#in a universe where corona doesn't exist

[sweetmariihs2]

Random yap: talking about sexism in Corona and discussing about the whole "convent" situation we saw with Cassandra (Idk what to chose as a title but I promise it makes sense)

After I saw the scene in Tangled The Series where Cassandra says that she would be sent to a convent if someone found out she helped Rapunzel to sneak out, it stuck with me until now, I mean... what???

Because, what do you mean?? The world of Tangled has no traces of sexism or other prejudices (at least not much), and we see many female warriors by the way. The female characters are never diminished for being women, if a character is picking on them, it's usually by making fun of their job/position like the princess and the lady-in-waiting ones (and this is ARGUABLE, because why would these positions made fun of if it weren't for them being mainly feminine and delicate ones?). We can safely assume that the Disney fantasy world that Tangled takes place is similarly socially evolved as ours. Not perfectly, just similar to us today. We still face many prejudices but not as much as we would in 1600. Despite Tangled having elements from past eras, it doesn't exactly takes place in any specific one. Keep that in mind.

Changing the subject: As far as we know, the captain seems to be very protective of Cassandra, always keeping her from entering the guard somehow. But at the same time he taught her fighting skills and when she is actually allowed to work as a guard, he accepts her there. What I mean is that the reasons for the captain to keep Cassandra away from the guard are not rooted in sexism, just protectiveness, based on what it's shown in the series. Keep that in mind too.

Other thing I would like to mention is how the Tangled universe is not sexist as our world was in the past, even though it has elements from other eras, but Cassandra still have to fight against gender norms, even though that's very implicit in the show, it's there. She is expected to be "lady-like" due to her lady-in-waiting job, but once she is able to wear whatever she likes, she presents herself a lot more masc and less delicate compared to character like Rapunzel, for example (like... why do ladies-in-waiting are expected to be dainty and delicate in Corona? It's not related to the job itself, but they have to do it. If that's not sexism I don't know what it is). Some can argue that Cassandra's preference of clothing and the obligation of wearing a standardized uniform is not directly related to sexism, since she has to wear them due to being the uniform, and it's merely a difference of style. But I think we forget to mention that, even though it is a uniform, it is a very delicate uniform, tight and with accessories (even a choker!), which in itself is questionable when we take gender performance into account. We also see that the castle guards are all men, but the cleaning ladies and ladies-in-waiting are all women. I know that the captain had a spare fem guard uniform that Cassandra wore but still we don't see any female guards besides Cassandra in some small scenes: an exception. It's not terribly sexist like our world was in the past, but is just as much as we are today. It has modern ideas in a period setting like many shows today, but our modern ideas still aren't perfect, making the show also imperfect in this feature. You got what I mean?

If sexism does not exist in Corona, it would be very very different. Think of all the things we have in our world and how sexism affects them: it's in everything. Our society is rooted in gender norms, the way we act, dress, and judge. So to make Tangled similar to our world in a way we will identify with, it has to be inspired by our world and culture, thus having those traits, even if they're lighter. All the media is like that and we can't run from it. So saying that there is NO sexism in Corona is a lie.

"Rapunzel and The Lost Lagoon" is a novel written based on the season one of Tangled The Series, and it's not considered canon. But I find it relevant to mention Cassandra's monologue about being a lady-in-waiting. She mentions things like sewing, applying powder in hers and Rapunzel's face (meaning that she has to wear makeup, supposedly), make flower arrangements, and she HATES IT. When she discovered she was going to be Rapunzel's lady-in-waiting, she literally ran out of the room in a panic attack to scream in the forest. She took off the high heels, saying they're awful. She also had to wear a dress she described as "layers of tulle and silk," with her hair up, and said she felt like she was playing dress-up and putting accessories on dolls. She hates it. All of these things are gender performances, and if she "has to wear them," it's because she's a woman. But the book is not canon. I don't think the knowledge that this isn't canon undoes any of the things shown about this aspect of Cassandra in the series, honestly.

Now the whole convent thing:

Alright, alright, going to the convent topic. When it got mentioned in the show I got a bit weirded out, like if she had annouced something very dark and serious in the plot like a character trauma, I took it very seriously. Because every time a period drama character is sent to a convent, is in a form of silencing. I am no expert in history, but in media, at least, female characters are sent to convents mainly for sexist reasons. If they were caught misbehaving (like in Cassandra's case), if they are sexually humiliated, such as being exposed as having lost their virginity or something similar, if they do not behave femininely enough (quiet, delicate and passive), if they are lesbians, and many other reasons. Female characters are sent to convents as punishment, and so I find it very strange that this was reported in TTS, even minimally. From this we can also get the idea that Christianity exists in the TTS universe, and I don't need to go into too much depth on this subject for "those who understand it" to understand what I'd like to say. Let's say it speaks for itself...

I made a quick research about the subject not to base all this post in my own knowledge. I saw someone on Quora saying "Convents and monasteries were gender-segregated places to stow inconvenient people" and went on to using female examples, "This is what you did with inconvenient daughters."

