#smart journaling

[tragicvampireromanceisland]

COMIC IDEA i have had in my head for one million years....morph catches on to sol's feelings for sammy pretty quickly. because you know. of course she does.

howeverrr, she does NOT know sol is also jane, so. it's a pretty superficial crush in her eyes. a lot of heroes have a civilian or two they enjoy saving a liiiittle bit more than others, right? which makes it excellent cannon fodder for her to mess around with sol with. the BEEFERS!! woulddd morph back off if she knew the extent of sol's relationship with sammy...? HMMM who knows.... 🤭 though, well. it'd probably help if sol stopped being so deep in denial herself. maybe morph is justified to terrorize her about it to some extent. sigh, these two...

[sesamestreep]

sexy himbo jock interpretations of James Tiberius Kirk are silly and do a disservice to the character for a lot of reasons, not least of which is that it fundamentally ignores all the times in canon when Kirk is faced with a scientific discovery or oddity and you can see the effort it takes for him not to clap and skip with excitement. like in ‘the devil in the dark’ when Spock posits that they might be dealing with a silicon based life form and McCoy’s like “but that’s impossible!” and Kirk literally crosses the room to flirt talk excitedly with Spock about the prospect and how it could work! and what it would mean!

What I’m saying is, Kirk’s gotta be smart and a huge dork because how else could he pull a bad autistic bitch like Spock?

[anirritant]

like man the parallels between stan and bill are so so so so so fascinating to me ough...... the most obvious thing is that they speak so similarly, often using the same terms and i can't help but wonder how intentional it all was on the part of the writers. biggest one being "eenie meenie miney you" to me, it's so specific.

it could simply be bill picking up stan's mannerisms through ford's memories to further appeal to ford (is that canon somewhere? i don't actually know but i see it mentioned a lot) but some of these are things bill still says and does even when ford is absent. for a being that's lived for trillions of years would terms he picked up only a couple decades ago cement themselves in his behaviour so much?

(also, has anyone ever brought up dreamscaperers' deleted scenes where bill summons a paddleball in the mindscape? stan does the same thing in his own mindscape in the finale. again, that's so specific i can't help but wonder how intentional it was or if it was just a coincidence. i know deleted scenes might not be the best to point to as evidence but i think i've only ever seen someone allude to in one fic and nowhere else?)

i havent read tbob and haven't really kept up much with the new info from it but i have seen the poem about stan and gosh like. it really does seem like it's being consistently hinted at over and over that there's something there with specifically bill and stan. the axolotl's poem was already eyebrow raising with how much of it could be applied to stan and now there's even more..

[faunandfloraas]

im so glad im not the only person that looks at seungmin and goes "❓tism❓" bc he is Way Too Relatable to me as a person w autism

yeah..... like I say it in jest but also..... well, yk. sometimes you notice something and you notice something and you notice something and you go Hmmmm

[blackbackedjackal]

Took Blue to Waffle House with my family and other then getting a little impatient with laying down a few times she was flawless <33

[fancyschmancyopinions]

JEAN SMART at the 76th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on September 15th 2024 wearing custom LAURA BASCI

[rebluvio]

I did my nails and also coping doodles but exams are over tomorrow so I get to finally use all my time to draw and not feel bad yay

[afniel]

Well I sure dreamt some tasty speculative xenobiology.

I'd just gotten back to Earth from a long gig on Venus as some kind of miner, and I was so incredibly glad to be back in a place with a breathable atmosphere. I hated Venus. Not so much for the fact that the air kills you and makes even sealed spaces with breathable air smell like ass, I was explaining to the friends I was sitting with at dinner, outside, enjoying the fact that the planet wasn't trying to kill me with supercritical CO2 and boiling sulfuric acid rain, but because Venus had way too many bugs.

Not Arthropoda, because they weren't related to Earth animals at all. And not big movie ones that kill you and eat you, because that's silly. Look at that place. It's not gonna support anything larger than a really big crab. But the fact remained that Venue was largely populated by shelled creatures that you could only really call bugs.

