#Size range

[ashleyloob]

women's pants shopping is a fucking nightmare. how can u be a size -2 in one brand but a size 300 in another

#barely an exaggeration i literally have pants ranging from size 1 to size 27

[brawlmetaknight]

so obviously bosses are programmed to know generally where the player is, but something i really love about meta knight boss fights in particular is that he is literally always one step behind you. his movements are not erratic, they're directly tied to yours. even if you're on the other side of the stage, he will catch up to your last point of action. it's so cool.

#text #my gif #meta knight #i don't know how to explain this better lol but U KNOW WHAT I MEAN #he doesn't have set patterns like some bosses that will just stay in the middle of the stage and use their size or range to their advantage #meta knight's fighting style is calculated like his personality #it's been like this since the very beginning and i love it

[bonefall]

I’m rereading Po3 and despite its flaws I really enjoyed the introduction to the three. Jaykit isn’t mentioned to be blind in the first few chapters and instead they chose to show how much MORE capable he is compared to his littermates; until at the end of chapter 3, he brings up his blindness on his own. It makes forcing him to be a medicine cat SO much more frustrating because it really feels like they’re setting him up to be a warrior and choose his own fate (note i haven’t finished the reread this is just my first impression)

I like how you seem to take that path in BB regardless! It makes his arc so much more enjoyable

His arc in canon is super frustrating because he's such an independent character who clearly wants to make his own decisions in life, but then he just gets shoved into the medcat den. I LIKE that he ultimately goes there and that he enjoys it; but it was still really fucked up that they stripped away his autonomy in the process.

Re: they are not real, they are writing choices. Taking away the choices a disabled character can make over their own life, forcing them into a celibate nun role, and then going "awwwww dont worry see? he likes it! This was the best thing for him :)" was fucked up.

And imo it didn't have to be that way! You wouldn't have to go the FULL route I did with big changes, he could just be more involved in the descision to stop being a warrior apprentice and it would be fine. Minor change that would make a world of difference.

I do also have to interject to say though... blindness should really not be an extremely severe impairment for a ThunderClan cat.

I'm dead serious.

Whiskers are built-in sensors that tell you the exact position of everything within several inches of your head, ears swerve to pick up sound, and the jacobson's organ provides a sense of smell so keen that I have an entire Clanmew expansion draft because I needed to make WORDS describing the power of this sense that humans do not have. I cannot stress enough how delicate their other senses are, felines do not rely on their sight like primates do

ThunderClan lives in a mixed-oak woodland, where sight is already often obscured by foliage, objects are close together (for whiskers to feel), and nearly every movement makes noise against the leaf litter. RiverClan and (moor-running) WindClan cats would have a harder time with this disability than Thunder or Shadow.

Cat sight SUCKS to begin with. It sucks BADDD. They don't have color vision, they're significantly nearsighted, and they can't track up-and-down movements well. WC doesn't write realistic cats (more like small fuzzy people really) and I also work with more humanesque eyesight, but the only thing Jay should really lose is an ability to rapidly track a small animal swerving fast. Blind cats are often still excellent hunters in spite of that!

So it's an extra big waste that they railroaded him into a position he didn't choose, saying he couldn't be a warrior. This is the perfect disability to write, if you want to explore how ableism can impact the characters in this society who ARE legitimately still capable of nearly full independence, but still need to find accommodations for what they can't do.

In the same arc they're doing the dumb Cinder Reincarnation Plotline, no less!! Where SHE is also feeling like she has no choice over her "destiny," and gets a conflict over a potentially disabling injury

"Oh nooo if cinderpaw breaks her leg she wont be a warrior!"

"What the f-- Im Jaypaw and im reporting live from the scene where a Category 1 Idiot Moment is taking place. Woman breaks leg, suddenly everyone believes she is a horse, more at 11."

One of these days I should really make "herb guides" just covering how various sensory disabilities impact the lives of Clan cats and some tips for writing them as warriors, especially between Clans. Stuff you wouldn't usually consider, like how much noise deaf cats tend to make, how RiverClan would get a ton of sinus infections and lose their sense of smell, being blind in Sky vs Thunder, etc.

