CosmicSafari

An upcoming game about exploring and building a new world on a recently discovered moon of Mars! Discover, Tame, and Study over 140 weird creatures, befriend and recruit people to join your mission, and design a town on this new world.

[depsidase]

[anthonybrxdgerton]

@creatornet event 17 | dynamic duos: Donna Noble & Tenth Doctor

And for one moment, one shining moment, she was the most important woman in the whole wide universe.

[thisisnotjuli]

Goncharov score masterpost

I want to make a post to keep track of all the Goncharov score that’s been uploaded to tumblr, so I will link to all the one’s I’ve found so far and update with any new ones that come up (if you know any I’m missing please share the link!)

Main Theme uploaded by @caramiaaddio

Main Theme (End Titles) uploaded by @if-only-angels-could-prevail

Main Theme (Reprise) uploaded by @raccoonfink

Main Theme uploaded by @eternenty

General Soundtrack uploaded by @mortal-ghost

Shortened Main Title as used in the original theatrical release, uploaded by @somanyofthekids

Main Theme (Opening Credits) uploaded by @fireball-me

The Bridge Breaks uploaded by @nicewizard

The Clocktower uploaded by @dungeonmastersconsortium

Farewell Scene uploaded by @levuna (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

Farewell Scene - Extended Version uploaded by @levuna

Tempus Fugit - “Clock Theme” uploaded by @trupowieszcz  (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

Goncharov Theme in Minor uploaded by @mapplejuice  (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

Katya’s Leitmotif (Vinyl Rip) uploaded by @unscharf-an-den-raendern  (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

Andrey’s Theme uploaded by @the-frosty-mac (pointed out to me by @muzic4sewerratz , thank you!)

It Is True (Extract) uploaded by @hex-of-els (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

Memories Of Water - Goncharov Soundtrack uploaded by @rismrus (pointed out to me by themself– please do feel free to toot your own horn!)

Katya’s Sonata uploaded by @arcanistvysoren

“For My Love” Andrey’s Serenade uploaded by @diagnosed-anxiety-disorder

Stolen Time uploaded by @avatar-of-the-vast

Sharing A Dance uploaded by @the-frosty-mac (pointed out to me by themself)

In The Boathouse uploaded by @madame-karenina

What Was And Will Be uploaded by @piano-flute

Overture on the Clocktower uploaded by @dead-minecraft-fandoms (pointed out to me by @mccoppinscrapyard, thank you!)

Privyet Goncharov uploaded by @rismrus (pointed out to me by themself)

Goncharov’s Gun uploaded by @netcup

Sofia’s Serenade to Katya, from the deleted scene in the boat where she sings “Come Raggio di Sol,” uploaded by @melongumi

Sofia’s Theme uploaded by @andrey-transgenderism

Icepick Joe’s Leitmotif uploaded by @whimperandabang

Waltz of the Pearls uploaded by @raynaonyourparade

Katya’s Theme uploaded by @fancydunamancy

Katya’s Theme (a different version) uploaded by @katyathemegoncharov

Katya’s Death Song (ночь, улица, фонарь) uploaded by @traumagician

Lovers Forlon - “Katya and Sofia Final Goodbye” from the deleted scene, uploaded by @colours-of-the-galaxies

Andrey On The Bridge uploaded by @reinbel

Palace Dance Scene uploaded by @lostlovepunk

Dirge of the Living uploaded by @paradoxicalpockets

Smoke and Mirrors uploaded by @andrey-shot-first

Goncharov, Alone uploaded by @khufiya-khaufnak-antariksh

If You Loved Me, You Wouldn’t Miss uploaded by @thetasteoffire who also provided a transcript in a reblog of this post (link)

Clocktower Confrontation uploaded by @rismrus

Goncharov’s Dream uploaded by @verochkasnightmarecorner

Love Theme uploaded by @literary-potat0

Time Motif (All Things Twist) uploaded by @oldbay-on-apples

Predatel'stvo (Katya’s Lament) uploaded by @lierdumoa

Shootout on the Old Bridge uploaded by @raynaonyourparade

This Is It uploaded by @angrycatlovesfandoms

Gonchorov’s Theme and Sofia’s Theme uploaded by @koalas-cave

Last Train uploaded by @minotaurlovesyou

Now Departing uploaded by @theshadowbastard

The Courtroom uploaded by @traegorn

Goncharov’s Death uploaded by @loruleyuga

Katya in Peril (Vinyl Rip) uploaded by @unscharf-an-den-raendern

Te Deum (Cathedral Scene) uploaded by @3liza

Katya and Sofia uploaded by @elluminis

Love Theme uploaded by @tweltchy

Katya’s Theme uploaded by @maebird-melody

The Betrayal uploaded by @kip-can-fiddle

Chase Scene uploaded by @fireball-me

Prayer Scene uploaded by @fireball-me

Delusions by the Clocktower uploaded by @sleeveace22

A Clockmaster’s Lament uploaded by @rismrus

If only time would stop for us uploaded by @fireflydragon2005

Apples at the Market uploaded by @raynaonyourparade

Four Seconds (The Clockmaker Reprise) uploaded by @lostinthewinterwood

Demise uploaded by @hyrixmusic

In The Church At Midnight uploaded by @composerinprogress

Departing Naples uploaded by MINDSSACRE

Dockside #2, one of the unreleased tracks, uploaded by @reptilemodernism

Unnamed Fragment from Goncharov’s death scene, uploaded by @quizshow1994

Bonus:

