#travel through the cosmos⭐️

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Planet Yanblr Ask Game!

🌕Mercury: Do you keep an eye on your love? If so, how?

🌙Venus: Do you get jealous easily?

🌏Earth: What is your favorite thing your love does to get your attention?

☄️Mars: Do you wish you could control your love? How?

🌟Jupiter: What are your love languages? What ones are your favorite from your love?

🪐Saturn: How far would you go for your love? In any sense of the term.

☀️Uranus: What’s one of your favorite things that your love does?

🌑Neptune: Describe your love or use this as a ramble space!

💫Pluto: Ask your own question!

[wolvesroampastelgalaxies]

Edit: All chapters up on AO3 & Tumblr

It's over now, the music of the night. My OCD is crazy and I have never completed a multi chapter fic. I truly have no desire to delve deeper into the fandom. This has cured my depression over it. Time to resume my NSFW content. Me and my own younger brother have been trying to reconcile and right before I wrote this we had a falling out. Maybe thats why I'm putting too much into it. Thank you all for the kudos, comments, re-blogs, and the new followers I gained. Bless.

As always,

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Second Star To The Right And Straight On Home ⭐️ (Part 2)

Dimmedelphia was rich in history, instrumental to the founding of the nation, a massive contemporary influence on modern culture, home to countless iconic monuments: and Timmy had just hurled all over one of its sidewalks.

    “Sorry,” he mumbles, feeling the queasiness subside, “it’s been a minute.”

    “Yeah, guess it’s harder to travel this way once you get older.” Peri says, looking away so he doesn’t throw up. 

  The human didn’t like the word ‘older,’ sure, it was true but instant relocation through supernatural means was hard on anyone. He doesn’t linger on the thought long when he notices the steps leading up to the brick apartment building before them. It should have been obvious they would not still be living in a fishbowl. This just seemed too normal for housing fairies. 

    “Mom and dad have been living as humans. Albeit not very well.” Peri rolls his eyes, “You should see them with the mail.” 

    Timmy reaches and pokes his crown out of place.  “You’re one to talk, maybe try working on your own disguise.” 

    “Stalling, are you?” Peri says with a quirk of his brow, righting his crown.

    “Totally stalling.” 

  The fairy can sympathize, it had been a total of 10 thousand years of time travel before he saw his parents again. He felt the same anxiety trying to avoid them. He had had all the time before then to prepare for the inevitable. Timmy has had maybe half an hour. But he won't let his brother face it alone.

    “Well, common!” He offers an encouraging smile, mounting the stairs.                                 

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    “Coming! Totally average human putting on average human pants to answer the human door!” 

  Peri cringes, hiding his face in one hand. He peeks through his fingers, watching as what must be a hundred different memories cloud Timmy’s usually bright, blue eyes. He places a slim hand on his shoulder, lightly squeezing him into focus. It had taken him a moment to gather courage before pressing the doorbell.

    “He - he sounds the same.” He says in disbelief. 

  Even Cosmo’s yelp of pain as he whacks himself in the head with the door is the perfect pitch he remembers. That’s why it’s so discombobulating to see his former godparent not look exactly as he remembers. Cosmo is definitely trying to look human, channeling an eccentric dad. Just like Peri however, the eyes haven’t changed, as dog, fish, or anything else and he’d know it was his fairy. 

  They aren’t yours anymore. 

  Timmy’s nerves bounce all throughout his body as they stare at each other. He chuckles somewhat manically.

    “Hey Cosmo-

    “TIMMY!” 

  He chokes on fairy dust and can’t manage to clear his throat of it with the death hold around his neck. But if he died this way then that'd be okay. He could easily push Cosmo off but instead hugs him back, feeling the now smaller fairy form. He and Peri had already admitted that more tears were to come so he lost little pride in feeling his eyes start to water. Cosmo does release him, but Timmy goes cross eyed with how close the green fairy is. Cosmo pushes and pulls at Timmy’s face, his already in a downpour. The iridescent wings go a million miles a minute creating a light buzzing noise.

