#Cassiopeia Rose
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persolaise · 5 months ago
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Louis Vuitton Lovers, Les Indemodables Oranger Sirocco, Arquiste A Grove By The Sea and other reviews - 2024
Fly me to the stars and back -- New releases from Vuitton, Arquiste, Les Indemodables, Gucci and Memo
We travelled all the way from North Africa to Croatia and a couple of distant constellations in a recent episode of Love At First Scent – via a stop-off at the idiosyncratic universe of Pharrell Williams – with reviews of new releases from Louis Vuitton, Arquiste and Les Indemodables, amongst others. Here’s a link to the video, followed by further thoughts on some of the scents: Louis Vuitton…
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i so badly want to do a group cosplay of pre-resurrection dios apate like right after john got the powers. just running around a con in character frantically arguing over geopolitics in negotiation strategy and which streaming platform will garner the widest audience for a God Reveal™ without getting us shadowbanned
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quiltofstars · 3 months ago
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Caroline's Rose, NGC 7789 // tlindema
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soggyskinflaps · 4 months ago
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My piece for Nickyboi's Cassiopeia art contest
A truly toxic love
Overall i think it came out well! I love this design for her and it helped me practice my shading a bit so hooray!
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froppy-butterflyfan2000 · 8 months ago
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Stella Driscoll meeting Cassiopeia Butterfly, whose arrive at the Mewni Academy Dimension as a guest from Rose Butterfly-Lucitor, a Tomstar kid that Cassiopeia taught how to manipulate mana and other mana related abilities, such as (Mana Projection and Mana Constructs).
Juliet Butterfly Diaz, Stella Driscoll, and Mewni Academy belong to @svtfoe4ever
Cassiopeia Butterfly belongs to @storygirl000
Rose Butterfly-Lucitor belongs to @froppy-butterflyfan2000 (me)
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sussoro · 1 year ago
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oc tag game
i got tagged by @leondaltons — thank you so much, sweetie! 💝
[disclaimer: i generally tend to shuffle/change both names & face claims quite a lot so i should probably update my characters page, lol]
FAVOURITE OC: indigo crowe [infamous] — i have to admit that it is quite rare for me to fall in love so hard and fast with a character. indigo is one of my chaotic children and wherever she goes drama will follow. deep talking/singing voice, a huge thirst-trap believer, questionable coping mechanisms, sarcasm connoisseur & abandonment issues;
NEWEST OC: lucrezia romanus [the golden rose] — i still need to develop her a little bit better, but i love her nonetheless;
OLDEST OC: clementine han [the wayhaven chronicles] — as the character that let my interactive fiction obsession start, even though she changed quite a lot during the years, clementine is still the apple of my eye and the owner of my heart. i do believe that i have transferred a lot of my qualities and flaws onto her, so that's probably why she holds such a special place;
MEANEST OC: cassiopeia argent [attollo] — i genuinely believe that if you want to be the partner of both a criminal lord & an eldritch horror, you must be a little unhinged, no?
SOFTEST OC: isabelle mayfield [the wayhaven chronicles] — she is the epitome of sunshine, rainbows & unicorns. isabelle always sees the good in others, she is a hopeless romantic, highly supportive and an optimist;
MOST ALOOF/STANDOFFISH OC: aeryn valendil [the exile] — indifferent and detached, aeryn is rarely bothered by anything (growing up in the military and being exiled can do numbers on a person). he is pretty blunt and doesn't really care about hurting somebody else's feelings;
DUMBEST (AFFECTIONATE) OC: cyrene [project hadea] — she has a big brain but, seeing how her journey is going, it is pretty obvious that she doesn't use it frequently, lol.
SMARTEST OC: rue parker [the wayhaven chronicles] — rue is extremely smart, often prone to boredom if something is not mentally challenging/stimulating enough. she is one of those people who, no matter what they are doing or how many times they have done it, does things exceptionally well. lisa sinclair [the fernweh saga] — lisa has more of a 'book smart' type of intelligence. she is always been overly curious about every little inexplicable thing and, even with fernweh being plagued by freaking accidents, her only purpose is to uncover and solve the mysteries;
OC I'D BE FRIENDS WITH: zoë bhatra [the wayhaven chronicles] — zoë is stubborn, quiet and a little bit intimidating but once you gain her trust and she lets you in, she's in so much need of love and affection that becoming friends is not that far of a possibility.
tagging: @lusavors, @kdelarenta, @pearlcscent, @griffin-wood, @sagedumortain, @sohmiya — please, feel free to ignore this 😌
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aubstacle-of-course · 2 years ago
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qweaenr · 1 year ago
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LEAGUE OF LEGENDS - Female Champions 3/3
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froppy-butterflyfan2000 · 1 year ago
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Sequel of these two prompts/fanfics.
