Andromeda - Blog Posts
An Early Documentation of the Safety Dance
Andromeda by Juan Antonio de Frías y Escalante
running from my own life now
i'm really turning some time
looking up to the sky for something
i may never find
What’s Up - February 2018
What’s Up For February?
This month, in honor of Valentine's Day, we'll focus on celestial star pairs and constellation couples.
Let's look at some celestial pairs!
The constellations Perseus and Andromeda are easy to see high overhead this month.
According to lore, the warrior Perseus spotted a beautiful woman--Andromeda--chained to a seaside rock. After battling a sea serpent, he rescued her.
As a reward, her parents Cepheus and Cassiopeia allowed Perseus to marry Andromeda.
The great hunter Orion fell in love with seven sisters, the Pleiades, and pursued them for a long time. Eventually Zeus turned both Orion and the Pleiades into stars.
Orion is easy to find. Draw an imaginary line through his belt stars to the Pleiades, and watch him chase them across the sky forever.
A pair of star clusters is visible on February nights. The Perseus Double Cluster is high in the sky near Andromeda's parents Cepheus and Cassiopeia.
Through binoculars you can see dozens of stars in each cluster. Actually, there are more than 300 blue-white supergiant stars in each of the clusters.
There are some colorful star pairs, some visible just by looking up and some requiring a telescope. Gemini's twins, the brothers Pollux and Castor, are easy to see without aid.
Orion's westernmost, or right, knee, Rigel, has a faint companion. The companion, Rigel B, is 500 times fainter than the super-giant Rigel and is visible only with a telescope.
Orion's westernmost belt star, Mintaka, has a pretty companion. You'll need a telescope.
Finally, the moon pairs up with the Pleiades on the 22nd and with Pollux and Castor on the 26th.
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NASAs SWIFT has made the largest ever ultraviolet image of the Andromeda Galaxy. The image shows a region 200,000 light-years wide and 100,000 light-years high
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Headcanon: Ryder twins planting a tree on Earth during their last days in the Milky Way. “It’s nice to feel we’re leaving a trace here, right Scott?”
Headcanon: Ryder is actually a huge Shepard fan: she idolizes her a lot and wants to be just like her. What she doesn’t know is that she already took the first step: Shepard ate potato chips in bed as well.
I’ll probably regret coming up with my Ryder’s looks before knowing character creator’s limitations, but whatever. Meet Nef Ryder, a Shepard fangirl, a free spirit and the smart sibling.
I resisted the hype for long enough, but…
So I’m still full of ME3 feels and I was listening to some music and it struck me how much Florence and the Machine’s “Over the Love” fit post-synthesis Shepard x Liara romance. So here it is, a short comic featuring Dr Liara T’Soni, @cosmicawesome‘s Shepard and their everlasting love (even gone, he’s always by her side). Also I’m too lazy to clean up them scans, whatever.
So I’m finally playing ME3 and I just have too many feelings. I can’t get myself to finish the last mission… I have this morbid feeling…
This is a snip of The Sharpest View Ever of the Andromeda Galaxy.
You need to go to the cite to experience it.
Source: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton (University of Washington, USA), B. F. Williams (University of Washington, USA), L. C. Johnson (University of Washington, USA), the PHAT team, and R. Gendler.
On Melancholy Hill 🌃🌌❤
#universe #baymax #balalalala #gorillaz
Andromeda Black
2/3……. Narcissa is next
*Translation* :
- I’m ready! What do you think?
* Narcissa's Silent Admiration*
- Are we going to go already!?
- Trixie, don't grumble, we're on our way out
Alright, let's talk Mass Effect: Andromeda, shall we, darlings?
Possible Characters: As far as I know, there is leaked in for about a Krogan named Drak and a female character of an unknown race. Main Character: The main character is said to be named Ryder, after the first American Female Astronaut, Sally Ride. Their origin is currently unreleased, as well as their default face, but they are, in fact, a human member of the N7 unit, probably meaning that they have a companion/possible love interest also in that unit. The environments/world exploration: Pioneering! Adventuring! FUCKING OPEN WORLDS!!! I don't know how wide! But there might be open maps, like in Dragon Age: Inquisition! The Mako is back! You can create settlements for races across the Andromeda galaxy while kicking ass in space!!! (*sigh* sorry, had to get that out...too much excitement) The story: Thus far as I can tell, you are Ryder, a human, pioneering new homes for races of the Milky Way in their destination of the Andromeda Galaxy. There's a few new species of aliens (possibly romancable, I don't know) and a race that wants to pick a fight and kill your people. So, in conclusion...get out there, buy lots of chocolate and sweatpants, because this shit is gonna be emotional. And in the words of Commander Jane Shepard...this is me, signing off...to go scoll in more blogs 😎
33% download of the Mass Effect: Andromeda Deluxe Edition. This will be my first time playing this game, and I am excited to play it! Especially, after I completed the ME trilogy in a week and a half. I really enjoyed the romance, and I worked really hard to make sure my characters thrived. I can no longer say the same for myself, but I can say I feel better.
