#astro anecdotes

[astrobydalia]

You should have seen my therapist’s face when I asked for her birth date, she was like ????

But I really needed to know if she had placements in my 8th house. Turns out her planets fall in my 4th house

[oflgtfol]

WHY ARE YOU CONSULTING A SOCIAL SCIENTIST ON WHETHER ASTROLOGY COUNTS AS A SCIENCE. WHY DOESN'T ANYONE EVER CONSULT ACTUAL ASTRONOMERS. BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE ANSWER THEY'LL GET THAT'S WHY!!!

[dxy-drxxm]

⭐ | COMMISSION I : Inazuma's Gordon Ramsay

"... If you're trying to make Dango Milk, this one failed to the point I can't tell if you're trying."

That was the first thing Kunimitsu said upon receiving the sample, and he couldn't tell if he made an honest mistake taking this commission without Navina.

He had decided to (against his better judgement) take the commissions for today, or most of them. The informant had thought of splitting it with him, but after yesterday, he decided not to and take most of the harder ones that would give them a headache.

This was one of them, and Kuni had second thoughts of revoking this commission if it weren't for the bonus of the food.

"Give me that," the wanderer said with a scoff, grabbing the sample before pulling out a few ingredients of his own.

"If you want to make it like how that guy does it, add in more of the taste of Dango than milk. That will make it taste less like it's just milk with new branding."

Despite the looks of concern to the restaurant owner, Wanderer's honest reviews were one that he didn't knew about Inazuman cuisine. There were some that were truly lacking, and he had all but told him to quit it while he's ahead.

Instead, he had offered something for him to work with— even if it's at the expense of being chewed out for his slights.

"As for the Unagi Chazuke, this tastes like the tea isn't even fucking tea. What are you thinking when you made this? Porridge?" he scowled, irate at the dish.

"You know what? Whatever. What ingredients did you use to make this thing?"

"Uh, eel meat, rice, salt, lampgr—"

"Lampgrass!?"

Now I see what the problem is. He can't cook for shit!

Standing up, he grabbed the bowl and stormed to the kitchen, yelling, "I'll cook the chazuke! You lot need to learn what it means to cook this dish to perfection."

"H-Hey, you can't come into the kitch—"

The owner stopped as he saw Kunimitsu take off his hat before preparing the ingredients. Brows furrowed, he saw the latter pull out the ingredients... While replacing Lampgrass with Seagrass.

"Hey, moron," he called out to the owner, a scowl on his face. "Come here. I'm teaching you how to make Shimi Chazuke. If you can't make this with the right ingredients, I'd question how you graduate with those skills."

After grilling the chef of his skills for a few hours, he had finally managed to make something worth of his name. Kunimitsu had judge him in it, but after tasting what he created, he seem to nod in satisfaction.

"Finally," he muttered, taking another bite of the chazuke. "Some good fucking food."

Seeing the look of relief from the chef, he finished it and looked over at the other dishes, and he could already tell that some were... Improved. Well, mostly from his rigorous teaching.

"Hmph. Some of them are decent, at least," he commented, looking over at the chef once more. "The Sashimi Platter is fine, but your knife-work needs more improvement on some of these."

Pointing at another, he continues, "And your Wakatakeni needs more improvement. Do you want your customers to choke on the seaweed you picked? And the bamboo shoots? It's almost like you don't understand how some of these dishes work without making your customers suffocate."

Grabbing a few recipes he bought (and some he changed to his own method), he handed it to the chef, looking rather tired after dealing with what happened.

"Take this. Make sure you follow the recipe here and actually learn. If your customer complains you cook like shit, you failed as a chef."

And before the chef can even protest, he gathered his things and the free meal he was promised— which was the Sakura Tempura they made— before leaving.

He did looked down at the tempura that was packed, his brows furrowed in thought. He remembered vaguely that one of them liked fried food.

Hah. What a shame, he thought, chuckling under his breath. His eyes did have a gleam to it, but it didn't look promising.

It's not like he'll get this from them anytime soon.

[reaver-industries-official]

hm fears for L and astro :3

Astro puffs his chest out. “I’m not afraid of anything. Except maybe Watari. That old man’s off..” - 🗡🦈

L bites his thumb. “To disclose that information would mean to disclose something that could be used against me. Though I’d have to agree with Astro. Something about Watari is…off.” - 🍰🍩

[byuno-o]

ASTRO OBSERVATIONS I'VE OBSERVED.

NOTE: THESE ARE ANECDOTAL OBSERVATIONS; HENCE, MIGHT NOT BE APPLICABLE FOR EVERYONE.

Mercury in Capricorn almost always talks about jobs and money. If accompanied by Libra or gemini, they're meant to be in a field which requires them to make connections with financial people.

Air sign people are prodigies in something. Take this with a grain of salt.

Having 11 house stelliums, might mean that you'll get to your destiny through other people. Not necessarily stomping over them, but connections that you build will help you get higher and higher.

