[usernyoom]

08/03/24, Jeddah. Max Verstappen prepares in the garage for qualifying for the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2024. Photos by Giuseppe Cacace, edited.

[nateconnolly]

These days, lots of public libraries have a "library of things" collection where you can check out kitchen appliances or yard tools or toys, and, as a children's library assistant, the most popular library of things item that I handle regularly is a plastic scepter thingy called like "unicorn princess magic wand". And whenever I check it out I make a big show of looking at the little kid and being like "do you solemnly swear to use your unicorn princess magic powers only for good and never for evil?"

And pretty much without fail, the little kid will get the world's most mischievous grin and go "I'm gonna use it for EVIL!!!"

[stumblecrumbs]

A/U where Grace is a literal angel, but no one believes him

Grace: Would you describe yourself as religious Simon?

Simon: Kind of most people are on Eden, but I never fully bought into it. How about you?

Grace: Me religious!? HA! The only thing I believe in is science.

Simon: ...but you say you are an angel all the time?

Grace: I am but I don't see what that has to do with anything.

Simon: ????

[apollos-boyfriend]

i hope people know that the “sad tomato cat” meme is a series of images that have a happy ending…… she is cared for and loved!!!!

[apollos-boyfriend]

to be loved is to be changed………

[pharah-ovw]

Back with more cosmic anomaly AU.

Wherein Simon’s got to stop wayward travelers from accidentally falling pray to the blood moon, but Grace and Rocky have never met a mystery they didnt immediately try to stick their whole body in. (😉)

Grace: “how dangerous could it actually be?”

Simon: “… did you see my very human face and still think ‘what a cool eldritch horror. I bet he’s always been that way.’?”

Rocky: “Rocky just assume nebula sometimes talk. Rocky hear lots of weird 🎶 in space.”

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[ringz0]

“space is pretty cool huh?” 💫

[mothsprout]

Had a dream that I saw this ad in a paper

[delestre]

please stop this looks like a real tumblr ad

[undeadentropy]

I literally didn't question it until I read the post. I was just about to be happy the tumblr shitpost ad ecosystem was beginning to heal.

[thisuneasymist]

Tumblr i miss ads like these. I need ads like these back and not the ai fried egg titties or the ai chat bot "no really our bot will totally fuck you unlike other ai bots" ads. I miss the purity of how truly weird the ads were.

[habken]

if i may, can i request more of the dream sharing/spirit guide (?) coltland twins on the hail mary?

there's more I want to share for it! Just need to finish cleaning it all up lol

[zephyr-zephyr]

Once i had a teacher who was OBSESSED with

A) resource guarding

And

B) Harry Potter

So naturally, every time someone didn’t have a pencil she would charge them 10 house points (which, even in schools where there is an actual house point system, probably doesn’t fucking happen). She openly held the belief that she had to ascribe value to these precious writing implements or else no one would appreciate them, a concept evidenced by, i kid you not, how when homeless people are given houses for free they let them fall into disarray, because they didn’t pay for the house and therefore didn’t care about it. I, a pissed off 13 year old with a vendetta against power hungry teachers and also JK Rowling, brought a 100 pack of pencils to school so that whenever someone had to ask for one, instead of being charged a fictional currency and upsetting their fellow, deeply competitive students, i would just give them one. If the pencil didn’t come from the teacher, she couldn’t charge points for it.

This upset her. She couldn’t assert her power over the 1st period Advanced 8th Grade Math Class anymore. For i, The Pencil Liberator, had come to put an end to her tyrannous behavior.

She told me to stop about 30 pencils in.

[callsignrex]

My little guys

[prismaprimrose]

Eva, world famous polyglot watching Grace pick up an entirely alien language in six month on the Vlogs after she dragged him all over the world for four years, having people speak English for his benefit, and translating for him while listening to him whine and winge about his own TeRrIbLe PrOnOuNcIaTiOn, knowing full well now he probably understood what everyone was saying around him just fine after six months, actually: Better stay up there...

Dimitri: What was that?

Eva in perfect Russian, glaring at the screen, Grace and Rocky having an arguement she can only understand half of: I said he better stay up there.

[jaybee2000]

Have we considered that Rocky might just have higher levels of lead in his carapace than the average Eridian?

Like, sure he slept near the fuel tanks and I’m sure that helped. But he was up there for decades and definitely moved around the ship away from the astrophage while fixing things, going to watch others sleep, tending dying friends, piloting.

Rocky must be from a region of Erid with more lead in the surrounding area which was incorporated into his body. For Rocky it could have been centuries since he last lived in that place with high lead content yet it still protected him.

This happens with human teeth in that the area where you grow up is imprinted in your enamel for decades afterwards. But that’s not a thing the average person knows. So Rocky never brings it up, because it’s kind of just a fun fact? Like, saying you’re from Oregon in a doctor’s appointment. Ok? Cool? This is about your gallbladder.

If the Eridians didn’t know anything about radiation and Rocky isn’t a biologist or doctor why would he know his leady body is a relevant detail. There’s no reason to think this would come up in the conversation once Grace realizes about the astrophage being nearby. Occam’s Razor: astrophage protects from radiation. Rocky slept near astrophage. Therefore astrophage protects Rocky.

I can just imagine they find this out way later when they’re on Erid and Rocky goes to his hometown to visit his parents and comes back to the bio dome and is like

Rocky: Bring rock from where Rocky from to add to Grace beach! Has same texture as Rocky! Same same same

Grace: cool! Let’s put this baby under the microscope. We can shoot it with the element detector!

Rocky: yes yes yes look at rock! Hear hometown sounds.

*Several experiments later*

Grace: uhhh. You might want to sit down.

[dogsandphilosophers]

Can anyone recommend some entry level behaviours? Thinking of getting into being

[dogsandphilosophers]

Can anyone recommend some entry level behaviours? Thinking of getting into being

[ceruleana]

It must've already been mind-blowing to Rocky to learn that, yeah humans can just perceive the stars by looking at the night sky. Not that actual stars though, we're technically perceiving the ancient past bc that's how far away the stars are it's basic physics. :) like bro must've been all wtf hello?? But then. To learn that, ohh yes that's how humans used navigate across the oceans of our planet, we looked at the stars and oriented ourselves against them :). Like what kinda mythical BS is that? You measured yourself against the ancient imperceptible parts of the night sky. and trusted that to take you to unexplored parts of the sea? and it worked? Erid doesn't even have a fucking nighttime. No wonder humans are so insane.

[vampirejuno]

I do love a good "Rocky learns about an Earth Thing and is baffled by it and goes off about how silly/nonsensical it is" situation as much as the next guy, but something that's been bugging me about that is the...idk the Spockness of it all. Like it's often juxtaposed with headcanons of Eridian culture/rules/norms etc and how those Make Sense unlike humans and their arbitrary illogical habits. I just think that Erid would be just as varied in terms of culture as Earth is, and the thing about culture is that it very rarely Makes Sense (as much as we may think it does).

Give me Rocky who hears about an Earth Thing, goes "what pfff that's so weird, you humans don't make any sense, unlike us Eridians who do this reasonably" and then proceeds to matter-of-factly describe something as batshit as the thing Grace just told him about but in a completely different direction

[gawronka]

thinking about eva stratt as a history student before she was the world's scapegoat.....like yeah who else could it be but a historian and a middle school teacher to save the world??