Nelvauris is a world with magic ingrained into its very core. Magic is a part of the world the same way gravity is a part of ours, it is something everyone interacts with and everyone has some form of basic understanding of. Magic in Nelvauris is, however, a bit of an odder concept than you may imagine. The largest oddity is the fact that magic and science are two sides of the same coin, not in…

Rules: Write the latest line from your wip (or post where you last left off in your art) and tag as many people as there are words in the line. Make a new post, don’t reblog.

I have really bad writer's block at the moment, so most of my WIPs sound more like Wikipedia synopses for my stories if they already existed than actual stories themselves. I cobbled together some exposition into a brief preamble for a fantasy story I'm working on

Physicists prefer not to use the m-word when dealing with the so-called inexplicable phenomena of the universe. They've come up with fancy names for it like "complex radiation" or "the fifth fundamental force," and it's generally accepted as a third theoretical framework somewhere between quantum mechanics (the physics of the subatomically small) and general relativity (the physics of the astronomically large), but our current understanding of it does little to bridge the gap between the two. Hollywood likes referring to it as "dark science," a term which was briefly adopted by academics in the 90s as an attempt to categorize it alongside dark matter and dark energy (neither of which it can fully explain), but soon abandoned because it carried negative connotations and did not adequately reflect the field. It did inspire an entire generation of scientists if for no other reason than it sounds cool as hell. Even so, you'd be hard-pressed to find a regular person outside of a lab, university, or studio who would call it anything but the forbidden word itself; magic.

That's 176 words, which is too many, so I'm gonna tag all my active mutuals

@goldenmoldies @olivia-online @nsomniacsdream @schifty-al @ihaveacrappyusername @marcy-the-martian @alexalister97 @ambiguousjellyfish @jewishpangolin @n-brio @moodycow210 @dontgetmadgetmaddie @trowelsand @cartoon-acid @madmanrambler @laughter-is-universal @arthooooor @flyingdiscopanda @miniature-stigmata @3fluffies @capitalismcastratingsuffragette @neverknwsbest @bunnyshowwhytho @chocotunda @anselat @aceteron @adventures-in-instant-ramen @exhaustedboi @muukumuu @cryptidcrispin @bames--nond @prophet-or-prophecy @fffffabulousss

And here are some of my followers whose names and icons I have come to recognize

@neyri-hime @erikag59 @constructedparadox @tack-bell @aj-reblogs @srrrrrwashrrrrr @bhinky @tarranthitopp @principle-sinner @arkanjil

this one here, revealing thousands of galaxies from the early universe?

for some perspective on just how huge a leap this photo represents, check out this short video by @AlyssaAGoodman on Twitter:

THE WHOLE IMAGE FIELD IS OTHERWISE INVISIBLE from Earth without special equipment, and even then you don't see any of the galaxies Webb uncovers in detail. our other best telescopes don't, either

WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE WE LOVE YOU

to play with the whole-sky image as in that video, check out the World WideTelescope Goodman uses in the video:

All the world’s a stage, men and women merely players and Leverage excels at controlling the narrative, setting the stage well enough that it almost seems like magic at times. 

The Librarians regular job is tracking down and dealing with cases of wild magic, usually characterized by people acting strangely, improbable coincidences, and other more or less noticeable twists in reality.