#Curiosity 8.

[aicollider]

Rewriting One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez) as Biography in Mystery genre

Title: The Mystery of Macondo: Uncovering One Hundred Years of Solitude Chapter 1: The Enigma of Macondo’s Origins In the small town of Macondo, secrets lurked beneath the surface, weaving a tangled web of mystery and intrigue. Hidden away from the prying eyes of the outside world, the Buendía family had been the custodians of these enigmatic tales for generations. José Arcadio Buendía, the…

[tangramkey]

i love my Basketbot Portal AU

[a-oct0]

Okay so I've done a poll before about Agent ships but what about Friendships?? Screw relationships which of your Agents are the bestest of best friends?? (Or I guess in the some cases which get along the best??)

[theoutcastrogue]

RIP William Anders, the Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic Earthrise photo in 1968.

Here's why I adore this photo, enormous cliché notwithstanding.

1) Oh this is a stupid gorgeous planet that we have. Look at it! Just look at it! This shot is close enough for earth to be immediately recognisable and breathtakingly beautiful, but not too close: it doesn't invite you to zoom in and worry about silly things like borders, it invites you to take a step back (well the camera took a step back for you!) and take it ALL in, with a different perspective – from a different celestial body, a whole other world.

2) It's not really an earthrise, though. There's no such thing as an earthrise from the moon, because it's gravitationally locked to the earth. So from our perspective it rises and sets, wanes and waxes, and we only ever see one side of it (the other one is famously dark), while from the moon's perspective the earth is either always visible, or (if you're on the dark side of the moon) never visible.

The "earthrise" effect came from the trajectory of the Apollo 8 mission: it circled around the moon, without landing, and as it was moving from above the dark side of the moon towards the light one, the earth slowly emerged into view, and appeared to "rise". This is essentially a trick photo – photography is the perfect medium for deceiving without actually lying. And what a deception!

So why does that matter? It matters because this picture is simultaneously a revelation and an illusion, thus combining the two cornerstones of science, and indeed of that basic stance of curiosity we need to maintain towards the world around us: DELIGHT and DOUBT. They don't sabotage each other, they're complementary!

So that's what Earthrise tells me: question everything, be inspired by everything. Also, we only have one home and we need to fucking share it, and not fucking destroy it. But perhaps that's better illustrated with the Pale Blue Dot and similar.

bonus pic: The dark side of the moon, with earth in the background. Photo captured by China's Chang'e 5 test vehicle in 2014, from just past the halfway point on its lunar-looping test flight. Isn't it amazing?

[fisheito]

@milkeumilkeou replied to your post “i feel like the gay child of an extremely...”:

This isn't exactly macro/micro but I always think about Yakumo having a little Eiden plushie and always having the strong urge to shove it into his mouth and one day he actually does it only to spit it out, horrified at himself and apologizes to the little Eiden plush while he washes his snaliva off of it

​snaliva.....

come to think of it, if eiden gave lil eiden plushies to each of his yokai buddies ... would ANY of those plushes stay dry?

in eiden's lil sanctuary with a fox, snake, wolf all the lil eidens are in various states of wet/torn/chewed eiden's daily tasks involve locating the plushies (and any dismembered parts of them) . wherever they may be. and mending/replacing them. every time he picks out a sopping muddy lil eito out of a pile of his used underwear he just wonders "why are you all like this"

[oifaaa]

Maybe in a Jason lives AU he still got badly injured so he just does support without going into the field, like Oracle but less computer focused

He's just the phone a friend for literature and other reference topics for the latest rogue schemes

See this is my jason lives au which means I get to decide what Jason would do with his life if he never died and I've decided he's gonna be a doctor which kinda lends itself to him being more of a support hero

[olivegodd3ss]

[rinja-espurr]

this is fine

[thebeckster]

Y'all want some unrelated to anything bed time ponderings? Of course you do!

Something I've been considering off and on since I started writing How Far Ahead The Road Has Gone, but quite a lot in the past few weeks, as I've been re-diving into LOTR, is the effect, if any, The One Ring would have on a child exposed to it's influence constantly, even before birth.

Like. My fic is mostly canon compliant. Bilbo finds the Ring, Bilbo keeps the Ring, Bilbo uses the Ring. A lot. Aside from it making her feel unwell if she wears it for too long there's no real drawback or cause for concern over this cool magic ring she found. So she uses it whenever she needs to disappear. She spends a month in the mirkwood kingdom wearing it almost constantly. All the while, she's pregnant.

The characters don't know, but the audience will absolutely know that Sauron's Ring is a huge source of malice and corruption. We know what the Ring does to Ring Bearers. But what about the Ring Born?

And like. None of this will have any bearing on the actual story itself. It'll be done long before Bella grows up. But i can't help but ponder the long-term effects such a thing would have on her.

What happens to her when she's exposed to the One Ring in utero and as a newborn and as a child and growing up so close to the influence of the Ring? Because she never leaves her mother's side for so long, and Bilbo never goes a day without the Ring.

