Archive of my Own

Personal mess of a blog. Currently spending summer in the Cottage 🏒

[herpsandbirds]

Greater Blue-eared Glossy-starling (Lamprotornis chalybaeus), family Sturnidae, Kruger National Park, South Africa

photograph by PanWoyteczek

[xenobotanist]

Truly a superb starling

(but not a Superb Starling, because that's a different species)

[debelice]

Very high winds at the perfect time of day.......

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Literally all I want to do is write something that makes people insane and maybe scream silently over it like is that so much to ask

[lolmemez]

Gargoyles was droppin' gems. 💎

[memeuplift]

[velinxi]

“Iris! Help, there’s too many rabbits, how do I make them go away- are you painting them!?”

[hehearse]

[adorkastock]

Here's my new model, Lauren Ashley! 😍 We took over 700 photos in our two hour shoot and there's JUST SO MUCH GREAT STUFF Ahhhhhh! I can't wait to show you more! She's fantastic. 🥰 Want three more images from this shoot? My Patrons have a few extras in the intro post there!

[blackkatmagic]

I have a baseline level of annoyance directed at Karen Traviss that exists at all times, but I am so annoyed at her 3-4 million clones estimation and how it's just turned into the fandom's canon. Like, the gffa is massive! Does she have any concept of space/numbers??? Because there were 70 million soldiers fighting in WWII alone, and if you multiply that by multiple worlds and multiple fronts and whole sectors of space with dozens or hundred of planets, 3-4 million people fighting across all of that territory is laughable, even if they are all technically supersoldiers. And that doesn't even account for losses, when we know from canon that there were losses of over 30k soldiers in a single day.

Just. The lack of logic is infuriating. Traviss pulled that number out of her ass, and fandom just rolling with it makes no sense if you think about it for even a few seconds.

[ravensilversea]

I've done some quirk and dirty math on this before, but I have no idea if it's written down anywhere. So let's do it again!

Using the United States as a reference with a population of ~332,403,650 people in the beginning of 2022 and an active military personnel population of ~1,358,500 people from June 2022, you get the US military representing about .41% of the US population. Now the US does have one of the largest militaries in the world, so our results are going to be skewed a bit because of that. BUT the Republic is also at war which should cause an increase in military personnel, so like, I think it balances itself out.

Anyway, apparently George Lucas composed some background material in 1977 for the licensees of the Expanded Universe outlining the Republic Senate pre-Empire and he very kindly included the number of systems represented- 24,372.

When you consider some systems (Coruscant) will have massive populations while others may not, I'm just going to use Earth's population of 8 billion people (as of yesterday) as sort of the average planet population because quick and dirty math. Which means my calculator is about to hate me.

So 8 billion multiplied by 24,372 equals a Galactic Republic population of about 194,976,000,000,000, or 194.9 trillion people. Multiply that by our .41% and we get about: 79,940,160,000,000 or 79.9 trillion expected military personnel.

Now, that does include the Jedi and any other non-clone personnel in the military as well as the clones. But the clones definitely make up the majority of that number. Even if you give or take a couple degrees of magnitude, we're still talking a number most likely upwards of 100 billion.

[spockandawe]

Hidden Fore Edge Painting.pptx

Hidden Fore Edge Painting A Very, Very Rough Overview

Right, let's talk about HIDDEN FORE EDGE PAINTING

Hey y'all! So many apologies to people who share discord servers with me, but I am bound and determined to be obnoxious with this link. I've done a few books with hidden fore edge paintings, which are in my archives. I spent a month flailing around in frustration trying to find a way to DO this, because this craft is nearly extinct, and mad respect to the artists more skilled than me who post projects to tiktok, but while I love a good spectacle, what I'm really after is a repeatable PROCESS. Also gilding is complicated and I live in an already overstuffed apartment, so I wanted an affordable and simple way to replicate the effect

So, here's what I've got. I gave a presentation about this, and my experiments and successes and failures. I said words, I had books of my own to show in motion, but all the critical info is captured in the slides as well. Martin Frost's masterclass video is linked in there, and that video is a great demo of the process and has a number of helpful pieces of advice, but doesn't totally fit my needs as a bookbinder, or as a non-professional trying to make something Cool without wading too far into the hobby pit.

Unnecessary information scarcity is what drove me to madness over this, so I'm not going to contribute to that problem. Download this file, send it to a friend, post it other places, reformat it for a different venue, I truly don't care. I wrestled this knowledge into being for my own use, which has been done, so now my biggest goal is to spread it to anyone interested.

[katribou]

mako eyes

[reapergrellsutcliff]

‘Kiss Scene rough sketches - Drawing for Boys Love (Yaoi)’ (Part 3 of 3)

A 103 page book/CD rom with male/male kissing scenes, from many different angles, for artist drawing references.

Other art references like this can be found here:

Kiss Scene - Drawing for Boys Love (Yaoi) (Part 1 of 3)

Kiss Scene - Drawing for Boys Love (Yaoi) (Part 2 of 3)

Love Scene - Drawing for Boys Love (Yaoi)

Mangaka Boy Love Pose Collection: Love Scene 2 (Part 1 of 2)

Mangaka Boy Love Pose Collection: Love Scene 2 (Part 2 of 2)

Mangaka Boy Love Pose Collection: Love Scene 3’ (Part 1 of 3)

Mangaka Boy Love Pose Collection: Love Scene 3’ (Part 2 of 3)

Mangaka Boy Love Pose Collection: Love Scene 3’ (Part 3 of 3)

[monsterpotion]

"You can now sort your likes from oldest to newest on web and iOS. Do you remember what your first liked post was?"

oh dear

[monsterpotion]

oh its bad back there.

[emziess]

Rocky + Movement Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[viktor-sbor]

A combination of barrier mesh animation and anamorphic projection on elegant porcelain.

[hyraeth]

I really really really feel like writing HR fanfic but bare minimum is to re-read all books again because I feel I've been reading way too much fanfic and somethings are getting a bit muddled

[russianblush]

Best Lead Performer, Drama Series is....Hudson Williams!