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[depsidase]

[kitsmittens]

I wish I was smart enough to be an astronaut

[notaplaceofhonour]

Ryan Gosling’s career has just been one long quest to climb the Warner Bros water tower

[notaplaceofhonour]

that man has been trying to climb this tower since he was 16. he has asked multiple times, and every time they said no, but now he’s famous enough & variety was able to convince them to do a shoot on the tower. it all led here. it was all for this.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I’m obsessed with the implication that this was a coming-of-age ritual where a boy becomes a man, like a bar mitzvah

[ukulelekatie]

[j-train13]

Astronauts are so funny man. Here's just a couple of things I've found hilarious from this past week of space stuff:

It's probably already been spread around here enough already, but in case anyone's missed it; 7 hours after launch, commander Reid Wiseman, dealing with tech issues, uttered the generational quote "I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working."

After fixing the issues that were afflicting the onboard toilet, mission specialist Christina Koch (who has quickly become my favourite of the four) laughingly said “I’m the space plumber, I’m proud to call myself the space plumber.”

On Easter Sunday, the Artemis II crew hosted a makeshift egg hunt, by hiding packets of dehydrated scrambled eggs around their Orion capsule.

The way the crew always makes sure to make it very clear they're in space when doing interviews. From stuff like Wiseman just hanging out floating sideways on screen or Koch letting her hair loose so it can freely span out flowing around her.

While in transit, the crew decided to record a parody of those bad 80s sitcom intros where everyone turns and smiles at the camera.

When the crew reached the furthest point from Earth in the mission, they jokingly clambored over each other in an effort to get to the far side of the capsule, so that they could individually claim to be the furthest person from earth.

At the same time, on the ISS which was at the time on the other side of earth, the 7 astronauts onboard had a light-hearted race to the far side of the station, making jokes about being the furthest humans from Artemis.

On the way back to earth, NASA actually managed to establish an audio call between the crews of the ISS and Artemis II (where they shared the above info), and Koch called one member of the ISS crew, Jessica Meir, her "astro-sister" as the two of them previously spacewalker together in 2019. Meir then responded I'm so happy that we are back in space together, even if we are a few miles apart" (a few here being 230,000).

While Jeremy Hansen was doing an interview, Wiseman and Koch were just in the background swatting the mission mascot (a little moon plush toy named Rise) back and forth between each other.

[myspace]

[americachavez]

harry potter fandom experiencing such a revival in the last 5 or so years to the point where 5 out of the top 10 ships on ao3 this year are hp AFTER that woman started fully funding hate campaigns with her royalties is so bleak. fandom isn’t an indicator of morality but what are we doing here man.

[little-grey-dowitcher]

So many people never learned to live with harmless discomfort at any point in their lives and holy fuck does it show

[little-grey-dowitcher]

“But I wanna know!” You’re gonna have to learn to be ok with not knowing some things, especially when those things involve personal details about strangers that they’re not comfortable sharing.

“But it’s confusing!” If you take the time to educate yourself it’ll no longer be confusing. Otherwise you’re just gonna have to learn to be ok with being confused.

“But it’s weird!” You probably do weird things all the time. Everyone does weird things sometimes. Life goes on.

“But it scares me!” Is it hurting you? No? You’ll be fine. Being scared and being harmed are not always the same thing. Learn to tell the difference and then act accordingly.

“But I want it!” And I want a million dollars. You can’t always get what you want.

[little-grey-dowitcher]

A lot of people were also never told “no” as children and the consequences of that manifest in similar ways. Learn to be ok with being told “no.” You’re not gonna die if you don’t get your way in every single situation ever.

[depsidase]

[mia-down-under]

[wholesome-animal-images]

[wildaboutmnhockey]

you better watch out you better watch out YOU BETTER WATCH OUT

[notfinancialadvice]

This is so fucking embarrassing. This is one of the most embarrassing business quips I have ever seen in my entire vile career.

[birdsareblooming]

coat bath

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

tag yourselves i'm the GREAT ROOM beside the GOURMET KITCHEN

[pocket-deer-belly]

i remade it in the sims 4

[my-dailydreams]

[homunculus-argument]

"My first language has a perfect saying for this, but it doesn't make sense in english :("

Say it anyway! You don't owe them perfect clarity. Be profoundly cryptic, speak in riddles, make them ponder what the fuck you meant by that. The anglos, like porridge, must sometimes be stirred, so they don't burn stuck on the bottom of the pot.

