#mundane reads

[themundanemudperson]

Should I start reading Jane Austen?

Cuz, like, I have the Jane Austen collection (that I got for Christmas) and I never really had an interest in classics, so I didn't touch it. But now I've seen some things that people have posted abt her works, so I am Intrigued

[caffeccino]

What do you do when the dream is over and your heart is broken? You can read ✨ Mundane Magical Girl: Astronaut Sunrise ✨on my patreon 😳 Maybe Sunrise can learn to live with her heartache... maybe something magical will happen!

[shockstreet]

astrology observations 1.26.25

Moon conjunct ascendant people tend to move away from home at some point in their lives.

Transit Sun and Moon conjunct your ascendant could indicate an upgrade to your living situation; this could include moving homes or making renovations to your current home

Scorpio Venus people tend to only have a few serious partners in life before settling down. These people are fiercly committed and do not feel the need to play the field for long if at all. Messy breakups are common with this placement especially with a square to Mars in Leo/Aquarius

Venus square mars people have intense relationships with others. The relationships modeled for them in childhood effect and shape their early partnerships

Jupiter conjunct ascendant individuals have a strong pallet for aquired tastes; they enjoy eating foods from a variety of cultures

Transit Jupiter in the first house is an auspicious period of life. You will enjoy rich foods, experience beautiful enviornments and financial boosts

Aquarius and Scorpio Rising have likely lived in an apartment or communal living space at some point in their lives. These placements can be indicative of a lack of privacy growing up resulting in hermit-like tendencies in adulthood

Saturn conjunct Venus in the natal chart can inhibits social connection in youth and could indicate an awkward personality especially if aspecting the Sun

Transit Saturn conjunct natal mars is a period of necessary delays, contemplating options and longevity of plans rather than taking actions

Sagittarius Venuses are best suited for partners who are not from their place of origin

I have noticed prominent Aquarius placements in many people who identify as queer/LGBT+. Aquarians thrive on labels from a young age but likely resonate with a different label or evolve to reject labels entirely as they age.

Aquarius Risings are likely to change and evolve in coming years with Pluto crossing their ascendant. This evolution will be the natural progression of the changes you have been taking in recent years

Capricorn Risings have had a difficult time these past few years with Pluto passing through their first house. Friends have been lost, familal relationships changed forever, likely a significant death in the family happened during this time.

Over the next 20 years, Capricorn Sun and Rising will be working toward owning a home and achieving a steady, reliable form of income. By the time Pluto enters Pisces, they will likely have paid off a mortgage and own a property of their own, or they will have inherited a home, property or business

Capricorn Venus usually have a one that got away. They have a difficult time letting go of past partners

Cancer moons love going to the beach. Being near the ocean has a cleansing effect on them

Gemini placements connect with others through humor. They love to laugh at themselves. People get offended when Geminis poke fun at them, but it is all in good humor and harmless. This is just their way of connecting with you

Capricorn Moons can come off as mean spirited but they are actually the opposite; these people are very compassionate and easily hurt, they are accustomed to others disappointing them and so are emotionally guarded and reserved

Having Aries in the 10th/11th house indicates running your own business and/or being your own boss especially if the Sun, Mercury or Venus are in Aries

Sagittarius/Pisces Midheaven and Jupiter conjunct MC/in the 10th house indicates higher education, recieving bachelors, masters, or doctorate degrees

Taurus Suns are easily annoyed by people with big personalities. They can’t stand loudness or obnoxious behavior. They prefer the company of other relaxed, easy going individuals

Sun in the twelfth house tend to randomly disappear from people’s lives without a trace

Sun in the sixth house are recurring characters in others daily lives. They often run into people at the grocery store or out running other errands. A ton of household names are sixth house suns; Charlie Chaplin, Michael Jackson, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Gordon Ramsey just to name a few

Moon conjunct Saturn experience seasonal sadness during winter months

Mars in the first house and mars square pluto people are argumentative and intense. They can turn any conversation into a ranting session

Saturn in the third house get their drivers license later than their peers

Neptune conjunct ascendant people have a close connection with the arts. Music, film, media, television, theatre, art and culture vastly shaped/warped their worldview growing up

Uranus conjunct ascendant/in the first house in Aquarius probably had unmonitored internet access growing up

[readerattheend]

Han Yoojin is "normal."

Everyone sees him as "normal."

The story makes sure we know he's "normal."

And we get to see that being so undeniably human is miraculous when you're surrounded by these people who don't show their human mundanity.

This is a guy who takes spam calls for fun, and the god-like Sung Hyunjae makes him breakfast and knits for him.

This is a guy who is excited to meet a celebrity and the best water-based Hunter in the world goes to school because he tells her to.

