I'm kind of a mess

this is the disaster where I reblog everything I see. for actual content please check out my other Tumblr: @Thingy-Things

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2023??

Cooking with flavor bootcamp (used what I learned in this a LOT this year)

Beekeeping 101

Learn Interior Design from the British Academy of Interior Design (free to audit course - just choose the free option when you register)

Video on learning to read music that actually helped me??

How to use and sew with a sewing machine

How to ride a bike (listen. some of us never learned, and that's okay.)

How to cornrow-braid hair (I have it on good authority that this video is a godsend for doing your baby niece's black hair)

Making mead at home (I actually did this last summer and it was SO good)

How to garden

Basics of snowboarding (proceed with caution)

How to draw for people who (think they) suck at art (I know this website looks like a 2003 monstrosity, but the tutorials are excellent)

Pixel art for beginners so you can make the next great indie game

Go (back) to school

Introduction to Astronomy (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Principals of Economics (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Introduction to philosophy (free college course)

Computer science basics (full-semester Harvard course free online)

Learn a language

Japanese for Dummies (link fix from 2022)

Ukrainian

Portuguese (Brazil)

American Sign Language (as somebody who works with Deaf people professionally, I also strongly advise you to read up on Deaf/HoH culture and history!)

Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified)

Quenya (LOTR fantasy elf language)

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2024??

Beginner-oriented video on how to sail

This guy has so many videos on baking different types of bread. SO very many.

Coding in Python - one of the most flexible and adaptable high-level programming languages out there - explained through projects making video games

Learn to swim! (for adult learners. I don’t care if you live in Kansas or Mali or wherever. LEARN TO SWIM.)

Learn how quantum mechanics works. Then read some more about it

[Learn about quantum mechanics again, but in a more advanced engineering/mathematics class. Then read more about the math and physics of it]

Poetry Handbook, by Mary Oliver

Something I learned this year: how to sew a quilt (Here’s a very easy beginning pattern that looks amazing and can be done with pre-cut fabric!)

How to hit the ball in softball

Tutorial video on what is under the hood of most (gas) cars + weird engine sounds and what they mean

Full beginner mechanics technical training, if you want to go more in depth

Playlist on how car engine physics work if you want to go ultra in depth

Lecture series on architecture design through study of buildings

How (American income) taxes & tax law work (choose “audit course” at checkout for free class)

Pickleball for beginners (so you can finally join your neighbor/friend/distant cousin who is always insisting you join their team)

+ Para-Pickleball for beginners (for mobility aid users!)

School is so much more fun when there’s no tests:

American Law - Contracts

Shakespeare’s Life and Plays

Fairy Tales: Meanings, Messages, and Morals

Modern Poetry

World History [Part 1, Part 2]

Learn a language:

Arabic + Resource Guide compiled from Reddit (includes info on different dialects)

Chinese (Cantonese) (audio)

Urdu (frequently recommended course on Reddit) + Resource Guide

Yucatec Maya

[samioli]

Happy pride to whatever ryan gosling and that space rock got going on

[fizhle]

I like to imagine he spontaneously gets covered in blood for no apparent reason

[aroace-ryland-grace]

more of plush book rocky because I love him

[aroace-get-out-of-my-face]

I haven't seen anyone do this yet and I think it is a painful void in the Project Hail Mary fandom. Guys. Put Grace in a space ball on Erid and have him break down Rocky's door and roll around knocking things over. Cmon guys.

"Wow Rock you live like this? Junk all over the floor and parts everywhere? Very messy."

"Rocky is not enjoying Grace's games, Statement."

[pineappical]

ACTUALLY heres another one i quickly animated of rocky beating the shit out of grace

[ratsoupee]

field trip cancelled

Based off hit tumblr post:

[grace-rocky-blogs]

to be seen is to be loved

[saym0-0]

another teacher grace moment i love is when rocky gives him the oxygen model he goes 'i dont have one of these thank you!' like that is THE most teacher response ever when a child gives them something utterly incomprehensible but made with love

[puncertainty]

<3

[sisaloofafump]

The Shield

Inspired by how Grace is sometimes represented by a fox. And how the axe will still fall on Stratt’s head in the end.

[chubs-deuce]

I wanted to make an Adrian design, both in general and for my AU lmao

some headcanons and AU context under the cut:

Adrian is a little bit older than Rocky

where he's temperamental and extroverted, they're a soothing balm of a personality. Calm, patient and very good at rubberducking others with their emotional problems

they're more quiet and get very stuck in their own mind sometimes - also hyperfixate on things and kinda need to be dragged out of a project by force on occasion. Their quietness tends to intimidate those that don't know them very well, but they're pretty much happy to just sit and listen. Rocky was always the more social one for both of them.

they're passionate about studying erid's different biomes, so they very easily hit it off with Grace, who's more than happy to learn more about the climates and lifeforms on erid AND can infodump about the interesting differences on earth in return

After Grace and Rocky leave Erid for their ambassador trip, eridian scientists keep testing with the stem cell cloning and gene editing tech they used to make Rocky's body, and also work on improving the consciousness transfer times... and Adrian, who's both very curious about earth and humans and wanting to maybe tag along with Rocky and Grace the next time a trip like this is being done, volunteers as test subject.

Between Adrian being the lead manager of the biodome team (so doing this would allow hands on research on earth) *and* being the ambassador's mate, it's seen as only sensible.

[trek-tracks]

Among the sizeable portion of humanity who would believe the Eridian footage to be faked, I wonder if “yeah, and Dr. Grace went to live on Erid in a beautiful biodome” becomes the new “we sent your dog to live on a farm upstate”

[deckitout]

weeeee

[cookieekun]

[duketod]

[notsotinyblob]

Rocky unfamiliar with classic earth puppet