[riversidecacti]

okay hold on is that....

yup thats the im sad dead inside shirt

[riversidecacti]

clearer shot from the ap

[argillaforma]

shane in the beginning of their official relationship being unsure of how to do casual intimacy because he’s used to only get it if it’s during sex or with the intent of turning into sex but now they’re boyfriends and he doesn’t always know how to navigate that so sometimes he will just 🧍🏻‍♂️ in the middle of the room because he wants a smooch but he’s unsure of how to progress and he feels weird asking for it before eventually realizing that ilya is more than happy to indulge

[justshadowchan]

[softichill]

I think abt this tiktok all the time

[thesadcyborg9million]

Diversity hire bryson ur absolutely slaying

[slimetony]

Alpine Ibexes climb nearly 90 degree angles to lick salt deposits of of mountainsides. They crave that mineral.

[sailor--spoon]

Why is this back on my dash in 2018

[conqueringthenoodle]

Thank god this is back on my dash in 2018

[nyctosaurid]

barnyard the original party animals is the uncontested lord of bad implications in childrens movies

[nyctosaurid]

ok so like “the secret life of x” movies tend to not strongly explore the actual reasons why, exactly, their life has to be secret… they don’t really focus on it within the narrative. They do usually have some small justification for why animals or video games or toys or whatever have never just revealed themselves:

There’s no stated reason. They just pretend to not be alive. We usually can suspend our suspension of disbelief here because when it’s something like a video game or an emoji because any odd occurrences is perceived as a glitch or something similar but the actual reason why they aren’t too hung up on this kinda shitty lot in life isn’t said

They get something out of their current relationship with humans (like in toy story)

They have some specific reason to hide that they’re alive, like they die if they’re seen (like in the christmas toy)

They perceive themselves as sentient, talking creatures, but humans can’t understand them. They just see a squeaking mouse or an inanimate hot dog or whatever. 

and the last one is what most animal movies do, and it’s like, not devoid of weird implications but you can see where it mostly works.

but barnyard is the outlier here: it goes with tier one: the animals can talk and walk on two legs but just pretend that they can’t for unstated reasons. 

in the history of the barnyard world non human animals, at some point, decided to just pretend to be unable to speak. a “cow” or a “coyote” or a “hen” do not exist as we know it in the barnyard universe. the baa of the sheep is false; the ewe doesn’t understand it either. they only made up that noise to hide the fact that they speak human languages. a dog barking and running on all fours is a facade. animals naturally walk on their hind legs and made up whole postures just to appear non sentient.

and for what? what do they gain from this? they have no rights and no voice by their own choice. at one point a donkey claims the farmer is a good person because he’s vegan and a pig mentions bacon - this is not a fantasy universe devoid of death and misery and meat. do animals, in hushed whispers, remind their children not to sob in their real voice as they’re taken away? do the dogs not beg for kindness when they’re tied up and hit? do cows and chickens not cry for their life in the slaughterhouses? does a rat not scream a human scream when the trap misses their neck and only breaks their spine? Why? what is the point? They loose so much and have everything to gain.

anyways does everyone remember this really awful cat. it only appears in one scene but i can just sense the porn of it that would pop up if i googled it’s name

[inkthecryptid]

This post is like being tied to a chair as a a joker-style villain monologues and presses a gun closer and closer to my head as he reaches the climax of his rehearsed piece on the flaws of society and when he finally pulls the trigger it’s a little flag that says “bang!”

[cocteautwinsgirl]

[hubcitybaby2]

THIS

[ovenroastedtwerkey]

wtime thwft wednesday, woo woo!

[riessene]

my long time conspiracy theory is that the huge prevalence of "dead wife" trope is because a lot of writers want their cool male protagonist to be single and/or focused on his goal but don't know how else "justify" him not pursuing women around him sexually or god forbid turn their advances down that is not emasculating in their mind

[riessene]

"My name is John Movie and I'm here in this bar being a guyman" "Hi~ My name is Jessica Lipgloss and I feel inexplicably drawn to your brown stubble and blank expression" "Sorry lady. Despite you being a skinny woman I have to pass" A/N: well you see, dear audience, he says that not because he is a loser virgin who gets no bitches, gay or other type of weirdo who doesn't want to sleep with skinny white women who don't wear any makeup and naturally have eyeliner. He is actually already achieved social status of Acquiring a Woman to Sleep With but she died:'( So he is sad and loyal actually. He breathe through his skin.

