#notilucent

[wip]

i'm curious, why isn't reporting blazed posts possible? i just saw a blatant gofundme scam blazed and apparently there's nothing i can do about it except try to warn other people in the replies before the op blocks me. or is the report button somewhere else than in the meatball menu of the post?

Hello, @notilucent!

Thank you for this question. To answer your question, a team of human moderators reviews all posts set ablaze, so that’s why you don’t see the Report in the meatball menu.

In any case, the post shouldn’t have been approved by the moderation, so I think that’s where we made a mistake—for which we can only put our hands up and apologize.

Rest assured, we are still working on this, so keep an eye on @changes for any news.

Best,

—T (Tumblr Engineering)

#feature #blaze

[tfw-adhd]

i need to rant a bit, sorry in advance and no obligation to read/answer if you're not feeling up to it:

I'm playing the world's most frustrating game of telephone re: getting evaluated for adhd and possibly other things. My doctor can't refer me to be evaluated bc the clinic wants to see all my school records, which i already requested on paper two months ago (as well as my health records that came through just fine). Today I finally called the education office secretary (idk the equivalent in English) myself, and found out they aren't actually obligated to archive most of the records the clinic requires me to provide lest they refuse to take me in as a patient.

Also, I can't get any medications for my complete lack of executive function because even meds prescribed for depression (which I am diagnosed with) might interfere with the actual evaluation which will (if I can even get the documents they need and be referred) at its earliest and if I'm lucky be happening in maybe august or in the worst case a full year from now, depending on who i ask. There's no option to be assessed in private healthcare for multiple diagnoses. fuck this haha

Oh no, I’m so sorry! That all sounds like such a pain honestly!!

#adhd #sharing session #notilucent

[shofics]

🌹!!

“Leave the hairbrush,” they add hastily, and Carter unfreezes and puts the hairbrush back on his nightstand, somewhat sheepishly.

#I love Carter sm #shoposts #rqg #rqgaming #rusty quill gaming #notilucent #answered

[nat-20s]

your wonderful!au is giving me absolute life

Thank you! I think every soft hearted fool that got invested in TMA deserves their own Emotional Support au and the wonderful! au is mine. Plus it allows me, more than any other au, to write the thing I love best: just straight up banter

#replies #tma talk #jonmartin #wonderful! au #NO DESCRIPTIONS NEEDED IT CAN JUST BE PURE FUN DIALOGUE HELL YEAH HELL YEAH #FINALLY AN AU PERFECT FOR MY WRITING SKILLS #notilucent

[dickwheelie]

what's the most underrated tma statement/an obscure fave statement of yours?

ohhhh that’s a fun question! thank you

idk if they’re obscure really but my favorite “couplet” of statements are Creature Feature and The Puppeteer, which are the two statements relating to the fictional director based on Quentin Tarantino and his effects artist who was messed up real bad by the web. I love the backstory of those and how the special effects guy slowly turns into a spider.....very spooky and also funny because of all the fake movies in the statements. and the subtle roasting of QT lmaooo

not a lot of people talk about these but yeah they’re definitely among my favorites of the “normal” statements

#notilucent #tma

[sciencenewsforstudents]

This summer, scientists have reported seeing a surprising number of night-shining clouds in the Northern Hemisphere. High in the sky, such noctilucent clouds remain aglow even after sundown. Typically, these sunlit wisps develop up high in polar skies. Making it as far south as Oklahoma and New Mexico — as some did this summer — is a rarity.

Explainer: Why some clouds glow in the dark

These clouds gleam blue or white as they catch the sun’s rays, even after sundown. “They’re beautiful,” observes James Russell. He’s an atmospheric scientist at Hampton University in Virginia. “It’s hard to take your eyes off of them,” he says, “because they’re so iridescent.” They float in the mesosphere, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) up, and normally at high latitudes.

The clouds form at −130° Celsius (-200° Fahrenheit), when water vapor condenses onto and then freezes around dust particles. This makes nanometer-sized ice crystals. What stood out in June was how wet the mesosphere was. “It’s record-setting,” says Lynn Harvey, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder.

One possible explanation is that more moist air than usual rose this summertime. There may also have been a rise in methane within the upper atmosphere. It can enter chemical reactions that form water vapor.

This satellite image measures sunlight reflected off of noctilucent clouds that covered the Arctic on June 12. White areas denote areas reflecting sunlight the most. Dark blue areas reflected light least. CREDIT:  JOSHUA STEVENS/NASA EARTH OBSERVATORY

NASA’s Earth Observatory released a satellite image that shows these noctilucent clouds covering the Arctic on June 12, 2019. It showed in easy-to-see white areas where sunlight was reflecting off of the clouds most effectively.