In addition, women were also sent to mental institutions and subjected to torture and diagnoses such as "female hysteria", but this is another layer of our history, and there is nothing like that in TTS. I just want to say that it is not new for families to place women in institutions with the intention of domesticating or punishing them. I don't mean that Cassandra's father or the king are directly sexist towards her, but would her be put in a convent as a way of punishment if she were a man?

Also there's the thing about Cassandra's sexuality. It's irrelevant to the story and it's never explictly mentioned (and it's likely that homophobia doesn't exist in Corona, but we never even saw gay couples there because DISNEY, so like...) but... but like. Well. Idk. Girls were sent to convents for less

Let's make a list of "things I would like to point out" and why this situation is weird to me:

Cassandra is not traditionally feminine, so she challenges some norms in Corona and this is undeniable (there are warrior women in OTHER kingdoms, not very much in Corona);

Her father, the captain, was the one IN THE BOOK who put her in the lady-in-waiting position (this was never explicitly said in the series but no one ever said who put her there, certainly it wasn't herself), knowing very well about her avertion of traditionally feminine things, which is all the stuff she does and has to be in the lady-in-waiting job (her father knows her but still put her in this);

She was going to be sent to a convent as a punishment for helping Rapunzel to sneak out (Convents were used as a way of punishing and silencing women in the past);

I rewatched some scenes in the show and we aren't sure if this was the captain's decision or the king's decision and he just went with it. He says he's not pleased by it, but will visit her when he can, and try to find a way to get some kind of arrangement, to take her out, if it's possible... and Cassandra says she's very dissappointed at him. Maybe for not protecting her from this decision (if it's the king's)? Or because he choose this as a way to protect her? I also find it weird how in the first episode Cassandra tells Rapunzel she must not tell anyone because she would be sent to the convent. Who told her that? How does she know about that information? Have this ever happened to other women in the castle? Or it's her father who said that before she became a lady-in-waiting?

I don't know, I just find all that very weird. Please tell me your opinions, theories and discuss about the subject if you have something to say about it.

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

Uranus' moon Miranda may have an ocean beneath its surface, study finds

A new study suggests Uranus' moon Miranda may harbor a water ocean beneath its surface, a finding that would challenge many assumptions about the moon's history and composition and could put it in the company of the few select worlds in our solar system with potentially life-sustaining environments.

"To find evidence of an ocean inside a small object like Miranda is incredibly surprising," said Tom Nordheim, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and co-author of the study published in The Planetary Science Journal.

"It helps build on the story that some of these moons at Uranus may be really interesting—that there may be several ocean worlds around one of the most distant planets in our solar system, which is both exciting and bizarre."

Among the moons in the solar system, Miranda stands out. The few images Voyager 2 captured in 1986 show Miranda's southern hemisphere (the only part we've seen) is a Frankenstein-like hodgepodge of grooved terrain quartered off by rough scarps and cratered areas, like squares on a quilt. Most researchers suspect these bizarre structures are the result of tidal forces and heating within the moon.

Caleb Strom, a graduate student at the University of North Dakota who worked with Nordheim and Alex Patthoff of the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona, revisited the Voyager 2 images. The team set out to explain Miranda's enigmatic geology by reverse engineering the surface features, working backward to uncover what the moon's interior structure must have been to shape the moon's geology in response to tidal forcing.

After first mapping the various surface features like cracks, ridges and Miranda's unique trapezoidal coronae, the team developed a computer model to test several possible structures of the moon's interior, matching the predicted stress patterns to the actual surface geology.

The setup that produced the best match between predicted stress patterns and observed surface features required the existence of vast ocean beneath Miranda's icy surface some 100–500 million years ago. This subsurface ocean was at least 62 miles (100 kilometers) deep, according to the study, and hidden beneath an icy crust no more than 19 miles (30 kilometers) thick.

Given Miranda has a radius of just 146 miles (235 kilometers), the ocean would have filled almost half of the moon's body. "That result was a big surprise to the team," Strom said.

Key to creating that ocean, the researchers believe, were tidal forces between Miranda and nearby moons. These regular gravitational tugs can be amplified by orbital resonances—a configuration where each moon's period around a planet is an exact integer of the others' periods.

Jupiter's moons Io and Europa, for example, have a 2:1 resonance: For every two orbits Io makes around Jupiter, Europa makes exactly one, leading to tidal forces that are known to sustain an ocean beneath Europa's surface.

These orbital configurations and the resulting tidal forces deform the moons like rubber balls, leading to friction and heat that keeps interiors warm. This also creates stresses that crack the surface, creating a rich tapestry of geologic features. Numerical simulations have suggested that Miranda and its neighboring moons likely had such a resonance in the past, offering a potential mechanism that could have warmed Miranda's interior to produce and maintain a subsurface ocean.

At some point, the moons' orbital ballet desynchronized, slowing the heating process so that the moon's insides started to cool and solidify. But the team doesn't think Miranda's interior has fully frozen yet. If the ocean had completely frozen, Nordheim explained, it would have expanded and caused certain telltale cracks on the surface, which aren't there.

This suggests that Miranda is still cooling—and may have an ocean beneath its surface even now. Miranda's modern-day ocean is probably relatively thin, Strom noted. "But the suggestion of an ocean inside one of the most distant moons in the solar system is remarkable," he said.

Miranda wasn't predicted to have an ocean. With its small size and old age, scientists thought it would likely be a frozen ball of ice. Any leftover heat from its formation was assumed to have dissipated long ago. But as Patthoff pointed out, predictions about ice moons can be wrong, as evidenced by Saturn's moon Enceladus.

Before the Cassini spacecraft arrived in 2004, many scientists thought Enceladus was a frozen ball of ice and rock. But it was actually harboring a global ocean and active geological processes. "Few scientists expected Enceladus to be geologically active," Patthoff said. "However, it's shooting water vapor and ice out of its southern hemisphere as we speak." Enceladus is now a prime target in the search for life beyond Earth.

Miranda might be a similar case. It's comparable in size and composition to Enceladus, and according to a 2023 study led by APL's Ian Cohen, it may be actively releasing material into space. If it has (or even had) an ocean, it could be a future target for studying habitability and life. However, Nordheim cautions that there's still too much we don't know about Miranda and the Uranian moons to speculate about the existence of life.

"We won't know for sure that it even has an ocean until we go back and collect more data," he said. "We're squeezing the last bit of science we can from Voyager 2's images. For now, we're excited by the possibilities and eager to return to study Uranus and its potential ocean moons in depth."

Revealing the secrets of Uranus' icy moons

Uranus' icy moons have fascinated scientists ever since Voyager 2 captured stunning images of them, and valuable data about them, during its brief flyby in 1986. This latest study, led by Caleb Strom and APL's Tom Nordheim, is part of a broader effort at APL to uncover the secrets of these mysterious moons and the unusual planet they orbit:

2023: A team led by APL's Ian Cohen reanalyzed particle and magnetic data from Voyager 2's flyby and found Uranus' moons Ariel and Miranda may both be releasing material into the space environment around Uranus, possibly through plumes.

2024: APL's Richard Cartwright used observations of Uranus' moon Ariel by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to conclude the moon may have a subsurface ocean that's replenishing its surface deposits of carbon dioxide ice—a topic he presented at the recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

IMAGE: Uranus’ icy moon Miranda, captured by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft on Jan. 24, 1986. Credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech

[000life-is-meaningless000]

We Are ALL Gonna End Up in Hell !

it's not a matter of if, but a matter of when.

you see, Lucifer is a good example of how we're all going to Hell eventually, and so is the knowledge of Olympus. how many old deities which are called Titans, Titan wasn't just an era of the Divine it was it means old deities primordials are just mean the first or the most extremely old deities.

billions if not trillions of years old if not way way older than that.

hell is all consuming, there is not a single Consciousness that won't evade hell there is no soul that will not end up in hell all animals will end up in hell, all gods and goddesses will end up in hell, even Yahweh himself will end up in hell !

even Jesus Christ who is not God ask the father why have you forsaken me ( Betrayed ) Proving that he is not God or also end up in Hell ! ! !

for you see even the bugs that crawl on the ground will end up in hell !

it's only a matter of when, Bother Not, don't make a question about it every soul in the spirit realm will end up in hell every alien the universe will end up in hell !

Every angel in heaven will eventually end up in hell. Lucifer just got sent early he was one of the happiest and most powerful angels in all of the Angelic kind. and yet despite being so perfect and made by God who is so great and perfect and all knowing how powerful despite God said over and over again that the angel was perfect and then all knowing being said that the angel was perfect the angel still did something that ended it in hell.

Either, God is not all knowing are the angel was not perfect or maybe hell it's just that all consuming for all of us. because hell is the Fate for all beings in existence you may end up in heaven but even all the beings in heaven will end up in hell ( even Yahweh [ The Demiurge ] Eventually ) And I sometimes wonder how long it will be before all that all that dwell inside, The Plaroma & The Aeons will end up in hell, along with Monad known as God the father and the Divine Goddess ( Barbelo ) Which are both one deity. they will both end up in Hell also known as Tartarus !

[ God The Father -> = Monad = <- Barbelo The Mother ]

eventually every single deity in the entire Divine family ends up in hell even Zeus ends up in hell because crone is never thought he could ever be in hell and yet Coronas ended up in hell !

and eventually Zeus will follow the father his father into hell !

all animals end up in hell all aliens end up in hell all deities at the end, end up in hell all Angels end up in hell we all end up in hell no one can evade hell no one no one no where can ever evade hell or all going to hell hell eventually will become the main place for All Souls in existence. All Souls in all spirits will eventually end up in hell. we are all faded to go there no matter what the fuck we do !

