#ask me sometime about the first pulsar

[deep-space-netwerk]

Y'all, I'm getting emotional.

One of my absolute favorite astronomical bodies is the Crab Nebula, or Messier 1. The Crab Nebula is a "planetary nebula", which means it's the enormous, beautiful corpse of a once-giant star. The star that formed the Crab Nebula went supernova and exploded in 1054, and was so bright at the time of its death that you could see it from Earth during the day - for almost a month. For that month, it was brighter than every single thing in the sky except the moon and the sun. Some of you have probably heard of it, or have at least seen this Hubble picture:

But how many of y'all have zoomed in?

Inside all of those lovely rainbow clouds is the supernova remnant - a neutron star. A neutron star is made of the densest possible material that we know of - any denser, and it'd collapse the rest of the way into a full-fledged black hole. Neutron stars are so unimaginably dense that they're not even made of an element, not really. The star at the center of the Crab Nebula is one, single atomic nucleus 12 miles in diameter, made entirely of close-packed neutrons. One teaspoon would weigh 10 million tons. Imagine taking a passenger jet, condensing it down to the size of a mote of dust, and then filling a spoon with that dust. And it spins too - 30 times a second. That spinning causes huge jets of material to eject from the poles at half the speed of light. The incredibly powerful magnetic field traps any stray particles and accelerates them in circular paths through the nebula. Just LOOK at this shit! See the ghosty shadows of the jets, stretching from the top left corner to the bottom right?

But what's really making me lose it is this Hubble timelapse. The star is making ripples. Its moving. Its been dead for almost a thousand years, but its still putting on its final, spectacular show.

It never ceases to amaze me that the things we call "dead" stars are some of the most dynamic, energetic, and awe-inspiring objects in the universe. Normal stars are downright STAGNANT compared to what these so-called "stellar remnants" get up to. Maybe we shouldn't be thinking of them as dead stars, but as the next phase in a star's life. Just as caterpillars "end" their mundane lives and metamorphose into something new and strange and capable of flight, these stars destroy themselves to leave behind something far more exotic, playing at the edge of the laws of physics in ways we still don't fully understand.

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

loop de loop <333 i think Loop Doop and Slumber would absolutey be friends but maybe thats just me

what is Loop Doop's role in the plex? :0 and by extension Bloo's and Pulsar's as well?

(also i love their names ahhhh <33 they sound like characters i'd be obssessed with as a kid)

OC ASKS LET'S GO (hoping this triggers my brain into making more stuff about them)-

OH Loop Doop and Slumber would probably absolutely be friends (as soon as she recovers from having to interact with someone who isn't Bloo, of course-most of the other animatronics don't talk to her)!

Loop Doop didn't originally have a role in the Plex, as she was kind of thrown into it as a result of the company merger-she kind of just wandered around for the first few months and followed the staffbots for a little bit before accidentally being thrown into an act (haven't thought of exactly how-most likely some kid started acting up and she pulled some trick to cheer them up). She's sort of her own little attraction in the halls or on the ground floor, doing some tricks or juggling acts or whatever she feels like to entertain wandering kids. She does occasionally do little performances on the side at the Daycare's theatre-comedy bot wasn't creating enough revenue and the DCA was busy, so she's assigned shifts every now and then. She doesn't really like the theatre much, though, too bright and too high up from the audience for her tastes.

Pulsar is a semi-sentient wifi router, an embodiment for the security system, for lack of better terms. It was originally created for its company's smaller locations, but because Fazbear did not care enough to rebrand it, he's plugged into the main server for the building. He has information on guests and staff, doubles as a moving security camera around the plex, and is connected to the plex's database. He also patrols the building at night because frankly, there's nothing else for it to do. Fazbear tried to give it more voicelines so it could give little snippets of information to guests, but none of their technology is compatible with the other company's design (and tinkering with the company's animatronics is in violation of their contract). Pulsar doesn't really do much except flick through the camera feeds and turn off the router or electricity to the building for laughs-he can't get in trouble for it, and he's bored, so why not have a little fun?

Bloo doesn't actually have any function, to be honest. His only core design purpose is to be a water bottle dispenser and storage unit, but someone at the original company gave him an ai chip, and there's no jobs for him to carry out at the plex. Not only that, but he has the mental capacity of a child, so not much they can employ him for. He helps Loop Doop with their act sometimes, but he mainly just wanders around the main attractions and helps guests with directions. Other than that, he hangs out with the more popular animatronics and helps out at the daycare-which is how he meets the DCA and introduces them to Loop Doop.

[prismicnexus]

15 People, 15 Questions

Tagged by @novafire-is-thinking

I have a strange feeling someone has tagged me on this before. If so, my apologies, I'd forgotten.

1. Were you named after anyone?

No, but I think someone else might've been named after me. I am unsure since I haven't asked them, but I have my suspicions.

2. When's the last time you cried?

I do not cry much - it's been a long time since I've cried out of grief. Out of joy, though, about a month ago.

3. Do you have kids?

No, but I'd like to have at least two in the future. I am very fond of children.

4. What sports do you play/have you played?

Football, Basketball, Table Tennis, Volleyball. My favourite would be basketball.

5. Do you use sarcasm?

Sparingly.

6. What's the first thing you notice about people?

Their physical appearance, I suppose, mainly how they dress. After we've talked, the secondary thing would be the tone of their voice.

7. What's your eye color?

Dark brown/black.

8. Scary movies or happy endings?

Happy endings, typically. I have yet to find a scary/horror movie I like/is good - I need recommendations to make a fair judgement.

9. Any talents?

Ah - I sometimes write poetry? But sparingly and only when I feel inspired or need to wind down. Nothing else.

10. Where were you born?

I'd prefer not to specify, but Eastern Africa.

11. What are your hobbies?

Reading, my ever-present solace. Thinking[in every direction], my trusty companion.

12. Do you have any pets?

I have a dog - a German Shepherd ☆

13. How tall are you?

5 ft. 8 in. (1.73 meters).

14. Favorite subject in school?

Physics - though it was vast and, at times, hard to completely grasp(which was ever the annoyance to my must-understand-it-all brain).

Astronomy was, still is, and will ever be my obsession.

15. Dream job?

To be an astronomer. I think my fixation on the cosmos is obvious.

Quasars, Neutron stars, Galaxies, White dwarfs, Pulsars, Black Holes - just look at it all! I have no delusion of understanding everything in the observable universe, but I can't help that it keeps me awake some nights - what's beyond what we know?

Another would be to work on an animation series(2D or 3D) as an artist/animator or writer.

You'd think my options are on whole different spectrums, but hey, dreams are what keep us going, so it's okay to have them.

¤ I'm not quite sure who to tag - anyone who sees this, feel free to join.

[ask-the-celestial-family]

Monty, update on the original original timeline:

Eclipse told Foxy what Monty did with the memory wipe. And what he himself did with the Star. Eclipse also has decided he draws the line at memory wipes, but mass memory alterations are okay. He’s comparing himself to og Monty to make himself look better. It did not work, Foxy thinks both are equally horrible. Og Eclipse thinks og Foxy is neat.

Og Monty kidnapped a child and is keeping them in a test tube in the lab in the woods. There’s also an alien he keeps there that he sometimes wakes up just to hear them beg for their life and beg to go home.

After Eclipse hopefully left for real and didn’t just turn invisible to spy on them, Monty told Foxy about Lunar. That Foxy unfortunately found him at their lowest point. Foxy no linger trusts Monty and left to think about things.

On to Sun and Moon. Gregory is on their side now, because he lost all his memories of them. There are now two Lord Lunar dimensions we know about.

