#melanin overload

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[omg-snakes]

I've noticed that corn snakes (and a lot of other snake species too) wiggle their heads from side to side when they're outside, especially under direct sunlight. I've heard a lot of things like 'they need to do it for depth perception' or 'uvb overload.' So now I'm curious, do you know why they do this??

Hello friend,

I do not! It's something I've observed also, and I strongly suspect it's an attempt to adjust to the bright light and gain their bearings. I keep my snakes, especially those with reduced melanin, out of direct sunlight as much as possible and they do it in the shade, too.

It doesn't seem to indicate anything bad and it's definitely a voluntary behavior, not a nervous system glitch. The snakes who do it don't try to hide from the light and autonomously move from more shaded areas to brighter ones. It also seems to be temporary and most snakes who I've observed doing it only do it initially, with the behavior stopping after a short while. Based on their other movements while exploring, I'm guessing the side-to-side wiggle is not harmful nor a stress response.

That's just a guess, though. I wouldn't begin to know how to go about testing it.

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Scream, The Witches, Hocus Pocus, Beetlejuice, It, Corpse Bride, Coraline, Gremlins, Goosebumps, Breaking Bad, Fallout, Air Buddies Spinoffs, Pup Star Movies + Puppy Star Christmas, Men In Black, Ghostbusters, Venom, Jumanji, Paddington, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, Vampire Dog, Supernatural, Zootopia, Any Monster High Media except the newer ones, Yo-Kai Watch, Back To The Future, Rick and Morty, Powerpuff Girls, The Matrix, Fight Club, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, The Ring, The Shining, Good Omens, Needy Steamer Overload, Sucker For Love, Class of '09, Any Chilla's Art game, Any Puppet Combo game, Genshin Impact ( i will give any natlan or sumeru character their melanin back ), Honkai Star Rail, Zenless Zone Zero, Pokémon, Kirby, Any Legend of Zelda game, Animal Crossing, Doki Doki Literature Club, Five Nights at Freddy's, Tuck Everlasting, The Outsiders, Lord of the Rings + The Hobbit, Pirates of the Caribbean, Doctor Who, MCU, DCU, My Little Pony, Frankenweenie, The Nightmare before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Alice in Wonderland, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, The Grinch, Phantom of the Opera, Disney ( i do not support the company, it is merely ingrained in my childhood and i enjoy the whimsical stories of old school Disney ), Smile, The Mandela Catalogue, Possibly in Michigan, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hannibal, Vtubers ( no nijisanji ), OCs ( must provide artwork, if it was drawn by someone else, tell me who ), Demon Slayer, Jujustu Kaisen, Bungou Stray Dogs, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Sailor Moon, Death Note, Chainsaw Man, Reverse: 1999, Resident Evil, The Last Of Us, Call of Duty, Red Dead Redemption, God of War, Devil May Cry, Detroit: Become Human, Doom, Madoka Magica, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Nier: Automata, Spy x Family, Darling in the Franxx, Panty & Stocking, Toilet Bound Hanako-Kun, Overlord, Wuthering Waves, Dark Souls, Halo, Fundamental Paper Education, Final Fantasy, Vocaloid, A Land Mine Vampire's Overbearing Love, I Wanted to be Hurt by Love, Zom 100, The Case Study of Vanitas, Sanrio, Cherry Crush, Danganrompa, Mean Girls, The Walten Files, If It's Not On This List Or Blacklist, Ask First!

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Any non-SFW media but if i'm able to find some content that isn't explicit, i suppose i can edit it. I won't do ship or Hu Tao related content unless we are moots.

DNI

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prioritize

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tumblr layouts, character pride icons, mogai flags, aesthetic carekits, dual flag + music suggestion, rentry graphics, dividers, blasian / darkskin edits upon request.

things i won't do

alt system terms, discord or twitter layouts, rentry directory graphics.

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AFROBEATS CITY PRESENTS TOP 60 SONGS FOR 2022

2022 was an amazing year for the Afrobeats scene and we are happy that we have been able to keep you all entertained with the latest and hottest African music.