( Edit : all animals and Aliens end up in hell for doing dark things, killing us called murdering, cannibalism raping, stealing, torturing or generally just pissing off and getting some asshole DD somewhere in the universe I'm kind of fucking inconvenience ) - ( and then whatever day if he stands for those aliens will then throw those throw that deity inhale if she or he or it is thrown into hell - and then eventually, that deity will see how all eternity, now back to the more smaller things in the universe like animals and bugs that crawl on the ground they do a whole bunch of murdering and dark stuff all the time they'll also see hell, or it doesn't matter where you are or are not a Moral Agent we all end up in hell )

Jesus can't save you because he's going to go there too he can't fight it he can't resist he will end up damned for eternity We Are All Doomed to Eventually be Damned !

[thorntonkrell-blog-blog]

Some people insist that there is nothing new under the sun. How do they know? Have they ever been on the sun. I don't think so. Nobody's been on the sun to get under it. Matter of fact, it's impossible to be on the sun in the first place because the sun has no surface. Sorry Smash Mouth…no walking on the sun. Johnny Cash came closest when he fell "into" not "onto" a burning ring of fire. Katrina and the Waves? Don't try walking on sunshine, particularly if you're stepping off the top floor of a Miami high rise. The sun is a massive ball of plasma. The "surface" of the sun is a dense opaque region called the photosphere which transitions into the solar atmosphere known as the corona. Under the sun refers to the Sun's interior where nuclear fusion occurs. The fusion starts at the core and extends through the radiative and convective zones. The concept of a solid surface doesn't apply to the Sun so it is impossible to get under it.

You know who else has no surface? Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you want superficial, it's us, Mars and Venus. We got surface with mountains plains and polar ice caps and Mars in fact has the largest volcano in the solar system. Yeah but there's nothing new about any of that other than they've been around for millions and billions of years but we only found out about them a comparative few hours ago and thought "now what have we here". Like paranoia, erectile dysfunction, Oedipus Complex, anxiety, depression, tequilla and Texas tea, we all thought they were new just like we thought dinosaurs were new when we discovered the bones and couldn't blame dem bones dem bones on nuthin else. If we haven't discovered it, labeled it, analyzed it then it doesn't exist until we do when it becomes new for ten minutes before we discover that it too, whatever it is has been around longer than we been around. Let's face it if the mountains were more sentient they'd probably be looking at us and saying "that's new" or "what have we here" and God knows we got here five minutes after he did or she or whatever when it he, she tehy were new indeed. ChatGPT Your humorous take on the concept of "newness" and discovery is quite entertaining. Indeed, our perception of what is new often depends on our awareness and understanding. Planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have been part of our solar system for billions of years, yet our awareness and exploration of them are relatively recent in the context of human history.

Your mention of various human experiences and concepts, from paranoia and erectile dysfunction to the Oedipus Complex and Texas tea (oil), highlights how our understanding and categorization of phenomena can change over time. The process of discovery often involves assigning labels, analyzing, and incorporating new information into our existing knowledge.

It's a reminder that the universe, with its celestial bodies and human experiences, has a long and intricate history that extends far beyond our momentary awareness. If you have more thoughts or questions, feel free to share!

User How can Jupiter have a solid core but no surface? How close would you have to get to the sun before you were incinerated? ChatGPT Jupiter's solid core is distinct from having a solid surface in the way that terrestrial planets like Earth or Mars do. Jupiter is a gas giant, and its outer layers consist primarily of hydrogen and helium in gaseous and liquid states. As you move toward the center of Jupiter, the pressure and temperature increase significantly.

The concept of a "surface" on gas giants like Jupiter is a bit different from rocky planets. There is no clear boundary where the gaseous atmosphere ends and a solid surface begins. Instead, Jupiter's core is thought to be a relatively small, dense region where pressures are high enough for hydrogen to become a metallic liquid, and temperatures are extreme.

As for getting close to the Sun, the temperature increases significantly as you approach it. The Sun's outer layer, the photosphere, has temperatures of thousands of degrees Celsius. Getting closer to the Sun would result in even higher temperatures. However, defining a specific distance for incineration is challenging because it depends on various factors, including the heat resistance of the materials involved.

For comparison, Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun in our solar system, has surface temperatures that can reach over 400 degrees Celsius (752 degrees Fahrenheit) due to its proximity to the Sun. Spacecraft designed for proximity to the Sun, like NASA's Parker Solar Probe, are equipped with special heat shields to withstand the intense heat.

In summary, Jupiter's core is different from a solid surface, and approaching the Sun would expose an object to extremely high temperatures, potentially leading to incineration or vaporization.

User let's talk about a human walking too close to the sun…..whre would he immolate ChatGPT If a human were to walk too close to the Sun, it's important to note that such an endeavor would be physically impossible due to the extreme conditions near the Sun. However, for the sake of discussion, let's consider the hypothetical scenario.

