#that we answer to our stars

[tryagainstarlight]

Enter: The house maiden

Act 1, Scene 1

Lost to the noise... Unfortunate.

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[neptunesailing]

requests you say.......

spiderstars beam. draw whoever u want :))

to cut the strings of fate

[alchemiclee]

I always want to collab with other artists and be part of art groups and projects, but I never get accepted into anything as a small artist/account, so I sometimes try to host my own. I hosted an art trade secret santa once some years ago on twitter. it was small. only about 5 people joined i think. but it was kinda fun. would anyone be interested in one this year for star rail and/or genshin? or what about a fanfic trade?

here's a poll for people that like to push buttons. but if youre really into the idea, reply and let me know! if this doesn't get enough interest, I wont bother because it's a lot of work if only like 3 people join 😅 if anyone would like to help, let me know as well. i'm a small account so don't expect much, but figured i'd throw the idea out into the void!

[deep-space-netwerk]

please please please PLEASE share more on your Thoughts about gas giants!! i'd love to learn in a way that doesnt leave me baffled and half my brain leaking from my ears! you explained things so well in the psyche post and also i think things are generally more fun to learn from someone who is Excited To Share than from Published Research Papers where everything has been dried out For Professional Reasons- understandably so, mind, but i am not In The Field and dont know the terms lol

Okay it's taken me forever to get back to this but I AM SO GLAD YOU ASKED.

Like other planets, it all starts with a disk made of gas and dust orbiting an infant star, called a protoplanetary disk. Like these in the Orion Nebula, discovered by the Hubble!

To form terrestrial planets (rocky planets with relatively thin atmospheres like Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars), the gas in the protoplanetary disk coalesces to form hundreds and hundreds of rocky bodies called planetesimals, about a kilometer across. These planetesimals collide, and form dozens of protoplanets about the size of the moon. The protoplanets then collide as well, and stabilize to form the solar system as we know it today.

But, in the case of gas giants, colliding protoplanets don't form fully-finished planets. Instead, they form a core, or a seed.

We think the only thing that determines whether a planet will be terrestrial or a gas giant is simply how far away from the sun it forms - that's it. As a new sun warms its evolving solar system, it heats up the material in the protoplanetary disk. Close to the sun, the disk gets hotter, and things like water and other ices melt and evaporate into gas, making them difficult for the protoplanets to gravitationally capture. However, further away, the icy compounds stay cold enough to remain solid and coalesce along with rocky particles.

That boundary in the solar system - where ices evaporate to gas on the sunward side, and remain solid on the other - is called the "Frost Line". In our solar system, the Frost Line is right between Mars and Jupiter.

The protoplanets that form past the Frost Line turn into gas giant seeds, and are able to (kinda literally) snowball, picking up both rocky and icy material. With all that solid ice available, they grow far larger and far faster than planets in the inner solar system, and their gravity gets stronger and stronger. More gravity causes them to collect even MORE material until they're heavy enough to capture extremely lightweight elements like hydrogen and helium. Which, of course, makes them get even bigger and even heavier! Runaway growth!

But weirdly, as we study more exoplanets (planets that orbit stars other than our sun), we keep finding these huge gas giants incredibly close to their stars! Like, even closer than Mercury is to ours, which is insane. These "Hot Jupiters" break so many rules - gas giants "should" only be able to form where ice stays frozen, but here they are up close and personal with their stars, like this artist's concept!

It's possible that these planets are in the process of migrating closer to their stars, and we're managing to see them before they evaporate, but we just! Keep! Finding them!

One of my favorite parts of planetary science is how much we still have to learn. We'll think we have a pretty good idea of how things work out there, and then suddenly we'll find something that we can't explain. And there's an entire universe of weird shit - we've barely begun to scratch the surface!

[dragonpropaganda]

something I love about rain world lore is that it gestures towards the sky being solid like two times and doesn't elaborate at all

[kemendin]

An hour later and Scourge is still wondering why he's physically digging this Jedi out of the ruins of the Dark Temple's sanctum

[ratatatastic]

modern problems require modern solutions or alternatively glove bumpies but you already took your gloves off? no problem! just use the glove in your hands actually

florida panthers @ la kings (quebec city) | 10.5.24

[bengiyo]

Alright, new question, I know how much you enjoy your Sad Gay Boy Hours. What shows, besides Until We Meet Again, because I know how much you love it, satisfy your Sad Gay Boy needs?

