#Eclipse is roughly 3 years old here

[cipher-the-sidhe]

MerMay is a state of mind that I live in constantly actually so…

What the Tide Keeps Eclipse is very much a mama’s boy. And Moon is plenty buoyant to act as a nap raft, and happily does so if it means you actually sleep now and then.

[aylacavebear]

The Traveler - Chapter 24 - Earth, End of January 2002

You're from a specific dimension, Solaris Eclipse. It was a dimension of magic. When your kind, the Eldrathiren, turned fifteen, your unique power would awaken within you. Most times, it was something small, levitation, teleportation, creation, elemental manipulation, and things like that. Once in a while, a fifteen-year-old would just disappear, and those were called Travelers. None of them had ever returned. Your parents had told you stories about them, and you hoped that wouldn't happen to you.

Please don't take my work. I'll post warnings for each chapter. Will probably be 18+ I haven't decided yet!

Word Count: 3553

Pairing Eventually Dean Winchester x OC Reader/You & Sam Winchester x OC Reader/You

Warnings: Grab the tissues folks, this has all the feels. <3

----------------------------------------- Chapter 24 - Earth, End of January 2002

The familiar surroundings of the bunker came into focus. You were standing in the war room, and it looked as though nothing had changed from your last visit. Turning to look toward the library, you noticed a man sitting at one of the tables, his back to you, papers, books, and objects spread out before him. He almost reminded you of Sam.

“Sam?” you called out, your voice a mix of curiosity and caution as you took a few tentative steps forward.

The man turned around and stood up, and you stopped, taking a step back, feeling apprehensive. It wasn’t Sam. He wasn’t even Dean or John. He was a stranger, and your heart sank, instantly.

But… I thought I was going home.

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At first, the man just stared at you, like he was taking in your features, and you noticed a diminishing glow from behind him, somewhere on the table. You had backed up to where you were now against the map table, but the man hadn’t moved any closer to you. Then, realization spread through his expression, and he grabbed what you could only assume was a phone.

“She’s here,” was all he said, and you tilted your head in curiosity, just watching him.

He nodded a couple of times before he hung up the phone and looked back at you. “I’m Henry. Henry Winchester. You must be  Y/N. My grandsons will be back in a couple of hours. Please, I am no threat to you.”

It took a few moments for what he’d said to fully register, as the man did not look old enough to be their grandfather. You could smell the familiar scents of the brothers and John still in the air, although they were faint. Oddly enough, you could also smell Bobby and someone or something else, other than Henry.

Henry pulled out a chair for you, a couple of seats away from him, and gestured for you to sit down before he returned to his seat. Cautiously, you went over and sat down, your eyes never leaving him, still not sure when you were. You slipped your bags off your shoulder, letting them sit on the floor next to you.

His gaze softened as he looked at you, still in awe that you were sitting there. “I know this must be overwhelming.” He pushed a glass of water toward you. “You look like you could use this.” Taking the glass, you stared at the liquid, watching the light reflect on the surface. “This isn’t what I expected,” you murmured, more to yourself than to him.

“What do you mean?” he asked, his eyebrows furrowing slightly as he leaned forward, genuinely interested.

“I thought I was going back to the brothers,” you answered quietly, lifting your gaze to meet his. “When I shifted dimensions to when they were in the bunker, they were older, and it was 2013, I think. It should be fall or winter, 2000,” you continued, a sinking feeling settling in your heart. You took a sip of the water, its coolness doing little to soothe the confusion inside you.

“It’s January 23rd of 2002,” Henry explained softly, his voice calm. “I’ve been trying to help them with this compass for the last year, a lot of people have. They’ve been trying to find a way to bring you back since you shifted roughly two years ago.”

His words didn’t make sense to you. The tree had said the pendant would guide you back to them, that your journey was close to its end. But sitting there, in the bunker with the timeframe Henry had given you, it didn’t feel like things were right. Perhaps it was your own doubts that allowed those thoughts to find their way through your mind, casting shadows over your hope.

Henry watched you, still studying your features and remembering what his grandsons had told him about you. The further your ears drooped, the more concerned he became. “Hey, why do you look so sad?” he asked, his tone gentle and caring.

You shrugged a little, feeling a lump form in your throat. “I’m in the future and not when I’m supposed to be. I thought this thing was supposed to guide me home,” you replied sadly, gesturing to the pendant around your neck. The weight of it felt different now, like a promise that had been broken.

He was now more confused than ever. “But, this is when you’re supposed to be.”

Looking up at him, it still didn’t make sense to you, not even thinking about the last world you were in, which had absolutely no rules that governed it. Before you could ask another question, a familiar grumbling voice pulled your attention to the library archway. “Henry, I found that damned book,” Bobby grumbled as he entered, his gruff voice stopped abruptly when he saw you.

“Bobby?” you asked, surprised. He hadn’t been in the future with the brothers, and seeing him here was like a piece of home you hadn’t expected.

Bobby stopped mid-step, his eyes widening in surprise. “Y/N?” he asked, his voice a mix of disbelief and relief. 

With tears in your eyes, you ran over and hugged him tightly. The book he’d been holding fell on the floor as he wrapped his arms around you, his grip strong and reassuring. “We got so worried when you hadn’t made it back,” he whispered, his voice thick with emotion.

His scent was familiar, and at that moment, a comfort you needed, as was his embrace. Henry just leaned back in his chair with a relieved smile, as he hadn’t been able to convince you that you were when you were supposed to be. His hope was that Bobby could.

“She got here about ten or so minutes ago,” Henry explained to Bobby. “I already called the boys. They’ll probably be here in an hour, if I know Dean and how he drives, probably sooner.” There was a lightheartedness to his tone near the end as he thought about how much you meant to the brothers.

Bobby chuckled, pulling back so he could get a good look at you. “You’ve grown up, kid,” he said proudly, his eyes scanning your face as if trying to memorize every detail.

“I’m only eighteen,” you replied with a small smile, a mix of relief and confusion still swirling inside you.

“No, you’re almost twenty, and you look it too,” he told you, looking you over one more time. “Come on. There’s something I want to show you.” He explained, leading you back over to the table after picking up the book he’d dropped.

Bobby gestured to the organized chaos on the table Henry was sitting at, his expression turning serious. “This is a Dimensional Compass. We’ve all been looking for the pieces that complete it. There are only a few more, but we haven’t been able to figure out what they are or where they’re located. It’s what will tie you to Earth, so you can stay here.” Bobby explained, his eyes flicking between you and the device.

You leaned in to get a closer look at the compass, which looked like a normal compass on top. The pendant around your neck, though, seemed to move of its own accord, like it was trying to get closer to it. The moment you reached out to touch it, Bobby’s hand caught yours.

“Better wait till the boys are back,” Bobby advised, his voice a mix of caution and warmth. “The last time Dean touched it, the needle moved. I’d hate for something to happen and them not get to see you.”

You nodded, a small sigh escaping your lips. “That’s fair. I’ve really missed them,” you murmured, pulling back and returning to your seat. For now, you sipped your water and watched the two men delve into their work, tinkering with the compass, leafing through books, and shuffling through papers. You found your mind wandering, mostly to the memories of Sam and Dean and what it would be like to see them again.

Time has an odd way of passing when it’s not being paid attention to, and the sudden sound of a door opening quickly pulled your attention. Your ears perked up instantly, and you knew before you even turned your head who it was. Quickly, you made your way to the war room, your heart racing. Dean was there, meeting you halfway, his familiar grin lighting up his face as you threw your arms around his shoulders.

“God, Kitten, I missed you,” he whispered, pulling you close, his arms a welcomed reprieve to your aching loneliness as you inhaled his scent. You purred softly against him, as the storm within your mind slowly calmed.

Sam stood behind Dean, a smile on his face as he watched the reunion. Dean held onto you tightly, reluctant to let go, and a new feeling washed over you—a sense of belonging, like you really were exactly where and when you were supposed to be, home.

“Come on, Dean, stop being greedy,” Sam chuckled, his voice light and teasing. He was trying to wait patiently for his brother to let go of you so he could hug you, which made you giggle a little. 

You placed a soft kiss on Dean’s cheek before stepping back, turning to Sam, who had grown quite a bit, now taller than you. His warm hazel eyes met yours as he pulled you into his arms. “You’ve grown, Sam,” you whispered, hugging him tightly and purring with contentment at finally being home with them.

“Yeah, I guess I have,” Sam replied with a laugh, holding you close.

Being around them, feeling the bond that connected the three of you, brought a sense of peace and serenity to your soul after having been away from them for what felt like far too long. In that moment, you made a choice to find every way possible to stay there, with them and the people who were now your family. 

Your ears perked up, remembering the gifts you had gotten them. “I got you guys a couple things,” you told them excitedly before going back into the library.

Both brothers watched you with adoration. Even at nearly twenty, your childlike wonder and excitement were qualities they had and would always love about you. Bobby and Henry observed the interaction, partially engrossed in the compass but unable to ignore the joy radiating from the room. 

As you plopped your bag onto one of the library tables, Sam and Dean joined you, one on each side. They were both attempting to stifle chuckles as they watched you rummage through your bag, pulling out all sorts of strange objects, and setting them on the table. After a moment, you finally found the two books you were looking for and turned to Sam.

“These are for you. I remembered how much you liked history the last time I was here. They’re about a place called Mechoria,” you said, handing him the books.

Sam gently took the books from you and leaned down to kiss your cheek, causing you to blush a little. “Thank you, Kitten,” he replied softly, his voice full of warmth. And that, too, made you blush, since he’d never used the pet name Dean had given you on your last visit to Earth. Quickly composing yourself, you pulled out the knife you’d gotten for Dean. “I thought you might like this,” you said, handing it to him. “You’re kinda hard to pick things out for since there wasn’t anything on Mechoria that had to do with things you liked,” Your voice carried a hint of nervous excitement as you watched him examine the knife.

Dean took the knife from you, his expression barely showing his thoughts as he admired the craftsmanship. He turned it over in his hands, running his fingers along the sharp silver blade and the sturdy sheath. “This is awesome, Kitten. Thanks,” he said, a wide grin spreading across his face. He pulled you into a tight hug, enveloping you in his familiar scent and warmth. A wave of relief and happiness washed over you, and you felt a weight lift off your shoulders.

“The blade is silver, so you can use it when you hunt,” you explained, not wanting to let go of him yet. Dean’s grip tightened slightly, as if he, too, was reluctant to let this moment end. 

Meanwhile, Bobby and Henry were looking at the items you had put on the table when you’d rummaged through your bag. Bobby, his brows furrowed in curiosity, picked up a few of the items, turning them over in his hands. “Looks like you brought back more than just souvenirs,” he remarked, a hint of amusement in his voice.

You looked over at Bobby but remained nestled in Dean’s embrace. “Well, I sort of saved Mechoria,” you explained, a modest but shy smile on your face. ”The people in the city there gave me lots of gifts for it. You can look through ‘em if you want to,” Your mind drifted back to the time you spent in Mechoria, the tasks you’d undertaken, and Arina, your closest friend.

Henry picked up the odd-looking gear that a young boy had given you, his eyebrows knitting together in concentration. “Some of these look like they could fit into the back of the compass,” he mused, exchanging a glance with Bobby, whose expression turned thoughtful.

The comment caught Sam and Dean’s attention, drawing their focus to the objects on the table. You, however, still felt a bit confused. It wasn’t as if you’d seen the back of the compass, nor had you saved the objects for any other purpose than the memories they held. Dean slowly released you from his embrace, his gaze lingering on you for a moment before he picked up the necklace that Arina had gifted you. He turned it over in his fingers, the tiny gear pendant glinting in the light.

Bobby flipped the compass over, revealing a series of intricate indentations on its back. The shape of the indents almost took your breath away, and you felt a shiver run down your spine as you recognized each one corresponding to something you had. Goosebumps danced their way down your body as you reached into your pouch, pulling out the small metal dome piece. Setting it on the table near the compass, you then removed the necklace from around your neck—the pentacle and the tiny orb from Levithar Labyrinth nestled at its center.

Sam picked up another odd-shaped object, a peculiar metal leaf that had caught your curiosity at the time, back on Mechoria. The three of you handed the items to Bobby and Henry, remembering Bobby’s caution about touching the compass. One by one, the pieces clicked into place, each fitting perfectly into the indents as though they had always belonged there.

Just as Henry set the metal dome into another spot, John walked into the library. “Any luck?” he asked,�� then stopped short, seeing not only his sons there, who were supposed to be following a lead but also you, whom he hadn’t expected to see. “She’s back, and nobody told me?” 

“Sorry, John,” Bobby sighed, his eyes never leaving the compass as the final pieces were fitting into place. “Kinda got wrapped up in this.”

John joined the group at the table, his eyes widening as he watched Henry take the pentagram necklace with the orb and nestle it into the center of the back of the compass. Suddenly, the compass seemed to come alive with movement. The needle on the front spun wildly while the pieces on the back moved in sync with each other.

Dean grabbed the silver knife you’d given him, his movements quick but deliberate as he unsheathed it. “Quick, it needs at least one drop of each of our blood to tether you here,” Dean explained, his voice urgent but steady. He pricked his finger with the knife, a small bead of blood appearing on his fingertip.

Despite the whirlwind of questions swirling in your mind, you held out your hand without hesitation, as did Sam. Dean gently took your hand and pricked your index finger, a sharp sting quickly followed by a warm trickle of blood. He repeated the action with Sam, the three of you forming a triangle around the compass.

As each of you let a drop of blood fall onto the compass, a faint glow emanated from it, growing stronger with each addition. The air around you seemed to hum with energy, and you felt a strange sensation, as if a tether was forming, binding you not only to this place but also to both of your soulmates.

When the final drop of blood fell, the compass shone brightly, then dimmed to a steady glow. The needle, which had been spinning, now pointed firmly north, symbolizing you now tethered to this world. After a few moments, the glow gradually faded, and then went out completely, leaving the compass dormant once again. 

