#kind of unavoidable

[byz-was-here]

For the sake of my sanity, I'm making a timeline and overview of my Sea Nomads of Aqua Manga AU here. The post that inspired this whole mess can be found here (thanks to @crystaltoa)

General premise is that a group of Agori with living ships manage to survive on Aqua Manga after the shattering, and eventually encounter the Island of Mata Nui and its matoran inhabitants. Butterfly effect ensues.

Ficlets:

(Ao3 Link)

Out of the Mists of Avalon

A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky

The Aged Aged Man

Size and Tears

Speak Roughly to Your Boy

A Sea Dirge

[cryptidjeepers]

My youtube is absolutely flooded with these cold ass take drama clickbait its fucking insane. Their apology (from what i saw) was well received. The entire situation wasnt even that big of a deal after things got sorted. Why are these wannabe drama channels so obsessed with such a nothing issue. "Wild apology"???? They gave REFUNDS and free access to patreon supporters. They agreed they fucked up??? And changed their plan accordingly. They still have things to fix but jesus christ move on already 😭😭😭 just saying, there are literal youtubers that were accused of grooming that got treated better by the drama new cycle than a youtube channel that just wanted more income. Im so tired of hearing about it now

[middleschoolfursona]

i miss you tomorrow today

[general-cyno]

not to get ahead of myself but thinking abt future opla zolu made me a little emotional bc depending on how many seasons the show manages to get, there's high chances of seeing so many of luffy and zoro's moments. and the thing is - there's a lot of them? their relationship is built upon all these moments and interactions, some small, some big, some when they're not even together but still end up referencing or mirroring one another in some way. it's just so good. I can remember more than few off the top of my head in alabasta, jaya, skypiea, water 7/enies lobby, thriller bark, sabaody etc and that's just pre-timeskip. opla has so much potential to go absolutely bonkers with these two I'm unwell

[alfhildr-the-word-weaver]

Today on "tumblr ads that I wish were rebloggable":

I'm not wildly fond of tumblr ads promoting weight loss all willy-nilly, but the theming of this one combined with the fact that I saw it on a blog that I first followed for Dracula Daily posting has me losing it. Lose weight how, pray tell, dear tumblr ad? Lose blood weight? Because someone's drinking it? Am I going to be running through Transylvania because there's a vampire chasing me?

[nuderobotbeach]

Yugo!

[helga-grinduil]

idk if ill ever decide to finish this sketch properly and like, draw an actual background. just wanted to get this idea out of my mind.

[gothicastles]

MORE THAN GOD LOVES THEM!!!!! GOD!!!!!!

[until-another-one-comes]

Do you guys think Mizu will learn how to sword fight in the English swordsman style?

[tanadrin]

also the staff on atlantis are, quite simply, huge assholes.

they capture a wraith, conduct deeply unpleasant medical experiments on him, try to gaslight him into thinking he's human, and then have the gall to feel hurt and betrayed when he decides this is not, actually, a place he wants to stay. then, when they capture him again, he says explicitly he would prefer if they killed him rather than trying to do that again--but they do it again anyway.

they are unwilling to consider asurans sentient beings even though there is a preponderance of evidence that they are (and keep calling them "replicators" even though they are nothing like the actual replicators encountered in the Milky Way) and when their beloved former colleague, dr. weir, has her consciousness transferred to an asuran body through no fault of her own, they cease to consider her human and deserving of normal human rights.

the way this is played onscreen to try to make them sympathetic makes it feel like it's actually just very bad sci fi writing, but on paper they look like a bunch of sociopaths.

[disappearancecore]

Finals week is coming. Finals week is scary. Homework does not enter the blanket fort.

[aeide-thea]

06-07-23 Why Patagonia helped Samsung redesign the washing machine

Samsung is releasing a wash cycle and a new filter, which will dramatically shrink microfiber pollution.

Eight years ago, Patagonia started to study a little-known environmental problem: With every load of laundry, thousands (even millions) of microfibers, each less than 5 millimeters long, wash down the drain. Some are filtered out at water treatment plants, but others end up in the ocean, where fibers from synthetic fabric make up a surprisingly large amount of plastic pollution—35%, by one estimate. Fragments of your favorite sweatshirt might now be floating in the Arctic Ocean. In a collaboration that began two years ago, the company helped inspire Samsung to tackle the problem by rethinking its washing machines. Today, Samsung unveiled its solution: A new filter that can be added to existing washers and used along with a “Less Microfiber” cycle that Samsung also designed. The combination makes it possible to shrink microfiber pollution by as much as 98%.

