#Cosmic Cliffs

[without-ado]

The U.S. Postal Service issued Priority Mail Express stamps Jan. 22, 2024, highlighting  the iconic images of the Carina Nebula and the Pillars of Creation from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope l NASA

[spacetelescopescience]

Mountains on a moonlit evening? Even better: a gigantic, gaseous cavity in space teeming with star formation known as the Cosmic Cliffs. This James Webb Space Telescope view combines near- and mid-infrared light, which is why the scene may look familiar: https://webbtelescope.pub/3IWlkS0

[euphorictruths]

NGC 3324, Cosmic Cliffs

Carina Nebula, Mystic Mountains

NGC 6872 & IC 4976

M31, Andromeda Galaxy

IC 10

[cozyhearthyarnworks]

Have a quick look at my drafting on this Cosmic Cliffs spin! 🌌 I shot this backlit to show how I'm letting a controlled amount of twist enter the top - I prefer this woolenish-yet-short-forward draft spinning from top most of the time for soft, airy, easy yarn 😊

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

JWST Images

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[transmutationdice]

How has it been over two years since I made these...

Time to remake this set I guess!

Cosmic Cliffs

I adore space dice so the moment I saw the James Webb Telescope images I knew I had to make them into dice. This is my attempt at recreating the cosmic cliffs photo. How did I do? (Numbers yet to be painted)

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Southern Cliff in the Lagoon

[stabbyfoxandrew]

oh... gods i just realized i have ao3 comments that are two months old...

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[duckapus]

Kid Cosmic fic idea:

It’s a couple of years after “The Grand Opening of Earth” and the Flores family just got back from a trip, and everybody at Mo’s is gushing over Rosa and how tall she’s getting since she went through a growth spurt while they’re gone. This includes a joke about the “return” of la Niña Gigantica, which leads to reminiscing about the Local Heroes’ early days, and it suddenly hits her all at once just how many people she killed back when she though the whole superhero thing was just a game. This causes her to freak out and run away into the desert, with everyone scrambling to try and get her back.

Kid’s the one who finds her hiding in the cave on his moping cliff, where she’s decided to live now so she can’t hurt anyone anymore(she’s a little older than she was in the show but she’s still very young and also having a breakdown, so in the moment she’s kind of forgotten that she only got that big because of her ring that no longer works), and after he manages to calm her down they talk about how as much as they loved being heroes and all the good that came from it, it also messed them up pretty badly.

And that’s as far as I’ve gotten.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Sometimes I think about how and why some people had such a *bad* reaction to the end of Steven Universe, specifically in regards to the Diamonds living.

Even though they no longer are causing harm to others and are able to actually undo some of their previous harm by living, some folks reacted as though this ending was somehow morally suspect. Morally bankrupt, even.

And I think it might be because so many of us were raised on a very specific kind of kids media trope:

They all fall to their deaths.

Disney loves chucking their bad guys off cliffs. And it makes sense- in a moral framework where villains *must* be punished (regardless of whether their death will actually prevent further harm or not), but killing of any kind is morally bad for the hero, the narrative must find a way to kill the villain without the protagonists doing a murder.

It's a moral assumption that a person can *deserve* to die, that it is cosmically just for them to die, that them dying is evidence that the story itself is morally good and correct. Scar *deserves* to die, but it would be bad for Simba to kill him. So....cliff. (edit: yes, cliff then hyenas. But cliff first. Lol.)

Steven Universe, whatever else it's faults, took a step back and said "but if killing people is bad, then people dying is bad", and instead of dropping White Diamond off a cliff, asked "what would actual *restorative*, not punitive, justice look like? What would actual reparations mean here? If the goal is to heal, not just to punish, how do we handle those who have done harm?" And then did that.

Which I think is interesting, and that there was pushback against it is interesting.

It also reminds me of the folks who get very weird about Aang not killing Ozai at the end of Avatar. And like, Ozai still gets chucked in prison, so it doesn't even push back on our cultural ideas of punitive justice *that much.* and still, I've seen people get real mad that the child monk who is the last survivor of a genocide that wiped out his entire pacifist culture didn't do a murder.

[timewarp4321-novicewriter]

They on a cool cool mountain?

The most critical creature in all of CosWon…

Slime Penguin

[emiliosandozsequence]

EVERYTHING SINGS: a collection l’année terrible, victor hugo / red desert (1964) dir. michelangelo antonioni / unknown / rocket men: the epic story of the first men on the moon, craig nelson / the brooklyn daily eagle, new york, march 7, 1886 / suspiria (2018) dir. luca guadagnino / teaching a stone to talk, annie dillard / red bird, 'summer morning', mary oliver / the overview effect: awe and self-transcendent experience in space flight / jeff buckley / scientific future by valentino bellucci / joe dispenza / rilke and andreas-salomé: a love story in letters, rainer maria rilke / unknown / jwst image of 'cosmic cliffs' / alan ginsberg

[mntalkies]

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