#tally cloud based

[absolutenetworks01]

#Cloud-based Tally benefits #Advantages of hosting Tally on the cloud #Benefits of using Tally on a cloud server

[wangxianficrecs]

Now it's just too late to turn around by kokozy

Now it's just too late to turn around

by kokozy

G, 1k, Wangxian

Summary: Cloud Recesses had never truly felt like home to him; Lan Yuan's home was wherever Hanguang-Jun was and sadly, Cloud Recesses was not Hanguang-Jun's home either. Kay's comments: I may be biased, because this work was written for me and is a remix of my own story Justice, but, I really enjoyed this one! This is based on the idea that Lan Wangji was supossed to die from his punishment, but lived, and now the Lan Sect has to deal with it and it makes them bitter and also showcases their own hypocrizy. This story is from Sizhui's POV and tells the story of how he grew up in the Lan Sect and how he realized that something was very off, but the puzzle pieces only started connecting when Mo Xuanyu turned up. I loved this focus on Sizhui and the general vibes, it's really sad with a happy ending done right. Excerpt: Out of all of them, Zewu-Jun was the strangest. From the stories he had heard, the Twin Jades of Lan had once been inseparable, two identical drops of water, yet Sizhui had never seen them interact any more intimately than he would do with any of his peers. It was like there was a barrier between them, not allowing them to act like the brothers they were supposed to be. Zewu-Jun questioned Mo Xuanyu’s presence in the Cloud Recesses the hardest yet he had not openly opposed it. The Lan Seniors had all been too eager to let Hanguang-Jun take care of the demonic arm case, taking Mo Xuanyu with him if that meant not having any of them anywhere near Gusu for the time it took to figure out the whole demonic arm ordeal. As Hanguang-Jun wasn’t present in the Cloud Recesses, the whispers became normal conversation instead. Rumours of the return of the Yiling Laozu arose; someone had controlled the Ghost General that day with the Dancing Goddess, and someone had used the Yin Tiger Tally on the demonic arm somehow. As Hanguang-Jun left, Lan Sizhui could experience for the first time just how deep the whole thing really went. Voices and pointing fingers became the norm. Hanguang-Jun should have died, they said.

pov lan sizhui, canon divergence, parent-child relationship, good parent lan wangji, post-canon, gusu lan sect rules, gusu lan sect bashing, sad with a happy ending, identity reveal, adoption, remix

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#April 2024 #Wangxian Fic Rec #The Untamed #Wangxian #MDZS #Kay's Rec #short fic <15k #Gen #kokozy #now it's just too late to turn around #pov lan sizhui #canon divergence #parent-child relationship #good parent lan wangji #post-canon #gusu lan sect rules #gusu lan sect bashing #sad with a happy ending #identity reveal #adoption #remix

[zagreuses-toast]

My Vetinari Playlist. Some songs are very specific others are entirely vibes based, also a lot of girlboss songs because those fit his approach to being a Tyrant the best somehow. Like Vimes he would vehemently hate some of these songs, I have added them nonetheless. Reasoning/guide to the songs under the cut.

Politics and The City, always the City. I think a lot about Vimes' internal monologue from Night Watch about the city's supply chain and Vetinari being the only ruler of the city to really worry about it's function :

Hymn to the Breaking Strain by Secular Solstice (because the Leslie fish version isn't available on Spotify. Vetinari isn't an engineer but he appreciates their value and danger)

All Along The Watchtower by Bear Mcreary (Vimes gets the Jimi Hendrix, Vetinari gets the version from BSG, which is ominous and was used to unveil a conspiracy)

& by Tally Hall

How Now Dark Cloud by TMBG

I Am Alone by TMBG

Darling The Dose by TMBG

His Kiss The Riot from Hades Town (I also imagine if Vetinari sang his voice would be a baritone of this caliber)

The Body Is A Blade by Japanese Breakfast

Stone Cold Coup D'etat

Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles

Ballad of a Politician by Regina Spektor

Everybody Wants to Rule The World by Tears for Fears (cover by NSP)

She's Always A Woman by Billy Joel

The Circle by Secular Solstice (this is actually a carrot song, but there's a reason Carrot and Vetinari get along)

Gun Song from Assassins (I am always thinking about men at arms and the Gonne)

This is where I would normally put the characters love interest songs but Vetinari's one true love is The Bit:

Hate the Villanelle by TMBG

Poisoning Pigeons in the Park & Pollution by Tom Lerher

Rest Employed by The Stupendium

I Palindrome I by TMBG

Party Dog by Tom Cardy (dog things AND city-state politics)

The World's Address by TMBG

Havelock "do I need a button that says Tyrant" Vetinari and his commitment to the Villain bit:

Villain by Stella Jang

Red Right Hand by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Oh No! By MARINA

Villain by K/DA

Feeling Good by Nina Simone cover by Micheal Bublé (Bond villain sounding song but the lyrics are just enjoying normal nice stuff, exactly Vetinari's thing)

Enemy by Imagine Dragons

Bitch Better Have My Money by Rihanna (soundtrack to drumknott getting out the Tax Ledger)

I'm Alive from Next To Normal

No one Knows My Plan by TMBG

Be Prepared from The Lion King (did you think I wouldn't include a real Disney villain song, besides it's JEREMY IRONS aka Vetinari from the Color of Magic tv series)

Vetinari's nihilism and humanism, the roiling sea of evil and the moral imperative to be better than the gods:

Things Are Not What They Appear by The Gothic Archies

Last Wave by TMBG

This Too Shall Pass by Danny Schmidt

They're Only Human from the Death Note musical (hear me out, it's a conversation between Vetinari and Margolotta, you decide who's who)

Let's Get This Over With by TMBG

Cruel to be Cruel by Jessica Law

Living Thing by Electric Light Orchestra (Vetinari and his difficulty getting rid of one of a kind things, I think about leonard of quirm a lot)

Mad World by Gary Jules and Micheal Andrews

Misc:

I Like Fun by TMBG (entirely for the "my excellence at parkour may be unexpected at the age of 58" also the clock thing)

A Good Song Never Dies by Saint Motel (local patrician haunted by a little goblin girl's music forever)

Little Lion Man by Mumford & Sons (Vetinari and Vimes song, ruining his life/the watch, being part of fixing it, constantly pushing him, occasionally pushing too hard)

#havelock vetinari #lord vetinari #vetinari #discworld #gnu terry pratchett #ear juice #favorite tyrant #i am always having many thoughts about him

[poorlittleyaoyao]

Okay, I have officially gotten to the post-timeskip era of the show in my rewatch, so time for some overarching thoughts!

Basically, I owe my past self an apology, because a lot of things I'd assumed I missed the first time around due to being overwhelmed with information/ relying on Netflix's iffy subs/ not paying close attention... are simply not present in CQL canon and/or aren't explained.

Sunshot, for example. I came away from the show thinking Sunshot had only lasted for a few months, and up till now had felt very silly because it's a massive multi-year war, right? NOT IN THE SHOW IT ISN'T. Sunshot begins in earnest in response to Lotus Pier's destruction; it is introduced alongside the core transfer, which occurs 1-2 weeks after Lotus Pier's destruction. When WWX returns from the Burial Mounts three months + 1 week later, he hangs out with everyone in the Unclean Realm for around a month before they make a final push against Nightless City. No other military action is shown during this time. Based on all the timestamps given, the active combat portion of this war took place over a period of less than 6 months.

(the following is said with the full understanding that I might sound like an insufferable CinemaSins video)

The consolidation of the Massacre at Nightless City and the First Siege of the Burial Mounds to one terrible, horrible, no-good very bad couple of days also diminishes it. All the Wen remnants--every single one of them!! nobody is left there when WWX wakes up!--just decide to let themselves be executed on the off-chance that WWX will be left alone with his sought-after cursed object and get to happily rejoin society after accidentally killing his brother-in-law. Why on earth would they all agree to that, especially without consulting WWX first? WQ and WN alone, sure, but ALL of them? Even A-Yuan's caregivers? WQ herself says that the jianghu gentry already decided WWX is guilty no matter what proof WWX offers! How will this solve anything!

