#lamb asteroid

[sidekick-hero]

Written for the @steddiemicrofic challenge 'hole', 404 words

Rating: Mature | tags and cw: bloodsucking, vampire!Eddie

Steve undresses slowly, moving gingerly as he replaces item after item. There's still the pleasant ache of well-worked muscles throbbing through his body, but that's not why he's moving so slowly.

It's to savor.

He starts at his feet, rolling down his socks, first left, then right. There, just below his right ankle, he finds the first pair of pinprick holes. They're already faded, hard to find if you didn't know where to look, but Steve does. After all, they were his first.

He remembers how Eddie had taken his foot in his hand while Steve was tied to the bed, unable to move, to flee. "My, my," Eddie had said, clicking his tongue against his too-sharp teeth. "Little lamb, why'd you run from the big bad wolf? Looks like you need a reminder that there's no point in running."

Steve never tried again, never wanted to. Not after he discovered that Eddie may have come back wrong, but he was still right for Steve. He didn't need a beating heart if he could have Steve's.

His legs are littered with "love bites," as Eddie had come to call them. Some older, some only a few hours old from the last time they exhausted themselves between the sheets with Eddie's hands and mouth and tongue and teeth trailing along his body in worship, branding him as they went.

Property of Eddie Munson. Do not touch.

The insides of his thighs and the crease of his groin are the worst, red pinholes and colorful bruises where Eddie got carried away. When his shirt is gone as well, Steve steps closer to the mirror to take in the full extent of Eddie's marks.

He has left a world of constellations on his body, galaxies unwinding between his rips, yellow-blue-green nebulae where new stars will be born blooming on his flanks, bite marks forming asteroid belts along his collarbones and down his sternum. A stellar symphony of their love.

Lost in his reverie, he startles as strong, pale arms wrap around him from behind, a clawed hand reverently stroking his skin.

"My little lamb, you look good enough to eat."

"What are you waiting for, big bad wolf, a written invitation?"

Catching Steve's eyes in the mirror, Eddie grins against the side of his neck before sinking his teeth into the flesh, eliciting a wanton moan from Steve as he adds another love bite to their universe.

#steddie #steddie fic #steve harrington #eddie munson #vampire eddie munson #my writing

[toaster-boi]

i think the Ace Combat franchise can best be summed up by the ending of Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies.

you've taken the enemy's capital, you've finally faced down the rival ace pilot who you've come to deeply respect from the story of a small child orphaned by the war you've just won, and the bittersweet feeling of an end to senseless bloodshed fills the air.

but- wait. "[next mission]?"

briefing plays. a low tone, subtle electronic track plays throughout. cut to mission start: a cutscene, which only a few other missions opened with.

the sky is gray with either clouds, smoke, or ash; you can't really tell, but the gray and brown haze blots out the sun. the air is filled with meteors raining down on the ocean below, a handful of lasers pierce the fog of war. the only adequate descriptor is armageddon.

the music goes straight for the throat: a latin choir singing in a minor key, the opening to a track sharing its name with the mission itself. "Megalith Agnus Dei," with Megalith being an island-spanning ICBM launch complex in the shape of a fucking gigantic stone crucifix currently taking potshots at the remnants of an asteroid that previously razed the neighboring continent hard enough to cause a fascism-enabling refugee crisis.

Agnus Dei, literally "Lamb of God," is in reference to the player. you, Mobius One, are made into a direct allusion to the biblical Messiah, a literal divinely-ordained sacrifice sent from the heavens to absolve mankind of the sins of its past, and then ascend to the heavens once more.

you finally have actual wingmates, background characters from throughout the game now flying under your insignia. their objective is literally just to take care of enemy aircraft while you fly into the exhaust trenches of Megalith, to blow up the missiles from inside the facility, then fly straight up to not crash into the silo walls.

the last missile does not have exhaust trenches, but a tunnel you barely fit into, and the silo's launch doors aren't open when you enter.

to recap, you are sent in as the last hope for salvation from a military breakaway terrorist organization who, out of a desire for revenge, is making sulfur and coals rain upon the earth. you are sent up the length of something shaped like three crosses, and are then sent up the length of the center one and pass underground with a sealed exit and no expectation of escape. you then fucking fly straight upwards with and explosion at your back as the exit opens and the world is saved.

this is a game about fighter jets that came out two days after 9/11. on the PS2.

#toaster thoughts #ace combat #ace combat 04 #ace combat 4 #this franchise is so fucking bonkers #ace combat and armored core are siblings to me

[starfelina]

felina's astro notes

☆ all virgos i've met had one thing in common: they were obsessed with healthy & natural anything! they did not like to eat/use anything that isn't 100% natural and they were really concerned about their health when they accidentally used something chemical.

☆ i've noticed that many sag females i know were tomboys when they were young. most of them have heavy scorpio placements as well.

☆ ive always felt astrology as a part of who I am. i I checked my chart and found out that asteroid urania (30) is conjunct my sun (and it's the only planetary body that is in an EXACT conjunction with my sun!) asteroid urania can tell you a lot about your relationship with astrology.

