Something Something, Generational Trauma

River, genderfluid, she/they pronouns. Politics, current events, misc movies and TV shows and adorable animals. Not necessarily in that order though ;) Currently obsessed with misc visual novels, and other random things. No ship hate here, all pairings deserve respect. (Header photo is my own)

[rhaenyrathecool]

Shoutout to the most quoted character in Westoros.

[dramatic-dolphin]

a while ago I read this sci-fi short story from the 50s where a guy is kidnapped and interrogated by aliens using a very sophisticated lie detector, but he realizes that the lie detector works off technical truth, and with some careful phrasing and misdirection, he manages to make them believe that humans are a race of immortal, overpowered, omniscient telepathic beings. and it works.

my favorite part is when he tells them that humans are "capable of transportation without the aid of spaceships or any vehicles, just by using mental power to control physical matter". it's true, we can. it's called walking.

[dramatic-dolphin]

okay I found it, it's The Best Policy by Randall Garrett

and it has other gems such as "I know beyond a shadow of a doubt what every member of my race thinks of you" (they don't know you exist) and "every human knows exactly as much about the location of your home planet as I do" (nothing)

[cephalon-sancti]

Link for people who want to read it (it's held up very well)

[createserenity]

I like this! Kind of a similar vibe to Victory Unintentional, a short story by Isaac Asimov, if anyone wants to read more stories like this.

[howieduet]

I was thinking the same thing! For those wondering, "Victory Unintentional" is about a group of explorers from Earth who meet alien life on Jupiter and astound the Jovians with their capabilities enough that the Jovians scrap their plans for war. And as the explorers leave they realize that the Jovians had assumed that the explorers were typical earthlings, when really they're specially constructed robots.

[rt0no]

[kedamakedama]

[handsywoman]

my favorite Shanebug moments [ pt.1 ]

[dduane]

Meanwhile, via Bluesky...

(See also the video here from ITN.)

[redlipstickresurrected]

Relja Penezić (Serbian, b. 1950, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, based Navarre, FL, USA) - California Road Chronicles #81, 2019, Paintings: Oil on Wood

[tender-somethings]

Nicole Farhi

[blostma-art]

Two halves

[potpourri-of-ecclecticism-deact]

Travis Birkenstock--38 tardies. By far the most tardies in the class. Congratulations!

CLUELESS (1995) dir. Amy Heckerling

[pmamtraveller]

By Daniel Arthur

[rhaenyrsm]

some japanese versions of asoiaf book covers by yasushi suzuki:

daenerys, bran, and jon — ADWD vol. 1-3

sansa (or margaery?), samwell, and tyrion — ASOS vol. 1-3

jaime and cersei - AFFC vol. 1-2

[isvoc]

Final bundle for The Bound and The Broken by Ryan Cahill! Aldryn and Helios from 'The Fall'! It's my favourite novella in the series. It is one of these where you are watching the trainwreck in slow motion. It hurts so good! 😭💀

[grimae]

darkmoon

[roughnut-thorston]

Night fury doodle I did during a car journey.

Another random art style I should probably come back to more often cuz it’s easy and looks cool.

[yeris]

noémie merlant + adèle haenel as marianne & héloïse ↳ portrait of a lady on fire (2019)

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