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I wanna talk about just how alone in the universe an object could possibly be
There are these areas of the universe rightly known as voids
These are defined as spaces between large scale structures in the universe that contain little to no galaxies. Now, though these voids typically have some matter in them, to an outside observer, they look completely or nearly empty.
Voids are typically 30 to 300 million lightyears in diameter, however the ones that aren't are the most interesting and are sometimes called supervoids.
Here's a map of some galactic voids. Every dot on that map isn't a star by the way, it's a fucking galaxy. That's how unfathomably massive these supervoids are
Empty voids so large, our entire planet, our entire solar system, is like a speck of dust in comparison
One of the biggest of these, the Boötes Void, is about 330 million lightyears across, or what is approximately 0.27% of the observable universe. It's colloquially known as the Great Nothing and contains only about 60 galaxies in a space that normally would have over 2,000
According to astronomer Greg Aldering "If the milky way had been in the center of the Boötes void, we wouldn't have known about other galaxies until the 1960s"
Here's an artist's rendition of what it looks like
It's just... nothingness.
Empty space
To put it in a bit more perspective, a lightyear is 9.46 trillion kilometers or 5.88 trillion miles. This void is 330 million lightyears in diameter. I can't even imagine just how large this empty spot in space is, and that's fucking awesome
So yeah space is big and empty but there's bigger and emptier things in that emptiness
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University Building, Viterbo
Supervoid, Leonori Architetti
2024
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There's just something so incredibly therapeutic about having your guts pumped full of water. The stretching of your intestines, the rush of cool fluid that you can feel reaching the deepest parts of your being. The tight swell as your belly grows to accommodate its load. The heavy weight of the liquid sloshing to and fro inside...
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/ I think that it’s very s.exy of d.aybit to be able to see things from a cosmic perspective and outside the universe as well as be able to see in detail its content
#;ooc#ooc#tw: spoilers#/he was not born this way though; or not that we know of so far#/this ability to see things from a cosmic perspective was granted to him once he made contact with a special artifact#m.arisbury recruited him bc of this; bc he needed someone cappable of viewing the universe in a way that no current mankind tech c#could be capable of doing#WHAT even is this dude#guy who was described as someone that seems to have an extremely low atomic density; as if he's an immaterial hollow#and also compared to a supervoid; something that seeems normal when observed up close but appears as nothing but darkness from far away#extraterrestrial space alien angel that can perceive the universe that is also ur bf
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i made a mistake in looking up different spiral galaxies in the universe and now i know things like galaxy filaments and how there's this one giant wall called the hercules-corona borealis great wall that's 11% of our entire universe??? and there's an unusually large cold spot supervoid that's part of what they call an axis of evil and they were just 'let's ignore it and hope it goes away'???? and the supervoid is just. a giant hole in the universe that might be 1 billion lightyears across????
it is making my brain cry!
star wars, please, stop making me have an existential crisis.
#pluto is only 0.000456308 light years away from the sun#ONLY that such large a number can be given as so small of one in comparison!#our solar system is only 3.2 light years to the outer edge of the oort cloud
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tfw you'll never get to hang out in the center of a supervoid
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This is the loneliest galaxy in the known Universe
Located smack in the middle of a supervoid, this galaxy has no known galactic neighbors for ~100 million light-years in all directions.
How different things would be over there instead of here!
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"Aequus: Pokémon Rainbow & Shadow" OFFICIAL Character Artwork!!!
Designs for Characters featured in "Aequus: Pokémon Rainbow & Shadow", and other affiliated works!
Below will be an ever edited document of all Official Pokémon in the order of the Pokédex!!!
Link to Story - https://archiveofourown.org/works/19466602/chapters/46336315
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Yuuyin Yuumen (Yuu) - "From Pokemon Assistant to Pokemon Master!"
1st Outfit
2nd Outfit
Professor Oscar Pine - "Professor specializing in Pokémon Domestification"
Yuu's Mom (Yuufuu Yuumen) - "Self-proclaimed 'wealthiest woman in all of Huoli'"
Genn Hong - "Pokémon Ranger turned Pokémon Trainer!"
