#ird earth

[starheirxero]

THIS PROBS SEEMS RANDOM BUT THERE’S CONTEXT I PROMISE LOL I just can’t say it all without spoiling a huge part of my tsams fic …

Eclipse’s voice box ends up getting very very damaged tho and when he starts to finally reconnect with the main celestial gang, everyone’s asking what happened and his ass is getting VERY bored with the grim truth, so he just starts making shit up LMAO

[sotiriabellou]

when i was in eight grade i was obsessed with the illiad(we were learning it at school)and this one specific scene where achilles goes to the beach to talk to thetis really struck me for some reason and so i decided it to draw even though i hadnt drawn in years and it turned exactly like i wanted i thought it was my magnum opus especially because i had drawn thetis' dress as a wave covering her body(since shes a niriad) and even tho my style's improved since then i still love that drawing.

[mindblowingscience]

In an exciting breakthrough for astronomy and the search for extraterrestrial life, a team of international scientists has announced the discovery of Gliese 12 b, a temperate, Earth-sized exoplanet just 40 light-years away — a relatively neighbourly 378 trillion kilometres from earth. Researchers from across the world, including key support from researchers at McGill University and Western University worked collaboratively on the hunt for Gliese 12 b within InfraRed Doppler Subaru Strategic Program (IRD-SSP) which searches for habitable zone planets around red dwarfs.

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[kreuzaderny]

An Earth-sized Planet around an M5 Dwarf Star at 22 pc

We report on the discovery of an Earth-sized transiting planet (Rp=1.015±0.051R⊕) in a P=4.02 day orbit around K2-415 (EPIC 211414619), an M5V star at 22 pc. The planet candidate was first identified by analyzing the light curve data by the K2 mission, and is here shown to exist in the most recent data from TESS. Combining the light curves with the data secured by our follow-up observations including high-resolution imaging and near infrared spectroscopy with IRD, we rule out false positive scenarios, finding a low false positive probability of 2×10−4. Based on IRD's radial velocities of K2-415, which were sparsely taken over three years, we obtain the planet mass of 3.0±2.7M⊕ (Mp<7.5M⊕ at 95% confidence) for K2-415b. Being one of the lowest mass stars (≈0.16M⊙) known to host an Earth-sized transiting planet, K2-415 will be an interesting target for further follow-up observations, including additional radial velocity monitoring and transit spectroscopy.    

[kerlonwallstreet]

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[pidayforpi]

Happiness of Unchanging

"Take...that!"

"Wo-woah! Geez, I know you hit hard, but this is way harder than before!"

"Heh! Blame Grimesy for gettin' me into the military. Haven't working on the farm made you stronger too, hm?"

In the middle of a small village, in a small, recently ruined hut, there were three girls under the exposed roof. Two of them were pillow-fighting, while one was looking from aside silently, with a small, content smile.

[CW: Mention of (canon) injury (really just a mention), spoilers for Amphibia S2 ending]

"Oh yeah? I've gotten strong too! How else could I have beaten you on the Toad Tower?"

It was clear they were having a sleepover party, with the girls awake after the clock in the pebbles struck midnight, and three futons laid out messily under the starlit night sky.

"Not this time! Try dethroning the Queen of Sleepovers!"

Marcy observed her two best friends Anne and Sasha playing, them still having the energy and motivation. Even after a fight with hornets during a dinner gathering (which was what ruined the hut, thanks to Grime's Vol-cake-no), and an intra-Wartwood Battle of the Bands (also thanks to Grime's beautiful harp performance, literally). They always seemed to have boundless energy, both in Amphibia and on Earth.

And Marcy was grateful to have met them. Although they were different - so different - she was grateful that fate had brought them together. Be it in the kindergarten, in Saint James Middle School or in the second temple, it must have been fate for them to meet at the right time, at the right place, over and over again. Perhaps just a little deviation in their actions, and they could have never even seen each other.

Just being together, and that's all enough for Marcy.

"I bet Mar-Mar has become pretty strong too, being in the royal guard and all. Right, Mar-Mar?"

Marcy was too caught up in her thoughts, she didn't notice the pillow flying straight towards her face. Until impact, that was.

"H-hey!" Marcy removed the pillow with a yell, which was slightly stuck to her face from how hard Sasha had thrown. Upon removal, the embarrassed Marcy saw her friends laughing and chuckling.

"Whatcha thinking, ya nerd? C'mon! We got this house to ourselves just for tonight!" Sasha exclaimed, arms akimbo.

"Yeah..." Anne looked around the ruined, practically inhabitable hut sheepishly. "Don't think the Plantars would still want to live here anyway..."

"So it's gonna be just the three of us!" Sasha pulled her two friends together for a hug, grinning brightly.

"Yay!" Anne cheered in response, while Marcy nodded happily.

Yes. Just being together, and that's more than enough.

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After an hour-long pillow fight, with the "warzone" extending to the whole village of Wartwoods, the three girls lay on their intertwined futons, panting in exhaustion but smiling in joy. Just like old times.

Through the hollow roof, on the cloudless night sky, countless stars decorated the dark green velvet cloth, with a red circular ornament at the centre of the scenery.

