#space bitches

[auxryn]

I painted some more of the Space Bitches finally.

I realized I could kit bash a Terminator Ancient using a spear and shield from a sprue of medieval weapons I had lying around.

I drilled a hole through the Terminator's hand using an aptly-named hand drill then cut the spear in half and reconnected them inside the fist. Then I attached the shield with glue and modelling clay. It looks a bit rough on the reverse side but I am happy with it. Here is a close-up of the banner.

Is it heresy? Only her hairdresser knows.

I wanted to call out this gal as well:

She was the only one of the group not wearing her helmet but I think her face turned out pretty. I like that I managed to give her stubble from shaving her head and even a widow's peak!

Finally I want to talk about this gal:

You may notice she's smaller than the others and her armor is a much older mark. That's because she's one of the original pewter figures from the old days! The mini is probably almost as old as I am.

Some people prefer all the models to be uniform but I like having my antiques. After all, Terminator armor suits are supposed to be ancient and handed down over centuries.

[kisses-in-the-void]

the best of the best in the space fashion world

[clio-muse-of-history]

September 15

This one is technically not yet history, because at the time of posting, the little craft has about half an hour left to go.  That said, let’s proceed.

In 2017, NASA’s Cassini space probe ended its twenty-year mission at Saturn.  After a nearly-seven-year-long journey there, it orbited the ringed planet for 13 years and just over two months, gathering copious amounts of information about the planet, said rings, and many of its moons.  It landed an ESA probe called Huygens on Titan, the first-ever soft landing in the outer Solar System.  It discovered lakes, seas, and rivers of methane on Titan, geysers of water erupting from Enceladus (and passed within 50 miles of that moon’s surface), and found gigantic, raging hurricanes at both of Saturn’s poles.  

And the images it returned are beautiful enough to make you weep.

On this day in 2017, with the fuel for Cassini’s directional thrusters running low, the probe was de-orbited into the Saturnian atmosphere to prevent any possibility of any contamination of possible biotic environments on Titan or Enceladus.  The remaining thruster fuel was used to keep the radio dish pointed towards Earth so the probe could transmit information about the upper atmosphere of Saturn while it was burning up due to atmospheric friction.

This is us at our best.  We spent no small amount of money on a nuclear-powered robot, launched it into space, sent it a billion miles away, and worked with it for two decades just to learn about another planet.  And when the repeatedly-extended missions were through, we made the little craft sacrifice itself like a samurai, performing its duty as long as it could while it became a shooting star in the Saturnian sky.

Rhea occulting Saturn

Water geysers on Enceladus

Strange Iapetus

Look at this gorgeousness

A gigantic motherfucking storm in Saturn’s northern hemisphere

Tethys

This image is from the surface of a moon of a planet at least 746 million miles away.  Sweet lord

Mimas

Vertical structures in the rings.  Holy shit

Titan and Dione occulting Saturn, rings visible

Little Daphnis making gravitational ripples in the rings

That’s here.  That’s home.  That’s all of us that ever lived.

Saturn, backlit

A polar vortex on the gas giant

Icy Enceladus

(All images from NASA/JPL)

[space-the-final-fandom]

The process of making my new pillow case I used 2 full things of 644 dmc floss & probably took 4 days

[thebestcomicking]

While explaining how to draw motorbikes to someone poorly, I remembered what I drew after I learned how to draw one.

[cr-toons]

Hoo Man! Two new oc’s! Bitch boy Giovanni and Sweet Bab Orianna (Technically, they’ were made like 2 years ago but this is the first you’re seeing.) Literally, I had this almost entirely done last year... except... for gio’s one... FUCKING.... HAND!!!! Jesus, I’ve abandoned so many pics just cause I couldn’t draw a hand or arm ;w;

[clio-muse-of-history]

December 25

In 2004, NASA’s Cassini orbiter released the ESA’s Huygens probe, destined to land on Saturn’s moon Titan three weeks later.  That’s right, bitches.  We sent a robot over 800 million miles away and told it to go check out a world with lakes of methane.  That’s the most miraculous thing you’ll ever read about what happened on this day.