Dean was the first to break the silence, his excitement palpable as he wrapped his arms around you. With a sudden burst of joy, he lifted you off your feet and spun you in a circle. You squealed in surprise before bursting into laughter, your heart light with happiness at his antics. As he set you back on your feet, he cupped your cheek in his hand, his eyes shining with a mixture of relief and pure joy. 

“Welcome home, Kitten,” he said softly, his voice brimming with affection.

As he leaned down to kiss you, it felt like the rest of the world melted away. Everything else in the room faded into the background as you closed your eyes and leaned into him, reciprocating his tender kiss. It was soft, slow, and filled with a deeper intimacy than any other kiss shared with you before. Now, with the connection you felt, it seemed as if you could sense the depth of his emotions, just as he had sensed yours the last time you’d visited Earth.

Bobby’s voice cut through the moment, grumbling with a touch of amusement, “Can you two keep the public displays of affection to a minimum.” Though his tone was gruff, you could hear the underlying warmth in his words.

You pulled back from Dean, a soft blush coloring your cheeks as you grinned at Bobby. You didn’t see Dean flip Bobby off with his free hand, the one resting on your hip, but you did hear Sam’s laughter. Even John chuckled quietly to himself, finding the situation more than a little amusing.

The three adults had watched the brothers struggle with your absence for two long years, and it had been hard on them all. Bobby, Henry, and John had spent many nights pondering over the compass and the missing pieces. But they had never given up hope of finding a way to get you back. Now, seeing the three of you reunited, it was clear that the bond between you, Dean, and Sam had only grown stronger.

As the laughter subsided, Sam stepped forward, placing a hand on your shoulder. “We missed you, Kitten,” he said, his voice warm and heartfelt. He was looking forward to his eighteenth birthday this year, and the anticipation was written in his eyes. Soon, he, too, would be able to feel the bond that Dean already had with you.

“Best birthday present ever, right Sammy,” Dean grinned, his eyes sparkling with mischief as Sam wrapped his arms around you again.

“Definitly,” Sam whispered, holding you close, your purr vibrating softly against his chest.

A content sigh slipped from your lips as you nestled against Sam, “You two aren’t ever gonna be able to get rid of me now.”

Dean leaned in, his voice a low murmur in your ear, “Oh, we’ll be keeping you real close for a while,” he teased,  nibbling playfully on your ear, sending a delightful shiver down your body. 

Bobby shook his head, rolling his eyes at the display. “Enough already. I’d say get a room, but we probably wouldn’t see the two of you for days,” he grumbled, though his words were laced with a faint joy at seeing the brothers so happy.

Sam eventually released you from his embrace, and you began gathering the items you had pulled from your bag earlier. You decided to keep the other two gifts you had for them hidden for a more private moment. The brothers stayed close to you, though, and you could feel their worry that somehow you’d disappear again. The adults tidied up the tables, and soon, the room was filled with stories and laughter as you all shared tales of your experiences.

You knew that your travels through dimensions were over, that you were finally going to get to stay on Earth where you belonged. However, you were certain that your adventures were far from over. But, those adventures could wait. For now, though, you were content to take your time settling into life at the bunker with Dean and Sam. As Dean insisted you share his room until Sam’s eighteenth birthday, and things would change again.

----------------------------------------- A/N: Thank you, everyone who came on this fun journey with me. :) And thank you, @snowayumi, for your dimensional suggestion of Wonderland.

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[oldguy56-world]

65

Did you know that at the last census (July 2022) there were 7,330,605 people in Canada that were at least 65 years old? I suspect that number has gone up a bit since then but let's use those numbers as a basis for this blog. That equates to roughly 18% of the total population or in other words we are everywhere! I say 'we' because in case you live in a vacuum and don't know I am one of them.

Everyone I went to school with (Proof I was not held back at all) have eclipsed that mark along with most of my first cousins. Those that haven't yet can see it on the closing horizon. Given the large amount of us you would think we would be a bigger target for advertisers but they seem to think we only are interested in a couple of things: medication, Depends, getting a reverse mortgage so someone else owns our homes, dentures, and medication. (wait a minute. Did I mention that one twice? Oh well. I will get some Lethicin after I am finished.)

There is a downside to having an aging population like the following:

What would our army look like if we were attacked. Timmy's would be well defended but the rest of us would make slow moving easy targets for the enemy.

Speed limits would be reduced to 40 on the highways.

Overcrowding in the malls before they open.

Chinese buffets would lose money because we all get a discount and love to go there.

But let's get back to the marketing. There is a whole world out there that should be targeting us for our money. Scammers have caught on to this so legitimate businesses should as well. And here is a hint: do not market us through apps. To me an app is something to eat before supper and should cost about $6. Here are some thoughts:

Seniors dating. More money needs to go into this. I might start a service called Last Chance. My slogan: put a few new wrinkles in your life.

Restaurants that open for evening business at 5:00 are turning away almost 20% of potential customers. Open at 3:30 and promise people they will be home before "Wheel" comes on TV.

Condoms for seniors. We usually don't need them but it is nice to have something to put into your wallet. They can be made cheaply because our boys can't swim too far anymore.

Produce walkers, canes and wheelchairs with built in tasers. This will provide us with hours of fun.

Pants with a lot of room from the crotch to the belt loops so that we can pull them as high as we want without hurting ourselves.

Women's pants with built in soft pockets at the waist so they can tuck their bosoms into them comfortably.

New TV technology so that when we yell at the newscasters they can hear us. Would love it to also be for game shows but I know those things are taped.

Speaking of Game shows why not one geared towards seniors since we are the ones doing most of the watching? (Don't believe me? Watch any episode of Wheel and hear the contestants say how they always watched with their grandparents, never their parents) Call it Remember This? Could be items, people, whatever. Winner gets discount coupons for groceries and restaurants or a free change of will when someone pisses them off.

THOUGHT OF THE WEEK: They say that age is just a number. Try to ignore the fact it is a big number.

[reasoningdaily]

10 Amazing Facts about the Universe

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10. There Are Most Likely More Than 500 Million Planets Able to Support Life in Our Galaxy

9. It Takes Our Solar System 225 Million Years to Rotate Around the Milky Way.

8. All the Galaxies, Planets and Stars Only Make Up 4 Percent of the Universe

7. There Is Such a Thing as Cosmic Cannibalism

6. The Sunlight Touching Your Face Is Over 30,000 Years Old

5. Days on Earth Are Getting Longer

4. There Are Most Likely Many More Universes

3. There Are Up to 4,800 Stars Born Every Second

2. Looking Into the Night Sky Gives You a View Back In Time

1. We Are Made of Stardust

Our universe is an amazing place full of amazing facts. Every day new discoveries are made and we've come so far in a relatively short period of time toward understanding our surroundings, where we originated from and where we may be heading. Even quantum physics has been scaled to layman’s terms. Lively discussions take place around the world on everything from String Theory to Dark Energy. All we need to do is look up at the night sky during  specified times to see constellations of stars, alignments of planets, meteorite showers, eclipses of the moon, visiting comets and so much more. Gravitational telescopes have made so many more observations possible for us. This list attempts to bring just a few fascinating facts to light. Hopefully it’s enough to whet your appetite and encourage you to learn more about the wild and beautiful place we live in known as our universe.

10. There Are Most Likely More Than 500 Million Planets Able to Support Life in Our Galaxy

Scientists call planets that are located within a star’s habitable zone, “Goldilocks Planets”.  These planets are most likely to have the exact conditions necessary to support life, meaning the temperature is acceptable as well as water existing in both liquid and gas forms and of course there must be the right combination of chemicals present to build life.  It is estimated that there are 500 million or more Goldilocks planets right here in our own Milky Way galaxy. If that is correct just think about the possible potential for life existing in the rest of the universe.

9. It Takes Our Solar System 225 Million Years to Rotate Around the Milky Way.

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy resembling a pinwheel and is always spinning. The galaxy is spinning at roughly 168 miles per second or about 600,000 miles per hour. Our solar system is approximately 28,000 light years away from the center of the Milky Way. Since it takes 225 million years for our solar system to rotate around the Milky Way galaxy, the last time Earth was in the position it’s in now dinosaurs roamed the planet.

8. All the Galaxies, Planets and Stars Only Make Up 4 Percent of the Universe

With all that we can see in space there is 96 percent of it that we can’t see. We can't even identify or understand what that 96 percent is made of. Some scientists call it dark energy or dark matter. Unfortunately there is no way of really deciphering what this dark energy or matter is. We can work mathematical formulas and estimate the gravitational pull of these entities, but there is no sure way of proving what the invisible part of our universe is made up of. The majority of the universe may remain a mystery forever.

7. There Is Such a Thing as Cosmic Cannibalism

The definition of cosmic cannibalism is the act of one galaxy colliding with and swallowing another. It doesn't have to be a whole galaxy; it could be partial parts of it such as stars or planets. Our neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy has been suspected for some time of being a predator gobbling up smaller galaxies that got too close. According to Alan McConnachie of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, “there has been proof found, spotted leftovers in Andromeda’s wake including half a dozen remnants of stars and dwarf galaxies that got too close to the giant.

6. The Sunlight Touching Your Face Is Over 30,000 Years Old

Our sun is estimated to be about 4.6 billion years old and should keep shining for 5 billion more years. The rays of the sun take about 8 minutes to make the journey across 93 million miles between the surface of the sun and that of the earth. Those rays though began their life over 30,000 years ago at the core of the sun through an intensive nuclear fusion process in which the sun consumes helium and hydrogen. Once our sun runs out of hydrogen to burn it will begin utilizing helium alone, which will cause it to become a “Super Nova”.

5. Days on Earth Are Getting Longer

Do you ever wish there was more time in the day? You may not know it, but you are getting your wish. When Earth rotates completely around on its axis, we measure that time period as a day. On average our days on Earth have been increasing a few milliseconds per year but the Earth’s rotation is affected by many things, including the moon’s gravitational effects. Surprisingly, major events can also affect the rotation of our planet. Events such as earthquakes and tsunamis can add or delete milliseconds from the day. The earthquake, a few years ago in Japan, was of such a magnitude that it shortened our day by 1.8 microseconds. It effectively shifted the Earth’s figure axis. Since the days have been continually lengthening this means when dinosaurs roamed the Earth their days were probably only about 22 hours long.

4. There Are Most Likely Many More Universes

It’s become a much more accepted idea that we live in a universe that is one of many. It originates from the theory of eternal inflation. The theory states that after the Big Bang, space and time expanded at different rates and in different places. This allows the opportunity for bubble universes to exist, each one functioning with its own set of physics. Imagine two soap bubbles colliding; where they intersect with each other, there exists another circle that could be according to the eternal inflation theory, a bubble universe.

3. There Are Up to 4,800 Stars Born Every Second

In our galaxy, the Milky Way, the star formation rate is about 3 solar masses per year. As one solar mass is equal to the mass of our Sun, there is enough material to construct about three suns every year. What does that mean? Well astronomers use this logic to apply it to galaxies as well. So if we have enough for three stars per year and we multiply that by the estimated number of galaxies in existence, which is 50 billion, which equates to 150 billion or 400 million stars, born per day! That’s 4,800 stars born per second!

2. Looking Into the Night Sky Gives You a View Back In Time

When we look up at the night sky, the star light that we are able to see has taken a long time to travel across space. That means each time we look at the stars we are actually seeing the way they looked in the past. For example, some stars located in the constellation of Orion are located approximately 640 light years away so when we look at those stars we are actually seeing into the past, to a time when the light left those stars, which for us is about 1370 A.D. The further away the star, the deeper into the past we are looking. Time and space are inextricably connected.

1. We Are Made of Stardust

The elements found on Earth come from the stars. That means all the things that make up the earth including the life present is comprised of stardust. According to Carl Sagan, “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, all made from the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star-stuff”. If you take time to think about that, it’s absolutely mind-blowing to think we are so deeply connected with the stars in the sky that we look out on. If not for the death of stars we would not have life.

[felassan]

Insights into DAI’s development from Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

The book is by game industry journalist Jason Schreier (it’s an interesting read and well-written, I recommend it). This is the cliff notes version of the DAI chapter. This info isn’t new as the book is from 2017 (I finally got around to buying it). Some insight into DAO, DA2 and cancelled DA projects is also given. Cut for length.

BW hoped that DA would become the LotR of video games. DAO’s development was “a hellish seven-year slog”

The DAI team are compared to a chaotic “pirate ship”, which is what they called themselves internally. “It’ll get where it needs to go, but it’s going to go all over the place. Sail over here. Drink some rum. Go over here. Do something else. That’s how Mark Darrah likes to run his team.” An alternative take from someone else who worked on the game: “It was compared to a pirate ship because it was chaotic and the loudest voice in the room usually set the direction. I think they smartly adopted the name and morphed it into something better.”

A game about the Inquisition and the large-scale political conflicts it solves across Thedas, where the PC was the Inquisitor, was originally the vision for ‘DA2′. Plans had to change when SW:TOR’s development kept stalling and slipping. Frustrated EA execs wanted a new product from BW to bolster quarterly sales targets, and decided that DA would have to fill the gap. BW agreed to deliver DA2 within 16 months. “Basically, DA2 exists to fill that hole. That was the inception. It was always intended to be a game made to fit in that”

BW wanted to call it DA: Exodus, but EA’s marketing execs insisted on DA2, no matter what that name implied

DAO’s scope (Origin stories, that amount of big areas, variables, reactivity) was just not doable in a year, even if everyone worked overtime. To solve this problem, BW shelved the Inquisition idea and made a risky call: DA2 would be set in one city over time, allowing locations to be recycled and months to be shaved off dev time. They also axed DAO features like customizing party members’ equipment. These were the best calls they were able to make on a tight line

Many at BW are still proud of DA2. Those that worked on it grew closer from all being in it together

In certain dark accounting corners of EA, despite fan response to DA2 and its lower sales compared to DAO, DA2 is considered a wild success

By summer 2011 BW decided to cancel DA2′s expansion Exalted March in favor of a totally new game. They needed to get away from the stigma of DA2, reboot the franchise and show they could make triple-A quality good games. 

