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@moreperiphrastic
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we're not going to make it
we will make it
it'll take too long to rebuild ourselves
we will make it
but what if we don't wake up in the morning
we will make it
i don't see a future with me in it
we will make it
we'll give up long before then
we will make it
im scared
i love you. we will make it
The votes on this post. Oh. A poem in poll form, interactive art, the fact we can see how the other people reading it felt. im. this is really good.
couldn’t stop thinking about this post
gotta lie down every time I remember this recording and the post about it
babe are you okay i saw you were reblogging “No Children (live at the bottom of the hill)” again?
All shall be well someday
One of my life regrets will always be that I somehow saw them in concert before I knew all the words to the songs. But I will still remember being in the middle of a crowd of people doing This Year, every year that's gotten harder since then.
alt-j / cinnamon toast crunch advertisements / simone weil / cinnamon toast crunch advertisements / frank bidart
has tumblr culture circled back around to voreposting already
hi. what the hell is gideon the ninth about
There are some characters where giving them therapy and cleaning them up is the fanfiction equivalent of buying antique furniture and painting it white
It is really important to me that all of you learn about Al Bean, astronaut on Apollo 12 and the fourth man to walk on the moon, who after 20 years in the US Navy and 18 years with NASA during which he spent 69 days in space and more than 10 hours doing EVAs on the moon , retired to become a painter.
He is my favorite astronaut for any number of reasons, but he’s also one of my favorite visual artists.
Like, look at this stuff????
It’s all so expressive and textured and colorful! He literally painted his own experience on the moon! And that's just really fucking cool to me!
Just look at this! This is one of my absolute favorite emotions of all time. Is Anyone Out There? is like the ultimate reaction image. Any time I have an existential crisis, this is how I picture myself.
And then there's this one:
The Fantasy
For all of the six Apollo missions to land on the moon, there was no spare time. Every second of their time on the surface was budgeted to perfection: sleeping, eating, putting on the suits, entering and exiting the LEM, rock collection, setting up longterm experiments to transmit data back to Earth, everything. These timetables usually got screwed over by something, but for the most part the astronauts stuck to them.
The crew of Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Al Bean, and Dick Gordon) had other plans. Conrad and Bean had snuck a small camera with a timer into the LEM to take a couple pictures together on the moon throughout the mission. They had hidden the key for the timer in one of the rock collection bags, with the idea being to grab the key soon after landing, take some fun photos here and there, and then sneak the camera back to Earth to develop them. They had practiced where they would hide the key and how to get it out from under the collected rocks back on Earth dozens of times.
But when they got to the moon, the key was nowhere to be found. Al Bean spent precious time digging through the collection bags before he called it off. The camera had been pushing their luck anyways, he couldn't afford to spend anymore time not on the mission objectives. Conrad and Bean continued the mission as per the NASA plan while Dick Gordon orbited overhead.
Fast forward to the very end of the mission. Bean and Conrad are doing last checks of the LEM before they enter for the last time and depart from the moon. As Bean is stowing one of the collection bags, the camera key falls out. The unofficially planned photo time has come and gone, and he tosses the key over his shoulder to rest forever on the surface of the moon.
This painting, The Fantasy, is that moment. There have never been three people on the moon at the same time, there was never an unofficial photo shoot on the moon, this picture could never have happened.
"The most experienced astronaut was designated commander, in charge of all aspects of the mission, including flying the lunar module. Prudent thinking suggested that the next-most-experienced crew member be assigned to take care of the command module, since it was our only way back home. Pete had flown two Gemini flights, the second with Dick as his crewmate. This left the least experienced - me - to accompany the commander on the lunar surface.
"I was the rookie. I had not flown at all; yet I got the prize assignment. But not once during the three years of training which preceded our mission did Dick say that it wasn't fair and that he wished he could walk on the moon, too. I do not have his unwavering discipline or strength of character.
"We often fantasized about Dick's joining us on the moon but we never found a way. In my paintings, though, I can have it my way. Now, at last, our best friend has come the last sixty miles." - Al Bean, about The Fantasy.
The Alan Bean Gallery
To be honest, this one
Almost made me cry right now.
I love it. Something about it feels so incredibly human. The emotion on display, even without a face to show it. This is magnificent. Truly magnificent. I feel it in my soul.
something has gone deeply wrong when "focusing pragmatically on issues you can influence and working to make life better for yourself and your community" is considered an unserious distraction while "endlessly exposing yourself to media about distressing situations you can't control" is considered political engagement
Everybody with the brainrot over the Locked Tomb is correct and I am never going to recover from this. It's like everything I was already having brainrot over right now bundled up together.
Okay but like, how is Tumblr literally the only social media site ever where I return to it after a long absence, at a very bad time in my life, only to discover that my dashboard is actually full of things that make me feel better.
I am probably not going to be reblogging much of it but rest assured that I am basically just logging back into Tumblr again periodically to search for Bang Bravern shitposts to yell about on Discord.
Life is really pretty good in all respects right now, though, for the record.
For one thing, it's got Bravern in it.
tumblr is so funny it’s just scrapbooking for your hyperfixations. like yeah here’s a gifset that’s here for no reason other than the fact that I think it’s Pretty. here’s hugh dancy for the same reason. here’s me rambling about the thing that’s been itching my brain for months. here’s me giggling in the corner. here’s unadulterated mental illness
favorite thing that happens on tumblr is when someone is like "it's so easy to be not racist, learn how this foreign word is pronounced" and they give wrong pronunciation
the fact is that learning to pronounce a foreign word like a native speaker is never easy and that you always need to anglicize it to a degree in english
people are like "its that simple" ask any linguist they will tell you no its not.
Yeah I hate that post, approximating /tɬ/ as /tʃ/ just because it *sounds like* a ch sound to an english speaker isn't how it's "actually pronounced". iirc some modern dialects turn it into /t/ and /l/ which would be imo better approximations because they're actually in use. Like this is why it's never a simple matter. you dont just. tell people what you *think* it sounds like is the "correct" pronunciation because it's always way more complicated than just approximating the sounds.
Like if you gave me a korean word and asked me how to pronounce it, I wouldn't be able to tell you. Am I gonna have to lecture you about how consonant allophony works in Korean, which is completely incompatible with English? Am I going to have to explain dialectal variation? Am I going to have to explain the subtleties of how the stops are pronounced? There isnt a simple answer. It's never simple. Sometimes it's enough to tell people that yes, it's pronounced duck-boke-ghee when it's not really. But don't pretend like it's a simple matter because it's never simple
good riddance live
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