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I recently had a huge influx of followers, assumably because of my fanfiction.
If you guys really like my writing, perhaps you would be interested to check out my original work?
I have been writing a medieval fantasy gay romance adventure. So far I finished and published the first book online and I am working on the second.
You can read it on the website I made for it, which has backgrounds for each chapter to set the mood, as well as character profiles and tons of art done by my best friend @cvendycz
https://xuianin.wixsite.com/lunarflare
Or it’s also published on my AO3 as well, if you prefer to read it in that format.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/39418611/chapters/98653302
#genshin impact and Other Things That Ruined My Life: An Autobiography by valentinesapprentice
"The Marvelous Mechanical Harlequin" AU - Official Intro Animatic
Finally... after 4 months in the making.... so many individual moving parts... and a lot of scrapped ideas/storyboard scenes lol, it is done! I am now at peace-
MASSIVE thanks to both @circus-mcgurkus and @dragon-creates for lending me their voices! They are amazing VA's, go give them a follow!
Hatsune Miku - Ice Sculpture
HANNIBAL + art
Hieronymus Bosch, Ascent of the Blessed (1505-15) | Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare (1781) | William Blake, Spectre over Los (Plate 6 of Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion) (1804-20) | Jacopo Vignali, Cyparissus (c. 1625)
June 10 Solar Eclipse in the Northern Hemisphere!
On June 10, people in parts of the northern hemisphere will have the chance to witness a solar eclipse.
Watch the full visualization of the eclipse.
The June 10 eclipse is an annular solar eclipse, meaning that the Sun will never be completely covered by the Moon. The Moon’s orbit around the Earth is not a perfect circle, so throughout each month, the Moon’s distance from Earth varies. During an annular eclipse, the Moon is far enough away from Earth that the Moon appears smaller than the Sun in the sky. Since the Moon does not block the entire view of the Sun, it will look like a dark disk on top of a larger, bright disk. This creates what looks like a ring of fire around the Moon.
People in the narrow path of annularity — which, for this eclipse, cuts through Canada, Greenland, and northern Russia — will see the ring of fire effect as the Moon passes across the Sun.
Credit: Dale Cruikshank
Outside this path of annularity, many people in the northern hemisphere have a chance to see a partial solar eclipse. The partial eclipse will fall on parts of the eastern United States, as well as northern Alaska. Some locations will only see a very small piece of the Sun covered, while locations closer to the path of annularity can see the Moon cover most of the Sun.
To learn which times the eclipse may be visible in certain areas, you can click anywhere on the map here. (Note that the maximum obscuration and maximum eclipse timing noted on this map may occur before sunrise in many locations.)
This solar eclipse is a pair with the total lunar eclipse that happened on May 26.
Both solar and lunar eclipses happen when the Sun, Moon, and Earth line up in the same plane — a lunar eclipse happens when Earth is in the middle and casts its shadow on the Moon, and a solar eclipse happens when the Moon is in the middle and casts its shadow on Earth. The Moon’s orbit is tilted, so it’s usually too high or too low for this alignment to work out.
The May 26 lunar eclipse was a supermoon lunar eclipse, meaning that the full moon happened while the Moon was near its closest point to Earth, making the Moon appear larger in the sky. The solar eclipse happens at the opposite point of the Moon’s orbit, during the new moon — and in this case, the new moon happens near the Moon’s farthest point from Earth, making the Moon appear smaller and resulting in an annular (rather than total) solar eclipse.
How to watch the eclipse
From anywhere: Watch the eclipse online with us! Weather permitting, we’ll be sharing live telescope views of the partial eclipse courtesy of Luc Boulard of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Sudbury Centre. Tune in starting at 5 a.m. EDT on June 10 at nasa.gov/live.
From the path of the annular or partial eclipse: Be sure to take safety precuations if you plan to watch in person!
It is never safe to look directly at the Sun's rays, even if the Sun is partly or mostly obscured, like during a partial or annular eclipse — doing so can severely harm your eyes. If you’re planning to watch the eclipse on June 10, you should use solar viewing glasses or an indirect viewing method at all points during the eclipse if you want to face the Sun. Solar viewing glasses, sometimes called eclipse glasses, are NOT regular sunglasses; regular sunglasses are not safe for viewing the Sun.
If you don’t have solar viewing or eclipse glasses, you can use an alternate indirect method like a pinhole projector. Pinhole projectors shouldn’t be used to look at the Sun; instead, they’re an easy way to project an image of the Sun onto a surface. Read more about how to create a pinhole projector.
