#satallite

[redemptioninterlude]

@444fm - dolores and harlen get 2 for the price of 1 in this starter !

marlene's known lo forever - the same way that all pretty girls in small places do. she's from up the road, the english family that moves here to retire after her father's done in some military role back home. he's settled since into the local council, politics and her mother as a HOMEMAKER. it's all so dreadfully boring, and she latches onto lo as the two of them sizzle with the discontent that teenaged girls seem to forever brim and bubble over with.

they play HIDE AND SEEK within the rooms of the motel, smoke cigarettes outside while dipping their toes into the pool. they talk about how they might one day escape this place, on the night marlene spends over, convincing dolores to do rituals with her beneath the light of the moon, the atmosphere always, forever, dripping hot and drenched to the bone. that's the south, she learns. you're never truly ever comfortable here.

harlen comes later. all limbs, that boy, and he owns them well. they're both with him for that FIRST TATTOO, and laugh as it becomes an obsession. she thinks, this is what family's supposed to be, even when she isn't sure what the future looks like for them all. but does it feel surprising that her sundays still mean that she's dripping on a couch, sipping 7 up from a dripping can? having come with iced coffees that are sweating on the countertop for the both of them now, a heel dangling haphazardly from her foot. "is that weird couple still in 7A? i'm telling you, i saw them on the 8pm news."

- @444fm

#444fm #❝ threads ❞ ┆ the revolution will be televised ! #❝ m. mckinnon ❞ ┆ interactions ┆ will you still love me when i'm no longer young and beautiful ! #❝ m. mckinnon ❞ ┆ modern verse ┆ comin through satallites while cruisin !

[anarinya]

“Two paces back, face to the stone but with a foot forward and one behind,” Anarion stood as he thus explained, focused, gesturing along invisible lines of sight in his mind’s eye as he slowly dancer-stepped around the circumference of the Palantir situated before him. At first it was dormant, a mildly iridescent sphere of stone that sat upon a haphazardly constructed pedestal of boxes and a small cushion. 

However, Anarion paused in his walk, standing up straighter from his usual sloping posture, and he seemed to catch the sight he had been looking for. “You must simply bend your mind’s eye to the stone and it will recognise your intent.” In a moment, the stone transformed. The layers of translucent but coloured mineral seemed to illuminate until the whole thing appeared like glass, the sky clear and visible through it like a window. Anarion did not appear to do anything, and yet the vision through the stone changed, travelling forward along Anarion’s line of sight, at times tilting side to side or up and down. Distant images of trees, water, plains and buildings flew by for a moment until Anarion spoke again. 

“Whatever might be in the path of your gaze, the Palantiri can show you. It’s sight will pass through any barrier, even stone, but darkness will blind it as surely as it does a man.” He shifted on his feet minutely to the left and the vision swung with him, coming to rest suddenly upon the small image of a sprawling yet triangular city set upon the shores of a river so wide one bank could not be seen when standing upon the other. 

“One might travel along their path of sight until they reach the edge of the world, the Palantir can show you this much with ease, it is it’s natural use. True skill comes into play when trying to narrow your view and close in upon something small.” The concentration it took was visible, but with a gradual magnifying, the belltower in Pelargir’s drydock slowly sharpened in detail and grew closer and closer until eventually the runes carved into the detailed patterns in it’s brass became readable ‘Erukyermë, Erulaitalë, Eruhantalë’.

Anarion released a soft breath of exertion through his nose, but nodded to himself as if to accept the outcome. 

Open-starter

#;;rp #;;openstarter #;;v: the west has failed #;;v: too great to be subdued to the will of the Dark Power #;;v: unless the king should come again #HEY... let Anarion teach you how to use a Palantir #SINCE EVERYONE AND THEIR MOTHER (LOOKS SO HARD AT PEEJ LOTR AND RINGS OF POWER) WANTS TO LIE TO YOU #yes I'm still made about getting the doodad wrong it's my doodad #I literally know how to use it like there's instructions #IT'S NOT MYSTERIOUS PEOPLE!!! #its a combination satallite imaging system + a voiceless facetime phone #IT CANNOT SEE THE FUTURE THE IMAGES IT SHOWS ARE REAL TRUE AND CURRENT REPRESENTATIONS OF WHERE YOU'RE LOOKING

[explosivehrt]

Angels and satallites are one in the same. There's hundreds of them up there, singing in the night and winking down at us with their many eyes, little lights drifting across the painted cosmos, our guardian angels. Some are quiet, asleep, sending out only the faintest of signals; answering the prayers of honeybees and cicadas, the small things. And some die, spiralling out of orbit, crashing down to earth, shooting stars, fallen angels losing their wings in fire and freefall, turning into particles of stardust that rain down on us and bless each breath you take.

#corvid.txt #angels #angel stuff

[lucky-1077]

It's late at night, are you layin' awake, stargazing, or playin' with fire? Sparklers and torches, by the Witch, is a beautiful night, the stars at out. Seek some satallites with me, but make sure you keep your blood pumpin' and fire hot, the cold bites.