☆ this is just my observation but I feel like the animals that are connected to our angel asteroid (11911) are our spirit animals. like we receive a message from our angels every time we see that animal. ive always felt a weird connection to big felines. like lions,leopards etc. it turns out that my angel is in leo. I got chills when I found out about that !

aries: lambs,rams

taurus: bulls, cows

gemini: deer, dogs

cancer: crabs

leo: big felines (lions,cheetahs etc)

virgo: foxes, elephants

libra: swans, doves

scorpio: scorpions, snakes

saggitarius: horses

capricorn: goats

aquarius: owls

pisces: fish, dolphins

☆ sag placement women have the most perfect hips ever

☆ to build your perfect wardrobe, take inspo from a combo of venus and aphrodite (1388) signs' aesthetics.

xoxo, feliné

#asteroid #astro community #astro posts #astrology #astrology observations #vedic astrology #dark astrology #zodiac signs #western astrology #capricorn moon

[anachronic-cobra]

A quick rough draft segment for my aforementioned Lucifer-centric queer religious trauma book while I wait for a plane delay:

In the Beginning, there was starlight. 

Heaven was a utopian realm of light, home to brilliant craftsmen and weavers of the fabric of the universe.  No one angel found themselves above any other, sharing their creations graciously for all to admire.

Lucifer the Lightbringer was one of these weavers, named for his incredible affinity for the creation of stars.  As the other angels shifted their focus to the creation of a new realm to reflect their own, dreaming to create living beauty, Lucifer frolicked among galaxies and nebulae.

Over time, praise for his creations fell to the wayside in favor of this new creation of his brothers and sisters.  Lucifer began to grow worried, wondering if perhaps he had lost the creative spark he had been known for.

The Lightbringer Created in earnest, forming incredible structures of gas and stars, passionate explosions of supernovae, dense wells in the universal fabric that drew in every celestial body that drifted into its pull.  Yet in doing so, he found himself looked down upon by Heaven, who prioritized the beauty in Order, shunning the beauty only Lucifer could see within the ever-changing Chaos.

Perhaps his sights had been set too far from the unremarkable little star the weavers had set their precious blue planet within range of.  Lucifer decided to try his hand at the small-scale Creation his siblings had taken to fawning over.  And for a time, it seemed to work!  His precious little Creation, a tiny planet just barely smaller than their Earth, but bright enough to be seen by their humans even in the early morning gleam of their gifted star.  A peace offering among the barren planets that were his siblings' failed attempts at balancing life with a burning star.

His delightful little Creation, praised at last by his family as a gift to Adam and Eve, earned Lucifer the title of the Morning Star.  This attention lasted only shortly, however, before it was drawn back to Heaven's favored Creations.

Disheartened, Lucifer lost confidence in his abilities.  He tried to create things for his family's beloved Garden, but living Creation was not a craft he was well suited to.  The things he saw as beautiful - the creatures he placed within the earth with a thousand legs, the squirmy creatures he placed in the waters with none, beasts with bone protruding from their skulls and eyes cut into slits - the others saw as hideous and unsettling.

All the same, Adam and Eve named them; "spider" and "slug" and "eel" and "ram", every desperate attempt he made for approval.  Slit-eyed creatures, horned creatures, every beast that crawled with its belly to the ground.  Though looked down upon by Heaven, Lucifer's creatures were cared for by the humans just as they cared for lion or lamb.

At times, Lucifer would take on human form, as his brothers and sisters did, and walk upon the Earth to treasure his belittled Creations.  They crawled upon his arms, slithered against his legs, brushed against his wings.  On lonesome nights when his only companions were thoughts, Lucifer lay in the grass with the crawling beasts of the soil, whispering to them about the stars.

In the Beginning, there was starlight.  Now, there was nothing.

Lucifer gazed wistfully skyward.  A vast, dark void extended into nothing, a cold mockery of the universe he'd once delighted in Creation of.  Where once he'd known the birth of every galaxy, every star, every planet and asteroid and speck of cosmic dust he'd brought into beautiful existence, now there was a hollow loss in his memories.

He wished he could remember what they'd looked like.

#from the desk of anachron

[rikastrology]

anuradha + phantom thread (2017)

spoiler warning!

nakshatras as movies i love

Ruled by Mitra, lord of Compassion, this benevolent placement welcomes abundance yet also to play nice but fight dirty. Anuradha natives possess Radhana Shakti or the power of worship. Radha was an unwavering devotee of Krishna, Mary Magdalene of Jesus. Devotion is magical in that the object of your affections is deified, but also humanized into something to speak softly to, to cradle in your arms like a lamb.

Healing can save all souls, especially that of the healer. I tend to associate this placement with the kind of symbolism the asteroid Chiron is associated with in western astrology. The wounded healer, Anuradhas can only put so much good into the world because they have seen the worst of it.

Nevertheless, bearing scars from your past can also mean hefting a weighty chip on your shoulder. They'd jump in front of a car for their loved ones, but this is one placement that you do not betray. Wrathful after deception, a betrayed Anuradha is like watching the beginning of a car crash; horrifying and inevitable. Unhealthy Anuradhas can even become overly jealous, melancholic, and controlling of their partners. These control issues can be explained by their Saturnian nature. Being ruled by Shani, the Scorpio placements often have an almost psychic understanding of everything that could possibly go wrong. This trait makes them excellent strategists, lawyers, negotiators, and therapists, but can also lead to them trying to avoid every possible negative outcome in life, at the expense of their happiness.

Hence, Anuradas should try to understand that compassion is a two-way street and that good intentions paved the road to hell. Lifelong faith can be terribly romantic, but only if one loosens the reins enough for it to be mutual. Anuradhas nurture those around them so they must learn to accept and trust their loved ones trying to care for them too.

