a screenshot of a twitter video from artemis ii commander reid wiseman showing the porthole of the integrity capsule in focus in the stark contrasted lighting of outer space in the foreground as the moon and earth, fuzzy from a depth of field effect, hang in the vacuum and are bisected by the edge of the porthole.

artemis ii commander reid wiseman may have just inadvertently shared my favorite image. taken from his iphone, the earthset is one piece of moving imagery, but seeing and hearing the workings of a piece of technology i use every day capture the only two heavenly bodies i care for got to me.

>unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade

What did he know?

shake, rattle, and roll

Beloved actor Tim Curry

Tim Curry is 80 today, say something nice about Tim Curry

in general i mostly like the critical role animated series. the main thing they have going against them is that it's so blindingly obvious that it's adapted from an actual tabletop campaign. it really detracts from the fiction most of the time.

Goku: This Sparrowhawk guy seems strong!

Ursula K. Le Guin: Yes, he was quite strong, but strength meant nothing compared to his foolishness.

Goku: Wow.

if you could choose any sci fi story for a film adaptation, which would it be?

I cannot imagine publishing Comfortably Doug then getting off of a plane in RDU one day to see you’ll be spending three days with Doug Walker

My social anxiety could not

His hat has now consumed everything but him. He is alone in the universe.

"she has brought truth, and you condemn it? the arrogance!" - kreia 3:16

my honest to god best guess is that dave completely misunderstood that when people say they like how lived-in the original trilogy felt they didn't mean they like literally everything being grey.

just heard the archbishop of Miami take a swing at secular Calvinists on the bbc

hot medieval summer continues apace

get the people jazzed about a fictional version of late platonism.

it's very funny to see stellan's performance in this and contrast it with him in mamma mia.

for your consideration: andor

Listen to the room when Cathy announces this trade

Dom/Ezi/Fam is such a fun rotation, International House of Bigs.

item descriptions in fantasy rpgs such as dark souls are as close as video games can get to omniscient narration. in this essay i will...

feel free to read into this as much praise and/or malice as you wish.

as a massive fan of both crpgs and sad boys singing folk songs i can't help but feel that baldur's gate 3 is to crpgs as noah kahan is to indie folk.

i love the new president of hungary, john hungary.

hitting the double whammy of italian sub for lunch + hole in the wall pizza for dinner. that's cinema.

wait is the next hungarian pm's name essentially the hungarian equivalent of john hungary? amazing.

we don't even have the decency to think about these things cyclically, like civilized people.

truly i will never escape samsara.

jesus christ will return on the third day in avengers: doomsday

also idk if it's some sort of long covid thing because idk if i ever caught covid but it's been so long since i've felt the ability to really string words together. now i find joy in throwing in too many adjectives to my Posts™

been late to refill my antidepressants so now i post guileless thoughts online at 4 am.

thinking about how so many things are just not allowed to end anymore. everything about the media ecosystem is set up for unceasing 'content'. everything's a subscription. franchises are built for an endless string of stories. nothing resolves. no growth from dead wood.