#it’s always aliens

[erinbeast]

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Hi @gharashambuns Thank you for the ask!

Let’s see, junk food I can’t get enough of would be … prolly cookies. Particularly from Crumbl or the Girl Scouts (mmm Tagalongs). I can’t stop myself.

Fave flower is definitely the lotus and magnolia. Lotus are just so tranquil and magnolia takes me back to when I was a kid living in the SE United States. That was when I found video games.

Aliens? I believe we aren’t the only intelligent race out there so yeah I believe in them. Do I believe they’ve visited us , no.

Ghosts, absolutely believe is them. Talked to one before(my great great grandmother). Believer all the way.

Thank you @gharashambuns You’re such a sweetheart and I’m fangirling over here. Eee! *hugs*

#answers #questions #ghosts #aliens #it’s always aliens #flowers #food #junk food #yum the cookies

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[somerandomdudelmao]

I made some colored refs for my comic ~ And also some sketches because can you guess who is my favorite haha

#marble sky #marble sky comic #still have no idea how to tag this #art #looks at the comments under the first marble sky post #wow Tumblr d o e s like aliens more than twitter #ahaha #I had a great fight inside my brain and at the end decided to put this watermark on the ref #because all my character desighs and refs always end up on Pinterest. Imma need all Pinterestians to know who made those #👍 #marble sky refs #i guess #Marble sky ref

[starsweater]

#godtier characters ALWAYS #caine #the amazing digital circus #data star trek #star trek #baymax #the doctor voyager #blade runner #roy batty #alien franchise #tron #castor #edward scissorhands #hal 9000 #r2d2 and c3po #agent smith #the matrix #terminator #glados #wheatley #ex machina #wall e #i have no mouth and i must scream #Some of these i dont know as well or its been awhile since ive watched them so IM SORRY if its weird to put them in but #honestly I just wanted to show as many of my fave sentient robits/programs as i could because I LOVE THEM IM WEAK #Something about grappling with your innate worth and trying to find purpose in a world that finds you less than ect ect #other categories include 'Just doing my job :)' - 'Just doing my job >:)' and being a little guy #PLEASE share with me more blorbos like this because i cant never have enough of these types of characters #Scissorhands is included bc hes 'not a real boy' and hes so awkward and i love him SO THERE #Castor/Zuse is getting shout out over any other program in Tron because hes my silly goofy guy

[t00thpasteface]

"it's very problematic to make your space aliens autistic-coded" SPEAK FOR YOURSELF 👽👽👽👽👽🛸🛸🛸 ALIEN LASER BLAST ATTACK ✨✨✨🌠🌠🌠🌠🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

#when i was a very small very autistic kid and i saw invader zim for the first time i was like bro he just like me fr #my Also Autistic mom was always like you have to be nice to the humans ok. you have to trick them into thinking you're human #now that i'm better at actually dealing with The Symptoms i relate more to the uhhh non-planet-conquering aliens #shebbz shoutz #spock #superman #invader zim #actually autistic #autistic adult #autism

[ciil]

what makes us any different?

#my art #alien stage #alien stage spoilers #i finally scratched the itch in my brain just a lil #anyways i am fondly thinking abt comic of ivan antagonizing sua and respectfully sir ur a clown (me saying this while crying) #tfw ur both dead eyed dark haired high achievers who love deeply and would risk it all for ur person #i love that they r so similar in the lengths they'll go to but they're also like ewwww at each other #ivan and sua alien stage u'll always be famous to me

[hornetvoid]

let me take it all away (wip)

#artists on tumblr #art #alien stage #alnst #mizisua #alien stage mizi #alien stage sua #fanart #my art #digital art #painting #art wip #i didn’t go here but i guess i do now ! #idk if people read my tags but #recently someone was unsure if it was okay to rb my wips #my answer is absolutely yes !! please go ahead #rbs always welcome

[nerdybluephoenix]

Alien: Why do you do that? What does it mean?

Human: Do what?

Alien: The verbal sound. "Um" and "Uh"

Human: Oh! Well, sometimes when I'm trying speak, I need to a moment to process. It's a pause while I think.

