Jules of Nature
$LAYYYTER
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
styofa doing anything
Mike Driver
Not today Justin
RMH
Today's Document
i don't do bad sauce passes
wallacepolsom
will byers stan first human second
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
trying on a metaphor
AnasAbdin
Keni

Product Placement

shark vs the universe
Peter Solarz

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ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ i’m ᕦ( ᐕ )ᕡ a ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ shooting ᕦ( ᐕ )ᕡ star ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ leaping ᕦ( ᐕ )ᕡ through ᕦ( ᐛ )ᕗ the 。・゚・*:・゚✧*:・゚☆ ٩( ᐛ )۶ skyy y y y y
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@shadow-dio-sama
How Bones has coped all these years, I don’t know.
Lord Vader will handle the fleet.
Be careful not to choke on your aspirations, Director.
Me: *reading comics in a random order* damn, these timelines are confusing :/
me reading comics in chronological order: damn these timelines are confusing :/
countdown until frank castle’s birthday. (10/16) insp.
look inside and see what you’re becoming.
I've seen you discuss the pros of replicator food, but what do you think the cons are? Why do some people still insist the 'real thing' is better? Assuming that meat is all synthetic now anyway, how much difference is there between meat and animal byproduct that's synthesized vs replicated?
buckle ur gut it’s gonna be a long ride
well i’m not a nutritionist so you’re gonna have to take me worth a grain of salt on this one but basically a lot of it boils down to replicated food not really being a “complete” version of its non-replicated counterpart
this was more of an issue with earlier replicator tech, because things were more “lower resolution” back then (ent/tos era), but even “now” (tng/ds9/voy era) replicated food still doesn’t really do the trick in terms of longterm stuff
you can live on replicated food tho. you can. it’s possible. and people often do. it’s just that those people are often either career military/diplomatic/trade/spacefaring individuals and take extra supplements to deal with the deficiencies that an all-replicated diet causes, and they make sure to further vary their intake with non-replicated stuff along their space journey.
like in terms of replicator food actually doing what food is supposed to do??? it’s not that great. it doesn’t necessarily deliver a complete meal with complete nutrients and tends to be burned through faster than non-replicated offerings - early replicated meals were basically flavored 3D printed nutrient filler matrix, and that was not good for everyone and tasted like differently textured, differently flavored shit depending what “meal” you ordered, so things have definitely improved A TON from that
but they’re still not perfect in the sense that meats, vegetables, fungi et. al. have not literally been grown and lack a lot of the vital minerals and nutrients they’d pick up from life around soils/feeds/prey and that means replicated food in general falls nutritionally flat and disappoints in the flavorzone (like u legit cannot replicate live gagh. it’s impossible. no can do.)
btw i don’t ascribe to the “all meat is replicated now” bit of Federation/Starfleet propaganda. i really don’t. i come from a state that has a lot of farming industry around it and if i know anything about meat, it’s that animals who are well cared for and loved produce good meat vs. animals that are literally abused. farming is not abuse, and i’d like to think that the Federation is above the whole “meat is murder” peta slogan bullshit, and has made huge strides in animal husbandry technology in the next few centuries. besides - if livestock were entirely replaced with synthesized meat, there wouldn’t be any cheese for all the fancy Federation wine meetups. also i’m sure that a few herds of sheep and goats would maintain some solar fields somewhere like they do around here. just… there has to be livestock farming in the future. there has to. it doesn’t make sense to erase an entire profession like that.
