• palordrolap
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    355 minutes ago

    The joke in my part of the world used to be “a black cat in a coal cellar at midnight”. That this is also a cat makes me think that the artist might be familiar with that idiom.

    • @[email protected]
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      113 minutes ago

      Mine was “darker than a black cat in a coal mine at night” but I think it’s just easier for hicks with an accent to say. Far less racist than the other ways they would say “dark”.

  • @morphballganon
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    42 hours ago

    How is the moon eclipsing the sun at midnight?

    Unless you’re at one of the poles

    But why would a panther be at one of the poles

    • Dwemthy (he/him)
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      139 minutes ago

      It’s a lunar eclipse, the Earth is eclipsing the moon, preventing it from reflecting the light of the sun

      • @morphballganon
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        122 minutes ago

        Oh right, the clean lines threw me off. Lunar eclipse shadows are much more diffuse.

  • @[email protected]
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    123 hours ago

    s/lunar eclipse/new moon/

    Lunar eclipses turn the moon a ruddy red color. New moon (opposite of a full moon) is darker.

      • @Tikiporch
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        22 hours ago

        Good point. And technically, a new moon is only visible during a solar eclipse 👍

    • Daemon Silverstein
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      12 hours ago

      Darker doesn’t always mean blacker. Symbolically, a blood moon is “darker” (as in “ominous” and “eerie”) than a new moon. The red color has many meanings, ranging from passion to wrath. Even after science emerged to explain such phenomena (the red color being just the longest wavelength part of visible electromagnetic spectra, the blood moon being just a combination of physical and astrophysical factors such as Rayleigh scattering and planetary alignment, etc), the blood moon still gets a “bad omen” vibe nowadays, a vibe that’s absolutely not present during new moons (it’s worth mentioning that they happen once or twice every month, differently from a blood moon which is a somewhat-rare event).