Octopuses are cool :)

To everyone going "oh my god ryland grace!!!!": please be aware that when i drank the virus, Project Hail Mary (as in, the book) had only been out for a couple months and I had not yet read it. I did not mimic Dr Ryland Grace. Dr Ryland Grace is a microbiologist written by the author Andy Weir, who understands the minds of scientists extremely well, and so understands exactly what we would do given the slightest opportunity.

Whales have a heart the size of a small car. Imagine if they learned the true meaning of Christmas

TTRPGs (pronounced "Titterpigs") were a popular form of group amusement in the early twenty-first century.

oooooh i got plany of disk space

It is so fucking funny to me how easily scandalized some people are wym callout post for a cannibalism kink. Grow up. This is the nothingburger leagues and you're throwing up in the stands

It’s actually the peopleburger leagues

Blocking for being funnier than me

we need to all get angrier about ableism. we all need to be more activly aware of it and against it

I bet crunching your little fangs into cardboard feels good as hell for a cat

i must say, i am a huge fan of when a book is in the middle of a very exciting plot containing many interesting problems when out of nowhere for a few pages it's like, "hey by the way, real quick, here's a detailed explanation of the city's water filtration system! i'm telling you this for a reason and you should worry about it. anyway! haha okay back to the plot" and you just get to be Scared for a while

there are some movies where people will be like “I think it needed more female characters :/” but I think the lack of female characters makes complete sense because this is dumbass guy behavior. this is a fool’s plot that the average woman would have handled better or totally avoided. the hubris of men was a core element of the film. not that women cannot be blinded by their own hubris but there is a reason guys are more likely to die in bizarre freak ‘accidents’. I say this as a man. it’s why horror movies with a final girl make sense, a 22 year old guy would be sooooo certain he could take the slasher in combat and die badly.

in a misogynistic society, men are taught from birth that they should be able to dominate others automatically, they often develop the false impression that they are untouchable and capable of defeating any threat. women are repeatedly reminded that they can be harmed and told it is their fault if they are harmed, that makes them more likely to be risk aware and risk averse. again, I’m not saying women cannot do risky things and make boneheaded choices, I’m just saying that it makes more sense for a bunch of men to go on a failed expedition and start killing each other. because they keep doing that.

it’s why the horror trope of the wife repeatedly telling her husband there is something wrong with their new house/they are in danger and the husband totally discounting her worries makes so much sense, similar things happens in real life every day