#astrocracy

[blazingdarkness]

How much of the insane cylinder Roman empire astrology world is canon from warrior cats, and how much is you?

Almost none of it is from warriors! Really the only thing is that they call midnight 'moonhigh' and for the most part this seems to be literal except that they also have an eclipse at one point. Everything else is me; I thought it would be funny to staple a separate setting on for what was going on with the humans.

[blazingdarkness]

rlly excited about the lineart coloring sneak I figured out while doing this. have a random veronan citizen

[blazingdarkness]

You Twinkle Above Us

When you look up at the night sky, what do you see?  Stars!  Far too many stars to count.  They twinkle above us and watch over everything we do.

The sun is so very bright that stars are difficult to see in the daytime.  But they're still there!  They are always shining down from the shell at the edge of the universe.

Each and every star represents a person who once existed, just like you and me.  Eventually you'll be one too!

When you're a star, what will it be like?  Well, you will start out not too different from how you are now.  You will be you-sized, and like and dislike all the same things you already do.  But you will not have a body, and you will not be down on the surface of the Earth.  You will be way up high in the sky, and you will be just your soul!  Your soul is everything that makes you who you are on the inside.

There will also be a new dot of light in the sky that night, but that type of star is not a new body.  It is a representation of you, like a drawing or a picture.  What's your favorite drawing or picture of yourself?

(Did you know?  Stars look like little white dots from far away, but up close, you can see they actually have five points, like these!  Can you draw a star?)

There are so very many stars in the sky that you're sure to find another one who fits very well with you.  For most people, it's one of their geminis, but for other people it can be someone else, or a whole group of other stars!  It's different for every single person.

When you find them, you will no longer be just yourself and you-sized.  You will turn into one star cloud, together, like pouring lemondade and orange juice together into a pitcher.  There's twice as much to drink, and the pitcher has everything that made lemonade the way lemonade is and everything that made orange juice the way orange juice is, but it's something entirely new!

This same thing will happen again and again and again and again and again.  Someday you will be as big as you can possibly be, and all the other stars will be part of the same cloud with you!

(Some medium-sized star clouds find a size they like and stay like that for a very long time.  They are very unusual!  We think that someday they will probably join up with the biggest one, too, but that day may be very far away.)

We know all this because grownups and big kids can go up with the stars, and talk to them.  What will you say to the stars once you're old enough?  What do you hope they will say to you?

Some people are scared to be stars.  They want to be the size they are forever.  Other people are excited!  They want to grow up and become a part of something bigger.

How do you feel about becoming a star?  What do you think it will be like when you twinkle above us?

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I’m kind of pleased with how the fake children’s book I wrote for your stare was holdin’ turned out so I decided to crosspost it here too.  I think it stands okay on its own.

[blazingdarkness]

i'm really, really enjoying the unfolding wildness of your interpretation of the worldbuilding in the warrior cats thread! is this something you'd built out before for other fic, or is this its first outing?

gosh'n'goodness, an anon? for me?

In any case, glad you're enjoying - sort of both, is the answer; I had the idea for astrocracy on its own and then decided to staple kittycats onto it, but 'fireheart summons cam' was the first idea I had for an actual plot

(the reason I got out the stapler is that it really is warriorcats canon that the moon is always opposite the sun even though this is, uh, not how the moon works in our world. so when I was making my own cosmology with blackjack and geocentrism because I didn't want to learn our world's astrology, I was like 'oh hey')

((this is also why I ended up adding polaris as an anti-moon floating above the north pole, because you need something weird going on in order to get eclipses when the sun and the moon are never in the sky at the same time! much more sensible to just throw another celestial body into the mix, really))