I will not yield @itsrainingunicorns - Tumblr Blog

Ok but like. What the fuck is there to do on the internet anymore?

Idk when I was younger, you could just go and go and find exciting new websites full of whatever cool things you wanted to explore. An overabundance of ways to occupy your time online.

Now, it’s just… Social media. That’s it. Social media and news sites. And I’m tired of social media and I’m tired of the news.

Am I just like completely inept at finding new things or has the internet just fallen apart that much with the problems of SEO and web 3.0 turning everything into a same-site prison?

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ALSO you should consider browsing Virtual Pet List and seeing if there are any pet sites you might be interested in playing. There is a whole genre of browser games right under your nose

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Another one that I just found recently is this, which is a whole collection of blogs, organized by topic!

A collection of 1,966 blogs about every topic

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Look guys the real internet IS STILL THERE I’m going to cry

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Getting off of twitter and onto neocities has really healed me and I am so glad to see it is healing other people too ;u; let’s retreat into the self-made digital woods and away from corporate bs pls, I am so tired

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the concept and execution of bloodymary is already peak tumblr culture but also consider this: bloodymary stucky au

that's like, five iterations of separation from canon. doesn't it sound beautiful

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Happy pride month to whatever the fuck is going on between Markiplier and Ryan Gosling

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has this been done already? am i embarrassingly late to the party?

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im a liaaarrrrrr i made more. anyway i put em together cuz i think on their own they're kinda underwhelming

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close ups \/

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When You Look at Dr. Grace

(part 1) part 2/2

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Curious pebble (3/?)

Part 1 / Part 2

A massive shoutout to @thereal-sillyguy for making everyone's favorite pebble into a gif! I very literally couldn't have done it without them!

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MLK was a star trek fan

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An important tweet

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This is such a "common sense" way of putting it. Everybody memorize this for spitting it back out whenever needed.

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Never thought I'd have the opportunity to say this again: Reducing women and girls to their vaginas and then forcing them to show those vaginas to strangers is not a feminist ideal.

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love how so much of the phm fandom is very adamant about “yes rocky is endearing but do NOT forget that he is not grace’s little pet. he is a 200+ year old married supergenius alien engineer. he was literally smart enough to be sent on a mission to save his planet, help discover and create a method of communication with a completely alien species, and work WITH said species to find the reason his planet is dying and create the solution to saving it. stop babying him.” and everyone pretty much agrees

simultaneously, grace IS rocky and adrian’s pet and that’s 100% canon basically

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The effort put into Rocky’s voice astounds me. When Grace lets it slip that he’s not going to go home, Rocky is so upset he forgets to clarify “why didn’t you tell me” is a question, which is abundantly familiar for people speaking a second language when emotions run high.

When the translator is working, you can still hear the musical tones of his natural voice in the background (a detail a lot of franchises have missed, I’ve noticed.) In the scene where Grace is pinned to the control panel and the translator doesn’t work anymore, you can clearly hear Rocky saying his name in a higher octave, panicked.

This movie ruined my life I want to own it on DVD immediately

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(Haven’t watched the movie, this is based on the book)

Stratt sends a Beetle back to find Grace named L.I.B, having it lock onto the original Taumoaba, she sends two— one crashes into Adrian but one makes it to Grace on Erid.

Inside are four USB sticks, and one camera. The first holds a note from Stratt to Grace, telling him how Earth is now, what’s changed for the better since the return of the Beetles, what’s changed for the worse. She kept tabs on the students in his class, telling him how they grew up, who they became. Abby became a scientist. A handful became teachers.

She explains that the camera is empty, for Grace to use and send back to them, one of the USB sticks has photos from Earth. The other has digital letters from his students as they grew, and learned about his sacrifice.

The last USB stick has a collection of every piece of media and intellectual property made from when he left up until now.

In the end of the letter she says;

“Don’t just send me a picture of you giving me the middle finger, I won’t be alive to see it.”

22 months later, Earth gets a bunch of pictures of fucking rocks with clothes on them.

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An extra delightful thing about Project Hail Mary is that, eventually, humans WILL go to Erid, and Eridians WILL visit Earth. And there's every likelihood Rocky will be there to see it.

For one, humans on Earth likely continued to breed astrophage, trying to minimize its range or damaging effects - any number of things. Rendering it sterile would be ideal, of course, but it was likely impossible until the mission succeeded. You can damn well bet your ass Stratt was out there chaining scientists to workbenches, trying to find or force a silver lining. She wouldn't be wrong: Astrophage IS an excellent source of fuel, which means it has great potential. PLUS!! the discovery of Taumeba gives you a way to control it.

Erid is only 16 light years away.

Imagine humanity pulled back from the brink, striving together to produce not one but TWO (at least!) huge joint efforts to save ourselves and each other. Project Hail Mary was followed the Taumeba Project, surely. The world comes together again.

I, however, like to imagine there was a third plan.

I think meeting Eridians became a worldwide obsession. Ryland Grace's legacy can be nothing but a collective triumph, though his contact with intelligent alien life is somehow second to saving the Earth and who knows how many other systems. Once saved, the next major project would surely be meeting our interplanetary friends. How would we say "hello"?

Let's say Earth's initial overture is a simple probe, Voyager style. What do you send? Well, they know Grace may still be out there, or at least was/is known to Eridian culture. He's the one link; the only common element.

The probe launches, and what it's full of is love for Ryland Grace. His childhood pictures. Interviews with his students. Thousands of statues and dedications and documentaries. Videos of worldwide celebrations of the Day of Grace. Kids' drawings of Rocky with laboriously-written thank you notes, thick with crayon so the Eridians can see. We love him too. We love you already.

Given their longevity, I imagine Rocky and Adrian opening the probe together, trilling over memories of their old friend. Stories they only heard about secondhand or not at all. Joy and triumph and thankfulness and hope, all in one small interstellar package. Amaze amaze amaze.

After all, it's Full of Grace.