The Grand Central Station of the Multiverse

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Star Wars, Stargate, Batman, politics, Japanese, studying, real life, pretty pictures.

[animentality]

[beautifulterriblequeen]

A sign to tap

[robotslenderman]

I’m sorry my lovelies but the reason you hate yourself is because you treat you like shit. If you came up to me and then told me I was a fuck up who could never do anything right I'd fucking hate you too.

[robotslenderman]

if you didn't let me go to bed until after midnight because you'd rather watch Netflix than let me rest, and then got mad at me for not being productive the next day I'd be PISSED

[robotslenderman]

You keep calling me a fatass but you tell other overweight people they’re beautiful? Why do you keep shitting on MY weight, then?

Oh? It’s different if it’s me? Wow fuck you too

[robotslenderman]

Love is a verb! Self love isn’t a warm fuzzy feeling, it is compassion and action in support of yourself!

And yes, this includes having compassion for the bully in your head. Unfortunately that part is also you and deserves as much of your understanding as the rest of you.

[robotslenderman]

via @corazondebeskar

This is the real reason why you need to be kind to the bully in your brain too, because that motherfucker is really good at doing a switcheroo when you're not paying attention.

[hood-ex]

[stormqueen280]

Of goddammed Ladybug and Spider-man as well!

(And I like Spider-man, just not on my DC time)

[abbielauren2024]

I seriously love AO3. Like what do you mean that I get extra content of my favorite fandoms for free?? What do you mean that some of the Shakespeare-level writing is what we could only dream to get in canon?? What do you mean I can read all the content tags and warnings so I know what I’m reading and can choose what I enjoy?? What do you mean I can search and filter for specific troupes and emotions instead of vague genres?? WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO ADS AND ONCE AGAIN IT’S ALL FREE?? Ack I’ll never get over this website lol <333

[brevityandclarity]

AO3 is one of the few websites I use on the regular that isn't actively trying to manipulate me into something

[mikkeneko]

you know what I appreciate about AO3. that it isn't trying to stuff its interface full of chipper little AI features. i can open a oneshot on AO3 without a modern day clippy popping up to say "wow! this sure is a long page! want me to summarize it for you?" i get to the end of an unfinished fic and don't get an offer to auto-generate a statistically average ending. i go to the comment box and spicy autocomplete doesn't try to take over the keyboard for me.

[slipping-into-madness]

[drdougdouglass]

[depsidase]

[conmasamormujer-deactivated2026]

I hate when ppl act shocked that rappers know "high brow" cultural references. It's so condescending "this dumb black guy knows about art" as if they're not the main producers of modern culture.

[chilewithcarnage]

[carniferous]

neither “that’s not canon” nor “fuck canon we made this all up” but a secret third thing (canon shouldn’t be taken as gospel but is useful as a reference point for building upon and recontextualizing characters and details. if you worship the source material as unchangeable then fandom in general probably isn’t for you. if you have complete disdain for the source material you would probably enjoy yourself more in a different fandom)

[nongunktional]

i do think the negative interpretations of "im probably nonbinary but i have a job right now" are kind of reaching. it's obviously a waste of time to theorize the op's intended meaning, so instead i think it's better to recognize how the phrase can be a useful framing device to criticize how much of a fucking hassle it is to get gendered correctly. "but i have a job" e.g. will face discrimination that could threaten livelihood; e.g. don't have the mental bandwidth to explain gender to others; e.g. don't have the time and energy for the soul-searching necessary to confirm. all three of these are labor issues. yes you could interpret it as "but being nonbinary isn't important enough to worry about", despite that being a blatantly bad-faith read. it's more useful to interpret it as "but being publicly nonbinary requires a lot of social effort that, in many cultural contexts, will create more problems that you can't afford to deal with". like cmon it's a really good jumping off point for productive conversations about queer labor rights

[sweaterkittensahoy]

I'm not out at work because I was out at my last workplace, and it was a fucking hassle to get misgendered because then I'd have to wonder if the apology tour was coming. You know the one. The person reaches out, "OMG SO SORRY MISGENDERED YOU." You respond with something blandly polite like "Hey, it happens. No problem." And you mean it. But then they come back with their outsized guilt and need you to assure them you know they're a nice person.

Plus, you never know when a co-worker is going to decide you are the be-all end-all explainer of all things enby or trans. Which I am not. And do not wish to be.

It's a lot less stressful to just not fucking tell them.

[hopeful-trekkie-deactivated2022]

James T. Kirk:

-Graduated in the top 4% of his year -was bullied by jocks -Is a history nerd -was so much of a teacher’s pet that he cheated on an exam and was commended for it -Was referred to as “a stack of books with legs”

Jean-Luc Picard:

-Spent all his free time drinking in pubs and playing billiards -broke more hearts than he can remember -started a bar fight that ended up in him being stabbed in the heart -likes to explore dangerous ruins of ancient civilizations for fun -wouldn’t even have become a starship captain if he wasn’t this much of a hothead

And yet people still manage to get it backwards???