The three friends stared at the magnificent picture, their eyes reflecting the light of nature's wonder. Then, Anne suddenly pointed out.

"Huh? I thought it was a crescent moon just this evening?" She took her phone out from her pocket, scrolling to the group photo she had taken with everyone after the Battle of the Bands.

"Yeah! It was a crescent moon! Above Frobo!" Anne showed the picture to her friends, who also responded in surprise.

"Whaaaat? We~ird!" Sasha put her chin on her right palm, tilting her head, as if she was visibly pondering.

Meanwhile, Marcy's eyes widened, her focus shifting between the picture and the night sky. Then she fixated her vision on the night sky, and concluded in astonishment.

"Lunar eclipse...It is a full moon after all..."

"Wow..." Sasha and Anne also turned their gazes to the full moon, observing the celestial body in awe.

"Dad always says that a full moon symbolises union. That's why we have family gatherings on Mid-Autumn Festivals, when the moon is the brightest and biggest.

'People experience sadness and happiness, separations and reunions.

Just as the moon is sometimes dim, sometimes bright ; Sometimes round and complete, sometimes missing a piece.

Such phenomenons have hardly been in our favours, ever since ancient times.

But I wish for longevity for all families.

Even though miles apart, we can still observe the same full moon together.'

That's what Dad always tells me."

"Oh right! Lemme send you guys the pic!" Anne shared the group photo with Marcy and Sasha via her phone, the message arriving at the two girls' devices just a few seconds later. "Sent!"

"Wow. This is, like, our first group photo here..." Sasha looked at her phone screen, realising that the band performance was the first casual, friendly activity the friend trio had done, ever since they had arrived to this world.

"Yeah! And it'll make a great souvenir when we're back home! Let's print it out, and put it on a photo frame! Oh! Or make it into stickers, and stick 'em everywhere!" Anne happily suggested, already excited for the journey tomorrow.

And Marcy merely smiled. Looking up at the night sky, avoiding their visions, she asked her friends.

"Hey...wouldn't you wish to go home?"

A seemingly silly question, but not to Marcy.

"Of course I do!" Anne replied, without thinking about the question.

"Yeah, sure." So did Sasha.

Marcy paused after hearing their very much expected answers, before responding to them, eyes still fixated on the full moon above.

"Me too."

Under the wishing stars, the three friends promised.

That they would go home. Together. Hand in hand.

"If, by chance, there is a God...Please...It is already enough. It is alright now. We will figure out a way ourselves. Therefore, please don't give us any more. Please don't take any more away from us.

God, please...

Let us be together, just as we are now."

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"I just wanted everything to stay unchanged, but apparently that is the hardest thing to do."

When Marcy looked down at the fiery blade through her chest, she realised everything she had wished for were now broken.

"Andrias is right. I don't want to go back. Ever.

From the moment Dad told me the news, I don't want to go back ever again.

The moment I go back will be the moment of departure.

I didn't want to be alone so bad, I believed in some outlandish magic. The knowledge learnt from a random book dropped by a random librarian. The artefact found in a random shop on a random street.

But I believed it. I truly did.

When I saw the music box, I wished. I closed my eyes, clasped my hands, and wished, from the bottom of my heart...

...that, if there really is magic, please...

...let us be together, forever and ever.

Just together. When...where...how...they don't matter.

As long as we are together, it'll be enough. It'll be alright.

I don't need anything more. I don't need anything less.

Only the unchanging every-day. And I'll be happy.

That's all I wish for."

"...but not even that is allowed."

"Marcy...!"

Marcy stumbled backwards when the blade was retrieved from her body. As her vision started to dim from tears and pain, and the image of Anne and the Plantars fading away, Marcy let out a dry chuckle.

"That's right...This is the price...The price of wishing for an unattainable happiness..."

Marcy took a step towards the open portal. She wouldn't be going through it. No. She promised herself she wouldn't ever want to go back. She had to keep this promise.

Marcy reached for Anne. Her best friend crying for her. The music box in hands. Tears in her own eyes. She couldn't make it far enough to give Anne that cursed artefact, but at least she could give her friend her apology.

"I'm sorry...for everything..."

As she fell forward, Marcy could hear Anne crying out her name one last time. And with that, even for just a bit, Marcy felt she had been redeemed.

"...it's nice knowing you..."

Her body hit the cold hard ground, the music box in her hands dropping onto the metal flooring. A dazzling white light emerged from the instrument, covering the entire palace in a magical gleam.

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In that tiny fraction of time, shorter than the blink of an eye, Anne clearly heard Marcy asked. With a small, content smile.

"Hey...wouldn't you wish to go home?"

(27-12-2021 ~ 28-12-2021)

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(This story is a secret santa gift for a good friend of mine, back in December 2021!)

(The story is (quite heavily) inspired by Makoto Shinkai's "Tenki no Ko / Weathering with You". I was also quite inspired by the movie's theme song "Is There Still Anything Love Can Do? / 愛にできることはまだあるかい？", which I listened to when writing most of this. Some of the quotes from the story are also from the movie. (like the "If there is a God..." monologue))

[sanoiro]

Is the massive reveal tomorrow going to be Lucifer tying into the new Sandman series?

