#pull me into orbit

[sockodot]

Chapters: 1/36 Fandom: Mass Effect Trilogy Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Kal'Reegar/Female Shepard (Mass Effect), Female Shepard & Tali'Zorah nar Rayya, Female Shepard & Garrus Vakarian, Kal'Reegar & Tali'Zorah nar Rayya Characters: Custom Shepard, Kal'Reegar (Mass Effect), Tali'Zorah nar Rayya, Garrus Vakarian, Normandy Crew (Mass Effect) Additional Tags: Dual POV, Canon Divergence, Dialogue Heavy, Friends to Lovers, horny to friends to lovers, Literal Sleeping Together, Sharing a Bed, vision angst, Reanimation Angst, Angst, descriptions of violence, Canon Typical Violence, Gore, Horror aspects, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Getting Together, Explicit Sex, No Shepard Without Vakarian, earthborn/war hero, No beta we die like Nihlus, no formal beta at least, do not copy to another site, I MEAN THE ANGST, shepard cannot catch a break, which is kinda the point Series: Part 1 of The Kal Project, Part 1 of Jenn Shepard Summary:

When Shepard recruits Tali, she also takes on the other survivor of the quarian team. This spurs Kal to join Shepard's crew in the fight against the Collectors. Along the way, both him and Shepard develop a relationship deeper than lust and learn to grow.

ITS FINALLY BACK!!!! Please enjoy Dossier: Tali (and Kal!)/The Kal Project rewritten!!

[redeemed-wren]

Thinking about. Stanley Pines. Once summer, not long after Weirdmaggedon. Sitting in his seat, staring at the tv but realising slowly he's not really watching TV, he's listening.

Listening to Soos, taking a tour group around the Shack, his voice confident and happy, eagerly telling tourists all kinds of tall tales. Soos, with his young son strapped to his chest, held close and dear to his heart, always knowing he is loved and wanted by his father.

Listening to Wendy and Melody, laughter turning to deeper conversations in the gift shop as Wendy pours out her latest dating drama and Melody listens sympathetically--not quite a mother, but an older sister figure is all Wendy wants at the moment.

Listening to a distant boom coming from the basement, a cause for some concern that fades quickly as three peals of laughter follow soon after. One deep and familiar, as comforting and close as the sound of a ship's motor and the open sea. One young and high, cracking with adolescent awkwardness. One loud and cackling, a hint of madness never quite leaving it but more settled than it used to be. And Stan figures it's probably time to send someone down to drag Ford, Dipper and McGucket upstairs before they forget what light is and get too nerdy.

Besides it's nearly dinner time, and he's listening to Mabel's steady, unrelenting chatter in the kitchen, punctuated by a few grunts of acknowledgment from Abuelita as they prepare a meal.

And Stan feels a strange, unusual sensation wash over him, something he hasn't felt for over half a lifetime, by a boat on a beach. A sensation of contentment, of security, of peace. And he realises that if he stood up and walked into any one of the rooms in the Shack he would be greeted with smiles and faces lighting up to see him and cheerful cries of his name.

And he looks down at the darned pig sleeping beside his chair and things, with oddly misty eyes, that he spent thirty years trying to find his brother again. And he succeeded--but somehow, he got more than that. He had formed around him, without even realising it, a family.

[null-doesnothing]

goddamn, they weren't kidding, this sherlock holmes fandom shit is truly eternal, that little autistic detective man never leaves my brain

[deep-space-netwerk]

Alright, so, black holes right?

Most people have probably seen this astOUNDING image of the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy - the first real picture of a black hole.

It may look like a blurry orange donut, but you gotta understand, this was and still is a hugely impressive achievement. At a black hole's event horizon, the escape velocity (or the speed at which something has to travel to escape the body's gravitational pull) is faster than the speed of light. By definition a black hole cannot be directly observed. Imaging the shadow of M87* required using eight ground-based radio telescopes all over the world, working together as an interferometer - or as though they were one single telescope the size of the entire planet.

So that's fucking cool in its own right, but how did we know that black holes existed before 2019 when we could actually "see" one? How do we detect something that reflects no light when we DON'T have a simulated telescope the size of Earth? The answer is gravity.

We think that most large galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centers, left over from their chaotic infancies when hundreds of thousands of early stars collided and then collapsed, and then kept colliding. To give you an idea of what we mean by "supermassive", the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A* (pronounced "A-star"), is about 4 million times the mass of our sun. And that's SMALL.

