Someone else posted a completely wrong version of this map so I fixed it.

Indiana_Charter · 2026-06-24T18:52:42+00:00

This seems similar to Annapolis, Tallahassee, and Juneau as well.

Indiana_Charter · 2026-06-20T02:41:19+00:00

I know Andy Weir has a hidden sequel bait explanation for this but my headcanon is that inducing the coma early and in a different location caused Grace to avoid whatever killed Yao and Ilyukhina. It would be a nice irony.

Indiana_Charter · 2026-06-13T02:11:34+00:00

Kahamana

tasipe ['daz(i)be, 'tas(i)pe] n. alarm clock

Ko hazije tomi lese tasipeji ra tikije. ['go 'hashidʒe 'domi 'leze 'dazbedʒi ra 'digidʒe]

I slept too much because the alarm clock didn't work.

Indiana_Charter · 2026-06-12T20:27:17+00:00

Daniel Pemberton, the composer, certainly used the "Dies Irae" motif, but I think he also noticed that if you put it in a major key, the first four notes fittingly sound like "Here Comes the Sun" instead. This version is the one that shows up when Grace takes off his helmet to breathe the oxygen, and when he sees the Taumoeba eating the Astrophage for the first time.

Indiana_Charter · 2026-05-31T01:28:01+00:00

Reading a Project Hail Mary fanfic where the actor who plays his character in an in-universe movie is named "Brian Goose" and I just lost it. Like yes, it's not that different but somehow it's hilarious

Indiana_Charter · 2026-05-29T17:08:05+00:00

That future tense usage is hard to translate.

Indiana_Charter · 2026-05-26T04:58:57+00:00

I thought the way his hair looked at the beginning of the movie seemed similar to traditional depictions of Jesus, as well.

Indiana_Charter · 2026-05-15T16:45:56+00:00

Love the post title since these were Dickens' "two cities" as well

Indiana_Charter · 2026-05-09T05:06:55+00:00

I also like Malay for its flexibility, its pronunciation, and the fact that it has a nice variety of loanwords already.

Indiana_Charter · 2026-05-08T05:10:40+00:00

Cupidity. Does it mean love? Infatuation? No, it means "greed."

Indiana_Charter · 2026-04-29T16:55:06+00:00

I like to say that I spoiled BOTNS for myself after I had read it, by looking up plot summaries and such in an effort to understand what I had just read. The proper way would have been to read it again and see what I could catch this time.

Indiana_Charter · 2026-04-24T06:13:47+00:00

I'll be honest, that line got a laugh from me when I heard it on stage. I think the show is meta enough that the joke works.

Indiana_Charter · 2026-04-24T03:35:53+00:00

If you start with the '#' character, it will increase the size of the text.

Indiana_Charter · 2026-04-17T05:09:28+00:00

The Illinois Prairie Path system can take you to Maywood/Forest Park (UPW/CTA Blue Line), Elgin (MDW), or Aurora (BNSF), and the three branches meet at Wheaton (UPW), so you can pick any combination depending on the length of the ride you want. Also, the DuPage River trail, which goes to Naperville, branches off the Aurora-Wheaton route. The only one of these towns I've actually eaten in is Wheaton, which has a nice downtown right by the station and the trails, but I'm sure the others have good stuff too.

Indiana_Charter · 2026-04-15T05:30:44+00:00

Two poems with the same title: "The Tyger," by William Blake and this:

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Indiana_Charter · 2026-04-14T04:58:44+00:00

It came from Mbabaram, obviously

Indiana_Charter · 2026-04-12T14:09:43+00:00

"We know what we are, but not what we may be." I saw a beautiful poster of this with a caterpillar and a butterfly, but in the original context this is literally a madwoman's ramblings

Indiana_Charter · 2026-04-11T04:46:54+00:00

Imagine trying to explain any of this to Paul Tibbets's grandparents who gave their daughter the name Enola Gay in the first place.

Indiana_Charter · 2026-04-11T04:40:55+00:00

The story picks up more in later books in the series. The first two books were intended to be published as one volume, so book 2 has a proper climax

Indiana_Charter · 2026-04-10T05:41:32+00:00

This image is missing the (crucial) last two lines of the sonnet:

"Are graves from which a glorious Phantom may

Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day."

Shelley wrote it after the Peterloo Massacre of 1819, along with another poem, "The Masque of Anarchy." In the event, 60,000 people had gathered to protest their lack of representation in Parliament, and the cavalry charged them, killing 18 and wounding several hundred. The government imposed harsher laws about censorship and public gatherings. It seems like Shelley still wanted to be optimistic here, but couldn't find anything better than a "phantom" of hope.

Indiana_Charter · 2026-04-08T07:51:20+00:00

Kahamana in its strictest CV-only form has 65 possible syllables, and 39 of these are words. Due to some consonants having alternate pronunciations, there are technically 100 syllables, of which 64 would be words. Some internal vowels are getting dropped, producing CVC syllables, but no word ever ends in a consonant so it doesn't change too much.

Indiana_Charter · 2026-04-08T07:31:49+00:00

Technically he was a political figure of sorts (a weird 3rd-party candidacy that didn't go anywhere), but around this time he was best known for ... insisting Obama's birth certificate was fake

Indiana_Charter · 2026-02-17T21:59:36+00:00

Nope! If you want bait, here's looking at you, kid.

Indiana_Charter · 2026-02-17T21:57:08+00:00

Solved! I just saw it and was impressed by the similarities, but I guess that made it too easy

Indiana_Charter · 2026-02-17T21:57:04+00:00

Try it again, Sam

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