I always found shoes a bit of a mystery so I did a section just on them. It all gets down to that hump around the toes and then bending the toe-area and not any other part of the foot when adding heels.
I’m going to work on the landscape of the back next and then we’ll see!
A foggy morning on one of the most remote and beautiful roads in America. I feel very lucky to have spent 4 months living here in a tent last summer. (at Alaska)
I don’t think most people realize how terrifying the Moon Landings were. They look back at it, and see this great achievement in human spaceflight but don’t grasp the gravity of the situation. (No pun intended)
OP mentions Michael Collins, who is often forgotten. He was the third member of the Apollo 11 mission, who manned the Command Module whilst the other two landed with the Lander Module. People might hear that and thing he got the short end of the stick, but honestly… I’d argue the opposite. At 20:17:40 UTC on Sunday July 20 1969 the Landing Module touched down on the Moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldren spent 21 hours, 36 minutes on the surface of the Moon before beginning ascent to rendezvous with Michael Collins in the Command Module.
This is where things get unnerving. The thruster used on the Lunar Ascent Propulsion System used a hypergolic fuel, which is a fuel that spontaneously ignites when the fuel and oxidizer meet. Hypergolic fuels are useful for when spacecrafts need reliable ignition or repeated ignitions, however they’re nasty things. The specific fuel used for this thruster was a mixture of Aerozine 50 and Dinitrogen tetroxide. These are incredibly toxic, and more importantly incredibly corrosive. In fact, they are so corrosive that once you fire an engine you essentially have to completely rebuild it in order to reuse it. This means that the engine on the Lunar Ascent Propulsion System had never been fired before.
That engine was their bridge home. If it failed, they would be stranded on the surface of the Moon. As mentioned the Moon Landing lasted roughly 22 hours. For twenty two hours the two astronauts were on the moon, completely unsure if the never-before fired thruster would even fire up. Completely unsure if they’d be able to go home.
This picture shows the entirety of the human race on January 21st, 1969. All of it except the man who took it, that is. Micheal Collins stayed back on the Command Module during the mission to await Aldrin and Armstrong’s return… or potential lack thereof. This earned him the title “The Loneliest Man in the Universe”. For about 50 minutes for each orbit around the Moon Collins would be out of contact with the earth. That means for about 50 minutes during each orbit he’d have no way to contact any other human, completely alone over 230,000 miles from earth. For roughly 50 minutes during each orbit Collins had no clue whether his fellow astronauts were still alive, and them not returning was a very real possibility. Orders were in place that if the other two could not return to the command module that Collins would return alone.
This wasn’t just some disaster protocol either. This was a very real possibility. Both the astronauts, and NASA were very much prepared for it to happen. So much so that Richard Nixon, the president at the time, had a speech prepared if it were to happen. It doesn’t sugar coat it. It starts off
“Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery.“
If that isn’t bone chilling, then I’m not really sure what is. People often romanticize space exploration, but back then, and even today, well… this is the reality of it. All of that is what astronauts go through.
what show have you watched where you are like “oh yeah season 7 definitely was the best one”
the thing is– there are shows when they get past season 6 or 7, does get better because somewhere there the writing crews tighten up again and its like the show changed its game and the show gets new viewers starting off from that season onwards.
tl;dr quality fanfiction later seasons are the best
Season 1 is finding your groove.
Season 2 is trying to replicate your S1 successes.
By S3, you’ve figured out the optimal recipe, and and you can really start paying off things you’ve set up in the first two seasons. This is why in 5-year runs, season 3 is often held up as a highlight.
But then you get a giant writer turnover. The loyal audience has spent more time with and has a better feel for these characters than the new writers do, unless you have fans of the show coming in as the new writers, as Leverage did. It’s essentially another sophomore season, and S4-S5 an entire sophomore phase for longer-running shows, as the new writers find their bearings. Worse, the showrunners have probably spent the initial character arcs that originally inspired them in S3, so they start messing with the format and the relationships to see what creatively shakes out. This is why so many S4s take that “main cast starts to drift apart” season arc route that can make sense narratively, but fans really hate.
So by S6, you either have worked out the kinks yet again, or you have another writer turnover, but the show has been going long enough that the probability of your third phase of writers being fans of the show and knowing what they want out of it is much higher. Hence their tendency to go back to the roots of what made S1-S3 work. That, and the showrunner has generally worked out the worst of their “Ooh, let’s see what happens if we TEAR THE ENSEMBLE CAST APART WITH ANGST” impulses out of their systems, and pace things at one break-up at a time, along with a build-up somewhere else, instead of a simultaneous cascade of destruction. Because hey, it’s season 4, according to 5-act structure we’re due for a spiral season that’s obviously a great idea! 8D
See also this post. Using the previous timeline, most shows complete their initial community-building arc by end of season 3. (“We’ve graduated high school!”) In order to continue without just feeling like masturbatory epiloguing, they have to evolve the show into something else, create a new trajectory for each character their relationships, and the overall plot. Again, many shows make the mistake of going from a community-building arc to a community death-and-rebirth arc, which is powerful but still requires a death section that fans will all hate. So that third phase of S6+ is, as the article puts it, after having restabilized the cast from a team to a family, exploring what that family means, which is always going to be more enjoyable to watch on a paced viewing basis than said breaking the team up to make them a family instead.
That, or S6 is the start of a complete reset of 5-act structure, so we’re back on mostly positive build-ups through the next round turning points.
This would actually explain how uneven the season 4 of Person of Interest. Season 4A was fantastic and then with the loss of Shaw, and probably behind the scenes, Nolan focusing on his new shows and ventures there’s less of a guiding hand to the writing? I imagine POI had two showrunners for a reason.
XV. The Devil – Power of possession, manipulation but also vitality, strength, creative power, sensuality, humor Anubis – God of the dead, mummification, guide in the underworld, the one who weighs the hearts
So. Hello, Reyes, you shady bastard.
I went crazy with the symbolics. I mean. There is too much of it in this character and I couldn’t resist. The tarot, his past, his … call it present/possible future. Mixed all of it together. I know that Anubis isn’t really the representative of the Devil, but. I just went for it anyway, because the card suits Reyes’ character too well. ❤
Also no, I certainly didn’t think I’d dust my old Book of the Dead off to look for references for a scifi fanart. Aka I was looking for the goddamn heart, because I had no idea how to draw it. Hahah.
i'll apple your turnover 