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#UTDR #deltarune #Ralsei

is-spirk-canon-yet

yeah

#i like when they give Kirk cramps

butchbillshatner

For the ask game, 14?

14) If you could give a TED talk on anything, what would you talk about?

I would talk about the costume and sound design for Dirty Dancing (1987) because the choice to use 80s music and have some of the characters dress like they’re from the 80s even though its set in the 60s is DELIBERATE and VERY CLEVER

#inch resting #I don't know jack about this movie so if you want to info dump be my guest!

sesamie

simple asks to help bolster ask culture again

What's your blog title from?

What movie have you watched most recently? What did you think of it?

what are you looking forward to right now?

if you could do anything at all today, what would it be?

What's your drink of choice? (Coffee/tea order, alcohol of choice, pop, etc)

What's your hair routine like? Anything special?

what's your favorite way to travel? Is there a mode of travel you haven't done that you want to experience?

favorite month of the year and why?

favorite time of day and why?

do you play or follow any sports? & elaborate on that?

what kind of music is stuck in your head a lot lately?

dishes or laundry?

what's something you learned recently?

if you could give a TED talk on anything, what would you talk about?

What's a piece of advice you find yourself giving a lot?

what's a piece of advice you would give to yourself five years ago?

do you believe in luck and superstition? Do you carry any lucky items or follow any lucky rules?

Are you musical? Play any instruments or sing? Would you ever perform for an audience?

Write, type, or speak?

what do you wish someone would ask you?

#go ahead my adoring followers!

bumbleshark

this was such a good episode

doomed-jester

"I don't like old sci-fi shows, the special effects look too cheesy" you are incapable of joy. Go to the dungeon.

hitmyvape

Actually embarrassing I have to send this text to the work gc

tngbabe

These are like 60s pictures of early sta trek fan club meets?

quite-logical

George, George. I love you. But what the FUCK is that hat?

executive-warp-core-dysfunction

I bet the universal translator has to translate *and* convert times when people speak.

Like if I say "1 hour" it's gotta be changing it to like "0.87 bajoran theda" or whatever.

In which case, characters like Data and Spock, who are always so precise with their time estimates, make way more sense

redstonedust

netizen is a really cute word for Person On The Internet im surprised i dont see it used in more english language stuff. lets all be netizens of tumblr together.

catball

all my haters become cicaders when i enter the summer of success

obscuretobyfox

Decided to corrupt Deltarune Chapter 5 and immediately got the scariest fucking thing ever

tris-morreu

nolan's the odyssey has such a fundamentally culturally christian understanding of religion and divinity that it is genuinely jarring to see characters in a supposedly ancient greek historical context describe divinity and its expression in those terms. characters wonder aloud why gods hide themselves (they didn't), question the existence of what nolan interprets the supernatural to be (they wouldn't) and talk of zeus's law (not real, and still somehow bastardized) in the same way we would talk about the ten commandments. it's so out of place. and it taps into that "defy the gods" thing.

like. we can defy the christian god, in a way, because we can choose to not do what he says we ought to. sure. but we cannot defy greek gods in the same way, because the god is not just an entity that commands you but the very thing you are doing. apollo does not just send plagues, he is plague. you know apollo is real because there is plague. plague is not apollo acting in the world, it is an instance of apollo, in the same way that insight is athena, love is aphrodite, harvest is demeter, storms are zeus. gods are not commanding nature and sending signs and acting upon the world, because signs and nature and human nature are themselves the gods. the gods cannot be absent, because we still get ideas, and harvest, and go to war, and feel desire, and hunt. the gods cannot be defied because you cannot defy "getting ideas" or "harvesting" or "having sex" or "dying." to attempt to is entirely futile. like you cannot defy poseidon because you cannot defy the sea. you cannot defy aphrodite because you cannot defy love and reproduction. nature and human nature are unbeatable, and so the gods are unbeatable, because they are nature and human nature.

and it's such a beautiful way of looking at the world, and he just doesn't get that.