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One of the most memorable scenes in the movie is when he’s IN the Petrova Line, and he’s having a moment. Because it’s beautiful. It’s destroying galaxies, uncountable lives, but it’s still beautiful.

Same goes for the taumoeba Grace and Rocky discover that eats astrophage. It's exactly what they need to save their worlds. But it also almost kills Rocky and is the reason that Grace is unable to return to Earth as the two of them planned to. And it's not presented as evil or cruel for almost ruining the missions (and almost killing two worlds). The taumoeba's doing exactly what it's supposed to do; eat astrophage. That it's able to get to the astrophage fuel stores is a mistake on Grace and Rocky's part, and is treated as simply another obstacle to overcome.

I love that.

I also love that there aren't really any actual antagonists in the film. It makes it very clear that none of the named characters we get to know are evil, or even particularly bad; they've all just been put in horrific situations by events beyond anyone's control. And now they have to live with that as best they can. It breaks my heart every time Eva says that more of the Earth's population will survive if the governments of the world work together, "...which they won't." Because you can both see and feel her heart breaking as she says it. She doesn't want those people to die. She doesn't want Grace to die. She doesn't want anyone to die. But that's not an option, and she's the one staring down the speeding trolley with her hand on the track switch.

Even Grace himself, who is shown to be a very kind, caring man, ultimately refused to go on the mission. Knowing that literally everyone will die if he doesn't. It's an objectively selfish, cowardly, cruel choice. The sort of call we all like to think we'd never make if put in such a situation ourselves. But he still makes it, and that scene's a punch to the gut every time I see it, too.

But the film doesn't punish him for it.

The film doesn't punish anyone, really.

The last shots we see of all the people we know? They're happy, smiling, content. They don't carry grudges or resentment, no 'I told you so' or 'I'll never forgive you' type lines. It's a subtle indication that there is no need for punishment or retribution, because none of these are bad people. There are no villains in this film, just a bunch of people doing the best they can in impossible circumstances and some extremely basic space organisms doing their thing.

I found the Dancers!

I love them! <3

On the down side, I beat the Dancers.

And now I can't fight them anymore.

Sad.

:(

I found the Dancers!

I love them! <3

I have an autistic coworker who used to say really uncomfortable things to museum guests while making small talk. like bringing up active, controversial revolutions in their countries if they were international, and such. finally, after a group of Hawaiian guys got visibly angry when he asked if they were "in the military or just rich" to be able to live there- meant to be a cost of living joke -I said, "hey, personally, I try not to talk politics with guests. sometimes it may upset them and we don't get paid enough to deal with that"

he looked thoughtful and said, "oh, I never considered it that way." turns out he was just a geopolitics nerd and didn't realize people might react emotionally to what he saw as a purely intellectual discussion

Like, I have ADHD, not austism (not that's diagnosed, at least), but I can be very direct/blunt. Some of it's not realizing how I'm coming off at times, some of it's from having bumped into so many miscommunication issues over the years (due to lots of things) that I like to be very clear. And like... I know I'm like this. You can tell, because I'm telling you now. So it's something I actively work to keep an eye on when I'm interacting with other people, so I can catch and correct myself then apologize before it causes problems.

It's also something I tell new coworkers when I meet them. "Hi, I'm Green, pleased to meet you! Heads-up, I can be too blunt sometimes. I do my best to catch myself when this happens, but I'm not perfect, so sometimes I miss that I've done that. If I say or do anything to upset you, please let me know immediately so I can apologize and correct my behaviour." Responsible self-regulation, with a small request for a little wiggle room in case of mistakes.

Only then we actually work together for awhile, I inevitably mess up at some point or another... and people get mad at me for being a jerk or I get told off by the boss for being rude. Only, 95% of the time, it was a genuine mistake that I feel horrible about. One moment that stands out in my memory is my boss asking me to count inventory for a product we had dozens of. I'm not good at that sort of task, numbers start jumbling in my brain if I've been counting too long, and I warned her of this, but I did it when she told me to. Partway through, I got the idea of marking down every ten I'd counted, then did that for the rest of them, tallied up the total at the end, and proudly gave my boss the info, announcing that I'd figured out a way to do it right.

To this day, from the vibes she gave me, I'm certain that she believed I was being lazy and trying to get out of doing the task because I just didn't want to do it. In actuality, I was just really afraid I'd get the count wrong, mess up the store's inventory logs, and create a situation that snowballed into a big problem later down the line.

So this is Shockwave therapy pet chicken, which started as a joke between me and friends and then it kinda became an actual thing that I added in the lore in my AUs as a therapy pet for him because I thought it was cute ✨.

The best part is that we can't even remember what the joke was, we only remember that it involved Shockwave playing Stardew Valley and having a chicken called "Picasso".

And the fact is that I got extremely attached with that Idea that since that day, every time I draw Shockwave I had to add this lil chicken 😭

my mom is in fact aware that dandelions exist. she temporarily forgot the name and there was some miscommunication.

the truth is actually weirder

she’s aware dandelions look like this

she is familiar with this flower. she knows the name of this flower. she declines to believe, however, that these are also dandelions

she does not believe these are the same plant. I tried to explain, and she thought I was either misinformed or lying. so I asked her what exactly did she think the yellow ones were called?

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Scott was a man then who looked like a boy with a face between handsome and pretty. He had very fair wavy hair, a high forehead, excited and friendly eyes and a delicate long-lipped Irish mouth that, on a girl, would have been the mouth of a beauty. His chin was well built and he had good ears and a handsome, almost beautiful, unmarked nose. This should not have added up to a pretty face, but that came from the coloring, the very fair hair and the mouth. The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more.