[kalinara]

I think it’s a problem of First Officer, really.

Jim Kirk seems like a wild man because he’s standing next to calm, logical Spock.*  

Meanwhile, Picard seems stately and dignified because he’s standing next to Will “Any alien physiology is bangable if you just put some thought into it” Riker*.  

* Of course THEN, we get to the next layer, which is that Spock is the dude who told the Vulcan Science Academy to fuck itself, while Riker plays the trombone.

The Federation is a confusing place.

[theabstruseone]

Meanwhile, Captain Benjamin Sisko is a gourmet chef, art collector, amateur baseball player, and a loving and involved father who commits occasional war crimes and scares Klingons.

His first officer is a terrorist who likes playing space squash.

[elljayvee]

Star Trek understands that characters must be well-rounded

[pigtailedgirl]

Yup this is fantastic. Pairs.

Janeway and Chakotay:???

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I can't get over the Elon Epstein thing because like. Dude is in the clear. It's glaringly obvious that he never got invited to a pedo party, he kept begging to get invited thinking it was something else to the point where Epstein had to be like "no you are not understanding what kind of party this is" and had to get people to make excuses to avoid him. Dude is guilty of a lot of stuff but he is so clearly innocent of this, he wasn't in the creepy rich guy sex abuse ring, it's so easy to take the win and step back and let everyone pay attention to anyone else.

But the very emails that make it obvious he wasn't involved also make it obvious that the people who were involved thought he was a loser and an idiot and were going out of their way to not invite him, either because they didn't like him or (more likely in my opinion, though I have no doubt they also didn't like him, people who have to talk to him never seem to) they knew he wouldn't be able to keep his mouth shut and would become an awkward loose end immediately. He was obviously rejected from this club by people who thought he was a loser, and the one thing that Elon Musk cannot stand is people thinking he's a loser and excluding him from things. So he WILL NOT SHUT UP about how he totally could've gotten into all the cool child sex parties if he had've wanted to. He keeps ranting about how the reason he didn't go is because he CHOSE to, because he doesn't sexually abuse children and because he was doing IMPORTANT things like launching space rockets, but they totally actually wanted him to go and he could've gone and if he was a child rapist then he'd be the BEST child rapist, way better and cooler than all the other child rapists, he just chose not to be.

Like DUDE SHUT UP. You're actually innocent of something and you won't stop making yourself look guilty! Let people roll their eyes at the emails and move on! Being so desperate to make sure everyone knows how cool the child rapists think you are is weird! You're associating yourself with evil shit that isn't associated with you! WHY do you keep TWEETING about it!

[definitely-not-a-plant]

ok but . the fact that he had tried to join surely makes him guilty of SOMETHING, right? attempted child rape or something ???

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Epstein didn't send out mass emails to rich strangers titled "child sex party on my private island". Lots of non-child-sex stuff also happened there. The correspondence made it clear that Elon thought it was a completely different kind of party, some get-together with UN people where he probably expected to trade political or economic favours or something, and Epstein had to keep being like "no, it's... other stuff is happening, it's not that kind of party, you won't like it," before eventually avoiding him altogether when Elon just didn't seem to be getting it.

No, I don't think Elon's smart enough to have been playing 4D chess with secret knowledge of child rape that he was trying to get in on. Dude was doing the equivalent of a church kid trying to join a party at some kid's house whose parents are out of town, and everyone having to awkwardly pretend it's cancelled because the kid's too naive to know it's an excuse to do hard drugs and if they kid goes they will definitely brag about it on twitter later and get them all in trouble.

[whoscallingwhoafraud]

[hgedits]

The Artemis II crew naming two previously undiscovered lunar craters (one after Commander Reid Wiseman's late wife).

[dduane]

(via @fizzydog at Bluesky)

[heartclef]

NEW EARTH PHOTO JUST DROPPED FROM ARTEMIS II

[busket]

thats my home

you can see the atmosphere. that halo around the edge, that's my air. the green on the upper right is my aurora. those are my clouds, my sunlight.

and its yours! this is your home. this is the home of everyone you ever heard of and everyone you will ever meet. every animal you've been curious about. every plant you've ever picked, and sniffed. its mine and its yours and its theirs. everything is here. its all that i have. its all that you have too.

[radiobarf]

An Artemis plush being in the NASA Mission Control Room during Artemis II's journey is the sweetest thing and it makes me very weepy 💖

[oopsabird]

sailor moon kitty overseeing the mission control room in houston as we leave orbit to head for the moon??? based.