Diamonds in the Sky
Image Credit & Copyright: Wright Dobbs
Explanation: When the dark shadow of the Moon raced across North America on April 8, sky watchers along the shadow’s narrow central path were treated to a total solar eclipse. During the New Moon’s shadow play diamonds glistened twice in the eclipse-darkened skies. The transient celestial jewels appeared immediately before and after the total eclipse phase. That’s when the rays of a vanishing and then emerging sliver of solar disk are just visible behind the silhouetted Moon’s edge, creating the appearance of a shiny diamond set in a dark ring. This dramatic timelapse composite from north-central Arkansas captures both diamond ring moments of this total solar eclipse. The diamond rings are separated by the ethereal beauty of the solar corona visible during totality.
how do you come up with stuff like “frames, the symbol of the limits of perspective” that’s so. magical
Thank you!!!! The idea is very much inspired by Rene Magritte!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For years I have been staring really hard at Rene Magritte paintings and their titles and reading some of his commentary about them and rotating them in my mind at incredible speed!!!!!!!!!!!!
1: My Dorito bag friends and all our Dorito shenanigans :D (You all are the best I luv u all /pos)
2: Drawing
3: Those interesting youtube vids that are like 30 minutes to an hour long digging into story elements, gameplay mechanics, character arcs, horror, writing, sewing, the history of old clothing, etc!
4: Ea-Nasir, the Copper Merchant that had existed four thousand years ago
5: Animals! and petting animals. Fluffy friends. scaly friends. all friends. pet pet.
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young artist posting your work online, heed my warning. im holding your face so gently in my hands, you have to stop caring about numbers right now and start caring about making the weirdest and most self-indulgent art you possibly can
Hello! I was thinking about how Ain described levels of intelligence.
The mind link thing they described doesn't seem so much of a higher form of intelligence as it does a skill. A feature of the species, if you will.
Ain acting like this one feature gives them a sort of moral immunity is so silly to me cuz like. What if life forms were qualified by how they see, instead of how they communicate?
i will say that humans are very hypocritical when it comes to this topic, and Ain isn't wrong to point it out, but it also shows how hypocritical the Marmors are, too. Because they are making the distinction that their thought communication makes them superior. But what if another species came along that judged the Marmors on a different scale? Where would they fall then?
Anyways, I think it's really interesting how you've written alien culture I love it so much! I know you answered an ask about Marmor concepts of right and wrong and I found it really intriguing :D
Oh you're right, both humans and Marmors are very hypocritical when it comes to this. By Ain's logic, an abstract dog has the ability to make sounds and show some gestures, which makes it a step below humans, who can structure sounds into speech and have more complex gestures. But neither humans nor dogs can communicate using collective mind, so in his understanding humans and dogs are not too far apart...well, compared to him.
If it were revealed right now that there was another abstract super powerful alien species that had developed collective mind far beyond the Marmors, Ain would quickly panic and reconsider his little speech haha
Earth's "much determination" is just so her!! (≧▽≦) She really just wanted to help Eclipse, the spicy kitten. I can see her leaving a tray of baked sweets, a pitcher of water and a cup outside of Eclipse's tent when Eclipse doesn't want her to be too close yet. Maybe through that, eventually, Eclipse will let Earth in and not be so hesitant about receiving affection from her and having her as company ( ◜‿◝ )
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Earth is very determined to befriend the spicy bean or at least calm him down. Definitely leave treats from time to time for him :]