when, no matter how slow your internet was, if you paused any video and let it buffer long enough, you could watch it uninterrupted

[mythicalwashrag]

[useful-info-haver]

If you use Firefox, you can go to the about:config page, search for "media.mediasource.enabled" and double click on it to set it to false. After you restart Firefox, all youtube videos will load entirely even when paused! This also affects other streaming websites :)

[nyxgoddessofcandles]

There's more to do actually, now

go to About:config find media.mediasource.enabled and toggle it to false find media.cache_readahead_limit and change it to 9999 find media.cache_resume_threshold and change it to 9999

additionally if you'd prefer mp4 to webm

also in about:config, find: media.encoder.webm.enabled media.mediasource.webm.audio.enabled media.mediasource.webm.enabled media.webm.enabled and toggle them all to false

note! this will limit video to 1080p

and use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-accept-webp/ to kill WebP Fuck Google

[vortex-vt]

We jailbreaking browsers now lmao

[byjove]

Me: *Removes my cat from my lap to do something else.*

My cat: Father is...evil? Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this household.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

The spiritual successor to Miette

[manicgoblinnightmarewoman]

Might I also add

[shydestinybread]

May i add the piece from artist Verbal Vomit

[unyanizedcatboys]

Glad to see we’re all in agreement that cats talk like disparaged victorian children

[explorerrowan]

I am so incredibly glad we finally moved on from "i can has". Cats are clearly smart enough for advanced sentence structure and dumb enough to draw entirely incorrect conclusions about what they're talking about.

[dualclock]

My cat, banging the cabnet door over and over and over: bang bang bang

Me: you will not earn what you desire by banging the cabinet door.

My cat: This is a test of wills, is it not? We shall see if your ability to put up with my incessant banging outlasts my eternal lust for snackie treats. Years of conditioning have hardened me for this purpose. bang bang bang

Me: ksst!

My cat, throwing herself to the ground like she's been shot: Oh! Oh I have been assailed in my own home! Have mercy, have pity! Surely in the cruel darkness of your heart there is some mote of goodness that might stay your hand! Do not strike me, I pray you!

Me: ok

My cat, after waiting about 3 minutes: bang bang bang

[notcaycepollard]

[callmebliss]

Can haz snackytreat

[ladyshinga]

(source)

[dogsrulepeopledrool]

Source

[cryoverkiltmilk]

#the ancient texts

... My reblog was only six years ago!

[pansyfemme]

“never kill yourself” is such a funny phrase to me that i think it’s accidently started working. its like an affrimation. say ‘never kill yourself’ enough times as a joke and maybe you won’t try to kill yourself over minor inconviences anymore

[venatoris]

i made this image for the express purpose of this

[thankeschoen]

girl realising they’re a lesbian call that 💡yurika  

[pronounyaoi]

dude stop before i develop a strange and powerful fondness for you

[insomniac-arrest]

people talk all the time about “primal instincts” and it’s usually about violence or sexual temptations or something, but your humanity comes with a lot of different stuff that we do without really thinking about, that we do without being told to or prompted to

your average human comes pre-installed with instincts to:

Befriend

Tell story

Make Thing

Investigate

Share knowledge

Laugh

Sing

Dance

Empathize with

Create

we are chalk full of survival instincts that revolve around connecting to others (dog-shaped others, robot-shaped, sometimes even plant-shaped) and making things with our hands

your primal instincts are not bathed in blood- they are layered in people telling stories to each other around a fire over and over and putting devices together through trial and error over and over and reaching for someone and something every moment of the way

[full-moon-phoenix]

~“Your primal instincts are not bathed in blood.”

My god this is beautiful. Such a refreshing change of pace to the constant glorification of instinctual human violence.

[thechekhov]

Primal Human Instinct pack also includes bonus instincts such as:

imitating weird noises made by other animals

playing with water

the urge to eat anything brightly colored and jelly-like

touching things that look like they will move in a funny way

seeing faces in literally everything, including toast

jumping up to see if you can bap the top of that doorway

saying ‘ow’ when something unexpected happens, even if it doesn’t hurt