Nameless Things Are Hard To Pin

I'm Jess! Feel free to come talk to me about literally anything at anytime. My icon is actually a piece of my cousin's art, check it out at @megan-ellen-m

[inheroes--wetrust]

obsessed with the fact that howl movingcastle is, like, the ideal portal fantasy protagonist. he's a welsh rugby-playing grad student who enters a magical world where he discovers he's a wildly powerful wizard. there's an evil witch out to get him and the king needs his help and there's a curse catching up with him. he has a magical creature sidekick and an orphan apprentice and a mentor who gets killed by the evil witch halfway through and a love interest under a terrible curse. the story is BEGGING for him to be the main character. and he's just like. no <3.

[sergeifyodorov]

I don't read as much fic as I used to but one "tell" for non Canadians writing us, besides the etransfer, is the units you use to describe us measuring something. I hate to tell you this but The Chart is real and it's completely subconscious. Please abide

[demotu-writes]

ETA the chart (or at least a version of it):

ETA2: we do use inches/miles in poetic ways ("he was lost in thought/miles away" or "his lips were a bare inch away").

Also, the length of a dick is in inches for SURE.

[catchymemes]

[forineffablereasons]

here are some examples of real apple trees by the way since AI has ruined search results. 2016-2023 ish dates on these, so before AI really took hold.

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some of them grow longer trucks, some shorter. depends on whether they're wild or pruned or the general variety. but they are generally kind of scraggly trees.

they do not develope the enormous trunks of oaks and maples. thanks for comin to my ted talk.

[hotcrossedfangs]

[apolladay]

Have you ever been bitten by an animal?

yes

no

Voting ended onMay 2

I don't mean like when baby animals and/or pets play fight/nip at you.

[azehearts]

Knives Out Trio

The Sister | The Nurse | The Priest

aka Helen Brand, Marta Cabrera, & Father Jud...aka Benoit Blanc's little Watsons lol!!!

[memeuplift]

[allyouneedisteaandlove]

y'all made me watch zuko let katara touch his scar but i wasn't supposed to ship them ?? shut up

[prguitarman]

Thank you Artemis II for the pretty moon photos

[prguitarman]

Official NASA??

[eknippp]

Some of my favorite quotes from Artemis ii so far:

"Copy. Moon joy."

"I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."

"Houston, if you could give me about 20 new superlatives in the mission summary for tomorrow that will help out my vocabulary a little bit, that would be great. Thank you."

“If you’ve ever seen the top of the spotlight of the top of the Luxor at night in Vegas, this looks like what it wants to be when it grows up.”

"To all of you down there on Earth... we love you, from the moon."

"We just went sci fi."

"It is so great to see Earth again. To Asia, Africa, and Oceania: we are looking back at you. We hear you can look up and see the moon right now. We see you too."

"We will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other."

“It’s a bright spot on the moon, and we would like to call it Carroll.”

[tevruden]

People always wonder why we need to risk sending humans out to do this when we can just send a robot. I think this is a good explanation.

[abogwitchnamedsage]

I don't know who might need to hear this, but I wanted to share something beautiful I had the opportunity to witness.

In the chaos and uncertainty around us, there is still so much love and hope.

A few weeks ago, a local international student nervously approached me and asked if I could photograph his wedding reception. We barely know each other — so much so that the only real thing he knew about me was that a) I was a graphic designer and b) he had seen me hold a camera. And the only thing I knew about him was that he came from overseas to study engineering in the U.S.

He explained that his friend (and expected photographer) couldn't make the trip. I sympathized and told him I had a similar situation with my wedding, but then he said something that made my stomach churn.

Almost all his family and friends overseas can't make it. So can't the bride's, as she's studying abroad as well. With the warmest smile, he says while he wishes his family could be there to celebrate, he's so lucky to have great friends who are helping them put on a small reception.

I told him I had it covered and I wouldn't accept payment. Photos like this will be invaluable over time, and I wanted to pay it forward as the volunteer photographer at my own wedding did.

The wedding was this weekend. I cried during it.

His fellow engineering students became wedding planners. A church opened its doors free of charge. Families of local students caught wind of the event and handled the food, learning cultural dishes from the bride and groom's home countries. A mom group banded together to make table centerpieces. A recently married couple donated their leftover decorations. There were almost one hundred guests. Most of us didn't know each other.

It was the most beautiful wedding I've ever seen. Not just because the bride and groom were so deeply in love with one another, but because strangers saw an opportunity to be kind. In a community where hate of anything 'foreign' seems to fester, a bunch of people saw two lovebirds separated from their families, stepped in, and said, "how can we celebrate love today?"

All I saw was love. Maybe we're not as doomed as we think we are.

[thatdisasterauthor]

Also, not gonna lie, it is so refreshing to have a major cultural moment that's just FREE. You don't have to pay a cent to watch this on NASA's YouTube. There's not a single ad, not a single sponsor plastered anywhere. It's just smart people doing cool things.

[hgedits]

The Artemis II crew naming two previously undiscovered lunar craters (one after Commander Reid Wiseman's late wife).

[spacewonder19]

Thinking of you, Earth © NASA Artemis Ⅱ

[tehnakki]

😭😭😭

Jeremy called down to request the naming of two unnamed craters, the first for the name of the artemis II capsule (integrity) and the second in honor of Astronaut Reid Wisemans wife who passed earlier during the Artemis II training.

The Carroll crater is on the limb of the moon, just on the Earth visible side, so while it won't always be visible, when it is it will be a bright spot on the edge of darkness.

Jeremy was getting choked up as he was speaking and the second he was done Reid launched himself at him for a hug.

And then drew everyone else in for a group hug in space <3

[infectiouspiss]

i would die for this thing

[infectiouspiss]

he's called Rise (like earth rise, the best fucking space picture ever) and he's the ZGI (zero gravity indicator) for this launch

which basically means they have a plushie free floating in the shuttle and when it starts floating around they know they're in zero gravity :3

[infectiouspiss]

WHEEEE!!!!!! YIPPEEEE!!!!!!! SPAAAAAAACE!!!!!!!!!