Cancer moons are some of the most insecure people I've met, but once they gain confidence over themselves, you just know you're seeing a star in the making. They are so flamboyant, just like Leo moons. Might have to do something with them being associated with luminaries and inner worlds since your moon sign depicts your inner self.

Work with your North Node and the house it resides in to become your better self. The sign and house always hold the key that leads to self-improvement which leads to better mental health and strong mindsets regarding your fears.

Interesting observation I've made on this: my Juno has no aspects in my natal chart. But it resides in 11th house in Aquarius in 28°. I'm yet to see anything significant regarding this.

The most picky Venus signs are Venus in Virgo and Venus in Capricorn. But they also love the hardest given that both love stability one way or another and providing comfort to their significant other is a matter of pride for them.

I don't understand why the manipulation tactics of fire signs are not talked about enough. Well?aspects can play a huge role, but know this: so many fire signs have so many different personalities.

Wherever you have Taurean degrees- 2, 14 and 26, just know you might have a scarcity mindset, and stubbornness rules that house.

6th house placements almost always deals with social anxiety. Correct me if I'm wrong.

If you have afflicted 11th house, just know your friends might not be what they seem.

12th housers and Pisces stelliums might get dreams about their future significant other or about their loved one's significant events. I had a friend who had heavy pisces in her chart, and she almost every time would dream about her best friends' results before exams and well, her dreams never lied.

Never underestimate an Aries' competitiveness. If they want it, they won't stop until they get it. But it's the journey that excites them.

I don't get the slander Venus in Gemini get in astro community: they are really cool people who love hard, if you meet their standards.

Do let me know what you think, and let's discuss.

[jesncin]

Chimera Constantine breakdown, refs & nods mega-post

Welcome to the master post of behind the scenes for the Chimera Constantine comics. In the style of the Sons of Mars ones I made, this post archives our research and process. So here we go! This will be a mix of showing references and personal anecdotes for how we cobbled this project together.

I'll be repeating some things I've mentioned across blog posts because I like having all this info in one place.

So! There's a lot of ways to go about re-interpretation and re-imagining a story, and one of my techniques is to not get overly attached to research. While it's good to be informed about a character, sometimes knowing every little thing about them can make one hesitant to innovate and try something different with them. So I'm purposely mindful about how much material I research.

But how does something like that work when the character in question has only 2-3 total appearances, one arc, and a quick revisit several years later? We play twin telephone.

For this project, Cin read the Hellblazer Golden Boy arc and vaguely retold it to Jes, who would then write a story based on assumptions and half-remembered memories of the story. Letting personal experience, influences and bias fill the blanks. We're inspired by how Naoki Urusawa wrote Pluto based on his mis-remembered memories of reading Astro Boy. Also when I was a kid I used to look at book covers and summaries and make up a story based on the limited information I was given. It's fun for me. Part of why I love obscure characters so much is that the lack of content about them lets the reader fill in the blanks about their lives and try telling new stories about them that aren't constrained by a saturated canon.

The original Golden Boy arc written by Jamie Delano (#39-40) is about John Constantine coming to the realization that he strangled his twin in the womb. After taking some 'shrooms, John...manifests into another reality, it's very surreal. There, John meets his twin from a universe where John had died, and his brother gets to live. The twin (taking on the name John Constantine, we'll call him Golden Mage to keep it simple) is John's opposite in every better way. They decide to merge their souls to restore...the universe. You kind of had to be there.

John's twin returns many issues later (#249) to wrap up a different arc, there he and the story are written by Andy Diggle.

The first panel of our full comic references the tarot cards John gets from his reading with Zed.

This panel is a direct reference to this scene where John sees his own shadow on a curtain after his reading with Zed. I like the imagery of this arc, even when the dialogue describing twins is really cringe. We changed it to a mirror to reinforce the mirror imagery throughout the comic. Speaking of which...!

Through Jes' reworking of the story, mirrors were streamlined to be the main way alternate universes were portrayed in the story. They'd be the main motif that paralleled the twins too. In issue #249 of Hellblazer, John uses the mirror to confront his twin who resides within himself after their soul-merge years ago.

The line "He's so beautiful, he frightens me." is spoken by a doctor witnessing the Golden Boy's birth in his universe. We repurposed it to be John's dialogue for when he's describing the man he sees in the mirror.

John's twin uses a sacrifice involving these candles to summon his sickly twin. Jes repurposed the use of candles to a magic salt circle that contains spirits like the Golden Boy (he's nicknamed "Goldie" in our take).

The Golden Boy! Even though he died in the womb, he's portrayed as a boy. Probably because a floating fetus wasn't what they were going for. We wanted to give him a distinct look that foreshadows how much he would grow his hair out. I like that his mouth isn't visible! We use the shape of his eyes and posing to get across how he's feeling. It gives him a vacant-toddler-stare I find really endearing.