Cover of the song Goncharov (2010) by @idiopathicsmile  (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

At Goncharov’s Gate (PC Version), song written for the PC game with a Super NES port released in 1994 for PC-DOS, uploaded by @badgraph1csghost (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

Intro to Goncharov (Super Nintendo version) uploaded by @badgraph1csghost

You Think You Have Time, a remix of the original theme that wound up in Hotline Miami DLC, uploaded by @coolwitchaunt

Bonus Disc Menu uploaded by @turtrose

Goncharov 8-Bit Theme from the Goncharov NES game, uploaded by @moonset-music

Trailer for Goncharov (2022) directed by @madphantom

Live action FULL MOVIE: Goncharov (2022) directed by @madphantom

Blooper Reel for Goncharov (2022) directed by @madphantom

One of the official trailers was recently recovered by @talkshowhost1996

A soundtrack compilation is now available on soundcloud

Analysis of the music in the Ballroom Scene by @clarionglass

Analysis on the overall sountrack by @odense

[sttngfashion]

Cost of Living - 5.20

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[entheognosis]

World Infrastructure Map

by Peter Atwood

[aviculor]

Yes, after months of struggling against myself, using my middle finger instead of my index finger, even buying a computer mouse to sidestep using my left hand at all, I've finished a new fakemon. "New" fakemon because it's a revamp of a concept I first made in 2009.

I had changed its design somewhat when the time came to sprite it, due to being unable to draw the scope lens with crosshairs on that scale.

Recently....well, "recently" as in last year, I decided to revive it as part of a mythical trio with a new design. I had been collecting ideas and coming up with a novel way to implement them. Then gout began to claim my hand, which forced me into retirement because it ruined the technique I had honed for well over a decade.

It's a snipe. As in the wading bird, and as in the fictional creature the hunt of which is a fool's errand. As well as being a sniper, creating a double pun on "snipe hunt". Additionally, its camouflage pants resemble a bird nest, thus creating a sniper's nest. Physically, it has a loose resemblance to a Shy Guy or Snifit from the Mario series, as well as Yoyo Dodo from Looney Tunes. I still couldn't give it crosshair eyes, but I prefer the night vision goggles I came up with.

[apsciencebylyn]

small-headed fly/BIG-HEADED FLY

Common names are a bit hit or miss, but these two? 🤌🤌

[faitherinhicks]

Data & Geordi in the moooorning!

There are startling similarities. 

[troyandabedinengineering]

A keen observation. 

[namatnieks]

Tribute to the Pike Emperor

[bovineblogger]

anyway

[bovineblogger]

[bovineblogger]

she deosnt know how to put. shoes on

[eidolode]

figuring out a monster jon design

he’s essentially a living optic nerve. the tower is there to direct and stabilize the connection held in the pupil. when he’s in the panopticon he serves as both the center of the tether to reality and the closest thing the eye has to a mind.

before he settles in the panopticon, he can fly and he moves a bit like an avian dinosaur. as pupil, he isn’t affected by gravity and his wings and legs are vestigial. the furthest he can reach with his body is the floor of that room.

the old archivists serve as a defense system because jon is basically a vital organ and fairly physically vulnerable. they’re very fast and can fly short distances but usually just cling to walls and crawl. they have about the same level of sentience as beholding itself (not much) and are about half the size of jon. he can maneuver them as external limbs but when he isn’t, they kind of just run on eye-autopilot.

[headspace-hotel]

I don't mean it in a creepy way I promise, but I feel a kinship with China, Japan and Korea i wish more people from my region shared, because...we have sister ecosystems!

It's actually amazing, there are so many plant genera that are not closely related to anything else and just have a couple living species: One (or two) from mid latitude Southeast Asia, and one from the Southeastern USA.

For example, the two living lotus species (sacred lotus and American lotus), the two living tulip tree/ Liriodendron species, the Chinese and American sweetgums (Liquidambar spp.) the Chinese and American trumpet vines (Campsis spp.) the Chinese, Japanese and American wisteria (Wisteria spp), the Chinese, Taiwan and American sassafras (Sassafras spp.) I KNOW i'm forgetting many of them because there are so many. Twins!!!!

And there's so many iconic plant groups shared in common between East Asia and SE USA. Like dogwoods, magnolias, rhododendrons, we even have our own bamboo!!!

I think a lot of how strangely familiar each ecosystem would feel to someone visiting from the other one.

And I bet there's a lot of ecological knowledge and insights we could share with each other...

Sister ecosystems...

[headspace-hotel]

The side effect of this, is that east Asian plants are Virulently Invasive in SE USA, and...you guessed it, SE USA plants are Virulently Invasive in east Asia.

