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‘A beginning is a very delicate time. Know then, that is is the year 10191.’

Dune (1984)

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It's my 14 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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1st Amendment much?

Republicans are terrified of losing power. This is why you must vote every one of them out of office.

Rather than accept the world around them, Republicans want to control everyone. The regressive and reactionary Republicans would rather strip children of their social media, their phones, their texts, their emails, the meeting places, and outlaw their conversations than respect their autonomy and agency.

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#wednesday and april are basically the same person Wednesday (2022- ) Parks and Recreation (2009 - 2015)

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Republican *clap* are *clap* fascists *clap*

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kira nerys in HD ❤

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It was just one ant!

A Bug’s Life (1998)

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I guess this is how I’m processing what we’re all going through right now. I had the stray thought, “What is Spider-Man doing during all this?” and this happened. On the one hand, it’s kinda sloppy and inconsistent, but on the other hand, I had the idea Sunday night and I’m posting this Wednesday night. 5 color pages in 4 nights is pretty good work. Anyway. Hope everyone’s safe out there.

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my new favourite thing is italian regional presidents and mayors absolutely LOSING IT at people violating quarantine. here’s a eng subtitled compilation for y’all. (the president of campania region; the mayor of messina; the mayor of bari; the mayor of gualdo tadino; the mayor of tutolo.)

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I’ll always love my warrior Nanny ❤️

Fran Fine in BLACK & WHITE

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Love this ❤️🖖🏼

what is a Star Trek?

Star Trek is about people being sexy and overly dramatic in space. After solving all their problems, humans of the future flew out into the stars to find more problems and have ethical conundrums about them while tricking the audience into thinking about real-world issues.

Earth doesn’t have war, famine or Jeff Bezos anymore so humans formed a club with their alien friends where everybody can just chill and be cool (humans are best friends with a bunch of space elves who have bowl cuts and pretend they don’t feel emotions). Sometimes the club gets into fights with space orcs or cyborg zombies trying to strip everyone of their individuality but it’s usually resolved pretty quickly so they can go back to chilling and exploring space.

Every time they Boldly Go into space they find Weird Shit™ and People Who Are Very Different but this is resolved by doing technology stuff or making dramatic speeches. The elves also have imperialist cousins (dark elves) who sneak around in invisible ships and pop up every once in awhile to try and trick us into getting in a fight with them, but this never works and they end up taking their football and going home.

Star Trek comes in six flavours:

Star Trek TOS (Original Flavour): made in the Sixties. A feminist captain with a weird speech pattern, a charming redneck doctor and a space elf go to space and run into all sorts of crazy things like sentient rocks, Cold War allegories, pouty gods and evil doppelgangers. The captain is gay for the elf, who is half human but very much in denial about it. A Scottish guy fixes the ship. There are lots of fistfights and miniskirts. It also got adapted into a very trippy cartoon in the Seventies! And six movies.

The Next Generation (Sequel Flavour): made in the Eighties/Nineties. Same concept as TOS but there’s more of it. The captain is a bald guy who talks like he’s in a Shakespeare play all the time. There’s also a bearded guy who’s always DTF, a robot who loves to cosplay Sherlock Holmes, and a psychologist (but they mostly just use her as a lie detector). The orcs are our friends now and one of them works on the ship. They spend a lot of time getting stuck in their cosplay machine, dealing with Time Fuckery and the dark elves being sneaky again, and getting kidnapped by a trickster god who has a crush on the captain. Also has four movies that are mostly about the captain and the robot.

(Bald captain has his own show now where he is friends with Space Legolas and they try to figure out if robots are evil. It is a very Different Flavour.)

Deep Space Nine (Story Arc Flavour): made in the Nineties. Instead of flying a ship around they’re on a space station guarding a wormhole to the other end of space (but sometimes they still fly around). This one has plotlines! The captain is a single dad who meets gods in the wormhole and accidentally becomes Jesus to a race of aliens that survived space lizard fascism. His 2nd in command is a terrorist who fought the lizards, his best friend is a trans lady with an immortal worm in her stomach that carries memories of her past lives, and their mechanic is a grumpy Irishman who accidentally becomes best friends with a very annoying doctor. Head of security is a grumpy blob of Jello who can turn into anything he wants. He’s always trying to arrest the bartender, a space goblin who worships capitalism. They end up in a big fight with Nazis from the wormhole. One of the lizards who thinks he is Very Handsome won’t leave them alone. There is also a bi lizard assassin who is so gay for the doctor he turns into a good guy, plus a mean lady Pope and literal demons.

