NASA’s Juno spacecraft camera images processing

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Credit : NASA / JPL-Caltech /SwRI / MSSS / Jackie Branc

Jupiter Abyss

Photo by NASA, Juno, SwRI, and MSSS.

Jupiter by ‘Juno’ spacecraft in 2018

NASA / SWRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstadt / Sean Doran

I thinks is that the way of Lee acept april in the team again!

I taking this of toh lol.

I literally care more about ha-eon and choran than the main couple I'm sorryyyy like yes omg male leads it's so hardddd pining over a guy (woman) who doesn't know or care about your feelings. anyway (tosses them aside) ha-eon literally threw himself off a cliff and choran caught him immediately. they've both lived hundreds of years and lost countless loved ones; ha-eon is passively suicidal and constantly questioning the purpose of living for a thousand years, but choran only lives day by day solely because of the people who believed in him. they're so fundamentally different and don't understand each other...... but they've been companions this whole time.....

do NOT let me watch pushing daisies I will not be able to shut the fuck up about its lost potential

Something I find interesting as I delve deeper into different mediums of The Sandman is the way that Dream's appearance is used as a literary device. I don't remember whether I've discussed it here or not, but throughout the comics, his outfits serve as an indicator of his outward emotions and attitude while the style of the artist is often used to depict some aspect of his internal, unspoken emotional turmoil/peace. This carries over to the audiobook, though without the graphic aspect inherent to the original medium, it manifests in an interesting way through narration and further solidifies this interpretation of significance.

I had to start on Volume II for *cough* reasons, and the usage of detail is quite similar to other works by Gaiman, in that they are only included where it is important. He doesn't hit you over the head with scenery at every chance, it's carefully slotted into the scene at the points where it is most necessary and poignant, with the depth of these descriptions being directly tied to the importance that you, the listener, understand. We only hear that the random park is peaceful in the soundscaping because the park itself serves no purpose beyond that, but we get a couple paragraphs of description of Hell because it is vitally important we understand the scale and intensity of the horrors found there; setting is only acknowledged when it contributes to the narrative. This is echoed in The Sandman: Annotated, where we get some notes in the script regarding artistic choices—many of which are gestural, some of which are very detailed so that the artist may understand from this where their (and by extension the reader's) attentions must be drawn, which provides a sort of visual pacing.

To draw my point in a bit, Dream's castle follows this rule as an extension of his will and selfhood. It changes often to reflect what facet of himself he wants to convey outward most directly; appearing first as a rather low set, art nouveau affair with perhaps a silly bit of phallic imagery, then a gothic castle atop a mountain, most clearly establishing things when he puts it at the needlepoint top of a physically impossible peak covered in turrets and rooflines which jab into the air forbiddingly during Season of Mists as he contemplates the Key. When Dream is settled, the Dreaming is as well, when he is tumultuous, such follows. We don't get blow by blow descriptions, only when it is necessary.

Now that the visual language has been established and connected (insofar as I really can with the allotted mental energy for a tumblr post, however much of a passion project this may be, I am tired), it can be connected to Dream himself. His character design is very intentional, it reflects the post-punk, modernist take on its themes through his incredibly goth Look—he has the big, messy hair and impossibly white skin, dark clothes and dramatic fashion sensibilities—but beyond that, it reflects what feeling we are supposed to get from him. Morpheus' sense of self is ridiculously deeply tied to expectaction and perception of others, his entire personhood is based on what they expect. Despite this, to his infinite chagrin it seems, he has a personal identity sitting at his core that we see in his "natural" versus "put on" appearance (for lack of better terms): he's quiet and withdrawn but highly passionate and caring with all of the expected emotional regulation issues we would expect of someone with these temperaments they desperately repress; What he can control (clothes and hair) are utilized similarly to the castle, conveying his outward intention—think his driving outfit in Brief Lives versus his family dinner outfit in Season of Mists versus his final outfit in the Kindly Ones—where the things he cannot consciously seem to control are disguised by him, but utilized by art or narration to make a statement on his surroundings and feelings—think again of those outfits, of what his behavior means through that lens, what is conveyed through detail and silhouette.

