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long-term sufferer of incurable nonagesimitis. 24. they/them

[nonagesiiiimus]

we saw rachel chinhouriri on saturday night and my wife brought their DS and took these photos!!then, rachel grabbed the DS and brought it onstage!

bonus shot of my wife playing the ds during the intermission between alemeda and rachel

[dzgrizzle]

[bibliofran]

Pay attention to what is being cut -- public radio and television, libraries and museums, education, research. Elon knows how to count; he's counting the benefits he can take away from the public.

[ladycrimsonandblack]

murderbot using sanctuary moon dialogue for comfort — both for the preservation team but also for itself — is inspired. this is its comfort show! of course it's going to use it for comfort.

[securityunit-ese]

I said I would come back to cubicles after finishing the series and re-reading all systems red sooooo here's my take on repair cubicles v2

that is a fridge

that is where the secunit goes

For this essay I provide the following evidence:

Notes from CTRL-F the books:

cold/no temperature control

“cozy”

plastic "bed"

storage case near it

a door that slides closed

a door that seals once closed

resupply leads and repair leads are separate leads

contains leaking fluids

must be climbed into and out of

secunit lies in the cubicle when watching media

cubicles have an acrid odour

cubicles makes a constant humming noise

no padding in cubicles

cubicles DONT have a platform (table??) like ART's medsystem does

cubicles can be used to transport secunits instead of a transport box

described as "big smooth white boxes"

they can be locked but if power shuts off they can be manually opened from the inside but this breaks the door

they have external emergency data storage displays for if a repair shuts down or has errors

you can't see if a closed and shutdown cubicle contains a secunit until you open them

a human private rest cubicle reminds secunit of a transport box but NOT a repair cubicle.

a dark supply locker reminds secunit of a cubicle. THAT IS A FRIDGE

that's a fridge that's a fridge! that is. a fridge.

personal thoughts and wondering:

wouldn’t look like a bed because we don’t want people thinking secunits might be people.

climbed into/out of the cubicle - it is not platform height so there must be an edge or wall...

Possibly make it so a shutdown secunit is more accessible by technicians? lean over to work on them so can't be too deep .

so there's the resupply port and repair port but surely there are more for all the other fluids and stuff .. stored underneath the “bed” of the cubicle? would raise the secunit up a little for technician access.

I think the company would make them as small as possible to save on space because they’re cheap like that and that's why they're cold but "cozy".

don’t like what I’ve seen of repairs on the trailer but idk if that’s just repairs or meant to be the cubicle - just so open and on display while I got impressions it’s more dark and cozy (but cold).

should prob put a this way up on them so when they’re used for transport the secunits don’t end up rattled around upside down

[steampunkcorgi]

[onixiage]

my goats

[defectivegembrain]

babygirl I'm bothered by noises you wouldn't even hear

[defectivegembrain]

wrote this about sensory issues but people relating because of hallucinations or tinnitus or anything else I am shaking your hand in solidarity if you are comfortable with that

[thanergetic-hyperlinks]

Tamsyn Muir: “Here's a series about how a man's vindictiveness dooms the universe, all because his trauma left him incapable of believing in forgiveness over vengeance. As contrast, the protag in the first book reflects something closer to divinity by extending her abuser grace so that she can repent and change, and the protag of the third book begs her brother to not flatten a planet in revenge after having experienced forgiveness.”

too many TLT fans: “yass can't wait for my girlies to kill God!!!”

[officialunitedstates]

I want to be the first person on the moon to shoot a sniper rifle at earth and hit a wasp nest.  my whole life so far is leading up to that moment

[dat-soldier]

[dat-soldier]

You know what other popular tumblr post is about to hit a million?

[emily-e-draws]

when you get half eaten by a hostile creature cause you’ve gotta save your stupid clients 🙄

[k-ngpinz]

harrowhark sketches from a year ago

[wifegideonnav]

“No. A fair fight and you can go with the commission,” said Harrow. “If I win, you come to the muster, and you leave afterward—with the commission. If I lose, you leave now—with the commission.” She snatched the paper from the ground, pulled a fountain pen from her pocket, and slid it between her lips to stab it deeply into her cheek. It came out thick with blood—one of her party tricks, Gideon thought numbly—and signed: Pelleamena Novenarius, Reverend Mother of the Locked Tomb, Lady of Drearburh, Ruler of the Ninth House.

