#variable star

[quiltofstars]

The Ghost of Cassiopeia (IC 63) being lit up by the star Navi (γ Cassiopeiae) // Timothy Straub

The star Navi, γ Cassiopeiae, is named for the American astronaut Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom who flew in the Gemini 3 mission and died in the onboard fire of Apollo 1. The star's name is his middle name spelled backwards.

[zhouguang66]

do you think archangel halos are like sun cycles.

newly born ones are like protostar sun, starting to become radiant and naive and bright and burning with so much passion

while more older ones may be more of like a main sequence. yk how they like are radiant in a more stable way and it’s like a beacon of light you can trust

and like at the end of the cycle or fallen/angels losing faith they have solar eclipse. like their halos are slowly losing their light to the darkness and their vision is “clouded” but it just makes it so much more magnificent and beautiful to our eyes.

do you get what i mean like what if this was in ultrakill like grrrr

id love to see this shit in a ultrakill angel oc like go off girlie(gender neutral)

[twigcollins]

“You with us, ad?” Jaster says gently.

Silas watches those gold eyes quietly observe them, barely focused at best. One bedridden, half-starved child with no blade or armor regarding three grown Mandalorians, and he still feels uneasy without a weapon in his hand. The dar’jetii - the real ones, they’re never truly defenseless, or predictable, or sane. A way of life with only two options, from all that the legends say - flagrant deception and total war.

“Mand’alor the Wise.” Kenobi rasps, with no particular emotion. “Restorer of Manda’yaim.”

With no further ceremony, he turns over and falls back to sleep.

“Well,” Mij says. “I like that more than the one where we’re all dead.”

“Mand’alor the Wise.” Silas says. “I wonder who he meant.”

Jaster punches him without looking.

[relativelymargo2511]

variable stars

variable stars are stars whose visibility and brightness as seen from earth varies over time.

this can be due to certain internal and external factors. for example, its luminosity changing as the star swells and shrinks, or another celestial object eclipsing the star, respectively.

[zhouguang66]

this works so well. oh my god.

dvnte1 and v2ergil

[spacewonder19]

A Cepheid variable © Hubble

[daily-odile]

everything is the same except Odile is the one looping

oh. heheheheh. muahahahaha. hold on *digs through my pile of disorganized sketches*

Odile loops au; a sketch compilation!!

Some old fic drabbles + associated sketches under cut (a6 secret spoilers):

hc: Since equipment carries over, as long as Odile uses her book in a fight, she can write down notes and have it carry over loops

toxic doomed yuri (for a more fleshed out fic I highly recommend The Sweetest Thing by soreimoon, it's amazing)

[annasofthe11thdimension]

These...fake covers are...WAY too fun to draw.

Anyway, here's another cover for the start of the 3rd act of my fic series 'Like a Wheel Ever Turning', since apparently I wasn't satisfied with only having one of the damn things.

If you like wanna see Odile stuck in a time loop, and Loop slowly being forced to be an actor in the drama (VERY much against their will), here's the link.

[zhouguang66]

like i just stumbled upon it thinking there would be like only 3 fans but SHABAM THERES PLENTY i love this niche thing

The mononoke fandom on Tumblr is everything to me bc it's been super active even before the movie and 50 % of it is amazing media analysis explaining the niche cultural things that are always in the background and 50% just horny af comments about kusu and I treasure all of it equally

[zhouguang66]

anyway let me just

*dumps all of this trad drawings here*

[twigcollins]

The whole room shudders with the impact, the scream of shearing metal, dirt and dust raining down.

Attack, counterattack, action and reaction. Looks like you’ve finally convinced them to bring out the big guns.

Obi-Wan doesn’t have any big guns. He’s exhausted, nothing left to call the Dark and it knows it, twisting playfully just beyond his reach as his concentration trembles. If he can’t be interesting it has no use for him.

No? Genet says. Well, I didn’t want to make any promises…

Everything is already so cold, heavy and distant, even breathing in and out an effort. So at first, when Obi-Wan sees his arm move it’s confusing, as if it isn’t his at all. And then he feels himself get to his feet, even as the world draws further and further away, and Obi-Wan thinks he might be more right than he wants to be.

