#starred tennis ball

[starred-tennis-ball]

Andromeda stabbed at herself again

“Why am I not dying?”

and again.

They threw the dagger across the room

“Guess I’ll just have to do it the hard way”

Xe reached into themself, trying to grab as much stardust as they could. Multiple times.

“Why can’t I just die! Why does there have to be so much of this stuff!”

She reached into herself again, not being able to stop herself from screaming in pain this time.

[starred-tennis-ball]

Andromeda knocks on the door with a smile on her face as she awaits an answer

{Outside a relatively nice cottage are about a dozen signs leading people to the cottage, where it advertises an oracle who can see both your future and your past. Inside a tennis ball is reading a book littered with strange symbols and a sun on the cover}

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This is the Oracle tennis ball, a tennis ball that has the ability to see anyone’s complete past and future when looking into their eyes. As well as occasionally reciting random prophecy’s.

Name:Phoebe

Pronouns:She/Rey

[doctor-octiddius]

Forever going to believe that Siddig aged so well purely out of spite due to what they did to him in the Distant Voices episode

[betterbemeta]

I think something interesting about the star trek world is its combination of both replicator and holodeck technology. I understand these are literal 'plot devices' to explain the availability of food, materials, and the ability to visit locations for sci-fi premises that can't be found on an alien planet. However, they are worth thinking about in terms of how they change the world.

(Let's assume 'ideal' circumstances where we have a stable renewable non-polluting source of lots and lots of energy and aren't rationing it like on Voyager or something)

Replicators can use energy and raw materials to configure items, and presumably dis-configure items. While the potential for '3D printing' basically anything so long as its materials aren't too rare is really cool, it is also a near-perfect recycling machine. Beyond making sure your replicated dishes and cups don't infinitely pile up, that's SO IMPORTANT. Not only does that mean many items are 'temporary' that otherwise would be 'forever', you can instantly refresh the wear on many items without having to replace them and generate trash.

For example, tennis balls. It's currently really hard to recycle tennis balls, and serious players wear them out extremely quickly. Every serve you make after the first will be with a slightly worn, degraded tennis ball until you replace it, which generates trash. The production facilities to make all those tennis balls have to exist, they have to be shipped, the space to store them exists, the space to store their waste exists, the waste must be transported to a tennis ball recycling facility or a landfill...

but with replicators, you could play tennis without owning/paying a club to access a single tennis ball, without wasting a tennis ball.

And then there's the possibility of holodeck sports where you don't even need to make ANY material items. You could program the tennis ball to never run out. As long as you have the power to run it, maybe the most you'd need to 'own' is a tennis outfit. I am not sure if it's consistent that holodecks can 'dress you' or if you always must bring in costumes from the outside. And the costume itself could be replicated and then recycled!

There's a vast amount of stuff that we retain as personal property that just has to do with accessing activities or amenities. It's not really property that has emotional significance to us, but we still have attachments to it as its a facilitator of our active identity. Our dishes and cookware. Sports equipment. Certain kinds of clothing items. Some types of personal care items. Non-heirloom/generic holiday decorations. Stuff that is usually sacrificed first when we become homeless, when losing access to what they enable is more devastating than the items themselves.

If we could basically conjure and dismiss these things at-will, or access them on a temporary basis for free, we wouldn't need to own them or keep them around in our homes. No supply chain would be dedicated to them. Their waste would be completely eliminated. Ideas of 'what stuff I need to have as a person, to have a dignified life' would change completely.

It wouldn't surprise me if there were people in the star trek universe running around on earth with basically nothing we consider permanent physical property. Not because they're homeless and have no place to put them, and not because they're rich and their assets are liquid-- because the only reason to 'keep' mundane items, even something as complex as a communication device or computer, might be because they are emotionally important to you. And not everybody has 'stuff' like that at every time in their lives.

[demifiendrsa]

Weekly Shonen Jump 55th anniversary appendix in Weekly Shonen Jump 2023 issue #33