Russell and Harvey have been part of a team that’s been monitoring these clouds for 13 years. They’re trying to learn more about how these clouds form and whether they might reveal atmospheric changes due to global warming.

The scientists plan to use computers to model the conditions under which clouds form. They’re hoping to explain what seems to be a trend of these clouds to increasingly form outside of polar skies.

#science #scied #sciblr #notilucent clouds #ice crystals #mesosphere

[morning-softness]

Tag game!!!

tagged by @voiceless-terror thank you!

1- Why did you choose your url?

It’s a reference to the quote “I don’t know what the point is to life, but in the early quiet and the softness of this morning, I am at peace with not knowing” by Gabriel Andreas of StoryPeople.

2- Any side blogs?

Nope!

3- How long have you been on tumblr?

I actually only joined in 2020. I lurked for a while first, because there were several artists whose work I liked, but I thought if I made an account I’d have to regularly produce original content. Once I found out it was acceptable to have an account that mostly just reblogged other people’s posts, I joined and immediately spam-liked and reblogged the artists I’d been lurking on.

4- Do you have a queue tag?

No. My writing posts and ramble/vent posts are the only things I post in the moment. Pretty much all my reblogs are queued. You know how frequently I post already? It would be so much worse if it wasn’t queued. I have 221 posts in my queue right now.

5- Why did you start your blog in the first place?

I got into tma and wanted to 1. see more art, fanfic, meta, and jokes and 2. contact artists for commissions (like this comic based on this post about Martin running into Jon outside of work).

6- Why did you choose your icon/pfp

It’s me.

7- Why did you choose your header?

Martin being a mood. What’s not to like?

8-What’s your post with the most notes?

My JonTim ace fic, “Netflix and Chill,” got 43 notes.

9- How many mutuals do you have?

17

10- How many followers do you have?

55 (which seems surprisingly high given that I’ve only been on here for a year and mostly reblog other people’s content)

11- How many people do you follow?

202

12- Have you ever made a shitpost?

Maybe? I don’t think I’ve tagged anything as such, but I’ve said some pretty random things on here.

13- How often do you use Tumblr each day?

I usually scroll in the morning and evening, and then check notifications throughout the day.

14- Did you have a fight/argument with another blog once?

No, and I’d like to keep it that way.

15- How do you feel about “you need to reblog this” posts?

I will not reblog them, no matter how much I agreed with what was being said up until that point. If it’s an issue I care about, I look for someone else who’s made a post about it and reblog theirs instead. I don’t automatically unfollow if you reblog one, but probably will if you’re the OP.

16- Do you like tag games?

Yes! They’re fun.

17- Do you like ask games?

Yes, but I don’t tend to get many asks.

18-Which of your mutuals do you think is Tumblr famous?

I really haven’t been here long enough to know how to judge.

19- Do you have a crush on a mutual?

I don’t know any of my mutuals irl, but I think they’re all really cool. I’m always happy when I post something and one of my mutuals likes or reblogs it.

tagging @wordsintimeandspace @martinbelovedblackwood @lycanlux @stavroginova @notilucent @imstillsleepy @thekisforkeats if you want to

#tag game

[stremeze-blog-blog]

Musicmix: Frank Baker

By Jim Lawson.

Frank Baker is a name I certainly wasn’t familiar with when Noctilucent, his first album under his own name, landed on my desk for review .He has produced music under various names as side projects such as Meadowy Temple, Landcold and Ociraa. Frank is a solo artist and record producer from Southern Germany and he describes his involvement in music more as a “sound architect”…

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#Frank Baker #Jim Lawson #Notilucent #Prog rock/ambient

[shofics]

42 for some soft zoscar braiding mayhaps? (for the sake of the prompt i redefine beards as Also Hair)

👀 at the beard braiding… I hope you enjoy! (Also for anyone reading this, I am 100% still taking prompts!)

42. braiding the other’s hair

“I can’t believe you don’t know how to do this.”

“I- Zolf, what situation in my life would I ever have needed this knowledge in before now?”

The air on the deck is bracingly cold, and now that the sun has set the world has become a globe of deep dark night, speckled with stars, the distant, multicoloured glow of wild magic giving depth to a horizon they can’t properly see. They’re both a bit tipsy- Wilde definitely is- and the bow has emptied, the crew having mostly partied themselves out and headed either to their night posts or to bed. They’re alone on the deck, sitting together at one of the little tables Wilde had set up, chairs pulled close.

