Translator to-be.

She/her - Living for the hope of it all. We're making it up as we go.

[burntundertones]

[sahlesummerhill]

[tinagodiva]

Bled, Slovenia 🇸🇮

[allthingseurope]

Barcelona, Spain

[allthingseurope]

Warsaw, Poland

[glimpsesofpeaceful]

ig credit: thelovelythings505

[i-will-arise-and-go-now]

— 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅.

𝓟𝓱: 𝓖𝓮𝓸𝓻𝓰𝓮 𝓒𝓸𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓻

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

People who don’t want to read The Martian in case the science is too complicated should be informed that it contains the lines “The best way to store the ingredients of water is to make them be water”, “It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft”, and “If I cut a hole in the wall of the hab, the air won’t stay inside any more”.

[neilarmstrong]

I love this fucking book

[osheamobile]

“I’ve said the words kilowatt-hours-per-sol so many times they’ve lost all meaning so I’m going to call them pirate-ninjas.

“So I need to generate nine hundred pirate-ninjas…”

[magnificentbane-deactivated2019]

there’s an entire chapter dedicated to him wondering how the cubs are doing while he’s stuck on mars, dying

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I like the part where the guys on Earth are like “He thinks we all gave up on him, and that he’s completely alone. I wonder what he’s thinking about right now.” And he’s like “How come Aquaman can control whales?”

[direwolfblackrose]

“ As with most of life’s problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation. “

“Actually, I was the very lowest ranked member of the crew. I would only be “in command” if I were the only remaining person.”

Two pages later… “What do you know? I’m in command”

“Me: “This is obviously a clog. How about I take it apart and check the internal tubing?” NASA: (after five hours of deliberation) “No. You’ll fuck it up and die.” So I took it apart.

And my personal favorite :” Also, I have duct tape. Ordinary duct tape, like you buy at a hardware store. Turns out even NASA can’t improve on duct tape. Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”

[eudaemxn]

shit I’m gonna have to read it now, aren’t I?

[eudaemxn]

This post *did* convince me to read it!! It just took nearly 5 years!

Anyway I’m obsessed with this book. I love when Sci-Fi is less “techno-babble and things the Author thought was super deep” (which often are genuinely super deep, but still) and more “normal person who knows a bit more than you do and has access to more advanced tech than you working through a problem”

(To be clear I do also like the former, im just obsessed with the latter)

This results in a lot of silly moments like those above but also dialogue that is way closer to my lived experience like:

[allthingseurope]

Barcelona, Spain

[mandylicious1]

Sant Jordi 2026 🌹🐉

[fullcravings]

Best Chocolate Alfajores (Argentinian Recipe)

[allthingseurope]

Porto, Portugal

[goth-queen]

[gumy-shark]

oh, no, you misunderstand me. those were my monkeys. yeah the circus and i have since parted ways. yeah it was the elephant thing, i dont really want to address that right now though

[svantetic]

[2seeitall]

Colors of Anafiotika (Plaka), Athens - Greece

[softpng]

the workday/weekend ratio is so off. like ethically.