#Also I love The Fox in the Dandelion Sea

[venti-the-bard-rumor-mill]

Hear me out everyone!!! What if Venti is ACTUALLY a fox? Or rather... he WAS one!!!

Evidence:

He's really familiar with the animals of Mondstadt, including hanging out with the foxes. And guess what? Little Sage from the gate says he's seen Venti talk to them before!

He apparently knows Guuji Yae of Inazuma, who's a kitsune! Coincidence? I think not.

He really loves apples. You know who else really loves apples? FOXES!!! And in the book "A Drunkards Tale" a wind spirit specifically chooses the form of a fox to get apples. And not only that, but they also turn those apples into the first wine! So foxes are known to have explicit connections to apples and wine, both things we know our local bard enjoy.

Foxes are incredibly clever animals, and in "The Fox in the Dandelion Sea" the protagonist teaches a fox the common tongue. They pick up on languages very quickly. You know what Venti apparently knows? HILICHURLIAN! And I don't think anyones ever seen him around with Ella Musk. What if, as a clever fox, he picked up on the language from the hilichurls themselves?!?!?

In "The Fox In The Dandelion Sea"s last chapter, the mother fox begs Barbatos to turn them into humans. We all know Venti isn't Barbatos, but he sure puts in a lot of effort styling his hair like him. What if he's so devout BECAUSE the anemo archons turned him human and gave him a vision!?!? And think about it, it would explain why he showed up out of nowhere! Because he was a fox before!!!

Venti likes dandelion wine right? Well if he lived in the dandelion sea, of course he'd like something from dandelions!!!

You ever notice how when Venti uses his vision, he makes feathers instead of dandelions like Acting Grandmaster Jean? Well what do foxes eat? BIRDS!!! What do birds have? FEATHERS!!!

With these seven pieces of evidence, I rest my case. The bard we all know and love was a fox, whom Lord Barbatos turned human!

Fox Venti part 3

This sounds like it has some merit 🤔

[exoticalmonde]

Girlies, Buoys and other friendlies, guess who is back on the Genshin phone experience because I just couldn't stand being unable to play anymore. It's been a year and a half since my pc refused to play the game and 6 months since I decided Honkai SR would be better. I can't. I need Neuvillette. I need to have him in my hands and squish him and kiss him. All the underwater things I find and kill are yours, please just come home Chief Justice.

BABAAAA LOOK AT THEM OOOO SO CHONKY little blub blub babo I adore you with all my heart.

My pride and joy every big patch is to collect all the books that I can. When will I read them? Who knows, honestly. I had so much fun reading 'The Fox and the Sea of Dandelions', so I really want to know about the Fontaine fables. I'm going in so blind you can call me Mrs. Echolocation.

Is this good?

I got the entire set with simmilar stuff. Suppose whoever needs them is gonna be lucky.

I'm also missing so much food aaa

Only 450 egg rolls. We need to get them to 700 again.

Uh... SIR? I mean, yeah I just came to your town and it all looks posh and pretty and people are well-dressed and all your food has sugar in it for whatever reason. As a person who enjoys being salty you're surprisingly inefficient in using it.

I ADORE ADORE THE COPELIUS AND COPELLIA DANCERS SO MUCH THANK YOU HOYOVERSE FOR MAKING THEM DANCE WITHOUT INTERRUPTION BECAUSE THAT IS THE COOLECT BOSS EVER IN MY LIFE THANK

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After that brief intervention of me staring at them for 20 minutes and chasing them with my screen in the middle of the stage, we're back to looking for stuff.

I want to craft the weapons for Fontaine, I heard they're pretty cool.

I'm going to cry.

OI, OI what am I getting myself into. Quick, Paimon, lie about something I'm sure you have learned over the years on how to make u-

P... Pumpkin..... Protocol....

IS IT CHIEF JUSTICE DID HE BUY YOUR PAINTINGS BECAUSE HE LOVES THEM YOU CUTE CUTE PRETTY THING OH NO I NEED TO HUG YOU

Melusines are so much better than the Aranara, I'm sorry. Also so much more expressive in their animation. It's a little like I'm watching muppets. That's the thought that was in my head earlier at least, alas... They're too sweet to call anything but sea angels.

Neuvillette you've outdone yourself.

Uh... Paimon, let's go somewhere else. I think he needs time alone.

I have so many questions, so many things I want to do. I want to pull out Kaveh but Chongyun is so helpful. I need an electro character but I've been collecting the water flowers on the surface and they need a Hydro character. Neuvillette come home.

Also, I didnt expect the rumoyrs to be true but it seems that all Fontaine characters do the dolphin jump INCLUDING traveller when they're Hydro oriented. Very bizzare, like they learned to swim perfectly out of no where.

The anxiety of setting foot in water ever time is going to eat me alive until I forget this is only in Fontaine and I run 0 energy into a body of water deeper than my ankles and freaking die in Inazuma.

[iffoundreturntosea]

June 11, Day 162/163

Day 162 2015

#bones #finale #goodbye 3davidboreanaz #fox #picoftheday #project365 #day162

Day 163 2016

Swimming on a hot Missouri day

#swim #pool #water #float #crab #funtimes #summer #yellow #shadesofyellow #june #picoftheday #project365 #day163

Day 162 2017

Making a wish

#wish #dandelion #me #grass #outdoors #mirror #reflection #june #picoftheday #project365 #day162

I would wish my pain away in an instant.

Day 162 2018

My moms current everyday object, trying to memorize the cube.

#puzzles #colors #rubikscube #solveit #objects #everydayobjects #june #picoftheday #project365 #day162

Day 162 2019

Beauty

#flower #bloom #tropical #hibiscus #petals #stamen #anther #filament #stigma #style #pistil #floweranatomy #color #water #raindrops #texas #summer #warm #beautiful #nationalmakelifebeautifulday #june #june11 #2019 #nationalday #nationaldaycalendar #picoftheday #project365 #day162

Day 163 2020

Galveston sea wall! I imagine when they first built this part of the sea wall there was actual beach out in front and over time disappeared. This happens because a sea wall can disrupt the natural pattern of beach replenishment causing passive erosion to happen. Also, even a properly maintained sea wall isn’t made to last more than 50 years making it a weak sustainable option. We need to be looking to implement strong sustainable options to help extend our coastal communities. Work with the Ocean, not against it!

#galveston #seawall #gulfofmexico #thereusedtobeabeachhere #water #ocean #waves #protect #conserve #weaksustainability #worldoceansweek #june #june11 #2020 #picoftheday #project365 #day163

Day 162 2021

Sure, why not?

#attic #june #june11 #2021 #picoftheday #project365 #day162

This was a fun week....not! There was some sort of leak in the attic that I discovered via the living room ceiling...while the parents were out of town!!!

Day 162 2022

First time in IKEA...it was interesting.

#ikea #givemeahand #helpinghand #june #june11 #2022 #picoftheday #project365 #day162

Day 162 2023

I unfortunately missed the mama kemp’s Ridley sea turtle but she laid 84 eggs at the park today! 🥳

#workviews #beach #gulf #seaturtletracks #sand #clouds #nature #outdoors #framed #june #june11 #2023 #picoftheday #project365 #day162

This was a frustrating day. It was busy at the park and I was working in a satellite booth. By the time I heard about the turtle and then was given permission to go see it it had JUST entered the water. I get tired of people saying I have the dream job. Yes it is on the beach and I do love that part but at the same time I still feel apart from it especially with all the pain I'm in physically now.

Day 163 2024

I don’t really feel like smiling these days. I borrowed this from another project I’m working on.

#smile #dailytheme #justme #june #june11 #2024 #picoftheday #project365 #day163

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

What are your favorite romantic quotes? In that mood

lmao so i just wrote out a long ass message with a bunch of my favorite quotes and then i accidentally shut off my pc so i lost the whole answer. so i'm just gonna have to give you a shortlist.

i like the whole excerpt from the little prince about "establishing ties":

“I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world....”

i read this when i was a child and i think it left a pretty profound impact on me. other than that, my favorite quotes are mostly just excerpts from love poems. such as...

I who have seen you amid the primal things Was angry when they spoke your name In ordinary places. I would that the cool waves might flow over my mind, And that the world should dry as a dead leaf, Or as a dandelion seed-pod and be swept away, So that I might find you again, Alone.

or

Remembering those things We did in our youth… …Many, beautiful things…

or

I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

or

I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment—what is this, then? I do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in a sea.

or

And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony.

or

When you do dance, I wish you A wave o’ th’ sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that. . .

i also like what nietzsche says here:

One must learn to love.— This is what happens to us in music: First one has to learn to hear a figure and melody at all, to detect and distinguish it, to isolate it and delimit it as a separate life. Then it requires some exertion and good will to tolerate it in spite of its strangeness, to be patient with its appearance and expression, and kindhearted about its oddity. Finally there comes a moment when we are used to it, when we wait for it, when we sense that we should miss it if it were missing; and now it continues to compel and enchant us ruthlessly until we have become its humble and enraptured lovers who desire nothing better from the world than it and only it. But that is what happens to us not only in music. That is how we learned to love all things that we now love. In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, our fair-mindedness and gentleness with what is strange; gradually, it sheds its veil and turns out to be a new and indescribable beauty. That is its thanks for our hospitality. Even those who love themselves will have learned it in this way; for there is no other way. Love, too, has to be learned.

[roc-writes]

Blooming Ventus

I only started playing Genshin Impact this week but I HAVE FEELINGS and I WILL share them. In fan-fiction form B)

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Pairing (If you squint): Venti x Traveler Warnings: It’s a tad bit melancholic but the ending isn’t!

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"Dandelion, Dandelion, ride the wind to a faraway land," The story began, as it always did, and the memories of your favorite story flooded back once you turned the page. It was evening in Windrise, underneath the titanic oak tree the people of Mondstadt associated The Falcon of the East with. Its broad leaves had become something of a comfort for you whenever your travels brought you back to your first home, where you had awoken in Teyvat. You paused from rereading the anthology clutched in your hands to laugh. No, calling Mondstadt your first home would be doing it a great injustice. It has, and always will be, your only home. It sounded ironic, calling this place your home when Barbatos himself declared this the city of freedom and never remained so rooted to one spot, one home. Or that’s how you saw it, anyway. You called this your home, but it and your entire life remained a constant and forever.

