#murkymuse

[silveredfoxxeh]

Ambush!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! @MurkyMuse  (and also Happy New Year!) 

I’m sorry this was so belated - I kept trying to make it longer but the story wanted to be short and sweet so I’ll very likely be adding another one shot for you for one of the other prompts. I had so much fun with this one and I really hope you enjoy it! https://archiveofourown.org/works/13241817

[discoursecatharsis]

The more I think about it...I really don't get why minor @nti's are so against adults shipping. When I was a teen I thought adult fans/shippers were really cool. It was proof that I could continue liking "kid" things as I got older. And while I was never close to any adults online, they were a few who gave me advice and encouragement when I needed it but was too awkward to open up to adults I knew in RL. Idk maybe because I don't see shipping as inherently sexual? So never felt threatened?

I relate so much to being a teen and admiring the adult fans/shippers for that same reason. I remember one forum I was active on, one of the mods had “mom” in her username, because she was a literal mom, she had a kid. And I thought that was so amazing, that even as an adult and a parent, she’s still able to enjoy the same “kid” shows I do. 

Idk why ant1s are so against adults in fandom.Now ant1s act like as soon as you turn (vague age of “too old”), you have to abandon fandom things.

And I think you’re right with the end of your ask there. Like since we don’t see shipping as inherently sexual, we just see is as a harmless fandom pastime/fun hobby (because that’s all it is), we know that adult shippers aren’t predators? idk, like it sounds so... common sense... like duh, of course not every adult in fandom is a bad person. But ant1s make it seem like all us adult shippers have ill intentions and I just don’t know why.

[pitviperofdoom]

Kinda random but I want Todoroki to be the next of Izuku's peers to learn about OfA. I think he'll need a peer that he can talk to like All Might had his police friend. I'm also convinced that at some point a villain will target Izuku for OfA. With All Might out of commission and Izuku having not yet fully mastered his quirk, it's the perfect situation for any villain that might know about OfA.

Same!!! Especially since Todoroki was one of the first people to have inklings about Izuku’s connection to All-Might back during the Sports Festival. It’d be really cool if he was the one Izuku trusted enough to tell. Sort of cementing an end to whatever generational cycle of resentment Endeavor was trying to kick off.

[lazuliblade]

I've been looking for a list of jump combinations and their relative difficulty. I haven't had any luck with google so I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction or go over at least the most common ones?

First: this gifset is wonderful for combo identification and for explaining why combinations are done in the order we see them – the second jump must take off on the same edge that the first jump landed on. Therefore, a two-jump combo will include a toe-loop or a loop jump as the second jump. Almost all of the common combos have a toe-loop attached to the end because tacking on a basic 2T or 3T requires less energy than a Loop.

I’m making this list according to points earned and only with triples/quads since that’s what you would see in the top Senior Men’s level.

The order of jumps by difficulty from easiest to hardest, with abbreviations:T - Toe-loopS - SalchowLo - LoopF - FlipLz - LutzA - Axel

For Senior Ladies, this list still applies, but you would cut it off before the 3A combos since that’s the current level of the field. Most Ladies stick to 2A instead of attempting a 3A.

From lowest points (“easiest”) to highest points (“hardest”):

Two-jump combos:3T-2T3S-2T3Lo-2T3Lo-3T3F-2T3F-3T3Lz-2T3Lz-3T <— this is generally the hardest jump combination that ladies will do3A-2T3A-3T

4T-2T4T-3T4S-2T4S-3T —–from here on, you’re in crazy territory. Quads that are of further difficulty are limited to very few skaters capable of doing the jump.—–

