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[monstrouscrew]

we are many 🙃 with many things to do.

we write our thoughts down here, we draw and sometimes write fictional stuff, using this flawed meat based machine which carries us through time - check #k's art if interested.

if you see a post, it's okay to reblog. if you see art, it's okay to react in the tags and to comment. if we see you as an unpleasant threat, we notify you once, then bye.

other places: @/deepspace_ksw on instagram, @deepspaceksw.bsky.social on bluesky (enjoy the fall ~~~)

aesthetics made by @abelien-draws - follow them for their graphics: wonderful landscapes and still life.

[autumngracy]

Saw this twitter post and instantly started looking for pictures of Stratt to use it with

[monstrouscrew]

our mind is a time machine, our body is a walking mecha suit we inhabit, struggling to control it, and yet we create things with it.

our comfort zone is obsolete stuff, our views on most things are problematic. an honest question about the amount of fucks returns an extremely small value, still above zero, of course (you wouldn't have to read the commentary otherwise).

our memory returns a flash, series of explosions. oh, if 🌑 were less single braincell driven edgelord back then. however, another missing part is found, clicks and works quite well. the mirror corridor has one more framed element, the side effect fear is unavoidable. and no, it is not what you think it is.

and silly AUs? yes, double, please.

(brief ID in alt)

[aidonotknow]

summer festival

[sporddreki]

understanding deidara's art

deidara is a loving hommage to famous japanese artist tarō okamoto. their connection runs like a thread through his entire character, ranging from his famous quote "art is an explosion", to his interest in sculpting, to the designs of his art pieces and even to his characteristic hand mouths. this post is intended as an overview for naruto fans to understand him and his art better.

men aflame (1955), tree of children (1985), the salon of the tokyo tarō okamoto museum

tarō okamoto is a sculptor and painter of the 20th century japanese avant-garde. while his art is more colorful and abstract than deidara's more simplistic white clay creatures, you can see an obvious inspiration in their design. okamoto studied ethnography and was inspired by the ancient pottery of the jōmon people (a hunter-gatherer society from 14k-300 BCE), giving his art its characteristic archaic touch. similarily, deidara was given an interest in sculpting and clay work, and more often than not he represents a more primitive approach towards art and life as a whole. i recommend to look up okamoto's many artworks and see for yourself, especially his sculpture garden.

okamoto's tower of the sun is his most renown piece and many fans will recognize it as the shape of deidara's final C0 explosion. while many have seen the outside, the inside of the tower is less known: a spectacle of hundreds of simple life forms at the bottom, gradually evolving to humankind at the top. deidara's C0 suicide bomb is not just a hommage to the real life version, but a contrasting commentary to the life-affirming original.

deidara's iconic exclaimation "art is an explosion" (geijutsu wa bakuhatsu da) is a direct reference to okamoto as well. it became famous through a maxell tv commercial, the video is sadly not the original one, but one of many featuring his quote. it's fairly well known across japan and even got him the silly tokosatsu alter ego taroman using this phrase. there is depth to this quote: okamoto explained that he sees art as a spontaneous eruption of life and creative spirit, much like the big bang. while it isnt taken as literal as deidara's explosions, they certainly share an outlook. there is room to philosophize about how this aligns with deidara's destructive nature and how he percieves his own art using the lens of okamoto. how an explosion can both destroy and create, how all of our movement and progress stems from one singular explosion from the beginning of the universe, how art is just a smaller version of this bang of creation inside of us, and so on. i believe it gives a better picture as to why deidara has such a deep-seated obsession with this concept. for some additional fun, compare it to sasori's contrasting perspective.

last but not least... looks familiar, doesn't it?

[gwen-starkk]

ngl the akatsuki as a band would be cool asf

[monstrouscrew]

fun fact: we've got "bl00dуmαrу" blocked on tumblr, but our instagram feed decided it's okay to recommend comic strips about it, and it looks fine. probably because the feed there is a soup made of all we follow and stuff like that, and here we check the main tag hoping it's romance&sex free.

still a fun fact. brains vs algorithms. oops.

and, in addition, all our favourite [cosmic] drone and ambient music now looks seasoned with PHM imagery, which doesn't make it any less favourite. good good :::)

[sharkfiinn]

i wonder if eridian hearing aids could exist

i feel like there'd be a lot of complex calibration required if you wanted to improve an eridian's echolocation

[kaddyssammlung]

[ringosnoop]

they're all for me

[gender-kenvy]

idk I think there's something in the grammar of the translation/the way Rocky utilizes names (Grace-Rocky instead of 'we', for example) that lends itself to a near-total lack of pronouns in Eridian.

