#spec machines

[voidspace-bubble]

fun technology my universe has for handwaving physics purposes

a stellar sustainer, a device powered by a muno crystal [basically magic] which can make a star last billions of years longer than it should have [specifically for drekols home star which has a maximum natural lifespan of one billion years]

habitation/EC suit, a suit that can be either designed for a specific species or adaptive for any species which lets carbon based life survive in boron compatible environments and vice versa

planetary EC, a large satellite like machine which in 48 hours of charging can adjust the compatibility of a planet

planetary sustainer, a device which can keep a planets core from cooling down [specifically for ath which is a rogue planet]

A-speed engine, a device which turns light years travel distance into a few minutes to days

quasi-glass, a sheet of a semi-solid glass like substance which appears to make a "hologram" screen possible

#speculative biology #spec bio #speculative machinary #spec machines #exobiology #speculative world #ngiu◗ #ath #lotred #◗ta #ap #drekol #fictional technology

[astrocorvus]

New Machine.

#my artwork #art #sci fi #character design #spec evo #all tomorrows #digital art #cm kosemen #nemo ramjet #new machine #science fiction #robot #spec bio #illustration #posthuman

[writer-sedai]

I've been thinking about how Rand's relationships might be handled in season 3 of the show, since there are already several big differences in how various relationships have been portrayed/set up as of the end of season 2 compared to where things are at the beginning of The Shadow Rising:

1. Rand and Egwene: in the books, their relationship is definitely portrayed as more of a puppy-love, "we'll marry each other because it's what's been expected our whole lives and not because it's what we actually want" sort of situation. By aging up the Emonds Fielders, the show also matured their relationship into something that was, as of s1e1, more romantic than their book relationship ever was.

It's true that Rand and Egwene already broke up in that first episode and never REALLY got back together, but it's clear throughout season 2 that Rand still loves Egwene (she's the one he's trying to forget with Selene! When given the opportunity to visit anyone in the world, she's the one he chooses!) and Egwene, if not for the fact that she believed him dead, would still love him too (given the state of their relationship at the end of season 1, when they reconciled).

The original reason they broke up was because Egwene was going to become a Wisdom - a position that meant she couldn't have a family - and a family was all Rand really wanted. Their futures were incompatible. Now, neither of them is going to have the future they imagined a year ago - a family is completely out of the question for Rand (poor boy) and Egwene is set to become an Aes Sedai, with a lot more freedom to choose other aspects of her life.

Likely, their futures are still incompatible. But I think they need to figure out why that is again before they can break up as amicably as they did in the books - especially if they end up traveling the waste together.

2. Missing connections: Egwene never met Gawyn or Galad in the Tower to develop a crush on one or both of them. Elayne did not meet Rand before going to the Tower in order to discuss her feelings for him with Egwene. Min is out of the equation completely at this point. And Egwene and Elayne never met Aviendha in order to form a friendship with her. The timing needed to set various pieces into place before all the groups split up again is missing.

Now, I think a time jump at the beginning of season 3 could fill in a lot of the gaps here if it's handled well. But I can't see Elayne/Egwene coming to the same agreement re: Rand as they do in the books unless Egwene is sufficiently over Rand.

Which brings me to:

3. Everyone's older and more mature: the scene where Egwene breaks up with Rand and then leaves Elayne to pick up the pieces is, tbh, one of the cringiest in the series. (Actually, TSR is one of my fave books overall but the first hundred or so pages do feel very immature). I caaaaaan't see this scene playing out in the show the way it does in the books.

And even with the romantic meet-cute between Rand and Elayne in 2x08, I don't know if they'll introduce the idea of them as a pairing yet both because of time constraints before they get thrown into different storylines, and because...

4. Rand hasn't been taught about polyamory yet! In the books, I think he's already having dreams about multiple women and feeling guilty about it by this point. Similar to the time constraints in point 2, Rand hasn't had time to get used to the idea of having feelings for multiple people (even if he takes a very long time to actually be COMFORTABLE with that idea).

The audience has been introduced to polyamory through Alanna and her warders, prepping us for a similar type of relationship with Rand in the future, but Rand himself is missing that conditioning. I don't know that the show will have Rand going from Egwene to Elayne over the space of one or two episodes (I doubt they'll spend more time than that together) and then ALSO try to build up him and Avi this season.

Which kind of ties in to my final point, which is:

5. Writing relationships for seasonal television: it makes sense from a writing perspective to work on relationships between characters that are in the same place together, and save everything else for later. The time between seasons is long and each season needs to act as a self-contained arc, so setting up Rand/Elayne only to not pick up that thread again for another season or two is not very time conscientious.

Imo they've already done something like this with Min; Rand met her in s1 but now likely won't see her again until S4. As far as we know Rand has absolutely no romantic feelings for Min based on their encounters in Fal Dara and likely won't develop those feelings until they meet again. (Min herself might feel differently, but she always knew she was Prophecied to fall in love with Rand anyway and could be dealing with that knowledge in the background.)

