#celestial navigation

[nobrashfestivity]

Joseph Cornell (American, 1903-1972) Untitled (Celestial Navigation) 1956-1958 Box construction 30.8 x 43.2 x 9.2cm The Robert Lehrman Art Trust, courtesy of Aimee and Robert Lehrman Photo The Robert Lehrman Art Trust, courtesy of Aimee and Robert Lehrman Photography: Quicksilver Photographers, LLC © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2015

#Joseph Cornell #Celestial Navigation #Box construction #sculpture #diorama

[quotespile]

People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.

Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation

#literature #quotes #Anne Tyler #Celestial Navigation #quote #books #lit

[epitomereally]

Celestial Navigation by @sabrecmc

18 year old Omega!Tony finds himself Bonded to Captain Steve Rogers. He isn't happy about it until he is.

An absolutely gorgeous story of learning to love yourself, even when you feel like you don't fit in & that you grew up wrong. I'm so happy to have gotten to bind this mammoth work for Sabre & as a gift exchange for @mourningmountainsbindery (who bound me this beautiful copy of Astolat's Let the River Run—JUST LOOK AT THAT COVER!).

Also to anyone who has @ed me lately (looking at u, em @powerful-owl & tacky @tackytigerfic particularly) & I've been derelict in responding, here is WHY.

This has been the longest binding project I've undertaken, both in page count and in time. My original message to Sabre was on March 16th—can't decide if I want to use the laughing or crying emoji here—and the colophon says I made the book in April 2023 (which was when I started typesetting, maybe). I had been randomly perusing dying videos on Youtube in bed on a Saturday morning, as one does, and came across a video showing how to spiral tie-dye. I IMMEDIATELY had a design premonition of the full design for this fic as a two-volume set, planted into my brain wholesale by the binding gods. I learned many new techniques throughout the process (edge painting, edge trimming/sanding, tie-dying/dyepainting, embroidery, typesetting meta from tumblr which copy-pastes with the worst goddamn formatting in the world, kill me now). Overall, alternately extremely painful & wonderful, and I'm extremely proud of this set.

Design-wise, I went whole-hog with the scifi stars theme. Endpapers are recolored versions of the star charts from the Apollo 11 mission:

Title page & chapter titles are both rips in the galaxy:

Epigraphs both star-themed:

Some more glamor shots because I'm so proud 💕

8.6 lbs // 3.8 kgs worth of books (~3000 total pages) 🥰

Celestial Navigation is also INCREDIBLY popular, and Sabre has been incredibly generous answering asks on her tumblr + writing additional one-shots in the universe. There is also a veritable volume of fanart. I was so inspired by seeing @robins-egg-bindery copy of ********, with its appendix of fanart & meta, that I promptly copied them.

fanart redacted because lots of the artists are no longer active on tumblr but just know i am ECSTATIC about the amount of art in these books

Lastly, I love how @clovenhoofbindery includes their 'Illustrator mess' with their bind posts, as a behind-the-scenes look into the wild process of designing these books. I don't actually have an Illustrator mess for this book (the chapter titles & title page pretty much came in one take), but I do have a DYING MESS. It took me sososo many tries to figure out how to get the dye to look how I imagined in my head. I ended up 'dye painting' instead of tie-dying in the end, but my inbox is always open to chat hand-dying/tie-dying/dyepainting (or what I did differently between any of these attempts). Numbers are the dying attempt.

Last process shot: I hand-dyed variegated linen thread to match the colors of the bind, which ends up being incredibly difficult to see on the finished bind, but was super fun while I was sewing!

Materials:

Body font: Kepler

Title font: Compaq 1982

Chapter number font: aliens & cows

Endpapers: recolored versions of the star chart used by Michael Collins during the Apollo 11 mission (archived at The Smithsonian)

Bookcloth: dyed using Dharma Trading Procion Fiber-Reactive Dyes

Title page and chapter headers: designed in Photoshop using the Ultimate Space brush pack by jeffrettalyn on DeviantArt

Metallic embroidery thread: Cosmo Nishikiito thread

I would dye for this embroidery thread. It is LIGHT YEARS better than the classic metallic embroidery thread from DMC: much easier to work with & much more sparkly. Literally so eye-catching; it truly doesn't translate to photos.