1968 Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #1 Otoko Ippiki Gaki-Daisho by Hiroshi Motomiya 1969 Dr. Toilet by Kazuyoshi Torii 1970 The Gutsy Frog by Yasumi Yoshizawa 1971 Tezuka Manga Award 1st Edition Samurai Giants by Ikki Kajiwara & Ko Inoue Boy of the Wilderness Isamu by Soji Yamakawa & Noboru Kawasaki 1972 Astro Kyudan by Shiro Tōzaki & Norihiro Nakajima 1973 Play Ball by Akio Chiba Hochonin Ajihei by Jiro Gyu & Jo Big 1974 Akatsuka Manga Award 1st Edition 1975 The Circuit Wolf by Satoshi Ikezawa Doberman Deka by Buronson & Shinji Hiramatsu 1976 Toudai Icchokusen by Yoshinori Kobayashi Kochikame by Osamu Akimoto 1977 Ring ni Kakero by Masami Kurumada Susume!! Pirates by Hisashi Eguchi 1978 Cobra by Buichi Terasawa 1979 Kinnikuman by Yudetamago 1980 Dr. Slump by Akira Toriyama 1981 Captain Tsubasa by Yoichi Takahashi Cat's Eye by Tsukasa Hojo Stop!! Hibari-kun! by Hisashi Eguchi 1982 High School! Kimengumi by Motoei Shinzawa 1983 Fist of the North Star by Buronson & Tetsuo Hara Ginga -Nagareboshi Gin- by Yoshihiro Takahashi 1984 DRAGON BALL by Akira Toriyama 1985 City Hunter by Tsukasa Hojo Miraculous Tonchinkan by Koichi Endo Sakigake!! Otokojuku by Akira Miyashita 1986 Saint Seiya by Masami Kurumada 1987 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by Hirohiko Araki The Burning Wild Man by Tadashi Sato 1988 Bastard!! by Kazushi Hagiwara Jungle King Tar-chan by Masaya Tokuhiro Rokudenashi BLUES by Masanori Morita Magical Taluluto by Tatsuya Egawa 1989 Weekly Shonen Jump reaches 5.000.000 copies in circulation Dragon Quest: The Great Adventure of Dai by Riku Sanjo & Koji Inada Video Girl Ai by Masakazu Katsura 1990 SLAM DUNK by Takehiko Inoue Chinyuki by Man Gataro Yu Yu Hakusho by Yoshihiro Togashi 1992 Hareluya II Boy by Haruto Umezawa 1993 Tottemo! Luckyman by Hiroshi Gamo Hell Teacher Nube by Makura Sho & Takeshi Okano 1994 Midori no Makibao by Tsunomaru Rurouni Kenshin by Nobuhiro Watsuki 1995 Weekly Shonen Jump reaches 6.530.000 copies in circulation Sexy Commando Gaiden: Sugoi yo!! Masaru-san by Kyosuke Usuta 1996 Hoshin Engi by Ryu Fujisaki Yu-Gi-Oh! by Kazuki Takahashi Kochikame 20th Anniversary & Chapter 1000 1997 I's by Masakazu Katsura Seikimatsu Leader den Takeshi! by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro ONE PIECE by Eiichiro Oda 1998 Rookies by Masanori Morita Whistle! by Daisuke Higuchi HUNTERXHUNTER by Yoshihiro Togashi 1999 Hikaru no Go by Yumi Hotta & Takeshi Obata The Prince of Tennis by Takeshi Konomi NARUTO by Masashi Kishimoto 2000 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean by Hirohiko Araki BLACK CAT by Kentaro Yabuki 2001 Bobobobo Bobobo by Yoshio Sawai BLEACH by Tite Kubo 2002 Strawberry 100% by Mizuki Kawashita Eyeshield 21 by Riichiro Inagaki & Yusuke Murata 2004 Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata Gintama by Hideaki Sorachi Katekyo Hitman Reborn! by Akira Amano D.Gray-man by Katsura Hoshino Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation by Yoshiyuki Nishi 2005 Neuro: Supernatural Detective by Yusei Matsui 2006 To Love Ru by Saki Hasemi & Kentaro Yabuki 2007 Sket Dance by Kenta Shinohara 2008 Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan by Hiroshi Shiibashi Toriko by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro Bakuman. by Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata 2009 Kuroko's Basketball by Tadatoshi Fujimaki Beelzebub by Ryuhei Tamura Medaka Box by Nisio Isin & Akira Akatsuki 2010 ONE PIECE New World Begins 2011 Nisekoi by Naoshi Komi 2012 Haikyu!! by Haruichi Furudate The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. by Shuichi Aso Assassination Classroom by Yusei Matsui Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma by Yuto Tsukuda & Shun Saeki 2013 World Trigger by Daisuke Ashihara Isobe Isobee Monogatari by Ryo Nakama 2014 Hinomaru Zumo by Kawada My Hero Academia by Kohei Horikoshi 2015 Black Clover by Yuki Tabata 2016 Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs by Tadahiro Miura Kimetsu no Yaiba by Koyoharu Gotouge BORUTO by Mikio Ikemoto & Ukyo Kodachi The Promised Neverland by Kaiu Shirai & Posuka Demizu Kochikame 40th Anniversary and Serialization End 2017 We Never Learn by Taishi Tsutsui Dr. STONE by Riichiro Inagaki & Boichi 2018 Jujutsu Kaisen by Akutami Gege