DAI was going to be the most ambitious game BW had ever made and had a lot to prove (that BW could return to form, that EA wasn’t crippling the studio, that BW could make an ‘open-world’ RPG with big environments). There was a bit of a tone around the industry that there were essentially 2 tiers of BW, the ME team and then everyone else, and the DA team had a scrappy desire to fight back against that

DAI was behind schedule early on due to unfamiliar new technology; the new engine Frostbite was very technically challenging and required more work than anyone had expected. Even before finishing DA2 BW were looking for a new engine for the next game. Eclipse was creaky, obsolete, not fully-featured, graphically lacking. The ME team used Unreal, which made inter-team collab difficult. “Our tech strategy was just a mess. Every time we’d start a new game, people would say, ‘Oh, we should just pick a new engine’.”

After meeting with an EA exec BW decided on Frostbite. Nobody had ever used it to make an RPG, but EA owned FB dev studio DICE, and the engine was powerful and had good graphic capabilities & visual effects. If BW started making all its games on FB, it could share tech with sister studios and borrow tools when they learned cool new tricks. 

For a while they worked on a prototype called Blackfoot, to get a feel for FB and to make a free-to-play DA MP game. It fizzled as the team was too small, which doesn’t lend itself well to working with FB, and was cancelled

BW resurfaced the old Inquisition idea. What might a DA3 look like on FB? Their plan by 2012 was to make an open-world RPG heavily inspired by Skyrim that hit all the beats DA2 couldn’t. “My secret mission was to shock and awe the players with the massive amounts of content.” People complained there wasn’t enough in DA2. “At the end of DAI, I actually want people to go, ‘Oh god, not [another] level’.”

It was originally called Dragon Age 3: Inquisition

BW wanted to launch on next-gen consoles only but EA’s profit forecasters were caught up in the rise of iPad and iPhone gaming and were worried the next-gen consoles wouldn’t sell well. As a safeguard EA insist it also ship on current-gen. Most games at that time followed this strategy. Shipping on 5 platforms at once would be a first for BW

Ambitions were piling up. This was to be BW’s first 3D open-world game, and their first game on Frostbite, an engine that had never been used to make RPGs. It needed to be made in roughly two years, it needed to ship on 5 platforms, and, oh yeah, it needed to restore the reputation of a studio that had been beaten up pretty badly. “Basically we had to do new consoles, a new engine, new gameplay, build the hugest game that we’ve ever made, and build it to a higher standard than we ever did. With tools that don’t exist.”

FB didn’t have RPG stats, a visible PC, spells, save systems, a party of 4 people, the same kind of cutscenes etc and couldn’t create any of those things. BW had to create these on top of it. BW initially underestimated how much work this would be. BW were the FB guinea pigs. Early on in DAI’s development, even the most basic tasks were excruciating, and this impacted even fundamental aspects of game design and dev. When FB’s tools did function they were finicky and difficult. DICE’s team supported them but had limited resources and were 8 hours ahead. Since creating new content in FB was so difficult, trying to evaluate its quality became impossible. FB engine updates made things even more challenging. After every one, BW had to manually merge and test it; this was debilitating, and there were times when the build didn’t work for a month or was really unstable.

Meanwhile the art department were having a blast. FB was great for big beautiful environments. For months they made as much as possible, taking educated guesses when they didn’t know yet what the designers needed. “For a long time there was a joke on the project that we’d made a fantastic-looking screenshot generator, because you could walk around these levels with nothing to do. You could take great pictures.”

The concept of DAI as open-world was stymying the story/writers and gameplay/designers teams. What were players going to do in these big landscapes? How could BW ensure exploring remained fun after many hours? Their teams didn’t have time for system designers to envision, iterate and test a good “core gameplay loop” (quests, encounters, activities etc). FB wouldn’t allow it. Designers couldn’t test new ideas or answer questions because basic features were missing or didn’t exist yet. 

EA’s CEO told BW they should have the ability to ride dragons and that this would make DAI sell 10 million copies. BW didn’t take this idea very seriously

BW had an abstract idea that the player would roam the world solving problems and building up power or influence they could use. But how would that look/work like in-game? This could have used refinement and testing but instead they decided to build some levels and hope they could figure it out as they went.

One day in late 2012, after a year of strained development on DAI, Mark Darrah asked Mike Laidlaw to go to lunch. “We’re walking out to his car,” Laidlaw said, “and I think he might have had a bit of a script in his head. [Darrah] said, ‘All right, I don’t actually know how to approach this, so I’m just going to say it. On a scale of one to apocalyptic... how upset would you be if I said [the player] could be, I dunno, a Qunari Inquisitor?’” 

Laidlaw was baffled. They’d decided that the player could be only a human in DAI. Adding other playable races like Darrah was asking for would mean they’d need to quadruple their budget for animation, voice acting, and scripting.

“I went, ‘I think we could make that work’,” Laidlaw said, asking Darrah if he could have more budget for dialogue. 

Darrah answered that if Laidlaw could make playable races happen, he couldn’t just have more dialogue. He could have an entire year of production.

Laidlaw was thrilled. “Fuck yeah, OK,” he recalled saying.

MD had actually already realized at this point it’d be impossible to finish DAI in 2013. They needed at least a year’s delay and adding the other playable races was part of a plan/planned pitch to secure this. He was in the process of putting together a pitch to EA: let BW delay the game, and in exchange it’d be bigger and better that anyone at EA had envisioned. These new marketing points included playable races, mounts and a new tactical camera. If EA wouldn’t let them delay, they would have had to cut things. Going into that BW were confident but nervous, especially in the wake of EA’s recent turmoil where they’d just parted ways with their CEO and had recruited a new board member while they hunted for a new one. They didn’t know how the new board member would react, and the delay would affect EA’s projections for that fiscal year. Maybe it was the convincing pitch, or the exec turmoil, or the specter of DA2, or maybe EA didn’t like being called “The Worst Company in America”. Winning that award 2 years in a row had had a tangible impact on the execs and led to feisty internal meetings on how to repair EA’s image. Whatever the reasons, EA greenlit the delay.

The PAX Crestwood demo was beautiful but almost entirely fake. By fall 2013, BW had implemented many of FB’s ‘parts’, but still didn’t know what kind of ‘car’ they were making. ML and team scripted the PAX demo by hand, entirely based on what BW thought would be in the game. The level & art assets were real but the gameplay wasn’t. “Part of what we had to do is go out early and try to be transparent because of DA2. And just say, ‘Look, here, it’s the game, it’s running live, it’s at PAX.’ Because we wanted to make that statement that we’re here for fans.”

DA2 hung on the team like a shadow. There was insecurity, uncertainty, they had trouble sticking to one vision. Which DA2 things were due to the short dev time and which were bad calls? What stuff should they reinvent? There were debates over combat (DAO-style vs DA2-style) and arguments over how to populate the wilderness.

In the months after that demo, BW cut much of what they’d shown in it. Even small features went through many permutations. DAI had no proper preproduction phase (important for testing and discarding things), so leads were stretched thin and had to make impulsive decisions.

By the end of 2013, DAI had 200+ people working on it, and dozens of additional outsourced artists in Russia and China. Coordinating all the work across various departments was challenging and a full-time job for several people. At this sheer scale of game dev, there are many complexities and inter-dependencies. Work finally became significantly less tedious and more doable when BW and DICE added more features to FB. Time was running out though, and another delay was a no.

The team spent many hours in November and December piecing together a “narrative playable” version of the game to be the holiday period’s game build for BW staff to test that year. Feedback on the demo was bad. There were big complaints on story, that it didn’t make sense and was illogical. Originally the PC became Inquisitor and sealed the breach in the prologue, which removed a sense of urgency. In response the writers embarked on Operation Sledgehammer (breaking a bone to set it right), radically revising the entire first act.

The other big piece of negative feedback was that battles weren’t fun. Daniel Kading, who had recently joined BW and brought with him a rigorous new method for testing combat in games, went to BW leadership with a proposal: give him authority to open his own little lab with the other designers and call up the entire team for mandatory play sessions for test purposes. They agreed and he used this experiment to get test feedback and specifically pinpoint where problems were. Morale took a turn for the better that week, DK’s team made several tweaks, and through these sessions feedback ratings went from 1.2 to 8.8 four weeks later.

Many on the team wished they didn’t have to ship for old consoles (clunky, less powerful). BW leadership decided not to add features to the next-gen versions that wouldn’t be possible on the older ones, so that both versions of the game played the same. This limited things and meant the team had to find creative solutions. “I probably should’ve tried harder to kill [the last-gen] version of the game”, said Aaryn Flynn. In the end the next-gen consoles sold very well and only 10% of DAI sales were on last-gen.

“A lot of what we do is well-intentioned fakery,” said Patrick Weekes, pointing to a late quest called “Here Lies The Abyss”. “When you assault the fortress, you have a big cut scene that has a lot of Inquisition soldiers and a lot of Grey Wardens on the walls. And then anyone paying attention or looking for it as you’re fighting through the fortress will go, ‘Wow, I’m only actually fighting three to four guys at a time.’ Because in order for that to work [on old gen], you couldn’t have too many different character types on screen.”

Parts of DAI were still way behind schedule because it was so big and complex, and because some tools hadn’t started functioning until late on. Some basic features weren’t able to be implemented til the last minute (they were 8 months from ship before they could get all party members in the squad. At one point PW was playtesting to check if Iron Bull’s banter was firing, and realized there was no way to even recruit IB) and some flaws couldn’t be identified til the last few months. Trying to determine flow and pacing was rough.

They couldn’t disappoint fans again. They needed to take the time to revise and polish every aspect of DAI. “I think DAI is a direct response to DA2,” said Cameron Lee. “DAI was bigger than it needed to be. It had everything but the kitchen sink in it, to the point that we went too far... I think that having to deal with DA2 and the negative feedback we got on some parts of that was driving the team to want to put everything in and try to address every little problem or perceived problem.”

At this point they had 2 options: settle for an incomplete game, which would disappoint fans especially post-DA2, or crunch. They opted to crunch. It was the worst period of extended overtime in DAI’s development yet and was really rough: late nights, weekends, lost family time, 12-14 hour days, stress, mental health impacts.

During 2014′s crunch, they finally finished off features they wished they’d nailed down in year 1. They completed the Power (influence) system and added side quests, hidden treasures and puzzles. Things that weren’t working like destructible environments were promptly removed. The writers rewrote the prologue at least 6 times, but didn’t have enough time to pay such attention to the ending. Just a few months before launch pivotal features like jumping were added.

By summer BW had bumped back release by another 6 weeks for polish. DAI had about 99,000 bugs in it (qualitative and quantitative; things like “I was bored here” are a bug). “The number of bugs on an open-world game, I’ve never seen anything like it. But they’re all so easy to fix, so keep filing these bugs and we’ll keep fixing them.” For BW it was harder to discover them, and the QA team had to do creative experimentation and spend endless late nights testing things. PW would take builds home to let their 9 year old son play around. Their son was obsessed with mounting and dismounting the horse and accidentally discovered a bug where if you dismounted in the wrong place, all your companions’ gear would vanish. “It was because my son liked the horse so much more than anyone else ever had or will ever like the horse.”

MD had a knack for prioritizing which bugs should be fixed, like the one where you could get to inaccessible areas by jumping on Varric’s head. “Muscle memory is incredibly influential at this point. Through the hellfire which is game development, we’re forged into a unit, in that we know what everyone’s thinking and we understand everyone’s expectations.”

At launch they still didn’t have all their tools working, they only had their tools working enough.

DAI became the best-selling DA game, beating EA’s sales expectations in just a few weeks. If you look closely you can see the lingering remnants of its chaotic development, like the “garbage quests” in the Hinterlands. Some players didn’t realize they could leave the area and others got caught in a “weird, compulsive gratification loop”. Internet commentators rushed to blame “those damn lazy devs” but really, these were the natural consequences of DAI’s struggles. Maybe things would have been different if they’d miraculously received another year of dev time, or if they’d had years before starting development to build FB’s tools first.

“The challenge of the Hinterlands and what it represented to the opening 10 hours of DAI is exactly the struggle of learning to build open-world gameplay and mechanisms when you are a linear narrative story studio,” said Aaryn Flynn.

“DA2 was the product of a remarkable time-line challenge,” said Mike Laidlaw, “DAI was the product of a remarkable technical challenge. But it had enough time to cook, and as a result it was a much better game.”

Read the chapter for full details of course!

[rapturerecords]

Song: Modern Jazz (Blues) (aka Jazz Blues)

Composer: Gerhard Trede Record Label: The CBS Records EZ Cue Library CBS EZQ 172 Released: ca. 1968

Location: Gomorrah casino, Mysterious broadcast

This is one of the longer pieces in Fallout with the instrumental coming in at 5 minutes. Like its cooler cousin, this library music song known as “Jazz Blues” can be heard playing in the lobby of the Gomorrah casino or later on the Mysterious broadcast.

While the record is almost entirely covered with fairly lengthy Gerhard Trede compositions, one side dwarfs them all with a massive groove for a 14 minute track by Messrs. Kuhn and Kuhn and their “Transfiguration (Free Jazz)”.

Unfortunately, unlike Fallout 3′s end credits, Fallout: New Vegas’ end credits features the licensed music from the standard record labels, but omits all of the radio tunes from APM including the instrumentals save for a brief mention of  “Additional Music Courtesy of APM Music”.

As is the case with library music, finding artist and recording information is extremely difficult as these songs were never meant to be sold to the public, instead being exclusively used for the film and TV industry. What follows is an attempt to extricate this information.

Note: Library music is typically identified by composer or emotion. Very little can be confirmed about the musicians who performed on the recording.

Here’s the full track list.

