Adult Trans Woman. PDX. She/her and It/Its. Film Photographer. Flight Simmer (X-Plane 12) Author. If you came here to complain about how mean a scenario I described was I already do not respect you. You must be 18 years of age or older to ride this ride.
So I alluded to this in the tags of a previous reblog but the Leica mini is just and insane camera.
Leica is a heavyweight in high end photo gear. Their stuff is all hand machined and individually fitted in Germany to meticulous specifications. Their rangefinders were the de facto standard from the 20s up to like, the 70s. They never stopped making them by hand. They are akin to a high end piece of functional jewelry. They sell new for 5k. This thing is a 90s point and shoot.
Itās like those high end restaurants where you get three star michelin chefs cloning McRibs. Absolutely insane.
So I alluded to this in the tags of a previous reblog but the Leica mini is just and insane camera.
Leica is a heavyweight in high end photo gear. Their stuff is all hand machined and individually fitted in Germany to meticulous specifications. Their rangefinders were the de facto standard from the 20s up to like, the 70s. They never stopped making them by hand. They are akin to a high end piece of functional jewelry. They sell new for 5k. This thing is a 90s point and shoot.
Itās like those high end restaurants where you get three star michelin chefs cloning McRibs. Absolutely insane.
Thinking about book!Stratt and her impassioned attempt to make Grace understand when he says no, and thinking of Sandra HĆ¼ller's amazing acting during the chase scene and how she shows her sense of disappointment and betrayal in these beautiful, minute expressions. Thinking of the ways in which Grace betrayed her in so many ways despite the ways in which Grace had time and space to comprehend his unique skills and integrality to the running of the whole project. Thinking of the ways in which Grace's cowardice includes the refusal to face facts and think through not just what came next, but what came After the launch-- thinking through how badly Grace betrayed Eva Stratt, and not the reverse;
Eva Stratt, who took on an impossible burden, willing to go into it all on her own because no one else was willing to shoulder the skies
Eva Stratt, who sought out every possible scientist and engineer and resource able to think big about potential alien life and everything else they would need to combat the threat
Eva Stratt, who makes sure well in advance that she has permission and resources for world-saving work
Eva Stratt, whose selection of a fringe microbiologist with a genius for explaining dense terminology to lay people yields quicker, more productive decisions and avenues for research than any hidebound academic
Eva Stratt, whose microbiologist-teacher-translator understands how to administer too many projects and too many demands on his time and still carves out time to do more because that's what teachers do
Eva Stratt, whose right-hand man has answered, advised, and absolved her as they made horrible decisions that were the most likely to succeed toward the largest and best end of them all
Eva Stratt, who shared almost all of her plans and projects with her fringe microbiologist, teacher, second in command, project partner, her friend
Eva Stratt, who could trust her friend to make sound, difficult, scientifically valid, potential-maximizing decisions on the world's behalf because he loved it as much as she does
Eva Stratt (movie), who cannot be seen to falter or yield if any of this is going to work, takes a long moment of softness to try to offer some kind of assurance, camaraderie that they are all in their separate tasks still all in it together
Eva Stratt, who finds out at the last minute, on the precipice of deadly delay or potentially world-saving success, that her friend is a naive fool and a coward who never understood her or the mission and what was at stake after all
Eva Stratt, who'd hoped she wasn't alone in the willingness to do anything to save as much as they could
Eva Stratt, who found herself alone in making the world's hardest decisions, whose once-co-lead refused to help her make the awful, desperate, necessary decision together
Eva Stratt, whose friend betrayed her by never thinking all of it through. Betrayed by her right-hand, trusted project co-lead, translator of science bullshit, radical innovator and methodical scientist, who refused to follow the facts all the way to the proof he should have seen long before. Betrayed by her once-friend, now just Crew Member Number Three.
Eva Stratt, who loves the world enough to give up someone who has made her life and her work bearable, even as her once-friend proves his love is not the awful, all encompassing love that both she and the world need
Eva Stratt, who shoots her once-friend and still brilliant and innovative scientist into space anyway, because she has no other choice and now neither does he
Eva Stratt, who stands alone after the launch, and who'd hoped (in the quiet of her carefully cordoned off heart) that Grace would be by her side-- shouldering the heavens, pushing that boulder, stealing fire over and over until the sun brightened again or they'd wrung out every last gasp
Eva Stratt, who was right in thinking she'd stand alone at the end
I need a thousand fics from the in-canon Eva Stratt Was Right fanclub posthaste.
#LITERALLY. LITERALLY.#grace stood by her side and yes-anded the plan to send the astronauts one way to save the world#and he was the one who betrayed her by refusing to do the same. you are her right-hand man you told her it was a viable plan you had your#hand in every design for the ship and the beetles and the amount of astrophage. you saw the shortlist of astronauts & you agreed to them#and you BETRAYED her. you COULDN'T do the same thing that you sentenced the two science officers you taught for months to do#she made the decision with you and you said No.#eva stratt#project hail mary
I KNOW smoking is bad for you i saw the smokers lungs they carted around to schools more than I saw my own grandparents but also when you dont wanna drink in public anymore and you dont like being inside a loud bar sober basically all you have is smoking whatever a beautiful woman standing outside puts in your hand!!!!!!!!!!
