the quest for temmieflakes

ve/ver/vis or she/her (loud annoying fanperson demigirl) If you don't have at least one post on your blog before you follow me, I will block you. Nothing personal; it's an anti-bot measure.

[apod]

2026 June 2

The Vela Supernova Remnant Image Credit & Copyright: José Mtanous

Explanation: The explosion is over, but the consequences continue. About twelve thousand years ago, a relatively normal star in the constellation Vela suddenly exploded, creating a strange point of light briefly visible to humans living near the beginning of recorded history. The outer layers of the star crashed into the interstellar medium, driving a shock wave that is still visible today. The featured image, taken piecemeal over 60 hours from the Khomas Region of Namibia, captures some of that filamentary and gigantic shock in visible light, with details highlighted by hydrogen (red) and oxygen (blue) emissions. As gas flies away from the detonated star, it decays and reacts with the interstellar medium, producing light in many different colors and energy bands. Remaining at the center of the Vela Supernova Remnant is a pulsar, a star as dense as nuclear matter that spins around more than ten times in a single second.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260602.html

[apod]

2026 May 22

The Nebulous Realm of WR 134 Image Credit & Copyright: Luigi Morrone and Telescope Live

Explanation: This cosmic snapshot covers a field of view over twice as wide as the full Moon within the boundaries of the high-flying constellation Cygnus. Made using astronomical narrowband filters, the image highlights the bright edge of a ring-like nebula traced by the glow of ionized hydrogen and oxygen gas. Embedded in the region’s expanse of interstellar clouds, the complex, glowing arcs are sections of shells of material swept up by the wind from Wolf-Rayet star WR 134, the brightest star near image center. Distance estimates put WR 134 about 6,000 light-years away, making this telescopic frame over 100 light-years across. Shedding their outer envelopes in powerful stellar winds, massive Wolf-Rayet stars have burned through their nuclear fuel at a prodigious rate and end their final phase of massive star evolution in a spectacular supernova. Their stellar winds and final supernova explosion enrich the interstellar material with heavy elements to be incorporated in future generations of stars.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260522.html

[aubrey-plaza]

MISS CONGENIALITY | 2000 

bonus:

[the-forest-library]

kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it

[headedoutleft]

had a meeting at work yesterday with a guy i didn’t know and he said the phrase, “feed two birds with one scone”, which i thought indicated a conscientious and generous spirit

[quasi-normalcy]

I don't trust anyone who hasn't acknowledged their capacity for evil.

[quasi-normalcy]

"I'm just a smol bean uwu" No sir, what you are is someone who is so habituated to thinking of yourself as innocent that you will continue to do so even when you're guilty.

[quasi-normalcy]

And if you convince yourself that you're always and only a victim, you can inflict absolutely monstrous cruelty and never once feel bad about it.

[shiraglassman]

What if we just decided that the Wednesday of Pesach was Frog Day

Because of the frog plague + It's Wednesday My Dudes memes

ETA: i wanna see a meme with a bunch of frogs rushing at Pharaoh shouting it's Wednesday

[koshercosplay]

SAY NO MORE

[shiraglassman]

😍Truly I am lucky this day 🌴🐸✨

Thank you so much! Aww 🌺🐱 and since someone asked yes gentiles can reblog

[benevolentbirdgal]

Okay but can someone make a version with One Giant Frog?

[shiraglassman]

FROG SAMEACH 🐸

[valentinsylve]

@shiraglassman

[moon-covey]

[faebirdie]

this is funnier the earlier in march you reblog it it

[ari-shipping-stuff]

✨ it’s march ✨

[f-i-t-z-s-i-m-m-o-n-s-deactivat]

😔 it’s march 😔

[kuhuchan]

Baby it’s March🤡

[mindhost]

Mother and child training longsword in Chile, at the Centro Esgrima Histórica

[letsblogwithmama]

let’s master the blade with mama

[jewish-rock]

@pixspectrum

[apod]

2026 February 20

B93: A Dark Interstellar Ghost Image Credit & Copyright: Christian Bertincourt; Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)

Explanation: “A ghost in the Milky Way…â€� says Christian Bertincourt, the astrophotographer behind this striking image of Barnard 93 (B93). The 93rd entry in Barnard’s Catalogue of Dark Nebulae, B93 lies within the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (Messier 24), where its darkness stands in stark contrast to bright stars and gas in the background. In some ways, B93 is really like a ghost, because it contains gas and dust that was dispersed by the deaths of stars, like supernovas. B93 appears as a dark void not because it is empty, but because its dust blocks the light emitted by more distant stars and glowing gas. Like other dark nebulas, some gas from B93, if dense and massive enough, will eventually gravitationally condense to form new stars. If so, then once these stars ignite, B93 will transform from a dark ghost into a brilliant cradle of newborn stars.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260220.html

[thememedaddy]

[berylian]

[cherabby]

[inklesspen]

As you are no doubt aware, JKR has used her wealth to be an absolute tirefire of a human being. (For citation see probably any newspaper.)