It’s almost like it was back before Japan, back when it was just the two of them, before their tiny bubble of protection had burst at the knife of an infected ex-Meritocratic agent. A tiny room in Budapest, or Dresden, or Copenhagen, or a tent pitched gods-know where in the countryside with the rain bucketing down on the roof. Sharing a bottle of some awful swill, trying to talk about absolutely anything but the mission. Back before the dread-filled week in a cell beneath a shady bar in Antwerp, before blood and stitches and blank, silent stares, and an emergency call to Curie; we need backup, please. It can’t just be the two of us anymore.

But right now it is just the two of them, and Zolf’s missed it. Crowds have become overwhelming, even when he’s surrounded by those he likes and trusts. It’s a feeling similar to that he always got being underground; a part of his brain yelling danger, danger, watch out, the threat of threat itself, a lurking claustrophobia.

“I don’t understand how it doesn’t get tangled,” Wilde complains, grimacing in concentration. “I’ve seen you do this, you make it look so easy.”

“It is easy.”

“Now you’re just being difficult.”

“Oh, does that annoy you? People bein’ difficult on purpose?” Wilde glances up from his work and narrows his eyes. They’re close enough that he has to go a little cross-eyed to do it, and it’s so utterly ridiculous-looking that Zolf has to work very hard to restrain his laugh. He doesn’t quite succeed, and Wilde bristles.

“Stop laughing at me!”

“I’m not, I’m not-“ He one hundred percent is, and the fact that Wilde looks so deeply offended only makes him laugh harder. Wilde sits back in his chair and watches with drunken haughtiness as Zolf bends in half and laughs like he hasn’t in a long time.

“You don’t need to insult me,” Wilde says.

“Sorry, sorry, I- sorry.” Zolf scoots his chair a little closer and holds out his hand. “Look, I’ll show you how to do it, alright?”

“I’ve got it,” Wilde says stubbornly, and leans in again, combing out the mangled half-plait in Zolf’s beard with his fingers.

At some point either he or Wilde is going to realize how very, very close they are, and what this will look like to anyone who happens to see. For now, though, the air is cold and the alcohol and company warming. Things are so rarely simple these days, especially pleasures. A drink, a good party. Cool night air. Careful fingers, close friends, unspoken trust made slightly silly by intoxication and the lateness of the hour.

“I can’t see what you’re doin’, but I can tell it’s wrong.”

Wilde groans. “Do you remember when I got kicked off this ship back in Paris?”

“Yeah, vaguely.”

“I will do that to you now if you don’t shut up.”

Zolf bites down a giggle. “Alright, noted.”

Hope is Zolf’s purview, his guiding light; his soul is anchored to the idea of a future. But sometimes- very rarely- he gets moments like this. Moments where he doesn’t have to work so hard. Where the present gives him just as much magic.

He’s happy. If he’s hoping anything right now, it’s that the moment doesn’t end too soon. This is what he wants his future to be like. Simple pleasures, trust and friendship. Maybe someday Wilde will let him actually teach him to do a proper plait. His beard is going to be a knotted mess after this.

#my post #my writing #rqg #rqg fic #rqgaming #rusty quill gaming #zoscar #rqg wilde #wilde rqg #zolf smith #prompt fill #answered #notilucent

[shofics]

actually i'm sending another 📂 bc i'd love to hear your hamid headcanons if you have any! i like the dragon boy very much

Hamid’s always wanted to have kids of his own one day, but seeing what his father did for him and Saleh in Cairo shook him quite a lot, and that experience combined with how hard it’s been for him to handle the kobolds has given him serious anxiety as to if he actually would be able to be a good dad- sometimes those with the best intentions will still hurt the ones they love.

BONUS hc (I’m pretty convinced at this point that Hamid is going to take Babbage’s place in the kill switch machine but assuming that he doesn’t and ends up actually surviving through to post-canon) Hamid is the one who holds the group together after the end of the Blight; they don’t all exactly go their separate ways, but they each have jobs they need to do as the world rebuilds, and Hamid is the connecting force

Send “📂“ for a random yet completely useless headcanon I have

#prompt fill #rqg #rqgaming #rusty quill gaming #hamid saleh haroun al tahan #answered #notilucent #also; TRANS HAMID HCS MY BELOVED…..

[shofics]

📂!!!

Cel often has a hard time falling asleep because of racing thoughts and anxiety and new ideas, but once they do, they can sleep just about anywhere, no matter how uncomfortable. It’s a skill they picked up from decades of rough traveling through dangerous places. They prefer to sleep in hammocks because they like the feeling of being wrapped up (can we get a hell yeah for pressure stimming!) and the constant rocking calms them.

