I am amassing a collection of small spherical robots

|| she/her || 24 || I like gardening, nature, and art || autistic and chronically fatigued || voted most likely to be overly attached to non-human characters || icon by @makowwka || header by @marshallmigraine!!

[bubblegum-gf]

you can follow me for the fandom you enjoy but watch out

[pipshinwhatever]

logging onto tumblr like heyyy i'm thinking about the same character i've spent the past few weeks thinking about. no change here. just wanted to let yall know

[cjhclouds]

guy who recently played portal and portal 2 for the first time: Hi

[miss-americanbi]

grace you gotta lock in

[perepecha]

idk cayde in the backrooms

[the-overthinktank]

I know since they are terrestrial with jointed limbs everyone refers to Eridians as "spiders"/"spider-like" but because they have pentagonal symmetry and hard carapaces and a ventral mouth they make me think more of echinoderms. like a sea star or an urchin with jointed limbs. I imagine them kind of looking like urchin tests with legs

also their dorsal radiator slits especially make me think of the holes in a sand dollar test (though sand dollars are not perfectly radial)

i may be biased by how the ecosystem Eridians live in is essentially a very high-energy terrestrial ocean floor. Energy comes from the "surface" atmosphere where microscopic producers form the first link in a food web of increasingly larger predators and detritivores that Eridians are at the end of. Andy gives basically no information about their ecosystem besides "they eat flying things" but the planetary floor ecosystem is probably dominated by filter feeders that catch "marine snow" falling from the upper atmosphere and aeroplankton. I don't know how large flyers can get or anything about their lifecycles and behaviors or the mechanics of how they fly, because again, Andy did not care, but I can't help but imagining a whale fall situation with dozens of Eridians picking pieces off a gigantic corpse that fell from the sky like they're deep sea crabs

[phantost]

the comfy and cozy

speedpaint

[liebelesbe]

june is over... goodbye pride month, hello disability pride month!!

[liebelesbe]

let's all be disabled this month... together 🤝

[liebelesbe]

if you're not disabled yet: no need to worry! i can help. come closer.

[linolinoing]

guys pls don't die from the heat i love playing tumblr with you

[natjennie]

I'm sorry for making my whole personality about a different show every six months. it will happen again.

[natjennie]

blog thesis statement:

[portalzine]

Happy pride! I'm gearing up to assemble people for the second volume!

[lotldraws]

it's usually closer, on your chest

[glowbeam]

"Hi. Uh, hey. So here's the thing. I understand why you did what you did. Why you had — thought you had to. The great big cosmic cost/benefit analysis, and all. And that's a terrible thing to have been put on your shoulders. Like pretty much the absolute maximum that could be asked of a person, barring — uhh, y'know. And I get that, right, like I do get it, like I might be the only other living person — well, human person — who understands the magnitude of everything you were going through to any degree at all. And because of that I really wish I could tell you that it's all, like. Cool. You know? Like whatever. And I know I should.

"But I can't. Hah. Just like last time, right? I can't do it. I can't just do the right thing.

"I wish you a good life. Happiness, peace, eight hours of sleep at night. And if the governments are watching this, if my vote counts at all, I don't think she should be punished. But I do want you to remember me.

"Not, like, in the cute way. I mean I want you to remember. Whenever you see an old man walking a dog, or a child holding hands with her mother, whenever you see the rays of the afternoon sun streaking through the clouds like the sky was the canvas of your God... I want you to hear me screaming. Whenever the thought that you did something to be proud of even approaches your heart, I want you to remember me telling you 'No,' in plain fucking English.

"I know that's, y'know, mean. But you killed me, so it's probably fair. And I know you'll do what I ask, because you are, fundamentally, a really good person, Eva Stratt."

