NN Schneider

appreciates fiber arts, fanfiction, and felines. found on AO3 as snafsnaf. looking for my next obsession.

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[nnschneider]

weekend vibes

[alookseeblog]

[pmamtraveller]

Fishpond Mosaic designed by artist Gary Drostle

[1968bullittmustang]

@copperbadge I feel like this is something you would appreciate.

[copperbadge]

Oh, that is lovely. And I always appreciate an artist attribution too!

[dduane]

Here's the artist's website.

He's been doing mosaics like this for a while. (I followed up on the one in the top illustration some while ago, when I first ran into it online. I think I remember discovering that the town in Surrey where it originally appeared has removed it: no idea why.)

[writergeekrhw]

was there any aspect of Bajoran culture you wish they’d explored more in the show (at the time and/or in retrospect?)

I feel like we didn't go into their (former) caste system in any meaningful way, and that could have been interesting.

I also always I wanted to find at least one thing that made them biologically and mentally different from humans. Back when I was on the show, I tried to push the idea that they had a heightened sense of smell and that the things they smelled could trigger powerful memories. Like with humans but amped up to 11.

So for example, Kira could still smell faint traces of all the deaths that had happened on the station and was haunted by that. And maybe she could smell other people's adrenaline and such. And that Odo didn't smell like anything which was actually part of her attraction to him because it eliminated a lot of baggage. But I could never sell the showrunners on that one.

They really wanted to keep Bajorans as human as possible and looking back, I totally get where they were coming from.

[longseasons]

[gwydionmisha]

Bonus: If I buy a book I get to keep it! The publisher can't turn up at my house at random and confiscate all the books I bought.

[ownencyclopedia]

☀ cross stitch of a cat , which is about 1000 years old !

A textile fragment was found in Peru. It belongs to the Chimu or Chancay culture (pre-Columbian era X - XV centuries)

[shamster]

Me reading another Agatha Christie novel: I wonder what will happen in THIS one 👀

Agatha Christie: A murder

Me: Ooooh 👀👀👀

[wheelie-sick]

link

[ayronaught]

Transcript

Everyone's talking about Artemis II, the first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years

Historic, right? BUT nobody's talking about the Deaf people who made it possible.

In the late 1950's, NASA had a problem.

They needed to understand what weightlessness did to the human body but every test subject kept getting violently motion sick

NASA needed to figure out FAST during the space race!

So, they went to Gallaudet University. They recruited 11 Deaf people.

Because a number of Deaf people had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children which also damaged their vestibular system.

Their inner ears couldn't be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.

NASA put them in centrifuges. Put them on zero gravity flights. A room for 12 straight days.

(All caps) It rotated the entire time.

One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters, the researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.

Their bodies gave NASA the data and research it needed to send humans into space.

No Gallaudet Eleven? No Mercury. No Apollo. No Artemis II.

They stood on the shoulders of 11 Deaf people most people have never heard of.

Now you know!

[headpainmigraine]

@ayronaught is a gem in the wasteland, thank you providing transcript! 💐

[ceruleanheaven]

religion is so fucking funny the world is just too beautiful there must be a higher entity behind all this. lets oppress women

[raretypespecimen]

no, we're not going to the movies. we have the odyssey at home.

[rogerdeakinsdp]

Cinematography by Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) directed by Joel Coen

[tolbiny]

dudeee literally why are you complaining about me showing up uninvited to your daughters wedding and killing your best friend this is sooo unreasonable -> luthen probably

[chernobog13]

Ladies and germs, I present me long lost cousin and personal hero, Colm Meaney!

[depsidase]

[nnschneider]

Baseball gives serious "this meeting could have been an email" vibes.

[homunculus-argument]

"I learned a lot from making this" is artist talk for "making this sucked ass and I'm not entirely happy with the result."

[nnschneider]

"I learned a lot from this experience, please do not make me do it again."

[xxxxactly]

Brutalist maze, Seattle

[3liza]

its called Freeway Park and while it is one of the most interesting single examples of Brutalism in the united states and im proud of it, it is so poorly designed in terms of public safety that it has been renovated twice(?) but continues to be geographically troubling, as its design has facilitated a lot of murders over the years. it was the subject of a funny but gruesome article in the STranger in 2002 called Topography of Terror. the city doesnt keep official tally of how many murders or assaults have happened IN the park but two men in their 30s were stabbed nonfatally during a robbery there earlier this year, for example.

[commiemartyrshighschool]

Suspect that building mazes is perhaps not conducive to public safety, outside of minotaur isolation scenarios.

[oldschoolfrp]

Encounter area: Modernist brutalist concrete open-face dungeon labyrinth