The Princess of Life sigh, looking at the cranes she painted on the wall, inside her room. She can make the cranes come back to life and fly away, escaping their cage, leaving her alone in this bird cage. While she isn’t alone as she have her subjects and her spells to keep her company, Lost Princess feels lonely. Her prince keep her accompany, easing her loneliness. It feels like they are two peas in the pods, just two peas in separate pods. The poor princess does not know that the preferring talking to her avatar over the real her.
All she desire is more companionship and performing activities together, such as hanging out at the beach, watching movies late at night, and not being calls The Princess of Life or Lost Princess. She wants to be calls by her actual name. The princess sulking soon got interrupted by a sensational feeling….
FWOOSH
FWOOSH
FWOOSH
She felt the doors to her world is being breached. The princess rush out of her room, and to the balcony as she watch from above, witnessing a shooting star. The shooting star explode, making three shooting stars, shocking the princess. They aren’t like any ordinary shooting stars she seen before. They’re not pass through the orbit. The three beautiful bright stars are actually falling. The first star is a purple light glowing from the moon. The second star is a flaming green phoenix. The third star is an orange, flickering with rune symbols for sparks.
“This is getting interesting, I never seen quite anything likes it. Perhaps, this is a phenomenon. If I discovers the three fallen stars, I be making history in the astronomy field!”
Excitement taken over her at last, she found something to do for the first time since forever! The princess goes back inside, preparing to find out what is going on by sending in a group of knights to be an expendition.
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Three groans of pain are heard coming from the crater from nowhere.
“Please tell me we are not in Oz?” Said Lamia, the first voice coming from the crater. The warrior rubbing her head. Crash landing isn’t suppose to be a part of the mission. She get up, and help her comrade and sister from another dimension, Rose get up by lending her a hand.
“This is suppose to take us to this dimension’s Mewni…..” said Umbros-Quinn, dusting her orange dress, then grimaced that it is ruined in the impact. “My dress…..”
To be honest, their clothes are ruined thanks to their crash landing. Luckily, there is a fashion designer among the group. Rose cast a dress repair spell, repairing Umbros-Quinn’s dress and Lamia’s outfits with a few modifications. Umbros-Quinn’s long shoulderless orange dress is now a puffy orange dress with two bows arranged at either side of her skirt, as well as an orange ribbon around her neck, which is tied in a bow in the back with two ceramic phoenix wings decor at the center of the bow. The front of her torso has a pale yellow segment surrounded by white frills with a white placket running down the center, decorated by five red orange buttons. She has two small straps that connect from the front to the back of the dress over her shoulders, and short, puffy sleeves with frilly ends. In between her shoulder blades and just below her neck, there is a heart-shaped hole in the back of her dress. She is still wearing a pair of long orange gloves, however it is now with pink trims around the wrists, white, thigh-high stockings with frills just below the knee, and red orange, heeled boots with ribbons tied behind them. Lamia looks at the clothes Rose modified. Lamia snaps her finger and have her symbiote alter it. There are two white markings with a pink hue, that are in a form of Phoenix wings, that are the “eyes” of her symbiote with a mandarin collar attached to it. The borders of her dress are covered with magenta frill that cover the opening of her red violet dress and the back. She wears white bicep length torned sleeves with black buttoned cuffs. Underneath, she wears a pleated red violet skirt with a phoenix insignia and a black corset with white detailing. She wears tall red violet boots with white triple moon symbols just underneath which match the black thigh-high socks. Rose finally repair her green dress, altering it to a yellow dotted mesh striped frilled neck bubble sleeve green dress. There is a phoenix design embroidered on her dress.
