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one thing i love about the phm fandom is the sheer amount of people who love stratt. like so many other fandoms would overlook her or hate her or reduce her into an evil caricature because shes a woman in a powerful position who did something bad to the white boy protagonist but the phm fandom ADORES her. and theyre right. eva stratt the character ever

thatqueerchoirkid

hey man its not a losing battle and it does get better and actually there is hope

3artho

He’s leaky and old, like pick a struggle (part 1)

valtsv

it really is unfortunate that loving someone enough doesn't give you the ability to pass not entirely painlessly but with complete trust and encouragement through the boundaries preventing you from reaching into each other's chests and wrapping your hand around the slippery-warm muscle of their beating heart. then again we would probably all be having less sex if this was an option so.

officialunitedstates

She smelled like hand sanitizer, pure and reminiscent of a hospital. Her lips were like marble, cold and smooth. Her eyes were like a stop light, you wanted them to be green but they were red and occasionally yellow.

darkestbrook

kabber

something i really liked about project hail mary is that Rocky and Grace are both equally out of their depth and about as competent as the other. theyre both the smart one. theyre both total dumbasses. neither knows whats going on. they both think the other is an idiot baby. they both admire the other's intelligence so much.

ecobanshee

This is some of the most straightforward characterization Grace gets in the book and it's hilarious

kurr-ko

does anyone here like project hail mary

dogpuppy

edgebug

I think it would be funny if most of Grace's eridian students went to him and asked for earth pronoun designations instead of picking for themselves, because they think it's cool to get word-gifts from the coolest teacher in the galaxy

and grace is trying so hard to not accidentally be sexist or assign gender roles to a monogendered species, so like, trying hard not to call someone he/him just because they like sports, or she/her just because they seem caring, or whatever. and he's having a hard time about it because he's like oh man why am I assigning the pronouns I'm assigning, i hope I'm not bringing any of my biases into this. just absolutely eating himself up over it

he tries to fix this by starting to roll a die, or throw darts at a dartboard, but his students immediately throw a fit because the point of the word-gifts is that they are specific, picked deliberately for them, right? and grace tries to explain gender bias and so on, but it becomes clear these kids could genuinely not give less of a shit, they just want to know what their AGAG (assigned gender at grace) is, alright? why is this so hard for him to understand??

eventually grace comes to the conclusion that he's on a different planet, and severely overthinking this, and that his kids really just are having fun--they really don't see the grace-given pronouns as categorization, he figures they see them as something more akin to astrology. or an eridian tiktok trend. when grace learns they call the assigning a word-gift he probably cries tbh

"teacher grace!!! what my pronoun question???"

"hmm. getting big they/them vibes off you"

"HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY. THANK"

tuherrus

you don't even have a dog

alphynix

Although ceratopsian dinosaurs were widespread around the northern continents during the Cretaceous, for a long time they appeared to have been completely absent from Europe. A few possible fragments were found – but their identification as ceratopsians was highly disputed, with some paleontologists instead identifying the remains as belonging to ornithopods.

But this year some new fossils have given more support to the ceratopsian interpretation, suggesting that a whole diverse European branch of these dinosaurs was there the whole time. They'd just been misidentified as rhabdodontids due to the convergent anatomy of their teeth, jaws, and limbs.

One of these newly-recognized ceratopsians was Ferenceratops shqiperorum (previously known as Zalmoxes shqiperorum), which lived during the late Cretaceous (~72-66 million years ago) on the subtropical Hațeg Island, in the region of what is now Romania.

It was a small species, about 2m long (6'6"), and seems to have lacked the elaborate frills and horns seen in many other ceratopsians, despite being closely related to both protoceratopsids and stem-ceratopsids.

Its new genus name references Ferenc, the birth name of Baron Franz Nopcsa, the gay Transylvanian paleobiologist-adventurer-spy who originally found some of its fossil remains.

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quasi-normalcy

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

quasi-normalcy

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

quasi-normalcy

#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain

Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"

quasi-normalcy

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.

scorpionlafemme

verenakauer

"Why did Stratt pick a school teacher" — because my guy can frankenstein Venus out of plywood, some duct tape and a dream. "I'm not qualified" — buddy, you have scientific background and the resourcefulness of someone who is used to having zero budget. I love this specific part of the plot that is "let's take the guy who can problem-solve things with zero money and give him unlimited budget and see what happens".

akanemnon

Dancing with December

There was an ask about Kris taking Ballet lessons and this little doodle was the result: I think we all know there is really only one person who Kris would learn to dance from. Wasn’t going to post it over on tumblr really, but the twitter crowd seems to love the idea of Kris dancing with Dess since my twitter essentially exploded between this picture and the Undertale Dess dancing one, so while I don’t -really - want to pester Akane too much with my silly doodles it is here for the tumblr crowd now: go, draw your own song and dance number - As an aside, Dess strikes me as the type who would definitely listen to metal remixes of Classical music songs, I personally listened to the Dark Moors version of Swan Lake on repeat while making this

As for the piece itself, I based Dess’s Leotard on the Chapter 1 Scizzor Dancer Darkners for anyone who wants to know, and I chose “Swan Lake” since I thought it’d be interesting to depict Kris and Dess as two types of swan stories: Kris was -ALWAYS- a Baby Swan/a Cygnet, but all the other animals decided they were a duckling and they become isolated via perceived ugliness - the Ugly Duckling only becomes happy when it finds other fellow Swans to be with. Dess is Princess Odette whom is CURSED to be a Swan from the spell of an evil warlock; she doesn’t WANT to be a swan, but in the shadow HER/ SOUL will be a swan / untill /she feels/ the LOVE of noble MAN / Forever her / SOUL will be a swan / untill / she feels / the LOVE of noble Man ~

for the non-musically inclined who want a summary of the Swan Lake ballet for quick reading: In Act 1 of Swan Lake, the Prince is forced to choose a partner amongst 7 Princesses to be his partner at his coming-of-age party which shall mark him as a man of marriageable age, and his partner shall become his wife: desiring freedom to choose whom he loves over the arranged choices, the Prince travels to the lakeside to hunt swans to escape his problems. In Act 2, he witnessess the swans transform into humans from within the forest by hiding in a ruined chapel, and on that moonlit night promises to break the curse that forces Odette to change forms come daytime by loving her and her alone. In Act 3, the warlock who cursed Odette intervenes by revealing one of the 7 Princesses is his daughter, whom he disguises as Odette to catch the Prince’s eye, and announces at the party that by choosing to love another the curse will NEVER be broken and thus, both the prince and odette choose to die together in the titular lake at the end of the original ballet to break the spell. This is occasionally re-written to have a happier ending, but notably the Warlock’s daughter, Odine, has undergone the most changes and is either depicted as a sympathetical tragic figure who is just used as a tool by her father to destroy the man she wants to like and is forced to see him kill himself, or is just as bad as her father and willingly commits to aiding him in his plan to ruin Odette’s chance of being free from the curse forever

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