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patchwork-crow-writes · 1 year ago

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48 - Labyrinth

Oh my Light, I am lost - trapped in a maze of my own making. Coarse walls close in on all sides, unseen terrors skulk around shadowy corners, and I fear I shall never be found again.

Here you stand, oh noble knight... won't you come forth and brave this darkness? Conquer the trials set out before you, prove your courage and strength of heart to me. Your prince awaits your arrival at the end of this adventure, with hand outstretched and heart all aflutter.

But I implore you watch your step - for here lurk things that were never meant to see the light of day.... secrets that can bury smiles and scupper happy endings. I beseech you, please, tread gently through the dark - some prisons were built for a reason, and some monsters cannot be so easily slain.

I ask much of you, I realise that. But you are the only one who can tear down these walls, the only one who can look at me, see me for what I truly am. Because you're no stranger to the darkness, are you? There is shame crawling beneath your skin, just as it coils around my heart. You have nothing to fear from me anymore - take my hand and let's make a break for it.

Escape back into the light, or lose ourselves in the dark... it is no matter, so long as we are together in the end.

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The Dark Menagerie No. 48

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#writing #fiction #fanfiction #deltarune #Ralsei #kris dreemurr #kralsei #krisei #big mazes as metaphors for interpersonal barriers #housing shame and anxiety and other such nasties #Sometimes we can feel trapped in our own minds #And it can seem like only one person can break us free #Because if they can navigate those dark spaces in our psyche #and still be there to take our hand #That has to mean something... doesn't it?#drabble #The Dark Menagerie #patchworkwrites

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bixels · 20 days ago

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As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

#personal #im still fighting it but im also a realist so I’ve accepted that this will be our future #rant #gen ai is fucking boring #I hope this doesn’t make me sound like a ‘going against the crowd. not like the rest of society’ type (it would be depressing if it did)#but yeah even in a world where it’s considered totally fine to use ai to make art I’ll still be using my bare hands #because I like it and nobody can take that from me #if you’re a young artist interested in or already using ai. just know that the thing you rely on to make art can be taken away at any point #all of it. and there’s nothing you can do about it if they decide to. it doesn’t belong to you

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 3 months ago

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None of our hands are clean

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #jin guangshan #mianmian #The secret meaning behind one of the jin members scuttling off is:#I couldn't make three people work out in the remaining panels and per my rule of '3 attempts and take a different approach' he had to go.#Sometimes there are meaningful reasons why something happens in the background. And sometimes it is like this.#Let's just say he saw what was about to happen and got out of there before mianmian started throwing hands.#Okay no more delay. The sheer boldness to call WWX a killer in a room full of people who wear their war body count as a badge...#It's about hypocrisy yes - but it is also about how the narrative shifts on the same action depending on the frame.#Because at the end of the day...the blood on our hands is still blood on our hands.#Both the deaths on the battlefield and the deaths of the Jin's abusing the Wen remnants are still deaths caused by another.#They are also deaths that - depending who holds the frame - are noble acts to protect others.#But it isn't supposed to be about who was right and who was wrong.#It is about the need to be seen as the victim to avoid culpability.#Because if you aren't responsible you don't have to be held accountable. You don't have to grow or change.#If someone takes all the blame then there is no need to reflect on your own faults.#We have to protect our fragile ego from the mirror lest it shatter and we have to remake it anew.#Horrifically enough...even if WWX spared the Jin guards or even never ran into Wen Qing #He wouldn't have been able to escape being the scapegoat. He downfall was set into motion a long time ago.#My goodness...What a deliciously tragic story Wei Wuxian's first life was.

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egophiliac · 1 year ago

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Do yoy like their silly little dance

the inside of my brain at any given moment:

#twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #stage in playful land #stage in playfulland #gif warning #gifs that bop along to your music warning #gidel is SO little #look at him compared to everyone else!#three apples tall!#i could put him in my pocket and still have space to pack him a lunch #this rhythmic is so silly. i love when we get a cutesy upbeat rhythmic right before everything goes straight to shit.#fellow and gidel: (dance around all cutely and throw confetti)#fellow and gidel: anyway now it's time to sell you #just the most adorable little kidnappers 🩷#so glad they made an official gidel chibi because otherwise i would have tried to and it would not have ended well #i'm trying to do a meleanor right now and she is giving me enough trouble. she doesn't even have any STRIPES.#do you think the riggers got handed the designs for this event with all the stripes and swirlies and patches and patterns #and just had to go stare at a wall for an hour or two #'okay look people are going to see this on a small screen with a rhythm game going on in the foreground'#'nobody is going to take a high-res screen recording and then go through it frame-by-frame to scrutinize our rigging breakdowns'#'what kind of HUGE NERD do you think plays this stupid game'#(shifty eyes)

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drenched-in-sunlight · 4 months ago

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saying this as respectfully as possible but. Do not put fandom content creators on a pedestal. We are also just fans contributing to a community just as you are. We have boundary on our own work and that’s it. What I say is not and should not be considered sth the whole fandom should listen to. I’m just a normal ass person ranting about things on my blog. If it does not have a fandom tag for others to engage in, do not make it out to be me trying to start fights or addressing the whole community. Because it’s not.

