Skogafoss Aurora, Iceland
Does she fancy me?
Or is she just being friendly?
My favourite game
Update: she fancies me
Update: She’s my girlfriend
Update: We live together
Update: We just got our first house 🏡
Update: Here’s us with our first Christmas Tree
Update: Here’s a little doodle of us I had commissioned for her birthday
Update, we’re engaged
THIS IS THE CUTEST THING EVER
The story of the Sun and the Moon.
“Tell me the story about how the Sun loved the Moon so much he died every night just to let her breathe.” She asked.
“Once during a time when the Earth was simple, the Sun shone brighter than anything. The people were grateful and rejoiced every time the Sun shone. He brought them joy and hope, he was even the source of their warmth. But he was lonely, all by himself in the vast skies. He would look down at the people dancing in his radiance and wonder if he was simply destined to a life of solitary. That was the price he paid for being the brightest, he reasoned.
Then there was the Moon. As the Sun grew weary and began to disappear, she would rise into the sky, flanked by millions of stars. Her radiance was a sad kind of beauty, one that went unnoticed as people slept. The stars watched her with wishfullness, hoping that one day they would get close enough so she wouldn’t feel so empty. But they couldn’t. The Moon was untouchable, surrounding herself with a blanket of darkness through the cold nights.
Until one day when the Sun was sliding out of the Heavens, he caught a glimpse of her. She was peeking up, a rare side of her being exposed to the light. And while the Sun could shine, he knew the Moon could glow, and a faithful whisper trumped an arrogant shout any day.
So just as the stars were wandering into the night, the Sun fell in love like a snowball hurdling down a mountain. How he wished to see her more than the fleeting moments he shared with her at both dawn and dusk. But the Moon was untouchable. Uncurable. Unfreeable.
‘Go’ She whispered to him one of those nights, her voice as sweet and sorrowful as the last light of the morning, ‘Go and let me breathe, for you and I have decided fates. You illuminate the day and I cast a glow on the night. We will never be. Our connection would go against what all people believe.
During the summer he would stay just a little while longer in case she changed her mind. But it was no use. ‘Don’t you dare abandon your blessing of light for my darkness.’ Those were the last words the Moon was strong enough to speak to the Sun.”
G34.3 - Cosmic cloud containing enough alcohol to keep the whole world drinking for a billion years.
In 1995, the gas cloud G34.3 was discovered 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Aquila. It’s absolutely massive, with a diameter 1,000 times the diameter of our entire Solar System, and contains enough alcohol to supply 300,000 pints (a pint = 473 ml) of beer every day to every single person on Earth for the next billion years. G34.3 was found by a team of British astronomers using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, which sits on top of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea Volcano. Ethyl alcohol - the principal type of alcohol found in our alcoholic beverages - was first discovered in interstellar gas in 1975, but the discovery of G34.3’s alcoholic content was the first time such a vast amount had been detected in a celestial body. At the centre of this cloud is a young star, and the team suggested that when grains of dust containing alcohol floated near it, they got so warm, the alcohol turned into gas and remained in that state within the cloud. It’s been almost 20 years since its discovery, but G34.3 remains one of the booziest clouds we’ve ever found.
