Where All Ladders Start

I’m Shift, my pronouns are your best guess. Currently beholding Gallifrey

[shiftofgallifrey]

Thinking about doctor who and contorting myself into shapes unknown to science

[shiftofgallifrey]

When you say my name I make sounds that scare my cat

[restoranipivo]

n*rv*n

[thundergrace]

[rxborne]

[fidget-sinner]

En Anglais, on ne dit pas “quatre vingt dix neuf”, on dit “ninety nine” qu'on pourrait traduire comme “Hurr durr, regardez mois, j'ai un système de numérotation fonctionnel” et je crois que c'est magnifique.

[blairwitchdiaries-deactivated20]

👀👀 not gonna name names but SOME of u are sweet and kind and deserve the world and i am rooting for u

[spider-shoes-archive]

staying close w people long distance really is about the mundane stuff. i get texts like "made quesadillas" "spilled mop water all over the floor :(" "lady on the bus has not one not two but three tiny dogs in her purse" andits like wow. i love you more than words can express

[measured-robshearfan]

ANDRED: Perhaps I don’t want rehabilitation, Romana. Have you considered that? Perhaps I don’t want any part of your New Gallifrey, complete with its open universities, open government and its open-plan offices. [Scoffs] And, of course, its casual breaking of sacred laws.

ANDRED: Spent too long with Leela, have you? Picking up on her intimidation techniques?

Andred defenders and they're "he loves Leela so much, he was just trying to do the right thing" found somehow resisting death in their ditch after listening to Gallifrey #2.1 "Lies"

[lesmiserabelles]

shout-out to the person i overheard today rushing into an antiques shop to ask, very urgently, ‘do you have any silver crosses?’. wishing you well in your fight against the creatures of darkness, friend

[hoodiesnightmares]

“You’re so quiet” thanks every time I’ve tried to enter this conversation you’ve just flat out fucking ignored me

[hoodiesnightmares]

“You’re so quiet” thanks every time I’ve tried to enter this conversation you’ve just flat out fucking ignored me

[hoodiesnightmares]

“You’re so quiet” thanks every time I’ve tried to enter this conversation you’ve just flat out fucking ignored me

[stopmyhearts]

some zagreus inspired shots of my little figurines

[evilsoup]

the cultural object of the black hole is kind of remarkable. It's almost an anti-God in a sense, a negative infinity. Yeah there's this kind of dead sun that's collapsed into an infinitely dense point, and if you fall past its event horizon you're fucked. Every schoolchild knows this. A black hole can be introduced in a superhero blockbuster without any explanation except for its established look and the name "black hole", and this will be understood as the ultimate natural disaster, which even superman could not hope to defeat. truly S-tier cosmic object

[not-terezi-pyrope]

If there's any proof we need that our reality is made of math, it's that graph function singularities exist as physical features of our world. Undefined algebraic points exist, we can see them, they float around space touching things and fucking them up beyond all recognition, and they look like marauding black death wrapped in a spherical gradient of tortured spacetime.

Like, words literally cannot describe how cool black holes are. If they did not actually exist, I doubt that the world's 100 top rated sci-fi writers locked in a room for a month brainstorming could come up with anything nearly as good. When do you ever get something that is as top tier psychologically impactful as it is so deeply rooted in fundamental scientific truth about reality?

[persephones-domain]

Physicist here!

Black holes are the ultimate astronomical phenomena. They are regions where the very structure of reality is contorted into something alien. Defined not by substance but by the warping of spacetime, a black hole is a solution to Einstein’s field equations wherein the metric tensor collapses into a singularity—an infinitesimal point of infinite density, where curvature diverges and our mathematical descriptions disintegrate. The event horizon, delineated by the Schwarzschild radius , marks a boundary beyond which causal relationships cease to propagate outward. Nothing—not matter, not light, not information—can escape. From within, the geometry of spacetime becomes so distorted that all paths, all timelike geodesics, inevitably lead inward, like water down an infinite drain.

Time bizzarelt dilates near the horizon; a distant observer would see infalling matter slow, redshift, and fade, asymptotically frozen in time, somewhat like a hologram eternally flickering at the border. Simultaneously for the falling observer, however, the descent is finite and inexorable as space collapses inward, and the singularity looms in a finite proper time. Should one hypothetically remain on the event horizon itself, a null surface traversed only at the speed of light, the geometry becomes especially... strange: light emitted tangentially could orbit indefinitely along the photon sphere, forming a closed loop. So in this scenario, were you to gaze precisely forward, the curvature would distort light rays around the hole to the point you'd witness the back of your own head—an optical recursion born not of mirrors but of warped topology.

Even the notion of mass becomes disquieting here. A black hole's presence is encoded in the curvature it imposes, describable via the Einstein tensor and its coupling to the stress-energy tensor , yet the interior contains no structure! No matter, no surface, only the singularity at , where predictability ends. The laws of physics as we understand them yield only silence in response. And yet, paradoxically, black holes are not immutable. Quantum field theory on curved backgrounds predicts Hawking radiation: virtual particle pairs near the horizon become real, draining the hole of mass over unimaginable timescales, leading to eventual evaporation. What remains, if anything at all, is unknown. In this way, black holes are less objects than they are boundaries of comprehension: blind spots in our cosmology where mathematics hints at truths too extreme, too indifferent, to be made fully human.

[marrowskies]

right so tinypic decided to delete this stupid comic well i’ve got the internet on my side so unless tumblr decides to do it too (which wouldn’t be out of the question) it’s safe now

this is from so long ago does anyone even remember

[animalloversxo]

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