EXCUSE ME THERE IS A PLANT THAT CAN MIMIC FAKE PLANTS?????
IT'S CALLED A BOQUILA TRIOFOLIOLATA AND IT'S FUCKING WITH MY BRAIN
IT APPARENTLY CAN MIMIC OTHER PLANTS AND AT FIRST I WAS LIKE "oh cool man it must take it's genetic code and copy it or feel the roots or something like that!! :3"
AND THEN I READ AN ARTICLE ON IT AND THESE FUCKING PARAGRAPHS HIT ME LIKE A BUS
In retrospect, consider the number 1 thing every grade-schooler knows about plants is they take in light, the idea they might be able to see should not wreck my shit as hard as it does
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hi trans people i hope you get to live. i hope you get to laugh so fucking loud and revel in how the wind blows through your hair and i hope you get to dress the way you like and i hope you get complimented on it. i hope you get to kiss someone or hug someone or hold hands with someone or be told how wonderful you are. i hope you get to dance to weird music and i hope you go swimming with no concerns other than how much sunscreen to put on and i hope you sing bad karaoke with your friends. i hope a kid spots you from across the road and realizes they don't have to live one way forever. i hope we all live
trans people i hope you get to eat some really good food and gasp at the animals and insects you see every day i hope you pick up a new hobby and it turns out to be pretty fun i hope you try on that coat and it makes you feel confident. i hope you get to tell people your name and i hope they tell you how cool it is i hope you get to rest i hope you watch a movie and fall over laughing. i hope you rejoice in living because you deserve to be alive and you deserve to have a joyous life
Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.
I can't access the full paper, but their conclusion is right there in the abstract:
While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.
just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out
if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.
if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to
PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply
figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list
so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...
so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts
posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig
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if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"
Alarm Off perfec t time for put lying in bed to t/hink! Inside very Quiet and Peace thoughts very productive put in Alarm Off. Put Thinking in Alarm Off time. no problems ever lying in bedd with alarm off because good Contemplation and Eyes Closed for difficult deep thoughts about day. alarmOff yes safe place to close eyes lie in bed can trust not to fall back asleep. friend bed
Okay I gotta do this or else I’ma lose my mind. Project Hail Mary movie stuff here we go
“Please Record video diary,.” / “I’m not doing that.”
The way so much movement is to the beat of the music the editing is so good
Ryland Grace saying “oh no” and “uh-oh” whenever he sees anything new no mater if it’s positive or negative and there is no way to tell from his tone cause it’s the same every time
Stratt accusing him of running and then speeding up to run with him
The way everyone starts giving Grace thumbs up when he looks at them
*sighs into walkie talkie*
Licorice for Grace exclusively and skittles for EVERYONE else on site
“Me and Carl made a mini Venus out of a plywood box.” / “Who’s Carl???”
Stratt making a “wheep wheep” sound effect when tapping the projector screen and showing Grace the astrophage fuel plan
“Which is why you now live on a boat in the middle of the ocean, in case of” *mimes explosion* Stratt is 1000 times more expressive than I remember from the first watch I knew I was obsessed with her for a reason
The amount of flailing around Grace does
“Nope nope, nope, nope, nope.”
Grace nope-ing out of the space walk and then accidently slingshotting hismelf out of the ship
If can’t understand, slam against table strategy, brought to you by Dr. Ryland Grace
Getting startled by Rocky’s solar system and then slamming back up against the glass a second later to get a better look at it
POV you’re Rocky in the middle of constructing a breathable tunnel for this alien dude and he knocks on your window before your ready and when you tell him to get the heck back in his ship and out of the tunnel it’s not finished yet he responds with “But I just got here…”
The tango/ballroom music playing while Rocky adjusts lines up the ships took me OUT
Grace holding up his hand in a peace sign when he sees fullbody Rocky
“Face’s are overrated.”
