Defender of the Earth

A girl (she/they) in Alaska diving unapologetically into her childhood fixations.

[knight-gwaine]

Hello!

An introduction to the blog.

This is a multi-fandom personal blog. I've been on Tumblr since 2011, and took a long hiatus but I'm back now!!

Previous URL's: oswaldsleaf, threedancingoods Main Fandoms you'll find here: BBC Merlin & Doctor Who

The Queen of Side Blogs (more under construction not listed here)

Fan Edits Side Blog (merlinsbadwolf)

Aesthetic Side Blog (fetchingconstellations)

Fetching Constellations Art Blog (fcvisuals)

You can call me Ina (ee-na) (she/they)! I'm a queer, neurodivergent (ADHD), Thai-American artist from Alaska. Outside of Tumblr, I'm either working on art projects, doing conservation work, or attending local community events... if it's winter then I'm chilling with my darling hedgehog, Mabel!

You'll primarily find random text posts, gifsets, graphics, and fanart here. I used to be more involved in the graphics community, but gosh you folks are so dang talented! I'm inspired and I'm ready to start creating again.

Lastly, don't be afraid to say hi or ask fun questions. I miss the community that I had here, so let's make a new one!

Let's get into it now shall we?

Personal Tags

TV Shows & Movies

Textposts (#personal) Creations (#mine) For the Movie Club (#for the movie club)

Doctor Who (#doctor who) BBC Merlin (#merlin) Sense8 (#sense8)

Good Omens (#good omens) The Hunger Games saga (#thg) (#tbosas) (#sotr) Percy Jackson & The Olympians (#pjato)

Books

Podcasts

The Invisible Library series by Genevieve Cogman (#the invisible library) The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins (#the hunger games) A Darker Shade of Magic trilogy by V.E. Schwab (#adsom) The Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab (#ftop)

Welcome to Night Vale (#wtnv) Alice Isn't Dead (#alice isnt dead) Within the Wires (#within the wires) King Falls AM (#king falls am) The Bright Sessions (#the bright sessions) Midnight Burger (#midnight burger) Desert Skies (#desert skies) Girl in Space (#girl in space) The Amelia Project (#amelia project) Hello From the Magic Tavern (#hftmt)

[frogdivorce]

author unknown // author unknown // Taylor Swift, Seven // Mike Flanagan, The Haunting of Hill House (2018) // Avina St. Graves, Skin of a Sinner // Makenzie Campbell, 2am Thoughts // Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, I'm Alive (Next to Normal) // Clay McLeod Chapman, Ghost Eaters // shierboundandbusking, Even If It Is Full of Love, All a Ghost Can Do Is Haunt // Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Things Haunt // Florence + the Machine, Cassandra // Alice Notley, Songs and Stories of the Ghouls

[lisqotch]

Merlin and Morgana Pendragon

«I blame myself for what you have become»

[vv0812]

In my efforts to keep playing with light and shadows in digital coloring, I will want to present; Merlin and Arthur (Merthur)

[nasa]

Stellar Nesting Grounds

This image captures the Tarantula Nebula in all of its cosmic glory. Astronomers study nebulae like this one to learn about how elements form and disperse throughout the galaxy, seeding space with planetary building blocks.

Clouds of dust and gas called nebulae speckle our galaxy. Some are ferocious cosmic factories that churn out baby stars by the hundreds of thousands, while others are grave markers of stars long dead. Astronomers study them to learn about how stars and planets form, and how ingredients are recycled in space.

But all that dust is difficult to see through, and nebulae are often so large that today’s most powerful space telescopes can only realistically study tiny patches of them. That’s where our soon-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope comes in.

This video of the Eagle Nebula showcases Roman’s superb resolution and wide field of view. It begins with a Hubble image of the famous Pillars of Creation superimposed on a ground-based image. The view then zooms out to show the full field of view of Roman’s Wide Field Instrument. Roman’s images will have the resolution of Hubble while covering an area about 100 times larger in a single pointing.

Roman will pair a large view of space with infrared heat vision. That combination is a game-changer for studying nebulae.

Here’s how it usually works. Ground-based telescopes take large but somewhat blurry images of a nebula. Then space-based observatories like our Hubble and James Webb space telescopes zoom in on small patches to show us the details of particularly interesting regions. But with Roman, we’ll get the big picture and incredible detail all in one.