What these more consistent physical attributes say is quite interesting, and quite revealing: Dream is not that scary. Sure his eyes will make you feel like you've stared down the cosmos and felt god touch your soul, but beyond that? Really? He's just a dude. A beautiful and strange one, but really nothing especially imposing. He's tall, but that effect is sort of diminished by his slight build. His face is angular and ethereal, but often careworn or haggard as well in a way I would compare to a very old and very poorly maintained stone statue. What this means to me is that Dream was never meant to be this frightening and imposing figure, that this was a choice made by the active individual we know exists because he is the one telling us about this all! A choice against his own nature that is concealed as often, swiftly, and mistakenly as his internal nature. This is, to conclude my point, supported by where these aspect of his appearance are given weight through art and narration. We only hear about his stature when he's sad or scared, only hear about his inhumanly pale skin when faced against the more beautiful aspects of personhood or mortality, only hear about his eyes when he uses them to scare or comfort.

These details of appearance are as woven into the narrative as any plot point, and used as any theme; which makes sense, he is the Prince of Stories afterall.

Pictured: why I’m going to be missing for a week 😔

My evil jigsaw trap: There are two options, Live and Sacrifice. Everyone who picks Live will win, but only if 51% or more choose Sacrifice. Everyone who chooses Sacrifice will lose no matter what.

bored + waiting at the doctor's does anyone wanna talk/throw prompts at me/literally anything. i have a series I'm trying to do for ranchers buuut I don't have setting ideas for a lot of them. I wanna talk hermitcraft secret life or honestly dsmp even tho she's long dead. or just. anything LOL

2-asteroids-in-1, seen for the 1st time this week by the Lucy spacecraft. The asteroid - called Dinkinesh - was assumed to be single when it was discovered in 1999. But Lucy got as close as approximately 270 miles (430 km) on Wednesday, revealing it as 2. By the way, Dinkinesh means marvelous in Amharic. Image via NASA/ Goddard/ SwRI/ Johns Hopkins APL/ NOAO. Read about Lucy's Dinkinesh flyby

IO – 🌔 JunoCam / 2024-02-03

NASA's Juno spacecraft camera RAW images processing

Io (Jupiter I) is the innermost and second-smallest of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter.

"New NASA photos offer a close look at Jupiter's fiery moon with erupting volcanos that dwarf anything on Earth", BUSINESS INSIDER, read more -> https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-close-up-photos-show-volcanoes-erupt-on-jupiters-moon-2024-2

Credit : NASA / JPL-Caltech /SwRI / MSSS / Jackie Branc © CC BY

love living on my own alone and doing normal things (spent 40 minutes pacing around the kitchen island listening to 1989 bc dancing too aggressively would piss off the downstairs ppl and I am a good and righteous neighbour)

batman unburied is still so good

I have had too much to drink

so nona didnt schlorp into gideon's body immediately after touching her, which im not actually surprised by, but... something seems to have passed between them.

pyrrha doesn't seem too bothered by any of this, so i wonder if im misunderstanding something and its still possible that gideon's soul is in nona. certainly I'm not sure where else it would be, other than lost forever which is just. Too shitty to contemplate, so i wont.

This whole book ive kinda treated all three possibilities of who nona is as plausible, but ive kinda stopped believing any of them, and now my brain is batting around new ones. Of the three im still leaning most toward Alecto, since nona very clearly does have some link to resurrection beasts (im pretty sure she was coughing up River water after the 'fake' blue madness episode), but now im wondering if its more complicated than that.

Specifically, im starting to wonder if nona is, not alecto, but the same kind of thing that alecto was. Which, based on my past assumptions, is something akin to an RB, a revenant created by a massive sudden die-off. And thinking about ones of those that might be tagging along with Harrow's body, the first besides Alecto that comes to mind is those two hundred ninth house kids. It's a much smaller scale than a planet, and im honestly not especially convinced of this theory, except... one of Nona's defining traits is being childish.