2019 Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto Mission: Yozakura Family by Hitsuji Gondaira 2020 Undead Unluck by Yoshifumi Tozuka MASHLE by Hajime Komoto Ayakashi Triangle by Kentaro Yabuki Me & Roboco by Shuhei Miyazaki BURN THE WITCH by Tite Kubo SAKAMOTO DAYS by Yuto Suzuki 2021 The Elusive Samurai by Yusei Matsui WITCH WATCH by Kenta Shinohara Blue Box by Kouji Miura 2022 Akane Banashi by Yuki Suenaga & Takamasa Moue

[starred-tennis-ball]

(“Well since he brought up being a tennis ball, it could be fun to mess with this a bit”)

“Bold of you to assume I am a tennis ball. And” Andromeda pauses, showing her confusion. “..Why would anyone want to be near a big house if a lot of others were living there?”

(“I would get caught so fast”) She thinks

Andromeda is on a walk in this new planet and stumbles across a small cottage about two minutes from her own, and thinking the beings here may be surprised to see her, she decides to introduce herself.

She knocks on the door

[ Cleo hears the knock and immediately panics. Who is that? No one comes to this house, what the fuck is someone doing here? Are they just lost, or do they know he's here? ]

[ He decides to peek through the window– is that a tennis ball? Genuinely, what is that? Probably just some weird tennis ball, but what the hell is a tennis ball doing out here? Should he put a sign up telling them to fuck off or some shit? ]

[ Unfortunately he'd rather not leave them out there waiting, so Cleo steels his nerves and opens the door. ]

"What."

[starkid256]

[wildflower-lesbian]

i had a dream that stars were tennis balls and astronauts were the only ones who could touch them. i hope wherever laika is, this is her heaven

[virtuaquarium3d]

Was not planning to post these this early but in.. "celebration" of the new JSR x Roller Champions Announcement. Crossover game adventures sketch compilation

Bonus:

[sillyygooz]

guys I need to stop crying over Laika.

She was a sacrificial lamb for us to one day travel to space. I have sobbed over her about five times today. but I'm so normal

[starred-tennis-ball]

While Andromeda is unpacking, there's a sudden knock on her door. Agnus is at the door, waiting to "welcome" the newcomer.

- @ball-ghost-tennis

Andromeda hears the knock and quickly runs to open the door

“Well hello there!” She says happily

and then rather awkwardly “So.. who do you happen to be?”

[shinigami-striker]

Sumo Digital Sonic | Friday, 06.02.2023

What is your favorite video game that's not only developed by Sumo Digital, but also featuring Sonic the Hedgehog down below?

[krsonmar]

Y'all...I just read "In Favor With Their Stars" and I DO NOT NEED THIS RIGHT NOW gaahhhd sobbbbbb i'm always trash for the lil AI friends i just wanna protecc all the lil robot buddiez just aughhhh SOMEONE GET WALL-E SOME SUNLIGHT SO HE REMEMBERS!😭😭😭😭

My power’s really low, so this may be the last image I can send. Don’t worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene. If I can keep talking to my mission team, I will – but I’ll be signing off here soon. Thanks for staying with me. pic.twitter.com/wkYKww15kQ

— NASA InSight (@NASAInSight) December 19, 2022

[ashroomancer]

Not counting sanitized children localizations like Yu-Gi-Oh and pokemon, Lupin the Third on tunami in the early 2000s sporadically as well as everything else that was on like Zatch Bell and Dragon Ball Z and Prince of Tennis. Special shout out to Full Metal Alchemist (2003, get off my lawn Brotherhood stans at least I've watched both) for being the first one I watched in order but didn't finish cause I didn't have the other discs and to This Ugly Yet Beautiful World and Lucky Star for being the anime I first watched begining to end. I count them both cause I finished them both at like 4am and I don't remember which I finished first.

That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?

[tenth-sentence]

Suppose we throw a tennis ball with a certain amount of effort, then (to the best of our judgement) use just the same effort to throw, in succession, a baseball, a softball, and a shot (one of those metal spheres that shot-putters love to heave).

"The Stars in their Courses" - Isaac Asimov

[arslanali786]

Highlights l Day l THE PLAYERS l 2024

Check out the best shots from Day 1 of THE PLAYERS Championship 2024 featuring Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele Wyndham Clark, and Ryan Fox among others.

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