#i will quit but like in feb of 2026
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wrote a long ass text to my manager because my department lose two people (to another place) and they refuse to hire more & expect me to cover that workload. like when the first person left, i covered her work but now two??? you paid me one salary and want me to do three jobs? kys
#if she doesn't hire more people i am just going to rack up on overtime until they do#i will quit but like in feb of 2026#bc i need more experience before leaving#and the money too
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Hi it’s the Aussie exchange anon thanks for taking time to respond!! (Also no pressure to post this if you’re done with the conversation now!) So after thinking about it a bit more and like the other anon said with lots of our music festivals being cancelled lately I do think it’d be unlikely for 2025 since I assume he’d also want it during Summer, which is now, but maybe next Summer so jan-feb 2026 could be an option depending on financial feasibility? And although many festivals have been cancelled, I think it’s good to note that few have still sold really well when they have a good international lineup (which is another contributing factor for festival cancellations when the given lineup can’t justify the cost of a ticket). For example Laneway has sold out with artists like Charlie XCX, Clairo, Olivia Dean, etc. and recently Summersalt which is a more family friendly festival had Hozier as the headliner and completely sold out too which I think would not usually happen with Summersalt. So I would be curious to see how well AFHF would sell here since his tour did pretty well in each state he performed in (I think Sydney would have had at least 10k?) and I think a lot of people would fly to whatever state he’d choose to perform in, plus the people who would even travel overseas to see him here … I think he could end up having quite good ticket sales and that’s without consideration of other artists like DMAs that seem plausible he could have in the lineup or if he brought over another British act.
So I think my prediction and what I’ll be manifesting for is Europe for 2025 during the Northern Hemisphere Summer and then Summer in Australia 2026 🤞🤞🤞
a counterpoint to this!! well I have definitely seen speculation that he would have in *Australian* summer if it was there, so IF it was, end of 2025 rather than the middle would make sense, which could work nicely with album release too, or US or somewhere else this year and Aus end of 2026... tbh I wouldn't be surprised if THEY are still juggling these options around just like we are at this point, but whenever they figure it out they still won't tell us for ages, sighhh
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🐨 To those I love ceaselessly— Did you have a good Seollel? Did you have your bowl of tteokguk? I don’t know how it happened, but somehow, I blinked and turned 32 in Korean age. I keep insisting I’m only 30 internationally, but watching myself cling to that number… yeah, I think it’s time to admit it— I’ve really become an ahjussi now. (On top of that, people these days say 30 is basically the new 25…what kind of nonsense is that?) Happy New Year, by the way. Since I forgot to say it earlier— I, Kim Namjoon, am now officially a sergeant. (…) Sarge Kim!! We all got promoted early, so now the 4 of us are sergeants. It’s nice, I guess… though they say military life truly begins at this rank. ㅎㅎ; But knowing my next promotion is to civilian? That’s the real joy. Being a sergeant is nice. But being a civilian? Nothing beats that. I still remember when I first enlisted— the training instructors and my seniors used to joke, “You really think 2025 will ever come?” “Even if you were beaten to death, 2025 still wouldn’t arrive.” Those words come to mind again and again. And yet—time does pass. Strangely enough. Though if you ask me, it already feels like I’ve been here for more than 2 years. So now, I pass down the same wisdom to my juniors. “Hey, you really think 2026 will come…?” Yep. It’s childish. I know. Act my age? Nooo way. 2024 was… a lot. Good, bad—either way, I doubt I’ll ever forget it. How about you? Seeing 2 of the members come out and cheer us on, I feel both wistful and relieved. Civilians have it best. There’s so much I want to tell you when I’m back. Even things I can’t quite say yet. But someday, I’ll find my own way to say them. On sleepless nights, as I drift through the dark, I remind myself— It will come. June 10 will come. And when it does, I will smile. Brahahha I will laugh it off! It’s already Feb. Just 4 months left. And once March comes, we’ll be under the 100-day mark. Same as always— I’m here, working out, playing my instrument, and on weekends, listening to music, watching movies, and studying. Getting ready to come back. Hope you all stay healthy too. To celebrate my promotion, I shaved my head again. I’m attaching a photo. Oh—this was before I shaved. Anyway! I’m surviving somehow, so don’t worry too much. I love youuu 🥰

🐹 Sergeant is impressive (literally: enviable) 🐿️ You really don’t have that much time left!! It’ll pass in no time!! Fighting!! Our Namjoonie!!”
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Yo, end of year, time for a chaotic thoughts thing?!
Ugh. 2024 almost over.
First of all, I will try to follow that post that says "strive to be the couch between the years". I will try to not stress these specific days.
Easier said than done.
Remember how I said I would not stress about my work future before 2025? Fuck shit, 2025 is almost there. (Technically I didn't say I would start stressing Jan 1st, so I don't need to do it right away. But you get the sentiment.) My current job ends Feb 2026, and since 99% I will not quit early because I AM the project and it won't get finished if I quit, it doesn't make sense looking for job, like, right away. But since I might drop out of my current field after this job ends (academia and laws and academic circumstances, let's not start talking about the WissZeitVG), and might have to do something completely different after current job, what the fuck am I supposed to do? So yeah, stressful.
Then, lets not think about how early in January this current year I was full of ideas what I was gonna do this year, and then blink of an eye and it's Dec 26th and have I done any of the things? Nooooope.
Which leads me to the matter of why. I think my biggest issue was I had a vague idea of what I wanted to do (like, "attend more cultural things") but I didn't turn that vague idea into actual plans.
Which leads me to "why do I never do real plans", to what the answer probably is: I fear failure. Making plans feels like I set myself up for failure, because I won't stick with the plans anyways. So, why bother. Why making workout goals if I drop them anyways 15% in. Same for art. Lets not talk about things like writing a PhD thesis. And so on.
(And let's not fool us: I should probably just *really* get an ADHD diagnosis and treatment. It cannot make my life worse. I'm always hesitant bringing that up because I don't want to look like I'm looking for excuses, but... It might be I'm not a complete failure for no reason, but for some stupid invisible disability. I'm trying really hard, you know?)
So yeah, I will try to make, like, real plans next year, and try to stick with them. Like, Tuesdays afternoon is for an art class on skillshare or something. I was starting to get some weekly routine-ish things established this year and it hasn't failed completely, so maybe I can do that?
Also, I want to try to do less of the all-or-nothing thinking. Like, so I did not stick with my workout routine I was hoping to build. But I still went to the gym more times than ever before. And did more stuff to tackle health issues at home, and I think that works. And I did not attend as many cultural things that I wanted, but I went to the local art hall and got myself a yearly membership and I still have a couple of months left to use it. And I started going to the local history museum just for fun more often. So I did not fail my vague ideas completely. All-or-nothing thinking gets me to drop vague ideas completely. I don't wanna do that.
