Agatha Writes

Agatha. Sleepy, queer, and potentialy cursed. I'm gonna level with you, I don't tag for shit or curate anymore because I'm pretty much only on mobile and this is more just a place for me to toss my own stuff or funnies I spot. If you want things I spent more than half a second on, you have to go to my artblog @agathaarts. Also you cannot @ me I turned notifications off the year I joined Tumblr and I will not turn them back on ever. You have to directly message me things if you want me to see them and hope I actually check messages more than once a week bye 

[badassdemonsword]

You couldnt come up with a jollier name for a bird if you tried

[minmos]

this thang has one of my favorite ebird descriptions of all time

[psychotickenesis-deactivated202]

Seriously they release new animals every week what the hell is this

[iamoutofideas]

my 2 sons scunt and grout who I am trying to give up custody of

[teaboot]

COLUGOS MY BELOVEDS

I LOVE THIS PLANET SO MUCH

[chamomileharborseal]

colugos are amazing!! there are only two species of them and they’re found in southeast Asia. they may resemble bats, but they’re in their own order (Dermoptera) and their closest relatives are primates!

they’re also sometimes referred to as flying lemurs which is funny because they neither fly nor are lemurs :) they ARE able to glide though, and they eat fruit, leaves, and flowers. their incisors are super cool and have grooves that help them feed and also groom themselves!!! they are so interesting and amazing and more people need to know about them!!!!!!!!

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[microsff]

The parking attendant paused by the double-length bay. Intended for mobile homes and cars with trailers, it was currently occupied by a sleeping dragon.

No parts of it extended beyond the lines, and the paper ticket was clearly displayed, impaled on a horn.

The parking attendant moved on.

[lionessfeather]

I was going to just queue it for later but then it stuck in my brain, and I decided to make it everyone's problem

[druid-for-hire]

There's this sort of anthropomorphizing that inherently happens in language that really gets me sometimes. I'm still not over the terminology of "gravity assist," the technique where we launch satellites into the orbit of other planets so that we can build momentum via the astounding and literally astronomical strength of their gravitational forces, to "slingshot" them into the direction we need with a speed that we could never, ever, ever create ourselves. I mean, some of these slingshots easily get probes hurtling through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour. Wikipedia has a handy diagram of the Voyager 1 satellite doing such a thing.

"Gravity assist." "Slingshot." Of course, on a very basic and objective level, yes, we are taking advantage of forces generated by outside objects to specifically help in our goals. We're getting help from objects in the same way a river can power a mill. And of course we call it a "slingshot," because the motion is very similar (mentally at least; I can't be sure about the exact physics).

Plus, especially compared to the other sciences, the terminology for astrophysics is like, really straightforward. "Black hole?" Damn yeah it sure is. "Big bang?" It sure was. "Galactic cluster?" Buddy you're never gonna guess what this is. I think it's an effect of the fact that language is generally developed for life on earth and all the strange variances that happen on its surface, that applying it to something as alien and vast as space, general terms tend to suffice very well in a lot more places than, like... idk, botany.

But, like. "Gravity assist." I still can't get the notion out of my head that such language implies us receiving active help from our celestial neighbors. They come to our aid. We are working together. We are assisted. Jupiter and the other planets saw our little messengers coming from its pale blue molecular cousin, and we set up the physics just right, so that they could help us send them out to far stranger places than this, to tell us all about what they find out there.

We are assisted.

And there is no better way to illustrate my feelings on the matter than to just show you guys one of my favorite paintings, this 1973 NASA art by Rick Guidice to show the Pioneer probe doing this exact thing:

"... You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. ..."

Gravity assist.

[ambrosial-sunshine]

For the painting especially there’s a beauty in depicting some of our most advanced technology as synonymous with the most ancient. Very few people throughout history have had the privilege of seeing the face of Jupiter but many would recognize the sling thrower immediately.

[rosewattastone]

Highly Illogical

[michaelallanleonard]

Dejah Thoris by William Stout

[brawltogethernow]

Look what my friend with no social media posted to the chat with the damning staggered timestamps of 1:11, 1:37, and 1:42 A.M.

[melibemusca]

this is EXACTLY how sea otters eat fat innkeeper worms

like. I'm not even kidding

[brawltogethernow]

Oh my god?

[gailcarriger]

[hulkykrow]

how tall would you say Yvgeny is? Asking because I’ll be from here on out measuring everything in WHACO in Yvgenys

One of the fanartists flock

Hmm… I feel like I wrote it down somewhere… seeing as the roar of coastal water does not have my files, let’s say… 5’3”? Should be an appropriate “Yvgeny for scale” size.

Make him bigger or smaller to fit your headcanons or narratives, go (war)ham 🤙

[agatharights]

wait this means i was right when i put this on the playlist

[guooey]

[glitteraffe-art]

episode 6 aftermath

[spookygibberish]

Little Men

[adastrabbit]

[merps]

[ID. Digital art of a rabbit and a cat leaning out of two separate computer monitors and reaching out for one another, crying as their hands can't quite reach. The both cry out, "eeeek! I wanna come visit!!!" End ID.]

[drawotion]

A character ref commission I did a little while back for Kabhaal featuring their Pathfinder character, Sarpan Gu~ 🐉

Who actually appears on the newest Narrative Declaration campaign of Whisperwood! I think he's pretty darn neat.

[aueua]

people with siblings: how do you feel about them?

[submalevolentgrace]

this guy gets it

[submalevolentgrace]

[swishersposts]

artists fuck better because we turn sex into art, masterpieces, mattresses become canvases where we can paint our love to someone with bodies.

[zsnes]

its like, impossible to come up with anything funnier than the experience of seeing this post

[targuzzler-deactivated20180224]

pharoahs fuck better because they ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh put the pussy in a scarmophogoghs