What would he think, you wondered to yourself. Actually, he would have just teased you, the answer was clear as the stars above Teyvat. Barbatos… Venti seemed to have no greater pleasure in this world than popping as many of your veins as possible in a single sitting. You loved that though. No matter how turned around the Anemo Archon made you, how many jabs and jokes were played at your expense, they always seemed so soft and playful. He would sound of the softest wind-chimes whenever he laughed and you could never stay upset. And if you had the right mind to jab back at him his laughter only grew before both of you ended up in a fit of laughter. It reminded you of your sibling that still evades you no matter how far and wide you search for them. That is why you were here, underneath the tree and down on your luck. Zhongli may be a retired Archon, but even he couldn’t make the search instant and you understood that. His connections asked you to wait for more information, and thus you found yourself back in Windrise with a copy of your favorite book at your side.

“The Fox in the Dandelion Sea? How odd, I never considered that your type of read.” Lisa murmured one day while she approached your table with two plates of food. It was return day for the books lent out of the library, and she somehow always managed to rope you into tagging along. It was her turn to pay and you had taken to reading your book in the time you were apart. The witch eyed the leather binding, worn in places along the spine where you rested your palm against, but the foiled pages within were kept in immaculate condition. “But I can tell it is very beloved. That’s so hard to find these days.” You finally snapped yourself out of the passage you were reading to eye a beaming Lisa.

“Ah… about that, interesting story…” You trailed off, feeling a heat rise to your cheeks as your fingers drew anxious circles into the leather. Lisa immediately cooed and plopped down onto her chair beside you. There was no way out of this now. “It was a gift. Or, almost. A friend of mine showed me around the city one night. He kept raving about how he thought of me when recalling this story, but it just made me angry at first.” Lisa quirked her head to one side, almost frowning.

“Oh?”

“I skimmed the last book before reading the first ten. The ending left a sour taste in my mouth.” There was a resigned sound coming from your friend and you shook your head quickly. “I gave it a shot, nonetheless. And it changed everything entirely for me. The story is beautiful, and bittersweet. It’s hard for two worlds to collide, I mean just look at me. Mondstadt is what I know and love, no matter how much I travel it feels… strange to be away from home.”

You smiled softly as you came back to the present. Visiting past memories that are full of happiness and friendship is what you did most days. Everyone has a life, people they care about, and your life was pulled from normalcy, thrown off course, and shattered all your preconceptions. When you were with friends, that truth was easy to hide. When everyone was off with their responsibilities, the truth came crashing down onto you. And you felt much too imposing to ask to tag along. You sighed softly, looking at the spaces in between each leaf that hung above you as they rustled in the breeze. At least the wind was always there for you. Closing your eyes, you nearly fell asleep underneath the massive oak, but that was nothing new. You spent more time here than your own room offered to you by the Knights of Favonius during your stay.

“…?” You opened your eyes as something distinctly sounded like a voice with no words, finding a small wind sprite directly above you. You had spent many nights under this tree, but never have you seen this one. You offered a small smile.

“Hello there, I don’t think I’ve seen you around before.” You spoke softly. The sprite floated upside-down, watching you with two small pinpricks of eyes. Something about the carefree floating spirit just made you laugh softly. “But it is lovely to meet you.” Satisfied, the sprite flitted down to sit on the book at your lap. “Ah! You’re wondering what I’m reading? It’s my favorite book, The Fox in the Dandelion Sea.” To clear the way for you, the sprite switched positions to rest atop your shoulder. It tilted its head just a bit and you were reminded of Lisa in that gesture.

“You want me to read to you? I…” A moment of pause came from you and you swallowed thickly. “I… I can’t. I’m sorry. The only person I’ve read to before, you see, showed this to me in the first place. And the night before I left to travel across Teyvat, I read the first chapter aloud…” Unable to control the sudden pain you felt in your chest and eyes, you clutched the fabric of your clothes and stop thinking about the book’s history. “I never saw them again and… I’m afraid someone else will leave if I dare utter another word aloud.” The first droplets of tears collided onto the parchment and you quickly closed the book shut before your unplanned show of Hydro could damage anything. The sprite’s little feathers drooped at those words, eyes looking down. The wind that had been quiet shook awake once again, lifting the droplets of tears into the air. You inhaled deeply.

“The wind amongst the branches feels good, I love the way it smells… That’s what we say when we’re down on our luck, right?” You spoke to the wind, wondering if it would carry those tears to Venti in some poetic manner. You wanted both for it to happen and not. Clutching the book close to your chest, you pulled your knees up to lean against. “I miss you so much Venti… Had I been born a fox, I could transform into a dandelion and float to you. I just want to see you.” The ground you were staring at stopped shifting, the wind had stopped. And then it suddenly blew harder than it had ever before. You could hear it howling against your eardrums, deafening, frigid, and powerful. You had closed your eyes, hugging your precious book close, the only physical memory you had of Venti. You could handle the sorrow of the universe, but not the possibility of losing him.

It was then that something squeezed your shoulders, urging you to open your eyes. Bright cerulean ones blinked back at you, braids that ended in an ombre blue dancing wildly around them. Your eyes welled up in more tears.

Venti.

[viharbinger]

hi! I'd like to check in a drunkard's tale with zhongli please! also congrats on your three hundred followers 🎉!

Dancing with them for the first time p2

A/N: ! IM SORRY ANON GIVING U THE WRONG BOOK OMGD DOSJSKDOS I DONT EVEN KNOW MY OWN EVENT IMS ORRY ISTG ill give u a new one omg... Bye

checking in: a fox in the dandelion sea

pairings: zhongli x gn!reader

warnings: mentions of drugs

300 follower event | part 1 (dainsleif) | part 2 | part 3

Dancing with Morax, the Geo Archon has got to be one of the most romantic things to happen, especially when the setting is just right.

He was sitting with you eating dinner at The Ocean Pearl. The lights around you were a soft yellow— warm and relaxing to be under.

The dinner had an array of all the things you loved to eat and some Liyue specialties, of course. And you were stuffed after eating.

But, he looked as if he was waiting for something.

After sometime, you definitely felt a little sleepy from all that food and was about to tell Zhongli you both needed to go home soon when he stops you.

The Ocean Pearl was empty, no customers were there except the waiters and waitresses putting away the dishes from the other tables—

The music of opera singing was so soft in the background playing from a radio. He stood up from his chair, his tall build already way above you as you were sitting down.

He extends his hand out to you to take, inviting you for a dance. You took his hand and your eyes became heavier the moment you got to rest your head on his chest as you swayed against the music.

You tried to fight the sleep, you tried, and he can feel you are trying to when he pulls your face to look up at him, and he presses a long sweet and deep kiss on your lips. You let your eyes close. He was like morphine, or the fresh air in the morning that makes you want to go back to bed. He was so gentle with his movements so as to not jolt you more awake.

[notwiselybuttoowell]

One of the finest bases for a salad is young heart-shaped leaves from the lime tree, the very best being from the small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata), which are hairless. These should be shiny and lime green in colour. They taste just like lettuce – surprisingly so – but I think they hold salad dressing better and don’t wilt so fast. They are exceptionally good in sandwiches.

I also like the very youngest leaves of hawthorn ( Crataegus monogyna); again, they need to be a vibrant, new green and just a few centimetres long. The leaves are alternate, as opposed to opposite, so borne along the stem in an alternate spiral, with five to seven lobes and teeth on the tips. Hawthorn leaves are said to protect the heart both emotionally and physically, and are known to be good for circulation. They taste fresh and grassy green and their pretty serrated edges make them attractive for salads.

I cannot get enough of dandelions  (Taraxacum officinalis) at this time of year. Every part is edible and packed full of good stuff: they are rich in potassium, for instance. They are bitter, like an endive, but sometimes more so, thus you need to go for the very youngest inner leaves, again lime-green, indicating new growth. If the bitterness is too much, soak them in salted water for 10 minutes or so. In salads, I am also mad about the flower stems, which taste a bit like Italian chicory (puntarelle) and can be treated exactly the same way. You only want the new stems of flower buds or flowers; by the time the plant is setting seed the stem will be full of chewy fibres. I chop the stems diagonally into segments, salt them well and then dress them in oil and little else. They are very good with chopped boiled eggs and a little finely diced red onion.

Chickweed (Stellaria media) is another excellent base, with a flavour not too dissimilar to that of corn salad. It may well be in flower now, but if it is growing somewhere damp enough, will still be tender. It is low-growing and mat-forming, with delicate little egg-shaped leaves and tiny white flowers.

The wild garlic (Allium ursinum) season is almost over, but in cooler spots you may find unripe seed to pick. These will appear on the ends of the seedheads and are ball-shaped, in clusters of three. They should be bright green in colour, rather than yellow. They give an intensely sweet garlic burst and are particularly good turned into salt (mix equal parts coarse sea salt and seeds), which will preserve into winter. This is very good in salad dressings.

Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis), fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) and perennial wall rocket (Diplotaxis tenuifolia) are garden escapees that are often found in abundance in cities and towns along paths and walls and are excellent for bulking out a salad.

Sheep’s sorrel (Rumex acetosella) is another good one, though you want it growing somewhere damp so that it is succulent. In dry spots, it gets very tough. It has oblong, arrow-shaped leaves and tall spikes of pink flowers. If it has flowered (which is likely right now) and gone to seed, steal these if they are still bright pink and fleshy. Scattered through a salad, they give a pleasing burst of lemon.

The unopened flowers of narrow-leaved or ribwort plantain (Plantago lanceolata) can be briefly steamed until tender, allowed to cool and dressed with a vinaigrette and tossed into a mixed salad or treated a little like asparagus, although they taste surprisingly like mushrooms. The leaves are long, narrowly oval with veins running parallel from the base to the top. The flower spikes are square and the unopened flowers are pine cone-shaped.

Likewise, the unopened flowers of oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare), which looks like an oversized lawn daisy and grows to 60cm high, can be briefly steamed and marinated, or pickled like capers. The white petals are lovely scattered in for some colour. The leaves are also edible, although they are quite bitter and perfumed by the time the plant flowers. If you can find them before then, they are much more desirable.