Jyajy Myu Myu - "The Fashion Monster"
Guway - "The Yishu City Gym Leader"
Chongyun - "Number 'V' of Supervoid"
Vekros Grunts - "Injecting Pokémon, and terrorizing the region"
Chao Gaming - "Dragon-Spirited, and devoted to his Partner Pokémon"
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A One-Sided Chat
we know what the universe is
anything and everything we can ever know
matter, energy, forces
an infinity of atoms
a saddle-shaped blob
we know how the universe is
young and virile
burst from a singular point
smaller than the smallest thing
feverish, racing outwards
too hot to truly know itself
we know when the universe is
13.8 billion years and counting
slowly cooling
crawling
faster and faster
towards a fate unknown
we argue and argue as to where it will end
theories, hypotheses, whiteboards and chalk
whether it will tear apart
and all that we know will come undone in an instant
whether it will collapse
back into the speck it once was to be reborn anew
or whether it will grow dark
cold and dead
forever
a living thing is categorized in seven ways
we grow, from child to crone
we move, from cradle to grave
we breathe, from first gasp to last rattle
we see, from first light to last revelation
we consume, we excrete
we can even, if we choose, make another
stars explode
cells apoptose
nebulas spin threads of stellar dust into light
bone marrow gives birth to infant cells
the boundaries of time accelerate
like breathing lungs straining against ribs
i grow and i age
you grow and you age
and both will one day die
we know what, how, when, where
but we do not know why
why is a question for the philosophers
for the theologians
for the existential insomniacs to ponder
but even so, as we are here
i cant help but wonder
as to our purpose
the purpose of the cells
which senesce and dissolve
or the singularities that tear apart
the very laws by which they were made
i am a body of cells
you, body of stars
i am a body of organs
you, of nebulas and supervoids
i move, and so do you
the neurons within me think
and i think within you
i am living
you are living
and living things deserve a name
who are you?
#poem#poetry#writing#im so tired#and this is so messy#but like#do you think a cell realizes it lives in a body?#do you think a neuron realizes it lives in a brain?#if the universe can die then that means it is alive#if the universe can die then that means it can decay#it's a strangely comforting thought
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In the Supervoid
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daybit = a bit of the day, compressing in 5 minutes of an entire day worth of memories
sem = his father studying semitic tribes relics, the angel relic that erased his father out of existence and dismantled him on a molecular level and brought him back
void = qualified as a supervoid, present but dwelling in darkness and only seen from up close
now the interesting part
is that tezcatlipoca makes a conscious effort to never call daybit by “void” only once when stating his full name in the first part, otherwise it’s just, his daybit, his buddy, a visible attempt at rejecting the lack of humanity everyone has applied to daybit
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Every Poem Is My Most Asian Poem
Including the poems I have yet to write.
For example, the one about the two
gray pubes, discovered during last Tuesday's
trim. Or, the one about the fourth
hedgehog of the post-apocalypse. Or, the long,
tragic one about how the frenemy of your frenemy
is your frenemy. The short one that seems
to be about love, but is about
SUNY Geneseo. The one about my best friends who always
mistakes everyone for Anne Carson,
tentatively titled, "Why Canada Cannot Stop
Weeping." Of course,
there's the one that begins, Exquisitely
inquisitive, I wander with my well-moisturized elbows.
& ends, To aubergine or not to aubergine, that is
never the question. This great poem I will
never write, for I am too busy staring
at my graying or correcting my best friends. & in the end,
I only know the beginning & the end. Everything else
is a superlative question—a supervoid
I have come to view as my innermost joy.
—Chen Chen, from Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency
#Chen Chen#Every Poem Is My Most Asian Poem#poetry#in honor of AAPI Heritage Month#and defining 'authenticity' across a diaspora
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1, 8, 14, 24, 35 for Emperor/Nyx obvs :p
couples development questions.
1. What, specifically, was the catalyst for their physical attraction (if applicable) to the other character?
For this, we'll have to go back to the beginning. The very beginning of everything. (And we’re gonna have to cut out some details, but all the important parts are here.)
When the universe came into being via the Big Bang, so did the Emperor. It is believed that Azathoth, the oldest of the Great Family, made two things for her: the Old Machines and the Black Palace in the Eridanus Supervoid, where her true shape resides. Black veils separate her from everyone else, only allowing certain people to cross the threshold and touch her, not unlike the way Azathoth conducts his court.
From the primordial void came Chaos and from Chaos came Nyx. At some point, Nyx became estranged from her parent, seeking to forge her own path. During this time, she traveled to the Eridanus Supervoid, compelled by something that called to her, pulled at her mind.
When Nyx entered the Black Palace, she easily navigated it to find the Emperor in the palace’s core. She parted the black veils to gaze upon the entity and knew she wanted to be together with her, forever. As did the Emperor, who allowed the Night Incarnate entrance and permission to touch her; she knew she wanted Nyx to hers, forever. Love at first sight, kismet, destiny.
