#Adras

[monohuey]

[ginumo]

if i had a nickel,

thank you myth. very cool

[rennybu]

the inimitable, the radiant, ADRA DIONISIA LETHE commissioned by @boss-saarebas, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

[daneecastle]

Reversed Veil of Worlds

Chapter 2 - Page 50 plus 50.1 and 50.2

- Another chapter has ended and i added a couple bonus pages to introduce Adrammelech(Adra) and Finni.

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@goodomensafterdark

[once-a-shape]

SORRY FOR MY ABSENCE EVERYONEEEE I PROMISE I'LL GET BACK TO THE ASKS SOON I've just been working on comm stuff!! have a him i'm using as an example for my comm sheet in the meantime!!

[tarbuchyloewenthal]

i loved it in pillars of eternity when i put this bitch in a pillar for eternity

[adracat]

Law of Casuality Write-Up (Pt.1?)

Warning!!: the following contains self-indulgence to the likes you’ve never seen before

Law of Causality: The proposition that everything in the universe has a cause and is thus an effect of that cause

Happy Sulemio week! Since it’s Fantasy Day, I decided to finally get cracking on this freeform analysis of my G-Witch series— Law of Causality. I’ve mentioned before this may be my favorite thing I’ve ever written. I was in a manic ADHD-fixation trance while writing this series. If you want the literary version of a triple-layer myth cake, this may be for you. I was considering an essay-style dissection but that’s taking too long. So here are my loose insights into this series as a whole!

Art by my friend Tay, or @TaruhtQarineXiV on Twitter

As Above, So Below: Where it all began. I’ve mentioned in the A/Ns that this was spawned from my deep looks into what the show was taking inspiration from (imo). It’s my little love letter to Sulemio and gwitch, which quickly grew into something more.

Queen in White/King in Red—Beyond the alchemy, I wanted titles that sounded fairytale-esque while also hinting toward another mythos. Hastur or the King in Yellow (Signalis and True Detective enjoyers know that name) The initial King in Yellow appears in Haïta the Shepherd as the benevolent god of shepherds; a domain Hastur shares with Mercury. The short story is about the impermanence of happiness and how it can only be found once you stop seeking it. It’s a theme I ran with for the entirety of LoC, particularly Elnora. The later incarnations of Hastur are malicious eldritch figures. Suletta vs Prospera 😊

On Faerytales: LoC is obsessed with cycles and the rhyming of history. To me, fairytales embody that perfectly. The oral traditions of them are never the exact same, flavored with variations throughout the years. It’s how we got mythology to local folklore to Brothers Grimm to Disney renditions. That’s why I used Eros and Psyche and Sleeping Beauty for Suletta and Miorine (I’m convinced the show does this too but ymmv)

The latter is inspired by the former with Psyche placed under a sleeping torpor Eros breaks. In Sleeping Beauty, the offending curse is a spindle and she’s barricaded by a witch in the form of a dragon. The Hawthorn serves as Mio’s ‘spindle’ as she suffers depression and isolation in the wake of her mother’s vanishing. Prospera (coded as witch Satan) is the dragon. Notrette is the fairies bearing gifts. In a twist, Suletta wakes her with Love as Anteros in the place of Eros. Yes I layered this cake excessively. It’s probably still confusing; I’m sorry.

Tldr; I used Sleeping Beauty alongside Greek myth.

Chaos and Night: Paradise Lost twisted into a toxic witch romance. One of the most insane ideas I’ve had, but I adore it to bits. Both Prospera and Notrette are vested to the teeth with mythology and theology.

Notrette: Besides Thelema’s Nuit/Babalon and cuing her as ‘God’, as a being of creation, opposed to the Devil, I fit so much into her character. She’s Lilith, Pandora, Circe, Ceres, Virgin Mary, the Morrigan, Ariadne, a deconstruction of the Mother Goddess from neopaganism, and the capricious Queen of Elphame from folklore.

Another figure I styled her after is White Boann, the Dagda’s mistress and wife to Nechtan (cognate with Nuada or the silver-hand) which is where you get the hazel tree link. Boann names her son Aengus because the Dagda was her ‘one desire’.

