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A beautiful animation by my friend, shared with their permission (they don't use Tumblr, I know, it's a shame).

Watch with sound on, please.

#animation #art #no description #sound on #pls

zanukavat

Alex Hirsch is a treasure

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my nothing

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f2u house of leaves graphics

banchie

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

unyieldingsilence

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wheelie-sick

it's pride month so a special shout out to the autistic and schizospec trans people of the world who repeatedly have our trans identity denied and devalued because of our neurotypes

justarandomart

happy pride month!! some aro ace Phantumps to celebrate!

itsuwari-no-kibo-offical

Silly Game Time: What are 3 places you'd like to visit? The more specific, the better!

(For Example: I want to visit South Korea, yeah, but more specifically, I wanna visit the giant statue of Yi Soon-Sin in South Korea.)

The fox temples in Japan. All of them.

farmwitch

this app is like a pacifier to me

Silly Game Time: What are 3 places you'd like to visit? The more specific, the better!

(For Example: I want to visit South Korea, yeah, but more specifically, I wanna visit the giant statue of Yi Soon-Sin in South Korea.)

Mars, Antarctica, and Japan, I guess. Not rly much more specifics there tbh.

jabberwockypie

There's a lot of pseudoscience around health and nutrition, and a lot of people doing an appeal to an imagined past that was Better and Healthier and More Pure.

That said, it's fucking WILD to see someone do the "Um actually, the original version of this thing from back in the day was better and healthier and had more nutrients" thing when it's a) from 1992 and b) no it wasn't. I was there.

chekhovs-raygun

anything from the venerable era of 1992 was a color not even frogs could achieve and came in a squeeze tube

edgebug

so grace is probably alarming to most eridians at first because he's a lanky wet alien with too few limbs, yes--but what if he ends up being terrifying in a sort of divine way instead of a repulsive one?

like. a creature that perceives the intangible? a creature that walks with thin permeable membranes bared to the air, whose blood contains elixir that can destroy pathogens without heat? a creature that is impossibly fragile yet resilient? a creature that breathes potently flammable gas to survive? a creature that is loud all over and speaks in a strange and frightening monotone, who thought it would die for you? who gave up its home in the heavens for you without meeting you first, whose first words to your people were probably something along the lines of We saved your star. It's gonna be okay. Don't be afraid.

chekhovs-raygun

grace is such an interesting bundle of contradictions! he breathes an incredibly flammable gas because he lives at such a cold temperature the gas can't ignite except he burns it very slowly inside the delicate gauzy cage of his body. his meat is basically a delicate water-and-protein foam because he lives in a very tiny fraction of normal atmospheric pressure. his planet has almost no air, no atmosphere. they're so gauzy, so frail, living underneath a whisker-fine sky, that to get to space in a couple seconds by exploding towards it. they can't build a space elevator because all their materials are just various attempts to do anything whatsoever with shitty frozen metals and various hydrocarbon meshes. their spaceship is a tiny refrigerator, the most expensive thing they ever built, and controled by a impossibly complex calculation engine they knitted out of silicates. it contains all human knowledge, if it doesn't catch on fire.

they knew that space was there because they can perceive it directly. it's literally right overhead all the time for their entire evolution. they know the faces of thousands, millions of stars, as soon as they tip their faces up. eridani is a name from two thousand years ago. all their stars have been named and known and watched and sung about for longer than any individual human civilization. they have always known the eridian star was there.

they live to be seventy.

#project hail mary #ideas #worldbuilding

computood

look at my war machine dawg we're all gonna die 😭

thirdity

“Fantasy is true, of course. It isn’t factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it, too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night

#quotes #books #recommendations

creatingblackcharacters

I'm reading the book High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Unserstand, and Respond to Social Injustice, and they had thia footnote on the FIRST page of chapter one:

Through this book and the lessons included, we have intentionally capitalized terms used for people of Color, such as Black, while leaving white lowercase. We follow Frances Harper (2019), one of the contributing authors to this book, in her rationale: "I chose to capitalize Color but not white to challenge the ways that these standaed grammar conventions reinforce systems of privledge and oppression".

It was just really nice to see, and it flagged the book for me as one that will be intentional about its social justice efforts, as opposed to just trying to talk the talk.