QuirkHammett

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[quirkethhammetteth]

[quirkethhammetteth]

[programmerhumour]

Anon visits webpages in 2022

[mornington-the-crescent]

As others have pointed out before, if you visited a web page 20 years ago and it acted like that, you would rightly assume your computer had gotten a virus.

[cozy-stardust]

Imagine Grace defined his name as the elegance definition of grace and Rocky spends years thinking how fucking ironic this clumsy leaky space blobs name is.

Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.

And Rocky has to suddenly reconcile that the clumsy leaky blob that saved his life twice, that almost certainly doomed himself to come back for him, name is Mercy.

[till-dawn-do-us-part]

[loveridden1999]

problematic sudoku solving skills gap

[featuringmarkhoppus]

[unicafavorita]

Ryland Grace would have the craziest authors notes. "Hello, guys. Sorry I haven't updated in 11 years I just got sent to space and I didn't know they put me in a coma. Anyway, here's chapter 23. I hope you enjoy :)"

[chewedcorn]

My mom got tired of me making fun of her “Live Laugh Love” sign and modified it.

[itseasytoremember]

So this one time I was in a hospital recovering from an emergency surgery on my leg, and had to be there long enough that they had to change my bedding, so, doped up on three kinds of pain meds and antibiotics my dad wheels me into the hallway while the nurses work.

"dad" I say, my eyes barely open "it's Colonel Sanders" while pointing down the hallway. He looks, and at the end of the hallway, there's a portrait of an old man, the donor who paid for the wing of the hospital I'm recovering in.

My dad explains as much to me, and goes "I mean the guy *kinda* looks like him, but why would Colonel Sanders pay for a hospital wing Mississauga Ontario? I think those drugs might me messing with you"

Then the nurse comes out of the room. I go "hey, who is that picture of?"

She looks at the portrait. She looks at me. She looks at my dad. She looks at the painting. She looks at me again.

"you don't recognize the Colonel??"

[quirkethhammetteth]

actually, that post about andy weir not being good at characters got me thinking-ish. i think Project Hail Mary is a lot of people's foray into reading actual science-fiction and they make the unfortunate discovery that ALL the characters fall flat. this is not an andy weir-specific thing, this is actually a common occurrence in sci-fi to the point where "flat characters" are the rule. let me explain...

i think what people don't know about sci-fi is that sci-fi is about *the idea.* classic sci-fi authors were usually scientists (or of the sort) who wanted to explore ideas or theoreticals of science and how they impact humans, how humans would respond to them, that kind of thing. this was the priority for these authors, and so character development wasn't important and characters were just a device they used to deliver their ideas. i guess you could say that they're more focused on the plot (the idea) rather than the characters. i don't really view this as a weakness of science fiction but i understand that i and long-time scifi readers are used to this, whereas new people reading sci-fi for the first time maybe aren't used to this.

modern science-fiction is quite different from its classic counterpart, so when books like Project Hail Mary are released into the mainstream and follow the classic sci-fi way of storytelling, people will obviously dislike the flat characters and that will be the common criticism of the sci-fi book (they also aren't used to the way of sci-fi storytelling). regardless of how sci-fi works, flat characters are still an absolutely valid criticism but you also have to consider what the author's intent is.

obviously this is not me saying, "just cope with the flat characters bro," and trying to erase that type of criticism. again, it is absolutely a real and valid criticism, but people NEED to understand that characters, generally (generally!!!! there are EXCEPTIONS to this rule!!!), just aren't the author's priority. and so by default, the characters will be flat. sci-fi is more about getting the IDEA. what is the science theoretical that the author is presenting? how do they think humanity will respond to it? questions and things like that.

i am obviously NOT the authority on this, so i am including the mandatory "this is just the observations i have made based on my long time experience of reading science fiction" and honestly i am very interested in hearing if anyone has any observations of sci-fi different from mine or different experiences with sci-fi books.

[cloudabserk]

i see people saying andy weir isnt good at writing female characters and i think that’s fair and true and should be said, but also. characters of any kind are not really his strength lets be real

[cloudabserk]

“why did they change grace/rocky/stratt from their book versions!” “why did they cut out so much!” because otherwise the movie would have been sarcastic smart guy, sarcastic smart alien, and sarcastic smart dutch woman alternating between snarky quips and monologues on sci fi problem solving for 8 hours straight. which may have been fun but probably not a hit movie.

[holdoncallfailed]

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to deny location sharing and turn off personalized ads and reject all non-essential cookies and not set up siri and face ID

[rotzaprachim]

Listen, if performing femininity is an “empowering choice,” then it needs to be an actual choice. Meaning that woman can opt out of it without negative consequence. Meaning a woman can go to an academic event without heels or in a simple suit and still be “professional.” Meaning that a woman can go to a job interview without a full face of makeup and not be “tired” or “disheveled.” Meaning that a woman can walk around in shorts with unshaven legs and not be a dirty, unclean gremlin. Meaning that a little girl can play and break barriers and like STEM while wearing jeans and a t-shirt and not be considered less empowered or “just trying to be a boy.”

Meaning that a woman’s femininity and womanhood is not contingent upon the extent to which she buys and performs a time-consuming, expensive, uncomfortable mold of a very specific type of packaged femininity. 

This isn’t even going into the effect these double standards have on women who in some way, by their very existence, do not fit the standard white western beauty mold and are expected to perform hyperfemininity to be “women” at all. I.e. women of colour esp. darker-skinned women of colour, hijabi women and tznius-keeping women, fat women, disabled women, trans women, etc. 

[burins]

thinking fondly of this meme I made for a coworker years and years ago

[burins]

this is going around again and the tags are full of people talking about printing it out to put in their breakroom or cubicle or sending it to their coworkers, which fills me with great joy. vast diversity of professions represented also. zoos. labs. summer camps. restaurants. garden centers. libraries. schools. many reports from the brave warriors of assorted retail. a truth universally acknowledged: if there is a sign a customer will not read it <3 and they don't read emails either <3

[theprofessional-amateur]

Thinking about this again as someone breezes past the “how to find this” quick guide full of screenshots and my slack handle “email Librarian” to send a dm ask ‘does the library have this book?’

[quirkethhammetteth]

my love/hate relationship with aircon 😭😭😭 IT'S SO COLD IN THIS BUILDING AHHHHH

[quirkethhammetteth]

my coffee from krispy kreme today, which is the same price is a 355mL sugar-free Monster of many flavours (~$2.70), tasted like absolute diluted dogwater. i was so sad. usually a krispy kreme coffee can be saved with sugar+milk but not this time 😭😭😭

[quirkethhammetteth]

my love/hate relationship with aircon 😭😭😭 IT'S SO COLD IN THIS BUILDING AHHHHH

[cute-catts]

That sound 😭😅

[circumgutter]

[goth-queen]

[dizzypplbecomeblurry]

i go on instagram reels to observe the strange rituals