Marguerite Bennett's Blog, page 218
October 16, 2016
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Vampires don’t like sunlight but moonlight is actually also sunlight
Tell that to the werewolves.
Moonlight is only about 14% reflected sunlight, with a different spectrum (some wavelengths gets more absorbed than others, some more reflected, etc). If the two spectra of moonlight and sunlight were compared side-by-side with no mention of their origin, they basically appear as two completely different light sources, one peaking at the yellow wavelengths and the other peaking at the blue-green wavelengths.
To summarize; moonlight is not sunlight, it is reflected sunlight with a lot of its information lost or altered.
Does this mean that, with the right set-up, you could make light sources which mimicked moonlight accurately enough that it sets off someone’s lycanthropy? I’m not sure what such a device would be useful for, but it’d be neat nonetheless.
Technically, yes. In practice, whether it’s simple to do so or not will depend on the exact mechanisms that causes the transformation. I suspect the easiest way would be to get a lamp that mimics sunlight and shine it onto a surface of lunar regolith trapped behind a thin layer of transparent material to protect against oxidation.
this is amazing thank you
Okay but consider that the moon and the earth drift apart juuust a little bit each year—assuming that one’s lycanthropy is triggered by the AMOUNT of moonlight since what lore I know of consists of transformation on the full moon—eventually we’re going to be far enough away from the moon that the symptoms of lycanthropy will disappear forever
Actually no! I just heard a bit on NPR about this two days ago :3
The Moon is slowly drifting away, but it’ll eventually reach a static orbit and stop; it’s not going to fly off into space. What will happen though is kinda weird. When the Moon stops drifting away, the Earth-Moon system will become tidally locked. After that point, only one side of the Earth will ever face the Moon again. So it won’t be that lycanthropy will disappear forever; it’ll just only happen on half of the Earth :] :] :]
That raises another question though; will having the full moon always out, even during the day, mean that lycanthropes will always be shifted, or will the direct light of the sun overpower its effects during the day :?
HOLYSHIT, TIDALLY-LOCKED LYCANTHROPY PLANET
THIS IS THE BEST HIGH FANTASY KINGDOM DIVISION IMAGINABLE
THE KING OF ALL WOLVES!!!! A BORDER WITH BORDER CONFLICTS AND ROGUES WITH DUAL IDENTITIES!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
The moon is drifting away because it’s ashamed to be seen with us.
I love how science!tumblr and fiction!tumblr enable each other.
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Joe Biden crashed a college party in this new #ItsOnUs PSA explaining why sexual assault is *everyone’s* problem
Could vice president (and part-time TV actor) Joe Biden sneak into a college party in real life? Judging by a new Funny or Die video, he totally could.
Gifs: Funny or Die
i honestly love Joe Biden with every fiber of my tiny, shriveled heart
He’s my fav
Biden a real one
i’ve met him he is a Pure Cinnamon Roll he gave me life advice, he hugged and took pictures with the entire wait staff of the restaurant we are at, this man does not deserve the suffering he’s had in his life
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Chanel was never tried for her...
Chanel was never tried for her crimes as a collaborator. She used her connections, information, and money to pay off the right people and cover her tracks.
She was briefly arrested and questioned by a French judge, but basically got off scott-free and allegedly told her family that she was freed by Winston Churchill.
Just so everyone is aware, Chanel S.A. is currently owned by the Wertheimers, a Jewish family that regained control of the brand after Coco tried to use her Nazi ties against them while the fled. Basically, at this point, it’s Chanel in name only.
We originally had this in DC BOMBSHELLS #8, actually, and Catwoman fucking dragging her in this line of dialogue about survival. Because of the time period in which the Bombshells as operating, though, there would’ve been no way to say “But this is what happened afterwards,” and I think readers would’ve stopped reading the comic immediately to go google the matter, and it ultimately didn’t work–alarmed people out of the story.
Might have Catwoman drag her somewhere else, though.
October 15, 2016
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Me: *picks up cat* Explain to me why you're so cute.
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Me: Interesting...
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