Taraxinium

Rax | he/she | adult | language and communication SpIn send asks i love to yap

[lavenderpr1nce]

I think this pride month we should all get normal about trans men/mascs with long hair

[taraxinium]

i was raised on scraps

wag your tail like a good boy

some day youll eat well

ribs showing sitting obediently

begging gets you kicked dont you know

never lick the hand that feeds you

just because they dont want you dead

doesnt mean they want you

sit boy lie down shut up

good dogs dont bite

they dont imagine blood on their tongues

or the crunch of bones in their teeth

good dogs dont hunt

they wait obey listen

never whine or whimper

feel canines lacerate flesh

[transmortifried]

idk why people are still trying to do "hear me out"s on tumblr

you could talk about wanting to fuck the space needle on here and people would still call you a poser for insisting on fucking "conventionally attractive architecture" as if that's a coherent, easily-recognizable category

[charlesoberonn]

I want to fuck Antoni Gaudi's unbuilt Hotel Attraction skyscraper design

[anatomizer]

"hear me out" and it's a picture of the most fuckable building you've ever seen. c'mon now.

[janmisali]

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[greatlordfluffernutter]

Now, one might look at these numbers and be lead to believe that half of all tumblr users don't read posts. However, in the replies to this post you will find over a hundred users who will happily clarify to you that actually the reason why they voted the way they did isn't cause they didn't read the post but actually because they didn't bother to look at the words in the post and process them as language, a technique commonly referred to as reading the post.

[lillagrim]

[relelvance]

In what world is tall muscular man not conventionally attractive

[piedude]

We've all been down here too long. I truly think there's a chunk of tumblr's population that can no longer survive sunlight.

[reagan-slayer69]

women will say “hear me out” and show u a photo of pyramid head and then tumblr users will go “this is a perfectly normal man and an ice cold take”

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[virtualgirladvance]

no one does it like her 🥰

[trashfishhh]

[annadeef]

Pray for my cat. Nothing wrong with her she's just dumb.

[disasterdrow]

i'm literally so close to getting tenna, i can feel it

[taraxinium]

me when i've been at work for an hour

[somepomegranatetea]

my new self regulating technique is reciting the tears in rain speech in my head (pauses included). bc i'm normal

[kingcriccket]

you CANNOT read too much old timey fiction because I was playing Raft with the lads this morning and without a THOUGHT said we could sail over to another island "if the wind would consent to blow" & let me tell you. This did not pass by unremarked.

[rainyydoves]

[pathetic-gamer]

sent this post to my spouse

[taraxinium]

yapping in the tags today

[parakeet]

interesting how every generation loves to punch down on the youngest gen via mocking their slang like we weren't saying shit like swagalicious and ppl before us were saying shit like tubular or whatever

[prunsel]

if you've ever pet more than a few dogs you'd Know what dog residue is

[computationalcalculator]

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

Oh man I can't believe I forgot. You know that post that was like "tell me what clothes you've bought because of a character" or whatever. I searched for ages to find an adequate white cable knit sweater because of Ransom's in knives out.

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

It's a good sweater

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

I'm putting this here bc I feel like it's information everyone needs. You can find it here.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I don't knit but that's hilarious because this looks like such a complicated pattern for a beginner

[disaster-possum]

Oh it is. There's at least three different styles of cabling. And more advanced cabling at that. That sweater would take me like a year to finish.

[crossedwithblue]

All the cabling is done the same way. You just need to read your knitting and keep track of which row you're on

[itspronouncedtessa]

No, but for real. Knitting is just loops. Cables? Spicy loops. Lace? Spicy loops. Color work? Multicolored spicy loops.

There are no levels in knitting, there are no exams to pass or goals to achieve before you can continue.

The Handsome Chris is a perfect beginner project. It's all one color, it's knit flat, you get to learn lots of new techniques all at once, but most of all it's engaging and you're working towards a goal you really like.

I would have impaled myself on my needles if I'd been forced to complete a Sophie scarf before I got to advance to something more "challenging" like a washcloth, or God forbid a ribbed hat.

My very first project was a self-drafted 11-strand intarsia double sided cable scarf, because I didn't know I wasn't allowed and that was what I wanted to make.

This attitude of mystifying certain fabrics as advanced really twists my stitches. I cannot do simple stockinette colorwork to save my life, but I can 3-color brioche without looking.

There are no levels in knitting.

