Latest Posts by 3sbeee - Page 2

when is the alice/gwen yuri dropping?

TRUE

forgot to post this . . literally drew it when the ep came out

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.

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.

Art by Jim Musil

summer day ⍣ ೋ

UC or ER?

they are a package deal

When the event is so gay you’re torn between calling it queerbait or canon honakana

Air lock

helen redesign but with that one yarnface trend

new ebbits! new site!

Oh oops I haven't updated here in a while, but here is a recent fanart for Legends Z-A; to go with the one I previously did for Arceus!

I see posts on here about dogs and it’s either “if you don’t let your dog do whatever it wants you’re abusing it” or “I don’t like dogs so if I come over to your house you need to put your dog in a closet” can we normalize being normal

A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.

Noodle cocoon! After 37 hours coding <3

just write a shitty poem, what do you have to lose

i think it is important to recognize the ways in which your favorite thing sucks. i think it keeps u normal

The “actions over intentions” take bothers me especially when used to determine the level of respect a person deserves because it feels unfair to treat someone who did something that hurt people by accident, was told what they did wrong, apologized, and made a genuine effort to not make the same mistake in the future the same way you would treat someone who is going out of their way to cause harm and doesn’t plan on changing anytime soon.

Yeah, ignorant people are annoying, but ignorance is very different from straight up malice. Besides, it’s just not possible for someone to be educated on every possible issue in the world even if they’re trying their best, and people are complicated and make mistakes.

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

“this makes me personally uncomfortable”, “this seems in poor taste”, “this is somehow harmful but presumably because you’re misinformed” and “this is actively malicious” are all different things. remember that

*tied to a chair,.spitting up blood* heh..... youre gonna need to brush my teeth a little harder than THAT to get information out of me

twitter is being overrun by ice war posting. Best this sites been in ages

So are we gonna talk about the aliens or

We literally just found life on another planet and everybody is just like "and?" Life on earth so wild rn we don't even care 💀💀

domestic medhammer or whatver

they r so t4t anyways have a fun doodle i made for my bff

i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.

Today’s question of the day: Has an audio drama ever made you cry? If so, what audio drama?

they would not be friends