So while black holes aren't the horrible all-consuming reality-guzzling unmakers of creation that science fiction likes to paint them as - we aren't in any danger whatsoever from Sagittarius A*, now or ever - they CAN get big enough to really throw things around. So we looked for objects moving under the influence of . . . nothing.

This gif is a years-long timelapse of stars orbiting something in a seemingly-empty region of space the center of the Milky Way, the approximate location marked with a red plus sign.

That something is Sag A*. It's an invisible behemoth, made of the extraordinarily dense remains of the birth of our galaxy, juggling entire solar systems the way Jupiter flings asteroids. And for so long, we couldn't even see it.

This shit makes me go fucking crazy. Imagine what else is out there that we don't understand just because we don't have the tools to even know it exists! Not just in space, in any field of scientific study!

It wasn't until the 1990s that we started realizing trees talk to each other, and now we know there's fungal mycelium networks that connect trees across entire continents. Just THIS YEAR we discovered an entirely new ecosystem underneath the hydrothermal vents in the deepest parts of the ocean floor. For most of human history, the existence of planets around other stars was highly debated, and now we've confirmed over 5 thousand of them. We even know what some of their atmospheres are made of!

There's a saying that "the more you know, the more you know you'll never know", and I feel like there's never been a time in history when that's been more true. And it's almost comforting, y'know? The universe is so vast, it feels correct that we shouldn't be able to understand all of its intricacies.

Reality is stranger than fiction, and the reality is there's stuff out there that we don't even have the words to begin to describe. Until we do! And our reward is even more questions!

[quietwingsinthesky]

people are saying he « led her on » because he did. the fact that he kissed her in the first episode set the tone for the rest of the season and if you can’t perceive the flirting I’m sorry but how?? he didn’t make anything clear he sent the craziest mixed signals in the world. there’s nothing revolutionary about claiming that Martha was being pushy toward someone who was clearly not interested it’s 1) weird to claim in what it suggests about her 2) factually not true.

I wasn’t gonna respond to this at first because the top half of this ask is pretty much just individual interpretation and I don’t really care about it. Like, no, to me, the Doctor doesn’t seem especially flirty towards Martha. He’s just sort of Like That. That’s his damage, you know, Mr. I need to traumadump on anyone who tolerates being around me for more than five minutes. Mr. If I don’t develop an intensely codependent emotional bond with the companion I have currently I’ll die. It doesn’t read to me as him trying to lead her on because that bit’s honest, and he does it with damn near every companion he’s ever had.

And if nothing else, because we do see Ten when he tries to flirt intentionally and he’s a fuckin dork about it. Kind of guy who looked up romance in the dictionary and took notes. Kinda guy who draws diagrams to maximize kissing potential. It would have been obvious even to me (<- romance-blind as all fuck) if he was flirting with Martha on purpose because he’s not smooth at all; he flirts like he’s gotten lines in a play and he’s super excited to be the main star.

But anyway, as I was saying, that’s just how I see it. And if you see it different, no skin off my back, I just disagree.

But I take umbrage with you putting words in my mouth. I never said Martha was pushy towards him. Because yeah, she’s not. If I implied that she was, then it was a result of poor phrasing on my part. Martha’s not at fault for what she feels, for wanting there to come something of it. No more at fault than the Doctor is for not returning those feelings. It’s a bit weird that you’re assuming that I think one of them has to be the bad guy here when that was the opposite of what I was saying. My point was: When it comes to their romantic subtext of their relationship, it’s weird to pretend like either of them are to blame for them not being in a relationship at the end of s3, and even weirder to assert that as part of why Martha supposedly wouldn’t like the Doctor afterwards when they’re. friends. they continue to be friends into s4.

Martha’s not pushy. She has a crush on her friend. It happens. He doesn’t return it. This also happens. Both of these facts are pushed to the extreme because he’s a time-traveling alien with poor emotional skills and she’s put herself in the position of needing to help him from minute one of meeting each other. That’s why it’s fun to watch, because the Doctor is both so open and so unavailable in turns, because Martha’s feelings for him grow and change as she knows more about her Doctor until she decides to step back.

I don’t know, man. You seem to be coming at this as if one of them has to be The Problem™️. I don’t think either of them is, not so definitively. I think boiling their relationship down to that is reductive and an insult to the way they both grow over s3, to Martha’s choice to continue to be his friend while also establishing her own boundaries, to the fact that the Doctor is able to let her go without immediately trying to kill himself afterwards when she’s not there to catch him.