Also, do less comparing myself to others, because that only harms, like, everyone. We're all on different paths, with different circumstances.
I'm trying really hard. And change of years is nothing else but some artificial point in time we usually stress too much about, but in the end it is just one day following another, like everyday.
So the whole "looking back" at one year and giving it a lable of "check" or "fail" and looking at the next year and making big plans is stupid, after all.
But I will try to be less vague and make more actionabl plans and then hopefully a few more will turn into reality.
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January 2025 | monthnote
Is it even a new year if I don't make some doomed attempt at weeknotes?
Random notes inc work stuff
Vicky dying still does not feel real. I feel privileged I got to spend some siginifcant time with her when she came along to Conferencia Agile Spain (like most people I primarily knew her from her writing and online presence, altho we met briefly a few times when we overlapped at GDS) and was hoping to follow up on a few things we talked about at GovCamp but equally it means I can't just indulge in my full-on denial mode...
Worked through xmas-ny break like usual. It's usually a chill time unless I am in this department, where apart from the ongoing time-sensitive work lots of random emergencies happened. So glad I'm off for a couple of weeks now, I've not had a proper break since Japan in March/April and I'm shattered.
Overall so much random and weird shit was going down at the end of Dec / start of Jan (including both me and my flatmate having very strange dreams) I was beginning to suspect a gas leak... 🙃
Got extended till Feb 2026 in my current contract. 🎉 It should make getting a mortgage easier, now just fingers crossed that the property does not get down valued like the last one and my sellers find something they want to purchase soon.
Quite a lot of change at work, lots of it quite neatly coinciding with my leave. The migration from GOV.UK PaaS my team was prepping for for the last year got delayed last minute and now I'll be missing it but I'm sure it will all go fine.
Booked in with Keemee for a tatoo just after the holiday. 🌺
Govcamp happened and I was mostly helping our rather than going to sessions. :o Good times as usual, felt particularly busy this year for a 'normal edition'. I really like that we finally have a bit of a Teacamp return with TransformGov Talks and also sort of DataBites! \o/
Spanish classes are back. I've not signed up for Korean yet, there's probably a fair bit I can do to brush up close to my former level by myself if I just find the motivation. :s
Watched
Lots of Taskmaster, the perfect crocheting accompaniment (see below)
Nosferatu - the scene in castle 100% played like something from What We Do in the Shadows, I'm not even sorry for giggling throughout. 😔 Needed more Dafoe hamming it up. I was shocked the cat was not named in the credits - breaking a sacred tradition of cinema. 4 stars.
Presence - not a horror, not my kinda thing otherwise (family drama). The central gimmick could be fun in an actual horror movie tho. Another one they kind of employ ('not being bound by time') is sort of redundant because the progression is linear (I suppose otherwise the twist would be ruined). The marketing vs movie kind of fell in place for me when I realised it's the same distributor as Longlegs which was also underwhelming.
Late Feb / March seems staked with releases I want to see: The Monkey, The Last Showgirl, Mickey 17, Death of Unicorn... probably more. Those are just the trailers I saw before Presence lol.
Played
This is probably between Dec-Jan rather than strictly Jan.
Fledgling Manor - Stefan's route only, basically not sure how the other ones can top it so I lost interest but it seems all need to be played to resolve some plot points so maybe in the future...
Sorry We're Closed - I thought this would be a VN but it's a survival horror and I find the shooting stressful haha. You can say I hould have read the description before buying but I was blinded by the art. -_-

bits of Arco (love the mechanics and the story is good but I got stuck at an encounter I can't pass but I'm too stubborn to back out and return at higher level), Animal Well, Stanley Parable (at very long last - yes, it's as good as I thought it would be), I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (tbh the mechanics were more interesting to me in a more down to earth setting of Growing Up), Cryptmaster (Steamdeck does not work well for this).
Waiting for Yakuza in Hawaii, more Hades 2 patches, next Deltarune chapters, and Ghost of Tsushima sequel + Assassins Creed Japan (open world map marker slop > therapy, don't @ me).
Makes
Decima is still closed so no pottery. I've probably forgotten 100% of what little I could do. I'll probably do a course at Mudgang when I'm back to return to some working level and then get either a studio space subscription from them or Turning Earth near Haggerston, depending on how the flat buying is coming along.
In the meantime I have finally sort of learned how to crochet. I got a kit from TOFT to make a black and white cat, resembling Bella a bit. I tried crocheting before a few times (I learned very basic knitting during lockdown and have half a pride blanket from Wool & the Gang somewhere) but it always ended up with me crying, once in public. 🥲 The kit said it's level 2 so I got another level 1 one (labrador)
TBF they are not that different, cat requires changing colours which is actually not hard if you get over the initial barrier to entry of crocheting anything at all. 😬 The cat is also bigger which makes the process much less fiddly.
TOFT instructions are quite barebones and don't have any interim 'this is what it should look like by now' pics which as a complete beginner is quite rough, but I think I managed to make decent approximations of the cover images. I made some changes to the cat on purpose.
Belly disagrees.
The biggest issue I have with TOFT kits so far is that the amount of yarn provided leaves no room for errors or even leaving longer tails. With both patterns I made mistakes (crocheting with dark yarn is particularly hard going if you don't know wtf you're doing) and the yarn started fraying real bad so I had to chop it. I actually had to buy more yarn (which doesn't exactly match...) to finish the cat at all. :(
I got yarn and patterns for two sheep (Seth and Tobias) from them to keep busy on the upcoming flights so we'll see how consistent this minimalism is. 😬
Anyway then I went crazy at John Lewis sales so I have lots of materials now, just need patterns and ideas. The first one is not going particularly well and I'm losing my patience sligtly, might swap to something else.
またね! ✌️😗
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Hi, I (officially) found you through your Bridgerton fic ‘Faithfully’, and have recently realised that you are also a writer for ‘You Used To Live In My Head’. I just wanna say, your work is fantastic and I am respectfully and excitedly (but impatiently) awaiting the next chapter for ‘Faithfully’.
If it’s okay, I would like to ask a few questions about it if that’s okay (feel free not to answer any of them if you don’t feel like it).
Can I get a timeline on when the Simon/Daphne relationship will happen in the fic?
In relation to the previous question, will we get overprotective, and angry Anthony when he finds out? I think it could be a good avenue for angst, humour, fluff, or any combination of them, and I’m excited for what you do with it.