    “Timmy! It’s really you!” He sobs. And as if he just notices his son, he cries harder. “Look Peri! It’s Timmy! And he knows my na-na- naaaame!”

    “I know dad, I’m the one that brought him here.” 

  Usually, he’s embarrassed by his father’s dramatic behavior, even if it is genuine, but now it’s becoming contagious. Peri is the only one to notice as a door opens and closes down the hall. He might be able to slip past suspicion by saying he’s wearing a costume, but there is no way to explain the 3 foot something, green guy with wings, having a meltdown in the doorway. 

  Alright, better move this inside.

  He probably saves Timmy some added wrinkles by shoving them in the apartment, dislodging his dad. Besides, he can finally get back to his normal self as well.

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  Wanda could have instantly whipped up a pie. The laborious task she took on was more on principle. She could practice being human and bake something with real food. They were going to have dinner with Hazel’s family tomorrow night once they got back from her father’s conference. She and her husband tried to put some distance between themselves and Mr. Wells. Their new god kid could handle a day without them. Unlike their last one, he needed constant supervision. Wanda had treated -

    “TIMMY!” 

  Cherry syrup coated her face, it oozed its way down to her blouse, a single cherry sticking to her nose. She really thought the 3rd time was the charm. Her dear, stupid, sweet husband’s yelp shocked her and now she has no issue with using her wand to poof away the mess. Wanda isn’t too surprised at the content of the exclamation. Cosmo had frequent bouts like this. She was able to keep it together, even if it hurt just as much. With Peri being back home now, it was glaringly obvious of the missing piece.

    “Cosmo, we talked about moving ‘crying over Timmy time’ to Tuesdays and it’s Sunday dear.” She calls from the kitchen, moving her way to the living room. 

    “I - I know, but he - he didn’t wait till Tuesday. He’s here nooow!” Cosmo wanted to stop crying, but it seemed so natural now that Timmy was back. He remembers he cried all the time back then. Mostly from fear at the situations they ended up in, but now he was crying over all the good times. He misses him every day. Sundays especially.

  Wanda had been married for centuries but there were things Cosmo said that still needed clarifying. It became crystal, no, there was no need to be crystal clear. Not when there was nothing in the way of her kid and her husband clinging to his arm.

  Oh no, no he’s not a kid. He’s- 

  Timmy did not have much time to recover from the last dusting before getting blasted with another. This time, a much gentler pair of hands cupped his cheeks to keep him still for the firing squad of kisses crossing his face. As suffocating as this was, he wanted to stay like this. The last time they had been this close was a sort of death. He wants a hello to replace the goodbye. What was years apart for the fairies had hit Timmy all in one day. 

    “Oh, look at you Sport!” Wanda coos, his old pet name sounding comforting. “You’ve almost grown into those teeth!”

  The human shook his head and managed to create some space between them, Cosmo about needing the jaws of life to remove.

    “‘Almost?’” His voice sounds in the midst of puberty. There is a forced, short laugh as he uses his work shirt to dry up his face for the umpteenth time today. The lipstick marks can stay for just a bit longer. 

  Wanda reaches for Cosmo’s hands, the glitter and tears making gemstones out of their eyes. 

    “You and Peri have grown into such handsome boys.” Wanda sniffles.

  Peri thinks he’d been forgotten at that moment. Now his parents had literal hearts floating around their heads as they looked at him and Timmy. 

    The latter, who apparently hadn’t noticed Peri’s transformation, manages to sound snarky. “I’m not sure if he’s grown, but he does look older.”

    “You know what? Mom might be right; your teeth still do look a bit too big.”

     Cosmo beams at his wife, “Aww, aren’t they adorable arguing? They learned from the best.”

