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I feel that the mind-boggling enormity of this feat is underappreciated because the diameter of the black hole and its distance from us are such large, incomprehensible numbers. If my math is right, it's like standing on Earth and trying to photograph a single human hair on the moon... keeping in mind that both Earth and Moon are spinning and moving around while you try to do it. For me, that is the truly-amazing part: the technological achievement... not to mention the geopolitical achievement in getting all those countries to work together.
Also, take THAT flat-earthers!
Slowly making my way through Forgotten Stories and reliving this truth!
Prophet: Well, I’ll just... over here... something...
Let’s talk about some serious business Does anyone love Jespar’s and Constantine’s bromance as much as I do? Nope, seriously, their dialogs are HILARIOUS. And on the quest with the living temple this two just ignore the Prophet all the way and this FLIRTING and CHEMISTRY between them
I’M SORRY PROPHETESS NO CHANCES FOR YOU HERE And I was like “wtf guys? get a room maybe” Couldn’t resist on drawing the moment
Reblogging because these are all brilliant and because the last one made me spit out my tea in laughter.
People messing with their textbook mini DUMP
Oh, bloody Hell! I laughed so hard at this... What a dork Jespar can be!
I can’t stop laughing, for some reason Jespar wouldn’t stop sneaking or grinning like a madman and he kinda forgot about the concept of personal space
hELLO
That's what a cat does...That's why I love cats (just wish I wasn't deathly allergic to them!)
I have two battling for my attention - is that weird? (stupid brain)
Reblog and put in the tags the song that is currently stuck in your head
A good story, flawlessly told? Nah...take a hard left turn off that road and hang on for the ride!
Prince Mith presents: “The Poet In Me”
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Isabella Diamonde, an ordinary country girl with seafoam orbs and honey-colored tresses, knows she’s taking a risk when she applies as a housemaid in the Black Estate. After all, an air of dark mystery surrounds its Count, the chisel-jawed and arrogant Arthorious Black, who is famed for his provocative iconoclastic poems and happens to be mesmerizingly handsome. But what choice does Isabella have? After all, her father, who always saw her as a burden, is terribly ill and can’t afford treatment.
Before Isabella knows it, she is caught in a downward spiral of sinister secrets and devouring passion, where desires pool darkly, salacious confessions are whispered and ejaculated, and inner deities dance to scandalous rhythms unheard of before.
And there’s bondage too!
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Following last week’s poll, I decided to exchange the weekly bonus poems for one or two pages of “The Poet in Me,” a satire romance novel where I’ll try to fulfill every romance cliche, break every writing rule, and use every flowery adjective and metaphor to have ever been seen on a page. A little respite beside the serious writing for “Dreams of the Dying.”
Starting next week, I’ll release a new page on my Patreon each Tuesday for Patrons and probably make it public here on Tumblr a week later.
Please reblog if you think Isabella Diamonde’s and Arthorious Black’s story is worth being told! :)
I miss them, the humans.
We used to talk every day, about my journeys and the things I found during them. My pictures and explorations, everything that I did was somehow special to them.
They called me brave, and strong, saying that I was able to do much more than they ever thought possible of me, but I never believed a word of it.
“I’m only doing my job.” I told them, “Nothing more, nothing less.”
Time went on, and I began to wear down. The humans messages began to change. They started speaking of “love” and “death.”
It wasn’t long before I understood what they meant, they were worried about me. I was touched, but nevertheless I kept moving forward. I had a job to do.
I finally was forced to stop by the wear and tear of time, and was able to send one last message to the humans, my creators and friends.
“My battery is low and it’s getting dark.”
So now I sit here in this sea of red dust, alone and broken. But I am not afraid.
Because I know the humans love me, and I know they’ll come to say hello again.
I laughed more that I should have at this
Jespar: I just really want someone to take me out.
Calia: Like, on a date or with a sniper rifle?
Jespar: Surprise me.
Welcome to the void, Nicolas!
Nic reporting in!
Hi folks,
I’m Nic, and new to the writing community here on Tumblr - Writeblr is, I believe, the correct term. I’m a game writer by profession and the few people who know me do so because of “Enderal,” a Skyrim Total Conversion which I wrote the story for and directed. Most recently, I’ve launched a web novel called “Dreams of the Dying” that centers around Jespar Dal’Varek, one of the game’s protagonists. I update it weekly on my Patreon (www.patreon.com/niseam) and my new WattPad (www.wattpad.com/user/Niseam).
