Sky's The Limit

This has apparently turned into a tron blog for like 75% of the time. May also be talking about Star Wars SkysTheLimit23 on AO3

[skysthelimit24]

Huge fan of how the Occupation in Argon spends a good chunk of their time sitting around going, "Hm... I wonder who the Renegade could be" without looking twice at our guy Beck. Like this man: a) watched one of his friends get killed by a guard on occupation day 1, b) got sent to the games and displayed extreme rebellious tendencies in front of a large audience and c) spends 95% of his time giving a Tron-Approved death glare to any orange thing in sight.

It's like either the occupation is more incompetent than we thought, there are two many known uprising sympathizers to investigate them all, or Beck's death glare is so intimidating that they just said "Nah I don't want to deal with that mf." I'm leaning towards the last one. Tron saw him and said "Yeah anyone who can glare like that is worthy to be my successor."

[theotherwesley]

I love baby foxes. Nothing has ever had less of an idea.

buffering

[theotherwesley]

feather obtained, purpose unclear

leaf obtained, purpose unclear

ground:

unclear

sibling obtained, purpose: biting

[meepmoopmaap]

@theorphicforest ROARKE

[theblip-a]

In the beginning, Adrian was drawn a foot taller than rocky. Then two, then four, then several meters taller. The last drawn Adrian was 10 meters. In four days, we could be seeing a giant Adrian every eight hours, until they are coming every four minutes. We should witness a 50 meter Adrian within seven days.

[lutheban]

Where are the fics where Grace comes back to earth and Carl is there old and full of gray hair but alive bc of all grace did and the first thing Carl says to him is "You did great" do they even exist

[she-who-would-be-king]

you don’t understand, that’s his son

(ink on paper, tired)

[litttleprincess-deactivated2017]

Don't ever hesitate. Reblog this. TUMBLR RULE. When you see it, REBLOG IT.

[trappedinmyoldways]

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Suicide Hotline: [phone]

LifeLine: 1-800-273-8255

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Sexuality Support: 1-800-246-7743

Eating Disorders Hotline: [phone]

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Grief Support: 1-650-321-5272

Runaway: 1-800-843-5200, 1-800-843-5678, 1-800-621-4000

Exhale: After Abortion Hotline/Pro-Voice: 1-866-4394253

If you ever want to talk, my ask box is always open

[jaydove-writes]

Please reblog this. I don’t care what your blog’s theme or aesthetic is. This is important.

[frootabooga]

I don’t even know man

AHEUHS

[localcalico]

Food source

cr. lstTurtle on twt

[zzoupz]

Here comes the sun

And I say, "It's all right"

[assiraphales]

I love the headcanons that are like ‘the eridians already figured out how to replicate earth’s atmosphere, temperature, food, light, the ocean for the human. ofc they found a way to extend grace’s life expectancy’ bc talk about my exact brand of cope. but I also think another motivating factor could have been no one wanting to deal w 400 years of rocky in a bad mood

[puppetmaster55]

suddenly thinking about the courtroom scene, of Stratt being accused of pirating literally everything, and Grace later having everything in the various computers aboard his ship that he gave a copy to Rocky without issue, and the beetles having such a massive memory capacity and...

Stratt was a historian. She wasn't just pirating for the sake of entertainment for the astronauts, she was doing a full historical backup of the planet. Who knows how much knowledge and communications ability, how much art and culture and history, how much niche knowledge of how to make specific pieces of modern technology or modern medicines, was lost as the wars for resources isolated everyone, as the death tolls led to the deaths of specialized trade workers and scientists, as the power grids failing across the planet (or cut off, potentially) led to all the cloud servers going dark. Stratt was facing methods of combating extinction and she did her best to ensure that if/when the Hail Mary worked, it would send back not just the hope of the future in the solution to the astrophage, but the restoration of history and culture and knowledge.

Just.... she pirated everything, and put it all on the Hail Mary.

[kerink]

i like when eridians describe grace in other-worldly, incorporeal, eldritch ways. that he's beautiful and terrifying at the same time. a horror you can't look away from because you don't want to miss a thing.

you can never get a clear listen to him. his primary sense node is covered in "hair" and the part that isn't is hidden by two crystals that refract sound waves in a pleasing but disorienting way. he covers his body in billowy cloth at all times. not snug and sensible and unobstructive like eridian coverings, but loose and layered, draped and flowing.

the most clear part of him are his internal organs. because yes, the alien's carapace isn't sound-proof. his single heart beats insistingly in his core, his lungs exchanging gas constantly, his long digestive tract always bubbling and contracting. his thorax is packed impossibly tight and it's all moving and singing.

and it shouldn't be possible, with how fragile he is, for that internal pressure to maintain. how does the thin membrane of his external organ (another horror that sends eridians reeling) keep it all contained? his "skin" is so easily pierced, cut, bruised, burnt, how does he not split open under his own mass?

when savior rocky first arrived home and described the environmental needs of his alien, the scientists thought he'd made a mistake in his frantic panic to get everything out. it isn't possible this being lives at such low atmospheric pressure, at half the gravity, and in a gas that's nearly double the weight of ammonia. in a gas so dangerous, so caustic. and if it does then how is it obligately terrestrial like rocky claims? shouldn't it fly or float instead? (and then to see it in the water, learning that it can float or sink at will.)

and this alien has come bearing gifts that will not only save your species but launch it into impossible heights of technological and intellectual advancement. he has discovered the solution to astrophage and bred it to thrive on threeworld and translated his instructions into eridian. he has given your people the complete sum of his people's knowledge, advanced in ways the eridians can't believe and behind in ways that seem ludicrous. and he has given his life for your people to have these things.

he knows how your solar system was formed. he knows how the universe started.

his name means beautiful and generous and relieving.

the eridians experiencing cosmic bliss.

be not afraid.