This is a sunrise eclipse in the contiguous U.S. At locations in the lower 48 states that can see the partial eclipse, the show starts before sunrise, when the Sun is still below the horizon. That means the best chance to see the eclipse in these locations will be during and shortly after sunrise, when the Sun is very low in the sky. In northern Alaska, the eclipse happens in the very early hours of June 10 when the Sun is low on the horizon.
Bottom line: If you’re trying to watch the eclipse in the contiguous U.S., look for a location with a clear view of the horizon to the northeast, and plan to watch starting at sunrise with your solar filter or indirect viewer.
The next two eclipses in the continental U.S. are in 2023 and 2024. The annular solar eclipse of Oct. 14, 2023, will cut from Oregon to Texas, and the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, will pass from Texas to Maine. Keep up with the latest on eclipses and eclipse science at nasa.gov/eclipse.
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I need to make notes for my fashion theory class. This is so cool.
Miraculous Hair Style Analysis: Marinette
Full disclosure, I really do like the character designs of Miraculous Ladybug. The characters have clearly recognizable silhouettes and the color palettes used in the designs are used for multiple purposes simultaneously. The color palettes are used to create a clearly recognizable “brand” for each character, and they’re also used to create cohesion or contrast within certain character combinations and they even have symbolism. Hell, I even think the highly criticized villain designs are delightful! Especially the Bubbler.
But, to the main point of this post: this show puts a lot of emphasis on visual storytelling. That’s why the character designs place purpose over what teens would find fashionable. I personally appreciate this choice because it makes the show more timeless than trying to use contemporary fashion would do, and also because I hate it when superheroes show up to fight crime in street wear. Where’s the pizzaz in t-shirts and jeans? (The early 2000s Teen Titans comic is a pet peeve of mine for revamping so many outfits into this.) This purpose is so ingrained into the character designs it’s even visible in the characters’ hairstyles. This analysis is all about picking apart a few of the more standout examples of hairstyles as tools of characterization. First up is Marinette.
Marinette’s hairstyle is a classic girlie girl hairstyle. The twintails go great together with the choice of pink as her primary color, because both traits are attached to femininity and childishness. Miraculous Ladybug is about Marinette growing up, so the childish hairstyle emphasizes her role as a person in need of growing. But that’s not all it symbolizes and this comes together with the other hairstyle Marinette knowingly picks, the bun on the top of her head, that we see in her old school photo in ‘Reflekta’.
The tightly-wound hair bun often symbolises someone who holds themselves back, who is controlled and measured. This is why the primary person we see with this hairstyle is Nathalie, who never has a hair out of place. Miss Bustier’s version of the bun is meant to make her look professional, but the strand of hair escaping from it reveals that she can also be more laid back. Nathalie aims to always remain strictly professional, but Bustier openly cares for her students on a personal level and is very invested in them all growing into the best them they could be.
Marinette is more like Bustier than Nathalie in the symbolism of her hair. Marinette tries to control things (in fact, she’s a bit of a control freak), she can act put together when she knows what she’s doing, like when she’s acting as class president or Ladybug, and Marinette. As an aspiring designer, she probably wants to appear professional and capable. Marinette is also pretty uptight, since the smallest thing going unlike how she planned can make her panic, and that’s important to when the hair comes down.
In ‘Love Hunter’, when Marinette’s hair comes out of its twintails by accident but Adrien still says: “It’s the first time I’ve seen you with your hair down.” “Letting your hair down” is another way of saying “relax”, and this occasion is the first time Adrien has seen Marinette truly unreserved around him since the day they met. Marinette leaving her hair down after Kagami and Adrien compliment her is Marinette letting her guard come down and simply enjoying her time with Adrien and Kagami. It’s only after Kagami and Adrien accidentally remind her that she can’t really understand the things they go through that Marinette ties her hair up again, and, soon after, she leaves the two and runs off because she can’t be her unreserved self around them anymore, constantly second-guessing everything she says or does.
We also see Marinette with her hair down in the split off timeline in ‘Cat Blanc’, when Marinette is so focused on being in love with Adrien and being with Adrien that facing something that challenges that state brings her closer to Akumatization than anything else she’s experienced. I’ve repeatedly stated that my analysis on the themes of ‘Cat Blanc’ is that the episode’s lesson is “easy solutions don’t last”. Because Marinette and Adrien getting together happened so easily in that timeline, Marinette grew careless. It was the classic happily ever after moment, and the story usually ends after the happily ever after, so Marinette wasn’t ready for Gabriel to make his play.
