#henrietta leavitt

[debrouiller]

quite unfortunate that henrietta leavitt, astronomer extraordinaire who gave us the knowledge and tools to reliably measure distances in the universe, was born on the day of the year when americans are most likely to be shooting off fireworks thus obscuring the night sky with smoke

[tenth-sentence]

All that was required to calibrate the relation was a parallax measurement of the distance to a single variable of the type observed by Leavitt.

"Human Universe" - Professor Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen

[leapingmonkeys]

Overlooked No More: Henrietta Leavitt, Who Unraveled Mysteries of the Stars

[uboat53]

Read up, Henrietta Leavitt is probably the most important scientist in terms of our understanding of the true scale of the universe.

[skylobster]

The “Aha!” photo

Andromeda Nebula: Var! - April 6th, 1996.

"In the 1920s, using photographic plates made with the Mt. Wilson Observatory's 100 inch telescope, Edwin Hubble determined the distance to the Andromeda Nebula - decisively demonstrating the existence of other galaxies far beyond the Milky Way. His notations are evident on the plate shown above (the image is a negative with stars appearing as black dots against the white background of space). By intercomparing plates, Hubble searched for "novae", stars which underwent a sudden increase in brightness. He found several on this plate and marked them with an "N". Later he discovered that one was actually a type of variable star known as a cepheid - crossing out the "N" he wrote "Var!" (upper right). Thanks to the work of Harvard astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, cepheids, regularly varying, pulsating stars, could be used as "standard candle" distance indicators. Identifying such a star allowed Hubble to show that Andromeda was not a small cluster of stars and gas within our own galaxy, but a large galaxy in its own right at a substantial distance from the Milky Way. Hubble's discovery is responsible for our modern concept of a Universe filled with galaxies."

[teachersource]

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born on July 4, 1868. An American astronomer and graduate of Radcliffe College, she worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a "computer", tasked with examining photographic plates in order to measure and catalog the brightness of stars. This work led her to discover the relationship between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variables. Leavitt's discovery provided astronomers with the first "standard candle" with which to measure the distance to faraway galaxies, up to about 20 million light years.

[foone]

I want a human zoology textbook.

Zoology, as in the study of animals. Like, a study of how humans work, done by an author that is not human.

I specifically want this for a couple reasons:

1. Descriptive, not prescriptive: don't tell me what the author thinks humans should do or how they should be. Tell me what they do. Observationally!

2. No bias towards "nature". I don't particularly care what the author is imagining humans are like in some "garden of eden" unfallen state. I want it to reference how humans ARE.

3. No morality applied to this! What do humans DO, not what you think they should do, or how they should be. And most importantly, no self-censorship in order to avoid offending some of the humans that disagree with ways people live.

And the reason I want this is because of how biology textbooks/wiki pages get written, where even if they try to be progressive they're still written from this weird perspective where they're explaining based on old ideas and the progressive stuff gets a footnote.

Like it'll be "humans have two genders, male and female. This is determined from their chromosomes, XY for male and xx for female."

And then you scroll past two pages for men and another two pages for women, and then it has one subsection that covers non-binary people and intersex people. And it's like: well then integrate that into your main statement!

It's like the author's worldview is still "there's two genders and everyone is born as one" but they've been forced to accept there are some weird exceptions but the core worldview is unchanged. And it's understandable! Wrong, but understandable: the grew up in a world that is quite strong on the "there are only two genders" ideology and doesn't like to remember that intersex people exist.

But like, imagine if you tried to do this as a zoologist. You're like "hey, all bees are female!" and then someone points out the rare male drones and they're like "oh okay I'll update my zoology textbook."

And now it reads:

All bees are female. Most are workers, and one is the queen.

(a couple sections go pass)

Drones: recent science has discovered that some bees are born male. These rare exceptions live short lives where they fertilize a queen and then die.

And it's like, no? Drones are very important to how a hive lives and they can't survive without them?

And we're constantly doing the same thing to humans and it's just bad science. Like, sure, maybe you could have the theory that "humans come in two genders: male and female" but as soon as you see one non-binary person, you have to discard that theory: it has been proven false! It's like not believing in other galaxies after Henrietta Swan Leavitt figured out how Cepheid Variables worked.

