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Unlike Earth, where sunsets are red and orange due to the scattering of shorter blue wavelengths by our atmosphere, Mars has an extremely fine dust that scatters blue light more efficiently near the Sun.

So during sunset on Mars, the sky turns reddish-brown while the area around the Sun glows a soft blue. It’s the opposite of what we experience on Earth.

NASA’s rovers have captured this eerie sight

[ID: Photos of a relief sculpture of a leaping horse, inspired by the palaeolithic cave paintings of Lascaux. The horse starts as a painting at the rear and is completely three-dimensional from the shoulders, so it appears to be emerging from the block of clay. Following behind the horse and wrapping around the back of the block is a painting of another horse. Each photo shows a different angle. End ID.]

she was originally created in 1970 as a blanket appaloosa, labeled simply 'indian pony'. after being made as an appaloosa the mold has mainly been portrayed as one in future releases, however she also has been a mustang, a paint, an arab, and.. hidalgo :0?! ("stunt double" was a breyerfest exclusive who wears the same exact pattern as the hidalgo model, as if she is his double hence her name!)

i dont know what it is exactly i love about her but ip has such a kind and soft face and her pose is so alive but subtle. when it comes to vintage molds breyer can be hit or miss, but i find IP to be so lively, like shes lifting one hoof and turning her head to greet you in a wind-swept field :)

i have 2 right now- the 2000s appaloosa and sundance, 1999 limited run, and i plan to collect a whole conga but im saving all my cash for breyerfest right now (i might find some more models of her there!)

my dream ones to add to my collection are isabella the vintage club dapple, savanna dial the pinto with feathers, stunt double the hidalgo mimic, and mustang lady !

(all pictures taken from breyerhorseref, the best website ever)

thanks for reading all this. i will be back (perhaps to talk about old timers next time)

What a charming mold! I'll admit I've never really looked at her much, but this post made me see how lovely she is. I wish you luck in finding the rest of your conga!

Fictional small town in the middle of nowhere in real country: par for the course in any genre

Fictional major city in real country: standard fair, but it's usually clearly based on a real city

Fictional suburb of real major city in real country: strange but I can see the application

LadyNoir - Too Close, by Aurora Lynne

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

I remember an Expanded Universe comic set immediately after RotJ where Leia tells Luke words to the effect of "Vader literally had me tortured and blew up my homeworld. What, am I supposed to feel kinship with him just because I discovered he's my dad yesterday?"

The important thing that happens in Return of the Jedi is that the Emperor dies and the planet-killing superweapon gets blown up. Vader spent the last two hours of his life doing something good after 25 years of genocide, mass murder and torture, and even then, it was partly out of vengeful hatred. Vader fucking hated Palpatine for a quarter century and never had the spine to do anything about it. It was only after his own son was being tortured to death in front of him that he chose to act - and he'd cut off the kid's hand like two years before that! That's not a fucking redemption arc.

So one, yes, absolutely it is entirely correct to take issue with Darth Vader's apparent forgiveness by the Force, there is no need for Leia to accept him as her father or to feel anything for him besides hate and contempt, redemption takes more than turning back for a couple of hours and then getting out of culpability by dying, all fair.

That said: the original trilogy is Luke Skywalker's story and the story of Luke Skywalker, on a meta level, is about being a young adult in the 60s and 70s who did not experience WWII or the depths of fascism personally, but who grew up with gaping familial wounds - family members who you never knew but who older people refer to or talk around, people they compare you to, figures who other children had in their lives but you didn't. Someone who as a child was given fantasies of heroes fighting daring battles, who was told it was all about nationhood and fighting for your people and the course of civilization, someone who internalized those principles as guiding lights for their own morality and who they want to be... and THEN finding out when you become an adult, and are permitted to know about the horrors, that it is not just honor and glory in your heritage, that you, 70s white boy, may have evil and darkness and the corruption of all your values as a potential to fall into just as your father did, the temptation to hate and cruelty and domination and atrocity. And the absences in your family are maybe not just because of death, of noble sacrifice, but perhaps instead because those people who shared your blood became monsters, severed from their family because of their terrible actions, and still live as awful hateful versions of themselves, enslaved to evil, and that could be you.

