#asterisms

[thrushpe1t]

Have you ever planned the dark forest design for curlfeather since she is getting sent to the dark forest?

oh youre right huh

ill probably update it when the last book is out so we HOPEFULLY have her motives n such and i can get it right. i like my dark forest designs to be symbolic yknow

[xipteras]

The Great Square of Pegasus. Image by @xipteras

[marylilac]

𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒, 𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎

𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒, 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑡, 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠

𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑙𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒, 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑎

𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡

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𝑂𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒'𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑜'𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑢𝑒𝑠

𝑀𝑎𝑑𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢

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Have my starflower lady today 🤲 I didn't have anything else of special but I practiced coloring more.

I made this out of the idea behind Hoshino Ai from Oshi no ko ⭐ I needed my purple bebi with asterism eyes, as the stars and meaning fits her 🥲 I can see her with sparkly starry eyes when she's very happy over something 😭

Digital/traditional artwork 🎨

[cinnaster]

New reader? Start here!

Chapter 10: F*ck Around & Ferret Out of the Bag

Excerpt below:

Feeling another mental itch of déjà vu—he had done this song and dance before to the others—Honey suppressed his annoyance with a shake of his head. “Oh right, you’re out of the loop.” The young turtle quickly explained Angel’s situation to his brother.

A sigh of relief escaped the softshell. “That’s good. But the rest of that news is—” Jett paused in the middle of his sentence then asked, “Waaait, then what about Draxum?”

“Erm, well.” Honey fidgeted. “He’s kind of staying with us right now in one of the empty cars. And I kind of, um. Invited him?” He offered a shrug as sheepish as the old Yōkai who had recently been taken in.

The softshell’s curt response emanated brotherly malice. “You’re dead to me.”

“Come on, J, you don’t really mean that...”

Jett repeated, rhythmically enunciating each stop like an anvil drop. “You are. Dead. To me.”

“It’ll be okay, I promise!” Honey whined defensively. “If it’s any consolation, he picked a car away from yours.”

The softshell threw up his hands in frustration and ranted. “As if that changes the fact that he’s going to be hanging around here 24/7/365.2421891 and acting as if he owns the place! You know he hasn’t completely kicked his tyrannical ways just yet. This is going to change everything. Ugh, not to mention the sitcom-worthy awkward family meals and the incessant nagging…”

[mikaelasgraveyard]

something I really love about tgcf is that like, yes its a romance and the romance IS the highlight of the story and everything in it follows along the path to that romantic ending, but I just love how the writing get you to really fucking care about that romance

“that’s a super common thing in romance stories bro” i KNOW but just come walk with me for a second. I love that the story takes us on xie lian’s journey through his third ascension but also through his past that is infinitely fucking important to the present. we have to sit for such long flashbacks within the books where xie lian just gets kicked to the ground and dragged through the dirt like non fucking stop. we see him at his greatest and we see him at his absolute fucking lowest. we are rooting for this poor fail man and feeling all those injustices he faces in our hearts and just fucking. wishing for things to go his way for once and .. by god thats what we get through the romance

we the reader are like sooo fucking aware that hua cheng knew xie lian from ages ago (at least likely aware, it didn’t seem like it was Really a well kept secret) from back in book 2, and then near the end of the book we find that !! not only did he know him as a kid and a teenager in the army but after he died he stayed around JUST for him, and even though he couldnt do much he was there through literally those worst moments of xie lian’s life and fast forward hes still there. devoted as ever after building an empire all in the name of his love and it’s. GOD it was so fucking satisfying to learn.

xie lian deserved that passion and devotion and jsut straight up love after all that bullshit. he went through hell and on the other end of it, after years and years of stumbling through barren wastelands on his own he gets to finally fall into the arms of someone that practically turned the term unconditional love into reality and EMBODIES it. he gets to find out how easy happiness can be. someone to eat his shitty food like how he’d eat his mother’s. someone that was there and saw him so fucked up and through it all loved him all the same and even felt that pain with him … bro deserved the world after everything and got someone that would do fucking anything to give him just that, if not literally then whatever the hell could be closest and i just love it SO much

[arachnits]

hi did u know

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:(((((( HEART <3333

[shiniestmathrock]

This is now my headcannon for Doctor4t. Cannon and IRL. Folly too. The fact that you’re a deity does not stop you from ratting it up.

@milo-the-mage @marethyu-42 @enlighten3d I’m a genius and a madman and look at the tags I spent like 8 minutes on them

The funniest thing about how maids are depicted in a certain kind of fiction is that, like, at least half the time the people who ostensibly own the place don't even really seem to want them to be there? It's often genuinely unclear who their actual employer is, or whether they're getting paid at all – it's like looking at a universe where if you build a fancy enough house, maids just show up, like rats.

[ofdreamsanddoodles]

i'm such a big fan of laios using being well fed as proof that he's serious. like there's so many techbros & etc who will use not eating breakfast as proof that they're productive & just in general, the idea of being "too busy to eat" is getting more common (which is exactly what toshiro is doing here!) but laios is like. no. i'm so serious about this i'm thinking about what comes next. i'm so serious about this i'm making sure my body can do everything it can when i need it.

the fact that everyone in the party took care of themselves & carefully planned out their route & when they'd take breaks is what made them so successful. they always made sure to understand their limits

[metamiie]

dem kiddos

[kuiperkat]

January’s Night Sky Notes: Connecting the ‘Dots’ with Asterisms

by Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

In our December Night Sky Notes, we mentioned that the Orion constellation has a distinct hourglass shape that makes it easy to spot in the night sky. But what if we told you that this is not the complete constellation, but rather, an asterism?

