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Rapunzel

Continuing to read my new German fairy tale book is a true delight, especially seeing the contrast to the versions my parents had told me in my youth, and interpreting them in consideration of my newfound knowledge of folklore is surprisingly refreshing. The next chapter from the book tells the tale of Rapunzel.

The first matter of interest is the reason the Witch, later named Mother Gothel, or Gotel in German, takes Rapunzel, as it truly strikes me as Fae. She sees it as payment for the man taking her precious growings, which he did to satisfy his wife's craving (who'll give birth to Rapunzel) in order for her to survive. Also, since Fae have been known for stealing human children at any turn, this is really not surprising.

Further, this digs into the aspect of fae food, in this case the “Rapunzeln”, as being so irresistible and, after only one time consumption, instil such a craving in humans that they become unable to nourish on human food from thereon.

Going from there, we might just find ourselves an explanation for Rapunzel's later mentioned inhuman beauty, as well as exceptionally strong hair, and almost siren-like singing voice, which would lead to a conclusion of her being some sort of magical creature in genetics. As is known with consuming drugs of any kind during pregnancy, a specific nutrient-favouring diet will influence the child's early development stages. This does not only imply that Rapunzel will have rather been nutrient-deficient at birth, but also that, if fae food truly is biologically special from human food in any way, it could likely contain components not usually introduced to the human body that could easily cause point mutations. Seeing as this biological component contained in fae food is a completely normal nutrient to Fae, a replacement of certain genes and thus altering the functions of the resulting amino acid would have the ultimate outcome of making a human child more fae.

Another concept mentioned on the topic of magical vegetation is how the thorn bushes outside of the tower, since Mother Gothel implies she will take the prince's eyesight, which she does as he jumps off the tower in grief, yet somehow survives and only brutally gets his eyes mutilated on the bushes at the bottom, which thus fulfill the witch’s wish, since this fall and it's outcome is otherwise unfortunately unrealistic. Continuing, the idea of a voice equating the legends of sirens is further supported by it carrying distances and leading the prince, despite blindness, to it's source.

On a completely unrelated and irrelevant note, Rapunzel now living with twins and awaiting him implies they engaged in premarital sex, which is rather peculiar for a tale of its time.

Now, the indisputably most magical part about this only half human child are her tears, which seem to have healing abilities, as, when she cries over her prince's disfigured eyes, and as her tears hit them, they heal completely, restoring his eyesight.

Thus, we can conclude that Rapunzel definitely was a fae mutation.

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NEPTUNE FACTS!

1. Neptune is the only planet that is not visible on Earth with the naked eye and therefore was unknown to ancient civilizations.

2. Neptune’s dark spot was discovered by Voyager 2 when it flew by Neptune in 1989. The storm has winds going 1,500 miles per hour. When Neptune was viewed again by the Hubble in 1994, the dark spot had moved.

3. Neptune actually has rings! They are very faint and most likely made of ice.

4. Its blue. Honestly there is not that much known about Neptune, I am sorry. She is just so far away.

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Ultima and Thule : On January 1 New Horizons encountered the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule. Some 6.5 billion kilometers from the Sun, Ultima Thule is the most distant world ever explored by a spacecraft from Earth. This historic image, the highest resolution image released so far, was made at a range of about 28,000 kilometers only 30 minutes before the New Horizons closest approach. Likely the result of a gentle collision shortly after the birth of the Solar System, Ultima Thule is revealed to be a contact binary, two connected sphere-like shapes held in contact by mutual gravity. Dubbed separately by the science team Ultima and Thule, the larger lobe Ultima is about 19 kilometers in diameter. Smaller Thule is 14 kilometers across. via NASA

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Cinder Ella

Recently, while visiting a yard sale, which is a habit I picked up in my current area of residence, as I cross a suburban street that regularly holds them from my way to university and back, I came across a rather interesting lecture. Set in a box with leather-bound recipe books and children's comics, I noticed a larger hardcover tome, not carrying a lot of pages but tall in it's appearance. It wasn't as old as some other books that clearly originated from someone's attic, however it also had seen a significantly larger number of years than the comics it was stacked with. As I went to examine it, I found it to be a German book of fairy tales and folklore in their original language and story, no influences taken from Disney and the like, and I found my curiosity struck. Now, I have begun to examine every tale for itself, though it is going unfortunately slow since it has been a while since I properly practised my German, I have started to notice curious little details relating to the European folklore of Fae, which I figured I could share here, starting with Cinder Ella, or Cinderella, the first story in the book.

