pinkninjaPJ

I only started this to keep all my funny things in one place. I don't know how it ended up like this

[pinkninjapj]

How do Eridians point to things? For a species that can hearbin all directions, perceive the internals of things and don't even have a face it must be pretty hard to know where their attention is pointed, let alone quickly indicate something outside of tapping distance. Or even within tapping distance but just within another object. Which tool in this toolbox did you want again?

Ooh, do they produce a frequency that resonates with the item in question?

I'm also imagining how hard it would be for babies to learn language when they're perceiving 360 degrees and everything through too. There must be developmental charts in Eridian doctor's offices - Your Pebble is now 5 years old and can hear through most metals under 6 inches thick. Practice playing peek-a-boo behind a wall of steel from a distance greater than 300 metres.

Obviously Rocky knew Grace already had language, but probably thought he was just very deaf, and working from "outside in" when getting to translations.

[markovchaingang]

RULES FOR DATING MY DAUGHTER:

my daughter cannot, through action or inaction, harm a human or allow a human to come to harm

a daughter at rest or in constant motion remains at rest or in constant motion unless acted upon by another force

daughters are never created or destroyed, only transformed

always treat every daughter as loaded, even if you know she isn't

you do not talk about my daughter

[abalidoth]

6. If x and y are my daughters, then there exists a set that has x and y as elements.

7. You can fold my daughter through any two points.

8. I have exactly one daughter parallel to a given line passing through a given point.

[inthefallofasparrow]

9. If my daughter is hung on the wall in the first act, then in the following one she must be fired. Otherwise don't put her there.

10. When two or more daughters are offered for a phenomenon, the simplest daughter is preferable.

11. Any sufficiently advanced daughter is indistinguishable from magic.

12. Without a clear indicator of intent, it is utterly impossible to parody my daughter without someone mistaking it for the genuine article.

13. My daughter is nine-tenths of the law.

[charlesoberonn]

14. Anything my daughter can do wrong, she will do wrong

15. You do not talk about my daughter

16. The number of my daughters that can fit on a microchip doubles every 18 months

[thewelllitweenie]

17. Never attribute malice to my daughter which can be equally be attributed to ignorance.

[charlesoberonn]

18. The human whose name is written on my daughter shall die

[ecobanshee]

This is some of the most straightforward characterization Grace gets in the book and it's hilarious

[akdw]

absolute perfection in a single paragraph. From this, we can see:

Grace has a warped self-perception. He insists he's not a "people person" but gets along with majority of the crew, is a literal middle school teacher who the kids love

he's so sassy bro. "I seem friendly only bcuz I stood next to Stratt"

also establishes why so many ppl thought Grace was second-in-command, like he's usually always standing next to Stratt

Grace just does not know how important he is to the project lol

[foralittlewile]

Also consider: this behaviour continues when he's on Erid.

Like Grace is sitting there going "man it's kinda crazy the Eridians are being so nice to me. I know Rocky probably bullied them into helping the weird human but I still appreciate it. Hope they don't think the effort is a waste when I die in 40 years! :)"

And meanwhile the Eridians are like This Alien Rocketed Into Our Lives And Saved Our Whole Species From Annihilation And Then Gave Us Unfathomable Knowledge From The Stars. And Also He's So Nice We Love Him. Fights were breaking out left and right over who would get to work on the dome. Adrian won because of nepotism and sheer intimidation factor.

[pinkninjapj]

Had a good sleep with only 2-3 wake ups, so here's the Got Done list:

Slept till 8 🎉

Showered (hopefully later)

Received toddler already dressed and ready

Poopy nappy #1

Clipped toddler's nails - all 20!

Music class - baby fell asleep during Hokey Pokey

Connected with other mums

Negotiated with toddler about leaving the pram toys for other kids

Poopy nappy #2

Lunch and deposited child with Grandmother

Doctor's appt

[pinkninjapj]

Baby down

Washing out

Dishwasher 1/4 done because

Baby awake

Poopy nappy #3

Shower with baby - very fun and bonding until it's Scream o'clock

[pinkninjapj]

Clipped baby nails

Baby down

Dishwasher zero out (whoo!)

Washing brought in - still wet, boo! Put into dryer.

Baby up

Poopy nappy #4

Dinner at in-laws

[pinkninjapj]

Poopy nappy #5

Toddler bedtime

Baby bedtime

Watched 2 episodes of Slow Horses

Folded 3 FULL baskets of laundry

Went to bed at a reasonable time

First baby wake up at 2:45! 🎉🎉

[pinkninjapj]

Had a good sleep with only 2-3 wake ups, so here's the Got Done list:

Slept till 8 🎉

Showered (hopefully later)

Received toddler already dressed and ready

Poopy nappy #1

Clipped toddler's nails - all 20!