Most of them were minor annoyances, but there was a specific kind that was a major hazard. They were predatory and they had sharp little heads that they used to drill through the shells of larger creatures. This was a problem, because they had shells like that of a scaly-foot gastropod, meaning they were tough enough to burrow throw stone, metal, and even composite materials, and they had neck physiology like if a woodpecker was specialized for rotating its head side to side instead of oscillating front to back. If you didn't go out and sweep them off fairly often, they'd puncture your hull and then you'd have a huge goddamn problem.

Just to make things even more annoying to deal with, they were highly attracted to smooth surfaces, you know, like ship and hab hulls, because those resembled the shells of things they could eat.

Venus kinda sucked, but damn, that sure was an interesting problem to have.

[daddyduncan69]

gonna be off tumblr for the next week or so as i slowly read the golden raven so posting all my drafts before i go

[loveofcherry]

kicking my feet!!! 🤭

[child-of-hurin]

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alex garland's civil war is one of those movies where my experience watching it seems so different from everyone else's (even the writer-director's!), it's one of those alienating experiences... It sucks because I would love to talk more about it, because I think it's a very meaningful and intriguing work, but no review seems particularly insightful.

Another annoying point is that none of the things that, for better or for worse, truly bothered me about that movie seem to have bothered anyone else... For example, it's over a month since I watched it and I'm still in shock with that long, slow shot of a black man catching fire. It's such a strong, disturbing scene, I could not watch it, had to close my eyes and i was and still am so offended, and I never see anyone discussing what it means in the narrative, either as a meaningful artistic choice or as aggressive, cheap, potentially racist provocation (two things that coexist, of course)

[raemimuse]

BIRTHDAYS

It's random but, I'm on my periods rn and it's 01:09 AM... Hehe now you know it's either yapping kr it's serious~

So, the thought chain started with "My birthday is coming". For some of us, we hate our birthdays or that's what we make ourself believe... But, don't you think, our birthdays is the only thing that's "truly ours".

Let me say it taking me as the first person;

My birthday is the only thing that's truly mine, that'll always be mine. My birthday, 22nd December feels as if it were to be a person, it would be ME. (Say it your birthday date) I've never felt it before but, a day, called "22nd Dec" is mine?!!?!? It makes me feel loved and idk how! (Omg I'm 100% mentally to ill) I feel as if there's one "thing" that really loves me, and it's my birthday hehehe. It's a time, a date, an event, that is so parmanent until I die. My birthday date! It's just mine. And it will always be mine!!!! Wtff~~

Is it just yapping or something serious?🥹

[rexscanonwife]

VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION:

Do you think Arthur is multilingual??? Cuz like, all the letters he gets to read all over the world?? I'm sure he would be at least somewhat proficient in a few different languages. What do you think??

HIYA!!

That's a very good question, and something I actually thought about a little bit while rewatching the movie!! Cause the letter he gets from Maria Costa, the little girl from Greece is shown to be written in English but that's honestly probably more for the viewer than anything else 🤔

I find it funny that the rest of the world is forced to be sorta america-centric and learn at least some English, but I bet a good amount them actually are in the native language of the country they come from! It'd make a lot of sense for Arthur to at least have a basic understanding of a lot of languages and probably has books to help him translate the ones that he doesn't know as well :3

[sapinelle]

I’m still new here but I don’t like Jason’s red hood helmet he looks like a psycho. couldn’t he just stick with a domino mask

[itsyveinthesky]

Edit: There is now an official English translation of the whole article by Meduza themselves: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/06/03/the-only-thing-worse-than-war-is-losing-one

Meduza is a Russian- and English-language independent news website, headquartered in Riga, Latvia. It was founded in 2014 by a group of former employees of the then-independent Lenta.ru news website.

It asked the readers that supported the war to explalin why.