The first, discovered by Gregory during a portal accident. Lunar has the Star, the planet Earth was eaten by a forming Witherstorm blackhole, and he has no idea who Sun or Moom are. The only person he’s had for a long, long time is his Eclipse. Who’s been pretending to be nonsentient since his last failed attempt at swiping the Star. Lord Lunar saw through Servant Eclipse’s act immediately. Servant Eclipse likes to jump into blackholes and threaten dimensional travelers for fun. And inexplicably despises Gregory on sight.

The second, Lunara. Lunara’s Eclipse didn’t like him, and resetting and editing him until he snapped. In October, he got the Star and killed everyone. Everyone. All that’s left is a small cult. Lunara enjoys destruction and murder and despises Eclipse with every fiber of his being. I’m pretty sure he’s still using Moon’s body, too, just altered using the Star.

The Computer left Sun in Lunara’s dimension intentionally when he was trying to meet Lord Lunar. I think they blame Sun for what happened to Moon. And blame New Moon for not being their Moon anymore. Having Killcode taking up so much of their processing power probably isn’t helping them deal with their grief.

First of all, I need to know what it is with Eclipses having an obsession with foxes. First Our Eclipse, then Pulsar with his Foxy, then original Eclipse and original Foxy. -Monty💚

It’s the natural order. Eclipses need someone who will talk them up and any Foxy will absolutely do that no questions asked. -Glamrock Foxy🦊

Anyway, second, I hate original me more and more every single day. That poor child, that poor little alien, they must be so scared. If I were to meet original me, I’m taking his technology away because he’s going too far. I do chaotic things with tech but at least I have limits, I would never test on sentient or live subjects. -Monty💚

Yeah, OG you sounds like an asshole. -Glamrock Foxy🦊

As for the Lord Lunars, we’ll look out for them. Hopefully we don’t have the meet them. -Monty💚

[ix-c-999]

👾 and 👻 for the system asks! (Oh, and also 💬!) -Iryna

👾 - funniest out of context system quote?

Ah man I can't think of any, sorry!

👻 - do your alters/headmates have different voices or speech patterns?

They do! Some of our voices are very similar to the hosts' (Mori, Ted, and Norman sound a lot like Vyvian, and Shockwave, Pulsar, and Peri sound like Venn) but some of us have different accents (Obelisk and Daisy have vaguely German accents, a few of our British fictives don't fully have British accents but do pronounce words differently sometimes, and Kaiper talks with a Transatlantic accent on purpose).

We also have different typing patterns! Vyvian uses "correct" grammar and capitalization, Venn doesn't capitalize things except for Emphasis. Some of us, namely Void entities, capitalize the first Letter of every Noun (we undoubtedly borrowed this from German, which we spent a lot of time trying to learn). Different alters write actions differently (like instead of using asterisks so it doesn't italicize; Vyvian writes it as "-action-", Venn as "[action]", Shockwave as "[[ action ]]", etc.) Some of us also put spaces before punctuation ("Like this !") There seems to be a positive correlation between that typing style and connection to internet aesthetics for some reason.

💬 - free space!! tell me about something!

Sharing this fact because it's your system asking: my system used to have a part of the headspace that looked like part of The Wall movie! You know the Trial part where Ragdoll Pink is completely enclosed by the Wall? There used to be a part of the headspace where I (who was heavily heavily kinning Pink at the time and still do just not as intensely) would go when extremely upset and needed to leave front. For all intents and purposes that shouldn't have been a calming setting but it did work as a sort of time-out room for me as an alter.

[astramthetaprime]

Determining Destinations

I have a tattoo.

I've had it for some years now, and have not regretted getting it done. It's a simple design, done only in black ink. I've thought about getting it colored in off and on through the years, since when folks see it they sometimes ask if I'm going to get it colored in at some point. It's a simple three armed spiral enclosed in a circle. The inspiration was from the center of the Buddhist "Wheel of the Law" symbol.

The Dharmachakra

I meant it to symbolize a couple different meanings. One was the Dharmachakra itself, the Eightfold Path of the Buddha that it represents, and all my faith means to me. An acknowledgement that there is suffering in the world, and there is a way out of suffering, and that the path out of suffering involves a great deal of changing one's mind.

The second meaning to me is in some ways even more personal. To me, this symbol is a stylized black hole at the center of a spiral galaxy. Spiral galaxies are symbols to me of the path of mortal life. One begins in the empty void, gathers from dust to become a lifebearing world, along the way passing through lifetimes of being dead rock. One may come to be a star, a nebula, a magnetar or pulsar. Eventually, one spirals in increasing brilliance into the nothingness once again, but in full cognizance that this is not the end. Somewhere, it will be a beginning.

The stars above us, the galaxies upon galaxies that suffuse this universe, all of them speak of life and transformation. They are the templates of existence, no matter how small or abstract. Example after example, echoing in fractal mystery in every direction for further than our best technology can see. We will never see the end of it.

The universe will hit us over the head with all this glory until we see it, until we sing with it.

I'm doing my best with my little stories about friendly robots and scheming AIs and unexpected empires.

I want to share these stories. I want to let them loose into the world. It isn't anything insurmountable. I know what to do. What holds me back is the urge to preserve what you have. Don't rock the boat. Don't try. Because failure is much more common than success, and failure is cause for shame and doubt.

But I know I'm a good writer. Thousands of people have read my fanfiction and left hundreds if not thousands of kudos. Many have even left glowing reviews, and I rejoice in each one. I know I'm a good writer.

There are so many paths before me. How does an asteroid determine where to go? It's all acceleration and gravity and centers of mass. It's all mathmatics.

It's all fate.

Five years ago I stood on the sand between the spot where Apollo 11 launched to the Moon and the vast rippling endlessness of the Atlantic Ocean. I'll never be able to go to Bodh Gaya. But I stood on that other holy ground. My holy ground. Our first step to the stars.

All it takes is the courage for that first step. And another. And another. It's all first steps.

One more step toward infinity.

[loverockawaitsyou]

Answer these space questions: asteroid, meteor (please don't feel obliged to give a super personal answer to this one!), black eye galaxy, pulsar, supernova, and quasar! <3

Hey anon,

Thank you for sending me the ask! Here are my answers:

Asteroid: My ideal life is where I don't have to be beholden to someone when it comes to work. I want to be able to write and create without having to worry about money... and I want to live where I want. Right now, I'm really feeling a seaside home in the Pacific Northwest! I haven't seen my family, so I want to be able to see them regularly. I live/work in a toxic situation, so I want nothing more to not really have to truly work for anyone.

Meteor: Hmmm. Something I don't normally don't divulge to a lot of people is the fact that I am a late bloomer... My first time was when I was 27, 3 weeks before I turned 28. Sometimes I wish I was more experienced, and occasionally, I want to make up for lost time. Very ironic since I work in the adult entertainment industry.

Black Eye Galaxy: I kind of believe in love at first sight. There were a few people I've seen in my life where I was like, wowzers! And the first guy I ever really loved, I saw his photo in a blog post (I saw his photo in the company website) before I met him---and I kind of felt that he would be important. And I do believe in the case of parenthood, love at first sight, exists there too.

Pulsar: In the next 10 years, I'd love to make a living doing what I love, be married, and maybe have a kid or two.

Supernova: One thing I want to do before I die is finish a "great" novel. I've written numerous things over the years, but I've barely completed any long-form work besides my fanfic.

