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I like that Supergirl says it’s okay to kill someone’s abuser so long as you don’t let the thirteen year old do it and I like that Supergirl says vengeance will not solve things but neither will allowing a cycle of violence to continue

sillylittlestoryteller

Part 7: Hobby?

Masterpost

Mark knew he wasn't fully back on his feet yet. Mr. Grace kept warning him about it. He was still shaky from the lack of calories, even though he was slowly getting back to a normal weight with Grace’s Taumoeba Smoothies and the Eridian nutrient-bricks. His stomach wasn’t ready for the Grace-burgers yet. Physically and mentally.

So yeah, legs still shaky as hell.

But that has never stopped him from moving before.

Grace was somewhere in the lab, still tinkering with the Taumoeba samples. Not really out of necessity, but just to keep busy. In Mr. Grace's own words; ‘everybody needs a hobby’.

He’s trying to breed more variatals, probably. Maybe one of them will finally end up tasting like something remotely edible.

Speaking of keeping busy, Mark was pretty sure that this ship hasn’t had a full manual check-up in the last 5 years, and while Rocky would have spotted and fixed any major issues - the guy could hear him piss from three rooms away, Mark definitely trusted his judgement when it came to engineering - still, some defects and early warning signs could only be spotted by human eyes.

Or maybe Mark just needed to go through the routine of checking every seam on every hull panel to soothe his own anxiety.

Not that he would ever admit that part to Mr. Grace.

Let’s just call obsessively checking every single life support system and hull seam a fucking hobby.

He was currently climbing the ladder to the control room with his shaky shaky legs, when he missed a step and slammed his shin into the unforgiving metal.

“FUCK!” It echoed through the ship.

“…Language!” Grace yelled from somewhere, sounding slightly distracted. “You okay?” he added afterwards, a little less distracted.

“Yeah, just - FUCK - just misstepped. Fucking ladders on this fucking ship. Fucking OW!”

“Need some help getting to Armando?”

“No, I'm fine” Mark rubbed over the smarting spot on his leg.

"What word mean, question?”

Mark looked up to find the sentient rock staring - can you stare without eyes? - staring at him though his xenonite tunnels.

“Word Mark yelled. What it mean? Is new word.”

“Really?” Mark was slightly impressed by his former teacher. He used to think Grace was just really good at keeping a lid on it in class and had simply slipped back into his PG-13 teacher-persona now that Mark was here.

“Grace really didn't swear this entire journey with you? Not even once?”

“What is word, question?” Rocky impatiently tapped one of his limbs, not willing to listen to a new question before he has an answer.

“It's uuuh… It’s a word you use to express anger, or pain. Or annoyance I guess.”

"Is proper noun? Or verb, question?"

“Well, kind of both? You can just sorta sprinkle it anywhere into your sencences.”

"OH!" The alien seemed to perk up in a very human way. "Like Eridian tone indicators! What this one mean, question?"

“A lot of things! Mostly you just use it to say you’re pissed off.”

“Urinate off of what, question?”

“Pissed off. Earth idiom meaning angry. Rude way of saying you’re angry.”

Rocky tilted his carapace in a way that almost made it look like the alien was squinting at him. “Rude… Tone indicator Mark use also rude, question? That why Grace not use, question?”

“Yeah buddy, Grace doesn't swear. Swearing, that’s using rude words as… well, as tone indicators I guess.”

Rocky lifted his carapace high.

“That why Grace not translate Rocky tone indicators? Rocky use tones Grace not translate, Rocky assume no human equivalent available. Grace know words but just not use? QUESTION?”

“Oh buddy, let me grab that laptop, we’re gonna expand your vocabulary.”

Fuck manual engineering check-ups. Time for some xeno-linguistics. How's that for a new hobby!

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Luis Camnitzer - The Photograph (1981)

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The Screenshot (2014)

fredersen

The Reblog (2014)

toratiger-deactivated20211204

Bahahahaha love this

processintegrated

The Unnecessary Comment (2014)

grumpygreenwitch

The Revival (2026)

soupdwelling

guy with the coolest cane in the galaxy

sometiktoksarevalid

fruitcakebro

Holy moly they're GOOD. The music is fucking FIRE, and the outfits??? They're all so PRETTY???

snoodly-boop

Does anybody know who these are??? Do they have albums!! 🤩🤩🤩

raspberryslut

I was so curious that I had to go find this band. They're called Fortress Dwellers and they have a website with all of their socials!

