#xarella

[spaceyyyz]

(2020 // 2024)

(Kinda) redraw of my old Xara and Stella fanart

[mcsm-confessions]

Hello It’s the Stellivia anon here again and I’m just here to say: I’m also starting to like Xarella! Yay! (Send help please)

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[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for May 20, 2017; #138.

Swirlies “Bell”

Philosophical Zombie “Savage Mercy”

Death Of Pop “Sun In My Eyes” (2012)

Airiel “Peoria”

Fazerdaze “Lucky Girl”

Alvvays “Adult Diversion”

Hibou “Glow”

Seasurfer “Cloudjumping”

VHS Dream “So High”

Nite Fields “You I Never Knew”

Crescendo “Pressure”

Black Tambourine “I Wanna’ Be Your Boyfriend”

Shinytinytears “In Dreams”

Lowtide “Rain”

Ringo Deathstarr “Sweet Girl”

Miniatures “Honey”

Lovesliescrushing “Xarella Almandyne”

Carousels “All I Could Do”

Ecstasy Of Saint Theresa, The “Honeyrain”

Candy Claws “Into The Deep Time (One Sun)”

Cherry Wave, The “Blush”

Safe Places “Wild Ride”

Pinkshinyultrablast “Comet Marbles”

Slowdive “Star Roving”

Astrobrite “Crasher”

Skywave “Summertime”

Stargazer Lilies, The “Sunday Is Monday At Midnight”, “Fukitol”

Deluxe shoegaze, dreampop, and alternative.

[estrogenandspite]

Flipping Retrograde

(this was a response to a writing prompt, "Starship pilot who sings on an open comms channel".)

"You'll want to watch yourself when you're getting close to Hydra-1219," the voice coming out of Xarella's console belonged to Selene. Selene was an Operator working out of Hydra Rotational Transit. She had hair that flowed like an auburn waterfall, a wit that could cut a krysteel hull, and a laugh that had absolutely stolen Xarella's heart.

"What's wrong with 1219?" Xarella asked. She'd heard the news. Everyone in this cluster had heard the news. But by asking she got a bit longer with Selene, got hear the way Selene's voice lit up when she got passionate about something.

"How the hell did you miss this?" Selene asked, her speech growing faster with excitement. "Oh I'm so lucky I get to tell you. Drell Vessel was spotted in the area with a temperature ten degrees above ambient background radiation. There's a thirty AU quarantine around it because that means it's engines were probably running in the last two thousand years. A Drell vessel that might have been active during the 18th century on Earth."

The Drell had existed before humanity. They'd vanished before humanity had reached the stars. This discovery pushed back their date of extinction from 4500 BCE to around the time humanity had figured out nukes. Their name was based on the sole sound that had been recovered from one of their computers.

They were Selene's special interest.

"Tell me all about what this means," Xarella asked.

Selene laughed. "I see you, Xarella Car'domma. You're just trying to get more of my time."

"Guilty as charged," Xarella said.

"Give me a moment." There was a beep of another incoming call. This from Selene's personal transponder. Xarella shifted over. "You still there?"

"Yup."

"I've got thirty more minutes in this shift. I'll put you on mute so we don't miss each other, and then I'll fill you in. Sound good?"

Xarella grinned. "I get to hear more of your voice? Sounds like heaven."

"Flattery will get you everyone," Selene said. Then the sound on the other end went silent as Selene went back to work.

Xarella leaned back in her chair, looking over the instruments on her console. Ship atmosphere was in nominal ranges. Essential systems and their backups were all in the green. Engines were running hot, giving her a nice, comfortable one G of acceleration. Xarella was a transxeno in addition to being transgender. She could kick herself up to ten G's and the augmentations she had would keep her alive. But that would mean Xarella would break free of Alpha Centauri's Heliopause in about half an hour. At the sedate one G she was moving? She'd get plenty of time to talk to Selene before she was in deep space and needed to make the jump to Warp.

So Xarella kicked back, put her feet on the dash, and hummed a few bars. She had a half our, time to work on the song she was composing for Selene. It was rough. Cheesy. The meter was off. But Selene would love it.

"They call them rogue worlds Drifting through the void They call us rouge hearts And love we should avoid.

Well baby I've lived my life Seeking apoapsis The furthest darkest point From any star where warmth is.

Then I From there Saw a moon So fair Her name Selene But I'm so far From there

So I'm flipping retrograde And I'm burning to periapsis The closest point to moonlight That's where my heart is

So I'm flipping retrograde Until my orbit reaches yours Burning at ten Gs Wishing I burned more

I once was a rogue world Drifting through the void My heart found gravity And I'm pulled in centroid

So I looked to see the well That I would now orbit And it took my breath away So baby, this is it.

