The Shoelace Speakeasy

he/it/phey— aspiring jack-of-all-trades

[miles-edgewords]

ABOUT ME

AKA Actual Introduction Post Because It Just Came To My Attention That I Never Actually Made One

(pronoun page)

art/writing account: @pebblepoet

original post (non-repost/repost with commentary) tag: #milesrambles

i’m an adult; i don’t generally post anything over PG-13 on this blog but i know some people prefer to be aware. <3

Fandoms

(Except they get increasingly more… not)

- Dan and Phil

- Project Hail Mary

- Iron Lung

- ISWM

- Lackadaisy

- Sonic the Hedgehog

- Gravity Falls

- Hades

- Carmen Sandiego

- Ace Attorney

- Good Omens (i pirated it as soon as gaiman was outed tbc, fuck that guy)

- Trigun Stampede

- Over the Garden Wall

- Dimension 20: Fantasy High

- Promare

- Mouthwashing

- MCD (i currently have the tag blocked tho bc i haven’t finished it yet)

- Undertale (I got into it very late 😔)

- Oxenfree

- Sally Face

- Nimona

- Minecraft Story Mode (cringe is dead fight me)

- Markiplier (i wasn’t there for unus annus so i’m making up for it by binging all of his videos /hj)

- Cinema Therapy (do they have a fandom? I hope so)

- Danganronpa V1 and V2 but less plot and more “i stole these characters they’re mine now”

- Groundhog Day (the musical specifically)

- Sneakers (remember that nerd movie from 1992? no? well too bad I’m telling you about it anyway)

- Wargames (you know how the people who made the previously-mentioned nerd movie made a different movie 10 years earlier called wargames which ultimately inspired the creators to take an interest in whitehat hackers which eventually resulted in the creation of sneakers? no? well too bad, you know the drill)

- The True Meaning of Smekday (THE ANIMATED MOVIE DOES NOT DO IT JUSTICE I WILL PERISH ON THIS HILL)

- The Lifeline Games but specifically the Taylor ones

- Brennan Lee Mulligan (just. In general)

- Whatever it’s called when you have not consumed a single piece of media from a fandom but you know more about it than some of the fans because you have a friend who’s really into it and you like listening to their opinions/theories. (ie. I have watched playthroughs of Poppy Playtime and FNAF and I have enjoyed them by proxy)

Theatre

Roles I’ve played & other stuff I’ve done in theatre (excluding anything I did in school lol):

ACTING

- Karnak (Ride the Cyclone, Stone Soup Theatre Co.)

- Hanz* / Sailor (Cabaret, Stone Soup Theatre Co.)

- Shakespeare’s Valet (Something Rotten! Stone Soup Theatre Co.)

- Christmas Future / Man 1 (A Christmas Carol, Center Theatre Co.)

BTS/PROPS/OTHER

- Lead puppet designer & constructor / Pig 1 / Milky White Titty Committee** (Into the Woods, Stone Soup Theatre Co.

- SABM art lead (Ride the Cyclone, Stone Soup Theatre Co.)

- Props manager (Spitfire Grill, Stone Soup Theatre Co.

- Marley’s makeup, hair, and OHGODTHESECHAINSARE70POUNDSIMACTUALLYGONNADIEFORREAL manager (A Christmas Carol, Center Theatre Co.)

FOOTNOTES

*This was one of my favorite roles to play and I still don’t know if it’s meant to be spelled with a “z” or if our director just made a typo. Hans? Hanz? Hanzsz?

**Milky White’s udders kept falling off. It was a Whole Thing.

Hobbies

As an aspiring jack of all trades, I have a running list of hobbies which range from “I’m really bad at this but I have tried it and am familiar with it” to “I am Really Good at this Thing”. Here are all of those, in no particular order (to avoid personal bias, I will not be ranking which of these I’m best at. Feel free to guess though! I’m also happy to elaborate on any of them— I just don’t generally know how skilled I am in a broad sense and it also doesn’t really matter.)

- Poetry

- Fanfiction

- Novel-writing

- Other writing-related activities

- Puzzles (the kind that look like this 🧩)

- Puzzles (the kind that look like this 📝🔍🔐)

- Lock-picking

- Digital art

- 2D & 3D animation

- Traditional art (I like markers and pens and charcoal a lot)

- D&D

- Painting D&D miniatures

- Violin

- Piano

- Singing

- Acting

- Guitar (and related instruments)

- Banjo

- Pennywhistle

- Origami

- Cross-stitch

- Comic writing/illustration

- Journaling

- Gaming

- Listening to Every Genre of Music Ever

- Attempting to take care of houseplants

- Space/astronomy

- Ocean/marine biology

TO REITERATE, BECAUSE IT TOOK ME FOREVER TO GET THIS THROUGH MY HEAD. I AM NOT “GOOD” AT ALL OF THESE THINGS THEY ARE JUST THINGS I DO AND THAT IS NORMAL AND OKAY. HOBBIES DO NOT HAVE TO BE MONETIZABLE IN ORDER TO BE HOBBIES. IN FACT THAT’S LIKE THE SELLING POINT OF HOBBIES. I’M SORRY I DID NOT MEAN TO YELL THIS MUCH.

