#Rose: Stelliferous

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[Image ID: A large horizontal drawing of three characters in a indoors scene at sunset. To the left is two men, one mongolian/chinese (Moon) and one african (Sun) in regal attire from their respective cultures. Sun is trying to peak over a patterned room divider in the middle and being told off be Moon. On the right side behind the divider is an feminine presenting nonbinary chinese/african (Star) in a regal dress, combining dressing styles and accessories from both cultures. They are playfully holding up a moon fan to block Sun's sightline.]

@ocrosemagazine

We're allowed to reveal our artwork for Rose: Stelliferous zine (Itchio link), so heres mine! These are Moon(he/him), Sun(he/him) and Star(they/them) respectively, a bit of an older story I haven't done much with yet publicly. Their kingdoms are Moon and Sun themed respectively so they were a perfect fit for the theme of the zine :)

I think I'll make a post just rambling about them some time soon, since I think it will be a looong time until I make a comic for them, and I sorta wanna ramble for once.

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Stelliferous

Summary: You stargaze with Arthur. Pairing: Arthur Morgan x female!reader Word count: 1,353 Tags: fluff, shy, high honor Arthur Warnings: no warnings, enjoy the fluff.

a/n: Just a little something I thought of when I found this camp. Plus, I really wanted to draw a constellation. Fun fact, the game has accurate constellations, and Orion is one of them! I had a lot of fun reading about Orion mythology for this one. And TYSM to my tumblr bestie @littlemistey for helping me get the journal entry just right!

stelliferous: filled with stars or bearing stars, often used to describe a visibly starry night.

As everyone went about their business for the night, you headed to a deserted clearing just beyond camp and sat on the ground. You loved sitting alone, getting lost in the stars and the tales that went with them. Just as you were settling down, the snap of a twig alerted you to someone else's presence. The stars had aligned perfectly for you that night, putting you and Arthur in the same place at the same time.

You rose and looked around, spotting the cowboy leaning against a tree. If it were anybody else, you'd be annoyed, but seeing him there made your heart flutter in all the good ways. You loved looking at him just as much as you loved looking up at the stars. But the stars didn't make you weak in the knees at the sight of them or make you laugh until your stomach hurt. But just like the stars, Arthur always felt so out of reach.

"Things're really goin' downhill back there if a lady would rather sleep in the grass than in her tent," he said. His face was neutral, but you could see a playful glint in his eyes. You hugged your knees to your chest and tried to hide your shyness.

"Oh, hey Arthur, I was just––"

He held out a halting hand and tipped his head.

"I was just jokin, miss. I know what it's like to want some peace and quiet." He pushed himself off the tree and gave a two-finger wave. "Anyway, I won't disturb you."

You spoke out before he could leave. "It's no trouble, Arthur." You turned away from him and cranked your neck to the sky. "Y'ever wonder if it's just us out here?" It wasn't a question you expected him to answer. You were just thinking aloud. He didn't respond for a long moment but sauntered towards you, his boots appearing in your peripheral.

"I don't do much thinkin'."

You turned to glance at him again, shaking your head.

"Oh, hush, Arthur Morgan. We all know you do more thinkin' than any other fool around here."

You could tell he was fighting hard to keep the frown on his face from curving upward.

"That ain't saying much." He chuckled on his exhale, then, with a grunt, sat down beside you. "This whatchu' always doing out here? Just—" he gestured to the sky, "—looking up?"

"Don't knock it til you try it, Arthur." A soft smile formed on your face, and you waited expectantly. He quirked an eyebrow, then put his hands behind his head and laid back. A satisfied grin crossed your face, and you dropped down, too.

You spent the rest of the night pointing out stars and constellations to Arthur, sharing all the stories you knew about them. An hour crept by before a yawn escaped you. Arthur didn't show it, but your departure was the last thing he wanted. With one arm still behind his head and the other slung across his stomach, he kept his eyes trained on the sky above.

He was hooked—not on the stars, but on you. Then and there, he realized he could spend eternity on the ground, captivated by the rise of pitch in your voice when you got excited and how your eyes crinkled at the corners when your smile stretched from ear to ear.

From that night, Arthur used stargazing as his excuse to be near you, sometimes sitting so close to you that your shoulders rubbed when you pointed upward. Once, you turned to ask him a question and noticed him staring at you instead of the sky.

"It's impolite to stare, Mr. Morgan." His expression faltered, and he opened his mouth in a stuttering attempt to damage control.

He didn't need to be ashamed, though; you'd felt his eyes on you many times before. He admired you like you admired the stars, and knowing that sent waves of adoration through you.