Paint for edges: Daniel Smith watercolor tubes in Iridescent Sunstone and Prussian Blue

Note: these are GORGEOUS watercolors. The color is so saturated and strong and beautiful BUT I don't think I'd recommend watercolors for edge painting. They went on very differently depending on the grit of the sandpaper I used for the edges + they sometimes bled into the pages + they had to be set with fixative, which then stuck the pages together.

#blood sweat and TEARS into this bind #and now it is DONE my god #stony #stony fanart #celestial navigation #my fanbinding #posts i actually wrote

[java-dragon]

An update on Celestial Navigation I got so far then life smote me. I had to split this puppy into two books.

Fan fic writers really do need more praise.

@sabrecmc an update for you 👋

#celestial navigation #sabrecmc #fanbinding mine #stony fan fic

[litsnaps]

#literature #quotes #Anne Tyler #Celestial Navigation #quote #lit #books #words

[quotablefanfiction]

He hadn’t only dug his own grave, he’d bought the shovel and headstone. Here lies Tony Stark. He was given an inch and took a mile.

Tony POV (chp. 1*) *3 by text

Celestial Navigation by sabrecmc (AO3) Avengers (Marvel Movies) – Explicit – Steve Rogers/Tony Stark #Alternate Universe #Alpha/Beta/Omega #Alpha Steve Rogers #Omega Tony Stark #Teenage Tony Stark #Implied/Referenced Child Abuse #Living Howard and Maria Stark #Attempted Rape/Non-Con (Not between main pairing) #PTSD #Self-Esteem Issues #First-time Sex #Tony as Unreliable Narrator #Secret Identities

Celestial Navigation: 18 year old Omega!Tony finds himself Bonded to Captain Steve Rogers. He isn’t happy about it until he is.

Note: This was originally posted in Celestial Navigation and other Thank You Fics (AO3) which contains some other stories, including a few in the same universe as Celestial Navigation.

Note: This is a restricted story and requires an AO3 account in order to read

#fanfiction #quote #Avengers #Tony Stark #Celestial Navigation #sabrecmc

[historysurvivalguide]

Exploded view of an Astrolabe

#astronomy #astrolabe #astrolabium #stellar navigation #celestial navigation

[kcsplace]

The Continuing Adventures of Casey Mashing The West Wing and Ted Lasso Together  because she can (2/?)

#Ted lasso #coach beard #leslie higgins #rebecca welton #brendan hunt #hannah waddingham #jeremy swift #the west wing #celestial navigation #west wing ted laso baybee

[onekisstotakewithme]

I should not be allowed a canva account

#josh lyman #cj cregg #the west wing #tww #celestial navigation #meme

[write-and-buried]

Dear, beautiful writter behind the masterpiece called "Celestious navegation": I just finished chapter 6 and I am in awe, truly mesmerized and shamelessly turned on AND I have a question about this quote: "I’ll stretch you enough to take me one day". I wonder how would that happen considering your Dieter surely knows a long list of ways to pleasure someone. I wonder how it would be the preparation and actual act of @nal s*x with that hedonist of a man 🤔

Oh, oh he's absolutely perfect for it. (cw for drug use under the cut)

He's going to take it slow. His life experience works for him here, he's been on both sides of it many times and knows exactly what it takes to make it an enjoyable experience for you both.

With Lou, it probably starts with a brownie. Something that makes you loose and sweet and giggly, the tickle of his beard on your neck as you slowly sink into that huge couch together his hands warm and broad and huge across your ribs as he keeps stripping you of his clothing (that he insists you wear because he likes the way it swallows you)

He's watching you. He always functions a lot better than you do (his tolerance is higher) so he's watching for you, taking note of the way your body twists into his, the way your hips shift into his as he keeps stripping you slowly.

It's mouth first for him always. Sometimes only depending on his mood. Letting you cum on his tongue enough times until you're even more pliant, everything feeling heavy and light at once until he sinks his teeth into your thigh to bring you back to earth.

It's accidental at first. He's naturally a... Messy... Eater shall we say, so the first contact is a shock, zaps electric through your skin as he realises your reaction. Tries it again, watch your face as confusion morphs into pleasure into curiosity. That's the moment he decides it really, the look of wonder in your eyes as a new way to bring you pleasure is opened up for him.

