#solar studies

[ohyangchon]

13, 16, and 8 on that fandom violence ask XD

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8- common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

The idea that "Shimok and Yeojin are the main characters in the narrative and everyone just lives in it", because yes, they are the main characters but Lee Sooyeon has set it up that EVERY single character they interact with (yes, even the side characters that only appear for 1 season) touch and shape them in different ways.

Heck, Shimok GRINS seeing Hosub again in S2 at the end! He remembers Hosub and feels comforted being posted there to someone he's perceived as a friend! You can't have them alone in their own universes, because both their characters are designed as vehicles that are molded by circumstances - yes, even Shimok, who slowly gets coaxed out of his shell by Yeojin and Jungbon, yes, the same Shimok who watched his beloved mentor he shared a complex push-and-pull and then his legacy with fall to his death, the same Shimok whose nemesis (Yeonjae) he then inherited as a pseudo-mother figure due to his mentor's death.

Both Shimok and Yeojin are shaped by the people around them - they drive the narrative and are passengers alike. This to me is why the character-driven writing is so intriguing to me, and why I love Lee Sooyeon's character design so deeply.

13 - worst blorbofication

I feel like by far is the woobification of Dongjae's actions begging for a redemption arc especially with the new Dongjae-centric drama coming up, which no. The whole point is that he plays all sides, gets away relatively scot-free, and keeps doing it until he hurtles into self-destruction. It's also why despite my adoration for Lee Sooyeon's characters and a 13 year obsession with the actor, I cannot see this being anything more than a closed loop.

I don't want him to be redeemed, because there isn't anything to redeem - he's an abusive, self-absorbed and opportunistic man designed to show the extremes people will go to for their own needs (in his, it's family, working in the bureau that primarily serves minors), and he can eat Yeojin's shoes for her breaking her ass to save him but I don't want him miraculously good after S2, I want him broken and questioning and very, very afraid.

16- you can't understand why so many people like this thing

Both Shimok and Yeojin are victims of this and I'll say this first, especially as a pair. People like to play amnesiacs about their orientation and how they function as a pair, and it's utterly irritating to me to see people write Yeojin as some sex-crazed horndog and Shimok as a brickwall or some sort of slow-burn friends-to-lovers thing when she actively fixes Shimok's "needs" - if you want romance, sure, but at some point you're removing so much of what the characters are that we're no longer watching the same show.

I know, shipping is a part of everyone's culture, etc, and I don't know. Asexual voices keep getting erased in this when people ask you to not try to write "fix-it" fics of a disabled man who has openly professed a lack of interest and his bisexual partner who had an entire season being visibly attracted to her female superior, and at some point it's less "I can't understand" than "you're literally just ignoring us". You can't be like "we're not being phobic :/" and then actively choke out queer voices when they're one of the most PROMINENT voices in your fandom.

Not to mention people (ace writers in the fandom) HAVE written them as platonic partners. We're not ignoring that because it's true! Not everything needs to be exaggerated romance-to-sex

[ohyangchon]

Eunsoo + Simok justice

Justice to both Shimok and Eunsoo are real, real people, people who they've seen be failed by the system they worked so hard to uphold over and over.

Eunsoo sees her father, the tall shadow that not only allows her so much raw power but also looms over her at every turn. Being the scion of Young Iljae the great is an exhausting and often suffocating ordeal, and it only makes her all the more determined to clear her father's name, to scream to the world how much they'd owed her and return her everything that had gone downhill since her childhood. She lives recklessly, anxiously eager to please and with a voracious appetite to get ahead, but that she knows would inevitably spell her own doom, but with nothing to lose, all she has to the name is the ideals of justice her father had fallen victim towards.

Shimok seems a myriad of faces, both criminals and victims alike, as he quietly crusades on his own pursuit of justice. Unable to be swayed by outside circumstance, he seems to take in everything with an objective eye...apart from a very specific two individuals. 

One had been the person he idolised, the person he'd worked towards to become before being forced to witness the fall from grace from...and the other had been the person entrusted to him, an eager junior prosecutor with the blood of giants in her veins who worked so hard to be noticed and get ahead as quickly as she humanely could.

For the person he'd idolised, he'd been forced to take the knife towards him, to rid him from the prosecution and he knew, he knew that he was a monster, and it was right and good for him to proceed with this execution of his own childish idolatry.

