#asterisms

[asteroidaceae]

So I figured out what was still bugging me about the Sisters of Dorley series

Which, to be clear, I have been reading and enjoying slowly over the last month and more, often with my breakfast tea or at cafes. I'd fully expected to try them and bounce off them quickly, but they've been a very positive presence in my life over the past little while and have helped me unearth a few things. I've reccomended them to loved ones, but always with hedging and qualifications that I couldn't quite fully articulate. Recently, friends who adore the series have been warning me about chapter 24. "It's a dark chapter." "Brace yourself, read it through in one sitting and then read chapter 25 for emotional closure." I took their advice, braced myself and sat down to read it. A few paragraphs in, a voice in my internal peanut gallery spoke up: "finally, meat." I took my time with chapter 24, spent most of a week slowly savouring it, was sad that this storytelling would be "over with" like my friends had said when the chapter finished. I hadn't realised until I started on this chapter how missed I'd felt by so many trans coming of age stories in books and comics. For the first time in years, maybe even a decade, I felt seen. It was a spotlight on pains that consumed years of my life, that I barely talk about with my friends and loved ones of today. It was proper catharsis. I was recently reminded of that line about good fiction comforting the disturbed and disturbing the comfortable, and this chapter certainly did the job for me. I can understand how such a story would be too much for a lot of people. I can understand how hard it must have been for Alyson Greaves to write it, and I commend her for doing so. But now that I've read it, and since that little voice spoke up in my head early on in the chapter, I've understood why I'd felt a little emotionally wrong-footed by Dorley up to this point. To paraphrase a homestuck thing I haven't read, the meat to candy ratio of this story is pure fucked. This is the first time in a while that I feel like the story has fully delivered on the emotional stakes of the premise promised, where I've felt previous chapters pulled their punches or softened their blows at the last instant. I really hope to come across more of these moments as I keep reading, even though I doubt many of them are going to be as personal.

[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

[tambermizukiart]

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

[...]

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

𝑀𝑎𝑑𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢

🌟

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

did

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i lobv u

:(((((( HEART <3333

[naomibcook]

A S T E R I S M S 17.09.22 - 22.10.22 Nuit Blanche : 1.10.22 Hours: 6 to 9 PM inside and outside. From 9 PM and for the entire night - the installation will only be visible from the street, with no entry possible. Musée Maison Auguste Comte 10, rue Monsieur le Prince, 75006 Paris

[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

[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

[asteroidaceae]

[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

[asteroidaceae]

My head jumped to the solar system before you started talking about interstellar distances.

Seeing the two evening stars at sunset, waiting for it to get dark enough that you can distinguish the blue one, knowing you're looking right at your girlfriend on earth. Lugging out the telescope and picking out Callisto and Titan where your girlfriends are. Despairing whenever your planets are in opposition because it means twice as long in lag time, and then a flurry of messages and cheap images and sexting when conjunction rolls around. Always knowing when a launch windows is coming up, feeling them as a pang every time one come around and you're not on a ship ready to jump up and meet it. Then suddenly you have the chance and it feels like a wave about to sweep you up and change your life. That same light speed dance playing out at a more immediate day to day level. 40 minuites round trip. 35. 30. Messaging each other all through the day, watching the ping slowly doppler down. As you come into orbit you can just about video call, like with your friends in orbit back home. When you stagger in the unfamiliar gravity, she's there to catch you.

Internet yearning is gonna be so much worse in the space age. Like, that cute trans girl you're crushing on? She doesn't just live on the other site of the country, she's off on Alpha Centauri b.

[xipteras]

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

[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.

[mikaelasgraveyard]

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