Does it change her fundamentally for the worse? Does it make her a crueler, meaner, greedier, more power-hungry Hobbit than most? Does it create tension and division between her and her mother? Both feeling the draw of the ring and a sense of ownership over it and the addiction of it. Does it make her feel ill at ease in the Shire, knowing it's not where she belongs, feeling like such a place will only smother her? Does it give her an uncanny-ness that other hobbits just cannot abide (though they couldn't say why that Baggins girl makes them feel so strange) and it leaves her feeling ostracized from her own people, an unwelcome stranger in her homeland?

Or maybe it's the opposite. Maybe early exposure innoculates her, in a sense, against the Ring's power and corruption. Hobbits being more resistant than most to the corruption, simply because they do not desire the kind of power the Ring promises. Maybe the way Bilbo takes the Ring, not in an act of violence but with an act of mercy, immunizes her baby to it. Maybe Bella, being an infant and not developed enough to want anything beyong Food, Comfort, and Mom, cannot be influenced at all. Maybe the exposure strengthens her ability to resist temptation to cruelty and hate. Perhaps she grows up to be the sweetest and happiest of Hobbits. And the Ring would have little influence on her. Perhaps not to the same extent of Tom Bombadil immunity, but closer to that than any living mortal could be.

What if exposure to the Ring at such a crucial stage in her development gives her Power? Sauron put all his power into the Ring, to the point where the destruction of it means his destruction. The Ring works upon the hearts/souls of the people around it. What about an unborn child? Would that appear to the Ring as an empty vessel? Would it choose to give some power to another host or would it be involuntary? Would the power just bleed through without notice? Particularly when Bilbo spent a solid month swathed in the power of the Ring. What could that power even be? Like the Ring's power, would it be according to Bella's stature/nature? Could she turn invisible at will? Or would that power manifest in different ways? What happens to a person who has absorbed some of a Maiar's power unknowingly? Could Sauron be destroyed if Bella still lived?

And would Anybody know what to do about it? Beyond the dwarves, is there anyone else who sired or bore a child while bearing a Ring of Power? Are Ring-Born children a thing? (It doesn't seem to be for the Dwarves, but they also were not corrupted and controlled by their Rings as the Men were) Do the elves have some idea of what to expect? Would their experiences be able to hold up to whatever is going on with Bella? The difference between the Three Elven Rings and the One Ring (to rule them all) has to change so much. Would Bella just be some worrying Unknown, watched carefully from afar?

So much to think about and literally none of it matters for the story I'm telling! But it's fun ponderings at bedtime! And if you don't think i haven't dropped a grown Bella into various scenes from LotR just to see if she might have anything to say or be told. (Girl's gonna be at the Council of Elrond with her mother, and when Bilbo has her "all right i get it. I started this mess, I'll finish it and take the ring to Mordor." moment and gets gently told "no way, you're too old (and also we're never letting you touch that Ring again)" then Bella would naturally be the next one to say, "I'll do it in my mother's stead." To which Elrond having a 'I haven't stopped freaking out about it since i realized you were literally birthed under the influence of the One Ring. Please tell me you haven't had children because I'm suddenly Very Concerned about your bloodline.' panic moment will immediately shoot that idea down. Leading to Frodo's 'if my Aunt Bilbo and my Cousin Bella can't take the Ring to Mordor, then I will!' declaration.) Is that at all ever going to get turned into a fic? Not as far as I'm concerned at the moment. Has it still been great fun to think about? Absolutely yes.

[bonefall]

Imaging in the first time the researchers get to see a full gathering takes place makes me giddy. Like maybe they knew the cats went there but didn’t know the full scope of it and when ALL of the clans come to this one place and seem to have a huge inter clan meeting just blows them away (maybe from then on they livestream the gatherings so everyone can see them)

They likely don't livestream the meetings for a very simple reason:

It's the mid-to-late 2000s when they start this! Going by the idea that 2003 is the date Rusty enters the wild, about 4 years later the Chelford suburban expansion causes them to leave (and that's from me padding the time some), and Millie brings the Team to the Lake with her collar about a year and a half later, we're looking at a project start of 2008-ish.

Livestream tech existed but wasn't very popular yet.

Twitch (and whatever its in-universe equivilant is gonna get named) comes in 2011. 2013 anyone can livestream on YouTelly.

So livestreaming becomes feasible in about 3 years, and is likely not adopted until 4-5 years later! The first gathering they probably livestreamed was AVoS-era.

[rainybeetles]

YOU KNOW STINGY JACK!! YOU ARE SO CULTURED I AM SO PROUD!!!!

I was a cultured child

I weird one too but cultured nonetheless

[skrunksthatwunk]

crazy experience reading a fic where everything is extremely cool and interesting except for the main couple's dynamic (the selling point), which is only okay. [leaning and peering past the main duo's shoulders whilst they make out or something, shielding my eyes from the sun with one hand] haha no wayyy what's going on over there guy

[silverstream2]

*points at Vergil* Love that asexual!

[onemoreattempt]

My friend sent this a while ago and now I’m curious how tumblr will respond

[pears-trinkets]

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