Hello there, I'm Sarah Farooqi and this is my main blog here on tumblr. This is the blog that I use to follow other people (hi internet-friends!) and to like posts. I also reblog a variety of neat or interesting things here, tagged with #reblog.
But wait, there's more.
To keep things orderly and easy to find, I also use a handful of side blogs. That's where most of my original content ends up, as follows:
📷 : sarahshootsphotos - my original photos
🎨 : sarahdraws - my original drawings
🎮 : sadiekate - games I'm playing
✍️ : drawingpromptsbysarah - drawing prompts by me and others
If one of these topics sounds interesting to you, please check out my side blogs. Thanks for stopping by!
Good morning everyone, I'm looking for some gardening help today. Everything purple you see here got mowed down to dirt level today. The landscaper insists the roots are still there.
My question: what's the best way I can help these plants recover? Thanks in advance. (Eastern Massachusetts)
It’s the final few days of the Bluminarmour Project! After some issues with Kickstarter let’s see how far we can get!
If you want to see fantasy tropes, historical movement and silly tricks tested in authentic full plate armour, please consider chucking a few quid over (or like and share this post):
Blumineck is trying to fun a video series doing fun and serious historical and fantasy testing in fitted plate armour.
Since I just spent the past ten or so days glued to the screen in awe watching the Artemis II mission, I figured an obligatory tribute illustration was in order 🌙
Over approximately 10 days, our Artemis II crew successfully completed a voyage around the Moon. They gave us stunning photos of the far side of the Moon, Earth, and a solar eclipse, along with inspirational messages, laughs, and even a few tears. Let's recap the Artemis II mission.
First step: fit check.
Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen got suited up and had their spacesuits checked to make sure they were ready to go to space.
Once their custom-fit suits were checked and the astronauts were ready, they walked out to greet the crowd at our Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After saying hi to everyone, including their families, the quartet made their way onto the Orion spacecraft that would carry them to the Moon.
The astronauts entered Orion and completed more checks. Next, the closeout crew closed the final hatch on Orion.
Then, it was time for the big moment – well, the first big moment of the mission: Liftoff!
Orion was on its way to the Moon, and the astronauts aboard had plenty to do.
They exercised…
and conducted interviews…
all while showing the camaraderie and collaboration that make missions possible.
And that means Rise, too! The little plush zero gravity indicator was a constant companion throughout the mission.
Finally, it was time for them to go around the Moon and observe its far side. As the astronauts began to describe features of the Moon that they saw, they had a heartfelt moment when suggesting that a crater be named after Reid's late wife, Carroll.
During the lunar flyby, the foursome experienced a solar eclipse that only they could see!
All throughout the mission, there were many moments of "Moon Joy."
After the crew completed their observation duties, it was time to start the journey back home.
On April 10, the Artemis II astronauts safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, bringing the mission to a triumphant end.
These GIFs are just a taste of the amazing imagery and memorable moments from Artemis II. Relive it all on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/NASA
Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!
While we're looking up at the Artemis II astronauts journeying to the Moon, they're looking back home at us.
In this image, Earth peeks through the capsule window, reminding us that a view like this relies on the ingenuity and hard work of countless people back home.
In the second image, we see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere.
Follow the Artemis II astronauts on their journey to the Moon:
The Artemis II Moon rocket lifted off from our Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. EDT on April 1, 2026. Our live launch day coverage continues on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo
Stick with us for more Artemis II content including live broadcasts for lunar flyby and splashdown, daily news conferences, and 24/7 streams providing views from the Orion spacecraft and from NASA Kennedy.
We're working with the East Kensington Neighbors Assn & H.A Brown school to create a community-driven mural on the biodiversity of our Philly neighborhood!
We need your help to fund this project!
Here's why this is important ⬇️
Reason 1: Biodiversity education
Here in Philadelphia, we share our neighborhoods with hundreds of species, but the biodiversity we live among can be easy to miss. This mural will highlight our local species and have information on how to protect our local biodiversity!
Reason 2: Art as a science communication tool
Here at SaS we use a wide range of tools to communicate science. We know any one method is not going to be effective with everyone! In Philly, murals are a huge part of our culture. Weaving science into public art connects new people with biodiversity.
Reason 3: We love Kensington
We're based on the border of Fishtown & Kensington. Fishtown has a lot of money, both from the people & businesses who live there, & granting orgs that only support within certain neighborhoods of the city. Kensington has a bad reputation, and gets way fewer resources.
Reason 4: Art on schools
Getting kids to care about biodiversity when they're young is important for a lifelong appreciation of the ecosystems with live within. On top of that, schools in the wealthier neighborhoods all have murals nearby, and this one does not. Let's spread some art around.