How annoyed Rocky sounds when Grace doesn’t realize he’s pointing initially
The fact Grace takes his helmet off trusting this rock lookin alien did oxygen right is crazy, not just because trusting an alien not to have intent to harm but also trusting an alien to actually know what it’s doing and know enough about him to do it right
The fact he doesn’t figure out the other thing Rocky sent him is“It’s the patrova line” until this point they did not have to add that and I’m so glad they did
Grace interrupts Rocky right in the middle of his name when he’s introducing himself
I don’t know if Grace and Rocky realize how much the other talks at the start since they don’t understand each other, neither of them shut up
Rocky laughing at Grace
Rocky building Grace a place to sit in the wall
Grace getting more and more crammed into the tunnel and closer to Rocky the more relaxed he gets
Grace getting more clumsy the sleepier he is
The really dumb “Good night sir” bow he does to Rocky (he also bows to the astronauts when he firsts meets them)
Grace trusts Rocky quickly yeah but the way Rocky trusts Grace even more quickly is crazy
Grace and his stupid permanant licorice in his mouth instead of a cigarette or toothpick or something
The way Eva Stratt is always watching Grace
The way you can see how the astronauts opinion of Grace changes when they show the astrophage from humouring the dishevelled unassuming sweater guy to respecting the world’s leading expert in astrophage
Grace remembers the people on the boat as his friends so says his whiteboard nobody touch me
Mary trying to coach Rocky and Grace through their Ikea bed set-up argument
Rocky slamming his head against his ball repeatedly, then accusing Grace of being grumpy because he hasn’t napped
Rocky and Grace filing in the gaps that the other has in skills and knowledge i am face in hands bro
Grace is smart but he needs a Carl or a Rocky to help him be the most smart he needs someone to point out the obvious
Mary interrupting Grace when he’s trying to say how long travelling will take
Grace making Rocky ball and all a seatbelt
“Hanging ten”
Rocky holding his screen translator thing like a microphone during Karaoke
“I miss the fog.” I’m obsessed with you
The ending of Adrian’s name sounding like when you come to a screeching halt
Grace’s swagless ADHD vs Stratt’s soft logic Cringefail social skills
Ryland Grace is the most swagless fail of a man
“You don’t bother me.”
I need to analyze every facial expression Eva Stratt makes when she looks at Ryland Grace your honor
The soldiers in the hallway listening to Stratt’s karaoke
eye-contact with Grace while singing
Stratt out here looking like she’s mourning the life she won’t have since she knows she’s gonna spend life in prison after saving the world (if this works)
Stratt and Grace mattering to each other is making me mentally ill wdym Grace is Stratt’s softness and Stratt is Grace’s confidence wdym
I’m convinced Rocky tapping his foot twice whenever he asks a question is a tone indicator, like when we pitch our voices up to indicate a question, not neccesarily the word ‘question’, and Grace just put ‘tapping foot twice’ as the word ‘question’ in the translator which is why all Rocky’s questions end with the word question.
GRACE CLICKING HIS HEELS TOGETHER BEFORE GOING BACK INSIDE AFTER NAMING THE PLANET AFTER ADRIAN
Rocky mimicking Grace checking his watch even though he doesn’t have one
Rocky just waiting while Grace studies the astrophage
Grace getting clumsy when he’s sleepy or panicked vs Rocky getting clumsy when he’s excited about something they trip so much in this movie
Grace playing catch with Rocky/himself on the glass while he’s brainstorming and Rocky just has to deal with that
“Thumps uuuppp babyyy” —Rocky the Eridian
Rocky doing a puppet show for Earth
Rocky gives driving directions like my dad
Rocky assuming Grace has been in direct contact with earth this whole time hurts me for unknown reasons Huston
“Thumbs up?” / “No.”
Grace’s voice cracking when he says “We got stars to save.”
Rocky using his fingers when he does math
“I didn’t mean any of that—“
Rocky picking up on Grace’s way of speaking
“Can you take a compliment, please?” / “No.” / “That’s an order.”
Grace’s toque looking like he’s got cat ears or something
Grace’s bright yellow jacket being like the only colour the fact it’s yellow the colour associate with the sun
“That’s not half bad.” / “It’s full good.” Just admit when something’s going well Grace
Grace’s pained sound morphing into Rocky’s worried chittering that they don’t have translated words for I’m FINE about this movie’s editing i swear
“EVERYBODY CALM DOWN.”
