[sandpaper-blues]

Thank you, Artemis II.

I really needed that. I needed to remember what the world looks like full of hope and collaboration, not fear and competition.

I had no plans to watch much of the live NASA coverage, but when Husband saw the alert on his phone that the Apollo 13 record was about to be broken, we thought, “Why not? It’s history, right?”

Within minutes, I was a sobbing mess. I didn’t expect that.

But somewhere between hearing women on Earth communicating with a woman in space, weightless men openly shedding tears and embracing, open and unfiltered expressions of awe and wonder, and a declaration that love – above all else – is the most important thing, I was simply blown away by the care, compassion, and humility of it all.

Thank you.

Now, please don’t sell the moon to the highest bidder.

[anemiiba]

This is genuinely one of the most gorgeous pictures to exist. It’s crazy this is a real picture. This is the type of picture you can only ever dream of being taken of you. Women are powerful and beautiful

[thismustbefakemine]

Something about the single braid is making me emotional

[orangepenguino]

No. I'm fine, really. I'm just ugly crying about Carroll crater. A bright spot on the far side of the moon. I'm fine. I'll stop crying eventually.

[kodwrites]

Little detail from tonight’s episode that got ny brain spinning:

Becca objecting to just being referred to as “Mel’s sister” as opposed to just “Becca”.

It shows a fundamental difference between the two sisters and how they view themselves and each other:

Mel sees them as a unit. Becca is her twin, always will be, but Mel’s use of “sister” links them together as a duo first.

Whereas Becca wants Mel to refer to her by her name. I took it as a sign that Becca is seeking more independence and an individual identity separate from Mel.

Becca has a life outside of Mel. She most likely has friends at the center. She can explore interests, participate in activities, and have a lot of enrichment in her life.

But Mel’s life is her work and Becca. She’s made no close friends in her 10 months at the Pitt. When asked about herself and what she likes, she talks about Becca first.

Mel clearly has some work to do to develop a life for herself outside of Becca. As much as Mel wants Becca to be happy, Becca wants it for Mel just as much. I’d love to see a conversation between the sisters where Becca gently encourages Mel that she needs to live for herself more. We probably won’t, but I really think that kind of permission and encouragement from Becca would be so impactful for Mel. Them needing their own things wouldn’t detract from their relationship or love for each other, rather, it would expand their worlds and make room for so much more.

This show is so intentional with its dialogue and so tightly written that tiny moments like this can tell us so much about the characters in the quickest flashes. The show is a goddamn masterpiece.

[puppydogwhitaker]

this was all about how necessary community is.

that elderly man going to the ER because samira is a friend to him. the obese man who lives alone tearing up at genuine human kindness and acceptance. digby being someone who can mourn louie when he seemed so alone. the hospice patient being able to relax once her parents show up. the college student’s parents being able to accept help from someone that looks like them who’s gone through the same thing.

they keep reiterating how you can’t get through things alone. the jewish community needs muslims, the doctors need pharmacists, dana needs robby. there’s all these macro and micro interactions that enforce this thesis. there are cultural, structural, professional, communal, and interpersonal vectors of support that are so necessary.

these doctors understand this truth deeply, they see the evidence of it daily. but every single one of these doctors is isolated. samira isn’t moving back to new jersey, robby is leaving for canada, dennis leaves for the farm, garcia denies trinity’s company. physician heal thyself, huh?

[puppydogwhitaker]

not tagging because that feels like putting someone on blast but…

i know people like to belittle robby’s importance to the show/other characters but like….what do you think that last shot was about? where it’s dana and robby wondering how they’ll get through this? they’re leaning on each other. robby needs dana too, they’re long time coworkers who have developed a friendship.

is dana incapable of performing her job without robby? no. but he is an emotional pillar for her, even if he’s an asshole sometimes. she trusts his competency and management skills. denying that is just missing the point of the whole show.

