Nothing's ever truly gone

Rin. Any pronouns. Currently into: Star Trek (disco is my main), Midst, Critical Role, but I'll flit between too many fandoms anyway. Go find me on ao3 at:GoblinOfTheWords. Fic requests and asks always appreciated.

[sadmushroomgoblin]

Science and Star Trek Posts:

Good Microbiology Practice

Collaborative Science

[finelythreadedsky]

obsessed with the way epic manhood is defined as being remembered– doing great deeds that will be the stuff of song for generations to come, dying in glory and being memorialized by tombs that inscribe greatness on the physical landscape– and epic womanhood is defined as keeping memory alive– helen weaving the images of men about to die, penelope weaving laertes’s glory into his shroud, cassandra raising the cry and andromache the lament for hector–

something about manhood as passive and womanhood as active in relation to memory is just… such an incredible way of framing things

[finelythreadedsky]

oh and the way it’s helen who calls it κακὸν μόρον, ὡς καὶ ὀπίσσω ἀνθρώποισι πελώμεθ᾽ ἀοίδιμοι ἐσσομένοισι (a terrible fate, that we will become the songs of men yet to be)!

because helen wants to be a storyteller, helen is meant to be a storyteller. helen wants to encode men’s lives in tapestry and eulogy. that’s how we see her when she’s left on her own: striving for domesticity and simplicity, not fame. she is, in homer, the ideal woman, not just beautiful but devoted to her family, modest and hardworking, and so very aware of the responsibility of carrying the memories of those who die.

but her curse is to be the stuff of stories, not a storyteller. the very epitome of woman, yet cut off from the purpose of womanhood within epic.

[junorsky]

[reluctanttree]

lovely description of his sexuality here

[in-a-faradaze]

bonus gay space family:

@pscentral​ event 44: cultural representation | STAR TREK: DISCOVERY + LGBTQ characters

[clinttbartton]

d do you think. do you think jett reno space-texts paul stamets outlandish stories about her academy students. i hope she does. especially about this one kid whose parents don’t show up for him and is clearly queer as hell. i hope she and culmets have occasional space-facetime coffee together

[sadmushroomgoblin]

For the book ask post: 1, 18, 19 :)

book you’ve reread the most times? - probably The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, or Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

18. which time period? - mostly modern but I do love the classics. The Illiad, Odyssey, Aeneid, prose and poetic edda etc.

19. most disliked popular books? - I despise and am haunted by the All For The Game book series. I also dislike Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami

[doraingrid]

Holding on

[defconprime]

[mmavverickk]

died and came back wrong except it’s “after you died i idolized the memory of you except the negative memories didn’t feel as worthy of idolization so i discarded them and now you’re back and you’re different than i remember except all that means is you aren’t as perfect and that’s devastating”

[mmavverickk]

died and came back wrong except it’s “i know my memories of you are flawed but i cherish them anyway except you’re back and you’re exactly how i remember you and something about that just doesn’t sit right and it leaves me questioning us both”

[hoarding-stories]

Augh, the thickness in Artifice's voice,,,

He is not afraid of death, of doing what must be done, but the unexpected is always terrifying

Gotta go cry now

[sxpositive]

book asks:

book you’ve reread the most times?

top 5 books of all time?

what is your favourite genre?

what sections of a bookstore do you browse?

where do you buy books?

what books have you read in the last month?

is there a series/book that got you into reading?

what is the first book you remember reading yourself?

when do you tend to read most?

do you have a guilty fav?

what non-fiction books do you like if any?

did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings?

do you have a goodreads?

do you ever mark/dog ear books you own?

recommend and review a book.

how many books have you read this year?

top 5 children’s books?

do you like historical books? which time period?

most disliked popular books?

what are things you look for in a book?

[liarsblade]

"how does the character refer to themselves in their internal dialogue" is an under utilized characterization detail imo

[unamccormack]

Mm, delicious, also the contrast between how they refer to the people around them in their internal dialogue compared to direct speech.

[sadmushroomgoblin]

This email could have been a tuna fish

[ayeforscotland]

It appears that all parties with the exception of Restore are not going to entertain Farage’s media circus.

Count Binface - it is your time. People of Clacton, please do the funniest fucking thing that’s happened in UK politics for a while.

[ayeforscotland]

Shitposting at its finest.

[sadmushroomgoblin]

It never ceases to amaze me the number of wrong ways people can pronounce a common Spanish surname

[bibblesaysgayrights]

btw i read monstrous regiment and i think it's one of the best discworld books i've read so far. it can be read simultaneously as a commentary on misogyny and differing standards based on gender and war AND a possibly unintentional exploration of transmasc experiences. like one of the characters has expressed as male literally most of his life and went back to his family as a man, which is both a really good commentary on how differently men and women are treated and how the standards for 'gross habits' are vastly different for men than for women but also it is literally someone who's been presenting masc their whole life finally returning to their family as themself.

ALSO it handled the female characters so well!! most pieces of media that have women in positions of power make them good and moral, but monstrous regiment treats them as people, who, when in an environment surrounded by stupid masculine ideals and having to conform to those, will fall into the same stupid patterns!! it treats women as people who can be utterly stupid, belligerent and hardheaded and it was so refreshing.

also the jokes are really good, it's an entertaining read and presents all those topics (including the utter devastation that was brings, the propaganda used to coerce people into fighting, which are both REALLY heavy things!!) in a way that is easily comprehended and keeps your attention.

terry pratchett was such a good fucking writer istg