Side 1

Jazz

1. Transfiguration (Free Jazz) (Rolf Kuhn/Joachim Kuhn)

2. Back ‘N’ Forth (Gerhard Trede)

Side 2

Jazz

1. Modern Jazz (Blues) (Gerhard Trede)

2. Modern Jazz (City-Sound) (Gerhard Trede)

3. Modern Jazz (Moderato No. 1) (Gerhard Trede)

4. Modern Jazz (Fast) (Gerhard Trede)

5. Modern Jazz (Moderato No. 2) (Gerhard Trede)

About the composer

A publicity blurb from the May 2018 newsletter from Sonoton, the current license holder for the work of Gerhard Trede.

A color portrait of Trede from Hamburger Flimmern, 2006 Issue 13

Gerhard Trede is the most prominent musician on the Fallout series radio soundtrack with nine tracks total (2 from Fallout 3 and 7 from Fallout: New Vegas), eclipsing even the Ink Spots’ six songs.

A mainstay of the APM lineup, his work appears in everything from Spongebob Squarepants and Ren & Stimpy to period works and TV shows like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel to Conan to numerous documentaries.

Despite this, very few biographies exist of him in English detailing his prolific composing career aside from official publicity blurbs mentioning his early life in Hamburg, Germany and his extraordinary musical output of over 100 compositions a year to playing over 50 instruments. Several articles in German report on his music scoring work in the newsreel series for Neuen Deutschen Wochenschau.

An essay details how the old Deutschen Wochenschau archive was bombed in Berlin throughout 1943 and 1944 to a point where the film reels and their music preserved on optical soundtracks were badly degraded from moisture, cold, and improper storage. The Neue Deutsche Wochenschau (NDW) would incorporate some rescued music cues. Gerhard Trede was hired in 1953 to fill in the substantial gaps in the music inventory. By 1955, he was composing for the newsreel every week, recording in an inn in Wellingsbüttel to be delivered to NDW. However, his compositions were owned by NDW and income derived solely through GEMA, Germany’s music rights organization.

Moviegoers quickly found the “Tredes Melodien“ from the newsreels so “eingängig” (catchy), that they demanded “Schallplatten“ or records to be made available, only to be continually rebuffed:

Brief von NDW Redaktion (A. Strehlke) an Werner Belgerin, Braunschweig vom 16.12.1961, Korrespondenz ab 1958, Archiv DW. Antwort auf eine Frage zu einer Schallplattenaufnahme der Musik, die in einem Bericht über die Europameisterschaften im Eiskunstlauf (NDW Nr. 575) zu hören war. Eine Schallplattenaufnahme zu erhalten war nicht möglich, da die Musik Eigentum der NDW war. Heute wird die Musik von G. Trede von der Fa. Sonoton als ‚typische‘ Musik der 1950er Jahre vertrieben – zu den Kunden zählen z.B. Fernsehsender und Filmproduzenten.

Letter from NDW Redaktion (A. Strehlke) to Werner Belgerin, Braunschweig, December 16, 1961, correspondence from 1958, DW Archive. Answer to a question about a recording of the music that was heard in a newsreel report on the European Figure Skating Championships (NDW Film No. 575). Obtaining a record was not possible because the music was owned by the NDW. Today, Gerhard Trede's music is sold by Sonoton as 'typical' music from the 1950s. Clients include television broadcasters and film producers.

By the 1970s, newsreels were dropping off in favor of television as Trede quickly shifted gears for the new format. He reacquired the rights to his massive collection of music and continually added new tracks to suit the electronic and experimental fashions of the time.The rights to his work vary from Selected Sound to EMI and finally to Sonoton.

Regrettable, few contemporary photographs of Trede have surfaced. There is purportedly a very young picture of him as a soldier in WWII. Aside from scoring for newreels and television programs from 1952 to 1982, Trede would compose “Nie wieder Krieg” or “War No More” in 1993 to reconcile his experiences as a WWII soldier. Trede would die 3 years later also in Hamburg.

About the recording

For those with an interest with reel-to-reel magnetic tape, CBS evidently issued their EZ Cue library on reels as well, The LP EZQ 172 is equivalent to Reel EXT 572. See the reels spinning here.

As a German composer, Gerhard Trede maintained his own private library music label in Germany and any recording information appears to be landlocked there. Rights appear to still remain in Germany under Selected Sound and Sonoton, as well as under his pseudonym, Victor Cavani. However, he did license music for use in the UK and US market under Mozart Edition and CBS Records EZ Cue Library in the 1960s.

As for partially dating when this track was recorded or released, it’s proving nearly as byzantine as for “Joe Cool”.

Naturally as a division of Columbia Records, Columbia Special Products, and the famed “Tiffany Network”, the Columbia Broadcasting System, CBS needed a service to provide musical scoring for its television shows. Evidence of this comes from when CBS donated its archive to UCLA which has been meticulously poured over by researchers unraveling the cue sheets.The CBS EZ Cue Library was intended as a replacement of an older Reel system used by CBS which numbered as high as #75 with subsections A/B/C/D.

An early CBS EZ Cue catalog lists LPs EZQ 101-175 and Tape EZT 501-575. Several cues are named for CBS shows like The Twilight Zone and Perry Mason, the latter aired its final episode on CBS in 1966.

Advertisements for the CBS Records EZ Cue Library appear as early as 1970 in the Darnell Corporation’s Sales Management. Above is a print ad for CBS EZ Cue in the Radio Section of the 1971 Broadcasting Yearbook, published January 15, 1971. The 1971 advertisement uses the serif version of the CBS logo while the 1972 edition of the yearbook features CBS advertisements using a new sans-serif logo.

So far, this gives us a date that the CBS EZ Cue Library was offered for sale and distribution around 1967-1971.

Like “Joe Cool” and “Stars and Teardrops”, the secret lies in the matrix numbers, in this case XTV 134329 and XTV 134330 for the sides that have the track known as “Modern Jazz (Blues)”.

The Library of Congress holds the Columbia Records Paperwork Collection for the years 1923-1964. It details that XTV stands for a 12 inch mono LP while XSV stands for a 12 inch stereo LP. While the archive shows XTV numbers from 11000-94000 sequentially spanning the years from 1949-1964, the XTV numbers are still 5 digits and have not reached the 6 digit XTV number present on the CBS EZ Cue LP as the archive does not go beyond 1964.

Fortunately, Columbia Special Products pressed other records with similar 6 digit XTV numbers with known pressing dates.

Like RCA Custom, Columbia Custom XTV and XSV codes can be tied to a pressing date though Columbia’s is less precise. Judging by the 6 digit XTV and XSV matrix codes above for work by Columbia Custom for labels like Vanguard, Silver Burdett, Reader’s Digest, and even Columbia’s own CBS Special Products the XTV/XSV numbers can be roughly dated as:

XTV 120000 - 1967

XTV 130000 - 1968

XTV 140000 - 1969

Note that XSV stereo matrix numbers may be pressed at slightly different times than XTV mono releases. The 1968 TV movie for Kiss Me Kate was produced by Armstrong Circle Theatre which ran all the Big Three networks, NBC (1950-1957), CBS (1957-1963), and ABC (1966-1968). CBS evidently kept a close association with Armstrong TV productions by 1968. CBS also produced The Incredible Year 1968 with a higher XSV number of 144898; due to its content as an anthology of CBS News broadcasts from the year, it must have been produced towards the end of 1968 or early 1969.

Therefore, if the record with “Modern Jazz (Blues)” has Columbia matrix numbers of XTV 134329 and XTV 134330, it’s consistent with XTV 130000 releases in 1968. It is likely the first run of LPs for EZQ 101-175 with mono XTV numbers were all pressed around 1968 and later stereo XSV 1400000 content released as needed. As shown above, it appears the serif CBS logo was used to advertise this set until 1971 before the transition to sans-serif.

As for why “Modern Jazz (Blues)” became “Jazz Blues”, it’s likely because the original record had too many “Modern Jazz” descriptors. The record was partially reissued in 1990 on the Gerhard Trede Collection CD under Selected Sound and EMI for Jazz Time 1. 

Namely, the CD retitled several of the CBS tracks as:

CD                                      CBS

1. Jazz Blues               <=> Modern Jazz (Blues)

2. City Sound               <=> Modern Jazz (City-Sound)

4. Jazz im Bach Stil     <=> Bach ‘N’ Forth

Note the retention of the Johann Sebastian Bach pun.

The liner notes booklet is regrettably short on details, as expected for a library music CD. Trede would have been in his 70s when this CD was made of his CBS work from the 1960s. Though the CD notes it was made in West Germany when the country reunified the same year in 1990.

“Jazz Blues” is officially described as:

Sax gest. Trompete. Piano, sentimental schön.

Sax, muted trumpet, piano, sentimental nice.

The rest of the liner notes indicate the Gerhard Trede library was still transitioning from Selected Sound to EMI in 1990.

Another note is as follows:

Alle Musiken wurden von Gerhard Trede komponiert, instrumentiert und produziert.

Die Kompositionen, die mit einem (+) gezeichnet sind, wurden vom Komponisten auf allen Instrumenten selbst gespielt im eigenen Studio.

All music was composed, orchestrated and produced by Gerhard Trede.

The compositions marked with a (+) were played by the composer himself on all instruments in his own studio.

Though Trede was a talented multi-instrumentalist, “Jazz Blues” doesn’t have a plus so it doesn’t appear he solely performed on the track.

Other library music records used in Fallout:

Jazzy Interlude/Jazz Interlude - Billy Munn - CBL 37

Swing Doors - Allan Gray - CBL 37

Rhythm for You - Eddy Christiani & Frans Poptie - CBL 40

I’m Tickled Pink - Jack Shaindlin - CMR 406

Joe Cool/Stars and Teardrops - Nino Nardini - SF 1007

Roundhouse Rock - Bert Weedon - 6007 012

[just-positive-thingys]

Hey, I'm not the online fandom ask, but I am a minor. You said about never giving away too much personal information online and that you had seen a lot, what information is too much information?

Hey,

This is probably going to be a long post, so prepare for that.

I will also be talking about things 18+ year old people can do to protect minors.

The first general rule, is never hand out information that could identify you. Especially if you’ve not been speaking someone for very long. Never give away your address, full name, or phone number. If your email includes your last name or full name, I’d avoid handing that out to people online too. Please don’t mention the school you go to or even the area you live in. The general rule with area, is you don’t want someone to be able to pinpoint you. For example, I live in a village, if I gave away the rough area I lived in like the county and mentioned my old school, someone could google it and find the village I live in.

If someone wants to talk and tries to take you to another site, try to discourage it, saying you don’t have it and you only have that one. Don’t add them on other things like snapchat, whatsapp, kik or whatever people use these days. Even as an adult, I still do this. Why would they want to add you on something else when you can talk here, especially if you don’t know much about the other person because you haven’t been talking long? If they start getting annoyed, this is a red flag.  

Also, avoid taking photos of your house, or out of your window with things that could also pinpoint where you live. For example, I live opposite a doctors surgery, which has the area name on. If someone googled it, they could guess my house number to roughly 3 houses. 

When I first started talking to people online, I was often very trusting because people seemed nice. But people who have bad intentions will rarely come across as rude or mean. 

I went by a nickname online, it was actually Eclipse. So it gave nothing away. I said my age so they were also aware. I was extra wary if they were older, or if they claimed to be around my age but sounded older or creepy. 

I was getting told by older people that I was very mature for my age, which I took as a compliment. I didn’t question at all how some people over 18 were talking to me, even though I was a minor. You have to be aware of this. 

I’m 21+ years old. I run a book blog, and sometimes minors message me. First of all, I have my age in my bio on my personal account, I also make the minor aware that I am over 18. Some people want to talk about writing and books, I’m okay with this because it’s on my book blog. But there are also many things I can’t relate to and vice versa. 

I am an adult and I have to remember I am talking to a child, no matter how mature they think they are. As an adult, it’s your responsibility to act like an adult. If they hand out too much personal information freely, you have to remind them that it’s not safe to do that. You will feel like you’re nagging and sometimes the minor will get annoyed at being treated like a child, but you have to remember that they are minors. Don’t say anything that you wouldn’t say to a younger sibling.

And for one last note, please don’t meet up with anyone in real life from online. If you are a minor and you want to meet up with someone else, take an adult. Don’t go behind an adults back and do it alone or with another minor. I’m not joking. Don’t think you’re mature enough to do it, I don’t even recommend this for an adult. You don’t know someone’s intentions, no matter how innocent they sound.

I met up with friends for the first time after we had been talking for years, but I was an adult, they were adults. They came together, and I took another adult along with me. NEVER meet up with someone alone. 

Anyone on this site, can block anyone for literally any reason, so if anyone makes you feel uncomfortable, just block them. Don’t feel bad for them, just hit that block button.

If someone gets annoyed or angry when you are trying to be wary and protect yourself, block them. If they get annoyed when you won’t offer up information about yourself, block them. If they start talking s*xually and it makes you uncomfortable (or you're a minor), block them. Blocking them is honestly something I recommend for literally any reason. Your online space is for you, and you have a right to feel safe and happy online.

I’ve rambled enough, there is plenty of information online about keeping safe on social media.

Thank you for the ask, I hope you have a wonderful day, and please remember to stay safe online

[kaaramel]

As a request, can you please explain the history of Town, or at least Fortitude?. I'm afraid that I might not be understanding something, and I really like how you explain things about Chuubo's, so if you could that would be a great help.

it would absolutely be my pleasure! under cut for Length

The original inhabitants of Town are the Jotun, fox-people, swan-people, assorted youkai, and so on. They lived on the shores of an inland lake with no sun, just a perpetual twilight. They prayed to a pair of deities, the gods of dream and nightmare; it's ambiguous how large a role of direction, protection, etc. dream and nightmare actually played in their lives, because most information about them has been lost in the modern day.

Humans began colonizing Town... (shuffles papers around) I don't think we have a solid Gregorian-calendar date for this. The earliest settlers were Russian and Japanese sailors; the site of the original settlement is now the Fortitude region. Many of the first residents, Jotun in particular, attempted to drive humans back out. The human-youkai war ended when the human Elizaveta sewed a pair of pants that caught the attention and favor of a swan-person, who declared Elizaveta "worthy" and by extension the whole human species. The story is related in more detail in a couple of places; the tie-in novel Fable of the Swan goes into it the most heavily.