I’ve said it before and I will say it again, my art, my lore talk, is biased. I’ve never tried to hide that I view Marika a certain way and will always develop my theory following that base assumption.

Aside from translation stuffs and pointing out in-game items, everything else I say you can look at it, agree or disagree, and move on to form your own opinions. Just because I draw stuffs doesn’t mean you get to saddle me with responsibilities about managing fandom expectations. What the hell? I’m a fan artist, I’m the last person who you should look at for “leaderism” (?) WHAT?

I can and will be a hater in my own space, like I know sometimes other artists will just post their stuffs and not engage too heavily with fandom, and for a while I did try to do that here (because I’m already a dramatic ass on twitter), that’s just not me though.

You will get art and you will get my opinions as well.

#asking ppl to [celebrate different takes] is... WHAT?#different takes as in well I think she likes apples and you think she likes grapes. yeah that’s some fun discussion to be have #but different takes as in the fundamental of a character’s drive and personality??? NO #let’s put that down very clear here #I can still read fics where Marika is cold and calculate and manipulative as long as I can see there’re layers to it and the author #set it up in a way that I can see they got her backstory and build those layers based on that #and then there are ppl who literally only portray her as omg evil girlboss 101 let’s blame everything on this cardboard character #then I click back.#and there r ppl who might not vibe with how i portray her and they can ignore me. THAT'S OK TOO. we r in our own space.#it’s as simple as that!#ever since the dlc is out i literally could see the amount of ppl blocking me go up and im just “ok” because i do go around muting ppl too.#that's normal fandom space managing experience. pls do that #lore discussion is for ppl to engage in so u say ur piece i say mine and we can continue or not depending on situation #but FANWORK? leave each other alone or be a hater in ur own space ok?#personal #also where are these ppl who have been defending Marika at... because if u exclude me #and some others i can count on one hand. where are these ppl?#ppl saying headass stuffs about the HS aren't even Marika fans or engage too much in fandom to begin with #meanwhile u can't even find one youtube lore essay that says anything good about her #ppl are even trying to give Messmer's mother position to GEQ for no goddamn reason #like where is this overwhelming support for Marika at cuz as the active Marika stan around im not seeing it

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lokh · 2 months ago

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also i think if roleswap laios and canon laios met theyd immediately start fighting.

#canon laios would blurt out 'why do you look like our dad' and fisticuffs ensue.#shuro........ is a little more complicated #if canon shuro doesnt think too hard about it and just treats the other him like a stranger then theres no problem #on the other hand i imagine he holds himself to high standards and if he sees his other self doing things he considers improper or uncouth.#i imagine hed only speak up if he saw it happen A Lot like hed pull him aside like hey... what the fuck #thered be a bit of 'holy shit i woulda turned out like THAT??' on both sides #roleswap shuro would often get frustrated but i think hed understand that like. thats how the culture is like he lived it too #but i think similarly hed watch laios steamroll og shuro and eventually be like. DUDE. just say something #shorter fuse lmao. anyways still turning this AU over in my head #how much more forward can shuro be before hes unbelievably out of character...#and what if they switched universes!!!!#if laios switched. it would be immediately obvious something is up in the og universe but it may be chalked up to like #a weird mood..... though maybe the party starts to wonder 'hey... is it not possible this is a shapeshifter' 😭#but og laios in the roleswap universe...#tbh havent thought too hard on what the party dynamics in that universe might be like assuming all else is the same save for the roleswap #i imagine chilchuck would still get on alright as long as hes being paid upfront and laios is still attentive/ recognises his abilities #and limitations also. marcille................................... hmm #she might treat him more formally and be less close.... may perceive him as more threatening at first meeting #(in terms of like. 'taking falin away' i mean if that makes sense)#but well. u kno how in canon laios Does notice a lot of things about his companions and has a very pragmatic view that surprises them #and they dont tend to notice until he says it aloud because its often overlooked cos of his. everything else.#well. id imagine roleswap laios still notices things but simply would not say it aloud.#the party would also be like .. dude... did he hit his head #if SHURO swapped...................... well it depends when exactly it happened #i imagine it could be a bigger issue with the retainers #im losing steam cos my lower back hurt so bad adgfsdfg i cant get a good position on this chair #but for shuro himself i imagine it would be nightmarish lmao.#roleswap (henceforth RS) shuro would wake up as an adult with the retainers like. ??? was that all a dream?? did i never make it out #meanwhile og shuro ending up god knows where..........#if he ended up with the retainers again he might not immediately realise somethings amiss and try to act normally

