mariofeds

[hyruviandoctor]

Just saw the absolutely braindead take that the Artemis II mission is "pure American propaganda," and I felt the sudden urge to explode.

Like, how stupid can you be? Do you understand how long it takes to actually successfully conduct a mission like this? Do you earnestly think this years-long, nearly decade-long, project was created specifically to distract from a war that wasn't happening and wasn't even something people considered a possibility when the project began? Do you genuinely believe that the purpose of this mission is not scientific? That we're learning nothing from this? That this does not represent a massive step for all of humanity?

This mission isn't even entirely made up of people from the United States - one of the astronauts aboard is Canadian! Like, yes, that's American in the literal sense of "person from North/South America", but it's very clear that that's not what the author of that post meant by "American."

People are so fucking dismissive of my entire field because they cannot see the importance of studying the universe beyond Earth because "we don't live there."

NEWSFLASH! THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IS OUR HOME!!

We can learn so much about where we live by studying what else is out there! Every single thing we learn about space, the moon, other planets, asteroids, comets, stars, etc. - it all helps us paint a better picture of Earth and of ourselves and of our place in the universe!

Acting like space research is just a tool for propaganda and that it holds no importance outside of that is just foolish, ignorant, and frankly reprehensible to me.

Are you not curious? Do you not feel the pull to explore the heavens? Do you not want to know what it's like beyond our atmosphere? Do you not care about who we are and where we come from and why we exist? Do you not see that the exploration and study of space is one of the only things in this era of strife and hatred that still manages to unite us?

There are people in space right now who have gone further away from Earth than any people ever have before, and all you care about is conspiracy theories and complaining.

Grow up.

[dukeofriven]

Thinking about this again for no particular reason.

[dukeofriven]

It needs to be screamed from the rooftops that Artemis is banking on your nostalgia for Apollo, a nostalgia shaped then and ever afterwards by pretending the very real opposition to Apollo, grounded not in some strawman 'anti-technology' viewpoint but in real, glum, depressing truths about who had to suffer to make it happen.

Victor Glover says he listens to 'Whitey on the Moon' every Monday to keep himself grounded, but its clear given the wrong, anodyne shit he says about it that he might be listening, but he's clearly not hearing. Like the grim reality is that, faced with a personal ambition to go to space, and the ethical problems that entailed, the former won out. As it probably would for most of, given the opportunity! But that's not good PR copy, so in Trump's America in 2026 he can say Whitey on the Moon is not about race, and how he's 'working for everyone' as though its not the work itself that is the problem.

[mariofeds]

respectfully, space infrastructure is such a crucial thing to set up for humanity's future that the ethics of this doesn't matter, the benefits for our whole species are so massive that there are hardly any ethical dilemmas that don't objectively favour spaceflight. Artemis II is the first step towards humanity having a permanent outpost on the moon, something which will be invaluable if maintained throughout the following decades and centuries. i understand that whoever wrote this song was mad about poverty being ignored but also, NASA has at no point taken up more than 5% of America's yearly budget.

[buttercupp3r]

never the boogeyman but always the most eager to initiate chaos

[midiscout]

Quetzal Grian!

[keshamoh]

I had nothing specially for Valentine's Day, so I'll post the sleeping scarians I recently drew

[chilewithcarnage]

white people aren't allowed to say crashing out anymore, y'all need to say you're losing your marbles or some shit

[blackautmedia]

A moment of silence for "crashing out" and "unc" because what non-Black people but especially the white ones have done to you is painful to see.

I am so serious and fully prepared to defend it when I say that appropriation and theft of language that you then criminalize its creators for is a facet of genocide.

It should be a call to draw solidarity with Indigenous peoples who have also had their language and culture both criminalized and extracted from when you compare the history of criminalizing language and then positioning the same culture as something you have a right to by way of a forced identity.

