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divine indulgence

#fanart #good omens

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The weather finally let me take some outdoor pictures of, Jim? Gabriel? This dude 😅 I was having almost too much fun sculpting that 🍑😁

#fanart #this is amazing #that booty #good omens

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Another fanart of Good Omens... A cute one !!

( I make a update ! I think it's better now ! )

#fanart #good omens

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by Valerie Rosen

#nature

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Jeny’s interlock cast off exactly mirrors the long-tail (and the backward loop) cast on AND is a very good stretchy bind off.

This baby sweater is knit bottom up, but I made the sleeves top down, picking up stitches around the armhole, so to get the same edge on the ribbing, I did the long-tail cast on on the body and the interlock cast off on the sleeves.

#oh #ohhh #knitting

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Seiryu Miharashi Station (The Ghost Station) is a railway station on the Nishikigawa Seiryū Line in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. It has no entrances or exits, meant only to get fresh air and enjoy the scenery.

#I love it

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Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

#I always thought the name was French?!

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#ahhhh lena my beloved #still think she and kara should have ended up together #supergirl

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I'm trying to write a post about tick safety and avoiding tick bites, but a lot of the info on websites is like "Avoid going in the woods, in plants, and where there are wild animals" and "Activities like hiking and gardening can put you at risk" and I'm like thanks! This is worthless!

As ticks and tick borne illnesses are expanding their range, I think it's important for people to be educated about these things, and I think it's especially important to give people actual advice on how to protect themselves instead of telling them to just...avoid the natural world

Rough draft version of Tick Advice:

Ticks don't jump down on you from trees, they get on you when you brush against grass, brush, bushes etc.

Ticks get brought to an area when they get done feeding from an animal and fall off them. In the USA, the main tick-bringing animal is deer, but I've seen plenty ticks on feral cats and songbirds.

Ticks get killed when they dry out so drier areas with more sunlight are less favorable to ticks.

The above is useful for figuring out whether an area is likely to have lots of ticks, and how vigilant you have to be in that area.

Wear light-colored, long pants outside. Tuck your pants into your socks, and tuck your shirt into the waist of your pants. Invest in light, breathable fabrics idc

IMMEDIATELY change out of your outside clothes when you come back from a tick-prone area, wash them, and dry them on high heat to kill any ticks that might be stuck on.

Shower and check yourself for ticks after coming inside. Hair, armpits, and nether regions in particular. You can use a handheld mirror or rely on touch; an attached tick will feel like a bump kinda like a scab

While you're outside, you can just periodically check for ticks by running your hands down your legs and checking visually to see if anything is crawling on your clothes. Light colors make them easy to spot, and they don't move fast.

Combing through each others' hair to check for creepy crawly critters is a time-honored primate ritual and is not weird. When hiking, bring a friend who will have your back when you feel something on your neck and need to know if it's sweat or a tick

If you're careful, you can usually catch ticks before they bite you, but if one does bite you, it's not the end of the world. Since tickborne diseases are different regionally i suspect this advice will differ based on where you are, but the important thing is remove the tick with tweezers (DON'T use butter, a lit match, or anything that kills the tick while it's still attached, please) and contact a doctor to see what to watch for. Most illnesses you can catch from ticks are easily treatable if you recognize them when symptoms first appear

#good advice

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it’s so insane to me that most of the people you meet in life are just passing moments. you’ll know them for a brief period of time before they’re a stranger again and there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it because that is just how it’s meant to be..

#well it's true #but we also take away something from every encounter #yesterday a salesperson told me greetings from another salesperson and said the other was sad to miss me that day #because they had a diferent shift and I always come early #we don't know each other aside from 10 minutes of interaction each week #it's so sweet #I just met three new people yesterday and had a delightful time #we challenge each other and learn from each other and we part ways and maybe one day we'll only send each other birthday messages #or nothing #but there's value in every interaction

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#creative #(kind would have been my second pick)

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day 4 of painting a random s2 scene until good omens gets renewed for s3

they wanna hold hands so bad u guys

#hands #fanart #good omens

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Sorry if you’ve answered this before, but any tips on improving your technobabble?

I originally came at this problem from two different directions. The first one took considerably more time to enable.

(a) Be familiar (or get familiar) with the languages in which most scientific terms are coined: Latin and Greek.

I took Latin in high school, already knowing that I was a science person and that Latin was considered "the language of science". (And medicine, which also turned out to be handy for me later.) I also started studying Greek in college—and, sigh, I'm still studying it.

