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Those of you following the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System may have heard that its booms and sail are now deployed. It is receiving light pressure from the Sun to propel it through the Solar System. Like a test pilot in a new aircraft, NASA are now testing out just how it handles. Before deployment, the spacecraft was slowly tumbling and now the controllers will see if they can get it under control and under sail power. The reflectivity of the sail means it's an easy spot in the night sky, just fire up the NASA app to find out where to look.

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“imagine caring so much about fiction” imagine being so lame that you scoff at the timeless human practice of falling in love with art and stories

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obsessed with this photo my friend took out of her window of just a random ass wild rat in her lemon tree. who is he

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"I’m thinking that I was a lonely, hopeless person, and I might have fallen in love with the first thing that showed me a hint of kindness and safety. And I’m thinking maybe he knew that – maybe not actively, but maybe he wanted to be that person for someone. And maybe that worked for who I was before. Maybe it doesn’t work for who – what I am now."

Reading ACOMAF as someone who has been in a complicated bordering on abusive relationship was like being smacked over the head with the past. Maybe it's my stupidly resilient naiveté or maybe it's some broken piece of my self-preservation instincts, but I didn't see the walking red flag that was Tamlin in ACOTAR. I stopped halfway through the second book to re-read the first, and they are there, numerous and crimson and waving on every page. And yet I didn't see them. Just like in real life. I was as swept up in the grand romance of it all as Feyre was. I had found this person, someone who said they loved me, someone who cared about me loudly for the first time in my life, and I was so terrified of losing that scrap of light and warmth that I forgave every burn that that fire inflicted. And maybe he did love me, or maybe he loved how I loved him. But my forgiveness and attention and admiration just fanned his flame until the pain grew louder than the light and I woke up and realized just how many ashes surrounded me. And I left. And you would think I would have learned. Yet it took me 500 pages of prose to begin to see the same patterns emerge in someone else's story.

You would think I would have learned. Maybe some intrinsically bruised part of me still dreams of my somebody in shining something crashing into my life and banishing all my shadows. Maybe my high school English teacher was right and I need to do more critical thinking when I read. Maybe I'm not as as good a judge of character as I'd like to think myself to be.

Or maybe I just need to keep learning how to create my own light.

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Pride Month is upon us again and so it is time to repost my little guy, Hue! I’m wishing everyone a safe, supportive, positive, and enlightening Pride, whether you’re all the way “out” or not!

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this year while we all celebrate pride month and celebrate ourselves as well as those who came before us and paved the way for us to do so, we must also think of those in gaza, queer or not, who live every day under a brutal occupation and don’t have that same privilege. happy pride, and may we see a free palestine in this lifetime.

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Happy Pride Month