(On the topic of the Burial Mounds: I assume that the reason the Burial Mounds are inhabitable and people are freely able to come and go without getting obliterated by ghosts is that WWX tamed the place during his time there earlier. Otherwise, it isn't "WWX spent 3 months cultivating resentment to survive until he was powerful enough to escape thanks to his hard-fought refinement of the Yin Tiger Tally" and more "WWX spent 3 months doing evil ghost science in a desolate yet fully habitable haunted forest just because.")

I also didn't get what the big deal was about WWX, because he... didn't really do anything? And again, I figured I must've just missed something, but no! He does atrocities at Yiling as he pursues Wen Chao and then he just sits there dodging concerned questions from loved ones and punching JZX over soup until the last minutes of the final battle, during which he summons some evil clouds that make people fall down. That's it. And then everyone, himself included, acts like he's the strongest and scariest dude ever. Part of the problem is that they only have like 50 extras in any of the battle scenes so there's no sense of scale, but even if there WERE hordes of CGI dudes... that is one battle, one time. Declaring himself an instrumental part of Sunshot is an overstatement, and it also raises the question of why he didn't use Chenqing or the Yin Tiger Tally sooner. He does nothing but use Chenqing as a baton until things get truly dire. I'd be suspicious of him too, if I'm honest!

And Wen Ning! Wen Ning, the oh-so-scary Ghost General, kills like a dozen guys one time and people think he's a terrifying death machine. This could have been chalked up to overblown rumors--oh, WN is just a little guy! he is just sitting there with his turnips! it's so messed up that people think WWX's trusty soft-spoken friend is a mindless tool for violence! UNTIL QIONGQI PASS 2.0, where WWX uses him as PRECISELY THAT. Why is WN coming with him to Jinlintai anyway, if not as a weapon? He certainly wasn't invited as a guest! Does he really think JGS is going to let the not-zombie who killed his employees come to his grandson's party when JC isn't even willing to let WN attend the surprise soup picnic?

Speaking of Qiongqi Pass 2.0, I do not understand why, if the whole thing was a nefarious scheme orchestrated by JGY to kill his brother and cause turmoil, WWX and WN were allowed to return to the Burial Mounds. SMS has the ability to control WN, and WWX can't fly on a sword. Just use WN to subdue WWX, capture them both, take the Yin Tiger Tally from WWX, and gain your father's esteem for obtaining the cursed object he wants and bringing his favorite son's murderers to justice! Come ON, JGY! If you're going to be extra evil, at least be clever about it! You aren't even at your breaking point yet!

I think the adaptation changes--the Yin Iron stuff, the not-zombies, XY working with WRH, the fairy statue backstory with WN's soul being easily detachable--actually do work in the front half of the show, where it's not following the text as closely. These things go together decently on their own! But from Sunshot onward, the new lore and changed characterizations that can't be fully discarded clashes with novel canon plot points that are too major to skip. It's a weird reversal of what happened with the first FMA anime, where the first half more or less follows the manga with some core changes baked in, and the second half deviates based off those changes since it outpaced the manga and didn't want to spoil it, resulting in two high-quality but fully distinct canons. Here, with the story unfolding chronologically, we have a first half that deviates with a lot of new content, and a second half that has a text to follow, resulting in ????

I'm still having fun, but I knowwww thinking about literally anything is gonna be such a mess from here on out. It's a testament to how much I like the actors' work and the expanded time with the supporting characters (and how much I do NOT vibe with Book Wangxian lol) that this is still my preferred canon.

#I would love to take the same approach that I did for WOH and go 'no plot concerns just vibes :)' #unfortunately I am picky and if I'm writing something I Need Things To Make Sense #and I want to KNOW when I'm deviating from something in the canon of choice #masala necromancy wizard hour

[birgittesilverbae]

teaser: a day of clouds and darkness

a the martian au

//

"Commander, she's gone," Lilith says.

"I can't leave her!" Beatrice ducks her head against the blowing wind, keeps pushing onwards in the direction of the Hab, sweeping her feet wide as she goes. She can't give up on her, she won't give up on her–

"Bea, you need to–" Camila starts.

"She'd look for us!"

Mary's voice breaks through. "Beatrice, if the MAV goes over, we're all fucked."

"Commander," Yasmine chimes in, "you need to get to the ship."

"Negative. I will not leave a man behind."

"Beatrice," Mary snaps, "I'm a fucking fantastic pilot, but if you're not aboard in the next two minutes, I'm not gonna be able to save us."

"She's gone, Bea," Lilith adds, more softly than Beatrice has ever heard her speak. "Ava's gone." 

Beatrice clears her throat. "Villaumbrosia, I'm transferring command of the Ares 3 mission over to you, effective immediately."

"Commander–"

"Protect your crew, Commander. Zhang out." Beatrice chins her comms channel closed, steels her spine, and keeps moving forward.

//

Beatrice is restless as she waits for the storm to die down. She circles the Hab, tidies up the detritus left behind in the wake of the mass exodus, stores away equipment, wipes down surfaces. The wind whistles across the Hab canvas, an eerie sound, mournful and wailing, and Beatrice tries desperately to focus on that, on cataloguing the last batch of soil samples they'd brought in earlier, on tallying up the food stores, on anything but what the next task will be once the planet grows silent.

She fails. Image after image of Ava's body flashes through her mind as she flips through the food packets. Face shield shattered, cheeks frosted over. Gash torn across the front of her suit, blood spilling out just as vibrant as the regolith, crystallising into ice pellets in an instant. At the base of the MAV platform, so near to safety, scorched by the engine burn of the MAV's ascent. 

The clunk doesn't register immediately. She jots down her tally of egg packets, then goes still, thoughts screeching to a halt, as the airlock's atmospheric regulator cycles into action.

A clunk. The airlock cycling.

A clunk. 

The airlock cycling.

Beatrice's heart climbs into her throat. She sprints across the Hab, presses herself against the door, shields her eyes with her hand as she peers through the porthole.

Nothing. No one. No Ava. Just the hum of the airlock equalising. A crossed wire, maybe. Some interference from the storm. Beatrice slumps forwards against the airlock, her breath shaky in her throat, and swallows down a sob.

She rests there until her breathing steadies, until she thinks maybe she can stand on her own. She pushes herself back fully upright, scans the Hab, trying to form a plan of attack, to lay out next steps.

The airlock cycles open behind her. 

She digs her fingernails into her palms and takes a deep breath. A crossed wire, maybe. Some interference from the storm.

But then there's a rustle of fabric. The thud of hard plastic against metal. A raspy inhalation. A groan.

Beatrice turns degree by slow, agonising degree.

A suited figure lies slumped halfway through the inner airlock. An arm reaches up, fumbles at seals, pries their helmet free.

Ava tips her head back, groaning at the motion, and gives Beatrice a crooked upside-down grin. 

"Hey, Bea. What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?"

#warrior nun #mywn #myfic #fic: tmau #ava x beatrice #avatrice #sister beatrice #ava silva

[shepherds-of-haven]

Hi Lena I was curious: Before joining the shepherds, were there any misconceptions the norm members had about the different diminished races that were disproven by meeting their current group? Or things that surprised them/they didn’t know about the diminished races? (Or stuff that some of the diminished members didn’t know about other races as well?)

Hi anon, I think most of the misconceptions that the Norm officers held about Diminished races were pretty much covered in the post about Shery's thoughts about the Diminished races, since she was acting from some of the same common stereotypes that a lot of them were. I think the most prevalent is that a lot of Norms were under the impression that Ket are bloodthirsty, aggressive, barbarian warriors who will pick a fight with you for looking at them the wrong way and, like, don't teach their kids to read in favor of learning how to decapitate people or beat them to death with a bludgeon. Like many people believe they're basically one step above grunting, warlike Neanderthals. It was definitely a surprise to discover that Blade was more cool-tempered and had more sophisticated manners than Trouble, and enjoys a cup of tea and reads poetry more than Red! It's actually often the opposite case: Ket are less inclined to randomly pick a fight with you because they're either not interested in deviating from their current mission, or aren't emotional enough to get in a fight with a stranger, and their culture is so honor-based and rigid that such unseemly behavior would typically be beneath them!

