@Rosemary hi!
It looks haunting with it’s clipped claws devoid of use and ability, grasping for something which the world forgot. It feels right, though, and you fastening a roof of leaves between the statue’s fingers. By dark, the luminescence of the forest created a dim but peaceful light, and the nocturnal sounds fill your senses. It is safe. The forest is always safe your kind. Perhaps not the long gone creatures whose buildings and statues the forest eats.
The forest at night echoes with dreams of all creatures flowing through the roots of the tall trees. Your lover and you decided to top by dusk at the runes of a statue that looks like the hand of a species you have never seen before covered in moss and vines. The hand’s claws are clipped at the tips of their digits and no fur adorns it, only flesh. it sits grasping at something long since reclaimed by the woods.
And if you haven't heard of Things I Won't Work With, it's an (infrequently updated) blog by a research chemist on substances frightening enough that he doesn't want to be in the same lab as them. A common thread is compounds that would *really* prefer to be nitrogen gas and will energetically turn into such if given the slightest opportunity.
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/things-i-wont-work-with
BTW if you enjoy rocketry history or the Things I Won't Work With blog, I highly recommend the book /Ignition!/
It's an informal history of the development of rocketry propellants. Contains explosions and a whole lot of frightening chemistry.
https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf
I think it's really cool that our current understanding of lighting physics is "we probably know the basic mechanism but there's still all kinds of weird shit we're trying to untangle."
Shoutout to that time a Gemini astronaut smuggled a corned beef sandwich aboard the flight https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/time-when-astronaut-smuggled-corned-beef-sandwich-space-180954749/
Of the many things I love about the Space Shuttle program, one of the sillier ones is that a significant part of the launch profile calls for "throttle at 104%".
Turned out the engine could safely run at higher power than expected, but the engineers kept the original scale. One abort scenario for multiple engine failure specifies throttle at 109%.
"If you roll your target number exactly, you have LASER FEELINGS."
Moving to @starkatt
I'm a leftist trans gay fox girl. More than one thing can be true at a time. I believe in agency, subjectivity, and beauty.
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