Music class - baby fell asleep during Hokey Pokey

Connected with other mums

Negotiated with toddler about leaving the pram toys for other kids

Poopy nappy #2

Lunch and deposited child with Grandmother

Doctor's appt

[pinkninjapj]

Baby down

Washing out

Dishwasher 1/4 done because

Baby awake

Poopy nappy #3

Shower with baby - very fun and bonding until it's Scream o'clock

[pinkninjapj]

Clipped baby nails

Baby down

Dishwasher zero out (whoo!)

Washing brought in - still wet, boo! Put into dryer.

Baby up

Poopy nappy #4

Dinner at in-laws

[pinkninjapj]

Had a good sleep with only 2-3 wake ups, so here's the Got Done list:

Slept till 8 🎉

Showered (hopefully later)

Received toddler already dressed and ready

Poopy nappy #1

Clipped toddler's nails - all 20!

Music class - baby fell asleep during Hokey Pokey

Connected with other mums

Negotiated with toddler about leaving the pram toys for other kids

Poopy nappy #2

Lunch and deposited child with Grandmother

Doctor's appt

[pinkninjapj]

Baby down

Washing out

Dishwasher 1/4 done because

Baby awake

Poopy nappy #3

Shower with baby - very fun and bonding until it's Scream o'clock

[findmeinthealps]

my world's on fire, how 'bout yours?

(x)

[pinkninjapj]

Had a good sleep with only 2-3 wake ups, so here's the Got Done list:

Slept till 8 🎉

Showered (hopefully later)

Received toddler already dressed and ready

Poopy nappy #1

Clipped toddler's nails - all 20!

Music class - baby fell asleep during Hokey Pokey

Connected with other mums

Negotiated with toddler about leaving the pram toys for other kids

Poopy nappy #2

Lunch and deposited child with Grandmother

Doctor's appt

[b00kwyrm7]

Grace Rocky save stars!

[reginasphalanges]

PARKS AND RECREATION 4.03 Born & Raised

[nusegi]

"Albireo"

Of true binary stars and optical illusions.

[rockytheeridian]

PROJECT HAIL MARY + the petrova line

[pinkninjapj]

One of those world famous bad sleeps. You know the quote "life isn't one bad thing after another, they overlap"? That's apparently what two children is.

You know you're fighting for your life to get 8 hours of sleep in 1 hour when your dream includes: finding a stranger in your house and having to argue them out, being WRONG that it was your house, getting lost outside, getting lost inside, having to keep a baby asleep (on my head for some reason?), losing the baby, finding the baby but it's crying, opening the door on someone on the toilet, being packed in a train and being in public wearing just swimmers. Like a greatest hits of embarrassing and stressful situations.

[frodo-sam]

When I went up before, and you were in the bath… How to put it? You fit in here. This rich house suits you.

PARASITE (2019) dir. ‎Bong Joon-Ho

[copperpipes]

What i think an observing eridian would perceive while directing their attention at a human, since there are numerous part of human physiology that are constantly moving, they would be always "visible" for eridians.

this doodle came to be actually because I thought that for eridians, humans (and most earth life) would be akin to glass frogs, with their always visible internals (a little gross but you can get used to it)

Funny tidbit: my coworker leaning over my shoulder seeing what I'm doing:

- why is he serving cunt so much

Me not lifting the stylus from the screen:

- Ryan Gosling

Her:

- yeah fair

Pov: you are an earth creature being observed by an eridian:

[capesch-arts]

Together at the edge of the universe humming a tune...

[acti-veg]

‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

[namu-the-orca]

Cetacean echolocation is one of those things that boggles your mind once you really start to think about the implications. They can see each others' hearts beating fast with fear or excitement. They can see if another dolphin is healthy, or pregnant; how the fetus is doing; if they have ingested debris. Their echolocation is also incredibly precise: a bottlenose dolphin could discriminate between cilinders differing in wall thickness by just 0.23 mm (0.009 inch) from 8 meters away!! And they certainly notice when something is off.

I'm not sure if I ever shared this story before here, but in Curacao, when I was allowed to assist in a guest interaction programme, there was suddenly consternation in the pool behind us. A guest had entered the water and the dolphins were going crazy, paying no heed to the trainers anymore. The lead trainer that was with me gave the dolphins to me to watch over while she went to help. When she came back she told me what had happened. The guest that had caused so much uproar had left the water again and was asked if he had done anything to upset the dolphins. He hadn't, and he couldn't imagine what was wrong... until he mentioned he had a pacemaker. The younger dolphins in the pool had never seen someone with a pacemaker before and apparently it rocked their world.

It was such a wild experience, and offered such a cool insight into how dolphins experience their world. I'll never forget it.