The Boys Who Suffered

The big thing about The Knowing is The Suffering. There is a melancholy that seeps into you and makes you think you aren't enough. These characters are hard to watch. I know you asked about shows, but I'm doing some movies as well because I've been thinking about genre history lately. For this it's about whether or not the quiet sadness in me connected to the quiet sadness I perceived in a character in this show.

Moonlight (2016)

He is the saddest boy in my heart. This is the moment that breaks him forever.

For The Boys

Jamal, Syed, and Anthony have suffered for being who they are, and they are hurting. They cling to each other and it's often too hard.

Weekend (2011)

This man is so lonely even if people love him. I feel melancholy for days any time I watch this film.

Big Eden (2000)

I don't know who taught him shame, but there's this sense of surrender in Henry that has haunted me for fifteen years.

A Single Man (2009)

Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci play some of the saddest gay men who have ever existed. This entire project is about grief.

180 Degree Longitude Passes Through Us

Inthawut is the saddest man in BL.

Given (2019)

The reveals about the depths of sadness in this boy are really some of the best I've experienced.

Eternal Yesterday (2022)

He was suffering even before Koichi died, and it saddens me so much that the world bent to let him say goodbye to help him grieve.

The Pornographer Series

I just knew there was something fundamentally off about Kijima and the rest of these men.

The Day I Loved You (2023)

I keep meaning to write something about this show, but there's something special about going into a relationship you know won't be forever because of external factors, and also choosing to make that time as special as possible.

Tokyo in April is...

Ren suffering for Kazuma gets me every time.

Like in the Movies (2020)

I'm never getting over Karl and Vlad. I'm sad we'll likely never see them again because in so many ways the specific pieces of melancholy in each of them are why they didn't walk away together.

To My Star 2: Our Untold Stories

These two were not left at HEA and they didn't end there this time, either. Both of these two are carrying some heavy shit in their hearts, and I find comfort in seeing them stumble and keep trying.

What Did You Eat Yesterday?

Shiro makes me so sad sometimes, and I'm so glad he found Kenji.

The Eclipse

Every boy in this show is a sad mess.

The Eighth Sense

I'm glad Jae Won found Ji Hyun, because that country twink won't give up on him.

Kabe-Koji Nekoyashiki-kun Desires to be Recognized

I recently rewatched this and feel so much about Mamoru and Issei.

Our Dating Sim

Lee Wan was wrong, but I get him.

We Best Love

"Yes, I'm in love with you, but that's none of your business."

Stuck On You

The Philippines crushed the pandemic. This is quietly one of the better ones about people who were already suffering.

Blueming

Hwang Da Seul's oeuvre always seems to hit my sad boy core.

Sing My Crush

Every time Han Baram says Im Hantae's name I lose it.

[yellowymellon]

In the SU herta wonders how HooH would perceive nanook, I thought before Abt it, HooH isn't doing anything Abt nanook, but then again most aeons that represents a concept of great impact or can single handedly influence the universe have their natural counterpart,

HooH wouldn't kill yaoshi cuz Lan exists, and the destruction acts as a counterpart to continuance of life

Preservation's counterpart is destruction also, I think that's one of the most matched pairs

If ena was still alive then by technicality aha would be their counterpart

Propagation's propagated too much and became a problem for almost everyone but ig mainly it would be ena

Nous got mythus, altho I consider this unnecessary as nous doesn't bring any chaos to the universe

Funnily enough, if we speak Abt philosophies then IX's natural counterpart would be aha. It's worth mentioning aha helped trying to kill IX once just cuz. (I don't enjoy my fav aeons fighting cuz I'll have to side with my bias aka IX )

Neither fuli, nous, akivili or idrila bring any kind of dispute to the table

I wonder tho, oroboros overlaps with IX in a sense, IX's concept definitely overwhelms oroboros', altho the latter is said to have vanished it could be that IX absorbed them. Yet xipe, who doesn't exactly share everything in common with ena did in fact absorb them, Herta asks the same question too. Their paths aren't all that overlapping, harmony may require order but order is more detached

