Hey check out my :cool: animation hahaz

me joining the bmc fandom in 2025: awh why is the fandom dead?? this musical is so good :(( *it peaked in 2019 and i missed everything*

jokes aside very happy theres still a lot of you out there that enjoys this silly lil slime tutorial as well as interacted with my art of it too. you guys seem so cool !!!

I LUV HERRRR !1!!

COMFORT

this sound.. is so.. KAWAII!!! KYA ! >///<

yall know i had to hop on this trend 😍 i just forgor to make the drawings extra cringe frik :3

I’m SO COOKED🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀also btw ppl need to invest more into Kai falling for laurie first then laurie falling WAYYY HARDER for Kai i sound crazy CRAZY I WAS CRAZY ONCE

headcanon that laurie, yuwen, and kai all have anxiety; it just shows up in different ways for each of them, and they each respond to it differently.

laurie - usually gets stuck in a loop of overthinking social interactions. thoughts spiraling, everything's overwhelming, etc. usual response is to try and brush it off as irrational; she deals with anxiety the most frequently, she's the most used to it. if that fails, she'll try whatever she can do to feel grounded before it builds up to a breakdown point.

yuwen - gets physical anxiety. can't breathe as well when he gets upset, feels kinda sick, etc. usual response is to immediately start acting completely on impulse to try to change the situation, but he also just freezes up sometimes.

(on the note of physical anxiety, taylor canonically deals with anxiety-induced nausea, but i think that's more of a specific reaction to feeling anxious at all, rather than a recurring anxiety. i could be wrong, though. hm. i wish we got an episode from taylor's perspective. :/ )

kai - she'll catastrophize situations and their consequences. "world is ending" type anxiety when she messes up, sinking sensation of feeling out of control, etc. usual response is to try to force herself through it, shoving the anxiety down and grasping onto whatever she can fix about what's happening.

anyways, yeah. i think those kids have anxiety. <3

My faves ARGH

honey buddha chip murder 😾⚠️

"A Rose By Any Other Name"

"A rose by any other name...would smell as sweet" is the well known phrase from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, roughly meaning something's essence or true nature isn't defined by its name, and even if it were called something else, it would still be the same thing; essentially, a label doesn't change the reality of something. Of course you can't smell a galaxy. But, looking at this you are probably not thinking about the violent universe surrounding the tidal distortions from this galactic interaction. You are more likely thinking of the shape😊

This image is featured on the NASA APOD site for January 9, 2025

The 273rd entry in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (published in 1966) is often referred to as the "rose galaxy" or "cosmic rose". Arp 273 is a pair of interacting galaxies, 300 million light years away in the constellation Andromeda. The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, is about five times more massive than the smaller galaxy. (The Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies (UGC) is a catalogue of 12,921 galaxies visible from the northern hemisphere. It was first published in 1973). The larger companion has a disc that is tidally distorted into a rose-like shape by the gravitational pull of the smaller galaxy below it, known as UGC 1813. The smaller galaxy shows distinct signs of active star formation at its nucleus, and it is thought that the smaller galaxy has actually passed through the larger. (Wikipedia)

This was a fairly challenging target for what was kind of a first light for the 16" telescope equipment upgrade. Both camera and focuser were replaced which was discussed in an earlier post. Arp 273 is barely 2 arcmin in apparent size and is quite dim, close to magnitude 14. The image scale here is 0.56 arcsec per pixel. This may be the most distant object I have imaged to date! At 300 million light years from Earth, the light from Arp 273 left the galaxy about 60 million light years before the dinosaurs first appeared here on Earth!

Image info:

Location: SkyPi Remote Observatory, Pie Town, NM US Telescope: Officina Stellare RiDK 400mm Camera: QHY 600M Mount: Paramount MEII Data: LRGB 9.5, 7.5, 4.5, 5 hours respectively; 2x2 binning; 0.56 arcsec/ pixel Processing: Pixinsight

Where is it? At the time of this posting, in the Northern Hemisphere, Arp 273 is directly overhead about an hour after sunset in the constellation Andromeda (blue circle and arrow). The numbers at the bottom of this graphic refer to the magnitudes of the stars pictured (black dots). The lower the number the brighter. So for example Venus has an apparent magnitude of around -4 at its' brightest. Magnitude is a logarithmic scale. Each magnitude is around 2.5 times brighter or dimmer than the previous. Arp 273, at magnitude 14 approximately, is therefore about 15 million times dimmer than Venus! That's pretty dim!

Thanks for reading!

DrDave

Source: "A Rose By Any Other Name"