The Black Hole 💫

We're in our first week of the Design Swap, and looking forward to seeing everyone's final projects in a couple weeks! With that in mind, we have an ongoing adopt raffle for registered participants and latecomers can still join, both until tomorrow (June 10). Be sure to hop on soon and don't miss your chance for some exclusive character designs!

Additionally; we've got two new Drawceptions rolling! We only need 3 more players to complete both; if you're not familiar with Drawception, it's like the telephone game with art or an asynchronous Gartic Phone. Art and captions only take a few minutes to complete, and anyone from any timezone or skill level can join in! If there's more interest in our DCs the coming days, we may consider making private games open to more than 6 players!

🪐 Server Events

• Movie Night: Wendell & Wild, Saturday @ 9:25 PM EST [CWs: doesthedogdie.com, beware spoilers!]
• Magma Party: Check our news channel for the invite! Sunday @ 9 PM EST
• Weekly Art Prompt: palette prompt based on Jupiter's rainbow view (happy Pride!) - See our art collab channel or Toyhouse forums for more details! Feel free to tag @the-black-hole or use "#milky way fandom" + "#tbh discord" if you'd like us to share your artwork! 💖
• We host polls every Sunday for our next Movie Night (and biweekly Game Nights)! Be sure to check in the news channel at 1 PM EST.

✨ Community Updates

• Latecomer assignments for the Design Swap close tomorrow!
• Come join our Drawception - see above for more details!
• Just for fun, we've decided to add a little bot we're calling... NoidBot. His only command is posting awful pizza. Have fun with him!

Are there any updates or new features you'd like to see? Come drop us a line in our server discussion channel or our Toyhouse forums! 

🔭 Astronomy News

• James Webb Space Telescope discovers 717 ancient galaxies that flooded the universe with 1st light
• Brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen, the largest known explosion since Big Bang, has a unique jet structure unlike any other
• Repeated signals from the center of the Milky Way could be aliens saying hello, new study claims
• Tonight's moon phase is waning gibbous!

🌛 Artist Spotlight

• @llyesend | creator of the Adstrum/Kuiper Guilds (proper title in the works) | Ko-fi / Artistree (Comms., Customs OPEN!)
• @froge | Ko-fi (Comms., Customs OPEN) |❗Has an ongoing fundraiser!
• @wanderstar39 | Creator of Step Into My Light and mod of TBH | Ko-fi (Comms., Customs, Adopts OPEN)
• lesserkey | Toyhouse (Comms./Adopts OPEN)

Thank you for reading! Be sure to visit us at theblackhole.carrd.co for lots of MWF goodies and more!

Hey there, space cadets! Sad news: our music bot, Amanda, has been deleted from Discord. We'll try to see if there's any other music bots that support YouTube, but they have unfortunately become more and more rare after YouTube began to strike music bots. Of course, if you have any suggestions, please let us know on Discord!

🪐 Server Events

• Movie Night: The Iron Giant, Saturday @ 9:25 PM EST [CWs: doesthedogdie.com, beware spoilers!]
• Magma Party: Check our news channel for the invite! Sunday @ 9 PM EST
• Weekly Art Prompt: "Canes Venatici" - See our art collab channel or Toyhouse forums for more details! Feel free to tag @the-black-hole or use "#milky way fandom" + "#tbh discord" if you'd like us to share your artwork! 💖
• We host polls every Sunday for our next Movie Night (and biweekly Game Nights)! Be sure to check in the news channel at 1 PM EST.

✨ Community Updates

• Hey, we need some help filling out our Toyhouse world! Due to some recent cleanup, quite a few constellation folders are now empty or have few characters in them (such as Equuleus, Gemini and Canes Venatici, to name a few). We wholeheartedly encourage you to submit your characters to the world! Please contact the mods on Discord if you'd like an invite to the world while it's private.
• We also need new artists to feature on our spotlight! If you have commissions, customs or adopts open, please drop us a line in our artist promo thread!

Are there any updates or new features you'd like to see? Come drop us a line in our server discussion channel or our Toyhouse forums! 

🔭 Astronomy News

• Boom! Astronomers just watched the largest explosion in space rage for 3 years
• Curiosity rover finds water-carved 'book' rock on Mars
• Mystery solved? Runaway black hole chased by tail of stars may be galaxy in disguise
• Strange sounds recorded high in Earth's atmosphere have scientists baffled
• Saturn reclaims 'moon king' title with 62 newfound satellites, bringing total to 145
• Tonight's moon phase is the last quarter!