[…] Patagonia’s team connected Samsung with Ocean Wise, a nonprofit that tests fiber shedding among its mission to protect and restore our oceans. Samsung shipped some of its machines to Ocean Wise’s lab in Vancouver, where researchers started to study how various parameters change the results. Cold water and less agitation helped—but both of those things can also make it harder to get clothing clean. “There are maybe two ways of increasing the performance of your washing machine,” says Moohyung Lee, executive vice president and head of R&D at Samsung, through an interpreter. “Number one is to use heated water. That will obviously increase your energy consumption, which is a problem. The second way to increase the performance of your washing machine is to basically create stronger friction between your clothes . . . and this friction and abrasion of the fibers is what results in the output of microplastics.” Samsung had already developed a technology called “EcoBubble” to improve the performance of cold-water cycles to help save energy, and it tweaked the technology to specifically tackle microfiber pollution. “It helps the detergent dissolve more easily in water so that it foams better, which means that you don’t need to heat up your water as much, and you don’t need as much mechanical friction, but you still have a high level of performance,” Lee says. The new “Less Microfiber” cycle, which anyone with a Samsung washer can download as an update for their machine, can reduce microfiber pollution by as much as 54%. To tackle the remainder, the company designed a filter that can be added to existing washers at the drain pipe, with pores tiny enough to capture fibers. They had to balance two conflicting needs: They wanted to make it as simple as possible to use, so consumers didn’t have to continually empty the filter, but it was also critical that the filter wouldn’t get clogged, potentially making water back up and the machine stop working. The final design compresses the microfibers, so it only has to be emptied once a month, and sends an alert via an app when it needs to be changed. Eventually, in theory, the fibers that are collected could potentially be recycled into new material rather than put in the trash. (Fittingly, the filter itself is also made from recycled plastic.) When OceanWise tested the cycle and filter together, they confirmed that it nearly eliminated microfiber pollution. Now, Samsung’s challenge is to get consumers to use it. The filter, which is designed to be easily installed on existing machines, is launching now in Korea and will launch in the U.S. and Europe later this year. The cost will vary by market, but will be around $150 in the U.S. The cycle, which began to roll out last year, can be automatically installed on WiFi-connected machines.

[jichanxo]

storm brewing. [from may/2023]

[lordgrimwing]

Friends and Family #07

I was going to post the story directly to tumblr, but then I spent so long getting the formatting right on AO3. Here' have a link to the next installment of Old Gods.

Summary: 8 times Celebrimbor called the wrong person Papa, plus 1 time he got it right.

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

from what i understand singularities exist/happen when 2 similar abilities interact (sometimes not even 2 abilities but 1, like in chuuya’s case) -- so, why is it that kouyou and kyouka’s abilities do nothing? or is there a further requirement for a singularity to occur? (i.e. cannot be abilities on the physical plane(?))

Ah, that would be because there's no contradiction.

It's not so much how similar the abilities are, but rather if they conflict in such a way that cannot be overcome. One of the examples Ango gave was "an ability that always reveals the truth vs an ability that always hides the truth"... or something like that. Paraphrasing here. Oda and Gide's singularity was formed because they could both see five seconds into the future, and therefore they both kept adapting to what the other was going to do, thereby creating new futures and a loop of the five second showing of it, even though, in reality, no time (or very little time? sorry I can't fully remember the details) had passed because nothing had actually happened yet. It's why they were able to have that long conversation while fighting each other - that was the singularity.

The kid in the lab video with the enhancing ability (who, let's be real, was definitely Chuuya) created a contradiction within himself. He enhanced his enhancing ability, causing a feedback loop with no cap that resulted in a rapid and uncontrollable increase in energy that really should've killed him.

So yeah, it all comes down to contradiction. Kyouka and Kouyou's abilities are near identical, but they don't inherently conflict, so no singularity. I think you're right, anon, in that abilities that are physical in nature are unlikely to form singularities in general.

[bambino1294]

it’s been an embarrassingly long time but I think I’m gonna pick up my first watch of Merlin again soon cause I got halfway through Season 2 before shit got busy irl.

but now I’m also desperately trying to remember the details of the AU plot I was telling to Emi that included, like, Arthur discovering Merlin’s magic at the end of either season 1 or season 2 (I can’t remember 💔), but Merlin doesn’t know he knows, and then he spends the whole next season agonising over whether he’d tell Uther or not/confront Merlin or not.