Mlmiii's Miscellany

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I love that once it runs out of hydrogen it starts fusing helium and keeps going up the periodic table until it hits iron. Once it fuses Iron, it’s dead. It can no longer fuse in a way that outputs energy, fusing Iron eats energy. Some stars die a slow death like ours will and then collapse into white dwarfs.

I think we all love when a star is big enough it creates a blast so strong that the heavier elements on the periodic table are created including gold and silver.

And best of all the dust left behind is the building blocks for planets. Our solar system exists because of the stars that died before us. But also stars created the elements used in our body and thus:

[ ArtFight 2026 ] [8] Doomsday Fih

This mindset is utterly foreign to me.

I have read both A Song of Ice and Fire and The Kingkiller Chronicle, such as they are, and am glad to have done so. It's not like they're all set-up and zero payoff. A lot happens in the books that exist. The plot covers a lot of ground, and various arcs begin and end. There's plenty of storytelling to enjoy, even without a big ending to the whole series.

The idea that you might deprive yourself a book you would otherwise enjoy, just because it doesn't have a sequel, does not make sense in my mind.

The idea that you would stop reading a series you have already started upon learning it is missing the final book, thus depriving yourself of even more sequels that already exist, makes even less sense.

The idea that you would then avoid series from an entire genre that you otherwise love, out of the fear that the sequels will stop coming, simply because they are the same genre as two series where that happened, makes even less sense.

The idea that this is such a widespread attitude that publishers are following suit and not accepting books from the same genre out of the fear that the same thing will happen? Even though in both cases the series were still a massive success and continue to sell plenty of copies?

They're genuinely such intelligent creatures. I wanna befriend one someday. They love giving gifts once they consider you a friend. I love collecting random junk and trinkets so thats like my dream.

Butterfly of the day Synchlora pulchrifimbria

Lionfish eel, gouache on paper.