Three-jump combos (none allowed in SP; only one allowed in FS): With three-jump combos, you can take the normal two-jump combos and add another toe-loop or loop, or use a 1Lo (“half-loop”) to lead into a different jump. Things to keep in mind: it’s more common to see a Toe-loop before a Loop, and it’s common that the 1Lo (“half-loop”) is used as a connector between big jumps. Here are the ones I see popping up often:3S+2T+2Lo3F+2T+2Lo 3F+1Lo+3S <—popular with skaters who have difficulty with the 3A (and it’s worth more than the Lz combo I point out below)3Lz+1Lo+2S 3Lz+2T+2Lo <—also popular with skaters who have difficulty with the 3A3A+2T+2Lo3A+1Lo+3S <—this combo is popular with those who prefer edge jumps3A+1Lo+3F <—this combo is popular with those who prefer toe jumps

—————————The bottom line is, you can’t go wrong with adding a 2T or 3T to the end of any jump. 2Lo or 3Lo would be fine too, but a bit more uncommon because skaters tend to do a difficult first jump and a much easier second/third jump to save stamina.It’s good to look at some old score sheets to see examples of what jumps the skaters do. Check out the isuresults website or google a competition ( “GPF 2016″) and “results” to find the page on the isu website. Then just click on “results” there and check out the judge’s scores (called “protocols” among the community). Here are a few: GPF2015 GPF2016 Worlds 2017

I hope this helps!

[thehobbem]

murkymuse replied to your post: Yuuri also literally holds a World Record by the...

I think maybe because they don’t explicitly explain some of the finer details? But I personally think they gave enough information and that going too deep into details of the jumps or scoring would have bogged down the show.

Yes, that’s exactly lwhat I feel! Like, everything  in Haikyuu is explained, all the finer details of volleyball, and that doesn’t happen in YOI. For example, I had to look up the difference between a quad flip and quad toe loop. Small things like that. But I looked them up bc I wanted to, not bc they were essential to the understanding of the story. Like you said, I felt they gave enough info; we were given everything we needed for the story, such as how scores and competitions work. I didn’t really need to know that a triple axel has 3 ½ rotations, that wouldn’t make me understand the story better. All in all, I feel it’s petty nitpicking to say the show didn’t explain everything there is to know about figure skating...

[zelinxia]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! HERE IS YOUR AKAYONA BIRTHDAY COW! : D

yay!

[ultraviolet-eucatastrophe]

murkymuse

replied to your post

“You know what always fucks me up? The solar wind. Like, the sun is...”

Please elaborate on us technically living inside a star. I love this stuff.

OKAY, so! If you look up at the sun in the sky you see a well-defined circle, right? And you can watch (eg. in images like this) the sun rotating, and it looks kind of like a solid ball, right? Sort of. Maybe. WELL! That’s not really the case at all. At that “boundary”, the density of material drops off very quickly, so it goes from about the density of air inside it to much, much less dense outside. So in that sense it is a boundary. This is called the photosphere. Outside it is the corona. (Here’s a diagram that shows these layers!)

Interesting fact! the reason you can “see” the material in the photosphere in the visible range of the spectrum, basically, is that the higher density means the particles are close enough together that light has a large probability of hitting and interacting with particles there.  It’s called being “optically dense”, and it’s basically an effect of the light our eyes can see interacting with a denser material. (In different wavelengths, you can see to different levels! My fave is extreme ultraviolet/X-rays, because you can see a lot of cool stuff going on in the corona with that! but anyway...) 

If we head outwards (into the corona) the density decreases, as I mentioned. Lower density means that the particles are really far apart, to the point that statistically, it’s very likely that any light will just go right through and never hit any of particles. Emission of light (why we see the sun glowing) happens when light interacts with particles, which is why we see a LOT less emission in the corona than in the photosphere. So the corona is a lot dimmer, making the photosphere look like a solid boundary or “shell” in comparison. Which is what we see as the round ball in the sky we all know and love. 

Why is this relevant? Well, the point is, you can’t “see” the corona in the same way (well you can at solar eclipse, when your eyes/cameras are not overwhelmed by all the light coming from the photosphere) but it does have material in it, and even if it's a lot less dense than the photosphere and the stuff below it. (Side note: it's got one thing: the corona is HOT. Like, a hundred times the temperature of the level just below it. We don't actually really understand why this is the case, and it's one of the biggest mostly-open questions in solar physics that people argue about.)

