nothing human is alien to me

mabs 🏴‍☠️ socialist 🚩 friendly neighborhood emigrant 🗽🛫 made in the 20th century 📼 luddite 🛠️ shelleyan 📔 current brain itch: project hail mary 🪐 my god-tier spider-man opinions 🕸️ shitposts in general 🤡

[queen-mabs-revenge]

oh i'm having fun with this babey!

[queen-mabs-revenge]

fucking seagull convention outside my window for the last hour and a half i am going to kill

[segmentedleg]

Nasturcje. Stanisław Wyspiański. 1903. Pastels.

[roycohn]

inspired by a rant i was going on elsewhere bc someone tweeted something very stupid and uninformed about hamlet and it got my back up as someone who took two single-text-focus english literature courses in college and they were on wuthering heights and hamlet, i now put it to all of you on here:

what's "your" shakespeare play?

hamlet

macbeth

the tempest

merchant of venice

midsummer night's dream

twelfth night

richard iii

othello

julius caesar

king lear

another not listed (specify in tags) (i really just put my own top 10 here nbd)

i have no particular feelings about any shakespeare play/results tag

Remaining time: 5 days 20 hours

[mismedleym]

recollections

[mrporg]

[somepomegranatetea]

i think rocky and grace should gleefully lie to each other. they're just making shit up all of the time. rocky has no idea which earth traditions are real and which are elaborate jokes for grace's personal amusement. grace is never sure if rocky is teaching him actual eridian gestures or random movements to make him seem insane. do eridians actually have 5 hearts. do humans actually see scary television shows in their sleep. there is NO trust in this relationship. they are fucking with each other constantly

[manyblinkinglights]

#phm#project hail mary#ryland grace#rocky phm#rocky the eridian#i just keep seeing takes like “rocky can tell when grace is lying” No he can't . he can't . he has no clue . and vice versa#grace [stressed]: hey adrian do eridians all migrate to space for 7 days each year#adrian: stop listening to him. stop. stop it

[imaginarylands4000]

[oneterabyteofkilobyteage]

original url http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Starship/3790/

archived on 2009-04-28 09:07:36

[findekano]

paraclete

AO3 project hail mary, gracerocky in its multitudes, t, ~8.6k “How do you know God exists?” I ask, because Rocky really is refusing to elaborate. «How does Grace know gravity exist, question?» “That’s different! Don’t answer my question with another question! You can conduct experiments to determine the reality of gravity! How can you test for God? God is like–like unknowable, man!” «Not to Rocky!» His steam vents hiss. «Not to Erid!» I stare at him, agape. “Hold on, you’re telling me that every Eridian knows that God is real?”

[hierophagy]

and my take today is that framing misogynistic writing as an "inability to write female characters" subconsciously takes away most of the blame, implying that women are an alien creature compared to men and that it is no fault of the writer because it's out of their skill set. it's not an inability, not a lack of expertise, it's the simple refusal to consider women as individual people and give them the same depth and grace that comes easily to the writer when they write male characters. it's not that christopher nolan, stephen king, james cameron (and frankly anyone using the argument, both professional and hobbyist; yes, that includes fanfic writers) etc can't write women, it's that they just won't. at that point in time it is a conscious decision driven by the laziness to unpack their misogynistic biases, and should be addressed as such

[dogfennel]

first contact

[papasmoke]

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico

A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.

New bombshell reporting by Wired reveals an incident in which the testing of an experimental GPS jammer resulted in a medical plane crashing into the side of a mountain. The horrifying incident happened in May, the publication reports, when a small twin-engine medevac aircraft carrying two pilots and two medical workers departed from Roswell, New Mexico. Heading West for the small mountain village of Ruidoso, the crew became the victim of an electronic warfare exercise being conducted at the nearby White Sands Missile Range, a test which rendered their navigational system inoperable. Due to a combination of low visibility and an air-traffic control that was stretched far beyond capacity — at least three other planes reported navigation disruptions due to the GPS jamming — the pilots failed to register a mountainous formation between their plane and the landing strip

[yms1]

what doesn't kill you makes you stay on tumblr for 13 years and counting

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[theetonatheist]

Events in Shelley’s Life & Today: 

Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley

On August 4, 1792 English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in a home distanced from the bustle of city life. Known as Field Place, the home was surrounded by farmland and forests, and Shelley grew up running freely among the property. The eldest Shelley child disappeared for whole days and returned with fantastic tales of ghouls, monsters, and magnificent gardens. He’d eagerly relay these stories to his siblings, occasionally taking them with him on his adventures. He could be spotted helping them over fences, running along the treeline, and acting out his tales. When he inevitably tired the younger girls out, he carried them home in his arms or on his back. 

His parents disapproved of his wild antics as a child, and he was often confined to his bedroom. He occasionally utilized the back staircase during these times, sneaking down to the kitchen for food which he would take up to the attic to eat. Eventually, he was sent off to boarding school. As he left the house, a fire broke out in the laundry room- Shelley’s doing, likely in retaliation. 

He abhorred the boarding school where he endured violent and relentless bullying: fellow students would scream his name as he walked down the halls, knocked his books from his hands, ripped his clothing, threw mud and balls at him, and called him “mad Shelley.” They would ask Shelley to put on one of his plays and just as he let his guard down and got into the act, they would laugh and walk out. All of this led to violent temper flares in Shelley. In one instance, Shelley flew at a bully and stabbed him in the hand with a fork so violently that it went through to the table beneath. Though he turned against violence once he reached adolescence, this trauma instilled in him a hatred of oppression and tyranny and it would be one of the few things capable of making him angry later in life. 

Soon, he turned to writing and science. He was brilliant even as a boy, and quickly finished any book he was handed. His rooms were always in disarray, and wherever he went, fire followed. Shelley would go on to be expelled from Oxford for his (and Hogg’s) pamphlet titled The Necessity of Atheism. All of the setbacks never stopped Shelley, and he would go on to become one of the defining voices of the Romantic movement in England.  

[blonsh]

[nycnostalgia]

Bowery and Bleecker, 1981