#summer stars

[xipteras]

Cepheus constellation. Image by @xipteras

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[ask-summer-epos]

A new day has dawned and Summer has just awoken from her slumber!!

(She quite the fan of magic)

send her asks to help her get to wake up!

(don't be too cruel! you meanies)

[askmidnightspell]

Oh dear, are you cold at night? You can snuggle up in my mane, I won't mind! who knows you probably find money In there!

I- This...is a.. strange experience...but thank you both..?

((This takes place before a lot of the recent posts XDD I started this the 15th and never got around to coloring it until today so...yeah. I really procrastinated this one XD

Featuring:

@ask-summer-epos

@theblackcubeofdarkness ))

[tanyaluca]

Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, non of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. And if you’re ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day…make a wish and think of me. Make your life spectacular. 

Robin Williams

Photo: Tanya Luca

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Antares, the bright star, means rival of Mars. It is at the heart of the constellation Scorpius. This star is so large, Mars is no rival. Centered in our solar system it would reach somewhere between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars. Photo: Geraint Smith (Jun 20, 2022)

[h/t Scott Horton]

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"Summer Stars" — Carl Sandburg

BEND low again, night of summer stars. So near you are, sky of summer stars, So near, a long arm man can pick off stars, Pick off what he wants in the sky bowl, So near you are, summer stars, So near, strumming, strumming, So lazy and hum-strumming.

[alive on all channels]

[chubbiichii]

star fragment beach

[mossy-oblivion]

☆☆☆

[kiwibrain]

✨(You and your family members decided to stay in Bambouche for a bit longer)✨

BEACH EPISODE PART 2

[7amaspayrollmanager]

Alright let's imagine a scene that is all too normal in palestine. A palestinian business owner finds his building covered in graffiti stars of Davids and Hebrew that says "gas the arabs" and "death to arabs"

Now imagine there's a reporter there and asks the palestinian business owner what happens and they say "the jews attacked my business"

Pause. Now your response might be "uncle no. Say israelis not jews" and then this is when he would look at you like youre stupid because the israelis doing this are jewish. They are not the Christians or the druze or the palestinian ones with Israeli citizenship. They are Jewish israelis who believe in their religious supremacy. When you graffiti stars of david all over a palestinian business, car, or the street you seek that conflation. it sends a message, this is jewish land and you're next.

The problem is that these videos circulate in zionist circles. "Watch this video of children in gaza calling for the death of jews" "watch how they say they want to fight and kill jews" those children are referring to Israeli soldiers that come in night and do their raids with the star of David attached to their uniform or the ones that bomb them. It's easy to watch those videos and assume that palestinians are indoctrinating their children on anti semitism or you can realize that those children's only interaction with jewish ppl is through violence and parents cannot protect their children from this. Doesn't matter context is lost

Abby Martin went to Jerusalem and interviewed israelis for 2 hours and she says every israeli was extremely confident to say that this land is for them and that they should push the Arabs out and when she interviewed palestinians they spoke of freedom from occupation and their dreams. That's reality. Not the soundbites.

And yet we have invasive youtubers and interviewers constantly in the street of ramallah or wherever in palestine asking palestinians "do you hate jews?" And in those videos you hear those palestinians say "no we have no problem with jews we have a problem with occupation and we have a problem with zionism." Bc this is how we are trained to respond to this trope. Palestinians are very aware what the world thinks of us and the reality is that many palestinians have internalized it and we grow up reading books on the Holocaust and train ourselves to recognize anti semitic dog whistles so zionists don't get the soundbites they want.

So we say "anti zionism is not anti semitism" and we say "israeli zionists" and we do not say "jewish supremacy" even thought it exists in palestine but "zionist supremacy" and in these carefully worded speech we water down what is happening to us in an effort to not deter people away from solidarity. But it means nothing. The world categorically blames palestinians for rising anti semitism they blame us for jewish insecurity globally.

[chimaerakitten]

I think one of the big strengths of fanfiction as a medium is that it can, on average, assume the reader has a way higher degree of familiarity with canon than like…canon can. If you’re in the Star Wars AO3 tag you probably like Star Wars enough to remember more things about it than the average Star Wars-enjoying-ten-year-old. Which makes it way easier for fanwriter a to get to the juicy stuff and really engage with the worldbuilding or minor characters without having to spell out like. Who Wedge Antilles is for everyone who forgot or never noticed him in the first place. You could write a book about Wedge in the old EU because EU readers could also be assumed to be serious fans, but you can’t make a new canon Disney+ show about him. Those cost money to make and are intended for a broader audience.

And all this means that like. A good fic writer can and often will surpass canon when it comes to like. Thematic resonance and stuff, because they can really dig into something. Star Trek 2009 gave Kirk a new, more generic tragic backstory because it couldn’t expect the average moviegoer to be familiar with Kirk’s old, way more interesting tragic backstory. (Frankly, I’m not sure jj abrams knew about TOS Kirk’s backstory) whereas I have read a LOT of well-written, interesting, deeply resonant fanfic examinations of Tarsus IV, and what it means for Kirk’s character that he’s a genocide survivor. Star Trek 2009 answers the question “why did Kirk cheat on the kobayashi maru?” With “‘cause his dad crashed a spaceship when he was a baby.” A close examination of TOS canon implies the answer is “because he lived through a real-life Kobayashi that did have a win option, but which wasn’t taken.” BUT—and this is significant—even the TOS canon movies can’t really assume knowledge of the full TOS tv show, so that implication is never examined or made explicit. Instead it’s fanfic (and maybe spin off novels? Idk I’ve only read 2 trek books, if there’s one out there that covers this that would be really cool) where we get dives into that thread, where Kirk gets a commendation for original thinking because he can look a testing board in the eye and say “I’ve seen what happens when someone is entrenched in this kind of thinking, and I cannot let it happen to me. I understand the lesson, but it’s not hypothetical anymore and it never will be. I did what I had to do.” And that’s interesting! That’s meaningful! That can’t happen in a summer blockbuster. But it can happen in fic, easily, and that’s a strength of fic, I think.

[xipteras]

Double stars in Lyra. Image by @xipteras

[ask-summer-epos]

*summer just came into the room oh dear has something happened?!*

[happyheidi]

｡ﾟﾟ･｡･ﾟﾟ｡ ﾟ. July will bring blessings.

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[tanyaluca]

Summer Lovers…

Tanya Luca

[stealingpotatoes]

Imagine Luke Skywalker introducing his girlfriend Mara Jade to Ahsoka, Ezra and Cal?

i havent actually finished heir to the empire so im not very knowledgeable on mara jade!!! HOWEVER can I offer you this doodle i did Ages ago when i started reading it instead

[nuzzle]

BABY, THE STARS SHINE BRIGHT ♡ [SPECIAL TEA PARTY 2024SS in Shanghai]