A Collection of Beauty

I reblogged this yesterday, but I want to reblog it again. Diabetic ketoacidosis turns your blood acidic and will essentially burn you from the inside out.

could die to this song easily

“She once thought that the damage to her mind and heart was permanent - until she met Wisdom, who taught her that no pain or wound is eternal. That ll can be healed, and that love can grow, even in the toughest places of her being.”

“Solitude is dangerous. It’s very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realize how peaceful and calm it is. It’s like you don’t want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy.”

for anyone (like myself) curious if this was real or not, it is! This photo was taken in the infrared spectrum, not in visible light, which explains both the high degree of illumination despite being on the night side of the planet (IR light shows heat, and Venus is very very very hot), and why the cloud layers look unusually well-defined for Venus. As a result of being in IR, this image is also using false-color, is cropped to focus on the planet, and it's been edited to really highlight the detail, but it's all still very much real, and the level of editing is well in line with that expected in astrophotography. Here's the original image, directly from JAXA's website:

Shakespeare