#on the surface

[inthefallofasparrow]

[alexiethymia]

Vash = puppy

Meryl = cat

Nicholas = wolf

Milly = bunny

it works all across the board. vash and meryl are basically complementary, same as milly and wolfwood. vash and wolfwood are basically just the same, just that wolfwood is the fierce version and vash is the babey version. meryl and milly are basically just hello kitty and melody.

[onejellyfishplease]

Hi Plant Anon here.

I am new to your blog…

I was not expecting this.

to be honest, I dont think i was either

but eh, i'm having fun

[worms-in-my-brain]

“Kill all men” (and variations) isn’t feminist.

The goal of feminism is not to reverse the gender hierarchy. The goal of feminism is not to eradicate half the population.

The goal of feminism is gender equality.

If you legitimately believe that men, as a group, are uniformly and unequivocally bad just on the basis of their identity, something they cannot control, and that, due to that, they cannot be trusted, ever? If you believe that only women are trustworthy or good and men and inherently bad, then you do not believe in some of the very basic foundations of gender equality.

And like. The belief that women are inherently trustworthy and good is also bad. Like, I kinda thought it was common sense that putting somebody up on a pedestal is bad because it has one of two possibilities: a) the possibility to set them up for failure (because no person is perfect, always good and pure, and everyone makes mistakes), and b) the possibility to provide abusers with shields; if you believe women don’t abuse people, even if it’s not an explicit belief, guess what you’re more vulnerable for?

And these thought patterns aren’t just anti-feminist. They’re pretty bad for multigender people, too. I’m genderfluid, but on average I am usually somewhat a man and somewhat a woman, just in varying degrees. So when you say that all men are evil, am I to assume you think people like me are, too? If yes, that seems pretty cold-hearted. I am not benefiting from the patriarchy; I am intersex and transfemasc. I am androgynous in a visibly trans way. In a misogynists’ mind, I’m not a man or a woman, I’m a thing. If no… why make an exception for me? It feels like you’re erasing my identity as a man— just because I am a woman does mean I am not a man.

If what you mean when you talk about these things is that men have to be aware of their societal position with respect to the patriarchy and vigilant for unconstructed misogyny? Then say that. Don’t say you wish men would die, don’t make fun of gay men and bi women’s attraction to men, don’t say vile shit about trans men just because you think it’s ‘punching down.’

[boxwinebaddie]

house in nebraska by ethel cain reminds me so much of rm kyle you should really listen if you never have its so beautiful

okay, okay, OKAY! so i just listened to it and oh my god....i have Chills. that is like...the exact vibe of rm, i am shaking in my boots, ommmg!!!

i know i make a lot of jokes about it being a 'I Got Sold To One Direction' cringe y/n wattpad fanfiction, but i think ( other than the writing i hope ), the thing that keeps it from being purely that is the eeire, uncomfortable, gritty noire mystery vibe of rm? that takes what would just be a racy rockstar romcom type fanfiction and almost makes it more of a horror, mystery psychological darkcom romance? if that makes sense...salkdhslda

ok the rest of this is under the cut because i got really insane about jersey kyle's characteration so if you want that you can hang out under the cut, if not...you are free, fly away, birdie, be free! hdlksa

i was actually talking to rile pile earlier ( hi riley :* ) about how much i love rm!jersey kyle because he's kyle...but Haunted. like a really fucked, grown up, twisted, version of kyle which i love tbh.

and whereas y/ns are imfamous for being really annoying ( and jersey is really annoying ) i think that the reason main characters often suck is because they are...too perfect or mary sues or whatever...and jersey is just...sooooo flawed. hes like a total fucking basket case. he’s my favorite sarcastic neurotic boy narrator omg.

i really just like his whole dark academic sinister poised ethereally beautiful ice prince stature, like the fact that hes so polished outside bc hes so unpolished inside, that he acts detached and evil, but like...takes curb inside everyday, raised ike, takes care of all his friends, wears stans jacket everywhere, still loves him.

like rm jersey, on the outside is like a type a fucking villian, and he's actually a sentimental sensitive really broken person....? and i love him? also just the fact that people treat him like hes fucking insane and he thinks hes insane bc everyone tells him hes insane when hes right??? like stan is fucking alive???? and everyones like here take ur 16 medications and go night-night kyle its all better now :) AAAA

but yeah...that song is so :((((( its so kyle under the mapletree, getting drunk, writing his daily letter to stan, wishing he was kissing him instead of missing him...i fucking hate my life.

i mentioned it in rm5 a little in the ike conversation, but everyone gets to go home for spring/winter/summer break, holidays, etc. but marj and kyle always, always, ALWAYS have to stay behind because marjs parents disowned her like, like she either reverts to her deadname and complies or she is dead to them.