Because I From there Saw a moon So fair Her name Selene But I'm so far From there

So I'm flipping retrograde And I'm burning to periapsis The closest point to moonlight That's where my heart is

So I'm flipping retrograde Until my orbit is...ensnared. A gravity formed ring..."

Xarella hummed the last few bars. She wasn't sure exactly about that last bit. Maybe she needed to make the metaphor a bit less literal, or perhaps-

"You know I just muted, not deafened, right?"

Xarella shot upright in her seat, nearly falling out of it. "Well...shit," she said.

"You know," Selene said, her voice thick with emotion. "I couldn't help but notice. My name is also Selene."

"What a coincidence," Xarella said. "So strange."

Selene sighed, and it turned into a laugh. "You'll be returning to Alpha Centauri after your trip to 1219, won't you?"

"Mmhmm," Xarella said, her heart pounding.

"Maybe...maybe when you get back, I can hear the finished song."

"I'd like that," Xarella said, her face breaking into an idiotic grin. "Yesssss," she hissed under her breath when Selene muted herself.

Selene unmuted. "I can still hear you. Dork."

"That time, you were supposed to," Xarella said. "Now. Finish up your shift. Then tell me about the Drell."

"I'd love nothing more."

[nineteenfiftysix]

Lovesliescrushing - Xarella Almandyne (Xuvetyn, 1996)

[omegaplus]

# 1,435

Omega Radio for May 20, 2017; #138.

Swirlies “Bell”

Philosophical Zombie “Savage Mercy”

Death Of Pop “Sun In My Eyes” (2012)

Airiel “Peoria”

Fazerdaze “Lucky Girl”

Alvvays “Adult Diversion”

Hibou “Glow”

Seasurfer “Cloudjumping”

VHS Dream “So High”

Nite Fields “You I Never Knew”

Crescendo “Pressure”

Black Tambourine “I Wanna’ Be Your Boyfriend”

Shinytinytears “In Dreams”

Lowtide “Rain”

Ringo Deathstarr “Sweet Girl”

Miniatures “Honey”

Lovesliescrushing “Xarella Almandyne”

Carousels “All I Could Do”

Ecstasy Of Saint Theresa, The “Honeyrain”

Candy Claws “Into The Deep Time (One Sun)”

Cherry Wave, The “Blush”

Safe Places “Wild Ride”

Pinkshinyultrablast “Comet Marbles”

Slowdive “Star Roving”

Astrobrite “Crasher”

Skywave “Summertime”

Stargazer Lilies, The “Sunday Is Monday At Midnight”, “Fukitol”

Shoegaze, astronomy, charms, and feelings.

[omegaradiowusb]

MAY 20, 2017 (#138)

Swirlies “Bell”

Philosophical Zombie “Savage Mercy”

Death Of Pop “Sun In My Eyes” (2012)

Airiel “Peoria”

Fazerdaze “Lucky Girl”

Alvvays “Adult Diversion”

Hibou “Glow”

Seasurfer “Cloudjumping”

VHS Dream “So High”

Nite Fields “You I Never Knew”

Crescendo “Pressure”

Black Tambourine “I Wanna’ Be Your Boyfriend”

Shinytinytears “In Dreams”

Lowtide “Rain”

Ringo Deathstarr “Sweet Girl”

Miniatures “Honey”

Lovesliescrushing “Xarella Almandyne”

Carousels “All I Could Do”

Ecstasy Of Saint Theresa, The “Honeyrain”

Candy Claws “Into The Deep Time (One Sun)”

Cherry Wave, The “Blush”

Safe Places “Wild Ride”

Pinkshinyultrablast “Comet Marbles”

Slowdive “Star Roving”

Astrobrite “Crasher”

Skywave “Summertime”

Stargazer Lilies, The “Sunday Is Monday At Midnight”, “Fukitol”

Our final Spring 2017 broadcast. It’s about time we give everyone music for cool breezy blue skies, white clouds, and sunny days. Two hours of shoegaze, astronomy, charms, and feelings old and new, from the dreamy to relaxing and ending in a blazing finale.

New sounds from Slowdive and Fazerdaze. Recent sounds from VHS Dream, Crescendo, Miniatures, Safe Places, and Pinkshinyultrablast.

Our first Summer 2017 broadcast airs June 3, 2017 (10 PM) when we will have something special to bring back. We will also get together some summer specials and one-off shows for bonus Omega fill-ins.

Thanks to all who supported Omega during the Spring. See you this summer.