#something to think about...

[tcfactory]

I had a silly dream where the Decepticons were Transformers, but the Autobots were humans piloting giant mecha based on Decepticon tech so when they were in the mechs they were essentially like a Transformer themselves. They were fighting the Quintessons together, because Earth was the last place in the known galaxy where they could find enough energon to refuel Cybertron and revive Primus, so the humans agreed to let them have it in exchange for protecting Earth from Quintesson enslavement.

But that wasn't the silly part. For some reason, the actual Decepticon leader was Soundwave (he might have been a Prime, even?? which is a really fun idea to think about), who was Conjunxed to Megatron who was still their top fighter/ battlefield general.

Soundwave was also the one who controlled the mech technology the humans were using, syncing up the pilots with their machines with his telepathy and he made the efficiency of said technology dependent on how much they indulged Megatron and how much fun good old Megs was having. Megatron had a great time blasting through Quintessons while the humans covered his back? Everything functions at 100% efficiency. They pissed him off by trying to discourage him from picking a fight or let him get injured in a clash? Suddenly everything starts acting up and the minds of the pilots are stuck in their mechs for an indeterminate amount of time... which happened suspiciously often to Optimus, who was the leader of the humans and Megatron's favorite out of the bunch.

It was like, very blatantly MegaSound with slowburn MegOP —all the more fun because Optimus was a human, at least part of the time— and this vaguely hostile flavor of "we don't want to like each other, but we are clicking together too well and we love the same idiot, so we are bonding and developing a fondness against our will" SoundOP.

[trickstersaint]

hey hi hello! first of all i'd like to say i took your patron saint uquiz and it. Changed my life unironically it's so good. i follow you now because every line in that quiz was a gut punch and i loved it. top tier hurt honestly

my question is this - i am a fanauthor. on the side i also write my own original fiction but i specialize in fanfic. Am I allowed to use your poetry for a reference folder? I wouldn't use your poetry in a fic without explicit permission and without linking back here of course, and I'd never use it for commercial work outside of maybe taking inspiration without copying, but I wanna have a ref folder of Things That Made Me Feel Things about a character. It's not planned to be public as of yet, it's just supposed to be a bunch of screenshots in my drafts, but I'd like to maybe one day make it public once the fic was complete. (I already have your blog linked in my drafts actually, so if it goes public I'm not gonna forget.) I just want to make sure you're comfortable with me using your poetry for fanfic of all things

It's cool if not and have a great day! I still think your poetry is great and evocative and all

hi, anon! you're all good, i prommy. so glad you like the quiz + the poetry, and i would always prefer people come and ask questions if they're uncertain! no trouble at all.

my general stance is that as long as it's clearly credited, i am totally cool with my work being used in personal projects. like you said, i've got a tag for the things that people make! i love to see what people create. if it's for a noncommercial creative project then i would say there's no need to ask beforehand (unless it would make you more comfortable to ask, in which case go ahead and i'll almost certainly say yes <3). my only thing is that if you post it, please tag me in it/send it to me so that i can reblog it here for people to see!

if there are any questions about using my work that anyone has, feel free to ask. i don't think i've got anything particular going on outside of common practice! same way you'd treat, like, a richard siken poem or smth: you wanna credit it so that people can find the source material, and make sure you're not using it for profit unless you have an understanding with that author. i trust you all to be decent about it <3 kiss kiss go out and make your cool little things so that i can be delighted and amazed with them

[sheshallfromtimetotime]

Becky Chambers is SO damn good at what she does.

[bookishtheaterlover7]

I think we should not post anything with her face in it. She just wants attention

I mean, covering her face with an emoji, does sound fun 🤔 or maybe just cropping her out completely to make the photo 200x better...

[sabertoothwalrus]

let's get ✨vulnerable✨

[eddiegayass]

We're on track for an all timer of a day on twitter dot com

[soaptaculart]

Postcanon Farcille indulgence

[evidently-endless]

i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.

[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.

[sheepydraws]

The secret Dungeon Meshi sauce that's getting people to eat better is that it's so non-judgmental. Senshi and the rest of the gang never talk about what not to eat besides things that taste bad and literal poison. They don't even talk about "health" that much besides the importance of a balanced diet. It's so much easier to eat well when you think of food simply as something your body needs, and that it's often worth the extra effort to make it taste good, especially when you understand how to connect "things your body needs" with "things that taste good"

[cupcakeshakesnake]

Uncaring

[pangur-and-grim]

alright, I’m annoyed with the class that I’m taking. it’s about writing novels, and I thought it would have cool stuff about balancing your narrative and developing themes etc, but instead she spent the first class talking about how every book fits into the Hero’s Journey (the monomyth template). and I was somewhat of a contrarian, and said “can you give us examples of books that don’t fit into this template?” and she said “no. because all books fit.”

but I dunno man, I just finished reading this Korean book where the plot is just the character having a string of hookups and reflecting on them without changing in any way. I don’t know if it’s possible to contort that into the Hero’s Journey.

[fantasmadelaciudad]

i'll be honest thinking about las vegas makes me nauseous.

[salamispots]

it got turned into a 17" x14" pillow instead haha

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The math just adds up!

[frankierotwinkdeath]

Y’all want Taylor Swift to be gay so bad but you won’t even write femslash about her