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i don't want Gary Sues in my books or fanfictions unless they're a Lord Havelock Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork and Titular of the Master Degree of Doing Everything You Do Better Than You kind of Gary Sue

#gnu terry pratchett #discworld #havelock vetinari #lord vetinari #writing

michaelnordeman

Common starling/stare. Värmland, Sweden (9 April 2022).

dyfavorable

This will forever be my favorite tweet of all times

Translation: "Sometimes when I'm alone at home I speak German so that the ghosts think we lost the war"

my parents don't understand why im so attached to the Artemis II mission & crew

because it's the only good thing that has happened in the last 6 fucking years mom

#artemis ii #artemis 2 #nasa artemis #nasa astronauts #nasa #raf talks

lynnimaybe

People asking why Artemis II matters, lemme tell you

1. First woman to enter deep space, Christina Koch, went as a mission specialist to help test the preventative measures against the radiation that causes cancer in the ships, and primarily affects women. It affects men too but less so. Christina's literally so inspiring to me.

2. This mission and further Artemis missions are testing safety concerns to help push the boundary of what we've been able to explore up to this point. Safety is the primary purpose of the trip. This is the first step to exploring Mars and further planets! Including Europa (my beloved.)

3. Before this, only 24 humans have ever entered deep space. Of that 24, 5 are alive today and they're all in their 90s. We very much needed a newer trip to help confirm or change whatever information we had from years and years ago. Having 4 living testaments of space exploration is a very important part of keeping said exploration alive.

4. Even though it wasn't the primary purpose of the trip, we've gotten so many rare pictures! Including my favorite "Hello, World" taken by commander Reid Wiseman:

It's the second photo EVER to have a fulll illuminated Earth hemisphere, the first being "Blue Marble". All other photos of the Earth have been spliced. Blue Marble was taken during the day and Hello, World was taken at night (the exposure has been lifted for clarity). It's my new favorite photo, it's so beautiful.

enyafans4communism

fuck, marry, kill: the wound that won’t heal, the past you can’t undo, the ghost that keeps returning

lucifersimp

le cannellonigate sur bluesky, c'est quelque chose...

prokopetz

I've joked in the past about how I want an Arthurian adaptation set in one of those bits of the Middle Ages where nobody has any working infrastructure and all the kings and lords are flat broke but they're still trying to make it work, but it occurs to me that a high fantasy version of that would also be kind of awesome. The High King in his grand palace (shitty hill fort) sending his Holy Knights (a dozen guys and a donkey) on a perilous journey (a half-day's march) to face the Dread Necromancer's undead scourge (exactly six zombies). The Necromancer's immortal death-knight champion (a skeleton in a hat) comes out to meet them astride a terrible hornèd beast (a reanimated cow because they couldn't find a dead horse).