Fount Of Useless Knowledge

It's probably already been spread around here enough already, but in case anyone's missed it; 7 hours after launch, commander Reid Wiseman, dealing with tech issues, uttered the generational quote "I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working."

After fixing the issues that were afflicting the onboard toilet, mission specialist Christina Koch (who has quickly become my favourite of the four) laughingly said “I’m the space plumber, I’m proud to call myself the space plumber.”

On Easter Sunday, the Artemis II crew hosted a makeshift egg hunt, by hiding packets of dehydrated scrambled eggs around their Orion capsule.

The way the crew always makes sure to make it very clear they're in space when doing interviews. From stuff like Wiseman just hanging out floating sideways on screen or Koch letting her hair loose so it can freely span out flowing around her.

While in transit, the crew decided to record a parody of those bad 80s sitcom intros where everyone turns and smiles at the camera.

When the crew reached the furthest point from Earth in the mission, they jokingly clambored over each other in an effort to get to the far side of the capsule, so that they could individually claim to be the furthest person from earth.

At the same time, on the ISS which was at the time on the other side of earth, the 7 astronauts onboard had a light-hearted race to the far side of the station, making jokes about being the furthest humans from Artemis.

On the way back to earth, NASA actually managed to establish an audio call between the crews of the ISS and Artemis II (where they shared the above info), and Koch called one member of the ISS crew, Jessica Meir, her "astro-sister" as the two of them previously spacewalker together in 2019. Meir then responded I'm so happy that we are back in space together, even if we are a few miles apart" (a few here being 230,000).

I get that there are a lot of monsterfuckers who insist that the Beast in these stories doesn’t need to become a Prince in order for there to be a happy ending. But that is not true. It’s important to remember that in most versions of the story the monster is not who the Beast really is. He’s under a curse; one that prevents him from expressing his true self and from interacting with others. Beauty’s love for him is what breaks the spell because by piercing through the false form and seeing him for who he really is the curse loses it’s power. It’s a story of love triumphing over ugliness and loneliness, of how anyone can become beautiful and worth knowing if they are given love and are seen for who they are on the inside.

Or, from an entirely different point of view, the people saying that the beast isn’t the Prince’s true self are only half right. The beast *is* who he is, not as in he just happens to look like that, which is the angle that the “Belle should accept the Beast claws and all” idea is going off of; his beastly form is the externalization of his character flaws. So within the context of the story’s themes, if Belle were to love the Beast *for* his beastliness rather than in spite of, it would be symbolic of enabling his worst tendencies rather than encouraging him to better himself.

All of this to say, when Susan rode around with her horn strapped to her saddle, I wonder how often she was intrusively tempted to just pick it up and blow it? Was is hard to run around Narnia with a horn she was only supposed to blow when she was definitely, seriously, for-real in danger?

Here's a book written during that time before modern medicine that not only features a father grievously upset over the death of his child, but an acknowledgement by the narrator that if he weren't so affected by it, it would be a troubling sign of his relationship with his departed son. There are plenty of examples but this is just the book I happened to be reading.