AD ASTRA

to and from the stars we go where we'll land i do not know

[humanoidhistory]

The Sun rises over Earth in a postcard illustrated by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, recalling the 1965 mission when he became the first human to walk in space.

[carryonmysociallyawkwardson]

Alexei Leonov was a prolific and talented artist, and drew and painted many pictures inspired by his experiences in space

This particular picture is rather special though, because he drew the first draft for it while in space using coloured pencils he took with him:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/31/first-picture-space-cosmonauts-science-museum-alexei-leonov

[bullgirldick]

The first walk in space coincided with the first art in space. Humans literally can’t not do art

[helila]

my dude Alexei made some insanely cool space art

As I pulled myself back toward the airlock, I heard Pasha talking to me: “It’s time to come back in.” I realized I had been floating free in space for over 10 minutes. In that moment my mind flickered back for a second to my childhood, to my mother opening the window at home and calling to me as I played outside with my friends, “Lyosha, it’s time to come inside now.”

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[iphigeniacomplex]

heated rivalry season 2 should be a straightforward retelling of the epic of gilgamesh

[isntnothing]

I’m in love with this stupid shirt

[spngirlpolls]

there's a lot to bitch about re: supernatural but at least it was made in 2005 starring teen soap actors on the cw with one million episodes per season. that's real television. if they made that shit now it would be like six episodes on apple tv and glen powell would be in it. so count your fucking blessings.

[lorillee]

big tshirt that says YOUR INTERPRETATIONS MUST HAVE A STRONG BASIS IN THE SOURCE MATERIAL on the front and I HATE FUN on the back

[bobakick]

inspired by a post i read yesterday which contained the beautiful the words "Hanya Yanagihara's The Long Game"......

pick an author and a title!

how's the book?

5 stars (a masterpiece)

4 stars (pretty good)

3 stars (meh)

2 stars (pretty bad)

1 star (awful awful awful. Awful)

too insane to even quantify. what the fuck

nuance/results

Voting ended onMar 4

(no "idk" button! if you get a title or an author you don't know enough about to make a judgement, keep rolling until you do!)

[notkatniss]

lestat outside the montreal gay bar: *lighting a cigarette* when you graduated high school i was 248 isn’t that weird

shane hollander, so drunk he can’t stand straight: I have a boyfriend…

[francisforever2014]

The only media I ever consumed was stucky fanfiction and men’s hockey Can I produce a smut book to change the world?

[heathyr]

i saw a post on twitter by a european saying americans are fake for their random compliments to strangers and their general cheery demeanor and like no. no no no you don’t understand. if you get a random compliment from an american on the street about your outfit or whatever, that is 100% genuine. we mean it. we aren’t lying we are making a small but fleeting connection with you because our lives are shitty but the human condition is enduring. oh god i’m clutching my chest

[distractedbyshinyobjects]

If you get a compliment from a random American on the street, know that they tried their best to keep from saying a peep to you but they literally could not hold it in. They HAD to say something.

[fremedon]

The other day a tiny gay man in a hurry bumped me on the Metro escalator and said "Sorry, great dress by the way" and then he stopped at the top of the escalator and turned around and said "AND a great hat. THAT is how we do summer!" and SPRINTED for his bus and I coasted on that for the rest of the day.

[unreconstructedfangirl]

Love this post!

When I first moved to Prague I had a colleague who had such great style, and I always complimented her because I thought she was hot and cool. Years later when we were friends, she told me that she always suspected me of trying to manipulate her somehow because that is not how Czechs roll, and it was really inconceivable to her that I was simply complimenting her with no ulterior motive, but that's culturally normal to me?

Also, I am married to a British person, and his mother is an artist -- she's a collograph print-maker, and she told me that whenever she wants a pick me up, she sends photos of her latest prints to me, because I can be counted upon to say something nice. What can I say? I love her work? Her prints are beautiful, so...not faking?

Americans have a lot of blind spots and issues, but saying the nice thing in their brains to other people is fine? Like? A little more kindness and connection isn't hurting anyone?

[aprillikesthings]

There was a post on r/askanamerican just the other day, by a guy living in Eastern Europe who has a fun backpack (it looks like a reeses cup package with a bite taken out of it!) and said he constantly got compliments on it from American tourists

And he was like...are all of you like that? You say nice things to total strangers as if you're life-long friends??

And the entire comment section was like: Yup. Absolutely. This is 100% a thing we do.

And someone looked up a picture of the backpack and shared it and we were all like OMG THAT IS AN AMAZING BACKPACK yeah if I saw someone in any city on earth wearing that thing I would in fact say something.

Sometimes posts on that subreddit are a trash fire, but we were all so happy to talk about times we've told strangers compliments or been complimented by strangers.

And genuinely, it's one of the few things that makes me proud to be American. Like. We have a reputation for telling total strangers when we like something they're wearing/doing. And we mean it, every single time!

[letsrevince]

[redstonedust]

you'll spend so long in deep discussions of gender online and then go talk to someone in your real life family and find out they still havent gotten past "women can be good at things" and its like oh okay jesus christ i forgot some people are still on the baby steps huh

[sovietnam]

[thisfeebleheart]

#to be loved is to be seen

[littlegirlinvisible]

CONNOR STORRIE & HUDSON WILLIAMS In new/old BTS photos from the set of Heated Rivalry (2025—), ph. Sabrina Lantos

[cloudabserk]

they’re so silly

[galecstatic]

good day everyone i am currently on my nth time hr rewatch and i just wanna come forward and say that i am shamelessly obsessed of the fact of show shane hollander's blatant fixation to ilya's lips whenever wherever they are ever since their first kiss and that autistic wasian gay man has never been able to get up since day fucking 1 i tell you and that every rewatch i also started fixating these moments by rewinding and looping them for a serious couple of times in order for me to have the strength and motivation to go on with my day to day affairs and you can judge me for all i care but this is my reality and i shall be loud and proud of it i thank you now please enjoy this small vid compilation from twt user coldties have a great day freaks

vid compilation full credits to twt user __coldties

[my-2nd-account]

Ilya points out Shane getting hard in the showers then proceeds to jerk off in front of him. "I thought you might chicken out" as if he wasn't losing his mind having an identity crisis in that elevator. Ilya makes fun of Shane for coming quickly his first bj when his time is only like 5 seconds more than Shane's. Ilya makes fun of Shane's sexting as if his loser ass horny texts are any better. "Remember when I made you come hands free" Ilya sweetheart you're lucky Shane was on his hands and knees too busy with his own orgasm to hear your pathetic (affectionate) "oh God, Hollander" right before you came so hard you almost blacked out. "We are not anything" proceeds to freak out the next time he sees him and makes a folder named "boring" of the photos they took as a bit. "Not as person, of course" when he came up with a whole plan to convince him to stay the night, gave him his clothes, made him food, and is looking at him like he hung the moon. "We get together we fuck is simple" cut to him two weeks later confessing his undying love on the phone.

Ilya you're a fucking hypocrite I love you <3

[snap-crackle-cunt]

what shane says: im gay

what shane means: i can never love a woman in any way resembling the way i love you and when i tried she called my shit IMMEDIATELY so what im trying to say is i can't sidestep whatever we are the way you can, i will never ever love anyone but u

what ilya hears: somewhere along the line of our multi-year situationship that began with me immediately sucking ur dick, i have determined that i like men.

what ilya says: ya no fucking shit bro what