#selenographie

[sm-selenographer]

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[mappingthemoon]

Signs at Bell's in Athens GA

GOOGLE IT (July 31, 2023)

"a great price considering" (Aug. 4, 2023)

[thepastisalreadywritten]

The Moon in high resolution. 🌑

[jadekwan]

[thehallstara]

alright here's a handful <3 :🍧🌿🍉🍓 & i see that you've done this one but i'm still gonna send it again: 🌷

🍧 weirdest place you’ve written

okay as discussed i am going to do both possible interpretations of this question so first!! as far as setting goes i think the weirdest one i've created is my version of the underhot?? just like. this unbearably hot labyrinth of tunnels where there's a library and mausoleum and a kitchen where they bake cannibalistic pies i just think it's fun!!! and then as far as like. weirdest irl place i've been with writing uhhhh probably either waiting for a drag show to start or to get an ekg. you choose which skdjska

🌿 who is your favourite character you’ve ever written?

AAAAA SUCH A HARD QUESTION!!!! probably either edric in ablaze or bright in selenography bc i can't separate them from those works but it just like. flowed out of me writing those two?? i also really like like. any of my garages i've written in the past year they've just been so fun.

🍉 favourite wip

sigh like. it has to be photometry bc there's such great stuff in there but also like it's also my least favourite because a lot of the great stuff in there has been sitting there for over a year so it really is one of those wips where i'm like. i need this out of my head already ykwim?

🍓 worst thing you’ve done to your characters

oh hmmmm... okay it's either the window scene in swallow your guilt or the end of the first act of ablaze. both of these are like. very spoiler heavy scenes so i won't go into detail but like. if you know you know

🌷 writing achievement you want to brag about

okay well if i did the twines last time i have to do and one day i'll watch them burn with me. this series i think still has some of the most clever writing i've done in years, and i just worked so hard on worldbuilding and characterization and stuff?? and like. even despite people refusing to be normal abt stuff i made some really good fics despite of that!!! plus between the main series and the b-sides there's nearly 70k words of published fic (with more to come!) so if folks haven't checked them out yet you should lol

[lunaex0rienss]

Mapa Księżyca z "Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio" [Selenografia: lub Opisanie Księżyca] autorstwa Jana Heweliusza (1611-1687) słynnej pracy dotyczącej geografii Księżyca wydanej w 1647 roku.

Map of the Moon from "Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio" [Selenography, or A Description of The Moon] by Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687) his famous work about geography of the Moon printed in 1647.

[kitaston]

Moon Globe by John Russell

[hawkhills]

What are some of your favourite masriel fics?? 👀

Hey Anon, thanks for asking! I have to preface this answer by saying that it's tough to choose cause of the sheer number of top quality fics for this pairing. Really, I've been in sooo many fandoms throughout the years, and masriel/hdm in general seem to be the most consistently great in terms of both the prose and the ideas. It's like this ship attracts great authors! I have yet to read a fic I didn't like, which is very much an outlier for me.

Now to the proper answer to your question, here's a bunch of fics I particularly like and have been coming back to. I'll try not to give much away about them just in case they're new for you. If you don't know these stories - go read now!!! In no particular order:

In Winter, In Oxford, by three_atoms. Pre-romance exploration of Marisa and Asriel's first meeting, set around their scholarly activities in Oxford. It's genuinely my favorite version of their first meeting! The focus the author puts on their souls being the primary vessel for attraction is right up my alley. It also has some really amazing world building - I'm very fond of the snippets of technology we get to see, and the really strong cast of supporting characters. And of course the interactions between our main idiots are just 👌👌👌 tbh while reading it I felt like me & the author share the same headcanon braincell hahah

Selenography, by anonymous author. Asriel has a near death experience in the North, and it leads to things. Very haunting, very cinematic. Love it.

Unholy Ghosts, by LavenderJam. Post-canon AU, is actually Lyra-centric, but it's just so good! First of all it's just an overall amazing fic with great prose and fantastic characterization, and I love reading anything older Lyra dealing with stuff. From the shipper's perspective, it's one of my favs cause it's such a great peek into Marisa and Asriel from a third person's perspective, and I feel like we don't get that a lot.

Unholy, by three_atoms. Affair-era, they go to the North for a conference together. The imagery of the North here, Jesus! And, not gonna lie, it has absolutely fucking incredible smut.

Applied Heresy, by Kaesa. Another piece I just adore for the world building. Marisa and Asriel form a connection based on science and intellect first, and it evolves from there, which is my favorite take ever.

[sm-selenographer]

Presque Isle, Erie, Pennsylvania, April 7, 2024 | SM Piotrowski

[skylobster]

Where are all the mares? The far side definitely had a different history than the near side.

Apollo 16: back side of the Moon (April 18, 1972)

[mappingthemoon]

Slappy was an indoor/outdoor cat from birth until age six, when she once disappeared for like four days, showing up in our backyard looking like she'd just returned from her fourth tour of 'Nam. Since then (late 2018), she's been indoor-only and continues to be very pissed off about it. Sometimes she'll come over to the kitchen door and make the most pitiful, pathetic, pleading little meows to be let out. But I will not relent. However, she is usually pretty happy/entertained if I pick her up so she can look out that particular window, but since I can't stand around holding a cat in front of a window all day, I'm trying to devise another solution.

[thehallstara]

my top two posts of the year are about antisemitism that’s... dark

[grupaok]

Johannes Helvétius, Selenography, 1647

[all-shades-of-drama]

Take her to the moon for me ~ bing bong

Ref -art aftab's yt channel

[monshuygens]

// 9/3/2018, “Waning Crescent I”

[skylobster]

Selenography. You can see more features on the Moon with the naked eye than any other body in the solar system with an amateur telescope. Mars is 35 million miles away at its closest, 140 times more distant. A good telescope can magnify at 140x, but the image sharpness always suffers from atmospheric distortion at high power.

This map labels some of the easiest Moon features to see from Earth's Northern Hemisphere (Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University/The Planetary Society)