Some of them have even become more common as invasive species than they are where they're native!

[headspace-hotel]

@scatteredcloud That's a great question, and the answer is that it isn't convergent evolution, they really are closely related species with a common ancestor!

That's SO much distance! How did they do it? I don't really understand it myself.

Were they once one species with a super wide distribution all around the world, and the intermediates went extinct? Did the ancestral species migrate from one area to the other when the climate was different?

When studying the genus Arundinaria (American bamboo!) I learned that Arundinaria split off from all other temperate woody bamboos about 2 million years ago. Apparently, 2 million years ago, a bamboo moved from Asia to North America, and nothing like that ever happened again...or at least if it did, the evidence went extinct.

So was there a time when bamboo stretched from sea to shining sea, all across the Beringia land bridge and everything, and the family tree was pruned by ice ages...or what???

Its really strange because a lot of these shared plant genera, are limited to warm temperate to subtropical climes, so the ice ages would have REALLY fucked their entire shit up. Arundinaria was reduced to a tiny area along the gulf coast during the last glacial maximum.

I wonder if there's a pattern, do species mainly evolve in Asia and immigrate to USA, or what...?

I do know that a lot of these shared species are relict survivors of basal angiosperm groups that split off really early from other angiosperms...don't know what that means though.

[headspace-hotel]

Okay so with liriodendron (tulip poplar or tulip tree) it's super cursed, there are two groups or lineages of the Chinese species and the American species is genetically intermediate between them both. I don't understand how that works.

But basically they used to be a species much more widely distributed but the ice ages obliterated them from most of their range, however they stayed alive in the two places on earth conditions were still good for them. L. tulipifera genetic diversity is way lower than the Chinese species, because there weren't as many suitable refugia for the trees to go during the last glaciation.

With Nelumbo (lotus), this study suggests that the two lotus species could have split from each other as late as the Pleistocene, and it's the same story, the common ancestor species used to be super widespread, but the ice age wiped out most of its range, and the plants had to recolonize from the two places they survived.

However with Campsis spp. the two species are estimated to have diverged 24.4 MILLION years ago which is. Insane.

The two sassafras species are said to have diverged 13-17 million years ago,

According to this article the Wisterias diverged approx 13.4 million years ago, with the American one actually traveling from Asia to America, rather than a more broadly distributed population being interrupted.

Okay okay now I'm wondering if China has any weird species with extinct American relatives.

[heathcliffbot]

06/23/2024

[rathayibacter]

my favorite thing here is this is just a normal one-panel heathcliff comic with seven panels of backstory that explain nothing. its like when a small child wants to tell you a story but first has to explain everything they did that day

[batcrooks]

the elevator pitch for this is "a Toy Story/Night at the Museum-style educational series that teaches kids about art history"

they probably wouldn't let me have the tits-out minoan snake woman but that's ok

[bogleech]

Scanning electron microscopy is awesome and I personally think the images it produces are gorgeous but objectively speaking I feel like it doesn't do any favors at all for the "scary" cultural image of insects, because I mean, here's a closeup of a carpet beetle in its true colors:

And here's an SEM image that comes up for carpet beetles on google:

And the thing about SEM images is that they aren't "photographs;" they are computer scans. They're 3-d digital models generated by scanning an object at the molecular level. Color is not preserved by this process, and if it were all the specimens would look like metal anyway (I'll explain this is in a moment), so images like this had to be colored artificially. This isn't done to recreate the true colors, but to make different body parts more visible as study material, resulting in scientific images of wacky blueberry fleas:

The subtly varying transparency levels of living tissues are completely lost as well, which is why the fine hairs of insects stand out more like cactus thorns in SEM imagery, and tardigrades look like opaque leathery things with no eyes:

...Even though a tardigrade actually has eyes, they're just under the surface of a crystal clear exoskeleton:

Another thing that probably contributes to the uncanniness of SEM images is also the fact that they can only show us embalmed corpses encased in liquid metal.

It's not possible to do this fine level of scanning "instantaneously" enough for it to work on anything that's still moving, so even when you see scanning electron images of animals in various lifelike poses, it's because they're preserved specimens that were carefully positioned, or they were live specimens basically "flash frozen" by a sudden dehydration process, mummified so fast they never knew it. Many specimens are then "sputter coated," meaning they're sprayed with a thin (like microns thin) layer of liquid gold, platinum or other fine metal in order for the electrons to perfectly bounce off of every subatomic detail and produce that perfect scan. So this is a live fruit fly:

And this is a fruit fly mummy with probably some sort of chrome plating:

[michaeldrawrrett]

BUCKET OF BUGS: You have an empty garden, and a bucket full of lovely bugs. A little summer's day microgame, with Programming by @thewaether and art by me. WASD to move, CTRL to crouch, and click to Pour Out A Bug

PLAY IT HERE:

Bucket of Bugs by TheWaether

Fill a garden with bugs

[marilythscales]

@onenicebugperday

[matt-smith-with-eyebrows]

Matt Smith with Effie Trinket eyebrows (and make up)