My Man Got Lost In The Sauce

my man got lost in the sauce

so my roomie said he got “a little high” last night and I thought nothing of it. well I just opened the fridge and I noticed a Burger King bag with a few sauce packets peeking out

I thought it was normal until I opened it up a bit more and

IT’S LITERALLY JUST TWENTY PACKETS OF ASSORTED SAUCE AND NOTHING ELSE

I saw your last ask, where you said that you have a spreadsheet on the statistics of hundreds of planets. Do you have any spreadsheets on material properties (ie. mechanical properties of fictional metals or woods)? Could I see them?

I actually don't, unfortunately! Materials science is one of my blind spots tbh; I don't know very much about it and thus don't feel confident tangling with the implications of fictional materials. At best, there are certain substances in use in the Diaspora canon (such as room temperature superconductors and high-durability heat shielding) which I've given general properties, but their composition and specifics are intentionally left vague. However, Atomic Rockets has a cool section on the Unobtainium page all about different kinds of high-tech metamaterials!

gonna be combing through my archive again and making sure everything is tagged properly, plus reblogging a few old favorites.

Posting the full version of my pfp drawing just bc I was happy with the colors. I swear my new graphics tablet made my art more vibrant with that sweet-ass QLED display

Lore Tuesday

So, a while ago, a community Discord server I was in had a thing called Lore Tuesday: every Tuesday in the daily questions channel you got a free pass to share a random nugget of information about your original world/story/characters. That server is effectively dead now, but I'm bringing Lore Tuesday here, because I miss it very much and it feels like a fun thing to do on the blog –especially considering I haven't actually posted much in the way of worldbuilding, historically speaking. I'm gonna try to post a random lore nugget every Tuesday, and tag it with #lore tuesday! Feel free to snag this idea yourselves if you so desire. :)

You guys ever heard about the bone wars? My memory of the story is foggy, but in Britain back when Dino fossils were the hottest thing on the block, and every paleontologist with a 1/4 cup of a brain was hot on the trail of dead dinosaurs. 

Specifically, two paleontologists named Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope were both trying to make the next big discovery. This led to a bitter rivalry between the two researchers which started the bone wars.

The wars consisted of many attacks, like having their teams throw rocks at them other’s, stealing and destroying each other’s fossils and slandering each other in every paper they wrote. By the end, both men were financially and socially ruined.

Of course it wasn’t all bad, both cope and marsh made many great discoveries, including the discovery of 136 new species, however…

This childish conflict, along with the general stupidity and carelessness of most early paleontologists and fossil collectors, led to a  metric FUCKTON of confusion and misinformation which resulted in things like the wrong fossils going to the wrong dinos, or members of the same species being confused for different species, among other things.

Fun fact! The resulting confusion of the bone wars in Britain is very likely the inspiration behind the fossil Pokémon of the Galar region.