Stuff, idk

A blog for me and the things I like (or don't). Left. Queer. They/them/theirs. Dez. 24 years of wanting to be moss. If you search #mine you should get my original (and very funny) posts. Icon is a grasshopper I found at the park shaped like a friend. Soft cryptid vibes. Ao3: Passing_Obsession Kofi: zewhoisfate

[kuijoon]

he’s at Waffle House

[sporeblossom]

“the millenium falcon would wipe out the enterprise in seconds” lmao the enterprise is just an innocent science class floating thru space…. all they wanna do is look at some rocks… kiss an alien…. find some space plants….. why would you fight that its not a battleship theyre just nerds…… leave them olone 

[berniesanderssaggyleftnut-deact]

[lystheni]

A friend of mine saw this and brought up some interesting arguments

so, in other words,

[professor-maple-mod]

Pretty much.

[jaegerdelta]

here have some size comparison

[two-punch-man]

Who wins in a fight, a fully staffed Navy research vessel or your local weed man and his best friend in their souped up VW Bus?

[regionalpancake]

tags via @procrastinatorproject

So while it’s true that the Enterprise is not as big as people think, that goes double for the Falcon!

A good way of thinking about the relative size is by using a bridge comparison:

The Enterprise bridge has space for 11 people to work, as well as a significant amount of space between stations to move around comfortably:

[Bridge illustration by Tobias Weinmann via here]

And the whole thing fits in the nipple thing up on top of the saucer:

Meanwhile the Falcon (beloved weed bus) has a cockpit that seats 4, with only 2 main operational stations, and zero floor space:

And since Serenity was mentioned too…

Serenity has a bridge more comparable to La Sirena - with 2 stations at the front and quite a bit of floor space.

And for those interested in a visual comparison:

(Boeing 747 for scale as well as the Delta Flyer because Why Not)

TLDR: The Millennium Falcon is pretty dinky, so I propose *true weed bus status* goes to the excellent smuggling ships of Serenity and La Sirena. The Falcon is herby demoted to man on his weed bicycle with his pet monkey and a gun (to be clear the monkey is Solo)

[enigma-the-mysterious]

This is the analysis I am here for

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

I was gonna say it’s more like a weed guy and his 1986 Honda Civic hatchback.

[voroxpete]

This is something that actually gets brought up in the Star Trek canon, since it’s standard Federation policy to state that they do not make warships. They make diplomatic and science vessels, and then they arm those science vessels purely for self defence, because it’s a dangerous universe out there. The Federation, as a matter of policy, does not have a navy, they have an exploration fleet. Starfleet is - they will take great pains to stress - a purely scientific and diplomatic organisation.

To which every other civillisation immediately calls bullshit, because “Yo, what the fuck bro, your ‘lightly armed science vessel’ can go to toe-to-toe with our top of the line warships!”

And the Federation’s response to this accusation can more or less be summed up as “You’re absolutely right, our lightly armed science vessels can go toe-to-toe to with your best warships… Which means you probably don’t want to find out what happens if we actually start building warships.”

[shrugsinchinese]

Rocky was in space for 50 years of course the recuperation period is long and hard

[essaimart]

☝️ one

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[byjove]

When you hear the news that there is a growing life expectancy gap between republicans and democrats partially because of the right-wing anti-science conspiracies that have taken hold (especially after COVID) you’re like “Lol. They owned the libs so hard they died.” and then you remember these are the same people having 6+ kids to populate the polls with their white Christian children and medically neglecting them. Then you squint at the data and realize it is not measuring voter data and life expectancy but life expectancy in red areas vs. blue areas and you realize that voter suppression, corruption, racism and poverty is actually killing the people in these places faster than the national average, not their own reactionary views. And you’re so angry it’s being presented like it’s their fault they’re dying.

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

never be good at your job. it's a trap. they'll just give you more and harder stuff to do and it'll pull you away from your true passion of writing gay fanfiction for people on the internet

[renthony]

I see so many arguments over what is and isn't "good queer representation" that really just boil down to "y'all are actually arguing over matters of taste and genre preference, which is incredibly subjective and personal."

Worldbuilding where being queer is normalized and queerphobia has no impact on the plot? THAT'S FINE. Worldbuilding that includes queerphobia and tackles the effects of it as part of the story? THAT'S ALSO FINE.

Low-stakes queer romcom where the characters are fluffy and cute? THAT'S COOL. Messy queer drama with toxic people who fuck each other over and clash repeatedly? THAT'S ALSO COOL.

Stories that center the characters' queerness, show a trans character's transition, and are about the queerness as much as the rest of the plot? AWESOME. Stories where the characters' queerness isn't treated as a big deal, and have trans characters whose transition happened before the story entirely? ALSO AWESOME.

You may PREFER one thing or another, but it is actually good to have all these things. It's about variety. It's about queer characters being allowed to exist without censorship. It's about queer artists getting to make things without being told we're a "niche issue" or "adult content." It's about having as many goddamn cakes as the bakery can produce.

At the end of the day, I'd prefer a media landscape with fifty pieces of problematic queer representation over a media landscape with one single piece of queer representation that's trying (and usually failing) to be 100% perfect for everything and everyone.

[covid-safer-hotties]

[mxstixdraws]

Oh dang, it's my art in the wild! 👍

[lastoneout]

I love when people try to gotcha me on my stance that all sports should be gender integrated with "even American football???" because I can instantly come back with "oh lmao, no, I don't think ANYONE should play American football at all, it's way too dangerous" like nice try but I know no amount of testosterone is going to protect you from the profound, life ruining health issues caused by getting repeated severe concussions over the course of several years. No one should play this sport.

[hypokeimena]

selling kintsugi to NEWLYWEDS is fucking crazy. that shit is for DIVORCED BITCHES ONLY!!! like, what, you're going to sit together and gently spackle over the argument you two had about which caterer to pick, which clearly you resolved because you just got fucking MARRIED??? as if that deserves gold leaf? kintsugi is for repairing something that required a specialized tax accountant and thousands of dollars in attorneys' fees. does this not feel transparently obvious to anyone else. am i insane.

[wordfather]

ok im writing. what the hell happens after The

[greatergirlfriend]

never forget what's really important: approval from pervert women on the internet

[coolxatu]

[bai-marionette-deactivated20180]

*leaves

[coolxatu]

where are you going

[vilea777]

sorry i cant hang out i forgot how to mimic human like behaviour

[6qubed]

I mean if you wanna just loom in the corner like some kinda creature that's cool, we just don't want you getting left out

[mouhitorinoore]

crossroads

[haunteddollsgeorg]

I think the ideal mutual is someone with some solid common ground but who also has a bonkers niche interest that’s totally foreign to you. It’s like a friendly educational experience