“AN ODE TO SPOT” IS FREAKING GENIUS FIGHT ME

auntie Ethel, my beloved 💜

"The future they want for you"

it's short for "relationshipper," those fans who wanted them to become a couple

so while the concept of shipping is ancient lol, using the word ship as a verb is a direct result of this shippiest of ships, this ur-ship if you will

Redrew that one spicy comic from 2023 (I want to maybe compile these into a little zine down the line) and took the opportunity to test out a greyscale style 🤔 It's hard for me to feel like something looks complete without colour but I feel like it'd speed up my process

Not only does the child have the rhythm and their part down precisely, but also, they are clearly doing the very-small-child thing of reserving exactly nothing.

Children have to learn not to use all of the force they're capable of, adults mostly never use all of the force they are capable of, but here someone has given this child exactly the opportunity to use all of the force their body can produce, and do it musically.

People gathered to watch the launch live on TV.

My school had a planetarium, so we got to watch a documentary of everything that was on the golden plate.

Here's an explanation of all the information, sounds, and visuals packed into Voyager.

And here, if you're up for it, is everything on it.

Carl Sagan about the record.

Weird to think that was 49 years ago.

I was 16 then. I'm 65 now.

I feel like one of Grace's students, wondering how her science teacher was doing in the outer reaches of space.

I really wonder where the Voyager is now.

In the scene where Smoke teaches the young girl how to negotiate, they're standing in front of of a cafe. The shot of them negotiating is framed so that you see a sign in the cafe window advertising a Ham and Eggs breakfast - in other words, a full meal - for 25 cents. The editing makes sure to put that sign back into frame whenever the question of the value of money arises in their discussion.

Smoke offers her 10 cents a minute and asks if that works for her. She says yes. He says no, it does not and tells her to negotiate higher. The 25 cent sign is framed in the shot when he tells her no, reminding us *why* it's not a good value.

She comes back with 50 cents - which the sign has informed us is the cost of *two* meals. Smoke tells her that's too much and counters with 20, which is just under a full meal but we now know that's a fairly respectable price because we just got the high/low contrast of 10 being too little and 50 being too much.

The negotiation ends with her getting 20 cents per minute and we now know 1) 25 cents is the cost of a filling meal in this environment 2) This girl only needs to do five minutes of work to be able to feed herself for a over day (20 cents per minute times five is a dollar, which is four meals) 3) Smoke has the kind of money to throw around that over a day's worth of food for someone can be to him - as it is to our modern eyes - mere pocket change and 4) Smoke's the kind of person who can both be a violent gangster but also care about teaching this girl how to look out for herself so that one day maybe she too can throw over a day's worth of food around like pocket change.

Combined with 5) you can now use that 25 cents = a meal to do the math every other time money gets mentioned in the movie to understand just how much cash the Smoke Stack boys are dealing with.

Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.

Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.

And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?