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Anyway, all of that is a prelude to the following preposition:

Keep Rand and Egwene together (or semi-together, uncertain of their actual status) for the first part of season 3.

Leave Rand/Elayne as a slowburn for a future season and instead have Aviendha come in as a new love interest for him. Instead of Aviendha aggressively reminding Rand how beautiful Elayne is while feeling angry and hopeless over her own feelings for him, transfer that over to Egwene - Aviendha and Egwene have become good friends, Egwene's feelings for Rand are still ambiguous, Aviendha is angry at herself that she would fall for someone who "belongs" to one of her closest friends.

Egwene can still give Aviendha the necklace that Rand spends so much time thinking about. Aviendha (or the Aiel in general) can introduce Rand to the concept of polyamory. When Rand and Egwene do finally break up amicably, Egwene can make it clear to Aviendha that Rand no longer belongs to her.

Everything else from TSR, including Flesh Balloons and Sex Igloo, can proceed as written.

Thoughts?

#wheel of time #wot on prime #wot book spoilers #listen i am first and foremost a Randgwene truther #not necessarily romantically but in the sense that i like to squish them together #and spin them around in my head like they're in a washing machine #i need them to not “i think of you like a sibling” their way out of this one #rand al'thor #egwene al'vere #wot spec

[jakkenpoy]

you are using krita!?!? I'm geniuenly delighted to hear this. Krita is such a good program for being free. I'm so happy to find more artists using it :D

haha yeah! i slowly transitioned to it after a couple years of using CSP and it's made painting so much easier bc of its pop-up palette :')

#i highly recommend it for anyone doing digital art on a desktop setup #it's relatively light too! my laptop's specs arent very fancy (outside of drawing i just using it for writing documents and the like) #and krita runs like a dream... (i did end up upgrading my RAM so i could run krita AND play music w/o my machine overheating HAHA) #it sort of made me regret getting a CSP license bc i cant get a workflow going there like i do in krita ... fkdjfjdjd #jakkenpoy answers

[doodlboy]

He lives!!

#put him in2 the babygirl machine <333 #he's venom but cosmic horror flavored and also not a superhero/antihero #specs oc #character sheet #scopophobia #eye contact #digital art #elliot doodles #character design

[the-darkest-0f-stars]

F-35A (Duofulmen ferox ferox) in comparison to the average human male.

Also featured is an unidentified species of Glassfish (Spectrolutrida sp.), an aerial organism that can be likened in appearance to the oarfish of Earth.

#southbound #speculative zoology #mechanical evolution #anser #living aircraft #mechevo #worldbuilding #spec evo #f 35 lightning ii #size comparison #living machine

[hesitantvampirealien]

i wanted to draw something but didn't know what to draw, so i made this icon because uh, idk i guess i just wanted to do any sort of drawing about figuring out I'm aromantic

#aromantic #arospec #aromantism #aro pride #lgbtq #why is 'washing machine' in the suggested tags for this #art #digital art #artists on tumblr #aromantic spectrum #aro spec awareness week

[tcustodis]

omg, baldur's gate 3 looks so good with rtx 4070 😍😍😍

#tc venting machine #my bff is thinking it's because the drive the game is installed on is slow #but it's hilarious to me that rdr2 (the game of the same size) had no problem with my specs #and bg3 looks like a ps2 game #I'm going to try and lower the textures #but the lag in loading them is so big it's hilarious and kinda annoying

[shortsighted-owl]

Inspiration Saturday

Tagged by the lovely: @alyxmastershipper @spotsandsocks @monsterrae1 @hippolotamus @rogerzsteven

For Chapter 2 of Electrostatic Attraction - Charge Transfer

A lil snippet for you all - My chemistry degree coming in useful here!

“Spin the magnet, not the patient. I mean, I don’t think I would want to be span at 700 MHz... would you?”

Tagging: @mellaithwen @elvensorceress @spaceprincessem @thekristen999 @jinxddiaz @thosetwofirefighters @ajunerose @bigfootsmom @fiona-fififi @the-likesofus @mumucow @rewritetheending @jobairdxx @canonicallyobserving911​ @yelenasbuddie​

#MRI machines are just NMR machine where you spin the magnet not the sample... we are the sample... #inspiration saturday #fic: Electrostatic attraction #6b lightning strike spec fic #buddie #buddie wip #911 on fox #911 fox #evan buckley #eddie diaz #911 season 6b #owl hoots #owl wips #owl writes

[batri-jopa]

Found on facebook today

I hate that it looks like some "list of shame"