So uh

Yeah that’s me

Thank you for reading I will be updating this probably more often than I should

most gifs and blinkies are from decohoard :3

[woolay]

New set up

[gaycop]

Ut

[woolay]

Not what it says.

[luxfatale]

a study i did of “first braids to leave orbit (unconfirmed)” ft. Christina Koch and all of us🌎✨

[vulpe-astra]

Just know that I love you, and I'll see you when you get here.

[ozth]

fuckkkkkk I cleared the time loop first try

[ozth]

I woke up in the morning and everything was different

[steadynightruins]

Interview with Rise the zero-gravity indicator

[lynnimaybe]

People asking why Artemis II matters, lemme tell you

1. First woman to enter deep space, Christina Koch, went as a mission specialist to help test the preventative measures against the radiation that causes cancer in the ships, and primarily affects women. It affects men too but less so. Christina's literally so inspiring to me.

2. This mission and further Artemis missions are testing safety concerns to help push the boundary of what we've been able to explore up to this point. Safety is the primary purpose of the trip. This is the first step to exploring Mars and further planets! Including Europa (my beloved.)

3. Before this, only 24 humans have ever entered deep space. Of that 24, 5 are alive today and they're all in their 90s. We very much needed a newer trip to help confirm or change whatever information we had from years and years ago. Having 4 living testaments of space exploration is a very important part of keeping said exploration alive.

4. Even though it wasn't the primary purpose of the trip, we've gotten so many rare pictures! Including my favorite "Hello, World" taken by commander Reid Wiseman:

It's the second photo EVER to have a fulll illuminated Earth hemisphere, the first being "Blue Marble". All other photos of the Earth have been spliced. Blue Marble was taken during the day and Hello, World was taken at night (the exposure has been lifted for clarity). It's my new favorite photo, it's so beautiful.

[neonthewrite]

Hail Mary: Grace by Inches

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a mission he doesn't remember volunteering for. Alone on a ship scaled far too large for a borrower, he has to try to figure out why he's so far from home, and what he's supposed to do. On top of that, he needs to figure out why this mission is so prepared to have a borrower on the crew--standing at only six inches tall, it's easy to think none of this was meant for him. And yet, everywhere he looks he finds evidence that whoever built this ship built it with both humans and borrowers in mind. An impossible task looms over him. A scientific mystery has somehow sent him hurtling through space, impossibly far from any other human or borrower, and it's on him to surpass an extinction-level threat that doesn't care how big someone is. It will end the world all the same if he doesn't do something about it. But, despite what he thinks, he's not alone.

Artwork by the incredible @hailed-marys! Go check them out for some artwork, or even just some fun blogging. Extremely grateful to them for this lovely work ❤️

Read the story on AO3!

[wolfythewitch]

furthest we've ever been

[bulkhummus]

it takes grace 9 minutes to fully realize

[kickyourasswinston]

these four did not say anything but their facial expressions were some clear subtleties.

they did not want to be there at all.

im so glad they did not make rise subjected to this at all.

all i am saying is don’t want to see these four not smiling again at all

[sissiarte]

We will always choose Earth / Moon Joy

[shu-of-the-wind]

in case people aren't watching the live stream integrity landed completely perfect, by the book, no problems, and the ONLY issue that's happened is that the integrity can hear the navy rescue team on radio but the navy can't hear their responses

and all i can think is...these four people did something so fucking incredible and inspiring and beautiful and now it's them waiting to taxi to their gate at the airport and it's a small crowded sticky space that's probably warmer than any of them want and once again teams isn't fucking working

[thecrumbez]

Happy Pride Month to those two women dancing together in the foreground of the boat scene in Godzilla (1954).

I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.

[erratic-dragon-fruit]

out of the tags with you

[stiffyck]

I just made some BULLSHIT.

He/she Grace

[cloudabserk]

that damn quilt is so cool i want one so bad

[whyiswingdingsafont]

I think it’s really cool that in Project Hail Mary the astrophage, which are literally killing all life by eating stars, aren’t really treated as the villain or evil? From the very start Ryland is treating it with curiosity and fascination, wanting to understand more than destroy.

One of the most memorable scenes in the movie is when he’s IN the Petrova Line, and he’s having a moment. Because it’s beautiful. It’s destroying galaxies, uncountable lives, but it’s still beautiful.

The astrophage is a problem, yes, but it’s treated as any other organism. It’s just doing what it does, because it’s also alive and happens to eat stars. Ryland is just happy to have the chance to study it because it’s from space.