[thederpypikachu98]

he is kind to you just because you are alive.

he shares knowledge without question. he teaches you about things you never even thought possible, and he does it all happily.

he entrusts his life and survival to you, trusting you without hesitation that you will keep him safe and healthy and give him a home even when your world could so easily kill him.

he is your savior and yet he won't accept your praises and thanks without you doing the same for everyone else who contributed.

he shows emotions so strangely.

but he saved you and your world.

[atomikats]

my personal take on the matter

[genderfluid-druid]

[ID: A comic of Grace at a table with the Hail Mary astronauts. Shapiro, with her arm around Dubois, asks, "You're sure you and Stratt aren't a thing."

"Absolutely positive," says Grace.

"You've never even kissed?"

"Nuh uh. Nope."

Dubois joins in, saying, "But if she asked you to... say... get your arm surgically attached to hers. Would you?"

"...huh???" says Grace, raising an eyebrow.

"Well, would you?" asks Yao.

Grace looks thoughtful. "Like. I mean. If it was pertinent to the mission, then..."

"Never mind," says Ilyukhina. "Something much more concerning than sex is going on here." End ID]

[five-rivers]

Group of friends who are close because they all have the same superpower except no they don't.

[five-rivers]

As in, they all think the other ones have the same superpower as them, but, in fact, they do not.

[five-rivers]

For example:

Time traveler who always is running into these other people who seem to know what's going on or what will happen and is so happy he can finally share his travel stories.

Precognitive who is relieved he isn't the only one with the gift and who is glad to get help averting future disasters.

Mind reader with a horrible memory who tries to stay on top of things by skimming surface thoughts. You want to talk about next week's election results and how they changed the next decade? She's with you.

Totally normal guy who thinks the others have the absolute best bit ever and loves playing along.

[five-rivers]

They save the world at least twice without a single clue shared between the four of them.

[five-rivers]

It happens like this:

Mind Reader is standing in the middle of the park, sweating. They do not know why they're here, and obviously none of the people around them do, either. The truth is, they were on their way to the grocery store and got lost and then forgot. It happens.

But, then, they see Precog on a bench and Precog is thinking of them, because Precog had a vision of meeting Mind Reader here today. Of course, Mind Reader thinks, they were here to see their friend! They sit down next to Precog. Precog knows Mind Reader's name. Mind Reader can pick up Precog's name. They have a long and stimulating conversation, like they've known each other forever, courtesy of mind reading and future seeing. Precog assumes this is because Mind Reader also foresaw this. About halfway through, Precog starts finishing Mind Reader's sentences before they say them, and Mind Reader is picking up thoughts like 'it's wonderful to meet someone with the same abilities as me.'

They part ways with a promise to meet again for a coffee/rube-goldberg-esque prevention of a kidnapping.

.

Normal Guy is just walking home from a Revolutionary War reenactment. They see Time Traveler walking the same way, also dressed in old-timey clothes.

"Oh, hey," they say, "were you just at the battle of such and such?"

"Why, yes," says Time Traveler, "did you also come from [year]?"

"You could say that! Do you live around here?"

"I do, for the moment. We should get lunch sometime and talk about yesteryear!"

"Sounds like a plan!"

.

Precog encounters Time Traveler for the first time while breaking in to the corporate offices of a fabulously corrupt company. As in, they are both breaking in, and for the same reason. Thing is, Time Traveler has 'seen' Precog before! Precog thinks Time Traveler means 'seen' as in vision, but, nope!

Turns out that in the future, Precog foresees that Time Traveler needs some help with something similar, makes a lot of 'seeing the future' jokes that the Time Traveler misinterprets, and doesn't register that his old friend doesn't recognize him at all, because, hey, Mind Reader reacts to him in the same way whenever they meet up!

.

Of course, Time Traveler and Precog want to introduce their other powered friends... Normal Guy and Mind Reader will definitely get along! They have the same powers, after all!

[five-rivers]

Woke up in the middle of the night with another idea about this.

The antagonist knows they all have different powers. The antagonist does not know that they don't know that. This results in 90% of their plans failing.

[five-rivers]

For example:

Antagonist has set thing up so it appears that anyone attacking them directly will die horribly via special effects. Precog sees this, and tells the others. Time Traveler shrugs and charges anyway. The others can always go back and stop them, and this way they have more data! The attack goes through.

Antagonist gives a long "join me" speech to Regular Guy, expecting rejection, because they see them as a kindred evil genius. Regular Guy shrugs and says sure. Wanders off and "betrays" them halfway through a climactic battle because one of their pipes burst and they had to go home.

Antagonist sets things up so Precog and Mind Reader think they're going to do two different things by telling the henchpeople one thing and planning to do something else. They ask Time Traveler and Regular Guy to break the tie for them.

[five-rivers]

This is easily my most popular post, and people keep reblogging it, saying they'd like to read more of it but... they never reblog the part... that has an actual story snippet (ie this version of the post)...

[only-cat-memes]

[soopermax]

irondad core

[gloriousclio]

Luke Skywalker put away his targeting computer to destroy the Death Star so I don't need AI to help me write an email.