A better option are the leaves of the common or lawn daisy (Bellis perennis), which can be used raw, where they have an interesting fleshy texture, or cooked, which is my preferred method. The leaves are paddle-shaped and slightly hairy. Once cooked, they soak up dressing in a very pleasing manner. The flowers can be eaten too – they don’t taste of much, but look pretty.

Finally, there are excellent vinegars to be made from creamy white umbels of common elder (Sambucus nigra), the long, tubular yellow flowers of common honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum) and palest pink petals of dog rose (Rosa canina). All can be found in hedgerows right now. The adventurous can make these vinegars from scratch, by fermenting the flowers in sugar and water, but that takes time, so for a quicker solution use good-quality white wine vinegar or raw cider vinegar and infuse just the flowers (never the stems) for several days for a deliciously perfumed dressing.

Some of these are may be fairly region specific, but several also happen to be invasive in a lot of places, making them great foraging options. The link contains some helpful dos and don'ts, and suggestions for further reading, so if you are interested but new to foraging, I recommend clicking through.

[bloodinthesnow]

an alphabetical list of songs that make everything feel better and worse simultaneously (it is a very long list hence the keep reading under the cut):

A Mannequin Adrift - The Scary Jokes

A Night At The Movies - The Scary Jokes

Advice - Alex G

Agoraphobia - Elita

Alex - Teen Suicide

Alligator Skin Boots - McCafferty

Always Forever - Cults

And Also I’m Really Scared - Fox Academy

Angel Eyes and Basketball - Foot Ox

Angels of Porn II - Nicole Dollanganger

Apathy - tea

Apple Pie - The Scary Jokes (2021 mix specifically)

ARE WE STILL FRIENDS - Tyler, The Creator

As the World Caves In - Matt Maltese

Baby Teeth (Acoustic Version) - Baby Bugs

Backstabber - The Dresden Dolls

Bad Advice - Penelope Scott

Bad News - Teen Suicide

Bad Things - Cults

Bag of Bombs - Diet Tea Other Cola

Bang Bang Bang Bang - Sohodolls

Baxter 3rd Is Under Fucking Siege - Penelope Scott (specifically the soft version on her bandcamp)

Become the Warm Jets - Current Joys

Before the World Was Big - Girlpool

Bets Against the Void - The Scary Jokes

Blondie - Current Joys

Blood from the Concrete - The Scary Jokes

Blow My Brains Out - Tikkle Me

Blue Eyes Like the Devil’s Water - McCafferty

Blue Hair - TV Girl

Body Terror Song - AJJ

Boring - The Brobecks

Bound 2 - Kanye West

Brave As a Noun - AJJ

Break This the Breaking Point 2 - Vertigoaway

Breezeblocks - alt-J

Brian is the Most Beautiful - Memo Boy

Bright Blue Pickup Truck - Teen Suicide

Brooklyn Baby - Lana Del Rey

Bruno is Orange - Hop Along, Queen Ansleis

Bubble Gum - Clairo

Busted and Blue - Gorillaz

Camisado - Panic! At the Disco

Can I Leave Me Too? - The Greeting Committee

Cane Shuga - Glass Animals

Care - TEMPOREX

Carry Me Out - Mitski

Catabolic Seed - The Scary Jokes

Chalk Tablet Towers - Gorillaz

Chamber Of Reflection - Mac DeMarco

Choking on Flowers - Fox Academy

Christmas Drag - I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

Cigarette Ahegao - Penelope Scott

Cigarette Duet - Princess Chelsea

Colored Pinwheel - Foot Ox

Concrete - Poppy

Coolest Place in the World - Suki Waterhouse

Cop Graveyard - Teen Suicide

Cornflake Eyes - Foot Ox

Cupid - Jack Stauber (extended ver.)

DAI DAI DAI KIRAI - Dennoko-P

Dark Beach - Pastel Ghost

Dead Girls - Penelope Scott

Dealer - Lana Del Rey

Death of the Phone Call - Whatever, Dad

Dirty Night Clowns - Chris Garneau

Doves - Cake Bake Betty

Dream Sweet in Sea Major - Miracle Musical

Dresser - Fox Academy

Drunk Text Romance - Cyberbully Mom Club

Dust Collector - YG Hypnos

E.S.R.T. (2001) - Whatever, Dad

Egg - Whatever, Dad

El Manana - Gorillaz

Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles

Empty Room - Teen Suicide

Eric - Mitski

Every Day - bo en

EVERYTHING - The Black Skirts

Everything Means Nothing to Me (Instrumental) - Joe Hawley

Facebook.Com - Memo Boy

Father - The Front Bottoms

Fear of Dying - Poppy

Feel Better - Penelope Scott

Feeling so Matryoshka (2021 mix specifically) - The Scary Jokes

Fireflies - Chris Garneau

Fireworks - Mitski

First Love / Late Spring - Mitski

Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger

Fourth of July - Sufjan Stevens

Friends with You - The Scary Jokes

From the Gallows - I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

Getting Better - nelward

Getting Better (otherwise) - The Aubreys

Ghost Town - Kanye West

Girl Anachronism - The Dresden Dolls

Gomennne Gomennne - Kikuo

Good Looking - Suki Waterhouse

Goodbye, My Danish Sweetheart - Mitski

Gross - Bulldog Eyes

Growing Pains, Pt. 1 & 2 - dandelion hands

Habits (feat. Haley Reinhart) - Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox

Hammerhead - Penelope Scott

Hand Me My Shovel, I’m Going In! - Will Wood and the Tapeworms

Hansel - Sodikken

Happy News For Sadness - Car Seat Headrest

Haunt Me (x 3) - Teen Suicide

Haunted - Laura Les

Hazy Miss Daisy - Kid Bloom

Healing Ritual - Whatever, Dad

Hell, Missouri - UnderBite

Hello - Weathers

Hello World - The Scary Jokes

Her - Poppy

Hey Bunny (acoustic & remix are both good) - Baby Bugs

Hole Dwelling - Kikuo

Home II - Bulldog Eyes

Hospital - Gurldoll

How To Never Stop Being Sad - dandelion hands

Hurting Myself - Blood Girl

Hybrid Moments - Helvetia

I Am My Own Hell - Teen Suicide

I Can’t Afford To Make Music Anymore - Owie Zowie

I Cut Myself - Talkshow Boy

I Deserve to Bleed - Sushi Soucy

I Forgot to Take My Meds Today - Prince Daddy & the Hyena

I Fuck Everything Up - Mom

I Hate Everyone but You - Elita

I Love My Boyfriend - Princess Chelsea

I Love You So - The Walters

I Saw an Angel - Puzzle

I Want You - Mitski

I Was All Over Her - salvia palth

I’d Rather Sleep - Kero Kero Bonito

I’ve Wasted So Much Time - Enjoy

Icicles - The Scary Jokes

If I Don’t Go To Hell (Instrumental) - Mr. Green

In a Bitter Syrup (original ver.) - The Scary Jokes

Insomniac - Memo Boy & Chakra Efendi

Internet Quiz - Whatever, Dad

Introduction to the Snow - Miracle Musical

Introverted - Elita

It’s Only Sex - Car Seat Headrest

Jealous - Eyedress

Jeanine - The Scary Jokes

Jeff - McCafferty

Joyfulthought - Mom

Junkyard - Fox Academy

Just - Radiohead

Just Take My Wallet - Jack Stauber

Kimi Wa Dekinai Ko - Kikuo

Kitchenbastards - Whatever, Dad

Last Words of a Shooting Star - Mitski

Lavender - Penelope Scott

Lemonade - Nicole Dollanganger

Like a Match - Jack Conte

Limerence - Yves Tumor

Liquid Smooth - Mitski

Lo Que Siento - Cuco (yass corny song time)

Locket - Crumb

Long - Porridge Radio

Look Who’s Inside Again - Bo Burnham

Love Me, Love Me, Love Me (aka Aishite) - Kikuo

Lukewarm - Penelope Scott

Lying To Myself - Blood Girl

Magical Doctor - Maretu

Make Me Cry - Fox Academy

Make the Grade - Jack Conte

Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave - Will Wood

Martin - Car Seat Headrest

Masochism - Ky Vöss

Mean - Nicole Dollanganger

Memoir (Live at RAK) - Villagers

Misery Meat - Sodikken

Mistakes Like This - Prelow

moment - Vierre Cloud

Mommy Fwiend - Penelope Scott

Money - The Drums

Montreal - Penelope Scott

Moon Song - Phoebe Bridgers

Moonsickness - Penelope Scott

Motion Sickness - Phoebe Bridgers

Mrs Magic - Strawberry Guy

My Alcoholic Friends - The Dresden Dolls

My Body’s Made of Crushed Little Stars - Mitski

My Girlfriend - TV Girl

Necromancer - Joy Again

Nessa’s Theme - Whatever, Dad

New Year’s Eve - American Pleasure Club/Teen Suicide

Nice Boys - TEMPOREX

Nights Like These - Pigeon Pit

Nimbasa CORE - plasterbrain

No Fun - Teen Suicide

No Leverage / No Pleasure - The Scary Jokes

No Obligation - Mom

Nosebleed Forever - Fox Academy

Not Allowed - TV Girl

Nothing - Teen Suicide

Nowhere to Run - Stegosaurus Rex

O.K. - Whatever, Dad

Oh Noel - I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

On Melancholy Hill - Gorillaz

Once More To See You - Mitski

Panic - Caravan Palace

Papa Ed’s Oobe - Whatever, Dad

Paul - Big Thief

People Eater - Sodikken

Perverted - Elita

Pink in the Night - Mitski

Pink Smoke - The Scary Jokes

Please Don’t Jump (It’s Christmas) - Dallon Weekes

Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - Deftones

Pleasure Cruise - The Scary Jokes

Poison Tree - Grouper

Post Break-Up Sex - The Vaccines

Pretty - Coco & Clair Clair

Pretty Cvnt - Sewerslvt

Pumpkin - The Regrettes

Rampage - Nicole Dollanganger

Rät - Penelope Scott (please dont come for me oh god i swear this song hits when youre getting over an ex fp)

Redmageddon - Sodikken

Rehab - Weathers

Remember You from adventure time

Rescue Us - Story One

Rest Stop - Whatever, Dad

<Restart> - Oscar Lang

Restless - Teen Suicide

Revenge - XXXTENTACION

Rock Bottom - Blood Girl

Rockit - Gorillaz

Rosary - Fox Academy

Ruru’s Suicide Show on a Livestream - Shinsei Kamattechan

Saint - Fox Academy

Saint Bernard 2 - Lincoln

Salvia Plath - Teen Suicide (an all time favorite of mine!!)

