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22 Houston pronouns: he/they/it I mainly reblog stuff, but once every several months I’ll post something

[daily-clicks-for-palestine]

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[lhoraece]

Cuddles

[ironychan]

Really enjoying the idea that Grace's angry outburst in Denmark became a meme. The Angry Scientist. It shows up in discussions of egregiously bad sci-fi movies and arguments with antivaxxers and astrophage deniers, in forms ranging from pristine screencap to super-crunchy jpeg. There's an animated parody in the style of Ace Attorney. His students use it without realizing it's him.

In his first week on the Gansu six different people asked him about it and four asked Stratt why she hired Angry Scientist Meme guy.

[tintoysoldier]

In WWI, a tradition in German regiments was to photograph the tallest and shortest member of the regiment side by side. These photos were then often sold as postcards.

[hoodiegal]

I love how in most of these the tall person looks happy or neutral and the short person looks like they're considering the consequences of killing the camera man

[cidham]

amir khusrow (1253–1325 CE)

[cherepashkadrabbles]

This is back on my dash! And listen, I love to see Amir Khusrau getting appreciation, but this translation ignores a lot. The original rhymes! And scans! And does playful things with register! And conveys a tone of affectionate banter between the two speakers, not least because it has them both addressing each other as sakhi (translated above as “girl”) in the last two lines. I think taking some liberties with line order is worth it to preserve more of the rest—and I think there’s a better translation of sakhi. And so:

He only visits once a year, I splurge big on him when he’s here, His kisses make my tastebuds tango. Who, bitch, your man? Nah, bitch, a mango.

[utopians]

on a similar note, working an office job has me thinking a lot abt the weird dissonance between the projected disembodied identity of the Professional and the reality of a person as like. an oozing sweating animal. like you think abt it enough and the whole building starts to feel like a lot of dogs wearing collared shirts

[asteronomical]

you guys ever think of how grace and rocky have slowly assimilated into each other in all the years theyve spent alone together. you guys ever think of grace becoming more and more eridian and rocky becoming more and more human.

grace picking up the habit of humming simple eridian words. grace tapping his foot twice when he's asking a question. grace instinctively hiding away when eating. grace being unable to sleep unless someone's watching him. grace saying hello and goodbye the way eridians do.

rocky tilting his carapace to convey emotions. rocky turning to "face" grace even when he has omnidirectional hearing. rocky attempting to emulate human gestures with his biology. rocky learning of hugs and kisses and wanting to give and receive them all the time.

they're both not quite human. they're both not quite eridian either. not quite on earth, and not quite on erid just yet. just grace and rocky, among the stars. like the hail mary is their own planet and the universe is the sun she orbits. just them. no one else.

[synthyk]

he's flying away. go, my grace. be free.

[dogfennel]

sleep sleep sleep

[sunny-draws-things]

GUYS PIRATING IS BAD.

DO NOT PIRATE ANYTHING. NOT SHOWS/MOVIES. NOT GAMES OR SAFER GAMES. AND CERTAINLY NOT BOOKS. AND DO NOT DOWNLOAD YOUTUBE VIDEOS. AND NEVER EVER EVER WATCH MUSICALS WITHOUT GOING TO THEM AND DONT USE ADBLOCKERS/OTHER ADBLOCKER TO AVOID ADS AND VIRUSES PIRATING IS VERY HARMFUL TO THE CORPORATIONS WHO WORKS VERY HARD TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE AND THEIR MONEY. ANYONE WHO PIRATES IS BAD. BAD PIRATING. EVIL. OH AND THIS

[rewwwwww]

this is the type of shit they'd put on containers of grape concentrate during prohibition

[good-ass-posts]

[htkavampire]

Rocky doesn’t mind the snoring.

[strawberriesandstarsart]

Bored on their way to Erid

[gracelessgrayson]

listen to the heartbeat of the world

[crabussy]

"I'm so lazy for lying down so often" "I'm so greedy for eating such a big meal" MY BEAUTIFUL FRIEND!!!! YOUUUU ARE A GIANT OMNIVORE. YOU'RE MEGAFAUNA. DO YOU KNOWWW HOW ENERGY EXPENSIVE IT IS TO KEEP A GIANT OMNIVORE WITH A HUGE BRAIN RUNNING. very!!! very energy expensive!!! eat that burger take that nap. holy moly. you wonderful animal. your species is made for frequent meals and daytime rests and long sleeps. let yourself be a human.

[teapotpartythot]

I did some napkin math on the kilowatts it takes to run a human when you convert over from calories and 2000 calories a day is 2.326 kWh, or roughly a Jackery HomePower 3000 a day, and when you look at the stored energy in a typical person, i.e. stored as fat, I at least was kind of horrified and wondered why people aren't near constantly on fire, and then remembered that we're technically combustion engine, so we kind of are, begrudgingly, just not in a way that harms us.

[lamignonette]

[lewadny]

It took me way too long to finish this...