#I once saw someone say offhandedly 'well what if someone snuck up on jay from behind and attacked him. No whiskers there' #NEWSFLASH! YOU ALSO DONT HAVE EYES IN THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD #He doesn't have short whiskers either they're normally sized #Something like 4 - 5 inches on a cat like him. About double the size of the head foward and sideways #Once you're talking about close combat like the cats usually do there's no way that you can stay back far enough to avoid them #I want to rewrite owl and jay's fight or make a rematch where jay realizes owl is being a coward #Hanging just out of his range and jabbing at him #But once he realizes it's just a coward's strategy it clicks that the counter is to be aggressive #And not let his opponent out of his 'range' #Also give him a neat little scene where they're grappling next to Black's dam project where it's super muddy #And Jay is like 'YOU WANT TO PLAY DIRTY? LETS GET FILTHY' and dunks Owl's face down into the mud #Because Jay can fight without his sight but Owl doesn't know how to continue while there's stinging gunk in his eyes and nose #I like thinking about what I'm going to do for BB!Jay's matches because his fighting style is really fun to write #1. Be aggressive and proactive 2. Don't let them out of range 3. SCARE THEM #From the Mud Match he learns that the best way to end a fight quickly is to absolutely terrify them #Because they're usually not expecting the fight to be difficult nor are they expecting to feel like theyre in danger #So if you surprise them it breaks their willpower real fast #And as he gains a reputation for brutality he faces less opponents until he's practically known as the Cleric Without Mercy #Bone babble

[sapphorror]

Two unavoidable facts about the Invader Zim fandom that transcend space, time, and all evolution of the canon:

1. No one, absolutely no one here knows how tall twelve year olds are supposed to be

2. You can immediately clock someone's height range by the exact height they assign Zim

#invader zim #iz posting #natterings #every time I read a fic where Zim's taller than me but still described as relatively small #I have a instant moment of 'oh author you're over 6“0 aren't you' #no shade but it is DEEPLY funny #well maybe a little shade but only because I'm prejudiced against tall people #anyway my personal headcanon hovers around 4“8 #although realistically it'd probably be in the 4“10-5”0 range if we assume the models are at all to scale #because he IS ever so slightly taller than dib to start with #however I have a pathological need for zim to be as gremlin-sized as possible #so im willing to fudge the facts

[amphibianaday]

day 1301

#amphibian #frog #salamander #newt #olm #the size chart friends #i struggled with scaling people last year so this time people will tell me what general height range they are >:)

[fucktrain]

was tagged in this post by @wackmxter but that post is giving the color of the sky a size complex so were starting fresh sorry

tempted to take a side by side cause even the cat's p spot on, check the og post for the picrew link and to check out everyones looks!

tagging @peanit @enekorre @midsilo @leviticus420 @team-rnjr @unseeleigh @lymes-haver and whoever else<3

#full range of skin tones body sizes and hair styles!!! #really i just wanna see all yall #ty so much wack for tagging me urs came out so cute<3 #picrew #me

[witchblade]

"I can read 8 - 15 books in a day if I have the day free" how are we defining books now actually

#its not that i dont think lil novellas are books bc they are its just mentally when people say they can read x amoubt of books #in a period of time i picture like the middle range of book sizes. #though maybe i read too many tortured high fantasy series as a kid and teen and my idea of Mid Range Length book #is extremely skewed towards to the too-long end of the spectrum

[messier51]

Regarding your post about solar eclipses on other planets - I know other planets get solar eclipses, too, but do any other planets besides earth get total solar eclipses?

Yep! I mean, that's why I worded that post specifically that way, and included links to the wikipedia articles about solar eclipses on the gas giant planets in our solar system.

So, a total solar eclipse happens on earth because the angular size of the moon as seen from the surface of the earth is (usually) larger than the angular size of the sun, right? (We see an annular eclipse when the moon's angular size is a little smaller than the sun's, depending on the relative distances of each since orbits are elliptical and those aren't constant.)

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are all quite a bit farther from the sun, so the angular size of the sun is much smaller, and have fairly large moons. All of Jupiter's galilean moons are large enough and close enough to the planet that they're large enough to fully occult (cover) the sun and therefore produce total eclipses.

