#moriah

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Moriah by morry@MorryEvans

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Unlike the Impel Down coverup, I do think there's some value in the WG trying to use Marineford as an excuse to replace Moriah with a stronger, younger Warlord. I do, however, question the judgement of the person who decided to trust that job to Doflamingo of all people

[kinky-cas]

... after all, it's not nearly as much fun if he has to hang you himself.

6x20 the man who would be king / 14x20 moriah

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The constellation of Delphinus, the Dolphin // E. Slawik/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani

Click below to read more about my favorite constellation as well as an annotated image!

Delphinus, which is Latin for "dolphin," is the first of the constellations in the "Heavenly Waters" family. This is an area of sky between Sagittarius and Orion filled with dim constellations all associated with water thanks to the Mesopotamians.

Delphinus is one of the smaller constellations, but it is one of the original 48 constellations written about by Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century. According to Greek mythology, this dolphin was sent out by Poseidon to find the nereid Amphitrite whom Poseidon wanted to marry. Delphinus did find Amphitrite and convinced her to accept Poseidon's hand in marriage.

There are several named stars here. In order of brightness:

Rotanev (β Delphini) is a binary star system consisting of two equally-bright yellow-white giant stars. The system lies about 101 light years away. Its name has an origin in a practical joke! The Italian astronomer Niccolò Cacciatore worked at and eventually led the Palermo Observatory. His boss, Giuseppe Piazzi published a star atlas, and attached to this star was the obscure name "Rotanev." Niccolò had added this name in honor of himself! His name in English was Nicholas Hunter, which is Latinized to Nicolaus Venator. "Venator" backwards is "Rotanev"!

Sualocin (α Delphini) is an octuple star system with a central triple system consisting of at least one blue-white giant. The entire system lies about 254 light years away. Its name shares its origin with Rotanev: "Sualocin" is "Nicolaus" backwards!

Aldulfin (ε Delphini) is a solitary blue giant star about 330 light years away. Its name comes from the Arabic phrase ðanab ad-dulfīn meaning "the dolphin's tail."

Musica (18 Delphini) is a binary star system consisting of a yellow giant and a red dwarf. The system lies about 245 light years away. It has one confirmed exoplanet orbiting it, about 9 times the mass of Jupiter, named Arion. Both names were given by the people of Japan: Musica is Latin for "music," while Arion is a Greek poet and musician who was supposedly saved at sea by dolphins.

Moriah (HAT-P-23) is a solitary Sun-like star about 1,192 light years away. It has one confirmed exoplanet orbiting it, about twice the mass of Jupiter, named Jebus. Both names were given by the people of Palestine: Moriah is an ancient name for the mountain inside the Old City of Jerusalem, while Jebus is the ancient name for Jerusalem.

[unteriors]

Fairy Lake Road, Moriah, New York.

[soft-pine]

one of my very favorite moments in all of spn is from 14.20...

DEAN: Where the hell have you been? CHUCK: Well, you know, it's a funny story. It reminds me of a song. (Chuck reaches down beside him, picks up a guitar and plays a few notes) DEAN: (grabs the guitar and smashes it on the floor, several times) Answer the damn question!

i've said before and i'll say again that dean "i've never had powers" winchester's anger at beings with power who aren't using them to help people is something i treasure so deeply. and that anger and frustration is such a huge part of dean's relationship with chuck.

but more than that... it's about the guitar, specifically chuck dipping for years at a time and messing around on the guitar...

because that is a dream dean has had for such a long time.

from the guitar in the background of his apartment in the 2.20 dreamworld to dean saying, "I want to be a rock star, but..." in 9.07 to fiddling around on the guitar and saying "who wouldn't" want to be a rockstar in 12.07 to this from 15.05:

ASHLEY: Did you ever want to be anything else? DEAN: Jimi Hendrix.

meanwhile in both s11 and s14, chuck choses the guitar as a way to explore and play around on earth and express himself... yet never without the context that he has so much more power than any person does:

CHUCK: I didn't really learn to play guitar. I just kind of... gave myself the ability.

just a perfect comparison of chuck and dean having the same desire and yet entirely different feelings of responsibility and commitment.

i could watch dean smash god's guitar on a loop for years and never get sick of it

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sam realising that when he prayed to god for salvation for centuries in hell terrified and suffering beyond imagination chuck was enjoying it.