You Can Support Women’s Rights To Do Whatever They Want With Their Bodies Without Claiming That Getting

Hot take but if your opinion of a song (or anything for that matter) has anything at all to do with the number of listeners you’re a fake fan

Day 11: Favorite Archives Member

Day 12: Love to Hate

Day 13: Hate to Love (yes it’s unfinished)

Skipped 14 and 15 because I had contracted and illness and wanted to sleep all day

16: Angel (it’s supreme archivist aziraphale)

Day 17: Demon (Jon as Crowley)

Day 18: Headcanon

Peep the updated Helen design

I forgot to post/didn’t have an account to post all my ink/magtober art so far so here’s all of it, good and bad and mediocre

Day 1: Dream

Day 2: Spiders

Day 3: Path (unfinished bc I was interrupted by an event I forgot about)

Day 4: Dodge (I had no clue what to do for this one it’s Martin and annabelle in a Dodge Challenger)

Day 5: skipped because I’m lazy

Day 6: Favorite avatar (this is when I discovered magtober, you will notice my design for Helen changes drastically over the course of the month. Also this is unfinished as well)

Day 7: Leitner

Day 8: Tragedy (…also unfinished I have adhd you’re not allowed to get mad at me (joking))

Day 9: Comedy

I was gonna do comedy in a Shakespeare way but then I had an idea and made a TikTok instead I’m not gonna link it though because my phone is struggling

Day 10: Favorite Statement (unfinished but I actually plan on finishing this one I swear)

Gonna make this post a two parter because my phone starts breaking down whenever I type more than 10 words

There's this sort of anthropomorphizing that inherently happens in language that really gets me sometimes. I'm still not over the terminology of "gravity assist," the technique where we launch satellites into the orbit of other planets so that we can build momentum via the astounding and literally astronomical strength of their gravitational forces, to "slingshot" them into the direction we need with a speed that we could never, ever, ever create ourselves. I mean, some of these slingshots easily get probes hurtling through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour. Wikipedia has a handy diagram of the Voyager 1 satellite doing such a thing.

"Gravity assist." "Slingshot." Of course, on a very basic and objective level, yes, we are taking advantage of forces generated by outside objects to specifically help in our goals. We're getting help from objects in the same way a river can power a mill. And of course we call it a "slingshot," because the motion is very similar (mentally at least; I can't be sure about the exact physics).

Plus, especially compared to the other sciences, the terminology for astrophysics is like, really straightforward. "Black hole?" Damn yeah it sure is. "Big bang?" It sure was. "Galactic cluster?" Buddy you're never gonna guess what this is. I think it's an effect of the fact that language is generally developed for life on earth and all the strange variances that happen on its surface, that applying it to something as alien and vast as space, general terms tend to suffice very well in a lot more places than, like... idk, botany.

But, like. "Gravity assist." I still can't get the notion out of my head that such language implies us receiving active help from our celestial neighbors. They come to our aid. We are working together. We are assisted. Jupiter and the other planets saw our little messengers coming from its pale blue molecular cousin, and we set up the physics just right, so that they could help us send them out to far stranger places than this, to tell us all about what they find out there.

We are assisted.

And there is no better way to illustrate my feelings on the matter than to just show you guys one of my favorite paintings, this 1973 NASA art by Rick Guidice to show the Pioneer probe doing this exact thing:

"... You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. ..."

Gravity assist.

Any evil schemes lately?

What do you take me for? Of course I have ‘evil schemes’! More than you do, certainly. My most recent scheme? Let’s just say the superhero registration database is in for some… software updates. 

@mothman-the-mothman87 you are correct

I did cry about opportunity shutting down when I found out the first time lol

You are working the gate in the afterlife and for the first time ever, something the humans built has shown up to be processed. You’re not sure what to do, this… entity shouldn’t have a soul, but here it is in front of you, freshly dead and awaiting the next life.

Anyone who’s favorite Christmas song is carol of the bells is a green flag

Linktober day 1: Mirror

art trade with le epic @ottosbigtop :]

Shameless Maxwell pinup-esque post. Whatever.

summer day ⍣ ೋ