Grace’s vocal fry when he screams for Rocky I’m FINE
That one shot of Carl looking at him like he’s a friend he’s losing
After dragging Grace to the medbay, Rocky would have had to drag himself to his bubble, break into it, and re-seal it again, this dude is crazy
Grace making Rocky a heat lamp even though his atmosphere is so hot that it would probably be totally useless
Ryland Grace physically shaking with relief when he figures out the taumoeba
Grace walking Rocky through everything while he’s unconscious
You ever think about how if Grace died Erid and Earth would die it wouldn’t matter if Rocky survived because Grace is the scientist and Rocky isn’t and if Rocky died just Erid would die and not earth too i’M FINE
Grace not wearing his own spacesuit under the suit rocky made him, trust is CRAZY
Rocky and Grace’s spaceships both having the story of their planets welded into the walls of their ships
Eva Stratt i am obsessed with you, she’s realistic but she still gives the most optimistic prediction and mourns that it can’t be true
Ryland Grace crying over the fact that he doesn’t think he has it in him to go to space. Not because he’s getting sent because he doesn’t know that yet but because “I don’t have it in me.” Crying over the fact that he’s not more than he is. This man’s view of himself my GUYS.
It’s not hard to ask people to die and then when she tells Grace he is she looks like she’s going to cry
Stratt flinching when Grace moves the chair to try escaping
It’s only once Grace is out of the room that Stratt’s voice is level again wdym she looks him in the face and gets choked up but when his back is turned she can be stoic wdym
Rocky and Grace dragging out their goodbyes as long as they can looking for any excuse to linger a little longer
Rocky continuing to say goodbye while Grace is walking away
Grace cutting through the tunnel to detach their ships and Rocky watching the whole time
Grace dreaming about earth
Someone in a lab coat rocking back and forth with their hands clasped tightly together while Grace is unconscious in the dream/flashback who IS that—
Grace not dismantling Rocky’s space even though he didn’t need it anymore and then using it to avoid gettingf blown out of the ship while it’s depressurizing
Grace punching the screen when he finds the leak
Rocky’s handprint scar on Grace’s arm
Grace counting down the days to get to Rocky and playing with Rocky’s spaceship models
The lyrics / We’re on our way home / we’re going home / playing while Grace is floating back towards Rocky’s ship and not when he was on his way back to earth shut uUUUUP
Grace accepting Rocky is probably dead, then raising the wrench to keep knocking or try to break through anyway to go get him
“I’m here buddy”
Stupid forehead touch through the wall I’m FINE
Grace sending the video dairy of him introducing Rocky instead of just the Taumoeba findings
Rockys’ model of Grace being modeled after how Grace was flailing in space when catching the solar system model capsule. First impressions, guys
Stratt doing the Eridian goodbye just once
The Petrova line slowly disappearing instead of having the screen fade to black OUGH this mOVIE, MAN
Rocky reminding him to close the door because I made you a door you better use the freaking door.
Adrian being either one of the scientists that built Grace’s bio-dome or one of the people in charge of maintaining it
I’m not sure if the beetles home trip would take the same amount of time as Mary’s prediction for the ship itself, but going off of that and if this picks up chronologically after Stratt receives the probes, then Grace has been on Erid for over four years at the time of the ending and they are STILL working on getting the temperature right in Grace’s bio dome
The way the domes walls don’t quite line up so the simulated rocks don’t connect to each other
The way the colour of the stripes on Grace’s shirt don’t seem as saturated as they have in previous scenes and his sweater looks more distressed and worn
PROJECT HAIL MARY OUGH I’m so normal about this movie guys trust
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Andy Wier going on an anti-woke podcast to promote his film (Project Hail Mary) and trash Star Trek (after his own ST project got rejected) just for Trekkies to terrorize him into an apology with a day… That’s one way to ruin your cutesy neo-liberal brand at breakneck speed
Genuinely such a dumb cunt thing to say while still trying to get Star Trek money:
“I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that,” Weir said. “I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that.”
Here is a list of all the politics and social commentary Andy Weir did in fact include in the Project Hail Mary book that I can recall at the top of my head:
When Grace is still incredibly amnesiac and manages to remember what his apartment looks like, he remarks the lack of feminine touches in the decoration and casually wonders if this means he is single or maybe gay.
Upon learning of the astrophage problem, all the nations of the world get their shit together in record time and give Stratt basically unlimited power, authority and resources to do whatever is necessary to save Earth. This itself is a political choice. Pair it with the vastly different real world response world leaders have to climate change and it becomes a social commentary, sorry Andy but it really does.
