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asakiyume ([personal profile] asakiyume) wrote2014-08-26 10:41 pm

August 25 in Pen Pal--and the waters of the moon







Yesterday I neglected to post what happened on August 25 in Pen Pal, so I will tell you today. Kaya's memories took a dark turn:

I won’t write more just now. I don’t like recalling those next hours and days. If I start to, the memories spring to life too real, too vivid.

. . . On a more pleasant note, what is your favorite lunar body of water?

Here is a handy list to choose from. I think I like the Sea of Vapors and the Ocean of Storms. The lakes are also good: there is a Lake of Autumn, and for those of you in the Southern Hemisphere, a Lake of Spring, and also lakes of perseverance and forgetfulness. There is a Marsh of Epidemics and a Bay of Rainbows.


Crop of this photo, by Olga Gladysheva


[identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com 2014-08-27 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
I do rather love the Sea That Has Become Known. With all that that implies.

[identity profile] queenoftheskies.livejournal.com 2014-08-27 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
I love them all, but I think these stand out for me:

Sea of Serpents
Sea of Showers
Sea of Tranquility

Lake of Goodness
Lake of Excellence
Lake of Perseverance
Lake of Hope
sovay: (Cho Hakkai: intelligence)

[personal profile] sovay 2014-08-27 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
. . . On a more pleasant note, what is your favorite lunar body of water?

Mare Imbrium. Always, I don't know why. Sea of Rains.

[identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com 2014-08-27 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
Mare Insularum- the sea of islands.

[identity profile] yamamanama.livejournal.com 2014-08-27 11:25 am (UTC)(link)
I like the Sea of Dreams, even more so now that it doesn't actually exist.

Sea of Nectar and Sea of Clouds are wonderful.

[identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com 2014-08-27 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, those beautiful, beautiful colors!

[identity profile] desmond coutinho (from livejournal.com) 2014-08-27 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Indians don't sunbathe. I recall reading in an Anais Novel about the heroine choosing to moon bathe. So you put on your bikini or if you are an Indian you wear your salwar kameez or sari and then sleep under moonlight. It gives a luminosity to the skin and does something only very expensive hair lotions ever promise for your hair. When the moon is waning it gently cleanses and when it waxes it gives a different kind of power. I hope for some moon bathing at Agra one day perhaps.

[identity profile] helivoy.livejournal.com 2014-08-27 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Foaming Sea - in part because it's so vivid, in part because one of my characters' moniker is Seafoam.

I also like Sea of Islands and Ocean of Storms. It's interesting to see how poetic the names are, and how wistful in their wish to dream of water on that bone-dry planet.

[identity profile] heliopausa.livejournal.com 2014-08-28 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
The names are all so beautiful, or even just to say moon, sea, clouds.

(I wonder could Kaya see the sky? :( )