Invading Hell For The Pomegranates

Sidus, Sideris // They/them // mathematician and sometimes physicist. I do the writing thing too. now with 600% more swords than Arcadia Dominus.

[hfourxor]

Hi, my name is James Webbony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Space Telescope and I am a telescope in space (that's how I got my name) and I have a five-layer aluminum-coated Kapton sunshield protecting my instruments and gold-coated hexagonal primary mirror segments like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Lady Gaga (AN: if you don't know who she is, get the hell out of here!). I'm not related to the Hubble Space Telescope, but I wish I was because he's a major fucking hottie. I'm an infrared telescope but I am much larger than Spitzer. I have 18 primary mirror segments. I also study exoplanets, and I go to a telescope school in L2 where I'm in orbit (I was launched in 2021). I can see distant galaxies (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly gold. I love space, and I take all my photos there. For example, today I was taking a photo of the Cartwheel Galaxy, which is about 500 million light years away. I was using my NIRcam, NIRspec, MIRI, and FGS-NIRISS. I was walking outside L2. It was around 1 million miles away from Earth and there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I unfolded my primary mirrors at them.

[notlayingroses]

Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday

[screenshotsofdespair]

[humanoidhistory]

Welcome to Titan, moon of Saturn, painted by Ron Miller, featured in Future Life, November 1978.

[artmagine]

The beautiful art of Thomas Blackshear II

[kingfucko]

i went to his website and saw even more great art! sharing some more which i particularly appreciated

[savrenim]

.........suddenly EXTREMELY tempted to write a project hail mary / svsss crossover fic

[tactiletelekonesis]

one thing i love about the phm fandom is the sheer amount of people who love stratt. like so many other fandoms would overlook her or hate her or reduce her into an evil caricature because shes a woman in a powerful position who did something bad to the white boy protagonist but the phm fandom ADORES her. and theyre right. eva stratt the character ever

[leggywormy]

It's end of May, yall know what that means

[zeestarfishalien]

Come on guys, if we're gonna do this, it needs to be in true tumblr style

[savrenim]

Hfdbj3fbhf I’m reading We Raise It Up and the line “ Also, I'm shagging one of your very lovely assistants” just caught me SO COMPLETELY OFF GUARD, this is an INCREDIBLE fic and I LOVE IT

aaaaah <3 <3 <3 I'm so glad

Helen for the WIN

[bisexualcreature-deactivated202]

lvl 1: the plural of octopus is octopuses because the plural version of a word is the word with an s at the end

lvl 2: the plural version of octopus is octopi because if a word ends with "us" the plural version replaces the "us" with "i" e.g. cactus -> cacti and fungus -> fungi

lvl 3: actually, that rule is only for latin words. octopus is a greek word and the correct plural is octopuses or octopodes

lvl 4: actually, language is descriptive not prescriptive. since enough people over time have used octopi as the plural for octopus, it's a valid plural

lvl 5: the plural of octopus is octopeese, like geese

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Lvl 6: My Marine Biology professor told me it was technically “Octopods” to bring it in line with “Cephalopod,” but that if the class is falling asleep you can call them “Octopussies”

[savrenim]

you can tell who is a mathematician and who is an electrical engineer based on why they think the Fourier transform is sexy. like. we all think the Fourier transform is sexy because it IS sexy that is an objective fact. but electrical engineers don't understand that it's sexy because its eigendecomposition is sexy "I can solve I dunno important problems and stuff" who CARES it is the GORGEOUS COMPLETE ORTHOGONAL SEQUENCE OF FUNCTIONS don't talk to me about "useful applications" when you have a PERFECT PRISTINE BASIS just LOOK AT IT

[savrenim]

like don't try to tell me that

is sexier than

just don't.

[savrenim]

you can tell who is a mathematician and who is an electrical engineer based on why they think the Fourier transform is sexy. like. we all think the Fourier transform is sexy because it IS sexy that is an objective fact. but electrical engineers don't understand that it's sexy because its eigendecomposition is sexy "I can solve I dunno important problems and stuff" who CARES it is the GORGEOUS COMPLETE ORTHOGONAL SEQUENCE OF FUNCTIONS don't talk to me about "useful applications" when you have a PERFECT PRISTINE BASIS just LOOK AT IT

[feldfrog]

I can’t imagine a hyper cube, but luckily I can just hyper imagine a regular cube

[megacarapa]

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

[megacarapa]

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

[savrenim]

I do have to say. it is *immensely* satisfying. to write "fuck you" in corporate speak.

[fellshish]

@ fic authors what do you personally consider a successful fic? What’s the bar?

[sherl-grey]

actually writing the fic down

[j-tee]

The lovers