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nomisunrider on Ao3

[thereigning-lorelai]

Rocky has built predator collector. Rocky chain spooled and ready. Grace pilot training not as good.

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[preserving-tiktok]

[kerink]

this morning i'm thinking about grace teaching the eridian scientists about evolution on earth, more specifically how some animals on earth have echolocation and that's why he had an easier time understanding their primary sense than they did his. and also that some animals that live in no light environments evolve to stop having light sensing entirely and animals who live in both high and low light environments can have both.

which makes grace wonder if there are eridian upper-atmosphere life forms that have light sense, and if any of the species that travel between the biomes have both.

the next thing rocky knows grace and the eridian scientists are conducting all kinds of experiments on upper-atmosphere life forms trying to see if there's something eridian biologists missed because they couldn't conceptualize a biological process.

rocky about to beat skulls in because they need to become human experts first so they can keep grace alive permanently and with confidence! the eridian scientists only survive because grace plays the "it's enrichment" card and rocky has to grumbly relent.

[lustcannibalism]

they should invent a way for me to do tasks without the mind torture

[lustcannibalism]

there is a world out there I can’t comprehend

[typecasto]

behold, context

[toweringclam]

[nomi--sunrider]

Why is this epistolary chapter for my New Fic fucking me over so hard, it was so goddamn easy for the last one

[nomi--sunrider]

Epistolary chapter is finished!

Now why is this self-defense training chapter for my New Fic fucking me over so hard, I have literally never done one of these and did not expect it to fight back

[nomi--sunrider]

Self-defense training chapter is finished!

Now here I am at an Almost Entirely Dialogue chapter for the New Fic. Dialogue. My specialty. My strength. And oh my FUCK do I really really really just not want to do it 😖

[nomi--sunrider]

I have bypassed the Almost Entirely Dialogue chapter to write a different Almost Entirely Dialogue chapter but with 5 characters instead of 2, and I have no idea why I'm finding it easier 🙄

[nomi--sunrider]

I finished the Almost Entirely Dialogue chapter with 5 characters and ho-ly shit.

You guys are SO not ready for this.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[ghostdaartist]

Bro videos are always 🔥 💯.. instant collaborations

[righthandarm-man]

can you remember the name of every person you’ve kissed?

yes, I remember all their names

I could name most of them but there are few I can’t remember

if you put all of them in a room I could put a name to at least half the faces

i’m not confident I could name a quarter of them, let alone half

I can’t remember more than one or two names

I’ve never kissed a soul and want to see the results

Remaining time: 3 days 3 hours

[prentiits]

talder was crazy. insane even. how did we as a society get past that

[mxgicdave]

what do i sacrifice

[mapsontheweb]

Most oddly named town in each US state.

[ohifonlyx33]

i love small towns in America.

[trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter]

🎶Volcano, Hawaii! Ding Dong, Texas!🎵

[moniquill]

Woonsocket and Moosup are not ‘odd’ they’re just Algonquian words.

[aetherograph]

Rhode Island’s weirdest is Little Compton. If we’re counting census-designated areas, it’s Harmony, a neighbourhood in Providence.

Connecticut’s is Bethany. If we’re counting ghost towns it’s Gay City or maybe Pleasure Beach. Unfortunately Connecticut is a really boring place and all the towns are named for Bible or England or geographical features.

I think California’s is actually Zzyzyx, but maybe the person making the map doesn’t count it, for reasons that should become clear if you go to the wikipedia page I linked. Twenty-Nine Palms is a pretty weird name too, as is Needles.

[wibblyrlin]

Moiraine felt that small tingle again as the light of saidar briefly surrounded the other woman. Any woman who could channel could feel another wielding the Power if she was close enough, but the tingle was unusual. Women who spent a lot of time together in their training sometimes felt it, but the sensation was supposed to fade away over time. Hers and Siuan’s never had. —New Spring, Robert Jordan

[krabbages]

This is the story of Mira, a dying kitten I rescued. I have started a GoFundMe to help pay for her medical bills as I am in a rough place financially. Her full story is posted on the GoFundMe.

