#living planet

[no7er]

Planet Kudzu Digital artwork by me, 2024

[tothesolarium]

One of the first planets our crew will be visiting is Alestera, which is inhabited with the Telva. Which are sentient flora. The trees have the closest semblance to humanoid limbs with their legs and hands, while the flowers have tendrils and roots. To each other they speak with body language and subtle vibration, but they learned to speak into visitors minds.

Visitors are allowed, but not if you are apart of any grand organization looking to establish contact. Or if you would try to take any of their resources. You must establish friendship before landing, or risk meeting their solar canons first hand

[urtopia]

Jake Foreman

[sylpheedz]

Super Celestion

[moonwatchuniverse]

May 8, Happy Birthday to Sir David Attenborough... turning 97 today ! Congratulations to British author, explorer & zoologist/biologist Sir David Attenborough on his 97th birthday. Last year he was so kind autographing a few 1962 photographs showing him wearing his Rolex Explorer 1016 wrist watch. A personal time piece he wore between 1962 and 1972 on different bracelets during a decade. (Photo: MoonwatchUniverse/BBC)  

[pluralzalpha]

Galactic Gazetteer: Zonama Sekot

Type: rogue planet/living planet

Location: variable

Origin: Yuuzhan Vong Ancestral Galaxy

Inhabitants: Yuuzhan Vong, Ferroans, Langhesi, humans

Affiliation: Yuuzhan Vong

First appearance: "Rogue Planet" by Greg Bear (2000)

Fun fact: a single sentient organism, the seed of the original Yuuzhan Vong homeworld Yuuzhantar.

Another fun fact: name means "World of Body and Mind" in Ferrian.

Fun fact 3: travelled to the main galaxy as part of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion in Legends continuity.

[wolfnowl]

As people debate the costs, timeline, difficulties and challenges of keeping our planet habitable, it helps to have a reminder of what our (realistic) alternatives are (we don't have any).

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

Even though the 11th Inspector claimed he was giving up his memories to the eldritch being Imhotep,

he really did it under duress, because the living planet had threatened to kill millions if he didn’t.

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

Susan Sontag wrote that "Depression is melancholy minus its charms." For me, living with depression was at once utterly boring and absolutely excruciating.

John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed (Harvey)

[edgarejart]

Ayang's Queen has Arrived

I was watching a fellow artist's stream of her artwork "Living Planet." I was inspired by an image she was playing with before she settled on her final draft. I ended up taking that early draft image and turning it into this piece. Thanks @ayang_javier for being such a great artist.

Ayang's artwork can be viewed here; https://www.instagram.com/p/CbcotgqKazh/

Art timelapse video can be seen @ https://youtu.be/BbdZJL58i3Q

[handsomelyerin]

they're so tarzan and jane core

[sanguine-pigeon]

saying it's "anti-arab racism" to call out gofundme scams is like saying it's antiblack to be skeptical of emails from the prince of nigeria asking you to wire money so you can collect vast fortunes.

[bookishdaze]

Ok but Venus by Sleeping At Last immediately makes me think about Noa and Mae. It's a sweet love song, the title is a reference to the Roman goddess of love, but best of all, it has a telescope metaphor to describe the feeling of falling in love, so obviously I think about them!

At first, I thought you were a constellation I made a map of your stars, then I had a revelation You're as beautiful as endless You're the universe I'm helpless in An astronomer at my best When I throw away the measurements

Like a telescope I will pull you so close 'Til no space lies in between And suddenly, I see you Suddenly, I see you

[pluralzalpha]

Galactic Gazetteer: Solaris

Appearance: "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem (1961)

Atmosphere: anoxic

Surface: living, organic gel ocean

Orbited by: Solaris Station

Fun fact: in orbit of binary stars, kept stable by the living ocean's manipulation of gravity and magnetism.

Fun fact: the Solaris ocean is its only life form and its entire ecosystem. Incapable of communicating with human life directly, it creates avatars based on memories of others.

Another fun fact: filmed three times, in 1968, 1972 and 2002.

[3liza]

I don't know how many times we have to say this but this is because the United States of America does not have public transit in any form that a European would recognize as such outside of a few very small, highly-dense municipal locations like NYC and Chicago, and having used both those systems and the U-Bahn i can firmly assert that the U-Bahn blows American subways into smithereens. we especially do not have accessible interstate passenger train service outside of that one commuter Amtrak loop in the northeast. the country is designed to force its citizens to use cars and only cars, and the government has made it policy to incentivize car ownership since the 1940s and punish any other form of transit, including just walking around. do you understand? the vast majority of roads here do not have bike lanes. when we do have bike lanes they are not protected by a curb or divider, they are just white lines painted on the asphalt. you will regularly encounter roads and streets--inside of cities and suburbs, not just in rural areas--that do not have sidewalks

[mimiscappinisideblog]

Me throughout 2020-2021-2022-2023:

Me the moment AO3 has been down for more than ten hours: