incident outside of mess hall, 2 casualties reported
person of interest (2013) // 3.06 “mors prematura”
► the first time root ever asked shaw to trust her.
Tom Paris, Best Pilot You Could Have
tbh i don't really get why we divide the oceans into different oceans because they're all connected it's the same ocean
no metaphor here just pure confusion...is there a line where one ocean stops and another begins? or is it like a smooth gradient of percentages of one ocean shading into another ocean?
Yes, there is a line. There are confluences you can see and touch and they are NOT subtle in the slightest.
That's the Atlantic and the Caribbean on a particularly pronounced day.
This is the Indian and the Pacific. It's not always this obvious everywhere but the dividing lines are very much there.
Oceans have their own properties as far as temperature and salinity and unless something like a storm or a current forces them to mix they won't. Mostly this applies to vertical mixing and it gives you things like thermoclines and haloclines but water is wierd and won't mix horizontally either.
The ocean basins tend to have their own currents that go in a circle and define that ocean, and those patterns mix the water within that ocean. Like a washing machine.
The Caribbean has a little loop of its own that not on this map, but that current keeps that ocean pretty internally consistent. It's got clear warm water because of the shallow bowl of limestone sand it sits in. Where it meets the Atlantic with wildly different conditions the water is traveling in opposite directions, and it acts kind of like an oncoming lane of highway traffic. Species that have adapted to a narrow band of temperatures and salinities (most fish) can't cross, while species with a stronger homeostasis hang out there on purpose, (marine mammals, turtles, sharks). Plankton, that cannot control their horizontal movement in the water column, are held in their home territories by these barriers.
so this is the first inktober i’m not completely happy with, but i’m 11 for 11 so far and i’m not gonna break my streak! also! xena and gabrielle because it’s national coming out day!
just a little note- i’ve seen a lot of people say “happy national coming out day blah blah blah you’re still valid if you’re not out yet” and the “yet” really bothers me. you don’t have to come out to everyone, you don’t have to come out to only some people, you shouldn’t feel pressured to come out at all if you don’t want to, it’s bullshit. your identity, gender/sexual/romantic is your business and nobody else’s… just a little note to anyone that’s not “out”
i love you and of course you’re valid as FUCK
I offer you TOS crew as animal crossing villagers
The bridge of the U.S.S. Dauntless NX-01-A from the Voyager episode "Hope and Fear", from The Official Star Trek Fact Files.
Although this ship was actually an alien vessel disguised as a Starfleet ship in a bizarre revenge plot against Janeway for indirectly getting an entire species assimilated, Starfleet apparently later built a "real" U.S.S. Dauntless NCC-80816 which Admiral Janeway commands on a mission to find the U.S.S. Protostar and Captain Chakotay in Star Trek: Prodigy. It looks very similar externally and even has a near-identical bridge.
darkfxrce
No, that’s a pain shared by all those who live with even half-open heart.
Yazoo - “Nobody’s Diary” Fetenhits: The Real 80′s Song released in 1983. Compilation released in 1999. Electropop / Synthpop / New Wave
OK, first of all, let’s clear up some of the inevitable confusion. Yazoo is Yazoo in the UK, but in North America, they’re Yaz. That’s because there was a record label called Yazoo that wouldn’t allow the pair to use their name. There was also a small American rock band whose name was Yazoo, too. So that’s one thing. The other is that Yazoo/Yaz is not Yazz. Like Yazoo/Yaz though, Yazz is also British and made 80s pop music, but Yazz is just one person. (Also, as this is a blog that writes a lot about electronic music, I feel like I should mention that Yazz’s partners in crime, The Plastic Population, are also the inimitable duo of Coldcut, the breaks and trip hop pioneers who gave us the Ninja Tune label.) Furthermore, Yaz is the nickname of Boston Red Sox slugger Carl Yastrzemski, a guy who had 3,419 hits and 452 homerus in 23 seasons! He’s not Yazoo/Yaz either! And Yaz is also the brand name of a birth control pill that contains drospirenone that may also be used for other indications! That’s not Yaz/Yazoo either! And don’t even get me started on the Yaz culture from present-day Iran that existed in the Iron Age or the Yazoo Brewing Company in Tennessee or the Yazoo lawnmower company or the Native American Yazoo tribe from Mississippi or the milk-based flavored beverage from Belgium called Yazoo or the character Yazoo from Final Fantasy VII or the multiple US Navy ships called Yazoo or the YAZ programmer toolkit for development of Z39.50 clients and servers, because none of those are Yazoo/Yaz! Just three different letters, y, a, and z, and yet so many different meanings. And for the rest of this post, rather than refer to them as Yazoo/Yaz, I’m just gonna call them what they always intended themselves to be called, and that is Yazoo.
So who is Yazoo then? Well, they’re an early 80s electropop / synthpop / new wave duo that consisted of Vince Clarke, who had just left Depeche Mode after posting their debut album and four fantastic singles at the time, and Alison Moyet, a soulful singer who would go on to achieve a whole lot more with a solo career. The two actually went to the same Saturday music school as kids but had never spoken to each other before teaming up as 21 year olds. However, they were certainly aware of each other’s existence. Moyet’s first guitarist in her first band just happened to be Clarke’s best friend.
In 1981, Moyet, who was a punky pub rock type, placed an ad in Melody Maker looking for someone to collaborate with, and Clarke, who had just left Depeche Mode, was looking to take part in a new project that would allow him to stay on Depeche Mode’s label, Mute. He had seen Moyet sing before and loved her work. And he was also the only person who responded to her ad. Moyet wasn’t expecting someone all that famous to take her up on her offer and she didn’t much care for Depeche Mode, but she decided to do it anyway. Clarke had proven successful and she decided that she wanted to make music with someone who had actually managed to do something with their career, unlike seemingly everyone else she knew.
Immediately, Clarke had a piece of music for Moyet to sing over, and then the demo was brought to Mute, and all of a sudden Yazoo had their first single on their hands, “Only You,” which hit #2 in the UK. Together, Clarke and Moyet would spawn two albums, Upstairs at Eric’s, followed by You and Me Both, in a matter of 18 months, with the four singles they released in the UK going to the top 20, and three of those hitting the top 3.
But that was it. Despite the fantastic electronic pop music that paired soulful, deep, bluesy vocals with cheery, Kraftwerk-inspired, layered melodies, Clarke and Moyet didn’t get along. Clarke was shy and held all his anger in and Moyet was the opposite. Clarke wanted to break the relationship off after one album, but then thought better of it. He thought he’d look like a real pill jumping from project to project after being in a group and doing only one album and then leaving. So Yazoo made their second album, but they knew it was over before they finished recording it. Clarke would build the beats and melodies in the morning and Moyet would swing by at night to record the vocals. There was no active collaboration.
But whatever, man. The shit still bopped. You and Me Both’s only single, “Nobody’s Diary,” went to #3 in the UK and #1 on the US dance charts. It was a little more subdued than their previous output, sure, but the song still rules. Yazoo’s formula was simply implacable at the time. Despite the fact that Clarke and Moyet didn’t get along, they still managed to spin absolute gold. And here’s a nice little quote from the biography section of Yazoo’s website:
Yazoo were Kraftwerk through the looking glass - this was electronic pop made by humans, not machines.
And that’s because while Kraftwerk and many electronic groups that came after them, from Daft Punk to thousands of techno acts, did everything they could to present themselves as robots or faceless machines, Alison Moyet was in Yazoo to provide that contrasting human element that machines still have yet to figure out how to accurately and convincingly replicate.
Clarke was the machine and Moyet was the soul. That was made even more apparent in the video for “Nobody’s Diary” as Moyet sang like a human with natural emotion and Clarke stood as still and emotionless as possible as his fingers played his shoulder-strapped synthesizer as if he had been programmed that way by a microchip that was implanted into his skull before the video was shot.
Yazoo had a real, unique “ghost in the machine” kind of vibe with their music; the bionic woman; woman and machine. You get the idea. It was captivating fun.
