#8th of april

[bobbie-robron]

On this day… 8th of April

[herbertlangethings]

엑소 EXO _ Electric Kiss

incredible stage performance here again from our fantastic guys, so lets celebrate with this song a happy 12th anniversary, 8th of April, here right now....................yeahhhhhhh

[eskwander]

[geopsych]

When it was really deep in the clouds I managed to get a picture with the settings I usually use for the moon!

[psychological-alchemist]

Solar eclipse today, you know what that means

[hoofpeet]

chilchuck tail p2

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I went to a My Chemical Romance concert and Gerard Way paused mid-performance to personally hand out free bombs to the crowd.

[catchymemes]

[todays-xkcd]

The most rare, top-tier eclipse photo would be the Solar Earth Eclipse, but the Apollo 12 crew's attempt to capture it was marred by camera shake. They said it looked spectacular, though.

Types of Eclipse Photo [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

Types of Eclipse Photo

[Eclipse during totality] The standard

[Partial eclipse with lighter sky] The partial

[Two Cueballs and Ponytail looking and pointing at the sky] The reaction shot

[Eclipse during totality with red "ribbons" around the Moon] The fancy lens

[A blurry ring of light in the center] The focus issues

[The rear of an SUV] The traffic jam

[A dark circle on Earth's surface] The astronaut

[A gray cover of clouds] The "frustratedly looking up the cloud situation in Australia for 2028"

[phantomrose96]

just read before the birds sing. your repeated use of the word optimal really drives home how risk and conflict averse he is. he wants things predictable, he wants things stable, he wants control. as someone with anxiety i very much understood where he was coming from and also that without consequences he's just going to loop indefinitely rather than risk change. the alternative ending you considered where he moves to the next day only to loop that one near indefinitely IS how that would work for him if he moved. he has the option to deal with change the way you deal with messing up your sourdough starter if you had infinite flour, water and time, and nothing can stop him from taking it because literally nothing can.

(Before the Birds Sing)

Yeah!!!!

And actually, the origin of this idea was from an off-hand comment my friend made in a discord conversation about video game powers.

And it just immediately HOOKED me because. By god. There is no escape criteria. It's sure the typical formula for a timeloop story that the person trapped in the loop wants to get out.

And even when it's self-imposed, it's usually a like "my dearest loved one dies today, every time, and no matter how hard I try and how many times I try I fail to save them."

Like, this general assumption that the protagonist would rather this not be happening.

So I was absolutely compelled with the idea of like, playing a little trick with that assumption, crafting a timeloop narrative which you have no reason to doubt is a "Christophe is unwilfully trapped and is trying to escape this loop." And doing today "right" is the escape criteria, as the punishment for how badly he fucked up the first time he lived that day.

But No. No. He's trapped because he's trapped himself. Because he is a perfectionist--but really because he is highly anxious, highly prideful, quick to anger, which all combine and fester into this formula where he overreacts, hates himself for it, but can't apologize and move on. He'd rather everyone lose their memory of him fucking up so he can do it again in a way they approve of.

His whole loop, every time, is never about doing or saying what he actually thinks. It's just optimizing everyone's reaction to him. He just wants to bask in people's approval. He wants everyone to see him as perfect. And he can't achieve that living each day in the raw.

So instead he gets to live this day, perfectly, forever :)

[dopescissorscashwagon]

Elvis Presley

~ April 8, 1972 in Knoxville, Tennessee 🧡

[teencopandthesourwolf]

happy birthday, lil’red.

[kan-be]

everyday is a fruk day here but today is especially so 🥳

[biblically-accurate-dca]

happy april fools here's a dumbass drawing i never finished

[geopsych]

Happy eclipse day to those who will be celebrating! It looks like it may be too cloudy here but I’ll be out there just in case.

[circusinarun]

Small sketch for 8th March! :]

Group hug!