   Their former god-kid, now with full use of his senses, took in the pastel, bubblegum interior. Most of the accent colors were pink and green. It was …. different from his bare minimum, bachelor box of an apartment. He obviously didn’t have a window to fairy world. Timmy looks out dumb struck, the clouds, glimmering buildings, and dazzling light create an avalanche of memories piling up in his mind.  

    Cosmo fly's over to his side, bracing his arm on Timmy’s shoulder. “Ahh, isn’t it pretty? Remember how many times you almost destroyed it?” He said dreamily, if it wasn’t Cosmo, it might have been taken as an accusation. 

    “I saved it just as many!”

  Wanda was about to quip that he saved it from his own destruction, but she stops herself. How did Timmy remember? They were there when Jorgan cast the spell all god-kids are cursed too. As painful as it was to think about, even now with him standing here, they had been there till the end. Cosmo and Wanda had seen that look countless times and they knew when Timmy was lost to them. 

    “Hey Kiddo,” she tentatively says, “How do you remember…well everything??”

  He had not considered that. What exactly caused this? The question compels him away from the view. 

    “I mean not everything. It - it’s been coming back in pieces.”

    A pinched, worrying expression shadows her face, “That’s not what I mean.”

Peri is shifting in place, wings humming in a nervous way as he bites at a nail. 

  Did not expect this. Well, yeah you did, I just didn’t want to answer for it. 

    “I was at work, and this bird. It - I don’t know how, but I thought of you guys. I went to my old room and then Poo- Peri was there. Then, I remembered, I guess.”

  All their gazes slide to the young fairy, hand caught in the cookie jar. 

      Even Cosmo starts to look tense, wringing his hands. “Per, what did you do?”

      He’s never been good under pressure. “OkaysoImighthaveusedDevtomakeawishthatTimmywouldrememberhisgod-parentsandbeapartoourfamilyforever.” 

  Peri has never seen his mother truly mad at him. Disappointed or upset, sure. But everything pink turns to a scarlet red. 

    “You asked your god-kid to make YOU a wish?!”

    “You have a god-kid?” Timmy blanches. 

  He raises his arms in self-defense, covering his head as he squirms under his mother's rage. 

    “Don’t be upset! I found a loophole! Like you said!” 

    “Oh Peri,” his father says, equally fearful of his wife, “that’s not a loophole. You broke the rules.”

    Peri pales, “No, no. Then, how did it work?” 

    “Do you realize that you could lose your magic!” Wanda’s words aren’t scolding, they evaporate him.

     “He’s got a point! If it wasn’t a loophole, then it shouldn’t have worked. And I obviously remember you guys.”

  The silence balances on a tightrope tension between them all. Fortunately, Timmy is an expert at avoiding responsibility and consequences. He’ll admit that maybe he hadn’t grown into his teeth, but it adds a boyish charm, and he’ll need to lay it on thick to distract Wanda. 

    “You said you had a god-kid?” He says with growing awe and a grin. 

    Peri catches what he’s throwing, though he’s not as practiced. “O-oh yeah. Yeah, I do! He’s a total nightmare. The worst really.” 

    Cosmo’s blissful idiocy is the final sale as he laughs, “Ha, oh no! Timmy was the worst god-kid we ever had! Probably the worst god-kid anyone could ever have!”

   Wanda knows exactly what the boys’ are up to, even if Cosmo doesn’t. Any anger dissipates watching Timmy’s face fall into devastation. It’s not like there’d be a resolution this very second anyway. Timmy flinches, expecting to be knocked on the head; instead, he feels Wanda’s warm palm on his cheek.”

    “It’s because you made for a much better son.”

  Timmy has no more tears to cry, his eyes just shine.

    “Of course, what did you think I meant?” 

  Oh, her dear, stupid, sweet husband. 

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   Magic is awesome. He really took it for granted as a kid, but as an adult he sees its true value. They don’t have to use a free trial on some streaming service, they can just watch Sleazy and Cheezy. Every. Single. Episode. All in a row. And they do. 