The new Sandman series is set to include the first 2 volumes (issues #1-#16) which are the  Preludes & Nocturnes and The Doll's House. 

The first volume includes John Constantine and somewhat Lucifer, the second neither of the two. 

In order to get Lucifer properly back to Sandman, we need Season of Mists (Vol. 4 Issues #21-#28). 

If they continue that plan meaning having two comic volumes per season that means that Lucifer will appear briefly in S1 and then will be one of the re-occurring characters of late S2. 

After that, we find Lucifer again in The Kindly Ones (Vol. 9 Issues #57-69) at Los Angeles with his LUX so if that plan is kept we will see Lucifer again at the beginning of S5 of Sandman. 

All the above mean that if we get Sandman we will not find it out now. That’s for certain, it means that if the Sandman production wants Ellis they should do two things. One if Sandman is introduced in the Lucifer series we need them in S6 in a brief scene that needs to be set in S5 of Sandman or at least hint we are at that point because Gaiman wants to keep things as pure as possible with Sandman aside from the chronology meaning Sandman will not wake up in 1917. 

So let’s restructure things. 

We do not expect a Sandman announcement right now. 

If S6 includes Sandman it will be chronologically placed in S5. 

If Ellis returns for Sandman, obviously older than in S1 of Lucifer it can work but we are talking roughly for the following season/year releases:

Lucifer’s Chronology

2016 - 

Crisis on Infinite Earths (Part 3) - Pre-Pilot Lucifer - Delilah’s Murder Night - (Dec 9, 2019)

Lucifer S1 (Jan 25 - Apr 25, 2016)

2017 - 

Lucifer S2 (Sept 19, 2016 - May 29, 2017)

2018 - 

Lucifer S3 (Oct 2, 2017 - May 28, 2018)

2019 - 

Lucifer S4 (May 8, 2019)

2020 - 

Lucifer S5P1 (August 21, 2020)

 Possible Future Releases Breakdown & Connections

2021 - 

Sandman S1 (Includes Lucifer), Lucifer S5P2 (possibly) & Lucifer S6

2022 - 

Sandman S2 (Includes Lucifer)

2023 - 

Sandman S3

2024 - 

Sandman S4

2025 - 

Sandman S5 (Includes Lucifer in the Chronology of a Pre-Pilot 2016 Lucifer)

Weird reply but I enjoyed it :P 

[njcodiangelo-archive]

▲ and strange the dreamer by laini taylor! it's a queer fantasy with lots of layers and complexity and the mc is... a little annoying but everyone else is AMAZING i promise.

adam!!! omgggg a queer fantasy you know i gotta read that bitch rq tysm 4 the rec

time: sunrise | mid morning | noon | afternoon | sunset | midnight | 3 am season: autumn | winter | spring | summer color: scarlet | amber | bumblebee | jade | cerulean | indigo | periwinkle | rose | pearl | onyx place: a boulangerie in paris | a coffee shop in nyc | a beach in la | a wildflower field in the netherlands | a park in london | a corn field in ohio sound: birds chirping | a summer breeze | water rushing | dead silence | an old record player | music blasting from a car radio | busy streets | a summer rain scent: roses | cinnamon | old books | lavender | coffee | critrus | warm vanilla hogwarts house: hufflepuff | slytherin | ravenclaw | gryffindor planet: mercury | venus | earth | mars | jupiter | saturn | uranus | neptune | pluto element: air | water | fire | earth a feeling: uncontrollable laughter | happy tears | butterflies in your stomach | complete wonder | an insatiable want for knowledge | absolute joy | an adrenaline rush | a best friend’s hug

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[okimargarvez]

WASTED TALENT

Original title: Wasted talent.

Prompt: Penelope can’t sleep and tries to paint something.

Warning: none.

Genre: funny, romantic.

Characters: Penelope Garcia, Luke Alvez.

Pairing: Garvez.

Note: part 86 in Garvez canon Life.

Legend: 💑.

Song mentioned: none.

GARVEZ STORIES

WASTED TALENT

 Sometimes it can happen that, waking up due to a sudden thirst (or less elegant but nevertheless equally impelling physical needs) he discovers the place next to him unexpectedly empty and strangely cold. And reaching the living room, he notices a light on, in addition to that of a special alarm clock, bought by Luke himself because he projects the time on the wall or ceiling. And now it informs him it's three-twenty-five at night, or at morning, depending on your point of view.

-What the hell are you doing?- he exclaims, reaching his girl without being noticed and, as he secretly and maliciously hoped, making her jump.

But she is able to regain control of her body. She puts something at her feet, then she moves her hair off, braiding it, and he can’t help but thinks she is tremendously sexy. -Hey, don't you see?- she wears a short-sleeved shirt, which reaches her mid-calf. Once it might have been white, but now it is studded with spots of different colors, and they seem to be made on purpose. -I'm painting, Alvez.- the man makes his grimace, suddenly remembering the last time he saw it on her: when the girls had eavesdropped on their speeches believing that they were doing unbridled sex in the middle of the afternoon, instead they were simply busy stuccoing and painting the walls. If Penelope wanted a new color for a room, Penelope would have gotten it.

