#about mar

[add1ctedt0you]

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[markmybirds]

Nominated by my platonic wife Soul Sister @wardog-of-the-endless

Last song: (Listening to Spotify will add more) Billkin & PPKrit - Coming of Age, Marina - Electra Heart, Gackt - Vanilla, SHINee - Atlantis

Favorite color: Deep Rich Emeralds and Forest Greens, Mint and Lavender, I also really like Periwinkle Blue.

Last book: Reread: Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Last movie: Love Stuck and I rewatched My Happy Marriage (Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon) the Movie and also Classic Again.

Relationship status: Married to my Highschool Sweetheart~.

Last TV Show: Battle of the Writers, Falling Into Your Smile (Rewatch), Double Love (Rewatch), Heartstopper (I read the books for a Research Request and the show is done well!), High Potential, Love Sea (Rewatch), I Will Knock You, Monster Next Door, 1000 Years Old (Rewatch).. There are a few others lmao.

Sweet/spicy/savoury: Sweet and Savoury.

Last thing I googled: Bus Status because my husband is a teacher and it was snowing and freezing-rain last night.

Looking forward to: Husband and I are gonna have a date tomorrow, going to buy our kiddo Maven's birthday gifts and her winter attire. Mentioned 7th birthday of Maven on Nov 22nd :>! And my dog Tesla's having a lump removed on November 11th, which I know sounds like something not to look forward to but it has been erupting a lot and it's been bothering her. So I'm happy to get her through healing from surgery and she can be a happy tail-wagging bean again (it's on her tail. She still wags her tail just, we have to stop her from doing it.) No-Pressure-Nominating!: @pharawee @scattered-stardust @fuckyeah-itme

And anyone who'd want to do this~.

[maraalyy]

MEET THE OWNER :3

18

Pansexual & NonBinary

She/They

Gemini

5’4

MusicConnoisseur

Murder/Horror Documentary Luvvr

[maraalyy]

me :3

You’re in her dms I left her on read for 6 weeks because I’m emotionally incompetent

[ink-the-artist]

Love the contrast between the Americans’ “Apollo” and the Soviets’ “Sputnik.” You got the Americans naming their rocket after a Greek god trying to communicate the grandness and importance of this rocket. And you got the Soviets naming their rocket “fellow traveler.” Like a friend you go on an  adventure with together. This rocket is our little friend lol 

[deep-space-netwerk]

So Venus is my favorite planet in the solar system - everything about it is just so weird.

It has this extraordinarily dense atmosphere that by all accounts shouldn't exist - Venus is close enough to the sun (and therefore hot enough) that the atmosphere should have literally evaporated away, just like Mercury's. We think Earth manages to keep its atmosphere by virtue of our magnetic field, but Venus doesn't even have that going for it. While Venus is probably volcanically active, it definitely doesn't have an internal magnetic dynamo, so whatever form of volcanism it has going on is very different from ours. And, it spins backwards! For some reason!!

But, for as many mysteries as Venus has, the United States really hasn't spent much time investigating it. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, sent no less than 16 probes to Venus between 1961 and 1984 as part of the Venera program - most of them looked like this!

The Soviet Union had a very different approach to space than the United States. NASA missions are typically extremely risk averse, and the spacecraft we launch are generally very expensive one-offs that have only one chance to succeed or fail.

It's lead to some really amazing science, but to put it into perspective, the Mars Opportunity rover only had to survive on Mars for 90 days for the mission to be declared a complete success. That thing lasted 15 years. I love the Opportunity rover as much as any self-respecting NASA engineer, but how much extra time and money did we spend that we didn't technically "need" to for it to last 60x longer than required?

Anyway, all to say, the Soviet Union took a more incremental approach, where failures were far less devastating. The Venera 9 through 14 probes were designed to land on the surface of Venus, and survive long enough to take a picture with two cameras - not an easy task, but a fairly straightforward goal compared to NASA standards. They had…mixed results.

Venera 9 managed to take a picture with one camera, but the other one's lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 10 also managed to take a picture with one camera, but again the other lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 11 took no pictures - neither lens cap deployed this time.

Venera 12 also took no pictures - because again, neither lens cap deployed.

Lotta problems with lens caps.

For Venera 13 and 14, in addition to the cameras they sent a device to sample the Venusian "soil". Upon landing, the arm was supposed to swing down and analyze the surface it touched - it was a simple mechanism that couldn't be re-deployed or adjusted after the first go.

This time, both lens caps FINALLY ejected perfectly, and we were treated to these marvelous, eerie pictures of the Venus landscape:

However, when the Venera 14 soil sampler arm deployed, instead of sampling the Venus surface, it managed to swing down and land perfectly on….an ejected lens cap.

[holographic-mars]

The missile is very tired

(Edit: NOT SHIP ART‼️)

[puppyeared]

can i offer you some furries in this trying time

@laikascomet

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

me, hearing that we are getting two new seasons of PnF almost a year late:

[seasonofprophecy]

Bshaer Omar (Vetted, #231)'s baby, Ayla, is sick. Medicine and clean diapers together costs $500 USD. With her husband martyred in December, Bshaer has been left alone to raise their now 8 month old infant.

I'm opening commissions.

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[add1ctedt0you]

I really love the little moments you choose to gif. What inspires you to pick the ones you do?

Hiii! Thank you! It makes my heart warm! It makes me happy! <3

The question is quite interesting, because I hadn't never thought in detail about my reasons for choosing specific moments, it's the moment that draws my eyes.

