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What’s the scariest star in the sky? If you were one of the early stargazers, you might have chosen Algol in the constellation Perseus. That is probably why early astronomers nicknamed Algol the Demon Star. Shivers!
The star Algol takes its name from an Arabic word meaning the Demon’s Head or, literally the Ghoul. It represents the terrifying snaky head of the Medusa monster.
Algol is a known variable star, which waxes and wanes in brightness.
The early stargazers surely knew about its changing brightness. This probably led them to name the strangely behaving star in the sky for a mythological demon.
There are many variable stars known throughout the heavens, but Algol might well be the most famous of them all. The Demon Star brightens and dims with clockwork regularity. It completes one cycle in 2 days, 20 hours and 49 minutes. Plus, you can view its entire cycle with your eye alone.
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everything is the same except Odile is the one looping
oh. heheheheh. muahahahaha. hold on *digs through my pile of disorganized sketches*
Odile loops au; a sketch compilation!!
Some old fic drabbles + associated sketches under cut (a6 secret spoilers):
hc: Since equipment carries over, as long as Odile uses her book in a fight, she can write down notes and have it carry over loops
toxic doomed yuri (for a more fleshed out fic I highly recommend The Sweetest Thing by soreimoon, it's amazing)
#isat#odile loops au#in stars and time#isat spoilers#isat odile#odile timeloop au#isat au#congrats on unleashing the hell gates of odile looping au!!! I've thought about it a bunch!!!!!#contexts:#candy is a reference to sasasap i think. not sure if odile likes candy though#i think it'd be funny if odile struggled with understanding how shields work for a bit. she spends several loops asking mirabelle for help#I think odile would actually spend more time in the loops once she's sure she can just loop again. They're not actually in a rush after all#and she might as well maximize her loops#under cut:#she leaves all of her excess books with loop. Loop has another thing to do while waiting#yes loop is still you know who in this one#toxic doomed yuri is just very self indulgent teehee thanks discord folks#not depicted: I also think that the more loops she does the more she views them as experiments#with variables to control and test#that's where she starts falling off the deep end and start testing stuff like. not warning siffrin about the rock#(instantly regrets it though. loops back the first time she tries)#day 26 today?#A big one! Have funnn#you can tell some of these are really old by the different colored background lmfao
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Siffrin plays Disco Elysium AU: Featuring backseat gamer Loop.
#in stars and time#ISAT#Siffrin#Loop#disco elysium#digital art#When I first thought of a crossover I went from 1) 'ISAT Disco AU but Loop is all of the skills'#To: 2) 'Loop is in the mindspace alongside the skills#To my magnum opus: 3)'Loop is sitting next to Siffrin backseat gaming him the whole time.'#Loop beat Disco Elysium ages ago and repeated it to the point they know all the vision quests and dialogue variables.#Siffrin just started playing and Loop keeps ruining the fun by using their meta-game knowledge to try and help.#Also let's be real. Siffrin's stats are 100% completely focused into motorics and nothing else.#If we can't Savoir Faire ourselves of this situation - we will explode. Endurance? Call my insurance instead.#Thinking skills? None. Emotional intelligence and morale? A failed social interaction canonically feels like death to them.#I might have bumped Phys up but...Siffrin's Electrochem stat is like -10. And Pain Threshold is emotional durability too.#Unused part of this joke is that I set their signature skill to Drama.#Both these games made my brain melt so now I get to combine them! I have that power!#This joke made me laugh the entire 3 hours I sat down and drew it and that is what creation should be about.
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The Ghost of Cassiopeia (IC 63) being lit up by the star Navi (γ Cassiopeiae) // Timothy Straub
The star Navi, γ Cassiopeiae, is named for the American astronaut Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom who flew in the Gemini 3 mission and died in the onboard fire of Apollo 1. The star's name is his middle name spelled backwards.
#astronomy#astrophotography#nebula#reflection nebula#ghost of cassiopeia#IC 63#IC 59#star#variable star#navi#hey listen!#gamma cassiopeiae#history#etymology#cassiopeia
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RS Puppis, one of the brightest Cepheid variable stars © Hubble
#hubble telescope#stars#space#astrophotography#astronomy#planet#galaxy#solar system#milky way#planets#nebula#variable star#universe#cosmos#nasa
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accidentally doodled the cutest b'elanna during class-
may never recover.
#b'elanna torres#seven of nine#(as a treat.... to me)#star trek#star trek voyager#st voyager#sketches#b7#?#(also the man was just explaining variables. i swear i pay attention)
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Find someone who’ll look at you the way Wrecker looks at fruit 💕
#with variable degrees of excitment... adoration... and hunger LOL#god bless him#the bad batch#tbb#tbb spoilers#tbb season 2#bad batch#the bad batch spoilers#bad batch season 2#star wars the bad batch#tbb wrecker#wrecker tbb#bad batch wrecker
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inpired by the fic A Variable Star by twigcollins on ao3 (based on a scene from chapter 22)
This is my second time reading this fic and I 100% recommend it if you’re a fan of obi wan kenobi and canon divergent AUs
#Star Wars#obi wan kenobi#mandolorians#sith holocron#qui gon jinn#a variable star#fanart#ao3#kenobi being a smashball clobber of Sith Jedi and Mandolorian culture/traits is my fav running gag in this fic
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The Cepheids of M100 - January 10th, 1996.