Will we get Sophie and her relationship with Benedict in the fic? I know you haven’t tagged them, but Benedict is my favourite of the show Bridgertons, and I consider his book to be quite the guilty pleasure (I’m also dying for Season 4 and really don’t want to wait til 2026 to get it so I’m trying to get my Benophie fix wherever I can)
Will any of the other Bridgerton siblings join Aubrey Hall? Or will they go do their own music careers?
Can we get a tease of your favourite moment in the fic yet to come?
Once again, feel free to ignore any and all of these questions if you don’t want to answer them. Also, just so I have it in clear writing (and cause I tend to overwrite so much my meaning gets lost in the sea of words I make) I love your fic ‘Faithfully’ and can’t wait to read more.
Hello, my ducky friend! (don't mind me, I'm not well in the head lol)
Ohhh Faithfully, my sweet baby Faithfully which started bc of one scene in the end that I've yet to write and it was supposed to be a purely super sweet and fluffy story with 3 or 4 chapters and now it's not only VERY MUCH NOT 3 or 4 chapters long, it's also one of the two stories I actually truly cried writing bc I keep filling it with Angsty moments lol
I AM one of the writers for You Used To Live In My Head! Actually, it was my idea, I started it as a little Birthday present for @ladystanbury but it then it got bigger and bigger and then I kinda forced @harnitbee to get sucked into the rabbit hole with me and here we are nine months, several Canva folders and MANY MANY MANY HOURS on video call later lol (I'm so sorry, Anita lol)
Of course! You can ask as many questions as you'd like! I'm always more than happy to answer them!
Kay, let's see
1- There's still a little bit to go before we get there, actually. In the fic, they get together in the 1st of Feb 2020 and so far it's around August 2018 in the story.
2- Ohhh yes, we'll have SOME drama over this. Anthony finds out about it some months after they get together and honestly, it's a miracle the band is still going on after all the bullshit those guys go through lol
3- Unfortunately, Benophie is not very much into the plans in this story, apart from the last, epiloguish chapter. The idea is for the story to go up to Ned being born, then have this epilogue in the Grammies (will make sense in a couple of chapters, I swear) which will be set a couple of years later, so Ben and Sophie will already be together, or at least tentatively so.
3- No one is joining Aubrey Hall other than the three original members. Eloise owns a music shop and teaches percussion (which is how she meets her plant daddy and his plant little hellions) and Frannie does go into music, but as a solo artist who collaborated with Aubrey Hall a few times, even if they have pretty different musical styles. Hyacinth goes into agencing to work with Lady Danbury and the other siblings follow their own different career paths.
4- I haven't MUCH written forward apart from the two next chapters but I'll show you a bit of Newton coming into Anthony's life, will that do? rs
"He had tried to be as quiet as possible, knowing the chances she was actually asleep were huge, but the moment he stepped inside, there was some movement from the bed.
Only it wasn’t Kate who was moving.
Well, he assumed it wasn’t because Kate wasn’t really known to bark.
“There is a loaf of bread on my pillow.” Anthony stared at the creature who was lying on his side of the bed, wiggling his little butt wildly along with its tail, half-forgetting he’d meant not to wake Kate up. “It barks.”
“That’s Newton.” His girlfriend yawned stretching her arms above her head as she offered him the most amazing sleepy smile.
“What’s a Newton?” He eyed the furry beast mistrustingly.
“Newton is our baby, Anthony.” Kate rolled her eyes, patting the creature on the head lovingly. “Say hi, please.”
“Hi, Newton.” He muttered with a roll of his eyes, rubbing the top of the dog’s head just like his girlfriend had done. The little creature wiggled desperately, trying to spin around to lick at Anthony’s hand. “I don’t remember agreeing to this.”
“That’s because you didn’t.”
“Right.”"
Poor Anthony, always bamboozled by his lady and happy to be so lol
Thank you so so much! I love hearing this. All my fics have such a special place in my heart in different ways and it means the world that people actually enjoy them.
I'm going to try to update soon, I swear!
Feel free to come with any more questions you want about it!
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Free pet rat/rodent stuff (portland, OR)

If anyone in the Portland area would like some free rat stuff, DM me. My rats have all passed as of February and we need a break from rat ownership so I hope someone else can give some of this stuff a second life.
item descriptions under the cut.
- One unopened, full bag of Oxbow Essentials adult rat food, (expires Feb 21st, 2025) and one opened bag with about ⅓ left over inside, (expires June 3rd, 2025.)
- One bottle of Meloxicam, good for anti-inflammation, very commonly prescribed to rats but do your research about use and dosage before giving it to any of your animals. Hard to say how much is left, only a little less than a 4th of this 32 ml bottle has been used. Expires 3/31/2026. I gave this to my last rat as he had a genetic issue that affected his breathing and was non-contagious, his cage mates never expressed any of symptoms that he did. Something to do with an over-abundance of naturally-occurring bacteria in his ears and throat, it inhibited his breathing a bit but my vet confirmed it was non-contagious.
- Nine assorted syringes, good for measuring medicine and oral administration. All are unused.
- One half-full bottle of Saline solution, 0.9% Sodium Chloride Irrigation, USP. I used this to Nebulize the rat with breathing issues to loosen anything in his airways. About 650 ml is left. Not for injection.
- One yellow fabric Elizabethan Collar for rodents, Mickey Mouse print. Never used.
- Two lightly used, thoroughly cleaned blue corner litter trays. My rats never really got the hang of potty training so I took these out soon after trying and failing, these are practically like new.
- Two medium flat back water bottles. These were used consistently for several years but show very little wear. Washed thoroughly.
- One small water bottle, lightly used, fits perfectly into the hole and loop on the pet carrier for this exact purpose.
- One heavily used purple plastic shallow food dish - used more as a back up bowl for travel. They chewed the lip of the bowl quite a bit, but still does the job.
- Small purple plastic castle hide, lightly used. For its size, better for baby rats.
- A few assorted unused wooden blocks and slices.
- Two large “Space Pod” Igloo hides, lightly used, can stand or be hung from the cage bars.
- One small enrichment toy treasure chest, lightly used. The wooden blocks it came with have since been chewed to bits, but putting obstacles like that with treats inside is good enrichment.
- Two cute tree-themed hammocks, lightly used. One looks like a hollow log and has leaves on it. A couple small chew marks but not much. Quite soft.
- Six assorted animal-print simple square hammocks. Some are lightly used, others are near untouched.
- Two climbing rope squares with carabiners for attaching to cage bars, lightly used.
- One dog tug-of-war rope I took apart and braided for climbing surfaces.
- One multi-sectioned, polkadot hammock with long elastic bands. My rats liked to use this one as an elevator between platforms and was a big favorite. Obviously used but in good shape with no chew marks.
