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For the Star Wars Day (May the Fourth / May the Force Be With You) there was shared (with the permission of the Pratchett Estate ) a Terry Pratchett story from the Star Wars Universe that was only published in a newspaper 45 years ago! Very excited to read a new Terry's piece! :)❤ (tweet)

Also, Terry Pratchett writing fanfiction 45 years ago, can I hear a wahoo? :)

lets hold trunks with mama

I think one big reason why we don't consider the stars as important as before (not even pop-astrology anymore cares about the stars or the sky on itself, just the signs deprived of context) is because of light pollution.

For most of human history the sky looked between 1-3, 4 at most. And then all of a sudden with electrification it was gone (I'm lucky if I get 6 in my small city). The first time I saw the Milky Way fully as a kid was a spiritual experience, I was almost scared on how BRIGHT it was, it felt like someone was looking back at me. You don't get that at all with modern light pollution.

When most people talk about stargazing nowadays they think about watching about a couple of bright dots. The stars are really, really not like that. The unpolluted night sky is a festival of fireworks. There is nothing like it.

Honestly, same.

reading terry prattchet is so crazy, cause you'll be reading about a character called something like plinko plonko and their zany exploits, and then he'll just drop a paragraph that goes so insanely hard like -

and then I just have to stare at the wall for a bit.

kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it

hey, did you know that the world is a better place because of your creations and art and writing, no matter how niche or how many people see it

it’s 2025 and I am reading about my good friends estrogen and generative ai

Tumblr please make this post go viral. This needs to happen.

Where's that post about how Carlos Diehz should play Estraven

Make that man fuck with gender again

this had no business being as fun to work on as it was, but my god did I have a blast with this

I love this! He definitely understood the assignment :D

"You are not a tech bro, you are a modern day factory worker"

Seen in Oakland, California

This was only the first season? I'm fucked.

87/ 365 Things That Don’t Suck, Take 3:

rainbow pencils

it’s so funny when people online act like women reading trashy romance novels is like. a new phenomenon and a sign of the downfall of society bc this has never been a thing before. this has been an extremely popular genre of book for ages. the only difference now is that they’re written by women who wanted to fuck kylo ren. which i guess is annoying. out of every man in star wars like be so serious. they had harrison ford in those movies

let's go places with mama

getting clean with mama

Diver convince octopus to trade his plastic cup for a seashell

For @grundyscribbling - Thanks for reblogging all the water! I'm so glad these little water gifs make you happy! :)

(c) gifs by riverwindphotography

let's stand with mama

_@ï

OOH SHELL YES

Been watching snis on snoop for a snour. Everybody do the snunky snail

Being in a fandom for 20+ years is weird because you’ll see posts like, “How come I never see people mention x” and it’s like. We did. We talked about that a lot, actually. Actually it’s something that came up. And it’s hard not to be like, “Yeah, we discussed this fifteen years ago.” Half of this fandom wasn’t even born when these discussions happened. Wild.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness //The X-Files, 1x17

ursula k le guin said sci fi/fantasy does not have to be about giant wars or battles of good and evil or galactic disaster; it is best served as a lens through which to examine what is actually intrinsic to the human condition and what, once removed a few layers from our own perceptions & assumptions, begins to fall apart. and she was correct.

How does one hate a country, or love one? […] I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?

— Ursula K. Le Guin – The Left Hand of Darkness (1969, p. 212)

more e.

Yes. Finally someone gets it. This is one of the reasons why I fell in awe (not love) with Dune, reading it over twenty years ago while studying environmental sciences at university.

what dune is about: a rant

so

dune

that weird giant in the background of modern sci-fi that everyone knows about and nobody seems to get, not really

what is dune?

is it about the epynomous planet, dune, arrakis?

no

it is an epic story about paul atreides' ascent to power through the combined power of a monopoly on the supply of navigator space-cocaine and the boundless light of islam?

also no

dune is not a space opera, dune is not an epic fantasy story set in space

fundamentally dune is about ecology

and the main character of dune is not paul. nor is it leto ii. nor is it sheeana, or odrade, or miles teg, all names that mean nothing to people who only know the setting through adaptations. the main character is not even duncan idaho

it's the bene gesserit

what is the bene gesserit?

well, it's complicated. everyone knows about their "breeding program" but few people actually think about what the implications of it are

the great houses are not in charge, really. they're gene lines. they're in a very real sense different strains of *domesticated human* selected for different traits. they're not "special" for any reason of faith or exceptionalism

they're "special" in the same way a racehorse is special. because it was bred to be fast. the mythologies are all artificial additions, memetic scaffolding to surround the actual project

and then, what traits?

well, the bene gesserit sought a broad prescience. a "leader" like guidedog is a leader, leading a blind humanity through a future without hitting any metaphorical walls

they misunderstood their own mission, and they learn as much, before the end of their relevance

because paul was an ephemeral storm,

and leto is a wolf, a predator in the ecological sense, a selective pressure on the memetics of humanity, driving them out of the forest, driving them out of their spot at the top of the food chain. no longer their own worst enemy

dune is about the prelude and memetic extinction events before the scattering

it's about a domesticated humanity breaking free, becoming feral, becoming everything else

dune is about the endless struggle for humanity to find its niche before it drives itself extinct, and in doing so finding an infinite amount of niches, for an infinite amount of different humanities

it's about ecosystems and predation and diversification and extinction events both biological and memetical, and how it is ruthless, cruel, and most things go extinct without descendants, but as long as something survives it keeps going

about humanity breaking through its last great filter: itself

such is the golden path