[averlym]

" just...come here. just sit here with me" (...that one scene from princess momonoke, click for better resolution)

[cinnamonest]

He's considering it

[b0nelessdoodles]

“WHAT DO YOU WANT?!”

“I WANT THIS TO BE OVER!”

HEY so if you haven’t watched Fool’s Gold you should ‘cause man we started off with silly karaoke and now we’re here and also Gothi exists SO YEAH

[sophaeros]

I've always been more of a fab/nikolai person, but after seeing a lot of blogs, especially yours obsessing over Casamond, I went to read a fanfic of them and I'm obsessed, It's like thousands of doors have been opened in front of me 😻

WELCOME TO CASAMOND HELL ANON BUT UR SOOO BASED FOR BEING FABNIKO PILLED theyre so fucking cute i need to write them more. forever thinking abt the anecdote (i think from mmitb) about nikolai having to teach fab how to play the drums at their first ever rehearsal

but yes it's a world of possibility here..flattered to hear i helped drag you in enjoy your stay xx

[moonstandardtime]

the first chapter of my isat modern au might get posted soon. perhaps

[sockodot]

Chapters: 2/36 Fandom: Mass Effect Trilogy Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Kal'Reegar/Female Shepard (Mass Effect), Female Shepard & Tali'Zorah nar Rayya, Female Shepard & Garrus Vakarian, Kal'Reegar & Tali'Zorah nar Rayya Characters: Custom Shepard, Kal'Reegar (Mass Effect), Tali'Zorah nar Rayya, Garrus Vakarian, Normandy Crew (Mass Effect) Additional Tags: Dual POV, Canon Divergence, Dialogue Heavy, Friends to Lovers, horny to friends to lovers, Literal Sleeping Together, Sharing a Bed, vision angst, Reanimation Angst, Angst, descriptions of violence, Canon Typical Violence, Gore, Horror aspects, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Getting Together, Explicit Sex, No Shepard Without Vakarian, earthborn/war hero, No beta we die like Nihlus, no formal beta at least, do not copy to another site, I MEAN THE ANGST, shepard cannot catch a break, which is kinda the point Series: Part 1 of The Kal Project, Part 1 of Jenn Shepard Summary:

When Shepard recruits Tali, she also takes on the other survivor of the quarian team. This spurs Kal to join Shepard's crew in the fight against the Collectors. Along the way, both him and Shepard develop a relationship deeper than lust and learn to grow.

[yourheartinyourmouth]

you would think. that after being married to the world’s most neurodivergent and introverted bitch. for eight fricking years. that my spouse would remember that having to wait around all day for strangers to show up at an unspecified time. is a fucking day ruiner for me.

YOU WOULD THINK. HE’D KNOW ME A LITTLE BETTER THAN THAT. BY NOW.

[astrarche-x]

thinking about Esen's sun symbolism: how he is the sun that has to set in order for Zhu's sun to rise. And then it hit me what might be obvious, because it's basically in the text, but I didn't realize it before: he IS the Great Yuan. As much as Baoxiang is the real administrative power behind the empire's workings, Esen is THE symbol of the Great Yuan: a seemingly perfect warrior (who is actually failing at many things), a defender of the empire (derogatory) who can't and doesn't want to imagine another reality. Of course he had to die; of course he haunts the narrative when the narrative is about overthrowing the old empire.

[dilidos]

I rarely prefer the top to the bottom in BL, but Sangwoo has so many things going on that you can't help but pay more attention to him. Yeah, Yoon Bum is a complex character who I both empathize with and find endearing, but Sangwoo makes me want to beat him with a baseball bat (affectionate). The emotion this fictional man child evokes in me is indescribable. I want to break something whenever his face show up on the page. Maybe it's cute aggression or a knee-jerk reaction to liking something you find disgusting. Whatever it is, the feeling is intense enough for him to become the star of KS for me. I'm glad he died a painful death. Good riddance, but also, man I can't have enough of this guy.

[theinfinitedivides]

the way i am pissed af rn at the eliminations made at the end of ep 5's game. i'm so pissed rn i'm shaking so if you haven't watched pls do not read the tags

[potatoesandsunshine]

leliana loves to be like idk where the warden is idk what she's up to ma'am that's your wife. you know where she is