#supercritical

The Gadget | First Atomic Bomb Prototype | 07.16.45

FIRST OFF!! Omg hi?? 🥺🥺 Thank you for the ask!! 💕I'm so happy to have the platform to talk endlessly about supercritical asdfjals;djf

OUGH HARD QUESTION!! Specifically my favorite to write? I think my answer has to be the end of Chapter 5, with Xisuma's backstory. That scene is so much different than my normal way of writing and I really enjoyed having the opportunity to tell a short story within a longer story. It didn't matter that things were brief and vague, that was the style hehehehe I liked being able to drop little details without having to worry about resolving them or properly developing them over time. Like Three and Four can have mild homoerotic tension! Four's a grumpy tsundere who loves his wife, his daughter, and his best friend and just about nobody else. Little details that I can just say outright or include with off-handed details and either way works. In general, I just love a corruption arc as well, so that was very fun. And of course, I buried myself in Falsuma feels 😂 And now I have to live with the knowledge that if I want more supercritical!Falsuma, I have to create it. The Curse sdfasjdf

My favorite part to have written, even if I was complaining the entire time about the process of actually writing it is probably towards the end of Chapter 6. The Grian jumping scene was one of the first clear ideas that flashed through my brain when the plot came to me (I wasn't joking when I said that the plot of this story came to me fully formed skfadfj) so the reward of getting to finally write it was amazing. Along with that, I enjoyed Evil X being very very sadistic towards Grian. Might've had a little too much fun if I'm being honest 😂 And then of course their reunion and kiss 💕 Writing endings is something I put a lot of effort in, so again, the process of actually writing it was....grueling at time, but I was SO HAPPY to have written it. @mellioops illustrated the finale smooch and it felt like a part of my brain could rest happily, being able to visually see Scarian bloody and bruised but holding each other like nothing else mattered.

In GENERAL, I'd say the parts I enjoyed writing the most were definitely the office interludes with the reporters bantering with Grian. I loooove writing some silly banter. Similarly, Cub and Grian being catty at each other always made me laugh to write.

Honorable mentions for favorite scenes to write include:

The festival date where I got to be heavy handed with some metaphors and symbolism >:P Illustrated by @all54321

Their first flight where Grian goes from freaking out and being upset with Scar to actually really enjoying himself. Inspired a little bit by the time I made one of my friends go on a roller coaster with me which she hated until made her open her eyes and then we rode it again because of how much fun it was. 💕

Their first kiss scene which is ALSO NOW ILLUSTRATED BY @flykering WAHHHHH

Chances are that you’ve seen plenty of hydraulic jumps in your life, whether they were in your kitchen sink, the whitewater of a river, or at the bottom of a spillway. Practical Engineering has a great primer on this oddity of open channel flow. 

When water (or other liquids) flow with a surface open to the air -- think like a river rather than a pipe -- the flow has three important regimes: subcritical, critical, and supercritical. Which state the flow is in depends on the speed of the flow compared to the speed of a wave traveling in that flow. If the waves are faster than the flow, we call it subcritical. If the flow is faster than the waves, it’s called supercritical. (This is equivalent to subsonic or supersonic flow, where the regime depends on the flow speed compared to the speed of sound.)

Flows can transition naturally from one state to another, and where they transition from fast, supercritical flow to slower, subcritical flow, we find hydraulic jumps -- places where the kinetic energy of the supercritical flow gets changed into turbulence and potential energy through a change in height. Check out the video above to learn how civil engineers use hydraulic jumps to control water and erosion. (Video and image credit: Practical Engineering)

There were radiation-proof suits in the bowels of the Men of Letters bunker, because of course there were.  The MoL had been prepared for threats both mystic and banal.  They were goofy and clumsy and practically oozed 1950s nuclear paranoia, but they still functioned just fine.

“Put it on,” Dean told Sam over the phone.

“It’s overkill, Dean,” Sam argued.  “It’s not sustained, chronic exposure, not like you’re getting.”

“Great, so you don’t have to wear it all the time.  Only when you’re around me.”