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my project hail mary take is that even though stratt is the one to mention that grace doesn't have any close relationships, that actually tells us more about why grace refused to participate in the mission than it does why stratt chose to send him: grace wasn't her plan A or her plan B; he's just the best option she had left and i'm pretty sure she would have made the same choice if he was married and had 10 kids.

one of the only things we know about the other astronauts is that they did have close relationships— friends, children— and that they were willing volunteers, implicitly because of those relationships. obviously grace has people he cares about and people who care about him, but it's not until he has that kind of deep, tangible connection with rocky (as opposed to a general investment in the fate of humanity) that he's willing to make that type of sacrifice

#project hail mary #eva stratt did nothing wrong but like unironically. she knows her answer to the trolley problem and i respect that #this post is not ryland grace critical tbc. as with all characters his flaws are what make him interesting

sergeifyodorov

I don't read as much fic as I used to but one "tell" for non Canadians writing us, besides the etransfer, is the units you use to describe us measuring something. I hate to tell you this but The Chart is real and it's completely subconscious. Please abide

demotu-writes

ETA the chart (or at least a version of it):

ETA2: we do use inches/miles in poetic ways ("he was lost in thought/miles away" or "his lips were a bare inch away").

Also, the length of a dick is in inches for SURE.

#today i learned etransfer doesn't exist outside of canada

korkiekenobiconfirmed

anne bonny the character of all time. she’s one of the deadliest people in the show. she’s soul-tied to the 18th century pirate version of a rat terrier. she comes to grips with being gay only after committing double homicide about it. she probably bites. she deeply needs to be known and loved. she cannot bear being known and loved. she’s a ginger.

#post that made me google when rat terriers were invented (created? bred?)#the answer is early 1800s but they became more popular/common among american farmers in the 1910s-20s #black sails #anne bonny my beloved

rhinco

i love you semicolon. no one look at my 80 word sentence

the-bar-sinister

That fic you wrote?

The one about the ship no one else cares about, or the deeply unpopular character, or the extremely unusual AU?

The fic that got no comments or kudos when you posted it?

Months or years from now, that fic might be exactly what someone is looking for in the sea of fics about all the popular characters, ships, and AUs.

Your fic might be the only fic out there that has what someone is looking for. The only fic that scratches the itch that it turns out you and that reader share.

And that's awesome.

#and sometimes that person is me because i have a terrible memory when it comes to my own writing #that person might also be someone else but that's none of my business #(i have ao3 notifications off bc they are not exempt from the sentiment of every day i get emails (derogatory))#but sometimes i go to post the next fic and see someone's read my weird original fic for some reason and go huh neat

riverlarking

#aubreyad #it's the garment

its-a-seikret

Tbh I don't understand anyone who denies their favorite character's flaws and acts like they've never done anything wrong when that is like consistently the most interesting part of any character ever

shoutout to the deadloch props department for my favourite background detail

#deadloch

moveslikekeithrichards

yall ever refuse to consume a piece of media you Know youd like solely bc you think itd make you feel more emotions than you want to

moveslikekeithrichards

like Yeah the purpose of art is to make you Feel but im feeling plenty already thank you very much

#no time for emotions during the semester 👍#art that makes me feel things is a summer only activity #to be fair art that doesn't make me feel things is also a summer only activity #i have no free time

apollothyme

Sid, can you give us a thought on the tournament Connor McDavid gave the team?

mixelation

things ppl often get wrong in academia AUs (specifically ones in modern university settings with focus on graduate students & professors):

no one is spending enough time complaining about writing

hierarchy is wrong. your grad student TA is not a professor or faculty and might not even be considered an employee. that 32 year old man is not a full professor no matter how talented he is or how old you think 30+ is, and he should be talking more about "the tenure clock"

grad students only ever taking or TAing classes & never doing research or working on their thesis/dissertation. there are masters programs with no thesis component so i'm sure there are ones that have no research requirement, but you can't get a PhD only taking classes

everyone has too much money. but also if it's set in the US there's an obsession with accumulating student debt for positions that generally you would not have to take out loans for

relationship with academic advisor never sufficiently unhinged

not enough discussion of stats where it's obvious everyone only barely understands what's happening

#everyone has too much money 😭#especially if they're in the arts/humanities no one wants to give us money ever #some more academia info if anyone wants it:#i think it's different outside of canada (my impression is american programs involve a lot more coursework)#but a master's is either 1 year of coursework 1 year writing a thesis (mine was ~120 pages but idk if that's standard)#or 1 year where you do coursework and a major research paper (40ish pages) at the same time #phd is year 1: coursework; year 2: comprehensive exams (read like 200 books and write tests about them); year 3-6: dissertation #most phd students are TAs; for master's students it depends on the uni since some bigger ones have enough phds to fill all the positions #phd candidates are often course instructors (pays VERY badly) but 1st and 2nd year phd students aren't #(phd candidate = passed your comprehensive exams; phd student = haven't passed your comps)#this is all based on my experience as a 1st year phd student in history at a canadian university so it's not universal #complaining about writing is universal tho. we are all doing it all the time

cbartonscoffee

"Motorcycle trip is zoom therapy." and Caleb waits until he's gone to smile because he doesn't want to encourage him but he is funny. Michael Robinavitch the man that you are.

#the pitt #the pitt season 2

batsandboba

as someone who doesnt watch a lot of tv shows but does watch a lot of video essays, there is nothing more exciting than a popular tv show ending badly. its like a whalefall for my youtube recommendations. thank you stranger things also sorry that happened

#thank you for your service tv shows that ended badly

thinking about my girl javadi and how she has these moments where she has to clarify she's a student doctor and not a resident and she always seems a little bit self-conscious about it even though she was an M3 last season and an M4 this season so she's just like. at the normal expected place for her career.

except this is probably the first time in her life where she has been at the normal expected part of her career. like i think somewhere in her mind when she and whitaker started as student doctors together she kind of thought they'd become doctors at the same time even though whitaker was a year ahead, because she'd always been the kid who skips grades and knows her stuff better than all her peers.

but there's a point in any specialized field where everyone who's made it there has done it because they know their stuff really well. so javadi's still extraordinary because she's young but in the environment of the ER in some ways that counts against her — not that she isn't good at her job but just that a lot of coping with stress just comes from age and experience, and so for the first time in her life she's... not behind, but also not ahead.

anyway victoria javadi welcome to the experience of being average (within your own field) it's a good time i promise

#the pitt #the pitt season 2 #victoria javadi

trinittysantos

i made an org chart for the pitt bc i've read one too many incorrect posts and i'm tired

emergency department:

(i read that ellis is a fellow this year in an article i couldn't find again, so that's the only standing i'm not 100% sure of here, but it makes sense and is probably true)

surgery:

this is an entirely separate department. no one in this dept reports directly to anyone in the ED & vice versa. they just collaborate when needed. (unless santos actually goes through with her double residency plan, that would be a different story)

(it was mentioned in s2e1 that garcia's a fellow this season, but i'm not entirely positive if that was also the case during s1 or if she was a senior resident)

#the pitt #thanks for your service 🫡

midsummerflowers

i NEED someone to talk to about The Thing I Enjoy <- says the person who shuts down and says nothing when they get the chance to talk about The Thing They Enjoy

#half the time i'm not even like shy or self-conscious i just don't feel like articulating words #gestures at the thing like i have thoughts. don't feel like explaining them tho

pealeii

having a blorbo with a normalass name is truly the struggle. is that your john or my john? is that your eddie or my eddie? like help us all

pealeii

so many tags on this are glorious but this one killed me so bad

#the terror

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