The Sun's outer layer, the photosphere, has temperatures of thousands of degrees Celsius. As you get closer to the Sun, the temperature increases significantly. If a human were to approach the Sun closely enough to be affected, they would be exposed to temperatures far beyond what any known materials can withstand.

At temperatures of several thousand degrees Celsius, the human body, like any organic matter, would quickly incinerate or vaporize. Additionally, the intense radiation from the Sun would have lethal effects on living organisms.

In reality, the Sun's extreme conditions make it impossible for any object, including a human, to get close enough without being obliterated by the intense heat and radiation. This hypothetical scenario is a way to illustrate the inhospitable nature of the Sun's environment rather than a plausible situation.

User I understamd the implauability but how close approximately could that human get to the sun before being vaporized ChatGPT The Sun's outer layer, the photosphere, has temperatures of about 5,500 degrees Celsius (9,932 degrees Fahrenheit). As you move closer to the Sun, the temperature increases significantly due to the Sun's immense gravitational and thermal energy. The specific distance at which a human would be vaporized depends on several factors, including the individual's heat resistance and the materials they are made of.

However, let's consider the temperature increase as you get closer to the Sun. As a very rough estimate, the temperature in the Sun's outer corona, which is further away from the photosphere, can reach millions of degrees Celsius. At such temperatures, any known materials, including the human body, would be rapidly vaporized.

The Sun's atmosphere is not uniform, and it transitions from the relatively cooler photosphere to the extremely hot corona. There isn't a specific distance where vaporization would occur, as it's a gradual process based on the increasing temperatures.

In reality, no human-made object or living organism could get close enough to the Sun to experience these extreme temperatures and survive. The Sun's environment is hostile and inhospitable at such close distances.

[demauryss]

For the "I love you" drabble prompt - 15 or 16? Whichever you prefer :) And in Elu?

hello kaleb :)) first of all let’s ignore the fact that i didn’t ghost you for so long on this ask. second, i hope you like this literal word vomit. it’s quite different from the prompt but let’s just roll with it, yeah?

no 16. from ‘the way you said i love you’ drabble challenge

“your sun looks like a giant ball of goo, lucas.”

eliott giggles like a middle-schooler whose crush has just told he likes him; gleeful and somewhat incredulous all the same. there’s a leaf stuck in his hair, green like the shine in his eyes. lucas huffs out an offended breath, turning his paintbrush dripping with green colour in a threatening stance against his annoying boyfriend.

“shut up, eliott. art is freedom of expression, you just said so yourself.”

eliott chuckles, lazily drawing out a shooting star on the canvas in front of him. next to his, lucas’s painting looks like one a toddler would make on the walls of his home after discovering his siblings’ stash of colours and what not.

“didn’t know we have a da vinci on our hands,” eliott muses, the slender wisps of grass behind him slanting with the air that’s moving, before uprighting once again. “i’m proud you’re learning fast.”

“hmm?” lucas asks, missing whatever eliott has said before because he was busy comparing the green of the sun drawn in the middle of his painting to the grass behind eliott. “what am i learning?”

eliott inhales deeply, dipping a paintbrush into water before dragging it across his canvas. lucas watches the effortless swish and slick of eliott’s wrist against the painting, enthralled. when lucas does it, it’s like he’s carrying something weighing a tonne. it’s never this easy and the paint ends up looking plain ugly. but then again, it’s eliott he’s talking about.

“not everyone is going to like what you make,” eliott says, eyes focused onto lucas like he’s speaking of something beyond painting, “and it’s important to know that. as long as you yourself are okay with it, what others think shouldn’t matter.”

and lucas doesn’t like the sudden serious turn their conversation has taken. he isn’t good with emotions. or words. or drawing a fucking sun. the point is, lucas isn’t good at anything deep.

“so as long as i’m okay with my sun looking like a pile of goo, what you say doesn’t matter?”

eliott laughs loudly. his eyes are squeezed shut. lucas grins at his effort. if he’s good at something, it’s deflecting situations which make him uncomfortable; which include just about everything.

“i swear to god, lucas,” eliott sighs, eyes glinting, “but yeah, that’s about it. and hey, what do you know, maybe in some parallel universe there’s a sun which is exactly like the one you painted; green and - and not pretty?”

what! eliott didn’t - he didn’t just call lucas’s sun ugly! lucas gasps, offended, “i guess so. but in that universe you must have yellow eyes then.”

there’s a beat of silence too long for lucas to hold in his laugh at eliott’s expression. his eyes quickly flit to the large green blob in the centre of lucas’s painting, the circle of goo-looking mass giving rise to an incredulous look on eliott’s face.

“luca- what the hell?” there’s a frown eliott supports on which lucas can bet everything he owns that it’s utterly fake. eliott’s bottom lip juts out like a toddler (yes, the same one who’d paint on the walls). damn it. lucas won’t be influenced by a fake pout.

