The Morike Life

Flouncing about like a responsible adult | Fandom, Puns, Memes, and other nonsense AO3: Morike91 | Dreamwidth: themorikelife | Pixelfed: themorikelife

[themorikelife]

WIP Tag Game!

RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous, and tag as many people as you have WIPs. People send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and you post a snippet or tell them something about it!

TLT Bets & Wagers AU part 3

ARCANE - Jinx Meets Her Niblings

ARCANE - Alt!Caitlyn Meets Vi

ARCANE - Daughters of Zaun

PHN - Eva on Earth

And I know this is meant for fanfiction but I have been mostly working on original fiction the past long while.

Deathless — title of my novel

Untitled werewolf/succubus lesbian supernatural

Stage Adaptation of the Becky Chambers short story "The Deck Hand, the Nova Blade, and the Thrice-Sung Texts"

Was tagged by @senseoftheday

Am tagging @crane-scissors @floralegia @chocochipbiscuit @unhauntedghosts @logicbutton @cindfourth

If you want to play and are untagged then feel free to jump in and play too! If you are tagged and don't want to play, boo on you but I ain't your mom do what you want.

[themorikelife]

Project Hail Mary where everything is the same except Rocky is named after the Rocky Horror Picture Show instead.

[yiddishfisting]

great

[yiddishfisting]

this looks helpful at least

[breadandm]

somebody posted this Calvin and Hobbes strip and i cannot overstate just how topical this fuckin thing is

[jacobtheloofah]

Visit Original Link

side note, teaching myself to pronounce that last one felt like learning a new fucking language

[jacobtheloofah]

hey so uh next year will be a decade of dobonhonkeros. how about that shit huh.

[obstinatecondolement]

Happy ten year anniversary of this post.

[stixy]

Hail Mary

[valleyhowler]

There are hardly any female werewolves because they break all the classic rules of femininity. They force you to confront female violence, strength, size, grotesqueness and uncontrollability. Historically female shapeshifters always shift into something dangerous (snake) or sleek (cat) or dainty (bird) but female werewolves ignore the masculine gaze completely. They're distorted beasts that have no ulterior motive except to destroy. Nothing about them is nurturing or modest. They're the opposite of what a woman "should be." Their omission from pop culture is not an accident.

[themorikelife]

Project Hail Mary where everything is the same except Rocky is named after the Rocky Horror Picture Show instead.

[starrose17]

[olympain]

Mr. Hades is a mighty king Must be making some mighty big deals Seems like he owns everything Kind of makes you wonder how it feels

[escapedaudios]

When I was a little boy, girls used to just do random cartwheels for no reason. Then one day, they stopped. Now that I am a man, no women randomly do cartwheels. This is because society is evil and killed the cartwheel impulse in their soul. They don't even spin horizontally anymore. It's fucked up.

[4b5a20-deactivated20210913]

[elodieunderglass]

[elodieunderglass]

A little visit

[blonsh]

[blonsh]

[normal-creature]

GUYS GUYS GUYS IM WATCHING THE MAKING OF PROJECT HAIL MARY AND ONE OF THE PEOPLE COMMENTING ON THE PROCESS JUST SAID "Project Hail Mary is answering the question.... can adult men make friends if the universe is depending on it" THATS FUCKING INSANE AND HILARIOUS THAT THEY ACKNOWLEDGED THE SELF-IMPOSED MALE ISOLATION ELEMENTS DIRECTLY IN AN OFFICIAL INTERVEIW. IM GOING TO FUCKING DIE

URL to timestamp for those who wish to see for themselves: https://youtu.be/EeUyot032b0?t=196

[normal-creature]

Elaborating more on why I find this so striking: so we all know that Weir kind of sucks. And I think most of us are aware that the PHM novel was intended as Weir's self-insert story, about a man who is tragically misunderstood and betrayed by an Earth which doesn't value him, and makes an idealised male friendship among the stars and leaves Earth forever. And how, due to Weir's complete lack of self-awareness, the story instead becomes the story of a man who is chronically unable to recognise when people value him, and deliberately self-isolates and shields himself from his own lonliness with logic. I think we all know this.

But building on this, the two directors of the PHM movie saw this read, prioritised it over Weir's intended read as both more accurate and more compelling, and built the movie around that read as a basis. Particularly striking to me is a moment from an interveiw about the movie's score. One of the directors says that, intially, they tried ominous and scary music to accompany Grace waking up on the ship, but it didn't feel right. So they instead alighted on a piece of music that said, in the director's words: "Poor thing. He's going to be alright. He just doesn't know it yet."

This quote is hugely important to me, because it underpins the dialogue between the book and the movie, and can almost be interpreted as a direct dialogue between Weir and the directors. Weir writes a book that says: here is the world. It rejects me, and I don't feel valued. I deserve better than this, and instead of examining why, I choose to externalise the blame. And the director, another man, but one with a more healthy mindset, looks at this worldveiw that Weir has presented to him and says "poor thing. you're going to be alright."

So this is why saying "Project Hail Mary is answering the question…. can adult men make friends if the universe is depending on it" is funny to me: because it's acknowledging that dialogue between them in a very explicit way that leaves little room for interpretation. It's acknowledging that this is about adult men having issues with making friends and forging emotional connections, due to their own self-imposed limitations, and thereby also acknowledging that Weir has these limitations. It's very bold. And the funniest thing is, for it to have made it into the cut, it must've flown completely over Weir's head.

[lydiardbell]

I think Tumblr in general would appreciate the newest back-of-bus advertising campaign in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand