Turning 40. Fandom, anti- racism, communism, and other liberation content. Queer as fuck. I'll answer just about anything respectful and never mind chatting if you need to talk. I talk too much and I really don't care anymore. Aging is awesome.
ID: A screenshot of tags left on the tumblr post. They read "#it's actually kind of a reverse Chekhov's Gun #Chekhov's Gun says "If there is setup there must be payoff" #Asimov's Tail says "if there is payoff there must be setup" #and I think the tail is also important #a tail is not something you'd expect to see on a character unless explicitly pointed out #someone stepping on the tail not only reveals its existence but also tells us things about it #eg it's floor length sensitive and the character either can't or won't keep it out of the way of foot traffic #the upshot seems to be "acclimatise your audience to things they don't understand before you use them" #you don't need to explain how a gun on the mantelpiece works in the same way you need to explain how your protagonist's tail does" End ID.
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idk if this is an usamerican thing or not but it always blows my mind as a small european country resident that yall have many names and types of apples???? what do you mean its not just red yellow or green??? why is it so complicated??? who is granny smith????
I used to live near an orchard where the guy's entire goal was to breed the most unhinged flavors possible.
See, apples, to get a consistent look and taste, have to be cloned or grafted. You can't rely on the seeds because those have been cross polinated by whatever apples are in the area. And since American apples are a bunch of hybrids that combined Eurasian species with the ones already here, you absolutely never know when you're going to get a seed for something good. The vast majority of wild apples in the US were prolific, but they're not very good for eating so colonizers grew them mostly to make alcohol.
This is part of why red delicious apples are nasty these days. Cloning trees based on the color and size of apples instead of taste led to the mealy garbage they are now.
Now, you CAN grow them from seeds. You can even MOSTLY guide which trees get polinated together. But it'll be at least 5 years after planting before you know if the apple was worth the effort of growing. There is zero way to know for sure which blend of genes an apple tree will get any more than we can accurately predict humans. And two trees from the parent trees can be just as different as human siblings.
Because of all of that, it's a billion times more profitable to just clone a known producer of popular fruit.
But there's will ALWAYS be humans who aren't in it for the money so much as love of the game. They have orchards of profitable stuff, but that's just to find their apple experiments. And you can get some DEEPLY unhinged flavors.
One of the farmers from my home town bred apples that tasted like grape flavoring. Not grapes, grape flavoring. He also grew one that tasted like cotton candy and one that smelled strongly of roses.
There is nothing quite as insanely creative and motivated as an autistic person with a special interest in genetics of some kind.
Oh, there are also still many species of wild apples here! You can wander through almost any preserved area in the range where they used to be prolific and find some. Some of the most delicious apple types were found by accident that way.
So, WAY more than 32 kinds of apple. Those are just the officially recognized commercial apple types.
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Our universe, if it were a biological creature, would barely be out of the womb.
And so, like, I think it's kind of fabulous to have been born so early. Maybe there will be much better times to live and this is a primal mess. But in billions of years, it will be an entirely different sky. Possibly constant light if it's infinite. Possibly dead patches. Possibly any number of things.
This is the only time in the life of the universe that these stars, this specific collections of stars and lights and dust, will exist together in the shape they are.
As much as I enjoy hopping into already in progress events, I much prefer to show up in time for the previews.
And being aware of the age of the universe and just the little bit we know about it feels a lot like buzz and excitement of watching a concert being set up. Of talking to the roadies and maybe seeing the singers in a casual mood before things start. All of the potential of something mostly formed and about to take off into something bigger.
I just wish humans got enough time to watch more of the show.
And if I said Megamind through its three subversions of Superman shows a deeper understanding that the point of Superman is that he was loved and taught to love by good, present parents, and because of that he is able to return that love to a world even if it doesn't always accept it, and he is not corrupted by his power, than many other films either subverting or playing the superman story straight.
Megamind has three Superman subversions. One is obviously Megamind himself. He was not raised loved by the world, but rather was loved by those hated by the world. Because he was still raised with love, he does care about other people, hence his character development. But because he didn't receive wider love growing up, his own is misplaced at first.
Metro Man was not loved growing up in a way that mattered. His adopted father was clearly very absent, and while we don't know much about his family, their relationship seems superficial. Because of this, his sense of duty to the world is also superficial, hence his boredom.
Hal wasn't raised with power. He gained it and was shown how to use it by a 'space dad' who only taught him power and not love. Hence, he sees it only as a grasping means to an end.
