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IS VIRTUAL RALITY A HINGING FRUIT?

[DIGITAL REALITY] is a writing mix about a universe simulated within a machine, virtual transcendence, and technology without morality. It’s a different sort of future, one where every individual can be The God of the Machine.

This playlist contains 16 of my favorite tracks for writing a futuristic setting, cyberpunk, and science-fiction. The music is heavily digitized, harsh, electronic, and yet… somehow peaceful. You have logged-in to a place without law, to a land without boundaries. But– such a place is full of danger. The System’s watchdogs will be hunting you down. Illegal applications can save you, and kill you. And, of course, sexually transmitted malware is always a possibility. Wear protection. You have a personal firewall, use it.

This is not a game.

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Looking for more writing playlists? Check out my other mixes:

[Writing In The Dark] Unobtrusive & relaxing!

[Writing About Love] Welcome to Feels City, population: You.

[Writing & Fighting!] Round One, Fight!

[Writing About Horror] Don’t look, it’s right behind you!

[Royalty And Noble Blood] Crowns for thieves, daggers for kings!

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DONALD'S ROUGH DAY!

this gif is literallly the longest gif i’ve ever seen and he’s overdramatic as hell but also it’s a big mood. 

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🌊 Types of Mermaids 🌊

please be respectful of cultural boundaries when working with mermaids from various cultures and traditions, and be mindful not to intrude.

🌊 Rusalkas - slavic in origin, disturbed spirits of the “unclean dead”, ghosts of women who died violent deaths, with a penchant for drowning young men. they live only in rivers and lakes, and are known to have green hair like aquatic plants, only appearing in the night. 

🌊 Melusina - a mermaid that walks among humans, but returns to their two-tailed form during baths and when they bathe their children. often a water spirit of a nearby lake or river. french origin. 

🌊 Siren - greek mythology. servants and companions of persephone, whom searched for her when she was abducted. they are known to sometimes have the body of a bird, and for their song, which lured sailors to their doom. cannibalism implied folklore. have the power of prophecy. 

🌊 Merrow - irish mermaid. known to have green hair and webbed fingers. particular noted love of music and their red cap, which when stolen, they will live with the thief until they find it, and then return to the water, leaving even a whole family behind. 

🌊 Ben-varrey - from the isle of man, known to bless those that are kind to them with prosperity, gifts, and even the location of treasure. 

🌊 Aicaya -  Caribbean mermaid, humans who become mermaids when they are shunned from their community and go to live in the sea. 

🌊 Amabie - japanese merpeople, with birdlike torsos and three legs and scales. they are gifted with prophecy, usually foretelling abundant harvests or epidemics 

🌊 Ningyo - “human faced fish” known to have golden scales, that brings bad weather and misfortune when caught, but when their flesh is eaten the consumer is granted youth and beauty, even agelessness. 

🌊 Finman / Finwife - magical shapeshifters that disguise themselves as sea creatures or plants to lure humans, unlike most mermaids they kidnap people from the shores to be their spouses or servants. they have a greed for jewelry and coins, particularly silver, and prefer humans over other finfolk. 

🌊 Sirena Chilota - considered the more friendly mermaids, caring for all fish life and rescuing drowned sailors to restore life to them. known for their human-like beauty and youth, according to legend they are the child of a human and a “king of seas”, tears are a powerful substance. from chilote mythology. 

🌊 Cecealia - sometimes known as “sea witches”, they are half human and half octopus. origins in native american and japanese mythology. 

🌊 Sirena / Siyokoy - the philippine version of mermaid and merman respectively. also called “magindara”, they are known to protect the waters from raiders, and protect the boy moon from sea monsters. Siyokoys can sometimes have legs however, covered with scales and webbed feet

🌊 Sea Mither - scottish/orcadian mythology, a spirit that personifies the sea during spring and summer, battles along scottish isles using storms to bring the summer about. a mother figure to all aquatic life. 

🌊 Ceasg - a fresh-water mermaid, specifically half-salmon, said to grant three wishes if captured. sometimes called maighdean na tuinne (maid of the wave) or maighdean mhara (maid of the sea). scottish. 

🌊 Selkie - though somewhat different from the typical mermaid, as they are not cold-blooded, have the body of a seal in the water and are human on land. in legends their skins are often stolen and they are kept by fishermen as spouses, or become lovers to fishermen’s wives who shed tears into the sea.  

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLD

So have you heard that thing about andromeda colliding with the milky way? It would obviously happen a LONG time from now, but I'm wondering if our solar system will even last long enough to see it. Like will our sun last long enough to get us there?

It will happen quite a long time from now (about four billion years), but yes, our sun will still be there. It won’t be a red giant yet, but it will be considerably warmer and brighter than it is now, as it will be nearing the end of its life as a main sequence star. 

For a while beforehand, Andromeda will grow larger than larger. At some point, the Milky Way and Andromeda will get so close that they will begin to gravitationally distort each other. The night sky will look like this (albeit somewhat dimmer to our eyes):

However, by this time, the sun will be about 40% more luminous. The habitable zone, a ring around the Sun where liquid water (and life as we know it) can exist, will have moved further out into the solar system. Earth will be too warm for liquid water. The oceans will have evaporated, and life on Earth will fade away into memory. Of course, humans are getting more and more advanced all the time. Considering how far we’ve come in just a hundred years, if we don’t manage to kill ourselves first (which is a big if), and if the current trends in the rate of advancement in technology hold, it’s virtually certain that our technology will be so advanced that preserving life on Earth will be trivial. 

’to plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow’’

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Hero vs. Anti-hero

SET, CAMERA, GLASSES! WHO IS REALLY MORE HANDSOME?

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Sm:)e

Photo by Lisa Melvin

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