Quasar: I'm not sure of anyone at this time that I want to spend the rest of my life with. There is a guy I'm trying to get over (the one mentioned above), and I thought he would be it, but due to our economic circumstances and backgrounds, it probably won't work.

[atamascolily]

An Appointment in Sawarra, 9/?

In which Luke is sorely vexed.

(previously: one two three four five, six seven eight)

The official reason they wouldn't let him fly the X-wing through the Ring--their name for the neutron star cluster--was safety, though Luke suspected security and paranoia were equal concerns. His brain turned to mush from the interminable paperwork, Luke met this turn of unexpected turn of events with as much grace as he could muster.

It wasn't as if he had much in the way of luggage--just the simple rucksack he'd packed with a few changes of clothes, back when he'd thought this would be a simple trip out and back again. He should have known it wasn't going to work out that way.

<i>"I have a feeling you may be gone longer than you think,</i> Mara had said back on Coruscant. Her hunch had been spot-on. Luke was starting to get the same feeling--though like her, he wasn't sure whether it was good or bad yet.

If Karrde's contact could help him with the uneti seeds, all of this would be worth it. If not--well, he'd been on wild bantha chases on much less cause. And perhaps he could use the time in transit to learn more about his mysterious hosts.

The journey through the Ring was uneventful to the point of boring. In theory, Luke was allowed the run of the transport. In practice, they treated him as a bizarre cross between an honored guest and a poltical prisoner, and he didn't understand why.

Luke's attempts to coax out information out of the rank and file proved fruitless. The crew pretended that he wasn't there, with no eye contact or acknowledgement of his presence unless he spoke to them directly. Even then, they were curt almost to the point of rudeness, reverting to cursory nods or gestures whenever possible. Despite the translator box looped prominently around Luke's wrist, they refused to speak anything but simple Basic in his presence, making conversation about anything more complex than the direction to the 'fresher impossible.  

Eventually, he gave up and retreated to his assigned quarters for the remainder of the journey. The room was simple and spartan, the only spots of color a holographic image of a flower arrangement and calligraphy scroll on the shelf over the bed. Luke didn't recognize any of the flowers, and the translator was voice-only, leaving him effectively illiterate--an oversight, he realized now. He sat cross-legged on the bed and tried to meditate, but he couldn't let go of the thoughts swirling around his head.  

Why had the authorities let him enter Sawarran space if they clearly didn't want him? Either they weren't as xenohobic as Leia and Winter had claimed, or they had mellowed considerably since throwing off the Empire and declaring their independence. Neither of those explanations fit the evidence. Why, then, had they made an exception for him? Because he was a Jedi?

Luke had grown used to people treating him differently once they learned he was a Jedi--sometimes with awe and reverence, sometimes with gestures to ward off the evil eye. The customs agents been intrigued, but not impressed, by Luke's lightsaber and his claimed occupation. It was his connection to Yoda, of all people--a direct, tangible connection, as teacher and student--that had captured their attention.

What was Yoda to these people? And, more importantly, <i>why</i>?  

Their arrival in Ri'tarn City a few hours after local dawn was routine to the point of anticlimax. Luke didn't know what he'd expected--a parade? a riot? another horde of bureaucrats?--but there was nothing and no one waiting for him at the docking bay. He was escorted politely but firmly off the ship by the crew and abandoned outside in the bustling street.

"Hey!" Luke shouted at their rapidly retreating figures. "What am I supposed to do now?"

The leader turned back long enough to shrug and gestured off to the side. "Temple that way," he said in Basic, and hastened off after the rest of his squad.

Luke stared, blinking in the morning sunlight, as the crowd bustled around him on the cobbled street past elegant wooden townhouses with open-air shops on the lower levels. They'd let him come here, to a place where foreigners were never supposed to come... and now they were letting him wander around unsupervised?

Then again, he thought, taking in the dark skin and voluminous, colorful robes in the press of people around him, maybe the authorities didn't need to hold his hand to track his movements. Between his pallor and his tightly cut clothing, he stood out like a Wookiee at a Jawa family reunion.

He was relieved and confused to be left to his own devices so abruptly---and, he had to admit, more than a little insulted. He'd been prepared for anything--except, apparently, total indifference. No one in the bustling street was paying the slightest bit of attention to him, the crowd parting around him like a crowd of Coruscanti swoop-bike racers around a cloudcutter.

That, too, was unnerving.

He was alone on a strange planet outside the New Republic's jurisdiction--and, thanks to the pulsars of the Ring, no means to contact anyone on the outside should things go sideways, except through the Force.

Thankfully, <i>that</i> still worked. He could probably reach Leia in a pinch if he violated some taboo by mistake, though she wouldn't thank him if he ended up triggering an intergalactic incident.

<i>Why am I here? What do THEY think I'm supposed to do?</i>

<i>Pay your respects</i>, the head customs agent had said.

"My respects to what?" Luke said aloud. "Yoda is <i>dead</i>. How does this even make <i>sense</i>?"

The crew's mention of a temple intrigued him. Perhaps there were answers waiting for him there. But that wasn't why he was here. He needed to find Dr. Mendoza at the university and ask her about the seeds. Maybe she could help with the other mysteries, too.

But he had to find her first.

***

Luke had assumed it would be easy enough to locate the university with the address Karrde had given him, but it quickly became clear that Ri'tarn City, like everything else in this system, was determined to make even simple tasks an ordeal. Whatever rhyme, reason or logic underlay the streets was nothing like standard grid/level system for ships, stations, and Coruscanti high-rises. Signs were few and far between, not that he could read them anyway.

Meanwhile, the inhabitants seemed intent on thwarting his efforts through sheer indifference. As with the transport crew, none of them would acknowledge his presence unless Luke forced them to. Even then, they refused to meet his eyes or say much beyond the simplest gestures when he asked for directions. Even the wooden seal representing his visa didn't impress them.

The only exception to the general impassivity were the children, who stared openly as he passed, pointing in his direction and giggling among themselves, only to flee if Luke approached them. The contrast between the stoic adults and their offspring made the former's stoic unconcern even eerier.

The sun inched its way across the sky overhead, bright and hot as he wended his way through the streets, increasingly lost and confused. He was thirsty, but there was no sign of water anywhere, and none of the shops he passed would serve him.

A high, piercing alien cry came from overhead. Luke looked up to see feathery lizards gliding overhead, a welcome breeze breaking the heat with a distinctive salt tang. Was it his imagination, or were those ocean waves in the distance?

Out of ideas, he wended his way in the direction of the flying lizards, hoping it would somehow get him to the university. The docks didn't seem like the typical site for an institution of higher learning, but maybe the Sawarrans did things differently here. Either that, or the entire population was in on some big joke they weren't going to share with Luke.

He came around the corner to find himself on the edge of a stark, man-made seawall a dozen meters above the bay--or would be a bay if there were any water in it. A bare tidal flat stretched to the horizon in an endless expanse of sand, a mockery to his hopes. There was no sign of anything even remotely approaching a university, only crabs skulking in and out of their burrows as they dodged the attentions of flocks of hungry lizards wheeling and diving from above.

"Maybe I should have gone to the temple after all," Luke said, to no one in particular, slumping against the wall.

He was tired and thirsty, light-years from home on a strange planet where no one would meet his eyes, let alone talk to him. He'd been here for hours there was no sign of Karrde's contact, and now he was faced with yet another dead end. <i>How did I get into this mess?</i> he wondered, not for the first time.  

He hadn't been this off-balance since--since his first trip to Dagobah, actually. <i>Maybe that's why they like Yoda so much</i>, Luke thought sourly. <i>Or maybe they're testing me, the way Yoda tested me at first?</i>

<i>I failed that test back then. I won't fail this one, too.</i>

He had to be missing something, something obvious.