“… but for the moment, I may be able to be of… a more concrete assistance.”

Obi-Wan listening to his own voice, slowly and quietly drowning in the darkest of seas, the world fading around him as Genet takes control. The Dark… levels out. Isn’t the frantic chaos that he’s been fighting to stay above - and doesn’t keep its distance. The Dark in the will of a true Master. He feels it coalesce - and so does the Darksaber, and if Obi-Wan had any worry that the blade disapproved of him, it’s nothing to the way it trembles in what is now Genet’s hand, irritation and protest coloring the Force.

“Oh, don’t be like that. We both know there’s a time and place for the hired help.”

He swings the blade a few times, casual and appreciative, the Darksaber’s sharp displeasure slowly quieting to an annoyed grumble.

Another rumble in the distance, in the real. Genet looks up, Obi-Wan can feel his lips curve into a quiet grin.

“It’s been a while. But I think I remember how this goes.”

[digi-lov]

Agunimon BT17-011 Alternative Art by p!k@ru from EX-08: Legend Pack

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Siffrin plays Disco Elysium AU: Featuring backseat gamer Loop.

[thecannonfodder]

Why is there so many horse posts that are about isat and I have no idea where they are???

Explanations please!!!

Update:Found out!!!

[anghraine]

wind-sage replied to this post:

it is a really fun compare and contrast between Leia I am FULLY an Organa and Luke I am a Skywalker. Neither is Wrong, just important to respect the others choice with it.

Yes, I agree! Their experiences and identities wrt the family members who raised them are often framed as equivalent, but in the OT, they really do seem to relate to each of their families in very different ways.

Leia is not indifferent to her biological parents; she has a tie to Padmé through the Force that lingers with her and matters to her, and it's very upsetting for Leia to find out her natural father is Darth Vader. But the Organas are no less her parents for that. To Leia, "my father" means Bail Organa as much as it invariably means Anakin Skywalker to Luke. She is Bail and Breha's daughter and heir in every way that matters, the princess of Alderaan to her fingertips. Even her blood relationship to Luke only reinforces the close friendship that already exists between them, and would probably matter much less to her without the pre-existing relationship and accompanying Force bond.

But all suggestion in the OT is that Luke was raised as a beloved nephew with his father's and grandmother's name, not a son in the way Leia is a daughter. And it's a potentially dangerous name, at that, which only reinforces the importance in that family situation of honoring Anakin and Shmi in how Luke was brought up to think of himself. Luke's powerful consciousness of himself as Anakin's son doesn't seem just his own thing or conflict at all with how Owen and Beru talk about Luke's tie to Anakin, but rather, reflects it— they say "your father" or "his father" to refer to Anakin and are extremely aware of Luke's legacy from Anakin (and presumably Shmi).

The fostering of a relative's child within the family can often be complex in that way, even IRL, so this isn't even improbable. And given that Owen is Luke's uncle because Owen's father bought and then freed and married Luke's grandmother who died horribly later on, it's not surprising that they would have qualms about erasing the Skywalker history or that the general family dynamic might be a bit more fraught. Luke pretty emphatically does not see Beru as his mother, despite his affection for her; he refers to Padmé as Leia's "real mother" and adds "I have no memory of my mother. I never knew her"—clearly he can only mean Padmé. It seems to me that he's digging for information about Padmé because her absence represents a different kind of loss for him than it does for Leia herself.

And yeah, I could see the disparity in their experiences being something they have to navigate later on, but ultimately the only way to fully reconcile that, IMO, is for them to realize that their family dynamics and sense of legacy were fundamentally not the same and they're not going to relate to their parents the same ways.

[zhouguang66]

revived by the inherent joy of creation

woe, colourised traditional drawings be upon ye

left: casandra, acut15/acutis, and ezrafel in order of left to right, then top to bottom.

right: arcius, suriel, and patientia top to bottom, then left to right.