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Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

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It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

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It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

This is a scheduled post for two days before the anniversary of the moon landing. Please get your moon themed items and foods sorted now in anticipation.

Click "now" on the right-hand side and you will be take to a dashboard with mission photos and audio from exactly 54 years ago.

As I post this (3:30PM EDT July 19), we are at mission elapsed time 78 hours. Landing is at 102 hours 46 minutes.

(@gusgrissom You're my liason to space tumblr and best chance of spreading this. If you haven't already of course.)

someone tell the tumblerinas that you can raise an issue without deliberately guilt-tripping everyone about it

okay, I take it back. I don’t think everyone is doing this deliberately. some of it is so deeply entrenched in tumblr culture that you probably don’t always notice you’re doing it

“nobody’s talking about this” -> you can just delete this phrase

“if you can’t reblog this, unfollow me” -> you can also delete this one

“x group can, and should, reblog this” -> remove the “should”. or you know. delete the entire sentence

your post will still spread all the important information without the guilt-tripping parts, I promise

if an otherwise valid post tries to guilt trip me it’s a pass on the rb, sry.

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where is my meryl whump why no one hurt/comfort meryl

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nobody really explores meryl's ptsd. i mean, there are some fics about it but they're mostly one-shots.

there was a whole 7 months that she was away from vash and wolfwood and then the world started to fall apart. i think her perspective as somebody on the outside (but still inside) is just as interesting; she only halfway knows what’s going on through the magnitude of vash's traumatic memories alone.

she doesn't know if she will ever see the boys again. she maybe knows or doesn’t know how her reaction affected vash’s self image. how would that compound with the suffering she’s already experiencing? she obviously cares about vash, but there is nothing like being backhanded with not only otherworldly terror, but every emotion vash had ever felt while being brutalized by life in an instance outside of time.

despite this, the iron lady still tries to help the boys through getting things done. she meets up with people who consider vash to be family. she makes connections. she tells luida vash’s story with her eyes so heavy but hollow. there’s a whole story there.

there’s milly to be her rock. there’s milly to be her best friend (or lover, follow ur dreams). there’s milly’s perspective, as well… her manga self does not share her anime personality.

i personally don’t really like missing scene fics but nobody has touched this. this isn’t so much a missing scene as a whole missing arc tbh.

part of my nimona viewing experience. idk why but i got super emotional in the first five minutes.

[ID: A comic juxtaposing screenshots from Nimona 2023 and drawings of a person watching the movie. The first screenshot is Ambrosius's introduction; he grins at the camera as the news anchors introduce him, his name in big print on the screen. The person watching thinks with a bored expression, "Ah. Ok. This guy is gonna be the jackass. Typical golden-boy stuck-up prince that thinks he's better than the underdog. I see where this is going.

The next screenshot is of Ambrosius and Ballister on the platform above the arena, Ambrosius doing his news anchor bit and saying, "Aaand will Ballister be broody on the biggest day of his life?" Ballister laughs at his antics. The person watching now has a small smile, as they think, "Huh! Aw, they're actually nice to each other and are friends! I wasn't expecting that, that's nice-"

The third and final screenshot is a shot from behind of Ballister leaning his head on Ambrosius's shoulder. The caption reads "the knighting ceremony is just moments away." The person watching now has a touched, soft expression, like they're holding back tears. They think "OH." as a partially transparent doodle behind them bends over crying and blubbering, with another doodle showing their heart shot through with an arrow. /end ID]

my parents (usually my mom) will capture me in a blanket and just sorta swaddle me an say 'can we keep em ?' 'ill take care of it' and my dad will respond with things like 'i dunno.. i think it bites' and ill jus wriggle about biting the air threatening to bite them if they dont set me free,

last night my mom said that i was her most favorite critter and this will stick with me for forever i think