He leaned against the sea wall, and stared out into the distance, struggling to calm his racing thoughts. <i>Think. Think. Think. There's got to be some sort of key. What am I missing here?</i>

Something shimmered on the edge of the horizon.

<i>Wait.</i>

It wasn't his imagination. There was a tower rising out of the tidal flat, with what looked to be a small city at its base, far enough away that he hadn't noticed it on first glance.

There were no signs at this distance, of course, but Luke <i>knew</i> what he was looking at. It was the university. Had to be. What <i>else?</i> could it be?

He squinted. There was no bridge or road leading to the tower from the mainland. The buildings rose out of the sand, shimmering like a desert mirage in the afternoon heat, completely disconnected from the mainland.

"You have got to be kidding me," Luke said in dismay.

It made a weird kind of sense, though. Who needed roads when you had speeders? Or, when the tide was in, boats.

Luke scanned his surroundings. He was alone on the sea wall, the wind whipping through his hair, lacking both a speeder and a boat. The only way he was going to get out to that hazy tower on the horizon was under his own power.

This was stupid and crazy and pointless, and he ought to just give up and go home, but it was too late for that. He'd come this far.

But he'd done plenty of stupid things over the course of his life, both before and after joining the Rebellion. And at least this time, nobody was shooting at him.

"All right, then," Luke sighed. "I guess I'm doing this."

He stripped off his boots and socks, and stuffed them into his rucksack, wishing he'd brought a hat to protect himself from the broiling sun. Then he jumped down onto the tidal flat, landed with a roll, and set off barefoot across the sandy expanse towards the tower.

[scoundrels-in-love]

Venus, Rigel, Hydra, Tadpole Galaxy, and Pulsar?

Ooo, thank you for asking, sweets!! (I will answer that music ask eventually!! I swear.)

Venus: What’s your first language? Latvian, the language of my tiny country of Latvia.

Rigel: Have you ever gone on a rollercoaster? Yes, when I was... I can’t remember exact age, but probably like 5-7 and it was like, a travelling attraction park and I went on 2 different rollercoasters (one with my mom and other with my sibling) and did not enjoy either particularly. I think my yet unrealized fear of heights attributed to that. I think I actually thought something like ‘I thought this was supposed to be fun?’ when I got off, lol.

Tadpole Galaxy: Would you deny a relationship/friendship? That’s an interesting question. I’ve definitely turned people down in romantic sense, so there is that. Sometimes it’s been just strongly impying I’m not interested in general even before the offer was explicitly made. But I don’t think I ever have turned down someone trying to approach/converse with me in attempt to befriend me. Time and the connection sparking up or fizzling out usually sorts out the rest, sometimes in most unexpected ways (for the better). I’ve turned down (ignored) old abuser attempting to strike up friendship again, though. I think there are situations under which I could do it, for example if it was obvious the person is racist, homophobic or so on, though I don’t think they’d approach me with genuine intent to befriend me in the first place and I might be open to conversation nonetheless. Ah, to think! Related to first, I’ve turned out some friendship attempts when all they were was thinly veiled attempt to get me change my mind about relationship aspect. (Like, I just don’t enjoy people being pushy and unable to think beyond one thing, especially if you can picture just how that happens online.) Or like, I used to reject all friendship requests on one site if they had not talked with me before because that’s how I could see if they’d be just mental dickpic guy or someone I can actually be friends with and I didn’t need the friendlist clutter.

Pulsar: What do you hope to do in the next 10 years? To find peace. With myself. My regrets. The world.

To create a place and sense of stability & security for myself.

To be a person who can give happiness and stability to others.

And from that, I hope my own happiness can be born.

If, along the way, I could learn to write again, that would really, truly be beautiful.

Send me a space thing?<3

[dorks6]

Mars (only if you don't mind answering), Canopus, Aries, Comet Galaxy, Pulsar I hope these will make you feel a little better💕

Hii, thank you for asking and yes, it’s super late now, but my night’s better, too.

Mars: What’s your sexuality? I still can’t pinpoint it exactly, but somewhere on those sweet aspec-arospec scales, with a side of possible bi-ness? Something like that anyway, I typically just say ace/aspec for simplicity’s sake since that’s one I feel absolutely confident in. I like being aspec lots and have never really tried to hide it so~

Canopus: Have you ever broken a bone? Yes, on my first day of a new kindergarden, I got on the very top of this tall ladder, looking at airplane flying overhead and decided that I, who has barely ever done stuff like this, can climb over to other side like the other kids, ignoring my mom’s warning about my slippery shoes. And I fell from like... 2 meters something height? I am not sure. Anyway, I broke and dislocated my right shoulder, the caretakers were busy chatting and didn’t listen to me, then finally took me to nurse who deemed me whiny kid and I was afraid to get scolded epicly, so I hid the whole ordeal from mom until next morning when I couldn’t move the arm at all anymore (as it had already began quickly and wrongly heal). And so it got broken open again to get fixed and my shoulder has been hurting as if I was 60 since I was 18.

Aries: Favourite movie? Answered here!

Comet Galaxy: Have you ever had to leave a relationship because someone changed too much? I’ve not dated, so I will take this on with friendship type of relationship angle. And not that I can think of. I’ve left friendships because people have shown me their true colors, though, which sometimes initially felt like ‘they changed and radically so’ or because they slowly sank into some of their tendencies, but not in the most typical sense, no.

Pulsar: What do you hope to do in the next 10 years? To find peace. With myself. My regrets. The world. To create a place and sense of stability & security for myself. To be a person who can give happiness and stability to others. And from that, I hope my own happiness can be born. If, along the way, I could learn to write again, that would really, truly be beautiful.

Send me a space thing?<3

[theoriesofuniverses]

multiple universes theory basis

In theories, there’s this huge hype about time travel which I think is not the main case with BU. Just because, you know, in The Notes Jin literally says “I wish I could turn back the time”. “I wish” meaning he cannot do that. At least, not with the universe he’s currently in.

They don’t travel time, I believe. They travel universes and dreams. Most likely, when one of their dream-but-not-really universes comes to an end, it explodes, like a supernova, creating a beautiful moment of a new star.

Something that can be called the most beautiful moment in star’s life.

I think there is a certain something they must learn in each and every universe they’re stuck in. They should evolve to some stage. And then the universe explodes, like a dream, and they fall further down into the black rabbit’s hole. Further and further away from each other. Because even while they seem to be in one universe, they’re actually separated.

Metaphorically, I guess the characters can also be considered stars. They collapse at one point or another, creating black holes. They flash like an explosion, shine for some time, and then they become nothing. This can be viewed as a dark description of human destiny.

Alternatively, they make a mistake, and the universe is gone, but not without affecting other universes. This can be explained by the butterfly effect and singularity system theory. Also, there can be different types of universes, such as parallel, quantum, and so on, and they’re saved for later. I maybe kinda also have a theory on how they ended up in this kind of affair, so stay tuned.

First, the space references that clicked me to think about universes. I’m only going to look at them in this post because there’s gonna be a second part which is less astronomic and hence needs to be separated. They are the most apparent in the DNA MV as a whole.

As well as the lyrics: “From the day of the universe’s creation, through the infinite centuries and on, in the previous life and maybe the next too we’re forever together”. “Infinite centuries” and “in the previous life” make a perfect sense to me if you look at them from my perspective.

So, here are the space elements which I think support my theory of multiple universes in one way or another.