The other big misconception was that Mages are basically volatile, walking time bombs (and also esoteric nerds with their noses constantly buried in books, which, like, is a bit less inaccurate). A lot of Norms (and other races) are taught to believe that Mages will lose control of their magic at the drop of a hat: they might sneeze and a candle will burst into flame, or the sky will cloud over and a hurricane will land when they're the least bit angry. They also think the presence of magic in most Mages' lives is very overblown and fairytale-like, more like what you might think of a green witch living in a cottage covered with toadstools and cauldrons full of stray children's bones, or trammeled up in arcane towers where they fly around instead of walking places and grow long beards while conversing with spirits about the stars, and they have candlesticks soaring around talking to them like in Beauty and the Beast. Then they're surprised to meet a mild-mannered twenty-five-year-old who is fairly normal and just wants to talk at you about their work in like sterilizing infirmaries safely or growing a new, more resilient type of grain and then it's sort of this "oh you're just another person." I think they tend to be pretty surprised how non-intrusive the presence of magic can be, and even when it is being used, how fast and easy it is to get used to it: no one really blinks an eye at a Mage coworker lighting a campfire in an instant (you still have to gather the kindling and whatnot, so it's really not that different from the normal way), and there's even allusions to this in the latest serial story on Patreon, where Halek (forgetting that not everyone can practice magic as freely as the Shepherds do) asks a Mage civilian if they can talk to animals and they're like "uhhh no I can't do that because it would be illegal and I don't know how..."

For the Elves, the stereotype is that they're really cryptic, hard to read, and frustrating to deal with because they move so slowly (think the sloth at the DMV in Zootopia, if you've seen that). This is probably not that far off the mark when dealing with certain hardline traditionalists, but because Tallys was well-acclimated to dealing with non-Elves and was already accustomed to using "War Manners" when people joined up, they were surprised to find that she was perfectly succinct and direct and were like "oh that stereotype was so inaccurate"!

I think there is a vague misconception that Hunters are on the whole extremely pious, religious, and sort of priestly (their traditional black garb and their exorcist profession as well as their devotion to Narthax led to this idea), as well as very stern and secretive and harsh; and then everyone met Halek, the least disciplined, most chill Shepherd to ever exist, and were also like, "oh. where tf did that idea even come from?"

Hope that all makes sense!

#Shepherds of Haven #worldbuilding #races

[teratocrat]

A single yellow dwarf, unremarkable, of about 1.0218 solar masses. And in its corona, dancing aurora-dragons, ribbons and feathers of nine-colored light, singing and reciting poetry to each other and hitching freezing rides on the asteroids and comets that swing close enough to the star to leap out onto.

One small, dense planet, frosted over with incandescent stormclouds that snow lead flakes onto the slopes of volcanoes whose calderas are choked with galena coral reefs, the bones of colonies of radiation-tolerant extremophilic microorganisms, and where sulfur-swamps coat the lazy tideless beaches of the planet's only ocean, stirred and tilled by people like lanky bundles of black ironstraw, who heap their storehouses high with xanthous dried fusegrass.

One larger, much cooler planet, the calcite gleam of its moon hidden from the surface much of the time by cloudcover. warm, shallow, mildly acidic seas of lavender mucous, tentative marshes of weeping fuschia ferns, translucent lapine blobs with probing antennae that could be eyes or ears or questing tongues, and in the middle of the deepest ocean, a massive gelatinous thing, a superorganism like a rose with its stem plunging down into the volcanic baths of an oceanic rift, a mind from whom all other minds on this planet came and to which they occasionally return, eager to share their stories.

One rocky planet, bitterly cold and with the merest wisps of atmosphere clinging to it. Lifeless, all its water burned off it by baleful solar glare, the vast horizon-spanning saltpan seafloors bone-bare under the violet sky, and its moon hanging above like a clenched fist of black basalt.

An asteroid belt, scattered diamond motes of ice and stone and clay and metals, with three dwarf planets in its embrace, and the largest of them bearing a banner of silver and midnight, a unicorn guarding some alien tree.

A planet one might almost mistake for Earth, for all its snake-necked tortoise-camels and gold-feathered tigermen, for all its gleaming pentagonal ziggurats of diamond and steel, its three space elevators anchored in the emerald forests that girdle the equator, the capital of an interplanetary empire founded at the mouth of an immense river lazily piling hundreds of tons of silt a year into delta marshes, its vast ports berthing wide, flat-bottomed barges hauling iron and salt and sand and cinnabar, barrels of fish and wine and oil and perfumes, tigerman janissaries and scholars and poets and wizards, all tallied and accounted for in the lightning thoughts of supercomputers domesticated by bureaucracy. spaceplanes like silver songbirds or leaping fish ferrying the nobility (who disdain regular shuttle flights from the tips of the space elevators as base transportation for commoners) from the surface of the planet to its moon above, or to any number of gleaming stations in high orbit.

A gas giant, pale as pearl streaked with delicate pink and green pastels, skirted by dozens of captured child-moons, many of them bearing the same unicorn banner, some of them mined for this or that rare earth element, cities buried under the shielding crust of a scant handful, and two of them habitiformed enough to support imperial hunting grounds - managed grasslands or forests full of imported game - and hunting lodges of squat domes and towering spires, mirrored labyrinthine greenhouse-gardens and treasure-vaults of platinum jewelry set with nebula-gems snatched from their condensation-nests in the gas giant's depths.

Another gas giant, the blues and purples of a ripe plum blushing from clouds of midnight-black marbled with gold, icy rings slicing through swirling lunar orbits, merchants and mercenaries and privateers gliding from port to port in their sapphire-hulled ships, out where the empire scrabbles to find purchase. hollowed-out asteroids house cylindrical farms or monasteries of fatalistic leonine faiths or the huddled bodies of wound-down murine clockwork eunuchs, commissioned to advise and amuse some tiger-empress whose phoenix standard had long since faded into obscurity by the time the founder of the unicorn-banner dynasty first rallied soldiers to his cause.

An Earth-sized ball of grey-green ice, glassy smooth surfaces broken up by cryovolcanoes pumping volatiles up from a sooty core to rain down again in miserable pattering drizzles of methane through ammonia blizzards.

An ice giant, the immense azure sphere its inward neighbor might have been were it not for the vagaries of fate as involved in early star system formation, accompanied by seventeen bitterly cold moons whose tides have woven something enormous and ponderous of thought out of the inner sea of supercritical fluids.

a dozen or more dwarf planets of packed stone and ice, swinging through the outer black clouds on vastly elliptical orbits, witnesses to tumbling nickel-iron visitors and alien probes relaying streams of blurry photography and other observations back to some unknown homeworld as they fall endlessly through interstellar space.

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

NASA’s CloudSat Ends Mission Peering Into the Heart of Clouds

Over the course of nearly two decades, its powerful radar provided never-before-seen details of clouds and helped advance global weather and climate predictions.

CloudSat, a NASA mission that peered into hurricanes, tallied global snowfall rates, and achieved other weather and climate firsts, has ended its operations. Originally proposed as a 22-month mission, the spacecraft was recently decommissioned after almost 18 years observing the vertical structure and ice/water content of clouds.

As planned, the spacecraft — having reached the end of its lifespan and no longer able to make regular observations — was lowered into an orbit last month that will result in its eventual disintegration in the atmosphere.

When launched in 2006, the mission’s Cloud Profiling Radar was the first-ever 94 GHz wavelength (W-band) radar to fly in space. A thousand times more sensitive than typical ground-based weather radars, it yielded a new vision of clouds — not as flat images on a screen but as 3D slices of atmosphere bristling with ice and rain.

For the first time, scientists could observe clouds and precipitation together, said Graeme Stephens, the mission’s principal investigator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “Without clouds, humans wouldn’t exist, because they provide the freshwater that life as we know it requires,” he said. “We sometimes refer to them as clever little devils because of their confounding properties. Clouds have been an enigma in terms of predicting climate change.”

Clouds have long held many secrets. Before CloudSat, we didn’t know how often clouds produce rain and snow on a global basis. Since its launch, we’ve also come a long way in understanding how clouds are able to cool and heat the atmosphere and surface, as well as how they can cause aircraft icing.

CloudSat data has informed thousands of research publications and continues to help scientists make key discoveries, including how much ice and water clouds contain globally and how, by trapping heat in the atmosphere, clouds accelerate the melting of ice in Greenland and at the poles.

