Kit X. Queen

since this is being posted i believe a month after the last part im gonna say that yes they've been at this for 4 weeks and grace categorically refused to engage with a weird dream riddle and delegated that in favor studying of his new front yard decoration until frustration finally broke him

we love an avoidant behaviour king

part 1, part 2, part 3, part 3.5, part 4, part 5

+ bonus what i imagine the eridians looked like witnessing the Plot™

random yapping by yours truly below the cut

Wtf is this nerd doing at a house party?? 🤨

This was my darling pookie’s idea :)

Closeups under the cut!!!

Bloodymary save me

Yall ever wake up high as a kite on pain meds after thinking you were surely gonna die and see an actual angel standing before you halo to boot?

The blood is alive. It infects, mutates, and fundamentally changes whatever it comes into contact with, which includes the Hail Mary.

Shortly after Simon's arrival, the Hail Mary is alive too.

However, the key thing is this. The blood ocean was a malignant entity that thought it was helping humanity by absorbing them. The Hail Mary is genuinely helping humanity to find a solution for the astrophage crisis. Her purpose is to save humanity, to keep the humans aboard safe and alive so that they can fix the problem. So when she comes to life, that intent is going to carry over. Suddenly she has the capability, the capacity, and the desire to keep her crew safe.

Mary may be alive now, may be an honest to goodness artificial intelligence now. But unlike the blood ocean, she genuinely wants to do what's best for her passengers, which now include a rock spider and a very fucked up mutated human from another universe.

Just picture a sapient Hail Mary trying to do whatever she can to keep her new crew alive. Something breaks in the lab and starts emitting toxic fumes everywhere? She locks down the room until it can be safely vented. Unexpected asteroid in their path and no one is close enough to the controls to navigate them out of the way in time? She just does it herself. The more time passes, the more control she has over every part of her structure, to the point that maybe she's even able to repair parts of herself like a living thing heals from wounds so that Grace has less to worry about.

We're getting there little by little, sure. But it's a road.

MBTI has been proven completely ineffective at predicting anyone’s success at a particular job, and half the people who take it twice will get different results. Reputable psychologists do not recognize it, and the company that owns the rights to it uses it to scam people. People don’t adhere to strict binaries in basically anything. Very few people are going to be exclusively introverted or extroverted. It’s just astrology repackaged as pseudoscience. Shockingly enough, you can’t boil the complexity of the human experience down to a dozen Types of Guy.

The concept of IQ is flawed from the start— “intelligence” is an abstract concept that encompasses many different skills, from social intelligence to emotional intelligence to the very narrow kind of problem solving intelligence IQ tests generally measure for. It cannot predict how fast you learn, how much you know, or how logical and well read you are. It mostly measures how good you are at solving puzzles. Coincidentally, it’s also a pretty good predictor of income and education level, take a guess why. Most people’s IQ will change throughout their lives, because it’s inconsistent bullshit we’ve only held onto this long because we’re still kinda hoping we can breed the ubermensch. IQ tests and the way they attempt to categorize people are explicitly eugenicist and racist.

BMI was developed by a man known as the grandfather of eugenics, who first of all was a mathematician, not a doctor, and second never intended the formula to be used to categorize individuals. It’s intended to give a rough estimate of obesity in populations, and it’s not even good at that. It hangs around because of fatphobia and insurance companies who want it as an excuse to charge fat people more.

The study which determined people’s prefrontal cortex was still developing at 25… stopped measuring at 25. Evidence suggests your brain probably never stops developing. Stop infantilizing grown adults. This is a branch off from the larger mess of misinformation surrounding fMRIs.