transgender but in a problematic way that cant be sanitized by teens who are trying to reinvent the hayes code
Asexual but in a really gross way that approves of kink at pride and all sorts of problematic fiction.
Nonbinary but in a weird, loud, and playful way that might make assimilation at the expense of their own community harder for the cis gays.
Queer and unapologetic and taking up space with my queerness.
Kontent
Theres no fukin betterer way zum flyen.
this girl does NOT want to work. she wants to go back to bed because she is sososososo tiredd. she wants no responsibilities either please.
Has anyone else noticed that as a society, we're shamed for wanting to sleep? Sleeping in is bad, naps are only okay if they're 20 minutes, you cant be tired unless you're a <insert career/lifestyle choice here>, so on and so forth.
I mean, I think we all need to spread our blankets out, cuddle a pillow, and go to sleep. Everyone needs more of it, fuck this "it's not productive" nonsense. It's okay to sleep, it's okay to want to sleep. You're not lazy because of it.
It is really important to me that all of you learn about Al Bean, astronaut on Apollo 12 and the fourth man to walk on the moon, who after 20 years in the US Navy and 18 years with NASA during which he spent 69 days in space and more than 10 hours doing EVAs on the moon , retired to become a painter.
He is my favorite astronaut for any number of reasons, but he’s also one of my favorite visual artists.
Like, look at this stuff????
It’s all so expressive and textured and colorful! He literally painted his own experience on the moon! And that's just really fucking cool to me!
Just look at this! This is one of my absolute favorite emotions of all time. Is Anyone Out There? is like the ultimate reaction image. Any time I have an existential crisis, this is how I picture myself.
And then there's this one:
The Fantasy
For all of the six Apollo missions to land on the moon, there was no spare time. Every second of their time on the surface was budgeted to perfection: sleeping, eating, putting on the suits, entering and exiting the LEM, rock collection, setting up longterm experiments to transmit data back to Earth, everything. These timetables usually got screwed over by something, but for the most part the astronauts stuck to them.
The crew of Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Al Bean, and Dick Gordon) had other plans. Conrad and Bean had snuck a small camera with a timer into the LEM to take a couple pictures together on the moon throughout the mission. They had hidden the key for the timer in one of the rock collection bags, with the idea being to grab the key soon after landing, take some fun photos here and there, and then sneak the camera back to Earth to develop them. They had practiced where they would hide the key and how to get it out from under the collected rocks back on Earth dozens of times.
But when they got to the moon, the key was nowhere to be found. Al Bean spent precious time digging through the collection bags before he called it off. The camera had been pushing their luck anyways, he couldn't afford to spend anymore time not on the mission objectives. Conrad and Bean continued the mission as per the NASA plan while Dick Gordon orbited overhead.
Fast forward to the very end of the mission. Bean and Conrad are doing last checks of the LEM before they enter for the last time and depart from the moon. As Bean is stowing one of the collection bags, the camera key falls out. The unofficially planned photo time has come and gone, and he tosses the key over his shoulder to rest forever on the surface of the moon.
This painting, The Fantasy, is that moment. There have never been three people on the moon at the same time, there was never an unofficial photo shoot on the moon, this picture could never have happened.
"The most experienced astronaut was designated commander, in charge of all aspects of the mission, including flying the lunar module. Prudent thinking suggested that the next-most-experienced crew member be assigned to take care of the command module, since it was our only way back home. Pete had flown two Gemini flights, the second with Dick as his crewmate. This left the least experienced - me - to accompany the commander on the lunar surface.
"I was the rookie. I had not flown at all; yet I got the prize assignment. But not once during the three years of training which preceded our mission did Dick say that it wasn't fair and that he wished he could walk on the moon, too. I do not have his unwavering discipline or strength of character.
"We often fantasized about Dick's joining us on the moon but we never found a way. In my paintings, though, I can have it my way. Now, at last, our best friend has come the last sixty miles." - Al Bean, about The Fantasy.
There’s also Alexei Leonov, writer and artist and first person to conduct a spacewalk!
You can't forget this, the first art made in space.
March 1965, Alexei Leonov made this drawing only moments after narrowly surviving the very first space walk.
We need to go back to using sailing ships full time like immediately. Yes it would take longer to get places but the Aesthetic is unmatched
Like there is nothing sexier hthan this
Can’t wait for OP to get scurvy
Are you under the impression that the ships themselves are what caused scurvy
Once again. Do you think this is the fault of the ships themselves
May he plow the Lord’s fields in heaven
Dave Brandt was probably the longest running no-till farmer in the state; he'd been running his land no-till since 1971. He experimented with fertilizers, cover crops, and different irrigation techniques and he'd been doing all of that for a very long time.
The guy was an institution all on his own; look at this.
Ray Stevenson, an actor who appeared in “RRR” and the “Thor” films, died Sunday, his publicist Nicki Fioravante confirmed to CNN.
Stevenson was 58.
No additional information about the cause of his death was immediately available.
Born Gregory Raymond Stevenson in Northern Ireland, the actor moved to England as a child. He most recently starred in the 2022 Oscar-winning film “RRR” as the villainous Scott Buxton. The movie won the Oscar for best original song, and was the second highest-grossing film in India in 2022.
Stevenson was set to appear in the upcoming Star Wars series “Ahsoka” as Baylan Skoll this August and attended the 2023 Star Wars Celebration event last month. Stevenson spoke at the event about his excitement to be part of the project, saying “getting to wield the light saber is just the best feeling in the world.”