#okey so it feels a bit too much like blaming self blaming or otherwise negative emotions here... #I think I grown out of 'chasing' and 'obsessive' and... 'overtalking' (though my internet friends would not agree lol) #but why 'making up stories and worlds' is put into this list like another negative trait? like 'something that proves you're a loser'? #and not a wonderful alternative to any other boring life cliche? #okey I am excessively helpful indeed... I can't say 'no' even when I'm really pissed off by the amount of asking-for-help-or-a-favor around #and when I spend another hour after hour of my free time to help them they say: 'oh you are always so kind and helpful!' #to only keep on asking for more next time... oh f*ck off already all you excessively-asking-for-help!😫 #if you liked me you'd let me rest!!! and you wouldn't give me 5 minutes of YOUR fucking precious time if I was more assertive😣 #I so love to spend my time with people not knowing I'm a doctor. Or knowing and not using it. Then I know they like me for me❤ #and not seeing me as their wish-granting machine #aroace #aro #ace #aromantic #asexual #aromantic asexual #aspec #a spec #a spectrum #not too positive this time... more a vent... #but whenever someone tries to put me into a 'loser' labeled box in their narrow mind - I want to make their mind explode!!!

[thedrotter]

today my computer has felt in a pranksty mood ! it felt funny and goofy and decided to not let me save anything and when i tried to open my file it said it was corrupted or didnt exist...☺️☺️ hours... of work...☺️☺️ and just a few days ago it deleted multiple hours of work on another file ! ☺️☺️

dear computer🩷 i will put you in the microwave throw you at a wall and crush you

#not art #i simply do not because its the only thing i have to draw digitally #(drawing with finger is physically crippling . genuinely cannot do it anymore) #once i get a replacement i will do all of the things listed #i would be more appreciative if this thing was like. old. no. its been like this since brand new isnt that lovely #truly my favorite part of eveyday. being delayed by hours of work because computer felt funny🥺🥺/s #if i didnt save my files to a cloud server constantly i would cry myself to sleep thankfully all of these damages were fizable #but still a hassle WHEN I ACCIDENTALLY FORGET TO UPLOAD IT BECAUSE IM IN FOCUS #god forbid i trust my computer with any of my files #its a miracle it even runs clip studio paint #it fights to do basic tasks #previous computer of previous specs could do all of them well btw not an issue by the specs ITS TBE COMPUTER!!!! #random rant but as equally as i share with yall the joys of art. i will share with you the rage towards the machine i make art with #(computer) (because tablet counts as machine probably i do love you always graphic tablet. you could do no wrong baby) #YEAH MY COMPUTER ALSO MESSES WITH MY TABLET'S DRIVER SABOTAGING MY DAUGHTER #LEAVE HER ALONE #my daughter the graphic tablet and her brother the computer #computer does not get son title #funny thing all the files are on a separate usb because the computer is so bad it cant have anything on its actual system #YET IT STILL PLAYIN WITH IT LEAVE IT ALONE?????

[rancid-filth]

#military #tactical #espionage #warfare #guns #firearms #special forces #spec ops #cold war #aesthetic #AK #kalashnikov #assault rifle #light machine gun #LMG #post apocalypse #metro #soviet union #firefight

[doedipus]

I put an ssd in my shitty bargain bin laptop that has been continuously throttled at 100% disk usage since about 2019 and it's like fucking magic. it can boot, handle webpages, and navigate the file system without hanging. it can passably play some games I never expected it to be able to.

I've been gushing about her to anyone who will listen all day I'm so proud

here she is waking up from the operation

#the cpu is still one that was already outdated garbage when I bought it and it only has ~4gb ram plus integrated graphics #so it's not running crysis anytime soon #but it's now a functional tumblr machine lol #and it can do lower spec games perfectly fine #I played a bit of civ 6 on it earlier and it got ~30 fps on min settings so that seems to be about the limit #but it got through worldgen and stuff in <5 minutes which is pretty good

[burntheupholstery]

oh my god, windows kicks up Such A Fuss when you leave it on sleep then drain the battery. jesus! you'd think the world died. i miss working from a mac, sometimes.

#i dropped that old machine like a newborn baby #and it kept on working #nokia levels of resilience #meanwhile this mid-tier gaming spec laptop... pissbaby threw a tantrum just cos i forgot to turn it off? #sigh #glass cannon i guess. i gotta live with it. #computers #burn talks

[useramor]

need a scene of buck at the diaz house standing in the living room and eddie teases him and it makes him laugh and trip backwards and he falls on the couch and eddie and chris run away to the kitchen together to finish making dinner and buck stares out the living room archway with a wistful oh look on his face before looking at the couch he’s laying on and smiling

#mind is going bing bing bing bing bing bing like a pinball machine #buddie #evan buckley #911 spoilers #911 spec

[inverse-problem]

turns out ultrakill actually runs perfectly well on linux through steam with proton so I am in fact able to play it on my laptop and my saves even sync too which is a relief!

anyway very slowly p-ranking my way through the prelude on lenient but I’m getting there

edit: finished p-ranking the prelude! wooo! expecting act 1 to be tricky though but hopefully I’ll manage

#I love that this game works so well on low-spec machines too #retro fps is great for that and I’m eternally thankful #I am so slow but I am slowly getting better so that’s nice #I did try on the touchpad for a moment but I could not manage it but thankfully I found a mouse #inverse problem.txt