Things settled into sort of uneasy cohabitation; humans were still a small presence without much social/legal power. The vampire Alexandrel Celdinar arrived in Town (a note in By the Docks of Big Lake estimates his emergence at roughly the 1800s) and saw an opportunity; recall that at this point the sun, a pretty fatal weakness to basically all but the strongest vampires in the setting, still never rises in Town.

Celdinar brought in more vampires and more humans (as a ruling class and as workers, respectively) and founded Night London, which he attempted to modernize in a slightly wacky zeppelins-and-steampunk way. The Celdinar Mayorality lasted... (paper shuffling again) "for a while," long enough to erect buildings and factories and so on... and, according to legend, the gods of dream and nightmare turned against him. A major earthquake wrecked a central district of Night London; the region that received the most damage is now Old Molder (which has been reclaimed by greenery at such an unnatural rate that only the upper floors are really inhabited), and the remainder has been resettled as Horizon, the gloomy Victorian Gothic-flavored region.

Mayor Celdinar might still have rallied and rebuilt, except, soon after that, the sun rose for the first time, marking the angel Jade Irinka's arrival in Town. At some point temple to Jade was built on Little Island. The sun is, variously, her chariot, her mansion, or her face; also it sets vampires on fire. The youkai lost power during Celdinar's rule, and have also been gradually interbreeding and assimilating with the human population. Humans become, and remain to the modern day, Town's most prominent and numerous residents.

The official timelines I'm looking at kind of gloss over the next period of Town's history; I assume there are some kind of events in Jenna's back pocket but they weren't considered relevant to the Glassmaker's Dragon campaign. There is, purportedly, a 'golden age,' but basically I've got nothing from here until the time when campaign-relevant events start happening. From here on out a lot of what I describe are going to include explicitly flexpoint which are heavily customizable (wrt people’s motives as well as exact chronological placement) for the needs and tastes of a given group.

Lord Entropy the First built Horizon's School... mm, again, a date isn't given but I'm actually going to assert it likely hasn't been in operation for more than 30-40 years. (Specifically I'm extrapolating from "No sooner did [School's SEED program] begin to bear fruit than he did," in CMWGE core, referring to Entropy's 22-year-old child.) In 1997, Entropy I died under mysterious circumstances, almost certainly expedited by Entropy II, who inherited his position as Principal of School and incidentally the King of Evil. Fable of the Swan implies that the Bleak Academy, an institution on the far side of unreality which trains Excrucian Riders to kill the world, was founded in opposition to Entropy's School. I am not sure to what extent this is poetic license and also time is less meaningful in the void.

Jade Irinka fell in love with the Headmaster of the Bleak Academy; the union bore at least one child, possibly two depending on how you count Arikel; after something like 3-8 years (flexpoints again) the Headmaster shoots Jade out of the sky with a black arrow, and the sun is temporarily extinguished, seen from Earth as a solar eclipse on March 7, 1997. A new sun appears in the sky, tied to Jade's daughter Jasper Irinka, and life carries on. Jade falls out of reality and fundamentally alters the cosmology.

This is a whoooole complicated event that is too much to get into on an already-too-long post, but to try and summarize the effects: there is no longer a clear division between real things and not-real things, there is just a dissolute fog of things-you-increasingly-don't-know-or-understand, referred to as the Outside. Town is possibly the last piece of reality unpolluted by the Outside but it's equally possible that this is a thing that varies with your point of view. Also, the change ripples over the timeline in such a way that this is effectively how it's always been, or at least families in Town have now been passing down techniques for mitigating Outside pollution for several generations. It's a massive headache and I'm sorry.

I think I will actually stop there instead of continuing to get more granular but I am more than happy to clarify and expand points if you have more specific questions!

[andromeda-sapphire]

Eclipses in Astrology:

(EDIT: This is an article I wrote for my old blog back in 2018.)

Solar and lunar eclipses are spectacular events for those who enjoy watching the sky, but did you know that they also act as major triggers for life events? Essentially, a solar eclipse is a maxed out new moon, while a lunar eclipse is a maxed out full moon. So for those of you who are familiar with the phases of the moon and their meanings, this means that a solar eclipse would signify a big new beginning, and a lunar eclipse would signify a majorly emotional ending.

Eclipses can trigger a huge number of happenings, good and bad. You can get an idea of what exactly it is that will happen by looking at the house and sign placement of the eclipse and what it activates in your chart. Speaking of! Only eclipses that aspect your natal chart directly will impact you significantly. We all may feel the intensity of these astrological events but only those who have an aspected planet or point can truly feel the weight of the eclipse, in particular those with an aspected Sun, Midheaven, Ascendant or Moon, as they are the most significant.

If you don't already, begin tracking eclipses, specifically those that make close aspects to a natal planet or point, and see if anything happens around that time. Events may occur on the exact day of the eclipse, or they may be dragged out. For a solar eclipse, you can expect to feel the energy of the eclipse about 3 to 6 months beforehand, and it may last for well over a year afterwards, especially if the eclipse aspects one of the more important placements noted above. For a lunar eclipse, there's a slightly shorter time frame of about 2 months before and after the eclipse for major events to take place. However, you may feel the effects of a lunar eclipse well beyond 2 months after the eclipse took place.

Eclipses run in cycles like the planets do, and they go through one family of signs at a time, based on the qualities (Cardinal, Fixed, Mutable). It takes about 7-8 years before a sign family will repeat itself, and roughly 19 years for an exact degree of a sign to repeat itself. This means that in the course of a year, there can be anywhere from four to six eclipses in the same sign family, with the potential to affect you significantly if any of these signs are emphasized in your natal chart.

Now let's get into some examples of eclipse-triggered events. I've collected research on a handful of different people's charts during different eclipses and they've all been affected in different ways. To start, I'll use my family as an example.

On July 27 of 2018, there was a lunar eclipse at 4 degrees Aquarius, exactly conjunct my brother's natal Uranus. This triggered a major health crisis for my brother, as well as an emotional crisis as well. On the night of the eclipse, he was admitted to the hospital with severely high blood pressure, and was going into kidney failure. Now, keep in mind my brother was only 20 at the time - much too young to be dealing with these kinds of health problems! Mars was conjunct the lunar eclipse as well, and transiting Uranus was making a square to his natal Uranus, further aggravating his condition. Uranus rules the nervous system, and the nervous system controls the blood pressure. Mars rules the blood, and Uranus was in Taurus, ruled by Venus which rules the kidneys. All the stress on these planets from the lunar eclipse triggered my brother's high blood pressure, which runs in our family on both sides. And because Uranus was involved, activating his 4th house of home and family, he felt a deep need for personal freedom as well. At the time he was living with our parents, and was having many arguments with them. He had been planning to move out for a while, but this lunar eclipse solidified his decision with all the stress it caused him at home with our parents. Four days later, he was released from the hospital and the doctors had prescribed him medication for his blood pressure that he will be taking likely the rest of his life. This is the nature of an eclipse, causing life-changing events, and with Uranus involved, it was very unexpected and abrupt.

Rewind to a solar eclipse in March of 2006 in Aries, this one activating my mom's natal Mars in her 12th house of hidden enemies. This was right around when my parents were fighting a lot and just before they got a divorce. This solar eclipse triggered many arguments between my parents, some even got a bit violent. This event is pretty self-explanatory, with Mars being the most aggressive planet in its own sign, placed in the 12th house. This would translate to an abundance of anger and excessive arguments with a man in the native’s life, which is exactly what happened. My dad became an enemy to my mom, an enemy that she didn't expect to discover when she married him. This eclipse also loosely activated my mom's Neptune in her 7th house of marriage, dissolving the marriage over the next few years in court. On the other side of the story, the same eclipse activated my dad's natal Pluto in Virgo in his 8th house of shared resources. Natally, Pluto here would point to a partner who is obsessed with money, and before the divorce, this might not have been the case, but after the eclipse triggered my dad's natal Pluto, the fighting ended up being primarily over finances and child support. This eclipse triggered a series of court battles between my parents, obsessively fighting over money. My dad ended up having to pay my mom a large amount of money in child support over a span of about 5 years. This same solar eclipse in March of 2006 also triggered my natal Sun by opposition, indicating the loss of a male figure in my life. This manifested for me as a temporary loss of my father, as he moved out and I saw him less often.

In my own experience, I've dealt with many significant eclipses. However, one stands out more than the rest. In November of 2013, I had just started school at University, when I met another student through a ride share group. This student seemed to be just another freshman guy starting school and didn't pose any threat to me when we met. However, the eclipse on November 3 that year triggered my Midheaven and Mars, bringing a major change in my life. Later that month, the student invited me to a party, and I went. Being a college party, we were drinking and socializing, but as the night progressed, he started acting more and more possessive of me. I had barely known him a week or two, but he was acting like I was his property. He kept tipping my cup back, forcing drinks down my throat, and as a result, I lost consciousness later on in the night. He dragged me upstairs onto a bed and proceeded to climb on top of me and assault me. What's interesting about this eclipse though, is that it was a solar eclipse in the sign of Scorpio, which rules obsessive behavior, taboos and sex. Activating my Mars and Midheaven in my 11th house, this translates to me as a life-changing physical event (sexual assault) occurring in a social setting or related to a new acquaintance (11th house). Saturn was also involved with this eclipse, conjunct the eclipse by 2 degrees. Saturn implies a long-term or chronic effect, and in my case, I received an ongoing diagnosis of PTSD. Also, my depression was magnified during that year after the incident, as Saturn can cause major depression.

I've observed my friend's charts and their life events related to eclipses as well. In June of 2012, there was a lunar eclipse in Sagittarius, directly triggering one of my friend's natal Mercury and Uranus. On the other end, the Sun was also activating his Chiron. This was the day his brother died in a car accident. A drunk driver hit him. Mercury rules siblings and Uranus rules unexpected events and accidents. As you can imagine, Pluto was transiting his 8th house, activating his North Node in a trine and his South Node in a sextile as well.

Someone I knew even was imprisoned after a series of eclipses activated his natal Sun and Moon in Libra as well as his Mercury, Jupiter & Venus in Scorpio. He has this Scorpio stellium in his 12th house, and Saturn was closely conjunct the first lunar eclipse in Scorpio (which triggered his Mercury) to set off this series of events. This Saturn conjunction to his natal Mercury represents a loss of freedom indicated as a consequence for impulsive actions (Mars was opposite the lunar eclipse, also triggering his Mercury in a hard aspect). It was deserved, think justice, as the next year and a half while he faced imprisonment in court, the eclipses were activating his Libra Moon, Sun and then Midheaven. Libra is a fair-minded air sign and rules judges. Pluto was squaring his Sun exactly at the time too, and Mars joined in on that square on the day he was convicted.

On a more positive note, eclipses can trigger very positive changes as well! In another friend's chart, I've seen a solar eclipse activate her Venus in her 1st house (Leo) in a conjunction by 2 degrees and her Midheaven exactly by trine in her 9th house (Aries). She was rewarded with a new job teaching young children in China - this is her Midheaven being activated in the 9th house of distant travels, and the eclipse is coming from her 1st house of Leo, the sign of children. She even made a significant connection to one of the students who made a noticeable first impression on her second day there. The student ended up being one of her best students!

Sometimes there can be large amounts of money involved when a solar eclipse activates specific houses. One friend of mine inherited $100,000 from his grandmother when she passed, right around the time of a lunar eclipse that activated his natal Saturn (grandparents) in his 2nd house of finance, from the 11th house of large amounts of money. The Sun was activating his 5th house of fun and pleasures, so as a result, he went on a major drug/alcohol/stripper binge (Neptune was squaring his natal Moon at the time as well) where he encountered many fake friends who used him for his money. The 11th house is friends and acquaintances as well as huge dream amounts of cash, and his 11th house falls in Scorpio, so there was definitely manipulative behavior involved.

There are many other kinds of events that eclipses can trigger as well. Depending on the planets, houses and signs involved, there may be marriages or engagements, pregnancies, divorces, promotions, traveling, moving homes, major health issues or improvements, surgeries, educational developments, major accomplishments... The list goes on! Just think big though, as that seems to be the theme with eclipses. During my research, I asked each of my friends what the most significant time or moment in their life was, and almost every single one of them had an eclipse as their first answer. They recalled the exact month and year, some even the date, and it came immediately to mind. When I went to check the dates of that year’s eclipses and compare them to their natal charts, sure enough, there was an eclipse activating something in their chart.

So next time you hear of or get to witness an eclipse, no matter where it is in the world, as these cosmic events affect all of us, think to yourself what in your life might change or be disrupted. What might evolve or take action. Or even better, consult your natal chart and try and figure out exactly what will happen, guided by your intuition!

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[heliosphoenix]

2017 in review!

That’s right folks, as we count down the hours left until the new year, it’s time once again for Helios’ fucking awesome review of the year we just had.

I think it’s safe to say that 2017 was a very...weird year. That’s probably the best was I can describe it. And I’m not just saying that because somehow a reality TV star became the (supposed) leader of the free world, it just seemed like there were a lot of things that happened this year that just made us wonder, as a species, “Just what the heck are we doing?!”

But, like Taylor Swift, I’m not going to act like the year was all gloom and doom (and fuck you Buzzfeed for trying to pretend that’s all it was). Cause even though 2017 was full of things that seemed bad, or even just weird, there were still a lot of good things that happened as well, and we need to remember them. Because I’ll be damned if I’m going to let clickbait distract us from the fact that there were moments where we lit up the darkness.

Here’s some of them:

The Women’s March on January 21st was one of the largest protests ever with 2 million people taking part.

Scientists in China discovered our oldest ancestor yet, a 540 million year old Saccorhytus

The New England Patriots won Super Bowl LI capped by an incredible comeback in the second half, Tom Brady wins his 5th ring and arguably cements his status as the greatest NFL QB of all time.

Adele won best song and best album at the Grammy’s.

A mostly underwater continent called Zealandia was discovered in the South Pacific.

7 planets roughly the size of Earth were discovered around the star Trappist-1, 3 of which could possibly support life.

