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I wish this cosmos to be full of life, and not full of death. Bsky | AO3

[goldom]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Hi I love StelleFly too much and this is my goddang magnum opus.

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Parts 1-8 summary post

Part 9: Fragments of Recollection – Finale

Part 10: Letters from Beyond the Sky – Chapter 3

[goldom]

Realizing most people would never use the word "alas" in a lollipop review, but that's just what makes me so cool.

[evilnicegirl]

this would have got 100k notes as a tumblr post in 2018

[desmolbean404]

QUIZ TIME!! Take this quiz, then come back and answer the poll!

100 REAL or FAKE Pokemon

100 Different 'Pokemon' will be shown to you. Choose if you think they are FAKE or REAL. Goal is to get a high score so you can brag to ever

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100%! (You're one smart cookie!)

Remaining time: 3 days 10 hours

[wandersoffdoodling]

Someone in our discord server (populated exclusively with people who are autistic about pokemon) shared this post and so far ten people have responded. the average collective score is 100%. The average score has genuinely gone up by two percent while we've been doing this. We are skewing the results.

[loving-steps]

I WAS GOING TO SEND AN ASK ABOUT THIS. YOU BEAT ME TO THE PUNCH

[catasters]

[etraytin]

Today’s Best Reddit Exchange

[rexalogy]

i reference this all the time i forget it’s not a meme online but a children’s drawing i saw on the sidewalk once

[rosefinchie]

how it all feels lately

[succubusboyfriend]

practicing self care less out of self love and more for the sheer logical reasoning of it’d be kinda stupid of me to expect myself to be able to function without proper maintenance

[succubusboyfriend]

“oh i don’t deserve rest and relaxation, i haven’t done enough, i haven’t earned it” and my car’s breaks don’t deserve break fluid because they aren’t breaking well enough to earn it. that’s what you sound like!!!!!

[rlyehtaxidermist]

i think a lot of people miss that supporting jewish diaspora communities is in of itself a refutation of likud's nationalist zionism. like that's a whole cornerstone of their legitimacy - that no one outside israel could ever be accepting of jewish religion and culture.

antisemitism does not support the palestinian cause. it only serves to detract from legitimate criticisms of israel and to give the israeli government more tar to smear their legitimate critics with

[darlingshalo]

✦ ❝ Cyrene? Mem? Elysia? ❞ ✦

head empty, no thoughts.

[unalivejournal]

Ok. What you're gonna want to do is chop up a cucumber and put it in a bowl. Then you're gonna sprinkle a generous portion of salt on top. Then you're gonna drizzle them with a balsamic vinaigrette and gently shake to combine, leaving you with a cool and refreshing summer snack. In 15 seconds dangerous and burly men are going to drag me away to an unknown second location. Remember everything I've taught you. I love you

[goldom]

@ton-retour is that you

[gray-lofi]

Taking the robot HRT

[goldom]

part 26 of assigning numbers to media

61. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners ⭐⭐ 62. Wuwa 3.4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 63. Robots (the 2005 movie, not the concept of robots in general, which would get a 5/5) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

61. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners ⭐⭐

This is a show that in many ways just isn't for me. Most obviously, I haven't played the game, and unfortunately it really doesn't stand on its own without that. It makes enough sense, but it's inextricably tied to an investment in the world that I didn't have.

Also, women sure spend a lot of time naked and/or dying to drive the main character's motivation.

It certainly has a distinct visual click to it. No surprise that a show from Trigger looks this good – and way more unique than 2077 itself. But that's really the only thing that I could latch onto.

For everything I've said in the past about caring more about characters than plot, it turns out when a show is just about a group of characters and no plot progression actually happens (because it's a prequel to the game), that's not so great either. Like, the big scary villain is only introduced in the last couple episodes, then he kills two of the protagonists (so you know he's serious business) and then the show ends. Can't actually defeat him because then he wouldn't be there in the game. So it's just like... okay.

I also do have to complain about Rebecca's end. I think what they were trying to go for was "shit just happens in Night City, and most people die messily, not going out in a blaze of glory." They almost could have had that if they'd stuck with her just getting crushed like it was nothing. But instead they reran it three times as if to nudge the viewer, "eh? eh? That was pretty sick, right?" Felt like it undermined the point.

Lastly, while this is not the show's fault but the franchise's as a whole, I can't get over the basic premise that getting implants makes you "less human" and therefore too many of them will turn you into a monster. I'm sure the lore books justify it in-world, but I don't care about that, I'm talking about the fact that a real person sat down and thought "yes, this is a good idea for a story, what if prosthetics turned people evil." It's a core of "natural human" exceptionalism that, more than anything, reminds me of the attitude Star Rail has. Unfortunately,

62. Wuwa 3.4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

it instead decided to collab with a series that doesn't fit its vibe at all. This entire season of Wuwa has been about the power of humans dreaming of a better world, and how science and collaboration can get us there.