"Can this blinking star tell us how fast the Universe is expanding? Many astronomers also believe it may also tell us the age of the Universe! The photographed "Cepheid variable" star in M100 brightens and dims over the course of days as its atmosphere expands and contracts. A longer blinking cycle means an intrinsically brighter star. Cepheid variable stars are therefore used as distance indicators. By noting exactly how long the blinking period is and exactly how bright the star appears to be, one can tell the distance to the star and hence the star's parent galaxy. This distance can then be used to match-up easily measured recessional velocity ("redshift") with distance. Once the "Hubble relation" was determined for M100, it can then apply to all galaxies - and hence can tell us how fast the Universe is expanding."
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“Power is all that matters? Try to give yourself a decent haircut after you’ve killed all the barbers.” Genet says. “I hardly begrudge the small and quiet life.”
Obi-Wan half-chokes on the laugh. “Now that’s a lie.”
“I acknowledge that there are as many paths as there are stars across the skies, and since we are all ultimately going nowhere, one is as good to walk as any other. But to see the Force reduced to some placid, tamed… resource? If this is truly the best revelation we can hope for, please walk your way to the brightest star and fire me straight into it.”
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TwiFicmas NYE Edition: Variable Stars
Okay, since I got some very desperate DMs, you all win and we'll celebrate the end of 2023 with Variable Stars, and the beginning of 2024 with STL snippets.
This is a few pieces from Ch 7 of Variable Stars. It's close to done, and the bare bones of Ch 8 has been set up. I look forward to getting back into the swing of VS because friends to lovers is just so damn wholesome.
I hope you all have a brilliant NYE and I'll see you next year ;)
She’s not sure when everything changed.
When it stopped being the Cullen home and it stopped being Jasper’s home and it started being hers too. When she started seeing her own face in the photographs on the walls, when the other family members called for her, she wasn’t just an extension of Jasper.
She knows the house (which step is cracked because one of them stepped down too hard, but there’s been a lot of damage lately, so they’re all gingerly avoiding it in the hopes it can hold out a few weeks so that Esme doesn’t get too mad. Which bathroom never has hot water after midnight. That Carlisle moved all the travel books from the top-most shelves in the library down to her eye-level so she could take them without lingering. That the spinning chair in the living room is shoved in the corner near the window because it’s her favourite but she won’t sit in it if her back is exposed.)
She knows that Esme is fiercely protective of her garden, that the stepping-stones are there for a reason. There’s a greenhouse that’s about to be built; and that Bella sulks if anyone is in the hammock when she wants to use it. (She also knows that Emmett and Rose are banned from the hammock because of what they did to the last one.)
And the forest. She knows it better than anything. That’s where they hunt, where her and Jasper go running. Where he found her that day, washing off the blood. Where they play-fight and she plays on the ice at the end of winter and it’s all broken up in pieces.
Then there is Jasper. There are a million different ways to explain Jasper and who he is to her, how he soothes all the raw spots and open wounds just by being there. Everything is easier with him, and there's never a day when she doesn't thank whatever higher power exists that they crossed paths.
(Peace is a funny thing; it feels solid but she’s so intensely aware of how easily it could shatter. Eight vampires in one place is a recipe for disaster; she never forgets that. But for now, she just savours every single moment.)
It’s home. She’s finally home.
//
Some things are inevitable; Alice knows this well enough. Her death, for instance - setting foot in that hospital when she was a newborn, where the doctor knew who she was… that was a place people went to die, not to heal.
Realising that the only thing her gift would bestow upon her was death, destruction, and the legacy of a monster was another.
Oh, and Jasper being someone important. There had always been something about him, even when he was a nomadic grump.
But Alice has accepted that certain things are inevitable and avoiding them, or pretending they aren’t going to happen. The only thing she can really do is accept them, and face them head on, no matter how nervous or uncomfortable she might be.
That is to say, she’s heard about Peter and Charlotte before; Jasper’s got lots of stories about them and it’s nice to hear to his stories - she’d like to set Maria ablaze for some of the things she did to him, and she’s more than a little bit sorry that she never made it for enough into Mexican to make the woman burn for her sins, but Jasper seems to be mostly at peace with everything that happened to him.
(He worries more over her stories, which she finds funny. A couple of bites is nothing, and she makes it abundantly clear that she walked away the victor in those battles. When she says that, he always relaxes, like he’s worrying for her in that actual moment even when she’s sitting opposite him playing Go Fish in pom-pom socks.)
Sometimes she wonders what he would say if she told him the real story about how she woke up. About the one named James and the woman with him, about what she did to him, about finding the hospital and going inside and decimating it, killing every single person she found. If he’d be mad at her, or disgusted, or angry for her or what.
It’s purely academic of course; she’s never, ever going to tell him all of that. As much as the past doesn’t bother him, she still remembers how he used to look, how he used to carry himself all those decades ago. She doesn’t want to add more violence, more rage to the burdens he carries.