Arthur caught up with you another evening just as you were finishing dinner. Golden sunlight reflected on his face as he glanced down at his feet, clutching his hat between his fingers. He reached nervously towards your hand, thought too hard, and placed it back on his hat. He started to speak, his words low and careful.

"Got somethin' to show you—somethin' I found— if you'll ride with me?"

You suppressed a building laugh, trying to save him further embarrassment. It tickled you that someone as audacious as him could be made so flustered by the likes of you. Your amusement was well hidden, and you reached for his hand, giving it a squeeze.

"It's about time you asked me on a ride, Mr. Morgan." He nodded and placed his hat back on his head, the brim shielding the building smile on his face. He walked you to his horse. He got on first and held a strong arm down to pull you up.

The two of you road down the Heartlands, across the Dakota River, and through Bard's Crossing. He slowed when you approached a hill outside Lone Mule Stead. Arthur helped you off the horse with one hand, keeping hold until you stood in front of a campsite that overlooked the Upper Montana River and beyond. The site was breathtaking; you could make out the lights of Blackwater, boats on the water, and the expansive night sky in all its glory. Just to the side of the spot stood a small brass telescope. When you finally saw it, your eyes widened, and you met Arthur's, your mouth agape.

"Found this out here the other day," he gestured towards it, beckoning you.

"Oh, Arthur," you ran your fingers across the smooth brass cylinder. You shook your head in slow incredulity. "I've never seen one in person, only seen 'em in books."

Arthur removed the cap on the end, letting it swing on its chain. He nodded toward the viewing device again, and you walked around to the lens, bending to look through it.

"I hope it's everything you read about, miss." His voice was comforting, like the soft rumble of distant thunder. Breathless, you pressed your eye to the lens, and a speckled blanket of black engulfed your vision. Truthfully, the stars were the same as always, but knowing Arthur had curated this moment, just for you, made the night sky more beautiful than ever. When you were done taking it in, you stood to see Arthur watching you from a few feet away. You approached the crate he was sitting on, your hands outstretched and reaching for his.

"Thank you, really," you said. The gunslinger stood and accepted your hands, his lips pressed together tightly as if opening his mouth would betray him. His eyes were strictly focused on your clasped hands. Surely, if his mouth would betray him, his eyes would too.

"Arthur." His name coming off your lips so endearingly could kill him. He finally looked up, his mouth falling open to speak, but you didn't give him the chance. You rose on your toes, your lips crashing against his hurriedly. When he finally realized what was happening, his shoulders fell relaxed, and he wrapped two arms around your waist, pulling you into him. Your mouths moved in sync with each other's until you pulled away for air. Heat had built up in his face, and you saved him the trouble of hiding his blush by wrapping your arms around him tight.

As breathtaking as it was, you forwent the telescope for the rest of the night, opting to wrap yourself in Arthur's arms instead. You pointed up at a line of bright stars.

"See those three? That's Orion's Belt."

"Orion?" he asked, saying the name as if it were a foreign language.

"Orion. He was a hunter—a big and strong one. They say he was a bit of a drunk brute, too. He reminds me of someone." You didn't need to peel your eyes away from the warrior in the sky to feel the warmth of the one right next to you, a knowing, gentle smile on his lips.

[ocrosemagazine]

🌟 ROSE: STELLIFEROUS ON SALE NOW

Coming into orbit, a collection of stellar art and space-inspired fashion! Featuring 70 illustrations from 61 incredible artists, ROSE MAGAZINE is a digital-only charity zine filled with shining creativity.

Grab a copy for $5—maybe even have a look at our previous volumes; all proceeds go towards Rainforest Trust 🌳

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Astronaut 🚀🌟🥪 My illustration for Rose 5: Stelliferous! Follow the awesome charity fashion zine at @ocrosemagazine for news about future installments, and you can buy Vol 5 and all previous volumes right here!

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Tadaaa! This is my full piece for @ocrosemagazine! Featuring Luana in her changeling form and a few star sprites!

You can buy the full zine to see everyone's OC's in all their getup and support a good cause, the Rainforest Trust, which all proceeds go to.