“Rose thanks you for fixing my dress. But… you do not have to do alternations,” Umbros-Quinn asked. Rose twirl her hair shyly, twisting her body back and forth. “Oh well, I was watching Madoka Magica for my research, and I thought I taken that as my advantage to put in my practice in designing clothes in a new perspective, that is not making cosplay. Plus, they can help you two move freely while wielding weapons in case we come across danger. If you don’t like the magical girl get-up, I can changes it back.”
Rose, focusing on the latest fashion line project as a part of the grand opening of Cloudy Design in Townsville from their other interdimensional sister, Hiraya and Janaya’s universe, to showcase as a part of Skylar and Diana’s expansion plan. The theme is magical girls because Townsville have superheroes and superheroines. Hiraya will be collaborating too for superheroines who wants to buy the products suitable for their line of work. Umbros-Quinn shook her head, after hearing her explanation, the reasonings is good as well. That way, she won’t have to change outfits whenever she change her wand into a weapon (melee, long-range, and short-range).
The three got out of the crater to looks at their surroundings. This is definitely in fact Mewni. But something feels off. Umbros-Quinn faces Rose.
“Rose, could you please scan the perimeter?” Umbros-Quinn requested.
“With pleasure,” said Rose, closing her eyes and nod. She inhaled a sharp breath and exhale, calming her mind, manifesting two yellow colored mana scanning grids. The two mana grids scan the perimeter, adventuring out in the new world. Her study and practice in mana manipulation is really paying off. Cassiopeia Butterfly really broaden her horizon in magic and this skill, mana manipulation. The yellow mana grids come back to her, completing the scan. It disappear, sending informations the grids gathered to her head for her and her interdimensional sisters. Rose open her eyes in astonishment, at the same time shock and in disbelief.
“What is it Rose?” Lamia asked.
Rose staring at her sisters. “Well, the area that we are in now, confirm to have magic. Since there is magic and the look exactly where we are in now. An images of Mewni to be exact,”
The two girls looks at Rose, thinking the impact must have mess with her head since the expression in her eyes is showing no lies.
“This may sound crazy. You would believe me. Mewni, the ones we are seeing now are images. The images are able to move because of the certain magic here. PhBe….. PhBe is projecting Mewni in a different form… As if-,”
Umbros-Quinn’s mind clicks, realizing what exactly is Rose is saying.
“We didn’t went to Mewni, we went inside a dream!!!! That came to life on it own!” Said Umbros-Quinn.
“This universe’s PhBe is dream energy magical element!!!” Said Lamia, blowing her own mind by this conclusion and both Rose and Umbros-Quinn’s conclusion. The three princesses decide to look around for clues to lead them to their next objective for their mission - They need to find the person responsible for the dream.
Cassiopeia Butterfly (mentioned) belongs to @storygirl000
Lamia Butterfly Lucitor, Diana Butterfly Wong (mentioned), and Skylar Butterfly Thomas (mentioned) belongs to dreamy_artz (Instagram)
Umbros-Quinn Diana Lucitor and The Princess of Life/Lost Princess belong to @princekaiofstars
Rose Butterfly Lucitor, Janaya A. Bloodworth-Thomason of the Cappyverse, and Hiraya B.C. Bloodworth-Thomason of the Cappyverse belong to me
“Sometimes, I wonder if this is real.” She stroked the beaded crane woven into her shawl. 
Her assistant perked up beside her. “Real, ma’am?”
“I wasn’t born into power.” She sighed. “I wasn’t even raised in this place at all. At times this feels like a dream, like I am going to wake one day to the life I had known before.”
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apod · 5 months ago
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2024 July 6
NGC 7789: Caroline's Rose Image Credit & Copyright: Massimo Di Fusco
Explanation: Found among the rich starfields of the Milky Way, star cluster NGC 7789 lies about 8,000 light-years away toward the constellation Cassiopeia. A late 18th century deep sky discovery of astronomer Caroline Lucretia Herschel, the cluster is also known as Caroline's Rose. Its visual appearance in small telescopes, created by the cluster's complex of stars and voids, is suggestive of nested rose petals. Now estimated to be 1.6 billion years young, the galactic or open cluster of stars also shows its age. All the stars in the cluster were likely born at the same time, but the brighter and more massive ones have more rapidly exhausted the hydrogen fuel in their cores. These have evolved from main sequence stars like the Sun into the many red giant stars shown with a yellowish cast in this color composite. Using measured color and brightness, astronomers can model the mass and hence the age of the cluster stars just starting to "turn off" the main sequence and become red giants. Over 50 light-years across, Caroline's Rose spans about half a degree (the angular size of the Moon) near the center of the sharp telescopic image.
∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240706.html
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pupsmailbox · 8 months ago
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NATURE ID PACK
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NAMES ⌇ abelia. acacius. aciano. aini. alder. alfie. almus. amaryllis. ame. antonio. archer. arthur. ashe. ashley. aspen. asper. aster. aveline. aviv. azalea. basil. belle. benedict. berry. bloom. blossom. bluebell. brook. calix. calla. carli. carline. carly. carolina. carrillo. cassia. cassiopeia. cedar. cherie. chun. cider. cira. cirrus. clover. coral. cordelia. crescent. cynthia. cypress. cyrus. dahlia. daisy. daphne. douglas. dune. echo. eilir. elara. elm. elowen. elyana. enon. erica. ester. everest. everett. evergreen. ewan. fauna. fern. finn. finnley. fleur. floor. flora. florian. florise. flower. flynn. forest. forrest. glen. gracie. gunner. haru. haruhime. haruki. hawthorne. heather. hemlock. honey. hyacinth. ianthe. indigo. ione. ipomea. iris. ivy. jaskier. jasmine. jasper. juniper. kalina. kallie. karolina. karoun. kath. kelda. ken. kingsley. lake. lavae. lavender. leilani. lennox. lente. lief. lilac. lily. linnea. lotus. lucinda. lucky. lucy. maayan. madeline. maggie. magnolia. maple. maren. mari. marian. marigold. mars. mary. maud. mauve. meadow. miles. momo. moss. mossie. mossy. moxie. muna. narcisow. nimbus. noi. oak. oasis. oleander. oybahor. pandora. pearl. pebble. pege. petal. plum. poppy. pınar. quanlian. quill. river. rosa. rosalie. rosalind. rose. roswell. rue. rune. saem. sage. sakura. san. sky. sol. star. story. strider. striker. summit. sunny. sylvia. sylvie. tasnim. terra. thistle. thorn. thorne. tree. udaberri. vasanta. verna. violet. waipuna. wells. westley. willow. wisteria. wisty. wren. yuki. zephyr. ziedonis. zinnia.
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PRONOUNS ⌇ amaranth/amaranth. aster/aster. bee/bee. bee/bees. bless/blessed. bloom/bloom. bloss/bloss. bloss/blossomself. bud/bud. camell/camell. camellia/camellia. carnati/carnation. chirp/chirp. ci/cir. cloud/cloud. colum/columbine. columbine/columbine. comfort/comfort. dais/daisy. dawn/dusk. dew/dew. dog/dogwood. dog/wood. ey/em. fe/fer. fer/fern. fern/fern. field/field. fir/fir. fleur/fleur. flor/flor. flor/flora. floral/floral. flori/florid. flow/flower. flower/flower. freesi/freesia. fruit/fruit. fuch/fuchsia. garden/garden. grass/grass. green/green. grow/growth. hawth/hawthorn. hawth/thorn. hi/hits. hib/hibiscus. honey/honey. hy/hys. hya/hyacinth. hyacin/hyacinth. h✦/h✦m. ir/iris. jas/jasmine. jessa/jessamine. jour/ney. laven/lavender. le/leaf. leaf/leaf. leaf/leave. lil/lily. lotu/lotus. lu/luna. mag/magnolia. mar/mar. matcha/matcha. misel/mistletoe. mo/moth. morning/morning. moss/moss. mossy/mossy. narc/narcir. narcissus/narcissus. nature/nature. orch/orchid. pe/peony. peace/peace. peak/peak. per/peri. peri/periwinkle. petal/petal. pi/pix. picnic/picnic. plum/plum. pollen/pollen. pop/poppy. prick/prick. pur/purple. qu/quest. rain/rain. rhod/rhode. ros/rose. rose/rose. sa/sap. sage/sage. sakura/sakura. scent/scent. se/ser. shine/shine. shroom/shroom. sh✦/h✦r. si/strike. smile/smile. soft/soft. sol/solar. spikes/spike. spring/spring. sprout/sprout. star/star. stem/stem. sun/sun. sun/sunrise. sun/sunset. syr/syringa. tea/party. tea/tea. thist/thistle. thorn/thorn. th✦y/th✦m. tul/tulip. vi/vier. vi/viol. wi/wild. win/winkle. wind/wind. wister/wisteria. yucca/yucca. zinni/zinnia. ☀️ . 🌱 . 🌳 . 🌷 . 🌿 . 🍎 . 🍏 . 🍵 . 🐝 . 🐞 . 💐 . 💐.🌷 . 🕷️ . 🦋 . 🦟 .