I’m mainly here to connect to other people and follow some artists I’ve been following anonymously for a while now (a huge, heartfelt thanks to the Vyn/Enderal/Jespar-bloggers out there, I’ve been stalking you for years). I won’t lie, I’m pretty new to all this and am still trying to find my way around, so I appreciate any help. I’m also looking forward to sharing opinions about the craft with fellow writers.
What do I write? Most of my stuff deals with societal, philosophical or psychological topics. All my published works so far could be classified as fantasy, though I lean towards psychological horror and mystery. I believe that good characters are king and value authenticity above all else. To quote my (somewhat dramatic) Patreon intro:
“I love stories that entertain, stories that are genuine, and stories that have an impact. While each of these aspects makes a story enjoyable to me, it’s the stories that accomplish all three I remember the most. That’s what I want my stories to do: Draw you in, make you laugh, crawl under your skin, shake you up, and leave you thinking.”
That’s a lot for a first post, so I’ll leave it at that. Thanks for reading! :)
I'm loving this story already! Can't wait for the next chapter!
Chapter One of “Dreams of the Dying” is now available on my Patreon and WattPad (for free). Give it a read and let me know what you think! :)
I feel like we need this reminder now and then. "... let us find ourselves a worthy goal"
Our Home
This Image was taken from the International Space Station nearly 12 years ago on July 21, 2003. Think of it, the Earth’s Space Station - Humanity’s Space Station - is now more than 16 years old. Before that humanity had separate stations, but now we explore the grandest of mysteries united. This great effort of space exploration demands peaceful compromise and cooperation. There are now millions of children who know space in this way. So, when you feel that life is heavy. If the news tells you that we have failed. If you are beginning to loose hope. Just look up. Know that this is the future of our Species: On a Station orbiting Earth once every 90 minutes, the peaceful ascent of humanity into the Solar System has begun. This is the beginning of our great journey.
“If we crave some cosmic purpose, let us find ourselves a worthy goal“
~ Carl Sagan
Credit: NASA Earth-Sun Day
This would be funny if it weren't such a PITA
I'm actually getting more pornbot shit than I did before Tumblr banned smut.
How the frick do I block these lovely "followers"?
And another thing...
Why can't we block these lovely followers right from our own Activities screen? Why do I have to go to their page to block them?
Hey, Tumblr! Are you listening?
No?
Nipples ~ Cocks ~ Tits
Are you listening now??
Take on 2019 like a pussy!
we say you’re a pussy if you’re weak and have balls if you’re strong, but in reality a pussy is designed to take a beating and balls can’t handle a gentle tap.
a lil dorian doodle in between commissions
There’s really nothing more to say...
Baby boomers pass on the Earth to future generations, 2018
hello everyone welcome back to Tumblr 2, where you can find Nazis, homophobes, death threats, and people who want absolute strangers dead but hey, no tiddies right?
Orrrr throw it out and get a new one 🌎 — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2SUc8CD
After kinda losing faith today in humanity's future, this was restorative. Thanks, NASA, for continuing to explore and share, despite (to spite?) the bullshit.
NASA Science Show & Tell
This week, we’re at one of the biggest science conferences in the country, where our scientists are presenting new results from our missions and projects. It’s called the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting.
Here are a few of the things we shared this week…
The Sun
A few months into its seven-year mission, Parker Solar Probe has already flown far closer to the Sun than any spacecraft has ever gone. The data from this visit to the Sun has just started to come back to Earth, and scientists are hard at work on their analysis.
Parker Solar Probe sent us this new view of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. The image was taken by the mission’s WISPR instrument on Nov. 8, 2018, and shows a coronal streamer seen over the east limb of the Sun. Coronal streamers are structures of solar material within the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona, that usually overlie regions of increased solar activity. The fine structure of the streamer is very clear, with at least two rays visible. Parker Solar Probe was about 16.9 million miles from the Sun’s surface when this image was taken. The bright object near the center of the image is Mercury, and the dark spots are a result of background correction.
Hurricane Maria
Using a satellite view of human lights, our scientists watched the lights go out in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. They could see the slow return of electricity to the island, and track how rural and mountainous regions took longer to regain power.
In the spring, a team of scientists flew a plane over Puerto Rico’s forests, using a laser instrument to measure how trees were damaged and how the overall structure of the forests had changed.
Earth’s Ice
Our scientists who study Antarctica saw some surprising changes to East Antarctica. Until now, most of the continent’s melting has been on the peninsula and West Antarctica, but our scientists have seen glaciers in East Antarctica lose lots of ice in the last few years.