Gideon said, feeling idiotic: “That’s your mother’s signature.”

“I’m not going to sign as me, you moron, that would give the whole game away,” said Harrow.

not “the blood of the child can be substituted for the blood of their parent and necromantically no one can tell the difference” being canon since chapter fucking 2 of gtn

[pilgrimattinkercreek1974]

Oh ok so it turns out ive been borrowing grief from the future ! it turns out ive been preparing to lose the things i love rather than basking in the light of them while they last. Maybe i should nt do that

[evelynstarshine]

Not to defend Jod but, I didn’t read the flashbacks as saying, here is John a terrible man who made terrible decisions. But here is a man who was chosen by the planet to be it’s saviour, who despite being able to do literal miracles, capitalism and the power structures we have created were too big for any individual even a literal saviour to have any effect. Watch how he spirals against that making worse and worse decisions until Like yes, it’s bigger than him

[thanergetic-hyperlinks]

THANK YOU

[feefal]

Ugh… headache. Head splitting migraine, even.

[feefal]

Good news everyone I found the cause of headaches, it’s because of the angry blobs residing in your brain

[cognito-mode]

Are We the Baddies? Magic and Normativity in The Locked Tomb Series

Recently I was skimming through Tumblr—ever an excellent way of wasting time—when I scrolled to a post reacting to the book Nona the Ninth,

Hey! So, @tordotcom generously agreed to publish an essay I wrote. It's about The Locked Tomb series, how we define magic, and how (I think) Muir's conception of necromancy contributes to the themes of her books.

Tumblr makes a cameo.

Also discussed: Ursula K Le Guin's Earthsea series and ancient ideas of magic vs religion and science.

Give it a read if you're interested! And if you want to play a fun little game with it, try defining "magic" to yourself and see what you come up with. The essay references a definition of magic once proposed by the great Ted Chiang, so see how close your own definition comes to his!

[katakaluptastrophy]

I think the point about protagonist bias is really well put here - how it's not until Nona that we're granted an outside perspective on the society of the Nine Houses and the full extent of its horrors, having been lulled into at least tolerating it before.

(This also presents me with one of my regularly scheduled opportunities to remind you that, e.g. beloved mum-friend and helpful psychopomp Abigail Pent is also the feudal lord of a planet wealthy from colonial exploitation, is annexing the neighbouring planet, and spends a lot time talking about making blood offering to vengeful ghosts...)

[bambicest]

"stop commenting on actress's bodies" nah actually I think I will continue to comment on the fact that since the rise of ozempic every second actress looks like she's about to blow away in a strong wind because I lived through heroin chic and normalised eating disorders and insane body expectations the FIRST fucking time and saw the damage it did so I'm personally not going to stay silent and let choice feminism make extreme weight loss "acceptable" just because tiktok has convinced some of yall that any choice a woman makes is Valid just because she's a fucking woman like are you all fucking serious right now

[bambicest]

and I actually think we SHOULD be shaming these women like we should be calling them out for undoing 2+ decades of body positivity all so they can prance around with giant heads and skeletal wrists and visible ribs and I actually don't give a fuck about it being their "choice" because while they have the money and access to lose weight with a medication that wasn't fucking made for them (and then say oh no it's just a healthy diet and exercise tee hee 🤭), the 12 or 13 year old girls seeing them and thinking that's how they should look are going to use the only methods at their disposals to look like that and it is going to KILL THEM and I dont give a FUCK if it hurts some rich cunt's feelings or makes me a bad feminist if I say she's an irresponsible piece of shit for promoting such an extreme and unhealthy body image for the millions of young girls growing up on a new wave of insane body dysmorphia I don't give a FUCK!!!!!!!