Sarah - Alex G

Savior Complex - Phoebe Bridgers

School Rooftop (Slowed Down Version) - Hisohkah

Scout Finch Bitch - Kitty

Scroll Patrol - Rinse & Repeat (another all time favorite of mine)

Self Care - Penelope Scott

Seventeen - Ladytron

She Likes Another Boy - Oscar Lang

Silence - Pop Club

Silver Soul - Beach House

Sippy Cup - Mazie

Skeleton Appreciation Day in Vestal, NY (Bones) - Will Wood and the Tapeworms

Slacker - Chloe Moriondo

Sleep - Mom

Sleeping - Bulldog Eyes

Sleeping Powder - Gorillaz

Sleepwalk - Santo & Johnny

Sleepyhead - The Scary Jokes

Slipping Through My Fingers from Mamma Mia!

Smile Like You Mean It - The Killers (also the Tally Hall cover)

So Mean - Poppy

So Much - Cavetown

So Wet - Elita (ITS A MONSTERFUCKER SONG APPARENTLY)

Soap - Penelope Scott

Soon I’ll Be Leaving - Bulldog Eyes

Souk Eye - Gorillaz

Sound Check (Gravity) - Gorillaz

Sour Switchblade - Elita

Space Song - Beach House

Special - Joe Hawley

Spooky Ghost - Teen Suicide

Spud - Whatever, Dad

Stalemate_Spud - Whatever, Dad

Starstruck - The Scary Jokes

Still Life - Sitcom

Stranded Lullaby - Miracle Musical (also the ghost demo)

Strange Dayz - Weathers

Sucking Souls - Elita

Sweet Hibiscus Tea - Penelope Scott

Swimming - Teen Suicide

Tadpoles Lullaby - Galen Tipton

Tear You Apart - She Wants Revenge

Teeth - Limbo

Telephones - Vacations

Tell Me It’s Okay (Self-Titled Demo) - Paramore

Thank You, Sorry - Ky Vöss

Thanku - Blood Girl

That Funny Feeling - Bo Burnham

The Beer - Kimya Dawson

The Big Joyous Celebration - Teen Suicide

The Family Jewels - Marina

The Leanover - Life Without Buildings

The Shopping Cart Song - UnderBite

The Spine Song - Cake Bake Betty

This Could Build Us a Home - The Garden

Three AM - Gurldoll

Tippy and Zelda - Whatever, Dad

Tire Swing - Kimya Dawson

Tired of Waiting - Ulle Kamelle

Too Late Now - Wet Leg

Touch-Tone Telephone

Townie - Mitski

Toynbee Tiles - The Scary Jokes

Training Wheels - Melanie Martinez

Trash - Alex G

Trees and Flowers - Strawberry Switchblade

Two Slow Dancers - Mitski

Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear

Variations on a Cloud - Miracle Musical

Vas - Jagger Finn

Violent - carolesdaughter

Virgin Veins - Coma Cinema

Walking the Cow - Daniel Johnston

Wallflower - Moses Campbell

Want You Gone - Aperture Science Psychoacoustic Laboratories

Warm Regards - Penelope Scott

Warsh - Whatever, Dad

Warsh_Tippy and Zelda - Whatever, Dad

Welcome and Goodbye - dream, ivory

Wet - Dazey and the Scouts

Whispering Glades - Nicole Dollanganger

Winter Snakes - Joy Again

Worthless - Teen Suicide

You Should Know - Penelope Scott

You’re So Cool - Nicole Dollanganger

You’re the Reason I Believe in Ghosts - Starry Cat

Young - Vacations

64 Little White Things - Cake Bake Betty

and lastly songs that arent officially released on apple music so i listen to them on soundcloud

Agony - Yung Lean instrumental

All of My Friends - Tally Hall

Anathema - Twenty One Pilots

Drizzle - Penelope Scott

ENA remix

From Russia With Love - Penelope Scott

How Did I Ever - Clairo

I’m Not Angry Anymore - Paramore but a slowed version specifically

Memoir #2 - May Roosevelt

My Kind of Woman - Poppy cover

Nuts - Lil Peep

Papayawhip (God or whatever) - Penelope Scott

Possibly in Michigan soundtrack

rain on me - joji

Rolling Girl - Wowaka

Runaway Runaway - Mars Argo

Shinitai-Chan idk who made it :(

Sucka Stand Up (Intro) - theyoungcrooksband

thought paths - monomau

Treehouse - Alex G

Useless - I Know Leopard

Using You - Mars Argo

waitin 4ur ## call - <<##33

Warm Nights - Xori

yoshi island ending theme

4 Morant - Doja Cat

& It’s Beautiful - The Scary Jokes

[hellonoblesky]

School got me worn out so here's my team dynamic HCs

It's Kaeya, Xingqiu, Diluc, and Ayaka atm hngjfhgdjfg

Kaeya

This man is so tired, Archons please let him rest

Has to pick up his week's paperwork from Jean every Monday when we go to Mondstadt to buy food supplies and stuff before fighting Andrius, gets to work on it while Diluc and the Andrius team go at it

Actually is the person who keeps the whole party safe, has pulled Xingqiu away from ledges while he's reading more times than he can count, makes sure everyone has food at all times, and keeps the schedule in line

Has a flask of Death After Noon that he keeps on him, has to actively keep it away from Xingqiu because the kid's curious

He is so tired he is the reason the party only gets up to leave at like noon because he sleeps in

Thinks he's good enough at hiding his anxiety that no one else has noticed

He is not, they've all noticed him shaking visibly at high speeds in 90-degree weather and the kids will do their best to avoid fraying his nerves on a bad day

Very kind to Xingqiu and Ayaka, kinda like a cool uncle? Buys them things even though they can afford it

Kinda lets the kids do what they want and chat while he keeps them safe and the whole party on their way

Absolute tank, balances his skillset out so he can manage most threats alone, no one has to get hurt, they can just travel, it's fine it's fine

Pretends to casually bring up stuff the kids want to do (after meticulously making sure the party would be in the right place at the right time)

"Xingqiu, we have time to kill, care to show us to the Wanwen Bookhouse? We can see if they have the next issue in that book series you're always reading! :)"

"Ayaka, you wanted to try some Liyuen cuisine, didn't you? We have a dear friend who just so happens to be a chef at Wanmin Restaurant! And since we're in Liyue anyway, we should swing by, shouldn't we?"

He tries his best to find something Diluc wouldn't mind doing too! Usually, Diluc turns him down but Kaeya has scored on occasion!

"C'mon Diluc, you can't have lost all your taste for reading, right? I hear Inazuma has some interesting books nowadays, what with all the isolation..."

Basically, he just tries his best and is so tired please let him rest

Diluc

This man is angry all the time but he doesn't mean to be. He's just unnerved because he's basically back to hunting Fatui in other nations. He just isn't alone this time and the Fatui aren't the focus

He's so annoyed that they don't leave until Kaeya wakes up, actively in denial about the fact that he himself wakes up only an hour earlier and everyone else is waiting for much longer

Runs right into danger all the time please someone tell this man to calm down he is the reason they need so much food

Does and takes a whole lot of damage at the same time and it stresses Kaeya out so much

Was not Pleased to find out he'd be stuck traveling with Kaeya, puts up with it because he can't bring himself to turn down the Traveler's request. Because in his eyes they're just a kid trying to find their family and he really can't turn down their plea for help in

Gets along surprisingly well with Xingqiu, they both enjoy reading, and often recommend books to each other! Diluc has no idea Xingqiu wrote Legend of a Sword, but the only reason for that is that he literally forgot the book name

"Hmm... in Mondstadt we have this book, The Fox and the Dandelion Sea? For a traditional Mondstadt fairytale, it does remind me of Inazuma, funnily enough. There are versions of the book that are watered down for younger children, but if you have the time I'd recommend the full novelization."

"Tales From the Waves? No, I haven't read that. Is it good?" ... "A novelization of an old ship captain's life? That does sound interesting... I'll pick up a copy when I can"

Gets along well with Ayaka as well, they both appreciate the arts and such so they talk about that

"In Mondstadt we don't have nearly as many festivals as they do in Inazuma... but when we do they're quite the occasion, and very dear to people's hearts. There would be rioting in the streets if the Windblume Festival was postponed..."

"Oh Mond has its fair share of dance traditions, but they fell to be a staple of the Lawrence rule, so not many traditional dances remain... although if you wish to learn more about them you could ask Kaeya to introduce you to the Knight's Recconacance Captain. She doesn't like me very much"

Is the one person who actually doesn't realize that Kaeya is anxious All The Time, literally could watch him shake uncontrollably as Venti walks by and think it was his Vision acting up, he has all the pieces to put the puzzle together but has lost interest in it

Xingqiu

Top ten reasons the party gets sidetracked, number one: Xingqiu finding a book and getting so into it that he doesn't notice people

Actually besties with Ayaka he thinks she's really cool!

Top ten reasons why Kaeya actually gets to sleep as long as he does, number one: Xingqiu jumping up and yanking Diluc's hair when he tries to wake him up

"You're 22 you can go get breakfast by yourself, my leige"

Infodumps about his books to the whole party while they're eating dinner regardless of if they're listening or not (they are, they always are)

Pulls out relevant trivia out of nowhere?? Like they'll be stuck in some ruins and Xingqiu just

"Hey, you know this specific style of ruins are known to be built with metal hatches that always lead to escape routes :)"

Or like

"Oh yeah, the coloration in the animals is different here because the plants in Inazuma so often have purple and blue pigmentation, and Inazuma is so naturally isolated, that the animals adapted to get their pigments partially from the foliage!"

And no one knows how or why he knows this much but he Does??

Also, knows everyone's favorite bird for some reason and talks about them, why? Idk I think he'd like birds!!

