A Collection of Ramblings

Stumbling through life.

[purplespacecats]

i love how living part-time on ART has caused murderbot to go from "i don't care that anagram's not the right word; there are too many words" to casually dropping words like "verisimilitude" and "internecine" in its narration

[hedge-rambles]

Something I loved in Platform Decay was the whole thing of "sigils" being, very clearly like, emojis. I can't recall if they're mentioned much before this book, but the way Sofi uses them makes it clear what they really are.

Which makes this reread funny when, a few pages in, I'm hit with this line:

I send Three the schematics highlighted where the potential security personnel were located; it replied with an acknowledgement sigil and an updated map projection.

MB: Vital mission information, potential dangers and schematics.

Three: 👍

[yearofdoodles]

Pov you're Three and multiple fuck off massive ships saw you from across the bar and liked your vibe ✨

Very vaguely inspired by this from Platform Decay (mild spoiler):

[yardsards]

fellas, if your girl:

is an absolute shitbird

doesn't like potato chips

hates movies

teaches poor kids how to pluck their eyebrows as part of her court mandated community service

is a taurus, but not one of *those* kinds of tauruses

once caught a wild fox and fed it poison

...then that's not your girl, that's

✨shlabethany✨

[machine-unlearning]

god I'm such a slut for Chinese eggplant in garlic sauce *decides it’s inaccurate to refer to myself as a slut in light of my minimal sexual activity* if The Enemy discovered my ardor for Chinese eggplant in garlic sauce, they would gain a significant strategic advantage

[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!!!!!

[reasonsforhope]

If you do not schedule time for maintenance, your equipment will schedule it for you

[parkchanwoohoo]

[teashoesandhair]

I'm in a little local cafe and the women behind the counter started griping to each other, "Oh Christ, Stephen's back again," "It's him, is it? I thought he'd stopped coming," "It's definitely him, look, it's bloody Stephen on a Thursday morning," "Do you want me to get rid of him or are you going to do it?" and so I was peering outside, trying to spot this nightmare customer, this pestilence of a person, this pox upon the cafe trade, and then one of the women from behind the counter ran outside, clapping two trays together loudly and yelling "GET OUT OF IT, STEPHEN!" and it turns out that Stephen is an absolutely gigantic fuck-off seagull who hangs around outside, menacing people for crumbs

[transmutationisms]

the letterboxd review, a hybrid literary genre equally born of the recipe blog personal essay and the desire to receive reddit gold,

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[luvsbitca]

I want these two to have a cameo in the woman focussed season of Ted Lasso. Don’t care if Keira Knightley does but her just showing up to inspire girls and talk about having to leave because soccer for women was in America and then him just silently being there all proud of her.

[oneheadtoanother]

[tachyon-log]

(USAmerican trying to imagine a societal environment) Okay, so picture a highway,

[fishmech]

inability to correctly perceive 3d objects is in fact far more dangerous when someone is driving a car next to you then when they're like, sending emails to you.

[bunniope]

can we focus on the gnome for a second

[bunniope]

wait sorry i was not wearing my glasses. that is a cat

[ladyofspoons]

these are the people i have to share a highway with

[xanaxfarts]

Bend It Like Beckham (2002) dir. Gurinder Chadha

[starfleetofficial]

Something I enjoy about Martha Wells writing and the Murderbot books is how often she plays with the way very close 1st Person narration can hide the physical reality of the character. Murderbot just spent three pages telling me about its very level headed ideas and then it cuts to and anyway the whole time I've been thinking about that I've been silently curled up on the floor like a dog while everyone politely waited for me to be done.

[asawanitrinitysantos]

If i had a nickel for everytime a bi man scare off their gay boyfriend Id have 2 nickels which isnt a lot but its weird that it happened twice

[alliekitaguchi]

insane chemistry aside, i think mel and langdon would make an incredible couple because it would be nice to see the awkward autistic girl paired up with the man literally nicknamed "ER ken."

like... to most of the others, she's odd and quirky and a lot of people don't understand her or get her humor... except for the 6 foot something dark-haired, blue eyed senior doctor who looks at her like the sun shines out of her ass and goes out of his way to check in on her 4 times in 12 hours and compliments her easily.

maybe years of seeing the awkward, weird girl be the sidekick to supermodel protagonists has irrevocably rewired my brain, but it would be nice to see the weird girl be with the hot guy for once!

[indacottage]

shifting gears from autistic gay hockey rep to autistic er doctor rep as we speak!

[creditscoreof120]

Langdon and Santos having the same taste in people (Garcia, Mel) has to be the greatest thing ever. I KNOW they hate that shit