Voyager (Action Adventure Flavour): also Nineties. A lady captain is chasing some dissidents and her whole ship gets thrown to the opposite end of space (not the one with the wormhole). She tries to get them home while dealing with cabin fever, the time police, aliens who try to kill them for trespassing, and a tragic lack of coffee. Her best friend is an elf but is not so Dramatic about it. Later she adopts one of the cyberzombies, and they spend a lot of time flipping the double bird at the cyborg zombie queen. Their Doctor is a hologram who wants to be an opera singer.

Enterprise (Prequel Flavour): early 2000s. Humans are flying around in space for the first time, trying to make new friends (like the blue antenna people) so they can form their club, which doesn’t exist yet. The elves are kind of dicks about it, but they start to come around. The captain is a big lovable dork who gets beat up a lot. His best friend is a redneck and their doctor is a polyamorous puffer fish with a zillion weird pets. After being constantly pestered by the time police for awhile, they then have to stop some zoo people who want to make Earth kasplode. Sadly gets cancelled just as they get down to business.

Kelvin Timeline (Reboot Flavour): there are also three movies with new actors playing younger versions of the TOS characters. An angry miner kills the space elf planet and makes a new timeline where the feminist captain is a horny frat boy and his elf boyfriend is Straight™ and has temper tantrums all the time. Everyone is Cool and there are lots of big spaceships and explosions. Also Benedict Cumberbatch.

Discovery (Modern Flavour): now with Canon Gays™! A grumpy fungus expert figures out how to make the ship fly around the universe with mushrooms. The main character was adopted by elves (the elf guy from TOS is her brother). She’s friends with an adorable girl who never shuts up and a space gazelle man with Anxiety. She gets arrested for awhile but then falls in love with a walking spoiler and they try to stop the space orcs from being such huge assholes. Later they chase an angel around the galaxy and get a new captain whose cheekbones are so sexy they have to save themselves with time travel. This one is still going!

There are lots of people on the internet who will try to tell you which of these flavours is the Good Star Trek and which ones are Bad. Some of them will even say this or that flavour is Not Star Trek. Those people are wrong and you should enjoy whatever flavour you think is the most fun! Some of the flavours start out kind of bland at first but they grow on you, others are too spicy for some people and that’s ok. You might enjoy all the flavours or just one (or even none at all) but the important thing is you get to decide! There are even flavours that don’t exist in the shows or movies! Because the best thing about Star Trek is there’s a lot of it.

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men will watch the most trash shit ever released but when it comes to a girl squad movie it needs to meet the highest bar to be considered watchable and worthy of their oh so valuable time lol i have to laugh

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On this Impeachment Day, A few reminders about Donald Trump

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Somos solo una gota de carne y sangre en un universo sin fin, donde lo único que realmente nos pertenece es nuestra humanidad. 

James T. Kirk

El sentido de la vida

Supongo que todo el mundo se ha preguntado alguna vez qué sentido tiene la vida. Qué hacemos aquí y para qué. Qué tenemos que hacer para considerar que nuestro tiempo en el universo ha merecido la pena. Una vez leí en algún sitio que al universo no le afecta nada lo que hagamos y que nuestras vidas no tienen por qué tener un sentido. Es una idea difícil de asumir. Llegar a la conclusión de que el hecho de que existamos o no carece de la más mínima importancia no casa nada bien con lo que sentimos en nuestro día a día. Pero, por decepcionante que parezca, es exactamente así.

