The Moon with featured craters (right to left) Petavius, Balmer, Langrenus, Apollonius, and Firmicus and seas Mare Fecunditatis (”Sea of Fertility”) and Mare Crisium (”Sea of Crises”) // Georges
Petavius crater is named after the French Jesuit Denis Pétau (1583-1652) known for his works on chronology.
Balmer crater is named after the Swiss mathematician Johann Balmer (1825-1898) who studied the hydrogen atom, discovering its series of optical emission lines.
Langrenus crater is named after the Dutch astronomer Michael van Langren (1598-1675) who used observations of the Moon to help determine longitude on Earth.
Apollonius crater is named after Apollonius of Perga (c. 240 BC - 190 BC), an ancient Greek astronomer who defined the terms ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola, and introduced eccentric orbits for the planets.
Firmicus crater is named after Julius Firmicus Maternus (c. 300s AD), a Roman astrologer.
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"L'Ivresse du Pouvoir" de Claude Chabrol (2006) - inspiré par "L'Affaire Elf" conduite par la juge Eva Joly (1994) - avec Isabelle Huppert, Thomas Chabrol, Robin Renucci, Patrick Bruel, Marilyne Canto, François Berléand, Jean-François Balmer, Jacques Boudet, Roger Dumas, Pierre Vernier, Jean-Marie Winling et Philippe Duclos, avril 2023.
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Untitled by Jesse Balmer
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Designs by Jonny Negron and myself. All the colors are Jonny. 9x12 Sold! Jonny's photostream: www.flickr.com/photos/jonnynegron/ Jonny's website: www.jonnynegron.com
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Barbara Balmer (British, 1929-2017), Hallway and a White Dove Preening, 2001. Watercolour and gouache, 31 x 41.75 in.
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I liked sparklecare until the author did this odd thing where villainous or morally questionable characters are always strictly cishet and even said it was their hard-line rule? Like LGBT characters can never be antagonists or abusive which just felt weird to me, maybe they relaxed on that though I dunno? I am def never offended if a villain shares my gender in a series where good guys can be like me anyway I mean
TLDR: Yeah, there's some weird gender bias with the characters sometimes. Anyways, *starts talking about Awful Hospital again*
Also, spoilers for both Sparklecare Hospital and Awful Hospital. (up to page 41 of SH and various plot point/character reveals for Awful Hospital)
I haven't read too far into the comic myself to confirm, and the genders of the characters were kind of vague anyways thanks to Nurse Mood's shitty notetaking (EDIT: I learned about the existence of the 'Cast' page, my bad), but yeah I've definitely seen a pattern where the LGBT characters are all 'good', regardless of whether they're a patient or employed by the hospital.
For example, Mood and Ms. Dies are in a lesbian relationship. They're also both employed by the hospital, and despite this are portrayed sympathetically, in opposition to Dr. Cuddles' being genuinely malicious and cruel, as seen below:
...Even though it's also shown that Mood doesn't give half a shit about the patients, either.
Now, if you want some equal, well-handled representation, look no further than seriously one of the worst best webcomics of all time...
Awful Hospital, despite the majority of its cast not even being remotely human, has some great LGBTQ representation in both it's heroes and its villains! Well, 'villains'. The only real villain is the Big Bad(s) of the series, everyone else is just doing what they gotta do in order to survive.
Speaking of which, this is E.M. Balmer. He's a villain of a whole arc, and has a sort of "kid's cartoon villain" vibe. Goofy, incredibly self-absorbed, and affably evil. He's also implied to have some sort of interest in another male character, Dr. Phage.
Also, just tell me this beefcake isn't some sort of a Gay. Just look at him.
...AAAANYWAYS, in terms of heroic queer characters, you've got your choice between the Lesbians and the Trans.
Celia and Staph are this really sweet fungal/bacterial couple who have like a trillion kids and are also besties with the person who's corpse they live in.
Miss is cleverly implied to be trans with this line here:
Which, personally, I think is really cool!!!!
ALSO I JUST REMEMBERED, THERE ARE ALSO SCISSORS WHO ARE LESBIANS! AND ALSO THESE STAIN MOMS
Also, I realize I didn't really talk much about how cool and epic Awful Hospital's LGBTQ+ characters are very much, buuuut that's because I'm tired and need to sleep so whatever
Anyways, goodnight tumblr people, and...
Read Awful Hospital for fuck's sake!!!
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