What A Thing To Come Back To After Having Not Played For Months And Even Then Only Little

 I’m in a really bad spot right now and thought perhaps finally opening commissions might help. If I don’t make about $300 by Sunday I’m going to be homeless. I’m hoping there will be enough interest to make that goal.

I’m going to be doing

-Sketchy style for $5 (Up to 2 characters, +$2 for each additional character)

-Sketched and Colored for $10 (One character, $3 for each additional character)

-Smooth lines and Flat colored for $20 (1 character, $5 for each additional character)

-Smooth lines and Fully colored for $35 (One character, $10 for each additional character)

Contact me at Squird5@gmail.com

The sooner I get the money I need the sooner they will get done

What Are the Bright Spots on Ceres?

Dwarf planet Ceres has more than 130 bright areas, and most of them are associated with impact craters. Now, Ceres has revealed some of its well-kept secrets in two new studies in the journal Nature, thanks to data from our Dawn spacecraft.

Two studies have been looking into the mystery behind these bright areas. One study identifies this bright material as a kind of salt, while the other study suggests the detection of ammonia-rich clays. 

Study authors write that the bright material is consistent with a type of magnesium sulfate called hexahydrite. A different type of magnesium sulfate is familiar on Earth as Epsom salt.

Researchers, using images from Dawn’s framing camera, suggest that these salt-rich areas were left behind when water-ice sublimated in the past. Impacts from asteroids would have unearthed the mixture of ice and salt.

An image of Occator Crater (below) shows the brightest material on Ceres. Occator itself is 60 miles in diameter, and its central pit, covered by this bright material, measures about 6 miles wide. With its sharp rim and walls, it appears to be among the youngest features on the dwarf planet.

In the second nature study, members of the Dawn science team examined the composition of Ceres and found evidence for ammonia-rich clays. Why is this important?

Well, ammonia ice by itself would evaporate on Ceres today, because it is too warm. However, ammonia molecules could be stable if present in combination with other minerals. This raises the possibility that Ceres did not originate in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, where it currently resides. But instead, might have formed in the outer solar system! Another idea is that Ceres formed close to its present position, incorporating materials that drifted in from the outer solar system, near the orbit of Neptune, where nitrogen ices are thermally stable.

As of this week, our Dawn spacecraft has reached its final orbital altitude at Ceres (about 240 miles from the surface). In mid-December, it will begin taking observations from this orbit, so be sure to check back for details!

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Lars Anderson: A New Level of Archery

Lars Anderson studied historical manuals and rediscovered an ancient and extremely fast way of firing arrows from a bow, making icons like Legolas and Katniss look like slugs.

He trained himself to be able to perform such feats as firing three arrows in less than a second, catching an arrow and firing it back, splitting an oncoming arrow in two, and basically debunking all the lies hollywood has fed us about “ultimate archery skills”

Character development time! Give me some interesting questions about my character and I will answer.

I made that spicy shrimp pasta recipe and it turned out perfect and tastes great! Everyone liked it and it was very satisfying.

"I'll just draw a joke picture really fast"

I don't have a "Fast" mode, only Slow and ULTRA SLOW.

Asks

I really should make a big basic info post first, but I haven't yet and will soon eventually, but I'm open to asks about my characters and setting or anything really. It might help with worldbuilding.

Internet died on Sunday and I've been going to my Aunt's and playing on a flash drive while doing laundry and making pumpkin bread and whatnot. Battleship Hime would shoot someone to crit almost every time I'd sortie, and if I got the southern route I'd never get to the boss at all. The first node of the south route would crit some of my ships. Every time I did get to the boss though, Tenryuu would fire a 250 damage torpedo attack and kill CL Oni in one hit every time. The second to last time she got to orange just before night and still pulled a one shot kill and I got Nagato. Tenryuu is the stronk.

One of Graph's drawings from last year that I started to color up and never really finished.

The background of the first image is traced from a photo of Sapphire Beach in Saint Thomas, USVI. The weather was really humid that day and it was apparent in the photo, so I used colors from a nice day over at Megan's Bay because nobody likes gray beach photos do they? The islands in the back were barely visible in the original picture. I'm not even sure why Lass would be at Sapphire with that board other than maybe paddling around and looking at fish, Frenchman's Reef has much better waves and even those don't get very big. As for fish and coral, Secret Harbor (Apparently now named Paradise Harbor because mass tourist influx) used to have lots of coral and fish, but tourists, being the dipshits they are, killed a lot of it off.

The flat colors are done, but I intended to add shading and clean up the water, but that never happened and I haven't touched the files in months. The shading should also be less purple and more blue. It'd look a lot better on the clouds that way and the rest of the image too I'm sure. Gray shading just doesn't look that good.

the notes are broken 😂