Like, they, it, okay I can understand, but I really like the idea that they mostly refer to everyone by name at all times if the name is known. "Grace say Grace will die, Rocky fix" I know there were limitations in the translation, and that Grace gets more fluent in Eridian, but mind that the end result in the book is itself still a translation, and is shown to the reader by being a very smooth English which of course is incredibly different from Eridian.

The translation itself does differ in the book, with Rocky using more I's and you's, so maybe this doesn't hold up super well, but I still think it's a compelling thought nonetheless of just...not being a single-pronoun language, but one that either has none or very few, or else only uses them rarely for people. And honestly, even for places or things -- with their perfect memory, "that thingie" is probably an astonishingly rare occurrence.

"Grace go to Adrian house, meet Adrian friend."

"Who is Adrian friend?" (stranger referred to in proximity to someone known in this case, and either direct or indirect introduction occurs after which point only the name is used.)

A complete stranger nobody knows strolls into town or is acting suspicious or whathaveyou? Ok. "Does anybody know that one. Who is that person." Which is an equal use to 'them' or 'it,' I just think the language and culture would utilize it in only very specific ways. "Who is the unnamed one?"

We won't get into more abstract pronouns like 'who' and 'anyone' and 'that' and all that hyper grammatical stuff, it's beyond my linguistic ability in English much less figurative alien languages haha

[monstrouscrew]

what we love about PHM, both the book and the film, is that this story neither censors nor glorifies death.

interruption: we had a dream. we went to rewatch PHM with a friend in a cheap apart hotel like room with blue walls. that version was different, though; we were late and entered the room when Grace, in his silly movie red EVA suit, was exploring some sort of an asteroid. the asteroid was a very small one, almost a ship-like (speaking in Eridian ship sizes) and had a brass or even golden pyrite coloured scaly surface. the scales vibrated while Grace was climbing cautiously across the surface, and we could heard the sound as if it was for Grace (actual sound design of the real film was impressive!). eventually, Grace found a golden plate with engravings buried among the scales. it was somewhat intact, but later, aboard the Hail Mary (presumably), he discussed that founding with Rocky, as it was not the first, and came to the conclusion that, while Grace was absent, humans invented some type of space missiles, launched them and destroyed both Voyagers.

slowly coming back: we will take this idea for our thermonuclear AU.

back, finally: even in the dream, Grace didn't say something like "there's no Voyagers/they undid them". directly, "humans destroyed the Voyagers". and, in the wake version of the story we all know, there is no "unaliving", "they aren't with us" and stuff like that. a transparent Astrophage cell. grey skin of space mummies which once were humans, breathing, friends and crewmates. Rocky, saying directly - or Grace, translating in such a manner - "died". both taking turns in almost dying. and, no, the fairy tale like movie ending doesn't change it, it has an effect of "until we die, we're going to live the hell out of it".

death is inevitable; death is the force no one can actually fight and win in the end; death is a part of the universe. when a human faces death, it shows what this human is; when a human dies, it shows what the human's life was about. same about Eridians, we think.

Grace is brave, if we look at his reaction to death. he doesn't try to ignore it, to deny it, to avoid or censor it for himself. yes, he makes an attempt to avoid the topic when the kids in class are curious about the Petrova Line, but not for long; and yes, he doesn't tell Rocky he won't go home because he's meant to die here, but did Grace actually forget the fact in the movie? we have doubts.

death makes you a person. and speaking in euphemisms about it doesn't make anyone immortal. we understand a lot of real trigger warnings, but death? there will be a day in everyone's life when death will come for the first time.

[thehmn]

Listening to Andy Weir talk about eridians is so funny because fans are always talking about Rocky and Adrian as these “soft” adorable aliens but Weir won’t ever let us forget that their species are apex predators on their planet. Not like humans who became apex predators by inventing weapons, but natural top of the foodchain like lions or polar bears. So far I haven’t found an interview where Weir explains who ate eridians in the ancient past that caused them to watch over each other while they slept; another predator species or rivaling eridians.

Grace is joking around with a selectively violent creature that can rip his soft squishy body apart in an instant!

But it’s also a lot of fun to hear Weir talk about all the stuff he wants to include in a possible sequel, like the fact that eridians can have several conversations at once even with the same eridian. He imagine Rocky and Adrian bickering in one conversation while having a nice conversation at the same time that slowly turns into a fight and all of a sudden they’re yelling at each other in two conversations about different things.