🌛 Artist Spotlight

• @VegaLovesCake | Character designer; creator of Altair, Hamal and Regulus from Galaktika Gamble! | Ko-fi [Comms., Customs OPEN]
• @iocasteo | creator of observer zenith/no afterlife for machines !! | Ko-fi [Comms. OPEN]
• @VLxen | Posts adopts daily; slowly working on his own space OCs & setting >:D | Ko-fi [Comms., Customs, Adopts OPEN]
• @Neptunicate | Member of TBH; just hangs out + talks about bugs, plans to be more active with art soon! Ask about backlog/examples | Cash App $IndignantPasta [Comms., Customs OPEN]

Thank you for reading! Be sure to visit us at theblackhole.carrd.co for lots of MWF goodies and more!

Welcome to our first update of May! We've closed invites for this month, but we hope to open our gates again soon. We don't have much to report this week, but stay tuned and look forward to big updates soon!

🪐 Server Events

• Movie Night: Your Name (2016), Saturday @ 9:25 PM EST [CWs: doesthedogdie.com, unconsentingmedia.org, beware spoilers!]
• Magma Party: Check our news channel for the invite! Sunday @ 9 PM EST
• Game Night: Sky: Children of the Light, Friday @ 9 PM EST
• Weekly Art Prompt: This week's prompt is to make a design based off of quasars - See our art collab channel or Toyhouse forums for more details! Feel free to tag @the-black-hole or use "#milky way fandom" + "#tbh discord" if you'd like us to share your artwork! 💖

✨ Community Updates

• Server & TH world invites are closed for the season!
• Are you an artist and would like to have your commissions featured? Come drop us a line in our art promo thread on Discord!

Are there any updates or new features you'd like to see? Come drop us a line in our server discussion channel or our Toyhouse forums! 

🔭 Astronomy News

• China's Tianwen 1 orbiter produces global map of Mars
• Giant proto-galaxy in early universe devours recycled material to birth new stars
• Guts of the universe's 1st stars found in distant gas clouds
• Tonight's moon phase is a full moon! (Our friends in the Eastern Hemisphere should be on the lookout for a lunar eclipse tonight!)

🌛 Artist Spotlight

• @llyesend | creator of the Adstrum/Kuiper Guilds (proper title in the works) | Ko-fi / Artistree (Comms., Customs OPEN!)
• Meilkor | Ko-fi (Comms., Customs OPEN) |❗Has an ongoing fundraiser!
• @wanderstar39 | Creator of Step Into My Light and mod of TBH | Ko-fi (Comms., Customs, Adopts OPEN) | ❗Has an ongoing fundraiser!

Thank you for reading! Be sure to visit us at theblackhole.carrd.co for lots of MWF goodies and more!

Last update of April, AND we're in the final stretches of Dark Matter vs. Dark Energy! Be sure to submit your final work before May 1, 2023 at 1PM EST, and may the best team win! With this, we'll also be closing invites again for May - but don't fret! We may have something cooking up for later this month... 🛸

🪐 Server Events

• Movie Night: Princess Mononoke, Saturday @ 9:25 PM EST [CWs: doesthedogdie.com, unconsentingmedia.org, beware spoilers!]
• Magma Party: Check our news channel for the invite! Sunday @ 9 PM EST
• Midweek Movie: Tsuritama [ep 9-12], Wednesday @ 7 PM EST
• Weekly Art Prompt: "Argo Navis" - See our art collab channel or Toyhouse forums for more details! Feel free to tag @the-black-hole or use "#milky way fandom" + "#tbh discord" if you'd like us to share your artwork! 💖
• We host polls every Sunday for our next Movie Night (and biweekly Game Nights)! Be sure to check in the news channel at 1 PM EST.

✨ Community Updates

• We will be closing up invites and privating the Toyhouse world on May 1st, so be sure to hop in by then!
• We're in need of artists to promote! Do you have commissions open and would like to be featured on a future bulletin? Come drop us a line in our artist promo thread!
• We're also hoping to spice and liven up our Toyhouse forums - feel free to share artwork there, as well!

Are there any updates or new features you'd like to see? Come drop us a line in our server discussion channel or our Toyhouse forums! 

🔭 Astronomy News

• Watch an astronaut test a 'lunar wheelbarrow' in moon-like gravity for 1st time
• Hubble Telescope celebrates 33rd anniversary with gorgeous photo of nearby stellar nursery
• The strange mystery of asteroid Phaethon's comet-like tail may have just been solved
• Tonight's moon phase is waxing gibbous!

🌛 Artist Spotlight

• @llyesend | creator of the Adstrum/Kuiper Guilds (proper title in the works) | Ko-fi / Artistree (Comms., Customs OPEN!)
• Meilkor | Ko-fi (Comms., Customs OPEN) |❗Has an ongoing fundraiser!
• @wanderstar39 | Creator of Step Into My Light and mod of TBH | Ko-fi (Comms., Customs, Adopts OPEN) | ❗Has an ongoing fundraiser!

Thank you for reading! Be sure to visit us at theblackhole.carrd.co for lots of MWF goodies and more!