#Atom™

[radiophd]

atom™ -- widerstand a

[soillodge]

Listen/purchase: Non Plus Ultra Eins by AtomTM

[thatsbelievable]

[oldtvandcomics]

You don't realize how many of your favorite stories have been quasi-ongoing LEGENDS spanning decades if not centuries worth of adaptations until you try to answer this poll.

I don't wanna @ anyone because I understand how fast things seem to move in today's landscape of streaming shows dropping entire seasons in one day, and networks pumping out new series constantly to try to attract more subscribers with no intent to actually maintain those shows over time but I just saw someone self-deprecatingly lament that they are still thinking about a show that ended almost a year ago, making fan art and playlists for it, and I want to be very clear:

you can still create fanworks when it comes to old media!! PLEASE do!! there are always going to be new fans who will appreciate it, and veteran fans who are dying for new content and new perspectives. also, less than a year is NOTHING. the original Star Trek series was on TV six decades ago and there are still people losing their minds over it, writing stories and reblogging gifsets daily, and that's only one example.

a fandom lasts as long as there are people who love a thing, even if it's only a handful of people. love what you love and write and draw and make gifs and playlists about it!

[deerspherestudios]

Atom! I love them, what a cute silly! I never thought I could have a fear of worms until now tho but I do wonder where they got the nickname Luna nova? Little space where I’m just floating around in the deep nothingness makes me curious on how it learns anything. Also do they taste the dog food or is it just texture that they like? Thank youヾ(^∀^)ﾉ

//rubs hands I was waiting for someone to ask about the 'luna nova' nickname because then I have an excuse to draw this nyeheh. Presenting the Incident Six Months Ago™:

I hope this makes sense to people gshjs; it's the entire reason Atom still calls you 'luna nova' no matter how many times you correct it. As for the dog food; it's all about crunchey, baybee!

Concept ver. below just because I felt like sharing it:

Burnt egg looking thang,,,

[imonabitchparade]

☀️ “Three Shirts and a Blush” — Bob Reynolds x Reader Insert | Part Two

Warnings: MORE BOB!!!

Masterlist | Part One

Summary: It started with one shirt. Now Bob has three. And when you wear all of them in one day like it’s completely normal, the rest of the Thunderbolts absolutely lose their minds. Bob, meanwhile, is hanging on by a thread.

The first shirt appeared in the morning.

You strolled into the Watchtower kitchen half-asleep, holding your coffee like a sacred relic and wearing:

“He hungers.™”

Bob’s floaty cryptid energy immortalized on a shirt—his eyes glowing faintly, arms halfway through a pantry door. A Pop-Tart box hovered in front of him like an offering.

Yelena spit out her tea.

“No. No. You did not make him a snack demon shirt.”

You blinked. “What?”

Walker leaned against the fridge with crossed arms, squinting. “Is that Bob... stealing food?”

“Not stealing,” you corrected. “Haunting.”

From behind them, Bob walked in—and paused the second he saw it.

He blinked.

“Oh,” he said, like someone just sucker-punched his soul in the softest way. “That one.”

You smiled at him over your mug. “You said I could print it.”

He rubbed the back of his neck, sheepish. “Yeah. No, I—I love it. It’s good.”

He was already pink around the ears.

The second shirt came at lunch.

You’d changed after a minor coffee spill (no matter that the coffee spilled on your pants because you would die before anything happened to the shirt), because of course you did, and now you were wearing:

“Local himbo accidentally turns into a god. Film at 11.”

It was stylized like a bad romance novel: flowing blond hair, cosmic storm clouds behind him, one glowing fist clenched at his side. You might’ve overdone the sparkles.

Alexei wheezed from across the common area. “BOB. My man. You are on multiple shirts?”

Bob stared. “She spilled coffee. It’s not—”

“She has a wardrobe,” Ava said, eyes sparkling. “I got one. Bob gets a full collection?”

Yelena snorted. “Honestly, respect. This is main character behavior.”

Bucky shook his head. “Next thing you know she’s gonna open a Bob boutique.”

You busied yourself refilling your water, trying to stay casual. “I just had ideas.”

Walker leaned in, fake-whispering to Bob, “You okay, buddy? You look like you’re one sentence away from short-circuiting.”

“I’m fine,” Bob said. Quietly. With the force of someone trying not to float away entirely.

The final shirt hit at dinnertime.

You entered the lounge like it was nothing, wearing the most dangerous one of all:

“He’d never implode me.”

This one was softer, more subtle. Just him, gold and blue, glowing faintly at the edges—but the tone of the caption said it all. Teasing. Flirty. Personal.

