#about mars

[marzipart]

Hello, my name is Mars (They/Them). You may know me by other names, I've had many over my 13 years of internet.

I'm a 27-year-old artist and former scientist. I'm trans and multiply neurodivergent, running an 'operating system' sporting ADHD, anxiety, OCD, dissociative symptoms and heavily suspected autism. I worked in research from 2019 to 2024, and recently had to leave the field due to increasing difficulties with my disabilities that left me physically incapable of meeting the demands of benchwork science.

This blog is where I'll post my creative work. If you have questions about my art, writing, or even my previous career in biological research, feel free to throw me an ask. I'm very chatty.

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I'm mostly active on tumblr, but I'll list any other places you can find me (this list will grow):

Carrd

Bluesky

Mastodon

Picarto

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If you like my artwork and would like to pay for a load of laundry for me ($3.50 usd TTnTT), here is my Ko-fi.

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Commission information coming soon!

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Artistic medium preferences (in order of frequency of use): -Typed written material -Various pens, alcohol markers and pencil on paper, mixed media -Medibang paint pro, very old plastic drawing tablet -Gouache -Sewing and fabric paint

[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 

[adultingrefs]

When I was maybe 15, my family and I were playing some board game we had just bought, probably for Thanksgiving or some other holiday or birthday. It was like Pirate Cove or something?

Anyways, you had to get more treasure than everybody else to win, and I was decidedly very bad at the game. At some point I started crying out of frustration and my mother was like, "here, you can have some of my gold," to which I replied, "I don't want your pity-money!"

My mom lost it laughing and the other adults were soon to follow. I thought for sure I had quoted something, but couldn't figure out what. But it turns out I had just said something funny off the top of my head.

To this day, invoking that phrase or a parody thereof is a surefire laugh.

Tell me about a joke that you and your family absolutely lose your shit over that other people would not get.

Tell me about the very unique way you pick on each other.

Or tell me about a pop culture reference your family will never let die and you’ve never heard any other family use it.

*chin on hands* I just love hearing these stories. (I’m obsessed with little loser microcultures like families and very niche fandoms) So lay it on me.

[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.

[never-gohome]

srry been awol

shit's been life so i have been AWOL on here, sorry bout that. i am still slowly working on writing. feel really bad about flaking on the Folie a Deux October writing challenge, still hoping to write the fill just... months late lol.

[schadenfreudich]

Sey are se gender god

[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.

All prices shown in USD. Second characters in a piece are 75% of original price. Donate, save the proof, and directly message me. If you prefer conversation off Tumblr, we can discuss other contact.

Proof under read more. Thank you for reading.

As I write this, $24,552 USD raised of $40,000 has been raised ($0/500).

[mango-peach-strawberry]

The human concept known as love 👽👍

Day 1 of Blorbtober!

[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.

@tvarchive's TV Appreciation Week Day 3: Favorite Couple/Dynamic - Logan and Veronica (Veronica Mars)

[schadenfreudich]

Mars hears the word gender and floats towards the front on her cloud of pillows asking "Gender?" Rudolf, who would rather not get helped with his gender identity crisis by the god of gender (unbelievable, he always asks the god of love for help with love problems), answers with "No?" So Mars floats away again on xer cloud of pillows, hir work was not done but that's nothing fae could change right now.

[holographic-mars]

Losers flirting