The reason Grace decides to join the Hail Mary project is because of his students. He's in the middle of a class when he realizes the incredibly hard and bleak future that awaits his students due to the cooling Sun, and tells Stratt he wants to keep helping.
Shortly after figuring out how astrophage reproduce on his own, Grace is taken to the aircraft carrier, where he meets for the first time the other scientists involved in the project. After explaining his findings, a Chinese scientist announces their team has been able to reproduce Grace's findings, the implied reason being they had somehow spied on them.
During one of his first conversations with Rocky, Grace remarks on an unexpected hurdle of meeting aliens: pronouns. His conclusion is to just shrug and slap he/him pronouns on Rocky. There are no further conversations about this topic, not even when both of them are able to communicate fluently. Grace doesn't re-examinate his pronoun choice any further, nor, despite having a PhD in molecular biology and being curious about things like how Eridians eat, ask about Eridians' concepts of sex and gender.
Following that previous point, when Rocky mentions having a mate back home, Grace chooses for said mate the name Adrian. This is yet another reference to the Rocky movies, albeit a more obscure one, and a lot of the people that didn't realize this simply read both Rocky and Adrian as male and therefore gay.
One last bit re gender and sexuality is the fact that at no point during the book does Ryland Grace, a single man of unspecified sexuality, lament being single or express any sexual desires, which is why many people read him as being on the asexual spectrum.
The movie had to gloss over many things and completely skip over others, some of these later things were the incredible sacrifices and hardships Earth had to go through to survive until hopefully Project Hail Mary managed to find a solution to the astrophage problem. First off, in order to produce the astrophage fuel for the ship they paved a huge chunk of the Sahara desert, which had devastating ecological and climate consequences, altered or destroyed the homes and livelihoods of millions of people and created tons of refugees. Also, in order to win time and counter the effects of the cooling Sun, they start to nuke chunks of fucking Antarctica, because making climate change worse will make Earth hotter and therefore buy them time. The first time the scientist (a self-declared hippie ecologist) in charge of this orders the release of the bombs, he understandably breaks down and starts to cry. Needless to say, nuking the fucking Antarctica raises sea levels and also has horrendous ecological and climatic consequences and once again would in fact create millions of refugees. The fact that the book doesn't dwell on the consequences of any of these two actions doesn't change the fact that we as readers are supposed to extrapolate and put two plus two together whether Andy intended to or not. Expecting otherwise is frankly insulting.
At one point Stratt tells Grace what will happen to Earth while they await for the solution to the astrophage problem. She talks about the famines and how many people will die, but that's just the people that will starve to death. Millions more will die in the wars that will break out all over the planet because there is no way the richer and more powerful nations will be willing to share resources equally with the rest.
Grace gifts Rocky, a member of an alien species, a laptop that contains the sum of all human knowledge, history and media. He knows Rocky, but has never met other Eridians, and despite this he chooses to give it to them.
The fucking foundational plot of the book is interspecies collaboration, trust, and friendship. Choosing to meet and befriend an alien despite all the possible risks and dangers is just as political of a choice as choosing to kill an alien would be.
Andy Weir is very good at writing Cosmic Hope books about Space MacGyvers, but writing any kind of story is inherently full of a myriad of political and social commentary choices, whether you want to or not, and whether you realize it or not. Being unable to see or willing to admit this makes him a worse writer and frankly greatly mars part of his supposed genius.
favorite take that I've seen on this so far. Andy Weir is a great author who writes very humanist novels, he's just also a guy who doesn't understand what political means. PHM is his best work and it's not even close, and it's a story about connection in spite of everything that would get in the way of friendship and community. in this world? there's no way to read that as anything other than political.
Imagine Grace defined his name as the elegance definition of grace and Rocky spends years thinking how fucking ironic this clumsy leaky space blobs name is.
Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.
And Rocky has to suddenly reconcile that the clumsy leaky blob that saved his life twice, that almost certainly doomed himself to come back for him, name is Mercy.
About ten years ago I watched a guy drown on a lake beside my worksite. I couldn't get to him in time and neither could the other people on the work crew. He had three life jackets sitting in the bottom of the aluminum boat he fell out of, and the boat was left spinning in circles near him with the motor going full blast.
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Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.
have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.
and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.
black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.
if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.
This is Juneteenth.
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