[mariofeds]

Holy fucking shit dude, its just slang, its just how fucking internet culture works, you do not have the right to stop the evolution of online culture and the English language because it hurts your feelings, Jesus christ you people just suck the fun out of everything (and no by "you people im not being racist, being an obnoxious moral puritan is not unique to race gender or anything else)

[fro3ncecremyo]

racist clown in denial🤡

[mariofeds]

touch grass

[homunculus-argument]

hey I wonder what happens if I put powdered milk into carbonated water

[homunculus-argument]

my cereal is loud and it's demanding to know why I would sin against both nature and god so thoughtlessly

[catgirlwheels]

...how does it taste?

[homunculus-argument]

bad

[writingtoolofdubiousintegrity]

the fizz comes from carbonic acid in the water splitting up into CO₂ and H₂O over time. And carbonic acid is – as an acid – sour.

By adding milk to sour water you've created a very convincing emulation of spoiled milk, so I'll believe in a heartbeat that the taste is Not Great™.

[homunculus-argument]

I have mastered the potion: Instant Spoiled Milk, therefore earning the rank of shittiest alchemist currently alive.

[tonia-aaaaa]

Last post of the year!! Drawing of the Past life finale (that i made way back when, and then forgot about, and now remembered)

So i can leave it in the. Past.

Yea.👍

[deadkraker]

I like watcher grian who is actually an eldritch horror beyond comprehension nor physical form but who tries his best to still disguise himself as juat a guy but is fucking terrible at it so Hes juat very unsettling and uncanny. And also Hes basically just wearing his old younger self’s face (pre-evo/start of evo) around despite being very much not 20 anymore. He is weird about his sense of self frfr.

For HC only grian I like making him juat a guy honeslty. Like hes a weird bird man whos got a lil more mass to him now than when he was still in his early twenties but who still will try to perch on your shoulder given the chance.

Both versions I love. And I can’t choose between them.

[mariofeds]

fuck canada's next aren't we

[v-risalab]

am i really seeing these fucking "its ok to not be hyperaware of everything, take a rest and close your phone" posts coming from fucking gringos. I hope you see every drop of blood spilled on your name on 4K and you never ever forget it.

[v-risalab]

@mariofeds ruder than bombing the capital of a sovereign nation?

If you live in us soil you enjoy the spoils from imperialism, isn't it ridiculous to remain ignorant of its consequences?

[mariofeds]

I dont live on us soil i just think being pissed at a bunch of people for what someone they didn't vote for did is pointless

[emilylovescookies]

a heart made fullmetal 🦾💕💥

[mariofeds]

AMAZING

[eirawashere]

When artblock, draw creature

[mariofeds]

amazing

[yerwamiq]

Finally drew something!!! I'm having struggles drawing grian, somehow every version I draw of him looks wrong but oh well, I'll keep experimenting with his design

[solargeist]

totally normal christmas where nothing bad happens ever. Is the moon strange ?

[delicate-viscera]

my favorite thing about punch-up jokes (such as "i hate all tmes," "white people are so annoying," etc) is their infinite capacity for weeding out false allies. because, y'know, jokes at the expense of an oppressive group shouldn't hurt you if you understand yourself to be a member of that privileged group who genuinely works to fight that oppression. your guilt and discomfort is a tell.

[delicate-viscera]

prev tags are so correct i wanted them on the post.

[mariofeds]

ok so what, are people just not allowed to set boundaries about what type of jokes they're comfortable with?

[tpwrtrmnky]

Ok but like. "Men in a marginalized demographic feel threatened by intersectional feminist analysis performed by women in that demographic" is like. An established pattern.

The idea that it's not just that pattern repeating itself for the backlash to transfeminism in particular is... literally just misgendering. Of everyone involved.

[mariofeds]

hmmm i wonder why people who are put down and society get upset when they're treated like "opressers" by assholes on tumblr, and have their struggles ignored because "misandry isn't real" what an absolute fucking mystery, the way you people talk about autstic men is almost as disgusting as the way you talk about trans men