#( andy; messages )

[andi-o-geyser]

Something is wrong in this city, and it's been such a slow burn that nobody even realizes they're dying.

[mortalfortaxpurposes]

the healing tour

pete's heaven iowa speech / patrick seeing the crowd light up after playing spotlight (oh nostalgia) / playing favorite record as a surprise song / pete smiling and singing along to the kintsugi kid (ten years) / patrick covering leonard cohen's hallelujah / pete's speech about found family in l.a. / patrick forgetting the lyrics to 27 and the audience screaming them instead / patrick smiling during saturday / patrick hugging joe on his first night back / playing the kids aren't alright as a surprise song

[cordiallyfuturedwight]

you'll be alright, oh, here it is @magicshop ♡ (cr. namuspromised)

[rjshope]

elven princes for my dearest @magicshop🌿

[regina-del-cielo]

Maybe it's a 'study finds water is wet' type of thought, but

considering it's an action movie whose overall plot is "immortal warriors Fuck Shit Up™️", I think it's significant that in The Old Guard the thing that makes Copley pull red strings through his Murder Conspiracy Board and say "[Merrick] doesn't care what [Andy]'s done with [her immortality]" is the people they save, not the ones they kill

Most of the Conspiracy Board is him circling random newspaper headlines and faces on old photographs to (more or less realistically) follow the immortals' treck through the world and big historical events. Which is, in-canon, not much different than putting portraits from different centuries next to a picture of Keanu Reeves and saying "they look the same, clearly Reeves is an immortal!"

But then there are the connections. A little girl holding Joe's hand in WW1 becoming the youngest (and first) woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize for Medicine (suck it, Kozak). Or the grandchild of a family that Andy saved from [something] helping people escape from the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia.

They are warriors. They have fought and been in the midst of countless wars, major or minor, throughout history. They must have killed as many people as they saved... and yet.

It's not them taking out a random warlord or dictator or rabidly hateful politician that has tangible repercussions in history. It's the children and families they get out of war zones, save from accidents, protect from natural disasters. People to whom they give a second chance at life, and grow to change the world (or even just their own world), like a mysterious stranger once changed theirs just by holding out a hand or patching a wound.

I don't know I just think it's particularly neat

[falloutbridge]

hallelujah vs. hold me tight

Hallelujah, hallelujah (hum hallelujah) A teenage vow in a parking lot 'Til tonight do us part I sing the blues and swallow them too

'Cause I'm past the limits The distance between us It sharpens me like a knife

[loreleismusings99]

Brb, just gotta go sob real quick 😭😭😭

[man-on-mars]

Holy shit! They're coming back for me!

[dms-a-jem]

The Police - Music Videos/Promos

Part 1: 1978-1980

[the-nation-of-today]

Have you ever seen a boy made out of stardust and meteorite pieces with shards of Neptune in his eyes

[sliceoflove]

Andrew definitely ignored her text lbr

[tf2medicsimp]

throwback to when me and some of my friends somehow managed to get a bunch of people to become arthur in that one roblox aaf rp game back in 2022, good times

[thekidsarentalright]

pete and andy talking about so much (for) stardust and it's themes 🥹

[liopleurodean]

I'm starting to feel bad for the publishing company that took The Martian.

For context, I'm converting the original blog posts into a format that can be sent by Substack (Martian Messages!) and I've got a copy of the book nearby so I can get the formatting/paragraph breaks/etc right. As I edit, there are a lot of discrepancies between the book we know and the original, and it's funny to see what's been cut or changed by the publishing company. For example:

A conversation between Watney and Hermes pre-rescue in the book. Seems normal, right? But the blog version is WILDLY different:

So anyway, sign up for Martian Messages! Because the book was already funny, and this is even better.

[ybcthecomic]

These guys have been dealing with the most dreadful week of their lives for three whole years and somehow haven't yet kicked it. I think that warrants celebration!

That is to say - this comic turns three today! Thanks to anyone out there who's ever given it a look. It blows my mind on the regular that literally anyone bothers with this absurdly niche thing, so if you've been following along...thanks!

Here's to the road ahead!

[xivdl]

nothing to see here, I'm just coping