propheticfire
Some New Wonder
I go by Prophetic Fire. Phire for short. Queer. Pronouns are a mess and honestly it would be ideal if I just didn't have them, but ze/zir and they/them are acceptable for general use. I do also sometimes refer to myself as she/her or he/him. I am hardly prophetic, but I am sometimes fiery. I'm a nerd. I don't always fit into neat categories. But none of us do, really. I am a fucking gorgeous dragon slayer. Metaphorically of course. We don't kill dragons in this house.This is what I live by: Find some new wonder every day.This blog's base is mostly Star Wars, Star Trek, and random shit. Come scream at me about Jeffrey Combs. Special shoutout to my first tumblr fandom, Deep Dish Nine. I write fanfiction. Sometimes. I'm always hoping to write more. If you'd like, you can check out my writing on AO3.Currently posting a lot of:- unabashed clone trooper love!!- Yu-Gi-Oh wonderfulness- Lord Viren virst- just random shitHere's my aesthetic blog!Check out my (unofficial) Dragon Prince voice acting project, Ask Viren's Ex-Wife!
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no multi option, agonize and choose, no results option, pick one to find out or scroll onward
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"no spam liking" stfu that's how i know my mutuals are alive smh
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I’m officially going to call these three the “My Hero Trio”
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Recently I have hit 400 followers here on tumblr!! So, I thought it might be fun to create a DTIYS challenge using my favorite ot3.
If you do this, please tag me!! I would love to see.
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your thoughts are valid and nice
Thank u, anonymous friend. That's very kind of you.
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Genuinely I do not understand how people find enjoyment in hurting their favorite characters and making them suffer. No I don't think they're bad people. But no I do not want an explanation of that thought process either. Even thinking about it is distressing to me. I would never tell anyone to stop doing that, but I just... Enough bad things happen in real life; I want my media engagement to be happy and soft. I want to take my favorite characters and tuck them into a cozy bed with warm blankets and a bunch of pillows and beverages of their choice and make sure they are content and safe. I am talking to some people in a fandom right now who love whumping on their faves, and we all have the same favorite characters lmao so I really enjoy talking with them when it doesn't involve the whump, but my god my heart has been in such pain recently because I am stumbling across the whump. I do not understand why so many people like this. All it does is make me sick. 😭
#Prophetic thoughts#listen I am very fragile#it hurts so much#I've written some angsty things in the past but I just...I just can't anymore#needed to vent about that; thanks for listening
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The other day, I went down the rabbit hole of "cute donkeys" and came up with my head full of things I didn't know about mules (the hybrid offspring of a horse and a donkey), and why they were once so coveted as work animals.
Brace for info dump, while enjoying this lovely photo of a trio of draft mules.
The explanation is hybrid vigour, when hybrid offspring have enhanced traits compared to its parents:
Mules are stronger, hardier, healthier, have better enduranve, harder hooves, sturdier skin and can handle extreme weather better than horses or donkeys. They are also more patient, more intelligent, and easier to handle than either of their parent species. Horses may be faster, but that's about the single thing they're better at than a mule of the same size.
So mules, being all around nicer to work with and getting you more work for the same amount of feed, and with less hassle, were preferred for just about every job purpose.
Habby du Magnou, a Poitevin Mulassier mare, and her daughter Lady du Magnou, a rare Poitevin mule
But since horses have 64 chromosomes and donkeys have 62, mules end up with 63 chromosomes, which means they are almost invariably sterile. That's because biology gets very confused when trying to split an uneven number of chromosomes neatly in half to create germ cells. There are a few documented exceptions of fertile mule mares (never stallions), but they are very, very rare. So you have to keep crossbreeding the two parent species to produce them, usually by breeding a donkey sire (jack) to a horse dam (mare). This is because it's easier for a 32 chromosome egg to incorporate a 31 chromosome sperm into a viable zygote (fertilised egg) than vice versa.
Because of this, there was (and still is) in France a breed of absolutely massive draft horses, the Poitevin Mulassier, and a breed of big-ass donkeys (pun intended, but honestly, it's arguably the largest donkey in the world, and it's shaggy like Highland cattle), the Baudet du Pitou, two breeds whose main purpose was to breed the enormous and super-strong Poitevin mule.
The Poitevin mule
This absolute unit was the must-have work-animal for all kinds of farm and industrial work for centuries, and a significant French export, until mechanisation made these magnificent creatures obsolete.
With no demand for the Poitevin mule , its parent breeds dwindled, almost to the brink of extinction. Determined conservation efforts during the last few decades are slowly bringing their numbers back up, but they're very far from their heyday, when some 20,000 Poitevin mules were born annually.
The Poitevin Mulassier
Both the parent breeds are still endangered, which means most of the current effort is directed into bringing up the numbers of Poitevin horses and Pitou donkeys. This means breeding horses to horses and donkeys to donkeys, with very few breeding opportunities allowed to produce the Poitevin mule. Only about 20 of those are born each year.
The Baudet du Pitou
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realizing that sticking to the "do it bad" "do it scared" mentality implies theres also a "do it bored"
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not to be a sap or anything but this particular piece of little mermaid trivia does something to me
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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1
The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.
So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.
So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.
Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.
And the probe is working again.
From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.
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