"A peacock? Oh, I've never even seen one of those! I hear they're lovely, but a little noisy. Sometimes we get feathers imported for design reference at the Feyun Commerce Guild though!"

"Umbertail Falcon, right? Ohh I hear they can be very loyal, right? Ahh, so that's why yours flys down to check in on you? That's lovely! Owls? Oh yeah, those are cool birds, you know their feathers are fanned out just right so they're entirely silent while flying!"

"Herons? Oh yeah, that's what your title is, right? Graceful... I think they're more stealthy, very good at waiting to strike. That's how they hunt, you know? Just being patient and stealthy, then striking. That's also why they're so graceful standing there all the time!"

Bummed that he's the only person in the party without a bird as his constellation tbh, but he's alright with it because he's got books!!

Mentioned Albedo and Kaeya almost choked on his food, Xingqiu thought this was hilarious

Routinely plays pranks on Diluc and occasionally manages to pull a deez joke on Kaeya, leaves Ayaka alone with the pranks though because he knows she's new to all of this

Ayaka

Oh this poor girl, Lumine just dropped her off with Mondstadt's most dysfunctional siblings and a kid who reads at the speed of light and said have fun

Really gets along well with Xingqiu!! Having someone with a somewhat similar background is definitely a relief, especially because Kaeya and Diluc intimidate her, what with them arguing most of the time they interact

She recognizes the anxiety in Kaeya (because she also has it) so she's a little more comfortable approaching him because of that

She's happy to talk about Inazuma's ruins and is fascinated by Kaeya bringing up similar ruins in Mondstadt and Liyue

She really appreciates him remembering what she's interested in and making time in the day for it!

Diluc on the other hand?? She has... some idea how to talk to him? But?? He is either aggressive or glaring off into the distance at all times, and she's been around long enough to know that he doesn't mean to be like that but it's still unnerving to her

However, she Can talk to him! She is still a little confused because he constantly sounds so grumpy, but she's realized that he's actually really good at listening, and is absolutely willing to talk about Mondstadt traditions! Because she does really like to learn about other nations

Plus, she can go to Xingqiu to answer most of her questions!

"Xingqiu, I- I hope this isn't an odd question, but ah... how exactly do you get used to Kaeya and Diluc? I don't think I've quite figured it out yet..?"

"So in Liyue... the Merchant stalls are on the docks? Like Ritou but it's all on the docks? Interesting..."

"You're the second born of the Feyun Commerce Guild? Oh! Forgive me, I thought you were the eldest, my brother handles most international relations..."

It was really hard for her to adjust to the team, just because of how ragtag it is most of the time, but she's got it by now!

She actually kind of likes the scrappy chaos! She hasn't completely gotten used to it all but she finds it like kind of a break from having to uphold her image at all times

Top five Ayaka quotes and who she said them to:

"They fight a wolf ghost every week...?? Are they ok??" (To Kaeya, about the Andrius team)

"So this is Morax's old... dragon friend...??" (To Xingqiu)

"Wait, you do this every week?" (To Diluc, about the domains)

"Oh!! Oh it is spicy!!!" (To Xingqiu, about Xiangling's cooking)

"Ah... OH! Yes um I uh- *gay hand flip* ?? Is that right??" (Xingqiu was talking about Chongyun)

Also the party went to Dragonspine and Ayaka was actually really interested in Durin because she didn't know that other nations also had odd giant dragon skeletons

[teyvattherapist]

1, 3, 4, 6 for the personality section of the oc asks?

nice okay here we go.

1 - What’s their alignment?

I always found it hard to give characters and people set alignments because they feel like such tight boxes. Especially with characters like Sandrone who doesn't even remember the things he's doing are actually against his will. His opinion is discarded and if he expresses it he's under threat of reprogramming. His actions yell Lawful Evil, following the Tsaritsa's law and will without regard for who it hurts. But his morals are much different. He falls somewhere on the neutral scale, I'm just not sure where.

3 - What are their hobbies and interests? Do they have any particular “favorites” (food, books, and so on)?

-finger guns- he likes to read. I mentioned in the past his favourite book is The Fox in the Dandelion Sea and that his favourite food is the Mondstadt Hashbrown. But all in all, his favourite thing in the world would be to read all day every day uninterrupted. He also likes crafting(aka fixing his mask with Kintsugi because Scaramouche broke it again while sparring) and playing instruments(aka for one of the Tsaritsa's parties cause the pianist cancelled again.) He's also interested in embroidery

4 - What are they bad at?

Understanding his own emotions. Sandrone is an empath and understands what other people are feeling and why. And when he can't, he's good enough at picking up social cues and reacting accordingly. But when it comes to himself, he doesn't understand it at all. It isn't his fault he's like this but he's awkward at times because of it. Sometimes a story isn't enough reference to be a person. Beyond that though he's just kinda shit at cooking. Seriously, he burns water. He also sucks at the above embroidery.

6 - Do they have any vices/addictions/mental illnesses?

A lot, but after consulting @zertecs they told me to include the main ones. The only real things that come up in his gameplay/voicelines/quests would be the subtle hints to his PTSD. Mans was tortured, what can you expect from him? And also his Depersonalization that happens quite frequently as a result of always being somebody else. His worst bad habit is the fact he folds the corners of pages instead of using a bookmark so I mean he's at least not an alcoholic or smth.

1 - What’s their alignment?

Neutral Good or Chaotic Good I suppose? He's a Knight... He's a healer... But he doesn't care for laws, not really. He follows his own moral compass which sometimes doesn't align with those of his workplace(Chaotic Good) but he also does the best that he can to help others even at the expense of himself(Neutral Good). He's not evil by any means, but he's done bad things. 3 - What are their hobbies and interests? Do they have any particular “favorites” (food, books, and so on)?

Besides the standard answer of origami. Ohm quite likes baking. It isn't often he times to put aside for it. But when he does have time, it's a hobby he'll take up. He likes baking and decorating cakes the most. He's not the /best/ at the decorating aspect, but everything tastes great! He loves sweets so this is really an excuse for him to eat cookie dough. 4 - What are they bad at?

Most would say nothing. That's the thing about Ohm, his skills or any lack of are a closely guarded secret. Everything Ohm does he's supposedly good at, one of those people who are gifted at picking things up immediately. Really though, its cause he gives up if he's bad at it. There are many abandoned projects sitting in his yard or office that he just couldn't get a handle on. Painting, carpentry, DIY, a yoga mat, cheesemaking stuff, ect. He's bad at lots of things! 6 - Do they have any vices/addictions/mental illnesses?

-Insert the same gif as above-

Ohm has a lot of problems from years of being Celestia's bitch essentially. The most obvious are that he's a pathological liar, a self sacrificial martyr, and he suffers from PTSD like his younger brother. He never chose this life, nor has he ever wanted to do the things he's done, and that heavily weighs on him. He drinks a lot to try and quell the pain but given his adeptal blessing alcohol no longer affects him as it used to so he finds even drinking pointless these days. While his brother has less vices due to just not really having the time or spacefor it, Ohm has a lot.

[beholding-moth]

🐰🌸🍃 :DD

🐰- do you believe in soul mates?

oof that’s a difficult question to answer but,, no i don’t think i do?

more accurately i believe in the free choice for love in all its kinds and i think it’s beautiful that humans feel such a strong bond with ppl sometimes that they have the need to call it something such as being soul mates

but i just love the fact that as people we have the choice of choosing who we want to love rather than it being something destiny chose for us to happen

🌸- what is your favorite flower?

POPPIES!!!!! but also cherry blossoms and dandelions and daisies

and i’m just a total mess for flower symbolism in general, give me all the flower symbolism babeyy

🍃- would you rather live in a sea with mermaids or a forest with fairies?

as much as i like the sea i’m a forest person at heart and i’d sell my soul to live in the forest with fairies, eating berries, following rivers and playing with foxes and deers all day long

[tipsycad147]

Herbs and Their Witchy Names

original graphic by: LorelainW

One of the things you might notice when working with spells is they call for some different ingredients. For example, eye of newt, wool of bat, toe of frog. To some who happen across these spells it can help lend to some of the fear surrounding witches because some of the ingredients may seem a bit bizarre. However, you will often find that seldom will those ingredients be literal. For example, if you see eye of newt in a spell, you are not going go out and get an actual eye from a newt. It actually refers to mustard seed.

The reason we have these names, stems from ancient times when it was not safe to keep spells about. So to protect the craft these names would be used instead. Some of them are just Old English, and some even date back to ancient China. A lot of times, you will find that the name is based on what the herb resembles. You will also find that many witches still use these names to this day. The more you work with magick and spell work the more familiar with these names you will become. I wanted to provide you with a basic list that you can use to work with as you are becoming familiar with working with them. As you find more you can add more to it.

