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Out of curiosity and also guilt over my own coffee intake. I wanna ask:
Now I'm not talking about when you're studying and so you drink 3x the usual amount or something like that. This isn't me asking what your record is. I'm talking about the most basic, average day, how many coffees you drink?
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local-magpie · 2 hours
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Arknights and stars
On that topic, Arknights has always had a connection to the stars and its own star map is a bit wonky if compared to earth now but makes sense if you see it in the great scheme of things.
From Astesia's file on, it's been implied that the dome that surrounds Terra is fake, and Kristen is the first one who has gone beyond it so far (traveling from Terra to beyond the dome). It's also said that the reason people cannot navigate the sea reliably is because the stars themselves aren't reliable.
But it's also a bit more concrete that the stars are a bit off, or, it would look like that.
Remember Children of Ursus? Everyone remembers its dark story but few remember the map layout.
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This is the Big Dipper, part of the constellation Ursa Maior. Fitting for an event that features bear characters.
But wait! Doesn't the Big Dipper look like this?
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It does. But the Big Dipper over 50,000 years looks like this...
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Like I pointed out in the previous post, the stars are always on the move. It may seem slow to us but if you take a large enough timescale then the sky sure does shift from what it's now.
Remember this skin of Astesia's?
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It sure is a pretty skin. But zoom in on the star chart and you'll find something...peculiar...
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Several constellations look...off. Like Leo, Virgo, Hydra and Gemini. And...
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The star that's marked as the North Star (i.e the star in the middle) is not Polaris, but Vega, the largest star in the constellation Lyra! Don't see it? Here, I'll make it a little more clear:
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And Lyra how it is now, which is, again, slightly different from how Lyra is depicted in the above image:
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Vega is not our current North Star, it's the star Polaris (duh). But Vega was in about 14,000 years ago, and will be again in about 12,000 to 13,000 years in the future. So not our current North Star.
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The celestial globe is also tilted at 45 degrees instead of 23,5 for earth.
So! A huge misser on the part of the artist, right?
Wrong!
You see, the ecliptic and equator in the artwork do obviously not align with our current ecliptic and equator. But our equator and ecliptic looking like in the skin can only happen if the precession of the earth's axis is tilted towards the south...which will be the case in 12,000 to 13,000 years from now. At that time, the constellations look will 'off' compared to how the look now (I was talking about the stars shifting over time in my previous post) and Polaris will no longer the be North Star, like in the artwork.
The kicker?
Lone Trail reveals that Terra is at least 13,000 years old.
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edited this in response to a stupid thing my mom sent me
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local-magpie · 2 hours
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people born in 24 Are 2000 now
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Can I be controversial for one sec
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they don't tell you this but btw you can search 'wyll ravengard' on google and get to see him.
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old sword and sorcery stories are always like, “he crushed her body to his” and i love that. was “crushed” really the most romantic word you could come up with, robert? look what you did to this poor maiden. you crushed her
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local-magpie · 3 hours
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Livin la penis smoka
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couldnt hurt to try
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local-magpie · 5 hours
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if any of y'all see posts about house m.d on tumblr and think "I wanna watch that" you need to know that you can skip episodes. i would argue skipping certain episodes is vital to having an enjoyable house experience. house md is one of my favorite shows and has been genuinely important to me as an autistic queer chronically ill cane user. it also revels in it's main character being offensive for the sake of being offensive with that special early 2000s flair. if you care about the concept of fatphobia you will be unable to have a uncomplicated relationship with this show. for every earthshatteringly homoerotic hilson moment and every profoundly accurate disabled scene we the viewers must pay in some insane misogyny. that's just how it is on this bitch of a show
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local-magpie · 6 hours
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OP thinks goyfriend means the boyfriend who looked like a girlfriend that i had in february of last year
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YOU ARE MISTAKEN
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local-magpie · 8 hours
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You know that Chris Fleming line that goes "Call yourself a community organizer even though you're not on speaking terms with your roommates"?
I honestly think every leftist who talks about the "revolution" like Christians talk about the rapture needs to spend a year trying to organize their workplace. Anyone who sincerely talks about building a movement so vast and all-encompassing that it overwhelms all existing power structures needs the dose of humility that comes with realizing they can't even build a movement to get people paid better at a badly run AMC Theaters where everyone already hates the manager.
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local-magpie · 8 hours
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you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?
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Another argument against outdoor cats is that sometimes it'll be raining at 1am and the wettest cat you've ever seen in your life will jump into your nice dry bed like "we need to snuggle RIGHT NOW"
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“Dunk”
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i think the reason the axel shouting "two?!" scene gets memed on so much isn't just because the application of saying "two" is so wide. it's because the whole fucking scene prior is this tense confrontation, where Roxas whips two Keyblades outta nowhere and Axel doesnt have a fucking clue he could do that. Axel seeing Roxas suddenly use TWO keyblades was so baffling that all he could think to do was shout "TWO?!"
#kh
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