homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto

era / 21 / she/he

[yugiouch]

I'm very sorry to the people in my asks and dms from gaza that have been asking me to donate for ignoring you the past few months. i haven't been in a good financial situation, but I've been going through all my messages to make a masterlist of fundraisers that are still active from them, since i also haven't been very active on tumblr in general. It should be up in a couple days

[sistertaxon]

actual criticisms of academia:

cost of education acting as class barrier

exploitation of graduate workers

colonialist past and present

ties to military industrial complex

danger of power structure entrenching and justifying orthodox views on social issues

criticisms of academia that get made:

those damn ivory tower academics are wasting money learning about things

[yugiouch]

New way to call someone a poser is to say they're a larper. Little update to the lingo of the kids

[romancenjoyer]

i think people’s tolerance for ambiguity in relationships needs to be higher

[romancenjoyer]

in fiction, that ambiguous space can hold meaning and possibility in itself, rather than being a stepping stone towards eventual resolution (typically a happy ending). ambiguity doesn’t mean ambivalence so much as the risks desire/love/connection bears out on our selves and in the world. often ambiguous spaces in a narrative are generative and ripe for multiple and alternative readings

[nocturnaltigerrevelation]

>have problem

>recognize it as part of my divine punishment

>no problem

[namidameahun]

Singin' in the stars

A short Project Hail Mary fan comic set the night before Grace and Rocky say goodbye.

Read right to left.⬅️

[ratbreadd]

go watch (and read) project hail mary right now. this instant. go go go . go. go.

[gertritude-art]

misc. project hail mary doodles

[eighthdoctorscocaine]

'the moral of project hail mary is that unfortunately eva stratt was right' 'the moral of project hail mary is that friendship will make you braver than you ever believed you could be' WRONG!!! the moral of project hail mary is BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WRITE YOUR THESIS ON

[yugiouch]

Did you guys know that star wars can be good

[montymollusk]

⚫️i wear my sunglasses at night ⚫️

[fridjitzu]

So I recently realized the reason why Jean Jacket didn't (as far as we know, anyway) try to hunt the parkgoers at Jupiter's Claim for the six months or so that she was hanging around the valley (at least, until the Star Lasso Experience, but I'll elaborate on my theory about that under the readmore):

The territory was already claimed (lol) by another large, one-eyed floaty thing.

I mean, yeah, it doesn't look much like a fellow sky roomba, but lots of animals are easily spooked by things that only sort of look like things that are dangerous to them. That's why eye spot mimicry is so popular in butterflies and moths, after all, and why cats are so easily spooked by cucumbers.

But then, why did she come anywhere near the arena for her weekly horsey snack for the six months before the SLE? It's on the very edge of the park, but it's still next to the main area, right?

Well, guess who isn't facing in the direction of the arena?

She might have been just pushing her luck each time, seeing how much more territory she could steal behind Lil' Jupe's inflatable back, or maybe she was just thinking "It's not looking at me, so it doesn't care if I hunt the horses that show up in this gulch". Either way, no eye contact = not a threat.

Of course, there's still the question of why JJ suddenly changed up her behavior during the SLE incident. There's evidence of her rampaging through the park itself when OJ arrives on the scene, like the suddenly empty petting zoo, and the pig on the sheriff's building.

My theory on that is: with that horse statue stuck in her craw, she was in pain, and was fixated on looking for a way to flush her system out. Much like how Gordy acted aggressively and didn't listen to his offscreen trainer like he presumably normally would, JJ was too agitated by pain/discomfort to give a shit about respecting presumed territory lines, and it's not like Lil' Jupe was doing anything to stop her in the moment. She just had "ow ow ow still sore, must find more prey and eat it, that will flush out the sore thing" going on in whatever her equivalent of a brain might be.

(a minor tangent: I will note that there's what appears to be a body of water next to the park, which I think would have probably worked to flush the horse statue out just as well as pureed parkgoer, but who knows if JJs even know how to drink water? They live in clouds, they can probably absorb all the water they need from the atmosphere.)

(Here's screencap proof that I'm not just pulling that detail out of my ass.)

Anyways, back to my main point:

The implication that JJ had been considering Lil' Jupe a rival sky beastie defending its territory for that whole ass six months before the main events of the movie also makes the final confrontation kinda extra dramatic (and funny) in context. It's not just her having sudden beef with a random thing with an eye this time - from JJ's perspective, it's her rival, whose territory is frequently swarming with prey, and now, instead of just lurking near the ground, it's in the clouds with her! And she's already agitated and upset from beefing with the Haywoods, so no wonder she jumped to trying to eat it so quickly. (Not that it ended well for her. Nobody fucks with Haywood, after all.)

[spiderlegsmusic]

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[horrorgay]

Can anyone hear me?

[sosime]

Nope (2022) Dir. Jordan Peele

[thetidemice]

NOPE 🐎 poster for local illustrators' collective film poster exhibition by me

[six-demon-bag]

NOPE (2022) dir. Jordan Peele