and kyle just...he seriously like has a psychotic break every time he's back in south park because it retraumatizes him about stans death. plus everyone refuses to talk about stan and if they do he gets deadnamed AAAA. all kyles family members have to tiptoe around his mental illness and treat him like hes gonna blow a fuse and are like so is the treatement working are you taking your meds, or its gerald mad at him for not being Normal and embarrassing them AAAA

also his Phantom There's Stan! Disorder or ptsd gets so so sooooo bad when hes home and he sees stan fucking Everywhere...like…okay…oooooof ooof story time!

so the very last time he was home for hannukah a super long time ago in south park...it was like 2/3am or something and he SWORE he saw stan outside and it was fucking snowing and he was in his pajamas no shoes on like freezing to death walking around in the snow fucking shouting his name like a crazy person, walking towards the woods and like got like hypofuckingthermia and had to be hospitalized both physically and i think mentally for a second!

so that's why kyle doesn't go home to his 'house in nebraska' which actually...i think is Stan's old house tbh. the one that was next door to kyles...like that was Their place. stans room was their safe place.

okay last flashback thing but uh, the reason that they had to move away from south park was because i think when kyle turned thirteen they came back from a summer vacation and a new family moved in next door to the broflovskis & kyle had a hallucination episode and

i think either got into the house through stans old window or like punches his hand through the front door window, idk either way he was like covered in fucking blood like his wrist was fucked up and he was in the new little boys room and ofc it was not stan, all the furniture was different and kyle was just like brandishing this long ass shard of glass or a kitchen knife from inside the house and was like WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU WHY ARE YOU IN MY BEST FRIENDS HOUSE WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIM GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!!!! like holding this poor little kid hostage it was SOOOOO BAD

the police came, i think kyle had to do a juvie moment ( i think thats when kyle became scary ass kyley b kyle and his accent was hella thick and he was like dislocating arms and shit...it does come out when hes angry...whew! ) and the broflovskis had to move to new jersey bc kyle was way too unstable to be in sp...

also the particular thing that was happening when he was getting dragged off by the police was that he was hysterical and sobbing and crying because he was screaming, throat raw like ma! ma! they got rid of his bed frame! they got rid of stans bedframe! thE BEDFRAME IS DIFFERENT MA WHERE IS IT WHERE IS IT??!?! getting put into the gd police car and shes like sweetie shh i know i know i know... :’(

BECAUSE IT WAS THE SM + KB BEDFRAME IT WAS THEIR MARK ON SOUTH PARK THEIR EVIDENCE THAT THEY WERE SBFS...i want to d*e im so...RM MAKES ME SO EMOTIONAL OMG.

but yeah no everyone thinks kyle is crazy ( and i mean...he is Not Well ) but even tho he seems like vicious he is actually the softest most vulnerable and romantic character in rem(ember) because hes the only one who never gave up on love/stan, sits and waits for him, writes to him and is convinced hes not gone

because what he tells his therapist is that he would Know if stan was gone? like theyre so fkn psychically linked that he would feel stans light go off...and he didnt...he can still fucking feel him EVERYWHERE and AAAAAAAAAAAAA everyones like UR CRAZY BUT HES FUCKING NOT YOU GUYS MAN!!!

they are very who dies and who destroys the city in grief omg

but yes....when everything comes together...its going to be A Lot and im really excited for the next couple of chapters because shit gets so serious in rm i'm soooooooooooo excited!

thank you for coming to my crazy ted talk i'm so sorry i'm so passionate about my stupid ass fanfiction with all the crazy insane girl canon divergent lore ( but i'm glad you guys like it too :') )

-insane conspiracy theorist uncle nina in the tinfoil hat

[waveydrawsathing]

<3 falling for you <3

[guerrilla-operator]

Pere Ubu // On The Surface

I heard the radio sun Made the day like a beach Lost and in love I was sand in the surf I heard talk Talk like music I heard talk It was a day like a beach

[judgingbooksbycovers]

On The Surface: A Thriller

By Rachel McGuire.

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

just another day of crying over brian, nothing new here

[assiraphales]

anyways (I say this as someone who is deeply critical of the united states government, military, unchecked capitalism, police, etc) I am SICK of people treating america as if it has no cultural value or positives so..... I love u 85 million acres (bigger than italy) of national parks. I love u harlem renaissance. I love u groundhogs day. I love u sweet tea and fried chicken and jambalaya. I love u apple cider donuts and maizes on crisp autumn days. I love u 95k miles of coastlines and new england fisherman and hand knitted sweaters. I love u halloween where millions of people dress up and give candy to strangers and carve jack o’lanterns. I love u small talk and small towns and potlucks and bringing over casseroles to your struggling neighbors. I love u cowboys and ranch hands and arizonian cactus. I love u appalachian trail and dirtbikes and divebars. I love u sparklers and fireflies. I love u mark twain and toni morrison and emily dickinson and henry david thoreau. I love u rock n roll i love u bluegrass and hippies i love u jimi hendrix and nirvana and CCR and janis joplin. I love u victorian houses and jonny appleseed and john henry and mothman and bigfoot. I love u foggy days in the pacific northwest and neon signs and roadside attractions. I love u baseball and 1950s diners and soft serve. I love u native american art and pop art and poptarts. I love u blue jeans and barbecues and jazz musicians 

[johnesimpson]

Picking Out the Surprises Behind the Mundane

Alan Watts, Nour Al Ghraowi, Imogen Cunningham, et al.: 'Picking Out the Surprises Behind the Mundane'

[Image: “Unmade Bed” (1957), by Imogen Cunningham. We saw this at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 2022; for my purposes today, I found it here, at the site of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). Cunningham’s friend and fellow photographer Judy Dater once said of this photo, “She sometimes would give that photograph to people as a wedding present so that the husband would know that the wife was going to be busy, that she had things to do, and not to expect the bed to always be made.]