“stop it, eliott,” lucas whines, “i don’t know whatever has given you the idea that you’re real cute, but that pout won’t work on me.”

lucas pushes at eliott’s arm lightly when the pout still won’t drop. there’s a smile pulling up at eliott’s face, eyes curving into little lines with crinkles denting the skin underneath, “whatever has given me the idea? do you want a list or what?”

lucas narrows his eyes sharply, not liking the taste the words produce in his mouth, “there’s a list?”

“yes,” eliott says, crawling closer to lucas over the grass, “you. you’re the list.”

“oh my god, eliott!” lucas groans loudly, effectively hiding the heat of his cheeks and his burning ears by dropping his face into the curve of his elbow, “you’re so fucking cheesy!”

eliott scoffs. there’s a finger touching the shell of his ear visible behind his arm, “says the guy who painted the sun after my eyes.”

lucas can’t help his smile. he looks up, cheeks burning and all, stomach leaping with joy, “but you still love me.”

“that,” eliott sighs, finger tracing a curve on lucas’s cheek, tickling like the grass under the bare skin of his legs, “is fortunately true. i love you.”

lucas grins when eliott leans forward, pressing the warmth of his lips against the skin of lucas’s skin. “i love you.” lucas sighs when eliott moves over him, eyes a much different shade than what lucas coloured the sun with. but that’s totally on him,though. lucas is shit at painting.

“i love you.” eliott says, dipping his head down to meet lucas’s lips, nose nudging together when lucas turns his neck a bit, deepening the kiss. “ilove you,” he repeats. i love you. i love you. i love you.

the wind carries the words away to a distant place lucas would revisit in a minute or two. raising his hands, lucas steadies them on eliott’s chest, forgetting for a moment they’re in an open place. eliott responds by moving his hands closer, one touching lucas’s face. the other, in the wake of supporting his body, landing harshly on the blob of green on the page next to lucas’s head.

“fuck,” eliott quickly sits up, wrist covered in remnants of lucas’s masterpiece.

“eliott, my sun!” lucas whines, scoffing when eliott’s expression quickly transforms from mildly apologetic to smug once again. his smile, as it comes, is blinding, “now that’s what you call cheesy.”

“shut up,” lucas barks out a laugh, unexpected and light, like the sun above him - not eliott, the real thing, blob, whatever. eliott smiles, crawling forward and pressing his lips against lucas’s once again.

i love you. eliott must say at some point, the words engrained senselessly in lucas’s mind, but there all the same.

[tangledbea]

1/2 that ask about eugene and an arranged marriage got me thinking about a plot where he was actually betrothed to rapunzel: before they were both born, the dark kingdom & corona had a deal for the first born children of opposite sex (the heirs) to be betrothed. obviously with the dark kingdom becoming a wasteland and the princess of corona going missing the arrangement went out the door.

2/2 but once rapunzel returned home frederic was still apprehensive about her romantic relationship with eugene & tried to learn what happened to the dark price, but was never able to find out anything. flash forward to season 3 where it’s discovered eugene was actually her planed husband all along - à la sleeping beauty style!

Heeeeee! ^u^ Okay, this took a twist that I like, which is that it mostly takes place in the canon universe! I don't think I've seen a "Eugene and Rapunzel are betrothed" idea that wasn't based around the premise that Eugene grew up in the Dark Kingdom, thus turning the whole thing into a massive AU instead of a minor one. (Not to say that one doesn't exist, I just don't think I've seen it. Or if I have, I don't specifically recall it.)

[martykirkby]

if holby's doing it doesn't it mean casualty has to as well?

yea i mean i can't imagine they're gonna split into a universe where corona exists and one where it doesn't but its still the same hospital

[uj453]

what will we see on the other side of this... 

30/4/2021 

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I have now attempted to write about this more than 2-3 times. But what can be said about corona that hasn't already be said? The horror of it? The madness of it? The way the state has handled it? The way the right almost across the world have been able to take advantage of it? The way we had this opportunity to re look at the whole system and re imagine it, and instead as a society as a whole we have just somehow managed to justify this profit driven attitude ahead?

The multitude of levels we have failed ourselves is quite something. And in this individualised setup that has been created and we so pride ourselves, we fail to see beyond our own plights even now. Now that the virus has exploded in India, people here are in shock, and it's an emotion that is far away from the apathy shown by the state and in the larger narrative, where it was apparently Shiva whose lineage was protecting us all.

It is amazing how we value human lives. It only gets triggered when it is someone we know. In abstraction, it just remains an idea. Somehow in these times of the virus, we talk about how it afflicts the rich and the poor, but fail to talk about who comes out on the other side and in what condition. Someone once told me that being poorer in a rich country, is better than being rich in a poor country. If we can't see that now, I don't think we ever will. We are just blind. The rich, are so blinded in their convenience, and their luxury, that they can't really see how this kind of a social situation is killing themselves.

