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september was practice⌠in october Iâm getting my shit together
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⨠self-care for beginners â¨
drink plenty of water daily
create a daytime/nighttime routine
make time for yourself
create a to-do list to help you stay focused, organized and on track
practice intentional journaling
read a good book more often
tap into your creative side (i.e. writing, drawing, etc.)
listen to your body & take care of yourself (i.e. physically, mentally & emotionally)
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All kinds of heartbroken right now. Hysterically sobbing my heart out. I remember watching MMPR as a very little girl and falling madly in love with Jason David Frank, and still the number one ranger Tommy Oliver. He was my first ever crush. I wanted to be Kimberley the pink ranger so much because she was dating Tommy. And while it was a crush I grew out of as naturally happens when little girls grow up, I never found a better ranger than Tommy Oliver, and I always fondly remembered my crush on Jason. When I got the chance to meet him at con, it was a childhood dream come true.
I cannot believe the news today, and the way itâs happened. Tell the people you love that you love them. You never know when they need to hear it. Iâm not sure Iâll ever be able to watch MMPR again, my heart is too hurt at the moment to even consider it. RIP Jason. You were always, and always will be, the greatest Power Ranger.
Iâm in disbelief and so sad to hear that Jason David Frank is no longer with us. I did not watch the mighty morphineâs when they first came out but I remember watching the reruns and just loving the dynamic that he brought to the team.
I was of course team Tommy and Kim, and in my heart they were the end game đ.
Tommy Oliver will hold a special place in my heart forever. He will forever be known as the ultimate and legendary power ranger. May he rest in peace.
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See the Universe in a New Way with the Webb Space Telescope's First Images
Are you ready to see unprecedented, detailed views of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most powerful space observatory ever made? Scroll down to see the first full-color images and data from Webb. Unfold the universe with us. â¨
Carina Nebula
This landscape of âmountainsâ and âvalleysâ speckled with glittering stars, called the Cosmic Cliffs, is the edge of the star-birthing Carina Nebula. Usually, the early phases of star formation are difficult to capture, but Webb can peer through cosmic dustâthanks to its extreme sensitivity, spatial resolution, and imaging capability. Protostellar jets clearly shoot out from some of these young stars in this new image.
Southern Ring Nebula
The Southern Ring Nebula is a planetary nebula: itâs an expanding cloud of gas and dust surrounding a dying star. In this new image, the nebulaâs second, dimmer star is brought into full view, as well as the gas and dust itâs throwing out around it. (The brighter star is in its own stage of stellar evolution and will probably eject its own planetary nebula in the future.) These kinds of details will help us better understand how stars evolve and transform their environments. Finally, you might notice points of light in the background. Those arenât starsâtheyâre distant galaxies.
Stephanâs Quintet
Stephanâs Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies near each other, was discovered in 1877 and is best known for being prominently featured in the holiday classic, âItâs a Wonderful Life.â This new image brings the galaxy group from the silver screen to your screen in an enormous mosaic that is Webbâs largest image to date. The mosaic covers about one-fifth of the Moonâs diameter; it contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files. Never-before-seen details are on display: sparkling clusters of millions of young stars, fresh star births, sweeping tails of gas, dust and stars, and huge shock waves paint a dramatic picture of galactic interactions.
WASP-96 b
WASP-96 b is a giant, mostly gas planet outside our solar system, discovered in 2014. Webbâs Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) measured light from the WASP-96 system as the planet moved across the star. The light curve confirmed previous observations, but the transmission spectrum revealed new properties of the planet: an unambiguous signature of water, indications of haze, and evidence of clouds in the atmosphere. This discovery marks a giant leap forward in the quest to find potentially habitable planets beyond Earth.
