Why?

Started reading The Stormlight Archive and now The Cosmere is my entire personality? --- Finished: all of the Cosmere except Sunlit Man and Emberdark

[3motionally3xhausted]

My contribution of PHM fanart that took me so much longer to finish than I wanted

[shrugsinchinese]

Dude, your glasses

[luna-wish]

I think that the Lunar Chronicles movie coming out in 2028 instead of the 2010s is very significant. Back then they probably would've focused hard on making it another Hunger Games clone, and then put Counting Stars on the soundtrack or something.

[dead-men-disco]

After several instances of kids turning up to his class hungry and emptying his pockets of all the change he's got so they can buy something to eat, Grace scrapes together just enough to get a mini fridge that sits under his desk. He keeps it stocked full of different things - fruit, chocolate, yoghurts, energy drinks, etc. His own fridge sits a little emptier because of this, but he doesn't mind at all.

Years later, watching over his class of little Eridians, Grace closes his eyes and prays that his kids back home still have enough to eat without him there.

[meganofavonlea]

I reblogged a post yesterday about how Ryland Grace being a teacher is so important to me but I guess I just wanted to say more because like at least to me it really is that deep and I really can't stop thinking about it.

So for context, I am graduating from college this May and I am a physics major with a minor in secondary education. I have known from very early on that I wanted to be a high school physics teacher. I have thought about the big cool things like NASA so much (I even had an astrohpysics concentration for a little while there), and even thought about becoming a professor one day. But truly I realized that I was happiest when I was teaching students these concepts for the very first time, not just honing an already high level of understanding. I've had this rant for a long time about how physics is presented to the general public as the "hard science" and therefore pretty much every student steps into that class with apprehension and fear because, well, it's the hard science! I'm gonna be bad at it because I'm not a genius like Einstein, or even like freaking Sheldon Cooper, because pop culture plays a huge part of this too. It really makes me sad because it makes so many people just dismiss this subject as something that they think they could never possibly do, when at the end of the day, it's just the science of how things move, and you interact with it every day in highly specialized ways that you don't even realize that you fundamentally understand!

Just last night I was having a conversation with someone about the Artemis II mission and how much I loved learning more about it and how I watched the splash down the other day, and they asked me why I didn't just go work for NASA. And I told them that while I had considered it before, I truly wanted to be a teacher and that was where I was happiest. And I've known this person for a very very long time, they have known I have wanted to do this for forever. But they almost seemed disappointed after that, like I was settling for a lesser profession or something, and it just made me really sad?

But back to the Project Hail Mary point, and this will get spoilery concerning the very end, so fair warning. But it is so important to me that, not only is Ryland a teacher, but that he goes back to teaching at the end. Because he has realised that that is where his passion and happiness lies, in teaching others about the world/universe around them. He was confronted by Stratt and the others so many times, questioned constantly about why he left academia and why he "lowered himself" by becoming a middle school teacher when he could have done big things. Constantly second guessed by all of the incredible scientists around him. And they're right on some level, obviously Ryland is brilliant and he was probably the only person who could have saved Earth and Erid and all of that. But at the end of the day, after he has proven to both himself and the universe that he is capable of so much, that he is brilliant, that people were right to believe in him, he goes back to doing what he loves most. He goes back to teaching, to introducing kids to the world around them, to doing the thing that fills his buckets and that fulfills him most of all. I think I would have still liked PHM, cried,, given it 5 stars, all of that, if everything happened exactly the same and it cuts to him and Rocky on Erid hanging out in the dome and he just got to live out the rest of his days with his best friend. But the fact that he is back in the classroom truly is what made it an all time favorite and I will always love it for that.

[ongoing-catastrophe]

Its actually so important to me that Ryland Grace is a teacher. Not a professor, not someone at the top of their field teaching the smartest people, but a middle school science teacher. Of course he figured out how to communicate with an alien in under a day. His main expertise is explaining complex subjects to a group that doesnt have the vocabulary or context to fully understand them. He knows exactly how to simplify things down to its core principles without sacrificing any of the scientific logic. And he knows how to do it without having to throw around hyperspecific terminology.

[meganofavonlea]

Genuinely as someone who is an aspiring teacher (I’ll be student teaching next fall!), and who specifically wants to teach high school science, I haven’t been able to quite articulate to friends or even to myself exactly just how important it was to me that Ryland Grace is a teacher. Like both the book and the movie spoke to me in a way that not much else has, and this really put it beautifully so thank you.

