#len asks

[kenobihater]

no nuance, no show results, no 50-50

#len asks #will be SUPER interested in the results on this one! #polls

[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.

#space #space history #venus #NASA #Venera #spost #I will talk all day about venus #ask me about venus floating sky cities #unpopular opinion venus > mars #this is probably my favorite space history story #the surface of venus is made of lens caps #don't try to tell me the universe doesn't have a sense of humor #well #I guess its more that people have a sense of humor and we happen to live in the universe

[dailyhatsune]

what if it was this but miku is ballin and the shark is like rin or something

#hatsune miku #vocaloid #piapro studio #doodle #ask #lunarflare0 #kagamine rin #kagamine len #otomachi una #v4flower

[chubsette]

Someday could you give us tips to draw chubby bodies?

i once put together some tips on how I draw fat for a friend so i suppose i can share those right now :) just keep in mind that these might not help everyone and that i mostly don't know what i'm talking about. it's just how i personally draw idk

and i cannot reccomend the book morpho: fat and skin folds by Michael Lauricella enough. it's an amazing resource for learning and it really changed the way i understand fat as an artist

edit: excuse all the typos on the images fml

#ask #chubsette talks #these are probably mostly useless but since you asked #also remember to look at people through a non-horny lens to practice #as in draw fat people and fat characters in other contexts too #its easier to find sfw references while you're learning and it'll help train your minds eye #the more you draw the less likely you are to relly on refs

[animatedglittergraphics-n-more]

vocaloid userbars

requested by anon

#my asks #anon #vocaloid userbars #userbar #350x19 #vocaloid gigabar #gigabar #350x40 #vocaloid #miku hatsune #hatsune miku #len #megurine #archives #webcore #gifcities #f2u

[cyanorth]

yall fw miku lester

#malevolent #malevolent podcast #malevolent fanart #vocaloid #hatsune miku #kagamine rin #arthur lester #arthur lester malevolent #john malevolent #john doe malevolent #<- not sure if i should tag them tbh #fanart #doodle #cyananart #yellow would be len #kiy would be neru. probably #kayne would be teto #kaynesane teto... #do not ask whether its hair or a hood. i dont know either #i intended it to be a hood #but its funnier if its just a whole mystery

[erin-gilberts]

I have a firm belief that the only way Yellowjackets can end is with the death of each of the remaining survivors and [redacted] was just the first (second, really) of what will be all of them in time. "The wilderness" will reclaim them one by one because they weren't supposed to leave. But also they will be swallowed up by their own darkness in their refusal to acknowledge it and that will be the great tragedy of it. All of their deaths will be preventable, but inevitable in light of the cycles they keep on repeating.

#erin is talking #yellowjackets #whichever one has the role of the storyteller is going to be the last #I think this could be Shauna (the writer) or Misty (the lens through which the others are framed - see: elevating Nat to the queen) #the historian is going to live to bear witness to each end #Lottie however is going to have to close the loop and die #think about it: Lottie has had so many instances of basically asking to be allowed to die and the others denying her that #Laura Lee kicked her out of the afterlife; Van did not allow her to be on the table for their first hunt #The thing about your Jesus figure is that eventually (s)he does have to die #Whether she wanted that role or not she has to close the loop that began with her

[gemscales-and-tea]

"You should not look for the definitions of those words, Len. Trust me when I say that they are NOT the sort of anatomy you seem interested in." @the-fallen-hospitaller

"My dear knightly friend, ehehehe! All manners of anatomy intrigue me! However can I do my experiments if I don't fiddle with EVERY part of the subject?"

#asks #Len asks

[ventismacchiato]

do you have anymore btl hcs since ur starting a new au since everyone is feeling nostalgic 🥹

OF COURSE I DO here’s some tweets to satisfy you

#behind the lens smau #behind the lens — asks #had to make the profiles for this again #and the gojo mod ss is mine hehe

[bullshit-beach]

Dancin', dancin', (oh) DANCIN' NIGHT (YEAH!)

Bonuses under the cut!!! 🎤 🎹

And Bucky’s sketch, ‘cause I like it…

Not to mention the original figures I based this on!

#I didnt wanna give them hair so I had to improvise 😭 #rin’s hairclips became earrings and walter’s hat got a new coat of paint #im very happy w/ this though! #👻 aloe’s art! #shipwrecked 64 #broadside beach #bucky beaver #captain walter walrus #VOCALOID #kagamine twins #kagamine rin #kagamine len #rin and len #artists on tumblr #lineless art #vocaloid fanart #shipwrecked fanart #shipwrecked64 #walter walrus #ask to tag

[westwing19]

Do you think Kirby has drawn meta knight and his crew before. Just asking

Yeah I'd think so, he's a regular artist!

They'd get the fanciest frame they could find and hang his work in the middle of their executive meeting room.