Glitch. Remember the Glitch Party? It was expressed differently though. I have seen a lot of people dismissing one of the definitions for “glitch” because it was way too complicated. Wiki describes it as “a sudden increase in the rotational frequency of a rotation-powered pulsar”. Literally, there is a star which rotates with a certain frequency, and then suddenly does it quicker. I think it’s not important as a unique concept, but is given more like a clue. It was the first thing that pointed me towards-

Supernovae. In astronomy, supernovae happen roughly when a very heavy star reaches the final stages of its evolution and explodes. It makes things seem like a “new” bright star has just appeared, but then it fades away (which gave me the basis; the characters in the BU, are they the shining stars?)  

Fun fact: there is a prediction that a supernova will appear in the sky in 2022 (made by DailyMail but still). Does year 22 ring a bell?

And if you’re still not convinced, you can take a look at my low-quality screenshot of the DNA MV.

And then, look at what a supernova looks like.

3. Space-time and gravitational singularity. Gravitational singularity is a location in space-time, in which a body’s density becomes infinite and does not depend on the coordinate system (in other words, on the point of view). As I understood it, a singularity forms at the center of a black hole. Space-time per se is a model that puts three dimensions of space and one dimension of time into one four-dimensional space. There is even a theory that time is an illusion and is just used as a coordinate system so that our universe would work.

This is what BS&T Japanese looks like

And this is the space-time model

So, this is it for the post. To sum things up: the action of the entire Bangtan Universe doesn’t happen in one single universe, but in many different, and I’ve just listed some of the reasons why I think so.

You can ask me for some explanations, and I’ll make sure to answer you and fix the post.

I hope I was able to make myself clear. Sometimes my mind just made huge leaps without any explanation, so I had to go back and stare at myself like “tf u talking bout”, and it all came with a huge amount of googling and clicking random links on wikipedia. If I’m not clear, you can always yell at me.

P.S. The theory of the multiple universes was the only way to somehow connect the disconnected pics we are getting. Sorry if it’s confusing for someone.

[noonetosmilefor]

space asks.

thank you @uneven-odds for asking me to answer these. <3

Planets: Life

Mercury: What’s your full name? - Christina Tamara .... 

Venus: What’s your first language? - German.

Earth: Where’s your home? - Near Vienna in Austria.

Mars: What’s your sexuality? - Heterosexual.

Jupiter: Do you have any siblings? - Yes, 2 younger sister.

Saturn: Any pets? - A lot of cute cats.

Uranus: What’s your hobby? - Listening to music, concerts, traveling.

Neptune: When’s your birthday? - 11th of July, 1995.

Pluto: What time is it right now where you are? - 22:53.

Moon: What are you currently studying/hope to study? - My life. Nothing.

Stars: Experiences

Sun: Have you ever had alcohol? - Yes.

Sirius: Have you ever failed a class? - No.

Rigel: Have you ever gone on a rollercoaster? - Yes.

Deneb: Have you ever been out of your home country? - Yes.

Arcturus: Have you cried out of something other than sadness? - Yes.

Betelgeuse: What’s something you can never forget about? - This summer.

Aldebaran: What’s something you care desperately about? - My family & friends.

Canopus: Have you ever broken a bone? - Yeah, a lot.

Bellatrix: Have you ever been forced to lie/keep a secret? - Yes.

Alphard: Have you ever lost a friend? - Yes.

Vega: What’s something you’ve done that you wish you hadn’t? - Uh, that’s a secret.

Constellations: Favourites

Centaurus: Favourite holiday? - Halloween.

Orion: Favourite month? - October.

Cassiopeia: Favourite book? - Noah.

Delphinus: Favourite study? - Uhhhhh..

Hercules: Favourite instrument? - Piano.

Gemini: Favourite song? - Jasey Rae.

Pegasus: Favourite place to be? - Wherever my loved ones are. Brighton.

Libra: Favourite colour? - Blue.

Phoenix: Favourite thing to wear? - Long shirts.

Aries: Favourite movie? - Spiderman: Homecoming.

Cygnus: Favourite weather? - Rainy/stormy.

Hydra: Favourite sound? - Rain.

Galaxies: Love/Friends  

Milky Way: Who’s your oldest friend? - My best friend, Marci.

Andromeda: Do you consider yourself social? - Ah not really.

Black Eye Galaxy: Do you believe in love at first sight? - No.

Cartwheel Galaxy: When was your first kiss? - 13 I guess.

Cigar Galaxy: How’s your flirting skills? - Ah, okay.

Comet Galaxy: Have you ever had to leave a relationship because someone changed too much? - Yes.

Pinwheel Galaxy: Would you date the last person you talked to? - No.

Sombrero Galaxy: Do you have a crush right now? - No.

Bode’s Galaxy: Have you ever had a secret admirer? - Yes.

Sunflower Galaxy: Would you date/make friends with someone out of pity? - No.

Tadpole Galaxy: Would you deny a relationship/friendship? - No.

Whirlpool Galaxy: Have you ever cried over a breakup? - Yes.

Other stuff: Wishes

Comet: What’s your big dream? - To be truly happy with my life.

Asteroid: What does your dream life look like? - Me being happy and traveling around the world with people I love.

Meteor: What’s something you wish you could tell, but can’t? - Sometimes I’m really closed even towards my friends because I don’t want to bother them and I don’t talk to someone about how I really feel.

Nebula: If you could undo one thing in your life, what would it be? - Leaving school.

Shooting Star: If you could bring back one thing, what would it be? - Drake & Josh.

Pulsar: What do you hope to do in the next 10 years? - Be happy, travel a lot, attending concerts.

Supernova: What’s one thing you want to do before you die? - Traveling somewhere completely alone.

Quasar: If you could spend the rest of your life with only one person, who would it be? - Hm, idk. I couldn’t chose tbh, but if I really had to it’d be my sister.

Wormhole: What’s something you wish would happen, but know won’t? - That I’m getting rich all of a sudden haha.

Black Hole: What’s the last thing you want to see? - Idk.

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

Profile Info, I guess

Guess it's time I made this cuz I don't wanna see certain things on here.

Okay, how do I do this...

Right, um. Hi, I post literally whatever comes to mind, which is mostly random polls and thoughts on stuff. I do post thoughts and bad art about stuff, but not usually. Call me minute, I guess that works. I go by she/her.

To be 100 percent clear, no racism, sexism, queerphobia, extremism, etc. I support LGBTQ+ communities, all that fun stuff. Also, no sexual crap on here, please. If you're into that, okay, just don't be on here because I'm not. (Seriously, do NOT interact at ALL if that kinda stuff is what’s on your blog, please and thank you.)

I'm essentially fine with whatever you believe in, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone physically, mentally or emotionally. If you're shoving your opinion down my or someone else's throat, get out please.

Okay, moving on, I dunno how to do this, so bear with me here.

Right, so, I post polls and thoughts and stuff. I appreciate reblogs and comments, I like hearing people's ideas and perspectives. Asks are on for now, if any one at any point breaches these terms they go off.

Editing this for the first time. I do have a small fic I upload on tumblr only, might as well link that here so people don't have to scroll for it. It's called Where the Stars Don't Shine, that's also how it's tagged on here. I'll reblog the og chapter link post every time I upload a new chapter, but the master thing for it is here.

Edit: This is up on ao3 now! Link is here.

Psst. Second edit. I have ocs now. Look at my beautiful creations.