Finally in 2189 CE, at the conclusion of the Reaper War, Shepard ascended and her physical shape underwent its final transformation, her bodies and minds fully synchronizing, connecting. Nyx was there to witness the reveal of the Reaper Emperor, ready to take her place by the entity’s side. In her eyes, the Emperor is just as beautiful and handsome as her true shape, she was everything she wanted. Most importantly, the Emperor was all her’s. The Emperor marveled at Nyx’s beauty, just as she did back then, her chest aching at the sight of her beloved, her hands holding her face as her tentacles reached out to touch her, pulling her closer, confirming her own memory of every curve and every atom of softness.
After ages apart, they were finally together forever. Night and Extinction embraced, deeply, passionately, hungrily.
8. What do they think about romantic love? Do they have baggage surrounding it? Do they idealize it? Is it an object of longing and wanting, or were they really not thinking about it until they started falling for the other character? What are their expectations like?
Love is the ultimate force of the universe. More abundant than dark energy, greater than gravity, and can outlast even time itself.
Elder beings like the Great Family process and understand romantic love differently than humans or even organic life itself. Even though most of them have a spouse, their long existence has enabled them to experience love in an infinite number of forms, in an infinite number of timelines. For the Emperor, her family taught her the strength of romantic love, that it is a force to be nurtured and respected and indulged. Romantic love is an eternal furnace, one that gets only hotter with time, especially when one is with their soulmate.
I’d like to believe that Nyx has adopted this belief from her time amongst them during those early eons. It’s why she encourages Zagreus to pursue both Megaera and Thanatos. It’s the reason why she only cares that they are happy together. For Nyx, the notion that beings like the Great Family place such value on romantic love is comforting. It made enduring the time apart from the Emperor more bearable, for the wait was as torturous for her as it was for the Emperor-as-Shepard.
The Night and Extinction were made to be in love. What greater joy is there than being with the one who was made just for you.
14. What makes them feel loved? Would they build up the courage to ask for it?
They’ve known each other for so long that both the Emperor and Nyx have come to easily recognize when the other needs to feel loved. Sometimes it comes at the end of long cycles or when either is stretched thin. They don’t really need to verbally ask for it, they simply know and are comfortable with initiating when the other needs that extra reassurance or attention.
Nyx feels loved when she is in the Emperor’s arms, embraced by her entire being, tentacles and all. She is the Night, the eternal and endless darkness, the void of stars. The Night needs to be maintained by Extinction: stars must die in order for there to be new nurseries, life must be harvested so that new species are allowed to grow. They're relationship is all things: romantic, sexual, symbiotic. Nyx feels at home in the Emperor’s embrace, like a puzzle piece that fits perfectly with its companion. And there are times when Nyx never wants to leave the Emperor presence, happy and content in her arms and tentacles.
The Emperor feels loved when Nyx touches her, especially when she touches her face, her shoulders, her chest, her hands. Nyx’s slender fingers expertly know every ridge and pattern of the Emperor’s biomechanical shape, her beautiful voice whispering affections. Nyx's touch feels like a warm night, her hands guiding the Emperor, helping her focus. Sometimes all it takes is just Nyx holding her hand, but when paired with the many kisses placed upon her face, the black hole deep in the Emperor's chest cavity thumps and pulses like a real heartbeat.
24. What would their partner do that would really turn them on, perhaps unintentionally?
For Nyx, it’s the Emperor’s voice. That deep, Reaper machine-voice; cold, unemotional, unfeeling, measured, the sound of extinction, the voice of annihilation. It makes the inside of Nyx’s chest vibrate with a blooming warmth. Especially when the Emperor is only talking to her and in close proximity, the voice gets lower, a little softer around the edges but still that same eternal sound.
That when added onto the sheer size of the Emperor (who is around 2 ft taller than Nyx), the Night Herself finds it very difficult to concentrate on anything else. Sometimes the feeling is so overwhelming and if Nyx is away from the Ziggurat, she’ll summon her wife so she can get some much needed satisfaction and relief. (You have no idea how many times Nyx has summoned the Emperor during working hours so they can have a quick fuck session. Explains why she's missing from the hallway most of the time.)
35. Would they get a pet? What kind? Who brings up the idea, and who takes a little longer to convince?
I mean, besides the Hound of Tindalos?
Nyx very much likes the Hound and the Hound likes her return. Such a shame that it’s not allowed in the House of Hades by decree of the Grim Lord himself. (A three-headed dog is fine, but an eldritch dog that inhabits the angles of time and devours things with its weird proboscises? That’s too much, apparently.)
I think the Emperor wouldn’t mind if Nyx brought back some of those projellies, matis, and voidskates to the Ziggurat. She could make an aquarium room just for them to swim around, and for just the two of them to enjoy taking care of them.
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