Luke walks a step closer. -Track lines at random of different colors would mean painting?- he says, struggling to take his eyes off her and move them to her "masterpiece". -I didn't know...- the sentence is cut off by a flying object not immediately identified -Ouch.- a brush suitable for covering large surfaces, and fortunately, for this reason, it's not dirty.

-You asked for it.- Penelope says with an innocent look. -I knew I was a misunderstood genius.- she rolls her eyes and turns, giving him her back, and not only.

But Luke is still not satisfied. He completely forgot the reason he stood up. -Right.- he joins her, stretching his left arm to draw her to him. - Wasted talent.- he continues to making lovingly fun of her .

But she remains equally concentrated, or pretends astonishingly. -With you, then, it's like throwing pearls to swine.- he leaves her free, pretending to be offended.

-Hey!- Penelope gives him a quick glance, judging him not worthy of something more. Of course, it's not strange for her to paint in the middle of the night. When you can’t sleep…

-Sorry, you are right.- and never happens that she wakes him up too, taking advantage of another relaxing technique. Never. -Poor pigs, they might be offended at having been compared to...- this time she's the one forced to stop, because he... -Luke Alvez! Did you really dare to stain my hair?- that blue stripe, just the only strand that escaped the weave, seems to have been made on purpose.

He admires his work for a moment. -You threw a brush to my head.- he reminds her. She pushes him away, lowering herself to look for one of the many rags scattered all over the room.

-But I didn't stain you.- she points out. -Do you know what kind of colors I'm using?- she asks.

Luke decides to tease her a little more. -It seems obvious to me that the answer is... surely.- she opens her eyes. -I am a graduate in geology, I had to take various chemistry exams and I can recognize this smell.- he loves having her eyes on himself.

-Then? I'm waiting.- and torturing her gently with expectations as she does with him.

-You are using paint with a high levels of lead.- he replies therefore, reluctantly. -But do you know how dangerous it is?- in a moment he is back serious and overprotective.

-Yes, natural that I know.- she hates when he manages to make her feel stupid, like she’s always with head in the clouds. -Monet lost his sight because of them... but he was still a genius.- she points out, with an eloquent look.

-So why you can’t use simpler colors like tempera or watercolor?- insists Luke.

-Simpler...- she tries repeating his words, but just can't do it. -Alvez, I begin to doubt my decision to stay with you.- he grabs her by the waist, opening a few buttons .

-If you call me by surname again I will give you various reasons for keep doing it.- he only says, getting a shocked (but also smug) expression. -You know perfectly that when you play the “early” Garcia role, Newbie and etcetera, I lose my mind.- this time she just doesn’t hold back laughter.

-Early Garcia?- she asks, letting him undressing her.

-I was just trying to stay on art topic.- the man replies, with the most innocent of tones.

-See, how are you?- she pretends to want to reject him. -First you make me believe to be the most ignorant on earth about a subject that is close to my heart, and then I find out that you also have a doctorate about it.- he passes his tongue over his teeth, shaking his head. Her shirt falls to the ground.

-Hey, now let's not overdo it. Jose is graduated in Art history and Critics.- she opens her eyes wide. -What, you didn't know? And guess who had to put up with endless talk about the differences between Romanesque and Gothic, about the dispute between Cimabue and Duccio and, the part I preferred most of all: contemporary art. If you can call it that...- she puts her hands under his shirt and pinches him, gently.

-Hey, I think you have looking at my painting, after all.- she says

-No, it's your impression.- it's hard to concentrate when she... -What are you doing?- he asks.

-I surrender.- she declares. -You've stolen my inspiration, you destroyed the atmosphere.- she adds.

-Hey, Pen, do you always have to be so melodramatic?- he takes her face in his hands.

-And you must always be so horny?- she rubs her knee on his groin.

-Touché.- he exclaims, but smiles. -And now what are you going to do, can you sleep?- she shrugs.

-I will return to the good old pad and pencil. What is it?- she notices his gaze. -Any good nerd knows how to draw (or knows someone intimately with such ability), how could I otherwise force my favorite characters to kiss each other?- Luke bursts out laughing.

And again, that grimace on his mouth. -I think that's right.- he nods.

-What are you still doing here?- she asks, but doesn’t move away from his body.

-Nothing, I thought that... you know, you could do me a portrait.- he proposes.

-Or a caricature.- Penelope raises, winking.

-So you may make my nose and chin particularly noticeable, right?- he asks.

-Uh, I love your nose and your chin.- she caresses them. -And something else, too, which definitely doesn't want to rest, today.- Luke shakes his head.

-If you insist with this voice...- the blonde's hands go down.

-Oh yeah, it would be my fault.- she exclaims, innocently.

-Always.- she stops just a few millimeters above the hem of his trousers.

-Good to know. So, what would you say if I'll made a portrait in your birthday suit?- she asks.