Similarly on Saturn:

Seven of Saturn's satellites – Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Rhea, Dione and Titan – are large enough and near enough to eclipse or occult the Sun, or in other words to cast an umbra on Saturn. At this distance, the sun covers only about 3 arcminutes in the sky of Saturn. In comparison, the seven major moons of Saturn have angular diameters of 5–10' (Mimas), 5–9' (Enceladus), 10–15' (Tethys), 10–12' (Dione), 8–11' (Rhea), 14–15' (Titan), and 1–2' (Iapetus). Iapetus is Saturn's third largest moon, but is too far away to completely eclipse the Sun. Janus, a very close moon to Saturn, has an angular diameter of about 7', meaning that it can fully cover the Sun.

and Uranus:

Twelve satellites of Uranus—Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Belinda, Puck, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon—are large enough and near enough to eclipse the Sun.

and Neptune:

All of Neptune's inner moons and Triton can eclipse the Sun as seen from Neptune. All other satellites of Neptune are too small and/or too distant to produce an umbra. From this distance, the Sun's angular diameter is reduced to one and a quarter arcminutes across. Here are the angular diameters of the moons that are large enough to fully eclipse the Sun: Naiad, 7–13'; Thalassa, 8–14'; Despina, 14–22'; Galatea, 13–18'; Larissa, 10–14'; Proteus, 13–16'; Triton, 26–28'.

and also Pluto, really:

Charon has an angular diameter of 4 degrees of arc as seen from the surface of Pluto; the Sun appears much smaller, only 39 to 65 arcseconds. By comparison, the Moon as viewed from Earth has an angular diameter of only 31 minutes of arc, or just over half a degree of arc. Therefore, Charon would appear to have eight times the diameter, or 25 times the area of the Moon; this is due to Charon's proximity to Pluto rather than size, as despite having just over one-third of a Lunar radius, Earth's Moon is 20 times more distant from Earth's surface as Charon is from Pluto's. This proximity further ensures that a large proportion of Pluto's surface can experience an eclipse. Because Pluto always presents the same face towards Charon due to tidal locking, only the Charon-facing hemisphere experiences solar eclipses by Charon.

So all of these planets (modulo the lack of surfaces/living beings, but like, that's also pretty special to Earth completely separately from eclipses) experience the nighttime-like darkness caused by the umbra (shadow) of the eclipse (occultation).

Now, as a few people have pointed out in the notes, the ring of fire deal IS pretty special, which happens because the angular size of the moon and sun are often SO similar. (Maybe Iapetus is similar enough with the solar angular size sometimes depending where Saturn is in its orbit, but at a few arcminutes instead of half a degree you can imagine the effect being somewhat less amazing. Then again, I bet solar occultations by Saturn's rings are pretty amazing, so I'm not going to hold that against the planet.)

In no way do I think this makes total solar eclipses less awesome, or think that the excitement is misplaced. It's a pretty amazing special event! It's also one that won't even exist for the earth forever, since the moon moves a few centimeters away from us each year. But as an astronomer I think it's cool that there are eclipses (and occultations and transits of the sun by moons with smaller angular sizes!) on other planets too! Though, the post I made was mostly a kneejerk eyeroll complaint about a silly factual error that might just be because the OP of the post I was annoyed by was thinking about some other facet of our solar eclipses as being unique than how it was worded. Since we can't go to any other planet to watch eclipses (that would add a whole extra layer to astrotourism), our eclipses on earth are pretty special. If you ever have the opportunity to see one, I wholly recommend going! It's really amazing.

In conclusion: here's an Io solar eclipse on Jupiter taken by the Hubble Space telescope:

[Image in black and white shows Jupiter's volcanic moon Io passing above the turbulent clouds of the giant planet, on July 24, 1996. There's a large black spot on Jupiter which is Io's shadow. The smallest details visible on Io and Jupiter are about 100 miles across (about 160 kilometres). Bright patches visible on Io are regions of sulfur dioxide frost. Io is roughly the size of Earth's moon, but 2000 times farther away.]

And here's the April 8th eclipse of the sun by the moon on Earth as seen by the GOES satellite:

[A gif of the earth showing the GOES EAST view of North and South America on April 8th over the course of the total solar eclipse. A shadow of the moon passes from the left to the upper right side of the view of the earth.]

#replying to asks #anonymous #astronomy #solar eclipse #aj is a skyentist #i am not a planetary scientist but angular size is a good thing to understand! #i have participated in some of the lunar laser ranging though #for figuring out exactly how far away the moon is and how much it's moving around #i made the goes gif but mostly just saving it from the site and resizing it lmao

[cultofstan]

Pics of Doc Ock from The Clone Conspiracy Event

#marvel #doc ock #doctor octopus #otto octavius #marvel comics #dare I say this is most beautiful and sexy Otto has ever looked #his bowl cut hair is perfect #his glasses are perfect #his body size is undeniably large and perfect #his suit is perfect #his mechanical arms are too thin for my liking but that doesn’t bother me at all #and dan slott is the master of giving Otto his unique voice #say what you will about this event but I’ll never take for granted how fine Otto looked here #side note: I love that Miles Warren clones are sometimes in the background because he too is hot #sadly they’re all the equivalent of power ranger grunts so they don’t really do anything #still #having an almost stereotypical old silver fox right next to Otto just shows the range of old men i love

