#in orbit extras

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9.16.24 / 9.17.24 - september supermoon

[umblrspectrum]

give a woman psychic robo powers and obviously shes gonna use it for petty shit

[quietwingsinthesky]

people are saying he « led her on » because he did. the fact that he kissed her in the first episode set the tone for the rest of the season and if you can’t perceive the flirting I’m sorry but how?? he didn’t make anything clear he sent the craziest mixed signals in the world. there’s nothing revolutionary about claiming that Martha was being pushy toward someone who was clearly not interested it’s 1) weird to claim in what it suggests about her 2) factually not true.

I wasn’t gonna respond to this at first because the top half of this ask is pretty much just individual interpretation and I don’t really care about it. Like, no, to me, the Doctor doesn’t seem especially flirty towards Martha. He’s just sort of Like That. That’s his damage, you know, Mr. I need to traumadump on anyone who tolerates being around me for more than five minutes. Mr. If I don’t develop an intensely codependent emotional bond with the companion I have currently I’ll die. It doesn’t read to me as him trying to lead her on because that bit’s honest, and he does it with damn near every companion he’s ever had.

And if nothing else, because we do see Ten when he tries to flirt intentionally and he’s a fuckin dork about it. Kind of guy who looked up romance in the dictionary and took notes. Kinda guy who draws diagrams to maximize kissing potential. It would have been obvious even to me (<- romance-blind as all fuck) if he was flirting with Martha on purpose because he’s not smooth at all; he flirts like he’s gotten lines in a play and he’s super excited to be the main star.

But anyway, as I was saying, that’s just how I see it. And if you see it different, no skin off my back, I just disagree.

But I take umbrage with you putting words in my mouth. I never said Martha was pushy towards him. Because yeah, she’s not. If I implied that she was, then it was a result of poor phrasing on my part. Martha’s not at fault for what she feels, for wanting there to come something of it. No more at fault than the Doctor is for not returning those feelings. It’s a bit weird that you’re assuming that I think one of them has to be the bad guy here when that was the opposite of what I was saying. My point was: When it comes to their romantic subtext of their relationship, it’s weird to pretend like either of them are to blame for them not being in a relationship at the end of s3, and even weirder to assert that as part of why Martha supposedly wouldn’t like the Doctor afterwards when they’re. friends. they continue to be friends into s4.

Martha’s not pushy. She has a crush on her friend. It happens. He doesn’t return it. This also happens. Both of these facts are pushed to the extreme because he’s a time-traveling alien with poor emotional skills and she’s put herself in the position of needing to help him from minute one of meeting each other. That’s why it’s fun to watch, because the Doctor is both so open and so unavailable in turns, because Martha’s feelings for him grow and change as she knows more about her Doctor until she decides to step back.

I don’t know, man. You seem to be coming at this as if one of them has to be The Problem™️. I don’t think either of them is, not so definitively. I think boiling their relationship down to that is reductive and an insult to the way they both grow over s3, to Martha’s choice to continue to be his friend while also establishing her own boundaries, to the fact that the Doctor is able to let her go without immediately trying to kill himself afterwards when she’s not there to catch him.

[maeamian]

God comets are so fucking wild, real edge cases in the eccentricity game and it results in shit like them being the brightest thing in the night sky for like two weeks before fucking off to never be seen again by anyone who was alive for the first go

[twelve-nights]

sometimes it's like "yeah our system has like a core/host personality that everything kinda works around :)" and then we forget to mention that host fucking changes for some reason

[sentientpaperbag]

yall this is a 12 year difference i drew the one on the left in 2011 💀💀💀

based on this screenshot btw:

i wanted to be her so bad as a kid, she's pretty and she has plant powers, who wouldn't wanna be her???

