light up the night

Doctor Ryland -Lost-In-The-Vacuum-Of-Space-On-Hour-37-Of-No-Sleep- Grace who did not swear one time at all should get to say cuss words sometimes

Tho it’s funnier that he doesn’t

Who gave this guy a doctorate

their little lopsided heart… ;~;

"Love Black Men: Boldly, intentionally, and without condition. This love calls us to confront and dismantle systems of oppression, patriarchy, and anti-black racism that equally devalue Black men’s lives, criminalize their presence and deny their full humanity. To love Black men is to make space for their healing, joy, complexity and vulnerability—not as a counterpoint to safety, dignity, or gender justice, but as essential to it. We call on ourselves and our communities to choose to build systems grounded in care, accountability, liberation and create spaces where Black men can thrive in love and be loved in return."

> “I’M GONNA GET HIM PREGNANT!”/“the boy impregnator”/anything similar where the joke is that the idea of a pregnant man is absurd, impossible, or outside of the realm of reality.

> Pregnant man emoji reactions to Discord messages.

> Commenting on the pregnancies of real men with anything about ao3, fanfiction, or omegaverse.

Project Hail Mary is perhaps one of the most scientifically-grounded stories I've ever read, and, as is true for many fans, that's a big part of why I love it so much. my day job is as an astrophysicist (in training, anyway); that spectrometer Grace pointed at Adrian to figure out its atmosphere? I do that for a living! every piece of real science in that book—from exoplanet study, to radiation poisoning, to biological evolution, to insert science here—was discovered by scientists who dedicated their lives to developing our understanding of us and the universe.

all of that is in jeopardy. again.

if you live in the US, you may have heard about the changes recently proposed by the OMB to the federal funding process (ie, how we as scientists get money from the government to do our science). these changes will make attaining scientific funding exceptionally difficult, shroud the process in political and wholly non-scientific bureaucracy, and make it possible for funds received to be revoked at any time without legitimate cause. scientists with federal funding would no longer have freedom to choose what conferences to attend, and would not be able to use their funds to cover the (extremely expensive!) costs of publishing their work in a journal—these are the two primary ways new discoveries are circulated.

these changes, if enacted, will choke out american science when it is already severely struggling.

the good news: we still have time to comment on these changes and tell them we do not want this.

I highly encourage you to read this article from the American Astronomical Society and take action as described within. this article dissects the worst of the changes in detail so you can leave an informed comment on the proposal, which can be done anonymously (or not) directly on the public comment page or through AAS's comment form (linked in the article). public comments will close on 13 July, 2026.

hail, mary, full of grace

"'fandom' is a vehicle of marginalized subcultural groups (women, the young, gays, etc.) to pry open space for their cultural concerns within dominant representations; it is a way of appropriating media texts and rereading them in a way that serves different interests, a way of transforming mass culture into a popular culture"

Jenkins, Henry. “Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 5, no. 2 (1988): 85–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038809366691.