dirandastudios 4 days ago

Artwork, Writing, Crochet and more

This site is the latest incarnation of my Diranda Studios site, which has been online since the 90s (since before Tumblr or Webjournals were a thing!). (Yes I am that old.)
Now under diranda.net, Diranda Studios features sites based on my variety of professional and hobby work, which includes my previously epublished series (as Tabitha Bradley): The Dirandan Chronicles and other short novels, stories and nonfiction work.

I am also a freelance digital artist, volunteer game story developer (for Myst Online) and crafter. My work can be seen on my Deviant Art, Renderosity and Daz 3D galleries under ‘Diranda’.
I may consider commission art/crochet work at a later date. Please feel free to inquire. I am a professional author and as such, choose not to take commissions for writing work at this time.

However, that said, I do have a small handful of fanwork writing which I have done for quite a while. Not all of it is currently available online, but can be read on my Archive of Our Own archive. I have done work in several universes, including Portal/Half Life, Myst and Gravity Falls.

This site is currently under development while I transfer from another location, but can be found at diranda.net within 24-28 hours from the time of this post.

Stay tuned!

mindblowingscience
Reblogged from mindblowingscience
5 days ago

mindblowingscience:

Sorry, little green men: Alien life might actually be purple
"We are just opening our eyes to these fascinating worlds around us."
Space.com

If we discover alien life, what will it  look like? 

We have no way of knowing, but the hunt for extraterrestrial life can now include purple bacteria, according to a group of astronomers who are recording the chemical makeup unique to the lavender-hued organisms. These microbes may have dominated Earth early on in our planet’s history and are well-suited to emerge on faraway worlds that circle dim red stars smaller than our sun, a new study suggests.

The latest cataloging effort is in part “to create a database for signs of life to make sure our telescopes don’t miss life if it happens not to look exactly like what we encounter around us every day,” study co-author Lisa Kaltenegger of Cornell University said in a statement. “Purple bacteria can survive and thrive under such a variety of conditions that it is easy to imagine that on many different worlds, purple may just be the new green.”

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