No Thoughts; Head Empty

I was voted “objectively best person” by my baby cousin so you should all listen to him (I've had this as my description for so long that the original baby cousin is now in his moody teenager phase and thinks I'm not cool :( FORTUNATELY I HAVE ANOTHER BABIER COUSIN-)

[solena2]

INTRODUCTION POST

Hi! My name is Soléna! (pronounced soul-ANE-uh)

I use they/them pronouns.

You should check out @droppingartintotheinfinite! That’s where I put all my art and writing type stuff. I only use my main for reblogs these days, even the shitposts go to the art blog now.

I also have an ao3 account for my fics! And an Art Fight page as well.

I’m very shy and I struggle to initiate interaction with other people, but please know that if we are mutuals I love you dearly. Also please send me asks/dms about literally anything regardless of whether or not we have ever spoken or are mutuals. I love attention and am nearly impossible to offend by accident.

[thegaymertrainer]

Ribbon dancing I was not aware of your evolution 🤯

[animusbell]

celestia is such a funny character like she's constantly manipulating twilight and friends to do shit instead of just asking and you could arguably frame that as being bc she's a "god" and pushing fate to her design or whatever, except that she engages with the group like a normal and relatable person, which makes it more like villainous machinations, except 90% of this manipulation goes towards things like "I don't want my party to be boring shit again. put my little country girl blorbos in there with zero prep so they fuck it up bad"

[animusbell]

you think you've fucked anything up around princess celestia and she's like heh. no worries. all according to keikaku

[jukashi]

Celestia instantly makes more sense as a character when you ignore the princess stuff and remember that she's a 1000+ years old wizard. Of course she does manipulative trickster stuff to teach moral lessons and/or cause chaos to amuse herself, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course sometimes she's actually socially awkward and bad at personal relationships and has bad ideas that she thought were good that result in her eating shit embarrassing style, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course she lets the aristocrats and nobles run around being assholes she's still running on wizard advisor programming, she's basically trying to merlin the entire upper class of equestria instead of just a king and some knights. "Yeah uuhhh we'll release the incarnation of chaos himself from his ancient prison because we think this shy girl can be friends with him", terrible plan if you're thinking like a ruler, amazing plan if you're thinking like a wizard. Just look at Canterlot 'Castle' for five seconds and ask yourself if that's in any way a castle. No. Wizard tower, yes. Wizard.

[animusbell]

You are so right actually

[endcrys]

@crabussy

[ozth]

found this three year old draft buried in my files. is it funny? I don't remember

[wispsofwhimsy]

no no you’re on to something don’t leave this in the notes!

[palesweetdeeer]

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

[rylandspace]

in many projects, there is a Guy That Everyone Likes.

he is often quite skilled in his own right, but his main role ends up being Guy That Everyone Likes. running messages between departments gets a lot easier when nobody wants to shoot the messanger. everyone is happier whrn someone they like is in the room, and meetings go smoother when people are enthused about their work, that kind of thing.

grace was one of these guys.

i dont know when or if stratt ever confessed to basically blackbagging and murdering the Guy That Everybody Liked, but i think under the shock and pride and whatever else she was feeling in the meeting room with the rest of the original admin on the 26th anniversary, when ryland goes from "AHHH THE ALIENS COULD BE SENDING BOMBS AT ME" to buddy comedy roommate shenanigans with best friend rocky in what feels 10 minutes, she was pretty satisfied with her decision.

[stargirl-and-potts]

Keeping @startingatmidnight ’s excellent tags. Grace likes people, so people like him. It does translate right across the universe.

[vaspider]

You could say that he is adept in

Social Graces.

[teddyrocker]

is that woman character actually “not well written” or are you just not paying attention to her. is that woman character actually “less interesting” or do you just not care about her.

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[dragonpyre]

[sevastiel]

[zangoonse]

a party of adventurers that are all equally convinced that they are in completely different forms of media

[zangoonse]

the mage keeps giving smug glances in the direction they assume a camera is in. the fighter keeps getting indignant about missing attacks because of "bad dice rolls." the rogue is doubtful that a villain is gone for good because "nobody ever stays dead in comics." the paladin attributes fortune to "good rng." none of them have even considered that "tumblr post" was an option

[noartnowritingsorry]

Oh no…

[autistic-speedbump]

[zelda-heritage-posts]

Zelda Heritage Post

[drtrinitysantos]

sdxfcgvzdxfcgvhzdxfcgvhbjnkmlcgvhbjnk science

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

#the reason that lab safety regulations are the way they are is because literally all chemists are like this #as in 100% of them #no exceptions (via @prokopetz)

[copperbadge]

My grandfather got the GI bill after the war and decided to become a chemist. He was a year into his degree when he spilled something on himself in the lab. The way he told it, he watched whatever it was start to dissolve the leather apron he was wearing, thought about what it might be doing to his lungs, and after calmly removing the apron, became an architect instead. I think chemists are Like That because the sane ones all self-selected out of the pool.