And what do you do with that? Will you strike your father down with all of your hatred, when the thing that corrupted him by his hate for its own ends is sitting there grinning and laughing, waiting to do the same to you? Is violence the answer against that creature, infinitely better at taking advantage from violence than you are? Or will you just die - and even just walking away here means death, sooner or later - and let the evil persist?

Or will you, privileged young person with ideals and hopes, with a family member who has done terrible unforgivable things but who still holds affection for you, make use of that affection to tempt them to just turn their back on that evil for a moment, the thing it will never expect from the person it made its slave for longer than you've been alive? Neither you nor he can pay back the crimes of those years, but perhaps you can stop the evil, here and now, from going on.

So you do that. And what is your reward? Is it appropriate for Luke, whose whole story has been about becoming the ideal he grew up admiring and defeating the evil that ideal had the potential to become, both halves of it embodied in the being of his father, to come back to his friends and then have the universe say to him 'your father was unredeemable, and had nothing good enough in him to deserve peace in death'? Or to say there was a darkness lifted from him, and a light restored?

It doesn’t mean people will forgive you - hell no. The things Vader did were unforgivable, and he knew that. But because of that, he believed the only path left was to keep committing atrocities, to wallow in self-hatred and anger for decades and take it out on the galaxy. He says it himself: “It’s too late for me, son”.

But what Luke shows Vader is that we ALWAYS have a choice: To be a better person, and to choose compassion. Anakin doesn’t kill the Emperor out of hatred, or even because he thinks it’ll make up for anything he did: He knows nothing ever will. He chooses to save Luke, and break the cycle of violence because it’s the right, kind thing to do.

Vader/Anakin isn’t fully redeemed by the end of Return of the Jedi: He simply takes his first step back into the light. Obi-Wan and Yoda chose to give him that second chance, but that was their decision to make. The people you hurt are by NO means obligated to forgive you - but you should still strive to be better regardless.

And at the end of his life he took the terrifying step of freeing himself from it in a desperate effort to prevent a loved one from suffering. Should he have done that before? Absolutely. Could he have? I doubt it.

Few people---thankfully---are given the necessity of enduring their own failures at such a magnitude. It is NOT always easy to be good, and sometimes someone puts real effort into making it seemingly impossible. Humans often fail in that regard. Often.

But he saved the galaxy from the NEXT twenty years of the rule of the Sith, the absence of the Jedi, the overwhelm of the Empire, the destruction of more planets by the Death Star.

The fact he didn't save the galaxy from the FIRST twenty years of it doesn't erase that.

Leia doesn't have to forgive him, or see him as her father. But the message of Star Wars is, as stated above, that you're never too late to do better. Even, or perhaps especially, if you think it can never be enough.

Hell, sometimes the previous failure is what puts you in place to be a current success at it. Just as Han Solo's departure from the battle of Yavin let him enter the battle completely unexpectedly and land the hit that saved Luke from Vader in the trench run, Vader's presence as the Emperor's second-in-command and Sith apprentice, his loyalty to the Empire unimpeachable, put him in a position to successfully kill the Emperor---and, being the other Sith himself, to end their reign.

Our fucked up dolphins

Our fucked up porcupines

Our fucked up snakes

This

this mafia/assassin AU that seems to come back every once in while because I love feligami part 2, part3

Also bonus comic below because I didn't want to end it on a sad note so I drew this later:

Impatiently waiting to see their LuckyCharms in the new animation, I think we haven't seen them yet so far in s6? Also waiting for my girlypop Marinella to spill the beans about the Secret. From the 'Sadnansi' trailer it looks like there might be an interesting scene where she's going to tell him something she's sad about (we dunno what)... Excited for the episode regarless, as it seems Alya is gonna do some investigations and we'll see BugNoire in the new artstyle!!!!!💥😆

"Fall For You"🌕

Redraw of this scene in the movie, but with the s6 hero suit designs, which I like a lot!💖

It's such a cool shot of them free-falling off a building, only lasts a few seconds but it's super nice and It caught my eye since the first time I watched the Movie, saw it again recently when I was looking for the song on YT ("Stronger Together"), cuz I keep reading that the de-akumatization scene in 'Heartfixer' has this song in the bg (is it?) I also found it in the "Dear Buttercup" scene in s4 when Mari throws away the poem and speaks from her heart💗 [I'm not an expert but I think there's 3 different musics in that scene ngl]