... they're about to go away. My shirt printer is retiring, and I have no replacement.

After May 5 I'm going to take down the online order links on my little business's online store, and after this summer I'll clear out of whatever shirts I have left.

So if you'd noticed any of these before, now's effectively the last chance.

https://www.wlpcomics.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=62_71

I haven't touched KSP since my early experience with KSP2 was a combination of glitchy game and impossible-to-read UI. I've been thinking about it here and there, but I've had other things to do.

But that doesn't mean I'm not doing space stuff, and yesterday I finally edited and posted a video of such.

Specifically, I used Universe Sandbox to test: could we give Earth five moons that all look the same size as our moon in the sky?

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I've done very little writing the past five months, partly due to being busy, but mostly due to recurring headaches when it's writing time.

I have a couple weeks off, and I'm going to try to make time to get back on my projects (the Octavia story and novelizing Peter is the Wolf). But my mind... well... it's trying to jump ahead, or possibly back.

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So, a privately built and operated space probe became the first US lander to soft-land on the Moon last week- Odysseus.

The problem is, in landing it flopped over on its side, which means two of its antennas ended up pointing at the surface and that its solar panels (hard-mounted to the sides of toe probe) are too low to catch any sunlight after today, meaning its science mission time got cut by more than half and its data cut even more so.

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"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
--- probably not Mark Twain

So, the newest addition by someone to the TVTropes page for The Martian has a reference to the Sol 551 Space Oddity heartsong, and claims Mark told Fireball to "tell Mars just what we think of it," with Fireball flipping off the planet and saying, "It knows!"

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I've finally begun work on that story I promised.

I need a bit of info for a minor touch, though:

Does anybody know if, through the entirety of MLP:FiM, any month in the Julian/Gregorian calendar has been named by any character in any episode whatever?

I'm prepared to make up month names, but if they use the same ones we do I won't bother.

I don't speak French.

But apparently someone who does translated Chrysalis Saves Hearth's Warming into French, and I just saw a message about that today. The site it was posted to wanted to check if I had given permission.

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But I was feeling silly after seeing someone else's story title, so this is what you get.

But it's the story I completed with hours to spare for FanOfMostEverything's Imposing Sovereigns IV contest.

And it is part of the CSPverse. (With this being the fifth official story set there, and a sixth to come in December, I guess it's a thing now.)

Counting Noses