I'm also curious Abt finality, Herta questions nanook's existence when finality is much more grander, and honestly it's the same scenario as the harmony and order. Finality also could've absorbed IX as IX believes in that everything is bound to end and that it's meaningless (but it could be that finality doesn't have the same nihilistic view). I'm more interested in knowing why finality existed in peace, HooH doing nothing Abt it when there's no counterpart that naturally balances it out. Yaoshi is arguably the counterpart but it doesn't quite fit. I'm not even sure what could counter finality, the origin? (I look at u with a HoO Elly pfp Lol) the continuance of life? If that's so wouldn't that be life itself, making the finality represent death? Some of these aeons are way older than the rest, ultimately it doesn't make sense

Anyway tell me which aeon you'd like to follow if you were in HSR world!!! :3

[midnightepiphany]

I am actually get asked quite often how I can give such good relationship advice, even though I’ve never been in a relationship myself.

The real answer to that question is: Ao3, I've learned from all mistakes committed by Y/n and know how to navigate through most toxic relationships under any given circumstance.

But I can't give that answer without coming off as a manic person and taking away all my credibility.

So I just say “welp who knows…”

[nerdalmighty]

Conflicted. The kids meeting up with Bell and Ember is wholesome as hell, yet having read Light of the Jedi I know perfectly well what Bell just went through. I feel like I've clonked in the head with a stick that has "Feels" written on it.

No, yeah, I'm in the same boat. Like??? Poor guy. He's putting on a very brave face though! The kids have no clue what's going on outside of Tenoo 😅

[misc-obeyme]

HELP I GOT A COWORKER FRIEND INTO OBEY ME AKSKDKD 😭 I'VE CONVERTED HER. SHE'S REALLY INTO BELPHIE AND HAS BEEN PLAYING NIGHTBRINGER NON STOP

there's this crystal ball in the halloween section that i joked about putting my Solomon plushie into and it went like

"You're going to imprison him??"

"he deserves it"

"If you can find something that looks like a glob to put in there too it'd be perfect. Because he's canonically a bad cook. Wait no put him in the cauldron because he makes potions- WAIT I SHOULDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS, I HAVEN'T BEEN PLAYING THAT LONG"

I'm getting so much joy because I can point at something silently and she'll sigh at me because it clicks that I'm relating it back to a character. I don't even have to say what character, she can realize herself. She can't look at the tiny potion bottle charms the same anymore.

I promised her I'd dig through my collection for any belphie merch I don't want so she can buy it LOL. Because I had a bad habit of buying full boxes in the beginning instead of taking my chance with blind bags (Because I wanted Mammon/Levi/Beel)

also I saw the other anon ask about crafts, and I loveee Satan book nook idea. I actually have a train/time travel one that I haven't started but bought because it reminded me of Solomon Takes The Train hard mode card

also diamond paintings are tough 😭 but imagining mammon making one is so cute. Date idea tbh. I have one I started two years ago and haven't touched since ummm ahah..

ALSO I'VE BEEN WORKING HARD ON WRITING RANDOM THINGS, LIKE THIS SOLOMAMS NOODLE THING AND CRAFT STORE MAMMON (I SWEAR I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN ABOUT COFFEESHOP AU), OKAY BYEEE HAVE A GOOD DAY

I looove that your coworker is into it now!!! Already learning all the lore~ mwahaha we have another convert!

Honestly I would like to put the actual Solomon into a crystal ball, let me observe that guy. He's so silly I love him. But I do think it'd be really cute to put his plushie in one, that's so him.

Yesss sharing the merch wealth! I love that your coworker is a Belphie lover, too. Poor lil guy I feel like he gets neglected a lot. Who wouldn't love an emo cow demon, right?? Oh but wait she's playing Nightbringer... lolol you gotta tell me how she reacts to lesson 16 if she ever plays OG.