That saves astronomers a lot of time, which opens up new avenues of exploration. For example, instead of spending several months stitching together hundreds of individual images of the Orion nebula with Hubble or Webb, Roman could cover it in a matter of hours in just a few snapshots.

Roman’s vast surveys will give us a census of stellar nurseries, where fledgling stars are being born from parent clouds of gas and dust. Studying these nebular nesting grounds will reveal millions of stellar embryos, newborn stars still swaddled in shrouds of dust, toddler stars that throw tantrums and flare unpredictably, and young stars that may have planetary systems forming around them.

A single Roman survey of our Milky Way galaxy will capture thousands of nebulae, unveiling planet formation and the full lifecycle of stars like never before. That includes their spectacular final acts.

This Hubble image showcases the Hourglass nebula, a young planetary nebula located about 8,000 light-years away.

Garden-variety stars like the Sun live fairly placid lives, casually churning out heat and light for billions of years by fusing hydrogen into helium. That nuclear process creates a lot of energy and outward pressure. For a long time, it’s held in check by the inward pull of gravity. But when a star runs out of fuel to fuse, gravity takes over.

Their cores shrink so fast that their outer shells of gas are left behind, which puff out and transform into unique and often psychedelic works of art called planetary nebulae (so-called because they looked similar to planets in early telescopes). Heftier stars meet more dramatic fates, with a runaway reaction that leads to the star’s detonation: a supernova explosion! Both result in nebulae that look like kaleidoscopic dreamscapes.

This image of supernova remnant W49B combines X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in blue and green, radio data from the NSF’s Very Large Array in pink, and infrared data from Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in yellow.

Star deaths create conditions so extreme that it can form new elements. The iron, oxygen, magnesium, silicon, sulfur, and nickel that together account for around 96% of the Earth's bulk were flung into space by supernova explosions. And some of the elements that make up your DNA, like carbon and nitrogen, were forged by smaller dying stars. You are literally made of stardust!

Roman will help us learn more about how elements were created and distributed throughout the galaxy, all while exploring many other cosmic questions.

This artist’s concept visualizes visible light in blue, showing how its short wavelength means it will easily run into dust particles. Longer wavelength infrared light, visualized in orange, can more easily pass through dust.

Roman’s infrared vision is key, because it will allow astronomers to see through the dust that often blocks telescopes that view other types of light. It’s hard for visible light to penetrate this dusty haze because the particles are the same size or even larger than the light’s wavelength. Since infrared light travels in longer waves, it hardly notices the tiny particles and can pass more easily through dusty regions.

By seeing through dust, we'll get a far better view of stars and other objects that are in nebulae and the cosmic structures that lie behind them. Astronomers will soon be able to chart our galaxy like never before!

An artist’s concept based on the final design of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

We’re only about a month out from launch, and so close to a completely new understanding of the universe and our place within it. Follow along with Roman’s road to launch at nasa.gov/roman, and virtually tour the Roman observatory here.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!

[ilyarozanovgifs]

Ilya Week 2026 | Day 2: Fave Look | the bisexual tank top

[the-witch-of-the-wandering-ways]

My new period-appropriate crack headcanon is that the boston raiders once used akinator to figure out who montreal jane is and it kept telling them if was shane hollander and they kept thinking it was the weirdest fucking bug

[readingbythequire]

from the poem Hi J, I Decided to Rewrite What I Sent to You by E. Ethelbert Miller | for the @morgwenmicrofic prompt 'poetry'

[koffeinkaos]

Hunith would be supportive of Merthur and Balinor would invite Lancelot to every family dinner in hopes of Merlin changing his mind eventually.

[enh1614149]

[landofmerlin-blog]

Sir Lancelot, the bravest and most noble of them all. {request by anon}

[unfortunatelymerlin]

x

[flowersandfashion]

Gwen Pendragon modern AU

"You have a good heart, be true to it."

requested by @the-tenth-arcanum

[ilyasvodka]

has anyone drawn this with Shane & Ilya yet

[princejeanot]

Op the vision is hilarious, you win

[kulbashnaya-deactivated20140607]

[twlboaj]

bloopbloopbloopbloopbloopbloop

[psykedelix]

mine mine mine mine mine

[destination-unkown]

got them got them got them got them

[apathy-tied-in-knots]

greed

[pandalikeelf]

knights of the round table week | day 2: the tavern and the trail (gwaine and perwaine)

[shetheyslain]

Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things

[batsandboba]