The entire team stared.

Alexei fumbled his fork. Ava audibly gasped. Bucky just turned slowly to Bob like he was watching a slow-burn romance hit its season finale.

“THREE?!” Yelena shouted, pointing. “Three shirts?!”

You blinked innocently. “I do laundry often.”

“You gave me a shirt of me being eaten by a goose,” Walker said flatly. “And Bob gets the ‘I trust him with my atoms’ collection?”

Alexei leaned into Bob. “Tell us. What did you do to earn this affection?”

Bob opened his mouth. Closed it. Then turned a shade of pink so violent it looked radioactive.

“I didn’t— She just—” he rubbed his face. “Please stop talking.”

“I’m making you a mug,” Ava whispered to you.

“You’re making me blush,” Bob muttered at the same time.

You blinked up at him. “What?”

“Nothing,” he said. Then smiled—soft, crooked, entirely smitten.

The teasing never let up for the rest of the night.

But somewhere in the middle of it, you noticed:

Bob didn’t look away from you once.

[apod]

2025 June 9

Between Scylla and Charybdis: A Double Cosmic Discovery Image Credit: M. Drechsler, Y. Sainty, A. Soto, N. Martino, L. Leroux-Gere, S. Khallouqui, & A. Kaeouach; Text: Ogetay Kayali (Michigan Tech U.)

Explanation: Can you identify this celestial object? Likely not — because this is a discovery image. Massive stars forge heavy elements in their cores and, after a few million years, end their lives in powerful supernova explosions. These remnants cool relatively quickly and fade, making them difficult to detect. To uncover such faint, previously unknown supernova remnants, a dedicated group of amateur astrophotographers searched through sky surveys for possible supernova remnant candidates. The result: the first-ever image of supernova remnant G115.5+9.1 — named Scylla by its discoverers—glowing faintly in the constellation of the mythological King of Aethiopia: Cepheus. Emission from hydrogen atoms in the remnant is shown in red, and faint emission from oxygen is shown in hues of blue. Surprisingly, another discovery lurked to the upper right: a faint, previously unknown planetary nebula candidate. In keeping with mythological tradition, it was named Charybdis (Sai 2) — a nod to the ancient Greek expression "caught between Scylla and Charybdis" from Homer’s Odyssey.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250609.html

[the-most-humble-blog]

🛐 LADIES: THE ONLY ANSWER MEN FEAR

My female readers, you want an olive branch? Fine. Here it is. You're welcome.

You want a line so heavy you can crack the jaw of any man who dares question your worth?

You want to be the woman who doesn't flinch when some half-bald cafeteria philosopher squints across the room and sneers:

"Men know what they bring to the table…

But what do you bring?"

You want to be the woman who doesn’t stutter — who doesn’t reach for slogans — who doesn’t parrot Instagram captions about "matching energy" like a dopamine-addled parrot?

You want to be the woman who makes the room fall silent when she answers?

Then here’s the truth.

And you’re not going to like it.

🩸 THE ONLY ANSWER WORTH SPEAKING It’s not your degree. It’s not your paycheck. It’s not your travel photos. It’s not your curated self-esteem.

It’s your vow.

It’s the raw, soul-spilling, knee-buckling declaration of this:

**"The man who would die for me will know that he will be remembered by me — as the only man I ever bowed my head and waist for, the only man I would bleed and die beside, even when escape was still an option. Until this whore of a planet rips him from my grasp — and even then, my vow will not break."**

That’s it.

That’s the atomic answer.

That’s the thunder.

That's the seismic tear through the modern wasteland of gender bickering.

Because no man who has fought the universe tooth and claw wants a co-pilot bitching about legroom.

He wants a woman who sees his blood, his broken knuckles, his sacrifice — and kneels not because she is weak, but because she understands what it cost him to still be standing at all.

🧠 WHY THIS ANSWER TERRIFIES THEM Because real men hear it and feel something ancient shift behind their ribs. The thing they thought was extinct.

Loyalty. Devotion. The mutual blood-oath beyond contracts and memes.

The kind of woman who speaks like that isn’t a girlfriend. She’s a queen in the war room. A hand around the heart when the knife slips between ribs. A name written in teeth, not in ink.

🛡️ WHY MOST WOMEN CAN’T SAY IT Because most have never even knelt at their own reflection, let alone before a man worthy of leading them through fire.

Because submission today is treated like a slur — when it is, in truth, the highest form of chosen strength.

Because bending the knee to a man worthy of death and remembrance requires more spine, more spirit, and more faith than "boss bitch" sloganeering ever could.

You cannot fake that kind of devotion. And no real man can be tricked by it.