Alien: Why don't you just say nothing when you pause?

Human: Oh! Um...

#I had to do a mock interview for class an hour ago #and yes using “um” was brought up it always is #Added this tag after the replies as a just in case: I'm not against saying um I actually hate when I'm told I can't say it #humans are space orcs #humans are weird #humans are space australians #humans are space oddities #space orcs #aliens #humans are so weird #outer space #galaxy #funny

[girlboyburger]

cow's secret revealed! 🛸

fun lil alt design for cow i've been workin on >:03c

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#....or has it always been like this? #*x files theme* #weewooo this has been in progress for um #almost 6 months! #weehee #focusing on my comms over my personal work = so long spent on a piece that i completely redo it several times #my art #furry #fursona #anthro #oc #cow #cattle #bovine #alien #ref #reference sheet #ref sheet #originally it was gonna be a xenobiologist but the i decided it would be more true to life if i made her a space stoner #so hes out there smoking galatic doinks and scavenging space trash #btw i fucking hate captioning my art. help #girl what do u mean out of this world update stfu #goo #? #do i tag it as GOO? #AH

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

There's something to be said about Nine and Twelve as parallels, about them being these seeming grumps with hearts of gold who must relearn optimism while being fundamentally kind at the end of the day, and Eleven and Thirteen as parallels, as these lonely tinkerers who travel with multiple companions at the same time but push people away before they get too close because they are creatures built on grief, and Ten alone, as something that is all and none of the above, who starts out as a creature born of love but who loses said love and is willing to die and must find grounding but loses said grounding and declares himself the Time Lord Victorious because if he cannot have love he has to have something, anything, he can call his own, and about how all five of them are shaped, fundamentally, by their grief and their guilt over the Time War and being the last of their kind and how every companion leaves them and they will always, always be the last one in the TARDIS, always be the last one surviving, no matter what, and yet all of them, at the end of the day, die to save someone. Die to be kind, just one more time. Because that is what ties them all together. That is what makes them the Doctor.

#it's just something i've been thinking about when writing eleven and thirteen #ninth doctor #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #thirteenth doctor #hi i'm having a lot of feelings about my favorite tragic hopeful kind afraid angry protective LONELY alien today #it's about how they stole a TARDIS and ran away from home #about how they've always been running #and then the Time War keeps them running #and so do their companions #the companions that push them to be kind also push them to be cruel #because they are both the source of hope and tragedy at the end of the day #and i'm fine #i'm not crying you're crying #doctor who #meta

[uncanny-tranny]

I think a lot of discussions would be made better by recognizing that masculinity and femininity aren't inherently preferred, but adherence to cishet standards is, which is slightly different.

This is why a masculine trans man* or a feminine trans woman* often still face stigma - it isn't that they aren't gender conforming to the gender they are. It is that cishetero standards do not want trans people to exist at all, in any capacity.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #transphobia #transphobia tw #it's just frustrating when the conversation is 'oh well [x] is ALWAYS rewarded!' #because in certain contexts it won't be #the sweeping generalization and assumptions will only alienate others who may have similar interests and goals #whenever i see these conversations it does feel pretty antagonistic toward people percieved as 'rewarded' for the way they're treated... #...and it's odd to me because it's not challenging any systems in any way. challenging the systems itself is a very momentous task... #...so while i do understand if somebody isn't ready or able to challenge those systems that doesn't mean the answer is going after... #...individuals. basically this is a branch off the tree of 'is this punching up or just attacking somebody?'

[safekeeperscosm]

she speaks Ben silly

#it always frustrated me how a lot of adult vulpimancers we meet are hostile #thank you af for that chill blue guy 💙 #ben 10 #ben 10 alien force #ben 10 uaf #ben tennyson #wildmutt #vulpimancer #gwen tennyson #kevin levin #yeah safe draws stuff

[turtleblogatlast]

One of the earliest examples of Leo’s “I’ll do my own thing to accomplish our goal without discussing it with my team first” is in episode one. It’s super, super quick, and ultimately inconsequential, but it subtly sets up a great precedent that I think is very interesting.