Shockingly, Mornye's legs never made her go insane. How about that.

The collab was strange. The only thing I have to compare it to is last year's HSR/Fate collab, which while undeniably janky and low-budget, did a good job of having the import characters bring out something in the main cast. Here, the Wuwa crew were almost completely irrelevant – it was solely an Edgerunners epilogue that happened to take place in Wuwa. Even setting aside their shared moral stance, I really think Edgerunners would have fit HSR better. Seeing Rebecca and Silver Wolf together would have been great fun, as opposed to having Rebecca befriend some random NPC girl. They would have had something to say about the IPC, about Boothill maybe. They could have given them his silly way of swearing, rather than Wuwa's answer of being forced to bleep out all the curses.

As an epilogue though, it was solid enough that I'd give it a 3/5. I did like it more than the show's original ending. But I also felt that, especially for such a bombastic series, the quest was strangely lethargic. Despite its action, it somehow managed to feel slower than the second half of the patch, which was a story about an independent audit and boardroom politics.

And whew, what a sendoff to Lahai-Roi that was.

So, I have a confession to make. You know Star Trek: Enterprise's endlessly clowned-on opening theme? It actually gets to me. Yes, I thought it was stupid as everyone else when it came out to have a vocal song, but the imagery showing humanity's progression in exploration, from early sea vessels, to the first space shuttles, into the future, that hits for me. And that's the first thing I thought of after finishing 3.4. "We choose the sky" indeed.

It's not about optimism vs pessimism. Lord knows I'm not an optimist. It's about hope, about going on because you believe that the future can be made better than the present. That's the attitude Star Trek has always had, even through its least-utopian eras, and it's what Lahai-Roi believes too. I'm going to miss it. Even if future patches manage to keep up the quality they've had lately, nothing else is going to hit the same as finally, finally having One Of These Games give me that shining sci-fi feeling I was looking for.

63. Robots ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I cannot believe this movie came out in 2005. That is the highest praise I can give it. I was simply utterly gobsmacked how good the animation looked for being over 20 years old.

Shrek was just four years earlier in 2001, and looking back at it now, the visuals are so dated. But if you told me Robots released this year, I could believe you (except for the very of-its-time soundtrack, and one scene showing fluid dynamics far below the quality a home PC can render today).

In part, I think that's because of the subject choice. 3D animations with humans notoriously age poorly due to trying to be realistic, whereas here we have complete fantasy creatures. More than that, they're made up of very simple shapes, which surely let the creators focus more rendering power on textures, shading and special effects.

I've always loved computer animation, but I haven't seen anything in recent years (ahem, decades), both because I just don't watch many movies, and because almost no one is left in the game besides Disney, who have One Very Specific Look for everything now – and that look has permeated even non-Disney properties. So yeah, the visuals here were the main thing keeping me engaged and wowed the whole time.

The story was pretty good too, though! I think the authors were primarily going for a "be yourself" message, but accidentally made a shockingly prescient promotion for the Right-to-Repair movement, which as far as I remember was not a well known topic back in 2005. This was two years before the first iPhone, and long before the always-online appification of everything that causes so much hardware to become ewaste today. Of course planned obsolescence has always been a thing in tech, but this twenty-year-old story could have easily been written today, inspired by soldered-on RAM and John Deere tractors.

My one complaint is how it kinda has a message of "if we get the right billionaire in power, everything will be okay!" But I guess I can't expect a Fox-produced kids' movie to go full communist revolution.

[joyflameball]

"I just find it hard to get invested in female characters" ok well try? You have internalized misogyny, as do we all. That doesn't mean you should just... do nothing about it. Try to fight the internalized misogyny in your head. Make an effort to analyze her even if it doesn't come naturally. Seek out fanfics focused on her. Find someone who's got girlblorbo brainworms and let them infect you. If she's genuinely underwritten, if the writers didn't care, you start caring about her- take the scraps you have and go wild with them.

I'll let you in on something awesome: The more girlblorbos you become obsessed with, the more the barrier between you and being invested in female characters breaks down. That's why conservatives hate representation in the first place. And obviously fandom isn't activism, but I think you should examine how you interact with art, and fight the biases you bring to it. I think it's good for you to do that.

No one's saying you are mandated to get invested in female characters, but it's a little weird when you don't even try.

[ozempicofficial]

[goldom]

[goldom]

you're lucky the collab part was there to pull down wuwa 3.4's average quality because if it were just the Lucilla part, we'd be looking at another 5/5

(me talking to a hypothetical person who hates when I give out too many 5/5s I guess i don't know)