Weathering the Storm

Over the years, CloudSat flew over powerful storm systems with names like Maria, Harvey, and Sandy, peeking beneath their swirling canopies of cirrus clouds. Its Cloud Profiling Radar excelled at penetrating cloud layers to help scientists explore how and why tropical cyclones intensify.

Across the life of CloudSat, several potentially mission-ending issues occurred related to the spacecraft’s battery and to the reaction wheels used to control the satellite’s orientation. The CloudSat team developed unique solutions, including “hibernating” the spacecraft during nondaylight portions of each orbit to conserve power, and orienting it with fewer reaction wheels. Their solutions allowed operations to continue until the Cloud Profiling Radar was permanently turned off in December 2023.

“It’s part of who we are as a NASA family that we have dedicated and talented teams that can do things that have never before been done,” said Deborah Vane, CloudSat’s project manager at JPL. “We recovered from these anomalies with techniques that no one has ever used before.”

Sister Satellites

CloudSat was launched on April 28, 2006, in tandem with a lidar-carrying satellite called CALIPSO (short for the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation). The two spacecraft joined an international constellation of weather- and climate-tracking satellites in Earth orbit.

Radar and lidar are considered “active” sensors because they direct beams of energy at Earth — radio waves in the case of CloudSat and laser light in the case of CALIPSO — and measure how the beams reflect off the clouds and fine particles (aerosols) in the atmosphere. Other orbiting science instruments use “passive” sensors that measure reflected sunlight or radiation emitted from Earth or clouds.

Orbiting less than a minute apart, CloudSat and CALIPSO circled the globe in Sun-synchronous orbits from the North to the South Pole, crossing the equator in the early afternoon and after midnight every day. Their overlapping radar-lidar footprint cut through the vertical structure of the atmosphere to study thin and thick clouds, as well as the layers of airborne particles such as dust, sea salt, ash, and soot that can influence cloud formation.

The influence of aerosols on clouds remains a key question for global warming projections. To explore this and other questions, the recently launched PACE satellite and future missions in NASA’s Earth System Observatory will build upon CloudSat’s and CALIPSO’s legacies for a new generation.

“Earth in 2030 will be different than Earth in 2000,” Stephens said. “The world has changed, and the climate has changed. Continuing these measurements will give us new insights into changing weather patterns.”

More About the Missions

The CloudSat Project is managed for NASA by JPL. JPL developed the Cloud Profiling Radar instrument with important hardware contributions from the Canadian Space Agency. Colorado State University provides science data processing and distribution. BAE Systems of Broomfield, Colorado, designed and built the spacecraft. The U.S. Space Force and U.S. Department of Energy contributed resources. U.S. and international universities and research centers support the mission science team. Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages JPL for NASA.

CALIPSO, which was a joint mission between NASA and the French space agency, CNES (Centre National d’Études Spatiales), ended its mission in August 2023.

TOP IMAGE....An artist’s concept shows NASA’s CloudSat spacecraft in orbit above Earth. Launched in 2006, it provided the first global survey of cloud properties before being decommissioned in March 2024 at the end of its lifespan. Credit: NASA/JPL

LOWER IMAGE....NASA’s CloudSat passed over Hurricane Bill near the U.S. East Coast in August 2009, capturing data from the Category 4 storm’s eye. This pair of images shows a view from the agency’s Aqua satellite (top) along with the vertical structure of the clouds measured by CloudSat’s radar (bottom). Credit: Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory

#science #space #astronomy #physics #news #nasa #astrophysics

[starlitangels]

Do you have anymore Lore or information about the Character from the Audio? She sounds absolutely fascinating!

This got longer than I anticipated so I put it under a readmore

Uh... kinda! So she's kind of a combination of my Redactedsona (<-Link), as it were, (Tally) and Liberty Tanner—a Redactedverse OC for my pair of one-shots I wrote a long time ago called "Donation."(<-Link) Liberty Tanner is a Freelancer whose brother was turned into a vampire by his then-boyfriend and ran off from Dahlia to somewhere with more clouds, and Liberty always did blood bag donations in hopes that one day her brother would receive one and remember she still existed. Which is kinda where the idea for this character started

Tally is a Seer who's totally not pretending to be a Dreamwalker that I came up with as if I was in the Redactedverse when there was a "Draw Yourself in the Redactedverse" art challenge going around started by @artbykays, who I adapted to fit this particular Audio because the words flowed easier if they sounded more like, well, mine. How I would actually talk to someone in that situation. The spouse that Tally mentioned briefly is her Fire Elemental husband loosely based on my own husband who would probably be a Fire Elemental. Pyro who (for the purposes of this Audio anyway) moved them both from McKinley to Dahlia to finish up his certification. I think McKinley's magical academy's Elemental education program is good, but D.A.M.N.'s is better, so they have temporarily moved to California and will probably eventually go back to McKinley.

There's not a whole lot to this version of the character since she was only meant for one fan audio, but there was going to be a bit (before the script go too long for this particular thing because I like to keep fan audios under 8-10 minutes if I can and this one was just over 7) that I cut from the script about her friend who got turned. Originally it wasn't to save her life. Originally, Tally's friend got turned against her will and fell into a deep depression and Tally was scrambling to find some way to help. The vague idea in the background of that was that the friend was also empowered and didn't know the truth about Tally's powers and ended up in a bad romantic relationship with a vampire partner who turned her without her consent and when the friend got pissed at her partner for it, they left her. Just completely abandoned her, in the middle of the bloodlust stage, and Tally felt like she had to do something—anything—to help her friend. Which was when she started feeding her friend

Another bit of the script I cut out was Tally mentioning that she used to use non-Department, third-party apps that schedule appointments for vampire feeding too, but it got to be too much to keep track of. Since empowered humans can only be fed on, like, once every thirty days according to that one wonderfully cringey D.U.M.P. video. Apart from being too much to try to keep track of, another bit I cut out for being extraneous was that she once had a bad experience with a vampire she met up with through a third-party app that didn't vet its users as thoroughly who got a little too aggressive and she put them to sleep and left. But I thought that was a little too dark for an encouraging Audio so I cut it from the script. There was going to be a funny line about how she prefers just using the Department's app because they vet the vampires using it better, but that "it's an absolute nightmare to use, and that's coming from a Dreamwalker who designs nightmares for a living" (she's a Defensive Dream Designer, like Elliott, for her day job, but occasionally likes to make her labyrinths absolutely terrifying to ward off intruders if the client thinks it would be safer). But the slightly funny line wasn't good enough to keep the whole dark bit in so it got cut

Another deleted piece of information was that Tally has worked with two (2) vampires in the bloodlust stage before, not counting her friend, but that was as far as I got before I was like "meh. Doesn't need to be included"

I just wanted this version of Tally to be very calm and kind and encouraging. Lovely has been through a lot and I thought they deserved someone who was going to guide them through the process as best a human could from the other perspective with Vincent not in the room (which, I'm sure he would be if Erik Redacted was making the script—but, unfortunately, I was the one doing it and I don't have access to his voice to say the lines that I would have wanted. So Vincent had to stay outside and give Tally and Lovely some privacy). I'm a very Mom Friend™ kind of person, and I wanted that to translate into how Tally was just being careful and encouraging to Lovely because she does genuinely care that Lovely's first time feeding on a live person should be a good experience

So yeah! That's Tally Sanders!

#answered #also her last name 100% came from the fact that I was obsessed with Thomas Sanders' Vines when I was in college #they made me laugh so hard #I loved his Sanders Sides series too and I was like 'i need a last name for her... imma steal that one'

[eitherlyingorstupid]

G1 Beachcomber sees some humans have a slogan of "make love, not war" and decides to adopt it. Which gives him the idea of offering a little free use thing for the Decepticons. After all, they're probably all pent up. They could use a good interface or two, right?

Knowing Optimus Prime probably wouldn't approve, Beachcomber enlists fellow pacifist First Aid to help him build the contraption he needs. Basically a metal box with "love > war" written on it, and a hole cut in the side. It's just big enough for a minibot to curl up in there, pressing their valve against the hole.

Said box is then put in an area where the Seekers are known to patrol. Cosmos comes along, too, hovering in alt-mode and ready to vaporize anyone who gets too cocky. First Aid rides inside him, ready to render emergency medical attention if the 'Cons get rough.