- One small soft-sided pet carrier, lightly used. Can zip to just open one side or completely open to lay flat. Includes a small, plastic grommet hole in the door flap with an elastic loop to hold a small water bottle that sits on the outside and nozzle pokes through to be drank from inside, the smaller water bottle included fits perfectly. Sides are rigid enough to not be chewed through in my experience, but I wouldn’t put that to the test with total no-supervision, definitely a good option for vet trips. Inside has a fabric insert that attaches with velcro and the sides and bottom of the carrier can be wiped down with a damp cloth to clean. It has a really cute punk print on it that says stuff like, “Rebel,” “Hello, my name is Trouble,” “Play Time,” “Talk to the Paw,” “Keep Exploring,” “Rad,” “I <3 Treats,” etc.
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Hi Jennifer. How typical is it for an author to find out their pub date from a sales listing, like seeing their book on Amazon, rather than being told by their publisher? I understand publishing likes to justify doing things differently than any other industry, but it seems disrespectful to find out your pub date from the internet rather than your own team of collaborators.
"Disrespectful" feels a little dramatic. I really don't think it's personal or should be taken as a slight or anything like that.
Short answer: Your editor is your main liaison with the publisher, and they aren't the ones who create the publication schedule. If they haven't told you your pub date, it's either because they don't know it yet, or because they thought they DID tell you and didn't realize they hadn't, but at no point is this SECRET information or anything, and they'd be happy to tell you or find out for you if/when that info is available. So, as with most things, if you want to know something you don't know, the best thing to do is ASK.
Long answer: Here's the deal: Waaaaaay before your book is even a product yet, probably when you get the offer, you'll know the pub season they are shooting for. That is like, say, "Spring 2026", which could be anywhere from maybe late Feb - early May (all publishers might be a LITTLE different here) -- but basically, the general months that they intend for this to be published. Now that COULD change for any number of reasons -- it's two years from now! Who knows what will happen between now and then! -- But you know the approximate time, and if it DOES get pushed a season, you'll know well ahead of time, because the deadline will change.
A year passes. Maybe more. At some point, taking into account the dozens (or even hundreds) of other books also scheduled for Spring 2026, the publisher will narrow down what books are going to come out which month / week. This isn't your editor deciding this, btw, and your editor may or may not be aware when this schedule is being decided, and whether they are or not, it's still not set in stone. At this stage the publisher may have just decided "OK this is a May 2026 book" but not know the exact date. (A lot of times, if you look up a book quite early, it will say "May 1, 2026" but then closer to the pub date it will say "May 16th" or whatever -- because they chose the general month, and then the specific day later.)
MEANWHILE, you are going back and forth with your editor about copyedits, the jacket, blurbs, whatever -- there might be a ton of information going back and forth. At some point your editor might have said, "this is a May book" but they didn't mention "May 1st" or "May 16th" because, well, they didn't know or realize that this had been decided, or because it hasn't been. So you look it up and see "May 16th" -- that doesn't mean that they were hiding that info from you, or anything LIKE that -- that info is just not the first most-pressing thing in the midst of all the other things your editor has to communicate with you, and again, they might not even realize was decided, or up online, or what's online might be a placeholder or something.
It doesn't become super important for you to know the exact date until, like, a few months before pub, when you are scheduling things like a launch party or whatever -- At which point, you will have been told, or they'll THINK you have been told, because you've been told a lot of things, but if you HAVEN'T been told, you can always ASK! And if you see something online, you can (and should) ask for confirmation that the info is correct.
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It’s hard to love a man so torn, Whose heart’s been cracked, whose soul is worn. He wears his pain like a quiet crown, Hiding the tears that weigh him down.
His heart a puzzle, a fractured whole. His eyes carry storms, a silent cry, A world of pain he can't deny. Beneath his smile, there's a heavy weight,
A hidden grief, a twist of fate.
I hold him close, though he pulls away, Afraid of love, afraid to stay
Yet in his sorrow, I find a spark, A glimpse of light within the dark. I love him still, for all he’s been, The wounds inside, the scars within.
The love I offer, he can’t accept, Afraid of the love he can't quite clear. Each touch, each word, a distant plea, For healing he can't yet set free.
It’s hard to hold a heart in pieces, To mend a soul where sorrow ceases. But love, though hard, keeps trying still, Hoping one day, his heart will heal.
Feb. 18, 2026 10:59pm

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News for today :p
The main ocs outfits will be out in Jan 16 2025(I almost finish all of them and the only two is Brandon and Umar need an upgrade) Doodle World ocs and The Nightmare ocs will be out somewhere in Jan or Feb(those are also my new series but I’m plotting my main series called Haunted hallucinations) so ye the Haunted Hallucinations trailer and plot will be out in somewhere in Jan or Feb and The Nightmare and Doodle World ocs will be reveal soon :3

this is Jassy’s outfit for a day, I kinda like it than the rest so ye I will add this as her outfit :3
also I will be drawing every single of my main ocs instead of gacha, I feel like I wanna post more of my arts and animations beside gacha(I’m not quitting gacha but still feel like posting too much of gacha)
about Haunted Hallucinations: it is one of my main series is where the main ocs that y’all know and love is in, the timeline is around 2025-2026(still posting about 2025 and will be posting about 2026 in next year because that is the timeline of the series but the scary events is around 1951 to 2014) the mains have to face their hallucinations of the trauma they have and including their enemies who harm them, one of them is secretly the main villain.. the mains have to survive from the group of monsters called the beasts, the beasts are controlled by the mastermind who wanted humanity to be destroyed but God didn’t want that so he bring heroes try to save humanity, not only just the beasts and the mastermind the territory evil army was ruled by the leader called Shadow Purple Leader but his actual name is Alfredo Perez but he hide it so no one knows who he is behind the mask, he is also try to make his son to become the next leader to build his empire, the mains are try to survive all dangerous things and horrifying trauma they have but they have to guess who is the villain behind their backs, the series will show their backstories and more, the rest of the group will have an sec season in few months so ye stay toon for that :>
About Doodle World: Doodle world is about the characters living in an creative world full of colors and texture, there are bunch of drawings and creative adventures for the main characters to have fun and be creative but there are also horror as well but less killing scenes and more blood, it is similar to TADC and Popee the Performer but only with art history and creativity drawings and skills, cool colorful characters and drawing skills as well
About The Nightmare: it is the book series that I wrote for the first time from language arts, it is about the serial killer who been around for 85 years that people think he is dead but he is alive, the serial killer name is The Man, who try to kill his victims and stalk them as well, he died in 1940 during WW2 but he was alive and started killing spreading, killing more and more people years later in 2019 he stalked the little boy but 2 weeks later the boy know his fear and scared The Man for good, or not for good…? Who knows maybe if I wrote the whole novel about The Man maybe we might know who should he kill next?