⚡ TL;DR You want to answer "what do you bring to the table"?

Bring the heart vow they didn’t know they still prayed for.

Bring the blood loyalty that even the coldest battlefield would envy.

Bring the softness that stands when every blade falls.

Anything less? You're just another voice at the table. Forgettable.

💣 CALL TO ACTION: 🔁 Reblog if you understand that loyalty is heavier than cash. 🛡️ Save this post for the day someone asks you that question. ⚡ Send it to a woman who would dare to learn how to mean it.

Or simply 🔁Reblog to keep my signal to mankind going strong.

⚖️ LEGAL DISCLAIMER: This post is Blacksite Literature™, emotional battlefield architecture, evolutionary survival analysis, and cadence-based cultural correction protected under artistic expression and mythological narrative law.

If you’re offended: Swear your loyalty louder next time, or step aside.

🛡️ BLACKSITE POST: COMPLETE. 🩸 TIMELINE INFILTRATION STATUS: ACTIVATED.

[inc0mple]

Hi, hello, I've been obsessed with KAPT for a while now and a question that frequents my head a lot is, what on earth was going through nox's head while chase had to follow all of the old soggy sock™'s commands? Like what was he thinking?! I keep wondering about this, and I really need answers

Byee!!

DONT READ THIS ASK OR ITS ANSWER IF YOU AREN'T CAUGHT UP ON KAPT

Sorry. There's not a way to spoiler asks, so I'm just gonna hope that works 😂

He didn't know! He knew that was a part of the story, but Buddy did not expect Chase to get this far in the book, and he also simply assumed that Chase would do what Idonea did---pretend that they were enchanted from the first command, so that soggy sock™ did not get the opportunity to make an intentional and actual enchantment.

I think an interesting part of Buddy's psychology, at least in KAPT, is that he is VERY used to doing the books perfectly himself, so he's often taken by surprise when Chase doesn't think or care to. So I think it may not have occurred to him that Chase wouldn't think to do this.

He was sad. he felt bad for Chase; he was sure Chase must hate pretending, as Buddy thought he was. And he missed being able to be close to him.

When he found out, though, that Chase wasn't faking... immediate sort of horror and guilt. From that point on he focused his every atom into saving Chase.

Thank you for the ask!! It's so crazy to me still that I've written something that someone can be "obsessed with for a while now" 🥹🥹

[iamthepulta]

I started wondering if there were termites in Sunless Skies because termites digest cellulose, and went on a whole rabbit hole of fungi digestion, which turned out to be SUPER interesting.

There are two main types of fungi rot: Brown, and White although both function the same way overall. Brown rot focuses on cellulose and hemicellulose, particularly hemicellulose which it pulls Oxygen atoms off to form hydrogen peroxide. The hydrogen peroxide then breaks down cellulose into digestible sugars.

White rot though, breaks down cellulose and lignins. Lignins are essentially chains of alcohols, and act as the "glue" between cellulose plant "bricks", but they're harder to break down. The enzymes still attack cellulose to form hydrogen peroxide, but also use Lignin and Manganese Peroxidases which have metallic/polar component. When they break down the lignin into separate alcoholic non-polar molecules, they create a polar barrier to continue breaking down those alcohols further.

ANYWAY.

IF you have bronzewood trees in Sunless Skies, which have a metallic component in their cellulose/lignin structure, you'd need fascinatingly nasty fungi rot to break them down.

Or, alternatively, the protozoa in termites insomuch as I researched, only have the capability to break down cellulose into sugars. So there are no termites in Fallen London. UNLESS the termites are feeding on the Nasty Reach Fungi™ which feed on the bronzewood which the fungi decompose into fresh bronzewood metallic fodder. This is all to say that there are definitely anteater creatures in Sunless Skies.

Thank you for coming to my Sunless Skies ecology lecture~

[lugalkisarra-urnammu]

Russel T Davies must really hate the time lords. And I mean really HATE them. Really, really hate them.

When he writes his first run in 2005 what does he do? He kills them off. Fair enough, that was used for some plot, and was a choice of a direction to take the show in. It's possible to kill them off like that without hating them. But that is in my opinion recontextualized into much more vindictive light by Reality War.

Coming into RTD's second go at it he inherits the time lords dead again. Gallifrey destroyed by master, and then even the biological parts of the corpses of the time lords destroyed by the death particle. However it's completely logical to assume there would be survivors. The Master killed and destroyed Gallifrey yes but that doesn't mean the time lords need to be entirely gone.