Sure enough, Thundercracker and Skywarp eventually come along and find the box. Thundercracker thinks it's an obvious trap, but Skywarp is curious. Eventually, he gives in and lets Skywarp test out the free hole (secretly hoping there's a guillotine or something inside that'll chop off his spike).

Surprisingly, it's not a trap, and Skywap throughly enjoys himself with the box. Thundercracker, who hasnt had a good frag in a while, eventually caves and takes over after Skywarp overloads. He comms the other Decepticons to come and check it out, and soon Starscream and Reflector arrive at the box.

Starscream is curious as to what Autobot is depraved enough to offer up their hole like this, but he won't turn down the opportunity. Reflector finds the hole perfectly suited to their spikes, not too large or too small.

Meanwhile, Beachcomber is having a wonderful time inside the box, taking it like an absolute champ and making a tally of the total overloads (both his own and his visitors'). After the fifth one, Reflector finally pries the box open and pulls Beachcomber out.

Cosmos is ready to dive through the cloud cover and start shooting, but Beachcomber comms him to hold his fire because Reflector has decided to start riding his spike now. They say something about every other Decepticon spike being far too big (or too small, in Rumble and Frenzy's case) for them, and each component rides Beachcomber in turn.

Somebody asks why Beachcomber's doing this (and why they shouldn't just blast him away right now) and he replies that it's fun. Decepticons don't seem like they ever have fun, so why not provide them a little entertainment?

He ends up sandwiched between Starscream and Skywarp, with his face buried in the latter's valve. Thundercracker is watching (a bit warily, since he still thinks there some trick or catch to this) while his trinemates enjoy Beachcomber.

Once everyone's transfluid tanks are nearly depleted, Starscream finally calls it off and tells the Decepticons to return to the base. Beachcomber, sleepy and satisfied, is picked up by Cosmos and flown back to the Ark while First Aid checks him over.

Hes surprised to find no real damage beyond some scrapes and scratches; despite being quite a bit larger than Beachcomber, the Seekers have been gentle with their free hole.

#valveplug

[skylarstark4826]

Sirens wailed in the background. Finn had to make a choice here and now. He could run, find Rey- no one would care in all the chaos. He could finally do what he wanted all those weeks ago. Or he could stay and fight.

For Rose. 

Her face came to his mind, and he knew what he had to do. He was done running. With that, he sprinted down the hallways towards the hangar. He pulled on the yellow jumpsuit of the Cobalt Squadron over his civilian clothes, and the life support system. He grabbed a spare helmet, turned on the frequency.

"Cobalt Five, coming in," Finn said.

"Cobalt Five, get in an X-wing now," Captain Tallie ordered.

"Copy Cobalt Leader," Finn said. He hurried towards the only free one- Paige's own X-wing. He placed his hand on the ladder when he heard her.

"FINN!"

He turned to see Rose, running from across the hangar to him. He could sense her fear in the pain- fear that she'd lose him like she lost her sister, he realized with a start. He ran to her without a second thought.

They embraced. Finn looked down into the dark eyes of the young engineer he'd come to know. . . and love, he realized.

"I have to do this," he said. "I can't run anymore. It's like you told me- I have a mission to complete: protecting you."

"I love you," she said. "Finn, be careful. May the Force be with you."

"I love you too," he said. "And I promise I'll come back for you."

He then ran to the X-wing, and got into the cockpit. "I can do this, I can do this."

He had to do this.

Finn shifted the X-wing into gear, and he took off, following the pack so low, they were kicking up the blood-red Craitian sand. To cover the base location, Finn realized. Still getting used to the controls, he overcompensated, and nearly crashed. Some signals started beeping and his screens flashed at him.

"You okay, Cobalt Five?" Poe asked over the frequency.

"I'm fine, I think," Finn said. He glanced at the dashboard. "I think my shields are down."

"That's not good," Captain Tallie said. "That means one hit and you're toast."

"Black Twelve, Black Seven, protect Cobalt Five," Poe ordered.

"Roger that, Black Leader," a male and female said at the same time.

"Thanks," Finn said.

"We'd do anything for you, Big Deal," Black Twelve said.

Finn, in spite of himself, grinned at the nickname that Han Solo had given him. If he died tonight, at least he'd die surrounded by friends and knowing that Rose loved him as much as he loved her.

I'm sorry, Rose. 

The X-wing was still shaking a little, but Finn was getting used to the controls. His heart pounded in his chest as what seemed like endless TIE fighters emerged from the overcast sky. He took a deep breath, and tightened his grip on the steering.

"Targets coming into view," Captain Tallie said.

"Don't hold back," Poe warned.

"And may the Force be with you," Finn added.

For that moment, they all breathed in and out collectively. This was the end, the greatest of all the battles they'd fought so far. This was the moment of life or death. There was destiny to it. Everything it seemed, had come down to this.

Green bolts whizzed past, and through luck, and intuition, Finn managed to dodge as X-wings and A-wings dropped like flies around him. The targeting computer, however, was a distraction. Finn turned it off, and fired at the enemy. He had to protect his friends, protect Rose.

"There's one on your tail!" Jessika cried. "I've got it!"

Just as she said that, there was an explosion. "Blue Three? Blue Three, come in? Jessika? Jessika!"

"I'm here!" she shouted, sounding just as relieved as Finn did.

Every moment felt like forever. It was an eternity of adrenaline and blaster bolts. So many times, his skills faltered, but when he was at the brink of falling or dying, he remembered Rose. He had to come back to her.

He didn't know what caused him to look up when he did, but when he did, he saw the Falcon soaring through the clouds. Finn could sense Rey, and Chewie, and Luke- and someone else.

"It's Rey!" he shouted. "Rey's come back to help us! We have to help the Falcon!"

"We hear you, Cobalt Five," said Captain Tallie. "We're on our way. Cobalt Squadron, protect the Millennium Falcon!"

Finn soared up with the rest of them, and shot at the TIEs.

"There's more in the atmosphere!" Captain Tallie cried. "We need to help the Last Command. Come-"

She was cut off by a blood-curdling scream. Finn knew it as a death cry. She and several others were shot down.

"What do we do?" someone shouted. "Tallie's dead!"

"So's her second in command!"

"We need to help the Last Command," Finn said. He was finally living up to his full potential. This was who he was meant to be. "We can take out the Finalizer! Hit the command center, and then take out the turrets, and we'll be able to sink it!"

There was silence for a heart-pounding moment.

"Copy that, Cobalt Leader," Black Seven said.

Finn let out a small sigh of relief- it wouldn't last for long, but that didn't matter. Every second was one where he was living, not dying. This was it.

He led the fleet into the atmosphere, where the Finalizerlurked, facing off against the Last Command.

Breathe. Just breathe. 

He closed his eyes. Finn breathed in, then out. He followed his intuition, and pressed the trigger. His eyes opened just in time to see the blaster bolt fire straight into the command center, blowing up the entire thing.

"Woo!" he cried. "I got it!"

"Way to go, Cobalt Leader!" several pilots said. He then turned down and headed for the turrets. It would be deadly, but worth it. Immediately upon approach, an A-wing was fired out of the sky, and sent to the sands of Crait for all time. Finn couldn't let the same happen to him.

"Give it all you've got!" he cried. "Trust in yourselves, and in the Force! We're almost there!"

For a moment, the entire fleet of the Resistance and New Republic combined took a collective breath. In, then out. Then they fired with all the fury of all the Corellian hells. One by one the turrets blinked out, shot their last bolts. The ships deftly avoided all of them.

The Finalizer was stagnant in the air for a moment. Then it gave a great shudder before plummeting to Crait.

Cheers and screams of joy and relief filled the frequency, Finn along with them.

The TIES began to jump to hyperspace, as well as the other bigger ships, making it easy to shoot down the stragglers.

"We've done our job," Finn said. "Let's go home, everyone."

He landed the X-wing in the hangar, barely coming to a stop inside. Everyone, it seemed, was inside the hangar in that moment, come to greet the heroes of the Resistance. Finn threw off his helmet, and leapt out of the cockpit. He stood at the bottom of the ladder on the side, surrounded by the crowd and the communal energy in the Force, before spotting her distinctive ponytail.

