I primarily use tags for my own organization, and do it pretty consistently, though they only show up on my blog theme if you click "show tags." For blacklisting/whitelisting purposes, I've listed a bunch of them in this post. Let me know if you want to know the tag for something not listed here!
General Tags
#isabel talks: basically any post where I say things, either in reblogs or (more often) original posts.
#isabel's pictures: pictures that I post; usually these are not drawings/paintings/etc, but screenshots or pictures of pets.
#isabel responds: replies to pretty much anything.
#isabel does memes: memes!
#isabel's games: anything about gaming. Specific games are tagged #game: x; for instance, #game: dungeons and dragons or #game: guild wars (both for their entire franchises).
#isabel's pets: pictures or conversation about my family's pets (mostly pictures).
#isabel's blogkeeping: organizational or blog-related stuff.
#music!: pretty much anything related to music.
#petty gremlin blogging: complaining about things or, as might be expected, general pettiness.
Writing Tags
#damned mob of scribbling women: general writing tag, mostly writing advice reblogs and posts.
#the glacier speaks: stuff where I talk about writing as a writer, or about my own work or writing process.
#korë blogging: anything related to my main original fiction universe. There are a few sub-tags: korë blogging: art (for my friends' art for it), #korë blogging: moodboards, and korë blogging: playlists (both exactly what you would expect).
Writing Inspiration Tags
#inspiration: faces and fashion: pictures or gifs of people or costuming I find inspirational for writing purposes (surprise).
#inspiration: scenery and architecture: ditto but for scenery and buildings.
#plants: basically anything with an emphasis on plants of any kind. I also use #flowers sometimes.
#water my beloved: the one element to rule them all!! I mean, anything in which water is prominent, mostly just because I love water.
Other Stuff I Chatter About Sometimes
#disability talk: anything related to disability, though usually related to mine (I'm autistic with bipolar II, anxiety, and asthma).
#lgbtia chatter: anything related to, well, LGBTQIA+ issues. I'm lesbian myself.
#gender chatter: anything related to gender.
#academic chatter: I'm several years into a PhD program in literature, for my sins.
#linguistic chatter: stuff about language.
#pacific northwest chatter: stuff about the Pacific Northwest, where I'm from and have spent nearly all my life.
#sff chatter: stuff about science-fiction or (most often) fantasy in general.
#greek chatter: my grandmother is Greek and this is a big deal in my family, so I sometimes talk about related things.
Media
#artist: x: all art of any kind (novels, film, etc) is considered to be created by an artist for tagging purposes, so you'll see artists in the usual sense in this kind of tag, but also novelists, etc.
#text: x: I started by tagging works of art by their titles (usually—all of Tolkien's stuff is under #text: middle earth for convenience) and ended up just calling them all texts.
#ch: x: characters are all tagged in this format. If the character is played by an actor, I sometimes tag the actor (when I know them off the top of my head) simply by their name.
For example, Pride and Prejudice (1813) would be: #artist: jane austen and #text: pride and prejudice. If it included something from the 2005 P&P, I might add (say) #ch: jane bennet and #rosamund pike.
knowing even the slightest bit about linguistics and translation makes every sci fi movie where communication between alien species is a minor problem overcome in a matter of onscreen minutes some kind of pretentiousgirl torture. like i know why you wrote it this way because adding realism there would make your story suffer overall. but it is still absolutely nawttt that easy. and you should feel bad.
Highlights from the Project Hail Mary director's commentary:
*SPOILERS!!!*
Grace waking up from the coma was the first shot they filmed for the movie! They wanted Ryan to feel eased into the character, and what better way to do that than have him play a character who can't remember who he is?
The little "GOOD LUCK!" note in sharpie that's written on Grace's sleeping bag was canonically written by the other astronauts on the I.S.S. before the Hail Mary crew got put into the ship. In real life, Phil and Chris wrote one word each. They said it was like "a blessing on the movie."
Ryan's most nerve-wracking day on set was when he had to shoot with the classroom full of children. Most of the kids were made up of the children of the film's crew members.
The scene where Grace looks through Yao and Ilukhina's photos is footage of him looking at and reacting to actual pictures of the actors with their loved ones.
When Grace calls Stratt to tell her that he and Carl figured out how to breed astrophage, Ryan is genuinely calling Sandra on her day off set, and her audio is her genuine reaction to the unexpected line: "Carl and I made a baby!"
"We like showcasing Ryland Grace's social anxiety while having a lot of people staring at him. LOL!"
Their intention for the space funeral scene was to have Grace convey that he was trying to ease his own sadness by making the dead people with him feel better about being dead :(
The markings on Rocky's body convey his mission patch, his rank in the crew, his wedding band, and his family crest.
Grace and Stratt's conversation on the boat is Grace asking her if they're allowed to be close friends, and the response from Stratt is no, they can't. This gets driven home in the karaoke scene. She understands the value of connection, a part of her wants it, but "Her love for people has to be suspended for her to do her job."
Rocky has different forward-facing faces for different thought processes! They named his "satellite dish" face, his "scrunched up thinking face", and his "monobrow face".
Direct quote: "I love how on the spectrum Rocky is." ROCKY AUTISTIC CODED CONFIRMED!
After Rocky recovers from his injuries: "As Rocky returns to the movie, the lights turn on. The warmth returns. It's like the day breaking."
Confirmed that when Grace and Rocky reunite, Rocky says to Grace, "You came back for me, question?"
They throw this out there for two seconds and do NOT expand on it, but according to Andy Weir, Stratt is imprisoned for life but somehow ESCAPES???
The Eridians built Grace an artificial tree in his enclosure because Rocky knew he liked trees
There's so much more they shared about film processes and the people who were behind making certain effects possible. I highly recommend checking out the commentary if you're able!
One last look at Earth before we reach the Moon.
This view of the Earth was captured on April 5, the fourth day of the Artemis II mission, from inside the Orion spacecraft. The four astronauts will reach their closest approach of the Moon tomorrow, April 6.
attention this is your captain speaking chag sameach pesach to all celebrating and a reminder do not open the airlock to greet elijah the vulcan rabbinic council ruled that opening the door to the room where the seder is occurring is sufficient elijah can get on a starship just fine himself he just likes to be personally invited in to your seder we dont need another incident like last year thank you
i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.