They released an album too! I don't think this song is on it but the rest of their stuff is SO GOOD !!

Step into the fantasy world of Fortress Dwellers. A fantasy Renaissance musical collective blending epic original music, immersive performan

autisticrosewilson

KoriBabs is industry plant yuri because the people I've seen shipping it are throwing them together purely under the basis that they have both been in love with Dick. KoriBabs would be toxic yuri to the MAX. Kori would not like Oracle even at all. They would have beef completely unrelated to Dick in any way.

Kori comes from a planet where polyamory is normalized if not expected, she wouldn't think twice about Babs being Dicks ex, and I could see that being a factor for her to pursue a relationship with Babs if she thought that Dick and Babs were still in love with each other. That relationship would fall apart in 10 minutes because Barbara Gordon is a control freak that runs a fuckin pro cop surveillance state and *puts chips in people's brains*. And Koriand'r is a former slave who has fought tooth and nail for her autonomy and freedom and has had several arcs about overthrowing corrupt systems of oppression and control. They are fundamentally at odds on a moral and philosophical level.

I'm not even saying you shouldn't ship it because I do think that theres potential here but you have to understand that the relationship is not healthy even at all and Dick Grayson is barely a factor in their problems with each other. These are both complex and thematically rich characters who oppose each other in pretty much every respect and there is so much you can do with that!! But you have to acknowledge that they are, upon first meeting, not compatible. In order for anything approaching an actual relationship to happen something will have to give and they will have compromise and grow as people or they will fall apart spectacularly and take everyone else down with them, which is interesting and compelling in its own right.

syn4k

"lock in" is probably one of the most important phrases to enter the public lexicon in the 2020s

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heohl-art

HEATED RIVALRY F1 AU is coming🏎🔥✨️

I'm SO excited about this new project I'm working on~

The race is going to be... heated🔥🔥🔥

slobonmynov

AU where, when Shane is a youngish teenager, David and Yuna decide to spend the summer helping their relatives move to Korea for a work opportunity. Shane has a great time hanging out with his cousins, eating delicious off-season food, and generally relaxing in a country that doesn't give a shit about Canadian youth hockey.

It all starts to go wrong (for Shane) when due to a series of hilarious (not for Shane, but for everyone else) misunderstandings Yuna signs Shane up for a K-pop idol trainee class, thinking it'll be fun to try something new while he has a little time off, and maybe it'll give him some confidence off the ice, help get him break out of his shell a little bit.

Unfortunately (for Shane, and everyone else in the class) he 1: actually has a phenomenal singing voice, and 2: he’s so competitive about anything physical that he ends up picking up choreography really quickly and then ends up so bored while he waits for everyone else to catch up that he puts his own flavor on the moves and accidentally develops his own style. With those two factors on his side his natural awkwardness is perceived as a persona, and he’s quickly tagged as The Sweet Shy One. Basically, through absolutely no fault of his own, he blows everyone else in the class away and impresses the instructors so much that they beg his parents to let him audition for the entertainment companies.

There is a world in which Shane is able to put his foot down right there and stop the madness before it goes too far, and the events of heated rivalry proceed as they do, just with the pictures and video proof of this time in his life weighing down his Damoclesian Sword of gayness

However. In MY WORLD.

Yuna and Shane get stuck in a miscommunication doom cycle (you know that thing they do where she thinks he wants this because he thinks he'll disappoint her if he doesn't, but she only wants him to do what makes him happy, but it's impossible for him to know what that is because he's focused on making her happy) that results in him changing the entire trajectory of his life and becoming an honest to god K-Pop megastar.

Bonus points for this outcome, because in this world Sveta becomes a huge METRO-$ stan, and through friendship-osmosis introduces Ilya to his latest and greatest obsession: Shane, the Sweet and Shy member who doesn't date because he's saving himself for marriage.

God help poor Shane (who spends his life surrounded by screaming girls he doesn't want and skinny artsy boys he is not attracted to) when Boston Bears #81 (a hockey player he is equal parts jealous of and dangerously hot for) starts to pursue him like a dog in heat.