so ye will reveal in tomorrow :3 have a wonderful day my angels
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Hello its me, i kinda feel upset now i dunno why but i think because what sanho uncle chong say like he only can pay back his debt on 2026 that is quite long eh... like I want to start earning back and he will be able to pay back by this year will be best. Like because I want to be rich by 2026 with 300k in my bank but I feel like its out of reach if like this. lol, like when can I earn 300k? if like this.... just making me upset and I am nervous about tomorrow driving test also, anyways all this is making me feel low and hopeless about my financial situation. if I were to switch job to this full time will I be able to earn 20k a month? in the future. like for reals. I think I need some proper planning to achieve this. but of course I will not stay in tiong seng till so long. when the time hits feb I will just throw my resignation letter already. and work on the things that I want to work on. i think it is nevertheless cant help it that I am upset but it is what it is. Think is just slow progression is making me upset. lol. like how to earn money is like this. i want to be able to earn 20k a month that kind. not just 4k. Then in a year 240k will be great. HAIS idk I am just feeling a bit low now anyways jiayous jenny for ur driving u can do it!!!!!!!! JUST try ur best and pass it then you will be fine. - 5 Jan 2025.
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🖌💚💙🥀😳! :D
thank youuu <3<3
Do you want/have any tattoos?
okay so I can never answer a question succinctly
but anyway, I have this bet with myself that I have to get a [Relevant Blorbo] tattoo if any of the following happen:
- if my old south park hyperfixation comes back YET AGAIN and it falls on either 16/sep/2026 (10th anniversary of when I first got obsessed) or 12/apr/2027 (10th anniversary of when I read the well and the lighthouse by petroica traversi and it rewrote my dna), then I have to get a tattoo of kenny
- if my notre dame de paris obsession comes back at all between now and 9/feb/2029 (10 years after I first bought the book), then I have to get a pierre tattoo
- if I ever end up actually becoming an archivist before july 2027 (5 years after the swag archive made me realise I wanna do that as a job), then. swag tattoo (not looking likely though, applying for archive related jobs is horrendous lol)
- and if coronation street ever ends before I'm 33 (10 years after I was obsessed with it bla bla etc) then yeah. hilda tattoo
and then if none of these things happen then I win. against myself. idk what the prize is yet.
do I actually want a tattoo? probably not (based on how much my earlobes are still overreacting after over a year, I don't think my skin likes things being done to it)
if any of these things happen will I actually go through with it? I also dunno yet lol
why did I decide this in the first place? bored
What's your favourite colour?
I feel like green is my default colour, but I do also like that hazey ethereal dream pop aesthetic type pink or purple. I guess those kind of shades would be my fav colour visually, but sentimentally it's probably green
What colour is your bedroom?
lilac (with a lot of beige areas bc the walls are kind of peeling lol)
Favourite animated movie?
the aristocats <3
Do you like your name?
yeah tbh I was thinking about it the other day and it's actually a vibe? like I've never really thought about it bc it's always been just. always been My Name. but looking at it on its own as just a name that exists, it's quite nice tbf
#for fav animated film I was gonna say south park: bigger longer uncut bc even outside of that hyperfixation it is just a banging film#and probably in my top 10 ever#but i didnt wanna mention sp twice in one post on my main lol#but the aristocats = childhood banger so it's also in the top 10#tis i#asks#atlasllm
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so it’s been a bit over a year since this personnel reshuffle happened and guess what
my boss (school leader) has been moved from my school 🙃 5 years of working together will end by the end of feb. none of us at my office are happy about this.
my other manager (chief) will likely still stay the same but the replacement school leader… we’ve had her before but i’m not a big fan of her style.
with this, i think this will be my last year at this job. it’ll depend on how things change, but i think once my contract is over in 2026, i’ll jump ship.
i will have to start skilling up and adding some more experiences to my resume if i want to get out of this industry, but i don’t know what else i can do.
i’m feeling quite miserable about this and ngl my motivation has decreased quite a bit.
i’ll do my best until the end of feb so that my r/s w my boss ends on a good note but after that idk how much effort i’ll continue to put in.
boss is still within the prefecture at least so we might cross paths at events but otherwise 🤷♀️
day 2 of normalblogging. its a long one bc i have many thoughts.
personnel shuffling is happening early at work, as i feared lol. one of the area managers is going on maternity leave in november which means the japanese stuff have to be shuffled around to fill that spot. the way it works is area manager (block leader) > school leader > school chief > staff. the area manager is going on leave, so our current school leader is moving to area manager's school to kind of do her job, while the school chief (my boss) is going to be the school leader and split her time between my school and another school. a staff member from that other school will become the chief of my school. are you following? i wouldn't blame you if not lol. this is really the best case scenario i guess in terms of "change" bc it's not a total and complete staff change, so it perhaps won't feel as bad? idk lol. having my current boss still here in some capacity makes it feel less like the rug has been pulled from under me. i really only stay working here because i like my coworkers/bosses and the general environment, so if it changes for the worse then i won't see much reason to stay. ofc the kids are great but i usually only see them for 40, 45 minutes at a time, meanwhile i spend 8 hours a day with the people i work with, so...
anyway another thing about this whole thing was that we started to have a meeting about it this morning but then students came early and we couldn't talk about it until after the last class finished. i spent the whole day with a massive giant pit in my gut thinking the worst 😬
whatever it'll be ok i guess. i've been expecting this since the area manager announced her pregnancy and the Big Boss (department head) started having chats w my boss. because of the general feeling that something was about to change i've also been considering whether i should quit and move on but i suppose i can hang on another year lol.
ANYWAY in other news!
after work today (after that big ol reshuffle convo) my friend was like, suddenly "hey are you free for a phone call?" and if you're like me with stupid anxiety, you will understand my oh god have i done something reaction so i said yes and when i called her later, she told me that she had plans to travel to taiwan with someone from work but that person couldn't go, but she'd already made a reservation so! she asked me if i wanted to go
i was a little shocked bc this is the last thing i expected and also kind of sudden? lol
we're still kind of working out the dates but it'll probably be mid-november!
so, a nice positive end to the day. i get to go travelling! hooray!
thx for reading goobdye
#other manager almost started crying on saturday when she found out lol#idk how i’m gonna be on the last day tbh
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May 2020 - A Preview of 2021
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So this April would not quit - quiet like these non stop school zoom sessions. Goodbye goodbye already! This Laurel & Hardy goodbye clip sums it up for me
https://youtu.be/wlVu7Y5m5JQ

It’s leaving us with Uranus in Taurus meeting Mercury. Uranus in Taurus was also key aspect embedded in the Taurus new moon of 22 April which we will continue to feel in May. Uranus in Taurus is all about breaking out of the fixity of life - actions taken for freedom & individuality, a break from tradition, a break far from tradition. Uranus creates volatility & surprise - bring sudden changes - changes that bring us closer to our authentic self. Uranus is our brilliance - the lightening that zaps us & sets us free as well as gives us the brilliant brainwave.
