#the structure of the earth

[krishmanvith]

#god organized the earth #kids faith tv #animated christian stories #christian stories #organized the earth #the structure of the earth #god creation of the earth #before god created the earth #Christian animated videos #animated stories from the bible #Christian cartoon stories #bible stories for kids Moses #animated bible stories #animated bible stories for kids #god of creation action song #Who Made the World Song #Made the World Song #sunday school bible songs

[knifearo]

being aromantic is like. hey btw you're going to live a life that is the culmination of most of society's worst nightmares. sorry lol ✌️ but then you turn around and take a really good hard look at it and it turns out that living in that nightmare is fucking awesome and you get to wake up every day and take that fear that other people have and laugh and hold it close until it's a great joy for you instead. and being happy is a radical act that you define instead of someone else. and you're sexy as fuck that's just a fact of life i don't make the rules on that one

#aromantic people are just sexy i'm not making the decisions here it's just facts #course ur hot as fuck. it came free with the aromanticism #being sexy is just default settings for aromantic people 👍 #hope this all helps. anyway i'm on my 'i hope i die alone <3 i can't wait to die alone <3' kick rn #i think the existential fear that people have of Not Partnering specifically is so. well. #obviously that shit is strong and it is SO awesome to be free of it. #realizing you're aro and you don't Want a partner can be such a hit to the solar plexus #cause society says that's the only thing that'll make you happy. so either you go without that thing or you force yourself #into doing something you don't want which would make you unhappy anyway. #so you think it's a lose lose situation and you have to come to terms with what amatonormativity presents as the worst possible situation #but then! whoa! turns out personhood is inherently valuable in and of itself and romantic partnering is just a construct! #and that nightmare is now your life to do with as you please... define as you will... structure as you want... #best case scenario. is what i'm saying. #every day i wake up ready to spit all that amatonormative rhetoric back in life's teeth by being alone and being happy #and it's so fucking satisfying. every day. #fucking JUBILANT being by myself. and i love being a living breathing 'fuck you' to the romantic system #you need a partner to be happy? oh that's sooo fucking crazy guess i'll go be miserable then. in my perfect fucking dream life lmao #yeah obviously it's the worst possible outcome on earth to die without a partner. so terrible. can't wait for it :) #aromantic #aromanticism #aro positivity #aroace #arospec #sorry to bitches who are sad about not having a partner. i could not give a fuck though get better soon #you couldn't EVER pay me enough to go back to a mindset in which my inherent value wasn't enough by myself. #FUCK that shit. absolutely miserable and a bad life outlook in general. like genuinely do the work w/ amatonormativity and get better #life is something that can be so fulfilling whether someone wants to kiss you or whatever or not #i'm on antidepressants and i have people i care deeply about. what the fuck would i need a partner for lmao

[smeltbracket]

whatever it was. you hate how you came to love it. admirable lunatic

#solar opposites #solaropposites #korvo #my pookie princess whos extremely repressed and in a constant state of emotional turmoil #my poor wet soggy cat who has no compassion for himself with a complete inability to fathom being loved by anyone in a genuine sense #urrrgrgrrrgh the way korvo's whole thing with being obsessive over tradition has less to do with glorifying shlorp #and more to do with the fact that it gave him structure and purpose #he cannot form an identity out of love as he cannot comprehend himself as a person worthy of it #just a constant cycle of guilt #over not being a good enough team leader not being a good enough shlorpian not being good enough at living on earth etcetc #korvo lost and farting 0 stars for you my boy

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Me, to my new date: doctor who thinks it's a sci-fi story because the Doctor thinks it's a sci-fi story and because the companions think it's a sci-fi story, but it's really just a story about ghosts. a story about an ancient creature carrying the ghosts of everyone they have ever loved, meeting new people, and seeing them only as future ghosts. they are haunted by the future and the past and the present because they are the only constant in a world constantly in flux, and they are running as fast as they can to things before they burn and fade to dust but everything will always end, you understand, because this is the only thing the Doctor understands and yet they keep going. they love too much to stop. doctor who is not science-fiction, it's horror and optimism and spiritual more than anything else, it's religious unto itself, the TARDIS is a haunted house and a church and a graveyard and a hospital and the Doctor is the most haunted being in the universe but more than anything, this is a love story, because how can you love something without being haunted by it- hey, what are you doing?