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forgotten-daydreamer · 6 months ago

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Headcanon that when they’re all in civvies, Bruce still takes his kids’ hands when crossing the road.

#I’m 24 and both my parents still reach out for my hand when we have to cross a road #I think it’s an automatism for them #because my sister and I are both well over the age where we needed someone to hold our hand to prevent us from runnin in the traffic #yet both our parents still take our hands without even thinking #bruce wayne #dick grayson #jason todd #tim drake #damian wayne #stephanie brown #cassandra cain #duke thomas #Bruce does this too. don’t tell me he doesn’t

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lesbianherald · 11 days ago

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Dude I agree with your season 2 takes so hard. Another thing that pissed me the hell off was how the 3 characters that were established as having suicidal thoughts all ended up sacrificing themselves at the end. Super cool! not fucked up at all!

BRO I KNOW 😭

I THINK ABOUT THAT ALL THE TIME. ALL THREE. OF THE SUICIDAL CHARACTERS. ALL THREE.

Not to be crass. This is obviously a serious subject. But like, it's so genuinely bizarre and thoughtless it actually makes me laugh. I think because there's nothing else I can do. It's ridiculous.

The messaging, specifically with Jinx, was fucking chilling, and the justification the writers used for it after made it worse?

Like, oh, Jinx needed to sacrifice herself so vi could be happy with cait like are you FUCKING . SERIOUS. LIKE DFKJSHDFKjlh WHAT TRAIN OF THOUGHT WOULD MAKE SOMEBODY THINK THAT LIKE?!?!? WHAT LOGIC ?! HAS ANYONE IN THAT ROOM BEEN A SISTER ?!!? DO THEY KNOW WHAT SIBLINGS ARE ?!?!

Unfathomable. unfathomable.

Very much with jinx it was like, people with mental health problems are disposable burdens type thing. point blank. it really read like that. The fucking breaking the cycle shit? I was like, surely, surely, this is going to be pushed back against and Vi is going to immediately go save her because clearly she's expressing suicidal thoughts and running away but then instead She has SEX IN HER SISTERS PRISON CELL LIKE EX FUCKINGKDSFH !L??!?!

Sorry. You got me started on something. Like. You just. You can't make this shit up. I literally can't believe we all saw that with our own eye balls.

I think Jayce and Viktor on their own was a really suitable and beautiful ending for both of them, to be honest. But in this context its incredibly bizarre.

All three. All three.

I CANT DUDE

#and yes yes jinx still alive because they need their mavel esque spin off or whatever #but the messaging is still the same im sorry #the damage is done here #ask bee #critical #jayce and viktors sacrifice feels very poetic #very we've flown too close to the sun we have fallen into the trap of our own hubris #take your hand in mind and lets right our wrongs together and go into the great unknown #kind of vibe #made this not rebloggable as i feel like it was just a ramble and i didn't articulate myself clearly enough so if it breaches containment..

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stripedstarsblueflags · 2 months ago

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we seriously need to start reevaluating what constitutes a “ship war” because here i would’ve thought it was wars between the fans of certain ships but nothing i repeat NOTHING any f1 rpf fan can create will come even close to the efforts the ships themselves are taking to outdo each other

#i mean come on #are we taking our cues from ao3?#what in the homoeroticism #forget max vs lando #its landoscar vs every other pairing on the grid #we really had lewis digging into the DEPTHS of brocades #IN 2024 #this is a war people #the craftsmanship here is incomparable #pierresteban thinking #NO ONE can top our double podium and subsequent childhood friends to lovers sequence restablished #landoscar: hold our team orders #i need to make a tier list #still won’t be as complex as the choreography these ships are designing #it’s out of the fandom’s hands now #charlos competing for the best after-race photos #meanwhile landoscar trying to rewrite sporting history in QATAR #just kiss already #all of you #winner takes all #jesus christ #i need to stop adding that as a tag to express flabbergastion #although jesus would probably approve #friendship is magic? friendship is WAR #the inheritently homoerotic nature #on steroids #f1 rpf #landoscar #pierresteban #charlos

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arsenicflame · 5 months ago

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Bootblacking is my favourite kink to give Izzy, because of course this guy would get his rocks off doing precise, repetitive, manual labour. OF COURSE he gets off on what is essentially just another chore on his list.

