[image caption: black and white mist overlaying a pair of sai. text on image: MattElektra Shiptober Week 1. Tuesday, October 1 Spar. Wednesday, October 2 Crimson. Thursday, October 3 Spectral. Friday, October 4 Yearn. Saturday, October 5 Beware.]
Happy Shiptober, everyone! It’s time to kick things off with the week one prompts! So excited to spend October with you amazingly talented folks, and see all your awesome creations! ♥
MattElektra Shiptober guidelines:
1. Create MattElektra content of any type based off the daily prompt (Graphics, fics, vids, meta, you name it! Show and comics-inspired works welcome!)
2. Post it at tumblr and/or the platform of your choosing
3. Tag it with #mattelektrashiptober in the first five tags
4. Do it again the next day (or as often as you can!)
I promise I’ll work on BINGO stuff either tomorrow or Sunday. This week was crazy with work and tonight I’m making dinner for the first year students I work with. I’m sorry that I haven’t been super good about things recently, there’s not really an excuse for it other than my own faults, but I’m sorry y’all have to deal with it
You ever been so done with a job (you once loved) that you need out but you have no idea what your transferable skills are and you’ve been so beaten down by your current job that you don’t see how you’re good enough for any other jobs out there?
Can’t tell you how excited I am to post this episode. There’s so much going on in this one, it’s gonna be great. (For the first episode and the intro to the project, go here)
In this installment we’ll be talking about: Jungian individuation, mythology as an unreliable frame, Willow as a hacker, descent into the underworld, the show’s themes and symbolism around rebirth, how the show both uses and subverts Christian ideas, and much, much more. If “Welcome to Hellmouth” was the first part of the thesis of the show, then “The Harvest” is the second half. Together, they do a fantastic job of setting up the thematic foundation of the show.
I also recommend checking out my notes and citations for this particular episode. There were many things I had to summarize or leave out for the sake of making the video as compressed as possible (the fact that it’s still an hour long should tell you just how much is going on in “The Harvest”). So if you think I say, glossed over some of the fine distinctions between Christian denominations, or want to know a bit more about the Epic of Gilgamesh, you can find that information in the notes. I’ve also included a few additional observations on the content of the episode itself. So if there was some aspect of the episode I maybe didn’t mention, you might find a comment about it (though I also may mention these things in future episodes). The notes are also where I’ve credited all of the non-Buffy visual material, so if you were wondering what a painting was called or where a clip came from, you can look it up there.
Hey guys! I finally got around to posting some work up on Society6. Come get your pillows, phone cases, prints and more! Will be updating in the next few days with the knit pattern series as well ;)
due to a technological error i will Not be going to the RAM this weekend (i’m booked up on friday even though tix are still available) but i still have an Intention to go when i can afford to ;3; so yeah <3
NASA images of Comet 73P still crumbling years after its initial breakup.
Multiple forecasters agree that a meteor shower could erupt on May 31, 2022, when Earth runs into one or more debris streams from Comet 73P. The display could be as intense as a meteor storm (1000 or more meteors per hour) or as weak as nothing at all. No one knows how much debris is inside the approaching streams, so meteor rates are hard to estimate.
Whatever happens, people in North America are in a good position to see it. Almost the entire continent will be in Moon-free darkness when the shower peaks. Maximum activity is expected around 1:00 am Eastern Daylight Time (05:00 UT) on Tuesday morning, May 31st. The shower’s radiant (the point from which all meteors stream) will be almost straight above Baja California. …
… Based on past performance, the tau Herculids seem unlikely to produce a good show. For nearly a century the shower has been a dud. The X-factor this year is fresh material from the comet’s catastrophic breakup. If the new meteoroids reach Earth–and that is a big IF–shooting stars will fly from a point near the bright star Arcturus in the constellation Bootes. Here is a sky map to help you find it.
To learn more about the tau Herculid meteor shower, we recommend this comprehensive paper by Joe Rao, a lecturer at the Hayden Planetarium in New York. Also, a new analysis by Jérémie Vaubaillon of the Institute for Celestial Mechanics and Computation of Ephemerides in Paris raises the possibility of two additional outbursts on May 31st resulting from debris shed by Comet 73P in the years 1892 and 1897.
It all adds up to a date with the night sky at the end of the month. Don’t miss it!
The Tau Herculids meteor shower may light up the skies over North America on May 30 and 31. Or it may not. There’s a chance we might pass through the thickest part of the comet fragment that is creating the debris, in which case the night skies will be filled with shooting stars.
If the shower happens in the right way, it could lead to a spectacular “meteor storm,” in which Earth passes through an especially thick forest of space rocks, leading to up to 1,000 shooting stars per hour, according to the Washington Post (opens in new tab). And as a bonus, the moon will be new and the radiant, or apparent direction of the shower, is in the high-up constellation of Hercules in the northern sky. This means there will be a minimum of natural light pollution to contend with when looking for shooting stars.
But the sky show is not a guarantee, NASA cautioned….
“If the debris from SW 3 was traveling more than 220 miles [354 kilometers] per hour when it separated from the comet, we might see a nice meteor shower,” Bill Cooke, who leads NASA’s meteoroid environment office at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, said in a statement (opens in new tab).
“If the debris had slower ejection speeds,” Cooke added, “then nothing will make it to Earth and there will be no meteors from this comet." …
I’ve been on a pencil sketching spree bc I realized I spend so much time doing digital art that I am losing my touch with traditional…. tho every sketch here was digitally altered LOL
in any case, I’m opening up requests for fandoms I’m invested in! (x) drop me a note if you’re interested :>
Hey all! In the next couple days, should my Patrons not take all available slots, I’ll be accepting commissions for character sheets. They will be AUD$300, info here.
I’ll update again when I’m accepting them :) have a safe and happy new years!
-apparently many issues were caused by the pack format, so i changed it back to 4 (which is the format for previous versions, so a warning will likely pop when activating the pack, just ignore it)
-rocking chairs in granny’s corner can now be placed against a wall without any glitches
-NEW ITEMS ADDED TO GRANNY’S CORNER! i was already working on an update, so here it is:
·plaid blankets
·sofa pillows
·lampstands
·chess boards
·magazine holders
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i’d like to thank everyone who reported their bugs and helped me, but specially:
@hakka-01 such a wonderful person!! (and a builder too!)