My date, shoving breadsticks in their purse: I have to go-

#more unhinged doctor who meta #doctor who #meta #*into a bullhorn* IT'S A GHOST STORY #ninth doctor #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #doctor who meta #twelfth doctor #thirteenth doctor #it's abt the time war & dalek & the parting of the ways & doomsday & the last of the time lords & journey's end & angels take manhattan #it's about hell bent and death in heaven and the doctor falls and it takes you away and the woman who fell to earth #it's about the montage of all of the people the doctor has let down #it's about astrid peth and amy pond and rory williams and rose tyler and bill potts and clara oswald and grace o'brien #it's about gaps in memory and memories that live too long to ever heal #the doctor is a haunted house #it's a show about cycles by its very structure #the moment that regeneration became a mechanic for the writers to use and companions began to move out the doctor was DOOMED #but what makes them fascinating is that they see themselves as doomed and blessed at the same time #because they will never ever stop running #clara oswald #amy pond #rose tyler #bill potts #the ghosts are INEVITABLE

[fearandhatred]

i was thinking about this line from my fic:

But the fall had hurt, too. Because the wind had cut into his useless wings like knives, his skin and grace peeling away under the friction, and he had been looking right up at the multicoloured and unreachable expanse of sky just to see it fade from his eyes into dull greys.

and i came up with this. i hope the vision came through

#fearandhatred #fearandpoetry #<- check out this tag for some relatively more normal poetry #this was written at 3 am once again #i am really just out here doing anything #don't think this needs much explanation but i shall yap anyway #this is just crowley through the ages but as he discovers more about the earth he also finds more things he can compare hurt to #because in the beginning all he could compare the wind cutting into him with was the wind itself #and also abandonment. because imo that is one of the first Big Negative Emotions he ever felt besides his dreams being crushed lmaoo #but i think it's fun how this poem also implies that he's constantly thinking about how the fall hurt and how everything reminds him of it #this was also very tedious for the perfectionist in me and the proportions are STILL off #because i only drafted out the wings lmao i was not planning on including the head #then i was like wait what if people don't realise that it's wings #so that happened #and changing the proportions means changing the structure which i do not want to do #good omens #good omens season 2 #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #crowley #aziraphale #good omens poetry #good omens fanart #yeah tagging this as fanart because i had to draw everything out first lmao #poetry #writing

[neroushalvaus]

Koko the gorilla didn't know ASL but, like, you could say that without invalidating the existence of speech-supporting signs

#apparently english doesn't even have an established term for them so i'm not that surprised #but basically for many people with severe intellectual disabilities using individual signs without the proper sentence structure #that is obviously a part of sign languages #is a very important part of communicating #so yeah please criticize the gorilla and her handlers i literally don't care but there are actual people who actually use singular signs #and while it is not asl it's still important and it's still communication #edit:// and obviously it's not just people with intellectual disabilites; that's just the group i'm the most familiar with #but for example many non-verbal autistic kids use speech-supporting signs #and for them it's a very important part of communicating what they need #so idk stop acting like sign languages are the only languages on earth #where saying ''hunger eat food hunger'' doesn't communicate that you're hungry

[firstofficerrose]

I think that Frodo Baggins and Tiffany Aching are... hmmm. Well, I can't say foils, they aren't in the same story, but maybe reflections of each other. When told about the kinds of problems posed by Jenny Greenteeth, Tiffany says, "What can I do?" When Frodo understands about the need to destroy the ring, without know what that will entail, he says, "I will go, although I do not know the way."

They both do this very interesting thing where they Choose. There isn't really a call to adventure, there's a task that needs doing and they look at it and say okay, here I go. And in doing so, they start to save their respective worlds, intentionally and on purpose. I love it.

#middle earth and the disc have parallel ideas about heroism #tiffany aching #frodo baggins #story structure #middle earth #discworld

[commsroom]

it's also worth noting that while eiffel is comparatively privileged in pretty much all other ways, he clearly struggles financially (and in lack of a support system) in ways minkowski and lovelace don't. they're career military with higher education and notable parents; eiffel is not. it doesn't have much of a material impact in space, all things being equal, but... cutter bought eiffel as prison labor. that spares him time served, but he's still going to have to live with that conviction on his record, and that complicates things. i think there's a discussion you could have about the dehumanization of addicts and ex-convicts and how it's made intentionally difficult for certain groups of people to re-enter or participate in society (and how that might overlap with hera's experiences re: legally-restricted personhood.)

