#a professional observation

[astrosouldivinity]

Random Astrology Observations: ✨

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🔮 You may never truly know a Gemini placement. They talk a lot and appear social, but they only will tell you what they want you to know. Sometimes they will overshare, but I find it works better in their favor because it helps them perceive manipulative individuals much quicker.

🌟 Gemini’s change their mind a lot. They can be perceived as fake for this trait. But in reality, when new knowledge is presented they will change their stance.

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🔮 Pisces placements are way more savage than people realize. I wouldn’t recommend hurting them whatsoever. Underneath their soft demeanor is a master manipulator. They know exactly how to hurt you at a soul level. If a Pisces is silent they are giving you grace.

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🌟 You can tell how a Virgo placement is doing mentally by how clean and organized their environment is. Their emotional and mental state will manifest outwardly in their home, relationships, and career.

[astrosky33]

𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐘 𝐎𝐁𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐁𝐘 𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐊𝐘 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝟏𝟐

🍁 There is positive and challenging traits in every planet no matter if it’s a benefic or malefic planet. Malefic planets just happen to have MORE challenging traits than the benefic planets

🍁 Pluto/Scorpio/8th house placements can show where we have the most control over how others view/perceive us and 10th house placements can show where we don’t

🍁 People with Mars in the 11th house can manifest things very quickly. This is because Mars rules over speed/desires and the 11th house rules over manifesting

🍁 Neptune can show what addictions we have and Pluto can show our obsessions -> addictions based on Neptune

🍁 Pluto can represent toxicity but people always get it twisted and think that means Scorpio placements are toxic which is untrue. Astrology is a polarity and you can take on positive and challenging traits. Not every Scorpio will take on the trait of being toxic especially if there’s a lot of positive aspects to your Pluto or Scorpio placements

🍁 The 4th and 5th house can tell about your favorite holidays. This is because the 4th house rules over traditions and the 5th house rules over festivities

🍁 Having your 5th house ruler in the 9th house can indicate talent in photography

🍁 If you have a Synastry aspect with benefic planets but it happens to be a square/opposite aspect it will still bring challenges regardless. This doesn’t mean it’s inherently negative though as challenges can of course be worked through and bring a positive outcome through effort

🍁 Your Saturn in somebody’s 2nd house in Synastry can indicate you having a trauma bond with the 2nd house person

🍁 Pluto in the 7th house in Composite Charts (if this specific challenging trait is taken on) can indicate you both love the toxicity in your relationship and are addicted to the pain because it’s a constant roller coaster and thrill for you both. Kind of similar to a Nate and Maddy from Euphoria type vibe

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[wereoz]

the house md guys r the bacteria i observe in a petri dish

[uncanny-tranny]

Something interesting I've noticed about people is whether they view a diagnosis as prescriptivist or descriptivist.

Somebody who views a disability or illness as a matter of prescriptivism will often only believe somebody has a condition if they can prove it by way of a diagnosis. They will view a diagnosis almost as though it is given to you by a doctor or psychiatrist, that they are the people who can truly prove you are right or wrong, that they know best.

Somebody who views a disability or illness as descriptivist will see a diagnosis as, essentially, an official observation into behaviours or states of being that the person in question is experiencing. The descriptivist route entails the idea that somebody who will eventually be given a diagnosis is already experiencing something wrong, and that medical professionals ought to be working to observe all the symptoms the patient is experiencing and line them up with other observations (diagnoses) we have already observed in others.

I think it's important to recognize these two general attitudes about diagnosis. If you want to ally yourself with disabled people, it helps to learn how to view diagnosis as more in line with the descriptivist mindset, I think.

[nocek]

So this picture from technical standpoint was a nightmare. Original plan was to use light wash of watercolors and then add some flat brush details without blending in gouache. I tried to use my nice acrylaqouache cmyk 5 tube set but I couldn't mix colors opaque enough. My regular gouache also wasn't opaque enough with a bonus of having dull colors comparatively.

So at some point I gave up and decided to change the initial idea completely and use posca markers. They at least are opaque and covered previously created mess. I'm not 100% happy with end result because I fucked up balance between following the gorgeous colors of original reference and my (not so?) limited marker color set. But yeah. At least I have excuse to do a second try?

Also here let me sing hymns to tomoe river paper that was able to take all that with only slight ghosting on the other side of the page!

[lunaapudleonem]

Astrology readings ✨

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[age-of-moonknight]

Variant cover for Vengeance of the Moon Knight (Vol. 2/2024), #8 by Salvador Larroca.

[dontwanderoff]

it's interesting looking back on dale's apartment (cozy and warm and filled with SO much personality) and then knowing that when they move in together, you don't see much of a change to helen's house. you don't really see any dale in there.

[suashii]

me: i got that dog in me 😤

said dog in me:

[starlitangels]

Me: *writes a Redacted Audio rockstar AU*

Comments in the notes: Wow this is so detailed with, like, the backstage stuff!

