#longing for something

[catmint1]

And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have.

—Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

[indiestar]

I hear a song I used to love, and suddenly, I’m back there, back in a room that doesn't exist anymore, back with people who have turned into memories. Funny how a few notes can fold time like paper. But if I went back, would it ever feel the same?

[cruel-hiraeth]

currently

[levrez]

Dye me in your colours;

Paint me your soul

[mintaii]

a wandering knight, drawn to the quiet of the forest. her touch may be a blessing or a curse.

[golyadkin]

you'll get the urge as an artist or a writer to say out loud the things you're worried about "the proportions are off" "kind of out of character" "i'm not good at summaries" "didn't get as much detail as i wanted" "i made a mistake and here's how" and that's the self-conscious part of your brain telling you "it's bad and if you don't tell them you know it's bad then they'll think you're stupid" but you've got to ignore that little voice and pretend you think it's good or else that little voice is going to ruin your life

[druid-for-hire]

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.

[chubby-p1nk]

Translation

Jason: Fucking crybaby

Translation

Tim: You're a fucking goddamn ASSHOLE

Jason: DICK! This sick fucker started with his bullshit!

Tim: Fucking Chilean!

Jason: Fucking Argentinian!

Tim: Dumbass!

Jason: Asshole!

Tim: Motherfucker!

Jason: Pussy Ass Motherfucker!

... Someone asked for Jason and Tim... Technically, I did it-

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This 2 are my favs, it kinda shows too? I love them, my babies. (I want them to suffer)

Also, in the comments I talk about something LKJASDLKJ No me funen pls-

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[jomo-is-here]

how long you think it'd been since he'd last seen his reflection?

[indiestar]

I take the long way home, past streets I don't need to walk, past windows that flicker with lives I'll never know. Maybe it's avoidance, maybe it's nostalgia, maybe it's just the quiet thrill of not arriving too soon.

[pigswithwings]

the angel staying over at my house asked for a nightlight in their room and i told them buddy, don't you produce your own light? what're you gonna do with more? and they said they wanted to see why people like it so much. and also that the nightlight i own is blue and they've been trying to understand color. anyways i think they've stared at it for an hour now

[lazylittledragon]

got shadowlach on the brain again

[canisalbus]

✦ Sanctuary ✦

[wasabi-gumdrop]

local ladies man’s signature move totally useless against autistic monster enthusiast. more on Kabru’s fumble era at 6

[quinloki]

I think the wildest thing about the TikTok Ban is that TikTok decided to adhere to it beyond the letter of the law.

They bent their knee willingly and gave up space and a platform they did not have to. They consciously decided to fuck over their user base when there was no valid reason for them to do so.

I've seen people talking about how you absolutely do not want to obey ahead of authority, and to see TikTok do it is... weird. It's unsettling. It feels like a dangerous stunt.

Specifically, it feels performative. It's got the marks of a Great Drama™, and given Trump's first 4 years and his absolutely bonkers love for theatrics over anything else, this just feels hollow. Like TikTok is trying to turn it's - generally younger - user base into "fans" of the republicans.

They can't really scoop up youths any other way, honestly. But using a big impactful story and putting Trump as the "hero" who saves their beloved platform.

It's not even the 20th and I just don't like how this new administration is starting. I do not like a private company complying beyond the letter of the law in advance of that law either. Because the only thing the law laid down was that they couldn't update the app on Apple and Google.

There wouldn't have been any fines or legal ramifications.