A Bone of an Ibis: Buckthorn A Titan’s Blood: Wild Lettuce A Lion’s Hairs: Tongue of a Turnip (the leaves of the taproot) A Man’s Bile: Turnip Sap A Pig’s Tail: Leopard’s Bane A Hawk’s Heart: Heart of Wormwood Aaron’s Rod: Goldenrod, Mullein Absinthe: Wormwood Achillea: yarrow Adders Tongue: Dogstooth Violet African Ginger: Ginger Aftator Pear: Avocado All Heal: Mistletoe, Valerian American Dittany: Basil Aneton: Dill An Eagle: Wild Garlic Aquifolius – Holly Archangel – Angelica Armstrong – Knotweed Arrowroot – Yarrow Assear: Comfrey Ass’s Foot or Bull’s Foot: Coltsfoot Ava – Kava Kava Bad Man’s Plaything: Yarrow Bairnwort – Daisy Bat’s Wings: Holly Battree – Elder Bear’s Foot: Lady’s Mantle Bee Balm – Lemon Balm Beer Flower – Hops Beggar’s Buttons – Burdock Beggarweed – Dodder Bereza – Birch Bindweed – Morning Glory Bird’s Eye – Pansy, Germander Bird’s Foot – Feunugreek Bird’s Nest – Carrot Biscuits – Tomentil Bitter Greass – Ague Root Bitter Root – Gentian Black Cherry – Belladonna Black Maidenhair: Black Spleenwort Black Sampson: Echinacea Black Wort – Comfrey Blessed Herb – Avens, Pimpernel Blind Buff – Poppy Blood: Elder sap or another tree sap Blood of Hephaistos: Wormwood Blood from a Head – Lupine Blue Buttons – Periwinkle Blue Eyes – Potato Blood of Ares: Purslane Blood of a Goose: Mulberry Tree’s Milk Bloodwort: Yarrow Blood of Hestia: Chamomile Blood of an Eye: Tamarisk Gall Blood from a Shoulder: Bear’s Breach Bottle Brush: Horse Tail Brain Thief: Mandrake Bread and Cheese Tree – Hawthorne Bride of the Meadow – Meadowsweet Bride of the Sun: Marigold Braisewort – Comfrey, Daisy Bull’s Blood or Seed of Horus: Horehound Burning Bush: White Dittany Calendula: Marigold Calf’s Snout: Snapdragon Cankerwort: Dandelion, Ragwort Candlemas Maiden: Snowdrop Candlewick Plant: Mullein Cape Gum: Acacia Capon’s Tail: Valerian Carpenter’s Weed: Yarrow Catmint: Catnip Cat’s Foot: Canada Snake Root and/or Ground Ivy Cat’s Wort: Catnip Cheeses: Marsh Mallow Cherry Pie: Heliotrope Chewing John: Glangal China Root: Galangal Chinese Parsley: Coriander Chocolate: Carob Chocolate Flower: Wild Geranium Christ’s Eye: Vervain Sage Christ’s Ladder: Centaury Christ’s Thorn: Holly Church Steeple: Agrimony Clear-eye: Clary Sage Click: Goosegrass Clot: Great Mullein Clove Root: Avens Corpse Plant: Indian Pipe Couch Grass: Witch’s Grass Cowgrass: Knotweed Crowdy Kit: Figwort Crow Corn: Ague Root Crow’s Foot: Cranesbill Crown for a King: Wormwood Crown of Thorns: Euphorbia Cuckoo’s Bread: Common Planatin Cuddy’s Lungs: Great Mullein Cucumber Tree: Magnolia Cupids Car: Wolf’s Bane Daphne: Bay Laurel Death Angel: Agaric Death Flower: Yarrow Death’s Herb: Belladonna Delight of the Eye: Rowan Devil’ Apple – Datura Devil’s Cherries: Belladonna Devils Dung: Asafoetida Devil’s’ Eye: Henbane, Periwinkle Devil’s Flower: Bachelor’s Buttons Devil’s Plaything: Yarrow Dew of the Sea: Rosemary Dog’s Mouth: Snap Dragon Dollar: Meadowsweet Dove’s Foot: Wild Geranium Dragon’s Blood: Calamus Dragon Wort: Bistort Dumbledore’s Delight: Wolf’s Bane Earth Smoke: Fumitory Elf Leaf: Lavender, Rosemary Elf’s Wort: Elecampane Enchanter’s Plant: Vervain English Cowslip: Primrose Englishman’s Foot: Common Plantain Erba Santa Maria: Spearmint Everlasting Friendship: Goosegrass Eye Balm: Goldenseal Eye of Christ: Germander Speedwell Eye of the Day: Common Daisy Eye of Newt: Mustard Seed Eye of the Star: Horehound Eye Root: Goldenseal Eyes: Aster, Daisy, Eyebright Fairies Horses: Ragwort Fair Lady: Belladonna Fairy Bells: Sorrell, Wood Fairy Cup: Cow Slip Fairy Fingers: Foxglove Fairy Smoke: Indian Pipe Fairy Petticoats: Foxglove Fairy Weed: Foxglove False Wintergreen: Pipsissewa Fat from a Head: Spurge Felon Herb: Mugwort Field Hops: Yarrow Five Fingers: Cinquefoil Flute Plant: Meadow Rue Folk’s Gloves: Foxglove Fox Bells: Foxglove Foxtail: Club Moss French Wheat: Buckwheat Frog’s Foot: Bulbous Buttercup From the Belly: Earth-apple From the Foot: Houseleek From the Loins: Chamomile Frozen Roses: Wood Rose Fruit of the Gods: Apple Fruit of the Underworld: Apple Gagroot: Lobelia Gallowsgrass: Hemp Garden Heliotrope: Valerian Ghost Flower: Datura Gillies: Carnation Gin Plant: Juniper Giver of Life: Corn Goat’s Foot: Ash Weed Goat’s Leaf: Honeysuckle Goat’s Weed: St John’s Wort God’s Hair: Hart’s Tongue Fern Golden Bough: Mistletoe Golden Star: Avens Goldes: Marigold Gosling Wing: Goosegrass Graveyard Dust: Mullein Graveeyard Flowers: Plumeria Ground Apple: Chamomile Ground Raspberry: Golden Seal Great Ox-eye: Ox-eye Daisy Hairs of a Hamadryas Baboon: Dill Seed Hair of Venus: Maidenhair Fern Hag’s Taper: Great Mullein Hagthorn: Hawthorn Happy Major: Burdock Harebell: Bluebell Hare’s Beard: Great Mullein Headache: Poppy Healing Herb: Comfrey Helmet Flower: Scullcap Herb of Enchantment: Vervain Herb of Grace: Rue, Vervain Hind’s Tongue: Hart’s Tongue Fern Holy Herb: Yerba Santa Holy Rope: Hemp Agrimony Honey Stalks: Clove Hook and Arn: Yerba Santa Horse Tongue: Hart’s Tongue Fern Horse Hoof: Coltsfoot Horse Violet: Pansy Hundred Eyes: Periwinkle Hundred Leaved Grass Indian Dye: Golden Seal Indian God Tree: Banyon Indian Paint: Golden Seal Indian Root: Trillium Indian Sage – Bonesset Indian Tobacco – Lobelia Innocense: Bluets Jacob’s Ladder – Lily of the Valley Jacob’s Staff: Great Mullein Jaundice R Joy of the Mountain: Marjoram Joy on the Ground: Periwinkle Jupiter’s Staff: Great Mullein Juno’s Tears – Vervain King’s Crown: Black Haw Knight’s Milfoil: Yarrow Klamath Weed – St Johns Wort Knight’s Milfoil – Yarrow Knitback – Comfrey Kronos’ Blood: sap of Cedar Ladder to Heaven – Lily of the Valley Lady’s Glove: Foxglove Lady’s Meat: Hawthorn Lad’s Love: Southernwood Lamb’s Ears: Betony Lamb Mint: Spearmint Lion’s Herb: Columbine Lion’s Mouth: Foxglove Lion’s Tooth: Dandelion Little Dragon: Tarragon Love Fruit: Orange Love Herbs: Lovage Love Idol: Pansy Love in Idleness: Pansy Love Leaves: Burdock Love Lies Bleeding: Amaranth/Anemone Love Man: Goosegrass Love Parsley: Lovage Love Root: Orris Root Mackeral Mint: Spearmint Maiden’s Ruin: Southernwood Man’s Health: Ginseng Master of the Woods: Woodruff May: Black Haw May Lily: Lily of the Valley May Rose: Black Haw Mayflower: Hawthorne Maypops: Passion Flower Military Herb: Yarrow Miracle Herb: Comfrey Mistress of the Night: Tuberose Mosquito Plant: Pennyroyal Mutton Chops: Goosegrass Naughty Man’s Cherries: Belladonna Nine Hooks: Lady’s Mantle Nine Joints: Knotweed Nose Bleed: Yarrow Obeah Wood: Ebony Old-Maid’s-Nightcap: Wild Geranium Old Man’s Flannel: Great Mullein Old Man Fennel: Mullein Old Man’s Pepper: Yarrow Old Uncle Henry: Mugwort Old Woman: Wormwood Oliver: Olive Organ Tea: Pennyroyal Paddock Pipes: Horsetail Password: Primrose Pearl Moss: Irish Moss Peter’s Staff: Great Mullein Priest’s Crown: Dandelion leaves Poor Man’s Treacle: Garlic Pucha-Pat: Patchouli Queen of the Night: Vanilla Cactus Queen of the Meadow: Meadowsweet Queen of the Meadow Root: Gravelroot Queen’s Root: Stillengia Quick: Hawthorn Quickbane: Rowan Quick Grass: Witch Grass Rabbits: Toadflax Ram’s Head: American Valerian Red Cockscomb: Amaranth Ring-o-bells: Bluebells Robin-run-in-the-grass: Goosegrass Run by the ground: Pennyroyal Sacred Bark: Cascara Sagrada Sacred Herb: Yerba Santa Sacred Mother: Corn Sacred Mushroom: Agaric Sailor’s Tobacco: Mugwort Scaldhead: Blackberry See Bright: Clary Sage Seed of Horus: Horehound Semen of Ammon: Houseleek Semen of Ares: Clover Semen of Helios: White Hellebore Semen of Herakles: Mustard-rocket Semen of Hermes: Dill Semen of Hephaistos: Fleabane Seven Year’s Love: Yarrow Shameface: Wild Geranium Shepherd’s Heart: Shepherd’s Purse Silver Bells: Black Haw Silver Dollar: Honesty Snake’s Grass: Yarrow Soapwort: Comfrey or Daisy Soldier’s Tea: Horehound Sorcerer’s Berry: Belladonna Sorcerer’s Herb: Datura Sorcerer’s Violet: Periwinkle Sparrow’s Tongue: Knotweed St. John’s Herb: Hemp Agrimony St. John’s Plant: Mugwort Star Flower: Borage Star of the Earth: Avens Starweed: Chickweed Storm Hat: Wolf’s Bane Summer’s Bride: Marigold Sweethearts: Goosegrass Swine’s Snout: Dandelion Leaves Tanner’s Bark: Toadflax Tarragon: Mugwort Tartar Root: Ginseng Tears of a Hamadryas Baboon: Dill Juice Thousand Weed: Yarrow Thunder Plant: House Leek Tongue of Dog: Houndstongue Torches: Great Mullein Unicorn Root: Ague Root Wax Dolls: Fumitory Weazel Snout: Yellow Archangel White: Ox-eye Daisy White Man’s Foot: Common Plantain White Wood: White Cinnamon Witch’s Asprin: White Willow Bark Witch’s Brier: Brier Hips Weasel Snout: Yellow Archangel Wolf Claw: Club Moss Wolf Foot: Bugle Weed Wolf’s Milk: Euphorbia

Have a magickal day!

