in light of all of the unhinged gay mecha queer posting, I'm thinking about Luna-Terra again

the thing I find so compelling about LT is that she's the only one out of the three main girls to have had an intimate experience with real actual "I have to kill or die" type violence. all of the other pilots have, essentially, just been play fighting out in space. it's not *not* dangerous but theyre fighting concepts, abstractions - there's not really a huge risk of bloodshed, just change. LT, on the other hand, has come away with real wounds and carries that damage inside her, forever. it's why she's okay with such a downer ending, if it means everyone comes home alive. she's cynical, a coward even, but it comes from a real place of genuine love for her enemies - because they're all closer to being her comrades than her handlers ever were.

"What, why don’t I go home too? And leave all those idiots to just fucking die on a rock? Who do you think we’re doing this for?"

String of Pearls, Mare Crisium, Krun Macula

Mare Crisium (”The Sea of Crises”) and craters (left to right) Swift, Peirce, and Picard // Toni Adrover

Mare Crisium is one of the lunar “sea” and the sites of the crash landing of Luna 15 in 1969 and the soft-landing of Luna 24 in 1976.

Swift crater is named after the American astronomer Lewis A. Swift (1820-1913), who discovered 13 comets and 1248 previously unknown nebulae, second only to British astronomer William Herschel.

Peirce crater is named after American mathematician Benjamin Peirce (1809-1880) who made discoveries in number theory and algebra.

Picard crater is named after the French astronomer Jean Picard (1620-1682), who measured the size of the Earth to within 0.44% of the modern accepted value!

The Mare Crisium looks very funny, trying to catch a ship this much bigger than her.

Mare Crisium

listen, it's very simple. string of pearls' electrotoxin expresses saturn's antagonistic, fluid personality. krun macula's tidal pull stands in for pluto's vast self-assurance. and mare crisium's manual interface is a representation of luna-terra's unfathomably advanced fingerblasting technique

I realized there is a very interesting parallel between Witch from Mercury and Heaven Will be Mine in that the mechs that Suletta anc Luna-Terra pilot are both built *not* primarily for combat? like its a function they can preform very well.,but the idea that these machines were built for a lot more than that. They were built to dance among the stars and take people further into space. To help.

Then they started making more, and these little sisters were stunted and mean in comparison. Beautiful killing machines sure but made ONLY to fight and kill and war. its a tragedy that everything since has been a war machine. You can still be beautiful and kiss girls and fight bravely for what you believe in these gundam and ship-selves.., and yet. Mare Crisium and Aerial don’t have any true equals because they have something more to fight for, a role for after all the guns are laid down.

concept art of mare crisium patting string of pearls on the head...

(found on the hwbm f*ndom wiki art gallery page, so originally by co-creator and lead artist max schwartz)

Mare Crisium, Archimedes and Theophilus

photos taken on my 8'' dobsonian telescope and ASI178mc camera at 2400mm

Concepts for the robot for my short story "Liquid Oxygen." I'll be designing the human pilot soon.

The robot is an older model that's still serviceable and typically does work that requires heavy-lifting. It's coolant is liquid carbon dioxide that's in desperate need of replacement.

Some detail photos under the cut:

The main visual inspirations were V1 from ULTRAKILL and the Mare Crisium from Heaven Will Be Mine.

UPDATE POST: My blog name has changed from 'zeehasthoughts' to 'foxgirlwitch'. This also marks a shift in changing my name to Luna! :3 I've been thinking about this for a long time(basically since it has become the second name in my bio) and have finally made my decision! Going forward please refer to me as Luna 🩷. Thank you!

(@-ing some mutuals I talk to under the cut)

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Luna, Mare Crisium. © Roberto De Mitri

https://www.lensculture.com/tunguska-rdm

Mare Crisium (”The Sea of Crises”), Cleomedes crater (right), Condorcet crater (bottom left), and Firmicus crater (left) // Richard Delhoume

Mare Crisium, the Sea of Crises, was the site of a crash-landing of Soviet Luna 15 in 1969, and soft-landing of Luna 24 in 1976.

Cleomedes crater is named after the Greek astronomer Cleomedes (dates unknown), who wrote a textbook containing the original source for how Eratosthenes measured the Earth’s circumference to within 2%.

Firmicus crater is named after the Roman astrologer Julius Firmicus Maternus (c. 300s CE).

Condorcet crater is named after the French mathematician Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) who worked on calculus and also promoted the equal rights of women and all races.

On this day:

MOON SHADOWS—1912

On January 27, 1912, for nearly four hours, a pitch black "shadow" was observed traveling across the left cusp of the moon. Dr. F. H. Harris guessed that if the distance across the moon's surface was 2,000 miles, then the shadow was 250 miles long and 50 miles wide. The doctor eliminated all probable explanations for the mysterious shadow, which remained "in the shape like a crow poised."

In 1788 a light was observed in the lunar Alps, and then a shadow appeared where the light had been. In 1869, observed from separate U.S. locations immediately prior to a total eclipse of the sun, two groups of seedlike objects marched across the surface of different sections of the moon. The groups moved in parallel lines, but in different directions. In 1882 Connecticut witnesses observed two luminous triangles on the moons upper cusp. After disappearing for three minutes, the shapes reappeared as dark "notches" on the lower cusp, covering practically one quarter of the moon's surface. Between 1892 and 1950, there were a number of reports from around the globe regarding a gigantic shadow traveling horizontally over the moon, "yet it could not be the shadow of any known body."

In the 1950s astronomers in Britain and the United States reported phenomena in lunar craters; two reports concerned a luminous oval near the floor of Aristarchus and a spectacular "bridge-like structure" outline and shadow in Mare Crisium. The latter object had not been there five weeks earlier. A lunar expert in Britain, Patrick Moore, reported that he had distinctly observed the "bridge" for over an hour. Since 1869, the Royal Astronomical Society has recorded over a hundred geometric light patterns visible in Mare Crisium.

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009

Hello. Nsfw sideblog for @mare-crisiums-manual-controls. Not sure how much I'll post here but y'know. Be 18+ to follow, not sure what kinds of things I'll post here either. We'll see. If you decide to follow, nice to have you here.