This is a guy whose ability is just to love and be loved, and he is so, so loved by a being who is more monster and more fire than human.

He doesn't just bring out existing humanity. He sparks humanity.

[marlynnofmany]

Alien grad students studying humans is always a fun concept. I'm picturing a few of them abducting two humans to study human social interactions, and they manage to grab a divorced couple. The results they're getting from this study are not at all what they expected. Weren't humans supposed to be a social species? This can't be right.

So they get another pair, and this time it's a pair of newlyweds, and well that doesn't make sense either. How are these two so different from the others? Is there something wrong with the first enclosure?

The alien grad students try all sorts of things, arguing with each other all the while. Different enclosures. Different times of day. Mix and match the couples with each other. Only it turns out one of the humans is racist towards another, and the other two are old friends from school. Is it a gender thing? How can you tell which is which, anyway? (It's bodyweight, right?) (Of course not; you can tell by how loud their vocal calls are.)

Anyways, the research is a mess, the aliens are tearing out their hair-equivalent, the humans are worried and confused and just want to go home...

Then a grad student brings in a friend who's studying something else, and that one drops a translator in there.

[bonefall]

a while ago you said that Starclan cats design kittens and customize them with patterns and colors from their parents genes. So, do the clan cats raise any eyebrows when it comes to people who know cat genetics? Is there a geneticist who is holding their head wondering how these two cats have this colored kit while their starclan designer was just playing around? Or do the Starclan designers still have to stay within the rules?

Basically, do the humans notice that some of these clan cats are sparkle cats lol

I try to not get too "lost in the weeds" since the humans aren't the focus of the story, just taking care that they DO have real motivations behind their actions rather than construction crews materializing out of nowhere to Do A Chaos, but...

First, the genetics of cats in Albion are different than humans in equivalent Great Britain.

Partially, this is because I honestly just don't really enjoy learning about in-depth genetics or applying them realistically. I like drawing anime characters and writing anime battles, so they have anime genetics. But more than that, off-screen, the intelligence of cats has altered the timeline of this world.

If cats really were capable of higher thinking, that totally would have had some butterfly effects. I like dropping crazy alt-history and then not elaborating on it, because it's funny. Archimedes' cat helped him invent a death ray, btw.

On that note of genetics though, you guessed right. StarClan designers DO have to work with what they have. Whatever the genetics of this alternate universe of cats are, every kit born still abides by the laws of nature.

Which brings me to...

Second, the researchers do notice that the Clan cats are special. In fact, there is a "study of magic" in this universe-- Thaumatology. "The science of wonder."

(There's no world where magic actually factually exists that science isn't all over it lmao)

Thaumatology facts I haven't shared so far since it's all offscreen and just Bonus Worldbuilding;

It is a "soft science," not a hard one.

It has a LOT of problems with replicability. Thaumatologists and Quantum Physicists have a lot of in-jokes.

The most well known (to the point of being a cliche) is "magic and quantum particles both hate being watched."

Magic is highly variable based on a bajillion very personal factors, like emotion, environment, culture, personal background, etc, so it's severely difficult to re-create it in controlled environments.

Thaumatology has a lot of overlap with sociology, archeology, and theology, so people from these fields work together a lot.

There was absolutely not a dedicated Thaumatologist working in the Research Team early on, sadly.

It was probably discovered when the Battle of the True Eclipse blew out a bunch of field cameras.

It's pretty common that photography equipment fritzes out a bit during "supernatural" times like eclipses, but the damage was extensive enough to be noteworty

The Clan cats were initially notable just for the fact they had advanced culture.

Cats are usually comparable to crows and monkeys, in this universe. So cats with fire and a crude writing system were enough to SHAKE the field of zoology.

The fact they're cats helped a lot. The public loves cats, enough that since their discovery after Speckletail attacked a bulldozer, massive outcry has secretly helped the Clans several times.

The discovery that the culture also has Thaumatological elements is more of a goldmine for a scientist than the public, though.

It's common knowledge that "animals are magic," because humanity projects traits onto them. "Of course they do, they're cats...?"

The Thaumatologist is freaking out because "THE CAT IS PROVABLY DOING ITS OWN THAUMATURGY"

Most people don't know the difference between Thaumaturgy (the functional work it does on the world) and Thaumology (the study of that as a whole), so this particular scientist is going to have a hard time explaining WHY this distinction is so special.

(And possibly even offensive to certain groups, who would insist only humans are capable of this)

In any case, eventually there would be Thaumatological interest in the Clan cats, but they weren't there in the mid to late 2010s when BB!ASC takes place.

