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I’m curious to know if other fans dissociate characters from the actors that play them, or if it’s just me.

For background, I’m an asexual, neurodivergent woman in my 30s.

When I find a new fandom and really start to hyperfixate, it doesn’t cross my mind to associate the actors that portray that character with the character. In fact, sometimes I don’t even particularly LIKE the actors that play them, but I love the CHARACTER and how they play it. I don’t find myself needing to ponder that actor or their lives outside the context of the role.

Does anyone else feel this way? Does bringing the actors themselves into the equation ruin the fourth wall for anyone else? Tagging some of my current fandoms for responses.

10 Verbal Nouns in Irish that I very much enjoy

Ag Smúrthacht - prowling, slinking around the place

Ag Airneán - staying up late into the night

Ag Plobarnach - gurgling (of water or porridge)

Ag Santú - ‘greeding’ for something (((also to desire seggsually)))

Ag Slaparnach - trudging around/through shallow water/mud

Ag Spréacharnach - glittering

Ag Rógaireacht - swindling or otherwise engaging in divilment

Ag Pleidhcíocht - fooling around, messin’

Ag Goilliúint - wounding emotionally

Ag Meabhrú - brooding or pondering

warning: 🚨not caighdeán approved🚨 (also these are rough estimations of meanings and there are 100% other verbs which cover these same things please dont break my tibia)

Approximately 1 billion light years across, the largest known structure in the universe consists of 830 galaxies nestled within 4 connecting galaxy clusters.

As above, so below.

Credits to the lovely people over at NASA and ESA. Image by Science Photo Library.

Instagram: @ spacestrikes

*ranting and raving and stomping on rooftops and flailing my arms about* HUMANS ARE AMIMALS!!! WE ARE ANIMALS!!! QUIT ACTING LIKE WE'RE NOT!!!

I am so goddamn tired of society acting like we're not!!! I am so goddamn tired of us as a society acting like we are above all the other animals!!! I do not care that we are the apex!!! We are fucking ANIMALS!!! Like, just take a step back and observe us like we have our own nature documentary on Nat Geo or something. Maybe with David Attenborough or whatever, idc. Just imagine it.

We are a species of apes that just so happened to gain the ability of extremely complex and abstract thought, capability of language, an almost absurd level of self-awareness, and the type of intelligence that allowed us to discover, invent, and develop tools. A species of apes that just so happen to have such a crazy level of curiosity that we have the capability to learn about the world around us, and beyond.

The way we learn and develop is fascinating. If you observe a toddler from that standpoint, watching them interact with the world around them, you'd see how natural curiosity is to us, in our human nature. Neil deGrasse Tyson has literally said that children are beings of chaos because they're curious and learning about the world around them.

We all have children in us, just like we have our ancestors in us!!! Our brains are wired like theirs. Relatively, we have been in this state of society for an extremely short amount of time!! Our brains and nervous systems are still wired to survive and keep us safe from predators and other dangers!!

We are social creatures!! We need love and connection to survive!! We can't do things on our own. The only reason we ever got to where we are is because we work together and communicate and share knowledge. The way society is right now is too isolating!! Humans aren't meant to be fighting for a place in society!! Haven't you seen zookeepers?? Or anyone who cares for nature in any capacity?? We have an incredible capacity for compassion and caretaking, because we have the capability to know and understand the inner workings of ourselves and countless other species!! Caretaking and compassion is literally an innate human trait!! We're supposed to take care of each other and the world around us!! We literally are capable of pack bonding with ROOMBAS, for fucks sake!! Little robots that our ape brains see moving around on its own, being part of our homes, and thinks "little guy is alive... I love him"!!! Isn't that beautiful???

We were an evolution of Mother Earth, Herself, to grow Her and expand Her and care for Her!!! Whether you believe in intelligent design or just the absurdity of it all, it still happened like that. We have the capacity to care for Her in an evolved level, yet we're fucking it up so badly right now.

Indigenous cultures have always been on the right track. They've always been right about this. They have always known that we are all pieces of the same organism, just like the atoms and cells and organs and electricity in your body are all part of one body!!

And btw, culture is another HUGE part of us being social creatures!! Being expressive and creative and connected!! That's part of our nature!! We're meant to sing and dance and laugh together!! That connectivity of us being a collective is So Important!!! Making fun of people for being "sheep", or having "herd mentality" every single time is so stupid because yes!!! Yes that's EXACTLY how we are supposed to be!!! We are social creatures, remember?? The whole point is that we do things together!!!

I know how society is rn isn't the end all, be all, but it just breaks my heart that this Capitalism shit goes against some of the most beautiful parts of humanity!! We are animals!!! We are cute and curious and compassionate and social and we need warmth and sunlight and sustenance from the earth and water and sleep and shelter from the elements!! We have instincts just like everything else!! We came from the dust and we will return to the dust because we will always be part of the Earth, just like all the other animals!! And somehow, despite all odds, despite how robotic Capitalism wants us to be, our human nature seeps into everything.

Take care of yourself! You are an animal, after all! <3

*climbs off rooftop... for now*

you know what love is?

love is waking up to see their sleeping face. love is fighting for using the bathroom first. love is knowing how they like their coffee. or tea. or something else. love is reading them the newspaper. love is sending them funny pictures in the middle of the day. love is coming home together and ordering take-outs. love is applying nailpaints for them. love is peeling hot potatoes with them. love is combing their hair and listening to their rant. love is knowing that they love you, even if they don't say it.

love is in the little moments.

Ponder the Glorb

It's Sunday, y'all! It's time to come and Ponder the great and mighty Glorb!

Sphere

A soft heart scars easily. A gentle soul often never heals from marks inflicted by others. Never be ashamed of those scars. It’s more a proof of their weaknesses and your strength.

"Humans are Space Orcs is an awesome Idea!!!" "Humans are Space Orcs is a lame idea!!!" But have you considered humans being space humans? Have you ever thought that two separate species would be so different that they will always lack the sufficient communication skills to describe themselves in a way other species will ever understand? Do you think a picture of an average human would evoke fear? Love? Hate? Misery? Ecstasy? Or is it foolish to assume they would feel emotions like we do, or even experience them at all? Do you think they've tried sending messages to us across space? That regard believers of extraterrestrial life as conspiracy theorists?

Have you considered the bitterness that humans and aliens will likely never meet or even understand each other, but the sweetness in the possibility that maybe, just maybe, they too share the desire to understand the unknowable, the mysterious, the completely alien, and that might just make us more special than any of our human customs and history ever could, without them even realizing that is the same aspect that makes us want to find them too? Have you ever thought about that?

I was reading somewhere of how when thinking of brilliant people and high IQs, we often think first of Einstein, but how there have probably been many people much smarter who were too busy just surviving life. And I thought about the billions of women throughout history who were only valued for their beauty and ability to bear children. And it made me wonder how much farther the world and society might have advanced by now, if only females had been regarded as equally important and valuable as males.

Yoongi would be so nice to cuddle with after a long day. I know he’d hold you close, arms wrapped firmly around you, his body warm against your own. Maybe he’d absentmindedly trace over the skin of your arms softly or maybe he’d play with your fingers as he tells you about his day. Or maybe he’d quietly listen as you tell him how your day went instead, speaking up when he needs to, smiling as loses himself in your voice. Maybe maybe.

Reflecting, pondering, about days gone by.

K.S. Janes

ponderin' in my ponderin' box..

hmmm..

hhmmmmm,,

yup.. that was one of the most ponderin' of all time..