Sadly the answers paint a very bleak pictures of even young Russians reading independent media.

Some translated statements (feel free to correct if translated wrongly)

Andrey

35 years old, Volgograd

War ends when one side wins. Russia's defeat would mean national humiliation, which cannot be allowed. Consequently, one must win - there is no choice anymore.

Alexei

24 years old, Yakutsk

I do not support the war, but I do not want Russia to lose either.

Pavel

30 years old, Germany

I am angry at both sides of the conflict.

Anonymous reader

38 years old, city not specified

The only thing worse than a war is a lost war. It was an insane mistake to start it, but now it must be won, or else we will have the woe of the defeated. I don't support Putin, damn him.

Anonymous reader

36 years old, Tyumen

I'm not going to pay reparations for the mistakes of others for the next 20 years. No one talks to the losing side.

Nikolai

27 years old, Austria

I think the Western point of view is not quite right and agree with Putin's terminology of a unipolar world with double standards.

Artem

40 years old, Berlin

I have lived in Germany for 20 years and have never seen such propaganda. Western politicians and media have taken an absolutely one-sided position: Russia is the aggressor, Ukraine is a heroic state, Putin is always wrong, everyone looks into Zelensky's mouth.

Ruslan

28 years old, Kazan

I neither support nor condemn Russia for the war. I believe that since Russia started the war, it showed the weakness of its diplomacy and its inability to negotiate with a neighbouring state. However, I also do not support the point of view of those who compare Russia almost to Nazi Germany.

First of all, Ukraine had a choice; it could have reached an agreement with us in the early days of the war before things went too far and met our demands. It would have lost territories, but would have kept itself as a state. Is land more important than human lives? Therefore, Ukraine also bears some of the blame for the lives of those people who died. I am sure that people living in the territories that would have been handed over to Russia would certainly not have made their lives worse. Perhaps somewhere even better.

Sergey

27 years old, Perm

I support the actions of my president and my country. Yes, initially I didn't quite understand the point of this whole "operation", but after a while I saw the Russophobic statements both from Ukraine and from the European Union and the United States. Anyone with critical thinking and at least some common sense understands: Russia is not a "terrorist state", we are only defending our interests and sovereignty. That is why I, like most Russian citizens, fully support the UAS, and if I have to go to war, then I will go.

My personal favourite

Anonymous reader

30 years old, Astana

In a year and a half, [my] authority figures and moral compasses have turned into traitors (who wish harm to the citizens of their country, call for sanctions and do not try to lift them), shameful people (who offer to surrender to mercy and blame themselves), infirmities and liars.

I still believe that Russia got into this war for nothing, very much for nothing. But the way out offered by those [politicians] I [used to] hope for is shameful, painful, humiliating and deceitful. It is better to wait for those who will replace Putin: Russia is full of smart people.

Repenting for three [next] lives, giving up nuclear weapons and paying reparations - thanks, no thanks. I hope that the war will end as soon as possible and that as few people as possible will die in it, both Russian citizens in the first place and citizens of Ukraine, and if I have to go to war, then I will.

[kimmiessimmies]

Winter 08: Dateless - Pt. 2 (26/64)

He then got up and walked up to me. "I'm sorry," I said, "I feel like I may know you, but I'm not quite sure..." I got goosebumps all over, but not the good kind, when he said, "I'm Stam! We have a date tomorrow, but I saw you go in here and thought, maybe we can start our date a little earlier!"

I told him that made me feel uncomfortable and that I was actually here with someone else right now... He got very offensive when I said that, accusing me of playing the field. I thought that was unfair because I told all guys up front that I had several messages and wanted to meet everyone to give everyone a fair chance.

At this point, Nathanial got annoyed, too... And asked Stam what his deal was. I was so scared they were going to fight or something, I had to turn my back for a while. I honestly panicked a little...

Nathanial created by@flotheory, Stam created by @sircesimblr