a toast to the alchemists

Guild | 27 | they/them pronouns!

[spellcore]

gnaws on the art my bestie @praesaepe got me from @tometen for the holidays

[smokinghorse]

just had a really good mango it was so good that i had to illustrate how it made me feel afterwards.

[stratfender]

op’s tags are so fucking important to me

[enjoylentgreen]

[bugsnbites]

God can you imagine being Rocky?

You're sick. You recognise the symptoms from your crew, you have radiation poisoning. The astrophages that were protecting you and powering the ship are gone. You couldn't find the leak in time to stop it. And now you're dying out here in space, alone.

The life support systems on the ship are shutting down. Everything is shutting down. Your planet will die– your entire star system will die. They'll never know how close you came to saving them.

You think about Grace. Is his ship dying too? Or is he on his way home, none the wiser to your fate?

Maybe you're fighting until the end, or maybe you've 'made peace' with it.

And then you hear knocking, on the outside of your ship. Furious, desperate banging on the window. Your friend, your lab partner, your first contact, has come back to save you.

Amaze amaze amaze.

[bugsnbites]

Actually I'm not done. Then would come the arguing.

You know exactly how much fuel you gave this chucklefuck, and now he doesn't have enough to go home. Dumbass. Idiot. More words he can't understand. He gave up his chance to go home for a planet he's never been to? No, he gave it up for you.

All you can do is go to Erid together, on his ship because yours is now a biohazard. He's confined to it while you talk to scientists, to eridians in charge, making them understand that this weird soft alien saved everyone. And now he needs them to save him in return.

Using what he showed you, you help design an enclosure for him. A house with a bed, sand, water, this really specific gas mix for an atmosphere, sunlight. It's a whole thing.

But you saved each other, and saved the stars.

[2othcentury]

Pride, New York, June 1990

[babyanimalgifs]

[archivedbarfblog]

1-800-ARE-YOU-SLAPPIN

[claypigeonpottery]

sold

[nebulations]

[ID copied from alt: round ceramic plate with a black diamond-patterned ouroboros consuming its own tail, around the words “Ouroboros can have a little ouroboros as a treat” End ID]

[dogfluid-deactivated20181205]

[nugbrownies]

[briannyssey]

dude star wars is so good and/or bad and/or mediocre sometimes, depending

[zenaidasden]

Ohh so that's why they called that one show Andor

[trueshredguitar]

[spellcore]

I'd really like for my Tumblr app to stop double posting things! it is very annoying to have to manually delete stuff that got reblogged more than once!

[gondorrevealparty]

baseball interviewers will ask "how do you throw the ball so good" and Mariners players will casually drop that they have a headmate who plays the game for them

[vernadskova-deactivated20230803]

i bet cavemen were doing some pentatonix acapella shit all the time

[polespullspolls]

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Voting ended onMay 31

[doublism]

they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit your tv when it didn't work good.

[wizardarchetypes]

when I was a kid I had an old tv in my room that would always turn to unwatchable static in the middle of shows but one night my sister and I were watching Naruto & every time Kakashi was on-screen the static cleared so we were like “hahaha the tv looooves Kakashi.”

I had a Kakashi bookmark so we held it up against the screen as a joke but the static actually cleared up. Mystified, we tried different bookmarks and objects with the same plastic material but nothing else worked, only the Kakashi bookmark.

We ended up taping it to the corner of the screen and it stayed there for 11 years until we moved out. When I was older people would be like “can you move the bookmark off the screen” bc it did sort of block a bit of the view but I would demonstrate the static issue and everyone was always just like “huh. what the hell?? well…alright.”

No explanation, but thanks Kakashi.

[scarletjedi]

I had a similar tv! It was a tv with a built in dvd and vcr because it was in college and I’m apparently old now. But! The dvd player never wanted to play- unless it was Chicago (2002). First, we would put that dvd in, let it start, and then swap it for the movie we really wanted to watch. It got to the point where we would put in the dvd we wanted and sing “he had it coming!!!” At the screen at volume. Fucking worked *every time*

Bizarre.

[inkcurlsandknives]

I miss when technology had real personality, instead of fake ones designed to generate lies and nonsense and spy on you.

[beemovieerotica]

[ayxasma]

This shit's giving me ASMR and I don't even have the sound on...

[track-maniac]

I cannot stress enough how much you need the sound for this one

[animentality]