And that shit was foundational, too. It was a long time coming of course, and a lot happened in between, but the late 2000s/early 2010s that gave birth to that female-led indietronica / electropop / dance-pop boom that had acts like Phantogram, Purity Ring and La Roux owes a debt of gratitude to Yazoo. Yazoo ended up laying the initial groundwork so those acts could thrive decades later. They were the first group to so transparently pair the emotional female vocal with that machine-like, Kraftwerkian, electronic pop sound. They definitely inspired groups like LCD Soundsystem, too.
Starting off minimally with its first verse, “Nobody’s Diary” is a song that begins to realize itself when Clarke decides to bring in his drum machine and a bassline. With those pieces in place, he sandwiches Moyet’s lightly peaked choruses with simple and catchy coasts of leading melodic twee. It’s just as well, too. Who knows if Clarke and Moyet ever talked about how to go about doing this song, but his childlike, nostalgic melodies serve this song really well since Moyet wrote the lyrics when she was only 16, before even her first sexual experience.
The last thing I’ll add is that Vince Clarke is an absolute master of pop songcraft as someone who just uses synthesizers and drum machines to make his music. He conjured up such a smooth, enjoyable, nuanced ride for this one. It’s just so good. I won’t call it timeless since it’s definitively 80s, but goddamn, does it still go. After Yazoo, Clarke would extend his career indefinitely as half of the even more successful synthpop duo, Erasure.
But Yazoo cannot be ignored. Such a formidable, yet unfortunately fleeting electropop / synthpop / new wave force. So influential in so many ways and such a small catalogue. Wish they gave us more, but at least they gave us some.
Just some cute k/s things from the 80s DC comics:
*Excessive hand holding* - ummm 🥵
‘You came back for me once Jim... I have no doubt you will do so again.’ - wow okay 😳
‘All I can think of is Spock’ - excuse me !!?? 😵 !
‘…But how is Jim?’ - sobbing 🥲
Art (c) rabbitsvyt - Photo (c) yurasov_vitaliy
Maksym Kolesnikov, a Ukrainian soldier liberated from Russian captivity, has admitted that he has not held fresh fruit in his hands for a whole year. At first, the man was fearful of trying it.
i'm like- 80% sure no one's done it yet.
Continuation ajahsj cause I thought about it.
When I drew the second drawing I wanted to caption it like "Tangled up with you"
And when I did the last one, I wanted to write "You are my gift" so I wrote both now
2.25 “Resolutions” // 4.02 “The Gift”
This seemingly tiny gesture spoke SO much ❤️ Made the episode for me.
UhM, I would like to drop my Lumity kiss fanart I did tonight on my dash :)
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another-exclus
Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.
lythelia-art
But queer is more inclusive
And faster to pronounce if you are talking instead of writing.
another-exclus
It’s not more inclusive, and if your excuse of using a slur as a blanket term is “it’s faster to say”, GENUINELY what is wrong with you
It’s called economía del lenguaje.
savethelesbians
It’s also the respected academic term?? The acronym isn’t static and it’s usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.
Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.
Like yeah if you’re talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if you’re talking about more than one identity or someone who doesn’t conform to our perceptions of ‘LGBT,’ or a person or people whose identity you don’t know, queer is just the better word.
“That’s SO gay”, “Oh my god, you’re not a LESBIAN, are you?”
Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?
I’m here, I’m queer, go fuck yourself.
queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid
every time one of you fools spout about ‘queer is a slur’ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word ‘taboo’ is fucking working you dipshit.
I did not get my degree in queer literature for you all to keep pulling this bullshit.
baby gays,,,, i beg of you to learn your queer history and stop listening to terf bullshit
every single one of our labels has been used as a slur against us.
terfs and -phobes are always going to try and hurt us with what we identify as. but the fact remains these are OUR labels and always have been.
we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.
I don’t know if this is just because I’m not American but I’ve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didn’t like was ‘soo gay’. Queer wasn’t even a word most of us knew back then.
It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.
The reason people are upset about the word queer is that it’s a unifying term. You can say you’re queer and all people will know is that you’re part of the community. But you can’t say you’re LGBT, you have to say you’re gay or trans or ace. They don’t want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other “gay” as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether “gay” is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.
