In a fairytalesque land, where nobles and royalty randomly marry their Princes and Princesses off to strangers, yet another Princess finds herself in this position and, as oppose to agreeing to this fate she runs away only to run into a gang, one comprised completely of royalty and Noble children and teens who refused their parents plans of marriage for them and joined forces once they found each other.
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Story Starter Sentences
“Once upon a time, not so long ago, in a land uncomfortably close by…”
“So, I know it looks bad,”
“What could go wrong?”
“Some nay-sayers will say what I did was “illegal” or “detestable” but I’m here to tell you what really happened…”
“Once upon a time, nothing went as planned.”
“I shoulder have believed them.”
“The clock had stopped.”
“Everything was going so well…”
“I can explain.”
“I few regrets per the moment.”
“I’m not exactly sure where to start, but I guess the beginning is typically the best place, so here we go.”
“The sky above was entirely lit.”
“Once upon a time, the end was met.”
“I don’t know what’s with poet’s obsession with rain. It never did me any good.”
“Once upon a time, I grew up.”
“The sun was setting, but that’s when my day began.”
“Things are very different.”
“I looked into the distance, unable to believe my eyes.”
“So this tale starts boring, not gonna lie.”
“Some say I’m cynical, I warn you.”
“It started with an explosion. Do I have your attention?”
“I may have killed someone.”
“I stopped to catch my breath…”
Writing Prompt: Mind Meld
You are born with the ability to see people’s thoughts, swirling in a cloud above their head. You’re accustomed to seeing images, faces, and nearly indistinguishable words above everyone’s head as you go about life. Generally their thoughts are pretty “colorless” and don’t pique your interest anyway. That was until one fateful day when you met them.
Writing Prompt: Timeless
Everyone is born with a clock right over their heart. Inevitably, someday it will stop. And that moment will come one the clocks hands have made a full revolution. This is hard for people to handle as I’m sure you can imagine, nearly everyone is aware that one day the ticking will stop and it will be over.
You get into an accident. You’re fine but you wake to the doctors telling you with confusion that your clock has stopped but you are somehow still alive.
Writing Prompt: The Emotion Seller
A merchant bottles and sells emotions. Emotions like bravery, love, happiness, and so forth. But they have one bottle that they sell that no one has ever bought…
Henri Matisse Quotes that make my Heart Happy
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
“Jazz is rhythm and meaning.”
“Creativity takes courage.”
“Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.”
“To arrive is to be in prison.”
“When you’re out of willpower, you can call on stubbornness.”
“I am made of all that I have seen.”
“Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.”
The Struggles of a Project Bouncer
I, my dear friends, am a project bouncer. All too often I’m struck with a lightning bolt of creativity that fuels me roughly for a week only to dissipate as quickly as It came.
And so I’m left with a story concept that is pushed to the back shelf that is already crowded with other dead ideas and concepts that I l tell myself I’ll get to later. And of course, later never comes.
I think the most frustrating bit about this aspect of personality is that fact that I always feel like I’m overflowing with ideas and yet I don’t actually get anything done. After the end of a creative jolt I’m left with nothing but a vague character description and plot outline and a blank word document. It’s like I’m encountering writers block before I’ve even started. I can’t focus on one idea long enough and everything feels like it’ll result in a dead end.
But, as I’ve come to figure out, my problem isn’t necessarily the time that I have with an idea that’s giving me issues. It’s the way I use it.
You see, if you’re anything like me, your creative eureka! Moments happen often frequently but they are fleeting. Generally what I do with this time is… well nothing. And that, my dear friends, is my problem. I squander my creative bursts on… daydreaming? Nothing productive anyway.
So here’s how I combatted this issue. The solution was really simple actually.
Every inspiring idea and concept that comes to my head revolving around this topic, I write down. Everything. All the random bits of dialogue, all the random character details, the scenes… all of it.
And needed to put to use my creative energy right away. I needed to stop “letting it simmer” because that leads to me burning out. I learned that I needed to take advantage of this flash of inspiration and actually WRITE. There’s no room for perfection. I just need to DO it cause pretty soon I’m going to loose steam and that’ll be the end of it.
And, so, by the end of a weeks time (and my creative high), I should have the hardest part of the story out of the way; the beginning. And if I can get that down, I can run with it and see where the story takes me.
“The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.”
~Vincent Van Gogh
How to low key to feel like a time lord
How to low key to feel like a time lord
Because self care!
Wear long coats with big pockets.
Experiment with scarves.
Remember that everyone matters.
Be fascinated by strangers.
I’d recommend keeping a journal
Delve into some world history. Be a researcher.
Doodle
Explore everything and everywhere.
Be passionate.
Don’t care if people are judging.
Read.
Chart the stars.
Consume knowledge at the same rate in you seek it. (Which should be like crazy. Stay curios, babe).
Tinker with things. Find a problem and then find a solution. Keep those mental gears ever turning.
Don’t blink. 😉 (but a wink is okay)
Wear Converse if you’re feelin it.
Remember the most interesting people are a little mad.
Have you considered a bow tie?
Astronomy will always be cool.
And chemistry.
And biology.
And pretty much any science because science is the appreciation of existing.
Just feed that ever curios mind of yours.
Space theories. Educate yourself.
Remember change is unavoidable and a part of life and should be embraced. but don’t lose yourself. Please don’t lose yourself. No matter how many seasons of “change” you go through, no matter how many regenerations you become, remember what makes you, you.
You have all of time and space. Where do you want to start?
My Mother Taught Me…
1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
“If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished
cleaning.”
2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
“You better pray that will come out of the carpet.”
3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
“If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of
next week!”
