#nrrr

[namonakirei]

I just finished Project Hail Mary and the amount of people who think panspermia/lithopanspermia is a wild, unrealistic hypothesis that has no basis in reality and makes the science not grounded in the book makes me think of reading old Clive Cussler books and how for the longest time people felt the same way about hypothetical pre-Columbian contact between the Americas and other continents (diffusionism, IIRC).

I feel the same way about both; Lithopanspermia is as likely in my mind as pre-Columbian intercontinental contact and travel. Far as I am concerned, they are both true to some degree.

I mean, Leif den Lykkelige having traveled to Greenland and the Northeastern Americas was considered ridiculous at some point, too, but he sure did, and I'm convinced a few other pre-Columbian contacts listed in the wiki page did happen, definitely Polynesian-Chilean contact of some sort. And ammonia and other building blocks of aminoacids, proteins, and life, have been found in at least two separate asteroids. Some sources after the cut.

This isn't meant to be evidentiary, it's just my opinion, but I believe it to be a relatively grounded one, yannow?

Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories - Wikipedia

Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu - Nature Astronomy

Rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu contain some of the molecular building blocks of life on Earth, such as amino acids and nucleobases.

Building Blocks of Life Found on Samples Collected From an Asteroid

The find suggests that amino acids could land on Earth on meteorites

[windynebula]

Why are the Guzma ships I want so rare. Why are the Guzma ships I don’t want so common.

[namonakirei]

Man I miss painting my nails. I have all sorts of tools and stickers and polishes. Buuuut it gave me some sort of dysphoria or dissociative episodes, I'd literally look at my hands and feel like it wasn't my hand. One time I had painted them a beautiful galaxy geode and I had a panic attack.

Fuck it's been years and I miss it so much but I have no idea why my brain rejected it to the point it'd startle me to see my hands and I don't want to make myself go through that again.

[namonakirei]

Normal people: my mom would punish me for not eating everything on my plate because there were "starving kids in Africa" and she didn't want me to be a picky eater.

Me: my mum had PTSD from me nearly dying of malnutrition from a virus that impeded me eating and destroyed my digestive system causing malabsorption syndrome so long-lasting that I still have the starved-kid protruding ribs, and would plead with me to eat like, at all, because I had likely undiagnosed ARFID of some sort and would pretty much only eat carbs and meat throughout most of my childhood years. And also starving kids in Africa.

[namonakirei]

So I just realized that in this Wonder over Yonder song, "I'm the Bad Guy", which I like a lot despite never having watched the show, the bit with Lord D passing her hair from behind her shoulder to the front is some sort of reference to Frozen. Or at least I think so. So during "Let It Go", Elsa lets loose her braid and passes it from the back to the front of her head, as per this photoset:

It's much better illustrated in the gif on this reddit thread. The animators passed her hair clipping through the shoulder because the more realistic movement of the braid past the shoulder looked, well, awkward, and the clipping made the animation look smooth as it should. In "I'm the Bad Guy", at second 0:37-0:38 of the video, Lord D (That's the badass gal there), a blonde villain with red-and-orange color themes who has a clear visual dicothomy with Elsa and some level of thematic dichothomy as well, given that Elsa doesn't want to hurt anyone and Lord Dominator most definitely does, passes her hair from back to front in a way that personally reminds me of this Elsa clip. I took some screencaps to as a review of the process:

Of course, on the animation style of Wonder over Yonder this doesn't look choppy or weird, it looks natural and smooth in the animation. Is this a sort of flex? "Look what 2D can do that 3D can't"? Maybe. Maybe not. I just thought it was neat.

[namonakirei]

I have opposite sock sensory issues. From what I've seen lots of folks hate long socks but I hate short socks. Long socks envelop my whole foot, ankle, and a bit of leg in warm fuzzy goodness. Short socks? They are EVIL. They barely cover my foot and leave my ankles bare and unprotected and sometimes my ankle bones even *touches my shoe*, ewwww! Ugh, I hate it. Feet touching shoe is horrible.

Anyway.

[namonakirei]

The difficulty of character design for me is that I know I should draw a simple, iconic design with simple shapes and recognizable colors that can be told apart by its silhouette, but my preferred art style is what I'd describe as animesque realism and idk it feels like it's impossible to do a good design like that

[namonakirei]

My mother, who lives in my home country about 1/4 of the way 'round the world, has left after a 3 month visit. I'm desolate. Also everyone who said septorhinoplasty and turbinate resection surgery recovery is easy peasy: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA not when you're ME! TL;DR I have mom loss, blood loss, and reverse fever loss but at least I feel like actually treating this as a blong???