#wolf 359 #w359 #doug eiffel #idk there's something about hera and eiffel being the two people who literally don't know how to exist on earth #and how eiffel's time on the hephaestus is a stand-in for his prison sentence. like there's something there #about being unprepared to re-enter society and how there aren't really structures in place to assist with that.

[corin-tuckers-left-one]

I just think homology obliterates intelligent design purely because structures that serve radically different functions have exactly the same parts in them and yet structures with the same function are composed of totally different parts.

Why do whales have finger bones?? What could they POSSIBLY need them for?? Primates use them to grasp, carnivorans use them for walking and running. In whales they're still there but hidden uselessly inside flippers.

Why are bird wings so different from bat wings if they're both used for flying?? Why are both of these completely different from insect wings??

Why do ALL of these except insects have the same layout of bones?? Humerus, radius + ulna, carpals and metacarpals.

It's like building planes out of boat parts.

#intelligent design #intelligent design creationism #creationism #young earth creationism #evolution #evolutionary biology #homology #homologous structures #anatomy #comparative anatomy

[simcardiac-arrested]

what’s up lately with all these snobbish posts about how found family isnt This it’s That and found families don’t have dads or siblings or anyrhing Stop Pushing Your Nuclear Agenda

#? Like ? okay..? #it’s really weird to me because no one seemed to have a problem with it Ever and now for the past week or two it’s just post after post #about how EVERYONE on earth has gotten found family wrong #Which like sure i agree. sometimes people misinterpret found family and try to shove characters into boxes they shouldnmt be in #and sure found family isn’t just parent children siblings whatever #but like .? It can be. and it often is with characters #there’s no …. actual issue with that #sure people shouldn’t try to force a nuclear family structure onto characters that obviously don’t fit it #but like idk it’s not the endof the world. Tho i agree there should be more found family which is less defined and s just about strong bonds #crammerposting #like i’ve said before people should just be put in jail for being annoying online #i hate when i can agree with the sentiment of a post but it’s worded in such a snobbish condescended way that it’s like Eww ptooey #stop acting strange about fictional found family There are actual problems worth caring about on this green earth

[geologyin-blog]

The Eye of the Sahara, also known as the Richat Structure, is a prominent geological wonder in the Adrar Plateau of the Sahara Desert, Mauritania. It's not an impact crater, as once believed, but rather an eroded dome with concentric rings. Read more here:

#sahara #desert #earth #Eye of the Sahara #Richat Structure #gems

[essektheylyss]

If you are, like me, obsessed with every detail of your writing being intentional and appropriately weighted but sometimes get overwhelmed with the decision fatigue that accompanies a blank page, Wonderbook really fucking slaps. Highly recommend. It walks you through examples of choices made in writing with such clarity and vision that it helped clear up multiple sticking points in my wip I've been worrying over for months. Also it's occasionally really fucking funny.

#great book for people who read that fitzgerald obsessively structured his novels and took that as a challenge (me) #i love structure okay!!! its great!!! #I think too be really effective in the weird you need to lean into structure MORE instead of less #breaking the rules for effect is most off-putting when you've followed all the others #god I'm such a fucking earth sign. Jesus Christ. #megs is reading

[mj-is-learning-languages]

Just a reminder that grammatical gender is not the same as the gender that people have. I see a lot of people online who think that all gendered languages are a problem, and they can be frustrating, but a lot of that seems to come from a lack of understanding on what grammatical gender even does.

Like, first of all, the categories themselves are arbitrary for the most part. “Masculine” and “feminine” for nouns doesn’t actually mean that your chair is a woman. The word for chair in Spanish is feminine, which means that it gets described with feminine articles (la, una, las, unas), adjectives (usually ending in an -a), and objective pronouns (la). Again, none of this has anything to do with the chair actually being female. It’s just the category that the word falls under, and that category tells us how to talk about it in a sentence. The grammatical genders could literally be anything; maybe some words are purple and some are green, and you have to describe purple words differently than green ones.

Second, some words even to describe people have a specific gender that does not ever change. La persona is a feminine word regardless of the gender of the person being talked about. Soy una persona, even though I’m not a woman. Even in a gendered language, there are some words that don’t gender the person in question.

