Do you ever think about the infinite
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While this bill doesn’t require states to allow same-sex marriage, it does require them to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.
So anyone wanting to get married can travel to another state, get married, come back, and the state has to recognize their marriage as valid.
The new Respect for Marriage Act would also protect interracial marriages by requiring states to recognize legal marriages regardless of “sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin."
“at the river”, block print on paper, 2022
[id: a blue block print on white paper of a fat trans man crouched in a river by a forested bank, holding their hands in the water]
I think it's you and your wife that are really into the lesbian necromancer series, the Locked Tomb, and I finally got to the library and picked up all three of the books! I can't wait to dive into them
Oh, enjoy! We’re dressing up as Gideon and Harrow for Halloween to hand out candy to the neighborhood kids and I am so excited to be a horrible space goth….
Well I read the first book and it was a wild ride, time to dive immediately into the second book!
Do you guys have pics of your costumes anywhere? I'd love to see them!
God you guys, I’m thinking about the Voyager probes and bringing myself to tears.
These two tiny, and very insignificant constructs, have been thrown far into space. Their original purpose was to explore as far as they can, and send data back to us on Earth, so we can explore beyond out own limited means.
But they serve a secondary purpose as well. They contain open letters to any intelligent life in the universe that might find them.
We have included in these probes Golden Records. These records contain a myriad of things.
The most important are instructions on how to play these records.
They contain sound. Music, people laughing, people saying hello in half a hundred different languages, a child saying his name, birdsong, thunder, waves rolling over a beach, and so many others.
We want them to be able to sample the whole of humanity’s noise, which seems to grand at surface level, but shrinks when compared to the seemingly infinite cosmos.
Both also contain data which, if translated properly, will show these distant strangers what we look like. Both at surface level, diagrams of us on the inside, and they will show us engaging in different sometimes mundane, sometimes fantastic activates. One is a woman eating ice cream. Another is a human doing a spacewalk.
They also contain a map of our solar system, so that when these records are found, these strange strangers might be able to see where we are and come visit.
We have extended an open invitation to life in the universe to come here, to see us.
We know they might be radically different then us. We know they might be the exact same. Either scenario, if true, is terrifying. We have taken a gamble with the hope that someone might be out there, and that someone might be kind.
But there is another factor in play. The universe might very well be empty. We might be shouting literally into the void, with no audience to entertain.
But we simply hope to be acknowledged.
(I cannot explain or put properly into words exactly what I want to say. Humans are complex. I wanted to talk of that complexity. I could not. I wanted to put into the words the feeling the very existence of these records give me, for both humanity and whatever life might be out there. I could not because I simply find the emotion too complex.)
I know I shouldn’t hang my feelings about my art on the shoulders of other people, but the things you guys are saying the in the notes makes my heart so full
Most of my posts don’t get a lot of notes here on tumblr, not much on other social media either, so thank you for sharing everyone
An hour-and-twenty-minute video essay exploring the history (Going back to Helen Keller’s lifetime, through to the current day) behind the current TikTok trend of claiming Helen Keller was a fraud, because there’s no way a deafblind person could do all the things attributed to her.
Spoiler: it’s flat out ableism combined with anti-socialist propaganda.
Made by a Brit, so it also addresses current ableism in the UK, not just America.
Properly closed captioned. Flashing warning from 02:02 - 02:04 (film projector effects).
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They've filtered Instagram, and I'm quite sure they'll shut our internet down soon. (Honestly I'm so fvcking emotionally numb abt everything rn)
Saying this for the last time... Spread Mahsa Amini's story around the world. Talk about her to anyone you think may not know about. Don't let dictator regime of Iran get tf away with whatever it has done
when he said “i don’t trust pants anymore” i believed him
@theworldtravellingteenager said: I have some pictures of my partner and I, if you want to play around with editing them then feel free!
Feel free to do what you want with them or not, I just miss him and always want good pics with him. (we're long distance rn:()
You guys are so cute! These were good practice for editing on people :D
I hope these bring you some joy while y’all are apart!