Zone three's gone silent, makin' space for the coyotes, they're singin'- listen. Hear em' out there? 'Member, strays, they're just like us, never use em' as target practice or you'll get on the Witch's bad side. Don't go shootin' at your fellow animals. You've listened, now, stop bein' silent. Sing along, fuckin' howl, be part of somethin' bigger. Exclamation point, sing to the Witch with us, sing to the moon, the stars, the desert. Howl and you'll always be a part of the land, in song, in bones. Sing to the night, say it with me, killjoys- We're alive, we're not alone and nothing can truly kill us as long as we are free.

… killjoys never die. So long now, I'll catch you when the alarm clock radiation hits. Ignition Wizard, signing off 

#ignition wizard on air

[sunlitmcgee]

guys what's that one web comic story about the satallites and football called I forgot th e fucking. numbers

#I KNOW IT I JUST CAN'T REMEMBEER THE NAME #THE NAME IS A DATE AND I AM BAD W BIG NUMBERS

[rubin-therubix-loverofblorbos]

Yes, I ship VigilantKineema, but I also ship FtEtFEwB {That's an acronym I didn't keysmash} VigilantSatallite, but I also ship SatalliteRadio, But I also ship SatalliteMural, but I also ship KineemaRadio. I have Range, darling.

FtEtFEwB = Friends to Enemies to Frenemies with Benifits

Vigilant = Harry

Kineema = Kim

Satallite: Jean

Radio: Jules

Mural = Trant

#rubin report #yeah. can you tell I LOVE making ship names #disco elysium #Trant x Jean #Harry x Jean #harrykim

[pastelcheckereddreams]

Stumbled over the Luo Mansion! I’m not sure the pavillion and external building in the satallite image is meant to be in some sort of cluster with the courtyard house, but it’s nice to think that it could be.

This set is located in Hengdian’s extremely popular “Along the River During Qingming” filmbase - named for the famous painting of the same name, by Song dynasty artist Zhang Zeduan. I can’t find an aerial photo that adequately shows the set in situ, but here is an official photo of QMSHT that you might find more recognisable from both WOH and any number of other historical-based cdrama: 

(“Luo  Mansion” is located just out of frame, to the left of the main three-storied building in this shot and the square-roofed building immediately to its left.)

#after searching for so long for this elusive second siji set I was just relieved to recognise a building and know its location on sight #did not realise this project would make me so familiar with HWS that that would be possible - but here we are #luo fumeng #xisang gui #woh episode 13 #woh meta #woh bts #shl set design #woh set design #hengdian world studios #横店影视城 #qingming river scene #清明上河图

[undertale-museum]

Staff Shortage

Due to a staffing shortage, updates to the archived portions of the museum will be limited. I recently recieved a tranmission from The Conservator itself.

*plays a recording of crows shrieking followed by a chipper voice reminiscent of Guide*

Guide: The Orb says… don’t tip anything over… oh oh! And send a better satallite! Our uploads are far too slow and the system crashed after only a few dozen posts.

*recording stops playing*

As you can see… connection has been made with the Museum but it seems they’re… preoccupied. Until this obstacle is… removed, there will be no further content for the month aside from @utmconservator that will be gathered for the museum.

Please stand by for more updates.

~Auto

#staff talks

[standardlovers]

tagged by @elfilibusterismo for some albums ive been listening to lately!

everyone else ive seen do this only listed 3 but i didnt know which i listened to least to exclude two <3

preacher's daughter by ethel cain ! im literally just someone who loves a narrative, albums that tell a specific story (directly not being inferred by the audience) feed my soul and ethel cain does it so well <3 top song: a house in nebraska

the good witch by maisie peters ! this came out in june and is very fun and emotive and has some amazing songwriting. top song: wendy

twilight: new moon soundtrack ! im mostly very obsessed w the violet hour (the song that plays at bellas birthday party) rn and also using this album as inspiration for castor acklys. top song: satallite heart

stick season (we'll all be here forever) by noah kahan ! this is very much a tiktok introduced me album but tiktok can be right about music sometimes bc this covers a lot of emotional range and has great lyricism. top song: everywhere everything

so much wine by phoebe bridgers ! if theres one thing abt me its that i love christmas, if theres a second thing abt me its that i love newer artists covering older songs (ESPECIALLY war songs), so this album is 10/10, top song: day after tomorrow

tagging : @january10th2014 @beaniebaby @bardofavon & @beansqui-2 (+ anyone else if u wanna ! just say i tagged u nobody will check)

#no hozier or taylor swift? shocking!! #its bc im working on castors sound and three of these are just soooo inspo for that #tagged #ted talking #i rambled abt the albums i know i also added a top song mention #bc if anyone looks at these albums like ok maybe i'll give it a lil listen i want them to have a GOOD START #the whole albums r good but at least now u dont have to pick which song to start with

[redemptioninterlude]

@keepitsharp​ - carmen !

