#No man's sky spoilers

[cosmordial]

THE VOICES WONT SHUT UP!!!!

[explorer-entity-korei]

{{I've heard talk of fishing from Travellers around the Space Anomaly. Perhaps I'll try it out later today. I've always had a fondness for marine life.}}

[sunlitmcgee]

did you guys know that apparently no man's sky is a simulated universe in-lore that's being dreamt up by an old super computer that's panicking before it gets eaten by a black hole and is lowkey going AI senile because it's been running for so long?

[speci-society]

ALSO IM ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED WITH APOLLO BEING A FARMER. WHYS whys that so silly to me. Im so happy for them tho

No wonder when they first meet you theyre like "your base. It sucks ass btw. Get some protection on that thing." Like i thought they were judt being rude but no theyre a southern boy who knows how to take damn good care of some crops. Do you think they would fit in a pair of overalls with rhat build and them shoulders. What kind of music do you listen to Apollo. I need to know

[objectum-sunshine]

the ATLAS' stations are sooooooooooo just a grandiose projection of its physical form in the real world. Plain mundane circuits become a sleek black sheet of glass filled with pulsing red veins. wires and metal fixings become pillars that mark your path up to each interaction with it. It's literally a child making itself super op and cool in it's fantasy world it's hiding inside of to cope with its approuching death. oHHhh my goddd,

[decibat]

there is no god damn way im being asked this after i watched rvb with my boyfriend

[nomansskye]

Autophage δ-88U/Z

[egophiliac]

you know, I've been thinking about it, and there is actually one single scenario in which I would be okay with not getting a big ol' "Silver Vanrouge" out of Lilia.

(just kidding, I still need some "call me Silver, Mr. Vanrouge is my father" in my life, please don't let me down on this one Twst)

[legendofzoodles]

This chapter was fun

the dowsing struggle is so real tho :')

Art credit @linkeduniverse

[dreamdripdistance]

redraw !

[trek-tracks]

Do you ever think about how Kirk had a "best friend" on the ship before Bones in Gary Mitchell, a man who:

a) deviously manipulates him into heartbreak for Mitchell's benefit,

b) shames him for not being "fun" enough when he's in a position of power,

c) openly insults intelligent and powerful women,

d) treats everyone cruelly as soon as he gets power and tries to seize everything for himself,

e) finds it fascinating that he can stop a person's heart for fun, and

f) tries to murder Kirk instead of admitting that he's a danger to the universe,

and then chooses to replace him with Bones, a man who:

a) tries to save Kirk from heartbreak at every opportunity,

b) gets him to smile and relax by being genuinely interested in how he's doing and telling him that he's great and respected just as he is,

c) openly toasts intelligent and powerful women,

d) treats everyone kindly as soon as he gets power and tries to use it to help as many people as he can,

e) cries about how people suffered when medical treatments were less advanced, and

f) says, "Jim, I can't destroy life, even if it's to save my own. I can't."

because I do

[nidbaesenpai]

Viet blasts Loop as well ✨✨✨

[nualaofthefaerie]

!Spoilers!

Sky forgave him and let him go so Jayce can bring him back...SHE LET VIKTOR GO SO JAYCE CAN BRING HIM BACK...two sides of the same coin...they NEVER gave up on him, they NEVER stirred him wrong. They love him so much.

[speci-society]

Variety No Man's Sky doodles (feat. my character on my main save, Ceres)

[objectum-sunshine]

about to clean up my crepe skillet to make rice n cheese burritos and gonna tell it about no man's sky lore while I cry over the object head pyrmid man and his alien friend that I put into a computor

[anendtopursuit]

certain corners of the jayvik shipping community erasing jayce's love for mel and insisting it was never real is frustrating for various reasons

the first (and imo most concerning) is the casual disregarding of mel's character and relationship (a black woman as a primary love interest! something that is unfortunately not as common as it should be!), falling not only into the incredibly common misogynistic fandom tendency to dismiss/demonise women who "get in the way" of mlm ships, but also into the misogynoir of the "disposable black girl" trope - something i implore you to research and consider not only when interacting in fandom spaces but also when critiquing the show itself and its treatment of mel/sky. similar sort of issues come with people dismissing mel's affection for him as manipulation when she's arguably far less manipulative than viktor (gestures @ the whole "he was the person who set jayce on this path the entire time" bombshell), their relationship was always mutually beneficial, and we're shown her perspective multiple times without their relationship ever being portrayed as insincere. how is it not manipulative for jayce to use mel's influence to become a councillor and push heimerdinger out etc, but it's manipulative for mel to make suggestions about the usage of hextech? would you think the same way about these actions if it were viktor doing them?

second of all: insisting that jayce's love for his literal girlfriend must be fake because he's in love with a man feels so oddly strict and binary for such a queer fandom/ship. if paralleling viktor and mel's scenes leads you to interpret his relationship with viktor as romantic, then surely his relationship with mel must still be romantic too for that comparison to make sense? bisexual erasure is especially prevalent when it comes to men and male characters (due to biphobic and misogynistic beliefs about bisexuality being "a women's sexuality" caused by "female promiscuity" or some archaic bullshit like that). insisting that he can only love one and not the other, and then dismissing his affections for mel if you decide he loves viktor, also just reeks to me of the "pick a side" mentality and, again, is weirdly monogamous for such a queer fandom. i realise this may sound like a reach to some people since jayce isn't explicitly canonically bi, but i still think it's a good idea to be cautious about how you have these discussions and any implications they may have, especially if it impacts a real life community that already regularly faces erasure

tl;dr you can be a jayvik liker and also be normal about mel medarda and meljay. please for the love of god be normal about mel medarda and meljay.