Webb's First Deep Field
This image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as Webbâs First Deep Field, looks 4.6 billion years into the past. Looking at infrared wavelengths beyond Hubbleâs deepest fields, Webbâs sharp near-infrared view reveals thousands of galaxiesâincluding the faintest objects ever observed in the infraredâin the most detailed view of the early universe to date. We can now see tiny, faint structures weâve never seen before, like star clusters and diffuse features and soon, weâll begin to learn more about the galaxiesâ masses, ages, histories, and compositions.
These images and data are just the beginning of what the observatory will find. It will study every phase in the history of our Universe, ranging from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang, to the formation of solar systems capable of supporting life on planets like Earth, to the evolution of our own Solar System.
Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of spaceâand for milestones like this!
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
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Ukraine, 26th Feb, 2022
A friend of mine told me yesterday that he didnât realise how much Ukraine meant to him until now. I posted yesterday about the time we spent there, and weâre all getting super pre-occupied about the invasion. As I said in that post, I canât get our waitress out of my head. I can sort of remember what she looked like now. She had an undercut. I think maybe her hair might have been blue? But - I will never know if she lives through this, and itâs driving me very slightly mad.
So naturally, my husband spent all day yesterday obsessively researching everything he could about it with the help of his journalist friends, as a way to help me process it.
This post is me putting it all in order, as a way to try and process my own emotional response as much as anything else (I freely admit there is an element of self-indulgence here). Please donât take me as the spokesperson for Ukraine right now, nor as a solid reliable news source. But, I havenât seen this stuff except in bits and pieces on Tumblr, so here we go.
(This is also not about why the invasion has happened. This post is solely about what has happened, and how the invasion is going.)
So, Putin and the rest of the world believed that this invasion would take 1-4 days. The plan was to push through fast, take Kyiv, and force Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian President, to surrender. Given Russiaâs military might, it really looked likely.
Here is the conclusion of all thatâs happened so far:
Ukraine is absolutely nailing this??? Actually???
They managed to defend every single city overnight, including Kyiv. They started rolling out and using these WW2-style anti-tank thingies that look a bit like angry gabbions, look, hereâs a picture of one being delivered:
A bunch of spare iron girders turned into a hefty octopus of Russian misery, basically.
But itâs not just tanks theyâre taking down, oh no. Ukraine successfully shot down a transport plane 20km from Kyiv. That is, I shit you not, the single biggest hit to the Russian military since the Second Chechen War. Volunteers from Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Azerbaijan and Israel are all entering Ukraine to help fight and bolster the anti-Russian forces, which is probably illustrative of how Eurovision voting is going to run for the next decade. Most countries have banned Russian planes from their air space. To help stop the Russian advance, Ukraine has made and installed new road signs, like this one:
I can only say a handful of sentences in Ukrainian, Tumblrs, but as I understand it, from top to bottom, it says:
âFuck offâ
âFuck off againâ
âFuck off Russiaâ
Meanwhile, it turns out the Russian military might we feared is⌠possibly not quite as advertised?
Theyâre underfunded and badly trained. Ukraine captured 200 soldiers in one go, and most of them were confused 19 year olds with no training. The equipment is shite. The tanks keep running out of fuel. Russian soldiers keep abandoning their tanks and handing them over to the Ukrainian army. Putinâs plan was to take Kyiv fast and move on, and he didnât have a plan B - hence these kids, playing soldier. Here is an image of a Russian tank receiving roadside assistance from Russiaâs finest, an old Lada. Â
No one expected Zelenskyy to survive the night; but he did. America offered him asylum in the White House.
But he said no.Â
Zelenskyy remains in Kyiv, with his people.
And Putin, in his desperation to be adored, has turned Zelenskyy into a global icon and hero.
Here is something you may not know about Volodymyr Zelenskyy - he used to be a standup comedian. Was he any good? No idea - but what he IS good at is producing funny short videos he can put on Twitter and that, which are absolutely fantastic for Ukrainian morale. And morale is vital in an invasion like this, and Ukraine are smashing it out of the park there.