Reason 5: This location rocks
Community murals work best when they are low and long. This is helpful because we want many people to be able to paint simultaneously and we don't want community members in danger on ladders. This wall is loooong and low. Perfect spot for this project.
Reason 6: We are getting the whole community involved
This is a project with BOTH a school AND a neighbors association. That means we'll be bringing families out who go to the school, & people from the pizza joint, & the single people w/2 dogs. We're getting everybody together for science & art!
So, in short, this project rocks. We've done murals before, so we know what we're doing. All we need now is help from people like you.
$10 gets me some paint rollers
$75 gets me a bucket of primer
$150 gets me a day with a power washer
ANY amount helps me pay for labor
Support us here: givebutter.com/KenzoMural
Growing up, my brother and I deeply dreaded going shoe shopping. It took hours, especially if it was for winter boots. My dad would examine the stitching, the brand reliability, the temperature recommendations, every piece of information he could get his hands on, and then when he'd finally found the right brand, it was on to making absolutely dead sure they fit properly - he had a particular way of poking the toe of the boot to ensure our foot was where it was supposed to be that always drove me nuts. This was always on a weekend, and it was about the worst punishment we could imagine.
Years later, I found out that he'd spent his entire childhood on the Canadian prairies with cold feet. My grandmother just bought whatever boots looked like the best value, regardless of whether they'd keep anyone warm. They'd kept him from frostbite, probably, but never, ever comfortable.
The reason my grandmother never had a thought about this was because she was buying her kids real boots. There was a sort of magical quality about real, purpose-made boots that meant that of course they'd work, because when she was growing up on the Canadian prairies, they had the kind of no money that meant you just stuffed some newspaper into your shoes and soldiered on.
The last pair of winter boots my dad bought for me was 15 years ago, in preparation for a three-month stint living in northern Quebec in midwinter. They cost $200 then, or something like it. I've worn them every year since, driving out to the remotest locations on the Canadian prairies and never once thinking about my feet.
When I read the Vimes Boots Theory for the first time, it rang a bell that reverberated back three generations.
Hmm. Okay. So. A lot of people have been tagging this with "the way men love", after that popular poem, or saying in the tags that this is the way my dad told us he loved us. And that was certainly a tangible way he showed it, and a legitimate one! In a society where we don't like to let men show their emotions openly, that's a thing men do. To be honest, I think telling us my grandmother's story was a way for him to show love as well - for us and for her.
But I want to say, for his sake but also for all of yours, that my dad told me he loved me every single day of my childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. The phrase, repeated ad nauseam by both my parents, was that they loved me "always and forever, no matter what". My dad probably said that phrase, with its sentimental gooeyness, more than my mom. Even when we were mad, even when I was a teenager and absolutely everything was wildly embarrassing. He still says it, when we're having a Moment, eyes twinkly and kind of proto-teary. If we're not having a moment, if it's just a regular day, my dad just tells me he loves me every time he sees me.
I just want you to know that that's a thing men do, too.
not if youre drawing in perspective, no. those lines are not equally spaced, but visually they look correct because they are accounting for the distortion of perspective.
one could simply eyeball it, but ime particularly when it comes to things like stairs where there are a lot of equally spaced lines that are terminating in perspective it tends to look wrong if you don't measure it, which you have to do this way unless you happen to know how to do some advanced algebra or something to figure out how much closer together the lines are meant to get numerically in order to do it with a ruler.
let me demonstrate what I was talking about in the previous reply first. CSP has a special kind of ruler that lets you divide things evenly shown by the purple lines here, so as we can see here when we connect the corners we find the center of the square:
when I distort this into perspective, our center clearly no longer lines up with the halfway point of the line. But the corner method still works to account for the distortion.
ergo, if we want to divide something in perspective, we cant just use a ruler, so instead we use the corner method.
So then what are all the lines I drew here about?
Connecting the corners once will divide it in half, if you do it again you split that into half which gives you quarters, and if you do it again you will have eighths, and so on and so forth.
So if you want 8 stairs, you connect the corners and divide it in half three times over:
Which then gives you the outer edges of your steps and you can draw the rest of the staircase from there.
If we wanted 12 or 9 stairs, then we would first divide it into thirds:
and then either divide that in half until we have 12, or divide it into thirds again so we have 9.
maybe you want to do like, fifteen or something though, so heres how to divide a section into fifths:
you can get 15 by dividing into thirds, then dividing those thirds into five. you can also divide something into sevenths but thats really complicated and not something ive ever needed to do personally ive honestly never even used the fifths before, but theres a video which walks through that here.
additionally, it is also possible to evenly extend things further by passing the line through the center to find the opposite corner
Visually these look complicated, but all you are doing is connecting corners together and making lines intersect.
When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on"
When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.”
When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“
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