AH I want a book nook so bad!! I love the idea of a train/time travel one! I love that card, too~

I have never done a diamond painting, but it looks difficult lol. I'm just imagining Mammon with his tongue sticking out a little, trying really hard to stay focused so he can impress you with his diamond painting skills~

Yay!! I'm so glad you've been writing!! I don't mind patiently waiting for coffeeshop au updates either~

[familiar-cxsmxs]

Yet another bump that would be able to rouse anyone that was perhaps hoping to get a chance at rest. The familiar feeling of the twin next to him, silent yet the presence was all too obvious at the same time. Two lookalike siblings were bound to be notable, after all. But yet, the presence of the others within the carriage were also all but unknown. The man and woman on the side across from them, nothing one would think too much of most of the time.

It seemed to rouse the woman on the other side, almost as if she was snapping out of a sort of daze that caused confusion and a lack of awareness. But then the man started to speak to her since he had tried to speak to the twins to no avail. But yet, while she was speaking to him, she was moreso noting. . . Something, that seemed to catch her interest near the twins. Nothing actually being there to most, but something she could still seem to see nonetheless.

The words of the area, something that a newly arrived person of Gridania should know about the people and what had happened since the calamity. She was taking interest, sure, but her interest had been on the nothingness next to them, and then the fighting that was going on outside soon after. A look of curiousity, interest even. As if it was something that she had never quite seen before. At least, not to this degree-

". . . Interesting." She Au Ra quietly muttered to herself, lips pursing at the fighting before she could feel the carriage start to speed off with them in it. The sudden movement seemed to cause her to practically fall out of her seat, letting out a quiet noise of temporary pain from the kind of landing she had gotten just from that in of itself. She knew it wasn't intentional, but. . . Ow. . .

Instead, her gaze went back to the others, getting back up and getting the reassurance that she needed that they were alright-

". . ." The smallest, quietest sigh slipped out of the young Elezen boy's mouth as the chocobo carriage hit another bump in the Twelveswood. Having been stirred from his sleep, he opened his eyes only just enough to be able to see what all was going on around him. The young woman, the older man, the moogles floating about the carriage causing trouble as they usually did. He knew that most weren't going to be able to see them, so he said nothing of their presence.

Of course, when the Ixal attacked the carriage, he was mildly concerned. It wasn't like the beastmen to attack so close to the larger city-states, yet he had heard of it having happened multiple times on their way to the Tweleveswood. He had to wonder what was allowing to push on closer and closer, outside of the Garleans also barking at their heels.

Ah, it was nothing for them to immediately worry about. He did however note the way that the young Au'ra had fallen over when the carriage jolted forwards. That brought him to being fully awake, and likely did the same for his sister, though he didn't pay much mind to that at the moment.

"You're alright there, yes?" He hadn't planned on speaking at all during the entire ride, but the natural concern about making sure a fellow member of the Source was okay just simply. Took over.

[comradecowplant]

*sniffle* well, that's that then. voyager has made it back to the alpha quadrant (albeit i'm not the biggest fan of the "timey whimey antics save the day" means utilized but i've seen similar plots play out far worse so i'll accept it with minimal brow furrowing), my mind & heart are full with a new sci-fi obsession, and while i know i said i'm diving into TNG asap, i do think my little ticker needs a minute to process & say goodbye to the star fleet captain who-- no matter how good picard/other captains i can't wait to meet are-- will now forever be My Captain(tm), and her intrepid crew (i'll even miss the doctor!) of the U.S.S. Voyager o7

[halsaph]

Thought a little too hard about my web of headcanons and invented a new thing wrong with Siffrin. My bad

[ask-pakistan]

OP How has Umer been as of recent? We send our sincerest regards of concerns to you both.

He has become a firm believer of sleeping your problems off. "Everything's fine", he says as he laughs a little too hard. Domestic Pakistani politics have been a joke recently =_= and it doesn't help that climate change has begun to rear its ugly head in Pakistan :( , This last year has been particularly tough and unkind to Pakistanis. Inflation in particular, has me seeing tears :') I've gotten plenty of asks in the last few months asking if Umer and Mun were okay and I'm fine! Thank you so much for asking! To all the people who dropped by to check up on how i was doing, i appreciate your concerns a lot and you've got no idea how touched i was while reading those. <3

[FUNFACT]: "Khes" is the name of the thin cotton blanket that's wrapped around Umer. It's a piece of textile that derives its origin from Rural Punjab :D