They are utilising the internet to its fullest extent. In addition to Zelenskyyâs videos, theyâve made sure that the final words of the Ukrainian defenders of Snake Island are known and now echoed around the world:Â âRussian warship, go fuck yourselves.â A video has gone viral of Ukrainians mocking a group of Russian soldiers whose tank had broken down and who didnât know the way to Kyiv anyway, presumably because of all the new road signs. They have created a website that lists every single Russian death they can identify, partly so Russian mothers can have closure (thus also painting themselves as the defenders of decency and humanity), and partly for the enormous morale boost of the world knowing, categorically, that theyâve already killed 3700 Russian soldiers (over 100 of which were from that transport plane.)Â Not one word has leaked of Ukrainian casualties. Iâm sure theyâre devastating, but for morale purposes, theyâre being kept quiet until the dust settles. Ukrainians have started setting up fake Tindr profiles to catfish Russian soldiers for intel, and theyâre all 19 and lost, so itâs working. Plus, theyâre using Grindr to actually track where the soldiers are, because it turns out Putin was not entirely correct about there being no gays in Russia.
So, Russia wants to cut their internet access. Can the Ukrainian Minister for Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, shame a billionaire into providing aid?
This is crucial, remember. Atrocities happen best in the dark, and the world is watching - because of the internet. Morale is vital to maintain. Can they convince Elon Musk to help?
Yep.
Ukraine now has the fastest internet service in the world. The fastest, most stable internet service in human history, in fact. Russia cannot now disable it. The world watches.
Which is just as well, because then Anonymous decided to get involved, and have leaked the website database of the Russian Ministry of Defence. Lol. Also this happens:
And then the Russian propaganda channels started broadcasting the truth of what is happening in Ukraine. Double lol.
So what is the political response?
Well, in addition to closing airspace to Russian planes, loads of countries are sending weapons to Ukraine. Those that canât are offering asylum. Theyâre also offering asylum to any Russian soldiers who surrender or defect, which is startlingly good tactics, and there are rumours of around 5000 Russian soldiers who have done just that. Germany, of course, has long had a block on lethal weapons transfer; but Germany recognise this shit for what it is. Theyâve lifted the block, thus allowing the Netherlands to send weapons. Efforts are now underway to fast-track Ukraine into the EU. I presume they will consider the lack of pint glasses with crowns on to be a worthwhile price to pay.
So what about Russiaâs supporters?
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenka helped Russia with this invasion. Now, this has happened:
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was actually elected president, but some wild nonsense kept her out of power. Sheâs now running a government in exile. I have literally no idea what this means or will mean! But my god. She has a spine of steel, and this is not a good time to be happening for Putin.Â
And itâs really, really not, because then intel on a meeting of Putin and assembled Oligarchs LEAKS (hello Anonymous, probably). The highlights:
This war is costing Russia $15bn a day
He expected it to take ONE TO FOUR DAYS TO WIN
Itâs been two days and he is losing very badly, currently
They will run out of rockets by day 4, maybe sooner
After that they will be down to rifles and ammo
It will take 3-4 months to make more significant weapons, except they need raw materials, and the countries that can provide them⌠have cut supply lines
If the war lasts 10 days, Russia will have completely run out of money and weapons
Itâs only day 2, and Russian soldiers are knocking the doors of random Ukrainian homes begging for food and water because theyâve already run out
So, out of desperation, Putin turns to his greatest, closest and most trusted ally for help: Kazakhstan.Â
And Kazakhstan
SAYS NO
And then Ukraine shoots down a second Russian plane.
Anyway, Iâm going to finish off with a final point. Morale is vital in this situation, so here is the message from the Ukrainian government at the minute, to everyone watching around the world:
Be VERY SUSPICIOUS of any negative news about Ukraine. Russia uses misinformation and propaganda. They will want to damage Ukrainian morale.
Use your social media to spread news of Ukrainian victories.Â
Donât give oxygen to negative stories. Especially since they might not be true.
