Two Wounds

Anon, you and I are the same person

The yellow and blue aroace flag is sooo pretty! I love it sm! I only really use the aro flag+label, because although i am also ace, its just what feels more important to me. But like. I am so tempted to switch to calling myself aroace just for the flag. Best flag. I dont care that it doesn't include any aro or ace colours. Thats what I like about it. It feels whole:)

Submitted February 21, 2023

And we know these have to be true because he’s an author, and authors can’t lie. ESPECIALLY ari. He wouldn’t lie. Not on this account, to his devoted fans of his novels that he hasn’t publically advertised in a while and this feels like an excuse to advertise them but that’s besides the point and run-on sentences are good apparently because he said so and he can’t lie

Helpfull Writing Tips

Want to improve you writing style? Check out these easy tips!

Very you’re sentence structure. Add periods randomly and extend other sentences unnaturally to make them longer, more repetitious, and longer.

EXAMPLE: Bob went. To the market to buy some dogs.

Use descriptive word. Sentences are boring without some good, strong, interesting, useful, descriptive description. 

EXAMPLE: Don’t just say “She looked with her eyes,” say, “She looked with her round, spherical, moist eyes.”

Use obejctive tone. This means using a voice in narration that objectifies you’re characters. When you characters are more like objects it’s easier to write them because you don’t need to give them human stuff like emotions and motives. They can just act to fit the plot.

EXAMPLE: Carla went to her morning class at school and when the aliens attacked she joined them in fighting Earth.

MAke up words when you don’t know the right one. This will not only ornaclate your readers, but they will also think your smarter because you know words that they don’t.

EXAMPLE: Richard felt he had to obfuscate the truth.

Use “passive” voice. This means when you get to a word that could be an action verb, instead “pass” the word over and use a better word, like “nestle” or “sponge.” These are good words. They are mine but I will let you use them.

EXAMPLE: There was a plot to sponge the king, but it was nestled by the knights.

Now you know writing. Go froth and write using these laws and you will write a good every time.

Spectacular volcanic landscape. Original caption:

“The Kamchatka Peninsula, rugged and remote, is a vast blade of land stabbing southwestward through cold seas from the mainland of northeastern Russia. Its coastline is scalloped like the edges of an obsidian dagger. Its highlands rise to cone-shaped volcanic peaks, snow-streaked in summer, and to ridges of barren rock. It’s a wild place where at least 20 percent of all wild Pacific salmon go to spawn each year, creating an annual feeding frenzy for the local brown bear population” - National Geographic

Black Hole Update

Hello! I’ve seen a lot of people talking about Katie Bouman and her work on the black hole picture, and sharing around photos of her excitement when they got the photo, and I’m glad that she’s getting recognition. However, while Bouman herself has emphasized that the project was a team effort, a lot of people seem to be overlooking or erasing the very notable contributions of some of the other scientists who worked on it, and that doesn’t sit great with me, so I’m here to draw attention to a couple of them as well.

This is Andrew Chael. He worked with Bouman on the algorithm to construct the image of the black hole and did most of the raw coding for it.

Speaking of that algorithm this is Mareki Honma, who is the man I’m given to understand was its original inventor. Here he is announcing the photo at a press conference in Tokyo.

And here is a link to Harvard’s page on all the contributing members of the Black Hole Initiative, including Bouman and these two!

LUSH Series - Gouache by Madeleine Bellwoar

i’m reading a very manly 1950s account of a hunt for el dorado but i’m thirty pages in and the narrator has already described his traveling companion as “handsome” 4 times, “extremely handsome” twice, “exceedingly handsome” once, his voice as “quietly husky” and “a husky whisper,” his fingers as long and deft, his body as “tall and cat-like,” and his eyes as some variation of ice-blue at least three times.

just men being dudes. dudes being pals. it’s great. this is great.

Should there be a holiday called Astronomy Day?

Where lights are to be turned off for the entire night so everyone could see the stars?