— Dr. Captain Ryland Grace, "i_dont_forgive_you.mp4"

[skaraptor]

something i haven't seen anyone talk about with project hail mary was one of my main takeaways from the film -- it's just how important the arts are to the sciences. the first way that grace and rocky are able to communicate is via art -- the tiny human sculpture and the two rings of eight to symbolize O2. the interweaving of art and science in the creation of project hail mary, from the beautiful cinematography to the costume design to the puppetry and soundtrack, is the thing that made the movie so dang impactful to us. as someone working in the sciences, thank you to all the artists who help us thrive

[soureevee]

Had this idea seeing all the other versions of the template

[the-thirteenth-prime]

I see half the fandom characterizing Adrian as patient and selfless, and I see the other half characterizing them as bitter and unaccommodating, and I also see the joking and non joking 'what if Rocky were the trolley operator' fics and ideas, and I've come to the conclusion that you all are missing the beauty of the superior third option that is Adrian also being traumatized and feral over their mate.

Thank about it. Rocky's a spitfire and bounces off the walls at baseline and they looked at that little autistic, bossy ball of energy and went 'yes. that's them. the creature I want to spend the next 500+ years with'. They have to at LEAST match their energy somewhat. And if you think you wouldn't be a fucking ball of PTSD and bitterness at your culture and society after fifty plus years of not knowing they were alive or dead, you're fucking operating on moon logic. Honestly, Adrian and the other families were probably begging for a rescue mission that never happened for various political and logical reasons; and while it probably would have ended in mass fatalities as well, so thank goodness that figurative and literal ship never got off the ground, the fact that it didn't happen probably burns more than a little, reasonable or unreasonable.

So one day Adrian gets some Eridian diplomat on their doorstep, and they're expecting the formal condolences at long last, but instead they go into this whole spiel of ' so. So! Turns out twenty two of the original crew died, but your mate survived! When did they die? Oh, early on, so your mate was submerged in crippling and literal deafening loneliness for over four decades; and now he's back and acting weird, and he's become codependent with this weird fragile squishy human being that's the only reason he came back at all, and he's refusing to send down the cure unless we make the blob an aquarium. Could you come to the space elevator and tell him to stop being so unreasonable?' If that were MY mate? I'd fucking lose it.

Just throwing things at this poor messenger and shrieking like " Oh! Oh!! So it's somehow Rocky's fault that you're refusing to take a few months out of the several hundred Eridian years we have left to ship the cure we already have to Threeworld before things actually become problematic to make sure one of the two saviors of our entire species doesn't die?! To give the sole survivor of the mission--my mate, who's been alone and in silence, with no one to watch him sleep, for hundreds of years--some sort of solace and peace?! And you're wondering why he's acting erratically?! Maybe you wouldn't be in this position at all if you'd sent the rescue mission for which we've pleaded for years at every single thrum! I don't care if this Grace thing is a literal giant space amoeba; get the fuck out of my house and tell the powers that be to give it literally everything it wants and needs!" And they're all 'be reasonable' and Adrian's like " I've been reasonable for hundreds of Eridian years, and you would not be in this situation if you'd actually sent a rescue mission and not simply wrung your claws and hoped for the best, so fucking live in the nest you made. All I'm going to do if you get me on the radio with Rocky right now is tell him he's doing amazing and give him advice on how to properly parboil the Taumoeba so that you can't even recover even the slightest scrap of DNA if you don't give the flesh blob that saved his life and saved OUR lives PLURAL goddamn vitamins." Like, they think it's bad that Rocky basically stands over Grace's sleeping body and hisses? Wait until they get the MUCH LARGER ERIDIAN doing that for Grace and Rocky. Wait until the much large Eridian leads the families of the dead twenty-two crewmates to the space elevator to riot because this sure sounds like a coverup to them!! This sure sounds like the deflection of blame on the sole survivor!! This sure sounds like the same paralysis that left them to die alone in space because you didn't want to admit failure!! Yes, I know, I'm weaving some sort of political intrigue plot that probably doesn't exist in canon. All I'm saying is that you all are missing the delicious implications of a mission that went radio silent for fifty plus earth years with no word from the government and no obvious attempt at rescue, followed by your partner coming home with the only being that's been around to watch him sleep since the rest of the crew died forty-some years ago, and people are calling him weird and changed. You'd be horrified. You'd be sick.

You'd be pissed the fuck off at every body of power that let this happen.

[nikoriis]

don't make this harder, please