“Moonlight” upset “La La Land” for Best Picture at the Oscars (literally at the last moment!)

The world’s oldest golf club in Scotland voted to admit women as members for the first time. 

Carrie Lam became the first woman to be elected chief executive of Hong Kong.

The largest Dinosaur footprint ever measured (at 1.7 meters) was found in Western Australia.

Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Edward Enninful became the first black man to become editor of Vogue.

France declared mandatory labeling of digitally modified photos of fashion models.

Emmanuel Macron defeated Marie Le Pen in France’s Presidential election.

MTV became the first major awards show to adopt gender-neutral categories.

Apple became the first company to be worth more than $800 billion.

Brazil declared the national emergency as a result of the Zika virus was over. Puerto Rico also declared its own Zika epidemic had ended.

A global ransomware attack was halted after a 22 year old UK blogger stumbled on the kill switch.

Japanese researches reported the birth of mice that were fertilized by freeze-dried sperm stored on the International Space Station.

The Golden State Warriors won the 2017 NBA championship after posting an unprecedented 16-1 record in the postseason.

Facebook reached 2 billion users.

Columbia rebel group FARC disbanded after 52 years.

France announced it will ban petrol and diesel powered cars by 2040. Great Britain soon announced a similar ban.

Tesla produced it’s first mass-market car, the Model 3. Elon Musk is of course the first owner.

Jodie Whittaker became the first female Doctor on Doctor Who.

Despacito became the most streamed song ever.

John McCain cast a decisive vote to strike down an attempted repeal of the Affordable Care Act.

Gene editing in human embryos to eliminate disease causing mutations was successful performed for the first time.

Scientists identified a deficiency in nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) as being a major cause of birth defects and miscarriages.

A 100 year old fruitcake was discovered in Antarctica in a hut used by the expedition of Robert Falcon Scott, and it was almost edible! 

Paris and Los Angeles were announced as the hosts for the 2024 and 2028 Olympic Games.

The Cassiopeia Jellyfish was discovered to be the first brainless animal that can sleep.

The first woman graduated from the US Marine’s Infantry Officer Corps.

The first Ichthyosaur fossil was found in India.

The painting “Salvador Mundi” by Leonardo Da Vinci sold for $450.3 million.

A rainbow in Tapei was recorded lasting nearly 9 hours, the longest ever.

Gay marriage was legalized in Australia.

Doug Jones became the first Democratic Senator from Alabama in 25 years.

The Vatican rediscovered long lost painting by Raphael.

The Asteroid Oumuamua was discovered to be an interstellar object.

Two neutron stars collided and confirmed the existence of Gravity Waves.

SpaceX launched and recovered a reused Falcon 9 rocket for the first time.

How about the movies that came out this year? Spider Man, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Wonder Woman, Thor: Ragnorok, Star Wars.

The Michigan Basketball Team won the Big Ten Tournament after surviving a plane crash.

THE GREAT AMERICAN ECLIPSE. How can anyone forget that day?

As you can see, there’s a lot that happened this year! A lot of stuff that ranged from interesting to amazing. And even though there people in this world that are still hell bent on convincing us that everything has gone to rack and ruin, we must never forget that there are still a lot of good things that happened this year, and will continue to happen in the year ahead.

Even so, there’s been a lot of talk this year about where we’re going as a culture, a society and a species. There’s people who feel, for a variety of reasons, that we’re heading on the path to destruction, or at the very least have strayed from the path we should be on. And everyone seems to have the same question; “How do we get back on the right track?”

Well, here’s a suggestion for creating the world you want to live in:

Try spending the next year doing the things you want to do and being the person you want to be.

You don’t need to post a hashtag or join a protest to make a difference. Donate to a charity or help a friend in need. Maybe offer to drive someone who’s not feeling well to the doctor, or go clean the yard of one of your elder neighbors. Or just do what you can to promote the values you believe in. Why wait for a day of action or some galvanizing event? You can do this stuff right now.

You don’t need an incendiary tweet to take action, just try to do the right thing every other day.

Instead of trying to focus on how you can get the entire world onto the right path, why not start with just yourself and your immediate friends and family. Become an inspiration for your fellow citizens, lead by example. 

And most of all, never forget to look for the light. It’s hard to light a candle, and much easier to curse the dark instead. But as President Kennedy once said, we do these things “Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

Now as always, there’s one more good thing that happened this year, and you are gonna tell me what it is. Because I guarantee you that even if you’ve just had the worst year ever, there was something good that happened. Maybe someone got you a gift you really wanted, or you reconnected with a friend you didn’t even know you were missing, or maybe you finally did something you’ve wanted to do your whole life.

I can tell you that all three of those things happened to me, and that’s why I can look back and say I had a decent year. And I bet that if you give it some thought, you can say the same thing.

Share it below, tell us what awesome thing happened to you this year. And use that positivity to attack the new year with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind!

I hope you all have a wonderful New Year’s Eve, and a fucking awesome 2018.

[sir-adamus]

so the school year starts around mid-springtime (possibly closer to the end, it’s not clear, could even be early summer)

volume 1 takes place over most of the first semester (with Shirow Miwa’s manga chapters taking place around this period of time as well, if not during the summer break - though as those chapters detail a training mission, i’m inclined to believe it was during the semester)

volume 2 starts with the team at the end of their 2 week summer break and coming into their second semester - the volume itself takes place over the course of a few weeks, from classes wrapping up, RWBY getting in more trouble than they should be able to get away with, the Vytal Festival starts festivities with a dance and teams start taking on missions (which leads to RWBY discovering the underground operation in Mountain Glenn and the Breach)

Grimm Eclipse occurs, another mission team RWBY goes on - still seems to be around summer time here so it’s not long after the Breach

by volume 3 (which takes place over the course of roughly about a week), it’s fall, but as Ciel points out that Ruby is still 15 years old, that places it at September/October time

damn, these girls only knew each other for... what, less than six months?

and then Ruby left by the time snow had begun to fall, so at least two months after the Fall of Beacon, and Volume 4 and 5 (which take place close enough together that they’re roughly the same sort of time though the plotlines aren’t entirely in sync), a couple months before the new semester starts (so early-mid spring)

it’s been nearly a year in-universe since they all met

[imagineclaireandjamie]

Liv says: Thanks to everyone who has been so supportive of this story! I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I’ve learned from it <3 (I’ve never finished an AU before?!)

Read the fic here.

Our Story - The End

Despite all the years Jamie has been an author—his success turned moderate after a succession of similarly moderate novels—he has never become accustomed to seeing his own face in public. His 35-year old hair, fuller than it is now, on a book jacket. His 35-year old eyes, suggesting a wisdom he is gradually losing, on a poster. The ghost of him, always haunting.

It is a strange thing to see oneself in the hands of strangers—and stranger still to imagine the places in which one’s face has unknowingly been. A woman in Tallahassee carries What My Father Told Me in her beach bag. Two of Us Now is piled among the Strand’s $2 pickings. 

Right now, his current face is looking at his former face from across the aisle of a plane. The reader—a young woman, chipped nails, roughly 30—has failed to notice the resemblance between JAMES FRASER (emboldened, size 45 font, Times New Roman) and Jamie Fraser (human, 6’3”, approaching old age). For this, he cannot blame her. Even he finds the connection between himself and this shade, though only a few feet away, incredibly tenuous.

Over the intercom, the pilot announces their impending arrival with a lilt and un-American vowels—a voice that sounds like home. The young woman looks up from Jamie’s book and squints, as if, by narrowing her vision, the pilot’s words will write themselves into the air, more easily deciphered. Jamie laughs quietly to himself, suddenly proud of the physical (and unlikely) contact between his face, his words, and this person who is so very different from him.

(He has touched more people than he knows.)

Jamie looks out the plane window. Through the darkening light, he can almost spot the places he and Claire will visit in Scotland: Lallybroch, the university. The small studio where he had once made promises that, for the most part, he has managed to keep. He watches his wife, whose head rests just beneath his ear, and listens to her breathing—a whistle more constant than his own reflection. He turns to the reader, then back to window, the sky growing darker, darker. The tarmac coming closer, closer. And as the ground nears, he sees that familiar but foreign thing lying in the shadowed moors: His face, forever a part of this land, staring up at him.

Jamie has begun to write separate reflections, expanding the narrative of their story with brief asides. They are scrawled on napkins, on hotel stationary, on the coasters he has swiped from corner pubs. Jamie has slipped them between the pages of Claire’s notebook, their crumpled edges sticking out like so many erratic pathways, which mirror the aimless movements of his mind. 

In the hotel lobby, Claire reads them before she writes, though she has not mentioned this to Jamie. His honesty—stated so freely in these passages—could find no justice in spoken language. Out of respect, she has let his words sit between them, a significant but mute presence, for the past three days:

Today, I watched you kneel down to touch our daughter’s grave and say, “Hi sweetheart.” Today, I wondered when I’ll forget her. Today, your voice kept cracking and your eyes kept watering, and I thought, Turn away. And I thought, Give her privacy. And I thought, I should have been there, I should have been there, I should have been there. But I did not turn away, and I did not give you privacy—and no, I had not been there on that day in April. Instead, I crouched beside you today. I held your trembling hands today. After all these years I have learned to bear my pain, but still—I can never bear yours.

Today, we stumbled upon a small café and you told me it was planned, it was all on purpose. This was where I kissed you in front of our closest friends, the very first time, did I remember? I could see it meant something to you—my memory of that old gesture and that old kiss—and because you mean the world to me, I lied. “Yes,” I said. “I remember.” Today, you couldn’t stop taking pictures.

Today, you made bannocks with Jenny and sang lullabies in broken Gaelic. You knew exactly where the extra blankets were kept. Today, you did not ask Ian if he needed help carrying in the firewood. You knew it would hurt his pride. And when you passed the portrait of my mother, hanging in the upstairs hallway, I saw you incline your head, just so, as if you knew her too. Sometimes I worry that I have not said “I love you” enough.

Claire returns from the lobby to their room and crawls between the covers. Jamie’s honesty may be unspeakable, but she can acknowledge it with her body: flesh to flesh and mouths in the dark. Her hips, in sure but languid motion, are her own confession. The vulnerable way she shakes when she’s unraveled by his hands—the purest reciprocation she can offer.

A woman lets them into the apartment building on Fury Street. She grins when she sees Jamie and Claire, whose feet—now dancing a nervous shuffle—once walked this path every day. The woman’s mouth reveals crooked teeth, and the grip on her groceries shows the blue-green ropes of her veins. Claire is twenty years her senior, at least—and yet. Standing before the brick and mortar of her past, Claire feels so young, so prepared to beg for the approval of those yellowed teeth and those blue-green cords. She rushes to take a bag and open the door like coming here is a race she could lose. 

“I canna very well let James Fraser wait on me doorstep,” the woman says, once they’ve introduced themselves and their purpose for coming. “Welcome. I’m Fiona, by the way. Fiona Graham.”

It is surreal, climbing these stairs, surrounded by the ghosts of their 20-something selves. The band stickers, once pasted above the landing, have been scraped away. The section of banisters, which gaped like a broken smile, have been replaced. The door does not stick when a man, dressed in an Argyle sweater, swings it open and says, “Well, what have we here?”

“Oh, these people used to live here, Mr. Wakefield. Before the expansion, aye?”

“My, is that so?”

There is also no sign of their former neighbors—a couple whose screams had matched the music of their faulty plumbing. And when Mr. Wakefield shows Jamie and Claire their old studio, having so graciously invited them inside, they can only walk in circles. One thing, at least, has been preserved: the weak floorboards near the entrance. (A fleeting fancy: Claire wants to yell, Babe, I’m home, just to see what it’d sound like again.)

“They tore down the walls to make a bigger place, you see,” the Reverend says. “Hardly enough room for one person, much less two. Don’t know how you folks managed.”

Claire nods, yes, though her eyes are fixed elsewhere, on a certain window just ahead.

This had been their window—the one whose lancing evening light had lit up their bodies in the dark. It was by this window that Claire had learned Jamie’s secrets: the triangular birthmark on his chest, the scar on his thigh, the slight curve of his lips when he slept. It was this window that had given her a view of a world she’d thought was permanent.

To be kind, Jamie says, “It’s verra nice, sir,” though his eyes are fixed upon his wife, whose eyes are still fixed upon the window. This is the window, he vaguely realizes, from which he saw a group of carolers sing and the glare of a golden light, sparkling in the snow. He had paced before this window, a lump in his throat, before packing a bag of clothes—the tiniest clothes—inside a garbage bag. Long ago, he had spoken out of this window and wondered if she could hear him. These memories emerge and bring a hot wetness to his eyes.

“And how long have you lived here, Mr. Wakefield?” Claire asks.

“Oh, about fifteen years now.”

After all this time, Jamie is able to derive the meaning from his wife’s pleasantries and the false bravado of her chin. There is a sadness in the way she is looking at that window, trying to summon the past back through it. 

Jamie steps forward to take the crook of her arm and ignores the Reverend’s endless rambling. He points to the ceiling and says, “Look.”

They had both been secretly hoping it was there—and it is. Like a solar eclipse, a speck of marigold still shines in the northernmost corner.

Claire smiles.

Years later, the Reverend will remember the couple who seemed more at home in his place than himself. He will remark—perhaps to Alice—about the way they moved, as if in orbit. A sort of cosmic revolution that required a certain degree of closeness and a certain degree of separation, for their own balance.

In passing, the Reverend and Alice will say things like, “I’m so glad they came by,” and,  “They were a lovely couple.” On the surface, these will seem like complimentary remarks, but they will mean something else entirely.

What they will mean: I haven’t forgotten.

What they have not forgotten: the way this brief entrance has reverberated throughout their lives. Like two stars, which have long since smoldered, but whose light can still be seen from the distance of a thousand years.

And it will be the same for others as well. A nurse in 1968 can still feel the trickle down her brow, precipitated by the birth of red-haired child. A priest who said a funeral in 1992 still holds the sound of the mother’s remorseful keening. And a writer named Mary McNab still recalls a night of half-hearted passion. She can feel the magnitude of an invisible sorrow, her own willing surrender, and her own gentle possession inside a lonely mountain cabin.