(She never wants to become one of his stories, like Maria.)
//
There’s more and more talk about their next move. That makes Alice nervous, he realizes. For a second, that’s confusing because there’s no way that moving will change anything - it’s still their family, just in a new place (there’s a vigorous debate between Montana, Minnesota, and Maine - he’s hoping for Minnesota because the home there is on a huge parcel of land where they can roam without being disturbed. Maine is the most claustrophobic option, a place where they will be under the most scrutiny, and Alice isn’t ready for that yet.)
But he takes a second and realises, for Alice, this is a huge change. The utter unknown - this house is the only home she’s ever known. She might have heard about high school and college, and posing as human, but she’s never had to play that part.
(He’s already cornered Carlisle and told him that Alice isn’t going to school yet. Her reading and writing are good, but not enough to deal with a high school class. Not to mention that he got almost a decade before he was forced to play his part in their charade; Alice deserves the same.)
Esme is making adjustments to the house model in the family meeting, her stylus darting over the screen as everyone throws out requirements (or demands) about their new residence - Edward wants a music room, Rosalie wants space for at least twelve cars, Carlisle and Bella had grand plans for the scale and design of the library.
His requests are the same as always - his study, and a bathroom he doesn’t have to share. Esme is doting and amused as she confirms his space, the exact requirements he gives for every single new house.
“Alice, what do you need?” she asks, and Alice has been very quiet; Bella and Carlisle are still debating the two-story library of their dreams.
She looks like a deer in the headlights as Esme looks at her expectantly, and looks at him for help.
“Another bedroom and ensuite, maybe with an extra-giant closet for all your clothes,” he says teasingly, and Esme is already nodding, already sketching.
“I don’t have that many.” She’s trying to sound flippant but she’s already looking relieved as Emmett begins negotiating a gaming room of his own. It’s true, she rarely asks Esme for anything more complicated than help navigating the washer and dryer. It’s him that she goes to for money, with questions, everything. And it’s Esme and Carlisle that come to him when they need her to know something, especially if it’s a delicate topic.
And he likes it that way, likes that he can be useful, be important for a purpose.
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The thing that they all like to ignore is that Bella’s change wasn’t without its difficulties. The Volturi had hovered in the peripheral right up until she had reawakened; it was that tangible risk that had allowed them to form a formal, ongoing alliance with the Pack, and allowed Bella to keep Charlie in her life. It was messy and uneasy but Edward was convinced that Aro held no malice for the entire debacle - Bella was changed, her shield gift only interested Aro in how it had manifested when Bella was human, and everyone had parted friends.
(Well, Caius and Jane were still looking for reasons to destroy the lot of them, but the linchpin in the whole thing was Aro, and he was suitably amused and affectionate towards Carlisle that they were safe.)
Alice had been bewildered and scared when they’d told her the entire story, her unease syrupy as they spoke about Volterra and the agreements, Victoria and James, the Pack. She was slack-jawed when Carlisle explained that he had been close friends with the Volturi for decades before he had his family.
He has his arm tight around her as the story is told, and quietly reassures her that they have no reason to ever see Aro, the Volturi, or even set foot in Italy.
“They only punish those that break the laws,” he says and she nods, but the fear is still there.
#alice cullen#jasper hale#twilight fic#jalice#my fic: variable stars#friends to lovers#things get worse before they get better#shenanigans afoot#there has to be drama and there has to be stakes
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Star Trek novels are a lot like Star Trek episodes themselves - you’ll find some with amazing world building, stakes, character dynamics, humor, and philosophy, and you’ll be ravenous for more. Then you’ll read the next one you find and it’s poorly written nonsense sprinkled with bigotry.
#star trek#star trek tos#I got lucky and I’ve been reading mostly Diane Duane ones lately she’s amazing#but then I started a new one that was NOT her and just… ugh#it’s so variable by author
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am I more talkative on tumblr when my queue is empty. i'm starting to feel like this is a thing
#stars rambles#or is this a correlation thing#i think the lurking variable might be something to do with my irl busyness#for some reason going thru my drafts and dumping a bunch of stuff in my queue takes more spoons than rambley original posts i guess
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Are there any love triangle scenarios planned? This wouldn't be a kdrama-inspired romance if there was no second lead who clearly won't end up with MC. I exaggerate, but still, the thought leaves me curious.
haha, i always get second lead syndrome watching kdramas, it's a problem
i had initially thought about including an ex as an RO- but i canned that idea bc this is my first story and i don't want to overwhelm myself. you can read more about them using the #the ex co star tag.
otherwise, there is but there isn't a love triangle planned. it's complicated~
#crash course in you#the ex co star#no spoilers hee#honestly the variables are killing me already lol
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The Flaming Star Nebula, IC 405 // Leah Deckard Hallett
You can even see the star lighting up the gas, AE Aurigae, at the center!
#astronomy#astrophotography#nebula#emission nebula#reflection nebula#star-forming region#flaming star nebula#IC 405#Sh2-229#star#variable star#giant star#blue giant#AE Aurigae#auriga
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