astin • kidaelari

@kidaelari.bsky.social

(she/they) 🇦🇺 • virtual photography • drawing • fanfiction • 🔞 sometimes NSFW • very amateur & just for fun • #BG3 • #DragonAge • #ClairObscur • #StarWars • chronically ill & dynamically disabled ✌️

If you're unsure if VP counts as art -- it absolutely does. It's a skill; it takes time & effort to learn those tools. It's posing, & lighting, & composition, & so much editing & tweaking & reworking, & love & care for the subject matter. Just as photography is an art, so is virtual photography.

One thing I feel like we could instigate across the entire internet is only talking about tv shows as they air on designated discussion boards so that nobody gets accidentally spoiled by the algorithm

I may be naive, but it feels like in the year 2026, we should be done fighting and done with war. We should be done bullying, harassing, and hurting one another. We should be done with racism, homophobia, transphobia, and bigotry in general. We have not evolved at all. That's devastating.

How did the Milky Way form? Terzan 5 holds the clues. Billions of years ago, similar clumps merged to form our galaxy’s central bulge, but Terzan 5 stayed intact. Scientists describe it as a surviving "lump in an otherwise well-mixed cake batter!" 🍰✨ 3/4

🚀 Meet Terzan 5! Once thought to be a globular star cluster, new data from NASA’s Webb & NASA’s Hubble reveals it’s actually a "bulge fossil fragment." It’s a newly confirmed class of objects—a rare cosmic relic from the early days of our Milky Way’s formation. 🌌✨ 1/4

A dramatically crowded starfield that looks like a just-shaken snow globe. The black background of space, which is clearer at the edges, is covered by thousands of tiny white, orange, and blue points of light, which are stars. The stars are most concentrated in the center, forming a roughly circular orb, and sparser at the edges of the image. Several larger orange stars, particularly those largest near the edges of the frame, have prominent diffraction spikes.

Credit: NASA

I am once again begging folks to understand the difference between ‘I don’t like this’ and ‘Nobody likes this’. You are not the main character of the world. Readers and authors have different tastes. You are not the arbiter of what authors should and should not put into books.

Never forget that for every vile person in this fandom, there is a plethora of kind, caring and supportive players, of amazing people with great morals, of potential friends – and I'm so thankful for that. The bad actions of a few users, however loud they are, do not reflect the fandom as a whole.