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[jojaxcola]

"Sam, you menace! Stop doing things! And where are my lucky shorts?!" 👴

[jojamart mockumentary #5]

[pwippy]

For the Outfit meme: Hyuna in 1C! Idk if I've seen Hyuna in your style yet.. I think she'd look cool :00

(Also no I did not accidentally click the unfollow button instead of the ask button you did not see that-)

4 months late? naw. no way

[ellen-draws]

"Who's the tall one now, Samalam?"

[hopeforchanges]

I’m just Cel, not at all enough, She met hot satan on a raft. So hey, check me out, yeah, I’m just Cel.

There’s three in our bed and it’s getting weird, Waiting for my turn, but she’s licking him. Sauron is her man, but I’m still here.

Yeah, I’m just Cel, no need to cheer! I’m just Cel, I’m no dark king, I’m still stuck with her while she does her thing! Baby, I’m just Cel ...

[totally-india]

🫵🦆🪦™️🏳️‍🌈

💯🙏💛🟨👍

[batboys-cumdumpster]

Everything Rhys has been through in his entire life is far worse than anything Nesta has gone through in her short lifetime yet people want to demonize him for any possible negative way he reacts to things (ie yelling at Nesta for endangering their world) and then dismiss Nesta's visceral abuse to everyone around her.

This fandom is fucking insane.

[papermint-airplane]

What are y'all's opinions on catgirls/catboys having human ears in addition to their cat ears? I have somehow managed to stumble upon the most...interesting discourse regarding that very topic. I don't have a dog cat in this race, but uh apparently there are some people who are very passionate about this.

[3m-j4ys]

I've been given signs from the universe to listen to tma. good decision or will my brain be chemically altered AGAIN.

[butterflyemporer]

It's good to see them doing things they like.

They've been working on stuff in the background.

[silverbridge-harbor]

[dragonroilz]

[avatar-of-the-web]

Men love me for my cadaver swag. The way my skin is cold like a corpse, my off-putting demeanor, and the way I stand in the threshold of the still-living and the dead.

[momotonescreaming]

Anyway I'm writing it

It was Buck who suggested they go out to Miceli’s for Dinner. Felt butterflies fluttering in his stomach as he suggested they go back to the location of their fateful first date. The little slice of Italy where it all began. Going back there felt right. Tilted his head and smiled, all coy-like, looking at Tommy through his lashes as he posed the question.

Tommy, who smiled softly in return, eyes melting as they locked with his. The creases of his face smoothing out as the now achingly familiar look of fondness overtook. Even if he didn’t know the significance of the date, their six months together — it was still date night. Buck didn’t bring it up to Tommy, not like he did on the one month anniversary of their first kiss — which he shamelessly used as an excuse to kiss Tommy senseless.

His reply was obvious, and yet Buck’s stomach fluttered all the same.

“Of course.”

Six months ago that was where it all started, and six months later it was where it was going to continue. Hopefully. Only Buck was going to pay this time. He’d snatch the bill out of Tommy’s hands if he had to. Tommy paid on that first date, twirling the pen around his thick fingers, resolutely ignoring the fact that Buck said he owed Tommy a beer. He remembers following the motion with his eyes, even then, panicked as he was.

A lot’s changed since then, and Buck couldn’t be happier.

Everyone's writing angsty break up fix it, and I love it, I really do. But what if I wrote Buck and Tommy just having a nice 6 month anniversary dinner. Because that's how I cope apparently.

Where Buck has a gift for Tommy as well, because of course he does, he's as invested as Tommy is. Where Tommy explains that he knows Buck doesn't like playing basketball, he knows he actually quite likes watching it with Tommy, if only to see his boyfriend so excited. That basketball game was the reason Tommy went to see Buck that fateful day they kissed, so going to Micelli's, bringing everything full circle felt right. Where Buck tells that lady that she's interrupting a date, sorry, could she ask someone else? Thinking of that first date and no longer afraid of everyone watching.

[callmesel]

This is how I imagine Telemachus in the Penelope warrior au

[deep-space-netwerk]

So Venus is my favorite planet in the solar system - everything about it is just so weird.

It has this extraordinarily dense atmosphere that by all accounts shouldn't exist - Venus is close enough to the sun (and therefore hot enough) that the atmosphere should have literally evaporated away, just like Mercury's. We think Earth manages to keep its atmosphere by virtue of our magnetic field, but Venus doesn't even have that going for it. While Venus is probably volcanically active, it definitely doesn't have an internal magnetic dynamo, so whatever form of volcanism it has going on is very different from ours. And, it spins backwards! For some reason!!

But, for as many mysteries as Venus has, the United States really hasn't spent much time investigating it. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, sent no less than 16 probes to Venus between 1961 and 1984 as part of the Venera program - most of them looked like this!

The Soviet Union had a very different approach to space than the United States. NASA missions are typically extremely risk averse, and the spacecraft we launch are generally very expensive one-offs that have only one chance to succeed or fail.

It's lead to some really amazing science, but to put it into perspective, the Mars Opportunity rover only had to survive on Mars for 90 days for the mission to be declared a complete success. That thing lasted 15 years. I love the Opportunity rover as much as any self-respecting NASA engineer, but how much extra time and money did we spend that we didn't technically "need" to for it to last 60x longer than required?

Anyway, all to say, the Soviet Union took a more incremental approach, where failures were far less devastating. The Venera 9 through 14 probes were designed to land on the surface of Venus, and survive long enough to take a picture with two cameras - not an easy task, but a fairly straightforward goal compared to NASA standards. They had…mixed results.

Venera 9 managed to take a picture with one camera, but the other one's lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 10 also managed to take a picture with one camera, but again the other lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 11 took no pictures - neither lens cap deployed this time.

Venera 12 also took no pictures - because again, neither lens cap deployed.

Lotta problems with lens caps.

For Venera 13 and 14, in addition to the cameras they sent a device to sample the Venusian "soil". Upon landing, the arm was supposed to swing down and analyze the surface it touched - it was a simple mechanism that couldn't be re-deployed or adjusted after the first go.

This time, both lens caps FINALLY ejected perfectly, and we were treated to these marvelous, eerie pictures of the Venus landscape:

However, when the Venera 14 soil sampler arm deployed, instead of sampling the Venus surface, it managed to swing down and land perfectly on….an ejected lens cap.