Constellations, Misc.

oren | he/they

[kawaoneechan]

[glamrockmike]

realizing that the online sphere and especially tumblr is NOT a good sample for ‘what everyone thinks’ is so, so, so good for your mental health and moral OCD. i swear to god. realizing that you don’t have to live your actual life like you’re being hunted for sport because the average tumblr user will hunt you for sport for wording something slightly weird or engaging in the wrong stuff or whatever is so incredible. like no you’re actually not fucked up and evil for not donating or for watching that one indie cartoon or questioning a post that everybody is agreeing with. that’s just tumblrs georg making you feel that way

[estro-boi]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[the-dragon-hearted]

I raise you:

[revilloutionaire]

someone edited the Artemis II mission to “We Know The Way” from the Moana soundtrack and that was kind of my last straw. I broke down sobbing. We humans have gone from using the stars to navigate the seas, to navigating through the stars and returning by landing in the seas. Humanity is so beautiful when we work together like this. We are voyagers. We were always meant to explore the beautiful world we were given.

(edit) link to the edit in the comments!

(edit 2) i found another one. cried again.

[seventropy]

i love writing until it comes time to actually plan a fic and write it and proofread it and send itoff for editing and then proofreading it again and

[luna-azzurra]

The writer relationship with deadlines is genuinely fascinating because we will do absolutely nothing for six weeks and then produce an enormous amount of work in 72 hours of sustained panic and the quality is roughly the same either way and we know this and it has taught us nothing. Wvery project we think this time will be different. It is not different. The panic arrives exactly when it needs to. We have optimised for this without meaning to.

[luna-azzurra]

Dialogue Prompts Said at 3am!!

⋆˙⟡ "Are you awake?" - "I am now." - "Good."

⋆˙⟡ "I keep thinking about something you said. Two years ago."

⋆˙⟡ "I don't want to be alone right now."

⋆˙⟡ "Do you ever think about what we could have been?"

⋆˙⟡ "I'm not okay." - "I know." - "How did you know?" - "You called."

⋆˙⟡ "I think I've been lying to myself for a really long time."

⋆˙⟡ "Stay on the line. You don't have to talk."

⋆˙⟡ "Why does everything feel worse at night?"

⋆˙⟡ "I miss you and I don't know what to do with that."

⋆˙⟡ "I should let you sleep." - "Don't hang up yet."

⋆˙⟡ "If I tell you something, do you promise not to make it weird?"

⋆˙⟡ "I think I love you." Silence. "It's three in the morning." - "I know."

[valtsv]

i LOVE the idea of "i can't win, but you can lose" in fictional confrontations it is SO fucking tasty. the human nature to self destruct and the human nature to survive by any means necessary combined at its finest.

[i-am-a-fish]

I hope you get your favorite food this week and your favorite drink and your favorite 2k dollars

[i-am-a-fish]

I'm sorry there's no magic in this post I'm just talking. I hope good stuff happens to people online I hope good things happen to all of us

[teathattast]

[badtothebonita]

It’s that time of year again

[themaninyourcomputer]

[selfship-quotes]

I love soulmates but also this-

[qilingxiong]

[zzoupz]

ive caught myself speaking in 3s like rocky (good good good, etc) irl multiple times and often and idk if thats something i already do but didnt pay attention to until now or if rocky is actually rubbing his nasty carapace off on me

[capt-sievert]

i started doing the "question" thing if that makes you feel less alone

[zzoupz]

it is literally so addicting its like tone tags if they were awesome, observation

[zzoupz]

[icedsodapop]

Me: hey don't you think it's fucked up that white characters are defended by fans even when they are written to be villains in text, but morally ambiguous Black and Brown characters are seen as the fucking worst by fandom?

Fandom person: So, you are a pickme.

Me:

[creekfiend]

a funny thing about having conversations with people within institutions (academic in this case but also others) about gatekeeping, is that you end up having a conversation over and over in which you're like, "hey this alligator spike pit moat you have erected around your institution is keeping a lot of people out," and they're like, "well *I* navigated the alligator spike pit moat just fine," and you're like, "right. by dint of us having this conversation, you within the institution and me without, it is understood that you navigated the alligator spike pit moat. due to that being an inherent requirement of entering the institution," and they're like, "I don't think you understand the prestigious history of our alligator spike pit moat," and you're like, "is there a reason why there needs to be an alligator spike pit moat encircling the concept of higher education?" and they're like, "look, the alligator spike pit moat isn't for everyone. some people just aren't cut out for the alligator spike pit moat :)" and you're like, "right, yeah, like disabled people and people coming from poverty or unstable home environments or underserved communities or people dealing with difficult to navigate life events like pregnancy or abuse or prison or addiction or the death of a loved one, for example" and they're like, "how dare you imply that we are keeping those people out on purpose. it's their own problem if they can't wrestle the alligators and avoid the spikes while also disabled and/or poor and/or pregnant etc" and you're like, "well that seems evil," and they're like, "it sounds like maybe you're just bitter about the alligator spike pit moat because of your totally random individual experience with ONE bad alligator spike pit moat. have you considered therapy?" and you're like, "did you know that there's some patterns here in terms of how y'all are handling this stuff?" and they're like, "actually yes. we even have a department of alligator spike pit studies :)" and you're like, "that's great, how do I get access to and participate in those conversations?" and they're like, "well firstly you must cross the alligator spike pit moat"

[creekfiend]

if you can document that you have a medical condition that might make it challenging for you to navigate the alligator spike pit moat, they'll give you an extra 20 minutes to complete your navigation of the alligator spike pit moat

[galileosballs]

I don't know a good term for it, but there's a certain quality a work of fiction can have or fail to have, where, as a reader, you have some faith that the themes present in the work are there because the author knowingly put them there. That the curtains are not just blue, that you're reading something that has been written with intent. You can, of course, still do a death-of-the-author read on that kind of work, and no work only contains that which the author intends. But there are some works in which you look at even the most surface-level thematic content and wonder 'are... are you doing that on purpose? It kind of doesn't seem like you're doing that on purpose. I hope you're not', and it's very hard to express the difference between that kind of thing and an author who is clearly very intentionally exploring something a little uncomfortable.

[viralfrog]

[notsafeforbinary]

[lillylikescats]

I'm an electrical engineer and for the longest time I was saying that electricity and electronics isn't magic, but think about it.

You literally have to collect rare stones from remote locations, put them into specific formations to work. All of this gets written down in symbols which don't make sense to the uninformed. It gets powered by energy which can not be seen in most cases.

Like what else do you want. What's your standard for calling something magic.

[transcribepaige]

"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works."

Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld #30)