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[hometoursandotherstuff]

[quasi-normalcy]

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

[quasi-normalcy]

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

[quasi-normalcy]

#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain

Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"

[quasi-normalcy]

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.

[nightmargin]

burgers on their mind

(I really gotta read the book sometime)

[northstareclipse]

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

[scornfulechoturtle]

#this sounds like “trad” stuff on the right without the experience of anyone who has to negotiate a living tradition or community

[northstareclipse]

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

[northstareclipse]

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

[galacticsabc]

Mom said it's my turn to make a shitty Eridian OC.

Can you imagine Grace landing on Erid, starving and malnourished, only to see this guy?

[ollielephant]

[cumonthevoid]

none pizza with left beef

[iloverumi1998]

why must we play god

[kittydealer]

u/Fine-Dog-9874

[gracerockyyes]

Rocky after finding out how Grace got on the Hail Mary

[vinceaddams]

It's nice that loud noises don't stick to clothes like smells do. That would be really bad if they did.

[gwenfrankenstien]

everybody follow me down the old woman yuri rabbithole

[gwenfrankenstien]

nobody followed me do i gotta do everything myself around here.

[projectholyfk]

Something something grace giving a super quick and embarrassed crash course on human reproduction as part of his ‘human biology’ classes on Erid, mentioning offhandedly that mating is often very energy intensive, active and humans can vocalise quite a bit and sweat quite a lot during it. Most Eridians don’t think much of this as Grace, and by extensions all humans, are already quite leaky and energy inefficient anyway.

That is until the temperature settings in Grace’s biodome start to fail a little and Rocky and Adrian come face (or carapice) to face with a scantily clad, sweaty grace who’s panting and whining lots all of a sudden.

Thinking thinking

[sleepdeprivedcinnamonbun]

One thing I love in the phm book is when rocky is explaining how old he is and how long he's been in space for and while being amazed grace is also like "wait so this is EARTH units right like you're literally 291 EARTH YEARS old?!" and rocky's just casually like yeah you're shit at maths so I convert everything to your weird units now you're welcome

[aropride]

if your animal is lying on the floor, furniture etc, it’s important to take a picture of them. then, if they move or shift in any way, it’s important to take another picture. with this technique, you can take many pictures of your animal

[shencomix]

[palesweetdeeer]

I love the idea of Rocky extending Grace’s lifespan to Eridian levels without telling him