When the boys need to grab the medallion from Splinter without Splinter noticing, Raph, Mikey, and Donnie huddle together with Raph taking the lead in trying to devise a plan to get the mystic device. Meanwhile, Leo slinks away and grabs the device by clocking the situation (by knowing his father well enough to predict his actions - something he does with each family member multiple times in the series) and making a move on his own.

It works out perfectly fine, and is ultimately the best move, and it’s honestly okay that he didn’t consult everyone for something so small when it’s such a non issue to get it, but it nicely sets up how this tends to go in the series, including how it goes in the movie.

To be honest episode one is actually really good at setting up a lot of things for each character in the long run, this is just one example that caught my attention, as small and unassuming as it is.

#rottmnt #rottmnt leo #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #im just ranting at this point feel free to ignore me I’m tired lol #anyway #Leo constantly just goes off and does his own thing #and yeah honestly his own thing often works??? but he alienates his brothers/team in the process #BUT also this isn’t necessarily a one way street #when Leo DOES try to consult his brothers or give his thoughts on matters he’s not really taken seriously #best example here is bug busters where he CONSTANTLY makes his worries and suspicions known only to have them ignored #so it’s almost understandable that he doesn’t often open up about his thought process when it’s easier to just do it #than to try and fail to justify it #after all it almost always works out for him when he does so why not? #and then the movie happens #and that line of thinking doesn’t quite hold up does it? #BUT ON ANOTHER NOTE #like I said episode one is super good at setting characters up #from showing off Donnie’s preference for tech vs magic/mystic #from showing Mikey’s innate talent for mysticism #from showing Raph’s anxieties and how easily they can stack up #there’s more but I’d have to do a closer deep dive on the ep and man am I tired #so off the head rambles it is for now #sorry everyone for my constant spam of Too Many Words into things that are prob Not That Deep #it’s honestly just fun haha #EDIT: bc I saw someone mention it! yeah all the boys have communication issues through the series and it’s super interesting and realistic #Leo in particular stands out to me here because his communication issues are a constant theme that pop up much more often #but each of them experiences this in some form

[plutonicbees]

yj costume gallery (halloween sillies stay sillying)

#btw this is NOT a 'late' halloween post because its always halloween on tumblr and in my brain #cassie is kinda doing an annabeth chase look but could also just be a casual camper #tim is coraline; bart is strawberry shortcake; kon is magic earring ken #anita and cassie are dionne and cher from clueless #greta and slobo are just chilling... ur average alien and ghost duo #cassie sandsmark #tim drake #greta hayes #slobo dc #anita fite #cissie king jones #bart allen #kon kent #kon el kent #conner kent #young justice 1998 #young justice #yj98 #young just us #dc comics #dc fanart #young justice fanart #fanart #art #my art #superboy #robin dc #wonder girl #impulse dc

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

every time kevin does something morally questionable

ben&gwen: >;O KEVIN

#ben 10 #ben 10 alien force #ben 10 ultimate alien #ben tennyson #gwen tennyson #kevin levin #now every time i think of kevin i hear his name in their voices in that specific tone ya know that one #also i dunno why but twins idea always make me chuckle. they are twins allright. but more of spiritual ones #all the other shared traits are just family traits man

[joltrify]

can i see some disability aids for aliens in ben 10

cause i liked the Xlr8 one

I'll confess I think that the kineceleran's crutch was the peak of my creativity but here are a couple I came up with >.<

#UH IGNORE THE FACT I FORGOT TO COLOR CERTAIN THINGS THANKS- #This actually helped me to learn a lot about what a disability is and what that may look like on other creatures - #you'll definitely see more of the eyeguy and wildmutt in the future - I've always seen them as a perfect duo haha #thanks for the ask anon! #art #digital art #q&a #doodles #ask #fanart #ben 10 #ben ten #ben 10 fanart #ben 10 alien force #ben 10 ultimate alien #ben 10 omniverse #ben 10 aliens #jetray #feedback #heatblast #brainstorm #goop #wildvine #end my suffering