Pulsar

Loop Doup & Bloo

Wow, third edit. Here's some aus you can ask me about (expect rambling):

Narnia Au

Witch Au

Su au (very dead, but I still have ideas about it)

Truman Show au

Oh right also this here Dentist Au (it's not an au, I'm putting it here so I don't lose it again. You can stil ask questions about it tho)

Any other written ideas go under an 'au idea' or 'drabbles' tag (they're not drabbles, but that's where they go).

Yeah, that's all I can think of. I'm not a frequent poster (by that I mean I’ll be on for like 3 straight weeks and then won’t show up for a couple days), and barely anyone sees what I post, but I don't really care. Just don't send explicit or insulting crap and we'll get along fine.

(I follow the fnaf DCA fandom, and sometimes Undertale stuff. I like the Mouse Detective, Sherlock Holmes and Watson stuff, and Sonic the Hedgehog, in that order. Oh yeah also The Amazing Digital Circus is really cool and possibly a new hyper-fixation.)

[defendersincorrectquotes]

nebula, saturn, and pulsar ^_^

Nebula: Put your iTunes on shuffle, give me the first 5 songs that pop up         I already did this but I’m still listening to music so might as well do it again

The Antique Store- Johannes Bornlöf

Do You Wanna Hang- Be More Chill the Musical

House of Memories- Panic! At The Disco

Everything’s Alright- Jesus Christ Superstar (I did this show at my school and I almost cried when it came on, partially due to memories mostly bc it was everyday for 4 months murder me)

Tied Down- Jaymes Young

Saturn: What do you think about before falling asleep?         It’s hella predictable but I normally think about stories I’m writing or want to write. It’s sometimes character backstories, other times plots or specific scenes but it’s always something writing related. 

Pulsar: What kind of person do you want to be?         That’s a tough question. I think a simple answer would be a better version of myself but it’s a little more complicated than that. There are parts of myself I want to change, like I want get over my social awkwardness and my anxiety, I don’t want to be depressed anymore, I want to be a better performer, try not o judge as much, stop bottling up my feelings. But then there are things I want to acquire, I want to be a natural flirt, be able to make jokes quickly, be able to play sports. I want to be someone confident, charming, and witty. I want to be someone people will look at one day and think ‘Wow I want to be like them’ 

Wanna ask me space questions?💫💫💫

[alicesalley]

Okay I got asked to do this ask meme a long time ago and I’ve just started seriously working on it but here are the first 25! 1: when you have cereal, do you have more milk than cereal or more cereal than milk?

More cereal than milk because I don’t put milk in my cereal (I’m mildly allergic and also just not a fan).

2: do you like the feeling of cold air on your cheeks on a wintery day?

I really do. I don’t get to experience it much here in SoCal and I really miss it from when I used to live in colder places.

3: what random objects do you use to bookmark your books?

Scraps of paper and business cards mostly. Back when I used to only wear reading glasses sometimes I’d use my glasses case as a bookmark. Occasionally I’ll use my phone.

4: how do you take your coffee/tea?

I’m gonna be honest here, despite how much I’m constantly asking for sips from everybody’s coffee (@Sara) I really really don’t like coffee!! I generally don’t drink tea that I haven’t made myself and when I make it myself I don’t put anything in it and the strength of the tea depends on what purpose I’m taking it for. Like if I’m making a tea for sleep the strength of it is going to be based on how strong of a sedative I need.

5: are you self-conscious of your smile?

I am but I’ve been smiling and laughing a lot more recently and it’s been really nice. I haven’t been thinking about what I don’t like about it in the moment.

6: do you keep plants?

I have a few cacti right now and I really like them. I’ve always kept plants throughout my youth and sometimes I get to go back to my mother’s place and see the plants I had when I was younger flourishing. I live in an apartment right now but I plan to move into a house soon and I hope to be able to get a lot more plants.

7: do you name your plants?

Kind of? I play this game called Viridi where I have virtual plants and sometimes I like to name those but I don’t name my actual plants.

8: what artistic medium do you use to express your feelings?

I use a lot of different kinds of mediums recreationally but if I truly need to express my feelings then I use poetry. A kind of prose poetry that’s still structured somewhat unusually for true prose.

9: do you like singing/humming to yourself?

I’m kind of really self-conscious about doing both but lately I’ve been singing with my friends more and it’s been really nice.

10: do you sleep on your back, side, or stomach?

I like to either sleep on my back or my side if I’m sleeping alone. If I’m sleeping with someone else it’s a lot nicer to sleep on my side, like, spooning them or even back to back but I do get better sleep when sleeping on my back in that situation. It’s really rare for me to be able to fall asleep on my stomach.

11: what’s an inner joke you have with your friends?

Oh man, there are so many! My friends like to make fun of something I say as a joke when someone is like, super stressing me out by saying something ridiculous. You should ask them about it.

12: what’s your favorite planet?

That’s a really hard one! I’m a big fan of Gliese 876 d, it’s about 15 light-years away and is in the constellation of Aquarius. It’s really not very massive for an exoplanet and actually when it was discovered had the lowest mass of any exoplanet discovered (besides the ones orbiting Lich. By the way, a pulsar called Lich, cool name right? I definitely prefer it to “PSR B1257+12” one of its other names). We had to make some assumptions about the planet to get a mass that wasn’t just the lower limit but if we assume it’s roughly coplanar (orbits in the same plane) as the outer planets of its star we can get a value of about 6.83 Earth masses. Now, I saved the best part for last, this planet is probably terrestrial. And based on two different models either is hot enough to have lava oceans, or has a pressurized liquid water ocean below which there is a layer of ice between it and the core. In the second model there would actually be an atmosphere with water vapor and oxygen. We don’t know enough about the planet or the system to know which model is accurate though but both are awesome!

13: what’s something that made you smile today? I’ll say two things because even though I’m fairly early in my day it’s been really nice. One of my friends sent me a random meme which he does a lot to just make me happy. Another of my friends has now been dubbed the “tag princess” and I find that hilarious.

14: if you were to live with your best friend in an old flat in a big city, what would it look like?

(Preface: I have two best friends I’d like to live with). It’d probably have a lot of bookshelves. A garden is a necessity as are window seats. I’d really like it to be somewhere rainy with a nice view either of a park or the city scape. A fireplace would be nice, a real wood burning one. I’d like a lot of wood in the interior and despite the garden there’d probably be some plants inside. I think she’d like a bathtub and so would I. He’s pretty insistent on a tin roof so I’d try to work that in. Overall though it’s not really important to me what it looks like as long as my friends are there.

15: go google a weird space fact and tell us what it is!

I think one a lot of people don’t know is that despite being so close to the sun Mercury has water ice. It’s in permanently shadowed craters.

16: what’s your favorite pasta dish?

I love spaghetti and meatballs! To be quite honest the main thing I like about it is how sauce of the meatballs can blend with the taste of the pasta, I’m not really so much of a fan of pasta by itself in any situation.

17: what color do you really want to dye your hair?

Silver or white! I’d really love white hair.

18: tell us about something dumb/funny you did that has since gone down in history between you and your friends and is always brought up.

Ah man, once again there are so many. There’s the time where I forgot what an egg was? That gets brought up A LOT.

19: do you keep a journal? what do you write/draw/ in it?

I keep a document on my computer of any projects I might want to do.

20: what’s your favorite eye color?

I like blue and green a lot but I think blue is my favorite? For a while I figured this was mostly in concept because I don’t really look people in the eyes but I realized recently that somehow almost everyone I’ve crushed on has had blue eyes so I guess I notice it on some level?

21: talk about your favorite bag, the one that’s been to hell and back with you and that you love to pieces.

My mother gave me a small purse that I really like, I wouldn’t say that I love it to pieces because I don’t really like bags that much but I do wear this one a lot.