"ROSE!" he shouted, and she turned. He ran to her, and she to him, and the crowds parted as the lovers met, embracing again, this time in victory. Finn swept Rose off her feet and kissed her, wanting this moment to be his forever. Her lips against his, sharing the energy of the Force and her soft body in his arms, pressed together in a perfect fit.

He set her down, and she grinned up at him.

"I promised I'd come back for you, didn't I?"

"Oh, Finn," she cried, and she threw her arms around his neck, her legs around his waist, the force of it nearly knocking him over. Luckily, he managed to maintain his balance, and he twirled her around.

They were together, victory was theirs, and the future was in their hands. Tomorrow would be another battle, but that didn't matter tonight as the storm raged outside. It was all out there- in here, two hearts beat as one.

#finn x rose #finnrose #finnix calrissian #rose tico

[phanfictioncatalogue]

Fics With Titles That Start With K (3) Masterlist

part one, part two

kamikaze (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: For most pirates, the Isle of Riches would sound very appealing. Not for Dan, who got too close to it and witnessed its secrets. Months later, he gets himself taken prisoner aboard Phil’s ship. He’s obnoxious, flirty, and generally a pain in the ass to all on board. But when he gets injured and is forced to let his guard down, Phil finds that Dan isn’t all that he makes himself out to be.

keep quiet (ao3) - calvinahobbes

Summary: This feels indulgent in a way he hasn’t felt in a while. He’s tired after a night of being social, tallying up points and arguing with Phil and their friends about which countries had the best Eurovision songs, booing and complaining when their favorite didn’t win. And he’s sweaty from sleeping in close quarters. But he can’t bring himself to stop the building arousal between them.

keep the glasses on (ao3) - pasteldanhowells

Summary: Dan has always been insecure about wearing his glasses in public, and he's kept it from his best friend for as long as he's had his glasses. Unfortunately one evening, his cover is blown when Phil stops by.

keep your feet on the ground (when your head's in the clouds) (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: Dan meets Phil at a party, except he doesn't really know that it's Phil.

Kentucky Roads (ao3) - howellesterfics

Summary: a very late smutty tour bus fic that i started in august and totally forgot about. it’s 3 am and dan is unreasonably turned on. featuring some light sexting

Kickstart My Heart (ao3) - phantasticworks (steddieworks)

Summary: Phil is having the worst flight of his life until he isn't.

Based on something Phil said in his recent liveshow.

kill dil (ao3) - calvinahobbes

Summary: “Should we kill Dil?” (A fic about YouTube and planning and making decisions.)

Kind Of Similar (ao3) - cafephan

Summary: It’s kind of like 2009, they are apart again and spending hours staring through cameras at each other - just that Skype is as dead as the fringes and Dan is touring the world - but apart from that, practically identical.

Kindness (at the End) (ao3) - lovestillaround

Summary: A story about the Christmas Eve, a wooden chest left by Phil on the kitchen table, and a mission to get the key.

Kings - crescendohowell

Summary: Dan and Phil jokingly nominate each other for homecoming King and the entire school ships it

King of Fools - silverluminosity

Summary: Dan and Phil’s April Fools’ pranks go a little too far and cause them to venture into some previously unexplored territory.

king of packed lunches (ao3) - watergator

Summary: phil wants to be a TikTok Mom™

kinky week (ao3) - dizzy

Summary: It's like spooky week, but instead of videos and scary games I'm just writing five really* kinky things.

Kintsukuroi (ao3) - Silent_kill_joy

Summary: That's the most beautiful thing in the world:

When two people become fluent in choosing each other...

-Hb

Kiss It Better (ao3) - intoapuddle

Summary: Dan could keep doing this for hours, if it didn’t tire him out. Maybe even then, he could, because there’s something about hearing and feeling this lustfulness from Phil that makes it easy to let go of everything else.

kiss me in the dark tonight (ao3) - dizzy

Summary: Dan's selling merch for a local dj and crushing on the dj's brother

kiss me just to kiss me (ao3) - calvinahobbes

Summary: Phil knows it’s serious. He knows he’s serious about Dan in that way he gets about people because he is so painfully afraid of messing things up. Dan came all this way just to see him, but he didn’t come all this way just to see him, and the least Phil can do is show him a good time.

Kiss-Me-Quick (ao3) - strawberrysunflower

Summary: “I should be lounging out on a beach right now.”

“You can lounge out on a beach! Look, the Golden Mile’s down there. Only watch out for donkeys. And stray Stella cans.”

It’s probably not the greatest advertisement of the town, Phil realises. Who needs Portugal when you can come to Costa Del Blackpool instead?

kissing on the kitchen floor, our friendship up against the ropes (ao3) - glasseslouis

Summary: it's 2009, dan still can't fully comprehend that he's sat in phil's bedroom filming pinof, and they decide to indulge themselves.

kitchen counter (ao3) - ordanary (ghostsofjersey)

Summary: Phil asks Dan to come up north with him for Christmas, some realizations are made in the kitchen, and now Nigel owes Kath twenty pounds.

Kitchen Tiles (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: He regrets not realizing sooner, he regrets not listening to his heart more closely, he regrets not picking up on a single one of the countless little but painstakingly clear signs, regrets not being honest with himself until now. But it’s of no use, because it is what it is, and all they have now is a few weeks. After all the months and years, now all they have is weeks.

Knew I'd Find You Again (ao3) - AnironSidh

Summary: In the twilight of the Russian Empire, the younger son of Czar Nigel Lestov finds an unlikely friend in a kitchen boy with a very different past. Philip Lestov has no idea what is to come, this future with his new friend stretching out as far as he can see, and Daniel Howlov gets a glimpse at a world so far from his own.

know what you want (ao3) - dizzy

Summary: Dan is home, for now at least.

Koi No Yokan (ao3) - cold_cereal

Summary: Phil proposes to Dan.

#phanfictioncatalogue #phanfic #phan #phanfiction #masterlists #ficsk #ficsk masterlist

[harshkaushik41]

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[tinyhousegirl]

Astro - Chapter Three

A/N: Chapter Three is here!

Read the synopsis and master list here!

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Taylor felt weightless in her jet. She was cruising a few thousand feet above the hard deck, with Payback and Fanboy as her wingmen in the second jet for the exercise. The stakes were high - shoot down Maverick or be shot down trying. Loser does 200 push ups. She had watched her fellow pilots pump out the reps on the hot tarmac all morning and now it was her turn to face her father. 

She couldn’t help the giddy feeling taking over. She’d never flown fighter jets with her father before this training mission. Just their personal planes when they had time to meet between busy Naval careers. She was too excited to dogfight against him, to show him her own tricks of the game.

“Alright, Astro, game on!” Payback yelled and she strapped her mask on, the engines of her jet roaring to life.  

“Fanboy, where is he?” Astro kept her wing close to the other jet as they banked over a mountain range. “Talk to me, Fanboy!”

“I’m looking, I’m looking!” He exclaimed. “Ah, Tally One, 4 o’clock.” 

“Turn and burn, gentlemen.” Astro banked to her right, her wingman following her lead. Finally she came face to face with her dad’s jet in the distance, closing in on them. The shine of the desert sun reflected perfectly off the wings, camouflaging it briefly. 

“He’s flying right at us, Astro.”

“Thank you, Captain Obvious. Fanboy, I need a laser lock now.”

“I’m trying, the sun is blocking my sensor!” 

The three jets were rocketing towards one another at high speeds.

“What are you going to do, Astro?” Maverick’s voice sounded in her ears. “Your partner can’t get a lock on a high speed target coming straight for you.”

“Stay on target, Payback. He’ll back off. Get me that lock!” She ordered.

“I can’t get it, he’s all over the place. Pull up, pull up!” Fanboy yelled, and Payback listened to his WSO, veering off their flight path suddenly. 

“Shit, Payback!” Astro scolded, as Maverick’s plane moved to intercept their path.

“That’s a kill.” Payback yelled out a few curse words as they flew out of the flight path of the remaining two jets. “Alright, Astro. You’re mine now.” 

Taylor veered her nose downward, building speed. “I don’t think so, old man.”

“Disrespecting your Captain, that’s my girl.” Maverick chuckled lightly, following her spiral. 

The two worked in tandem and against each other almost synchronously. Just when one would get the upper hand, the other would spin the odds. 

“You taught me too well, Maverick! It’s mono e mono, bring it on!” 