“Ahsoka” is third Star Wars related TV series Stevenson has starred in, having previously voiced the role of Gar Saxon in 2016’s “Star Wars: Rebels” and in two episodes of “Star Wars: Clone Wars” in 2020.
Stevenson has over 60 acting credits that date back to the 1990s, but his breakout role came in 2005 when he starred as Titus Pullo in the BBC/HBO series “Rome,” set in the last days of the Roman Republic that also starred “Banshees of Inisherin” actor Kerry Condon, James Purefoy and Kevin McKid.
DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH!!
...actually now that i think about it. did you have religion class in school? also was it mandatory??
extra points reblog and tell me where youre from in the tags because for us religion* is a non-mandatory class where in high school you don't get grades but extra points that might help you in other classes**
*and with that i mean Christianity Class because wow i love being in the same region where the pope is /s ** which is the only reason i kept attending
Okokok here's a question. This is NOT to start any fighting or discourse. Don't even fucking THINK about touching this post if you're trying to start shit. That being said:
Responding to some tags because y'all are wonderful and this has sparked a lot of interesting discussion (sorry for some fucky cropping)
TRANSFEM BUTCHES ARE SO UNDERREPRESENTED I love you transfem butches I'm so glad that this poll has come to your attention. Tbh I feel like half the people in the community forget that transfems butches exist and that makes me so upset. Y'all deserve the entire world.
Literally so true gay man butches are absolutely encouraged to vote in this poll it's not lesbian exclusive, just butch
Also so true. Only YOU can decide whether or not you're butch and to impose butchness on transfeminine people especially who don't identify with it can result in transphobia and misogyny, 100%
And that's ok! You don't have to fully understand your feelings, you have no obligation to do that. However you might be interested in looking into the concept of soft butchness, or even butchness that factors into genderfluidity :) Butchness exists on a spectrum like a lot of other things, and you're free to experiment with that.
Afhakhflskf I will say a surprising amount of non-butches have reblogged this post being very supportive or with good insight BUT I KINDA ASSUMED THAT WOULD HAPPEN TBH... Like if you're gonna vote in the fucking Butch Olympics as a non-butch at least spread the damn post around 😔🙏
If there was so much discourse over continents I CAN'T WAIT for you to find out about the south-up map
This is what the earth looks like btw
Ok stop answering to this post with "up and down don't matter in space" cause north and south are not up and down and their orientation doesn't matter on earth either. This is legit what the earth looks like.
Well somebody has a superiority complex. Go to a shrink or something idk
Just in case you're feeling important, our planet also looks like this:
"there's a very good reason we humans tend to draw north up maps" yeah, colonialism and eurocentrism. anyway south up rules
mapposting time post your favorite projections mine is the pierce quincuncial!!!
My favorite map of Earth
Oh I feel like I should be able to fold up the pierce quincuncial into a sort of ball
did someone say fold up into a ball
Waterman is clearly the best except it needs the origami gold lines
Sometimes corporate speak is good. For example, Space X calling their rocket explosion a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” is the funniest thing I’ve heard all week
while it is a very funny term it’s actually perfectly common rocketry terminology, it’s the technical term for “rocket sploded”
another fun rocketry term is “lithobraking”. Like, one way spaceships lower their orbits is by skimming along the top of the atmosphere, letting the friction slow them down. This is called “Aerobraking”, because they’re using the atmosphere as a brake.
Lithobraking, therefore, is coined by analogy, with “litho-” being the greek root for “stone”. It’s how you slow your spaceship down… by crashing it into the fucking ground.
So a crashed rocket “executed a lithobraking maneuver”.
There’s also “Engine rich exhaust”, which is what happens when your rocket engine starts breaking apart and bits of machinery are burning along with the fuel that’s supposed to be burning.
A more technical term is “Negative periapsis”. Orbits have a periapsis and an apoapsis, the lowest and highest altitude they reach each orbit. A negative periapsis, therefore, is a negative altitude. Your rocket hit the ground.
And related is the term “ablative X”. Ablative heat shielding is a type of heat dissipation where you have a layer of some material covering your spaceship, which heats up into a gas and blows away. So you lose bits of it as you go through the atmosphere. The joke version is when you refer to things as “ablative” when they’re not intended to be: ablative sensors, ablative wings, ablative space probe. that is, your spaceship lost parts it wasn’t supposed to lose while flying through the atmosphere.
Yes! this bothered me when I saw people talking about it. “Rapid unscheduled disassembly” isn’t corporate speak its “scientists and engineers that build rockets” speak
And then my Pilot Shunpitsu ran dry.
RIP little buddy, I'm gonna buy about five more of you.
me - any time i feel sleepy - in the year of our lord 2023:
Me. Every time.
as we get closer to pride 2023
a lot of anti-kink rhetoric is going to be dressed up in progressive language, and we need to think VERY CAREFULLY about it before blanking out and hitting reblog.
Think about the outcomes of the things you say and do. 🙏 And remember that anti-kink policies and censorship of sex will always come for and affect queer people first.
rb to give the previous person a fucking break because life aint life-ing the way its supposed to life and it fucking sucks.
"You're not the main character" also applies to thinking that you're so uniquely horrible that everyone you meet is deeply invested in judging and hating you. That's just as much of a cognitive distortion as believing that you're the center of everyone's admiration. I promise you that other people got their own lives to live and their own struggles and flaws to cope with.
my therapist said this to me once and now i say it to my patients and it is universally hated and very true