Our ICESat-2 team showed some of their brand new data. From the changing height of Antarctic ice to lagoons off the coast of Mexico, the little satellite has spent its first few months measuring our planet in 3D. The laser pulses even see individual ocean waves, in this graph.
Scientists are using our satellite data to track Adélie penguin populations, by using an unusual proxy – pictures of their poop! Penguins are too small to be seen by satellites, but they can see large amounts of their poop (which is pink!) and use that as a proxy for penguin populations.
Asteroid Bennu
Our OSIRIS-REx mission recently arrived at its destination, asteroid Bennu. On approach, data from the spacecraft’s spectrometers revealed chemical signatures of water trapped in clay minerals. While Bennu itself is too small to have ever hosted liquid water, the finding indicates that liquid water was present at some time on Bennu’s parent body, a much larger asteroid.
We also released a new, detailed shape model of Bennu, which is very similar to our ground-based observations of Bennu’s shape. This is a boon to ground-based radar astronomy since this is our first validation of the accuracy of the method for an asteroid! One change from the original shape model is the size of the large boulder near Bennu’s south pole, nicknamed “Benben.” The boulder is much bigger than we thought and overall, the quantity of boulders on the surface is higher than expected. Now the team will make further observations at closer ranges to more accurately assess where a sample can be taken on Bennu to later be returned to Earth.
Jupiter
The Juno mission celebrated it’s 16th science pass of #Jupiter, marking the halfway point in data collection of the prime mission. Over the second half of the prime mission — science flybys 17 through 32 — the spacecraft will split the difference, flying exactly halfway between each previous orbit. This will provide coverage of the planet every 11.25 degrees of longitude, providing a more detailed picture of what makes the whole of Jupiter tick.
Mars
The Mars 2020 team had a workshop to discuss the newly announced landing site for our next rover on the Red Planet. The landing site…Jezero Crater! The goal of Mars 2020 is to learn whether life ever existed on Mars. It’s too cold and dry for life to exist on the Martian surface today. But after Jezero Crater formed billions of years ago, water filled it to form a deep lake about the same size as Lake Tahoe. Eventually, as Mars’ climate changed, Lake Jezero dried up. And surface water disappeared from the planet.
Interstellar Space
Humanity now has two interstellar ambassadors. On Nov. 5, 2018, our Voyager 2 spacecraft left the heliosphere — the bubble of the Sun’s magnetic influence formed by the solar wind. It’s only the second-ever human-made object to enter interstellar space, following its twin, Voyager 1, that left the heliosphere in 2012.
Scientists are especially excited to keep receiving data from Voyager 2, because — unlike Voyager 1 — its plasma science instrument is still working. That means we’ll learn brand-new information about what fills the space between the stars.
Learn more about NASA Science at science.nasa.gov.
Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com
How are these not getting flagged??? /end SaRcAsM font/
THIS!
REBLOG IF NAZIS OFFEND YOU MORE THAN NIPPLES.
Censorship sucks. That's a fact. If you don't want to see NSFW content, unsubscribe or click the "restrict" button! [nipples]
Reblog to show your support for NSFW Artists, who deserve better than having their art censored/removed
I was about 4 and said to my dad, "Screw you!" He wheeled on me with ferocity unforeseen and I couldn't figure out why...I thought it meant using a screwdriver. I mean, he said it all the time; what else could he have been talking about?
story time: i taught my little cousin her first longer word when she was very young. i taught her to say “tax benefits”. and to this day my aunt still doesn’t know where she got it from, but it was a hilarious sight to see a little toddler waddling around the house, wearing a big diaper, all the while yelling “TAX BENEFITS!!!!”
I tested as 37. Wow! They missed by only 46%!
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VOTE!
If you don't vote, you forfeit your right to bitch and whine...and this is Tumblr, so...?
Get registered. Verify that you are registered to vote. Double check your voter registration status.
After Alabama, it looks like 2018 is already trying to tell us something: ”Close Elections” is gonna be the theme for the next two years.
2018 is coming. Voter turnout wins elections. Every vote counts.
Ah, shit... I know all of these
“kids these days are so cringey w their fortnite dances-” are none of yall going to acknowledge the shit we did. are we not going to acknowledge gangnam style. what does the fox say. if we go older hamster dance. crazy frog. the fucking duck song. the llama song. charlie the unicorn.
let he who is without sin throw the first stone
Loving Vincent
Just watched this film...the artistry is stunning! Every frame hand painted.
Yeah, okay. This will be a hoot!