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“I’ll find you in the morning sun

And when the night is new

I’ll be looking at the moon

But I’ll be seeing you”

This isn’t the first song NASA sent Opportunity. They had a playlist:

https://www.space.com/41434-mars-rover-opportunity-wakeup-music-playlist.html?fbclid=IwAR3uL6q4tOmLQTIEhiwYegGc99nv4N01HQKItpCLQiQYIptBOevNN6uIyT8

It’s on Spotify, it’s called “Opportunity, wake up!“

This is what’s great about NASA and it’s what’s great about people. These are world-class engineers. When they sent a rover to another planet they could have easily looked at it as just another scientific tool. But people don’t do that. We can and will get emotionally attached to the most inanimate of objects. We can and will anthropomorphize anything. And frankly Opportunity’s camera mast looks like a little face with eyes and everything, so why not?

So they started calling it her.

They nicknamed her Oppy.

They told her to take a selfie not long ago.

After 15 years of Oppy flipping the double bird to her original 90 day life expectancy, when a planet-spanning dust storm finally knocked her out and she stopped responding to the engineer’s wake-up messages, they started playing music for her.

And after 8 months and almost 1000 unanswered wake-up messages, when it was finally clear that Oppy was never going to wake up, the last thing these world-class NASA engineers did for their little rover on another planet

“hey guys we’re going to try the grimace shake, happy birthday grimace! :D”

and then it cuts to them just twitching laying on the floor looking possessed covered in purple goo and then we hear neteyam behind the camera giggling because this is such a stupid idea lmao

"Hangin' in there, babygirl?"❤️

"Norm, don't you have shit to do?"

"Research, Jake. I'm capturing the Mighty Toruk Makto in his natural form. Which is adorable."

"Uh-huh. Kiss the dark side of my blue -"

PHOTOS BY NORM

What happens when Neytiri's on patrol? Jake rocks baby slings as Olo'eyktan.

Decided to design Na'vi!Payakan’s mother because *angst*.

I named her Rut'ani. D:

Someone mentioned this in asks but I love the idea that the Na'vi!Tulkun are tall. If regular Na'vi are 9-10 feet(thats in the Avatar Guide) then in this au Na'vi!Tulkun are 11-13 feet.

pairing: neteyam x f!reader feat. lo’ak and kiri (platonic)

summary: while discussing sleeping arrangements with lo'ak, you may have unintentionally revealed more than just the reason why you don’t want him to sleep next to you.

word count: 1.9k

warnings: some vulgar speech, humor, and fluff.  

note: this was requested. 

“Can’t you sleep somewhere else?”

Beneath the moonlit sky, one could hear love’s melody softly sigh upon your inquiry as the forest was bathed in its usual nocturnal glow, and you found yourself nestled in the embrace of your comfortable hammock, watching Lo'ak’s silhouette as he prepared to settle in the hammock beside yours. The night air was crisp, yet a subtle tension lingered between the two of you, and not the good kind. 

Lo'ak, it seemed, had been plagued by restless nights for quite some time, his limbs flailing about in chaotic patterns. The stories shared by Kiri during the evening meal about how she always ended up with his elbow in her face, revealed a comical yet somewhat bothersome side to his nocturnal escapades. You had no desire to witness his flailing limbs firsthand or become an unintentional victim of his sleep-induced antics for you had just recently learned about that, and as much as you loved your friend, that was a line you didn’t wish for anyone to cross. You were definitely not interested in learning this side of him.

“Oh, how fucking mean!” Lo'ak exclaimed in a characteristically loud manner, his words echoing through the stillness of the night.

“Language!” A distant voice reprimanded him with a stern reminder about his choice of words. Though you couldn’t discern the exact source of the admonition, it bore a familiar tone, possibly belonging to his father. The forest seemed to hold its breath, as if even nature itself acknowledged the significance of the moment.

You cannot tell me Neteyam wouldn't be wild for even a night after his iknimaya, he's been good for so long, give him a break 😭