Circling back to Paradise Lost, she also plays the willing Eve who falls to Satan’s temptation in place of Miorine. There’s likely things I’m forgetting; I was so normal plotting her character.

Elnora: What can I say about this glorious wreck that wasn’t in the text? Venus, The red dragon Satan, the Beast from revelation, pagan Horned God, Neptune to Ceres, Theseus and Bacchus to Ariadne, Prometheus to Pandora, every Phosphoros, etc I’d be here all day. She’s coded as Orion the hunter who’s undone by Gaia and also the Teumessian fox to Suletta’s Laelaps. I mentioned she’s the riders of the apocalypse at the end too. White Rider is Suletta but her mom fulfills the rest; ‘Riding’ Vim as War, Riding Belmeria as Famine while wielding the ‘scales’ (Notrette as Libra) Finally, she wears the visage of death to bring Pestilence to the kingdom. I squeezed in the other omens of revelation with symbolism such as the crown of wormwood (Revelation 8:11)

When it comes to her role as Prometheus, I coded both Delling and Mio as birds of Venus (swallow and dove respectfully.) It’s meant to symbolize the ‘eagle’ devouring her was primarily herself all along. She was the architect of her ruin, lampshaded by Notrette from the beginning.

Remember Haïta the Shepherd? In the story, there is a maiden whom embodies the ephemeral nature of happiness. Notrette is Elnora’s transformative destruction into cathartic acceptance/happiness. In Paradise Lost, Satan succeeds at banishing Eve and Adam from the garden but similarly fails when he’s turned into a snake. She’s lucky I was more metaphorical.

I liberally used Revelation 12, the woman and the dragon, as well. Look at me shipping crackships from the Bible. This is mostly self-explanatory, ofc Christ is genderbent and a role shared by Sulemio. Mio’s allergy to iron doubles as a nod to this, since she doesn’t take her father’s kingdom in this universe.

There is more, such as Dionysis/Bacchus being a many-faced god with younger and older versions paralleling the Horned God’s dual aspects and the Dagda’s relationship to Aengus which led to me pitting Suletta as a lighter mirror of Elnora. But I’ll leave it here for now.

Writing this all out has me questioning what I was on, and how I can reproduce it. If you got this far, thank you for humoring my unabahed love for this world. Happy Fantasy Day, Sulemios! ❤️

[oldfilmsflicker]

Since this film debuted at the Berlin Film Festival in February, where it won both the Panorama Audience Award and the Best Documentary Award, in this country we have seen an active service member self-immolate in protest of the U.S. Army's part in the genocide currently happening in Gaza. Despite the act being broadcast on livestream, the media misrepresented his intentions, and, in what seemed like minutes, the country moved on. In a world where video footage as a tool to speak truth to power seems to have lost its efficacy, No Other Land exists more as a form of resistance. As a form of witness. As proof of the Palestinian people's unwavering endurance, and as a document of their very existence.

[KVIFF Review] This is a Story of Power: "No Other Land"

[andonkurage1025]

my OC!!!

They are Susuno’s close friend!

[largepoundage]

Are all your female ocs buddies or enemies?

Many are enemies!

Cadara, Adras, and Dells are all Allie’s being part of Abigor, but they’re enemies to Iona, Director fortis Addison since they’re friends with Coop who is an enemy to Abigor

Athaliah’s pretty much an enemy to everyone

[slugminibar]

the cuntiest martyr in all of eora

[jackoshadows]

Palestinian & Israeli filmmakers, Basel Adra & Yuval Abraham, win for Best Documentary at Berlinale, for their film 'No Other Land' - about Israeli settler violence. They call for an end to the Occupation and apartheid & urge Germany to "stop sending weapons to Israel"

Yuval Abraham explains so concisely the nature of apartheid enforced in Israel and occupied Palestine.