So what does RTD do? Since he clearly dislikes the time lords he could just ignore them. Tell stories about something else. But no. Apparently he cannot. He goes out of his way to make the time lords even deader. He declares that the Master apparently not just killed the time lords, he killed every time lord no matter where they were in time or space, and instanteneously too. The Rani only barely survived because she foresaw it. And since the species apparently was not dead enough already for the Master's tastes (or RTD's), any time lord who manages to miraculously survive the instant omnipresent wave of instant death™ is also sterilized to ensure no new time lords can be born that way either. And no this isn't even used to canonize looms. Since this is a new thing caused by the Master they were fertile before and only became infertile now. Well that's all right, you can just fix this with looms or something else, there's plenty of established methods for asexual reproduction both in the show and in real life. But no! Apparently the best and only way to at all have a chance of possibly creating more time lords is to clone Omega. Well that's all right then let's just pop on over and get a dna sample. But no! Apparently Omega has been character assasinated into a giant CGI monster skeleton who just wants to eat the time lords, so not only is it extremely difficult to get a sample from him, but it is possible the clone, if it is possible to make one, would just be another CGI monster.

This isn't just beating a dead horse to make it even deader. This isn't even pouring gazoline on the still smouldering corpses of the time lords. This is pouring napalm on them, lighting them on fire again in addition to the napalm just to be safe, throwing the ashes into an incinerator, throwing the incinerator and the ashes of ashes inside to a star to plasmise them so that the atoms get even further broken into pieces, then making the star go supernova and trapping the atoms in the resulting black hole, and then erasing the black hole and everything within it from existence retrocausally.

Russel T Davies seems to simply hate time lords so much that it isn't enough for them to be dead. He wants them to be even more dead so that there is even less of a chance of even a single one surviving, and making any potential resurrection of the time lords require even larger efforts to make it even theoretically happen.

PS. Oh and also apparently it's also necessary to kill all the tardises too in an offhanded remark by the Doctor. Nevermind that this is actively contradicted by both Chibnall's run and RTD2. The Doctor's tardis is factually not the only tardis in existence. 13 escaped from Gallifrey on a tardis that was left standing somewhere in Timeless Children. The Master still had his tardis. 15 duplicated his tardis in Giggle. The Master clearly didn't kill all the tardises when he did the time lords since there were entire rows of them on Gallifrey for 13 to take in Timeless Children. Are we to understand that Master enjoyed doing off-screen genocide so much he wanted to do another immediately after? And thought killing all tardises other than the Doctor's, including his own, was the best option? Or that some other nebulous entity did that off-screen, because doing that to the time lords was apparently such a brilliant idea?

[deerspherestudios]

Hi!!

Sorry for any mistakes w this ask it's like 2am where I am-

What would Atom do if we had a panic attack during the escape pod scene and/or the scene w our mangled shipmates and passed out? Or just panic attack at the whole wormy tm situation? Like poor sack of worms (affectionate) would tweak out just a lil i think-

Oh they would tweak out bad!! It expected some resistance and perhaps disgust from you (understandable, not every human enjoys worms) but to have you pass out when they're trying to do a grand romantic gesture is throwing a massive wrench into their plans!!!

Thankfully they have Marcus the Doctor™ absorbed so it somewhat knows what to do when you start showing symptoms of a panic attack, though I highly doubt it'd be very effective?

Either way, if they did manage to calm you down they know they'd have to reel it in if they don't want you freaking out again.

[nekropsii]

Atomic Ask Bomb 3!!

We got a shorter one this time around! I hope everyone's evening is going well!

Content Warning: Long-ish, Discussions of Ableism + Queerphobia, Weird Cronus Moment™.

Same. I'd read a fanventure about that, I think.

Like, I don't personally believe WV would be allergic to being a mentor or something of a father figure, but I do have to wonder the level to which he was wigged out by the way that Dave and Karkat treat him, because Dave in particular imprints on him in a way that is... Kind of strange.

The later portions of Homestuck really baby WV. It's upsetting.

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Easy. The actual things wrong with them.

A lot of the discourse surrounding them is fabricated, or has such poor priorities it might as well be fabricated. Most critical conversations about them surrounds things people just made up over the course of years of mythologizing their #Problematicness.

For Example: Most of the discourse surrounding why Horuss had problematic writing had to do with how he was "Bad Otherkin Representation", when the real issue was the fact that Hussie was conflating Being Otherkin with having a Dissociative Disorder, and in turn saying both of them are the exact same level of Fake And Gay for the exact same reason, because to Hussie they were the same thing. To this day, people get startled every time I point out that Horuss is canonically a System despite him bringing it up just as regularly as he does being Therian. Those are totally wack priorities.

