(2018) Super sleepy today, so here's an old Sailor Moon. I draw Usagi maybe once a year and color her every couple years. I can never quite get the scouts to look exactly how I want, which sucks considering Sailor Moon was my first introduction to anime at a young age!!
Okay, but what if there was an alliance of intelligent alien crab species that all evolved independently in different solar systems...
And the popular culture within this alliance believes that any intelligent species that are not crabs are at best flawed, and at worst heretical abominations.
“He’s a stranger, a lover, and my life partner. We have lived and died lifetimes together, and it makes me shiver every time that odd truth comes over me.” -Eliot Schrefer
Disclaimer: I'm not a book reviewer? I guess. 🤷♀️ I don't normally post much about the books I'm reading, but this book absolutely made me fall in love with reading all over again. So I wanted to talk a little bit about it. These are just my thoughts about the book, but I'd love to hear yours if you want to share them.
*Mild spoilers for Darkness Outside Us*
Where to start?
My expectations of this book were completely subverted from the cover page alone. When this book first came out I assumed it was a cute little space rom com and put it on my TBR list for a future time when I just wanted something fluffy to read...I was wrong.
Without giving too much away, this story could be likened more to a psychological thriller than your normal space opera. I'm not sure if it was the way the book was marketed or just that the cover art gave "LoFi songs to fall asleep to in space", but it completely shocked me with its twists and had me crying throughout.
I absolutely loved the way that the author was able to explore Ambrose and Kodiak's character growth throughout the story in such a way that felt natural over the span of the book. (If you know you know)
There were a few parts that I feel the character's were lacking some polishing with the dialogue, but for the most part I think it could be overlooked with how well the author was able to draw the world and relationships surrounding the characters.
In the end, I honestly think it was kinda fun to discover the true genre of the story as I was reading it. It was unexpected and kept me invested in what was going to happen next since I was already thrown off guard.
Solid 9/10 on the "books I would recommend to friends who don't like sad endings but I would recommend anyway because its not a sad Ending scale"
Europe names world's first disabled astronaut | Reuters
"He will join five new career astronauts and 11 reserves in training after ESA replenished its astronaut ranks for the first time since 2009.
ESA posted openings last year for people fully capable of passing its usual stringent psychological, cognitive and other tests who are only prevented from becoming astronauts due to the constraints of existing hardware in light of their disability."
Trying a new packaging scheme with my SPAAACE MAGNETS. Magnet sets are hard to package in a way that shows them all off; they just naturally all clump together. So far this seems to be working. The real test will be when I bring them to the Alt after Dark Midsummer Night Market coming up.
The next puzzle is how to mail them for Etsy purposes so they don’t stick to the metal mailbox/truck/plane
you guys science is so fucking cool and absolutely fucked up. we know so little about space, but it’s still more than we know about the deep oceans. glowing cats are a thing people made (whilst trying to protect against feline AIDS, no less). Space is fucktupling by the second. Have you ever seen Pluto’s orbit around the sun. We’ve launched shit into space that we’re never getting back. I love science so fucking much. I’m such a nerd. S p a c e.
Astrophotographer Wright Dobbs took this image of five bright planets visible lined up with the moon from St. Cloud, Florida before dawn on June 24, 2022.