  There is no need to go to the store or wash dishes when you can conjure up spaghetti from thin air. Or fabric cleaner when you're busting at the seams from some nonsensical story your dad makes, and spill said spaghetti all over the couch. He didn’t even have to go out and buy a toothbrush! His little brother just waves his wand after teasing him on how he vomited. Timmy didn’t hold anything back about the use of his baby-rattle after that. They stay up most the night chattering like schoolgirls about Peri’s name change (it was babyish, but his god-parenting license said differently), reminiscing on past wishes and their (often horrible) outcomes, and on his first god-kid. Timmy could see why Dev would be difficult for Peri, having dismissive parents could make kids seem selfish and harsh: he would know. 

  Different as they are, fairies and humans alike need to sleep. Timmy passes out, stretched on the couch. If Peri could see himself curled under his brother’s arm, he’d deny it was actually him. Cosmo had no reservation clinging to Timmy’s leg. 

  Wanda was still awake, listening to the TV and how everyone of them had the unfortunate habit of snoring. She was deeply troubled about Peri’s ‘loophole.’ The wish he granted for Dev should not have worked. As a baby his magic had been powerful as any fairy infant but had also bent the rules. They were small discrepancies she and Cosmo had noticed: like when he was able to allow Timmy to cheat or enchant humans to do whatever his toddler heart desired. Peri’s wording of the wish was also concerning; to be a part of their family forever. Magic was fickle in its direction if not given clear instructions. It followed the true intentions of its user and forever could mean many things. She was certain that her younger son didn’t plan to lose his brother to old age. Of course, it would be Timmy Turner to upheaval the system and he had taught their little Poofiy very well on how to do it. 

  It did not matter at that moment watching her boys snuggled on the couch. Cosmo hardly stirred when she moved him up on the seat cushion and rested her head on his chest. Regardless of the implications of this wish or the events that would follow they’d face as they always did, with some magic and as a complete family.

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Exploring the Ulugh Beg Observatory: A Legacy of Starry Wisdom (1420 CE)

welcome back friends, long time no see...

I got a little busy but I hope thoughts and images from my newest spontaneous travel makes up for it!

This time around, I go back in time to the Ulugh Beg Observatory in Samarqand, Uzbekistan. Arguably one of the greatest observatories to have been ever built, this was astronomy's contribution from the Islamic Golden Age in the early 15th century. More than an architectural wonder, it spoke to the burgeoning intellectual climate of the age-it was a hotbed where science, philosophy, and astronomy came together. The Ulugh Beg Observatory was designed by Ulugh Beg himself-an acting ruler but highly respected astronomer in his own right. A short distance outside of Samarqand, the centre of the observatory contained a huge astronomical quadrant-a device for measuring the heavens. One of the largest instruments of its kind in the world at that time stood 40 meters long. This, in turn, allowed the astronomers to follow the star's position with uncanny precision. Standing at this place today, I can almost feel the scholarly rush when scientists and mathematicians assembled under the vast Central Asian skies, with their instruments ticking and adjusting while charting the heavens.

A Congregation of The Scholars

The observatory was not a place of observation alone but a strong intellectual hub. So, Ulugh Beg invited the best heads from all over the Islamic world and even beyond to collaborate in astronomical research. I almost hear the scholars now debating the movements of the celestial bodies, discussing the latest theories in Arabic and Persian, and sharing their discoveries. There would have been a feel of excitement in the air because these intellectuals did not merely scan through the stars but tried explaining the fabric of the universe. The Legacy of Ulugh Beg Observatory

The most critical outcome of the work done at the observatory was the Zij-i-Sultani -a star catalog recorded by Ulugh Beg and his team. This cataloged over 1,000 stars with outstanding precision, not matched for many centuries. Based on data from the observatory-data which played an instrumental part in some very important breakthroughs made in the history of astronomy-the length of the solar year and the motion of celestial bodies were refined. Indeed, Ulugh Beg's influence did not end with his death. His work helped establish not only Islamic astronomy but European scientific thought as well. A Lasting Impact

Although it fell into ruin, the observatory still testifies to the fact that it once existed. Ulugh Beg's commitment to knowledge and scientific contribution reflects a great deal of intellectual vibrancy in the Timurid Empire. A place where ideas about the cosmos had been put forth, it stands to this day as witness to an era of great intellectual ambition.

