As a child, I thought Neptune was the coolest fucking planet ever. It was blue. A gas giant. Didn’t have a ridiculous “your anus” type name, and had some crazy facts such as having winds almost twice the speed of sound, an atmosphere full of ice and frozen methane. I’ll leave the rest to the wiki article

Today, I still think Neptune is the coolest celestial body in the solar system. Young sodi had the right idea.

What’s your favorite celestial body? Can be outside the solar system. No rules on this. Except for choosing Sagittarius A. Fuck Sagittarius A.

Bonus content: sonorification of emitted frequencies of planets and bodies. In other words, these are what rhe frequencies of various space things would sound like.

Earth’s frequencies sounding like birds (space) is most terrifying thing ever and I hate it. There should not be birds in space.

Some space photos:

Horsehead Nebula:

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  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    21 天前

    i don’t know if i fully understand why you would glaze shadows and lights onto a miniature. like can’t you just get some actual light in and have them that way? i dunno still need to do some highlights tho atleast

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      • GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        21 天前

        awh ty ty cat-trans i’m going for the trans flag colour scheme bridget-pride

        the idea with painting on shadows is mostly because it lets you get darker, sharper shadows than you would get with a flat coat. it also lets you control where the source “lighting” is coming from, and how intense it is (especially useful if your character has a lantern or removed magic). it’s definitely not needed for the tabletop, but if painting is what you enjoy then it’s something to think about.

        huh thinking-about-it alright, thank you.

    • Eco [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      21 天前

      the idea with painting on shadows is mostly because it lets you get darker, sharper shadows than you would get with a flat coat. it also lets you control where the source “lighting” is coming from, and how intense it is (especially useful if your character has a lantern or removed magic). it’s definitely not needed for the tabletop, but if painting is what you enjoy then it’s something to think about.

    • Sierra [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      20 天前

      Painting shadows and light on your miniature make your details seem more deep than they actually are and allow you to create a narrative around the lighting that you control (as opposed to being at the whims of the room you are in). For instance, my Dark Eldar are “lit” from below by the hot pink disco planet they are on.