New clients come in all of the time ; troubled businesses, over-their-heads housewives. Marlene’s seen it all, her chin balanced careful against the fat slide of her palm that she kept planted there as she took notes, her eyes lifting in sympathetic care. I hear you, she’d say without the saying, putting them at ease with her posh English accent, the particularness in which she made it all feel as if this were HARDLY UNUSUAL, regardless of what she was eventually faced with. It’s a retreat, this, so much so that she never felt herself ungrateful for the turn her life has taken, even in a city that sang so contrary to what she’d always known, and despite the oddity of it, to be so far and away from her family, her friends, her former life.

He calls in, a frazzled voice. Explaining something of financial troubles for a local shop, one that she knows, outside of the reaches of her neighbourhood, but well known enough that she’s stopped by with friends on a cheeky weekend takeaway moment. “I’M SURE WE CAN FIGURE THIS OUT.” There she was, Marlene, the consummate professional, all charm and cautious care, sketching out a name, an address, even though she knew the rough ends of what to expect. In return for a promised date for a visit, she too provides her expectation of what she hopes he’ll find for her, to make things as easy as possible for the both of them. Could he? She asks so warmly, that she’s rarely found herself at odds and ends of her clients, packing a bag and her computer as the anointed day comes, making the trek out from her South Loop office to where she’s to meet the new shop’s proprietor. 

The tingling of a bell ; and she takes one step in, a hand sweeping through her hair as she made corrections to what the windy streets had inflicted against her as she’d stepped from her Uber to the door. Gaze left to wonder about her, the frantic weekend energy less so during the week, even if it landed on the slumped spine of a man that she could ONLY ASSUME was Carmen, the previous owner’s son. The prodigal son, it appeared, having done a precursory search of his name on the ride over, left to blink, curious, at the stories of him written out in glowing rhetoric within articles and reviews.

“Carmen?” Her voice, a perfect match to that on the phone, is met with her carefully glossed smile. “MARLENE MCKINNON. Thanks ever so much for taking the time.”

- @keepitsharp​ ( gets a new follower starter ! )

#keepitsharp #❝ threads ❞ ┆ the revolution will be televised ! #❝ m. mckinnon ❞ ┆ interactions ┆ will you still love me when i'm no longer young and beautiful ! #❝ m. mckinnon ❞ ┆ modern verse ┆ comin through satallites while cruisin !

[hshouse]

“got here for satallite. you look hot baby.”

*read*

“who’s reading this cause I know damn well it can’t be Harry as he is currently spinning around on stage.”

“hi louis it’s jeff”

“do NOT scroll on our conversation or I s2g jeff”

“I’d literally rather die than see what kind of thing you two say to each other mate”

[wyrm-in-a-closet]

hyperfixation detected

nah im just. feeling things about the silly satallites

[youngestdaughtersyndrome]

theres no wifi here so everytime a satallite goes by and we get data its like a mad rush to let ppl know we havent died

#hollyws

[17in2007]

i told myself i could never love myself in my whole being with my feet in the cool mud

i am the mangroves

tough, but an eyesore

i spent nights sweating through the hot summer under a tin roof holding my heart in my hands

i spent days in winter with peach chapstick and chapped lips in the cool breeze

and i realised

i was always there

i was the august wind off the roof with my stockings and my green school dress

i was the mango tree and my books in my backyard

i was the cold rainforest earth north of cairns beneath my bare feet

i was the fresh sea spray in my mouth off morton island when i was eight with sun in my wide eyes

i was the words spray painted along the deserted broadway hotel and the city sprawled beneath my feet

i am the mangroves; they are me

i look to the dancing stars and pretend they are not satallites

i can be anything i want

[unabashedhornyposting]

My Durge has been named Zatlath. He took the name only after defying Bhaal and realising he'd never regain his memories.

He took it as it is an archaic form of "Satallite" and his life now revolves fully around his lover and master, Astarion.

#bg3 spoilers #dark urge

[mobilephonetechnology]

(2024-01-14 image ©prysmiangroup.com) Starlink have many satallites hoverring that provide communications.

A subscription of around £75pcm will get a satellite based Internet to your home. At this price it would only be used as a last resort. The diagram above shows how the satellites can be used in 4G mobile networks. The satellite communicates to a ground station which in turn interacts to the ground based 4G network. In this case the satellites provide the back haul and this would be used in areas where there are no alternatives. Such systems have a greater lag than standard wireless and fibre backhaul although they are improving the lag.

However more interestingly they are working on a 4G signal bouncing off the satellite from a (standard) 4G phone thus allowing 4G coverage anywhere. The satellites have built in the same technology, eNodeB, as do cell towers. So this will allow us to use our standard 4G phones anywhere, and the signal going via a satellite. Again lag could be an issue, as well as cost. But an interesting development that should come to regular use in the next couple of years.

[Update: SpaceX has been tested to send mobile to mobile SMS messages in the US.]

#mobilephonetechnology #satellite