#this is genuine btw #i think it fits his character so wonderfully #taking this time to relax & forget about everything else. to kneel at his lovers feet and fall into a sort of trance doing the same motion #over and over. the satisfaction of a task well done.#i also think he often struggles to calm his brain down- too busy thinking about what still needs doing and what could go wrong-#so he finds it hard to allow himself the time to truly relax. something like bootblacking lets him feel like hes doing something while also #getting to have that moment of peace he so desperately needs #nyxtalks #ofmd #our flag means death #izzy hands #israel hands #nsft #a little. mostly to be safeeeeee #thinking about ed tricking him into it when they were younger- after they got their own ship they stopped having time to be kids #and izzy got so anxious about the whole deal. its not that he pulled away from ed; hes still just as present as ever when ed wants him #but he never sits in the captains cabin in the evening. he never stops. the second theres a moment of pause hes onto the next task #and eds boots do need dealing with. so ed frames it as something he needs izzy to do for him. sit there while ed works out their next move #the cabins only small so izzy takes the floor while ed works at the desk- better to keep the mess away from the maps anyway #and ed chatters as he thinks about where theyre going; just mindless noise that izzy doesnt need to really listen to.#and the brush is moving in his hands and its calm and. his brain goes quiet for the first time in months #(ed notices this obviously)#(hes gonna start making izzy do this every couple months)#(this is the real reason he wears so much leather- gotta get a rota going!)

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crystalpallette · 1 day ago

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their kind eyes have captivated me. I love you bunny boys

#precure #wonderful precure #daifuku toyama #satoru toyama #my stuff #i! wish theyd become real cures!! but i will take what has been given because Help at least they got something!!!#im at least so glad theyre not movie exclusive #at least we have episode 49. they were on screen at max like two minutes but what a blissful two minutes they were #in our hearts theyre real cures. i kinda wanna try my hand at designing full outfits but thats another project for another time #what we got was still super cute thouugh n.n #the ribbons being a symbol of their bond..... daifuku keeping his little blue bow........#ruined over a fictional duo for the nth time #this boy and his rabbit......... helpm e

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uncanny-tranny · 1 year ago

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Something I notice is the idea with transmasculinity and transmalehood is almost this idea that we had beauty that transition has vanquished, and I honestly never related to this pretransition.

Beauty was never afforded to me as somebody who was obviously neurodivergent and traumatized and weird. I was never seen as beautiful pretransition, and I knew that. Conversations about how desirable we "used to be" never rang true for me personally because I wasn't even given the opportunity to be "beautiful." I was never going to be included in that even if I were not trans, you know? Since transition, I know I'm desirable now, even if it is not in a conventional way. It's interesting how my masculine features are now embraced because people can actually register my maleness, when before, they would never.

Desirability is often used as a tool and a weapon on trans people. The idea of not being "desirable" is a punishment. It's just weird when you're the trans person who was never desired in the first place, and you know it.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #nonbinary #i specify transmasculine and transmaleness because it can be really overt that transphobes often interact with us with the idea that we...#...killed our 'female beauty'. i definitely don't think it's exclusive to us but it's something i take note of because i'm a trans man #it's just funny because i KNOW the transphobes who whinge about my lost beauty would have bullied me for my nose because it's not 'feminine'#or they'd mock my broad shoulers and the fact that i'm asocial and awkward. like it is very transparent #i read a friend who was saying that their beauty was used against them in an abusive way and it's something relatable...#...but it's Complicated at least for me. on one hand - i absolutely get that. on the other - i don't know what it'll be like to be Desirable #or Desirable like that. i find that even though i am desirable after transition people still interact with me in certain ways #part of me appreciates that but part of me is embittered that this is something i just can't ever shake #i think these conversations are interesting and sometimes important which is why i talk about it #i've just been thinking about this since reading what my friend went through (and my heart goes out to them - it was harrowing to read)

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moggettt · 1 year ago

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Pardon the sketchiest sketch ever, but idk when I'll get a chance to finish and season 2 has me HYPE

EDIT hey it's done!

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amanedachi · 3 months ago

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iron / heart

Part of LoL Esports Elemental Series.