Much Love and Many Blessings,

Jasmeine Moonsong

http://jasmeinemoonsong.com/herbs-and-their-witchy-names-3/

[kewltie]

YEAR END FIC REVIEW

This year I wrote: 

biological imperative 

wings of icarus

war of the roses

sugar, we’re going down

you are cordially invited...

garden of eden

your kiss tastes so red

hana to ryuu 

a demolition boy & his cryptid bf

the fox’s bride

when dandelion roars

hope is a four letter word

butterfly pinned under glass

the devil and the deep blue sea

vol 1: goodbye halcyon days

papa said to knock you out

my boy builds coffin

love meme, hate meme

interlude: paper darling

in rouge

at the feet of the world

that’s 21 stories (124k words!!!) and that’s discounting all the random fic snippets that i wrote only on tumblr so far. 

Overall thoughts

My actual writing year didn’t really start until like in May which mean the bulk of my writing was in the last half of the year. I spent most of the first half reposting and moving my eunhae fic over to ao3 so I didn’t actually have any new fic to post (even tho i was prob still writing away with random fic ideas anyway but no actual completed fic to post) until I wrote BI for bakudeku and that pretty much sealed the deal for me. New fandom, new pairing, and new obsession. Honestly coming in I was worry how slow I was writing and how I didn’t get much done but looking at my fic list and my wordcounts and HOW I DID IT ALL IN HALF A YEAR... im pretty impress with myself :D.

Also, I think it’s a good time as any to finally realize and accept when you finally  move on to a new fandom. So thank you v v v v much to my old fandom for nurturing me and helping me grow as i writer these past five years. You made every eunhae fic worth it, thank you again!!!!

My best story of the year

“A demolition boy & his cryptid bf” if all the kudoes that keep on coming tell me. Here’s a random tidbit about it: i wrote it all in like 2-3 days in some sort of mad spur. social media style fic was something i did for eunhae before so it wasn’t new to me so i guess that’s why it came easy enough LOL but this was little more intensive just bc i wanted it look even better but im sooooo glad ppl were so accepting of it despite the style of the fic and the way it was format. you guys rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gave me enough confident to start “love meme, hate meme” even tho im pretty sure i was going to do it anyway lol. 

My favorite story of the year

“love meme, hate meme,” only bc it is my masterpiece in term of how fucking damn pretty it is and how much blood, sweat, and tears i poured into it just to get that damn FONT COLOR RIGHT. 

Most fun story to write

“papa said to knock you out” aka kasumi ‘verse only bc she literally wrote herself. her voice come clear and true to me and i had such a fun time writing in her pov!! it also plays into my dumb romcom trope that i always love bc royalty au? CHECK? single parents? CHECK CHECK? past secret love affair? CHEEEEEEEECK. it’s just all so damn cliche and it’s me to T and i fucking love it. 

Story with the single sexiest moment

“In Rouge” played with a lot of things i love where it borders on sexy/intimate without crossing the line. like im 90% sure bakudeku were going to bang in the restroom but the fact that it’s THE RESTROOM IN THEIR SCHOOL and katsuki is damn good bf and wouldn’t want their first time in that shitty place so yea hands to themselves. but honestly i don’t do smut/nsfw but i always tread the water with it lol with my kink fics bc i am kinky v v v much so but i do in a way that is comfortable with me without dealing with explicit sex and im really glad i get to show off that in my fic bc sexy doesn’t alway have to lead up to sex ya know???? 

Most "holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story

"my boy builds coffin” a katsuki that kill sends shiver down to spine but man writing it and thinking what push him over the edge was exciting only bc i love my fluff in general but i highkey love dark and edgy stuff too esp super dysfunctional relationship, yo. 

Story that shifted my own perception of the characters

"My boy builds coffin” for sure. Only because I wanted to stretch how Katsuki would fall and understand the length he would go to ensure a future where izuku is alive and thriving and I THOUGHT man if your future bf who is this scarred and traumatized individual person come back in time to protect you by killing every fucking thing that hurt you and instead of freaking the fuck out you’re like “um, IM SO JEALOUS OF MY FUTURE SELF TO HAVE THIS PERSON DEDICATE THEIR LIFE TO THEM” and im like fuck bc that’s the kind of fucked upness that i love. 

Hardest story to write

if it isn’t “love meme, hate meme” than THIS IS YEAR IS FUCKING CANCEL. the formatting,juggling a gazillion of usernames, the font color and text, THE FANFIC ARCHIVE etc everything i have to carefully format and code even tho i have extremely and bullshit knowledge of it. 

Biggest disappointment

nothing???? i love ALL MY BABIES. but no really that fucking mad max au im writing and was supposed to be posted yest.... DAMN YOU. 

Biggest surprise

Uh, “demolition boy” and probably “kasumi verse” only bc i never intend for either of them to happen :P. 

Most unintentionally telling story

the vampire fic my entire reason for writing it is so I CAN PROCRASTINATE ON THE ACTUAL FI IM SUPPOSED TO BE WRITING. i wrote it all in one sitting passed waaaay into the AMs. that’s... some dedication to my procrastination. 

Story I haven't written yet, but intend to

the age gap abo childhood friends au i have been working on the side :S.

Goals for this year: 

Finished all my major projects (kasumi ‘verse, wedding verse, social media au, stepbro au)

hopefully i can get started on gasoline verse aka the post zombie fest where bakudeku tried to survived it by building the most codependent fucked up relationship possible :D; it’s letting your bf become a ‘zombie’ just bc you can’t live without him 

WRITE AT LEAST ONE TODODEKUBAKU FIC!!!!!

thank you soooooo much for putting up with this year!!!! i know im really bad at replying/commenting and interacting with you guys but i want you to all know i feel incredibly blessed and humble by all your kindness and support. you all treated me so well last year and this year I hope to return your kind gesture by giving you more stories to read in 2019!!! :D

[chacusha]

KH3 liveblogging 4/4

Major spoiler warning! This took me so long because I was trying to 100% the game.

This thing where you have to gather Sora’s pieces is really trippy but cool.

Got 333 pieces. Yeah 8D

Kairi being what keeps Sora tethered to the world is great.

Okay so like... the reason Riku was talking to himself in that earlier scene (and no one else could see him doing this) is because Riku has been harboring Replica Riku’s heart in his this whole time and is able to summon him whenever he wants because he (unlike Sora) actually has the power of awakening? Or...

I like how half-hearted Luxord and Larxene were about fighting. Lol.

“I was just along for the ride” “With who?” “My secret” UHHH... 👀 My best guess is Marluxia given she knew him in KHUX time but who knows.

I also like how the other baddies just stay back while the dying character talks with Sora and co. before they disappear.

Let 👏 Kairi 👏 fight 👏 dammit!

Scala ad Caelum = Stairway to Heaven. It looks very pretty and I want to explore here more but I have a very harrowing boss battle to fight, apparently. But seriously, the blue sky and whitewashed walls on a hill by the sea is so very very Aesthetic.

Xehanort has a goat theme? It looks so creepy. But like... I wonder if this is connected to the Foretellers (all of them have animal themes)?

Okay so... Xehanort wanted to forge a x-blade so that he could control Kingdom Hearts so that he could use the world’s first light it contained within to return the world back to primordial darkness so that the world could have a do-over? ._. Also, this last-minute villain redemption seems a bit rushed but okay. Like... I still don’t get what the deal is with Eraqus and Xehanort. We’re supposed to buy that they’re childhood friends but (1) they don’t act like it in BBS (Xehanort certainly is a pretty shitty friend during BBS), and (2) Xehanort looks like 20 years older than Eraqus??? Just being real.

Old man Xehanort’s voice isn’t as exaggerated as it used to be. RIP Leonard Nimoy. ;_;

Lots of near-death moments for Sora (also, I get that Donald and Goofy are some of the most connected characters to Sora, but this last revival was so cheesy omg).

Lea’s new outfit looks great. Xion’s and Isa’s, though... yikes.

> Don’t Think Twice is playing. > Everyone is here and having a fun day at the beach. > Sora and Kairi are sitting in that tree by themselves. Aww everyone wanted to give them a moment together. > THEY’RE HOLDING HANDS. > Sora fades away leaving Kairi sitting in the tREE BY HERSEEEEELF. > Me: What THE FUCK.

That emotional whiplash, though. Going from “private moment alone with the one I love” (while a song about making an eternal vow is playing, making you think this is a culmination of their relationship!!) to “everyone is having fun and I’m all alone thinking about Sora” (while a song about making an eternal vow is playing, making this moment the most heartbreaking thing ever)!!! WHY!!! I’m crying. Even if Sora is still alive (HE IS) I CAN’T ACCEPT KAIRI BEING THERE ALONE THINKING ABOUT/WAITING FOR HIM. When will they get their happy ending? When will they get to be together?? My heart is breaking.

Okay so Xigbar was Luxu? Huh. No closure on what Maleficent and Pete were up to in this game at all, then.

Uh... what? Sora and Riku in modern Tokyo / Verum Rex world? Um...

Apparently the internet says that is specifically Shibuya from the The World Ends with You universe, suggesting a potential connection between the world where Sora and Riku are in the secret movie and the dream world in Dream Drop Distance where TWEWY characters last appeared.

... Was that card Luxord gave Sora before he died/recompleted actually useful or...

Running around trying to get all the trophies.

Oh sweet, I got a keyblade for finishing the Remy bistro minigame!! I wasn’t even expecting that!

OMG one for finishing the Classic Kingdom games too!!

Me whenever I use a summon: I don’t know wAHT IM DOING???

(Seriously, though, why are summons so complicated in this game)

And... got all the trophies for this game. Yes!

... What were those golden Herc figures for, though? Oh apparently for an optional piece of equipment.