All of them will think of Jamie and Claire Fraser, two strangers who became a part of their own story and changed it—even if just for a moment.

People’s stories are so malleable. One decision causes a ripple and then, however infinitesimally, changes their trajectories. A look, a touch, a conversation—what if the nurse had not delivered the baby into his mother’s dying arms? What if the priest had not said the service? How much of their stories would be different? And for that matter, how much of their stories have been edited by the stories of others?

Jamie and Claire live on in such memories—the small legacies they have carved for themselves in different lives. Pieces of them will remain, thriving, even when it seems they have been forgotten. They are two points, forever at the origin of a stranger’s long-ago decision: to say “push,” to oversee the funeral, to knock on the door at midnight. In this way, Jamie and Claire are immortal. In this way, the universe remembers them.

In the end, we are all echoes carried in the bones of things.

Today, you wore the bracelet I gave you when Brianna was born. Today, I didn’t realize you meant to kiss me, and so you found my cheek like a teenage lover. The charms moved, tinkling, when you held my hand. Have I told you that I always think of this? Those little tokens of your life, calling out as you reach for me. I felt the baby rattle, the stethoscope. The small penguin, with its jewel encrusted eye, pressed its wing into my skin. Here’s the thing, Claire: it has always been forever.

They are at Arthur’s Seat. The wind blows them sideways, and it threatens to sweep them into the city below. Claire’s earring falls from her lobe, and Jamie catches it. Jamie’s scarf unwinds from his neck, and Claire snatches its tasseled ends before it flies towards the sea. Their feet are imbalanced on the uneven terrain, and they duck haphazardly out of tourists’ photos.

Claire, seeing Jamie hoist up a struggling climber, thinks of how recklessly, how wholly she has loved him. And Jamie, seeing Claire let down her hair, marvels at their easy tumble—how effortlessly they have become a staple of his life.

Eventually, the darkening horizon predicts a storm, and the clouds roll in. Jamie and Claire are one of the few still on the peak, most visitors already picking their way down the hillside, hidden beneath plastic ponchos.

“There,” Claire says. She points to something in the distance: a dark-brick building, just on the edges of Edinburgh. “Where we first met,” she clarifies.

“Does it look the same, d’ye think?”

“Yes,” Claire says. Looking down, she laces her fingers through his, as if to give him the understanding of its sameness. “Yes, I suppose it does.”

They both support each other against the wind, thinking of the opening words in their now-shared notebook. Like a dream—to see the place where Claire had once fixed her lipstick, where Jamie had once loosened his shirt collar, where they had once walked together through a crowded room and realized how easy it was to fall in love.

They both laugh when two little girls stick out their tongues to catch the rain.

“So here were are,” Claire says.

“Here we are,” Jamie replies. And he kisses her.

FIN.

And if you’re bored and would like an Our Story playlist—here are the songs that gave me feels while writing.

[magzoso-tech]

New Post has been published on https://magzoso.com/tech/flying-cars-to-hyperloop-a-review-of-tech-predictions/

Flying Cars to Hyperloop: A Review of Tech Predictions

Predicting the future is hard, even for the people with the most power to influence it. In 2013, Jeff Bezos said he expected Amazon.com Inc. would be delivering packages by drone in four to five years. Here we are seven years later, the flying delivery robots Bezos envisioned are still at the testing stage and have just started to get regulatory approval in the U.S.

Corporate fortune telling is a common practice in the technology industry, and executives tend to choose round numbers as deadlines for their technological fantasies. So, as 2019 draws to a close and we approach a new decade, let’s take a look back at how some of the tech industry’s predictions for 2020 fared.

1. Computer chips will consume almost no energy

Gordon Moore was famous for his foresight about the development of cheaper and more advanced computers. Intel, the company he co-founded, stayed in the prognostication game years after Moore retired, with mixed results. In 2012, Intel predicted a form of ubiquitous computing that would consume almost zero energy by 2020. The date is almost here, and phones still barely last a day before needing a recharge. The i9, Intel’s latest top-of-the-line computer chip, requires 165 watts of energy. That’s more than twice as much as a 65-inch television.

2. Nine out of 10 people over age 6 will own a mobile phone

In 2014, Ericsson Mobility estimated that 90 percent of people on earth over 6 years old would own a mobile phone by 2020. This is a hard one to measure, but a visit to developing countries suggests we are nowhere close. Research firm Statista puts global penetration at 67 percent. One milestone achieved this decade is the number of mobile subscriptions exceeded the world’s population for the first time, according to data compiled by the World Bank. The statistic is skewed by people who use multiple devices. Concern about the potential harmful effects of video game and social-media overuse by children may mean this never happens. There’s now a national movement in the US encouraging parents to wait until kids are in the eighth grade (age 13) before letting them have a smartphone.

3. Jet.com will break even

Jet.com was an embodiment of the startup unicorn, before that was even a term. Marc Lore started the online retailer after selling his previous company to Amazon. Jet would challenge Lore’s former employer by offering cheaper prices on products with a subscription that substantially undercut Prime. To do that, Jet quickly started burning through the more than $700 million (roughly Rs. 5,000 crores) it had raised from venture capitalists, and critics said the startup had no path to profitability. In response, Lore said on Bloomberg TV in 2015 that Jet would break even by 2020. Walmart swooped in a year after that interview and bought Jet for $3.3 billion (roughly Rs. 23,571 crores). According to news site Vox, Walmart is projecting a loss of more than $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,142 crores) this year for its US e-commerce division, now led by Lore.

4. The first 60-mile hyperloop ride will take place

In 2013, Elon Musk outlined his vision for a new “fifth mode of transportation” that would involve zipping people through tubes at speeds as fast as 800 miles per hour. Several tech entrepreneurs heeded Musk’s call and went to work on such systems inspired by the billionaire’s specifications. In 2015, one of the leading startups predicted a hyperloop spanning about 60 miles would be ready for human transport by 2020. Rob Lloyd, then the CEO of Hyperloop Technologies, told Popular Science: “I’m very confident that’s going to happen.” It hasn’t. His company, now called Virgin Hyperloop One, has a 1,600-foot test track in California and hopes to build a 22-mile track in Saudi Arabia someday. Musk has since experimented with hyperloops of his own, and even he has had to scale back his ambitions. Musk’s Boring is building a so-called Loop system in Las Vegas, starting with a nearly mile-long track that consists of a narrow tunnel and Tesla cars moving at up to 155 miles per hour.

5. Google’s cloud business will eclipse advertising

Selling cloud services became a big business for Amazon, Alibaba Group Holding and Microsoft over the last decade. Google executive Urs Hölzle saw the shift coming and in 2015 predicted Google’s cloud revenue would supersede advertising by 2020. Alphabet’s Google has inched closer to Amazon Web Services since then, but it’ll take a lot to outgrow Google’s cash cow. The cloud is expected to represent almost 15 percent of revenue for Google this year, compared with 85 percent for ads.

6. Huawei will make a ‘superphone’

Here’s what Huawei Technologies said in 2015 predicting a “superphone” by 2020, according to ZDNet: “Inspired by the biological evolution, the mobile phone we currently know will come to life as the superphone,” said Shao Yang, a strategy marketing president of Huawei. “Through evolution and adaptation, the superphone will be more intelligent, enhancing and even transforming our perceptions, enabling humans to go further than ever before.” It’s not entirely clear what that means, but it probably hasn’t happened yet. In the interim, Huawei found itself in the middle of a trade war, and the Chinese company is focusing largely on mid-priced phones for its domestic market.

7. Toyota will make fully self-driving cars

Auto and tech companies alike became convinced this decade that computers would soon be able to drive cars more reliably than people. In 2015, Toyota Motor made a companywide bet that it would have autonomous highway-driving cars on the road by 2020. It didn’t take long for the hype cycle to veer off course. In 2018, a pedestrian died after colliding with an Uber self-driving car. In 2020, Toyota’s Lexus brand will introduce a car capable of driving autonomously on the highway, but executives acknowledged that auto companies “are revising their timeline for AI deployment significantly.”

8. A Bitcoin will be worth $1 million

John McAfee, the controversial computer antivirus mogul and an influential voice in the cryptocurrency community, predicted the price of Bitcoin would reach $1 million (roughly Rs. 7.14 crores) by the end of 2020. McAfee posted the estimate in November 2017, about three weeks before a crash would erase 83 percent of value over the next year. Bitcoin has recovered somewhat, but the current price of about $7,200 is far from McAfee’s magic number. Like other Bitcoin bulls, McAfee is standing by his unlikely prediction. If he’s wrong, McAfee said he’ll eat an intimate body part.

9. Dyson will sell an electric car

It was barely two years ago when the maker of blowdryers and vacuum cleaners said it would sell an electric car by 2020. Dyson canceled the project this year, calling it “not commercially viable.”

10. Uber will deploy flying cars

When Uber Technologies pledged to deliver on a promise of the Jetsons, it gave itself just three years to do so. It’s safe to say you will not be able to hail a flying Uber in the next year. The company continues to explore the concept with regulators. This year, Uber added a form of flying vehicle that’s not particularly cutting edge: It’s booking helicopter rides in New York City. Last Friday, Uber said it was working with a startup, Joby Aviation, to develop “aerial ride-sharing” and set a new deadline of 2023. Uber Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi tweeted: “Getting closer …”

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[skeletonwoman]

That’s Preposterous (Derek)

I am so sorry this took so long, and although i have plenty of excuses, i shouldn’t have to use them cause guess what it’s here and it’s turned into 4 things cause I didn’t think you’d appreciate a super long fic

That’s Crazy //  That’s Absurd 

It’d been six months since Derek put two and two together and made a baby, or well, recognised your baby as his.

It had also been six months since Derek had screamed, roared, hissed, snarled, raged, stormed and shouted at you- which had been quite the experience since he’d done it all from 3 feet away, which likely had to do with the fact that he thought you were disgusting, something he’d mentioned several times in the rant.

It had been six months since Derek had spoken a word to you beyond “Can I have my daughter” and “I’m here to drop off my girl”, as well. You hadn’t missed the way he only referred to her as his, as if she’d magically appeared and hadn’t been shoved out of your body in a seven-hour labour.

“How’s my little girl?” Lydia coos, rubbing the chubby cheek of the raven haired cherub and you swallow hard as she wails furiously. Lydia isn’t perturbed anymore, and continues to coo at her until the little angel gives in and stops crying. “I love her. She’s just like you.”

“Like Derek.” You counter, as you always do when someone compares the two of you. The guilt, which had been eating you alive for the first three months since the revelation, had dulled into a sullen comment every time someone compared you and your perfect baby.

“No, like you.” Lydia coos, letting the infant squeeze her finger. “She’s so picky, she’s obsessed with family and that’s like you.”

“You suck.” You chuckle wetly, sniffling and internally cursing yourself.

“What did you say?” Derek snaps, his voice suddenly behind you and you sniffle once more, quickly wipe away the stray tears and rise to face him.

“Hi Derek, the little munchkins all packed up.”

“What did you say to her?” Derek snaps, ignoring you entirely to keep his gaze and fury on Lydia who scowls at him.

“The first kind word she’s heard in ages, no thanks to you.” Lydia snaps back, white hot fury in her eyes and Derek scowls, but goes silent.

“I- Is everything gonna be okay on your end? I can keep her for another few hours.” You stutter uselessly, having knelt beside the stroller the moment Lydia had turned on him. No point in letting the sweetest little girl in the world notice the tiffle. And you’re not interested in handing your girl over when he’s angry.

“I’m fine.” Derek growls, crossing round the bench and dropping to a crouch on the other side of the stroller. “Hello, my little princess.”

You have to look away, and perhaps block your ears. His face is too soft, his voice too soft, it’s all too much- you’d run for a reason and every time he got near that little girl, the reasons seemed to blow away like leaves, only to stack back up once he had her and you were left alone again.

“I’ll see her tomorrow night at the pack dinner, right?” You ask, sounding like a desperate addict- which is what you are, and he nods curtly. Without another word, he rises and rounds the stroller. As he takes the bag from Lydia, you press kisses everywhere you can reach on the baby, revelling in the laugh it draws from her lips.

“Bye bye.” You coo gently, stepping back and letting Derek wheel her away.

Scott stares at your slumped form on the couch and sighs, before plopping down beside you and offering you some popcorn.

“I was gonna watch a movie, you interested?”

“Okay.” You answer softly, if only so you don’t have to go up to your room with the crib and the baby toys in it. It’s just a few nights, and you’ll see her tomorrow night. It’s nothing.

“She’s with Derek, huh?” Scott says after a few moments and you shrug, staying quiet. You’re not hiding her under the couch. “That sucks.”

“Yeah.” You agree and you glance at him, frowning as you note the real disappointment in his face. He likes her, he likes the baby that cries and screams every time he holds her and wakes him up in the middle of the night. Nature is amazing. “I love you, Scotty.”

“Love you too.”

Bouncing from foot to foot, you stand by the doorway like an excited pup as Scott clatters through the house.

“Okay, I’m ready.” He says, grinning and you fling the door open, bounding down the stairs with Scott hot on your heels.

Your excitement is unstoppable, in just a few short minutes you’ll see your little tiny baby and you can hold her and hear her wail when Scott kisses her soft head.

As Scott pulls out of the driveway, Stiles’ blue jeep comes flying up the road, jerking roughly to miss hitting your car.

“Dammit, Stiles!” You shout, clutching your heart and glowering. In moments, the lanky idiot has transferred himself from the jeep to your car and you wiggle unhappily at the delay.

“Relax.”

“Shut up.”

“We’re here!” Stiles announces from the doorway, an angry baby shout eclipsing the greeting and Derek scowls at Stiles from the kitchen.

“She’d just gone quiet, dick.” He snaps, setting a pot on the center of the table and you can see he’s about to move to quiet her but you wave him off. Nearly skipping, you scoop the tiny bundle from the crib and hold her close for a moment, just inhaling and feeling the weight of her.

