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cloudselkie · 2 years

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Moontowers sound like something out of Welcome to Night Vale, but they are real and they are in Austin.

A moonlight tower or moontower is a lighting structure designed to illuminate areas of a town or city at night.

The towers were popular in the late 19th century in cities across the United States and Europe; they were most common in the 1880s and 1890s. In some places they were used when standard street-lighting, using smaller, shorter, and more numerous lamps, was impractically expensive. In other places they were used in addition to gas street lighting. The towers were designed to illuminate areas often of several blocks at once, on the "high light" principle. Arc lamps, known for their exceptionally bright and harsh light, were the most common method of illumination. As incandescent electric street lighting became common, the prevalence of towers began to wane.

Moonlight towers in Austin, Texas, near TxDOT headquarters, served as inspiration for some of the first high-mast lighting towers in the US in the 1960s and 1970s.

- Wikipedia, "Moonlight Tower"

In 1894, the City of Austin purchased 31 used towers from Detroit. They were manufactured in Indiana by Fort Wayne Electric Company and assembled onsite. Some have claimed that Austin put up moonlight towers partially in response to the actions of the Servant Girl Annihilator, also known as the Midnight Assassin, but in fact the towers were not erected until 1894 and 1895, ten years after the murders took place.

When first erected, the towers were connected to electric generators at the Austin Dam, completed in 1893 on the site of present-day Tom Miller Dam. In the 1920s their original carbon-arc lamps, which were exceedingly bright but time-consuming to maintain, were replaced by incandescent lamps, which gave way in turn to mercury vapor lamps in the 1930s. The mercury vapor lamps were controlled by a switch at each tower's base. During World War II, a central switch was installed, allowing citywide blackouts in case of air raids.

- Wikipedia, "Moonlight Towers (Austin, TX)"

#moontower #moonlight tower #austin #austin tx #victorian #Edwardian #neat history

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oui1024 · 5 months

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did a quick doodle of a mechaflora tree idea between assignments yesterday

also! lore tidbit: they arent related to sievils and also generally cant be found in the same areas as sievils- many sievils are territorial and aggressive towards other tall objects and creatures, and moonlight trees don't have much in the way of defending themselves

#my art #doodle #sketch #worldbuilding #moonlight tower #mechanical plant #robot plant #doodles #art

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falloutsaintscity · 1 year

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That “Order of the New Sun” has been real popular recently, for obvious reasons. I can’t help but wonder, though, if they were a little more than just “lucky”…

#fallout saint city #fallout fan project #fallout #moonlight tower #st louis #art

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moodyseal · 19 days

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TOApril Day 6 - Hair Holds Memories

Meg's hair is one of my favourite characteristics of hers because its growth is so intrinsically tied to her freedom of choice and the memories of her loved ones. I'll never forgive Nero for taking that freedom away from her 😭

#it's just impossible for me to be on time with the prompts LMAO #'moonlight reflection' is baking!!!#toa #pjo #trials of apollo #percy jackson #apollo #lester papadopoulos #meg mccaffrey #the tower of nero #toapril #toapril 2024 #lonely thoughts #my art

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 6 months

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𝔳𝔦𝔩𝔱𝔦𝔰𝔳𝔪

#viltisvm #art #artwork #painting #illustration #occultism #occult art #full moon #moonlight #gothic aesthetic #macabre art #morbid #castle #tower

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lunar-system · 3 months

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Izzy Hands: The Moon.

Re-imagined from the traditional Ride-Waite-Smith tarot, this version of the Moon shows Izzy taking the shape of a lone Lover, longing for what he cannot reach.

Longer exploration of the card's symbolism under the cut.

Symbolism of the card

I initially meant this card to be specifically Izzy's, but he is once again unseparable from Ed. Though the moon itself is depicted as Ed, it is through Izzy that I interpret the journey of the card. Feel free to invent your own interpretation as well!

In the original version of the Moon we see a dog, a wolf, and a crayfish. Izzy takes the place of the wolf, marking him as wild and untameable. He is accompanied by a dog, symbolizing his loyalty. The crayfish has retreated, and we can see a monster lurking in the depths of the water, reminding us of the beasts that lie within.

Rachel Pollack (2011) writes: "The Moon signifies the dangerous time between the end of one world structure and the beginning of another. On the emotional level it can indicate the strange state when something powerful has ended and you find yourself thrown back on your instincts."

In the card Izzy already has his wooden leg. He his stepping into his role as the Unicorn, marking a shift in his loyalty and his place in the world. His reign as Blackbeard's first mate is ending, and a whole new world order is being imagined.