Reading the secret reports: Who is this mystery girl? Four friends + a key + “May your heart be your guiding key” sounds strongly like Skuld. Xigbar / Luxu took her away? Or is it possible that there is a DIFFERENT group of five friends in the Dandelions: (1) Larxene/Elrena, (2) Marluxia/Lauriam, (3) Luxord’s somebody, (4) Demyx’s somebody, and (5) literally anyone else (possibly a completely new character) i.e. the person in this report. (I assume if Subject X was Larxene, Saix and Axel would have recognized her, so Subject X is not Larxene.) All five were saved from the Keyblade War and knew each other, but then ended up in the present time completely amnesiac?

Interesting Xehanort backstory... The Xehanort/Eraqus ship-teasing in this game is immense.

So it seems like summoning Kingdom Hearts allows you access to the old world pre-original Keyblade War (Age of Fairy Tales). This is why Xehanort wanted to summon Kingdom Hearts. But it looks like Luxu wanted Xehanort to summon Kingdom Hearts so that the Foretellers would be able to brought back from the Age of Fairy Tales into the present and so would the Master of Masters?

Fuck, watching the Lost Masters ending again, and Ava is missing!! Ava + four friends + key + “May your heart be your guiding key” could also mean she is the amnesiac girl. Although I don’t get the feeling the Foretellers would really describe each other as “friends”... so probably not. Also, I am very worried that the Foretellers are described as darknesses (presumably villains?), and there are seven -- the middle five are Unicorn (Ira), a heart symbol which I’m guessing is the MoM, Goat (Luxu), Snake (invi), and Leopard? (Gula). It’s blurry but the leftmost one could be a bear (Aced) and the rightmost could be a fox (Ava). I guess (given their names) this wouldn’t be all that surprising...

[ghostly-march]

HI KK!! for the ask game, tank, dandelions and lantern rite!

ahhh hello mint!! :DD i hope you're doing well uwu

tank: which character do you feel is criminally underrated?

personally, i'd say yanfei and xiangling because i don't normally see people building them or using them as much (idk that could just be me lmao) but from my experience, those two have been very good sub-dps characters for hu tao <3 (also pyro gfs so true)

dandelions: what is/are your favorite in-game book(s) you’ve read so far?

i haven't read a lot of them but i really like "the fox in the dandelion sea" and "moonlit bamboo forest"

lantern rite: what is your favorite cutscene in the game so far?

ooooo it's a toss up between the battle against osial and the sacrifice of the first jade chamber (especially ningguang's part), and ayaka's dance in forest during her quest <3 (i loved the part where traveler hums the tune of the song after ayaka finishes dancing)

send me some asks from here!!

[seafaired-blog]

PART ONE. PARENTS AND PARENTAL FIGURES !!

If you have read his bio, you might have noticed that Naut Gooischot is the oldest of a family of 13 children and that his father had four wives in his lifetime; because of the fact that this is a whole bunch of names and information I didn’t want to put it all in his bio, hence I’m writing up in this post to link it to there later.

UNDERNEATH THE CUT BECAUSE OF THE LENGTH; really, I go into detail about the personality and story of 5 family members. This is damn near a novel reaching over 1800 words.

MATHIES GOOISCHOT ( FATHER ) The oldest son of a family of nine, Mathies inherited the farm from his parents at the age of 18, with his two sisters married and out of the house, two brothers sailing with the VOC and two brothers long since dead and buried it had never really been a question who was going to continue the work their parents had begun for them there. Truth be told, it suited Mathies well; never a man of many ambitions besides the familiar. Grain was what he specialized in, even if he had little passion for it. In fact, the man seemed to have very little passions indeed, driven by the desire to survive rather than anything else. He kept a strict regime between his own siblings as well as in his own household later on.

It was incredibly hard to please him, harder even to make him laugh; yet one woman managed, Saar, who he married at 24 and gave him four children, seemed to have the means to make him truly happy. When he lost her, he simply remarried for the sake of his children. His sisters had their own lives, their own kids to take care of, and the wars and the VOC had left too many widows on the shore. Two hearts filled with grief surely could make a family if there were mouths to feed and the winters unkind?

Kaatje, his second wife ( 8 years younger, and childless on the day he married her )  was a kind soul, yet she did not love him; but neither did he love her. She gave him three more children and proved to have a clever mind for business, making the farm thrive underneath her care. After her was Nineke, a marriage once more born of love and genuine affection rather than the need for survival. Nineke gave birth to five more children, although the first technically isn’t Mathies his blood, he chose to raise the girl as if she was. The darling, to this day, doesn’t know that the man she calls papa isn’t technically hers; but it matters not.

On the day Mathies lost Nineke his heart seemed to break even more and he remained unmarried for four years. At the age of 48 he married for the last time to Bregje, who gave him one last son.

SAAR GOOISCHOT ( MOTHER ) She was perhaps a woman made from tulip fields, colour in her clothes and her laugh like the church bells. A kind human being, soft and gentle and filled to the brim with love; a lover of horses who kept four with great care. Saar knew that when she married Mathies she would not get a life of luxury, the youngest daughter of a tailor who had never quite seen the life outside of the city centre of Middelburg. Cobblestones and busy marketplaces were where she thrived, where she was most at home.

On the marketplace where she grew up was exactly where she met Mathies, him there to sell his crop, she there to buy fabric with her father’s instructions. All it took was a bump into one another and the meeting of their eyes when he lifted her up. A story of love was born there; when Mathies tapped her shoulder at the end of the day and a single dandelion in hand for her to press against her chest.

Moving away from the city could prove to be difficult for her, the silence seemed to isolate her, and it wasn’t until she got her hands on a horse that she truly bloomed on the lands. Even while pregnant she could be seen on horseback, rushing out to meet her husband for nothing but a kiss in the middle of his day. She was skilled at keeping the house in a pleasant state, as well as take care of the children who either held on to her skirts or slept in her arms.

Her love for horses, however, would eventually take her away from her husband and family. Mathies had been on the field with Naut, the boy on his arm as he entertained the toddler while also inspecting his crop at the same time. Naut had waved to his mother who passed them in the distance on the back of her favourite horse, and she had waved back with a smile bright enough to make the stars jealous of her warmth. It must have been a fox which scared the horse, not that it matters, all that does is the fact that Naut and Mathies watched her fall. When Mathies reached her, still holding his oldest son in his arms, the horse still stood beside her; pressing its nose against her outstretched hand, but not a finger would move and the weird angle of her neck and her lifeless eyes told Mathies everything he needed to know.

KAATJE GOOISCHOT ( STEPMOTHER ) With her first husband shipping out two weeks after marrying him, Kaatje never really got a chance at starting her own family before marrying Matthies. The poor sod was killed in action two months after his first voyage. A widow at a young age without anything to hold on to with the exception of her own father; marrying a man she had known all her life growing up in the same town seemed logical.

The marriage was exactly that, logical and planned. For her mind was made for statistics and numbers; a stern voice in the house replaced the laughter of the children who to her seemed more like a tool to make the farm thriving than anything to hold and love. The nimble hands of the daughters helped her with the housework, while the boys were shoved onto the fields. Kaatje was gifted with a rather big mouth and an even stronger personality  /  whenever she did walk into a room she was noticed, but not for her kindness or grace.

Dark hair braided in the latest fashion, yet wearing discarded old dresses she marched through the house and property of her husband like an officer upon a ship. It was her, who made the farm thrive. And it was her who forced at least some kind of discipline upon Naut, drilling him into the responsible older brother; her word was to be law.

Even when she lay dying in her bed, sickness settling inside of her body, she held onto the pen to calculate how much the current harvest would earn the family and how much the family could spend in the upcoming winter. When she had truly died, Naut found that he’d rather missed the sound of her boots upon the floor as she came to scold him.

NINEKE GOOISCHOT ( STEPMOTHER ) She was a well-read woman moving to Zeeland from Groningen; a scandal too big to be contained in the place she grew up, send off by her own father who refused to see the swell of her belly as a gift from God, rather as a curse upon the family. A hard-working woman who loved nothing more than to dig her fingers into the earth and make flowers bloom.

Mathies fell in love with her from the moment he first laid eyes on her, quite like he had done with Saar all those years ago. He was willing to forget the fact that their first child together would not be his, willing to look past whatever lingered from her past in her if only she would be his wife he would once again feel love in his home. Nineke was a wonderful mother, not only to her own biological children but also to the seven who already lived in the home she swiftly grow to call hers.

With Nineke behind the wheel, the farm once again started to contain colours. She had a gift for making things grow, from sunflowers which swayed to the breeze outside of the windows, to the grain on the fields. She allowed the children to play games more often than ever before, and while Naut did enjoy some of his childhood in that fashion, he had already understood exactly the importance of being an adult, even at a young age; an effect not easily reversed.

She had been out during a storm, making sure that the sheep and horses which were kept on the grounds were all safe and sound when a strong, sea driven gush of wind, snapped a branch off the old oak tree that grew on their property ( a tree which Kaatje had wished to see removed, but the children adored playing around it, so Mathies never quite had to heart to do so ) which was to fall on her head and kill her. Her body would not be found until morning, and when Naut was told of the death of yet another mother it was the last time he’s cried for the remainder of his life.  

BREGJE GOOISCHOT ( STEPMOTHER ) Bregje had been married once before, a happy marriage to a well to do officer on a VOC ship. It might not be common knowledge to the eager eyes and ears of the men and women of the town, but said VOC officer was the brother of Mathies. Poor sod had to go and get himself thrown overboard in the Indies, and even if Bregje and Mathies had nothing in common but an empty space in their beds and bruised shame they decided to make it work. Some things simply are family matters, after all.

Along with Bregje came a certain air of lack into the household, with 12 kids to take care of, for her own had gone off onto their own voyages, one a painter in Amsterdam and the other following in his father’s footsteps and joining the VOC, she simply seemed in over her head. She had grown accustomed to a certain kind of luxury, something Mathies could not afford, nor bring her and her dislike for both the sea as well as the life outside of the city.

While she wasn’t a bad woman, for she was often kind, she took out her anger and frustration on Naut more often than not; as the oldest son he was just as responsible as his father, and she saw laziness in everything, even if she could hardly be bothered to lift a finger either on the farm or in the house. This to great dislike of Naut, who clashed with her more often than they had friendly conversation.

Bregje remains to be the wife of Mathies for as long as Naut his story unfolds  /  as does she remain to be the reason why Naut isn’t often to be found at home.