[madigoround]

💜

[acitybythelightunited]

I don’t care about any of this babble… wait til billionaires spend $400 million on research and beta tests to go live on Mars for $100 grand and realize how much they paid to die in a bunch of red space dunes eating terraformed lettuce for their last meal on death row. Once you’re like a year away from Earth no return, hope it was worth it. Lack of societal empathy??? Rich people want to literally abandon an overpopulated, financially doomed planet they fucked up by hoarding too much money instead of helping rework society into a functional, well-balanced system. I have ZERO interest in their survival if they can’t give away their wealth and just live happily with no complaints on 5-10 million dollars not working for the rest of their lives. You’re just a selfish soulless succubus if you’re doing nothing to help the entire population with billions of dollars at your disposal. Most of the world population in poverty is making 3k/yr. They live places with no running water, sacks of rice, and mix that with whatever meat they hunt. And you wanna complain about not having a billion instead of a million? I can’t even pay attention to your existence anymore. There is absolutely no way you’re going to realistically colonize Mars and set up shop there in a decade. It doesn’t naturally sustain human life, anything you infect the planet with will have huge repercussions on its ecosystem, and sending humanity there will change the physical weight of the entire planet and fuck up the gravitational fields between all of the planets and probably kill both planet’s life forms when you shift either too far away or too close to the sun. So good luck with that.

this is probably the best take I’ve heard so far on the debate of people being told that they aren’t having enough ‘compassion’ for billionaires making bad decisions and paying the obvious consequences for it

[invisible-books]

"In five billion years when the earth is long dead, it'll be a love song that outlives spent suns"

This is such a good line re the golden record on voyager 1 and voyager 2 from Orbital by Samantha Harvey

[ddelline]

fic OST | halcyon (and on and on)

blurb | rehash from the last of these I posted: it’s me, so ofc there’s a fic OST to accompany the main thing. hereby: the music which has enabled me to go on a 40k (and counting) writing spree, doing bkg dirty (or am I) by having him seethe in a sorry, messy, pining pile (all of his own making) for all & everything that is midoriya izuku.

no spoilers rly, however ost may be interpreted as exploring both bk/dk perspectives, even though halcyon (and on and on) such as it’s been written remains firmly rooted in bkg, and bkg’s pov

what | 24 tracks ranging from dub → classic noughties trance → ambient → nu era pop → golden age rock & more (& then some for good measure)

playlist → spotify

tracklist | under cut

01 | orbital — halcyon and on and on

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02 | donato dozzy — vaporware 07

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03 | HNNY — till dig

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04 | smith & mighty — maybe for dub

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05 | kelela — contact (karen nyame KG remix)

time is surreal, now I’m floating in outer space

06 | depeche mode — precious

I pray you learn to trust have faith in both of us and keep room in your heart for two

07 | jai wolf & BANKS — don't look down

sometimes I overthink compulsively get in my head wait for the truth to sink in to feel my own skin

08 | jonathan johansson — släng alla heartbreakstråkar (transl swe -> eng)

caught the last bus from the cinema and you fell asleep on my lap our takeaway got cold, oh god oh god, what is this

09 | mAsis — skin

settle into your skin settle into your skin breathe in the stillness

10 | fleetwood mac — silver springs

I’ll begin not to love you turn around, see me running I said I loved you years ago

11 | burial — archangel

holding you; couldn’t be alone, couldn’t be alone, couldn’t be alone loving you; couldn’t be alone, couldn’t be alone, couldn’t be alone

12 | seinabo sey — still

I’ve been thinking about tomorrow instead of drowning in the past oh, we had good times even back when dreams were all we had to last

13 | kelela — divorce (DJ manny remix)

under the surface I’m lying fighting the tide, now I’m drowning steady I’m diving in deep

14 | joakim berg & maria jane smith — sommaren (transl swe -> eng)

nothing happens without cause and all the alleys lead back to you your blood on my hands—it calms me

15 | nothing but thieves — you know me too well

I want you all to myself oh, but you know me too well forgive me cause sometimes I forget I got my own two hands clenched around my neck

16 | foals — mountain at my gates

oh, give me some time show me the foothold from which I can climb yeah, when I feel low you show me a signpost for where I should go

