Stuff and Nonsense

Here there be dragons (other things too but mostly dragons) Flight Rising: Orderedchaos #3921 Writting sideblog is @dreamlandsjournal

[queenophydea]

Me n the girls sitting upon the shattered corpse of a false god

[zechery-deactivated20220114]

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing

[shadows-ember]

This is humanity

[siawrites]

Happy Birthday, Curiousity.

[labelleizzy]

Happy birthday, Curiosity.

[the-cimmerians]

Happy birthday, Curiosity.

[codenamewife]

Happy birthday, Curiosity!

[beentobeetle]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CURIOSITY !!!!

[nickelmining101]

Happy birthday Curiosity!

[the-real-yahoo-mail]

Happy birthday, Curiosity!

[no-one-offical]

Happy Birthday, Curiousity!

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Happy birthday, Curiosity!

[breelandwalker]

Happy Birthday, Curiosity!

[skunkbear]

This is one slice of an incredible high resolution, enhanced color image of Pluto, recently released by NASA. You can see the full, larger version here. 

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

[kc-rising]

Really cool detail: The banner weasel's flags are all unique to the dragon breed it's on!

[osiemfr]

⚔️

[70sscifiart]

Happy new year! Here's the end of the 1953 EC Comics adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains," first published in Weird Fantasy #17.

Via @cirnineball

[traegorn]

*looks outside* Yeah. Seems about right.

[becherdireinen]

what a privilege it is to come home to a little animal that loves you like you're their whole world.

[lightningidle]

Taash would've 1000000% been a Dragonology kid, come on

DO NOT EDIT OR REPOST

[comicaly]

Foddart commission for Tserin of Amalia, done in the Dredge art style!

[plushworldz]

trust i got yall fr 💯💯💯

[chaosnebula]

Have I ever considered writing a mystery dungeon all pokemon no trainers type of story before? no

Did I see a sweet "write to adopt" pokefusion design that sparked an idea? yes (and its mine now)

Do I now have an antagonist, a couple of MC's, and the seed of a plot that I have no idea when I'm going to work on? Yes, yes I do.

And it would all fit so nicely into the pokemon world I've already fleshed out for Sasha's story.

[joepickett]

TXF 5.04

[tinygryphon-58570]

chorus emojis released!

Thank you for letting me know! Updated my prompts list! ^^

Also here's an alternate version without the Courier breed, because maybe people don't want to draw a Courier! Maybe you want to draw a Swiftwing, or an Emperor, or a Deity, or Frogfeet McStubbins! The choice is yours!

[tredlocity]

[heatherwitch]

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

[unamccormack]

I used to set this one for second year undergraduate creative writing seminars on writing science fiction on a double bill with Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and no-one here gets out alive.

[regionalpancake]

!!!! Today is the only chance we’ll ever have to listen to this absolute banger of apocalyptic fiction on the very day the story is set 😲✨

Nemoy’s voice is PERFECT in this!

(A content warning if you do listen - the dog dies, though it’s not super graphic)

[regionalpancake]

I paused the robot vacuum so I could listen to this 1950’s story predicting the robot vacuum.

[chaosnebula]

Still doing little sketches. Today was a super, super rough sketch of something from one of my fics that one day I want to do proper justice to. To be fair, there are a lot of scenes I'd like to draw, but the resurrection one would be very nice to actually pull off.

[kaijufluffs]

She's being so big and brave.

[kaijufluffs]

The long awaited sequel.