It definitely can be frustrating and does mean that a lot of situations that don’t need to be gendered are gendered (for example, saying a sentence about my teacher would automatically gender the teacher, depending on if I say profesor or profesora), but a lot of people don’t even seem to realize that in grammar, gender means something different. Which is honestly a shame, because overall it opens up new ways to be more descriptive. For example, if I’m in another room and drop something, and sigh está rota (it’s broken), you automatically know that whatever I broke is a feminine object. So it can’t be, for example, a plate (un plato). Maybe it’s a cup (una taza). Sure, it’s not necessary, but it can be very interesting.

#just a reminder that no language is BAD for being gendered #over time things will get better for enby and trans people #but i don’t think that will ever mean taking the grammatical gender away from a language #once you do that It’s not the same language anymore #I’m also just intrigued by the concept of a language having genders that aren’t masculine and feminine #in one of my fantasy books I was playing with the idea of a language having four genders that are fire water air and earth #which would open up doors to explore how that culture views things like magic. what gender is magic? fire for strength or earth for nature? #maybe words relating to love and passion are all fire aligned #or maybe they’re all earth to symbolize stability #maybe The same word means a different thing in a different sentence structure. #‘i love you’ when aligned with air is more lighthearted and less fierce #while ‘I love you’ when earth aligned is what you’d say to a spouse #idk just there are so many possibilities #langblr #spanish #languages #languageblr #learning languages #learning spanish #language #language learning #spanish grammar

[arc-hus]

Observation Tower, Negenoord, Belgium - De Gouden Liniaal

http://www.degoudenliniaal.be

#De Gouden Liniaal #architecture #building #design #modern architecture #modern #simple #minimal #minimal architecture #contemporary architecture #tower #observation tower #structure #observation deck #stairs #concrete #concrete architecture #brutalist #rammed earth #steel #sculptural #form #twisting #views #countryside #farmland #heavy #belgium #belgian architecture #europe

[tharelofthewoodlandrealm]

there's this guy on Instagram making tree nets called "Charlie's webs" and i can't help but think how much they would fit the Silvan elves. like, having the trees around their homes full of net spirals and bridges and platforms to hang out on and walk from house to house and climb to the treetops for some stargazing. plus, they're bouncy so the elflings would love it

#can't remember if it's in the book or not but i like the idea of the elves living around the halls instead of inside them #as in the halls are like the palace of the realm and their stronghold and where the king lives #but the rest of the people live around it in houses made from the trees like in lothlorien or ellesmera from eragon #it also fits the whole build around nature and with the already existing structures instead of clearing land that i think they'd have #also taken from eragon as an idea #the hobbit #silvan elves #mirkwood elves #mirkwood #the woodland realm #greenwood the great #rhovanion #middle earth #thranduil #legolas #tauriel #sindar elves #tolkien #lotr

[antlerpunk]

thoughts on sound design and Divinity in ultrakill

#listening to things like #the sounds the virtues and their heavenly beam attacks make #or the hum of gabriel's light weapons #it's not the sound of an angelic choir. it's warbly and distorted and inorganic #almost like a synthesized imitation of more traditionally heavenly sound #and i don't remember if i've talked about it here. but that ties into the mechanical nature of heaven and its heirarchy #reading what the game has to say about gabriel. the wording very Very badly wants you to think of gabriel as a machine #as a weapon #the way the terminal talks about him and the way the council does #it's dehumanizing commodification #and that brings to mind the contrast the game sets up between angels and machines #because angels are counterpart to Robots in ultrakill's story. not demons #the game sets up conflict between Heaven and Earth. with hell just serving as a backdrop #and that shows in the way the game handles angels and machines #where the structure of heaven's forces is rigid and the sound of divinity is a synthetic growl #looking at ultrakill's scripture on machines on the other hand. you'll find that every robot described in the terminal has a story involving #some kind of deviation from originally manufactured purpose. form. design. aesthetic #they're really Wild Animals #they fight. they Live #they evolve and they mutate #they do whatever the hell they need to #and i find that fascinating. perfect contrast #again my fingers are crossed tighter than hell that the Violence layer plays with that animalism #or that machinekind is at least explored further somewhere else in the story #either way. can't wait #no one does hell like hakita #make it this far down i'd love to hear what you think