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The science of the smell of rain!

After >20 long days of little to no rain, Ireland has welcomed back its familiar friend and with it, the amazing ‘it’s finally raining’ smell.

This smell, which is typically associated with rainfall after a dry period, is termed Petrichor; from the Greek words ‘petra’ meaning stone and ‘ichor’ which refers to the golden fluid that was said to flow through the veins of the gods and the immortals in Greek Mythology.

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PSA – Archive of Our Own

Okay, I know that a good majority of us read fanfic. And AO3 is quite popular, I love that site.

I recently just came across a site on my laptop while I was looking some klance fics to read. I found one and clicked on the link which said it was an AO3 fanfic. Norton Security prevented me from accessing the site because it ‘may be impersonating AO3 to steal your personal or financial information’

If you find a link to a fanfic and it has ‘www.archiveofourown.com’ run for the hills. The true AO3 is .org not .com. It may seem obvious but it’s pretty easy to miss. Just letting all my fellow fanfic addicts out there know that there is a scammer.

I’m trying to tag all the fandoms I’m in so that those people are aware.

What kind of person impersonates a well known fanfic site to steal information. Such a heinous crime. I will admit, this person was pretty smart. All kinds of people read fanfics, especially teenagers. Just think of that and how easy it would be.

Please reblog to every fandom and if you find any other fanfic sites being impersonated please add them to this post. Some of us fanfic readers are close to being adults or are already adults, but there are still twelve year olds and younger who don’t pay attention to things they find on the internet.

scammers gonna scam. *sigh* 

Hey, I’m new to the Sailor Moon fandom and I had a question. In both Crystal and the Manga I noticed that Venus’s pen is different. Is there a reason for that? Thanks.

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Well if you’re new to the fandom (welcome first of all! <3) let me explain you something.

Before Sailor Moon existed, Naoko Takeuchi was already busy with a magical girl manga called Codename Sailor V.

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Yup, that’s our girl Sailor Venus, but she looks quite different doesn’t she?.

Well, this is because Codename Sailor V is the prequel story to Sailor Moon.

But, if Naoko didn’t even have Sailor Moon in mind, then how did this all happen?.

Well, it’s quite simple.

The Codename Sailor V manga was publised regularly in a japanese magazine and it became quite popular, it was then when Naoko was offered to turn this manga into an anime.

She agreed but she thought that there were a lot of things to be ‘polished’ (also, she was asked to expand the plot and include more characters) so she thought it would be a better idea to make another magical girl manga from scratch.

And that’s how Sailor Moon was created.

She kept lots of things from Codename Sailor V; like a cat sidekick, a blonde main character,a disguise pen, etc, and she even took some characters from it and brought them into the Sailor Moon universe (Artemis, Minako herself, Umino and even Ami (but she was a different character in CSV and Naoko only took her design).

So instead of ditching the Codename Sailor V story, Naoko made it a prequel to the Sailor Moon events.

That’s how we know Sailor Venus is the first one to awake as a senshi (Sailor V), so she’s the first one getting a transformation pen.

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Artemis gave her this pen so that she could transform into Sailor V. It’s the same pen she later uses to transform into Sailor Venus (as you can see in Crystal).

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This is why her transformation pen is different.

Later in the second arc, when all the senshi are given new transformation pens, they’re all the same (except for colour and planetary symbol).

If you love Sailor Moon, this manga is totally worth reading.

It’s kinda sad Codename Sailor V was never animated (there were some rumors back in the day about an OVA but it never happened), but at least we get to see a glimpse of her in Sailor Moon (both manga and anime).

And of course, we have Venus in Sailor Moon.

I always thought that Naoko gave Minako the leader role in Sailor Moon like some kind of homage since she was the main character of the manga that started it all (and thus if Naoko wouldn’t have made another magical girl manga from scratch, it would have been her show).

But let’s not be sad about it because if it hadn’t been for Codename Sailor V we would have never got Sailor Moon.

And Sailor Moon is amazing and we got Sailor V/Minako in it as well so everybody wins!.

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Bonus!:

When Naoko started with the Sailor Moon manga, she abruptly stopped with the Codename Sailor V manga. It wasn’t until the Sailor Moon manga was finished when Naoko decided to pick the manga again and finish it.

Because of it, we got these easter eggs (should I call it like that?).

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Usagi and Naru briefly appears in the Codename Sailor V manga.

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And so does Ami

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And Rei

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And Makoto

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THE FEELS

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Sailor Venus- The original Scout and the first one I did (’cause she will always be my scout ❀ ) {There will be a master post
when I finish posting these, but they will also all be tagged as “My
punk inspired sailor banners}

You can buy this over on Redbubble !

Sailor Moon  | Sailor Mini Moon | Tuxedo Mask

| Sailor Mercury | Sailor
Venus | Sailor Mars |
Sailor Jupiter

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Sailor Saturn |
Sailor Uranus |

Sailor Neptune

| Sailor Pluto