Any support is appreciated, either through donations or shares 💖

Thank you for taking the time to read my little comic~ have a lovely day! ✨

Donate to Help Mira the Kitten Recover and Thrive, organized by Elizabeth DeLong

Mira is a 14-week-old kitten who was rescued from a life of starvation and ce… Elizabeth DeLong needs your support for Help Mira the Kitten

[catchymemes]

[theflowergrrl]

I've found cat tumblr and can't seem to get away ...

[hunter-rodrigez]

So I do 3D modeling and printing as a hobby, and a few weeks ago I designed wheel guards meant to prevent office chairs from running over cables and clothes... or your pet's tail.

I got the idea from cowcatchers old locomotives used to have.

Anyways, yesterday I uploaded the model to Thingiverse, and just hours after uploading it, the Community Relationship Manager of the whole website left a comment suggesting I enter the model into a competition that's currently being held on the site.

So I did... and now it's in third place not even a day later. First place is $500, but the competition still has a month to go.

Then the Community Manager contacted me again, telling me they want to feature my model in an upcoming design promotion.

Just, what is happening? I mostly made this thing for myself in, like, an hour, and now it's suddenly super popular? This is all a little bit overwhelming 😵‍💫

Other models I worked on for weeks didn't get nearly as popular. I swear, it's impossible to predict what people will like.

Anyways, if you want to print the wheel guards yourself, you can get the model here or here.

I also made a quiet version you can stick furniture felt pads on.

[these-violet-delights-fic]

People love simple, extremely practical things. I hope you win!

[elexuscal]

We do really need to consider this from Farai's POV though.

Your wife is a wonderful, caring planetary leader and scientist <3

She goes on what's meant to be a mundane planetary survey expedition

this turns into a corporate death trap she and her team just barely escape with their lives

after the death trap she gets kidnapped by the corporation that made the death trap due to them not wanting to pay damages

again. she and her team miraculously escape with their lives

after what easily had to be 6+ months she finally arrives home

Your wife is traumatized, unwilling to talk about or address this trauma, and now has a co-dependent relationship with a rogue SecUnit

You and the family are really trying not to hold the 'rogue SecUnit' thing against the Rogue SecUnit. Not its fault. But it is sarcastic and glares a lot and is non-social and has installed literal spydrones everywhere. It's willing to kill anyone who hurts your wife or her extended family. This is, to put it bluntly, a bit of an Adjustment for everyone.

Your wife decides to retire from being a planetary leader. One one hand, you think it's a good idea for her to take the time to focus on her mental health and be with her loved ones. On the other hand, it's concerning all of this has made her give up one of her passions.

One of your older children is going on her first off-planetary survey. This is good, obviously :) It's just. you are all still stressing from the trauma of your last family member's planetary survey.

It's fine. It's going to be fine. Your brother-in-law is going to be with her, and a bunch of your wife's long-standing colleagues, and-- you have complex feelings about this-- the SecUnit. it will be fine.

It is not fine.

The SecUnit and your brother-in-law and your daughter have all been kidnapped by a mysterious force for mysterious reasons.

Now your wife-- who is meant to be on indefinite mental health leave-- is off to save them.

You and your third partner want to go with her. You want to. But you have no skills for this, and family at home you need to care for. So you stay on the sidelines, waiting, waiting, waiting.

THEY'RE OKAY EVERYONE IS OKAY

thank fuck. phew. okay. now they're going to come home and--

what do you meant they're not coming home

what do you mean your child has decided to go to university off world at the school that kidnapped her

what do you mean your wife, instead of retiring, has decided to become some sort of anti-corporate activist

Yeah okay. This is not a conversation to have over the feed with a 2+ month time delay. You need to have an in-person conversation. You'll make a family trip of it; Nana and Sofia will come with. This is a good, normal, family visit

you all get kidnapped

[urie]

stop calling it a girl dinner and call it by its formal name: Fend For Yourself dinner in an ingredients household

[dustdotorg]

sometimes you will see a joke circulate within a fandom and at first it's all fun and games but then the slow and terrible realization starts to seep in that this will become in fact a widely-accepted way to read a specific situation between characters that were subject of said joke and there is nothing you can do about it but to watch the horrors unfold in real time