For Eunsoo? He could never find any excuses for his behavior, for the way he'd treated someone who trusted him and looked up to him. By pushing her away, he'd catalysed her fall, and he knew that even if he'd tried to ignore it, her blood remained on his hands.

[georgemcginn]

(ESO) ALMA Starts Observing the Sun

(ESO) ALMA Starts Observing the Sun

Roman Brajsa Hvar Observatory, University of Zagreb Croatia

Ivica Skokic Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences Ondrejov, Czech Republic

  This image of the entire Sun was taken in the red visible light emitted by iron atoms in the Sun’s atmosphere. Light at this wavelength originates from the visible solar surface, the photosphere. A cooler, darker sunspot is clearly visible in…

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[georgemcginn]

(ESO) ALMA Starts Observing the Sun

(ESO) ALMA Starts Observing the Sun

Roman Brajsa Hvar Observatory, University of Zagreb Croatia

Ivica Skokic Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences Ondrejov, Czech Republic

  This image of the entire Sun was taken in the red visible light emitted by iron atoms in the Sun’s atmosphere. Light at this wavelength originates from the visible solar surface, the photosphere. A cooler, darker sunspot is clearly visible in…

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[tsa16tanzhaus]

F A C A D E   S T R A T E G I E S

DAVID BAKER ARCHITECT: 388 Fulton Street

http://www.dbarchitect.com/project_detail/167/388%20Fulton%20Street.html

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[solarstormflare]

Solar attempts to study...

I do want to do well on my English exam, really.

Except...my study session has kind of just turned into a giant dance party.

how, you metaphorically ask?

Well, it stems from my love of music and inability to turn it off to study,

Also, my cat keeps on purring and asking me to stroke her.

Who am I to refuse?

[20khouse]

Sun Studies

So a long time ago we did some solar studies to see the best orientation of the house.  Thanks to the wonderful scripting of tumblr, we lost the post.  So this one is a bit out of sequence, but we still think it is important for forming an argument for the square plan.  The original intention of the solar studies was to see if certain floor plan-to-porch-to-roof combinations performed better than others based on the direction the house faced. We started with two possible porch conditions for our house with the platform and roof rotated in relation to the house.  We studies the houses in how the roof overhang will affect the solar gain at certain times, on certain days, in certain seasons.  So we did a few drawings to try and understand this aspect of the house.  Since the 20K home is designed without central heat or air for multiple reasons the amount of heat gained in the summer and winter is critical for how the home performs.  We want to shade as much of the house in the summer to minimize solar heat gain, but in the winter months we need to try to gain as much heat as possible.  Here are our findings:

So if you want to know how many drawings we did for a better understanding of how our house performs here is the math:

2 houses X 3 months X 4 times a day X 4 porch orientations X 5 drawings per = 480 total drawings.....

So it was really simple to decipher all this information (joking) 

Conclusions:

When the deep overhang faces South it does a good job of shading the South facade. (thank you "Intro to Building Technology")

Since the house it square we see that there is not a "perfect" siting strategy when we base it solely on solar gain.  If the house does a good job of shading the Southern facade, it can do a poor job of shading the harsh setting Western sun, and vis verse.  We do believe that the equality of the four facades does not provide a "perfect" solar orientation, but does provide ample opportunity for "good" solar orientation no matter which orientation you site the house.  We can compare this to David's house (the 8th iteration of the 20K) which is a house that is very long and narrow.  If you sited David's house with the long axis facing towards the East and the West, the house would just absolutely bake in the summer. So David's house has a very clear direction it must be sited for solar orientation (long facades facing South, tiny facades facing East and West)  We believe that the square lends itself to more flexibility in siting in accordance to solar orientation.  This can just be added to the other arguments for the square plan.

Typical logic says to face the porch South with a deep overhang.  Maybe its best to site the house with the porch facing North.  Since the porch will almost always be used in the warmer months perhaps its best to always have shade for the users.  MacArthur's House does a good job of doing this.  This is against typical thinking, but we think there is some merit to it... just food for thought.

Perhaps there is logic in specifying the house to have deciduous trees planted to protect the East and West facades in the summer when the trees would have leaves, but allow solar gain in the winter when the trees have lost their leaves.