Once you're starting to get familiar with the languages, practice coining terms as you need them. While it's considered a failure of style in scientific naming to mix Latin and Greek in the same term, I've found it better to be guided by euphony than a slavish obedience to the rules.

Because sometimes a word or term just sounds right. "Temporospatial claudication", for example, was coined by running a Latin physics term head-on into a medical one. "Claudication" was (and still is in some countries) a term for a constriction in a blood vessel. Its origins in the Latin claudo- and clausum roots is responsible for the Emperor Claudius's name, which would once have implied somebody who limps secondary to such a circulatory problem. I simply bent the term's most basic meaning off into a different direction.

...So you see how that goes. Bang the roots together and see what successfully sticks.

The second approach is a little easier. But only a little.

(b) Base your coined terminology on the conventions and rhythms of real technobabble: by which I mean actual, technical scientific language.

The best way to pick this up in sufficient depth is by reading technical papers in your field of interest—lots of them—so you can see how the pros communicate to/with one another. Every field has its own jargon lying around just begging to be stolen... assuming you observe very carefully how it's correctly used. Otherwise you risk outing yourself as nothing but an interested but insufficiently-committed bystander. You must also be super careful not to screw with the interior grammar of such techspeak... as inevitably it'll have one.

For example: when I was tooling up for writing The Wounded Sky, I spent easily three months reading papers in/on hyperdimensional physics. (Not that I wouldn't have done this anyway. It's a fascinating subject, and before I went into nursing I'd been a physics major, so I had a fair amount of the necessary background to understand what I was reading.) Even in the 80s there were a lot of such papers around, and in those distant pre-Internet days I was helped a whole lot by living just across the road from the impressive science library at Cal State Northridge.

During that period I could be found in the periodicals racks once or twice every week, digging through the monthly journals on the hunt for material that would be germane to the plot I was boiling. I found ten times more goodies than I ever could reasonably have used. The toughest part was winnowing it all down to what I actually needed to scatter here and there for atmosphere's sake, or to plant in specific spots to grease the plot's wheels. (My favorite remains the [legit!] paper with the delightful title, "Taub-NUT Space as a Counterexample to Almost Anything.")

Anyway, I must have got something about that whole business right, since one Princeton physics professor whose work I'd cited at the end of the novel asked me if he could use it in teaching his classes. :)

But there's a third element involved; more an attitude that you apply to what you've produced while employing the first one or two approaches.

You have to treat your coined terms as if they're absolutely real... something that any person educated in the science you're working with would know. The voice and tone in which you write using them has to reflect this absolute confidence and commitment to their reality. Because if you don't—at least while you're writing—absolutely believe in them enough to speak confidently about them, no one else will believe in them either.

But then that's a solid general principle anyway. If you don't do something you've created the courtesy of taking it seriously enough to believe in it (or its reality inside the larger reality you're creating), it won't long survive contact with exterior realities like the inside of your reader's mind.

HTH!

ETA: here's that citation page from the end of Wounded Sky. I believe it remains the only Star Trek novel with a cites list at the end. :)

#writing #advice

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Sorry to break yall's hearts but this is too well written of a post to not include in here.

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Really. I know just enough Chinese from Duolingo and C-drama and my own curiosity to make sense of a lot of the pinyin that we're not provided hanzi for, but would it have been so bad to put them at least in the footnotes? They already made a big thing about the tones, after all. (Don't get me wrong, I enjoy actually knowing all of this, but if I didn't have the tiniest bit of Mandarin knowledge I'd be annoyed.)

Also, January, honey, I know you're overwhelmed and traumatised, but please stop putting your good faith in the wrong people. You're observant and smart usually.

And I'm putting this speculation behind a cut since it might be spoilery:

The person in the red jumper is invisible to everyone but January, because of the implants, right? Also, they are causing Aubrey's "sleep paralysis" episodes and they're who Kasha reacts to. Also, I speculate they're either River or Max.

I'm reading "The Mars House" by Natasha Pulley (which I was 100% certain was titled "The House of Mars" until a few moments ago when a friend said they couldn't find it 😂) in 10-minutes-a-day increments, because that's what my head lets me do, and it's interesting and weird and I didn't expect I'd like it but I sorta do. Good faith efforts do pay off.

I'm very much enjoying myself, and I already have at least 3 ideas of where this might be going (I'm about 1/3 through) and looking forward to whether it will be one of them or something entirely different.

#natasha pulley #the mars house #books

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#tardigrade

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friends? we’re not friends!

#fanart #good omens