#but it made my day

[goldyluna]

randomly thought about purgatory trials (except didin't remember the name of the au and scrolled through shin's tag until I found your posts about it) and I somehow missed your two latest posts about it but. oh my god I love your last two posts about it!! the one with shin not covering his face, the box and all that like I absolutely love the horror aspects and the colors of it! (I didn't have anything to ask just wanted to fangirl about your au that's it, bye!)

Holy shit, you don't know how happy you made me! I love you.

I am so happy you like it and I hope you will stay for more Purgatory Trials! (The "more" are only ideas for now, because of exam season :((( but I will get to it!)

[mandalorianoranges]

every time i hear savathûn in destiny i just remember the cameo from debra wilson i bought for my brother and me where she pretends to get possessed by savathûn

[hippolotamus]

Hippo, I love you. You are so kind, and so supportive of everyone in your fandoms. Your writing, both fic and original, is beautiful. Your art is amazing. You are an incredible friend and I adore you. Just thought you should know.

Oh, this is just so… this is so sweet and made my day 🥹 I appreciate your very kind words, dearest anon. And I’m sure Off Anon i adore you as well. People are out here making fics, gifs, fan art, etc and I just love cheering them on! Everyone should have someone in their corner screaming and shouting about their work and WIPs.

Wishing you a very lovely day and hope you’re doing well 🥰

[blue-b-bro]

I've said like half joking to my friends that I could watch teen wolf with them lmao and they actually were interested???? And also loved Dylan O'Brian's acting?????

[dika-fern]

Soooo...

I was watching The Last of Us this morning and in the first scene when they talk about the virus I could'nt focus on what are they talking about becuse the only thing I was thinking about was...where do I know this actor from?

So I checked IMDB... It's Donnie's voice actor from rottmnt!

Now all I can hear in this scene is Donnie XD

[chillmayo]

strangers who compliment other strangers and move on with their day>>>

[suiheisen]

"i would know her by reformed body alone... i would know her in death"

also... there's official art

[scorbunny]

matthew lillard doing the iconic ghostface knife wipe like that HAD to be intentional

[millidew]

his change in career has captivated me

bonus:

[tesb]

Happy Star Wars day! May the Force be with you! @swsource Star Wars Week: Day 6

[talaricula]

Things I've seen tumblr memeing about James Somerton doing à la "How did no one see how bigoted he was!" as if those things haven't been a significant part of tumblr culture for over a decade :

Presenting untrue and bordering on conspiratorial versions of (queer or otherwise marginalised) history without any sources

Completely disregarding and disrespecting any expertise on socio-cultural topics/humanities and distrusting academics and historians (incl. acting as if no academics or historians could be queer or marginalised)

Downplaying the role misogyny played in the historical oppression of queer women and concluding that queer men must have been more oppressed than queer women

Bi women are, at best, not as queer as "real" queer ppl, and at worst, simply equivalent to straight women

Despite nominal trans inclusivity, transmasculine ppl are functionally women when convenient (combined with the above, bi transmascs are functionally straight women)

Despite nominal trans inclusivity (bis), shamelessly attacking, threatening and actively endangering any trans woman who questions them or smth they find important (often by unfairly presenting her as violent or as a threat)

Having absolutely fucking wild and reductive takes about ace ppl, the oppression they face and their place in the queer community

Stating that marriage equality is an assimilationist fight while completely ignoring its direct roots in the horrifying consequences of the AIDS crisis for partners of ppl who died of AIDS

Praising western media creators from the past for queer coding even under censure and in the same breath condemning current non western media creators for being homophobic bc their representation isn't explicit enough

Blaming China for all existing homophobic censoring in western media

Assuming all queer media would be better told by western creators and by western standards

Only out queer ppl get to tell queer stories

Heavily criticising almost all queer media created by women or ppl they see as such (see above points about trans ppl) or involving/starring a significant amount of women for any perceived or real amount of "problematicness", but fawning over and praising and negating criticism of queer media created by and starring mostly or even functionally exclusively men (even when it could be argued that, you know, not involving/seriously sidelining women is a pretty clear example of misogyny which should probably be considered "problematic")

And I'm probably forgetting stuff or there's stuff I have internalised myself and don't recognise as an issue

Like idk but I feel like the takeaway from Hbomberguy and Toddintheshadow's videos should maybe be "be aware of such patterns in your communities bc they definitely exist" and not "this guy is uniquely awful" and I feel like a lot of the discussion I've seen surrounding this has been severely failing at that. Most ppl who've spent any significant amount of time on tumblr prob either have internalised at least one of those thought patterns, have had to de-internalise them, or have had to be extremely vigilant to not internalise them (which is done by, you know, seeking out other sources, which also seemed like an important takeaway from the videos)

[deep-space-netwerk]

So Venus is my favorite planet in the solar system - everything about it is just so weird.

It has this extraordinarily dense atmosphere that by all accounts shouldn't exist - Venus is close enough to the sun (and therefore hot enough) that the atmosphere should have literally evaporated away, just like Mercury's. We think Earth manages to keep its atmosphere by virtue of our magnetic field, but Venus doesn't even have that going for it. While Venus is probably volcanically active, it definitely doesn't have an internal magnetic dynamo, so whatever form of volcanism it has going on is very different from ours. And, it spins backwards! For some reason!!

But, for as many mysteries as Venus has, the United States really hasn't spent much time investigating it. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, sent no less than 16 probes to Venus between 1961 and 1984 as part of the Venera program - most of them looked like this!

The Soviet Union had a very different approach to space than the United States. NASA missions are typically extremely risk averse, and the spacecraft we launch are generally very expensive one-offs that have only one chance to succeed or fail.

It's lead to some really amazing science, but to put it into perspective, the Mars Opportunity rover only had to survive on Mars for 90 days for the mission to be declared a complete success. That thing lasted 15 years. I love the Opportunity rover as much as any self-respecting NASA engineer, but how much extra time and money did we spend that we didn't technically "need" to for it to last 60x longer than required?

Anyway, all to say, the Soviet Union took a more incremental approach, where failures were far less devastating. The Venera 9 through 14 probes were designed to land on the surface of Venus, and survive long enough to take a picture with two cameras - not an easy task, but a fairly straightforward goal compared to NASA standards. They had…mixed results.

Venera 9 managed to take a picture with one camera, but the other one's lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 10 also managed to take a picture with one camera, but again the other lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 11 took no pictures - neither lens cap deployed this time.

Venera 12 also took no pictures - because again, neither lens cap deployed.

Lotta problems with lens caps.

For Venera 13 and 14, in addition to the cameras they sent a device to sample the Venusian "soil". Upon landing, the arm was supposed to swing down and analyze the surface it touched - it was a simple mechanism that couldn't be re-deployed or adjusted after the first go.

This time, both lens caps FINALLY ejected perfectly, and we were treated to these marvelous, eerie pictures of the Venus landscape:

However, when the Venera 14 soil sampler arm deployed, instead of sampling the Venus surface, it managed to swing down and land perfectly on….an ejected lens cap.

[keymintt]

a comic/zine about coyotes

[lonelyzarquon]

David Tennant’s tour of the new TARDIS [x]

[oof-i-did-it-agaaiiin]

Beautiful from Ordinary Days