When the second wave was hitting India, and the other countries started announcing border restrictions, the first action of the uber rich was to get the fuck out. There were apparently around 10 private jets, some probably privately owned, some leased from the middle east, that landed in UK before the 4 AM flight ban that was instituted. It is everyone for themselves. And when it is that, you want to be in a state where the facilities are better. Where the provisions are universal, and even there you will demand for an eXclusive premiere facility of course. How can we in our blindness not see that if this place here, this situation here was more just, then it will be better for all of us. And then you won't have to protect yourself from the other.

It is always this other who is a problem. Be it the muslims who were the super spreader, against the holy dippers, who are purifying the world with the virus. Be it the poor. Be it the class that serves you. They should be sanitised, they should be kept at bay. The upper middle class Indians, love to talk about how the country has progressed, prospered. Mind it, I say upper middle class, because the middle class doesn't really exist. For whom is this progress, and prosperity? The other day on a news channel was an appeal for a vaccine for a child who suffers from a genetic disorder. The whole treatment is supposed to cost around 16 crore rupees (around 1.8 million euros). And the channel in all it's open hearted charity is asking for charity from everyone. Of course this is an English news channel. How can we in our blindness not see that a health system which is so profit oriented will inevitably lead to situations like this. Is it really so difficult to see through the facade of all of this. Instead of the blind short sighted privatization of everything (health education), is it really so difficult to see that this whole situation could probably have been better.

In celebrating the rich, in idolising the ambanis, in trying to be the adanis, in awe of the tatas, the ruias, the jindals, lost in this creation of the myth of 'the indian dream', can we all really not see that it's just better to have a stronger national system? Ambanis made a hospital. How many state run hospitals could have been run with the cost of that one hospital. How many tons of oxygen cylinders be bought at the cost of the opening ceremony of that hospital. Mind it, the opening ceremony had who's who of bollywood, and of course Modi flying in specifically for that. How much more could have been done had Ambanis at least paid the real cost of the land, on which they made a hospital which only the uber rich can access.

The irony of the situation is that now the celebration is of the philanthropy of Serum Institute of India's Poonawala. How graciously he reduced the price of the vaccine for the state government by 25 % to 300 rs. The same person who said that even at 200 rs, they were making profits, but NOT super profits. And they would of course want to make super profits. But he is our hero, our saviour in these times. He is the one who tweets the federal government policies before even the state governments know it. No there is no corruption in this efficient hard working government. How blind are we, when we do not see what we don't want to see (a digression to Rafale, Adanis, Ambanis being refrained). And the aforementioned English News channel host is criticizing the state governments for wanting to make the vaccines free for people. Of course it is with the political agenda, of course it is a populist measure, but shouldn't people of India the ones who have to make a choice on what to spend the money on, still get vaccines? Of course this host who only talks to the upper middle class again, says that when the state makes vaccines free, we are the ones who will pay through our taxes. But how blind are we to not see that if the society en large is vaccinated, we are all better for it?

Somehow this ingrained notion of the individual right, and might, is so ingrained, that you would rather take a chance on the fact that you will be able to protect yourself, than work towards living in a more healthier, more just society. A social situation where you do not have to make a choice. What is amazing to me is how we are still not seeing this. I have had to face a lot of critique and debate about this in the social circles that my privileged position helps me occupy. This i feel is the folly of this situation. Even now, even in this crisis, even when we are seeing things really crash down, we are unable to see, to imagine a world order which could be different. We cry about the deaths of our own. But we are unable to connect to the pain of the death of others. The corona deaths are just horrific. But so is a person who died in the riots in Delhi, or in Ahmedabad, or in Bombay, or in Amritsar. These are the places where in the past 4 decades in India, there were major riots, against the minorities. The last two against muslims being co-ordinated by the ruling party's commanders (and then there are the countless other atrocities that happen on a daily basis). And somehow the hindu majority population now claims it's victimhood. Somehow the hindus are under attack here.

And with this comes the silencing of the voice of critique. In Uttar Pradesh, NSA (National Securities Act) has been invoked for people asking for oxygen for their relatives on Twitter. People have been asked to maintain discipline and watch the tone of their voice. The aforementioned English news channel apparently does a sting operation on people in Delhi who are black marketing oxygen cylinder. Where as the celebratory news is that in Srinagar an organisation is hoarding up oxygen cylinders. A muslim business owner who is coordinating their city's oxygen response is being celebrated. He started using his own monies to get oxygen in and slowly the city apparently handed in the whole organisation of the oxygen cylinders to him. Of course, he is different than the muslims who were attending the tablighi jamaal. Would the hindu mobs coming back from the char dhaam yatra in the neXt riot care about that?

Of course, Indian understanding of diversity and inclusion is that the muslims celebrate holi and diwali with the hindus, in the spirit of one India. That the dalits be celebrated for the work they do, because it is god's work. What will the majoritarian in power hindu castes would do for the inclusion? Claim victimhood, because somehow muslims and dalits are taking what is rightfully theirs. Claim victimhood when the muslims and dalits and other minorities are being killed by them. It's an attack on their sentiments, on their way of life. 