[drmelking]

Robby: Whitaker, it’s really important you learn how to set boundaries—which is why I, your attending, will be bequeathing you my house. This way when I kill myself and go missing in the vast Canadian wilderness, never to be seen or heard from again, you’ll be so busy being haunted by my ghost and all the what-ifs that you won’t have any time to get involved with deceased patients wives! Solid plan, right? Also, your other boss? It’s important to me that you know he does naked yoga every morning. Anyway, come get my keys after shift!

Whitaker:

[wioletwitch]

something beautiful about how stranger things finale aired not three days ago and the number one trending tag is supernatural. you should all remember who runs this shitshow.

[thismustbefakemine]

[calcifershearts]

what happened to hello. what happened to good morning.

[libraryfag]

Is that a valid argument in your pants or is it just a phallacy?

[aroaceleovaldez]

one of my favorite subtle implications in the series is that it seems the Titan Army was fully banking on Percy being the host of Kronos. Why else would they make their main base a cruise ship if their primary enemy is a son of Poseidon? Named after Andromeda, the wife of Perseus? Why would they work on Oceanus specifically being free so much? Side notably with other children of Poseidon? Why plant Zeus and Hades' items of power on Percy when Luke already had them? Why only Zeus and Hades' items, not Poseidon's? Well because they really need Percy as Kronos' host, that's why. (and Poseidon siding with them because of that would be a bonus as well)

I like to imagine Luke's cabin on the Princess Andromeda is fully decked out with like "WELCOME PERCY" and sea-themed sheets and everything and he hates it so much cause it's a constant reminder he failed and he was Kronos' second choice. Also then he gets his super special pegasus not even exactly stolen by Percy, but the pegasus willingly defects to be Percy's personal steed instead, which must just be insult to injury. Luke has immense one-sided beef with Percy and Percy has no idea.

[grandturtleperson]

Phil Christman, SUPERMAN is Fearfully and Wonderfully Woke, July 11 2025, philipchristman.substack.com

The movie won me over the moment he scooped up that doomed squirrel.

[johnnystorrm]

i had a lot of predictions for this episode, but rogue sending the doctor a video message from super hell in order to snap him out of heterosexuality was not one of them

[emptyportrait]

pope Francis literally rose from the deathbed just to tell JD Vance to eat shit and then died on Easter. a true diva until his end.

[firebuggg]

on rewatch it’s even clearer that robby is a great mentor to everyone, but he is a much better mentor to his male trainees. he argues with them less; he is more accepting of their diagnoses around difficult cases; he is more comfortable taking them under his wing. they rarely challenge him. it takes just that much more effort from the women of the pitt — mckay, collins, and mohan especially — to argue their point of view on patient care, especially around women’s issues. and that effort weighs on them! it’s exhausting for mohan to constantly defend herself on her care choices. it’s unfair to put blame on mckay for making an extremely understandable decision about david out of concern for his female classmates. his relationship with collins is inappropriate — at minimum it likely gets in the way of her professional development (note that langdon was the one recommended for that fellowship, without even asking robby for it).

i appreciate this writing choice a lot. robby is extremely likable and a compelling center of the story. he makes the right decision for his female patients many times, including giving a teenage girl a chance at reproductive freedom at personal risk. he’s supportive of the women in his department and wants them to do well.

but still. it’s there. and he doesn’t even know it.

[queercheersquad]

[lesbophobes-deactivated20220907]

everyone is deleting the caption to this but this work is called “perfect lovers” by the gay artist felix gonzalez-torres. the piece is about the illness and death of his HIV-positive partner ross laycock:

For Untitled (Perfect Lovers) (1991), he synchronized two industrial clocks placed side by side. Inevitably, because batteries fail and things tend toward entropy, the clocks would slowly begin to advance at differing rates, out of sync, having moved, however briefly, perfectly together. (x)

[neurotic-prayer]

“Don’t be afraid of the clocks, they are our time, time has been so generous to us. We imprinted time with the sweet taste of victory. We conquered fate by meeting at a certain time in a certain space. We are a product of the time, therefore we give back credit where it is due: time. We are synchronized, now and forever. I love you.” (Gonzalez-Torres, 1988)

[spnwin]

[blanketforcas]