long-seconds 

the longest, most-agonizing, seconds you spend ainxously waiting for your guy to text back. Thousands of thoughts run through your head as you painfully wait to see what he'll say back. the suspense kills you softly.

but usually, everythings all good in the end.

The long-seconds after i told him i loved him were the worst i had ever had. But they were worth it after he told me he loved me too.

long-seconds by summergirl13 December 11, 2011

Long-Duration Motion Machines of the Second Kind (LDMM2)

Devices designed for extreme-duration motion by optimizing against the Second Law of Thermodynamics—not violating it, but approaching its limits asymptotically. The Second Law says entropy increases; LDMM2 fight entropy by creating near-perfect isolation from dissipative processes. They don't reverse entropy; they just slow its increase to a crawl. A supercooled ring levitating in vacuum, spinning for thousands of years—that's LDMM2. The energy gradually dissipates, but so slowly that human civilization could rise and fall while it's still spinning. LDMM2 are the thermodynamic equivalent of putting your leftovers in a freezer that lasts millennia: entropy still wins, but it takes its time.

Long-Duration Motion Machines of the Second Kind (LDMM2) "They've got gyroscopes in space that will spin for thousands of years before slowing down. That's LDMM2—not defying the Second Law, just making it work overtime. The universe still wins, but it has to wait. LDMM2 is what happens when engineers decide to play the long game against entropy itself."

Long-Duration Motion Machines of the Second Kind (LDMM2) by Dumu The Void March 1, 2026