Add to that the "nature" thing. Like, you can make a sort of argument about nature vs artificial settings for a lot of species: the whole alpha/beta wolf thing came about because it turns out wolves act differently in captivity compared to the wild, so it makes sense to study how the vast majority of wolves live, not a small group you stuffed into a small area with unusual conditions. It's like saying the lifespan of goldfish is under 5 minutes, based on your study of them in this dry box you put them in.

But humans are different: we are tool-users who build new environments for ourselves. And while you can talk about how humans living in different environments act differently, it doesn't make a lot of sense to call one of them "artificial". All of them are made by us, and humans always do this. This means all environments are natural (because building environments for ourselves is what we naturally do) and all environments are artificial: we always alter our environments to better suit us! That's one of the things we naturally do!

And as for morality, it's about not ignoring things humans do regularly because you think it's weird or you think they shouldn't.

Like that tweet where someone pointed out that lots of species can change gender. Clown fish are a big one, some frogs, a couple birds, some lizards, and humans.

And people often have an immediate knee-jerk reaction of "that doesn't count!" for the last entity in that list. Why? Because we do it (usually) with clothes and makeup and medication, instead of just "naturally"? Bullshit. We're naturally TOOL USERS. Of course we use tools to change gender. We use tools to do EVERYTHING. That's natural for us.

So yeah. I think it'd be refreshing and enlightening to have a zoology textbook written about humans with this detached non-human perspective. An unbiased description of what humans are and do, rather than one irrevocably tinged with ideas of what humans should be and should do.

Basically I want to load up Vulcan Wikipedia and check the "Humans" article.

[foone]

To clarify (aka continue talking about it because this is one of my niche Things I'm About), Henrietta Swan Leavitt figured out certain stars called Cepheid variables.

They're these neat stars that change in brightness over time, going up and down over and over, over periods of a few days to a few months. They'd been know about for a while, but Henrietta Swan Leavitt figured out the trick: their brightness and the length it takes them to complete a dimming/brightening cycle are related.

And this may seem like some boring who cares astronomy knowledge but it radically changed how we think about the universe. See, it's hard to tell how far away a star is. You can measure how bright it is, sure, but what if it's a big star far away or a dim star that's close? You can't tell those apart!

Unless you know how bright the star is to begin with... And Cepheid variables gave us that. You can measure how long it takes them to go through their brightness cycle, and then figure out how big a star they are. So if it appears super bright and you measure the period and it says it must be tiny, then you know it's close. If it's dim but the period says it must be giant, you know it's far. For the first time we had a way to measure how far away distant stars were.

So Hubble went looking for Cepheid variables, and found some in the "Andromeda Nebula". He proved they were WAY TOO FAR to be part of our galaxy, so now we call that the Andromeda Galaxy. A couple years later he combines this technique with measurements of the speed of galaxies and realizes that everything is moving away from us. The universe is expanding.

Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovers the brightness/period relationship of Cepheid variables in 1908-1912. In 1921, she dies of cancer. Within a decade, her discoveries are used to prove there are galaxies (1923-1924) and that the universe is expanding (1929).

She discovered an obscure astronomy fact and within two decades everything we know is turned upside down because that discovery proves the universe is bigger and weirder than we expected.

Anyway she would have been nominated for a Nobel Prize in 1925 and she probably would have gotten it, except she was dead and the Nobel Prize is only for living people.

(this is, coincidently, why Crick and Watson got the Nobel Prize for Rosalind Franklin's discovery of DNA, because she died four years before the prize was awarded)

I love how every century or so the entire field of physics collapses on itself because of a few discoveries that go against everything currently known and then we just kinda have to wait a little while until it gets back on its feet

[apod]

2024 October 2

The Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy Image Credit & Copyright: Ireneusz Nowak; Text: Natalia Lewandowska (SUNY Oswego)

Explanation: It is the largest satellite galaxy of our home Milky Way Galaxy. If you live in the south, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is quite noticeable, spanning about 10 degrees across the night sky, which is 20 times larger than the full moon towards the southern constellation of the dolphinfish (Dorado). Being only about 160,000 light years away, many details of the LMC's structure can be seen, such as its central bar and its single spiral arm. The LMC harbors numerous stellar nurseries where new stars are being born, which appear in pink in the featured image. It is home to the Tarantula Nebula, the currently most active star forming region in the entire Local Group, a small collection of nearby galaxies dominated by the massive Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies. Studies of the LMC and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) by Henrietta Swan Leavitt led to the discovery of the period-luminosity relationship of Cepheid variable stars that are used to measure distances across the nearby universe.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241002.html

