there is so much intimacy in creating something together

I haven’t watched Best of Both Worlds in years, but sometimes I think about the time (at least a day, I think two) between the battle of Wolf 359 and the first Borg cube getting destroyed in Star Trek TNG. 

Think about being just some guy on the Enterprise. The Federation has suffered its biggest defeat in living memory and you are on the last nearby ship. Your captain has been turned into an evil cyborg. You are racing back to Earth at max speed in a last-ditch attempt to save the planet. 

But also you are an ensign fresh out of the academy or maybe an enlisted crew mate. Your job description is to watch computers and get replicated coffee for the officers. You can’t actually do anything. I guess this is just the experience of any navy sailor in history, but idk. It seems different when chasing after the Borg. 

Love the way rebels emphasizes the importance of mutual aid. Love that fighting Imperials comes second to helping people. Love that every other episode is just the rebels fighting tooth and nail for scraps and then giving much of it away. I remember people complaining so much about the amount of 'filler episodes' about them just stopping for gas or whatever and first of all, those episodes are great I love watching spacefam go on fun side quests (during which they almost die a lot and have character exploration and often there's fun new characters yall just can't have fun), but more importantly what the fuck do you think a resistance movement is? They're trying to feed and supply an illegal fleet AND help the people suffering under the Empire AND physically fight the Empire for said supplies AND hide from the Empire bc they do not have the strength to fight for the sake of fighting yet. That's a logistical nightmare, yes they are going to be spending 90% of their time scrounging for supplies, and it's hard.

public libraries are so sick. there are five books I want to read and they're all relatively new so they're only available in hardback which is so expensive but it just cost me $0 to place holds on them. five books for zero dollars. it requires nothing but clicking a button and then going to the library to pick them up when they're ready. zero dollars. that's crazy

in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years

Idea I am rotating:

Did elves in Beleriand draw (or try to draw) a line between elves who were thralls and elves who were 'only' prisoners?

I feel like when you have groups who hold the policy "thralls are never trustworthy", it would be useful for them to have a separate category for, as an extreme example, someone who was caught by a raiding party and rescued after an hour or so.

And once you've allowed that not all prisoners are thralls, you've opened things up to arguing about what counts. Does it depend on where they're taken? How long they're held? Whether they broke — and how do you evaluate 'broke'? How they felt?

And if there was a distinction drawn — did The Official Story™️ of Maedhros's captivity say he was a thrall, or assert he was a prisoner not a thrall? Was Maedhros's private assessment any different?

So…

Did the elves of Beleriand try to draw a line between "thralls" and "prisoners but not thralls"?

If so, which side of that line would Maedhros privately consider himself to have been on when he was captive?

Also, which side of the line would the official story say he was on?

i love when characters don't get to die

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

kipperlily being mad that she’s boring is so wild bc it’s like. she’s angry because she wants there to be something that makes her not have to work. she’s angry because if she wants to get better, she has to work harder. she’s angry because she wants it to be someone else’s fault. she’s angry because she knows it’s not. she’s angry because if she stops for a moment to think about the fact she may actually be responsible for some of her own misery, she’ll spiral out completely.

currently trying to straighten out some family trees for ocs and I am not going to reach the end of this unscathed. If you are going to have royal characters, just don’t. Or at least define what the naming patterns are beforehand.

cassian & cinta: sole survivors

varada sethu interview for the hindu / andor (2022) / tony gilroy interview for rolling stone / “butchered tongue”, hozier

changed by the narrative is good but what about UNCHANGED by the narrative. a character so close to grasping that idea they’re grappling with but is forced into their old habits once again. making the same mistakes time and time again and getting so close to breaking that cycle but every time they do they’re forced back into it

i can't lie to you i loveee bad endings sometimes. what if nothing worked out. what if the characters gave into their worst instincts. what if they became worse. what if there's truly no hope left. what will they do out of desperation? who will they become as their worst selves?

hey sorry we put your players in a time loop. yeah they can only win by learning, and they can only learn by playing. yeah grant o’brien is carboloading next to their podiums. yeah they know that x equals 8 so y must equal 6. no they can’t use the ladder. yeah now they’re doing the wenis. sorry. 

attention this is your captain speaking chag sameach pesach to all celebrating and a reminder do not open the airlock to greet elijah the vulcan rabbinic council ruled that opening the door to the room where the seder is occurring is sufficient elijah can get on a starship just fine himself he just likes to be personally invited in to your seder we dont need another incident like last year thank you

if i've recently seen a good movie i start talking like an oscars presenter and saying shit like "the power of cinema is that the story reaches out to us while allowing us to reach out in return and immerse ourselves in it ..... we love going to the movies because as we enter the theater we enter other worlds.... but as we look upon the screen we may also see our own lives reflected....." and if i've recently seen a bad movie i start saying shit like "the terrible greedy film industry is cannibalizing itself and the state of movies has never been worse"