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I’m not typically one for AU’s but you’ve very quickly become my favourite author so I was like okay I’ll read this, and I just love it so much and am amazed that you wrote so much in such a short time. It took me 2 months to get to 25k on the one I’m working on rn. I’m excited to read the next chapters of Lost Cat and The Lost Kings (the last one killed me with how adorable it was).

awwwwww thanks! *blushes*

I am capable of writing immense numbers of words in short periods of time and yet! i am! not capable! of finishing things like! ever! and so. 

I had to take, like, a 5k-word detour through Poe’s POV today to get to the smut I had told myself to wait until next weekend to write, SO, but anyway. The lost/found-verse smut will come along one of these days, and Lost Kings has some smut, and NWaL needs some action, and I’m hoping all of those come along this week before I’m back on the farm and too busy to write again.

We shall see. 

I am incredibly infatuated with the Lost Kings being cute. I wish the whole thing wasn’t predicated on canon tragedy; I wish people’s moms got to live, in Star Wars, but there it is. We’ll make the shit out of that hay while the sun is shining. 

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WHAT COLOR ARE MIRRORS

The glass is greener over here. Not a typo.

If you look edgewise through a sheet of glass you see that it’s green because of iron impurities (Google for it). Reducing the iron reduces the green.

Perfectly aligning mirrors to multiply reflections also multiplies the apparent thickness of the glass, and the green tint becomes more apparent the “deeper” each reflection seems to be.

Science is like history: it was never this interesting at school. :-)

Yep! And this is because - I’m sorry to say - mirrors are not a unique or separate substance with magical properties. Mirrors are silvered glass. They have two colors: the color of the silver, and the color of the glass. The “silver” doesn’t have to be silver, though it usually is because mirrors are traditionally made with silver nitrate, because it’s a whitish metal. You can have mirrors silvered in gold or black or red. You take literally any piece of glass, pour a coating of silver on it, seal it, and call it a mirror.

You have to seal it because otherwise it tarnishes and spots. Even though the glass protects it from air, the silver oxidizes just like any other silver, which is why antique mirrors have that funky age-spotted look.

Mirrors used in science are usually pure clear glass with no impurities (so the glass has no color) and are silvered in gold or aluminum, so they are white or gold. A warm-toned mirror would have a pink glass and would make things have a rose-gold look. Phryne Fisher, in the books, has a mirror with pink glass.

(Mirrors silvered in silver - that is, most mirrors you’ve seen - are probably faintly grey from the silver and faintly green from the cheap glass, but it doesn’t need to concern you at all - even if you noticed a strong color, you’re often so used to looking in them that your brain edits out any discrepancy - like how your nose doesn’t get in the way of your vision even though it’s right in front of your eyes all of the time.)

My grandmother had a mirror that was silvered in gold. It was a little disconcerting. The silver in mirrors is why vampires don’t have reflections. (And why the cutlery at Castle Dracula was made of gold.)

IS THAT TRUE ABOUT THE REFLECTIONS BECAUSE IF SO THAT CHANGES ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING???

@thebibliosphere FYI

Already ahead of you on this one ;)

Film (or, at least, classic gelatin-based type film, the kind you used to load onto movie reels or into the back of your camera) was also a composite of gelatin and silver salts, usually silver halide, which explains why vampires don’t show up on film either. 

Sorry for hijacking your very interesting science post with fantasy-science, OP! 

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Rating: MatureWarnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive WarningsRelationships: Lando Calrissian/Han SoloCharacters: Lando Calrissian, Han SoloAdditional Tags: bangable human disaster, Threats of Violence, transactional sex, Scum and Villainy, Alcohol, Scheming, hairbreadth escapes, Consensual Sex, Angst, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, consensual making outSummary:

If Lando Calrissian and Han Solo met as kids on Corellia, here’s how their adventures might begin.

THIS IS SO GOOD, Y’ALL. It’s really adorable, because c’mon, scrappy preteen Han and Lando?? But it’s also sad and tense and lovely as all get out and it’s a whole WORLD, an entire emotional trajectory, and I love it so much.

I didn’t know a version of Han Solo existed who wasn’t prickly and defensive and loudly cynical but here he is, and he and Lando love each other so much and they’re so *hopeful* despite awful circumstances and I can’t bear it. By which I mean I recommend this fic in the strongest possible terms.

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WHAT A BEAUTIFUL KITTY

Why thank you! My cat baby is extremely glamorous. (She sings and dances, her full name is Chita Rivera after the Broadway legend and also an inside joke from Dude’s workplace about uh nine years ago. Eight? Nine? God.)

She spent the entire weekend sleeping on or extremely proximally to one of the two of us, because she dislikes the cold. Dude all day, me all night. More specifically, my face. I am extremely blessed with cat hair.