#a literal rocket scientist

[sherry-cleo-salvadore]

No, but I really need a Karen Begins so bad - like where was she born, who her parents are, what's her maiden name, what inspired her to be a rocket scientist, her journey of becoming a literal rocket scientist, what made her such a straight-to-the point person on her first date set up with Hen, what was going inside her head before Chimney called her saying 'Hen is dead' - like everything - please, after 7 almost 8 seasons of badassery and being one of the greatest love interests of all time she has rightfully earned a Begins episode, Tim 😭

[sawyer-is-eepy]

still obsessed with the outer wilds alpha. like I HAVE that shit

someday I will gain the motivation to go through it and write about how much the characters have changed because jesus christ the difference is drastic

I don't remember how I got the alpha version since I. was not one of the people who got it when it was still up but I'm 90% sure I still have the file, I think I got it via wayback machine but I don't know

anyways the alpha is fun and I don't see posts about it, there's so much potential for shit surrounding it yall don't even understand

I think the very first thing I noticed is, when you wake up in the alpha, "slate's" (in quotes because they weren't named at the time, but they're clearly what was later turned into slate) dialogue is relatively the same but instead of saying "it's all fueled up" they say "she's all fueled up" and I love that tiny detail. SO much.

the hearthians had gender in the alpha iirc, "the curator" (hornfels) was referred to as he I'm pretty sure, probably along with other characters.

another thing, I'm pretty sure the alpha didn't have any sort of "ending" but alpha version speedruns still exist, so the only category is "marshmallow%" where you run to get the marshmallow at every campfire and it's really delightful. definitely recommend watching

I wanted to run it but there are no available guides i could find and I didn't want to just analyze footage and take my best guess sob.

anyways this was very ramble-y and aimless but I fucking love the alpha , as janky and weird as it is. outer wilds alpha version you are SO beautiful

if anyone wants it I can try to find the link again but I don't remember where I got it. I'm sure someone somewhere does though lol.

[jakeperalta]

I don't mean to be a hater but it does baffle me how tommy became the character of choice for sooo many people. like I have nothing against him but in a show with so many great characters I don't see what everyone sees in him to be dedicating entire blogs to him

[canichangemyblogname]

Who is your favorite 9-1-1 character and why is it Karen Wilson?

[i-dont-bite]

i hate math so fucking much i am not kidding i don't think anything else has made me suffer more than that shit

[astrofons-highderich]

Think about this a lot

Alfons, my man...

Get in the rocket too...

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

Okay, after rewatching Phineas and Ferb Across the Second Dimension, which came out in 2011, I need to know if the first Avengers movie- which came out in 2012- copied it, or if it was just a weird coincidence that both movies have an interdimensional portal with a seemingly endless evil army coming out of it set on the top of a weird looking building in the middle of a city that they have to fly up and close after a showdown with the villain?

[zugmode]

working on a SOVIET space history thing (wow!! non-american history!!) for one of my finals this semester and oh my god. i could fucking kiss NASA archivists on the mouth. entire PDFs of books are available online. they have actual soviet resources. god bless the civilian space effort.

[supercantaloupe]

i used to be really good at and into science and math stuff in high school especially chemistry but since spending four years at university getting the world's most useless degree (BA music) (not even performance emphasis) (point and laugh) i haven't really done anything stem since then apart from the worst required physics 101 class in the galaxy so now instead of being smart and doing actual experiments in the lab myself i microdose science by watching chemists on youtube do shit like trying to make a fast food hamburger as flammable as possible

[morganpdf]

just remembered my 10 year high school reunion is this year. shitting pissing crying etc

[goblinbabe666]

high key LOVE when my brother has friends over because i’ll just be like “hey i broke this do you think it’s able to be fixed?” and suddenly a patio full of half drunk stoners is solving all my problems for me 🤍

[stellerfly]

my godfather has heard two trucks and is now very confused carlos i'm so sorry

[teddybearsandlightningstorms]

one one hand it's nice people are getting into 9-1-1 because half of a common fan pairing that the fandom loves became canonically bi. on the other please remember there's been an openly lesbian black woman with a wife and her fair share of drama and growth as a main character since season 1.

[afterschoolcrewz]

karen wilson is so severely underutilized like why is the show not sending her on the same adventures and hijinks that michael used to get into?? i demand a subplot where chris and denny are in the same science class and are supposed to be building rockets and both she (literal rocket scientist) and buck (audhder hyperfixated on random scientific knowledge) get way too into it. have her athena and maddie go on a no-firefighters-allowed excursion that ends in them catching a serial killer. introduce karen and bobby inexplicably having beef only for it to be revealed that it was all caused by an imessage scrabble game gone wrong. we as a society need storylines for karen wilson in season eight that don’t revolve around her either being an extension of hen or the constant ongoing prevention of them getting another kid

[possibly-pasta]

i wish i could have even a Pinch of stability in my life. now i have to find a new job EVEN FASTER and abandon the job i like. this is hell. this is hell.

[infiniteaugends]

Okay! I need to get this out of my head. I’ve seen some posts that are upset that people are upset about the BuckTommy break up. The core gripe of these posts is that the show still has HenKaren and so we shouldn’t be upset about the handling of the other main queer couple. Which makes no sense because BuckTommy and HenKaren fulfill different niches. One is a bisexual man exploring a new relationship and the other is two gay women who are settled with multiple kids.

However, this post is to talk about HenKaren. Yes I love them! They were the main thing that drew me to the show long before bi Buck became a thing. They are two black women in a relationship. Neither is ‘conventionally’ attractive. Hen is pretty visually queer. I love them. I want more of them in the show. However I don’t relate to them. Almost all of their storylines revolve around motherhood. There is very limited exploration of them as queer women outside of motherhood. Karen is a literal rocket scientist and that has never even been used as any sort of plot point. Like the amount of physics she knows and understands could be used to great effect. Micheal got to help break into a bank vault with Bobby, but Karen has never been used in a similar way. Like the amount of STEM knowledge stored in her brain 100% could have solved at least a few rescues. Can we explore these amazing woman as queer women instead of mothers just sometimes pls.

I read a fanfic that explored how Don’t ask, Don’t tell could have affected Karen. That she couldn’t become an astronaut because of it. I would love more of that energy in the show.

So yes you are right I am bemoaning the way Buck and Tommy’s break up was handled. I am bemoaning the lack of care given to exploring Buck’s bisexuality within monogamy. I am allowed to be upset. I am allowed to not relate to the storylines given to Hen and Karen. What happened to Hen being kinda witchy and blaming the moon cycle for her cheating? What happened to Hen and Karen and Athena’s wine mom nights? Where is our exploration of Karen as partner to a woman in a dangerous field of work? Where is our exploration of their relationship outside of kids?

You want me to appreciate the crumbs of queer representation being tossed my way? Well won’t you’re right we should be angry that Hen and Karen are treated as second class citizens in the narrative. We should be upset that their importance has been reduced to only motherhood. We should be upset that this show is mishandling all of its queer characters and letting Eddie Diaz have freedom and joy while our queer representation suffers.

BuckTommy was the straw that broke the camels trust in 911 ability to craft realistic queer lives and continue to care about them more than a diversity check mark. I will continue to watch HenKaren clips on YouTube and read fan-fiction. I will continue to engage with Bi Buck fan-fiction that heals the parts of me that Glee and this show have bruised. I will not thank them for the stale crumbs they brush from the table. Do I love Hen and Karen? Yes! Is it enough? Not anymore!

Anyway, I got a little heated and upset, but all this discourse is really just rubbing me the wrong way. Let people be upset and hurt. Their feelings are valid whether you agree.