(also iirc Riker made the comment about the replicated meat and that enables my headcanon of him as an obnoxious space vegan lmao so sorry about not answering you on that i just really don’t believe the entire Federation would outlaw meat? like it doesn’t make sense with the whole IDIC thing either seeing as it’s tradition to eat certain meats in certain cultures [looks @ klingons and their targs] and the whole “all meat is replicated now”/”we don’t murder animals anymore” just smacks of badly written Federation purity stuff that is more damaging to the franchise than anything else)
anyways
you really want a ship to have a balanced store of replicated and non-replicated food, especially considering access to food preservation techniques these days, and literally just for the purpose of variety. a nicely stocked hydroponics bay, edible arboretum garden, and some sort of cryostatic “farmer’s market” should be standard on any large exploratory vessel or space station for sufficient culinary delight
starfleet rations are not replicated because they’re meant to be nutritionally dense, something that replicated food routinely fails at imo, also replicated food tends to have a short lifespan, and will break down a lot faster than regular non-replicated food. you can’t save your replicated sandwich for a midnight snack because it’ll go a lil jiggly and get a weird shiny film on it from the replicated food particles breaking down
so anyways tl;dr - replicators are gr9 for food if you have the immediate need for them and the power to operate them and can fully exploit their convenience, but they’re not really a be-all end-all to food problems and create a lot of nutrition conundrums based on the fact that they produce food differently to how it is grown in nature (gmos are fine tho there’s no comparison here)
but for the majority of the galaxy, replicators themselves tend to be more of a luxury than anything else, so consider that factor as well in this train of thought!!! like not everyone can afford to own one, or otherwise it’s not even legal for some individuals to own one, and the fuckening PRIME DIRECTIVE prohibits those who would probably benefit most from replicator technology from accessing it.
so that’s the ultimate downside of replicated food. it’s inaccessible to most of the galaxy.
boom.
Okay, so here I am, an innocent lurker, having just found this blog, when I see: "what if the skywalkers were cthulu-type monsters." excuse me??? please elaborate you just wrote that and nothing else im dying ex p la i n y o ur s el f
The Force is everything that ever was and ever will be, every storm and every silence, the hunting krayk dragon and cowering bantha calf: it is huge, all-consuming, completely inhuman. How, then, could its children be anything short of monstrous? (Wonders, yes. But monsters all the same.)
Anakin Skywalker is boy-shaped, but Obi Wan cannot bear to look at him.
A clarification: he can look at him with his human eyes; but he must clamp down the extra eyes his Force-sensitivity gives him, because when he doesn’t – well. The first time he met the boy he hadn’t closed those eyes; he’d open them, wide and curious and seen –
teeth and claws and roiling shadows, a slipslide of features and starfire, the white blur of warpspeed and it hurts –
Anakin Skywalker is the son of the Force, half human and half something extraordinary. There’s a reason the Jedi don’t like him, why Yoda mistrusts him; they all have to close their extra eyes around him; and even when they’re white-knuckled with effort, clamping down so the Force can’t so much as whisper to them (and that hurts Jedi, of course it does, it runs counter to all their training about opening up and trusting in the Force) and even then they still feel the velvet quiver of unseen limbs over their skin.
And more. And worse. When he is angry – which is often – his shadow warps into something awful, and even the least Force-sensitive being quails at the profound wrongness of the sight. His features warp and melt, teeth spiralling out from his pupils, his mouth cracks open wide, his tongue growing scales and feathers and catching fire and he smiles, oh how he smiles and –
nothing like him should exist and
and you blink, lose the moment, he’s just a young man glowering at you, and his shadow is the same, but the memory of that horror is seared into the back of your brain.
It is no surprise that Padme dies in childbed.
The first child’s cry makes Obi Wan’s bones rattle. It – you could not call it anything but an it – is a twisting, squirming mess of light and dark. There’s a wing, a thorned branch: you cannot focus on it. You cannot pin a shape to it. Obi Wan wants to run away, run and never look back. But the Med Droid is offering it to him; and it is a child, of a sort; and Obi Wan takes it, and it coalesces into a soft pink baby girl. He places it – her – against Padme’s white breast. Padme cradles it. “She’s beautiful.”
The second is just the same: pushed out like any human baby, but a roling mess of lightening and thick syrupy cloud, one moment tentacled and the next furred, pure power condensed. Obi Wan takes it in his arms and it solidifies into another fat baby, small and squalling.
He’s not like the other babies, Luke Skywalker. He’s a funny one. When he smiles, you have the sudden absurd impulse that he’s got too many teeth for his face. His hair is corn-gold, but when you see it out of the corner of your eye you swear that it isn’t hair at all, but fire and teeth. Looking at him too long is like staring into the sun.