-That we just won't hang it in the living room.-

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[sciencespies]

Fossil trees on Peru's Central Andean Plateau tell a tale of dramatic environmental change

https://sciencespies.com/nature/fossil-trees-on-perus-central-andean-plateau-tell-a-tale-of-dramatic-environmental-change/

Fossil trees on Peru's Central Andean Plateau tell a tale of dramatic environmental change

As the Earth’s surface transforms, entire ecosystems come and go. The anatomy of fossil plants growing in the Andean Altiplano region 10 million years ago calls current paleoclimate models into question, suggesting that the area was more humid than models predict.

On an expedition to the Central Andean Plateau, researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and colleagues were astounded to find a huge fossil-tree buried in the cold, grassy plain. The plant fossil record from this high-altitude site in southern Peru contains dramatic reminders that the environment in the Andes mountains changed drastically during the past 10 million years, but not in the ways that climate models of the past suggest. Findings from the expedition are presented in the journal Science Advances.

“This tree and the hundreds of fossil wood, leaf and pollen samples we collected on the expedition, reveal that when these plants were alive the ecosystem was more humid — even more humid than climate models of the past predicted,” said Camila Martinez, a fellow at STRI, who recently finished her doctorate at Cornell University. “There is probably no comparable modern ecosystem, because temperatures were higher when these fossils were deposited 10 million years ago.”

The anatomy of the petrified (permineralized) wood the researchers found is very much like wood anatomy in low-elevation tropical forests today. Indeed, the altitude then was probably only 2,000 meters above sea level.

But that ecosystem did not last for long. Today, the arid, intermountain plateau lies at 4,000 meters above sea level.

Five million year-old fossils from the same sites confirmed that the Puna ecosystem that now dominates the Andes’ high mountain plateaus had been born: the younger pollen samples were mostly from grasses and herbs, rather than from trees. Leaf material was from ferns, herbs and shrubs, indicating that the plateau had already risen to its current altitude.

“The fossil record in the region tells us two things: both the altitude and the vegetation changed dramatically over a relatively short period of time, supporting a hypothesis that suggests the tectonic uplift of this region occurred in rapid pulses,” said Carlos Jaramillo, STRI staff scientist and project leader.

“Andean uplift played an important role in shaping the climate of South America, but the relationship between the rise of the Andes, local climates and vegetation is still not well understood,” Martinez said. “By the end of this century, changes in temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations will again approximate the conditions 10 million years ago. Understanding the discrepancies between climate models and data based on the fossil record help us to elucidate the driving forces controlling the current climate of the Altiplano, and, ultimately, the climate across the South American continent.

Author affiliations include: STRI; Cornell University; CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Museo de Historia Natural, Lima, Peru; University of Rochester, Rochester, New York; and the Florida Institute of Technology.

Story Source:

Materials provided by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Note: Content may be edited for style and length.

#Nature

[technicallymilkshakes]

Glorious

Genre: Fluff. Sentimental Fluff.  Pairing: Baekhyun x Reader Word Count 1.2k

Author’s Note: This is for @lucyandthepen for @exo-writers-net Secret Valentine’s Event. I’m sorry this is coming to you so late, but I hope you enjoy it nevertheless! Happy belated Valentine’s Day! <3

You dance on clouds. Small wisps float up between your toes. All the words you could've had are eclipsed by the sight before you.

“Baekhyun, what....”

Everything around you is beautiful. A canopy of clouds pool between mountain peaks. The sunrise washes over them like a watercolor painting. You can still see the stars in the western sky, diamond droplets on a velvet background.

Arms wrap around your waist. A chin drops onto your shoulder.

“Happy Valentine's Day,” Baekhyun whispers into your ear. He kisses your cheek. “I love you.”

It all started when you got home. After pulling another long shift, and you had just enough energy left to make two stops before home—one at Baekhyun's favorite local bakery for a cupcake that said 'I'm Sweet on You' and another at a small bookstore to buy a card that said I Love You in all the ways you couldn't.

As soon as you got home, you set your stuff down and went to find Baekhyun. He was where you predicted he'd be, in the small bedroom he had made into his gaming room/office.

You knocked on the door frame and waited. Baekhyun jumped. “Hey!” he said, quickly turning his monitor off and getting up to greet you. “Sorry, I didn't hear you come in.”

“Happy Valentine's Day.” You pulled the card and cupcake out from behind your back.

There was a simple comfort you found in making Baekhyun smile like this. It never changed and you never grew tired of it. It was a mixture of boyish delight tinged with shyness, like he couldn't wait to open it, but wasn't exactly sure what he'd done to earn it in the first place.

He opened the card, read it silently, then closed it and set it, along with the cupcake, down on his desk.

“Thank you,” he said, and kissed you, soft and sincere.

But he pulled away and looked nervous.

“I didn't buy you anything for Valentine's Day.”

“Oh.” You blinked.

It wasn't a big deal. You hadn't really wanted anything for Valentine's Day anyways. So you were a little confused with why it made you so upset. Maybe it was the gesture, the idea behind it; the knowledge that he might think of you in the times you weren't thinking of him. Except this time he hadn't. And that niggling little doubt returned to make you think: 'Ah. He doesn't love me as much as I love him.'