(just the doodle below the cut)

(courtesy of: my left hand)

#ask #I've been in a MK-adopts-Kirby headspace for a while so this response also has that lens applied #the entire crew is like his extended family so they probably had a breakdown when Kirby showed it to them #and then argued over how to frame it for days #this is also the first time I'm drawing the meta-knights and it's like this jdksjfdkd #meart #adopted au

[kenobihater]

reblog for a bigger sample size of former angry, creative, and/or highly dramatic children

#len asks #strangling tw #choking tw #drowning tw #<- ik followers and moots need those tagged but lmk if there's any more you want me to add #polls #personally i mostly hung my toys up. not in like a morbid way but i thought it was fun to swing them from trees #DEF threw them off structures in a morbid way. and melted their faces off in a morbid way. and gave them swirlies in a morbid way #i usually only did that to free mcdonalds toys and i don't think i ever did any of this to my expensive toys but i did like a bit of #violence here and there. it was an interesting outlet for sure. i basically always did it with a friend as well. bonding <3 #OH and we put out sparklers on an action figure once before tying blackcats to him and throwing him off a bridge. fun times! #oh and the freezer. i think that's it tho and i honestly only did most of these things once bc the novelty wore off #gonna periodically rb this for a bigger sample size. i will be HIGHLY disappointed in y'all if 'none' sweeps

[brother-emperors]

When you talk about Philippino history and then Roman history, as a Venezuelan it's been making me think about our history and like, I've always thought there's a lot of similarity there but now it's like...its so similar. Your house is haunted too! I always think about how we won wars against the colonizers but their ghosts are still there, and they still sit at the dinner table with us every night. Your work is so cool, I feel like I can extend that train of thought further through time. I've never been interested in Rome but now I kinda am!

Venezuela 🤝the Philippines: being haunted houses (colonized by Spain)

also that is so SO real, the ghosts really are with us!! THEY ARE AT!!! OUR DINNER TABLES!!!!! ngl, once you start noticing it, it's impossible to NOT notice how they've crawled into the spaces and just. stayed.

ancient Rome is so weird for it too, because if you asked me about it, I wouldn't immediately put ancient Rome down for haunting the Philippines, except for the fact that like Catholicism, it's fucking everywhere. it's gotten in the cracks and spaces between the walls. On the stage of theater, Nadres' Hanggang dito na lamang at maraming salamat: the main character is named after Julius Caesar

Closet Queeries, J. Niel C. Garcia

and so many people are named after figures from ancient Rome (I know enough Mark Anthonys I've run out of differentiating nicknames for everyone) that it rivals Catholic saints for naming conventions. neo classical architecture had it's moment in the sun in Manila, our ilustrados brought some of it back when they returned from Spain to call for reform, and then independence, and I am struggling to hold back a plague-infection comparison about that. like, something else crept in with Spain, and like Spain's ghosts, it Did Not Leave.

but on the other hand! there's a long, centuries long, tradition of using the events of the Fall of the Republic to discourse, discuss, to vent or call for action, current events. it provides a interlocutor when something hurts too much to say directly, it provides a stage to explore a tragedy that echoes in our own histories, it gives a script to voice an ideal that a government might otherwise put down. how many centuries have we used Brutus (and Cassius) to rail against Tyranny, and how many centuries with equal enthusiasm have people used Julius Caesar as a martyr to justify the rights of Kings and Empires? these things are equally as important (in a different way) from the ancient events that actually transpired. (this specific topic, of Brutus & the Assassination of Caesar and it's literary revivals in history, are the focus of The Brutus Revival, Manfredi Piccolomini)

and the cores of these things conflict with each other, but in that friction, it's like there's an invitation to sit down and think for a minute. to look back at history and feel it's immediacy in the present.

ANYWAY I got carried away, but I am glad!! that my stuff could make Rome interesting!!! I hope that you find new doors of thoughts to explore!!!!!!!

#holding this ask in my heart forever thank u for sending this anon #ask tag #idk sometimes i draw goofy shit because its fun. and gay stuff because I Like Men ofc im going to explore things thru that lens #but also. i feel a little like im trying to look at this lurking ghost of imperialism without. addressing it directly #my love for spectacle and drama directly against knowing that the historical horror is not. that far removed. heugh. #so this meant a lot to me!! i feel seen in a good way. thank u again!

[dailyhatsune]

miku eating a banana, shell and all

disgrace

#hatsune miku #vocaloid #piapro studio #doodle #ask #anonymous #kagamine len

[artkaninchenbau]

An AWS comic

#My art #For the record I am not a medical professional and as far as I know AWS isn't even something you can be diagnosed with??? #It's so hard to describe what the two sensory hallucinations really *FEEL* like #Like the time one... You know how a dramatic slow motion scene looks like in an anime? #It's like that but if you made it a 60 fps interpolated version of it #It is an absolutely bizarre feeling #Meanwhile the hyper awareness and everything feeling intense feels like how a fisheye lens shot in an anime feels #No I could not be bothered to try to figure out how to draw that for this comic #For the record I haven't actually had those visual hallucinations since I was a small small child #Hell I don't even think I had any hallucinations in my teens at all like #The sensory ones just kinda started happening again in the past 7 years or so? #Also the swelling sensation I've only had once so far. Usually I get the hyper awareness sensation #(Also sometimes I get this intense feeling of swaying when I go to bed but that might not be an AWS thing??) #(Like there's other things that could make you feel like you're rocking on a boat when laying down so I didn't include that) #No I have never talked to anyone about these hallucinations because for the longest time I didn't know what they were #And they are like. Harmless. Like I'm 100% aware they're just strange sensations but not real at all #They last max 15 minutes if even that long and they happen like super rarely #Only once have I had the hyper awareness be SO INTENSE it made me feel distressed #So like. It doesn't really affect my life at all? So why bother with it? #Also IDK if I could even go to a doctor and ask about AWS and have them know what that even is #And even if I could as far as I know there is no treatment for it so like. Whatever #As long as I don't start having distressing hallucinations or visual hallucination's I'll be fiiiiiine

[mcytblrsexymen]

today just confirms that the pfp curse was actually real

that's the only take i have rn

Me logging onto namemc accidentally doing dark magic as I screenshot block men.

#len-wither #ask