In consideration of all facts of the story, I have reasoned that Cinderella is the daughter of a human man and a fae, who dies away from her court, and promises her daughter to care for her from beyond the grave before she dies. Thus, the ground above her grave becomes very fertile and blessed. However, I am brought to believe Cinder Ella is more obviously a changeling, e.g. unnaturally pretty, which leads her father's new wife and her stepsisters to abuse her based on her differences. Also, Cinderella is likely to be a spring or summer court Fae, since, with the blessed ground of her mother's grave and, more importantly, her own tears, a magical tree grows.

This draws the attention of a little bird, also likely fae and maybe related to her mother, taking pity upon the grieving child. With the tree as a connection to the Fae, the little bird will hear Cinderella's wishes as she speaks them to the hazelnut tree and start fulfilling them, potentially, though this is entirely speculation, to settle a debt they had with her mother. Now, the Fae are reasonably angry at the stepmother when she abuses Cinderella's fae nature by spilling Lentils, so she has to pick them all up, as is common legend of a fae quirk, and thus the Fae help Cinderella clean up the spilled goods to overcome the compulsion. When that proves not to be enough to fulfil the girl's wish of going to the ball, they craft her a wonderful gown.

Further, Cinderella is always able to escape over trees, climbing them and thus getting away, feeling more secure and safe around the wildness of nature.

Still, the Fae only grant three big favours, giving three outfits to Ella, before the prince initiates his ploy to find the woman of his dreams by applying pitch to the stairs in order for her to lose a shoe. Now, the rest is history, except for the birds still mocking the stepmother and -sisters, and instead celebrating how Cinderella got taken by the prince and found her home.

I shall discuss the following fairytales at a later point, since there are still nineteen other stories to cover.

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To my distaste, I have found tumblr gives more value to aesthetic than information. I shall change this momentarily.

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Fairies and the Peasant Girl by Yuliya Litvinova

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Jupiter & its four planet-size moons, called the Galilean satellites, were photographed by Voyager 1. Reddish Io (upper left) is nearest Jupiter; Europa (center); Ganymede & Callisto (lower right). These are photographed in early March of 1998.

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Size Comparison of Pluto to Australia.

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How to tell whether a fairy tale has been sanitised for upper class audiences:

Published Version: And then the peasant hero learned a valuable lesson about the virtue of humility and not straying above one’s station.

Oral Tradition: And then the peasant hero killed the evil nobleman and lived in his house.

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Look! A cosmic block party 🥳 In this Hubble image, you’ll find 50 spiral and dwarf galaxies hanging out in our cosmic neighborhood. The main focal point of stars is actually a dwarf galaxy. Dwarf galaxies often show a hazy structure, an ill-defined shape and an appearance somewhat akin to a swarm or cloud of stars — and UGC 685 is no exception to this. These data were gathered under Hubble’s Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS) program, the sharpest and most comprehensive ultraviolet survey of star-forming galaxies in the nearby universe. Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; the LEGUS team, B. Tully, D. Calzetti

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Hubble Captures Dynamic Dying Star

This atmospheric image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a dark, gloomy scene in the constellation of Gemini (the Twins). The subject of this image confused astronomers when it was first studied — rather than being classified as a single object, it was instead recorded as two objects, owing to its symmetrical lobed structure (known as NGC 2371 and NGC 2372, though sometimes referred to together as NGC 2371/2).

These two lobes are visible to the lower left and upper right of the frame, and together form something known as a planetary nebula. Despite the name, such nebulas have nothing to do with planets; NGC 2371/2 formed when a Sun-like star reached the end of its life and blasted off its outer layers, shedding the constituent material and pushing it out into space to leave just a superheated stellar remnant behind. This remnant is visible as the bright star at the center of the frame, sitting neatly between the two lobes.

The structure of this region is complex. It is filled with dense knots of gas, fast-moving jets that appear to be changing direction over time, and expanding clouds of material streaming outwards on diametrically opposite sides of the remnant star. Patches of this scene glow brightly as the remnant star emits energetic radiation that excites the gas within these regions, causing it to light up. This scene will continue to change over the next few thousand years. Eventually the knotty lobes will dissipate completely, and the remnant star will cool and dim to form a white dwarf.

Text credit: ESA (European Space Agency) Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Wade et al.

Source: NASA

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“Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” - Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

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“Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say.” - Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

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If only we could see…

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Engineering makes everything small

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Contestants in the 2017 Miss Peru competition used their platform to bring awareness to violence against women. 

Instead of stating their body measurements when they stepped up to the mic, the women reported statistics like “the 65% of university women assaulted by their partners” and “more than 80% of women in my city suffer from violence.” 

(Source, Source 2)