We made some minor adjustments to the Golden Mage's design. Initially, we followed his canonical pulled back long hair. But since he was a challenging character to emote when we had one less arm to work with, we decided to part his hair so that it could carry how he's feeling. I like when I can get it to cover a part of his face for intense moments! If it was animated, it would 100% be expressive Ghibli hair.

Our main goal for Golden Mage's characterization is to make him feel like his own person. In the original arc, he's less of a sibling and more of an au of John Constantine himself. He doesn't get his own name. Despite gloating about having a better and more fulfilling love life than John, he also shared the exact same love interests John does. Being a twin is less about a family story and more a vehicle to talk about self hatred and potential here. Which isn't fair to the individuality of the characters!

(note, this is not how the panels look in the og comic, I've rearranged them so that they display on this post better)

So we characterized the Golden Mage to still have his canon charisma (albeit with the dialogue toned way down from his original appearance), but to have a thinly veiled temper under all that bravado to foil his con-man trickster brother. The Golden Mage was vaguely described as not being particularly attached to the love he receives. Golden Mage is also dismissive of his womb twin's death, saying it's something he shouldn't grieve since he never really knew him. We reinterpreted these lines as him being in denial over his brother's death, thinking himself as above his own feelings of grief.

Also as a tiny note, we kept the Golden Mage's name ambiguous to keep with the vibe of the original comic, but in my mind I headcanon his full name to be Marigold "Goldie" Constantine. The yellow flower is culturally associated with prosperity, but also grief and jealousy. It's perfect for him! So we made references to the flower in the cover and first panels of the comic. I also headcanon that as a kid he called John Constantine's ghost "Johnny".

My influences for how this whole beginning meeting scene is staged and played out is E.M Carroll's When I Arrived At The Castle. The "animated" panels of Golden Mage looking back at John and breaking through the mirror is a direct call back to the keyhole sequence in that comic! The premise of daydreaming about how your life could have been and not realizing that you're staring at an alternate universe is loosely inspired by Junji Ito's Hellstar Remina. I really like the concept of staring into the unknown and then something sentient staring back from that. "What if our day dreams are just other realities we're dreaming of" kind of deal. I don't see that sort of thing in the saturation of multiverse stories these days.

Next reference is the Dead Boy's Heart! While I like that this story's its own thing, I was surprised it wasn't linked to John's dead brother in any way. It felt thematically relevant, so we brought it over as a device to trap Goldie while the brothers merge souls.

Twins can be positioned in a bunch of ways in the womb. I think canonically, John and Golden Mage were positioned like they are in the cover for Hellblazer #39, ideal for strangling I guess! We changed it to echo the motion of yin and yang. I do think the inclusion of yin and yang is a little cringey in the original comic even though I get what it's going for (balance and all that, it's just kind of simplistic to the philosophy). But I do like it as a way to echo card imagery we established in this comic. We combined the imagery of the tarot cards featured in the Golden Boy arc and King/Queen/Joker playing cards. So it felt right to bring back that whole upside down twins in the womb thing. Special fact, this is how my twin and I were vibing in the womb.

The scene where the twins hit Ctrl + E to merge layers! It's a pretty iconic pose! I like how their heads peaked out of the panels so I brought it back for our comic too. In our version, the twins fail to merge their souls entirely. In the revisit to the Golden Boy character in the comics in issue #249, it's revealed that the merging "failed" in some way, trapping the Golden Mage within John's soul.

For John's ghost counterpart from Golden Mage's universe we took Dave McKean's portrayal of him very literally haha. I know he doesn't literally have one eye, but we thought it gave him a really distinct look for us to stylize. We decided to keep the ghost kids consistent with no mouth and vacant pupil-less stares. We gave ghost kid!John a sort of bedsheet ghost form to contrast against Goldie.

Speaking of one eye! That's another motif we decided to emphasize throughout the comic. It's not in the source material at all, but we liked it as a way to both hint at chimerism and visualize how the two brothers serve as incomplete halves of each other. Special fact! Heterochromia can show up in chimera twins. Of course in the case of identical twins like the Constantines, their chimerism isn't as detectable since they have identical sets of DNA. But! It's still fun to stylize in a supernatural way. For our take we show the glowing golden eye as the soul of the Golden Boy manifesting in his brother. I like to think that John takes advantage of how undetectable his chimerism is to have an upper hand in any soul-related deals he makes.

This stylized heterochromia is inspired by @ratblazer 's Constantine design! I made a subtle nod to it with young punk John's make up echoing the scar in her design too.

For John's dynamic with Goldie the Golden Boy, we built the conflict of the story around making him doubt his attachment to his dead brother. There's a line of dialogue in the revisited Golden Boy arc about John needing to "let go", so we repurposed it into the Golden Mage assuring him that his attachments make him weak.