[benetnvsch]

PUT TWO PAWS ON THE FLOOR TWO IN THE AIR AND THEN JUST-

#GO KITTY GO KITTY GO KITTY GO- #Kunikida Doppo #bungou stray dogs #bsd #finally finished this sketchy animation lolol #kite draws #kite animates #new tag I don't plan on really using much but in case? #wehhh #art #fanart #animation #this is obv one of neco-arc's just for crediting reason lolol #I think more people would recognize neco-arc over kunikida though :''0 #anyway this was very fun imma edit him dancing to certain songs and come back when I have a really trashy one byeee- #hmmm ahudhjdkah #kite watches bsd #I forgor all my tags sweats #fun fact I cannot ever post my gifs straight to twitter it never works so I always post em here first download them and then post that copy #to twitter- maybe it's something about the formatting? size should be within range so idk why it never accepts it </3 #update from the next morning: changed the main file cuz I cleaned up a bit of things :'0

[ladyofthenoodle]

seriously why does it look like he’s talking to 4 year olds

#also maybe ladynoir height difference is also a myth #like if this is the range of human height #then maybe adrien and marinette are pretty much the same size #miraculous ladybug #noodling

[cantankerouscatfish]

there's a big bold jumping spider making a nest in the corner of one of the office windows. J the office lady who likes spiders more than I do found it while cleaning, and now she gives me daily updates on this little pal's progress in weaving its house.

probs gonna lay eggs in there, if it's as big as J says. I have trouble balancing on the stool to see so far away. wanna see happy fat spider... u_u

#it's cool how bold jumpers in general get so big. holding one is like holding a pebble or smth. they got HEFT. #compared to H. kochii which are only ever teensy. housecat next to a tiger. #and there's the zebra jumpers and whatever the pretty brown-patterned ones are in the middle size range. #each of them out in the world minding their little spider business.

[colorisbyshe]

just saw a clip of someone heckling (and it IS heckling) at a mitski show yelling "mother is mothering" and it's like if you're going to interrupt EVERYONE'S experience, INCLUDING MITSKI'S, at least shout something interesting? original? funny or heart warming?

like... don't heckle... but if you are so self centered as to believe it is YOUR right to take advantage of a lull in the show to shout out something... let it be something you can at least try to argue was worth it

if your heckling sounds like the average reply to a main pop girl tweet... from 2021... you've already blown it. leave the show in shame.

#i know people have ALWAYS been obnoxious trying to get their moment #i have stood behind people holding up signs the size of middle school children #but at least that had a narrow range of whose experience was interrupted #and normmally was just for like ONE song

[r0semultiverse]

The cats on our boop-o-meters are actually lines of code!

They're individual little pixel blocks you can change the dimensions of & make look really fucked up!

Their names appear to be Kum & Kum Agua!

Now they're cubes!

You can change the Kum twins's colors!!

This is so cool, each pixel is a coordinate on the site's page & they all have size & color customization options too! Whoever made these cats, great job to you! I hope you got paid well! 💜

#a little behind the scenes look at the boop meter of tumblr's april fools update #cherish your rectangular little guys please they're held together with many lines of code #these cats are made of so many pixels; give them all the boops & all the pets #I just thought this was really fascinating & wanted to share it #idk the intricacies of the actual device & the color changes though #that part of this whole operation appears to be server side so I don't think I can crack it #I tried increasing the range of how far the pixels could go but the site didn't like that so i reverted the rectangle back to proper size #go out & boop to your heart's content folks! Just wanted to share this! #mine #op #april fool's day #boop o meter

[softcitrus2345]

How big is too big for you or your characters?

~ 📜

>;3c

#ok but real talk yall will never see me drawing those absolutely ABSURD sizes like.. building size...city size?? PLANET SIZE?!?!? #no thanks lmao #but yeah.. I love me a WIDE range of sizes >;p #It's just fun #weight gain #wg #immobile wg #ssbhm #male weight gain #softcitrus asks #softcitrus damien

[fjordfolk]

the main problem with the emphasis on shelties as miniature collies in the inception of the breed around 1910 is that we're still doing it in 2024

#looking at you akc #theres a difference between being a collie in miniature #and being a scaled-down rough collie #one of them points to a type of dog and a size range #and the other is wrong 😘