[varahai]

Ihmisiä pitää hämmentää, muuten ne palavat pohjaan

[homunculus-argument]

@elfspectations close, but no cigar! It's my favourite expression, which in finnish is a cooking pun. The word "stir", as in stirring a soup/porridge/etc is also the word for "confuse", and "to burn to the bottom of the pan" is also used for a person experiencing burnout.

So "people must be stirred, or they'll burn to the bottom of the pot" can also be understood as "one must confuse people sometimes, so that they won't burn out (in life)."

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[youthincare]

people should be allowed to have low ambition, and also be able to feed a family on the salary of a cashier at a convenience store.

[teradrama-deactivated20260513]

"the best way to screw jkr over is by making her characters queer!" actually. The best way to screw jkr over is to stop engaging with the property she still profits off of and read a different fucking book

[teradrama-deactivated20260513]

we're 10 days away from the anniversary of this post breaking my blog, so reblogs are back on! maybe I can get a new blocklist out of this

[riverroan]

also, if you decide you REALLY wanna watch the new show/ movies THAT BAD, pirate that shit!!!! piracy is your best friend along with a good vpn!!!! if you wanna buy her books, thrift it! go on ebay or pangobooks or your local library or a thrift store or depop! don't give that wench your money!!!!

[fandomsandfeminism]

I'm gonna hold your hands while I say this: it's not enough.

HP Fandom isn't just a problem because of the direct financial support. It also continues to infuse the IP, and JKR as a result, with cultural capital and social influence. It gives jkr a cultural relevance that means her words are platformed more seriously and more widely than other authors whose works are not infused with this level of sustained popularity. She has said, very plainly, that she (and the people who will fund her future projects) views ALL Fandom action as support.

And also, quite frankly, the last book was published in 2007. Please read a new book.

[hermionescisgenderpenis]

the seemingly pervasive idea that making anti-jkr derivative works and reading other books are mutually exclusive will always baffle me

like, you really think we aren’t? Like the queer HP community didn’t go nuts for Rainbow Rowell’s shit? This absolutely bizarre idea that you have to be actively reading one book series and one book only to make art about it will never not confuse me. I sincerely don’t know anyone who regularly actually reads Harry Potter, we all got our series rereads done by the mid-2010s, we don’t need to read it, that’s the whole point. Not reading it, but rewriting it. Changing it. Tilting away at those windmills. And raising money for trans orgs while doing it.

But no! An almost entirely queer, heavily trans community has to cede the undeniable power of a story that was part of their queer and trans journey to a billionaire transphobe because… the billionaire transphobe says she views it as support, and for some fucking reason you believe her. You are literally more willing to listen to a billionaire transphobe than to a queer community. Because hey, it’s a small one, so who cares! Gotta have those strict sectarian binary lines! Strictly enforcing ideological binaries is a fucking great idea! Bring on the dogma!

Actually, bring on the Dogma, that movie is super underrated and hard to stream

(oh and maybe read the tags if you’re unhappy with me, if you want)

[fandomsandfeminism]

I DO believe that JKR *views* Fandom of her works as support, and I DO believe that HPs continued cultural popularity gives her more attention in the media and will make her future projects easier to get green lit.

I believe that you DON'T view your Fandom as support, but that doesn't change the actual impact of it. No one can read your mind when they see your fanfics.

Read other books. Make fan works of them. Engage with a piece of media that doesn't require this level of backbending to enjoy publically.

I know it sucks. It does suck. It should make you sad and angry and betrayed, but you as a person and you in your queerness are not beholden to the shambling literary corpse of a book series that ended 17 years ago that's being puppeteered by a woman who *fucking hates us* and is continually using her still very visible and vocal fanbase as a platform to cause measurable and demonstrable harm to us.

Aren't you *tired* of having to think about her all the fucking time? Aren't you exhausted of having to engage the whole issue?

I have a stupid little Golden snitch tattoo that I haven't been able to covered up yet. I get it. I know. But I *promise* you, whatever power you feel you have found wading in the gutter runoff of HP fanworks, you can find so much more of in *other fucking books*, other writing spaces, other communities.

You're so used to forcing the round peg of your identity into square holes that you feel empowered because you've gotten so good at it- but I want you to find the liberation of finding spaces that were built for you, not forced to accommodate you however uncomfortably.

Here's facts- I can't stop you from doing whatever you want to do. But sometimes the most radical thing you can do if walk away from the people who don't want you around. And remember that what you do is the basis by which people will evaluate you.