Me: *spent my entire childhood and a significant portion of my adolescence surrounded by music equipment, watching musicians set up and take down instruments and equipment with the help of stage crews at various gigs for different genres, all of which involved my dad on guitar*

Me: I certainly hope so!

[fandumb-whimsey]

AK!Jonathan has an open bite, a type of malocclusion which causes a gap between the top and bottom rows of teeth when your jaw is fully closed. It's why you can see his crooked, crowded lower teeth so well.

His BMI is 19 when you punch his height and weight (6'0" and 140lbs) into a calculator, putting him in the low end of what is considered a healthy weight for an adult (below 18.5 is considered underweight). While BMI can be inaccurate due to many factors, I think in his case it's a fair assessment.

We get a glimpse of the Croc damage on his right arm at times. Some scars have evidence of stitching and others were left to heal on their own which resulted in heavy scarring. Perhaps the latter scars were too deep/wide? Or had been stitched but got infected so were opened to drain and heal? A few ways to headcanon that.

Those are some dirty ass nails, please wash your hands, Jon. :( (Spoiler: he won't 💔)

[jaratedeguadalupe]

cursed tf2 chat that i've accumulated

[nachosncheezies]

Something that I have observed, in life and in fandom spaces, is that vast cultural and linguistic differences are often unknown, and this has become especially apparent as social usage of the internet has grown worldwide. It's no one's fault. Nobody is "less than" or unintelligent or whatever else for not recognizing it. It's simply something that you can't really know, I think, without being directly exposed to it either by education or personal experience.

I've been lucky to have been something of a nomad, but that comes with its challenges which go way beyond the practical or homesickness. I can say that even within the English language there are VAST regional and cultural differences in modes of expression. Interestingly, the folks I've known who MOST seem to recognize it are linguists and especially professional translators - professions where a recognition of the importance of localized metaphor, unspoken nuance, idiomatic expressions, etc, are absolutely KEY to success. But I digress.

Based on my own experience, I believe that internationally common tongues sometimes fail us to a degree because of this. In some places, culture is more "individualized" - a sort of "what can I do" which often includes a sort of "me against the world" outlook. (I do not mean selfishness. Not at all. I mean it's a starting point, not a goal.) Presenting one's thoughts can best be accomplished by conveying strong, even absolute conviction in one's position, which - "me against the world" - can lead to generalized and sometimes forceful statements. At home, that would be a starting point for discussion and debate, and would be returned in kind. In other places, discussion takes more of an "improv comedy" style, wherein "yes, and..." is the mode of debate. In still others, the places and types of silence can convey just as much about someone's position and can be just as persuasive as words themselves. Sarcasm is especially regionalized, and conveyed differently from place to place. Body language is universally important in adding nuance or clarification to any statement in any place. Put these sorts of things in a blender, and you can easily find misunderstandings where some come off aggressive or as "talking down" to others, others unusually meek, still others appearing to agree when actually, they are not agreeing at all, etc.

I have also observed that in real life situations, differences in regional accents afford a certain amount of grace toward these differences, even when we're not actively conscious of any of the above. (This, I can say with absolute certainty, because I have also lived in a few places long enough to have taken on a floating accent, and when I'm visiting any of these places for more than a day or so, that grace if I stumble back into other modes of expression disappears with whichever accent I got off the plane with 😂)

Unfortunately, online, we don't have this constant audible reminder that a person is something of an "other" coming from some other place where modes of communication may be different. Even people who deal with language as their professional bread and butter can easily forget in online spaces. We tend to hear whatever we read in our local accent, and things such as metaphor and sarcasm may be misconstrued, "individualized conviction" modes may come across as shocking and rude, or the many and varied uses of silence may go completely unnoticed, etc.

Anyway. If you have read this whole novella, thank you. 💕 I have debated posting something like this for a looong time, because I wonder sometimes if conflict I see within fandoms (and educational groups, and professional groups, and and and) might arise, fundamentally, from these sorts of misunderstandings. I do not intend it as a callout to any person or group of people. Perhaps, hopefully, simply food for thought.

[livelythoughts]

I don't know why people underestimate virgo like that. They just mention " illness ,servant " blabla while a lot of celebrities have their mc/ north node / stellium in virgo lol. Sorry not sorry if I sound upset but some people only focus on the bad aspect of the 6th house/virgo. And it makes sense why a lot of celebrities have it they are entertaining people, they technically are at the service of others but not as "servant" but as legends

[lunaapudleonem]

Update about sending me asks 💗✨

Hi everyone,

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[age-of-moonknight]

“The Moon Warrior,” Marvel 85th Anniversary Special (Vol. 1/2024), #1.

Writer and artist: Yuji Kaku; Special thanks to Ken Kunito