We do not have to go that far of an 'other' to see how this works. This last year we have seen the sights of the migrant labourers being given almost no notice of an imminent lockdown. Of all the house helps being viewed suspiciously. Again ppl in my circles were so condescending about all these ppl on the street who don't wear a mask, who go around in groups. Who don't care or understand. 

This wave has been different. This wave has hit this class too, and now you can hear them cry fowl. This wave has hit the young too. Now the apathy of condition in hospitals is being talked about. And that too has become a thing about state govt vs central govt. The narrative seems to be the key. Thousands are dying. It is quite an overwhelming situation of distraught. Death of one person affects so many. Of course it also depends on how 'valuable your life is'. In villages in UP and bihar, where people pass away with TB still, death is more of an everyday reality. It is like how it is so horrible when europeans die, but not so much when Indians do. Had the virus been contained in europe early enough, I really wonder what the perspective of the whole world would have been. It is like how when 3000 USAnians die is far more important than the million Afghanis. What about the refugee crisis in Europe, and the Trump policy on mexicans migrating to the US. Interestingly, the upper middle class Indians, might empathise or relate or connect with this emotion, but would largely be blind to the 30,000 odd rohingyas who were seeking refuge in India who were kicked out. Or the thousands who have been disenfranchsed due to NRC/Citizenship registry in Assam. What about the people who killed themselves due to that? 

Death has become more of a reality in the larger Indian psyche with corona. We are hearing of people no more all around us. The numbers that are being shown, seems quite comparably smaller to that. Now a days my friends, people around me, overwhelmed with all of this, are unable to fucntion much. Especially for those who can work from home is there but it's difficult to concentrate and so on. My only thing is that let's just sail past through this, let's see each other on the other side of this. That is important. We need to take care. This too shall pass, at least for some of us.

My fear is what will we see on the other side of this. We are blinded by so much. 

[xombigirl]

If I met you I would definetly like to give you a hug (let's just assume that corona doesn't exist in this hypothetical universe where we meet), because you look very huggable and I'd also love to cry about critical role with you for hours.

One thing I'd like to tell you: omg I'm at episode 101 of c1 and there's so much tragic irony about vax dying soon?? I wish I could erase that spoiler from my mind because it makes Keyleth saying "Promise you'll come back with me" hurt so much? Also him constantly saying that he's so happy? That the past year was so wonderful? I'm so afraid of the next episodes because I don't know when or what exactly will happen?

Sorry, I'm just very anxious about that, have a compliment to make me feel better: You are a wonderful person and I hope you know that :)

Also, how about questions 12, 15 and 16?

Okay first of all I would gladly take a hug from you sweet anon. I love hugs. Second, yeahhhhh welcome to the portion of c1 where I just sobbed my way through most of the episodes. I really appreciate the compliment! It means a lot to me after the last few months. 

I already answered 16 but I’ll do the other ones for you! 

12. Do you have or want any tattoos or piercings? 

I have neither tattoos nor piercings! But I definitely have some tattoos that I want. I want the Witcher signs above a pair of crossed swords(one steel, one silver just like Geralt)with a Witcher medallion hanging from their crossed hilts. I want a CR tattoo, a raven skull with antlers that has snowdrops blooming out of its eyes. I want a Hamilton tattoo, the words “I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory” in the shape of an old school dueling pistol. And I want a book tattoo, a stack of my favorite books under the words, “A reader lives a thousand lives.”

15. Do you collect anything? 

I collect many things but since someone else also asked this question I’ll just do one for this. I have an extensive Funko Pop Vinyl collection. Well it’s extensive to me, I think I have around 40 now since I finally have all of VM including Trinket! 

[hopetofantasy]

I don't know. It's nice for once that not everything is about corona, you know? You're already slapped in the face with the different measures, the virologists' statements as well as the numbers each day. I would love to have a breather. I don't mind this parallel universe where corona doesn't exist.

I am curious: Skam France does not seem to take into account the coronavirus in the new seasons (For example in the teaser no mask and no distancing).

Do you prefer that in the series (I'm not only talking about Skam but about all the series), they deal with the coronavirus or that they pretend it doesn't exist?

Skam France is filmed a long time in advance that's why they didn't talk about corona because between the shooting and the broadcast, the whole covid situation can change and make the season obsolete. But if it had been filmed very recently, would you have preferred them to talk and saw the covid ? (mask like Druck, distancing etc).

My opinion is that in fantastic series, no need to stage the covid.

But in series that talk about life like Skam, I like them to talk about COVID.

But I can understand that they don't want to. It's always weird to see people distancing themselves but a scene later making love etc....

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it just occurred to me, but giusy do you think new season will have corona? maybe it will be hard to show, but i kinda wanna see a universe again where it just. doesn't exist. season 4 was really therapeutic lol. and with numbers rising again in my country i really need some peace of mind -_-

I hope not 🥺 I know they filmed s4 before it all happened, but s5 has to be covid-free too. I'm begging.