Oh man these look adorable! I love what you did with the colors and making us look just a little brighter! So pretty
I want Renarin to swear an Ideal on-page in book 5. I want him to admit to himself how angry he is about his mother's death. I want him to get in a screaming fight with Dalinar. I want him to kiss his crab bf. I want him to go full unsettling prophet mode and creep out everyone around him. I want him to kill seven more thunderclasts. I want him to learn more about Listener culture through Rlain. I want Adolin to convince him to wear fashion frames. I want him to pursue his interest in fabrial mechanics. I want him to have a wine snob moment. I want him to help Rlain keep an eye on the humans I want it to be safe for Glys to live outside his chest I want him to say the words "there's nothing wrong with me" aloud I want
Well. This is an unexpected honor. My fellow winners have said some very meaningful things up here on the stage tonight.
I want to talk to you about dead whales.
Whales are not immortal, so when they die, they don’t just float like really big goldfish—I mean, they do for a bit, and then the body sinks down, down, down, into the lightless depths.
If it happens to be in the Abyssal Zone when it dies, the whale will fall a very, very long way. It sinks, and sinks, and finally it hits the bottom, down in the dark, kicking up sand that may not have moved since our species came down from the trees.
And then the scavengers come, from miles around—the sharks, and the hagfish, and the ratfish, and things we don’t even have names for because we only see them when a whale dies. And they feed on the dead whale. Deep sea starfish crawl toward it, inch by inch, to feast on whale flesh.
And whales are gigantic. It takes, literally, years for the hagfish and the sharks to strip it to the bones.
And then other things come for the bones. There are creatures that spend their whole lives in the water column, just waiting for a whale to die. The zombie worm—and yes, we really call them that—emerges and drills into the whale’s bones. But only the females, because dating is hard when you’re a zombie worm, so if they meet a male in the water column, they swallow him.
And you would swear that there is not an ounce of whale left, but still they come, from miles around. And tube worms and zombie worms dig into the sand for yards in every direction, seeking the tiniest fragment of whale flesh, and they grow like flowers in this lightless garden down in the cold and the dark.
Isn’t. That. Cool?
Now, you’re probably all asking what whalefall has to do with awards ceremonies, or science fiction novelettes, and the answer is: absolutely nothing. But how often do I get to tell an audience this size about whalefall?
So, thanks to my publishers, my husband Kevin, and thank you all. I’m glad you liked my story. Y’all have a good night.
(if you’ve never seen a whalefall (because really, who has) we recently got high quality video from the EV Nautilus expedition and you should watch it here.)
The EV Nautilus team recently returned to this very whalefall a year later, and I’d invite you to see just how much it has changed and yet how active it still is all this time later.
It’s still positively covered in crustaceans and the bone worms aren’t quite done with it yet.
yknow ever since people realized tumblr isnt dead and have decided to flock here from twitter and tiktok ive seen a huge influx of people in fandom spaces who dont reblog anything. at all.
like, i used to have an art blog with 340 followers. not a ton but not a small amount either given how this website works with creators. and in my experience back then even the ones who only left likes still reblogged other things or at least posted their own stuff. literally the only empty blogs were clearly bots.
but on this New art blog, i've had so many people with fandom-specific headers and icons with actual usernames as urls and some kind of title or description, but have. Nothing. no posts. all they do is like things. and it's always public, too. their following list and their likes list.
and honestly all it makes me think is that these people are New and also don't know how tumblr works. how likes don't give exposure. not even in a "oh, i know it doesn't give exposure, but i'm still going to reblog anyways" way, but in a genuine honest to god straight up doesn't realize tumblr likes don't work like twitter's.
PLEASE please if you're from tiktok or twitter or whatever please reblog people's art both fandom and original if you like it!! and maybe actually pad out your blog's content in some way so people won't potentially see you as a bot and block you.
REBLOG ARTIST'S WORK. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THEY GET ANY ATTENTION ON THIS WEBSITE OH MY GOD. PLEASE. I BEG of you
For the palette request,can you do Kaladin in the blooming pink and green one? Forgot the name soddt
nah you got it
This is STUNNING you fulfilled the request wonderfully. #kaladinneedspinkhair2022