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One of the most charming things in astronomy, IMO, is the theme naming of planetary features.

The craters of Mercury, which is named after the Roman god of messages and information (among other stuff), bear the names of artists: composers (Haydn, Verdi, Vivaldi), writers (Homer, Vyasa, Murasaki), and painters (Giotto, Harunobu, Goya).

Large features of Venus are named after women of myth: mountains and plateaux after goddesses (Freyja, Tefnut, Lakshmi, Aphrodite), plains after mortals (Guinevere, Leda, Lavinia). Smaller features are named after women of history: scientists like Lise Meitner, artists like Anna Pavlova, and rulers like Cleopatra.

Having been named first, the features of our Moon and Mars are a bit all over the place.

The lunar maria ("seas") are named after states of mind: Tranquility, Serenity, Ingenuity, and, uh, Moscow. Or after clouds (Mare Imbrium) and storms (Oceanus Procellarum). Craters bear the name of astronomers (Tycho, Hipparchus), physicists (Oppenheimer, Leibnitz), and space travellers (Grissom, Gagarin), but there's a bit of everything (Caesar, Icarus).

On Mars, we have the plains of silver (Argyre) and gold (Chryse), the Tharsis plateau, plains named after Greece, Isis, and Utopia, mount Olympus and mount Peacock, and more astronomers for the craters (Huygens, Herschel, Lowell). The moons of Mars are of course named after the sons of the god of war, Deimos ("dread") and Phobos ("panic").

Jupiter doesn't have many permanent surface features, of course, but its moons are named after Zeus' numerous lovers: Io, Europa, Callisto, the boy Ganymede, Metis, Leda, Pasiphae. One exception is Amalthea -- the goat that nursed him as an infant on Crete. The features of volcanic Io are mostly named after fiery, temperamental gods (Loki, Chaac, Amirani); those of Europa after places from Europa's own legend (Cyclades, Tyre) or Celtic myth (Conamara, Annwn, Dyfed); those of Callisto after Nordic myth (Valhalla, Asgard, Fimbulthul); those of Ganymede after Egyptian holy cities (Memphis, Abydos) and Mesopotamian myth (Mummu, Lakhmu).

The moons of Saturn are named after Titans, the brothers and sisters of old Chronos: Rhea, Dione, Tethys, Enceladus, Prometheus, Pandora, Iapetus, and of course the largest is just named Titan. The largest features of Titan bear the name of all orts of places of legend (Dilmun, Xanadu, Aztlan, Shangri-La), its creaters of deities of wisdom (Papuan Afekan, Etruscan Menrva, Lakota Ksa), and its hills after JRR Tolkien's characters (Bilbo, Gandalf, Arwen).

The moons of Uranus are all named after characters from Shakespeare's plays (Oberon, Titania, Puck, Miranda, Caliban, Cordelia) and Alexander Pope's poems (Ariel, Umbriel). Shakespearian names are also given to the craters of Oberon (Coriolanus, Falstaff, Romeo) and Titania (Calphurnia, Jessica, Imogen).

The moons of Neptune are of course all water deities and creatures: Triton, Naiad, Thalassa, Proteus, Hippocampus. The features of Triton are named after monsters of the deep sea (Kraken, Apep) or water-related deities and spirits (Heqet, Hiruko, Tangaroa).

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soo looking back at my wizard/pirate101 ao3 skins i realized that i could do a lot better with the skills i have now, so i'm presenting my new and improved (in my opinion) wizard/pirate101 ao3 skins in my new style!

i used ferager's ao3 default icon replacements (as i think it makes everything look smooth) and here's a google doc with links to the CSS's and a installation guide! i do hope you all enjoy them!!!

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want more juice but i drinked it all. this is, i cannot stress this enough, utterly fucked

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ok so this is a bit different from my usual stuff but i find these very helpful for myself so here are some wizard/pirate scatter brushes for my fellow sai 2 users! you can download them all here ::}

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I'm at a loss for worms

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This is my oc mango the snail!

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Not enough eldritch gods that will help me do violence. >:/

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I wanna lay down on some moss and then just never get back up

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the wizard needs another azteca-level loss. im tired of us winning. we need to lose even worse than before

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this was all i could think of when reading this post

I had a dream about something called a banana spider and it smelled like a banana and was shaped like a banana and was as big as a banana and I spent the whole dream crying and trying to escape them

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can you paypal me one ancient rusting coin

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lately ive been imagining bright strobing lights and demonic thoughtforms 24/7 in order to make my psychoscape uninhabitable for any malicious telepaths trying to gain access

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Hey what if the cycle of life, death and rebirth is like going in and out of the shower. Like at first you're hanging in the immaterial, knowing that you should go live a life eventually, better sooner than later, and you're just procrastinating like euuuugh I don't wanna goooo, but once you're in there, once you're alive, you're like no wait a minute now I remember, it's awesome in here, I want to be here forever, and once you've done everything you meant to do you still keep procrastinating for as long as possible because it's so nice in there and you don't want it to be over. But once you're out you're fine, it's the transition that sucks both ways every time.

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i remember the game ::}}}}

anyone remember anything