Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), poem 85 from “The Gardener”, 1914 Translated by the author from the original Bengali. New York: The Macmillan Company.

ultimately i think the reason i don't take a deeper dive into scp stuff is because nothing will ever live up to scp 5031

it starts with Edgy Murder Monster (Who Is Weird) standard fare and then ten or so diagrams later you are like. profoundly emotionally invested. and then you get to the last sentence which makes you cry irl

me every time i spend over $50 on something, no matter how worthy of my money it is: oh god. what have i done. what have i just done. what have i

im so so sorry to every artist who's art ive ever reblogged without gushing in the tags. you deserve it im just so tired. ill do better i promise

If this pops up while you’re scrolling, I wish you unconditional love and massive success.

I’m glad the folks at NASA are having fun with XKCD too.

This is what people mean when they say Murderbot's an unreliable narrator: what it says about its own views and beliefs is contradicted in key places by what it tells us it did, and by how it reacts to the treatment of other characters. "I don't care," it says, and then it shows us that it cares enough to put its own life on the line for someone it just met. "I don't care," it tells us, and then when someone refuses to leave it behind it never forgets her; when people treat it as a teammate and not a tool it is the best teammate they could ask for. It changes its opinion as it learns new things. It does things sometimes, and doesn't always understand its own reasons.

The power of an "unreliable" narrator comes from understanding the power of a narrative device. Murderbot is a character, and not a real celebrity or spokesperson or mouthpiece, and because it's not a real person it can reflect the personhood of real people with real complexity, and thus invoke our empathy for it. Real people are allowed to contradict themselves, to be occasional hypocrites with blind spots, to change their opinions. What it says ("I don't care") and what it does (show an incredible amount of care) don't line up, and so it is an unreliable narrator at the same time that it's not one at all- or only one as much as anyone (and especially anyone struggling with depression, which can warp your self-perception) is an unreliable narrator of their own experience.

If you wanna protect AO3 or character ai. Or Wattpad. Or Tumblr. Or discord. Or even the right for undocumented people and minors to use the fucking Internet reblog this I swear to God. Reblog this and reblog as many KOSA posts as you can go on their website and contact your Representatives. Do it. Do it. Do it.

cancel your plans we’re thinking about the pale blue dot voyager pic tonight

I have never seen the ocean.

silly

@ the mutuals I don’t interact with a lot I love u and hope ur doing well

yknow i never noticed the sheer rareness of images having ids or alt text on this website until i started adding alt text to my art (and trying to remember to add it to any images i post in general, especially text screenshots) and that makes me kinda sad

(whispering to the flight attendant) fantastic... very helpful. i've noticed you're wearing the same clothing as several other people... why is that

messy robot knight comic !!!!!! id in alt