But inherently Uranus in Taurus has a conflict - Taurus archetype in our chart represents our place of safety, security, stability, fixity, tradition, persistence, stubbornness. Yes it’s a textbook sign of “fall” for Uranus - “fall” the word I despise so much in astrology - cause there is no fall just a failure to leverage it well. Uranus in Taurus is here to bring innovation in all the things this archetype represents - Finance, money, assets, ways of making money, ways of using our natural resources, arts, music, creativity, sex, food, taste, our physical strength & stamina, stock market, earth. At an individual basis basis we would strive for independence & innovation and experience sudden shifts in our financial situation, attitude to money & resources, need for material security, sense of worth, values, usage of our resources - mental physical - our personal energy, sexual freedom.
Taurus gifts us determination & this fixity of purpose and in Uranus we can use that to complete change our worth, ego, values, assets & ways to achieve them or release them. This is long term transit all the way to April 2026. Why we are talking of this now is because this April just won’t quit without another dramatic aspect.
Every month Moon meets Uranus in Taurus - whenever that happens a wave of water chips away an edge off our rock - slight loss of old behavioural pattern happens opening us to new possibilities. But once a year Uranus meets Sun, Venus & Mercury in Taurus when a tangible shift which is outer manifestation of this slow monthly inner chipping away shows up in our physical existence - through shifts in job, relationships, communication. This aides this quest for material freedom we are all on - an idea suddenly comes, a discussion suddenly happens, an old device suddenly cracks cause it’s outdated for your new expansive endeavour - you ask for more & more is delivered through a crack in the floor beneath our feet. Not all of us experience the earthquake but if you are at 6° or early degree of fixed signs (Scorpio, Leo, Taurus, Aquarius) you are probably experiencing a shock wave - that’s last ten days of the month if you are looking at your sun sign.
Separating wheat from the chaff as unnecessary this additional restlessness & commotion feels to all of us, it’s the most significant economic event that happens to most of us in the year. Shakes up our talents, resources, stock market, body - it feels like beating the mattress to get the dust out kind of situation. But then from that comes a brainwave when Mercury meets Uranus like tonight - weird bazarre ahead of time , alien landing on our rooftop kind of ideas come. You see those AI beams running on your face into your brain - it just lights all your bulbs. Many of us dismiss it but what if we don’t - if someone told Abraham Lincoln you would be tweeting shutting down your economy or a bunch of algos will loose or gain majority of financial markets in a day - you would have been institutionalised but here we are.
The thing with “fall” of Uranus In Taurus is that you fall cause you aren’t walking - much like the concept of inertia - proactive shifts planning in that area of our life can help prevent a lot of that fall. Though Uranus is a wild card much like existence of Kim Jong-un.
So if you want to take one thing from April, which won’t quit, take this dogged determination to shift things in this area of your life where Uranus is chipping away your rock
“We only discover what supports us, when everything else we thought supported us doesn’t support is anymore” ~ Jung
Jung saw this moment like he saw most of the universal truths - this has become my mantra for Taurus season now instead of “I Have” cause Uranus transit changes the whole existence of that sign forever - Aries know what I am talking about. Taurus is our ego, our distinct identity & if we are labelling our sense of “I” through any external object / status / person - Uranus releases that cause it wants us to create “Independent Worth”
The degree of Uranus currently being activated is of immense importance - why - cause that’s where Uranus went retrograde in August 2019. Remember 2019 - Hong Kong protests, Amazon fires, Epstein died, Peso crashed, India floods, Nuclear accident in Russia, India revoked Article 370 ... I can go on but you get the picture - volatile times. Second contact of Uranus isn’t that dramatic - especially in transit (it’s not turn retrograde or direct right now).
But it will be standing still exactly where it stands now in Jan/Feb 2021. Uranus will turn direct on 1 Feb 2021 standing exactly at this point and it would be squaring Saturn starting a new 14 years cycle which is the key theme of 2021. Infant in Jan 2021 there will be 5 planets, yes 5! Squaring Uranus in Taurus which is a recipe for perfect political & weather storm. This is tremendous tremendous conflict - I referred to it in my eclipse note cause this is in direct interaction with the US country chart. Uranus in such aspects normally stimulates the collective to revolt through a catalyst to create radical change in existing bureaucracy, to free those suppressed or held in bondage. There is normally a rude collective awakening - in Taurus it will have financial underpinnings too - people no longer acquiesce to entrapment of our current financial system where resources are manipulated by a few. Higher manifestation of it is stimulation of new discoveries & tech that supports people to function in a new way.
Harnessed correctly Saturn Uranus cycles help us manifest our creative & inventive ideas into substantial achievements cause we are given the discipline to bring our intuition home. Give form or structure to our uniqueness in a productive way like Rihanna or Barbara Streisand do - we can harness our inner tension into a passion. There is tremendous tension in this aspect but it’s an endless source of spontaneous energy, creativity & freshness but you can use it or misuse it. George Eliot & Thomas Hardy are Saturn square Uranus as are Putin & Harvey Weinstein - I mean you get my drift.
So in May we don’t need to look at a oracle to see future of 2021 - it will be playing out in front of us - the preview of what’s coming in 2021. The innovation in field of finance, money, food, art, creatives , our value system. As well as our need for freedom from tradition & fixity (Uranus in Taurus) clashing with suppression of air in Saturn in Aquarius. All tangible strides in evolution of our civilisation has come through Saturn Uranus cycles and you are watching a live preview of that as Saturn stands still about to go retrograde on 11th standing in loose square to Uranus right now & playing out through their aspects to Sun, Mercury & Venus.
In this tension, these two parts of us at war - the people who will create solutions blending the best of the old world with the best of the new will thrive. That’s why with nodes in mutable sign - the road to success is adaptability - as always it’s not the survival of the fittest but of the one who can evolve. New skills, sources of income, diet, physical upkeep, new concept of “fixed” assets - Uranus in Taurus & by square to Saturn in Aquarius - necessary compulsory evolution in tech, social media, tech in your industry, new way to network, new supply chains, pooling resources - “shared/preloved” economy.
Importance of cyber security will go immensely up - the first computer virus was uncovered during the last Saturn Uranus conjunction in 1988 - the Internet worm. Things that were birthed in the cycle will come to question like the EU / Euro. WHO also came to focus at the time with eradication of polio. NASA Scientists testified first time to US Senate that man made global warming has begun. Abortion drugs were launched & it was opposed though inline with ideology of sexual freedom it was launched. Topic of gun control which never went away since the unfortunate Columbine High School Massacre in 1999 during Saturn Uranus square will take on more speed. Topics essentially that are clearly dividing forces in society will play out & those who can mesh the two conflicting forces win 2021.