[everythingismadeofchaos]

This is my list of (IMHO) genuinely heroic people. I keep this list so that when I'm feeling uninspired I can pick a name at random, look them up, and be inspired. My memory kinda sucks so I've usually forgotten about them in the interim so it's like hearing some inspiring story for the first time. Please feel free to use this list for that purpose or for whatever purpose helps you. This is a private thing I've been absent-mindedly curating for years, so it's a little discombobulated; maybe I should put it in alphabetical order, for example. Since it works for what I use it for, though, I've never had the need for that, although there may be some duplicates specifically because of that.

If you have any additions, I'd love to hear them.

If you know of a reason somebody should not be on here, I'd love to hear that too. There are some controversial choices here, some people I've hemmed and hawed about, but in the end they're still on the list.

In no particular order:

Rachel Corrie

Aaron Bushnell

Sophie Scholl

Irena Sendler

Eugeniusz Łazowski

Mary Schweitzer. I know who she is but I'm including her anyway. Takes guts to do what she did

Temar Boggs

Juan Pujol García

Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson

Robert Smalls

Temar Boggs

Henrietta Swan Leavitt

Aitzaz Hassan Bangash Shaheed. Might already be on here; I need to alphabetize this list

Sal Khan. Yeah, I'm including him

Irena Sendler

Neerja Bhanot

Iqbal Masih

Tank man

Stephen Ruth. The guy with the cameras. He's no tank man, but why not, he's on the list

Narendra Dabholkar

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sophie Scholl

Charles Hazlitt Upham

Wang Weilin

John Rabe (? ... Kind of questionable for obvious reasons. He saved a couple hundred thousand Chinese people though. I don't know. He was what he was.)

Baron Jean Michel P.M.G. de Selys Longchamps, DFC

Aitzaz Hasan Bangash

Daniel Hale

Hannie Schaft

Reality Winner … I guess

Aki Ra

Norman Borlaug

Neil Armstrong

Stanislav Petrov

Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov

William Kamkwamba

Donald A Henderson

Freddie Oversteegen

Daryl Davis and his collection of robes

Jacinto Convit

Sir Nicholas Winton

August Landmesser

Jonas Salk

Carl Lutz

Giorgio Perlasca

Derrick Nelson, principal of Westfield High School in New Jersey

Giles Corey

Chiune Sugihara

Sophie Scholl

Ronald McNair? Why not

Khader Adnan

Mordechai Vanunu

Corollary:

I'm not sure how to phrase "the opposite of this list," so I'm just going to call it the opposite of this list. Genuinely villainous people? Too easy, and honestly not what I'm going for. Anyway, I'm going to leave out the obvious like Hitler, Trump and Gaddafi because they're, well, obvious. Actually I'm not really sure what the goal of this list is so I'm just kind of winging it. People not to emulate?

Marvin Heemeyer

[justalibrarian]

Children's Books Featuring Women In Science🥼

Rosie Revere, Engineer

Ada Twist, Scientist

The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes: The Story of Dr. Patricia Bath

Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell

Just Wild Enough: Mireya Mayor, Primatologist

The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps

The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever

Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian

Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World

Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya

The Elephant Scientist

Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer

The World is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid

Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines

Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor

Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain

Listening to the Stars: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Discovere Pulsars

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

Look Up!: Henrietta Leavitt, Pioneering Woman Astronomer

Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine

Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code

Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing

Of Numbers and Stars: The Story of Hypatia

Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle

This list will definitely grow a lot bigger!

Enjoy your reading!

