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Gareth L. Powell
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Hey, space cowboys and pirate queens. All the edits are done for my next novel, JITTERBUG. If you like interplanetary bounty hunters, unlikely romance, political schemes, super-smart parrots, and wild cosmic engineering, pre-order it NOW from your fave bookshop! www.garethlpowell.com/jitterbug/
The cover of JITTERBUG features a stylised rocket silhouette at the centre of an orrery, with a space suited figure dangling in its wake
October 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM Everybody can reply
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Random MTG Cards, one per hour
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Vedalken Orrery - Double Masters 2022.
Art by John Avon.
Vedalken Orrery - Double Masters 2022. Art by John Avon.
October 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM Everybody can reply
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Grath
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Mycosynth Lattice and Chromatic Orrery just do it; Celestial Dawn for W or Orochi Leafcaller for G; Vizier of the Menagerie to cast creatures; otherwise Treasure Vault, Gemstone Array, Wizard's Rockets, and this Scryfall search for "{2}: add one mana of any color"; see also "function:mana-filter"
o:"{2}: add one mana" function:"mana-filter"
7 Magic cards found where the text includes “{2}: add one mana” and the card is tagged “mana-filter”
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October 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM Everybody can reply
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What Rough Beast
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Bag 4 complete: An Orrery
A Lego Orrery with the sun, earth, and moon.
October 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM Everybody can reply
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Kennebel
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THere is always the Lego orrery for a simplistic one. :)
October 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM Everybody can reply
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Silverfell
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One day, I'll enjoy writing well-behaved magic and competent people who know what to do with it. Today is not that day. The Scion.

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Completely dissociated from the crowd, he started rearranging each in his brain, picturing what the sphere might have looked like had it been made right, without that messy offset. He often did this with people’s rugs when his mother dragged along to visit strangers for the holidays. Typically, however, when he mentally rearranged carpets, they had the good sense to stay put. The orrery did not. Its central sphere started moving in response to his mental organizing. The machine was porous. It was soaking up… something from him. When the entire thing started spinning around the central sphere, he was pulled out of his daydream. Every planet, every metal circle, every hanging gibbet, anywhere there was an axis, axle, or juncture, turned. The interlocking rings blurred into each other as they spun faster and faster. There was a whine of resistance from the air and several joints started glowing from the heat. Bobby took a step back, scared. He’d stopped focusing on the damn thing, but he felt that warmth on his skin, the same as when the Mrs Wong creature had attacked him. The measuring device was doing its job, absorbing all the stuff that had created the tumours back then. Bobby didn’t know how to stop it. Except that wasn’t accurate either. The thing inside him that roared with rage didn’t want to stop it. It wanted to push, and push, and give the device more of what it demanded. Smoke started rising from every joint in the orrery, which had become a shrill buzzsaw of metal and stone that wobbled on its pedestal. This was definitely more than a single inch.
October 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM Everybody can reply
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St. Chris
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What I’m saying is that if someone cites literature to support a perspective, they (or their interviewer) should make sure they didn’t hallucinate the text.
Three panels from Alan Moore’s Watchmen graphic novel: 1. (Dr. Manhattan is walking pensively toward Veidt, perhaps absent-mindedly physically passing through a large glass sphere that contains an orrery.) Dr. Manhattan: “Yes, I have. I think perhaps I’ll *create* some. Goodbye, Adrian.” Veidt: “Jon, wait, before you *leave*…I did the right thing, didn’t I? It all worked out in the end.” 2. (Veidt’s POV. Dr. Manhattan has stopped halfway through the sphere and is smiling serenely, Veidt’s hand reaches out toward him.) Dr. Manhattan: “‘In the end’? *Nothing* ends, Adrian. Nothing *ever* ends.” Veidt: “Jon? *Wait!* What do you mean by…” 3. (Veidt’s hand lowers; Dr. Manhattan has disappeared in a cloud of vapor.)
October 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM Everybody can reply
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ALCA, Goddess of Lust 💜
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it's funny because most factions don't rely on One Specific Planet to survive but genuinely necrons could just delete terra from the comfort of The Celestial Orrery and that would just cause the entire empire to collapse
October 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM Everybody can reply
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Edith
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This week we’ve been learning about how to print & build cute little orrery parts because I have SUCH design ideas
October 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM Everybody can reply
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Paul Welsh
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Daniel Faust
Orrery, Gallery of Maps
1988, printed 2013
September 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM Everybody can reply
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IAU Office of Astronomy for Education
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Our Centers and Nodes working hand in hand: The OAE Node at Cergy University in France and the OAE Center India carried out one-week of collaborative work and organised a teacher training session around the use of the Human Orrery 🔭 #astroedu

Read more at astro4edu.org/news/yI827XY/
Indo-French Exchange and Astronomy Training
The Office of Astronomy for Education (OAE) node at Cergy University in France and the OAE Center India carried out one-week of collaborative work to address the astronomy contents of school curricul...
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September 29, 2025 at 6:29 AM Everybody can reply
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MuZe
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#Septopolis 28!