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In true Afrobeats City style, we have finally put together a list of our favourite Afrobeats songs released during 2022.

The list which features 60 singles is split into two sections, the top 1-30 are rated in order of our favourites and the rest of the list (tracks 31-60) is rated in no particular order, just songs that we the team enjoyed the most this year.

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Burna Boy - Last Last

Oxlade - Ku Lu Sa

Rema -Calm Down

Asake ft Burna Boy - Sunga (Remix)

Kizz Daniel - Buga (Lo Lo Lo)

Pheelz ft BNXN fka Buju - Finesse

Fireboy DML ft Ed Sheeran - Peru

Fireboy DML ft Asake - Bandana

Asake - Peace Be Unto You

Ayra Starr - Rush

Wizkid - Bad To Me

Black Sherif - Kwaku The Traveller

Zinoleesky - Personal

Mayorkun - Certified Loner (No Competition)

Ruger - Girlfriend

Burna Boy - It's Plenty

Asake - Terminator

CKay ft Davido, Focalistic & Abidoza - WATAWI

Seyi Vibez - Chance

Asake ft Tiwa Savage - Loaded

Rexxie ft Niara Marley, Skiibii - Abracadabra

Mavins ft Crayon, Ayra Starr, Ladipoe, Magixx, Boy Spyrce - Overloading (OVERDOSE)

Chris Brown ft Wizkid - Call Me Everyday

Kizz Daniel - Cough (Odo)

Pheelz ft Davido - Electricity

Ruger - Dior

Raybekah - Ex Boyfriend

Lojay ft Sarz, Chris Brown - Monalisa

A30 - Your Body

Ladipoe - Big Energy

Davido ft Focalistic - Champion Sound

1da Banton ft Kizz Daniel, Tiwa Savage - No Wahala (Remix)

JAE5 ft Dave, BNXN fka Buju - Propeller

BNXN fka Buju ft Wande Coal - Kenkele

Bayanni - Family

Zinoleesky - Call of Duty

Omah Lay - Woman

Victony ft Tempoe - Soweto

Ruger - Asiwaju

Adekunle Gold ft Lucky Daye - Sinner

L.A.X - Waist Drop

Davido ft Sunday Service Choir - Stand Strong

Mr Eazi ft Falz, Major League DJz, DJ Tarico, Joey B - Patek (Remix)

Spinall ft Asake - Palazzo

Wizkid ft Skepta, Naira Marley - WOW

Carterefe, Berri-Tiga - Machala

Ruger - Snapchat

Reekado Banks ft Fireboy DML - Ozumba Mbadiwe (Remix)

Rema - Soundgasm

Fireboy DML - Playboy

Young John ft Davido - Dada

Kwamz ft Sona - Yeah Yeah Yeah

Burna Boy ft Popcaan - Toni-Ann Singh

Camidoh ft Mayorkun, Darkoo, King Promise - Sugarcane (Remix)

Omah Lay ft Justin Bieber - Attention

Skibii - Trenches

Rotimi ft Nektunez - Make You Say

Yemi Alade ft Kranium - My Man

Skip Marley ft Ayra Starr - Jane

Naira Marley ft Lil Kesh - Melanin

[gothseparatist]

Conditions of the Ninth House

Ok I was just joking around that "It's a good thing the Ninth are the bone necros because they probably all have rickets being on Pluto" but then I wondered, would they?? how weak is their daylight?

Bunch of back of the envelope calculations and ruminations under the cut but the tl;dr is that brightest day Harrow would've experienced prior to Canaan House was darker than that of a typical grocery store interior

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They aren't under a planetary atmosphere and I'm no physicist but I think light is light in a vacuum, some UV would reach that far just as some visible light does and due to them being partially a space station basically they are going to be under radiation we aren't.

