April, discovering an entire Hidden City beneath NYC and going up against a fish-man making, warring warrior scientist:

far from prudish but just got blazed porn of someone's pussy spread out so hard and up close like it's a map of the polish-lithuanian commonwealth and I'm king and grand duke sigismund II augustus inspecting his lands to plot defense against the swedes

Thinking about when CG was used exactly one time in the entirety of spongebobs pre-movie 3 season run

Like, they could’ve easily just had him instantaneously burst through the wall and get roughly the same joke across, but the fact the writers wanted him to slowly push through the wall like that SO BADLY that they went out of their way to implement the cg effect to do so is so fucking funny to me fndmmsmsms

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THE HANSHIN TIGERS HAVE BROKEN THE CURSE OF THE COLONEL!

For the people who don't know, in 1985, the Hanshin Tigers won their first (and at the time, only) Japan Series victory. Traditionally, they've been hard luck losers, and they're often compared to the Red Sox in the sense of their being overshadowed by the Yomiuri Giants, who, like the Yankees, have won more championships than any other team in their league.

When they won, fans resembling the players on the team were jumping into the Dotonbori Canal in Osaka - the fans would yell out a player's name, and a fan who looked like them would jump in. The problem was when they got to Randy Bass, who none of the Japanese fans looked like. They needed to find something resembling him and selected a statue of Colonel Sanders, who was white and had a beard like Bass, and threw it into the canal.

Colonel Sanders sank underwater, and the Hanshin Tigers did...horribly after that, usually coming in last in the league or close to it, to the point where the team was considered cursed by his presence in the canal. The team made the Japan Series a few times after that in the 2000s and once in the 2010s, but lost each time.

In 2009, the Colonel was located and recovered from the Dotonbori Canal, save for his left hand and his glasses. He's now at a location near Koshien Stadium, where the Tigers play their home games (and where the famed national high school baseball championships are played), and can be viewed there to this day.

Fans were, however, not convinced that they had earned the Colonel's forgiveness, since his hand and glasses were missing. In the image above, he's been given some replacement glasses, but he still lacks a left hand.

This year, Hanshin beat the Orix Buffaloes, a team that plays roughly 20 minutes away by train in Nishinomiya, 4-3 in a seven-game series. The curse is thus considered broken...so the fans did what they do best, and threw a fan dressed like Colonel Sanders into the Dotonbori Canal.

For years, this has been my favorite baseball story, and I'm so happy that I was alive to see it seen all the way through. Congratulations, Hanshin fans!

i keep telling myself i can’t handle longer projects but in the last four days i wrote 23,377 words just totally by the seat of my pants

Y’ever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way way opened to it?

Book-Tuber, about Project Hail Mary: "Does it need to be 476 pages? I highly doubt it."

Me, who loved Project Hail Mary and will be rereading it this year: "SHUT UP, yes it does."

I get emotional about Project Hail Mary because they completely by accident ended up with the best possible person to lead first contact: a teacher.

I read the last third of project hail mary in a state of absolute terror because I was convinced the only possible endings were that Rocky and Grace lived but returned to separate planets, or that one or both of them died in space; ie that either way they would end up losing one another. It is rare that a fictional relationship will grip me this hard but there was something so deeply beautiful about the friendship between the bewildered human guy forced into space against his will and the lil alien crab dude who chose to go on a suicide mission to save his planet. Something about not being able to go home again, but finding something you want more than home.

i cannot stop thinking about project hail mary. grace sees a foreign ship right next to his, a foreign space ship in a foreign solar system, which means not only is there intelligent life out there but it’s right outside less than 300 meters away. the other ship sends an object across the space between them, and when he pulls it on board, pries it open, and inspects the inside, he finds a 3D star map with a line connecting two of the stars. a map that essentially says, without language, here’s where we are, and here’s where i came from. do you understand what i’m trying to tell you? and grace doesn’t hesitate. he’s known there’s other intelligent life in the universe for, at best, a little under an hour, and he doesn’t hesitate. he scrambles to find some materials he can use, welds a piece of wire to the map to say, i understand, and here’s where i came from, too, and he sends it back. in any other sci-fi story this would be a monumentally huge mistake! in any other sci-fi story, grace would have just projected our planet’s location to a group of potentially malicious invaders! but this isn’t any other sci-fi story. the alien made first contact using the only thing that was sure to be the same across alien life forms–the stars–and he gave them some common knowledge to build from. they’re not colonizers or crusaders or invaders. he and grace are just two scientists, both excited as hell to meet each other, both trying desperately to find a way to save their planets and both so, so relieved to not have to do it alone anymore. i’ve never read a better first contact story. i’m in love

Really enjoyed Project Hail Mary. Have some Rocky :•) 💕

project hail mary said "we would be ecstatic to find out that there's other intelligent life out there, so why wouldn't they be just as happy to find out about us?" and then proceeded to write an entire thesis on how the inherent nature of sentient beings is to forge friendships, to not be alone, to protect each other at all costs. i'm inconsolable

THIS!

so embarrassing when i forget im checking someone's blog and i start scrolling through and liking and reblogging shit as if it's just my dash. it feels like wandering into someone else's apartment and not noticing and making myself lunch

it's good to be a Super Mario fan in 2023