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...That's scary... I don't even have words...

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LOL. The Lost Weeaboos was a Grade A bit. Thank you Aranea, very cool.

Honestly, I don't even count Cronus as a "facade character", because it's not like he's making any efforts to hide jack shit. It's been... Interesting, watching several people refer to "his facade" lately, when, like... What are they talking about, honestly? He's pretty bold-faced about his whole deal. This isn't really a Dave situation where you could be capable of falling for it when you're younger, because Cronus couldn't be doing a worse job at "hiding" how awful he is. He's not even trying, because he knows he can get away with it. What are the other Alphas gonna do? Leave?

Hope you're having a good time!! The Alpha Trolls may be a Trash Heap, but they are my Trash Heap.

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There comes a point where it's almost comedic how unaware people are of it... Like, what do you mean you know he's a Horse Therian but not that he's a System? He literally calls himself the Host of a System and talks about Switching. IN THOSE TERMS. He's not even obfuscating it by using some esoteric Troll terminology, he is LITERALLY using the words "Host", "System", and "Switching".

It's painful. I know this is a moment befitting of an XKCD comic, but... Jeez. You'd think these things would both be on the same level of common knowledge, considering how they're traits that are directly related to each other and given equal amounts of screen time, but nope!

Unfortunately, it is a situation where this is relevant. Sad!

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All characters will become AroSpec and/or ASpec with the help of my Beam Attack.

... Except for Cronus. It's just not funny when it's him. Due to The Themes. It's not fun to headcanon a character as any minority when a huge part of their character is that they pretend to be minorities for Pity Points to eventually cash in for Sex. Ew. Making him literally anything other than Just Cronus plays directly into so many vile Queer stereotypes it's insane. Those are stereotypes that have gotten people actually genuinely killed. Just... Ew. Gross.

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[kawaiimunism]

You're never going to convince most MAGAs that the Trump administration is fascist, because the admin's most overtly fascist policies are the exact things like like about Trump. In their mind, fascism is when Bad Things™, so whatever they consider Good Things™ categorically cannot be fascist.

You're never going to convince most "vote blue no matter who" liberals that the Democratic Party won't save us from this mess, and indeed helped get us into it. This one's a bit more complicated:

They see state authority as a neutral instrument that can be used for good or ill, depending on who controls it. To them, the Dems' role in expanding immigration enforcement and police militarization + funding is irrelevant to how those apparatuses are now being used, because if the Dems controlled those apparatuses then they would be good and you should have just voted harder.

Their idea of antifascist resistance is court cases and symbolic protests. To them, direct action that challenges state authority at its roots is too horrible to seriously consider, because to them defeating fascism means restoring liberal democratic order, and acting outside liberal democratic principles violates the spirit of that dream and jeopardizes their hoped-for "return to normal."

They see election outcomes as conjunctions of atomized voter decisions, rather than collective social behavior responding to social and material forces. To them, the Dems are blameless no matter what campaign they ran, because every citizen had an individual civic responsibility to vote Dem, and you should have voted harder.

They don't consider atrocities that happen under Dem governance atrocities, and/or they excuse them by the fact that the GOP are worse. To them, it doesn't matter that Biden deported record numbers of people, those deportations must have been just, because otherwise Democrats wouldn't do them. To them, it doesn't matter how much support Biden sent to Israel, because Trump is worse and will do "twice as much genocide" (actual thing I've seen a lib say in the Dems' defense).

It's fine to get into it with these folks if you need to blow off steam, but if you're trying to convert folks to more radical causes, they're not worthwhile targets. Radicals' best targets for recruiting right now are the exact people the Dems should have been trying to mobilize if they wanted to win this election: progressives who are mad that Dems don't fight Republicans more, nonvoters who want positive change but don't think either party will deliver it, folks who are already mad at the political and/or capitalist classes that got us into this mess. Fascists who won't admit they're fascists and liberals who responded to the election by getting mad at the very people they should be trying to ally with aren't worth your time.

[truefandemonium]

Okay confession time:

Season 2 is the first I have liked Jayce— and all the more so when he completely atomized my man Viktor.

BUT HEAR ME OUT

I have my reasons.

Season 1 Jayce was an optimist, which can be just fine and dandy if the character is complex. But he was not. He was a Mary Sue through and through, feeling as though he was only there to be sort of the resident Hot Guy™ who gets the girl to Viktor’s nerdy tragic loner whatever.

But now he’s realizing his mistakes! He’s teaming up with people from *le gasp* the Undercity. And he’s actually taking charge and making a decision for the first time in this whole series.

I love serial killer Jayce and I stand by his newfound complexity.