#another success

[nabi-unveiled]

It was a good thing I was enjoying a lot of long walks by the seashore this past week. Because apparently all of the little shows that were easy to sneak in on this family vacation decided to torture me.

Let's see...My Sweet Brother in Law had a stabbing that led to a show ending with my favorite character in a coma.

Moon and Dust decided to end with my precious imp being forced to leave his home planet.

And Sweetheart Service decided this was the week to cut the fluffy and bring up the inevitable angst of a contract relationship.

I managed to sneak in Reset by sitting in a corner while the extended family watched a Marvel movie. Wearing a hearing aid has its advantages. That show gave us some great kisses and memorable lines, but it also decided to end on the pain.

Really shows? What kind of games are we playing? I wanted to enjoy my vacation.

Luckily I was absolutely delighted once Thursday rolled around. All kinds of my favorite tropes were delivered between an ill advised but very pleasant binge watch of the six available episodes of Revenged Love (so much fun)...

and the final two episodes of Ball Boy Tactics (so much joy).

Can we talk about how they're whispering? And taking turns straddling each other? Or the wrist hold? or the scene where Jiwon announces the relationship to the friends while Jeongwu basks in the moment? or the friends themselves? So. much. joy. And that's before I turned into a puddle of goo in the library stacks.

That said - let's not discuss how I managed to pull those watches off 😅. It was very needed for my mental health though.

And now we're back...with so much left to catch up on but a work deadline looming. I predict I'll just stay behind in most shows for the next several weeks, and that there will be some that I just can't watch for now.

So much BL that I can't keep up?

What a time to be alive.

[beardedmrbean]

SpaceX launches Starship rocket into orbit on test flight, but loses spacecraft during return to Earth

SpaceX’s Starship rocket achieved two milestones in its third test flight, successfully reaching orbit and re-entering Earth’s atmosphere fo

SpaceX’s next-generation mega rocket launched Thursday morning, thundering into orbit on a key test flight meant to demonstrate new technologies and techniques that will be crucial on future missions to the moon and beyond.

The flight, held on the 22nd anniversary of SpaceX's founding, was the rocket’s third and most ambitious such test, according to the company. The event was closely watched because the nearly 400-foot-tall booster, known as Starship, is expected to play an important part in NASA’s return-to-the-moon program.

The rocket lifted off at 9:25 a.m. ET from SpaceX’s Starbase test site in Boca Chica, Texas. On this outing, SpaceX achieved two major milestones over previous Starship tests: The spacecraft successfully reached orbit, then re-entered Earth’s atmosphere for the first time more than 40 minutes later.

“This is the furthest and fastest that Starship has ever flown,” SpaceX officials said during their live broadcast of the event.

However, data suggests the spacecraft was lost while it returned to Earth, before it reached the splashdown in the Indian Ocean that SpaceX had hoped for.

Still, the company called it a “phenomenal day.”

Although SpaceX adjusted the targeted liftoff time Thursday morning, Starship’s launch got off to a smooth start. Roughly three minutes into flight, the first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, successfully separated from the upper-stage Starship spacecraft.

However, Super Heavy did not accomplish a final burn as it fell back to Earth, causing it to splash down “hard” in the Gulf of Mexico, SpaceX said during its webcast.

SpaceX had also hoped to demonstrate several other processes and capabilities during the flight, including opening and closing the vehicle’s payload door and transferring propellant between two of Starship’s tanks in orbit. The company said it will need to analyze post-flight data to determine if those objectives were completed.

SpaceX also intended to fire one of Starship’s Raptor engines while in space, but it ultimately opted to skip that portion.

Many of the techniques attempted during Starship's third flight would help SpaceX carry out future missions to deploy satellites, as well as set the stage for moon missions as part of NASA’s Artemis program.

The company also said many of the objectives would help develop Starship into a fully reusable system. That is SpaceX's eventual plan, but it was not the intention for this test flight.

Starship was selected by NASA to carry astronauts to the lunar surface in the upcoming Artemis III mission, which could launch in 2026.

Starship's debut flight last April ended when the rocket exploded several minutes after liftoff. A second Starship launch in November achieved several milestones, including separation of the first-stage booster and upper-stage spacecraft, but the company lost contact with the vehicle shortly after.

[askclaireelford]

so i hear you guys are having relationship issues

yes

yeah

so what seems to be the problem

wilardo never says i love you.. it makes me sad

oh no bro... you never told me it makes you sad

... i love you ashe

! omg :)

i love you too wilardo

awh.. looks like the problem resolved itself.. another success by miss claire elford

hooray !

...you didn’t do anything though

[issyvoo-66]

My first house party went great and everyone loved me and the two birthday people liked my gifts

[elastica1995]

didn't go into anaphylactic shock 👍🏻

[dcviated]

All drafts are now queued~

[newfeeling77]

i tried bleaching my hair with the little bit of bleach i had left n it was very orange bc my hair was dyed auburn so i tried toning it n it went too hard n now my hair is purple n orange

[euphoricfilter]

tonight’s kitchen update (i didn’t cook because my mum cooked me some meals to freeze before she left to go back home. so i just had one of those), however, there was no hesitation on my part to go warm my dinner up, and i cooked garlic bread. and there’s quite a few people in the kitchen and i haven’t retreated to my room yet