[crazy-pages]

My solid state physics professor in undergrad was an experimental ferromagnetic metallurgist on a shoestring budget. If you're not familiar with this field, this means she regularly handled magnets that could and had broken her bones when they slipped, and also home-built open-air radio furnaces that would have a dropped quarter halfway to slag before it hit the bottom. She once built a lock-in amplifier from a hubcab she found in the parking lot, a toy car motor, a flashlight, and a light sensor, and it didn't just work, it worked well. Her lab contained precautions against things like "the potential of an ever-expanding pool of death" and "actual fucking lava".

"Metal" would be an apt term for her, if only it wasn't too mild to describe her. This woman was casting lead ballast under her father's supervision to go sailing on a stormy lake when she was 8. She was one of the first women to be allowed in her grad school engineering program. She and her friend organized a 10 year long hostile takeover of our physics department's hiring committee and then spent the next 20 years systemically hiring decent and diverse people while driving out the bigoted assholes, driven by sheer bare-knuckled spite and an absolutely unbreakable will.

And I will never forget the horror with which she once described the insanity that is chemists. Back when she'd worked in industry, she'd had a crucible with a metal residue on the inside which she just could not scrub out. So she went to one of the company's chemists for help, figuring he'd know what to do.

And the fucking madman, in defiance of all sense and reason, pulled out a fucking squirt bottle of hydrofluoric acid from his desk drawer, spritzed it in the crucible, wiped it out with a rag and a stir rod, and gave it back to her. He then offered her the squirt bottle to take.

My professor - one of the most inspiringly hardcore people I've ever met - had a haunted expression on her face as she told us she had declined. But that the madman had simply smiled, shrugged, put the bottle away, and told her that it was no trouble, if she ever needed a crucible cleaned again just come on back.

Chemists, she explained to us, scare her.

[shizukateal]

The thing about the Witch Hat Atelier world is that the magic system sounds great until you realize it's essentially programming and that sobers you up immediately. Sure, maybe you reach the level of skill needed to draw perfect curves, straight lines, and circles without looking down, but after that you still need to be able to logic out which combination of sigils will actually give you the desired effect, and if you misplace a single line it all goes to shit. Add to that the inclusion of effect-altering inks and you start to understand why Olruggio is Like That.

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

just some of the the changes in design for the Penguin Symbol on old Penguin Paperbacks 

[dinkywinks]

he did a little dance and for this crime he was imprisoned in a bubble

[luxflora]

They liked his little dance so much they gave him a spotlight

[anasandorpygoscelis-deactivated]

family album

[delgrosso]

[sensationaltrainreading]

[tb144000]

[sparrow-in-boots]

i'm finally dipping my toes in the project hail mary/iron lung crossover content and like

i'm ALL FOR giving Simon a break, let him live and heal and be a person again in phmverse. but also consider. he brings in the cosmic horror with him and it just, keep clashing with the cosmic hope of phm

Grace's beach water turns to blood all of a sudden, the Eridians are scrambling for how the hell did that even happen. Also it has DNA matches with Simon and, a bunch of other humans, and also Grace at one point? -- Welp, more sources for cloned meat, and damn now we can clone fish too! Grace has sushi for the first time in decades.

Mary turns haunted, the Eridian team keeping the ship functional and studying the technology keep sensing humanoid shapes wandering and messing with the controls. Mary keeps notifying them, "foreign object detected", asking for the name of the unknown passenger, but there's never anyone there. -- The team names the ghosts, attempts at seances occur. No replies yet but they have a lot of human spiritual and religious sources to comb through, something's bound to work!

When they salvage Simon, he won't stop bleeding. They can't make it stop yet he doesn't seem to run out it. Endless exsanguination that human medicine cannot explain. Nobody has any idea how he's even alive at all. -- Rocky nags at Grace that he 'lied' about humans having bilateral symmetry, this one is all mismatched. Eridians get a crash course in proper radioactive waste disposal, and Grace discovers fucking gene manipulation agents in the blood.

There's some kind of fucked up eel swimming in the biodome blood ocean now, and it might be intelligent. -- Send in Grace and Rocky, first contact electric boogaloo.

[creaturepeaches]

i hate it when i can tell my perception of a character is diminishing in real time because of fandom wank. like nooooo i want to maintain an objective relationship with the text but everyone is so annoying about you nooooo

[anistarrose]

As Aromantic Visibility Day (June 5th) approaches this year, friendly reminder from an aroace: it's Aromantic Visibility Day, not "Aroace" Visibility Day! Not all aromantics are also asexual — there are aromantics who are allosexual (aroallos for short), aromantics who don't separately label their sexual orientation at all, and aromantics whose sexual orientation doesn't fit into an ace/allo binary, as well as likely even more aros who don't fit into "aroace" for even more reasons — and all of them are equally included in Aromantic Visibility Day, because they are equally aromantic! In fact, those aros who aren't ace are disproportionately erased and in need of visibility, even more than aroaces are (which is really saying something, because aroace visibility itself is already terrible), so including them in Aromantic Visibility Day is vital, and using the correct name for the occasion instead of calling it an "aroace day" is a start.

Overall: again, speaking as an aroace myself, we aroaces will not be offended if you just call Aromantic Visibility Day the thing it is actually called! I care about sharing this upcoming day with my fellow aros, so stop excluding them, even accidentally! We aroaces celebrate this day but it is not for us exclusively!