“That's okay,” you said, even though it was not. “You didn't have to get me anything. I'm gonna wash up for bed now, though. I'm really tired.” You smiled because maybe Baekhyun found comfort in smiles the way you did, then you went to the bathroom to shower and cry in peace.

Baekhyun looked up at you as soon as you exited the bathroom. All the furniture had been pushed against the walls and he sat there in the middle of all that empty space looking like a forlorn puppy.

“Sit?” He patted the space next to him.

You hesitated for a moment.

“Baekhyun, I'm really tired--”

“I want to take you flying.”

That stopped you. He was serious. So you listened. You sat.  

“We're on the floor,” you said. “Are you gonna tell me the carpet's enchanted?”

“No.” He reached behind him and pulled out a VR headset. “Can I...?” He motioned as if to put it over your head. You lowered your head and he slipped it over your eyes.

It was black.

“Hold on. I'll be right back, okay? Don't move.”

You heard the soft footfalls of his socked feet move back down the hallway into his game room. The screen began to brighten, and then, life. Suddenly a river far below. Mountains, then trees and sky. Birds. It was like watching the creation of Earth. When you looked up, a ceiling of clouds brushed your head.

It even smelled: of lavender, of rain.

“I'm going to touch you now. Let's take you higher.”

Baekhyun's hands folded over yours. He tugged you gently forward, then with a gasp, you found yourself hurtling through the clouds only to emerge at the pinnacle of the world.

The wind up here.... you felt it. Felt the way your chemise fluttered against your legs, the chill of your wet hair set in. The sound rushed around you, swept you along and made you giddy.

A waltz began playing over the sound of wind, and Baekhyun gathered you close.

You dance on clouds.

“I have one more thing to show you.”

He takes you farther, his hand warm and sweaty in yours.

The moon hangs big and bright in the sky. A swing hangs from the apex of the crescent, ivy snaking down the ropes from which purple flowers bloom. A hand pushes gently down on your shoulder and you trust him enough to fall back onto a cushioned landing.

“Look right,” he tells you.

When you do, you see a comet, tail streaking past for what must be miles. Its glows a luminous pale blue, and as you sit in its wake, iridescent particles float past you.

“It's called Hyun04B. You can make a wish on it.”

A translucent hand tool appears on the screen and selects the comet. A drop down menu appears with the options to 'Catch Hyun04B' or 'Make a Wish on Hyun04B.'

“If you choose Make a Wish, it'll record a message. Just push this button while you talk,” he guides your fingers to the side of the VR headset, “and when you're done, it'll automatically save to the program so I can go back in later and listen to it. It comes around every 40 minutes, so you can make multiple wishes a day.

“I know how stressed you've been over money lately, and so I thought really hard about what I could do or make to help you. And so I thought, maybe I could be your genie if you tell me all your wishes.”

When he takes off the headset, you return to reality and find that it is not wanting. Baekhyun is flushed and apprehensive in front of you. The ceiling fan is still on, stirring the air lazily. In the corner, you spy Baekhyun's bluetooth speaker, and your aromatherapy diffuser is plugged into the wall by the couch.

“How was it,” he asks, to which you can only shake your head in reply and kiss him.

You feel like the human embodiment of Wonder. God may've made the world in seven days, but Byun Baekhyun did it in two months just for you.

“I do have one wish, though,” you tell him.

He raises an eyebrow, no doubt surprised you're asking him already.

You can't look him in the eye.

“Never stop loving me?”

“Baby, no,” he says and pulls you close, cheek pressed to your temple. “I never will.”

(Later, he dances 'Genie' by SNSD because he's clearly been holding it in and finally, finally gets to eat his cupcake.

“Ugh,” he says with his mouth still full. “I love you.”

You wipe crumbs off his t-shirt. “I love you more.”

He sticks the edible 'I'm Sweet on You' sticker to your cheek and kisses it.

“I love you the most,” he says and sticks his tongue out.

You smile and don't argue.)

A/N: To my secret valentine, even though this isn’t everything that you listed, I hope you still like it. 

Thank you for reading and again, Happy Valentine’s Day!

(If you’re wondering, the Catch option displays a note that Baekhyun writes for you [a new one each time] and saves the comet to your inventory so that you can make one wish at any time without waiting 40 minutes.)

[starheirxero]

Did u guys know? It Runs Deeper Earth and Eclipse friendship. Did you know? Earth learns tailoring for her and Monty and later uses it to make Eclipse his own clothes that truly reflect him rather than reflecting a Sun and Moon combo. Did you know? He never thought he'd earn this kind of care.

[daririnstammel]

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[ ANIMALS ]    birds.  birds of paradise. black panthers.  bugs.  bunnies. cats. chickens.  crows.  dogs.  dolphins.  dragons.  ducks.  eagles.  falcons.  fish.  foxes.  hawks.  horses.  lions.  lizards.  mice.  monkeys.  owls.  parrots.  pegasus.  praying mantises.  ravens.  sharks.  snakes.  spiders.  swans.  turtles.  unicorns.  werewolves.  whales.  wolverines.  wolves.