Back on the ground, the waiting pilots were all crowded around the radio, cheering for their fellow pilot as they listened to the family duo battle it out. All except Bradley, who was staring out the window in the direction of the fight, albeit unable to see anything. He couldn’t find it in him to be excited about this, feeling clouded at the duality of the Mitchell family teasing one another while fighting in the skies. As if that wasn’t the perfect way to describe his relationship with that family for the past decade.

Astro looked around frantically as she spun around the top of a mountain, barely avoiding the hard deck below her. She had lost him in the range, and couldn’t find his plane on radar. 

“Here’s your mistake, Astro. Mono e mono rules don’t apply when your enemy is in a 5th generation fighter.” Suddenly, her dash lit up with a loud sound. “That’s a kill.”

“Dammit!” She screamed, lashing out at the side of her cockpit. 

Suddenly, her father’s jet steadied out next to her. “Nice flying, sweetheart. You put up the best fight so far. Head back to base and see Hondo.” She flipped him off teasingly as they coasted back to the base. “You’re my kid, alright. Maverick to base, prep Hangman and Rooster for testing.”

Oh, that’ll be a dogfight she wouldn’t want to miss.

 —

She regretted her words as soon as she heard Rooster and Maverick plummeting in a downward spiral way below the hard deck. She leaned into the radio, waiting with held breath until finally Maverick made the call that he had locked onto Rooster. That was their last flight of the day, so while everyone went to the showers, she headed out to the tarmac. By the time she was outside, Bradley was already doing his pushups. She watched from afar as Hondo counted, not making it far past 100 when he told Rooster to call it quits for the evening. Hondo left the Lieutenant there alone when he didn't listen.

Taylor watched her boyfriend finish the remainder of his 200 before he collapsed to the ground, spitting and shaking in the California heat. She finally approached him once he sat up. 

“Are you out of your mind, Bradshaw?” She yelled. “The hard deck is there for a reason. Protecting you and your plane, not to mention your training partner.” He didn’t flinch as she reamed into him. “You could’ve killed yourself out there today.”

Rooster stood up, brushing the dirt off of his hands. He briefly connected eyes with her as he stalked away towards the lockers, no words to defend himself. 

“Unbelievable! You are unbelievable! You never change. As soon as the conversation gets serious you’re walking away again. Will you talk to me for once, Rooster?”

He spun back at her. “What do you want me to say? That I wanted to crash my plane and kill myself and my girlfriend’s father? What good would that do me?”

Taylor lowered her voice. “Bradley, I’m trying to stay neutral here. This hasn’t exactly been a walk in the park for me either. But you are both on the same team here. I need you to remember that, please.”

Rooster calmed down at her words, realizing projecting his anger onto her wouldn’t do anything. It wasn’t her fault she shared the last name of the man who betrayed him the most. He approached her slowly, enveloping her in his arms. “I’m sorry about that stunt. It won’t happen again.”

“Good, I can’t lose you.” 

“You won’t, I promise.” He kissed the top of her head, both of them knowing their words were lies in this line of work. They’d both lost men out there over the years, but the words were said, nonetheless.

“Bradley?” He hummed a gentle response. “Take me to bed or lose me forever.”

“Show me the way home, honey.”

—

Another day, another thousand-plus pushups. Maverick was schooling all of them, and the frustration could be felt in the classroom and in the air. The pilots were getting sloppy, losing quicker and quicker with each flight. They had begun running the terrain, practicing the turns they were expected to make in the canyons around the uranium plant. Maverick was flying as an enemy for them, and had shot down most of them. They were exhausted, short-tempered, but still cocky with their heads in the clouds.

“Why are you dead?” Her father’s voice rang through the hangar as he asked each pilot why he was killing them in the air. It pained them to admit mistakes. These pilots were the best of the best for the right reasons, but that didn’t stop them from being haughty about it. Maverick was there to bring them all down a peg or two. It was the only way they’d work together and make it to the other side of this mission in two weeks. 

“Why are they dead?” Her Captain stood in front of her now. He nodded towards Payback and Fanboy, who had been shot first again in their most recent flight with Astro. 

She kept her head high. “Because I pulled away too early to try and get a clearer shot. I left their underbelly exposed.”

Maverick nodded. “And why are you dead?” Her cockiness exploded into rage after he took out her wingmen. She had made a risky spin to throw him off, but it nearly blew out her engine. It pissed him off to no end; she knew better than that. When Astro went to respond, he cut her off. “Don’t give me an excuse for that move. You give me the reason your Uncle will accept when they hand him a folded flag.”

She broke eye contact. The jab stung. A lot. Taylor knew she was the easiest target of the group, having her father as their instructor came with the territory. He knew how to hurt her and cripple her at the lowest level. Her normally compassionate, kind, reckless father was not the cruel, pushing, tactical instructor in front of her. The frustration of the week of endless training was coming to a head for all of them.

She swallowed the lump in her throat. “I have none, sir.”

He nodded and walked back to the podium. “Not a single plane has made it to the target in time.”

“But we’ve made it.” Rooster spoke up, unable to hold his frustration in after watching Astro get reprimanded unfairly. He had been the only person to successfully survive the training run through the canyon, despite Maverick on his tail trying to shoot him down. He deserved that credit at the very least.

Maverick shot him an angry glare. “Making it a minute late will do you no good when 5th gen fighters are on your tails.”

“You’re not flying fast enough, Bradshaw.” Hangman interjected. “We’re going into combat, on a level no living pilot’s seen. Not even him.” Jake looked at Maverick, the latter’s face twisting in defeat. 

Hangman turned back to Rooster without a pause. “Now’s not the time to be thinking about the past.” 

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Rooster snapped. 

“C’mon, I can't be the only one that knows that Maverick flew with his old man.” Taylor paled. “Or that Maverick was flying with his old man when-” Rooster sprung up and lunged at Hangman, shoving him backwards. The rest of the team jumped to pull the two men apart before Rooster could do something he would regret. 

“You son of a bitch!” Rooster yelled.

“That’s enough!” Maverick ordered.

Hangman put his hands up. “I’m cool, I’m cool.” He sneered at Maverick. “He’s not cut out for this mission.” Then he turned to Astro, the venom still dripping. “We all know it.” 

“Go fuck yourself, Hangman.” Astro said lowly, suppressing the anger in her voice. The blond’s cocky smile instantly faded as he realized the repercussions of the line he crossed. She was burning a hole in his brain as she stood there, her hand death-gripping Rooster’s arm to keep him from punching the man. The stress had come to a head, but infighting was not what they needed during this mission.

“You’re all dismissed.” Maverick announced, and Rooster quickly stormed off. The rest of the pilots followed eventually. Pete straightened up his papers for a few minutes before looking back up, noticing Taylor still sitting in the seats. She had her head in her hands.

“You okay, Astro?” She nodded and he sighed, setting his stuff down. “C’mon, talk to me, Taylor.”

“This mission sucks, dad.” He laughed gently. She punched his arm playfully. “I’m serious!”

“You don’t have to convince me of that, sweetheart. I’m the one training my daughter to fly a suicide mission.” He threw his arm around her shoulder as she gladly leaned into his chest. No matter how angry they made each other, that frustration stayed in the air for the Mitchell family. “I’m sorry about the Ice comment.”

Taylor sighed. “Don’t, I deserved it. That was a stupid move on my part. I wanted you so bad I could taste it. I just want team leader so bad.” She adjusted to where she was comfortable as a calm silence fell over them briefly. “Hey dad, do you think Rooster and you will ever talk it out?”

Maverick shook his head, a sigh falling off of his lips too. “We’ve talked about this. I think it’s too late for us, Tay.”

She shook her head. “I just can’t keep acting okay with this. I thought I was getting to him finally. But he keeps pushing me out right as I get in. Jake obviously didn’t help with that one today, some wingman he is.” She frowned as she recalled the viscous tone that came out of her usually cheery best friend’s mouth. She hadn’t seen the vindictive side of Jake in a long time.

“You’re just like Goose, you know that? He always wanted to make sure everyone was happy. You’ve got too good of a heart to be hanging out with us poor Navy boys.” He flicked her ear, trying to get her to smile in the seriousness. But she didn't budge, the stone cold look set on her face. “I’m sorry, sweetheart. I know there's not much I can do with Bradley, but what can I do with this team? You’ve taught arrogant pilots more recently than I have.”