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folfar · 2 years ago
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all i do rn is think about the locked tomb! thinking about john and the scope of his powers:
pre-apocalypse, john marries nigella and cassiopeia, and he makes roses grow for them. and yes! some of the roses have teeth, but it does seem in the narrative that this is the first time he'd tried it. but only some. some of the roses therefore are normal roses.
john can use his powers to grow things, and he didn't even try before literally his last day on earth! or everyone else's last day on earth, more correctly.
at the beginning of the dream narration in ntn, he raises the mountain from the waters and says the only hard thing about it is remembering he can do it in the first place. so there's all this evidence in ntn that his powers aren't limited to necromancy - that's just seems to be what he stumbled across first. he was working with dead people, so dead people are what he noticed.
when alecto gave john his power, i think she never intended* for them to be 'death' powers. i think they presented that way because the source of the power was dying - think about the seventh and their theory that they can harness the thanergy being shed by a dying person. the power looked like death-power because it came from a dying source. but it's just power, in the end, it's just soul.
but john assumed. he was so caught up in his own grief, so overwhelmed, that he doesn't even consider being 'a good wizard,' as pyrrha puts it (pre-apocalypse). his friends ask him to try to stabilise the north american glacier, reference other ecological disasters - and he doesn't try! he's assumed he's there for vengeance and stuck with it. and then we see in the book that he could have. like, it's entirely possible that john could have let the trillionaires go - and then saved the planet. practiced until the roses grew normally. raised the soil above the waters, calmed the seas.
but he can't let go of his wants, his desires! and yes, he's not as powerful before he consumes part of a's soul, but his necromancy got stronger and stronger anyway - maybe his power over the roses could have too.
anyway just imagine alecto, giving someone that loves her this unimaginable power, and hoping for a nurse, a gardener - and getting a taxidermist instead. a puppeteer.
*intended is a weird word to use for alecto pre-barbification, but i couldn't think of another way to put it
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WRITING MASTERPOST
i saw a couple of these and decided to make this with my fics! (updates whenever i post one onto ao3)
SPIES ARE FOREVER
the room, it echoes clear (with words we choose not to hear - tatiana-centric angst
MCYT
take me by the hand (place it on your heart) - wild life creakblings (scott + bigb)
for the heart of it - secret life shadowmoon
dripping in gold - zombiewood fluff
rose-gold painted nails - lizzie painting mumbos nails
would things be easier if there was a right way? (honey, there is no right way) - treebark coffee shop au, multi-chapter
oh, cassiopeia, let your stars collide - redstone snap stargazing
that warmth an evening brings - zombiedogwood fluff
wait, you can see me? (ah, so it talks!) - dapper duo halloween fic; mumbo accidentally summons a spirit in a graveyard
i’ve got two left feet, so i just smile politely - mumpearl slow dancing
i’ve got kisses to soothe your soul - scottpulse fluff
i will ruin you (i’ve sworn by it) - post desert duo cacti ring, grian beating up scars corpse, set in third life
worth it - impdarity fluff, them spending the weekend hiking together
kiss them, you fool - lil drabble of treebarkb in a d&d au, martyn-centric
the sound of your own thoughts are what keep you up at night - zombiesymmetry hurt/comfort. cleo-centric, set during hermitcraft 10
steady, steady, you know when you’re ready - skizzscottpulse ice skating together, sorta modern au
‘cause all i’ve ever wanted is here - poly mounders eating breakfast together, set during secret life
slow dance under stormy skies - empires flower husbands slow dance in the rain
you take me in your arms, and suddenly there’s sunlight all around me - treebark hadestown au (ft ethubs and scar)
the last thing i want is to look like a fool - scottpulse hurt/comfort, set in secret life
sometimes all you can do is say goodnight (and tuck your demons into bed) - multi-chapter; set in limited life, pearl getting nightmares about the end of double life (ft. watcher lore)
among the wildflowers and the lilies sleeping by the way - third life flower husbands angst, scott missing his days with jimmy before he became a red life 
in the darkness and the howling, i’ve caused his drowning - an in-depth version of the treebark decapitation scene 