#astrology #astro #vedic #nakshatra #nakshatras #scorpio #anuradha #anurada #phantom thread #yes ik alma poisoning reynolds was terribly romantic but only because at the end he acknowledged her! he saw her and loved her! #until then it was her grasping at the straws of control while living a unsteady life in a brand-new country and profession #anuradhas want to be seen more than they want to be safe #compassion is not a balancing act but the lighting of a lamp #rikastrology

[woohooincoffin]

tagged by @mattodore thank you!!! ocs as obscure associations rhys

ANIMAL: lamb, fox

COLORS: red, browns

MONTH: november (robert frost, my november guest - my sorrow, when she’s here with me, / thinks these dark days of autumn rain /are beautiful as days can be)

SONGS: a little god in my hands, helpless child by swans

NUMBER: 13

PLANTS: snowdrop flowers, symbolize hope, consolation, and new beginnings

SMELLS: firewood

GEMSTONE: tiger's eye

TIME OF DAY: dusk

SEASON: the cusp between fall and winter

WEATHER: rainy

SKY: sunset orange

PLACES: forests, lakes

FOOD: soup....desserts

DRINKS: beer

SEASONINGS: paprika, salt

ELEMENT: earth...mud is not an element but specifically mud. fell down and cant get clean

ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: cancer, scorpio

MAGICAL POWER: daylight spell (its one of their favorite spells)

WEAPONS: longsword, two handed longsword

SOCIAL MEDIA: none

MAKEUP PRODUCT: expired eyeshadow

CANDY: candy necklace thats been worn for 3 days

METHOD OF LONG DISTANCE TRAVEL: trains

ART STYLE: charcoal

FEAR: uncertainty, the dark

MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE: griffin

PIECE OF STATIONERY: envelopes

THREE EMOJIS: 🎻 ⛰️ 🛡️

CELESTIAL BODY: asteroid belt (idk if that's a celestial body)

if you would like to, i tag @fizzytoo @hell-dusk @calidosun @the-dark-urge @panicsimss @andrwminward @simtalics + anyone else who'd like to

#oc: rhys #long post

[stroebe2]

thank you for tagging me @peachiyyy <3 list of favorites from 2023

albums :

Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds), by Yves Tumor

Good Lies, by Overmono

if looks could kill, by Destroy Lonely

PLAY, by RL Grime

A Great Chaos, by Ken Carson

Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd, by Lana Del Rey

Quest for Fire, by Skrillex

Suntub, by ML Buch

10,000 gecs, by 100 gecs

Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, by Caroline Polachek

Don’t Get Too Close, by Skrillex

TW2052, by KayCyy

Sincèrement, by Hamza

Jam City Presents EFM, by Jam City

Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall, by Nia Archives

and plenty more singles/releases

films :

Paris, Texas (1984)

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Fallen Angels (1995)

You Were Never Really Here (2017)

Ritual [Shiki-jitsu] (2000)

Irréversible (2002)

Salut les Cubains (1963)

Shin Godzilla (2016)

Infinity Pool (2023)

Excalibur (1985)

The Color of Pomegranates (1969)

Cold in July (2014)

Rocky (1976)

Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

Stage of Siege (1972)

Mandy (2018)

The Holy Mountain (1973)

Dune (2021)

Spring Breakers (2012)

The Paperboy (2012)

Asteroid City (2023)

Espion, lève-toi (1982)

Natural Born Killers (1994)

Barbie (2023)

The Exorcist (1973)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

Oppenheimer (2023)

Lake Mungo (2008)

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

The Witch (2015)

Children of Shatila (2018)

Scream (1996)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Saw II (2005)

A Thousand Billion Dollars (1982)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

books :

Into the Badlands : Travels Through Urban America by John Williams

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

La Crise blanche by Alain Tondeur

House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger

Les chemins de la victoire (La victoria estrategica : Por todos los caminos de la Sierra) by Fidel Castro

and a bunch of paranoid pdfs/books for a project im working on and doesnt really make sense to list on here

[meditativedeer]

incredibly personal and specific reasons to stay alive (extensive)

exactly 25 days until my last exam. the feeling of walking out of school for the last time and feeling that chapter close with a satisfying thunk.

MUNA concert (30th aug). Jo and Naomi in the flesh? Need I say more?

all the pets I am going to love that haven't even been born yet

coffee in my favourite mug

getting to know someone and you realise you have the same niche interests and you feel so very understood

Barbie movie and Yorgos Lanthimos directing My Year of Rest and Relaxation. And Asteroid City. Going to sob so hard in the cinema.

sex (with girls)

finishing my first screenplay

swimming in open bodies of water

all the cool jobs im going to work with so many cool people

there's a song out there that is my absolute favourite but I haven't heard it yet. probably haven't even heard of my favourite artist yet.

so many books to read

sitting in the back garden with the dinner I just made for myself

all the parties I'm going to host/ attend

one day I'm going to go to India and live in an ashram for a month to get a yoga teaching certificate. I think that's a pretty good reason to stay alive

I haven't owned my own apartment yet

I want a cat

tattoos

piercings

haven't tried orange wine yet

all the camping trips not yet taken

haven't finished the l word yet

becoming friends with someone who you really really really wanted to be friends with

I need to try every cocktail ever - so many of the classics I haven't had; margarita, martini, Manhattan, negroni...