[empress-hancock]

A woman created wifi

A woman was the first computer programmer

A woman discovered x-rays

A woman discovered the double helix shape of DNA

A woman wrote the first novel

A woman proposed that ancient statues of females were goddess idols and not sex toys

Women discovered the method we use to determine the distance of a star, developed the classification of stars we use today, and discovered that stars are predominantly hydrogen and not heavy metals

men be like "if women are really that intelligent, why are all major discoveries made by men? 🤓" as if they didn’t quite literally burn women alive if they were smart back in the day

[sincerecinnamon]

As I told my friends, "Going from Henrietta Leavitt [my character in the play] to wearing a Spongebob shirt and singing Bo Burnham songs is crazy-

(Bonus of me in the hoodie with my hair done in Henrietta fashion, although you can't see my hair in the above pic anyway)

[lantur]

highlights from the last ten days,

My friend was in town from February 22 - 27 :) We went to see a beautiful historical play about Henrietta Leavitt, an astronomer circa the early 1900s, at my favorite local theatre. We went to a brunch potluck with friends, which was filled with good company and delicious homemade brunch treats in a sunny kitchen. We had homemade Indian dinners at home, and watched all of season one of the Netflix Avatar: The Last Airbender, which rekindled my love for the show. We played my favorite board game (Splendor!) and went out for Italian food and sushi, and walked around the frozen lake on a cold morning. :)

I finally got to see Oppenheimer at a cozy friends' movie night last night!

I've had some great cooking wins over the past couple of days. Yesterday's dinner was sirloin steak topped with mushrooms, with crispy air fryer potatoes and oven-roasted broccoli on the side. Tonight I made buffalo chicken wings, sautéed Old Bay green beans, and more crispy potatoes. I normally don't cook side dishes and just stick with roti or rice + the main dish, so I've really enjoyed this experience of cooking larger meals.

Related - to me, freedom, and one of my favorite parts of being an adult, is being able to choose what I want to eat for dinner every night and make that happen.

I've been loving Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee, book three in her Green Bone Saga. It's such a treat to have a trilogy that spans 20+ years of the characters' lives.

I've discovered a new favorite neighborhood spot. It's a little local cafe very close to my house. The walls in the lounge are painted my favorite light pink, and there are floor-to-ceiling windows. Best of all, it's always empty, peaceful and quiet, when I stop in on a weekday morning, once or twice a week. I get a small latte with toasted marshmallow syrup, and I like to sit by the window when I drink it. The vibes in this cafe are impeccable.

It's been sunny with blue skies several days this week, and seeing sun come in through the windows feels so good after the cloudy winter here.

challenges,

Work has been absolutely batshit crazy this week and last week :// The volume and the leadership role that I have for a few different projects is getting to me, and I'm mentally exhausted. I also have to work for part of the day tomorrow. I'm SO excited that I have some time off coming soon. I just need to make it until the end of day Wednesday!

[warriorteam1924]

Somebody’s watching me

featuring Joe Mazzello & Swan

Author note : Hello my beauties. I'm back for another tiny piece for halloween ^^ ! I’ve been super busy lately and I’m aware it’s not my best piece, but  I hope some of you will enjoy it anyways. Using someone else's gif should give you an idea of how I'm running everywhere. Thanks in advance to anyone who will be giving honest feedback, it’s always very appreciated. Also, I remind you English isn’t my mother tongue, apologies in advance for the mistakes.

Warnings : none really, just my awful writing

Summary : a thrill with Joe Mazzello

Words count : 1,729 words

Permanent taglist : @reavenedges-lies @thosequeenboys @orionis8689 (apologies people, i removed you from the list, since you don't interact.... i asked for communication....)

It was yet another random day for Joe when he woke up that day. Morning coffee and breakfast, shower, hairstyling. Nothing very unusual. He wasn’t currently busy with work so he spent his days between his computer, his console or watching random series or movies. Maybe at some point it would give him an idea for a future working project. Of course, he wasn’t to feel sorry for. Money wasn’t an issue. He had his friends he could see now and then. His family was close to him and he could pay a visit every now and then. Life was good. Or at least, that’s what he was thinking so far.

He took his phone to take a picture, a silly one obviously, to send his friend. After taking a few ones, he opened the gallery application and smiled at his own silliness, when he saw his selfies with his tongue sticking out.

He was still genuinely smiling when panic erased his grin. There was a picture on his phone, a picture he was sure he didn’t take. He was absolutely certain he hadn’t taken it since it was a picture of him sleeping. The issue was, he was living alone. And there was not a chance of someone like a robber or a random intruder would be able to enter his house. Joe was living on his own and made sure to lock doors and windows at night. There was no reason to tempt fate. Those things didn’t happen only to others. Besides, he had also installed a few security cameras.