A visit to the Ulugh Beg Observatory is a leap in time today, an image that stands at the crossroads between science, culture, and history. It is a place where the stars were more than light far away in the sky but keys to understanding the universe.

I hope you guys enjoyed this reflection and come to appreciate the incredible knowledge that emerged from this place as I do. It's truly remarkable how the work of scholars here shaped our understanding of the universe. I’ve missed sharing these thoughts with you all—until next time, keep looking up! ✨⭐️

P.S. I experimented with a new blog format, breaking things up into sections—what do you think? Drop your thoughts in the comments!

Aliha

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The first time I saw you I think that my soul knew it was looking for you the whole time. I felt a weight off my shoulders. Like.. oh, there you are my love, I've been looking for you

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Longing. Such a soft word for something so.. empowering. We hunger for each other, we long for each other. We hunger in silence. It's such a feeling, a ravenous feeling. But such a soft word to describe it, don't you think?

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Never doubt my love for you. I plan on being with you until forever ends.

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I’m so sorry the world is so hard my love.. If I could take it all away I would. I will hold you close while you cry, wishing I could take you away to the cosmos where everything is better, easier..

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Do you realize how scared I am to lose you? You think I'm not madly in love with you.. yet I will cry every time I think you're upset with me. I'll be better for you! Just don't leave me.. I don't want to lose us.. you..

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Do you think of me? Do you think of me all the time? You should. You should think about me every minute of your day. I want you to randomly think of me and miss me like I miss you when you're not next to me. Think of me. Think of me. Think of me. Think of me. Think of me! Think of me!! Think of me!!!

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I know you've been hurt. You've been hurt all your life. I can't change that now, but I can kiss the darkest parts of you and make them lighter. Plant happiness within your skin, your bones. I will kill all the darkness and replace it with the light. I will breathe for you, putting oxygen in your lungs. I will love you forever. I will love every part of you all the same, so please let me. Let me love you...

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I want to burn a disk for you someday.. I make you playlists all the time, but a cd would mean so much more... I want to figure out how to do it.. I just need a disk first.. But one day my love.. You will get a cd of all the things I could never tell you.. All the music that reminds me of you

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Even though we have been through so much in our lifetimes.. we deserve a soft epilogue. We have been through enough and I hope that I can close your story with a soft ending, end all the suffering you have been through so we can just be together forever..

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Spam me, cling to me, stalk me, mark me, please just do something.. I want love the way I love.. please please please please!! Spam my dms, my inbox, you can even leave anonymous messages!! As long as you’re messaging me.. cuddle me, hold me, never want to not be touching me… mark me so everyone knows that I’m yours. I’ll do the same to you!!

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Do you know how cute you are? No? Let me tell you! You're so so so so so cute. But not just your beautiful looks. I mean your amazing personality. The way you say things, your voice is music that I could listen to for hours. Your adorable laugh, your perfect smile. You. You are so perfect. That is how cute you are

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Ah, the best thing about you is that I know I don’t have to sexualize myself.. even if sometimes I want to. I want you to look at me, only me. I wish I could control your eyes, keep them only on me. Won’t you use me? I’ll use you too! Just please, do whatever you want with me, my body, all of me. Let me return the favor

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I could live on just a second of your time.. You looking at me for one second is forever to me.. I could live off of those forevers... But also don't stop spending time with me, give me all of your love and attention!