Ya-Ya

Ya-Ya / 19 / Professional Rubber Duck "I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!" Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" pierce

[rubber-ducksss]

Ao3, there’s not a lot tho

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[allstar-spaceman]

This got long as fuck but I’m keeping it.

Going to crash the fuck out of I see anyone else say that stupid like about “Rocky would get torn apart if he went to Earth :(“ because it’s at best flat out false and at worst actively misanthropic.

Off the bat, the ‘evil humans’ answer is exploitation. There’s literally nothing valuable or profitable to be gained by vivisecting Rocky. The resulting information is not interesting to a business man and too great a price for a scientist who’d want the information. What Rocky does have is probably tech and information. If he’s in the wrong hands on earth, he’s not getting treated well, but there’s about to be a whole hell of a lot of xenonite on earth. Like, the production of xenonite is way, way more valuable than the cool pneumatics that let Rocky move and they’re not getting the recipe from his body.

The thing is though, is that I fundamentally don’t think that’s the truth. Project Hail Mary is about humanity and hope and it’s reflected in the world. This is a setting where as soon as an apocalyptic threat was discovered, the world dropped all hostilities in order to fix the problem. The Hail Mary itself is the result of global cooperation. This is a world where humans have been watching the very Sun die before them, set aside their animosity, and fought to collectively survive. Humanity paid a terrible price and sacrificed someone in terrified desperation and yet still deserved to be saved. More than that, as humanity faced death and looked to the stars to find a way to save themselves, they found that they weren’t alone. They weren’t alone in the universe, and they didn’t find gods or invaders or incomprehensible monsters, they found other people in the exact same boat. After so many years dreaming about what we’d find out there, imaging ourselves finding anyone else out in the universe, we did, and they were kind. They were kind and our two species managed to be saved together.

Fuck dude, maybe the world is kinder in fiction, but we wouldn’t tell stories of kinder worlds if we didn’t want them. We wouldn’t write stories about aliens coming to our planet and becoming our friends and heroes if we didn’t want them to exist. We wouldn’t write stories about better futures if we were innately monstrous. There is so much evil in this world and there has been for so, so long that I feel like people have lost sight of the fact that we’re all the same thing. Grace was kind and Grace was human. You are kind and you are human.

If you weren’t, you wouldn’t have cared about what would happen to Rocky.

[pointnclick]

"we live in an uncaring universe." sorry the special planet full of beauty and animals and food literally growing out of the ground isnt good enough for you. i guess

[gondorrevealparty]

"we live in an uncaring universe" incorrect. I care. It's pretty great, if you want to try caring too.

[avatarmerida]

Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum

[futurakid]

[leg-stealing-bee]

[closetedguyy]

[knitordeath]

This hands down the best comment in the notes, I will not be taking criticism.

[song-of-sea-and-sky]

happy pride month 2021 I ain’t quittin’ you…

[msue0027]

[maxstarfall]

[gengaritez]

[pumpkin--rabbit]

[minyicho]

[10enbris]

Professor Will Graham and middle school science teacher Dr. Ryland Grace reach for the same grey business casual blazer from the bargain bin. Their hands touch. They both look up and simultaneously adjust their glasses.

[ilovetodrinkwater]

Hwve u ever tried music listening before. omg

[sharp-tender-shock-deactivated2]

This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8

[headspace-hotel]

I hate that my aesthetic sense agrees with this but everything you just said was correct

[headspace-hotel]

I went back to dig up this post because I was thinking about poetry.

This is one of those non-poem things that are among my favorite poems.

As the OP stated, the use of alliterative consonants is aesthetically just great, especially the placement of the strongest use at the end: “fuck him on the floor.” The use of “chintz” is indeed great word choice.

Because I’m insane, decided to scan the poem:

Not only is the second sentence, indeed, perfect iambic pentameter, the entire poem is perfectly metered, though the first sentence has four iambs rather than five.

There are further things I love about this poem, though: I like the casual connotations of “keep it real” juxtaposed with “chintz.” It causes me to interpret the “chintz” more strongly as meaning something fake, a facade. There is also of course the coarseness of “fuck,” which is a contrast with “chintz” but a different kind of contrast, gutsy and carnal where “chintz” is flimsy and inanimate.

