dragongirl nestles deeper into her pile of amassed blankets and furs and pillows before the central fire of her mountain lair's entrance hall, the end of a paved road that winds down to a mildly prosperous town in the foothills. residents of that town are marching to meet her, she knows, bearing tribute of food and livestock and jewelry to lull her into quiescence for another month, but the steady rain and misty chill weigh her down like lead; the peasantry will have to march through her courtyards and fortifications to arrange their gifts directly around her, sharing the comforts of her lair for the afternoon, basking in her radiance as she disentangles herself from her nest, draping themselves over her scaled immensity to drink deep of the heat rolling off her
Ladies and their Magic Swords (2019)
Art by: Serge Birault
based on a story idea i had where fairytales are twisted into curses
monado-soup
computergirls will say they dont have a crush on you when you can LITERALLY hear their fans going at max speed
short rundown of reasons why for each
- Ceres: only dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, body closest to the sun that's likely to have a subsurface liquid water ocean, fascinating cryovolcanism + salt and ice deposits
- Pluto: everyone has their own reasons for loving pluto, but for me it's the atmosphere and its likely variability from its closer-than-neptune periapsis to its faraway apoapsis. that and the icebergs, and the likely-common-but-still-cool resonant system of small asteroid moons
- Eris: eris is more massive and denser than pluto, and unlike pluto (and many of the others on this list) it's not in a resonance with neptune. eris is instead on a kind of weird eccentric and inclined orbit further beyond neptune (it's categorized as a scattered disk object), and while we don't know as much about eris as the objects we've gotten to visit we know that like pluto it's got a pretty big moon (dysnomia!)
- Haumea: haumea has got a lot going on. it's spinny, and because of that it's got a baffling triaxial shape. the same impact that caused that may have created its rings and moon system, though both of its moons are rather large
- Makemake: makemake is the largest known "cubewano" (named after the kuiper belt object 1992 QB1, later named Albion), a class of kuiper belt objects that have relatively regular planet-like orbits compared to the more eccentric resonant and scattered disk objects. like pluto it's "red" due to tholins, implying a more brownish surface than bodies like eris. unlike pluto this brown surface is expected to be fairly uniform
- Quaoar: we just recently made some very interesting discoveries about quaoar! not only might it have water ice on its surface (cryovolcanism, perhaps); but quaoar has at least TWO individual rings! these rings are rather odd because they're beyond the point where a moon would be torn apart by gravitational forces, implying that either they formed very recently or that their resonances with the spin of quaoar and the orbit of quaoar's moon weywot keeps them from condensing
- Sedna: sedna has a very eccentric orbit, one that takes it over 900 times further from the sun than earth (to compare, pluto is about 40 times further). it may give us some crucial insights about the existence of the oort cloud, a vast region of space within about a light-year of the sun that's probably full of comets. like pluto and makemake, it's "red".
- Orcus: orcus is notable for being a lot like pluto! it's also in a 2:3 resonance with neptune, but its periapsis is almost on the other side from pluto's (and its orbit is otherwise pretty similar to that of pluto). much like pluto, it's got one really big moon: vanth, which while smaller than charon and relatively smaller compared to its parent may also have a lot to tell us. it may have had cryovolcanism in the past.
- Gonggong: gonggong, like eris, is a scattered disk body. it's about the size of charon and rotates fairly slowly, either in about an earth day or about two earth days. this is probably because of its moon xiangliu. it might also have materials like ammonia on its surface. again, we don't know much about gonggong because we haven't been there and a lot of its amazing features may be obscured by the vast distance between us
- Other: there's a lot of dwarf planets and dwarf planet candidates out there! here's a quick tour- hygeia is spherical because it was hit hard and melted into a spherical shape and that means it's not a dwarf planet but i love her and she's an asteroid belt dwarf planet don't @ me, salacia seems to have a very low density and ixion has a very dark surface. or someone wanted to see the results instead :p
midibuttons
The best type of character is a girl who says “I am a completely normal girl” and the instant you actually learn anything about her it becomes incredibly clear that she is not even remotely normal.
DISCLAIMER: pluto is not in this poll because there's too little space to be able to include all the other cool dwarf planets like ceres/eris/haumea/makemake/gonggong/senda/etc here too!! sorry! if you bother me about this I will block you!
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