22: are you a morning person?

I am decidedly Not a morning person. It can be really nice to be up in the morning though when it is so quiet and the sun is still low in the sky. It’s just, I’m always so exhausted.

23: what’s your favorite thing to do on lazy days where you have 0 obligations?

It’s nice to lay in bed and read or watch a movie. Talk with friends.

24: is there someone out there you would trust with every single one of your secrets?

I don’t think there’s anyone I know well enough right know that I would trust with every one of my secrets but there are two people I’d trust with most.

25: what’s the weirdest place you’ve ever broken into?

I haven’t really broken into any places that were weird but I broke into a toilet paper dispenser in one of the dorms at college and stole a toilet paper roll for a bit. Well, I returned it. It’s more like borrowing. It was for a good cause.

[pkrs-fr]

wisteria whirls: the shortcut edition

Alright, I’m lazy as hell and have realized I’m never going to get my lore together (at least in a timely fashion). I really want to send out a general idea of what’s happening in my clan because I’m sick of half my dragons and want to do a lair purge, but can’t without a Lore Reason because it’d bother me. So here’s the abbreviated version of What’s Going Down and What Has Gone Down, feat. the snarky tone I use when I really don’t want to be writing stuff and can’t take things seriously.

My clan lore revolves around two struggles for the most part: “how many familiars is Enough” and “what are the limits of humanity” or something like that. Y’know. Just “is what we’re doing SERIOUSLY a moral thing to do”, applied to a whole bunch of situations. What’s a story?

Oh also here’s the page with lore and titles and stuff. Fancy.

1. In the beginning, there was Titania, a Fae who hatched in the realm of the Arcanist and wandered for years before meeting Solus. Solus was kind of a jerk but hey he was better than wandering and their magic apparently worked well together to make a bunch of little dragonbabies. They settled in the Crystalspine Reaches and quickly made long-distance allies in Wind and Lightning. These Wind and Lightning clans sent Notturna and Aya respectively. Notturna helped Titania with day-to-day duties, and Aya used his knowledge of. Another clan, one from Light, sent a hatchling named Marimba.

Titania found the Auction House went on a journey around the fringes of the Starfall Isles and rescued a bunch of kids. Byzantium, Aster, Opalus, Tiay, and Geode. Byzantium and Aster bonded with Marimba quickly and became the clan’s fighters. Opalus became an alchemist, and Tiay and Geode became interior and fashion designers respectively. Gotta make this lair livable SOMEHOW.

However, something quickly became apparent and that something was “Solus is a racist prick”. In his eyes, none of these new additions to the clan were valid members of Arcane because they came from other flights. Dude. Chill.

2.  Notturna and Aya mated and kept Auxiliary, who became a healer in training under Aya’s tutelage. Along the way, Notturna found her own out of flight babies, those being Fulgurite (Lightning rep), Julien (clan mascot and woobie), and Pendergast (guy who sits there and is abrasively protective). They also found an old Pearlcatcher named Blake wandering around and being a prick. Although they only meant to shelter him for like three days or something, it got out of hand and now he’s a permanent fixture and no one likes him except Fulgurite for some reason. Like, they mated. And had eggs. So many eggs. Do you want an egg? I don’t want an egg. Please take their eggs.

Anyway a problem was that Pendergast immediately took his charge to be Tiay and was a massive jerk about it. “Don’t come anywhere near her she’s my charge” sort of thing. Another problem was that Blake was a filthy freeloader and we’re not sure why we didn’t kick him out but here he is, 2 years later, still being a dick.

Four more hatchlings came to the clan. Ruby, Leviathan, Phaino, Tridacna, and Tanzanite. Ruby and Leviathan immediately stuck together like glue and refused to stop plotting the clan’s downfall, as tiny troublemakers are wont to do. Phaino went with Opalus to become an apprentice alchemist, Tridacna wanted to become a coli fighter, and Tanzanite also is a freeloader but at least she does jobs that she’s asked to do. (just @ blake next time) Anyway Opalus is like the dad to all these kids now.

3. Even more new dragons. Rhyolite was brought in as an ambassador to Fire, and Fulgurite remained a Lightning ambassador. (To this day I have friends in neither flight.) Adonia came to the clan as well and was tiny and cute so she became the representative and messenger of the clan itself. That’s cool.

Gavotte and Robyn came along as well as Merriam and Gioclase. Gavotte and Robyn became journalists and started documenting what happened in the clan, so that was cool. Merriam was convinced she was a wizard. I don’t know why, don’t ask why. She has zero combat experience and regularly convinces herself that she’s a Nature/Fire/Wind/whatever mage. She’s an Ice dragon. Why is she like this. Gioclase, as a rogue for hire, immediately gravitated to Leviathan and Ruby and they just plotted for weeks on end.

More importantly, there was Fortissimo. Fortissimo was cranky but he had a good reason for that, that being “he’s prone to magical outbursts for no reason that often end up destroying chunks of the lair and he hates it”. He tried to keep that on the down low so no one really paid attention or noticed. He thought Merriam was pretty cute though and also eggs. E G G S

Hirwen and Nacre are also there. I forgot to put this in my outline. Hirwen saw the clan, went “nah”, and then abandoned it for a while. She came back though. Now Nacre, her girlfriend, is sad and full of abandonment issues. Anyway they’re both mechanics.

4. It was my birthday and I hatched one of Fortissimo and Merriam’s nests. The very first child of their entire Coatl/Nocturne 3% Coatl rate was, in fact, a Coatl named Vega. I kept him. He’s my avatar. The IMPORTANT THING IS he also had a brother named Pulsar, who proceeded to wreck things with a giant magical blast. Things happened and basically Fortissimo is now Very Dangerous And Full Of Magic. Vega could stay because he didn’t seem to exhibit any of the magical outburst things, but he was given some semi-parasitic mushrooms to feed off of his magical energy (wait I could make a new lore thing out of this) and keep outbursts from happening.

There was also Theia, who immediately flocked to Under Gavotte and Robyn’s Wings and became an amateur journalist who put on adorable little “okay this is what happened in the clan” things. And Aubade, who was an Imperial for a while and thought it too clunky so he got breed changed to a Fae. Follow your dreams. Aubade tended to see the good in everyone and everything.

Also the fact that Pulsar was taken away from the clan led Vega to develop serious abandonment issues but shhh

5. Aya thought that Solus’s blatant racism was pretty bad so he organized a squad of people to check it out and figure out how to convince everyone else to throw him out. They all wore birdskulls. It was cool.

6. Mie and Shilling came into the clan to work as hoard guards with Mila, an old and cantankerous drill sergeant. About as soon as this happened, Solus started being Extremely Cranky, the worst he’d ever been. Gioclase immediately bailed because he was a cowardly wretch. Mie and Shilling were mostly confused and politely asked to leave, please. (And so they did.) Robyn and Gavotte were screamed at by Solus and understandably left, leaving Theia feeling very alone and sad. Mila left too, mostly because she got bored. Same with Tridacna.

In the meantime, someone realized we had WAY too many dragons in the clan, so we moved to the Starwood Strand. And stayed there. Because the aesthetic is good.

Also I think I had dragons named Linnia and Kranion at some point but I forgot what they did and I sold them anyway so who cares.