Given that a lot of folks in kink spaces are bent for the forbidden precisely because it is forbidden, I sometimes wonder how many people there are out there who unironically get horny for workplace and laboratory safety violations. Like, I know for a fact that number isn't zero, but how far above zero is it?
obsessed with star trek repeatedly writing themselves into a corner by creating alien races that are supposed to be The Bad Guys when that explicitly conflicts with their previously established notion that no group of people is inherently good or evil.
first it was the klingonsātheyāre originally supposed to be this cruel, bloodthirsty, war-obsessed peopleāand then tng comes along and itās like wait no maybe war and violence is a part of their culture and actually ties back to ancient traditions and philosophies so we have to be woke about it.
hey these are the ferengi and theyāre supposed to represent everything we hate about capitalist society; theyāre greedy, scheming, profit-obsessed, and they look like ugly little trolls to emphasize how much we fucking HATE capitalism. oh wait fuck here comes deep space nine and we have to recognize that theyāre PEOPLE. okok what if the pursuit of profit is actually part of their culture and ties back to ancient traditions and philosophies. so we have to be woke about it.
this is the borg, theyāre a hivemind race of cyborgs who have no sense of individuality and their only motivation is assimilating people into their society. they want to assimilate humanity and we are completely defenseless against them because their technology is eons ahead of our own and theyāre incapable of being reasoned with. oh sweet we have a borg prisoner this is the perfect opportunity to commit genocide against them. fuck actually we canāt commit genocide weāre woke and communists and in space.
hey these are the cardassians, theyāre part of a cruel and vicious empire which is supposed to be a representation of fascism and authoritarian regimes, theyāre a cold, bloodthirsty people with no sense of empathy or compassion, their society literally references 1984 on multiple occasions, and theyāre known for the insanely cruel and inhumane methods of torture they use against their prisoners of war. we hate the cardassiansā¦ā¦.. except, hereās a cardassian kid who grew up on bajor, andā¦ā¦. fuck. heās a person. now we actually have to consider his humanity. and being racist is actuallyā¦ā¦. bad.
this is the jemāhadar, theyāre genetically engineered soldiers who have no sense of individuality and only live to defend the state. theyāre all born addicted to a synthetic drug thatās manufactured by the state and administered by their mastersāthis is how theyāre kept subservient. theyāre ruthless and powerful and theyāre incapable of being reasoned with because their only motivation is violence and killing. so we should kill them all, right? FUCKā¦.. what if theyāre actually people. goddamnit. now we have to consider their humanity.
hey these are the romulans. hey these are the founders. the list goes on. i just find it really interesting
Drugs are morally neutral. Doing or not doing drugs is not an indicator of how good a person is. There are addicts whoād give you the shirt off their back, and sober people who poison the homeless for fun.
You ever talk to someone and itās clear that theyāve never got their chin checked for saying some dumb shit? Ideally, such situations would be calmly discussed among the participants, but some ppl have advanced to adulthood without realizing that saying certain things to strangers will result getting the dogshit smacked outta them. I wonāt say that all social interactions with every human in existence are always clear cut scripts you get in advance, but you should have a working knowledge of what might make a stranger want to fight you. Denigrating someoneās physical appearance for instance, if they donāt know you, might make them put hands to you.
It's a shame that most domesticated animals are averse to having stuff on their faces, because I should totally be able to put my cat in some sort of freakish tragedian mask and have her wear it about the house. Not all the time, of course ā just when I'm expecting certain kinds of company.
Even in a post-capitalist, post-consumerist world, you still need to produce goods, as a result of this, you need factories because it is more effective to have a few people making a lot of clothes in a factory than every woman being forced to sit down and spin wool all day.
The issue with factories is poor wages, unsafe working conditions and environmental impact, all of which can be fixed through things like regulatory bodies and unions, the issue is not the fact that goods are no longer all made at home
I think leftists need to refer to the United States as a slave state more often. It has one of the highest prison populations per capita of any nation, slavery is legal as punishment for a crime, and Black people are disproportionately imprisoned and given longer sentences. The prison industrial complex is modern-day slavery
defunctland episode released immediately upon your death chronicling all failed career paths and relationships and somehow michael eisner is still at fault
You all need to understand that autonomy and especially bodily autonomy NEEDS to include being allowed to do things that are bad for you. True bodily autonomy includes being allowed to do things that are risky, drugs, cosmetic procedures and the like. Bodily autonomy needs to include being allowed to get high or smoke or get a BBL. The important part is education about the risks
[EDIT please stop mentioning suicide in the reblogs, I agree with you but I donāt want to see it in my notes every 15 minutes ]
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