4. My mother taught me LOGIC.
“Because I said so, that’s why.”
5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC.
“If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you’re not going to the
store with me.”
6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
“Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in an accident.”
7. My mother taught me IRONY.
“Keep crying and I’ll give you something to cry about.”
8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
“Shut your mouth and eat your supper.”
9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
“Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck?”
10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
“You’ll sit there until all that spinach is gone.”
11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
“This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it.”
12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
“If I told you once, I’ve told you a million times. Don’t exaggerate!”
13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
“I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.”
14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
“Stop acting like your father!”
15. My mother taught me about ENVY.
“There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don’t
have wonderful parents like you do.” (What wonderful parents?!)
16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
“Just wait until we get home.”
17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
“You are going to get it when you get home!”
18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
“If you don’t stop crossing your eyes, they are going to stay that
way.”
19. My mother taught me ESP.
“Put your sweater on; don’t you think I know when you are cold?”
20. My mother taught me HUMOR.
“When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don’t come running to me.”
21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
“If you don’t eat your vegetables, you’ll never grow up.”
22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
“You’re just like your father.”
23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
“Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?”
24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
“When you get to be my age, you’ll understand.”
25. My mother taught me about JUSTICE.
“One day you’ll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!”
(This is and old file I found on my old laptop from a couple years back, I didn’t write it but I still find it funny. Maybe it’ll elicit a laugh from you amidst all the crazy things happening right now! Stay safe! And (for the forty billionth time) WASH YO HANDS)
Rating NASA’s Robots
Hi everyone! And welcome to my blog post where I rate all of NASA’s cute lil mechanical astronauts on their missions, hardwork, and how adorable they are. Are you ready?
- Robonaut
This guy was designed to be about as humanoid as scientists dared to make a robot in the 1970s. Robonaut was designed to replace humans in space exploration. While its very hard to make a human-like robot and duplicate our emotions and the way our minds work, scientists manage to give this guy fourteen degrees of freedom and touch sensors at the tips of its fingers.
According to the very reliable source of Wikipedia, “There are currently two working robonauts, R1 and R2. R1 and R2 are both highly capable robots and are able to handle a wide range of tools and tasks. Robonaut 2 or R2 was flown to the space station as part of STS-133 mission and was the first humanoid robot in space.”
In the future, legs will hopefully be added.
So, now onto the rating.
While I give this robot my upmost respect, I cannot deny he looks a bit creepy. But given the importance of his work, I think I will give him a solid 6/10
2. Spidernaut
I’m not going to lie, Spidernaut scares the living crud out of me. A mechanical spide that is not only strong but HUGE. Sign me up, you do not. But, I will say, this design is really cool. The problem scientists have been having with our upcoming generation of space science platforms and vehicles are too large and too fragile to launch and deploy as self-contained payloads. They are breakable, present us challenges whenever we want to send them somewhere.
Spidernaut is supposed to remedy this.. The multipoint stance of an arachnid’s eight legs, with as many as 7 down during a step, allows simply-supported footholds that spread climbing loads more evenly across a space structure and impart no torques.
However, as of right now, it is simply a concept, theory, and an unlaunched model.
5/10
3. SPHERES
What are those large D&D looking dice things you might ask? Well, you probably won’t ask as this is a list all about robots and you can use deductive reasoning, BUT let me just pretend for a moment that you actually DID ask.
These are called SPHERES. The Synchronized Position Hold Engage and Reorient Experimental Satellite (SPHERES). They are a series of miniaturized satellites.
Too, quote and article, their exact purpose is this:
” to be used as a low-risk, extensible test bed for the development of metrology, formation flight, rendezvous, docking and autonomy algorithms that are critical for future space missions that use distributed spacecraft architecture, such as Terrestrial Planet Finder and Orbital Express.”
Each SPHERES satellite is an 18-sided polyhedron, with a mass of about 4.1 kg and a diameter of about 21 cm. So they’re small, compact, and super useful. In short, they are used for a wide diversity of experiments, basically functioning as a space lab partner.
These satellites get all my love.
8/10
4. Curiosity Rover
How could we even make such a list as this and not include our loyal Curiosity.
Originally Rover was sent to Mars to a explore a crater. A simple mission, right? But in December 2012, Curiosity‘s two-year mission was extended indefinitely. He remains operational and to this day, collecting samples for scientists to analyze.
8/10
5. Oppy Rover
You probably already know the extensive tale or Opportunity Rover, effectionately nick named Oppy for short. Part of NASA’s Mar’s exploration program, Oppy landed on the Planet on January 25, 2004, three weeks after its twin Spirit (MER-A) touched down on the other side of the planet. Rover spent its days on the planet doing various tasks for scientists, being powered by its solar panels and hibernating during dust storms. This careful operation allowed Opportunity to exceed its operating plan by 14 years, 46 days (in Earth time), 55 times its designed lifespan. However, Oppy did not reboot after a dust storm in 2018, suggesting to scientists that it had some sort of failure, or that, perhaps, the machines solar panels got too covered by dust to operate. Scientists hope to go back soon and reactive this little machine. But until this, this little machine occupies a little space in our hearts.
“More than 835 recovery commands were transmitted since losing signal in June 2018 to the end of January 2019 with over 1000 recovery commands transmitted before February 13, 2019.[16][31][32] NASA officials held a press conference on February 13 to declare an official end to the mission. NASA associate administrator Thomas Zurbuchen said, “It is therefore that I am standing here with a deep sense of appreciation and gratitude that I declare the Opportunity mission is complete.”[33] As NASA ended their attempts to contact the rover, the last data sent was the song “I’ll Be Seeing You” performed by Billie Holiday.”
10/10
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