[add title later]

it's perfect

[cowardsexual]

grace was brought onto the vatt to create a breeding system for astrophage right? he demanded to be put back on the project and he got to keep the temporary lab back in SF, but the moment he figured out how astrophage reproduced is when he was brought over to the carrier in case things blew up. that's fair, that makes sense.

the problem is stratt knows grace's presence will become largely superfluous the moment blackpanels come into the picture. which is wayyy before grace personally meets reddell, since she implies it all the way back during their meeting with lokken. grace makes his own temporary system with the ship's nuclear reactor and what little astrophage they make IS useful to test Dimitri's spin drives, but once reddell sets up the farm in the Sahara desert grace has virtually no reason to stay on the ship. like his job is done. he's the leading expert in the field, sure, but so are hundreds of biologists working around the world from the comfort of their home labs, he could very well just go back to the US by that point... or that would be the case if stratt didn't keep shoving unrelated work into his hands and dragging him to europe and australia and making the other science department heads run their ideas by him first. she doesn't even have the coma gene excuse!!! dr lamai and the blood test only happen after they nuke Antarctica. from that point on she definitely ramps it up, what with having him straight up test future lab equipment for the hail mary, but i feel like she would've tasked him with teaching dubois and shapiro even if he hadn't been coma resistant.

because she likes his insufferable ass. god bless.

[at-the-end-of-all]

school uniform codes extending to what colours you’re allowed to dye your hair, and what piercings you can have and stuff is so crazy. you HAVE to go to school and you’re not even allowed to have pink hair or pierce your nose about it????

[at-the-end-of-all]

“oh it’s to prepare you for the workplace” okay. i don’t think any workplace should be dictating what you can and can’t do with your body either and i think it’s strange to decide to teach children that their body is not their own

[mousegirlheart]

concept: im a dedenne that knows magnet rise and i refuse to stop using it so you have to tie a string to my leg so I don't float off like a balloon

[mousegirlheart]

she chewed the string off...

[mousegirlheart]

[kaminarider]

Could you move we are kinda in the middle of a thing here

[draconym]

I've probably posted about this before but it still gets me that Ripley (my parrot) has a special nickname for my spouse, Tev. Like he knows and uses the names of everyone in his flock (me, Tev, Steve, and Cheese. also a couple of our friends and my mom's dog) but because Tev calls him "Ripley buddy," a couple years ago Ripley started calling him "Tev buddy" instead of just Tev. He doesn't call anybody else buddy. He knows that 'buddy' is a special suffix for him and Tev to use with each other's names because they love each other. Doesn't that just melt your fucking heart

[draconym]

They love each other

[eva-strapp]

Love how the movie frames Stratt’s office like a prison cell when Grace makes a run for it. She’s standing there knowing that out of all the difficult choices she’s had to make, this will be the one that she will carry the guilt of for the rest of her life. The camera centers Stratt in the center of the frame with the camera situated at the entrance, making the space that she’s in feel small.

The blinds along the window are framed like the bars to a cell, it’s through them that she watches Grace run past in his escape attempt. This is reinforced in the next shot where she looks out through them.

Her resigned expression tells us that she is upset that she had to do this but does not regret it. Her position and responsibility placed her in that office, forcing her to make the decision she made. She is never shown leaving this office, because she will not be free from the guilt that comes with it until she knows the project is a success. She prepares to serve her life sentence.

[petrova-line]

doctor ryland grace, age 26: what’s wrong with me? what the fuck is wrong with you, you complete and total waste of carbon—

captain-doctor-teacher-savior-mated^(rockyadrian-closed)-mr ryland grace, age 112: ♯ . i’ve been getting really into pickles lately :) 𝄐

[wizardshark]

Listen I get it but you CANNOT use "sensory nightmare" as an excuse to avoid essential things. You HAVE to find a way to make it work, such as finding effective alternatives. But you can't just avoid it.

You need to eat some vegetables in your diet or you will become a lich.

You have to wear a life jacket or you will literally drown and die.

You need to be able to exist in public spaces with children.

You have to find a way.

[caesarsaladinn]

romanticizing your life is such a powerful tool and it’s a shame that it’s mostly used by people on tiktok to justify the purchase of expensive breakfast smoothies when there are few better ways to force oneself through unpleasant shit than imagining a cinematic backstory for your extremely quotidian suffering

[caesarsaladinn]

finding the strength to walk home from the library at 3am in the freezing rain by imagining yourself as a Napoleonic soldier hightailing it from Moscow in 1813

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

It's not r*pe, it's rape. It's not su*cide, it's suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

And it's been proven that on certain websites, you don't even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.

[its-the-blob]

I attended an anti-suicide seminar in college. One of the big takeaways from it was that stigmatizing suicide increases the rate of suicide, because people who are feeling suicidal feel like they can't ask for help. Every time I see babytalk garbage like 'unalive', I think of that.

[ralfmaximus]

Use the real words. Words have power, and they matter.

[duckngk]

who up curlin’ up they markeplier into ryan gosling’s arms

context:

also IRON LUNG IS OUT ON YOUTUBE YOU CAN BUY IT NOW

[jamtamart]

exciting art experiments :: episode 11

first episode || previous episode - next episode

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

always some new bullshit in the ocean

[local-demon-in-your-area]

Why is it always orcas or dolphins

Why can't a salmon do some bullshit for once

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

worry not ☝️ they're doing coke

[the-chessur-cat]

Ryland Grace is akin to Laika. “After placing Laika in the container and before closing the hatch, we kissed her nose and wished her bon voyage, knowing she would not survive the flight.” They loved Grace when they sent him. All of earth and all the workers and Stratt, especially.

On the contrary, Simon is akin to Felicette. “The data from the mission was of good quality, and Felicette survived the flight but was euthanized two months later for examination of her brain.” They did not love Simon. They chose to call him something else to not make attachments. They believed science was worth more than a few lives. They trained and sent multiple cats. Multiple convicts. They could have got him back fine, but they wanted him dead.

[watch-the-sun-rise]

PHM characters as text posts: Pt. 7/?

Part 6

[valtsv]

the flesh putrefies, the machine rusts, and the divine corrupts, and so the rot remains supreme

[valtsv]

[annabelle--cane]

eva stratt's internalized misogyny. eva stratt's perpetrator trauma. eva stratt's lack of sense of self. and other things I regularly consider on prolonged train commutes.

[segamascott]