Right now with the preview - I am warning you people in 40s having both your Uranus opposition & your Saturn oppositions - they are getting triggered by both Saturn & Uranus. In large scale despite the economic crisis or may be due to it - we would see dramatic shifts in careers / home / relationships.
Uranus in Scorpio generation is getting their Uranus opposition if you are 1975/76 born to be exact - Saturn & Mars in Aquarius are making T-Square to your Uranus opposition pushing you to make a structural shift. Saturn being the apex you know what change you have to make but you are evaluating the cost of it all - is it worth it ? Taurus season is best to figure it out - cause this aspect will on,y become stronger in Jan/Feb 2021.
The 1976/77 born are having their Saturn opposition forming t square to Uranus - so wherever Taurus falls in your chart - you are ready to break free - this is much more dynamic & dramatic though it’s not exact yet, it will be in 2021.
In my view, during the transit of Saturn in Aquarius as a society we create what we can hold onto in face of volatility - we are all just starting to create that now. And we have to develop a purpose which permits our wacky innovative unique ways to be a participant in a larger expression - else we will feel lost like any Saturn in 11th house or Saturn in Aquarius person.
On a lighter note in May we have a few fabulous days like 9/10/15/17 May when Sun and Mercury form a positive aspect with Jupiter & Pluto - a gift of growth and focus in volatile times - I’ll take it! Good dates for ideas, negotiations & financial ventures.
In part 2 of this post I will cover May 2020 by sign.
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Physician-Assisted Suicide: Humane or Heinous?
Dr. Roger Kligler is a retired internist who found himself in the middle of this debate. At 50 years old he was diagnosed with prostate cancer that was believed to be curable. After rounds of cancer treatment, Dr. Kligler was put into remission. However, after 5 years, Dr. Kligler went back to his oncologist and was informed that not only was his cancer back, but it was terminal. After attending a medical lecture regarding “medical aid in dying” he became an advocate for the cause through Compassion & Choices, the foundation partially responsible for the passing of the End of Life Options Act in Massachusetts (I’m a doctor with end-stage cancer. I support medical aid in dying). Dr. Kligler’s case is a prime example that even the most unexpecting can be snarled up in cancer’s poisonous grasp. As an aspiring doctor, I want Dr. Kligler, and others like him, to know that they are not alone in this battle. Physician-Assisted Suicide is a tool in the very profound toolbox of a doctor that allows them to give their patient a final sense of peace. PAS postulates the end of suffering to terminally ill patients that would otherwise continue on the heinous, drawn out path to death.
Now it is time to get to the root of the topic. Is Physician-Assisted Suicide human or heinous? This phrase can be quite startling at first glance. There is undeniably a hefty negative connation associated with suicide that causes people to initially balk at the term. However, we must strive to remain neutral and focus on the real meaning behind the term. In the article, Physician-Assisted Suicide: Two Moral Arguments, the author does a beautiful job of really owning in on the different meanings of this term and how they apply to each individual medical case. She splits the term in “drug-providing” and “drug-injecting” (Thomson 506). Drug-providing is the process of a doctor knowingly writing a prescription that contains a dose of a drug that will be lethal to the patient. Drug-injecting is when the doctor is actually the one who administers a dose of a drug, usually morphine, that will end their life. This poses the question: are people really sick enough that a doctor feels it is within their medical rights to end their life?
Without experiencing a hardship personally, it is hard to imagine exactly what is feels like and to come up with the best possible solution to fix it. Agrawal and Emanuel write:
For many people, death in modern advanced societies is inherently undignified. Terminally ill patients are connected to tubes and machines; they experience pain, shortness of breath, and other excruciating symptoms; they are unable to get out of bed, feed themselves, and even go to the bathroom alone; they are cared for in impersonal institutions (Death and Dignity: dogma disputed 2026).
The picture painted by these men is not one that anyone would like to volunteer to star in. Unfortunately, after visualizing it, many people’s minds will immediately jump to a family member that has experienced this. My grandmother was diagnosed with a terminal cancer, meaning she would eventually die because of this cancer and there was nothing in the world that could stop it. This is a harsh reality that many individuals face. According to the National Cancer Institute, “approximately 38.4% of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during their lifetimes (based on 2013–2015 data)” (National Cancer Institute). In a standard classroom, that’s 10 out of 30 people. While we wish we could hide under the covers, the cruel reality is that statistically cancer will be a part of everyone’s lives at some point. So, what do you say to someone that’s diagnosed with terminal cancer? “Fight, you’ll beat it?” Unlikely. “Don’t worry, it won’t be that bad?” Also unlikely. “Everything will be okay.” Depends on what you think “okay” exactly is. “Fatigue, pain, appetite changes and problems breathing” are listed as physical symptoms in the last 2 to 3 months of life (American Cancer Society). That simple list doesn’t sound like the worst thing in the world. Ok, I get short of breath every now and then, and sure I’ll be tired but I can nap all day. What they don’t mention is that often the pain cannot be controlled with medication, that “appetite changes” is vomiting constantly and not being able to enjoy any food. So again, I ask, what do you say to someone suffering like this? If it were me, I know I would not want to go on this way. I would exercise my right to ask a doctor to show humanity and end my life through Physician-Assisted Suicide.
Ryan Anderson, a writer with a Ph.D. in American Principles and Public Policy, states that legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide would:
1. Endanger the weak and vulnerable,
2. Corrupt the practice of medicine and the doctor–patient relationship,
3. Compromise the family and intergenerational commitments, and
4. Betray human dignity and equality before the law. (Four Problems with Physician-Assisted Suicide).
The emotional struggle that doctors feel when there is nothing else they can legally do for a patient that is still suffering immensely is not easy. This option would strengthen the relationship between them as they are finally able to provide them with peace, not the contrary like he is suggesting. While Anderson’s other concerns have more grounding, because of the sensitivity of the matter I find it more than hard to imagine that these circumstances would come true. The amount of litigation and procedures that would be required for PAS to take place would trump his rising concerns. Concluding that PAS is the best option for a patient is no hasty decision. It is in a doctor’s nature to explore every possible route for their patient. From clinical trials containing experimental drugs to alternative medicine, a doctor will look at every possible outlet before just settling that PAS is the best option. The weak and vulnerable would not be endangered because of all the hoops doctors would have to jump through to even suggest PAS. In fact, according to legislation multiple doctors must confirm that patient’s disease is terminal before the topic of PAS can be present (Frequently Asked Questions).
