Story tattoo. The dots on the far right are an asteroid belt doing down, then in the middle the asteroid belt is going up. This is spinning around a gas giant (purple planet).
Some asteroids are lonely and far apart from others. Some are closer and feel good. Each of them are effected by the rotational effect of the gas giant, which has the gas clouds.
The tree is clean. It has all the basic elements of life. It is a basic class-M planet.
The far left is a star in 3 parts. The heavier material is hotter and a darker color. This could also be like the Mayan calendar with three wheels spinning within each other.
In the tattoo are the 3 basic requirements of a solar system from an article Bao read: a star, a gas giant that swoops up all that is ejected in the early life of the solar system. The gas giant creates a force field between the star allowing the class-M planet to be created. Then all the heavy material condenses into a class-M planet.
Bao wanted each color of the rainbow in the tattoo.
Bao got the tattoo in 2009. Bao was near the end of their master’s degree at Chapel Hill. Bao drew this tattoo one morning, and decided they wanted to tell stories. Bao thought, “If I got a tattoo of that and didn’t publish a novel where magic users live and are heroic on this planet, then I would be saddled with a dumb tattoo.” It’s been 9 years, and Bao has written 3 novels, and deleted 3 hundred-thousand word novels back into the oblivion. When Bao throws away a rejected novel, new “novel” thoughts come to them. Now Bao is writing a series of 24 tiny tales based on the runes of the Futhark. Bao is hoping that the tales will stick. The novel Bao meant to write when they created this tattoo has not stuck. It’s a garden path and it’s going to take many left and right turns…
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