#space dunk

[duplexide]

We really are living through an absolute golden age of space themed cross promotions, huh?

[megaherbs]

You know I had to fuckin do it!!

[bird-inacage]

GMMTV The Heart Killers Live House | The FK Fan Club

[necrotic-nephilim]

not enough TimJay content takes advantage of the fact that the Red Robin mantle and suit were Jason's first, and Tim effectively stole Jason's shit that Jason wanted to throw away. Tim took Jason's name, his suit, to go on a one-man crusade when he's at odds with the Batfamily. You're telling me Jason wouldn't be weirdly offended but also weirdly turned on by that?

robin (1993) #177

robin (1993) #178

And yes, Tim only knows about the Red Robin suit's existence because Ulysses Armstrong stole it for a hot second, but the fact he stole the suit from Ulysses and fucking kept it? Even before he had any reason to? Like before becoming Red Robin, Tim just kept a suit he knew belonged to Jason despite openly disliking Jason for. Reasons. And later on, it's explicitly confirmed Tim's wearing it because it's Jason's legacy? That's the most toxic gay shit I've ever seen.

adventure comics (2009) #3

Tim's punishing himself with Jason's image. Jason, who has been constantly trying to get Tim to see things his way and work with him would lose his mind over that. There's such a potential for a toxic possessiveness to it all, Tim branding himself with Jason's suit and name. The assumptions Jason would make about Tim because of it. The way Jason could hold that over Tim's head, that they really are one and the same, and deep down, Tim must know it to some degree, if he became Red Robin when he felt replaced as Robin. I truly do not think Jason would ever shut up about it. As a fan of 'possessive/weirdly obsessed with Tim' Jason, I think this would take Jason's weird feelings about Tim to the next level. And if Tim will punish himself just by wearing Jason's legacy, imagine how much more he'd punish himself for falling for Jason too. Weird freaky little masochist who tortures himself through Jason seems exactly Jason's type, tbh. I'm feral about it.

[artgletic]

nsh def drew the X on his forehead to spite the ancients and the more serious iterators. self destruction taboo?? guess what bozo im crossing myself out despite it. L+ratio+obsessed with stupid problem+touch grass+oh wait you destroyed the environment trying to solve your stupid problem+hi pebbles :3c

[enorintechnicolor]

The space faerie is so cool she needs to be written out of plots because otherwise she would fix everything by being OP. When I was a kid I was so sad so many of her avatars and site themes were locked behind premium!

[trek-tracks]

Me: puts the Space Bisexual Oreos in our grocery basket at Meijer because I haven't seen them in Canada

Spouse: Are you going to take pictures of these for all of your Discord and Tumblr friends?

Me: (guilty, embarrassed) ...yes...

100% called out and rightfully so

[inbabylontheywept]

"The reaper had a scythe. I have a combine harvester."

Arlach tapped his fingers nervously. He’d have gladly given up his life for the liberation of his people. A combine harvester (even a deluxe AI driven model) was a pittance compared to that. Still, he didn’t really understand what he was hearing.

“I uh… heard you’re hooking up my strawberry picker to an air defense cannon?”

The human technician assembling the gun held up a hand, finishing up some last tweaking of the wire harness. He touched two wires together carefully and swore when a shower of sparks shot out of the contact.

Set back, but not defeated, the man paused his task to answer the farmer’s question.

“See, you’re looking at this wrong. It’s an AI harvester, and it works great for strawberries, but machines don’t really see ‘strawberries’. They rate strawberry-ness. There’s a lot of ways to manage that, but it looks for a generally pointed shape, some seeds, and that nice red color. So your run of the mill strawberry generally receives an almost perfect strawberry-ness score, but something like this-”

His hands dug through all the pockets of his work suit before they finally found their target. He fished out what had been a standard ferroslug before it was painted bright red and smattered with a handful of black dots. He took a moment to admire it himself before tossing it to the farmer and continuing.

“Well, it’s not a strawberry, but it scores as one. Well enough that the machine gets positive feedback from its alignment unit every time it puts one of these babies where it's supposed to go.”

Arlach stared at him blankly.

“So what, you’re convincing it to fill a cargo container up with painted bullets?”

The technician grinned.

“There's no a limit to how fast it's allowed to fill that container up. At no point did the alignment protocol even consider that it'd be capable of throwing a 'strawberry' at mach nine. And the cargohold is important, but the rocket its attached to is more so. You know what looks a lot like a surface to orbit rocket?"

Arlach’s brain clicked.

“The hypersonic missiles they've been throwing at us.”

The grin widened. Arlach himself felt slightly awed to have found the connection.

“Will it work?”

The human nodded.

“It’s damn near the only thing that can. To shoot down something going that fast, that low, you either need a dummy missile that can brute force outrun it, or enough computing power to hack a station. The alliance is too chickenshit to send over their actual military AI's, but these myopic-type digibrains are supposed to be safe for civilian use because the idea of convincing your tractor that a bullet is a strawberry and a WMD is a cargo loader was a little too creative for the morons over at John Deere Galactic. And if that digibrain just so happens to function near the exoflop level, they're going to have a hard time sneaking anything larger than a bee through this airspace.”

The alien’s hands went over its crest as its mind reeled.

“They're not the only ones who would never think of this. It's brilliant. I never would've considered it.”

The tech shrugged good naturedly and went back to retrieve the two ends of wire that he’d dropped earlier.

“Eh, it's not coming from nowhere. There’s something of a human tradition about using farm equipment for war. I'm just lucky to be part of the next evolution in this. The reaper himself only used a scythe. Now I get to use a combine harvester.”

[frogatz]

you'll see them again !

too many thoughts and things done with Intent to fully explain myself . partially bc this was supposed to be much much longer, but i think i would like to play more in the space of post-game loop.

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

TF One D-16

[ao3-anonymous]

Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (05/23/2023)

Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms.  Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.

Overall:

Over 1,000 Fics:

Over 5,000 Fics:

Over 10,000 Fics:

Source: AO3 Fandom Dashboard

[duplexide]

Tried out Space Dunks dunks the way God intended, while watching the 1998 Lost in Space movie and using a matching mug for milk dippage.

I highly recommend them, the Pop rocks add a great new element without detracting at all from the core Oreos experience. It's convinced me that Oreos should have had pop rocks in them from the very beginning, it's nothing but an improvement.

[greencheekconure27]

Ok, as a person who cooks and really loves her spices:

Can we please stop doing this thing on Tumblr where everyone goes "the only way food can be flavourful is if you put 58 whole spices in it" #white people food sucks"

Like seriously.

There are more ways of obtaining good complex flavours under the sun.

[mindful-electrical]

Psst hey guys hey I've been meaning to write this kind of post for such a long time (since TPOT 2), and I finally did! Black Hole is disabled—his entire arc (and it's possible resolution) is predicated on that fact. This is like,,,my most favorite thing I've ever written ever please read if you want/can

[sparring-spirals]

choosing to think that Imogen rolling poorly is because of an unknown, extradimensional Bailey Effect. Somewhere out there, unbeknownst to her, Jester Lavorre is accidentally siphoning away all of her good luck and universal wiggle room for things like 'inventing unicorn hamsters" "slightly altering the fabric of space and time to dunk on an enemy" "putting hats on the unicorn hamsters". and thats why, in the meantime, sometimes when imogen does her dang best to cast a spell she falls down a flight of stairs. or turns blue.

[cuterefaction]

#Trektober Day 15, "Section 31". I love that Luther Sloan is supposed to be a big scary spy man and Julian is able to capture him with a plot a 12 year old could've managed.