“Hello.” You coo softly to the quiet baby, “Hello, hello, hello.”

At her gurgle, you hold back a laugh of delight.

“She’s never going to like other people if you coddle her.” Derek mutters sourly and you go rigid. Is- That’s not fair.

“She’s barely a toddler, man.” Scott says quietly, not wanting to interject but he knows you won’t stick up for yourself. All of them know it because all of them know how guilty you are, or at least, all of them excluding Derek.

“And she doesn’t need to like us.” Stiles pipes up like an idiot. His grin is goofy as he comes up beside you and tickles her soft cheek. At her silence, you hide your triumphant smile behind her little body. “And look at that, it’s just you who can’t keep her quiet.”

Derek goes still and you groan softly.

“He didn’t mean it like that.” You put in, but he clearly doesn’t hear you by his lack of reaction.

“She’s my daughter.” He hisses and Stiles shrugs, utterly oblivious with his back to Derek as he continues to tickle to gurgling baby.

“I’m just saying, she has a favourite.” Stiles continues and you smack him hard. “What?”

“Shut up.”

“Don’t act like you don’t agree.” Derek snaps, turning his anger on you and you steel yourself to weather another storm of rage.

“Can I hold her?” Scott asks quietly, giving you a pointed look and you pause a moment before handing her over to him. At her soft complaint, you smile, but not before Scott shoots you another pointed look and your shoulders sag. Apparently, weathering isn’t allowed anymore.

“Alright, Derek.” You say, turning on him as Scott and Stiles scuttle into the other room. “What’d ya say we have a right throwdown.”

“I’m not picking a fight.” He huffs, picking a fight.

“That’s an outright lie and even if it were true, I’m gonna pick a fight.” You shrug, sniffing the pot he’d put on the table and instantly regretting what you’re about to do. So good. “I do agree with Stiles, you’re being a f*cking jerk to me and it’s obvious. She’s a baby, sure, but you didn’t miss anything! She wasn’t quite two months old and you’re acting like I kept her from you for five years.”

“I am not.”

“Shut up!” You shout, turning the heat up. “It’s not your turn to shout at me, you had your chance and you made it all abundantly clear. I’m sick to death of you ignoring me, pretending like there is no history between us, acting like that isn’t my daughter in the other room.”

“I never said she wasn’t yours, you maniac-”

“You implied it ever damn time you saw her.” You scoff, meeting his eyes and trying to ignore the way your heart clenches. “I left because I didn’t think you’d want this, that I didn’t think you’d want me or her or any of it and if you didn’t want us then we’d have a target on our back and no one to protect us. I don’t mean you, Scott.”

You don’t doubt he’s listening and relaying everything to Stiles. Or that Stiles can hear you on his own, even.

“I loved you!” Derek shouts and you laugh, waving off the sentiment.

“You’d never commit, I needed commitment and that’s not you! Being in love with someone doesn’t mean everything goes away, if anything, loving you made it clearer that I needed to get out of dodge. She’s my baby and I had to take every precaution, and that included giving her a life where she never had to know her dad didn’t want her.”

“I do want her! I wanted her even when I didn’t know she existed! I’ve wanted you for years, I even suggested rebuilding the old house to show you I wanted you!” He shouts and you can’t resist rolling your eyes.

“You implied it ever damn time you saw her.” You scoff, meeting his eyes and trying to ignore the way your heart clenches. “I left because I didn’t think you’d want this, that I didn’t think you’d want me or her or any of it and if you didn’t want us then we’d have a target on our back and no one to protect us. I don’t mean you, Scott.”

You don’t doubt he’s listening and relaying everything to Stiles. Or that Stiles can hear you on his own, even.

“I loved you!” Derek shouts and you laugh, waving off the sentiment.

“You’d never commit, I needed commitment and that’s not you! Being in love with someone doesn’t mean everything goes away, if anything, loving you made it clearer that I needed to get out of dodge. She’s my baby and I had to take every precaution, and that included giving her a life where she never had to know her dad didn’t want her.”

“I do want her! I wanted her even when I didn’t know she existed! I’ve wanted you for years, I even suggested rebuilding the old house to show you I wanted you!” He shouts and you can’t resist rolling your eyes.

“You can’t say you want to build a family home and expect me to try and put a ring on it! We were f*cking, not dating, idiot. Not to mention the fact that you told me nearly every day that you never wanted “creep girls leaving stuff at your place” and that you’re sick of people expecting more. What kind of logic is that?”

“I was obvious-”

“In the fact that I wasn’t special because you were still sleeping with other girls all the time? That we used to go to clubs and find people for each other to hook up with?” You snap, cutting him off and he swallows hard.

“Get out.”

“Not without my daughter.”

“No.”

“We have no custody rules, by all rights, she’s mine. It’s only by my guilt and past affection for you that I even let you have her at all. But I’m done.”

“I’ll fight this-”

“Do it. Try it.” You growl, meeting him glare for glare until you whip around and snatch the baby bag from beside the portable crib. “Scott!”

“Y/N-”

“I’m not doing this right now.” You answer, your voice starting to wobble and he nods, setting her in your arms and taking the bag from your shoulder.

“Scott.” Derek says nervously but the dark-haired boy doesn’t look up from you. Behind him, Stiles picks up the car seat.

“I’ll return this.” Stiles says sheepishly and you don’t listen for Dereks reply, instead slipping out the doors and trying not to cry on your innocent infants’ onesie.

ta da!

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[astrogeoguy]

Morning Venus Brushes the Bull’s Brow, and Lay Down and Look Up for Stars!

(Above: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, also known as Messier 13, is not an unlucky sight in a telescope! NASA APOD)

Stargazing News for this week (from July 9th) by Chris Vaughan. (Feel free to pass this along to friends and send me your comments, questions, and suggested topics.) I post these with photos at http://astrogeoguy.tumblr.com/ where the old editions are archived. You can also follow me on Twitter as @astrogeoguy! All times mentioned are in Eastern Standard Time. Please click this MailChimp link to subscribe to these emails. If you are a teacher or group leader interested in joining me in a guided field trip to the York University Observatory, visit www.astrogeo.ca. 

Lay Down and Look Up!

The best way to take in the splendor of the night sky is to lay on your back and gaze upwards, where the sky is darkest and the air thinnest. This is also your best bet to spot meteors and passing satellites. Some easy to recognize constellations are positioned directly overhead in late evening this month. 

Position yourself so that south is below your gaze, i.e., chin towards south horizon and the crown of your head towards the North Star Polaris. Your left shoulder will point east and your right one west. Looking up, just east of straight overhead you will find the bright white star Vega in Lyra (the Harp). Vega, the western corner of the Summer Triangle, is the brightest star in our summer nights and the fifth brightest in all the sky. Lyra’s delights deserve their own focus in an upcoming Skylights. Meanwhile, 

 (Above: The late evening sky overhead in early July annually features Hercules and Corona Borealis.)

Shifting your gaze a short distance west of Vega you will find the constellation of Hercules, whose body is defined by a keystone shaped quartet of modestly bright stars. The keystone is about 6° across (a palm’s width), with the wide end north and the narrow end south. The hero of mythology is upside down for us. His sharply bent legs extend northward and his two arms are outstretched to the southeast and southwest. His eastern hand star (to our lower left) combines with four others to make a loose chain of five stars running left-right, each separated by a couple of finger widths. In classical drawings he is grasping the three-headed dog Cerberus, which he was tasked with capturing as one of his twelve labours. 

Hercules is the fifth largest constellation in area, and was one of the original 48 constellations tabulated by Ptolemy. It contains one of my favorite objects, the globular cluster known as the Great Hercules Cluster or Messier 13. This object is a tightly packed ball of about 300,000 old stars. At magnitude 5.9, it is visible with unaided eyes under dark skies as a faint smudge, but reveals much more under magnification! It is located along the western (right) edge of the keystone, about one-third of the way from the wide end. Roughly between his knees there is another smaller globular cluster called Messier 92. We can’t see them visually, but Hercules is home to several known exoplanets orbiting his stars. 

Hercules contains quite a few double and binary stars within reach of a backyard telescope. One of the nicest is modest Rasalgethi, or Ras Algethi “Head of the Kneeler”, which sits about 16° to the southwest (lower right) of the bottommost corner of the keystone (almost into Ophiuchus). In a small telescope, this star easily splits into a lovely pair of orange and greenish stars. The slightly brighter one is a red giant class star that varies in brightness randomly over months to years. The partner is a yellow Sun-like star that is itself a binary star too tightly spaced to resolve. The stars are about 360 light-years away and are orbiting one another with a period of 3,600 years. This double star, like many others, was given a single name centuries before telescopes revealed that there was more than one star there. 

The brightest star in Hercules, Kornephoros “Club-bearer”, sits a fist’s width below the bottom right star of the keystone (just extend that side of the stone downwards). Only 3° (about two finger widths) to its lower right, is the double star Gamma (γ) Herculaneum, sometimes called Nasak Shamiya III. This is another pair that easily splits into two yellow stars in a modest telescope. But this double is an optical illusion. The fainter star is actually much closer to us! 

Marsic “the Elbow”, or Kappa (κ) Herculaneum, is another “line of sight” double star that’s easy in a small telescope. It’s 4° to the lower right of Gamma Herculaneum. A few degrees further down brings us to the triangular head of Serpens (the Serpent), but that’s another story. 

Immediately to the west of Hercules is a very distinctive constellation called Corona Borealis (the Northern Crown), and for good reason! A circle of seven stars forms a tiara festooned by a single bright star called Alphekka or “jewel”. The constellation is approximately a palm’s width across. In mythology, the crown was given to Princess Ariadne of Crete by Dionysus, who married her years after she helped Theseus escape the Minotaur. It, too, is one of the original Ptolemaic constellations. The Mikmaq people of Canada saw it as the den of the great celestial bear, while other cultures saw a string of jewels, a boomerang, and an eagle’s nest. 

Most of Corona Borealis’ unaided-eye stars are variable. Alphekka is a hot, blue-white star 78 light-years away and similar in nature to Vega and winter’s Sirius, which are much closer. It is also an eclipsing binary star, in which a smaller orbiting companion star passes in front of the main star every 17.3 days, causing the combined light output to dim slightly. Astronomers have detected a dust disk around the star that might indicate that a new solar system is being formed. 

The bright star further west of the crown is Arcturus. The fourth brightest star in the entire night sky, Arcturus means “Guardian of the Bear” in Greek, because it rises after Ursa Major (the Big Bear), which sits to its upper right (west). Arcturus is that colour because it is just passing middle-age for a star, starting on its way towards the red supergiant stage. In Chinese, Arcturus is known as Dà Jiǎo  大角, "Great Horn". 

Sun, Moon, and Planets

The full moon, known as the “Buck Moon”, “Thunder Moon”, or “Hay Moon” occurred in the wee hours this morning (Sunday, July 9), so it will rise with a bit shaved off its eastern (our right) side on Sunday evening. Full moons always rise around sunset and set around sunrise, and the July one always sits near the Teapot-shaped constellation of Sagittarius. 

For the rest of the week, the moon rises later - lingering into daytime morning skies, while it wanes towards Last Quarter next Sunday afternoon. Next weekend’s post-midnight waning moon leaves the evening sky darker. We can start to look out for early Perseid meteors. The Earth enters its debris field starting July 13. The peak won’t occur until next month, though. 

(Above: Mercury is in the midst of a so-so appearance for observers in mid-northern latitudes. Here it where it is on July 14 at 9:45 pm local time)

Mercury continues to be visible for northern hemisphere observers this week. It sets about 10 pm local time, but the best time to look for it is shortly before 9:45 pm. It will be less than a palm’s width above the western horizon, south of where the sun went down, and will be the brightest object in that area of sky. 

(This week, Venus, heading eastward towards the Sun, passes across the top of Taurus’ triangular face, shown here at 4:40 am local time on Wednesday, July 12. Watch for the Pleiades above and the other deep sky objects in  the area.)

Extremely bright Venus is rises in the eastern sky about 3 am local time and remains an eye-catching beacon until dawn. This week, it travels eastwards above the stars that make up the triangular face of Taurus (the Bull), passing within three finger widths above the bright orange-ish star Aldebaran in mid-week. Viewed in a telescope around now, the planet presents a more than half illuminated phase. It will be in the morning sky for a few more months while becoming easier and easier to view. 

Saturn is the bright yellowish object visible low in the southeastern sky after the evening sky darkens. It crosses due south (at its highest elevation of 24°) after 11 pm local time, and then sets in the west before dawn.

Jupiter is the extremely bright object in the southwestern evening sky this week. It sets about 12:30 am local time. The planet’s four large Galilean moons are easily visible in a small telescope. A larger telescope will also show the round black shadows they cast when they cross (or transit) the planet – and the Great Red Spot. Here are the best events in Eastern Daylight Savings Time. (Simply add or subtract the appropriate hours to convert them to your time zone.) 

On Wednesday, July 12, Io's shadow will transit from dusk until 10:51 pm. On Sunday, July 16, Ganymede's shadow will transit near Jupiter's north pole from 10:17 pm until the planet sets (about 12:15 am). The Great Red Spot is visible on Jupiter for about three hours centred on Monday, July 10 at 8:44 pm (in twilight), Wednesday, July 12 at 10:24 pm, and on Saturday, July 15 at 12:03 am (while setting). 

(Above: Saturn has seven major moons that can be viewed in backyard telescopes. Due to the planet’s axial tilt similar to Earth, we can see the rings tipped open, and the moons can appear above, below, and to either side of the planet. Shown at 11:30 pm EDT on Sunday night, July 9, 2017)

Distant Pluto, which resides among the stars of Sagittarius (the Archer), reaches maximum visibility for the year on Sunday, July 9. But at magnitude 14, it’s out of reach of all but the largest telescopes. The nearby full moon won’t help matters, but I posted a diagram here.

Keep looking up to enjoy the sky! I love getting questions so, if you have any, send me a note.

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