7. So by the way our hoard apparently needs guarding. Mie and Shilling did this for a while, watched over by Mila. Unfortunately they all left. Amaris and Amicitia came along later but that’s not relevant right now. But here’s the thing about how our familiars work: Coli enemies are typically just puppets controlled by the Shade at this point, and defeating them drives the Shade out, leaving them lifeless. HOWEVER they sometimes imprint on a warrior dragon and go home with them, but they’re reliant on the magical energy of the dragon to Maybe Not Die. This is unfortunately impractical when your clan has upwards of 800 familiars, so Hirwen and Nacre rigged a device to use the elemental energy contained in festival currency and chests to keep the familiars from dying forever. But no one has to KNOW that.

So that’s why we need a familiar commissioner to watch over them and the hoard guards don’t know why they’re guarding the hoard. It’s very serious business.

8. Along the way somewhere, we picked up a dragon named Acapella, and obviously she was Shade-possessed. I mean there’s a 666 in her ID. I think I just ran with it. Anyway everyone’s suspicious of her and her actions, except maybe Aubade, who started having weird dreams about a singing Mirror child. Coincidentally, Amaris and Karalynn came to the clan. Karalynn’s an astronomer and wanted to investigate the influence of Arcane energies on the study of the stars. She then realized that there was a massive dark patch over the clan’s area of sky, which was worrisome to say the least.

Amaris is tired all the time and has occasionally prophetic dreams. So that’s cool. The prophetic dreams foretold death and destruction in the clan. So that’s not cool.

9. Okay so we finally got a familiar commissioner and his name is Jones. He brought a mate. She’s Pica, a chocolatier. But whoops a daisy, we also have Boysen, a not-pastry chef! The conflict between Pica and Boysen grew to a head and eventually Phaino stepped in to offer Boysen her patronage. Aw, cute. Insularia came to the clan too, a roaming vagabond who was taking shelter. She immediately became suspicious of Leviathan and cozied up with him to figure out his deal. Ruby is jealous. Amicitia came to the clan too, a wide-awake hoard guard to be friends with Amaris, a never-awake hoard guard. They’re not very effective.

For some reason even though Insularia and Amicitia look entirely different they’re related. I don’t know how that happened.

Oh also I finished my breeding projects around this point and got Zayla, Mel, Oliver, Cory, and Nathaniel as OC fandragons. They’re cute. Just imagine them sitting on the sidelines of the lore and going “not dealing with that” every time something happens.

10. If the familiars stay alive because of dragon energy, and Fortissimo has too much dragon energy, what if we made a machine for him to release excess energy into?

That went terribly and now he’s locked in the Vault in a comatose state because he tripped on a wire. Good job team. But in the aftermath there was an egg, which hatched into a quiet little Noc named “Unnamed”. This is because Denizen and Finite, those lovely Guardians who are my lorekeepers and very creepy, found her in the vault and didn’t see a reason to name her. She never speaks, having no reason to. It’s funny because Finite doesn’t speak either. Literally the only one who speaks is Denizen, and even then it’s a sometimes thing. It’s amazing that no one’s gotten suspicious of them yet but here we are.

Anyway Jones is freaking out. But no one can know about this. NO ONE.

11. Acapella actually managed to influence enough of the Shade to like, crawl out and poke Blake a little. Blake then attacked Tanzanite, who was like “okay Blake is a whiny baby not a fighting whiny baby SOMETHING IS WRONG HERE” so they investigated it and found out that it was, indeed, Acapella’s fault. As it tends to be. For some reason no one’s doing anything about this because Aubade is completely convinced that she’s a good person somewhere. Tanzanite got a breed change to be a Bogsneak to combat Acapella’s influence by going where no dragon in the clan had gone before.

12. Meanwhile, Julien, Pendergast, Geode, and Tiay got tired of dealing with the clan and straight-up left. Notturna is really sad over this. Merriam is also really sad over the fact that FORTISSIMO IS MISSING. So now they’re sort of just holding on to each other and scream-crying.

13. Amaris and Karalynn are gay. Amaris manages to take Karalynn up to see the stars, but ends up passing out. So it turns out stuff’s going down behind the scenes, or something. Bad premonitions. Anyway they hurry back to the lair.

14. Re: the familiars, Jones comes to the realization that Fortissimo is only alive in the loosest sense of the word and that it’s most moral to pull the plug on him. So Fortissimo’s dead now. ONE CASUALTY SO FAR, I guess. Jones announces it to the world, Vega and Merriam are heartbroken. However, the Unnamed starts speaking in plain freaking Draconian that “hey by the way I’m the last child please love me” and so on. Anyway she takes the name Myosotis. Because forget-me-nots. Because don’t forget Fortissimo. Ha. Hahaha.

Jones leaves the clan out of guilt and the weird looks everyone’s giving him. Pica goes too because they’re mates and she likes him more than she likes the clan, and also it’s really dangerous these days. Boysen almost leaves because without Pica’s rivalry, there’s no reason for him to stay and spice up his life. Phaino, his mate, is offended.

15. Acapella somehow influences Solus and makes him think he’s a boss or something and he henceforth wreaks havoc on everyone. He’s like racist, but also dangerous and feral now. Aya attempts to intervene, and winds up dead. TWO CASUALTIES. Notturna freaks out, finally takes a stand for herself, and leaves with Auxiliary in order to protect themselves. Blake gives everyone a really long Reason You Suck speech, except it’s just for the clan, and leaves. Fulgurite follows him. Hirwen is mad because SHE wanted to do a Reason You Suck speech but Blake beat her to it and also leaves. Nacre, not knowing what to do with herself, leaves as well, but on a pilgrimage to the Arcanist to figure out what she’s doing with herself.

16. Leviathan and Ruby are doing just fine causing minor chaos, but Ruby’s heart isn’t really in it. She reveals to him that she’s worried, he laughs it off. He stops laughing it off when Solus leaves Ruby near-dead. She leaves the clan feeling alienated and frustrated, and Leviathan acknowledges his mistakes and feels Really Really Bad. Insularia comforts him somewhat, reveals her past, and makes him feel worse. But he’s more self aware? Anyway they become an Actual Couple instead of a Functional One and Leviathan resolves to reform.

17. Aubade continues to insist that Acapella is not actually mean. There’s some pseudo-religious and science things with notes left behind by Hirwen and a lot of puzzling through with Amaris and Karalynn, but long story short the Shade is banished from Acapella. Yay. Aubade, however, realizes that she’s completely vulnerable at this time, and suggests that she goes to follow the Arcanist as well. He accompanies her to work in her service, leaving Vega and Theia sad and somewhat abandoned. Solus no longer has as much Shade-fueled power to Go Forth And Cause Chaos and he’s really upset about that.

18. Did I say “upset” because I meant “REALLY PISSED OFF”. Solus realizes that everyone’s scared of him and is bitterly joyous about it, He intimidates Rhyolite into leaving and tries to kill Amicitia, and nearly succeeds. Wow everything is so dark™ and edgy™ here in the Whirls. But Amaris and Karalynn save Amicitia by… changing his appearance entirely and also he’s kind of a cyborg now. He’s not sure how to feel about this. I’m not sure how to feel about this, and I wrote it. Just bear with me.

19. Titania finally takes charge and screams at Solus to leave the clan. He does. He’s exalted. Bye binch. With that, everything calms down, but no one wants to try and rebuild.

20. Meanwhile my OC fan dragons are like “well this is a thing that is happening” and generally having a good time while ignoring everything else. They’re approached to lead the clan because they’re the only ones who are having a good time. They agree and have no clue what’s even going on, bless their souls.

ANYWAY YEAH. So half my lair is supposed to be gone. If anyone happens to be interested in buying some I’ll have a thread set up in a week or so to figure out what’s up. Hope this was entertaining and not too long-winded.