THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL HOUSE. THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE.

Reminder that a character does not have to be morally perfect for you to like them and liking flawed characters doesn’t make you a bad person

People are wondering why people still enjoy caitvi like Arcane isn’t the first show with a sapphic main character to be widely popular and not be canceled in actual ages… Yes the writing was kinda bad in season 2 and YOU don’t have to enjoy it but don’t attack lesbians for taking what they can get

And then they kissed

You can support women’s rights to do whatever they want with their bodies without claiming that getting plastic surgery to adhere to the beauty standard and sex work and otherwise submitting to the patriarchy are empowering and feminist.

IM OBSESSED

hate when people use the term 'cancelled' interchangeably with the term 'accused ov multiple serious sexual abuses'

Hello!! My sources (secret) tell me you're... evil. Like super evil... From a scale from one to ten, how evil are you truly? >:) (..And could i get your (EVIL SUPERVILLAIN) autograph? :3)

Well well! Your secret sources were correct. Realistically, I’d break the 1-10 ‘evil scale’, but if we’re sticking to that puny system, I’m definitely a 10/10. Evil to the core. So evil. Incredibly so. …

Anyways, here’s your autograph! Hold on to it, it’ll be worth billions when I make it to the big leagues.

There's this sort of anthropomorphizing that inherently happens in language that really gets me sometimes. I'm still not over the terminology of "gravity assist," the technique where we launch satellites into the orbit of other planets so that we can build momentum via the astounding and literally astronomical strength of their gravitational forces, to "slingshot" them into the direction we need with a speed that we could never, ever, ever create ourselves. I mean, some of these slingshots easily get probes hurtling through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour. Wikipedia has a handy diagram of the Voyager 1 satellite doing such a thing.

"Gravity assist." "Slingshot." Of course, on a very basic and objective level, yes, we are taking advantage of forces generated by outside objects to specifically help in our goals. We're getting help from objects in the same way a river can power a mill. And of course we call it a "slingshot," because the motion is very similar (mentally at least; I can't be sure about the exact physics).

Plus, especially compared to the other sciences, the terminology for astrophysics is like, really straightforward. "Black hole?" Damn yeah it sure is. "Big bang?" It sure was. "Galactic cluster?" Buddy you're never gonna guess what this is. I think it's an effect of the fact that language is generally developed for life on earth and all the strange variances that happen on its surface, that applying it to something as alien and vast as space, general terms tend to suffice very well in a lot more places than, like... idk, botany.

But, like. "Gravity assist." I still can't get the notion out of my head that such language implies us receiving active help from our celestial neighbors. They come to our aid. We are working together. We are assisted. Jupiter and the other planets saw our little messengers coming from its pale blue molecular cousin, and we set up the physics just right, so that they could help us send them out to far stranger places than this, to tell us all about what they find out there.

We are assisted.

And there is no better way to illustrate my feelings on the matter than to just show you guys one of my favorite paintings, this 1973 NASA art by Rick Guidice to show the Pioneer probe doing this exact thing:

"... You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. ..."

Gravity assist.

This I got tumblr like a month ago

Help. What the hell is queueing. "#blues queues" what the hell are you talking about.