The other children are scared of him, Behu says to Owen, once. And Owen says: children always know. And Behu says: he isn’t a bad kid. Owen says: he’s a wonder. And that’s the problem.
Jabba’s goons go to the Lars farm to collect water once. Only once. They return to Jabba’s palace gibbering nonsense, with their eyes burned out. Both mumble something about there’s something wrong with the boy and then jump into the ragnar pit.
Don’t do that again, says Owen, but he hugs his nephew all the same, pulls him close, kisses his temple. He feels something hot-cold run over his spine, like something far larger than the child is trying to embrace him back. That night, Behu runs her fingers over the new white scartissue on her husband’s back, and says, he’s a good kid. Owen says, I know.
If I was there I could have saved them, Luke says to Ben Kenobi, years later, and in that moment he has a thousand thousand eyes and all of them are burning, and he has no limbs but a dozen wings bearing him aloft, and each feather is molten gold and each feather drips blood. Ben thinks of Anakin, screws his Force-sensitivity closed. Luke is a monster. A wonder. But first and foremost he is a boy, and he is grieving.
Ben Kenobi holds him while he weeps.
When Leia comes, she turns into a celestial horror with more teeth than Han cares to count. “Huh,” he says, after their first time. She’s so little in his arms, but so vast. He feels something gentle his back. He says, “Next time, I’ll wear a blindfold, princess. Don’t want to blind me, do you? Then I won’t be able to see when you’re doing stupid shit.” She titters, presses her face into the curve of his neck.
Love comes to everyone, including monsters.
Christopher Denise
I can’t tell you how much these make me want to re-read the Redwall series.
→ Star Wars Atlas (2009) - Galactic Regions → Interesting notes: Location of many notable planets, the layers of galatic regions → This is a selection of maps showing the sectors of Star Wars’ galaxy, radiating outward from the center. While no longer strictly canon (as of April 25, 2014) it still gives a good idea of what planets are where. It can be especially helpful if you want to find a planet that’s nowhere near Coruscant to strand your characters on or if you want to find a more densely populated world near the center of everything! Or if you just want to know how close a specific planet is to the center of the galaxy. ✦ Deep Core:
Byss
(Note: The Deep Core did not hold as many notable worlds as the Core Worlds/Galactic Core/the Core, it had a massive black hole at the center which made hyperspace travel difficult and it was extremely densely packed with stars that had tremendous gravitational pull.) ✦ The Core:
Alderaan / Anaxes / Brentaal / Corellia / Coruscant / Duro / Kuat / Nubia / N’zoth
✦ The Colonies:
Fondor / Neimoidia
✦ Inner Rim:
Bestine / Hapes / Onderon / Taanab / Thyferra
✦ Expansion Region:
Mimban
✦ Mid Rim:
Ansion / Bothawui / Boz Pity / Ithor / Kashyyyk / Malastare / Naboo / Nar Shadda / Ord Mantell / Ruusan
✦ Hutt Space:
Nal Hutta / Nar Shadda / Toydaria
✦ Outer Rim:
Anoat / Bespin / Bonadan / Christophsis / Dagobah / Dantooine / Dathomir / Endor (Forest Moon) / Eriadu / Felucia / Gamorr / Geonosis / Honoghr / Hoth / Kamino / Kessel / Korriban / Mandalore / Mon Cala / Mustafar / Mygeeto / Nal Hutta / Ossus / Raxus Prime / Rhen Var / Rishi / Rodia / Ryloth / Saleucami / Sernpidal / Shadda-Bi-Boran / Sullust / Tatooine / Toydaria / Triton / Tund / Utapau / Yavin
✦ Wild Space:
Bakura / Kalee / Teth
✦ Unknown Regions:
Csilla / Iego / Ilum / Nagi / Lehon (Rakata Prime) / Rattatak / Zonama Sekot
oh baby
Luke and I have had our ups and downs over the years, but through it all, his relationship with my daughter, Rory, has never changed. He’s always been there for her no matter what. He was there to celebrate her birthdays. He was there cheering her on at her high school graduation. Luke has been a sort of father figure in my daughter’s life.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story → K-2SO after Jyn shoots an identical droid.
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