ANYWAY. So the other thing about the corona is that it’s basically all flowing outwards, propelled by the explosive power stored by the "twisting up" of magnetic fields. These have a thing called magnetic tension, in that they "don't like" to be twisted; it costs energy to do so (think of a rubber band getting twisted tighter and tighter and how it springs back with a lot of force at some point! That's basically what magnetic fields are like!) But it gets twisted up as the sun rotates, and at some point (usually about once every eleven years, as it happens), the sun's magnetic field gets too "twisty" and knotted/tangled up by the spinning, and it has to spring back. This part of the “solar cycle” releases a lot of energy, and magnetic field, and plasma, into the solar system.

.....Okay that was a slightly simplified picture of the solar cycle. In reality, this isn't a one off event. It's actually happening all the time, lots of little explosions of material to release tension (though they’re more frequent and violent at the maximum of the solar cycle) and together they fling plasma out into the solar system. (Think of it like a big cloud of debris!) It basically flows out in all directions, but there really isn't a definitive point at which is stops being the corona/atmosphere and starts being the solar wind.

You could argue that the photosphere is the "surface" of the sun, but even this is tenuous; if you could somehow "stand" at what we see as the surface without burning up, you wouldn't be able to stand at all; you'd just fall in because there's nothing “solid” there. (It’s a comparable density to air on earth, just... a lot hotter)

The reason it does stop in the end is that the further the corona goes, the larger is the sphere that it is “spread out” over, so it becomes so, so thin that it’s hardly there at all. Again, there isn’t really a set “boundary” for where this happens. But magnetic fields, as usual, tend to rule all in the solar system, so the “heliopause”, or edge of the “heliosphere” is basically the line where the sun’s magnetic field has decreased in strength to the extent that the interstellar (background) magnetic field is stronger than it. Since the material that makes up the solar wind is basically “joined” to the magnetic field, that’s kind of the point at which you can say the sun’s atmosphere “ends”. However, this is well outside the distance at which the planets orbit, so yeah we all... sort of orbit around within it, shielded by our planet’s own magnetic field.

(Another interesting fact! The heliopause is about, in fact, where the Voyager spacecraft have reached now! I don’t know if you heard but a few years ago there was news that they’d come close to the edge of the heliosphere. But no one’s very sure, as it’s hard to get data from them when they’re that far out, and also as I said it’s a bit of a fuzzy boundary anyway.)         

So! TL:DR.... we see the sun as having a boundary because it has a sharp change in density at that point, which affects emission of light. However, it is essentially a big blob of gas which is constantly being pushed out into the solar system, and that doesn't really "end" until much, much further out, beyond all the planets and certainly beyond earth's orbit. That's the sense in which we live within a star's atmosphere!

[discoursecatharsis]

So I kinda snapped and replied to that @nti. All I told them was that adults were responding because they opened the dialogue about this and that we can't magically know which adults are inappropriate toward minors so that's why everyone has to be responsible for their own internet safety. Their response made me laugh. But I have to congratulate them for taking my advice since they chose to block me right after replying. They had to get the last word though and call me a "fucker" though.

I saw your reply, your response was so good…. annnnnnd ofc they basically ignored it, except for the blocking part. 

I wanted to reply to them too, with what you said: that if there are adults behaving inappropriately, it’s up to everyone to take personal responsibility. If an adult is pm-ing a minor in fandom inappropriately… how tf am I suppose to know?! The adult is not going to advertise that they’re a creep on their blog. It’s up to the minor to block and report that person, and maybe warn others about them. And hmmm, what do you know, I never see ant1s saying “oh this adult sent me inappropriate private messages,” complete with solid proof, because it probably rarely happens in fandom (this fandom specifically). 

Good job trying to talk them though! I’m sorry that they threw in an insult at you before blocking apparently… classic ant1 tactics…