In conclusion, I ask you to ponder what it means to be in unbearable pain, and really come to terms with exactly what PAS is. I pray that you never find yourself in a circumstance where you have to think about it again, but if you do, I hope that you will be better equipped to understand what it means.
Works Cited
Agrawal, Manish, and Emanuel, Ezekiel J. “Death and dignity: dogma disputed” The Lancet, vol. 3, Citizens News Wire, 28 December 2002, www.citizensnewswire.org/files/Ezekiel20021221_Death_and_Dignity.pdf
Anderson, Ryan. “Four Problems with Physician-Assisted Suicide” Health Care Reform, The Heritage Foundation, 30 March 2015, www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/four-problems-physician-assisted-suicide
“Cancer Statistics.” National Cancer Institute, www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/statistics.
“FAQs - Physician-Hastened Death.” Death With Dignity, www.deathwithdignity.org/faqs/.
Kligler, Roger. “I'm a Doctor with End-Stage Cancer. I Support Medical Aid in Dying.” STAT, STAT, 6 Feb. 2018, www.statnews.com/2018/01/31/medical-aid-in-dying-doctor/.
“Physical Symptoms in the Last 2 to 3 Months of Life.” American Cancer Society, www.cancer.org/treatment/end-of-life-care/nearing-the-end-of-life/physical-symptoms.html.
Thomson, Judith Jarvis. “Physician-Assisted Suicide: Two Moral Arguments.” Ethics, vol. 109, no. 3, Apr. 1999, pp. 497-518. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/233919?origin=JSTOR-pdf&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
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Scientists look ahead to the search for past Martian life with Perseverance
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Scientists look ahead to the search for past Martian life with Perseverance

WASHINGTON — On the eve of the landing of the rover Perseverance on Mars, scientists are looking ahead to the work it will do searching for evidence of past life on the planet and collecting samples for return to Earth.
At a Feb. 17 briefing a little more than 24 hours before Mars 2020 arrives at Mars, project officials confirmed that the spacecraft is operating well and on course for a landing at 3:55 p.m. Feb. 18 at Jezero Crater.
“Perseverance could land itself already without any more help from us on the ground,” Matt Wallace, deputy project manager, said at the briefing, based on its current status and the procedures on board to perform the various steps of entry, descent and landing (EDL). “So, the spacecraft is ready and, I think, the team is also ready.”
Mars 2020 is headed toward one corner of its targeted landing area, highlighted in maps of Jezero Crater as a green box. “Anywhere in that area, the entry, descent and landing system can finish the job of getting it down to Jezero Crater,” Allen Chen, EDL lead for the mission, said. “We think that the landing system can finish the job from here.”
Controllers had the option of one final trajectory correction maneuver late Feb. 17, but Chen said that would not be necessary. “We’re very comfortable pretty much anywhere in that green box, even here on the edge.”
The focus on the mission has been on the landing, including the famous “seven minutes of terror” during EDL, but others on Mars 2020 are looking ahead to what happens should Perseverance land as designed. “It turns out, after landing, it’s not over. In fact, it’s just beginning. The science mission is just beginning,” said Jennifer Trosper, deputy project manager.
If all goes well, initial images from the rover could come immediately after landing from hazard cameras, or hazcams, mounted on the front and rear of the rover. More data, including higher quality images, would come after a pass over the landing site by the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter around 9:30 p.m. Eastern.
Deployments of the rover’s mast, which has additional cameras other instruments mounted on it, will follow over a few days, along with a high-gain antenna and tests of other systems. “We hope to be driving in a few weeks,” she said, moving to a location where it will release Ingenuity, the small helicopter mounted underneath it, for flight tests.
The mission’s team of scientists will be getting ready for full-scale science activities. The landing “marks a fundamental transition from the getting-there phase of the mission to the doing phase, to actually exploring Jezero Crater,” said Ken Farley, project scientist for the mission.
Those scientists will be eagerly awaiting to use Perseverance’s instruments to study the landing site, including looking for evidence that the planet was once inhabitable and potentially inhabited by microbial life.
“Perseverance is the first real astrobiology mission since Viking,” said Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s planetary science division. The twin Viking landers, which touched down on Mars in 1976, carried instruments to look for evidence of present-day life. “We know that the experiments that we designed probably weren’t quite the right way to go about that.”
The instruments on Perseverance will look for biosignatures, like organic materials or structures left behind by past life. Ken Williford, deputy project scientist, used as one example stromatolites, sedimentary formations created by microbial life on the early Earth, showing off an example of one found in Australia.
“We may get so lucky as to find something so beautifully preserved as this stromatolite,” he said. “But far more likely is that anything we find will be much more ambiguous.”
Mary Voytek, director of NASA’s astrobiology program, agreed. “This particular mission is finding itself in more of a gray area,” able to find features that could be explained by both biological and abiological processes. “We’re going to have instruments, particularly when we bring the samples back, that will be able to distinguish that.”
A key role for Perseverance will be to cache dozens of samples, each about the size of a piece of chalk, that will be returned by later missions. That will allow scientists to study them in far greater detail in terrestrial laboratories than would be possible with instruments that could be flown on spacecraft to Mars and eliminate that ambiguity.
Sample collection will begin in the summer, and drive the pace of the mission. “This is a very fast-paced, high-stakes operation. It’s kind of a race to get it done,” Farley said of the daily cycle of analyzing data returned by Perseverance, deciding on next steps and uploading commands to the rover. That’s required significant training for the hundreds on the science team. “Scientists do not usually perform under these kinds of circumstances.”
The missions that will collect those samples and return them to Earth — a lander led by NASA with a European rover, and an orbiter led by ESA with a NASA collection system — are still in early phases of their design. NASA approved last December moving the Mars Sample Return program into Phase A of development, working on initial designs and key technologies.
That Phase A work also includes incorporating recommendations made by an independent review board, whose report last November broadly endorsed the program but raised a number of concerns about the design of the missions, their cost and schedule. In particular, it recommended that the launch of the lander and orbiter missions, currently scheduled for 2026, be pushed back to as late as 2028 based on NASA experience on other missions.
“We’re taking the findings and recommendations from that report very seriously,” Bobby Braun, Mars Sample Return program manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said. The program is analyzing various trades in the design of the missions based on that report and other work, an effort that he said will be completed by the end of Phase A this October.
That work, though, depends on Perseverance sticking the landing in Jezero Crater. Wallace, asked at the briefing for the odds of a successful landing, said it was “very, very hard” to provide a numerical estimate. “There’s no go-backs, there’s no retries. It’s a difficult and dangerous part of the mission, and I think you always have to respect that,” he said. “I think we’ve done everything we can to make it successful, and we’ll see how it goes tomorrow.”
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