need to see Thailand, Greece, Germany

so many languages to learn

need to knit a jumper

sunny evenings spent on the porch with mum and a bottle white wine

looking into someones eyes and realising you're made of the same stuff

poetry

I need to see the 1975 in concert again before I die. I also need to see Clairo and king princess

haven't had nearly enough haircuts. need a girl mullet

I don't yet own one of those nice patterned Patagonia fleeces

meeting my sisters kids.

going to my sisters wedding.

so many trinkets to buy

that feeling when you get home after a shift you didn't think would ever end and realising that you're much more resilient than you thought you were.

the 3 seconds before you kiss someone for the first time

realising that you fell in love with someone so gradually and sneakily that you were barely aware of it. very pure

when something so good and so unexpected happens and you literally have to jump around to celebrate.

forest walks with my dog

going out for breakfast

dresses and daffodils and lambs in spring and salads and trees and driving in summer and reading and hot coffee and Harry Potter in autumn and jumpers and fuzzy socks and candles in winter

hot baths

freezing cold showers after a run

when someone wants to tell you all about themselves and they talk and talk and talk and you could just listen to them forever because they're so cool

falling in love and having the other person love me just as much

buying flowers

christmas

ageing. Im actually excited to go grey.

#web weaving #love #writing #poetry #writers and poets #wlw #sotce #love poem #poem #meditation #sighswoon #life #soft life #reality #happiness #peace #feeling

[sleepy-d00dle-man]

!!introduction post!!

hi!!! hello!!!

names: asteroid / vinyl

pronouns: he / xe / it

transmasc/pangender!!

!! minor !!

[hello!! i am. kinda shy, but eh socialization yk how it goes,,, i dont bite!! C: ]

[colored means current interests :D]

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fandoms/interests:

ULTRAKILL

murder drones

cult of the lamb

OFF

minecraft

cyberpunk 2077 & edgerunners

lobotomy corporation

portal

phighting!

dislyte

buckshot roulette

likes:

splatoon

call of duty

bright colors/eyestrain aesthetics

sharks and tardigrades!!

space/the universe

plushies!! anything fluffy!!

drawing and making ocs

crunchy foods and chocolate

sodas/energy drinks

kirby and sonic the hedgehog games

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tags:

d00dles_writings

d00dles_art

d00dles_typings

d00dles_reblog

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DNI: standard dni, pro/comshippers, anti-neopronoun, transmeds, TERFs, NSFW/kink blogs, and any other problematic things gtfo my blog

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#intro post

[tinselxoxo26]

𝑆𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡: 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑖𝑑𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 1𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑡

[ I've linked the asteroids for the meanings with some wonderful blogs that you should take a look ]

- Charis (627) in Virgo at 12 degree

- Nymphe (875) in Virgo at 8 degree

- Aphrodite (1388) in Virgo at 13 degree

- Glo (3267) in Virgo at 8 degree

- Lamb (16089) in Virgo at 14 degree

- Fox (16248) in Virgo at 0 degree

- Blume (18106) means 'flower' in German in Virgo at 5 degree

- Bless (92891) in Virgo at 6 degree

- Abundantia (151) in Leo at 26 degree

- Ursula (375) in Leo at 12 degree

- Starr (4150) in Leo at 25 degree

I find it interesting on how most of these asteroids are in virgo even though all of the planets in my natal chart doesn't contain any virgo including the houses & degrees

#asteroids #astrology #natal chart #1st house #astro community #tinselxoxo26

[egharcourt]

Family Portrait,

Alternatively Titled: There Was Once Four of Us

(Cover art: "A Family" (1951) by Louis le Brocquy)

Read it on my substack: https://afteredenbycain.substack.com/p/family-portrait

//All sketches of families begin like this:

Her name was Eve and his was Adam. //

They roamed Eden on a motorbike. Driving like they owned the place and not at all, through darkened alleys under the ever-watching dome of the night sky. Adam points upwards at dazzling stars, towards the stratosphere above they can and will never reach. Everything that we have, he says, lies underneath this blanket of galaxies and planets. It’s not much, but it’s all we should ever hope for. It’s all we should ever ask for. Yet Eve simply mused, Don’t you sometimes wish we could be bigger than this? We could grow beyond this enclave, beyond the same old buildings and street lamps and trees and vines. Someday we ought to drift through realms and dance among the asteroids, and return to nurture this humble little world we call our own. 

When they were cast out of Eden, Eve fell silent. 

For what more is there to say? Try carving elaborate dreams on coarse sand just for it to be washed away by the incoming tide. When you’ve spent all your might reaching up just to plunge into a much deeper pit. You’d never see a girl mature into misery so fast.

Life finds a way, a way to wring all hope out of you. It is in distress that the promise of a higher power stretches His nimble fingers towards your mind’s eye, like a glow of light in the deep dark sea. Like a hot flash for the freezing. So come, child, burrow yourself in, let your faith be your death sentence: Blessed be a girl who is doomed by the predicaments of her father. 

Adam, finding no lush leaves to tend to anymore, turned to the barren ground. But here’s the cruelest part of the curse: When God cursed the land, He also gave the fields a voice. They beckoned and cajoled, Come to me… The man remembered the fruits of Eden and wanted more, much more than what this wretched land had to offer. So he ventured further, longer; only coming back to his family at midnight, at the crack of dawn, every other day, every other week.

And one day, Adam just never came home.

In the midst of it all, Eve bore a child. 