I thought I would sit this one out, since I’m not that confident in my drawing skills/don’t collect a lot of photos for my WIPs but after seeing everyone’s I had to try

Here’s a chibi sketch of Nana (left)! Minor spoilers for #DiaryOfNana but we’re almost there anyway :v
A chibi sketch of Nana from #DiaryOfNana. She’s wearing a hooded robe, stole, and baggy pants with boots in addition to what looks like a tabard and belt under her robes. In her hands, is a staff with an orrery-like topper. The original sketch for Nana. Wow, I can’t believe it’s almost been 5 months!
September 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM Everybody can reply
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Ayla Meridian
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Yet another four days of Swordtember completed!!

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Ring - a vaguely organic tarnished golden sword. There is a circular hole in the crossguard in which there is an orrery. Swan - a golden sword. the cross guard resembles the body of a swan with the tail going down into the tail and becoming the fuller. The neck of the swan is the grip and its head is the pommel Owl - a steel sword. the handle is carved to look like fish swimming through water and this carving blends into the blade with the water becoming the fuller. The guard is fashioned to look like two mirrored owls each catching one of the fish. The pommel is shaped like an egg Venom - a very thin shortsword. the grip is fashioned to look like a lily with a snake wrapping around it. the snake's head ends on the blade and its tail goes up the grip and ends up wrapping around the pommel which is fashioned to look like a lily about to bloom. there is a dark ichor dripping down the blade.
September 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM Everybody can reply
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Kameron Hurley
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And of course, I was SO DELIGHTED to get my ORERRY!!!!
figure standing at center of an orrery with light behind while army is blown apart around her
September 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM Everybody can reply
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towerwizard.bsky.social
a wizard
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The wizard oils his magic orrery, then turns it, making a clean, satisfying clicking sound.
September 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM Everybody can reply
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towerwizard.bsky.social
a wizard
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The wizard oils his magic orrery, then turns it, making a clean, satisfying clicking sound.
September 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM Everybody can reply
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UltraInfinite
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The Orrery and an angel guarding it⭐
September 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM Everybody can reply
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Ayla Meridian
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Swordtember Day 21 - Ring

The Shape of the World - Ancient Astronomer Relic Sword

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Painted on old paper, a tarnished gold sword. There is text, it reads: 21. Ring The Shape of the World - Ancient Astronomer Relic Sword The Astronomers, as they are now called, were once a powerful group of Dwarvish folk who long ago lived in the Southern Land that they called Sud Ech. Unlike their Northern cousins who worshipped a pantheon ruled by the Mountain King and lived deep under the mountains, the Astronomers made their home on the very peaks of the mountains and worshipped the Sky Queen from their Observatory Temples. The Astronomer’s entire civilisation was almost completely destroyed during the War of the Sea when their entire continent was sunk beneath the waves by the vengeful Sea King. All that remains of their once powerful society is a small and often opressed diaspora who eek out a living among the Mountain Dwarves of the North. Few artefacts from the Astronomer’s heyday remain in the current age, this sword being one of them. It was likely ceremonial and contains an orrery in it’s hilt - a testament to the fact that the Astronomers understood the shape of the world better than any other civilisation - even better than the Yarerin Elves. Though modern scholars still debate this, the existence of this sword asserts that the world is in fact a Great Ring… Ring - a vaguely organic tarnished golden sword. There is a circular hole in the crossguard in which there is an orrery.
September 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM Everybody can reply
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Peter Clines
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Also this beautiful thing, which'll probably end up in a bunch of different photos once it's painted. OPR fantasy, Doctor Strange, Operation Monster Force...
A gray plastic orrery -- four nestled rings with planetary objects on them, all balanced on top of an odd monkey statue.
September 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM Everybody can reply
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towerwizard.bsky.social
a wizard
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The wizard oils his magic orrery, then turns it, making a clean, satisfying clicking sound.
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM Everybody can reply
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Leslie - Comms closed
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Wayfarer's Pocket Orrery

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Digital item design, painted. A pocket orrery showing a plane model. It's made from polished gold, glass and gemstones. A sun is shining in the middle or the orrery. It's surrounded by 6 planets.
September 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM Everybody can reply
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towerwizard.bsky.social
a wizard
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The wizard oils his magic orrery, then turns it, making a clean, satisfying clicking sound.
September 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM Everybody can reply
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Leah Jaclyn
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I’ve got two,
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
because it has my favourite two lego things, architecture and plants

A functional orrery of the solar system, because orrerys are super cool and a lego one is probably the closest I’d get to having a proper one
September 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM Everybody can reply
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towerwizard.bsky.social
a wizard
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The wizard works on his magic orrery.
September 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM Everybody can reply
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Brett Baudin
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#aiart #promtpshare
Title: The Architect's Halo
Style: Baroque Still Life, Steampunk
Prompt in ALT
A baroque still life painting depicts a sorrowful, winged angel seated at a cluttered workbench within a dusty inventor's garret. The angel’s pale marble skin is fractured with age, and one wing is visibly broken, while above its head, a meticulously crafted orrery of brass gears and floating rings rotates slowly. The angel’s hands, delicately holding a quill, are carefully sketching complex diagrams on aged parchment scattered across the workbench. Soft afternoon light streams through a grimy window, highlighting the intricate details of the workspace and casting long, dramatic shadows across the room, filled with discarded tools and half-finished inventions.
September 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM Everybody can reply
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