Thatâs genuinely something we can do to help. Every victory of Ukraine, blast it far and wide. So on that note, Iâll leave you with this:
Congrats to Natalia Antonovaâs cousinâs son.
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I'm so excited to tell you that we're launching today our Royal Fandom Discord! We want to welcome you and encourage you to join. We have channels for all the royal families and for you to express yourself in any way you want. We obviously have rules so you have to make sure you read them when you join so you can have a better experience.
And mostly, as I mentioned before, the crown jewel (no pun intended) of this Server is our weekly Radio Show. We will have a live call with you to discuss the royal events of that week. It's not necessary to join the conversation with your camera or voice so if you just want to tune in and listen, that's perfect. Chelsea (my co host and co owner) and I want your help to decide what is the perfect time to do it (we already know it's going to be on the weekend, so the day is settled), mostly because we want everybody to be able to tune it in, we want to bee all countries friendly, so make sure you message her (at @thecambridgesot5) or myself (here obvi) so you tell us the best time for you. There is also a special channel so you comment what topics you want us to cover in the Radio Show.
And without further ado, let me share you the link.
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There is a reason for this though!
The original tweet summarizes it pretty well. Fanfic tends to be popular among certain types of neurodivergent people (aka people most likely to read excessively as a child, and have burnout as an adult) for the same reasons that we tend to hyperfixateâneurochemical signaling (I hope Iâm using that phrase correctly). What I mean is, for people who are really dependent on changes in dopamine/serotonin/neurotransmitter levels, who have low levels or wonky neural reward systems (perhaps the most common types of neurodivergence)âŚpeople like us rely on dependable external sources of those neurochemicals. In order to function, we spend a lot of our free time trying to level out our brain chemistry using things that can reliably bring us a steady stream of joyful moments (rewards) without costing too much of the mental effort that is already in short supply.Â
significantly:Â the investment of reading has to be balanced with a steady âreturn on investmentââand this return has to start fairly quickly. because again, we donât have a lot of attention/energy to invest on tiring things. we have perpetual âlow batteriesâ in that regard.
that doesnât mean these stories are âsimple,â or that they lack complexity or valueâonly that the reward has to come in short regular intervals, and it has to have a low âupfront cost.â these stories are only âeasyâ to read in the sense that the effort we put into them is rewarded in a timely manner. which is why fanfic stories are so perfectly formulated for neurodivergent readersâthey are often beautifully written, but skip a lot of the upfront costs (of introducing new characters, of world-building, of getting the audience emotionally connected to the story elements).
the nature of fanfiction is that the reader has a pre-existing relationship with this world and these characters. thatâcombined with the shorter average length of ficsâmeans that fan fics very quickly start rewarding the reader in a way that traditional fiction struggles to. thatâs not a bad thing! and maybe itâs something more traditionally published writers should be paying attention to.
Fanfic, as a genre, has been uniquely helpful and accessible to many neurodivergent readers who would otherwise struggle to immerse themselves in stories. Iâm glad so many of you have found a way to love and enjoy reading again! The important thing is that you are spending time inside stories you loveâthe way those stories are published or presented to the world is just one detail. The fact that you find joy in the process of reading (or listening!) to storiesâthat is what matters.
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a bunch of people have reblogged this with the default âi feel called outâ reactionâŚ.and i know when we say that we mean it tongue-in-cheekâŚ.but this comment sorta blew my mind & shifted my perspective up and to the left a little thank youâĽ
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#this 100% happened to me#but iâm a middle aged writer and english teacher with an academic literature background#when i burned out got sick and had a breakdown i couldnât read regular books anymore i could only read fanfic#i saw on twitter where someone said literature is prescriptive. you read the kind of fiction that fits your personal need#weâre all overwhelmed right now and thatâs why we like the tropey fiction whether fanfic or romance novels or superhero movies#we UNDERSTAND the rules of fiction and dontâ have to work to understand while the payoff comes quickly. kiss. hea. battle/victory