[waterkangaroo]

for those who don't have the ebooks or original paperbacks, here are the original copyright notices because Matt is a delightful motherfucker

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Carl's Doomsday Scenario

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

The Gate of the Feral Gods

The Butcher's Masquerade

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

This Inevitable Ruin

bonus from every book:

this is Toby Dinniman

[meganofavonlea]

Arthur Pendragon SPECIFICALLY from BBC Merlin walked so that Adolin Kholin could run and I will stand by this

[writergracethepanda]

The individual stakes in the Lunar Chronicles are hilarious to me.

Cinder is the missing Lunar princess, and Iko’s her best friend. Kai is an Emperor and being perused by Levena as a political pawn. Wolf is one of Levena’s mind controlled soldiers who was sent after Scarlet, whose grandmother was part of Selene’s rescue team. Winter is Levana’s stepdaughter, and Jacin was raised alongside her and they basically the only family they each have left. Cress is Levena’s secret weapon who has been trying desperately to warn Earth about Levana’s plans, and is the daughter of a rouge Lunar scientist defying Levena.

And then there’s Thorne, who is only nvolved in saving the universe because Cinder took a wrong turn into his cell while trying to escape from prison 😂

[mio00-00]

Queen Clarion and Lord Milori ✨❄️

[trans-truthwatcher]

"average rosharan goes throug 3 traumatic events a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average rosharan goes through 0 traumatic events per year. Shallan Davar, who orphaned herself at 16 & goes through over 10,000 traumatic events each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[brothermouse-skeleton]

yOu HaVe tO rEaD tHe cOsMeRe BoOkS iN tHe RiGhT oRdEr Or YoU wOn'T kNoW wHaT's GoiNg On!

Gancho, Doug, my brother in Adonalsium (Highly), I'm going to hold your hand when I say this:

Not knowing what's going on is the default state for Cosmere protagonists.

Even Wit, who's whole deal is standing over there in the corner smirking like he knows what's going on, doesn't have a single rusting clue.

Read the whole Stormlight Archive backwards for all I care, you'll still find yourself better informed than Kaladin Stormface

[nightgrief]

hate to break it to youguys but the only acceptable actor playing rock would be well The Rock

[that-androgynous-lightweaver]

[anthrogenerate]

wondering how prevalent saying “y’all” is among english speakers

i’m (US) southern and say yall

southern and don’t say yall

i’m from a non-southern rural region and say yall

non-southern rural region and don’t say yall

i’m from another (US) region and say yall (non-southern urban/suburban)

another (US) region and don’t say yall

i’m from a non-US english speaking country and say yall

non-US english speaking country and don’t say yall

i’m a non-native english speaker and say yall

non-native english speaker and don’t say yall

other/show answers

Voting ended onAug 23, 2025

please note the map here as the regions considered the south here are the places labled: deep south, upper south (missouri and illinois you’re basically the midwest but i’m letting it slide. parts of oklahoma can stay bc they have good bbq), mid atlantic south, lower appalachia (im sorry but not you ohio, i have to draw a line somewhere), gulf coast, acadiana, texas (actually just all of texas), and low country. the ozarks and other appalachian regions are in a weird gray area , florida is just florida and some of these areas are basically the north to me but im going for linguistic patterns and don’t feel like hashing out cultural regions that much)

tbh this poll is currently focused on region and to honestly get the most accurate results i’d need to do several follow-ups breaking down things like ethnicity, gender, class, age, etc. (for example AAVE/AAE and dialects influenced by it are more likely to say yall regardless of region as it can be considered a dialect, ethnolect, or sociolect so is not as regionally determined) but let’s see how this goes first. the research designer in me is suffering bc of how broad this is but i honestly doubt yall would wanna fill out a google form for an internet stranger with no IRB and is really only doing this out of curiosity.

as someone from the “deep south,” even when i mask my accent i still can’t imagine not using y’all regularly. i feel like the word has become more prevalent as it kinda fills a linguistic gap but i want some yummy yummy data. if i missed something or you would like to elaborate on your specific region pls feel free to explain

[meganofavonlea]

You’d think one of these times I would learn, but nooooo, every time I start a new series and read the first book I think “wow, I should look up the first book on tumblr/tiktok to see what the fandom is like!” And every single solitary time I get spoiled immediately. And honestly at this point it’s on me, I won’t know the fandoms that are really good about tagging their spoilers I’ve either read the whole thing or have been burned. But like one of these times I have to learn to not press search until after I finish the whole thing

[julietcpulet]

Everyone: Have you watched K-pop demon hunters? The soundtrack is amazing! The visuals, incredible! Jinu and Rumi are adorable!

Me: Kitty kitty, cat cat, adorable blue floof 💙

His name canonically being Derpy only makes it that much better 🤣

[krossan]