Make that fucking Handsome Chris if you want to, it's a great sweater. Or start with the Sophie scarf if that's more your vibe. But don't ever think that knitting is hard.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

You sound like me telling a beginner crocheter "nah the alligator stitch is easy for a beginner, it's all just double crochets!" (a real thing I have said to people picking up a crochet hook for the first time). I'm not saying you can't start with a complicated stitch I'm saying it's very funny when people do.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#I mean. knitting and crochet both just build onto very basic stitches#once you know the basics it’s short work to do those ‘harder’ stitches#you just gotta practice them!

"Once you know the basics" is my point. Beginners do not know the basics. I am a beginner knitter and let me tell you we're doing shit like "trying to remember how to cast on", "not dropping too many stitches and going on without noticing if you can help it", "trying to figure out how to keep consistent tension so the width of the project doesn't keep changing", and "trying to remember the difference between a knit and a purl because at least a quarter of these stitches are definitely backwards".

[jmtorres]

[stargirl-and-potts]

I can't stop thinking of Grace being reborn on the ship. Gosling calls the coma bag his amniotic sac. He's released from it wobbly, frightened, struggling to speak, like a brand new baby; is stunned to find out he's been released into an enormous universe with no instructions. He encounters death immediately without understanding. He has to learn to know himself from nothing--"Am I smart?" He cries and screams over how overwhelming it all is, like a toddler shoved into a world they can't control.

We watch him through his angsty teen years learning the little things that make him himself -- he likes cilantro, he has muscles, he has a sciencey brain -- but none of that gives him a purpose. He goes into depressed undergrad party mode, in a silly hat, soaked in vodka, asking himself what the point of it all is.

But then he sees the ship's golden wall carved with the mission, the memory of the people before him who worked to get him this far, the children coming after him who are depending on him, and something shifts. His shoulders straighten. He takes a deep breath and tosses the little Earth-ball into the air. He understands very little yet, like a young adult just trying to join the flow of community and history. But Grace has found his adulthood.

After that he can face mortality, responsibility; he puts on his uniform; buries his crewmates. He can grieve them properly and face the future for Earth's sake. After that he's ready to try to meet the moment he's in, even though like all of us he knows now that he will die. And he is ready to meet and love the people different from him who will become his family, his final home. He has dealt with fear and loneliness and loss; he's ready for life. He's grown up.

[stargirl-and-potts]

@mockiery oh man the shifts marked by name changes are deep. Whether we rename ourselves or others do. And then the fact that the Eridians book-canonically use their word for “grace” to name him—he’s going to spend the rest of his life known as “generous mercy/gentle favor” and once he understands Eridian, that has to be transformative.

[stargirl-and-potts]

Oh and my tags that mockiery liked:

And then this from @prof-grace-aspen :

You’re so right 😭 I love that music but it’s a little uncanny for all it’s so gentle. Which sums up the experience of being a baby, I think.

[mockiery]

the cycles of life, death, and rebirth we go through in life aaaaand how that cycle interweaves with our identity and relationships to ourselves, each other, and our community all really gets to me what can I say 🥺

names are our own but they are other people's just as much, if not more so. your tags on the initial reblog with my tags really got to me too:

Ryland Grace. then Mr. Grace, teacher 💖. then Dr. Grace, world's foremost astrophage expert. then 🎵 (Grace), Rocky's best friend and the alien savior of Erid

[stargirl-and-potts]

Unffff the variations in honor and love and care in those different titles 😭I wonder what his parents were like, and whether his first name was given with love and hope for his future. I’m so glad that his final name held both, overflowing.

[hailed-marys]

OMG A FELLOW CHOIR KID??? they’re just like me fr. (reference) what kind of music do you play yourself?

i’m curious to know what you thought of the movie score, me personally i loved how otherworldly it was (esp the use of vocals and choirs 🥹) also,

HI YES!! i did choir all through grade school and through into high school! never ask a woman her age a man his salary and a transgender with a history in choir which vocal part they sang (JOKE)

in terms of when i play guitar it's a lot of emo folksy stuff. hozier is good for it, so is ricky montgomery. beautiful guitar parts and i know the songs well enough to sing along as i strum!

if daniel pemberton isn't at least nominated for best score at the oscars it will be a great disservice to how deeply moving and well-crafted the score of the movie was. i love daniel pemberton's composing style, it's so uniquely contemporary in a way that fits perfectly with all of the projects he's put on. i love his stuff in spiderverse so its no wonder i love his score here