17 | kent — innan himlen faller ner (transl swe -> eng)

as the sky falls down you’re everything I have and I’ll do anything to keep you as the sky falls I’m everything you have and I’ll do anything for you to keep me

18 | the kills — doing it to death

baby lately the plans we’re making are the shape of things that never come hold your horses, the light’s up

19 | the last shadow puppets — miracle aligner

often the humble kind but he can’t deny he was born to blow your mind or something along those lines

20 | bishop briggs — be your love

bad blood come and go but you’re still coming home ain’t no mountain tall, tall enough baby we rise, we fall

21 | omoinotake — 蕾 (transl jp -> eng)

I’m reaching you to you; will you hold my hand?

22 | rui da silva — touch me

touch me in the morning and last thing at night keep my body warm, baby you know it feels right

23 | tyla — water

make me sweat, make me hotter make me lose my breath, make me water

24 | sylver — turn the tide

you have the bravest heart the strongest emotions after all the harm I’ve caused and you still want my loving

25 | orbital — halcyon and on and on

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[rainbowgod666]

Please don't call me honey or sweetie, it makes your tone EXTREMELY condescending. Second, I thought I was following you for tma, since that was what I saw from you on my dashboard. So yes, I did think you knew something about it. Third, I cannot tell what your point is. I don't know if it's cause I'm tired or what, but I genuinely can't understand what you're trying to say

Yeah sorry the joke is that things like Magnus Archives and Nightvale do what my Multiverse should be doing but have been at it for years

And also the tone was meant to be me about to explode like nuclear bomb

Also uuuuh im genuinely liking ur icon lol

[carolinanadeau]

once again thinking about the existence of That Post and similar things and seething. one of these days I will finally succeed in blasting them all out of existence with the sheer power of my mind

[taz-writes]

more D&D fic nonsense. this one's been a WIP for a while... jube and marigold return to their hometown with jube's family to reclaim their old home, which has been abandoned since jube's fam was forcibly exiled around 14 years prior in the wake of the girls running away. this is from marigold's POV, she calls jube 'posy' bc it's a childhood nickname.

She stumbles on something underfoot, and realizes she’s nearly tripped on part of Sage’s old toy car collection. She pauses to pick up the little metal ambulance, weighs it in her hand. It’s cold. 

She hands it to him without a word. Presses it into his hand, and he goes rigid, and his eyes go wide. 

“I’m sorry,” she murmurs. 

He doesn’t respond. He stops in his tracks and stares at the car like it’s from another planet. Rolls it back and forth in his hand. The wheels are jammed with dust and rust. 

“Oh,” is all he can say. His voice cracks. 

“...Can I…?” she reaches towards it. She’s walking a line that she can’t see, it’s been so long, but she has to try. Sage looks at her sharply, startled, and clutches the toy to his chest. “...I can clean it,” Marigold says softly. “I, um, I have a spell.” 

“...Oh.” He nods. Hands it to her gingerly, and she swirls the dust away, watches Prestidigitation spin it off into nothingness. And then he takes it back, and tucks it into his breast pocket, and neither of them can quite look at each other anymore. 

She barely knew him, before they left. He was… something like eight years old when she and Posy ran away. 

She’s starting to get why Posy runs away from things.

[aroxis]

Sorry but no, it's not as clear cut as "Geto saw him as human, the rest saw him as weapon." and it's also, not about shipping. Geto focused on Gojo's humanity, the rest saw him as The Strongest. Since you don't read the manga, I'm not going to spoil anything, but there are many instances where it's pretty obvious that without his power and status Gojo doesn't occupy the same space in everyone else's life. Gojo himself felt that people tried to understand and reach out to him but the sheer distance between their level and his made it inherently impossible.