Eve named him Cain for she had acquired. She said, I want this child to grow to become just like me. Eve forgot how she spent the entirety of her teenagehood trying to run away from home. 

So Cain grew up under broken city lights and vacant storefronts, with Mama mumbling about how everything used to be better. He would spend his childhood reaching out to touch the city’s edifices and feel no kindness from their icy metal frame. Eve tells him bedtime stories of Eden, about the wrathful omnipotent God who would love him like a father, although Cain never believed in his father. If God had a rhythm, Cain theorized, the closest tune to it was not the polished harmony of the gospel choir. It was the whirr and hum and grind around the municipality. It was the rumble of traffic on highways that intertwined the city like a pulsating vein. It was the thrash of heavy metal from the stereo, in deafening decibels that funneled rage and despair. God was never music; God is noise.

Then came Abel—

Somewhere along a lullaby, somewhere along a bible verse, maybe. 

We need someone to tend to the sheep, Eve explained to Cain with urgency one day. I can pry a lamb out of you, were the words left unsaid. If Cain could take a closer look, he’d figure out that Abel does not speak, they are only spoken to. But Cain was only sure that Abel was whoever he wasn’t. And Abel was the last to arrive, the first to go. As most things are.

—Long gone now. The doorbell chimes no more and Cain won’t come home. And the world is a labyrinth, where we’re always just running in circles.

Circles and circles. Circles and circles and circles.

#writblr #my work #after eden by cain #original writing #creative writing #writing #writers of tumblr #poetry #religion #deconstructing christianity #christianity #exvangelical #lgbtq #queer #trans

[newstattoos]

Scarlett Johansson displayed her extensive tattoo collection at the Cannes Film Festival red carpet premiere for Asteroid City. The 38-year-old actress looked stunning as her inkings were displayed in a figure-hugging pink Prada dress. She accessorized with a pair of dazzling earrings by David Yurman. The dress revealed Scarlett's massive back ...

#Convetions #closerlook #newink #ScarlettJohansson #stunning #Tattoo

[vignettesfromceres]

Prepare to Dock

“Prepare to dock, Anders.”

“Preparing to dock,” replied the ship's computer.

Gerald waited as the ship inched closer to the small asteroid. Eight metal legs stretched out from the sides and sunk their hooks into the solid surface of the asteroid, latching on and drawing the ship down to the surface.

“Ship successfully docked to asteroid,” Anders said as the ship came to a rest.

“Deploy drones.”

“Drones deployed.”

With that, dozens of four foot long robots poured out from the back of the ship and began cutting into the surface of the asteroid. Each would break off a section and take it into the processing hold where the ore would be crushed, the rubble sorted according to its major component and stored accordingly.

After 6 hours the last remnants of the 1000 ton boulder were carried onto the ship. Gerald fired up the thrusters and set course for Ceres.  

Ceres itself is a protected body, a tourist haven in the belt. But once you get out past the hotel stations, casinos and other touristy places you found what look like lines of giant Ferris wheels all spinning at different speeds. There were ore depots, refineries, ship stops, garages, storage facilities (both pressurized and shielded, and not,) saloons, brothels, gambling joints, clubs, and of course at the center of it all, the shipping yard.

Gerald cruised over to his regular ore depot to offload his cargo. He pulled up next to a dock on the massive rotating structure, matching its velocity to pair up. Here Anders took over to make the connection between the cargo bay and the dock. Gerald could feel the constant velocity pulling him down to the floor of the ship, simulating the effects of gravity, more than the Moon's but less than Mars'.

“Docking complete,” Anders chimed out. “You may now move about the cabin.” He said in a mocking voice.

Gerald rolled his eyes as he got up and walked over to the cargo bay control panel. Pressing a few buttons he ensured the seal was made and confirmed his cargo configuration then opened the bay doors and allowed the ores to be pulled down into the receiving bays. Once the dust had settled the station's system analyzed the masses of the various ores and credited Gerald's account accordingly. An invoice flashed on the control panel's screen showing him the breakdown and the deposit amount: $P400.

Gerald patched through to the station.

“Four hundred platinum, Derek!? Really? It should have been six fifty, easy!” Gerald shouted into the mic.

“Sorry Ger, iron's down thirty cents.” A light, flamboyant voice responded. “Aztech Aero found a cluster of low ‘bido iron. Brought in half a million tons of pure iron.”

Gerald's mouth hung open a second. “Okay, four hundred then. Let’s go, Anders.” ______________________________________________________

“So Gerald, where too? The Solar Well?” Anders said sarcastically.

“Yeah, how about no. That place is too overrated. I’m thinking Electric Goat.” Gerald said.

“Plotting course.”

“Dude, it’s five-k away. I just. You- don’t need to say that stuff every time.” Gerald stammered shaking his head. “Whatever, set course.”

A minute later Anders was docking to the Electric Goat bar and grille. It was an eclectic restaurant, signs and memorabilia plastered all over the place, electronic house and trance music playing just soft enough for conversation to be had. Gerald dropped into the restaurant and made his way over to his favorite section and sat at the bar. A small screen attached to the counter displayed the menu in front of him allowing him to select his order- water, a bottle of root beer, a lamb gyro and onion rings.

“Sup loser!”

It was Lynda, a fellow independent prospector and friend of Gerald.

“Hey! What’s cookin’ girl?” Gerald shot back.