Speaking of Gabriel, as is fitting of Marinette’s foil, Gabriel hairstyle is the typical short-haired version of the uptight-do: it’s slicked back with such care that it looks more like a solid helmet than a hairstyle and Gabriel is never seen without his hair in this style. The message Gabriel’s hair sends is clear: appearances must be kept at all times. Marinette also is overly concerned and conscious over how she might be perceived by others, hence another reason for an “uptight” hairstyle.
Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in 'Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope' (1977), wearing jewellery by Finnish designer Björn Weckström for Lapponia.
The 'Planetoid Valleys' necklace and 'Darina´s Bracelet' were originally parts of Lapponia's 1969 'Space Silver' collection.
George Lucas had seen Weckström's striking silver pieces and wanted to feature them in 'Star Wars'. Costume designer John Mollo bought the necklace and bracelet from Lapponia's London store in 1976, just before filming started.
The 'Space Silver' collection is still in production, and can be ordered from Kalevala, the company which took over the Lapponia brand.
Necklace, €2.965 | Bracelet, €825
It took me a WEEK JUST BECAUSE I was demotivated
But here
“less than twelve parsecs!”
I’m a day late for May the Fourth, but I’m gonna share this anyway!
At this point, most of us are fully aware that parsecs are a unit of distance, not time. Star Wars even went ahead and used Solo to retcon Star Wars: A New Hope to reflect that fact. If you’ve watched Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts on Netflix, you might also know that 1 parsec is equivalent to 3.262 light-years. But what actually is a parsec?
Parsec stands for parallax per arcsecond.
Astronomers use the observed parallax of celestial objects to determine how far away they are. Parallax refers to how an object in space seems to shift against its background when observed from different points. If you hold your finger out in front of your face and then tilt your head left and then right, you can observe this for yourself.
The angle where the sight line from each point of observation meets the observed object is called the angle of parallax. With that angle, astronomers can use trigonometry to find the distance to the object - usually a star. It’s only really useful if the objects are within a distance of 200 parsecs from Earth, because for objects farther out than that, there’s not really an observable parallactic shift.
I’m pretty sure that this next bit gets taught in grade school at some point, so some of you may recall what an arcsecond is. An arcsecond is 1/60th of an arcminute, and an arcminute is 1/60th of a one-degree angle. So, 1° = 3600 arcseconds.
So, back to that parallax per arcsecond definition. What it means is that:
One parsec is equal to the distance of an object from Earth when the angle of parallax between them is equal to one arcsecond.
And there you have it! That’s what a parsec is! May the Fourth be with you.
Lesbians!???? In canons??????
Will phyrexia posting ward off the like hundred followers and counting I’m getting from my dysphoria Elvis post?
“My own experience inspired me to spread the word and encourage other mothers, as well as non-mothers, to see breastfeeding the way it’s supposed to be seen.”
These gorgeous photos of mothers breastfeeding will change the way you see public breastfeeding
Johan Bävman: Swedish Dads
No other country provides such generous terms of parental leave as Sweden. The current system allows both parents to stay at home with their child during 480 days in total, while receiving an allowance from the State. Out of these 480 days, 60 must be taken by the father or else are lost.
Loui, an artist, took leave for one year to be with his son Elling:
“There was never any discussion about who should stay with Elling. That we would split parental leave more or less equal has always been obvious to us. Had I not had the opportunity to be at home with our son for almost a year, I would probably not have known who he is as a person and what his needs are.”
The purpose of this allocation is to improve gender equality. In order to promote a more equal sharing of parental leave between men and women, a so called “equality bonus” has also been introduced. The more days that are shared between parents, the higher the bonus—it’s possible to receive up to 1, 500 euros.
In spite of the generous allowance and cash incentives, only a fraction of Sweden’s dads use all of their 60 allocated days of parental leave. Even fewer parents choose to share the days equally between mother and father.
These portraits seek to examine the relationship between father and child, highlighting the bond built over stretches of time spent together, and the benefits of taking time off work for family.
—Johan Bävman
SUCKER PUNCH (2011) SLEEPING BEAUTY (1959) GAME OF THRONES: SEASON 7 EPISODE 5 (2019) AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER: SEASON 3 EPISODE 13 (2008) HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE (2005) MULAN (1998) GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS (2019) SPIRITED AWAY (2001) THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (2014) HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (2014)
