#the first American in space

[darlingshane]

Julian and his car. AMERICAN GIGOLO (2022)

[the-unfortunate-ly]

look who’s inside again…

[vertigoartgore]

90's Superman (coming back from the dead with a mullet, because to quote Abe Simpson it was the style at the time) by Brian Bolland.

[gaasublarb]

IMO Miles and Hobie actually look similar enough to justify Actually Miles Is Young Hobie fanstuff and yet I haven't seen any

Same eye color

The hairline and eyebrows are different but those are things that can be shaped

I thought Miles had just rounded lips but even that's not right. And it's not as if Hobie's don't even out sometimes

The face lines

Even their ears are similar enough I can't say anything against it and ears are like super individual

(Edit. Differences that age and stress maybe can't account for:

I think Miles has bigger ears? And maybe his lobes are more detached?)

((edit edit. I think the back of Hobie's jaw is shorter?? And the base of it longer????))

[spokelseskladden]

Btw it's super hard to be polite in English, like your formality rules are. Damn. I'd hate to have the audhd in an English speaking country, that shit is c o m p l i c a t e d

[flareguncalamity]

Lt. Commander Killian: So what was your name again?

Nevularxi: I have not already told you. I’m afraid my name may not translate into your language.

Lt. Commander Killian: Oh yeah?

Nevularxi: I am named for a period of time on my home planet that surrounds the immediate aftermath of the second yearly equinox of our planet’s solar star. It’s the period following our fertile rainy season, and marked the beginning of the harvest in years of antiquity, as well as the coming of the colder, darker season which our species typically spends in isolation or hibernation. The period is considered to be a time of great liminality and spiritual importance in our ancient religions, although since the dawn of the modern technological age it has lost some of its transient meaning.

Lt. Commander Killian: …Okay, but i meant more like. how do I say your name.

Nevularxi: Oh, it’s nev-you-LARK-zee.

Lt. Commander Killian: Gotcha. by the way, your name in english is October.

[nickysfacts]

Since being gifted with life, Mewtwo remains as one of the most other worldly Pokémon!

✨👽✨

[arcticflowerz]

Indigenous Lesbian

A flag for people who are Indigenous/Aboriginal/Native and a Lesbian.

Feel free to switch out Indigenous for Aboriginal or Native in the name of the flag.

Flag by: @arcticflowerz

Do not repost my flags/the things I coin with out credit.

This flag was made by an actual Inuk. DO NOT USE THIS FLAG IF YOUR TRANSRACE/TRANSINDIGENOUS! THIS FLAG IS EXCLUSIVE TO BODILY INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. By “bodily indigenous” I do not mean you have to be “indigenous passing” to use this flag. You can still use this flag if your white passing or not. By “bodily indigenous” I’m referring to having indigenous blood and indigenous relatives in your family tree. For those who don’t know what transrace is, it’s a transID label that means “you were born one race but BELIEVE you should have been born another race instead.” Transindigenous is just the indigenous version where “You BELIEVE you should be indigenous but aren’t”. I DO NOT SUPPORT TRANSRACE/TRANSINDIGENOUS, AS SUCH, THEY CANNOT USE THIS FLAG.

Here’s are the links to the Indigenous Vincian/Gay, Indigenous Varian, Indigenous Fluidian, and Indigenous Enbian versions I made.

[rimouskis]

on the subject of museums though: I'm a FIRM believer that the smithsonians are genuinely some the greatest cultural heritage americans possess and I believe SO fervently in them being free to the public and accessible to all because they ARE our nation's history and tell (and ideally deconstruct) our national myths and help contextualize the natural world around us and show us the heights of human ingenuity and art. also my favorite of all of them is the national museum of the american indian and I personally think if you can only go to one smithsonian museum it should be that one

[theofficialastronomy101]

Happy Labor Day! To all those hardworking Americans who help make this world go around! Thank you!