In the last couple years I've often seen people saying things like "since JKR is very bad, if you are still in HP fandom in any way, you are also bad by association".

I reject this argument, since I do not believe in the Law of Contagion, and when presented with faulty logic my first response is to dig in my heels and say "I will continue to do the thing".

I have also seen the argument "since JKR uses her wealth to do very bad things, you should not act in a way that gives her more wealth, and participating in HP fandom gives her more wealth". To which I also dig in my heels, because we live in a world where JKR gets a cut of every ticket admission to Universal Studios Florida, where HBO is doing a long-running series, where her stage play is still running in both Broadway and the West End. It is incomprehensible that "writing a trans HP fanfic" would give her any more wealth than she already has. And so in that case I also said "I will continue to do the thing".

But, in recent months I've definitely felt less than enthusiastic about such fandom participation. And I wondered why that might be and tried to interrogate it.

And where I stand is this: I think those arguments are still bad arguments and I don't agree with them. But. I've essentially decided that if contributing to HP fandom would make another trans woman feel as if she cannot trust me, then that is something I don't want to have happen. And I think I'm okay with changing my fandom activity based on that argument.

[cryptotheism]

"it would be good if it were good" is one of the most creatively productive things to experience imo.

[curioscurio]

girl get a girp on yourself there are literally hot chocolate lol

[junglejim4322]

Unironically I think the early to mid 20s age group in America has unbelievably bad consent boundaries on all levels and so much language to defend it but this makes me sound like elon musk if I say it however the commonality of someone who will be like “I had 47 panic attacks and it’s your fault” if you tell them no is insane

[junglejim4322]

I rejected someone and got called “the scariest person I’ve ever met” with so much therapy speak interspersed like alright okay alright okay alright okay

[junglejim4322]

“You just say whatever you’re thinking and I don’t know how to handle it” was verbatim part of this conversation. Also everyone hates to see an autistic bitch

[transhumanisticpanspermia]

When I was in this age bracket, there was a huge emphasis on improving consent culture via graceful rejection, and it's gone by the wayside. Which sucks.

Twice in my youth (once in high school and once in college) I was in situations where I was asking someone out and I could tell they were calculating in their heads the risks of rejecting me, and both times I said, out loud, "you can say no, I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't prepared for either answer." And then they said no. This wasn't some spark of special wisdom I had - I knew to do it because feminist conversations among my age group brought it up regularly. This isn't happening nearly enough anymore.

More recently, I was really glad when we got to "rejection sensitive dysphoria" in my IOP program and it was one of those symptoms where the therapists really emphasized how it affects others. Because it does.

Being someone who cannot handle rejection makes you much more likely to violate boundaries, and yes, that includes sexual ones. Yes, you, reader who has never hurt a fly. If you don't want to stumble backwards into sexually assaulting someone, fix your RSD meltdowns. If you keep them up it's only a matter of time. Because if you're nice enough to interact with, but are known to have RSD meltdowns, guess what happens when your friends and acquaintances need to reject you?

[inklesspen]

“What about the fire?” — a litany against if-only

Like a lot of trans girls I know, I’ve got my share of regrets. If only I’d learned about my options sooner. If only I’d not spent my high school years consuming way too much sugar. If only I’d gotten an ADHD diagnosis in time to actually graduate college with a degree. And so on.

It’s so tempting to dwell on the things that I now recognize could have gone better for me. But even from this vantage point, I can’t see everything. I can’t know if there would have been a fire.

In the Discworld novel Lords and Ladies, Esme Weatherwax and Mustrum Ridcully meet again after many years, and talk about “what might have happened”, and “if only”.

“Do you ever wonder what life would have been like if you’d said yes?” said Ridcully. “No.” “I suppose we’d have settled down, had children, grandchildren, that sort of thing…” Granny shrugged. It was the sort of thing romantic idiots said. But there was something in the air tonight… “What about the fire?” she said. “What fire?” “Swept through our house just after we were married. Killed us both.” “What fire? I don’t know anything about any fire?” Granny turned around. “Of course not! It didn’t happen. But the point is, it might have happened. You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know everything that might have happened. You might think something’d be good, but for all you know it could have turned out horrible. You can’t say ‘if only I’d…’ because you could be wishing for anything. The point is, you’ll never know. You’ve gone past. So there’s no use thinking about it. So I don’t.”

Whenever I find myself dwelling on “what if I hadn’t done this, what if I had done that”, I try to remember to stop and ask myself “what about the fire”.

[margindoodles2407]

ouagh lord of the rings really did say “it might be hopeless, it might be fatal, there may be no coming back— but it is always, always better to do something, to fight for what is good and true and beautiful, than to sit back and give into despair with an ‘it would have happened anyhow’”