Ed is also seen in a new light. With his short beard, he is at the end of his captaincy, possibly even at the end of his piracy. He as the Moon is illuminated by the light of the Sun, personified by Stede in another card, The Sun.

Izzy bears witness to their combined light, unreachable to him on the ground. He teeters at the edge of the water illuminated by that very light, and is faced with a choice. Will he turn, follow the path and try to reach the unreachable? Or will he explore the unknown waters in front of him?

In tarot, water symbolizes emotions, intuition and subconscious. Pollack writes: "Here in the unknown territory our animal selves take over. We cannot suppress the wild emotions but only travel through them." The message of the Moon beckons Izzy to step into the water and face his emotions.

However, there are also dangers in the murky waters of the subconscious. Pollack continues: "The Moon card calls forth powerful dreams, visions, and the power of the feminine." In tarot water is a feminine element. Izzy, a beacon of masculinity, has in the past confused the feminine with the monstrous. He is now dared to invite the feminine within him to the surface. His posture already mirrors that of the feminine lover from the Lovers-card. It also calls back to the Fool, to someone at the beginning of their self-discovery.

Tl;dr: Izzy, the Fool and the Lover, is on a journey from one world to another. Will he follow the path and try to reach the unreachable, or will he find the courage to plunge into unknown waters?

A comparison between the original Rider-Waite-Smith card from 1909 and the re-imagined version

Izzy's pose mirrors the feminine Lover

Sources

Image source: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, republished as Tarot of A. E. Waite, 2016, AGM-Urania, Germany

Text source: Rachel Pollack, A Journey of 78 Steps, 2011, as cited in the booklet for instruction and guidance of Tarot of A. E. Waite, 2016, AGM-Urania, Germany

#there is even more symbolism in the lighthouses that are topped with the domes from the Tower but it's so much already #it's about the journey between life and death #ofmd #our flag means death #izzy hands #edizzy #steddyhands #blackhands #i'm tagging this as ships cause i ship them all and i made this with shipperly intentions #even if it's not like explicitly shipping content #ed teach #edward teach #blackbeard #gosh i went to some deep waters with this myself #i mean there is so much to interpret here #is izzy shooting for the moon with ed? has he lifted ed high on the pedestal himself?#what does it mean that the water is lit by moonlight?#to me this is the point in fics where izzy does not yet know how he would fit in the steddyhands triangle and doesn't see it possible #and maybe it won't be unless he accepts some things and allows himself to feel #but it can also be read that he needs to let ed go #in either case water is discovery and acceptance #i am planning to make ed the star and stede the sun as well!#my fanart

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illustratus · 20 days

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The Galata Tower by Moonlight by Ivan Aivazovsky

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burnt-cookii · 8 months

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{ L ♡ V E }

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cryptid-gore-arts · 1 year

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moonlight cookie is finally home so i made these to celebrate Ko-fi | Commissions

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samaeljigoku · 1 year

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Artwork / print ad for Moonlight Syndrome for PS1, from my stash of retro horror preservation stuff. The Twilight and Moonlight Syndrome games were a Japan-exclusive, but you'll likely recognize Human as the creators of Clock Tower. These are very similar to that series.

#ヒューマン #human entertainment #japanese horror #clock tower #ps1 #playstation 1 #survival horror #horror games #obscure games #ムーンライトシンドローム #moonlight syndrome #japan only games #retro games

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sexhaver · 8 months

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i knew respeccing Astarion as a STR-based shadow monk with Tavern Brawler was going to be better than his baseline build but i wasn't expecting it to be THIS much better. mans is teleporting all over the place doing 50+ damage and stunning shit left and right. once he gets his second bonus action from subclassing Thief it's over for these hoes

#i had him bite araj for the strength potion and am going to let him get revenge by punching her head in half when i purge moonlight tower

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pwurrz · 1 year

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when you’re so gay you abandon your duties as the guardian of the seas to build a tower to spend all day staring at your crush hoping she notices you, only for her to finally notice your pining and whisk you away in such a spectacular fashion that the story of your love turns into a literal fairy tale

#wow sea fairy how come you get to join your wife AND get a legendary costume out of it???#anyways there’s no heterosexual explanation for this #these cookies gay good for them #no but that’s literally sea fairy’s special furniture animation #her standing at the top of her tower and receiving a drop of moonlight only to show her sword in return #glad it has an explicitly gay backstory now!!!#cookie run kingdom #sea fairy cookie #moonlight cookie #seamoon

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dragomircho · 8 months

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