Even though the Golden Boy doesn't show up nearly as much as I think he should in canon, John has been shown to be really sentimental about him. John wants to be the Golden Boy's friend because he's so beautiful John mistook him for Jesus as a kid. Canonically, the Golden Boy ghost rejects John's friendship, likely still not over the whole strangulation in the womb thing. It still breaks John's heart though, he's a sobbing mess about being owned by a dead kid.

We changed this whole dynamic! The twin murder in the womb felt very X-men Xavier vs Cassandra Nova, and it's hard to get behind babies having that much motivation before they're even born. In our version, Goldie is a vanishing twin absorbed by John, the sickly twin. Infants being accidentally strangled by umbilical cords does occur in reality. However, we changed their origin to being that of Vanishing Twin syndrome because it was more specific for the ideas we were going for.

I feel this crucial change is more in tune with the overall themes of Hellblazer. John always cheats death at a cost. People are constantly sacrificed for John's continued survival. But the Golden Boy's case would be special, because he sacrificed himself out of love before he even knew what it means to love. Unlike the other ghosts that haunt John Constantine, Goldie isn't resentful of John. I think it makes more sense for the Golden Boy to be attached to John because he's all the Golden Boy's ever known. As a chimera twin, John is like a horcrux holding his brother's soul in his body. This reaffirms survivor's guilt to be something John experiences since his birth.

Canonically, although the Golden Mage initially feels sorry for the ghost of John that haunts him, he rejects John as well. John's ghost in canon is like a nuisance that keeps bothering Golden Mage. There's an instance mentioned of Golden Mage trying to recreate his murder in the womb? It's cryptically written. But Golden Mage does keep using the phrase "banished" to describe his brother.

We took this and made it so that he performed an exorcism on himself to remove his supernatural chimera-bond to John's ghost. The Golden Boy arc is pretty unique when compared with how saturated multiverse stories are nowadays since it doesn't share the science fiction sensibilities. Grief comes up a lot in multiverse stuff, in these stories characters use parallel universes to save a loved one as they're bargaining with their loss. For our take, we wanted a character to use the alternate universes to hurt and lash out at the loved one they're grieving. I pulled influence from Everything Everywhere All At Once's concept of a self destructive character on a search for the one familial connection who could understand what they're feeling.

References! The first panel is a nod to issue #36 where John is sleeping with Marj. We changed her to Kit. The second panel is a direct callback to issue #67, an iconic visual for his break up angst era.

Trivia; this page was added at the last minute! I needed something to bridge the birthday cupcake page and the final panel of Golden Mage's breakdown, so I linked them through candles! In this weird case, I reference my own work! This is a callback to Birthdays, a short comic we made for John Constantine's canonical birthday. It sets the premise for his relationship with Goldie based on the habits and experiences of survivor twins. The pages referencing this comic are meant to re-establish that John shares meals with his twin.

I wanted this page to feel like John's lighting an incense for his dead brother, and to contrast it with the snuffed out candles from Golden Mage's flashback. The candle has a yellow and blue intertwined spiral pattern that calls back to the color of John and Golden mage's dialogue boxes and speech bubbles, along with how twisted they look when they merged. Implying that in this universe, they're together in some way. I really wish I did this intentionally but it was by complete coincidence of making the cupcake pink and balancing it out with pastel primaries. But I sure can acknowledge how cool it looks symbolically okay???

The dialogue here is a nod to John's monologue in issue #19 where John is comforting Simon Hughes. It's re-contextualized a bit to be about sharing grief together in our comic.

This is a really goofy one but- since Golden Mage is supposed to be the fully realized potential of John, we thought that he would have a successful career as a musician and singer where John didn't. I don't think Golden Mage would be a punk singer though, he probably does something he'd consider more elevated.

BUT-! In the 30th Anniversary edition of Hellblazer, Sting (the guy John's appearance is based on) wrote an introduction for the edition while roleplaying as the Golden Boy. Which is nuts. The Anniversary edition basically canonized Sting as being a Constantine variant in our universe with the soul of Golden Boy. Sting, as Golden Boy, describes himself as a musician and singer too. Absolutely bonkers for Sting to throw me a bone this late in the game since no one's touched this character in ages.

Another E.M Carroll influenced panel sequence. This is from the digital comic Out of Skin.

So that brings us to the end of the comic! We've had the ideas for this comic cooking for some time, and it's people's continued interest in our takes on these characters that gave us the chance to finally bring the story together.

I'm very fascinated by the Golden Boy story, not because it's particularly strong compared to other stories in Hellblazer's run, but because its intriguing premise is bogged down by its surreal take on typical Evil Twin tropes. og Hellblazer's strength was always in its raw humanity. John Constantine's character countered the sensational spectacle of his superhero contemporaries. He may be able to outwit a vampire but he's can't fight back against being brutalized by the police. In one of his most iconic arcs, he finds out he has cancer- not because of any supernatural shenanigans, but because he literally smokes too much. In another arc, John's long time girlfriend breaks up with him, and he lashes out by saying the cruelest things to her. When he hears that his abusive dad is murdered, John still cries about it.