[sam-s-art]

I took part in this year's Rose OC Zine and this is my full piece! This guy is called Cai and because this year's edition was all about space, I redesigned his look to be planet inspired. Hope you like him! 💕

Also if you'd like to purchase a copy of the zine you still can! @ocrosemagazine

[issela-santina]

my horrible sentiment over “The Nightingale and the Rose” by Oscar Wilde took root around 2010 but dear fuck the way it flares up every time I think of the “no nightingales” ending of Good Omens season two

Good Omens especially built it up so much more intricately as at the end of season one I was so convinced that Aziraphale loves Crowley and in season two the pining between them shows it all

however,

one more season of this show isn't going to be enough to even begin to patch up what he did

I get that Aziraphale doesn't want to just run away like Crowley always does,

but if Aziraphale has seen Michael in Hell and told Crowley about it on the park bench then what the heck stopped the angel from thinking the inverse can occur i.e. demons can access Heaven without the need to disguise as angels?

why keep prodding Crowley about his fallen status instead of maybe letting him make peace? it's like you want to keep a wound open long enough to fester just because you don't like seeing it heal without your intervention

like after all these millennia of being a nuisance to humans just so Hell doesn't kill him, Crowley is finally free to be passionate and kind, and it's not enough for Aziraphale who seems to be enamored with the stelliferous redhead whose spirit he devastated, on their very first meeting, upon revealing that all of creation would be shut down before they even get a chance to enjoy it?

like that nightingale who impaled itself on a thorn just to produce a red rose only to be rejected in favor of jewelry just because the one who wanted to offer the girl that red rose she asked for wasn't rich?

no fucking nightingales indeed

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🌌keep buying stars

[preview for rose magazine stelliferous: out now]

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my preview for @ocrosemagazine !

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Oh, these sibilant syllables

Moon glow grasping this

Enchantress, the smell

Of roses and smoke

The silk of a soul like

A cosmogyral shooting

Star, you retire to the

Abditory, overwhelmed

By this stelliferous being

But remember, every star

Becomes a black hole, mind

What happens in the shadows

Underneath her smile

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[Image ID: Square image with torn paper effects and golden stars and borders. The text says ROSE Volume 5: STELLIFEROUS in the top right and Contributor Preview in the bottom left. The art in the middle features three headshots of characters put together to preview the full art piece.]

Rose: Stelliferous, the 5th edition OC fashion zine, is up for sale! The theme was stars, galaxies, etc etc all kind of space things! Everyones pieces looks really great and theres so much good fashion! Its digital only zine, with all proceeds going to the Rainforest Trust!

(preview cheated a little bc my piece is a two-page spread :P)

itch.io link:

https://href.li/?https://ocrosemagazine.itch.io/rose-5

If you want to see more art previews, Rose magazine's tumblr is reblogging them and posting some as well :)

https://ocrosemagazine.tumblr.com/

[trekkele]

I got tagged in this by @wolfiejimi (holy shit I love your blog) I’m answering it here because I barely use my main blog anymore, it just comes up when I like things.

1. Relationship Status: the seagulls from Finding Nemo screaming Mine!Mine!Mine!

2. Lipstick or Chapstick: Peggy Carter Red, whether it’s appropriate or not, because red lipstick is always appropriate, fuck you. But the one from Burt’s Bees, so it’s technically chap stick.

3. Three Favorite Foods: fresh snickerdoodles, any kind of pasta in sauce, and iced coffee.

4. Song Stuck in Your Head: currently none, but I probably just jinxed it. 

yeah I did, High Hopes from p!atd and Glitter and Gold from Barnes Courtney. They don’t blend at all.

5. Last Movie You Watched: fully finished? Black Panther. (holy shit holy shit is that a good movie, ooooh my god). I re-started Tintin tho. (its fucking cute! and one of the first books i remember reading)

6. Top Three Shows: Bones, Hawaii Five-0, and Star Trek (all of them). 

Also, Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow (but only up until Oliver and Felicity got together), The Good Place, DareDevil and the Blacklist. Oh and Riverdale. 

7. Books I’m Currently Reading: Um. Jack Reacher: The Midnight Line (Lee Child), Drape Expectations: A Caprice De Luca Home Staging Mystery (Karen Rose Smith) (don’t judge me, they’re popcorn books and cute), From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books (Ari Kaplan) (very interesting read), Stan Lee’s How to Draw Superheroes, and Sprig Muslin (Georgette Heyer). Oh yeah, and so many fanfictions. So many.

8. Last thing I googled: “Lothario Synonym”. For the trainwreck of a fic I just posted. 

Notable mentions: “Mister Rogers”, “Movies like Jumanji (2017)” and “Jim Kirk Fanart” for references.

9. Time: 4:30.

10. Dream Trip: DISNEYLAND. PRECEDED BY WATCHING EVERY ANIMATED DISNEY/PIXAR FILM. AND HAWAII. and like the entire world. I wanna see everything.