[lazycranberrydoodles]

read right to left :)

recently rewatched the way of the househusband and i thought this scene was very them lmao. this is traced over the original manga by kousuke oono. follow for more crossover nonsense!

[wyervan]

What are the slashers' bedtime routines like? I imagine Sun has a whole routine he does in a specific order, while Moon just kinda conks out.

In the same vein, would Moon be less cranky if he got to sleep in an actual bed for a full 8 hours?

Ehehehe i hadn’t thought about it too carefully, DoofNoof, but yeah, a very regular before-bed routine totally sounds like Sun. Checking in with Moon, hot hot shower, laying out his clothes for the next day on his dresser. Probably helps him unwind. Sometimes he reads.

Moon’s gotta be really tired to go to bed before like 3. If he’s not out on one of his night runs, he stays up late watching tv and like, brooding or whatever edgy mall goths like him do. He doesn’t sleep well at night, and when he does sleep, it’s usually on the couch. Extremely light sleeper. Can’t catch him off guard.

He might be even more cranky if he got a full 8 hours 😝 complain about grogginess from being so unused to a full-night’s rest.

@crowinabucket (pay no mind to the crab) I don’t see Sunny having a complicated skin care routine, (this is someone who uses 3-in-1 😝….), but I imagine his skin trends toward dryness from all his showering, cleaning product use, and just genetics. So he’s probably got some drug store scentless lotion he puts on after he gets outta the shower. 🧴

[themundanemudperson]

lmao

[caffeccino]

The cruel reality hits home for poor Sunrise 🥺

Tho maybe she's too old to be a magical girl... a magical girl she now is

[shockstreet]

Moon signs

Today, I was thinking about how Lightwands once said that Aries moons are like fairies in that they experience one really big emotion at a time. Since then, I cannot seperate aries moon from this archetype! Aries moons emotions are almost too big for their own bodies. Fairies, alike aries moons, also are mischievous and sticky-fingered.

Taurus moons can be warm and inviting, but they often come off as cold to those outside of their household. They have a limited threshold for nonsense and obnoxious people.

Gemini moons center friendships in their lives. Their friends range from casual to childhood bestfriends. This does not make them extrovert or introverted, they are a little bit of both. They are likely experiencing a social boost right now with Jupiter transiting Gemini.

I find that most Cancer moons have a creative outlet and experience bursts of creativity during their natal lunar phase.

Leo moons are like cartoon characters in real life (I think of Robert Zemeckis’ Who Framed Roger Rabbit.) They are naturally animated, expressive, and entertaining. Everybody wants Leo moon to like them.

Virgo moons are ethereal. They are like stained glass on church windows; like the light reflects the glass to create beautiful colors and patterns so is the virgo moons inner world reflected into their outward environment.

Libra moon can be conformative by nature. They need to have things in common with those around them in order to feel safe so they will take an interest in your hobbies. Very emotionally reserved people even more so than Capricorn moon.

Scorpio moons, like Aries moons, wear their emotions on their face. The difference is whereas Aries moons will use cuss words and low blows while they’re angry, Scorpio moons kills with dirty looks and rejective body language. They magnetically draw people in but they can just as easily propel you away when they chose.

Sagittarius moons have visions of grandeur. Nothing feels too far fetched for them. They philosophize their emotions, having profound and meaningful insights daily.

Capricorn moons seem tough but they’re like a raw nerve. They won’t let you see it, which makes others think they’re cold or weak. They aren’t, they just have exceptional emotional willpower. Very bruding moon sign.

Aquarius moons are like those clear/transparent computers that had an online resurgence around 2021-2022; you can see slightly through their outer shell however, even if you look closely, you will just see a complex, elaborate system that only skilled technicians can understand.

Pisces moons feel like they are living inside of a movie. I think of the song Movies in My Head by the 6ths. Like the other Jupiterian moon sign, Sagittarius moon, nothing feels out of the realm of possibility for Pisces moons.

[navybrat817]

Lovelies, please send me good vibes or thots or a fictional husband to get me out of work before I lose it. ❤️

[tea-tuesday]

currently doing peachtober for the first time in my hobonichi 5-year🍑 !! i've never been much of an artist but this is my best attempt.. i haven't done today's entry yet but yesterday, i went into the city to trim my bangs and explore union market 📚☕️

[theriverbeyond]

purchased the store brand fiber gummies today because they were half the price of the ones i normally buy but they taste Bad. devastating.

[lazycranberrydoodles]

modern AU where they meet again at the fast food place Xie Lian works at and Hua Cheng has to figure out how to romance a customer service employee

[knightofthebluearms]

the concept of valec calling an ambulance for bree is so funny to me. like wydm the 200 year old demon who owns an off grid magical bar just. can call an ambulance. after a demon attack.