SenadiMell

Overly analytical and occasionally acerbic

[senadimell]

SenadiMell lives in the USA - a blog guide

A guide to my (loose) tagging system - these are tags so people can block if desired. I may add stuff as the situation evolves. My life and civic involvement has changed a lot recently; my blog will probably reflect that. I'll try to update this if I systematize something else.

"current events" is for news stuff, generally with the implication of unpleasant current events. It is a general tag, and I am unlikely to use it for happy stuff. Will use most often.

"US tag" is for stuff happening in the USA. A lot of the stuff I'm going to be reblogging doesn't quite fit the criteria I'd use for a politics tag but it is USA-centric and generally political and I imagine people might want to avoid that specifically. Will probably use pretty often.

"A long train of abuses and usurpations" refers to the general illegal stuff coming out of the US executive branch right now. It'll probably be applied mostly to stuff directly about the current personalities preying off of state resources. Will use more sparingly.

A general principle: my political involvement is primarily IRL and often with my real name and face attached, so with regards to action requests on my blog, they will likely be limited to the following:

Contacting representatives & local/state authorities

Commenting on proposed executive branch actions (even if these are ignored and the bad stuff happens anyways, I believe in going on record about why it's wrong)

I do not generally reblog fundraiser requests. If I blog about a fundraiser, it's probably for Internet Archive and I probably wrote at least a post in a thread, if I'm not the OP. I get enough fundraiser requests in the mail already and generally donate directly to organizations I already know and trust.

I treat the stuff I write and the stuff I circulate differently. If I'm writing to request action, I am generally not going to tag it with block tags (except for perhaps the US tag since most actions I'm requesting will be directed at US people). That's because this is me talking, and if I took the energy to research and write about it, I would like people to see it.

"Me stuff" - this tag is primarily for venting. Please feel free to ignore.

[stealingpotatoes]

who wants more rebel padmé au (me, the answer is me i want it)

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[fallout-lou-begas]

wordle in 1: joyless. it is statistically inevitable that your go-to starting word will be the solution one day, and this is no more of an accomplishment than running a random number generator once a day until it gives you "1"

wordle in 2: misleading. you may think that this is the highest achievement, but it suffers from the same disappointment of a lucky guess that wordle in 1 causes. your second guess is a strategic choice, but ending the game this early just isn't interesting

wordle in 3: the peak. your starting word gave you some information and then your second guess contextualized that information into a solvable position. your sharp intuition and restraint is what truly separates you as above average.

wordle in 4: statistically average, par for the course, the baseline against which all other wordles are compared.

wordle in 5: you're sweating. you made a mistake at some point, or your starting word was effectively useless, and it took an extra guess above average to close things out. wordle in 5 comes as a relief.

wordle in 6: crushing humiliation. you have technically succeeded but at what cost. your thirty square grid will stare back at you like barrels of a firing squad. a failure in all but name.

wordle failure: never your fault. what kind of stupid word even was that like come on

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

BIG

(also iridescent)

[fiiishman]

[cry-ptidd]

Suitor squad designs

[barbesz]

May the 4th be with u

[iminye]

Luke Skywalker ‐ Leia Organa ‐ Han Solo

[stealingpotatoes]

how rogue one probably goes in the rebel padmé/ galaxy's messiest divorce au

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[wanghedi]

One of the effect of elementary watson being a woman on sherlock is that hes always making caveats about murder suspects like a man caved his skull in. Or a woman. women can also cave skulls in 👍 he set the building on fire. Or she. I would never imply women cant set building on fire

[bbcwhereareyou]

[fortunate-hal]

When Lady Rohanne settled onto the high seat of the dais, she pulled her braid over her left shoulder. It was so long that the end of it lay coiled in her lap, like a sleeping cat.

Rohanne Webber as illustrated by Gary Gianni for the Subterranean Press edition of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

[bucketofdeltav]

So my beta reader for the Big Fics is an astrophysicist, right. Who is currently also writing a hard sci-fi novel about the exploration of Phobos (more power to them, I cannot with the physics required for that, best I can do is soft sci-fi/fantasy and that reminds me I should finish that story).

Anyway I was bitching about how hard it is to come up with feasible planets in Star Wars because sometimes you need a new planet from scratch and sometimes you need to know more about a planet than the 'has jungles, is probably a moon technically' than Wookieepedia will give you, and they're like 'oh yeah I can do something about that'.

So they've written (in Matlab but they swear it will run as a .exe as well and I may be conscripted to embed it as a web tool at some point) a star system generator.

You input what you know about the planet (ecosystem, population, sun colour, does it have liquid water, does it have a moon or moons, is it a moon or moons, temperature averages, atmosphere, you get me) and it will give you the... everything else about the star system, in obedience to real-universe physics. And if you input nothing you get a randomly generated star system.

And I’m like oh I know people who will be into this with a vengeance, and they're not on Tumblr, so this is me seeing who exactly would be keen on, and I cannot stress this enough, a real-physics comprehensive star system generator.

It's still in the debugging phase (last error fixed: every planet wants to have a population of exactly 5000 regardless of other factors, turned out to be a missing equals sign somewhere), but I'm psyched for this and trying to gauge interest for how high a priority 'make this an accessible web tool' needs to be.

[melyzard]

[elodieunderglass]

@bucketofdeltav says the URL is here: http://tumblr.com/star-system-generator

okay it has its own blog now (@star-system-generator) on Tumblr

Follow @star-system-generator and get more of the good stuff by joining Tumblr today. Dive in!

[yearofdoodles]

Murderbot vs. captcha 🔫

Full view for better quality!

- Based on this post by @peri-hellion with comment by @brawltogethernow

[stealingpotatoes]

shoutout to rebels in imperial disguises, gotta be one of my favourite genders

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[wyvern-witch]

𝕊𝕒𝕪 𝕙𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕠 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕠𝕔𝕖𝕒𝕟 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕞𝕖

[senadimell]

Hey, I finished something! 

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Aang & Zuko (Avatar) Characters: Zuko (Avatar), Aang (Avatar) Additional Tags: body disposition, Grief/Mourning, Air Nomad Genocide (Avatar), Imperialism, air nomad culture, Not Canon Compliant with The Legend of Korra and Avatar: The Last Airbender & Related Fandoms Comics, or at least the author has not watched legend of korra nor am i trying to follow comic events, Mass Death, Mass Graves, charnel grounds (respectful), Textiles - Freeform Summary:

Dealing with the aftermath of the war was never easy, but not always in the way Zuko expected.

Or, Zuko accompanies Aang when he returns to the Southern Air temple to offer his final respects.

This was written without the context of graphic novels, Legend of Korra, or any other extended materials about the show, so if anything contradicts, consider this an AU from my head.

[bugthingsdaily]

today's bug things are these metal pill bugs by Matt Noris!