Si queréis, podemos pensar, por ejemplo, en el planeta Mercurio. Mercurio no es más que una roca yerma que flota en el espacio-tiempo desde hace unos 4.500 millones de años terrestres (18.000 años de Mercurio). Una roca enorme, de 5.000 kilómetros de circunferencia en su ecuador, pero roca a fin de cuentas. Desde que fue creada, a partir de parte del material del disco de acreción que una estrella llamada Sol tuvo en sus primeros tiempos, lleva dando vueltas a la misma. Si hacéis click en este enlace, podéis ver su tránsito, que fue observable desde la Tierra el pasado 11 de Noviembre. Ese puntito negro que se ve es Mercurio pasando por delante del Sol. Ha hecho eso 18.000 millones de veces, y le pueden quedar otras tantas antes de que el Sol comience su fase de gigante roja (uno de los pasos previos a su muerte), lo engulla, destrozándolo, y se acabó.

Es decir, Mercurio es una roca yerma cuyo destino es darle unas 36.000 millones de vueltas a una bola de hidrógeno incandescente, y luego desaparecer engullido por esta. Ya está. ¿Qué sentido tiene la existencia de Mercurio? ¿Para qué sirve Mercurio? ¿Qué aporta Mercurio al Universo? ¿Hace falta que lo diga yo? Nada. Nada en absoluto. Que Mercurio exista o deje de existir es algo absolutamente irrelevante.

¿Y qué diferencia hay entre Mercurio y nosotros, cualquier ser humano? Metafísicamente, sólo una: la consciencia de sí mismo. Mercurio es un objeto sin vida que, obviamente, no sabe que existe. Nosotros, sí. Se acabó. Ya está. Metafísicamente, no hay ninguna otra diferencia. Naturalmente, eso tiene implicaciones en la existencia de cada uno. Mercurio no hace nada, mientras que nosotros sí que hacemos cosas. Pero son cosas que, por mucho que para nosotros puedan tener muchísimo significado, para el universo no suponen nada en absoluto.

Pensad en los dinosaurios. Los dinosaurios vivieron en la Tierra durante 160 millones de años. El Homo Sapiens lleva 350.000 años. ¿Imagináis cuántas cosas podemos llegar a hacer en 160 millones de años? Pues bien, si nos ocurre como a los dinosaurios, un día llegará un asteroide, impactará contra la Tierra, moriremos todos y todo lo que hayamos hecho durante 160 millones años quedará borrado para siempre. En un solo día. ¿Y cómo creéis que afectará eso al universo? ¿Hace falta que yo lo diga? En nada. No le afectará absolutamente en nada. Es así de decepcionante, como decía al principio, pero es exactamente así. Y alguien podrá decir que para entonces estaremos desperdigados por otros muchos planetas que hayamos colonizado. Sí, puede ser, pero da igual. El propio universo morirá algún día. Total, que al final, ¿para qué? Toda la historia, las guerras, las banderas, las ideologías, las construcciones que se hayan levantado, los libros, las películas, la música, tu equipo de fútbol, las personas que algún día fueron importantes, héroes o villanos... Todo desaparecerá. Todo. No quedará ni el recuerdo, y al universo le dará absolutamente igual. Es que no hay mejor ejemplo práctico del dicho "nadar para morir en la orilla".

Evidentemente, hay un para qué. Lo que pasa es que es diferente para cada uno. Lo que quiero decir es que la vida no tiene un sentido oficial para todos y al que todos debemos aspirar, sino que dicho sentido nos lo tenemos que dar cada uno a nosotros mismos. Lo que quiero recalcar es lo absurdo de las convenciones sociales, de que alguien decida por ti qué te tiene que gustar, qué te tiene que hacer feliz y qué tienes que llevar a cabo para alcanzar ese estado. No importa lo que hagas, vas a morir igual. No importa el legado que dejes, va a desaparecer tarde o temprano. Nada tiene una importancia capital. Nada en absoluto. Al universo se la pelas tú y todo lo que hagas. Así que, si me dejas darte el consejo que yo me doy a mí misma, limítate a vivir. A disfrutar del regalo que es la vida. No hagas daño a los demás y vive como a ti te guste. No como te digan por ahí que te tiene que gustar, sino como a ti realmente te guste, dentro de tus posibilidades. Recuerda, nada tiene una importancia capital porque sí. La importancia de las cosas se la das tú y tú decides lo que es importante para ti y lo que no.

En definitiva, que el sentido de tu vida lo decides tú. No dejes que otro lo haga por ti. No merece la pena.

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This is a slice of a perfect moment in time. Such a good cast & writing team.