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OMG! I thought it was going to be a message about perseverance or it never being too late to follow your dreams, but nooooooo. This is excellent storytelling.
I’m fine. I’m fine I am not at all emotionally wrecked by this.
hey don't cry. even Hell itself contains soup
i’m like if a writer did not write and did other things instead
"what if aliens aren't made of water and carbon and made us question what it means to be a lifeform?" "what if aliens are all just microscopic?"
What if a storm was alive bro. What if we observed the storms on Jupiter for millennia and concluded that on some enormous scale it was alive? That it was so complex under the surface that it seemed programmed to sustain itself? What if a storm bigger than the Earth itself behaved like a single celled organism? What then?
I've always wondered about solar storms. The magnetohydrodynamics of solar plasma are so poorly understood and so complex... and the sun is so Big... What if there's Beasts
You may be interested in this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-planetary_abiogenesis
The World at the End of Time by Frederik Pohl has some cool aliens that are made of plasma and live in stars! They've got a interesting lifecycle where they're immortal on cosmic timelines (one of them lives from the near-future earth era until AFTER ALL THE STARS HAVE GONE DARK), they're compelled to reproduce asexually by making copies of themselves (but they can make smaller-copies that act like drones? it's complex), and they're involved in a species-wide war against themselves that has entire stars taken out as collateral damage.
I should reread that book one of these days...
« Whenever a land hermit crab is lucky enough to come across an empty shell (sometimes because a behavioural ecologist put it there) and if no one else is around, it will stop, take a closer look and probably try on the new shell for size. If it likes what it finds it will keep the new home and continue on its way. However, if the shell is too big the crab won’t pass on by, but will sit quietly next to it, sometimes for as long as 24 hours. In that time other crabs will probably amble past and wonder what’s going on. Then a spontaneous hermit party breaks out. Don’t get too excited, though, because the main thing that happens when hermit crabs get together is they start forming queues.
A gaggle of hermit crabs clustered around a big empty shell will sort themselves out into a size-ordered line with the biggest at one end, leading to the smallest at the other. This orderly formation is called a vacancy chain, and people form them too, of jobs and houses. The crabs work out who goes where by clambering around and feeling up each other’s shells. Sometimes, if there are lots of hermits in the area, several queues will form around a single, large vacant shell and then things get a bit more interesting: a tug-of- war ensues. The biggest crabs will wrestle over the coveted empty shell while the little ones further down the line will shift queues like supermarket shoppers speculating on which checkout will move fastest.
Eventually, one queue will win control of the empty shell and, in a flurry of claws, everybody in the successful line moves house. Each crab slips out of its old shell and into the newly abandoned shell of the crab one place ahead of it in the queue. They all get a new shell, one size bigger, and quickly scuttle off, once again going their separate ways. Behavioural ecologists have worked out that forming vacancy chains provides benefits for all the crabs involved; adding just one new shell can efficiently provide new homes, of just the right sizes, for a whole gang of hermits. »
— Helen Scales, Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
*descends gently from the heavens on winged sandals i stole from hermes to hand you a single 3x5 index card containing a simple sentence of immeasurable power, written tidily in sharpie: ᴛɪɢᴇʀs ʜᴀᴠᴇ sᴛʀɪᴘᴇᴅ sᴋɪɴ *
And Lo It Is ᴛʀᴜᴇ And It Is ɢᴏᴏᴅ
Bonus Heavenly Message: the same applies to cheetahs and polka dots!
Sehlat agility trials which look exactly the same as dog agility trials except everything is scaled up significantly in size and all the guidance is mental
Just wanna make sure all the future people see this part
I stand by my claim that this would amuse and delight
is there a male equivalent to femme fatale yet and if not can it be homme homicide
if you're using "femme" not as in the French word for woman but "femme" as in the English word for feminine person then the masculine equivalent of a femme fatale can be a butch butcher
Good afternoon. I come to you today as a humble francophone. These constructions are fantastic, much better than the actual term (homme fatals).
However. If I may present a suggestion:
Homme hémorragique: man that makes you bleed.
Hommerragique for short.
hommerragique. I can't resist a good portmanteau
is it worse than butch butcher? I'm adding homme horrible to the list
The perfect ot3 dynamic doesn't exi--
Go read an old fic.
There's such recency bias in fandom. As an author you post something, get a few reactions, and then it goes off into the bin. As a reader you check the tags, see what's new, and move on. But a lot of old stuff is really good. It's just sitting there, gathering dust, waiting for someone to take a peek.
So go on. Treat yourself.
Read an old fic.
That's what I do sometimes; instead of starting at page 1, I start from the last page and go forth until today. I found a few gems that way and you can also see how the fandom has moved with and from the source material, it's fun.
^ I do this too. It is quite enlightening.
I love old fics. Some of my favourites are from the time various shows were on-screen. I love leaving comments on those, too; sometimes I'll get replies!
I tend not to go to a fandom and read the recent stuff - I search for specific tags within that fandom, which often narrows things very significantly. I might only find a dozen fics that match what I'm looking for in the moment, and if they're 5/10/15/20 years old then so be it. I've read some wonderful fics that are old enough to vote - and have a few of my own of similar age. Read old fics!
This She Ra design got a refresher! The design was my betrotheds that I put it into digital format.
A good reminder: You're worth more than what you can give to other people.
