Pélago

"Nothing begins just like that, on a certain date at a certain place. It all began in many places, and at many times, some even before you were born, in foreign countries, and in the minds of others." Julian Barnes • Queer • she/her •

[hiper-sensible]

[demilypyro]

so i'm supposed to believe the rest of the horde saw these two acting like this on a daily basis and nobody ever told them to just fuck already. i don't fucking buy it

[llamasocks-lou]

Epic concept: a streaming service whose sole purpose is to pick up cancelled queer media and finish it

[mournfulroses]

Ch'iu Chin, from a poem titled "Two Poems to the Tune of Narcissus by the River," featured in Women Poets of China

[jeniferprince]

just the two of us…

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[jeniferprince]

adrift 🐚✨

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[life-spire]

[loveridden1999]

person (non-practicing)

[sinni-ok-sessi]

I do think the ability to emoji-react is a net win for human communication. not only does it give you an outlet for 'I see and acknowledge this but don't have a verbal response' but it also adds a pleasing alethiometer element to things

my coworker announces that he's off to the dentist. someone reacts with a tooth emoji. is this a statement of dentist solidarity? a wish for my coworker to return with more (or fewer?) teeth than he set out with? simple word association? who can say

[segamascott]

[ovenroastedtwerkey]

another $15 million to transgenders

[jeniferprince]

moongazing

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[apollosunn-moved-deactivated202]

anyone else relate

[midnightclover]

[rylandgraces]

Project Hail Mary — 2026, dir. Phil Lord & Chris Miller

[bizarrocloudy]

The cinematography of this movie is so disorienting in such a cool way. It echoes the feelings of zero gravity (which runs parallel with themes of amnesia and confusion), as well as artificial gravity (spinning a centrifuge), and it highlights the crazy feeling of waking up in a world that's upside down (spaceship that is experiencing gravity due to acceleration so the floor is on the wall). We're talking emotions and consequences SPIRALING OUT. We're talking the gravity of ORBITS around STARS. We're talking the gravity of 2 friends being drawn together by the fabric of the universe.

And LIGHT! This movie is so much about light! The rainbows, the lens flares, the rhythmic dawn and dusk of Tau Ceti as they spin and spin in their centrifuge. Light is so important to humans.

[sparrow-olli]

This scene absolutely floored me. So much emotion in this moment. It's so beautiful!

[axolotl-cat]

MOVIE FACT:

there is no 'green screen' effect creating the red lights and glow. The entire thing was shot using IR cameras that would capture IR light from different bulbs all around the actor that no one else could see. SO -> THIS SHOT IS LIKE SEEING IT FOR REAL! it's exactly what the IR cameras on the ship see because it's actual IR light filmed on real IR cameras!

Note: most of this movie was made with practical effects, and for that my respect for it has increased 3-fold!

[teaboot]

So anyways with the rapid rise of fascism I feel it’s a good time to point out that it’s perfectly legal to follow unjust orders slowly, badly, or inefficiently

[teaboot]

Breaking the law, even an unjust law, has consequences that not all can afford. But also a very large number of us are also very stupid, or very confused, or very lazy, and so it’s not unreasonable that someone at the bottom of the chain of command might make a typo, or misplace some paperwork, or leave a Friday afternoon email for Monday morning.

When something goes wrong, or an operation slows down, because a low-level worker somewhere sent a package to the wrong address or left someone on hold for an hour or didn’t fill out a particular form correctly- Do you immediately assume malicious intent? Or do you usually just brush it off as some underpaid idiot being bad at their job?

[teaboot]

You also gotta not brag about it. Keep your political opinions on the down low. Be noncommittal or ignorant or undecided. Say things like “I’ve never heard of that”, “where did you hear that?” or “that’s interesting, I heard a conflicting story from here, how weird”. Never be outwardly confidant of what you know. When there is a silence, don’t fill it- leave the space and let the other fill it for you. That’s how you get information, that’s how you find sources, that’s how you reduce the value of anything others get out of you.

Virtue signalling by wearing pins and ribbons and loudly declaring your place is not safe in some environments. It will place scrutiny on you and everything you touch. Nobody believes the guy who says “fuck my boss and everything he stands for” scratches the boss’s car by accident, even if it is an accident.

If you want to slow the march of a tank, filling the path with mud is going do more than laying down in front of it.

[bastionofbibliophiles]

If you have the opportunity, act like The Good Soldier Švejk: "Through (possibly feigned) idiocy or incompetence, [Švejk] repeatedly manages to frustrate military authority and expose its stupidity in a form of passive resistance: the reader is left unclear, however, as to whether Švejk is genuinely incompetent, or acting quite deliberately with dumb insolence."

[radical-revolution]

[demoncity]

Over the Garden Wall (2014)