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is there a smell comparable to space ? i assume we dont know because we would die if we tried to smell it but thats so cool

yeah if humans tried to smell space just like that, we’d die, no doubt about it 

but the smell of space lingers on spacewalk suits, and docking hatches when astronauts open them!

apparently, space itself smells like burning hot metal, or a hot barbeque grill with a slight hint of spent gasoline. The moon, apparently, smells like a gun after its been shot!

The coolest thing about it all is that the smell is actually what are left of dying stars- it’s literally the smell of stardust, and the particles smell like that because they’re so rich in hydrocarbons- something so very essential to life, and speculated by a lot of astronomers and astrobiologists and such to be the very thing life on earth started from!

another neat fact is that no two solar systems smell the same- ours smells like that because our solar system in particular is extremely rich in carbon, and other solar systems and places in the universe will have extremely different smells depending on what elements are most abundant in their system! 

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thinking about the r/minecraft post where a guy had just built a seemingly endless field of 1x1 wood plank towers. terrifying

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saw the hoodie somewhere and couldn't resist

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feeling normal about this also

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The spectral leviathan moved ever so slowly; it would be several minutes before its observers would see it disappear into the void of the deep, trailed by its billowing membrane. It would give them plenty of time to take in the view of such a being.

Some Sleipnir stuff. Hope its not too dark too see 😅 that’s just all their secrets surrounding them ooo

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Simon Fairchild, avatar of The Vast

Made with pastel and lots of blue and white ink

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“Do you want to go into deep sea or space?” NEITHER the Lord made me of and for the dirt. 

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went in the sea for the first time in 4 years today and she slapped me

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kill them with kindness? wrong, eldritch blast

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there's ghosts in there

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imo, figuring out your avatarsona is a two-pronged question and I mostly only see people focus on the first half.

the first half: what appeals to me? what fear do I instinctually understand and not need explained? when I'm at my lowest points, what behaviors do I always have to reign myself in from? what's that personality trait that I intellectually know is a flaw but just can't care enough about to change? what's that way I act that I know is wrong but feels too right for any argument against it to take hold in my mind? what fear could I see myself using as a tool?

the second half: what terrifies me? what stands out as the worst thing that could ever happen to me? what have I had nightmares about? if this fear came after me, what would I be willing to do to keep it from taking me? is there anything that horrifies me so much that I would wholeheartedly rather inflict it on to someone else than let it consume me? need it only threaten me with its presence in order to get me to do its bidding?

then you try to figure out which of those two answers holds more weight, which one needles you just a little bit more. and if both answers are the same, then, well, congratulations! you absolutely know your avatarsona!

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my favorite thing about tma has always been the avatars who love the fears they serve, who show that love so vibrantly that, for just a moment, they sway you into feeling like you could learn to love that fear the way they do. when jane prentiss said "not loved as you would understand it, a deeper, more primal love, a need as much as a feeling" and when jude perry said "as the heat warped my bones and bubbled my flesh, all i heard was the loving exaltation of my god" and when mike crew said "falling had always held a special place in my heart, that wonderful border between terror and delight" and when manuela dominguez said "and at his words i felt afraid, and my heart soared in terror and elation as my eyes brimmed with tears, for i knew he spoke the truth" and when hezekiah wakely said "i had never felt such safety as within the crushing weight of earth all around me, the pressing embrace of the buried." do you get me

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“Stop exploring the ocean!” = ❌🚫❎👎

“Stop letting rich people explore it for their own vanity and instead fund scientists who know what they’re doing down there, are exploring it for the actual betterment of humanity and their understanding of the world we live in, and won’t go down there in subs that havn’t been peer-reviewed to hell and back” = 🤘💙🆗✔️

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The Sleipnir Cloak Drifter

Another discovery made by the Ladder during their failed expedition to Tartarus. Its shadowy membrane obscures most of its body.