Send “📂“ for a random yet completely useless headcanon I have

#answered #prompt fill #rqg #rqgaming #rusty quill gaming #cel sidebottom #celiquillithon sidebottom #notilucent

[shofics]

Happy birthday!!

Aah thanks so much! It’s been a good day <3

#answered #notilucent

[shofics]

welcome to tumblr, i love your rqg fics very much!!!

Aaah thank you hello!! I’m so glad <3

#answered #notilucent

[morning-softness]

tagged by: @ombreblossom

nickname: Anna

zodiac: Aires/Boar

height: 4’11” or 150cm

last movie I saw: The Girl with All the Gifts

last thing i googled: word counter

favourite musician: Amanda Palmer

song stuck in my head: 再见再见 by 逃生计划

other blogs: I have a few I made during uni for course-related stuff and haven’t updated since.

blogs following: 190

amount of sleep: Currently 4-6 hours. It’s hard to convince myself the night is not secret extra time that I can steal.

lucky number: 4

what am i wearing: loose linen trousers, and a graphic tee under a hoodie

dream job: author ✍️

dream trip: Someday I’d like to stay at an underwater hotel. They all sound amazing!

favourite food: Anything with chocolate.

play an instrument: Not since recorder in primary school.

languages: English (native fluent), Spanish (intermediate level), and a bit of Mandarin Chinese (very beginner level)

random fact: I have Reynaud’s Syndrome. I didn’t discover this until a high school creative writing class where I included the phrase “He waited outside the gate for her until his fingers were white down to the second knuckle” in a short story. My teacher and classmates were very concerned about the MC and let me know that tracking the decreasing circulation to one’s digits was not, as I had previously assumed, a common way to estimate time without a watch on a chilly day.

describe yourself as aesthetic things: dust motes dancing in a sunbeam, old books stacked high on wooden shelves, the scent of bergamot, the sound of rain hitting the roof, the warmth of a wood fire, the taste of dark chocolate

Tagging: @suttttton @imstillsleepy @stavroginova @notilucent @areafae —only if you want to!

#tag game #this is me

[shofics]

okay i'll bite,,, 🎁 please? (and also 🎤 if you want to....)

Hehehehehe thank you !!

🎁 have a quote from a WIP?

Have this bit I wrote ages ago that I’m slowly working out where I’m going to fit it into Hope & Smith lmao. Team Would Die For Sasha Rackett

“Alright mates!” Sasha calls happily from the grinder, and the children scramble over each other to get to the counter first. She meets them there, leaning over the till with a new kind of grin on her face that Wilde’s not seen before. “How we doin’, yeah? Good day?”

One of the kids, a black girl with her hair braided back with green ribbon who can’t be more than twelve, points at the smallest boy and hops excitedly up and down. “Azus got stuck in a tree today!”

“I did not!” the smallest one- Azus- protests, and the kids begin tripping over each other to try and tell what Wilde is sure must be a rivetingly exciting and dangerous story if you’re an average of ten years old.

🎤fave line in a fic you wrote?

I’m pretty sure my favourite thing will always be this bit from baby you’re my holy ghost;

The temperature in Longyearbyen is far below freezing, and only goes lower as the night comes down around them, but that doesn’t bother Wilde as much as he expected. He can feel it, of course, but it’s distant somehow. “I think death must be very cold,” he whispers to Zolf that night as they lie in their shared bed, his voice strange and far away, “and everything after that just doesn’t quite measure up.”

#my post #answered #my writing #notilucent #thank youuu

[shofics]

👦 and 💎!!

(also you can't call it shameless self promo if i'm genuinely excited for your answers)

Aah thank you 🥺

Already did 🧑!

💎 fave trope to write?

FOUND FAMILY FOUND FAMILY FOUND FAMILY FOUND FAMILY

Ok but actually. Found family works its way into every goddamn thing I write whether I plan it or not. There will never be anything more wholesome or more important to me personally than a group of people growing together and loving each other and viewing each other as siblings. Absolutely kills me. Also, while we’re at it, friends to lovers. As an aroace person I treasure any writing that shows how beautiful and important platonic love is, and how it can slip into romantic love so easily, sometimes without the person being fully aware… absolutely KILLS me. Delicious. And you wonder why I love zoscar and RQG in general so much lmao

(Also I really love the whole ‘one character gets hurt in battle and the other character goes a bit mental to save them’ thing bc characters getting to see each other be both terrifyingly strong and incredibly weak at the same time?? VERY good)

#my post #answered #notilucent