[deep-space-netwerk]

So Venus is my favorite planet in the solar system - everything about it is just so weird.

It has this extraordinarily dense atmosphere that by all accounts shouldn't exist - Venus is close enough to the sun (and therefore hot enough) that the atmosphere should have literally evaporated away, just like Mercury's. We think Earth manages to keep its atmosphere by virtue of our magnetic field, but Venus doesn't even have that going for it. While Venus is probably volcanically active, it definitely doesn't have an internal magnetic dynamo, so whatever form of volcanism it has going on is very different from ours. And, it spins backwards! For some reason!!

But, for as many mysteries as Venus has, the United States really hasn't spent much time investigating it. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, sent no less than 16 probes to Venus between 1961 and 1984 as part of the Venera program - most of them looked like this!

The Soviet Union had a very different approach to space than the United States. NASA missions are typically extremely risk averse, and the spacecraft we launch are generally very expensive one-offs that have only one chance to succeed or fail.

It's lead to some really amazing science, but to put it into perspective, the Mars Opportunity rover only had to survive on Mars for 90 days for the mission to be declared a complete success. That thing lasted 15 years. I love the Opportunity rover as much as any self-respecting NASA engineer, but how much extra time and money did we spend that we didn't technically "need" to for it to last 60x longer than required?

Anyway, all to say, the Soviet Union took a more incremental approach, where failures were far less devastating. The Venera 9 through 14 probes were designed to land on the surface of Venus, and survive long enough to take a picture with two cameras - not an easy task, but a fairly straightforward goal compared to NASA standards. They had…mixed results.

Venera 9 managed to take a picture with one camera, but the other one's lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 10 also managed to take a picture with one camera, but again the other lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 11 took no pictures - neither lens cap deployed this time.

Venera 12 also took no pictures - because again, neither lens cap deployed.

Lotta problems with lens caps.

For Venera 13 and 14, in addition to the cameras they sent a device to sample the Venusian "soil". Upon landing, the arm was supposed to swing down and analyze the surface it touched - it was a simple mechanism that couldn't be re-deployed or adjusted after the first go.

This time, both lens caps FINALLY ejected perfectly, and we were treated to these marvelous, eerie pictures of the Venus landscape:

However, when the Venera 14 soil sampler arm deployed, instead of sampling the Venus surface, it managed to swing down and land perfectly on….an ejected lens cap.

[champagnemoon]

I’m gonna be so sexy in my 30s it’s actually Insane

[mumblesplash]

i know it’s like years old at this point but i love that one collab mumbo and grian did with tommyinnit bc it’s like the single most concentrated example i’ve seen of mumbo’s Chaos Nullification Powers

you get to see a bit of it on hermitcraft, mostly via his interactions with grian, but until seeing that collab it didn’t really hit me just how completely mumbo can no-sell other people’s attempts to control a situation. tommyinnit is possibly the single shoutiest, most chaotic minecraft youtuber out there, and in most videos i’ve seen he pretty much overwhelms everyone else and sets the tone for interactions because of this. but mumbo just. doesn’t let him. no matter how much tommy escalates in intensity, mumbo reacts with *exactly* the same energy he always does. grian largely comes across in the whole video as annoyed and reluctant to engage with the whole thing, but mumbo’s not even affected. he just rolls with anything he finds funny and basically ignores anything he disapproves of, only seeming more and more unflappable the harder anyone tries to get a rise out of him.

AND imo, this is the key to my favorite interpretation of him as a character

see, when the people around him are being more reasonable/calm, i think mumbo often comes across as anxious and a bit easily overwhelmed. the thing is, his nervous wet cat vibes do not scale. he has one setting. his responses to the last life ‘ah-ha!’ jokes and to hermitcraft 8 starting to crumble to pieces under a falling moon are almost identical.

mumbo jumbo is inexorably and eternally Just Some Guy, but that gets stranger and stranger the weirder his surroundings become. the giggly incredulousness that makes him an easy target for goofy puns looks Very different when it’s also his reaction to the impending end of the world.

[kizzyking]

I really like when I say or do something that makes a loved one respond with something along the lines of "God you are so autistic"

[ashleyloob]

every time I see non Asians go by Asian names online I get whiplash bc I'm like o shit another one of me!! then I find out they are a white weeb from Arkansas going by Haru that can't name more than 3 countries in Asia