An ancient woman lived with a prosthetic eye nearly 5,000 years ago. Crafted from tar and gold, it reveals shocking medical knowledge in Bronze Age Iran.
#AncientMedicine #LostHistory #DarkScience #Archaeology #Storytelling #DidYouKnow #HistoryFacts #DocumentaryShort #WeirdHistory
Read more: https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/fake-eye-0016760

"Scientists drilled 3500 feet beneath Antarctica’s ice... and discovered preserved animals that shouldn’t exist — crustaceans and water bears, untouched for over 100,000 years. Is this proof of ancient life, or something we were never meant to find?"
#HiddenAntarctica 🧊 #LostLife 💀#FrozenSecrets #AncientEvidence 🧠#DarkScience #Storytelling #DidYouKnow #HistoryFacts #DocumentaryShort #WeirdHistory

#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 30 — the day I skipped
30. Share some good things about how your work went this month!
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I am burnt out, but hey, no time like the Present Continuous.
I have approached the 100th page of translation for #DarkScience aka #ТемнаНаука.
(Message from my future self: still there, I'm exhausted and overworked.)
Can't believe I got to page 100. And I'm not even drawing it, 'just' translating. How hard can it be, right?
</sarcasm>
One thing that gives me joy despite being tedious af is making #stickers out of it. I have no idea why so many authors, notably comic authors, ignore making messenger stickers. It's *natural* free publicity — if the pictures are memetic, people can do wonders.
AI usage was limited (mostly upscaling), and I'd like to put it somewhere outside of Telegram (for TG users, https://t.me/addstickers/DarkScience), preferably a stable FOSS platform. Suggestions?

#WritersCoffeeClub
9. How does the means of publication change a work? print? digital? audiobook? something else?
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9. I do only digital so my answers are limited. I wouldn't change my preexisting work to fit the publishing format (I am naive enough to believe it fits most formats I need 'as is'). But creating a new work (or recreating it) would get a lot from leveraging the unique perks inherent in a format.
When I translate #DarkScience I obsess with background details like posters, street signs or logos. In a "novelisation" (we call it 'transcript') I can still use these but I lose the shape of fonts (that I have preserved in comic form) — a book can only have so much fonts in it (up to two ignoring italics?). If doing a transcript I would need to find another way to "shape the vibe".
Same goes with where the line breaks are (text balloons are not infinite) etc.
The good news is, modern creativity is a chimaera taking as many shapes as required. Games to animated series to comic books to classic books to tabletop roleplaying books to fanart, fanfiction, soundtracks and fan songs. In a meta sense *it is all one single work*. One creature. One entity of many faces and limbs and tentacles. Like Cyberpunk, or the Witcher.
Observing a finger does not change the leg. One could argue that the work maintains internal consistency, what we do is discover more of it.

#darkscience #archer

⚰️🌌🔥 No clean line divides science from its shadow. Post-empirical visions rise where proof falters and faith takes root. Theories of mirrorworlds and multiverses bloom like weeds in the ruins of reason. What men call truth is but a dim fire flickering in a vast night. #DarkScience https://aeon.co/essays/post-empirical-science-is-an-oxymoron-and-it-is-dangerous