i love it when you look my way - flower husbands fluff, jimmy making a flower crown for scott in third life 
he wants me (to be loved) - ethubs hanahaki, set in last life; bdubs-centric
why don’t you sit right down and stay and make me smile? - gempearl on a picnic date 
it’s daunting to explore, but i want more - false joining last life 
we creep up on extinction - cleo-centric, hurt/comfort, set in secret life
kiss your fingers forevermore - femslash treebark fluff, set in third life 
meet the kids - martyn + clockers family dinner, zombiewood, set in limited life 
DOCTOR WHO
they’re right outside the door (and they don’t know) - tenrose + donna in a weeping angels situation, rose-centric
THE GLASS SCIENTISTS/J&H
“Oh, captain, let’s make a deal!” - jekyon mer au, multi-chapter
Suddenly Uncontrolled (Something is Taking Hold) - transformation scene for the jekyll and hyde musical, verryyyy old)
MY OCS
‘cause i’m six feet under nearly (and i don’t have anyone) - zombie apocalypse au
all these years without you (and your voice is still a symphony) - a crackfic filled with angst about sentient instruments that fall in love sometimes 
Adieu, My First and Last Love(s) - a songfic with its plot told by mitski songs, multi-chapter
SWEENEY TODD
Macabre - Swenett (one-sided, sweeney and mrs lovette sharing a dance after the former discovering the identity of the beggar woman; VERY old)
MISCELLANEOUS
It’s Like Slang…From England - crackship with some many fandoms that ive lost count of (fem johnlock helping regina george solve a murder mystery)
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quiltofstars · 1 year ago
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Caroline's Rose, NGC 7789 // Christian Vulpescu
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sspadfoot · 3 months ago
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Going down the rabbit hole of morticia and Gomez Addams being Regulus and James so here’s a few ideas I have of what could happen:
•If it was raining Regulus would obviously say it is a lovely day
•Regulus would cut the petals off the roses because James would be allergic
•James has definitely “killed” someone for Regulus (If you’ve watched Wednesday you’d know)
•They would have a daughter and she would be like Wednesday
•Their friends would obviously be the weird family who like summons people from the grave or something
•Sirius and Regulus would have a good brotherly relationship and match each others freak. Remus and James would obviously also match each others freak
•They would have a huge house in the middle of nowhere. And it would be painted black and dark green. James’ office would have the most colour and be a dark red
•The would obviously have a black Persian cat called Lu.
•Their front and back garden would be beautiful. Partially because Regulus spends his free time there.
•Barty would be uncle Fester
•Sirius and Remus would spend more time at their house rather then their own
•Their daughter (Cassiopeia) would be trained in classical music
•Regulus would play the violin for James
•James would worship Regulus. He would literally get on his knees and worship him.
•James would call Regulus Habibi
•Regulus and Sirius would share clothes cause they dress the same. Meaning Regulus would sometimes wear long black dresses and James would faint.
•Regulus would spoil James with gold
These are a few but I live for this au.
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uncontrolledfission · 5 months ago
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NGC 7789: Caroline's Rose, 2024-07-06
Found among the rich starfields of the Milky Way, star cluster NGC 7789 lies about 8,000 light-years away toward the constellation Cassiopeia. A late 18th century deep sky discovery of astronomer Caroline Lucretia Herschel, the cluster is also known as Caroline's Rose. Its visual appearance in small telescopes, created by the cluster's complex of stars and voids, is suggestive of nested rose petals. Now estimated to be 1.6 billion years young, the galactic or open cluster of stars also shows its age. All the stars in the cluster were likely born at the same time, but the brighter and more massive ones have more rapidly exhausted the hydrogen fuel in their cores. These have evolved from main sequence stars like the Sun into the many red giant stars shown with a yellowish cast in this color composite. Using measured color and brightness, astronomers can model the mass and hence the age of the cluster stars just starting to "turn off" the main sequence and become red giants. Over 50 light-years across, Caroline's Rose spans about half a degree (the angular size of the Moon) near the center of the sharp telescopic image.
Credits: NASA's 'Astronomy Picture Of The Day.'
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