I think the Golden Boy arc and the retcon that followed his brief return actively undermines what makes Hellblazer special. Suddenly John's having X-Men-level evil twin escapades in the womb. Suddenly, merging with his twin will help save the universe. Suddenly, it's not smoking that caused John to have cancer! It was actually because he merged with his twin and his twin became the cancer from inside him! Suddenly it wasn't a moment of lashing out that caused John to say all those cruel things to his ex upon their break up, that was actually the Golden Boy controlling him from within, so you see it's not really his fault! Also what followed the break up was extra devastating because of the Golden Boy, somehow.

Often I hear in fandom that when you change a character too much from their canon counterpart it's basically "just an oc" at that point, but in the case of characters who get to be re-imagined and passed through many creative teams, I think that kind of mindset is deeply limiting for transformative work. The line I draw between "just an oc" and an interpretation is if the changes involved engage with their source material in any way or if they're just superficial. Big changes and 180 flips can work because they still respond to the history of said character. It's why we see that kind of thing in canon a lot. These characters are inherently built to be passed through many hands in meaningful ways to varying degrees of success. So I hope that by showing all this process that goes behind big changes to a canon character, people better understand what can go into transformative creativity.

Our thesis for this re-imagining is to take what makes Hellblazer special and re-examine the arc that we felt undermined that. Despite the grief John has for many characters in his cast, mourning isn't brought up at all in the Golden Boy arc. It's dismissed by the characters in narration, and the Golden Mage himself isn't even recognized as a sibling by the narrative, no matter how many times John calls him "bro".

Survivor twin grief over dead womb twins especially is a real thing that's often dismissed because in the words of canon Golden Mage himself "I couldn't mourn for those I'd never known". This is not true to the experience of twins. They play with and remember each other from spending 9 months growing in a tight space together. So when one of them doesn't make it out with the other, that survivor feels a grief they can't comprehend. It can manifest in unresolved trauma, commitment issues, and survivor's guilt. All things that feel so relevant to the themes of John Constantine's character. I think that by integrating the real lived experiences of survivor twins, the Golden Boy arc could've been one the most human and personal parts of the original Hellblazer run. It's could've been a story that helped a community of people so rarely validated in their grief feel seen.

[imjustaf444keriguess]

okay this is so long but oh my god

"this is my last post abt astro and yes I'll still be supporting them yk why? Bc they do make points abt endos that are true because endos are infact not real systems ok?"

they have not shown any evidence to demonstrate that, i haven't seen any doctor or paper named that says "there cannot be an experience of multiple selves in a person without trauma before the ages of 9, it is specifically a DID thing". saying that you support them because they say endos aren't real is like agreeing with an antivaxxer that just gives anecdotes.

actually that's a bad comparison, at least the antivaxxers would give psuedo-scientific articles as sources. astro has not given a single source and instead sexually harasses and misgenders people because he doesn't like them!

also "I'm not backing down from that point bc it is mostly afab ppl that I have seen fake disorders" how can you be sure that a majority of fakers are afab? are you looking at peoples birth certificates? or are you assuming their assigned gender at birth? i would ask if you were going off of statistics, but you said "i have seen", not "statically more likely to be medically diagnosed with a malingering disorder" (which is a can of worms in its own right but still)

and even if they were all AFAB (however unlikely that'd be), it's STILL transphobic to misgender people repeatedly when they say they're not a girl and you call them a girl anyway. i think astro is a jerk for that, regardless of if they're faking or not!

"However stating a fact or a experience is no where near saying a racist (fake) statistic like "all black people are criminals" because that's wrong simply very wrong because none of all a group of people is one thing??"

most people who say 'all black people are criminals' would probably call out the same thing, going "not ALL of them but a MAJORITY of them", especially with the incarceration rates n stuff. saying that your statistic is different because you didn't say "all" is like... ???

also give proof of that statistic (that mostly afab people are faking disorders), or else it's anecdote from likely assumptions of people's assigned gender at birth that's not really proof of shit!

also also, you're a minor afaik, you are not a doctor and you can't say for certain that anyone's faking unless they literally say it themselves (since faking is a conscious choice, and otherwise they could just be mislead or misunderstanding symptoms, but you can't accidentally fake something that's the opposite of the definition)

at minimum i think you should say "i support many anti endos and i am an anti endo, but i don't support astro due to his sexual harassment and transphobia", since... saying you still support astro means you look at the shit we've brought up to you and his lack of ability to show ANY kind of proof to his words... and say "yeah that's all fine i will say i support him"

(btw if you'd like to be better at astro, you could try... citing some evidence that endogenic plurality can't exist? if you have some? astro couldn't but you seem at least capable of reading some things sometimes so!)

