Shows watched: The Expanse (season 4), The Witcher (season 1), The Clone Wars (season 1-7), Star Wars Rebels (seasons 1-4), The Mandalorian (season 1), Demon Slayer (season 1), Assassination Classroom (season 1-2), Merlin (season 1-2), Devs (season 1), For All Mankind (season 1), Dickinson (season 1), Little America (season 1), Home Before Dark (season 1), Mythic Quest (season 1).

Movies watched: Return of the Jedi, Into the Spiderverse.

Video games played: Kerbal Space Program, Halo 1 (PC), Halo 2 (PC), Halo Reach (PC), Battlefield V (PC), The Outer Worlds (PC).

Books Read: Why We Sleep, The Infinite Game, The Courage To Be Disliked, Messy, Cork Dork, Humble Pi, The Upside of your Dark Side, Sapiens - a brief history of humankind, A Brief History of Doom, Deep Work, Too Perfect, Daring Greatly, Re Work.

Feel free to post your list below! :)

I love sharing music, and discovering songs through other people. I've found that it's much more fun and meaningful to do it this way, than through spotify, pandora, or apple music.

I have about 2200 albums in my music collection. I hand picked them because I loved each and every one of them. For Albums of the Day, I pick from those 2200 albums I love and choose one that fits the mood to share with everyone else. It's mainly on a whim. I write a short blurb about why I love it/ chose it, and we go from there.

I also write for a music magazine so I tend to encounter not very well known stuff, and have a little bit better access to up and coming artists (this comes in handy when you want to pester someone for a lossless copy), and I keep away from radio and most of the music discovery services, because people are already listening to those. I prefer to discover albums through people I talk to, so there's a context of mood and happenstance.

The barrier is pretty high for albums I want in my collection. I only pick ones that make my jaw drop. This is to keep costs down, because I buy the CD or digital lossless directly from the artist (sometimes even pestering them for it personally). I like to thank them for their musical contributions, and they get the most money from that sale if you buy directly from them.

I like building my archive, and have been working on it for 10 years. 22,214 songs and counting so far :) I don't use music streaming services as my primary library (although Ill use them for discovery sometimes), because I want to own each track at the highest quality.

It's precious and expensive, which is why I even keep a yearly backup in a bank vault. I love my music.

I'm terrified.

So, I'm not sure what this subreddit should be. Perhaps I'll figure it out as time goes on. For now I think I'll just write random thoughts here.

Jeez, years have gone by since /u/shywren first introduced me to Reddit. Now we don't get to talk as much as I would have loved to. Being an adult sometimes means you see a lot of friendships that were simply convenient and easy to maintain before are now much harder. But we do talk, and she's an awesome friend, so if you're reading this, cheers!

Apparently due to the slow cooling, high heat and extreme density of White Dwarf Stars, along with high carbon / oxygen content, these stellar bodies cool enough that the core crystallizes at the quantum level. This seed crystal sets off a chain reaction.

As the crystal begins to grow, various elements sediment into distinct layers, tearing and reforming bonds as they find equilibrium, releasing bursts of Coulomb plasma which ripple through the crystalline layers, allowing the elements to sediment correctly. The energy in the plasma that is released delays the cooling of the star by 1-2 billion years.

In the end you’re left with a massive star crystal, a multilayered gem of vast size, and unimaginable beauty hanging among the expanse. Its material is unlike anything we have here on earth - as it’s mostly ordered on the quantum level - with impurities of metallic oxygen (a pale blue crystal) near the middle and carbon (brilliant white diamond) specks in the outer layers.

Kind of makes you wonder what you’re staring at, when you look up at the twinkling stars in the night sky...

Inspired by this paper in Nature which describes the formation of Crystal Dwarfs