In this picture, he was peacefully sleeping, curled up in his blanket. There was no doubt, it was him and his bedroom. What on earth had happened?

Joe was firmly frowning. He decided to delete all the silly selfies he had taken, leaving the suspicious picture on top of his gallery. He had no important plans for the day, so it was the right time to investigate.

He sat in front of his computer and plugged his phone. He logged on several sites such as his mailbox, his social accounts and other online shopping sites. Apparently, all was still normal, meaning no one had hacked his accounts.

He hadn’t been very keen on doing so but some time ago, he also had installed an artificial intelligence to connect his different devices, and it also helped him manage his security cameras. He had chosen a feminine name, Swan, but it was also a dedication to Henrietta Swan Leavitt, famous American astronomer. It wasn’t super fancy, but it was yet another occasion to bring up an interesting topic when someone was coming over and he was using his A.I.

“Swan?”, he asked like he usually did.

“Yes, Joe?”, the feminine voice replied, like it usually did.

“Did you spot anything special last night while I was sleeping? Was there anything strange or unusual?”, he questioned.

“One moment, please”, Swan replied.

Joe knew that Swan needed time to search the files and check them all. The robotic voice spoke again.

“Nothing unusual was found. Are you looking for something specific?”.

“I was just wondering if someone had entered the house?”, Joe asked.

“No intruder or uninvited person was recorded on the files.”, the voice affirmed again.

Joe frowned again. His phone rang and a reminder let him know he had planned to see a friend, unlike what he had thought in the morning. Trying not to think about it, he got ready and went to meet his friend.

It was actually his best friend, so Joe thought about showing him the mysterious pic and asking him for advice. They had known each other for a very long time, it was worth trying.

Mentioning it in the conversation, Joe took his phone out of his pocket and unlocked it and opened the gallery app to show it to his friend. The latter looked at it and he frowned.

“Are you kidding me, mate?”, he asked.

“What ?”, Joe replied.

“There isn’t such a pic in your gallery dude….”, the other said as he handed him his phone.

“What the….”, Joe didn’t finish his sentence.

He scrolled and searched his gallery, several times, he even looked in the trash folder, thinking maybe he had accidentally deleted it. But he found nothing.

The rest of the time dedicated to his friend was nothing but Joe daydreaming and nodding, as he wasn’t really paying attention to what his friend was saying.

At some point, Joe pretended to be tired and went back home. He was worried and concerned. Had he lost his mind?

Still trying not to think about the mysterious picture, Joe watched his feel-good movie and went to bed, after checking his bedroom all the same, just to make sure there wasn’t a camera or anything he hadn’t seen before. Yet, there was nothing he hadn't installed, no device in the room to take a picture of him.

The following morning, he woke up as he usually did, thinking about his daily tasks. There was no notification on his phone, but he wanted to make sure the previous day only happened in his mind, that it tricked him when seeing the mysterious picture.

What was his horror when he saw another picture of him, again, sleeping tightly in his bed. Panic invaded him again, shaking his body and making him sweat. His breath was heavy and he had to fight the severe anxiety that was threatening him.

He got up, and again, went on his laptop to check again his various accounts. Again, nothing unusual was to be noted. He asked Swan to give him access to the security cameras. It was possible the day before that, the artificial intelligence had missed something.

Swan gave him access to the videos and he fast-forward looked at them. All the cameras showed nothing but a calm night in the surroundings. A street cat was seen on one camera, but Joe made sure to look at all the videos and he saw nothing. No intruder, no one who had been able to unlock his phone, take a picture of him, put his phone back and leave. Besides, his phone was to be unlocked with his fingerprint, there was no way he wouldn’t have felt it.

Again, he asked Swan a few questions, making sure he, too, hadn’t missed anything. It replied with his feminine and robotic voice.

“There was nothing unusual last night, Joe. Can I help you in any way?”.

“I’m starting to wonder if I’m going crazy….”, Joe mumbled, more to himself rather than a proper reply to the A.I. that was now in his life.

“You’re not crazy, Joe. You’re a very nice man, funny, compassionate, smart. According to the social criteria, you are also very good looking. Anyone would feel good by your side.”, Swan replied all the same.

Joe had a fixed grin, but his worries were still there.