It's his mouth first. Thumb pressing hard against your clit so you can buck into it, correlate that feeling with the sparks of pleasure that sit heavy in your chest. He drowns your senses with it, the raw feral noises he's making, the sloppy wetness of his mouth until he slips a finger inside you so easy you can't remember why it ever made you nervous.

Two brings a sting. Just enough for your brows to raise as he drags his mouth all over you, watching as he slowly scissors his fingers open, tastes around the sensitive swollen rim of you, coating his fingers in more spit while he searches for the lube you had left on the coffee table three days ago.

He'd make you cum just like that - rocking into his fingers as he kisses your stomach, making you take it from him, show him how much you want it until you're begging him for something more.

It would be easy to lie about it. Say it doesn't hurt, that you don't feel every thick inch of him as he eases himself inside you. That it's easier to focus on his curls, sticking to his forehead, the shine of his beard as he licks his lips, still chasing the taste of you he refuses to wipe from his mouth.

His thighs are heavy against the back of your own. He would press his whole body weight onto you, grab your jaw and make you look at him. Search your cock drunk face until youre relaxed, until he can feel the adjustment around him as he peppers your cheeks and eyelids with soft kisses. You can feel the tension in his shoulders though, the way it vibrates through his voice when he tells you he wants to paint how pretty your tight little ass looks stretched around his cock. The groan he lets out when you laugh is filthy, he sounds as wrecked as you feel.

He wants to watch it. Has you splay your legs, hastily shoving pillows under your hips as he spreads you wide enough to see the way he stretches you and fills you. Slow at first, waiting for the answering twitch of your hips until he speeds up, his fingers digging into your inner thighs as you watch his face, the transfixed way he doesn't notice his damp hair falling into his eyes, the sweat that's beading at his neck as he begins to just talk. It makes no sense, the filth coming from his mouth but you don't really care, his hand inching closer to touch your clit, a grin kicking his mouth when you whine and twist for him.

He'd cram his fingers in your cunt before long. Begging you for a taste as he slips his fingers in and out of you, bringing them to his mouth as you watch his lips swell.

He'd press *down* and feel himself inside you, mismatching his movements until youre brainless, babbling incoherently, half begging half screaming as you hear the wet and loose smack of his skin on yours.

He'd want you to cum like that too. Want you to clench and release and squirt all over him, feeling it drip and cover his sweaty skin until he doesn't realise hes about to lose it too, his focus so lasered in on you his body seizing with little warning. You're so close when he does, the hot and thick pulse of him inside you leaving you right on the edge as he grabs you hard enough to bruise, a hoarse swear leaving his throat.

He doesn't catch his breath, not really anyway. His hands are still shaking when he pulls out of you, pressing into your thighs to keep you open, scooping his own cum onto his fingers to taste.

"just one more for me yeah?" is all he says before proceeding to cleaning up his mess.

#Dieter bravo #Celestial Navigation #I haven't written in a long time #Do I still have it? #I'm actually asking

[stone-cold-groove]

Artist’s concept of Gemini 6 and 7 orbital rendezvous.

#nasa #gemini mission #spacecraft #space exploration #project gemini #vintage illustration #celestial navigation #space rendezvous

[ancientstuff]

The Minoans don't have the tradition that the Polynesian navigators do of having migrated thousands of miles by the sky, but still a very interesting finding.

#ancient Greece #Minoans #Minos #ancient Crete #archaeology #celestial navigation

[abwatt]

Sun in Aquarius II (30 Jan - 9 Feb. '24)

The Sun enters Aquarius II on January 30, 2024 at 5:13 am EST. Austin Coppock called this decan Heaven and Earth, while T. Susan Chang called it Celestial Navigation — from the Golden Dawn’s name for the card the 6 of Swords associated with this decan, the Lord of Science. The Greeks of Alexandria apparently acknowledged Phobos at this time of year — literally, Fear — with apotropaic rites…

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#2024 #6 of Swords #Aquarius #aquarius II #Aquarius II 2024 #astrology #Celestial Navigation #Heaven and Earth #Lord of Science #Phobos #tarot

[fawnonthelam]

#Practical navigator #sextant #celestial navigation #maritime #sailing #Youtube

[quotespile]

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation

#literature #quotes #Anne Tyler #Celestial Navigation #quote #books #lit

[postersbykeith]

#quotes #Omar Bradley #set your course #stars #celestial navigation #lights of every passing ship