#outer spaces

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@randosfandos heyyy girlll

Do you reckon if i gave it a top hat and spray painted her yellow it could pass for a billsona

Say hi to Stranger who has been in the works for FAR too long with this temporary(?) design.

Once again, yapping under cut

She's the newest addition to my worldbuilding and it's from the Outer Spaces. Not outer space, the Outer Spaces. Very different places (although some Far Spaces do resemble outer space)

The Outer Spaces are pretty much the backrooms, although there are some key differences. Most things in the Outer Spaces aren't hostile (like Stranger), and the environments are mostly survivable. You can't really get to the Outer Spaces from this universe, although things from the Outer Spaces can leak in through weak points.

That's how Stranger got here. It kind of just showed up one day and didn't leave. She's Jess-Ava's friend and has made a room in her cupboard. It has an odd habit of manipulating the space around her, although this upset Jess-Ava and she stopped doing it in Jess-Ava's room fairly soon after meeting her. It's too tall for most spaces indoors and has a perpetually sore neck as a result.

It doesn't speak, although she probably understands Anglish. It's unclear if she eats, but you can put a sandwich in front of it and leave the room for a while and come back to a guilty-looking Stranger and a missing sandwich.

Maintaining eye contact with her isn't a good idea

Bigger version of the high opacity sunspots lol

[dustedmagazine]

Cara Beth Satalino — Little Green (Worried Songs)

Photo by Justin Flythe

Turning into an adult has never been easy, but the people who progressed from late teens and 20s into mid-life over the last couple of years have had an especially rough go of it, given the pandemic, the lockdown and the oncoming climate apocalypse. Cara Beth Satalino, the fresh-voiced center of country-folk Outer Spaces, was among this unlucky cohort. One day she was carefree, singing her songs in bars and small clubs, the next she found herself diagnosed with chronic illness, isolated in New Jersey and unexpectedly pregnant.

The title track of this first solo album tracks that series of events in luminous folk style, a fragile voice pushing up through reverb shrouded guitar. “I used to be puppy dog, I used to be a little green, little leaf unfolding, reaching out for anything at all,” croons Satalino in “Little Green,” the brief song that is, maybe, the key to the whole album. “I used to play on my guitar, up in there at the bar, I used to sing a yearning song, a little leaf unfolding, little leaf unfolding.” The “used to” part is heartbreaking, but the song suggests a path out, the possibility of tending a garden where other leaves may eventually unfold. Satalino sings in a tender but resolute way, making her peace with the new normal.

These songs have a fresh-scrubbed authenticity, centered on Satalino’s raspy soprano and forthright language, though they often swell, mid-cut, into multi-voiced, descanting fullness. “Time,” for instance, begin in simplicity, its jangling guitar paced by kick drum, a pedal steel curving up through the verse. Satalino’s singing is straightforward, rich but unornamented, until it blossoms in dizzying harmonies and counterpoints, suddenly overwhelming.

Satalino’s tunes range in tone from jangling folk pop to near country, think Waxahatchee but not as southern. She sings about Volvos station wagons, not pick-up trucks. A few, like ���Daylight Savings Time,” feature wavery keyboard or maybe recorder melodies that shade them subtly into 1960s folk territory. Yet though the accompaniment can be flowery, the words are precise and workmanlike. Consider this, from “Daylight Savings Time”— “Today I woke up feeling rested/with an hour to spare/free time in my pocket/time that was not there yesterday/it’s on the front page/it’s the good news we never gave/one solitary hour feels like money to be spent.”

Though Little Green is a solo album, Satalino is by no means alone. Her partner in Outer Spaces, Chester Gwazda, is a big presence, playing bass and keyboards on most tracks, and guitar and drums on a couple.  Angie Boylan, who has toured with Sleater-Kinney and Maria Paternoster, picks up the rest of the drumming duties, while Dan Kassel adds cello. Nicholas Metz is especially effective on pedal steel, nudging cuts like “Outlaw” into rich twanging country. The arrangements never overwhelm. Satalino’s voice and stories remain the focus. But they do expand and enliven her songs, and you can hear a certain joy in the musicians’ ability to play together again after a period of separation.

Despite the troubles that surround it, this isn’t a sad album at all. It finds ways to celebrate the good parts of the last few years, as in “The Great Liberator.” Sings Satalino, “Walked down to the farm to watch the eagles catch the sun, it doesn’t seem like much but it’s a new brand of fun.”  Like Little Green. 

Jennifer Kelly

[assassin1513]

⭐️💙⭐️Blue Royal Stars⭐️💙⭐️

[maureen2musings]

Atanas Dzhingarov

[dinchenix]

If you had the chance to join the journey through space, would you do it?

This artwork is also availabe as a wallpaper on my ko-fi here!💙

[cosmonautroger]

The Cat From Outer Space, Norman Tokar, 1978

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

The beautiful planet Saturn taken by the James Webb Space Telescope!

James Webb Space Telescope Discoveries

[wolfsteax]

𝘐𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵?

[trainwreckrenegade]

[engravedlives]

blue graphics blinkies stamps

[punkeduppirate]

look at you, you're gorgeous💥

[being-somewhere-else]

The Doctor ans Rose watching the sunrise

- inspired by ‚Sunrise in Orbit‘ by Astronaut Alexei Leonov -

[assassin1513]

⭐️🖤💙⭐️Blue Royal Stars⭐️💙🖤⭐️

[theofficialastronomy101]

Close up of Pluto from the New Horizons space probe.

Will be adding several more photos to this same post

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📸/ Kirt Barnett