And then there is the storytelling: there is SO MUCH storytelling in just these two lines. To break it down: The speaker is having sex with a married man, in the house he shares with his wife, which is “filled with chintz”—something that here connotes fakeness, in contrast with “keep it real.”

The illicit encounter in the poem takes place within a house filled with facade, the flimsy construction of the wife’s marriage and domestic sphere, but the encounter itself is a taste of something “real.” That’s a story, and it’s just two lines.

This is EIGHTEEN SYLLABLES, y’all. The amount of meaning condensed into these eighteen syllables is stunning, and it is so elegantly done.

From a technical standpoint (and ive taken 300- and 400-level poetry classes so I can say this) this is damn near flawless as a poem.

[agent-octopus]

Kept thinking about this ever since I saw it and had to do something

[headspace-hotel]

there's art now

[jetlaggingbehind]

[questions-within-questions]

Ah dang to go further; the floor is framed as a refuge. As if there is literally no other space in this house that hasn't been populated by his wife with flimsy inanimate fakery. There is no space for this man in this house save for the floor. There is no space for him on the sofa, oon the counter tops, and most notably, no space for him in the marital bed.

[normal-horoscopes]

I’d also like to point out the use of the word “has.” The wife has filled the house with chintz. She isn’t filling the house with chintz. She doesn’t fill the house with chintz. She has filled the house with chintz. Use of the past-tense makes the wife a subtly removed element in the story, someone whose presence we see in the environment, but who is blissfully distant during the actors throes of passion. There is an element of physical as well as emotional separation from the wife that is catalyzed by being fucked on the floor. Use of the past tense is an end to the wife presence in the actors life, a carnal catharsis amid cold fragility and emotional distance.

[stargazing-enby]

This is my new favourite post in the world

[astronomical-bagel]

everyone cheer for the one (1) time tumblr had reading comprehension

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

And, predictably, it's because it was about gay sex

[pokeballvictim]

I am a grown ass adult and I still get nausea when I feel like I'm in trouble. They're gonna send me to the principals office and take away my toys for a week. Can you just fucking kill me instead of making me stew in my fucking anxiety

[doubleca5t]

Kevin Durant is a extremely high tier shitposter who just so happens to also be one of the greatest basketball players of all time

[resplendent-chungus]

"Legacy points added/deducted" has permanently become a part of my vocabulary

[peterfromtexas-deactivated20250]

Reenactor throws a spear at a drone

[supapoopa]

What a time to be alive.

[tenthcorner]

“The medieval warrior, realizing the consequences of his impulsive act, immediately approached the owner of the drone and offered to pay for the damage.

The owner of the drone was so impressed by the brilliant attack that he suggested organizing a competition for bringing down “dragons” with short spears next year.

Drone owners have another year to develop a unique “dragon-like” design for their flying machines.” (x)

[kineticpenguin]

I am 100% cooler with this knowing that the spear-thrower realized “oops maybe I shouldn’t have done that” and tried to make it right, and that the guy who the drone belonged to was cool with it

[brunhiddensmusings]

just so everyone knows, this has already been memorialized in a runestone

[stephendann]

Everything about this post blesses those involved with a +4 on their next Today is Good Day roll

[fromaliminalspace]

a rough translation of inscription on the runestone:

On the seventh day of May in the year of 2016 on hither spot the mighty warrior Ulf hath slain a dragon with his spear.

so yeah, happy birthday to this dragon-slaying event and to it only

[nonlinear-nonsubjective]

Happy Ulf Hath Slain A Dragon With His Spear!

[nat-20s]

HATE when you can't stand someone who is literally harmless. Like oh I'm the bitch here. I'm 100% in the wrong but nonetheless fuuuccckkk this guy

[gotitforcheap-deactivated201611]

don’t know why everyone is always worrying about the economy when I just found a perfectly good hair tie on the ground 

[chazchaschad]

Thank you

[chazchaschad]

3 seconds

[seerstella]

Saw this on twitter and got me 😀???????? because i mean what is this

[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

[gyarugore-deactivated20260130-d]

[nonbinary-bosmer]

These were too good to let stay hidden in the notes

[lovesthesmarty]

First two have good trigger discipline. Not Notsomuch number three in line.

[ralfmaximus]

Number Three is ready to kill