“I think we all need a break. We’re too cocky and selfish, I’m worried it’ll kill one of us out there.” 

Maverick smiled, a goofy look on his face as his infamous strategy could finally come into play. “I think I have something that can help with that.”

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Simplifying Tax Filing: The Best Accounting Software Solutions for Indian Companies

Tax filing can be a complex and time-consuming process for Indian companies. However, with the right accounting software, this task can be simplified and streamlined. In this article, we will explore the best accounting software solutions for Indian companies that can assist in simplifying tax filing.

1. Tally ERP 9: Tally ERP 9 is a leading accounting software widely used in India. It offers comprehensive features for managing financial transactions, generating accurate financial reports, and ensuring GST compliance. With built-in tax filing capabilities, Tally ERP 9 simplifies the process of tax computation and e-filing, saving time and reducing errors.

2. QuickBooks: QuickBooks is a popular accounting software that caters to small and medium-sized businesses in India. It provides features like expense tracking, invoicing, and financial reporting. QuickBooks simplifies tax filing by automatically categorizing transactions, generating GST-compliant reports, and facilitating seamless integration with tax filing portals.

3. Zoho Books: Zoho Books is a cloud-based accounting software that offers Indian businesses an efficient way to manage their finances. It provides GST-compliant invoicing, expense tracking, and bank reconciliation features. Zoho Books streamlines tax filing by generating accurate tax reports, providing support for e-way bill generation, and enabling integration with GSTN for seamless filing.

By leveraging these top accounting software solutions, Indian companies can simplify tax filing processes and ensure compliance with GST regulations. These software options automate various aspects of tax computation, generate GST-compliant reports, and facilitate easy e-filing. They minimize manual effort, reduce the chances of errors, and provide businesses with a clear overview of their tax obligations.

In conclusion, choosing the right accounting software is essential for Indian companies looking to simplify tax filing. Tally ERP 9, QuickBooks, and Zoho Books are among the top accounting software solutions that can streamline the tax filing process, saving businesses valuable time and effort while ensuring accuracy and compliance.

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Exploring the Top ERP Providers in India: Streamlining Business Operations

In today's fast-paced business environment, effective management of resources, streamlined processes, and data-driven decision-making is critical for sustainable growth. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have emerged as powerful tools that integrate key business functions, enabling seamless collaboration and boosting overall productivity. India, with its vibrant business landscape, hosts a multitude of ERP providers offering comprehensive solutions. In this blog, we will delve into the top 11 ERP providers in India, exploring their key offerings, strengths, and how they empower businesses to achieve their goals.

Here Is The Top 11 ERP Providers

SAP India :

SAP, a global leader in enterprise software, has established itself as a frontrunner in the Indian ERP market. Renowned for its comprehensive suite of ERP solutions tailored for diverse industries, SAP offers modules covering finance, supply chain, human resources, customer relationship management, and more. With a strong focus on scalability, robustness, and the ability to handle complex business processes, SAP India provides reliable support, extensive training resources, and regular updates to help businesses stay ahead.

Oracle India :

Oracle, a prominent ERP provider, delivers integrated applications designed to streamline business operations. With modules spanning finance, procurement, manufacturing, sales, and customer service, Oracle ERP solutions cater to organizations of all sizes and industries. Its strength lies in handling large-scale enterprises, complex supply chains, and global operations. Oracle India boasts a robust customer base and offers comprehensive support, training, and implementation services to ensure successful ERP adoption.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 :

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a popular ERP provider offering a unified platform for finance, operations, sales, and customer service. With a user-friendly interface and seamless integration with other Microsoft products, Dynamics 365 simplifies processes and empowers businesses to make data-driven decisions. Its cloud-based nature allows scalability, flexibility, and easy accessibility. Microsoft provides extensive support, regular updates, and a vibrant user community, making the implementation and maintenance of Dynamics 365 a smooth experience

Quickensol it solutions QuickenSol IT Solutions emerges as a reliable ERP service provider, offering comprehensive solutions tailored to meet diverse business needs.QuickenSol IT Solutions empowers organizations through its robust ERP services, innovative technologies, and customer-centric approach. From seamless integration to enhanced data visibility, QuickenSol IT Solutions is dedicated to helping businesses achieve their growth objectives and stay ahead in a competitive market. quickensol offers a module covering finance, education, real estate, agriculture, laboratory, e-commerce, healthcare, insurance, logistics, construction industry, project management, and manufacturing. Quickensol offers strong customer support, an extensive knowledge base, and regular feature updates, making it a popular choice for Indian organizations seeking a reliable ERP solution.

Tally Solutions: Tally Solutions has earned the trust of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in India. Their ERP software focuses on accounting and inventory management, enabling organizations to handle financial transactions, track inventory, and generate accurate reports. Tally's user-friendly interface, affordability, and localization capabilities have made it a preferred choice for Indian businesses. Tally offers comprehensive training, robust support, and regular software updates to ensure effective financial management for SMBs.

Zoho ERP :

Zoho, a prominent player in the business software market, provides a comprehensive suite of applications, including ERP solutions. Zoho ERP covers finance, inventory management, CRM, HR, and more. Known for its affordability, ease of use, and customization options, Zoho ERP caters to businesses of all sizes. The cloud-based nature of Zoho ERP allows for seamless data access, collaboration, and integration across departments. Zoho offers strong customer support, an extensive knowledge base, and regular feature updates, making it a popular choice for Indian organizations seeking a reliable ERP solution.

Ramco Systems :

Based in Chennai, Ramco Systems is an Indian ERP provider renowned for its cloud-based ERP software. Ramco offers modules for finance, HR, supply chain, manufacturing, and more, targeting various industry verticals. Their ERP solutions emphasize mobility, automation, and analytics, enabling businesses to make informed decisions and achieve operational excellence. Ramco provides comprehensive support, an easy implementation process, and regular software updates, ensuring a smooth ERP experience for organizations.

Infor India :

Infor, a global provider of industry-specific ERP solutions has a strong presence in the Indian market. Infor India offers comprehensive ERP modules tailored to specific industry verticals such as manufacturing, healthcare, hospitality, and more. Their solutions focus on process efficiency, supply chain optimization, and customer engagement. With an intuitive interface and robust functionality, Infor ERP empowers businesses to drive growth, enhance productivity, and respond swiftly to market demands.

Epicor India :

Epicor is a renowned ERP provider offering industry-specific solutions designed to meet the unique needs of organizations. Epicor India's ERP modules cater to manufacturing, distribution, retail, and services sectors. Their solutions enable businesses to streamline operations, improve customer experiences, and gain actionable insights through advanced analytics. With a strong focus on automation, scalability, and digital transformation, Epicor empowers Indian businesses to compete effectively in a rapidly evolving market.

IFS India :

IFS, a global leader in ERP software, serves businesses across various industries in India. IFS India's ERP solutions encompass modules for enterprise asset management, field service management, manufacturing, and more. The company emphasizes functionality, flexibility, and usability to ensure seamless adoption and improved operational efficiency. With their customer-centric approach and industry-specific expertise, IFS empowers organizations to optimize processes, enhance productivity, and achieve growth objectives.

Sage India :

Sage is a leading provider of ERP solutions, offering modules for finance, accounting, inventory management, and more. Sage India's ERP software caters to small and medium-sized businesses, providing them with robust tools to manage core business functions effectively. With a focus on simplicity, customization, and scalability, Sage empowers organizations to streamline operations, gain better financial visibility, and make informed decisions. Sage's commitment to customer support and continuous innovation has earned them a strong reputation in the Indian market.

Conclusion :

Selecting the right ERP provider is a crucial decision for any organization aiming to streamline operations and drive growth. The top 11 ERP providers in India, such as SAP India, Oracle India, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Quickensol IT Solution, Tally Solutions, Zoho ERP, Ramco Systems, Infor India, Epicor India, IFS India, and Sage India, offer diverse ERP solutions tailored to meet specific industry requirements. These providers empower businesses with advanced features, scalability, robust support, and seamless integration, enabling them to optimize processes, make data-driven decisions, and achieve their growth objectives. Careful evaluation of business needs, industry focus, and the unique capabilities of these ERP providers is essential to select the best fit for organizational success.

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