Overlooking how this blog supports women's rights to do wrongs, I like to compare the source material with the web adaptation: like with jiang cheng' dream. Or the gifset I am most emotionally attacked to: this. I still remember that the first time I read jiang cheng smiling looking at his mother (he's the only one who seems truly happy to see her) and it caught my attention: he loves her so much! And she loves him too! I have a soft spot for mother & kid relationship, and I enjoy how their relationship is played in the drama, so, that's how the gifset is born. (the quality is so bad though. At the time I still was using YouTube videos :-/)

Other times, cql and the cast acting choices/interpretations have caught my attention. Like here: the camera shows us, even if briefly, jiang yanli's expression while lan xichen is congratulating jiang cheng: she opens in a little smile only to immediately drop it... What is she thinking? I had in mind another moment to add to the gifset, a parallel, but I felt it was unbiased/leaning toward an exact interpretation, and decided to focus on her expression during jiang cheng's speech to his disciples. Another gifset born due cql choices, is jiang yanli mourning jin zixuan: jin zixuan saying 'I'll take care of you' is a great foreshadowing! I like to think about jiang yanli, looking at jin zixuan's coffin, and remembering that specific moment (or, I've written scenes like this in my jiang yanli survives au lol). the jiang siblings inability to deal with rejection is still so funny.

Other times, mostly born from spite, my gifsets are about themes: love and hurt, jiang cheng protecting his family and being protected, deaths - 1, 2 (initially, I wanted to gif all mdzs's characters' deaths including novel quotes to enlighten the differences between the canon source and the web divergence. I still want to do it! I just need time).

Or I'll do a whole gifset because I want to gif one moment lmao. As in this ao3 tags gifset, I just wanted to include granny wen and wen yuan under the 'rated t for trauma' tag, because I think their past is quite overlooked! (if not to underline who is good and who's bad...) (like, seriously, the wen clan is *great* and I'll obsess over them all more if lotus pier and its dysfunction wasn't there too). Even retelling of jiang cheng and wei wuxian relationship is born due a gif... That I didn’t include because I felt it wasn't fitting the tone of the gifset :-/ ( the gif was lotus pier burning + tag: Lotus pier is a metaphor for chengxian)

Then, to motivate myself to keep reading svsss (I have almost finished the first book), I decided to make this gifset: honestly, parallels/references to mdzs stand out lol. Mxtx, the writer you are.

Uh, I think that's all! Like, I'll honestly make fun of cql too ( sorry, I am mean :-/). Hoping the answer is coherent enough. Still, thank you for the ask!

[mango-peach-strawberry]

The human concept known as love 👽👍

Day 1 of Blorbtober!

[maraalyy]

Pros:

adorable

i like listening to people’s interests

has 4 fur children

communicates boundaries

knows how to bake

very loving

i will play video games with you

i provide undivided attention

a little silly

picks up on mannerisms

likes music more than humans

sleeps alot

a reader/writer

VERY easy to get to know

get along with people easily

works at animal shelter

chill person

can call most of the time

good communicator

will read with you

likes coralline and any other time burton movies

CONS:

gets worked up easily

will get distracted by social media while on call

not the most rational thinker

too cool (according to riri)

no filter

a brat

aggravated easily

social battery drains fast

never ending attitude

holds grudges

batshit crazy

doesn’t listen

overly protective

really sensitive

won’t respond to messages if overwhelmed

sleeps and watches tv all day

[autisticsonic]

My take on a Sonadow fankid! She actually existed for a while now, but the trend gave me motivation to finally draw her!

Most sonadow fankids are purplish and tube-grown, so I decided to make her neither!

Background for the story under cut, in case it gets long!

So in this AU, stories from the more recent games happen when Sonic and Shadow are at most around 20 years old. Back then Sonic was rambunctious and reckless as we know him to be, and Shadow was a depressed, traumatized emo kid. While at first they were rivals as depicted in the games.

Over the years tho, just like their friends, the two matured. They started getting along a lot more, and became official friends, which eventually lead to dating. They both were afraid of getting serious though, so they took things slow and casual. Due to some of their unresolved issues, they couldn't get any closer. But not for much longer.

Some of it has been brought on by a Particular Event, and some of it due to restructuring how they go about saving the world, but things changed. As Forces has shown, putting so much responsibility on One Guy isn't wise. Sonic felt so quilty for failing, but it never should've been his job alone, so they created an organization, to share the load more evenly!

The org became global, with local groups of heroes being recruited all around, meaning that now the characters we know and love now had more time to take care of their personal lives.

While for some the change hasn't been much, Sonic, and to a lesser extent, Shadow, struggled quite a lot. Many of things happened in between, but eventually both of them grew to quite enjoy the domestic life.

They moved in together, and started taking things to the next level, now that both have done some healing and therapy. They found that they get along quite great. After a bit longer, they decided to start a family :)

Shadow came up with the name. He wanted to honor his sister's memory, but Mar-Mar was also a symbol of all his progress. He did go to therapy to make sure that he can handle them sharing a name, to see if it's a good idea, and well, it was!

She's now 4 and very loved, and her dads love each other very much as well. For a certain Sonic though, things won't go so great.

[upslapmeal]

"but Pyramids of Mars established that Sut-" my friend this is the three-separate-explanations-for-Atlantis show, as far as I'm concerned they can have a free-for-all when it comes to real-world mythology

"but they're ruining the canon!!" buddy I got good news for you, Doctor Who canon is a buffet and you don't have to eat anything you don't want to

[sasakisniko]

Spanning years and continents. Lives ruined, bloodshed. Epic.

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