He also says they have terrible spacial memory because they can see everything around them all the time thanks to their echo location so to them it’s crazy that humans can only see in one direction but still remember what’s behind them and even what the last room they were in looks like. Apparently eridians mostly just remember that the room exists and that it has the computer in it but if you asked them where the computer is placed in the room they’ll struggle to give a precise answer.

And Rocky got scared when Grace hugged him because eridians don’t have a concept of expressing affection with physical touch. To them it’s only neutral or violent because thanks to their hard shell they can’t really feel much. They only use it to move each other around or to break through their prey’s shell to get to the soft insides. So in their inter-species friendship only Grace would feel any desire to touch Rocky. It makes it very cute that Rocky joins in on Grace’s hugging ritual. It’s purely for Grace’s sake.

[stargirl-and-potts]

I can't stop thinking of Grace being reborn on the ship. Gosling calls the coma bag his amniotic sac. He's released from it wobbly, frightened, struggling to speak, like a brand new baby; is stunned to find out he's been released into an enormous universe with no instructions. He encounters death immediately without understanding. He has to learn to know himself from nothing--"Am I smart?" He cries and screams over how overwhelming it all is, like a toddler shoved into a world they can't control.

We watch him through his angsty teen years learning the little things that make him himself -- he likes cilantro, he has muscles, he has a sciencey brain -- but none of that gives him a purpose. He goes into depressed undergrad party mode, in a silly hat, soaked in vodka, asking himself what the point of it all is.

But then he sees the ship's golden wall carved with the mission, the memory of the people before him who worked to get him this far, the children coming after him who are depending on him, and something shifts. His shoulders straighten. He takes a deep breath and tosses the little Earth-ball into the air. He understands very little yet, like a young adult just trying to join the flow of community and history. But Grace has found his adulthood.

After that he can face mortality, responsibility; he puts on his uniform; buries his crewmates. He can grieve them properly and face the future for Earth's sake. After that he's ready to try to meet the moment he's in, even though like all of us he knows now that he will die. And he is ready to meet and love the people different from him who will become his family, his final home. He has dealt with fear and loneliness and loss; he's ready for life. He's grown up.

[monstrouscrew]

PHM tumblr, there's a question: which fanmade Rocky ask blog does write answers not in simplified English? for research purposes only. thx.

[monstrouscrew]

among all the leading-to-imprisonment things Eva Stratt did to save humans was not taking into account humans in general, of course.

does anyone of us really think all the uncontacted peoples currently living on Earth would consent to all the saving measures? to "saving" them at all? Astrophage is natural; deaths and extinction caused by Astrophage would be natural events. western civilization who started the project and forced its values on peoples around the globe, so sure of its right of deciding for everyone what's necessary. and movie!Stratt who believes in god doesn't make it more comfortable.

of course, it's a book. of course, it's the author who probably has no idea about uncontacted peoples. but we doubt very much that the fictional Earth in the book is all cities and internet and fossil fuel industry. so it's an additional idea for someone's fanwork. Stratt thinking about those communities which perished without knowing why, because they weren't warned.

[bulkhummus]

The importance of his doctorate in molecular biology aside, the way in which Ryland Grace approaches an alien life form with curiosity, compassion and kindness is indicative of his lived experience as a teacher in a middle school.

It is one thing to be able to teach effectively, and another to manage a variety of different individuals needs while maintaining engagement. Every skill that Grace uses in his meeting of Rocky, and building a relationship with him, whether he remembers or not, are skills a good educator and mentor uses.

To not assume ill intent. To approach first with curiosity. To explain difficult concepts in a palatable way without condescension or malice. To empathize with one's situation and acknowledge how it may shape one's responses. To exercise patience. To adapt and shift gears in the face of uncertainty. To remain calm in the height of stress and remain a leader.

Grace as a scientist yes, but as a teacher, maintaining an openness to not only work with Rocky, but to also embrace his differences and utilize his strengths to find creative solutions that benefit both of them.

History is fraught with disputes and wars driven by ignorance and sustained by fear of unique cultures and experiences that are different to our own. It is practically in our DNA to reject or fear that of which is different to us, and so it is not weak to trust or to be kind. It is harder to be these things, because the opposing forces come so effortlessly.

Grace's inclination toward 'flight' instead of 'fight' is not an indicator of weakness. It is preservation. It is learned behavior. To take a step back, recalibrate and approach again. You do not win students over by being a fearless dictator. You win them over by treating them like people, and acknowledging where you yourself have room for growth. Ryland Grace is a coward for many reasons that define his narrative, but being trusting and kind are not among them.

Humanity owes its salvation to Ryland Grace the middle school teacher.