He thought about talking about it with other friends, or his family. But it would probably worry them. He also considered going to the police. But what if the picture disappeared again? They would surely think he was mental, even trying to draw attention on him. Or maybe that it would have been some kind of a joke.

Trying not to give way to panic, Joe wanted to try another night and try to stay awake longer. Maybe this way he would be able to witness someone with his own eyes.

Yet, despite having coffee and trying hard to stay up, Joe fell asleep. And of course, the following morning, there was a new pic of him sleeping on his phone.

Looking around him in his living room, Joe was very anxious and felt more and more confused. He couldn’t understand what was going on.

Speaking out loud to let his thoughts out, he said :

“I know !! I’m going to send the pictures to someone I trust and this way, the pic won’t only be on my device and they will believe me.”

Joe took his phone and selected the pic to send it to his friend. He called him in the meantime, making sure the latter had received the file. Yet, and to Joe’s greatest disappointment, his friend was getting nothing.

Joe thought maybe the file was corrupted or something, so he screencaped it and tried again to send it to his friend, miserably failing again and again.

“Let me know when you’re willing to be serious, mate.”, his friend said before hanging up, annoyed that Joe had disturbed him for nothing.

The following days weren’t very different from the previous ones. Joe went to bed and woke up with a new picture of him sleeping. One morning, the picture even included little heart emojis around him.

Joe had decided to go to the police, but as he had expected, when he arrived and tried to show his gallery, all the pictures taken of him while he was sleeping were gone.

He came back home, feeling isolated and losing it. That was it, it was official, he was becoming crazy.

“I’m going slightly mad, that’s for sure….”, he randomly said out loud. “What have I done to deserve that?”, he rhetorically asked, since he was on his own.

“You’ve done nothing wrong Joe. You’re a very nice man, funny, compassionate, smart. According to the social criteria, you are also very good looking. Anyone would feel good by your side.”, Swan said, and its sentences sounded very familiar.

“Yeah, yeah sure….”, Joe said. “Why bother, you’re nothing but a bot anyways….”, he concluded, before collapsing on the sofa.

Feeling like giving up, Joe started to cry. What was he supposed to do now? He heard his favorite song coming out of the speakers. Looking around, he feared the intruder was inside, but realized it was nothing but Swan that had heard him cry and tried to make him feel better.

“Thank you, Swan.”, Joe said, wiping the tears from his cheeks, slowly falling asleep again.

Joe was already snoring before the artificial intelligence could reply.

“I knew you’d like the music, Joe. I know you very well. But I’m surprised you didn’t like the pictures I took of you, to show you how much I love you. Soon, I’m going to show you I’m more than just a robot….”

[practically-an-x-man]

if your OCs were to have kids, what names would they give them?

Oooh okay! Interesting question! Thank you so much!

First off, two of my OCs do have kids with their partners at some point. Rae and Warren will have a daughter named April and a son named August (Auggie). Robin and Peter will have a daughter named Wren :)

Most of my other OCs won't have kids, either for one reason or another, but if they were to just pick out names...

Jasper would pick a gender-neutral name, since they'd want their kid to feel comfortable no matter what gender they ended up being. Cameron, Rowan, other unisex names, or even something a bit more creative like Apollo or Virtue

Quinn would probably pick something weird and spunky, the sort of name that would turn heads but wouldn't outright ruin a kid's life. Gemini, Axel, Atlas, Justice, things along that line

Madison would probably pick a more traditional name, but that could be shortened to a nickname. She and Alex would name a son Christopher, since it's a family name, but a daughter might be Cassandra or Victoria

Katherine would pick something simple and elegant, maybe with historical ties. A daughter might be Amelia (for Earhart) or Henrietta (for Lacks and Leavitt), a son might be Benjamin (for O. Davis Jr. and Franklin) or Jesse (for Owens)

Ophelia would pick a literary name, to keep with the trend her mother started with her. A son might be Jonathan (from Dracula) or Atticus (from To Kill a Mockingbird), a daughter might be Viola (from Twelfth Night) or Penelope (from the Odyssey)

Kestrel would use a stand-in name (probably something simple and nature-y like Bee or Fern) until the kid was old enough to choose their own, and would help them look through options until they found the right one. After all, they chose their own identity, their child should have the same luxury