[ BODY ]   athletic.  bare feet.  bruises.  burns.  canines.  chubby.  claws.  curvy.  eyes.  fangs.  feathers.  feline.  freckles.  fur.  hands.  lips.  long fingers.  muscular.  normal height.  nose.  piercings.  scars. scratches.  short.  skinny.  slender. spikes.  strong.  sweat.  tail. tall.  tattoos.  tears.  teeth.  trained.  untrained.  weak.  webs.  wings.  wounds.

[ COLORS ]    apple red.  black.  blue. bronze.  brown.  charcoal grey.  cream.  crimson.  forest green.  gold.  green.  grey.  lilac.  matte.  metallic.  mint green.  navy blue.  orange.  pink.  purple.  red.  royal blue.  silver.  strawberry red.  teal. white.  yellow.

[ ELEMENTS ]    air.  cold.  dawn.  dewdrops.  dusk.  earth.  fire.  frost.  heat.  ice.  lightning.  midnight.  moon. moonlight.  rain.  snow.  starlight.  stars.  steam.  sun.  sunlight.  sunrise.  sunset. twilight.  water.  wind.

[ FOODS/DRINKS ]    ambrosia.  apples.  beer.  berries.  bubblegum.  burgers.  burritos.  candy.  caramel.  champagne.  cherries.  chinese food.  chocolate. cinnamon.  coffee.  cream.  desserts. figs.  fish.  hard liquor.  herbs.  lemons.  mangoes.  meat.  nuts.  oranges.  peaches.  pies.  pizza.  plums.  salt.  spices.  strawberries.  sugar.  tea. watermelon.  wine.

[ HOBBIES ]    acting.  art.  banjo.  bass guitar.  bells.  books.  brass.  cameras.  cassettes.  cds.  cello.  checkers.  chess.  climbing.  composing.  computer.  cooking.  dancing.  dice.  drums.  eating.  electronic guitar.  electronics.  fencing.  fighting.  flute.  gardening.  guitar. harmonica.  harp.  hiking.  jogging.  libraries.  magazines.  martial arts.  motorcycle riding.  movies.  music. painting.  phone.  piano.  playing cards.  poker chips. records.  riding.  running.  sculpting.  self defense.  sewing. singing.  sketching.  smithing.  technology.  theater.  training.  trumpet.  video cameras.  video games.  vinyls. violin.  watercolors.  woodwinds.  writing.

[ MATERIALS ]    adamantium.  amethyst. ash.  asphalt.  blood.  brick.  carbonate.  charcoal.  clay.  cotton.  denim.  diamonds.  dirt.  dust.  emeralds.  fur.  glass.  glitter.  gold.  iron.  lace.  leather.  linen.  marble.  metal.  mud.  paper. pearls.  platinum.  porcelain.  rubber.  rubies.  rust.  sapphires.  shadows.  silk.  silver.  smoke.  steel.  stone.  synthetics.  titanium.  velvet.  wood.  wool.

[ MISC ]    anger.  assistance. balloons.  bubbles.  candles.  cityscape.  clocks.  coworkers.  cuddling.  dark.  diary.  drinking.  drugs.  enemies.  fairy lights.  family.  fear.  friends.  frustration. happiness.  hope.  hugs.  kindness.  kisses.  landscape.  light.  loneliness.  love.  loyalty.  madness.  mirrors.  money.  optimism.  peace.  percussion.  pessimism.  pets. photos.  power.  sadness.  sanity.  self harm.  smoking.  war.

[ NATURE ]   bark.  beach.  caves.  clouds.  coral reef.  daisies.  desert.  dirt.  flowers. forest.  grass.  hay.  lavender. leaves.  lilies.  meadow.  mountains. ocean.  petals.  rain forest.  river.  rocks.  roots.  roses.  sand.  savanna.  seeds.  soil.  space.  stars.  thorns.  trees.  tulips.  tundra.  underwater.  volcanoes.  waves.

[ STYLE ]    armor.  bare feet.  belt.  boots.  bracers.  braces.  bracelet.  brocade.  button up. cape.  chest plate.  circlet.  cloaks.  coat.  corsets.  cowls.  crown.  doublet.  dress.  earrings.  eye contacts.  flannel.  glasses.  gloves.  gorget.  hat.  heels.  helmet.  hoodies.  jacket.  jeans.  jewelry.  leggings.  lingerie.  makeup.  masks.  naked.  necklace.  neck tie.  pendant.  ring.  sash.  scarf. shirt.  skirt.  socks.  suit.  sunglasses.  trousers. tunic.  vest. visor.  watches.

[ WEAPONS ]    axes.  bow and arrow.  claws.  feet.  fists.  dagger.  guns.  hammer.  katanas.  knives.  maces.  machine guns.  magic.  magical items.  mud balls.  pepper sprays.  poison.  powers.  rocks.  scythe.  shield.  slingshots.  spear.  staffs.  sword.  tasers.  teeth.  throwing axes.  wands.  whips.