Nanami, Megumi, and Utahime you didn't pick her but I should mention would be some of the worst examples if you want to talk about people who liked him. JJK fans have a tendency to not read what's on the page and project some typical tropes onto them like 'everyone's annoyed by the goofy guy but they secretly like him', but the manga is not trying to do that. Those 3 specifically did not like him all that much. When Nanami says he doesn't respect Gojo, that's what you're supposed to learn, not that he "likes him but is too grumpy to admit it" but that he's Gojo's coworker who has to deal with him sometimes. Nanami was also the one who wanted their missions to go to Gojo instead when they were teens, Gege's shown you that for a reason. When Megumi says he's grateful to Gojo, that's because he is, he's contractually obligated to fulfill his duty towards Gojo Dad Gojo's cute but could not be further from canon. When Utahime says she hates Gojo, she means it, he's an ass to her just like he's an ass to almost everyone and he gets away with it for obvious reasons. Yuuta and Yuuji respect him, especially Yuuta who's definitely the closest to Gojo as recent developments confirm. It's not a random pick either as Yuuta's one of the four special grades and Gojo's biased towards extremely strong people. Yuuji is someone who likes everyone anyway and he's the puppy boy protagonist, if his love and respect for Gojo was of that much importance Gege would have made that known via more unique interactions. As for Shoko, she thought of herself as Gojo's friend and she had faith in his ability to win till the end, but Gojo didn't think the same. Does that make Gojo wrong? Maybe, he did know that they cared in their way, but it's obvious why guy like him would feel that he can't relate to them. Same way it's him who only thought of Suguru as his friend, his only friend. Sometimes you'll have to try to put yourself in his shoes, you'll see that Sukuna was a better candidate for people who could truly relate to him.

There's a world of difference between "I have to coexist with this person whether I like them/ hate them/ feel neutral about them." and "I genuinely like this person." When Suguru's said to be the only one who didn't see him as a weapon it's because 1) The Question that changed the trajectory of Gojo's life and 2) the role Gojo has in others' life is primarily as the guy everyone can depend on, the guy who'll clean up their messes, the guy who'll save the day. It's why the next arc is about the cast rescuing Gojo and not about them trying to defeat the villains themselves. When asked what they thought about Gojo their conclusive statement was, "He's the strongest." and if you want a parallel, when Suguru was asked about Gojo he called him his friend. Why was that word never used for anyone else, not even Shoko? It's not a baseless shippy claim, it's just how they're written. There's also the fact that Gojo treated himself like a weapon but I'm kinda tired TT

"when geto died, gojo lost the only person who saw him as more than a weapon" did we watch the same show. like, genuinely-- was gojo satoru not loved by his students and by his friends.

[void-tiger]

I think I kinda like you. But I care more about watching you grow. And I can be patient. (I can grow myself in the meantime. Maybe we’ll meet halfway. Maybe we’ll only observe eachother’s growth in parallel. Maybe that’s for the best. But that’s okay.)

[often-daydreaming]

This is more of an odd idea.

I mean with everything his parents can do and Danny being Danny he's gotta have some engineering skills and since he's in love with everything space related I can kind of imagine him building his own base on the moon. He'd just need a little help to get started but with his parents skills, Tucker's tech and a little extra from Sam's allowance it slowly starts to come together piece by piece and the Justice League has no idea what to do.

Cause he's obviously in love with their orbiting watchtower but it's not his and he knows better than to just invade someone else's haunt/territory without an invite so Danny settles for admiring it as he flies back and fourth with thousands of pounds worth of equipment.

And the Justice League is sort of stumped cause there's a kid making multiple trips to the moon nearly every weekend but what can they really do. He's not hurting anybody. He isn't breaking any laws either but his 'friends' who are easily the size of the moon are giving every magic user on Earth a heart attack.

Governments are calling. People are worried about another invasion. Amity Park doesn't care and nobody in the know wants to ruin Danny's fun.

Meanwhile Danny is having the time of his life building a base the size of his hometown. It helps with his obsession and sort of evens him out which is good for everyone so he doesn't see the problem with calling in a few favors from Undergrowth and Vortex in order to make his little corner of the moon habitable for his friends and family.