All three of these subversions, in their negative space, create the silhouette of the superhero that they are parodying. That silhouette is of a space child that came to earth and was cared for very deeply by the world, and taught love through his experience of love, and because of that holds fast to his duty to the world. Which is Superman.
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As a transracial adoptee (Native/Mexican to white Mormons) i have trouble putting to words the amount of harm having ~liberal white parents~ did to me. It is very very rare for me to go, yeah, okay, I support a transracial adoption. All of these experiences are absolutely believable to me.
Grace and Rocky, giving a tour of the Hail Mary to fascinated Eridian scientists and diplomats.
Pointing at things and explaining what they are and how the ship works, lots of awed and appreciative noises are made.
Until one of the visiting Eridians points out a specific item. “And that?”
It’s a strange, circular thing, a xenonite disk mounted upright on some sort of pivot so it can spin freely, but around the edges it has… spokes? Pegs? Sticking out of it, that hit against a stiff flap that would slow down the spinning.
It is also separated into sections decorated with crude etchings of a human and an Eridian.
“Ah,” Graces says.
“That,” Rocky says.
“That’s. Um.” Grace seems somewhat embarrassed. “That’s the sacrifice wheel.”
The Eridian visitors clearly do not know what to make of that. “We think we misunderstood Savior Grace’s word,” they say, apparently hoping this is a vocabulary mix-up. “Explain (question, polite)?”
“Didn’t misunderstand,” says Rocky, sounding very sheepish. “That is sacrifice wheel.”
“So. While we were on our way to Erid, we might have gotten… anxious about each other’s well-being,” Grace says, which everyone is already very aware is a wild understatement. “And, well, you heard what happened at Tau Ceti, and after. There were a lot of unexpected dangers for the whole trip that required a lot of, at least, attempted self-sacrifice to solve. We ended up almost dying for each other several times. And we had an argument about what we’d do if another crisis like that came up. And we couldn't agree.”
“Grace argued that Grace already was unlikely to survive long-term on Erid, so he should be the one to do any potential deadly but necessary maneuvers to make sure I was able to bring taumoeba back,” Rocky says.
“Which made sense.”
“Did not make sense! Grace already sacrificed so much for me and for Erid, wouldn’t be fair to make you do it again—“ Rocky cuts himself off with a huff. They have obviously had this conversation before. “So sacrifice wheel was compromise.”
“Yeah,” Grace says. He spins it to demonstrate; it whirls around in a blur and a rattle of the flap hitting the pegs, then eventually slows down, and stops—pointing at the segment depicting a very bad but very clear image of an Eridian. “Rocky made the wheel, I spin the wheel, and whoever it lands on, that’s who gets to sacrifice themself to save the other and the other person does not get to argue. This way, we wouldn’t waste time debating who does the self-sacrifice and who survives, it’s just a plain fifty-fifty chance. Or, eighteen-eighteen chance in base six. But the point is it could be either of us and we would have to accept the outcome.”
Rocky started fidgeting while Grace was explaining. When Grace finishes, proud of the equitable solution they came up with to allow them to die for each other fairly, Rocky says, “Now that we are back and we don’t need sacrifice wheel anymore… I have confession to make. About the wheel.”
“What about the wheel?”
Rocky doesn’t answer. Grace frowns, first confused, then suspicious, and spins the wheel again.
It lands on Rocky again.
He spins the wheel again, and again, and again, and it lands on Rocky every single time.
“Rocky!”
“I weighted the wheel,” Rocky admits.
“Rocky the whole point was that it was equal, that was why we even made it—“
“Never was necessary so doesn’t matter anymore!”
“But you WOULD have!”
“And you never noticed because you were hungry and cranky and distracted and so would have done bad job on heroic self-sacrifice anyway!”
“I would not! I would have done fine!”
(The Eridian scientists and diplomats are still here watching this btw. Slowly dawning on them that 1) these two are extremely not normal about each other 2) if Erid ever does another space mission they NEED to send a therapist aboard because this is what happens when they don’t)
NASA advertising "do you want to be an astronaut" to tumblr users surely means something. What have you found out there, NASA? What have you found that you believe tumblr users, specifically, are best equipped to handle?
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project hail mary was about as book accurate as it could've possibly been but i think that everyone that made it was on some crazy soulmatism crack cocaine with grace and rocky ... that forehead touch towards the end when they reunited ... who's idea was it for rocky's handprint to be a permanent burn on grace's arm. i just want to talk to them for a minute
Happy pride month everyone always remember that the sinkhole has an ecosystem large enough to house not only insects but likely several species of small birds or mammals
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