#mark/mary read

[brotherconstant]

BLACK SAILS (2014-2017) I. • XXXVIII. "You could be more welcoming to new people. Would it hurt?"

[catsafari25]

I find it hilarious that Mark Watney and Ryland Grace are fairly similar in some ways (affectionate) but that one started with "I am pretty much fucked" and the other is a guy who unironically goes "holy moly"

[flammedoudoune]

Started reading the Martian yesterday and for the first 50 pages or so I was like "oh this is fun. But do I really want to read 400 pages about some guy growing potatoes on Mars though?". And fellas, it now seems like the answer to that question is yes, absolutely.

[iloveratmen]

HE MADE HIM SMILE

AND LAUGH?!??????!!!

JAMES POTTER MADE REGULUS BLACK SMILE AND LAUGH OVER ABBA?!?!!? DANCING QUEEN?????

[vellichorom]

hypothetically, how would someone go about 3d modelling thierry, particularly his hair. Hypothetically.

GOOD QUESTION! oh god i don't know. he used to have sensible hair,

COME BACK..... SOMETIME TOMORROW & i'll have a mental breakdown & then i'll try & give the best Actual breakdown of his hair that I can manage to give you as someone who tried to download source filmmaker once & did not get anywhere. did not even get the program working. not even on the computer if i remember correctly

joking aside you Scare me with your hypothetical creativity & kindness. thank you

[macinthecaac]

I will genuinely never understand how people on twitter think Ryland Grace DIDN'T undergo a character arc. Did we even read the same book???

[markiafc]

every few weeks or so i become very distraught over not having any ss mutuals on here. and then i remember @fancifulpurposelesslovely :')

[rocketrouquine]

I’m sorry but …

Are the lesbians doomed to put some sense in clueless or hopeless gays ?

Is it like a prerogative ?

Anyway… in the pirate world, the double date/couple therapy doesn’t seem to work on our baby girl, she just wants to break some furniture

Rude.

[deuterosapiens]

So, we're roughly halfway through Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary. As a sci-fi novel, it's a bit of fun. I have one teeny-tiny nitpick though, which is effectively me complaining about science fiction writers, especially hard sci-fi writers, completely floundering sciences that aren't like, hard sciences. I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the astrophysics or anything, but having also read The Martian, I can only assume it's fairly accurate, or at least plausible once you account for the unobtainium applied phlebotinum that is Astrophage (cool word!) as a fuel source.

My nitpick is this.

First Contact stories are cool, but no matter how strong the science, the communication part is probably very boring for the action-adventure crowd. This page details Ryland's process of learning to communicate with the ET, Rocky. Before the page break, we had learned the words for "yes," "no," and the numbers one through four. After this page break, we have evidently learned thousands of words and by the end of this section, Ryland and Rocky are starting to have complex discussions about their respective stars being eaten.

Now, I'll allow that Ryland is using a computer program to facilitate most of the Eridian language vocabulary learning process. And most of the translation and communication process (on account of Rocky's language being basically purely based on musical chords). I will still insist that there is no conceivable way in this or any other hell this language learning process can even begin to make the slightest semblance of realistic sense.

I know Arrival isn't exactly the most accurate film in.existence regarding alien language learn (Sapir-Whorf hypothesis who?), but at least it understands that learning a language takes time. Learning an alien language with no reference material which you yourself cannot actually speak due to being physically impossible to pronounce for human beings will take, to say the least, a significant bit longer.

"Yeah, but aliens aren't real-" shush! Don't care! Yes, it would take a significant amount of time for Ryland to learn Rocky's language. Yes, it would be extraordinarily boring to show that learning process on the page. Don't care. I read three pages of the hypothetical function of the Hail Mary Astrophage-powered Spin Drive.

Exolinguistics (Futurama) is a cool science, dagnabbit! Treat SLA with some respect!

Rant over.

[van-goghs-smoking-skull]

Update: Due to Tumblr's decision to partner with MidJourney, I'll be moving to Cohost.

Music: https://cohost.org/downtempo-kestrel?page=0

Art: https://cohost.org/sibi-barknd?page=0

Writing: https://cohost.org/windblownsand?page=0

Everything else: https://cohost.org/van-goghs-smoking-skull?page=0

(My works/posts will be deleted from here as I move them over as separate posts on Cohost)

(Oooo, bonus, I can switch individuals posts on Cohost to 18+ without sending my entire blog to the void - no need to have an entirely different account for one whole fic.)

(If we were mutuals and I stopped following you, you didn't do anything wrong - it's part of the process of migrating. If you have a Cohost account, just DM me what it is and I'll follow you there, instead.)

(5/13/24, the export begins. It'll take quite a while, but once I have the full download - so I can sort things out offline - I'll only be around here for DMs. I'll be available otherwise on my Cohost blogs and I'll still be on Discord, so if you want faster responses, look for me there)

(Cohost went read only on 10/7/24 and will shut down entirely by the end of the year. If we worked out keeping in contact since, you'll know where I've moved on to. If not, I'm taking it as a sign you'd rather not keep in contact at all, so there's no point in posting my online moves here anymore. I'll miss you, but it is what it is, I suppose. I still hope life treats you well. Goodbye, old distant friends.)

[brotherconstant]

CARA ROBERTS as MARK READ || XXXVIII.

“A world we survived. A world that is no more.” I hear it ain't altogether over. I hear there are still men on the account here under the blessing of the governor. I hear he allows for it as long as it helps drive up prices for the merchants here. I hear he allows you to continue the practice. That's why I came.

[ankellysaurus]

Speaking of christian scientists, when we were in high school one of my sisters dated a christian scientist. If you are unaware christian scientists believe that injury or illness are best treated with prayer rather than medicine. ANYWAY this boy she was dating and his brother were good athletes and on the school soccer team. So one day she invited the bf to come over and have dinner with our family and he said something like "Sorry I can't come I have to stay home we're praying over my brother's toe." After said brother broke his toe playing soccer. Like boy, go to the doctor. Anyway it was the funniest thing my 17 year old self ever heard.

[mariemarieohcontrary]

James: Is my play good?

Emma thinking of how messy and all over the place the play was plus the switching speech patterns.

Smiles through grit teeth

Emma: It's amazing babe!

[slaughter-books]

Day 31: JOMPBPC: Favourite Books Of The Year

My top 10 favourite books that I loved reading throughout 2023, I love them all! 💜💙💚

[butch-pyrate]

I forgive OFMD misgendering a historic trans man, because they did a great portrayal of an FTM girlmoder that hates/loves her wife and is stuck in a messy dyke relationship.

[direwombat]

No offense but the worst part of doing exposition is that I have no fucking clue what the hope county Sheriff’s Department did and didn't know about the seeds and their actions before the reaping