[dogpuppy]

[nineteenyearoldmeblog]

im fucking crying

[doppelgangerleaverite]

i just really feel seen on this website

[roscolux]

need to beam this tweet directly into everyone's minds right now

[deathtokillian]

Ideas are cooking for my pride outfit.

[deathtokillian]

Oh boy have I pissed off the transphobes with this one.

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[dragonpyre]

[sevastiel]

[judgejudyofficial]

stop letting miserable people on the internet convince you that you must have a concrete, well-constructed opinion on everything that has ever existed.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[judgejudyofficial]

everybody say thank you Marcus Aurelius

[b0nkcreat]

will be thinking about this probably for the rest of the week

[nocek]

So while Project Hail Mary was super secret the secrecy only could possibly last until they started assembling her in orbit next to ISS. Especially the movie! Mary which is gigantic compared to the book one. Probably roughly ISS size sans solar panels? idk

Anyway with that the jig would be up because the whole thing would be visible from the earth surface. Not super easy because it's moving fast but doable.

So knowing that they would have to inform the people in advance. and they clearly did because we can see some cameras and world flags in the room they ask Grace to go. Regular press conferences or most likely just official statements were probably quite frequent by the end.

but just informing the public about the wild and very pricey shit they are about to pull is a baaaaad idea without explaining why and how it will totally work in detail

luckily they have a professional science educator on site ;)

except sticking Grace in a very official role in front of cameras is baaaaad idea. dude is charming and good at his work but also probably would

a freak out at the official ness of the role

the PR department would not be happy

he is busy with so many other thigs

the PR department would NOT be happy

not sure if he remembers just which level of top secretness what parts of the project actually are

the PR department would be on fire

so the solution was to send documents to proffesional-proffesional science educators that are proffesional at being in front of camera

but also ask Grace to record some quick videos explaining everything, giving some ideas etc because it's easier to digest for proffesional-proffesional science educators than heavily redacted files and it's also easier to redact

so what I'm trying to say here is that there is a series of educational video sketches that Grace recorded late nights within like a week where he definiatey

used handmade sock puppets

declared he wants to be muppet fox

generalny explains everything assuming it will be a puppet show or animation makeig his own props from scraps

used Stratt's "What is Project Hail Mary" PowerPoint while badly acting her no-nonsense approach

at least 1/3 of the unedited videos is him falling asleep in front of his laptop camera

pulled so much mad-scirntist-that-havent-slept-in-48-hours rizz

Most of the videos would be released to public after launch as PR campaign. Because they had whole PR campaign on the astronauts and the backups.

And those silly videos were the only way Stratt could trick Grace into doing his own promo materials without him realizing. The same way she did with his astronaut training.

[alastair-1205]

Hey op what the FUCK are these tags-

[nocek]

look me in the eye and tell me Grace isn't the nicest and sweetest and most helpful little sacrificial lamb to ever sacrifice

mostly by the power of Grace's own denial xD

ok sorry you summoned the babble now but seriously I've read the book after seeing the movie and while in the movie you can get a bit of the impression Grace is just some guy that got there by poor chance of bad luck of eh will do without training

but the book. oh the book has a space and subtlety of a steel pipe to the face to show in detail that had he ever volunteered he would be 1 choice from the get go. it kinda reads like a horror story in a way with the noose getting slowly tighter around his neck while he is all happy to help all these wonderful smarter people solve the proplems

like one of those characters you want to grab by the shoulders and shake like stop being even more useful and perfect for the role

and the astronaut training I meant there is the pool thing. movie!Grace is adamant he haven't even done it while book! Grace had a sudden paragraph apropos of nothing of not only doing the pool thing

that denial master was stoked he was doing the pool thing in an actual NASA pool with the 1:1 scale ISS behind him where actual real astronauts trained

(you are actually just now learning how to be actual real astronaut you dumbass!)

but that's not all. oh no. in that scene he is testing and perfecting the equipment so later he can teach Dubois and Shapiro how to use it

oh yeah master that shit and be the #1 expert in another thing. sure. +1 to actual invaluableness. sure that won't come back and bite you in the ass

so yeah. I've got feels about this scene

and also this scene goes fluently to Dubois and Shapiro failing at inviting him to threesome

and I was like uhuh. everybody is right. that man is so aroace. and I have a lot of feels about that also

[bluemuffin-draws]

Based off this post by @7-inches-of-satanic-panic

Part 2

[only-tiktoks]

[devantnuit-ladeluge]

[cryoverkiltmilk]

The absolute contempt for these locks is palpable.

[wizardarchetypes]

i wish mosquitos didn't make you itchy and give you horribly infectious diseases. i wouldn't begrudge them a humble nibble were it not so