#sailing the stars

[reineydraws]

we're allowed to post our pieces from the @opspacezine today! ✨️🌌🚀 here's mine :) it's the romance dawn trio (except zoro's not facing the front, sorry man 🙏) looking at the east blue on the map of the grand line. luffy's poking at where he's from haha.

hope yall have an amazing new year! and that 2025 is 🚀✨️🪐 out of this world 🛸✨️☄️

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: Desmond accidentally strands himself in distant future, where the Solar System has been long ago abandoned, and humans have spread themselves across the stars.

Author: @esamastation

Note from submitter: Sometimes I like, remember this fic exists, and I have to sit down in befuddlement for a couple minutes because I STILL don't know what actually happens in Assassin's Creed

[dreameffectss]

Here is a tiny preview for my piece for @opspacezine 👀✨💫

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[velveteencryptid]

Why is it that space vessels are ships and not planes? It's always spaceSHIP, starSHIP, rocketSHIP. Never plane.

There's an easy, obvious argument that they move more like planes, navigating in 3 dimensions, not 2. Using engines not sails.

Still, they're always ships. Always sailing, never flying.

Is it just the romance? The twin magic of adventure mirroring sailing the seas and... sailing the stars? Ships passing in the night, figuratively and literally?

My brain is obsessing over this little language anomaly lately

[crispinkiss]

act 5 my beloved

still images belowww

[illustratus]

A Clipper Ship in a Moonlit Sea by Montague Dawson

[shirozora-draws]

For auld lang syne.

Warming up for this new year in my GNX with Anita Baker in the tape deck with an art exercise I spotted on Instagram. Even if I no longer see a path to a career in the arts, I will continue making art of the things I like. I will continue doing the things that keep me sane while this country of mine goes off the rails.

New chapter of The Stars is also incoming. We are going to get busy in this Year of the Snake.

[mechieonu]

i know that disney is too big to boycott effectively but that shouldn't translate to "and so we should keep buying their products like normal" but rather "at the very least we should try"

[aroaessidhe]

aro & ace books: aroace boys/men

in some of these it's explored significantly, in others it's only vaguely/briefly implied!

Sailing By Orion’s Star - historical trilogy, 3 aroace MCs

The Stones Stay Silent - high fantasy

Fallen Thorns - urban fantasy/paranormal

The Wolf Among The Wild Hunt - dark fantasy

The Siren The Song and The Spy - YA fantasy, one of various MCs (in book 2)

Wander The Night - urban fantasy

Lord of the Empty Isles - scifi/fantasy

Sinners - dark fantasy duology

The Dragon of Ynys - fantasy

Royal Rescue - high fantasy

City of Exile - high fantasy series, one of many MCs (other aspec chars too)

The Loudest Silence - YA contemporary, 1 of 2 MCs

See also: Rick, The Rhythm of My Soul, Party of Fools, The Chronicles of Nerezia

#aspec books / aspec database / tumblr masterpost

[cleocatrablossy]

She would be a haunted house kid in high school.

After this it was agreed that Mabel has to give some warning before she pops up after more practice so as to not give anyone a heart attack.

[reineydraws]

ya girl's in the @opspacezine and it's on sale right now!!! it's entirely digital, and the full bundle is only $15! check out this post to find out how you can get your hands on one. :)

(btw, not only did i draw luff & friend for my page art, i also managed to once again squirrel my way into drawing shanks & uta for spot art too, so don't miss it! the fic i had the pleasure of drawing for has some excellent world-building.)

[beneathsilverstars]

been thinking about the differences between SASASAP and ISAT lately. because looking just at ISAT and the two hats ending, you'd think loop went through the exact same house as our siffrin, but looking at SASASAP, it's different. it's mixed up. it's obviously a condensed prototype.

but. that doesn't have to mean it's a different universe entirely.

maybe that's just what happens after a thousand loops.

the house warped in act 5. siffrin lost their shit and the house got changed and corrupted, far past its baseline king uncanniness. so it wouldn't be too out-of-the-question for it to be able to warp in more subtle ways as well, due to a more subtle breakdown.

like a jpeg uploaded and downloaded a thousand times, siffrin changed, and the loops changed. over a thousand loops of efficiency, the house got more efficient. rooms combining. items moving. data compressing. and of course, run in a changed house, the script changed as well. it did so slowly, one bit at a time, over a thousand loops of zoned-out half-listening – and by the time siffrin would have noticed each difference, they were already used to it. (and in the moments that they did look at a room that was less familiar than it should be and realize that they had no idea where to find the key, well. that's just classic siffrin, isn't it.)

through sheer repetition, siffrin was corrupted, and the loops and the house along with them. all purpose lost, all signals distorted, until finally they couldn't recognize the meaning in any of it. it was all noise and despair.

so they made a wish. and the loop restarted. not just a reboot, but something more complete.

the data was backed up onto a star – a guide, a warning, a reference – and the loops were factory reset. and for the first time in a thousand loops, siffrin woke up to a clear mind and the crisp sound of birdsong.

[capsensislagamoprh]

YoI be like

[silkiecorn]

So I watched Season 6…

And what a damn ride! So many incredible twists and turns!

I did some messy doodles to process everything! I love love love it! Cant wait for Season 7

[autumnwoodsdreamer]

Sunday evening wind-down sketch. The boys are fishing 🎣

[patroclusdefencesquad]

it always blows my mind how quickly the events of black sails season one and two occur. like. john silver has tricked his way onto a pirate ship, gone on the run from said pirates, been caught, schemed his way out of the consequences, schemed his way out of More consequences, almost been hanged, almost been kicked off the crew again, schemed his way back in, made himself indispensable, betrayed them all again, decided Not to commit a totally different betrayal against them, lost his leg, and became so beloved they made him quartermaster. all in the space of like two weeks.