“Oh you know, same ol’ same ol’.” Lynda said, taking a seat next to Gerald. “You hear about Aztech’s haul?”

“Yeah. Lost out and one fifty because of it.” He said with a sigh. “But! Still got four hundred. So it’s not all bad.”

“Lucky. I had a load of pure iron. Brought it in just an hour after the price change.”

Gerald gave her a comforting pat on the back as he shoved a fresh, hot, onion ring into his mouth from the plate that had just arrived. “Hrmph herf herry.”

Lynda glared at him as crumbs fell from his mouth.

“I was saying ‘that’s rough buddy.’”

She shook her head. “You and your old shows and games.”

He shrugged sheepishly but he didn’t care, he loved his early 21st century media, even if it was old and outdated. “Did you catch the latest ep of Dagger?”

“I sit in a ship for hours on end doing nothing. Of course I did. What did you think when Sven and Claudia finally kissed? Man it was cheesy, but I’ve been shipping them since season two and it’s about time!” Lynda said enthusiastically.

“Heh, yeah that was cute. I was thinking of the part where Miles took out Viktor. That part was so tense. I got worried the writers were actually gonna do Miles in for real.” They continued on for another hour as they ate.

“Oh! Come back to my ship, I’ve got something to show you. I know you’ll just love it.” Lynda said as they were getting up to leave. Gerald followed, curious as to what it could be that she had.

#Prepare to dock #Vignettes from Ceres

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The Fourth Annual Davey Awards - The Nominees!

Hello! Every year I hold the annual Davey Awards for brilliance in motion pictures that move. This is our fourth year, and it promises to be one that is a year. Let's get to the nominees. Please note that there are some big movies (The Boy and the Heron, Poor Things, The Iron Claw, Ferrari, Wonka, The Taste of Things, for example) that I haven't been able to see and won't be able to see for a while. However, The Boy and the Heron's score was released to streaming services recently and I like the little impatient so-and-so that I am listened to it, and felt compelled to include it for consideration. Without further adieu:

THE 4TH ANNUAL DAVEY AWARDS® NOMINEES

BEST PICTURE

THE ADULTS

ASTEROID CITY

BARBIE

BLACKBERRY

THE HOLDOVERS

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

MAESTRO

MAY DECEMBER

OPPENHEIMER

PAST LIVES

BEST DIRECTOR

GRETA GERWIG - BARBIE

MATT JOHNSON - BLACKBERRY

MARTIN SCORSESE - KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

TODD HAYNES - MAY DECEMBER

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN - OPPENHEIMER

KELLY REICHARDT - SHOWING UP

BEST ACTOR - LEAD

MICHAEL CERA - THE ADULTS as ERIC

HANNAH GROSS - THE ADULTS as RACHEL

SANDRA HÜLLER - ANATOMY OF A FALL as SANDRA VOYTER

JASON SCHWARTZMAN - ASTEROID CITY as AUGIE STEENBECK/JONES HALL

PAUL GIAMATTI - THE HOLDOVERS as PAUL HUNHAM

LEONARDO DI CAPRIO - KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON as ERNEST BURKHART

LILY GLADSTONE - KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON as MOLLY KYLE

JONATHAN GROFF - KNOCK AT THE CABIN as ERIC

BRADLEY COOPER - MAESTRO as LEONARD BERNSTEIN

SALMA HAYEK-PINAULT - MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE as MAXANDRA MENDOZA

NATALIE PORTMAN - MAY DECEMBER as ELIZABETH BERRY

GRETA LEE - PAST LIVES as NORA MOON

DAVID JONSSON - RYE LANE as DOM

VIVIAN OPARAH - RYE LANE as YAS

RUPERT FRIEND - THE SWAN as NARRATOR/PETER WATSON

TEYANA TAYLOR - A THOUSAND AND ONE as INEZ DE LA PAZ

BEST ACTOR - SUPPORTING

SOPHIA LILLIS - THE ADULTS as MAGGIE

MILO MACHADO-GRANER - ANATOMY OF A FALL as DANIEL MALESKI

RACHEL McADAMS - ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET as BARBARA SIMON

RYAN GOSLING - BARBIE as KEN

KATE McKINNON - BARBIE as WEIRD BARBIE

GLENN HOWERTON - BLACKBERRY as JIM BALSILLIE

KIEFER SUTHERLAND - THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL as QUEEG

DA’VINE JOY RANDOLPH - THE HOLDOVERS as MARY LAMB

DOMINIC SESSA - THE HOLDOVERS as ANGUS TULLY

HARRIET SANSOM HARRIS - JULES as SANDY

ROBERT DeNIRO - KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON as WILLIAM KING HALE

DAVE BAUTISTA - KNOCK AT THE CABIN as LEONARD BROCHT

CHARLES MELTON - MAY DECEMBER as JOE YOO

JULIANNE MOORE - MAY DECEMBER as GRACIE ATHERTON-YOO

EMILY BLUNT - OPPENHEIMER as KITTY OPPENHEIMER

HONG CHAU - SHOWING UP as JO

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Dustin Guy Defa - THE ADULTS 

Wes Anderson, Story by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola - ASTEROID CITY

David Hemingson - THE HOLDOVERS

Samy Burch, Story by Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik - MAY DECEMBER

Nathan Bryon & Tom Melia - RYE LANE

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach - BARBIE (Based on the toy brand by Mattel)