#lolelements #lol esports #t1 faker #t1 oner #t1 zeus #t1 gumayusi #t1 keria #skt bang #skt wolf #skt bengi #skt kkoma #warning: MAJOR yapping incoming below #thinking about still here.mp3 and 'gripping with my cold hands the shapes i used to take'#'it could all end here with the strange daylight caught in our eyes'#'my shadow stretching out through all the things i left behind'#opening ceremony+t1 has everything they need to put me on a stretcher to ER #images from lol esports flickr (2016 worlds either finals or semis i goofed and forgot)#(and msi 2024 brackets features and worlds 2024 semis features)#there is a universe where i collected more pics and put a bit more thought into which word should go to who #but that universe also involves me doing this at a time that is not 5am #this is my last one probably twas lots of fun but new things on the horizon for me #this post is scheduled to post on finals day but just know that i am awake and shitting my pants over worlds finals #then recovery period and then im shifting into arcane mode #being completely deranged is a full time commitment never let anyone tell you otherwise #lil pat on the back for myself for successfully posting one per day til finals EVEN if they were sorta mediocre or dupes hahaha #special thanks to t1 for making it to semis because if they didn't there's a chance i would have lost steam LMAO #work school and the physical need for sleep work hard #but the esports demons in my brain work harder

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miodiodavinci · 4 months ago

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im being so so brave but also i am gripping you by the shoulders and leaning in and letting you know i am so tired of being brave

#my job has invented new and even more agonizing ways to make itself stressful to endure #and that isn't even counting the fact that i've now seriously fucked up my wrist transporting 30lb boxes up and down stairs #or the fact that i occasionally get piercing shoulder pains if i'm not super careful about how i use the hand truck #or the fact that whenever i come home on mondays my entire lower body is so sore that i can't move beyond a weak shuffle #it's the fact that my boss has no sense of organization #so my supervisor and i are basically salvaging or starting from scratch every week #it's the fact that some of our clients are asking for things we're not even contracted to provide #like access to our company materials or additional resources outside of our scheduled bookings #and that there's this constant looming threat of 'ohhh don't be bad at your job!! or else we'll lose our contract with these people!!'#but 'bad at your job' in this case means 'not bending over backwards to accommodate the least accommodating circumstances possible'#like 'hey you need to lead this training exercise meant for 20 people except actually you only have 4 people'#'and actually none of them are familiar with the prerequisites for this training or have any experience with the skills'#'and also none of them want to be there and half of them just Don't Do These Things as a rule'#'and if you try to make them do anything they don't want to do (even if it's literally the point of the training) they Will leave'#'and then we will no longer have enough clients to pay you'#like. what am i doing. this company was not designed to work with this format. we're not an arts and crafts group or a club meeting #hi so i wrote this post before starting weekend work prep #it has been 3 hours now #im still not done #i haven't eaten and my wrist hurts so bad #i need to.................. take a break................................

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maeamian · 5 months ago

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Becoming deeply radicalized against the idea of crewed Mars missions, y'know how the Rovers keep sending back better and better data what if instead of that we made an even bigger one and devoted nearly 90% of its capacity to holding a guy in a bubble on top of it instead of sending back useful data, but wait! They'll eliminate like a half hour of latency and also almost certainly contaminate the landing site and possibly the entire planet, so it's not all downside.

#At least in the near term it's fucking pointless and the downsides are very large and very big #Quite frankly it is extraordinarily likely that the first people to arrive at mars will do so dead #Because they will have been sent by fucking idiots willing to take too large risks #But the good news is that the wreck will spread across and contaminate huge amounts of the martian biosphere #To the point that we will quite possibly never be able to discern the history of life on mars #But if they live at least they'll get to slightly reduce the latency on our telerobotic fleet!#And travel home with the samples I guess #Good thing Percy's tagging and bagging rocks that we just canceled the return trips for #At least once we fuck up the rest of the planet those will be sterile #Kinda still excited about Aritimis but also kinda becoming anti-human spaceflight in general #We should consider not doing that for a while and at most focus specifically on living on the moon in a controlled and limited fashion #Ground the whole fucking commercial fleet who gives a shit those capsules are both gonna get someone killed sooner rather than later #And it's not like we're learning a whole lot by having people on hand up there #They spend most of their time trying to keep the machines from falling apart #Which is the main thing people would be doing for three continuous years on the shortest possible mars mission #Like you could send a dozen rovers for the price of one crewed mission both mass and money-wise #And that's probably a lowball estimate even assuming more and more advances in rover technology #Which are happening a lot faster than the advances in life support technology #Right now we do not even have enough functioning space capsules at our low earth orbit space station #Starship HLS is a fucking joke #The whole thing reeks let's just stop sending people into space for a while what were we really getting out of it

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