On astro being transphobic, there’s been repeated times where he’s called anyone who he disagrees with disagrees a woman because the whole “only woman fake disorders” bs (which, for the record, is misogynistic as shit too but I guess we won’t unpack that yet either, right?), regardless of if the person being called such stops to correct or express discomfort with being called a woman.

Like truly to put it, how would you feel if you got boiled down to your agab, to something you *aren’t* gender wise just so some prick can laugh at you being a stupid woman? Literally what else would you define that as?

These instances aren’t hard to find, calling people who are transmen and nonbinary a “woman” just so they fit the argument and thought processes he presents is transphobic, even if its satire, even if you disagree with the person on the other end of it; that behavior is going to reflect as what it is. Transphobia. (and some.)

also threatening to touch people (which i’m sure you’re familiar with the joke that went around of the whole “i’m gonna touch you bro 😈” which has the intent to be sexual in nature), to lick people, etc is harassment and the context absolutely can be read as sexual harassment.

Ok the calling anyone a women is like calling people yk of any gender "bro" or "man" and ima go ahead and drop this, i HAVE been put down to just my agab right ok? I live in a conservative state so I'm used to this but listen that ISNT what Astros doing like I said it's like calling someone "bro" and astro is RIGHT it is mostly people afab faking disorders, now it sucks ok ppl faking disorders suck there ass and need to be asked WHY they do it, not the "oh j think i have it" I mean "why do you feel the need to do this" and saying they put all genders down so they fit the stereotype is wrong there stating information from ppl faking disorders which again, are mostly afab ppl ok. That's not being transphobic that's a fact. It sucks that they feel uncomfortable and I don't respect ppl who are transphobic but astro is just stating a statistic or a fact you can clearly see anywhere. And not only women fake disorders there are ofc gonna be intersex and amab ppl who fake disorders to ok? But it's not misogynistic for stating something that's clearly showed EVERYWHERE?? This stuff isn't transphobjc it's showing a statistic or maybe not a statistic but a genuine fact you can see everywhere?? And yes if you take it in a seuxal context it is gonna be sexual if you take it that way?? I don't stand for sexual harassment as some who HAS been sexually harassed (by other minors to be clear) but what they were saying was not sexual harassment they were jokes and if you didn't take them as jokes they'd still only be harrasment not sexual the only stuff would be considered is stuff like you said "jm gonna touch you" which is still technically A JOKE?

Sorry if I missed anything I'm tired so if you give me anything else it will be responded to tmmrw!

[lil-doodles]

After watching Astro-Zombies I had to draw Tura Satana. This is her from Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! It was rumored that Elvis Presley proposed to her and she turned him down. I'm not sure of the veracity of that statement, it may be purely anecdotal, but she was a beautiful woman. Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is definitely the best Russ Meyer movie and it's been said that Tura wrote a lot of her own dialogue and provided her own wardrobe. She is also credited with performing her own stunts and martial arts fight scenes. Check back tomorrow for more Halloween fun!

[t00thpasteface]

in memory of steve harwell, i would like to share a brief anecdote from my old college. i used to work in the parking & transportation department on campus, and one of my duties was to drive the little electric shuttlebus between the buildings for an hour or so at a time, since the campus was pretty spread-out linearly and not exactly walkable on hotter days. the shuttlebus had a CD player, so i brought a big case of CDs from home and played my jams pretty much the whole time i drove. a favorite CD was the smash mouth album "astro lounge".

one day i was listening to that album during a shift where i didn't have a whole lot of riders. i listened to the entirety of astro lounge front-to-back while driving this dinky little electric shuttlebus around campus, but i only had one rider the whole time.

imagine it from his perspective: he's the only guy at the shuttle stop. the shuttle creeps up, and it's a little wobbly because the driver (me) is still learning how to work this damn thing. he climbs in. no one is in it except the driver (me). and the stereo is playing all star at full volume. he sits in silence the entire ride. he gets off at the next stop without a word. i feel like we shared some sort of moment there, but i'm not completely sure it was a pleasant one.

[lilas]

Judging this tumblr ad and their predictions on compatibility of the zodiac signs based on my limited astrology knowledge from my teenage astro phase and vibes:

Aquarius + Cancer = marriage; yeah I can see this working. +1

Pisces + Leo = breakup; DISAGREE because pisces and leo both bring a kind of dream big or go home energy to them that I think works because idk vibes. -1

Aries + Leo = best sex; this is just because they’re both stereotyped as hot headed and passionate or whatever, and it’s a lazy ass zodiac headcanon. -5 for unoriginality

Taurus + Pisces = family; I mean…. statistically speaking yeah, I’m sure some pisces are blood related. +1

Gemini + Gemini = friendship; lol. Lmao even. Like Taurus is the weakest earth sign, all geminis are destined to hate each other. It’s just facts. -2

Taurus + Cancer = business; please. The best business partner for Taurus is a fucking libra. -3