[whattraintracks]

Obsessed with the scene in tmnt iii when Casey is told he'll be staying behind with Splinter. He visibly considers homiecide before saying with great solemnity "it'll be a serious honor"

[mscking7]

Okay so Loudermilk is finally on UK Netflix and I'm going to chalk this up as a personal win as it must be because of the 1000s of petitions I sent to Netflix right? You can thank me later fellow Brits.

Anyway, I'm drowning in those big brown eyes...

Also his hair is the definition of scruffy perfection. Fight me.

[an-american-whovian]

They changed the ending to ‘An Adventure in Space and Time’ to feature Ncuti!? 🥹

[compacflt]

Sorry for the ridiculous ask (really it's unforgivable), but:

Iceman went to NYC to see A Chorus Line in '87.

2. Confirmed watched Sound of Music with Carole for her birthday.

Am I connecting any dots here and did Ice have to go to Hamilton as a publicity stunt in the last year of the Obama presidency?

oh no anon im being very intentional with my ice-musical-theatre links. its easy lazy writing shorthand for him being gay lol. even if he isn’t actively seeing shows he does put the tonys on in the background every year just bc he likes the color and dancing

he’s not a fan of rap and he doesn’t like how Hamilton bastardized american history for its own political aims thereby convincing multiple generations of laymen of factoids that simply aren’t true (Hamilton was strictly speaking not an immigrant & could only extremely loosely be called an abolitionist of any stripe) but he’s also a milquetoast liberal so he says he likes it for clout but he’s also a military flag officer so no one is really expecting him to go see Hamilton for publicity purposes so idk

the pentagon circa 2016:

[imthefailedartist]

I saw a video of a guy saying that he doesn't think Americans landed on the moon because he's been spending time with us, and we don't seem smart enough for a feat that grand. It was funny.

However, it got me thinking.

Let's say it was true. In 1969, America faked the moon landing. Do you understand how smart we'd have to be to get away with faking the moon landing for 55 years. Think about how much work that would entail constantly.

It'd be what we spend the majority of government funding on.

That one lie would change everything.

We'd have to put the kibosh on any nation even thinking they can go to the moon. We'd actually heavily implement green initiatives. Space exploration would be over. No private billionaires funding Mars habitat projects. They'd have to make Earth so wonderful to live on so that no one ever tries to get to the moon or space again.

We'd have world domination, peacefully. I'm talking countries wouldn't even know that we've usurped them and if they ever realized they wouldn't care.

We'd be living in The Village (2004).

We'd never get that great video of Buzz Aldrin punching that asshole.

How would we make nice with Russia? I guess we wouldn't, right? It'd probably just be destroyed. Same for China. Maybe we'd tell them, and they'd Truman Show their people. Maybe more of a North Korea.

They'd disappear Neil, Buzz, and Mike after the press tour. Same for the engineers and scientists who worked on Apollo 11. They would never make the press tour. It would be they died upon re-entry or they're stranded. Space would become enemy number one

What would they say is the reason no one can go to space? Would it be the radiation is too strong, an unkillable deadly bacteria, space monsters? What could they say to make space, the final frontier, terminus non grata?

Would media like Star Trek, Lost in Space, Dune, Forbidden Planet, and Rocky Horror even be allowed to be made? Or maybe they would, but they'd all have the end message be, "Space=Bad." You can't risk anyone thinking good thoughts about it.

Say goodbye to the First Amendment. American education, would it be worsened or made better. Would schools focus more on the arts less on math, science, and literacy?

Speaking of science, how would that affect what we know of space in understanding of Earth and life in it? Well, I guess about the same as we know now. We didn't need to go to space to have accurate maps, planetary mathematics and chemistry, etc. Space exploration just confirmed what we already knew.

There was a great episode from The Truth Podcast told if Apollo Lunar Module Eagle wasn't going to be able to leave the Moon's surface told from Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins POV.

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