Measurements for Solar radiation (W/m^2) on Earth are 1,413 at max and 1,321 at min. For Pluto due to its highly eccentric orbit it is much more extreme at 1.55 and 0.57. Compare this with Neptune which is 1.54 max and 1.47 min. Using the above and the value of 98,000 lux (a unit for brightness) for noon on Earth, I did some quick calculations that put noon on Pluto to vary between 114 lux to 42 lux (again due to its substantial orbital eccentricity). Putting that in comparable terms: average living room in Australia in 1998 was apparently 50 lux. Sunrise and sunset on Earth is ~400 lux. The dark limit of civil twilight (most can still read) is 3.4 lux. Night of fullmoon is 0.05-0.3 lux. Recommended office lighting is 320-500 lux.

With the above in mind, natural light reaching Drearburh at its brightest is comparable to a typical living room. And Pluto's rotation is 6.4 Earth days so the changes in natural lighting would be much more gradual than what Harrow would've experienced in Canaan house. It must have been quite the sensory overload + chaos for her!

Now for UV!

As far as UV goes, only Pluto readings I can find are in Rayleighs and I am too lazy to convert them [also yes I believe this is reflected off Pluto but it does not matter for our purposes as that is some of the light they'd be getting hit with] not many crafts have been to Pluto lol

So I'm just gonna go off a common value based on distance that Pluto receives roughly 1/1600 of the light we do. Thus, its UV will be 1/1600 of the UV on the ISS (Drearburh is under artificial atmosphere but it is unclear what filtering it does in terms of UV so I'm mostly ignoring that). Earth 's atmosphere filters out basically all UV-C (germicidal really intense one) and about 90% or more of UV-B (the sunburn one).

Unfiltered sunlight composition is about 10% UV so 10% of those earlier solar radiation measurements of 1.55 and 0.57 W/m^2 is UV. This gives us the convenient calculation to 0.155 and 0.057 W/m^2 in the UV spectrum.

For some reason it was impossible for me to find simple measurements of UV in W/m^2 lol (everything was already adjusted to different units). BUT I was able to pull up a few studies that had those as raw data for entirely different thing and most helpful was one in Kuwait where UVB was 0.25 W/m^2 or this map where it is in mW/m^2 (so 200 = 0.2).

In terms of UV, this would put the Ninth House within the range of Southern England during its perihelion and to Scandinavia during its aphelion so yes it is in fact Rickets City.

perihelion = closest to sun; aphelion= furthest

It is likely the house makes use of UV-producing lamps for its population especially given the major malnutrition issues and that the founding population included at the very least some people of Maori descent, potentially other ethnic groups with often brown skin, and people with darker skin can be more susceptible to low Vit D in low UV environments since their melanin is blocking what precious little UV they are getting. John made many oversights e.g. he's able-bodied so the houses lack automated doors, but given his background I'd imagine he'd catch onto this at least. I believe there are mentions of arc lamps in the text and these can let off some UV so there's some textual support to this idea. However, I do imagine they still rely heavily on necromancy to heal rickets just as they do other conditions. [Also normally, I'd say "realistically" after 10k years they'd likely have lost a lot of their melanin responsivity as that has happened quite quickly in humans (Cheddar Man vs modern white brits or Ashkenazi Jews vs Mizrahi ones) but the Ninth House is a much more stable environment than European history LOL, like people are provided their food and there's no war at home, etc so the "use it or lose it" selection pressure isn't as relevant as it would be for cave animals. But also "realistically" doesn't matter anyways for a bunch of reasons and the Houses clearly engage in some genetic meddling anyway (Ianthe and Coronabeth's Alexandria's Genesis asses have violet eyes).]

Lastly, the height of no-one-else-gives-a-shit-Avery, but the low light also has major implications for their crop production. "Low light" houseplants [University of Melbourne] have lux within "270 to 807". The Ninth likely has to be using either additional lights for their snowleeks and/or they are channeling a lot of light into a mirror/reflector and beaming it over the growing area. The latter makes the most sense to me.. though given how dark it is they probably should've just GMO'd some lower water column algae

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