(Honestly we already planned our retirement - a year long cruise around the world.)

11. Anything you want: Art supplies. For someone to teach me how to use those supplies properly. Speech to text tech that can help me write while I daydream. THE FOURTH STAR TREK MOVIE TO BE MADE AND MADE WELL. for people to stop arguing and just start fucking fixing things like they should. For the world to be a better place for my kids, because fuck if I trust it with them yet. For that dress to go on sale, I beg you, I need it. For an excuse to get dressed up in a ball gown and go to a masquerade. to be able to draw like I want to instead of my current skill level. For all my fic ideas to be written by someone else but exactly right because I don’t have the patience to write them out myself. A ghost writer that’s what I want. To rewatch Naussica of the Valley of the Wind. And coffee. I want another coffee.

Rules: Tag 15 people! Like wolfie-jimi said:  I’m just going to tag whoever the last 15 people in my notifications/who followed me/who interacted with me in some way/whose username in some way stands out to me for good or for ill. That seems democratic. Or something. I feel so awful if I have to actually choose people. Like I’m judging you all. So this is judgement free selection. Think of it like jury duty, only more flippant and less intensely problematic. (literally i just left their words here)

@doctorginsberg @janeykath318 @season-ofthe-bitch @janewayssidehoe @jadeb2002 @thepathlesstrekked @deannaboi @bow-ties-and-daydreams @vie-belle-vie @i-regret-nothing-ever @ilsa-fireswan @eclipse9856 @spookymvlders @unitedfederationofbisexuals @captain-stelliferous

And as always anyone else who sees this and is bored enough to want to do it. I hereby officially tag everyone who sees this. The process of viewing this sentence with your eyes means you are tagged. Engage or ignore at will.

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ROSE MAGAZINE returns this month with its fifth volume and a brand new theme!

✨ Stelliferous: Space and Celestial Bodies ✨

Mark your calendars for May 22nd so we can spotlight your OCs in fashions that are out of this world and help raise funds in support of rainforest conservation. We look forward to seeing you!

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Artist: Nekophelia ⋆｡°✩ ˚ ★ ੈ˳·˖✶ ✭・.・✫·˖✶ ✭・.・✫・゜・。..・✦⋆｡°✩ It's nice to formally meet you! I'm Anne Pichard, but most know me as Rose, curator and host of Rose Magazine. Thank you for agreeing to interview with me today!

Let's start with the introductions. Can you give me your name and pronouns? Celeste. She/Her

Tell me a little about yourself. What's your typical job like? Are you a model elsewhere? I like spending my free time lounging around if I'm being honest, if I get free time that is. Well for work, I'm usually just here haha, literally! I'm a personification of the sky itself. My fav compliments are the "fluffy clouds" when its just my bed head!

I'm so glad you answered the call, what made you want to work with the Rose Modeling Agency? I'm so glad to be here! I've seen a friend of mine, Kiisa, in you guy's last few issues and decided to message her about any openings. The outfits and themes are always to die for~

Is this the most difficult photoshoot you've done? What was your experience like during production? Not at all! Everyone was very accomodating in letting me let loose for a bit, though to be honest I did kind of flood the room with my hair. I should really check on the cameraman…

Okay, now let's get to the looks! Tell me, who are you wearing? Was this top quality couture or did you design it yourself? I designed it myself~ Though the outfit itself it just made up of comet trails and some starlight, I wouldn't call it top quality. At least not like the other models I've seen around.

Of course, Stelliferous is the theme this year, but what inspired your look, your design? Would you believe me if I said I'm a fan of magical girl transformations. . .and Sailor Moon.

Do you have any other upcoming projects after this? Now that you're an international model, I'm sure you'll be booked and busy soon! Oh gosh, I'm not too sure. My usual work schedule is normally a 24/7 kinda deal but if I can sneak away during the next eclipse, I'll definitely check my emails.

Any advice you'd like to give your fans out there? Life advice, work advice, modeling advice? Don't be afraid to let loose! You're all stars and noone can dull your shine.

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I can now post a preview of my contribution to @ocrosemagazine to socials! You can find the zine proper on their itch, which can be found here!

Get a load of Luana in all her glory, as well as her fellow models from across the many worlds my fellow artists have made for only $5! Proceeds for all sales are donated to Rainforest Trust, so you can support a good cause and look at contributor ocs in celestial-themed outfits!

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Hello stellar fashionistas! We require a little extra time to get things set up for launch. Rose 5: STELLIFEROUS will go live in a week on September 25th. Thank you!