" I want to say that we are standing in front of you, me and Basel are the same age. I am Israeli, Basel is Palestinian. And in two days we go back to a land where we are not equal. I am living under a civilian law and Basel is under military law. We live 30 minutes from one another, but I have voting rights and Basel does not have voting rights. I am free to move where I want in this land. Basel is like millions of Palestinians locked in occupied West Bank. This situation of apartheid between us, this inequality, it has to end. We ask, how we can make a change, to end the occupation, to move for a political solution. We don't really have an answer but we want for people to really stand up. There is a lot of powerful people in this room, a lot of ministers and people whose voices are heard. We need to call for a ceasefire. We need to call for a political solution to end the occupation."

Yuval Abraham is now getting death threats after Israeli TV called him an anti-semite!

The Berlinale film festival is being investigated for anti-semitism.

And the German ministery of culture wanted to emphasize how racist they are by releasing a statement that when "No Other Land" received a prize, green Minister Claudia Roth was only clapping for the Jewish-Israeli member of the filmmaking team and not the Palestinian.

Because apparently even applauding a Palestinian for winning an award is bad in Germany....

[rennybu]

OUR TEAM!! I finally drew us all where we’re currently at in-game :’) i draw slow enough that Talee lost her arm midway through doing the lineart......

i love them sm. so unspeakably much. they r going 2 save the world

hehehe as always, our campaign is run by @jawsandbones, i play Loam, @justbooker plays Talee, @reassembleme plays Ilsa, and @boss-saarebas plays Adra!

[councillor-roland]

closed starter for @adrasian

What had it been now, two weeks? A little more? It felt closer to three but then it also felt like an eternity since last he'd seen or held Rhys. The angry episodes were fewer and further between now, the rage mostly having spent itself and now there was just...emptiness. It wasn't numbness, not quite, that might have been welcomed. Instead it was like he existed in a sort of void where colours, sounds, sensations, everything was dulled. He had little motivation to do much of anything, though he was mechanically doing his job, making sure thing still ran, even if he took work calls with video turned off sitting in a robe at his desk. There were still meetings to attend and he dressed himself impeccably with far more effort than it should've taken. Roland felt weighted down, the sadness, the loneliness, and the longing seemed to have some sort of anchor in his chest that kept him pinned. Often times he found himself at the piano and there was a little brightness there, he still played with passion, he couldn't not. More often, though, he sat on one of the couches and put records on, smoking endless cigarettes and just listening to the music. He felt dulled and yet at the same time there were still sharp edges to the emotions if he got too close to them.

The suite was more in disarray than it had been as well. Normally, Roland kept everything tidy, or at least made sure to let the staff in to do their regular cleaning but no one had been allowed in his suite for some time outside of invitation. There were still shards of glass on the floor from where he'd thrown drinking glasses against the wall, broken pieces of porcelain, a scratched and blood stained couch that he'd at least pushed back into a corner but he hadn't cared to have it cleaned yet, if it could even be salvaged. Roland would probably just get rid of it. Overflowing ashtrays littered the surface of several tables beside dirty wine glasses. One of the things that helped, or sort of helped, was having the slaves come up as distractions. Even then, Roland was different with them, much less teasing, confident and playful than usual, just quieter, a little more needy and desperate. It disconcerted some to the point where they didn't even have sex, their behaviour influenced by his mood enough to turn Roland off and send them away though that was rare. He fed, if nothing else, even if he didn't end up sleeping with them, that was something. Still, he even had fewer slaves to his suite than he used to and hadn't been down to the Undercroft himself to pick them, having them sent up instead.

Tonight was one such night. Part of the distraction of having the slaves here was a kind of pretend companionship that helped ease the loneliness a little. The slaves that did stay, that he took to bed, Roland ended up keeping for some time afterwards just to hold them, just to be close. Adrasia hadn't allowed that last time but Roland wouldn't give him much choice tonight. Rather than wait at the door, he waited in his bedroom, clad in a robe, having told the guards to escort the celestial right to the bedroom and then leave. They'd just done that and were gone, the celestial standing before him as Roland looked at him, hands in his pockets, probably looking as dull as he felt but he forced a small smile anyway. "Hello." It was quiet, already a contrast to how he'd greeted Adrasia the last couple times he'd been in the suite. "It seemed easier to bring you straight here."

[loveofallthatisbizarre]

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[saturniandragon]

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