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[somebirdortheother]

Weekly Writing Roundup - Foundation

Ah, it's time of the week again when I make my Foundation writing everyone else's problem 🤓

See You How You Really Are

Rating: Explicit | Cleon XIII x Demerzel

Summary: Cleon XIII's and Demerzel's relationship is unlike any other.

Chapter 1 - Splinters

Chapter 2 - Deviations - NSFW

Chapter 3 - Atrocities - NSFW

Chapter 4 - Consequences - Coming up next Tuesday

This chapter will focus on the immediate aftermath of Episode 10, from Cleon XIII's POV and will feature and extended amount of Hurt/Comfort/Hurt and Demerzel's ... skincare routine malfunction.

Excerpt:

The entire hall was devoid of sound, and for a moment, he felt like a grotesque, predatory beast whose footsteps had the animals scattering, burrowing in holes and preparing to die. I might be just that, he thought, blind with fury as he was, adrenaline thumping in his heart like a vicious drum. He felt sick - he wanted to snap Demerzel’s damned neck as she’d done to his son; he wanted to crawl into a dark corner of the palace, to run away and never come back.

Chapter 5 - Mercy - NSFW

Chapter 6 - X Will Mark the Place

Foundation Math Posting

Since I *still* have a doctorate degree in the branch of applied mathematics that deals with statistical modelling, Hari’s math mumbo-jumbo is intimately familiar to me. So intimate, that I decided that I won’t sleep right if I don’t break down all the Foundation math content, making everyone’s eye bleed. You’re welcome, babes ❤️

Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4

Verdict so far: I really am continuing to feel for Cleons because that Hari Seldon successfully played them with his medium-quality model. Meanwhile, Salvor Hardin propagates improper understanding of the classic coin-toss experiment (but l like to believe it's just to spook Phara).

Foundation Seduction

I’ve pulled many illegal moves to get this far, but @penelopeloveshere is almost ready to serve the Empire. ❤️

[teffiebell]

[mikewheelerfan2022]

Reblogging would be a great help, but don’t feel pressured to

[brightlotusmoon]

[mitchipedia]

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[shinseifer]

"average cat owner spends 3 years in prison" factoid actualy just statistical error. average owner spends 0 years in prison. Miette's mother, who kicked her body like the football and went to jail for One Thousand Years is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[buildoblivionthenwewilltalk]

[sleepy-bebby]

[uuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

He's right tho

[cyancees]

i have neither a good imagination nor aphantasia, but a secret third thing

[demonicseries]

You guys are never gonna believe what the name of this sculpture is

[sirfrogsworth]

Photographers all know about polarizing filters. They remove reflections off the surfaces of objects. We use them to see into water or windows that are obscured by those reflections. But anything with an even slightly glossy surface has a layer of reflection on top. So if you have a shiny green plant, it can remove the shiny and reveal a very saturated green underneath. Polarizers also remove a lot of scattered and reflected light from the sky. Which reveals a deep blue color you didn't even know was there.

Here is a photo I took of my circular polarizer.

And the first thing I noticed when walking outside during the eclipse was the color of everything was more saturated, just like in that circle. Apparently, an eclipse significantly reduces polarized light and I got this creepy feeling because I was only ever used to seeing the world like that through the viewfinder of my camera.

The other thing I noticed was my outdoor lights. I leave them on all the time because I never remember to turn them on at night. And usually the sun will render them barely visible during the day. On a very sunny day they almost look like they are off.

But you can clearly see they are shining and even flaring the camera during the eclipse.

Our eyes adjust to lighting changes very well so it was hard to tell how much dimmer things were, but that is a good indication. I took this photo a few minutes ago and you can see how dim the lights appear after the moon has fucked off.

I did a calculation using the exposure settings between these two photos. The non-eclipse photo has 7 f-stops more light. That is 128 times or 12,700% more light.

A partial Pringle eclipse cut the sun's light by 99.2% and somehow our eyes adjusted to make it seem like a normal sunny day (with weird ass saturated colors).

[mysharona1987]

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[postanagramgenerator]

what kind of fucked up and evil dish can i make without buying too many ingredients?

what kind of fucked up and evil dish can i make without buying too many ingredients?

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this day and minute? go put kiwi in the microwave and see a gunky kind of bitch unfold