[agirlinhell]

CHARACTER AESTHETICS.

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[ COLORS ] red. brown. orange. yellow. green. blue. purple. pink. black. white. teal. silver. gold. grey. lilac. metallic. matte. royal blue. strawberry red. charcoal grey. forest green. apple red. navy blue. crimson. cream. mint green. lavender.

[ ELEMENTS ] fire. ice. water. air. earth. rain. snow. wind. moon. stars. sun. heat. cold. steam. frost. lightning. sunlight. moonlight. dawn. dusk. twilight. midnight. sunrise. sunset. dewdrops.

[ BODY ] claws. long fingers. fangs. teeth. wings. tails. lips. bare feet. freckles. bruises. canines. scars. scratches. wounds. burns. spikes. feathers. webs. eyes. hands. sweat. tears. feline. chubby. curvy. short. tall. normal height. muscular. slender. trained. piercing. tattoos. strong. weak.

[ WEAPONS ] fists. sword. dagger. spear. scythe. bow and arrow. hammer. shield. poison. guns. axes. throwing axes. whips. knives. throwing knives. pepper sprays. tasers. machine guns. slingshots. katanas. maces. staffs. wands. powers. magical items. magic. rocks.

[ MATERIALS ] gold. silver. platinum. titanium. diamonds. pearls. rubies. sapphires. emeralds. amethyst. metal. iron. rust. steel. glass. wood. porcelain. paper. wool. fur. lace. leather. silk. velvet. denim. linen. cotton. charcoal. clay. stone. asphalt. brick. marble. dust. glitter. blood. dirt. mud. smoke. ash. shadow. carbonate. rubber. synthetics.

[ NATURE ] grass. leaves. trees. bark. roses. daisies. tulips. lavender. petals. thorns. seeds. hay. sand. rocks. roots. flowers. ocean. river. meadow. forest. desert. tundra. savanna. rain forest. caves. underwater. coral reef. beach. waves. space. clouds. mountains.

[ ANIMALS ] lions. wolves. black panther. eagles. owls. falcons. hawks. swans. snakes. turtles. ducks. bugs. spiders. birds. whales. dolphins. fish. sharks. horses. cats. dogs. bunnies. praying mantises. crows. ravens. mice. lizards. werewolves. unicorns. pegasus. dragons. foxes.

[ FOODS/DRINKS ] sugar. salt. candy. bubblegum. wine. champagne. hard liquor. beer. coffee. tea. spices. herbs. apple. orange. lemon. cherry. strawberry. watermelon.vegetables.fruits. meat. fish. pies. desserts. chocolate. cream. caramel.berries. nuts.cinnamon. burgers. burritos. pizza.

[ HOBBIES ] music. art. watercolors. gardening. smiting. sculpting. painting. sketching. fighting. fencing. riding. writing. composing. cooking. sewing. training. dancing. acting.singing. martial arts. self-defense. electronics. technology. cameras. video cameras. video games. computer. phone. movies. theater. libraries. books. magazines. CDs. records. vinyls. cassettes. piano. violin. cello. guitar. electronic guitar. bass guitar. harmonica. harp. woodwinds. brass. trumpet. flute. drums. bells. playing cards. poker chips. chess. dice. motorcycle riding. eating. climbing. running.

[ STYLE ] lingerie. armor. cape. dress. suit. tunic. vest. shirt. boots. heels. leggings. trousers. jeans. skirt. jewelry. earrings. necklace. bracelet. ring. pendant. hat. crown. circlet. helmet. scarf. necktie. brocade. cloaks. corsets. doublet. chest plate. gorget. bracers. belt. sash. coat. jacket. hood. gloves. socks. masks. cowls. braces. watches. glasses. sunglasses. visor. eye contacts. makeup.

[ MISC ] balloons. bubbles. cityscape. landscape. light. dark. candles. war. peace. money. power. percussion. clocks. photos. mirrors. pets. diary. fairy lights. madness. sanity. sadness. happiness. optimism. pessimism. loneliness. family. friends.assistants. co-workers. enemies. loyalty. smoking. drugs. kindness. love. hugs.

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[spacetodaypt]

Super-Earth Ross 508b skims habitable zone of red dwarf

Super-Earth Ross 508b skims habitable zone of red dwarf

The first exoplanet has been discovered by Subaru Strategic Program using the infrared spectrograph IRD on the Subaru Telescope (IRD-SSP). This planet, Ross 508b, is a super-Earth with about four times the mass of the Earth and is located near the habitable zone. Such a planet may be able to retain water on its surface, and will be an important target for future observations to verify the…

[joinnoukri]

Earth-like exoplanet, located 37 light-years away detected by scientists: Study

Earth-like exoplanet, located 37 light-years away detected by scientists: Study

Astronomers of the Subaru Strategic Program have discovered a possible Super Earth at a distance of 37 light-years from Earth. The discovery was made with the infrared spectrograph IRD on the Subaru Telescope (IRD-SSP) in Hawaii. NASA Exoplanets tweeted Thursday morning that a Super Earth has been discovered in the habitable zone of its red dwarf star. Discovery Alert!A recently discovered…