Leo + Aries = divorced; okay this is actually hilarious in the context of following aries + leo = best sex. +5 for comedic timinv

Aquarius + Aries = business; now HERE’S a business relationship that would be fun to study in fact I’m 100% this is just Tamaki/Kyoya. +2

Pisces + Cancer = best sex; yeah I can see it. +1

Capricorn + Pisces = breakup; naur they balance each other out, opposites attract etc etc something something. -1

Gemini + Virgo = divorce; hear me out this is actually a great combination because two of my friends are this and they still like each other. Can’t beat anecdotal facts. -1

Total score: -3, leave astrology to the pros, whoever this advertiser is

[astrobydalia]

My bestie (Taurus Venus+Capricorn Moon) was looking for restaurants we can go eat and she goes “Nah these place only has 4 stars, that’s not enough” 😭

[reaver-industries-official]

Astro plops the notebook onto a table, looking the pages over before fishing a very fucked up looking eraser from his pocket and laying it next to the notebook.

“So. About…this…” He looks at the two as he chews on the inside of his mouth.

“What do you think the lizard wants me to do with these?” - 🗡🦈

“Eddie? C? Rain?” Astro looks…worried. Thats new for him. He has a bookbag on his shoulder..and peeking out…was Ryuk’s notebook. - 🗡🦈

Velocity hums a quiet greeting, not looking up from their magazine. ✧  ------------------  ✧ the other two, however, End is instantly on edge even before she spots the notebook, although upon seeing it, her shoulders slump in an almost defeated form. Copy isn't doing much better, tense at the sight of the worn black leather, stuck between looking away or staring at it like a hawk. neither of them speak, unsure of what to say about... this... ✧  ------------------  ✧

[dxy-drxxm]

"So, you want me to get you to Sumeru? To look for ██████?"

"Yes, Captain Beidou," Yelan replied, adjusting the jacket resting on her shoulders. "In fact, I'd like it if you can also tell me if they came to you for a ride. You know them, right?"

Beidou seem to pause at this, her arms crossed as she watched the navy bluenette come on board of the Crux. After a while, she nodded, but her face seem rather solemn.

"That... I do," she began, her eyes shifting as though she was recalling a faint memory in her mind. "They were an interesting stowaway back at Fontaine, when it wasn't how it ran and when they were doing their job for the Hydro Archon there."

Yelan's eyes narrowed at the mere mention of the archon, but said nothing as Beidou continued.

"Hah, but when they stopped working for her, they told me all about it. They even said that they only stopped working because of that kid."

... Kid?

"And... Who is that kid, you mentioned?"

"Who? Oh, its ██████—"

—what in the archons?!

Yelan grimaced when she heard Beidou utter a name that... Seemingly she couldn't hear herself. What came out of her mouth was the sound of static, like something was stopping her from hearing who was with them.

This... Doesn't seem to be normal. What is going on?

"Miss Yelan? Are you okay?"

"Ah? Yes, I'm fine," the woman answered, though she held back on saying that she was, in fact, not fine.

Something is stopping me from hearing that, but... Maybe I'll investigate on it at another time.

"So, you said that it was... them?"

Beidou— almost as if not noticing or maybe perhaps acting robotically that she didn't utter the forbidden name— nodded, letting out a laugh as she did so.

"Those two got along great! It's rare to see them separated when they were at the Crux. Ah, it's just a shame that they're both not on the ship anymore after the decree was lifted in Inazuma."

The Vision Hunt Decree... Yelan mused. Indeed, that is what they mentioned to me when they came here. But...

"I see..."

... Perhaps the trip to the land of knowledge will be beneficial. I just need to be cautious with my questions from there.

[reaver-industries-official]

"now im curious. # for L and Astro" -End

Astro snorts. “Lets see..”

Contact name: “Weird fucking beast”

Contact photo: A luna moth…cat…thing.

Ringtone : 🦋

Last sent text: Its a picture of L and Astro at a bar, in a private room. In the photo there’s several empty glasses, and a few full ones on Astro’s side of the table. On L’s side, there’s a few empty glasses and one full one. L is taking a rip from a bong decorated with stickers depicting Sanrio characters such as pompompurin, hello kitty, keroppi, badtz-maru, my melody, chococat, and kuromi. The bong is also pink. - 🗡🦈

L pulls his phone out.

Contact name: E

Contact photo: an uppercase E, written in the Cloister Black font.

Ringtone: 𝔈

Last sent text: “Oh that looks good. :)” - 🍰🍩

[byuno-o]

RANDOM ASTRO OBSERVATIONS I'VE OBSERVED.

NOTE: THESE ARE BASED ON PERSONAL ANECDOTES; HENCE, MIGHT NOT BE APPLICABLE FOR EVERYONE

Pisces and Sagittarius people are not always lucky as they say. They go through the most problematic, heart-shattering events which test their ability to remain optimistic. It's like Jupiter makes them go through tough times before bestowing them with good luck.