Matt Johnson & Matthew Miller - BLACKBERRY (Based on the book Losing Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff)

Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese - KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Based on the book of the same name by David Grann)

Steve Desmond & Michael Sherman and M. Night Shyamalan - KNOCK AT THE CABIN (Based on the book The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay)

Christopher Nolan - OPPENHEIMER (Based on the book American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 

Simon Beaufils - ANATOMY OF A FALL

Jared Raab - BLACKBERRY

Jarin Blaschke, Lowell A. Meyer - KNOCK AT THE CABIN

Matthew Libatique - MAESTRO

Olan Collardy - RYE LANE

BEST EDITING

Laurent Sénéchal - ANATOMY OF A FALL

Lucy Donaldson - A HAUNTING IN VENICE

Thelma Schoonmaker - KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

Michelle Tesoro - MAESTRO

Jennifer Lame - OPPENHEIMER

BEST SCORE

Alexandre Desplat - ASTEROID CITY

Joe Hisaishi - THE BOY AND THE HERON

Robbie Robertson - KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

Ludwig Göransson - OPPENHEIMER

Christopher Bear, Daniel Rossen - PAST LIVES

Gary Gunn - A THOUSAND AND ONE

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Des. Adam Stockhausen, Set Dec. Xocas Montes, Kris Moran - ASTEROID CITY

Des. Sarah Greenwood, Set Dec. Katie Spencer - BARBIE

Des. Ryan Warren Smith, Set Dec. Markus Wittmann - THE HOLDOVERS

Des. Jack Fisk, Set Dec. Adam Willis - KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

Des. Anthony Stabley, Set Dec. Salinas Mazure Maria - SAW X

COSTUME DESIGN

Milena Canonero - ASTEROID CITY

Jacqueline Durran - BARBIE

Sammy Sheldon - A HAUNTING IN VENICE

Jacqueline West - KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

Cynthia Lawrence-John - RYE LANE

MAKEUP

BEAU IS AFRAID

BLACKBERRY

JULES

SAW X

THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR

VISUAL EFFECTS

ASTEROID CITY

THE KILLER

OPPENHEIMER

SAW X

THE SWAN

SOUND

ASTEROID CITY

BEAU IS AFRAID

THE KILLER

MAESTRO

OPPENHEIMER

ANIMATED FILM

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE

SHORT FILM

Terrence Davies - PASSING TIME

Wes Anderson - THE SWAN

Warren Beatty - TRACY ZOOMS IN

Wes Anderson - THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR

---- We of course announced our honorary Davey winners earlier this month. The list of winners will be released next month. Happy movies.

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2, 6 (for platonic and/or romantic relationships), 16, 30!

late responding (on account of my brain trying to explode out of my skull yesterday) but ty for the questions rose!! ❤️

2. How many fics did you work on this year? (They don’t have to be finished or published!): i think five? was trying so hard to only work on current wips this year and then whoops i started two new fics in the past couple months (it's okay i'm having fun)

6. What ship(s) captured your heart?: spent the first 3/4 of the year enamored with ekurei (insert that one post that's like "everything is about ghosts, except ghosts, which are about love"), and then out of nowhere my brain decided it was time to return to my star trek roots and latch onto mcspirk, so now i'm rotating those old men in my brain 24/7 (they're a perfectly balanced set. do NOT separate them)

16. What were you go-to writing songs?: honestly i really don't like listening to music while i write shdkshfjd i need total silence or like, white noise / a fan / rain. here's some Yes songs i'm pondering for fic title inspo tho (bc i can and will force my fave band upon anyone who will listen)

on the silent wings of freedom (on the darkest night so painful / do you hunger for love / midst the torture of being one)

and you and i (a clearer future, morning, evening, nights with you)

holy lamb (and all we need to know / is that the future is a friend of yours and mine)

awaken (wish the sun to stand still / reaching out to touch our own being / past all mortal as we / here we can be)

30. What’s something that you want to write in 2024?: i have an extremely self-indulgent star trek fic idea that i think may only appeal to me and my inner 14-year-old self, to the point that i feel a lil self-conscious talking about it bc it is projection to the highest degree shfjsfjdkfjk it's about mccoy reconnecting with his daughter joanna (specifically, her finding out that he was dying of an incurable disease and had decided to fuck off to live out his life on an asteroid or whatever (he got better don't worry). she calls him up like "what the fuck. you're coming home so i can yell at you about it." he brings jim and spock for moral support)

year in review fic writer ask meme (will gladly answer more asks for this if anyone wants to send any 👀)

#fex replies #anistarrose #when i say it's projection just to be clear it's not a 1-to-1 with me and my dad obviously #but the frustration is there. the distance is there. the fucking off to live on an island is there #i love him very much. sometimes i want to shake his head like a snow globe. these are often both true at the same time

[waitingformyfavoritesongs]

3:55 pmpdt 22 March 2023 Wednesday

Incubus burned my feet. 3:56 pmpdt incubus probably likes slavery & doesn’t want to do hard risky work. Intaglio print making is hard risky work & so is building construction. You will probably never see incubus doing something brave & virtuous. 3:58 pmpdt