An asterism is a pattern of stars in the night sky, forming shapes that make picking out constellations easy. Cultures throughout history have created these patterns as part of storytelling, honoring ancestors, and timekeeping. Orion’s hourglass is just one of many examples of this, but did you know Orion’s brightest knee is part of another asterism that spans six constellations, weaving together the Winter night sky? Many asterisms feature bright stars that are easily visible to the naked eye. Identify these key stars, and then connect the dots to reveal the shape.

Asterisms Through the Seasons

Stars that make up the Winter Circle, as seen on January 1, 2024. Credit: Sky Safari

Try looking for these asterisms this season and beyond:

Winter Circle – this asterism, also known as the Winter Hexagon, makes up a large portion of the Winter sky using stars Rigel, Aldebaran, Capella, Pollux, Procyon, and Sirius as its points. Similarly, the Winter Triangle can be found using Procyon, Sirius, and Betelgeuse as points. Orion’s Belt is also considered an asterism.

Diamond of Virgo – this springtime asterism consists of the following stars: Arcturus, in the constellation Boötes; Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici; Denebola in Leo, and Spica in Virgo. Sparkling at the center of this diamond is the bright cluster Coma Berenices, or Bernice's Hair – an ancient asterism turned constellation!

Summer Triangle – as the nights warm up, the Summer Triangle dominates the heavens. Comprising the bright stars Vega in Lyra, Deneb in Cygnus, and Altair in Aquila, this prominent asterism is the inspiration behind the cultural festival Tanabata. Also found is Cygnus the Swan, which makes up the Northern Cross asterism.

Great Square of Pegasus – by Autumn, the Great Square of Pegasus can be seen. This square-shaped asterism takes up a large portion of the sky, and consists of the stars: Scheat, Alpheratz, Markab and Algenib.

This image shows the region around the Hyades star cluster, the nearest open cluster to us. The Hyades cluster is very well-studied due to its location, but previous searches for planets have produced only one. A new study led by Jay Farihi of the University of Cambridge, UK, has now found the atmospheres of two burnt-out stars in this cluster — known as white dwarfs — to be “polluted” by rocky debris circling the star. Inset, the locations of these white dwarf stars are indicated — stars known as WD 0421+162, and WD 0431+126.

NASA, ESA, STScI, and Z. Levay (STScI)

Tracing these outlines can guide you to objects like galaxies and star clusters. The Hyades, for example, is an open star cluster in the Taurus constellation with evidence of rocky planetary debris. In 2013, Hubble Space Telescope’s Cosmic Origins Spectrograph was responsible for breaking down light into individual components. This observation detected low levels of carbon and silicon – a major chemical for planetary bodies. The Hyades can be found just outside the Winter Circle and is a favorite of both amateur and professional astronomers alike.

How to Spot Asterisms

Use Star Maps and Star Apps – Using star maps or stargazing apps can help familiarize yourself with the constellations and asterisms of the night sky.

Get Familiar with Constellations – Learning the major constellations and their broader shapes visible each season will make spotting asterisms easier.

Use Celestial Landmarks –Orient yourself by using bright stars, or recognizable constellations. This will help you navigate the night sky and pinpoint specific asterisms. Vega in the Lyra constellation is a great example of this.

Learn more about how to stay warm while observing this Winter with our upcoming mid-month article on the Night Sky Network page through NASA's website!

[a-modernmajorgeneral]

Clockdriven celestial globe by Qi Mei-lu of Wuyuan, China, 1830, with horizon ring, pillars and base plus two keys. Marked with Chinese ascerisms.

Dated 1830, this celestial globe was made in Wuyuan, China by Qi Mei-lu. The metal globe depicts Chinese star patterns and is labelled in Chinese script. Inside the globe a clockwork mechanism turns the sphere in time with the Earth's rotation. The celestial globe is a three-dimensional model of the heavens on which the stars are plotted on the outside of a sphere. Originating in the Ancient World it was probably inspired by the discovery that the Earth was round. The globe could be used to teach and demonstrate various astronomical principles.

• Chinese celestial globe.

Date: 1830 

Place of origin: Wuyuan, China

[thrushpe1t]

I was looking the designs' colors and I got curious, did you choose 5 colors at most? (only the fur)

I really love your designs :3

(English is not my first language)

oh wow i never noticed i do that... besides mothwing where i lost control and went to like 6 colors... but i think its something i do subconsciously to prevent a design from feeling too complex!! but thats a great observation honestly, i do try to reduce using too many different colors in a design, but i never notice how rarely i go over 5

[xipteras]

Water Jar (+Saturn), 21.8.2023. Image by @xipteras

[jaderavenarts]

This was one of the moments pre-confirmation that made me go OH this man is on the ace spectrum huh lol

[cinnaster]

watch me try to not gnaw my arm off while i go feralcrazyinsane over the themes and symbols in my own AU and how i wish i could tell you all what i plan but i caaaan't i cannot spoil my own tiny audience who i love so much. but i GO CRAZY. THE SYMBOLS. THE THEMES. AAAAAA.