I almost have the courage to be accountable for my actions take action for a good cause. Like Shepard and her friends, I want to choose the paragon life and lead a way of being that is enriching and woke. Compared to my comfort as a closeted wreck in a conservative family of sexism and neglect.
I need to take steps towards a just future, and enjoying a hobby like video games can be okay if I balance work and play.
black family hcs
Sirius looks more like his mother than his father, and Regulus is just the opposite (yes, Orion and Walburga shared a shit ton of relatives, but I think they looked quite different)
all the siblings rushed to Andromeda's room whenever they were scared. Be it baby Sirius when the thunder was so loud he couldn't stop trembling, or Narcissa when she was awaiting her OWL results, or Regulus when he felt like he had lost Sirius forever.
Bellatrix was the one who got crucio'd the most. Yes, she was obedient to Voldemort, yes, she supported the dark arts, but her obedience came with a price that was her sanity.
the marauders weren't as sneaky as they thought they were during their first year. It was Narcissa who fine tuned their pranks (she did not like that Sirius was hanging out with blood-traitors, but she was a prankster too) and ensured that they did not get caught.
Regulus sleeps on his arms. He tries to sleep on his back, but for some reason, it never works out.
the reason for the above is that when Sirius and Regulus shared a room (as toddlers), Sirius would always pull Regulus closer to him when the latter was asleep. Many times, they would face each other, Regulus' arms squished between his and Sirius' body and Sirius' arms around his. Regulus does not know this.
Sirius makes time to stargaze at least once a week. When it first started, it was a means of spotting the constellations/stars of all the members in his family, and soon, it became a means of escape the Black brothers used very often.
Sirius also recites names of stars and constellations to keep himself from losing his mind whenever he is crucio'd. This was also what kept him alive in Azkaban apart from redemption.
Narcissa always dutch braids her hair. It annoyed her parents, because they are of French ethnicity, but it was one of the many styles that made her sharp features stand out.
after running away with Ted, Andromeda couldn't sleep for weeks because she fully expected that one of her family members would somehow find her and kill her, or worse, drag her back.
a similar thing took place right after Dora was born for obvious reasons.
Bellatrix loved to play the electric guitar. Her parents didn't know about the guitar she had hid under the floorboards of her room and certainly did not know about the complex magic she had used to start the guitar without the use of electricity (even better, she developed it when she was underage)
Orion's hair and beard were always groomed. Everyone assumed it was magic, but Regulus was the only one who knew that it was due to Sleakzey's, Fleamont Potter's creation. He had been threatened with having to see Sirius getting tortured for three full hours, which was the only reason he carried this secret to the grave.
on a similar note, SIrius also saw Walburga using Sleakzey's to tame her hair. Walburga, however, did not know he knew.
the Blacks always dined together. Even if someone was sent to their room or grounded, they made it a point to ensure everyone important was there to eat their meals. These meals were also frequented by the portraits, and a full extended family conversation would nearly always take place.
the Blacks also had abysmal immunity (incest and good immunity do not go hand in hand in this case). However, Kreacher was great at healing charms, so it was very tough to tell when someone was actually sick.
every single Black sibling was not straight, apart from Andromeda, who would throw her fists at anyone who showed even a smidge of homophobia.
Walburga had developed a counter-charm for the permanent fixing charm, and when Sirius found out, he stayed up for five whole days to successfully find a way to make something impervious to Walburga's counter charm.
However, he had forgotten about it during his time in Azkaban, and didn't have the energy to recover it after that.
Andromeda's favourite colour was green. Not the green that characterised slytherin (she thought it was elegant, but it wasn't her taste), but the light green that symbolises new life.
Bellatrix tried to run away once. It did not work.
Regulus, though he loves rings, hates that they sometimes get stained by ink. Therefore, he started wearing them as necklaces, and it isn't rare to see him loosening them during the day.
he did not risk it at home though, especially after he was declared the heir.
My AstralVerse next gen couples
Cryptic Enthusiasm (pink haired earth pony) is not from AstralVerse, but Dapper Hooves (the brown pegasus) is, and he's a Time Lord, so he can visit other universes
Pictures of the Andromeda Galaxy (The Galaxy Neighboring Ours)