4:14 pmpdt 4:15 pmpdt burning possibly acid pain near right hip. I’m afraid of what I might really be. But, I’m also afraid of anyone I don’t know including incubus. Did anyone see the news of a man sitting on a broken window of a tall building in New York? FBI was trying to serve a warrant for bank fraud. Incubus is going to kill me o piece by piece Bcz he’s a liar heinous animal. He doesn’t love women, only vagina. & boobs. But he will do anything heinous to make it look like he’s gay. 4:20 pmpdt dusty rose is the same height as gio. We should assume behati would have went for a younger better looking man if she wasn’t coerced into marriage? 4:21 pmpdt

4:30 pmpdt incubus/miñion burned my vag with acid again. 4:31 pmpdt incubus invented homosexuality. It’s his reverse psychology tactics to vilify homosexuality. 4:32 pmpdt & he’s trying to use those gullible enough to believe in him. It’s a net/web. He sets out multiple ones to normalize & make lying for him acceptable. It’s probably his tactic to get away with child (coughing! Left side rib & skull pains 4:34 pmpdt) 4:35 pmpdt child rape torture murder. He probably plans to set them up like puppets like that 6 year old who shot his kindergarten teacher in the hand. Maybe she’s his type. & then he says oh that kid did that Bcz he’s evil. But they could tell that I was going to be b4 I was conceived? B4 I was born? So maybe my youngest sister has different parents & she’s a surrogate baby? Is that what happened to king david & bathsheba? I doubt it. Naming someone pee sounds insulting. I forgot my thought. King David was goat. But it’s not okay for women to be loose. Los= loose saw it in online dictionary. Reverse psychology crap. I don’t believe in myself anymore but he destroyed a part of my brain. I’m a sacrificial lamb. 4:42 pmpdt acid under skin arms. He is doing it to torture me. No matter how or what I will be dead. Soon. Tortured to death. Bcz he sets it up easy. So he has an alibi. But I bet it would be really hard to see him the same way if it was his own p*nis caught in the act. But he controls everything. So how can you catch him? The only thing you would have to go on is anything that makes it look like he’s trying to hide something. Like torturing me & isolating me. $ you can tell he has all sorts of escapes. Bcz if power. Not admitting anything. Not facing his accusers. Not going to court. Possibly framing some one for things they didn’t do. Making other people sacrifice. & lying about marriage & children & love & s*xual flings. 4:49 pmpdt lying about artistic ideas. Lacking integrity. 4:49 pmpdt do you think a woman is more likely to have integrity? Children probably would never have survived without it? 4:50 pmpdt it’s. The battle of the s*xes. Gender. 4:51 pmpdt

5:02 pmpdt I really doubt people would live 1000 years. It’s probably closer to 200 years. 5:03 pmpdt that 900+ years with Noah I have to wonder if that was in Alaska ? Wondering but I have a mental block that keeps me from completing the evaluation in my mind. 5:04 pmpdt

5:05 pmpdt tongue acid? 😞pain & left upper skull 💀 pain. 5:05 pmpdt 5:06 pmpdt incubus doesn’t want to do any hard work himself. He doesn’t want to harvest more raw new material from asteroids ☄️ that he made with the power of black holes 🕳 which operates acid throat pain like the vacuum cleaners of the universe. He would rather kill me off slowly and put me through slow agonizing death ☠️ to save capitalism. Everyone was cruel to me so I don’t really see the point in capitalism. 5:08 pmpdt he’s a lazy b*tch. He likes easy smart stuff not hard stuff. 5:09 pmpdt in my intaglio printmaking class most of my classmates were women. Gum pain. 5:10 pmpdt incubus is eating my gums. 5:10 pmpdt

5:12 pmpdt I only remember 2 guys in that class. 5:13 pmpdt the teacher 👨🏻‍🏫 was a man 👨 & the class assistant was a woman.

5:15 pmpdt when I was in schoool (5:13 pmpdt jaw bone 🦴 pain sharp stab in btwn? Gum & tooth 🦷?) 5:16 pmpdt I thought 💭 yellow? Orange? Lights were used to reduce light 💡 pollution so more stars 🌟 are visible in the night sky 🌌 but it’s okay. 5:18 pmpdt

5:19 pmpdt I felt my gums hurt & tighten so I assumed bad stuff was happening. Incubus is heinous b*tch. 5:20 pmpdt

5:22 pmpdt so, incubus wants manjeri an example of me without high lighting his sh*t? 😑I HATE incubus. 5:23 pmpdt I wish incubus would change his name from Adam to incubus vag pain sharp 5:23 5:24 pmpdt I think it’s more fitting.

5:33 pmpdt he wants people to think 💭 I’m crazy. Probably to hide his human s*x trafficking activities. He probably has pizza 🍕 gate at his other mansions behati doesn’t go to. 5:35 pmpdt

8:17 pmpdt incubus made the bathroom smell very bad. I’m confused now. The chemical smell that I smelled b4, I wonder if it was actually mold or mildew? You think architects would have solved this problem with the way they charge for this minisuite. Architects are probably heinous b*tches Bcz that’s what Scott’s dad david? Is. Cano. 8:21 pmpdt he raised that b*tch. They both let me eat the one black banana at their house and told me it was good for me. Is it???????? 😵😖😭😤😤🥵🥵8:22 pmpdt also that Tiffany fry? In Los Gatos who found a mountain 🏔 lion 🦁 in her backyard? Incubus is trying to cash in on a story I held onto for days. We are not collaborating. He’s only trying to save his own ass. 8:24 pmpdt si you don’t really think 💭 that he’s the way that I suspect him to be. He really REALLY hurt me badly a lot. 8:25 pmpdt