However, for Sag and pisces rising, things are different. Jupiter might actually bestow them with good luck for a long period of time, only for them to go through tough times later. (Seen it with my own eyes.)

Capricorn sun and moon people are as social as Gemini and Libra can be. It's like they actively look for company so they don't end up with their thoughts alone.

Aries men--the unevolved ones, are overbearing to a fault. Sometimes when they try to help, they actually come off as assholes and just plain rude.

Leo moons are actually pretty shy and introverted. It's only after a few meetings do they get comfortable.

While I've read that Aquarius people are aloof and detached, that might not always be the case. I have seven friends with Aquarius sun, moon, mercury, rising and venus, and they are the most clingy people I've ever met. Some even ended up sabotaging their relationships and friendships because of their clinginess.

However, being the sister sign of Leo, they have to go through this phase in order to see the bigger picture and see humanity as a whole and not just one person. It's only after losing people do they realise their purpose, which is standing out and set trends.

I think the intuition and spiritual senses of fire signs are often overlooked. They are often guided by their intuitions, especially Leo.

I might be biased on this but, I have always share the same kind of humour with people with the same sun sign as me which is sag. Tell me if you relate. :)

Do not underestimate gemini when it comes to holding grudges. They remember everything and will hurt you where it hurts the most.

While, I'm at it, I think cancer's sharp tongue does not get much appreciation. The ones I've met either hit you with the hurtful words right onto your face with a smile, or they say hurtful things behind your back. The influence they can have on people is something I really admire.

Scorpio moons are more mature than scorpio suns. Idk, I just never met a mature scorpio sun but I have two friends with scorpio moon who are wise beyond their years.

Libra women, for some reason, lack confidence when it comes to their creativity, and face problems putting their art out. it's just something I've noticed since some women I know (who are libras) never tell their ideas to anyone out loud.

Nonetheless, their allure can only be rivalled by a Taurus or a Leo.

That is it for today. do let me know what you think about my observations. Let's have a discussion.

[mutablebeauty]

Mutable Beauty ORIGINAL Astro Anecdote 📝🔮:

Huge Emotional Pain Can Transform Pisceans

Pisceans love to love. We are the sign of unconditional love, our love runs deep. When we are introduced to something that we like, we attach to it. We make it our routine, we feel comfortable in it. We imagine our lives with it forever, all the scenarios and challenges, we dream it. We make a decision to settle in and make this our life.

So when this relationship starts falling apart, as sometimes relationships do, we start becoming confused or disillusioned. We become upset that our relationship is not matching the fantasy we imagined. So we begin to try to fix things. We fight to save our relationships. It’s why people often think we’re delusional because we can’t unattach easily from a toxic relationship. We cannot easily unattach from the things we dreamed about together. We would rather fight to defend that dream. We see the good in people first, therefore, we know what our partner could be. So we fight to fix that. We hold on tightly. It’s why we give chance after chance.

Yet, what a Pisces won’t say is that we are also fighting to avoid heartbreak and disappointment. You see when we finally decide to release someone (usually due to massive amounts of resentment from giving chance after chance), next comes the heartbreak. Pisces want to avoid disappointment because it’s akin to a knife stab in the heart for us. Looking at the wreckage of the thing that used to be so beautiful to us, the very thing that gave us hope.

Heartbreak for a water sign is DEVASTATING. Our emotions fuel our livelihood, it is our survival instinct, it fuels our behaviors and thoughts. Water signs feel emotional pain deeply, we are not able to separate our lives from our emotions the way other signs can. We feel everything deeply.

That is why when a Pisces faces heartbreak, it feels like death to us. It is so emotionally painful that you might as well kill us. Heartbreak is death to our hopes, our potential with another, what could’ve been, how we see people, etc. Once we face a heartbreak, there is usually a large transformation on the other side waiting for Pisces. We are different after heartbreak, there is a new person forming at the end.

Now who this new person is, is dependent on the Pisces. Young minded Pisces may choose to become darker, the more hurt they amass, they will choose to inflict onto others. They turn their heart off, and begin lying and emotionally manipulating others with little mercy similar to how our hearts were played with. Please note an evil Pisces is a hurt one. They will need to find the light on the other end of the tunnel in order to heal because this route will always leave the Pisces jaded and bitter. An angel whose wings shriveled during its time on earth.

The other route the Pisces will can choose is wisdom which is the reward for pain. The Pisces will be hardened by its experience but choose to harden the wall around its heart. The native will choose boundaries with strangers. Respect our boundaries or we will swim away. This is a smarter Pisces who understands that not everyone is deserving of its endless love and affection and therefore becomes selective with who it chooses to love. Our kindness will not be taken for weakness and we will move accordingly to the behavior others.

Facing heartbreaking situations will be devastating for a Pisces but one should embrace it. See heartbreaking situations as an opportunity to transform. But the choice is up to you whether you will choose to be wise or to be cold.

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