Karen

I'm many things: a Christian, a veterinary assistant, a moderator on Twitch and Discord, and a writer. Long live the story!

[Karen @KarenRhoades_]

The complete first draft is up on Wattpad now for your binge-reading pleasure! I posted the last dozen chapters as an early Christmas present for y'all. ^.^
https://t.co/Ibn2f5pKS1

#amwriting #amediting #urbanfantasy #superheroes

[Melissa Crytzer Fry @CrytzerFry]

Forgot to post in the spring... But this is a #coatimundi bounding through the mountain foliage of the Galiuro Mountains in Arizona - a Sky Island.

[jacque boatman @jacqueboatman]

“Tolkien believed that the building of imaginary worlds is one of our highest callings as image-bearing children of God, and he bore that image well.”

- Andrew Peterson

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Crown shyness is a phenomenon where the top branches of neighboring trees avoid touching, leaving visible gaps between their crowns.

[World and Science @WorldAndScience]

The mysterious 'Hoag's object', A rare ring galaxy containing 8 billion stars...

Typically ring galaxies are formed by a collision but for Hoag's object this is unlikely. How it formed remains a mystery to this day...

(Credit: NASA/(STScI/AURA)/Ray A. Lucas)

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

This tree is called the Dragon Blood Tree because it produces blood-red sap

Native to Yemen's Socotra archipelago, it is known for its unusual umbrella-shaped canopy and crimson resin. The rare species is now listed as endangered due to climate change and habitat loss

[Alice Mills @millsalice144]

The opposite of alphabet soup is ramen numerals.

[Tom Gauld @tomgauld]

My latest books cartoon for the @guardian #heatwave

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

Imagine being on a spacewalk experiencing this.
The upper tendrils of Earth's aurora reach high enough that we fly right through them. I felt so small, floating between our planet & the universe, surrounded by this, as we start to permanently leave home.
Filmed by @Soph_astro of @esa through the windows of the International Space Station last week.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Sometimes reality is crazier than science fiction. This is the international space station, carrying humans, passing between my spot in the desert and the moon.

This video was slowed down significantly, as the ISS was only in my field of view for about 150ms

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

When you’ve already explained everything in the email and they reply, “Let’s get on a call and discuss this.”

Mondays can be a real bear. See below. Just remember to take breaks for snacks and naps, and try to avoid any “reply all” mishaps. Save that for Tuesday.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Jupiter, high on caffeine, sleep deprived, and doing its best to take care of 115 moons.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Eastern quolls have a surprising secret hidden in their fur

Under ultraviolet light, their spotted coats glow in bright blue and purple shades

[NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day @apod]

Some 190 million light-years away, far beyond the bright stars and nebulae of the Milky Way, these three galaxies are drawn together by gravity in a mesmerizing cosmic dance.

Clearly distorted by galactic-scale gravitational interactions, large spiral galaxies NGC 6769 and NGC 6770 are seen face-on, with luminous galactic disks scarred by obscuring interstellar dust lanes.

Their young blue star clusters along drawn out spiral arms are spawned in star forming regions that resulted from collisions of massive molecular clouds. Below, spiral NGC 6771 presents a more edge-on perspective, its boxy central bulge due to tidal star streams. Of course, in the distant future a merger of the three galaxies is inevitable.

At the estimated distance of this galaxy trio, known to some as the Devil's Mask, the sharp telescopic frame spans over 300 thousand light-years within the boundaries of the far southern constellation Pavo.

Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

"I, Too" by Langston Hughes.

Read more poems: https://t.co/Q0Y5KTVs5u

[the human anachronism™️ @FullAsMuchHeart]

"Alchemy" by Sara Teasdale