#Divine Dedication

[allaboutyoupostnthings]

The Presentation of Mary in the Temple: A Moment of Grace and Devotion

The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Temple is a beautiful and significant event in the life of the Church, celebrated on November 21st. This feast commemorates the moment when Saint Anne and Saint Joachim, the parents of Mary, brought her to the Temple in Jerusalem to consecrate her to the Lord. This act of dedication is a profound testament to their faith and devotion. The…

[da-janela-lateral]

To be part of something big.

[wardensantoineandevka]

I should get an award for my restraint in not automatically blocking people who say things like "I hate paladins, they suck so much, they're the worst class bc their vibes are so bad" on my posts that even just mention paladins.

RIP that you and most people do not understand paladins as a class and do not understand that their narrative is not just "stick in the mud who loves being a cop", but I'm different and I think they're incredible and they're one of the classes with the best inherent narrative

[kigiom]

Dante and Virgil (Gustave Doré), Purgatory // BJ Hunnicutt and Hawkeye Pierce, Welcome to Korea

[amethyst-crowns]

still thinking of @azrielgreen ‘s Eddie / Little Bit

WIP

[d3cayingdolly]

there's no shame in choosing yourself for once, btw

[celestialtarot11]

could you talk about gemini venus in the 12th?

gem venus always gets a bad rep & i am someone who is devoted in love 😅

Gemini venus 12h—

—May have questioned whether relationships were for them. They felt excluded, unloved, unseen, and silenced. They also felt their love life could have been nonexistent, or rather filled with non committed relationships.

—They approach relationships with a sense of curiosity and interest. They are open minded individuals, who understand the gravity of a long term relationship.

—Rather be alone than to feel lonely in relationships. As these natives embrace solitude and peace, they realize the stress of crash and burn relationships aren’t their friend. They are not necessarily closed off, but they won’t compromise themselves to stay in unhealthy relationships.

—Needs an open, communicative partner to talk to. They love openly and deeply, and their words have the ability to penetrate deep into peoples subconscious. I believe some people become afraid of what power this native holds—it’s as if their words strike deeply. Even if it isn’t harsh, rude, or abrupt. There cadence carries so far.

—People may run from this native because this native can see deeply. And they can analyze themselves and others to a point of stripping them bare psychologically. It isn’t a horrible thing, they’ve had to do this to understand themselves. They’ve had to see themselves psychologically bare firsthand.

—Therefore they need a partner who will embrace these deep conversations, moments and experiences. Someone who will open up, and not shut down.

—Spirituality follows their relationships somehow. They may find themselves synchronizing with others, receiving dreams and messages. Their intuition is strong when acknowledged, but if they ignore it, it becomes dampened. Their intuition is their saving grace in relationships.

—Their intuition is their compass. It will tell them who they can settle with and who they can’t. They may have had moments where they doubted their intuition severely and now they embrace it. They will never forget the mistake of doubting themselves.

—If well aspected the native can experience “get out of jail free” moment. Venus does well usually in the 12h, but if negatively aspected it can cause issues regarding mental health, hospitalization, and issues with prison life.

—High sexual energy. Not in the way you think, more so these natives carry a healing energy sexually. An energy of liberation and intrigue, it helps create a safe place of comfort. It induces a playful energy, and it feels receptive. It’s subtle, yet travels powerfully and deep. It permeates through barriers. Comes off as subtle charm, wit, humor.

—May prefer dates in a dimly lit place, where it’s soothing. Nature where its open and quiet, so they can ground themselves. These natives need calm. Their mind may work fast and hard, so they need environments conducive to bringing in calm.

—Dreamers. They love to dream and concoct scenarios where they feel loved. They want to experience a beautiful connection as what they see. Amazing at manifesting in general due to their attractive, receptive energy.

—Can be tempted into staying in unhealthy relationships. Self sabotage repeatedly comes up, and partners who enable this behavior can hurt the native more. The native can do well with self analyzation and detaching themselves from further harm.

—They have a young, youthful vibe to them in relationships. They love a good banter, playful jokes, and thrive on communication.

—A lovely inner child, vibrant and curious. Adventurous. It helps others feel naturally at ease.

—Might enjoy writing song lyrics, poetry, or writing in general. It’s a way in which they express themselves, finding ordinary conversation to sometimes lack.

—Spends a lot of time alone. They protect their peace, energy. They may have protected their peace a little too hard and have no hot people lined up in their roster (jk love yall)

[bitterbatsgrimoire]

Wheel Of Fortune

Good times and bad times are part of life. The Wheel Of Fortune card reminds us that things can change at any moment and we need to maintain a sense of equilibrium with whatever life brings. Life is in constant motion and fortunes can shift rapidly. It encourages you to embrace change and trust in the cycle of life.

The Wheel Of Fortune is also known as the Wheel Of Karma, what goes around comes around. Remember to be kind to others.

In each corner of the card we see four winged creatures sitting upon clouds. These creatures represent the four elements. The angel represents air, the bull represents earth, the lion represents fire and the eagle represents water. They also represent four of the zodiac; Aquarius, Taurus, Leo and scorpio. They are each reading a book, representing wisdom, insight and knowledge.

A sphinx sits atop the wheel holding a sword which is tilted. The sphinx represents knowledge and strength, the guardian of wisdom. The tilted sword represents confusion, lack of clarity and things not being straight forward.

On the left of the wheel there is a snake. This snake represents set, the god of darkness death and decay or Typhon, the god of evil. This represents the chaos and lack of control in life.

On the right of the wheel there is a jackal rising up, the Egyptian god Anubis who guides and welcomes souls to the underworld. Anubis is the protector, defending against chaos and together with set/typhon they create balance.

On the wheel there are four Hebrew letters spelling “Yahweh” or the four letter word for god. Four english letters when read clockwise read “TORA” or when read counterclockwise the letters read “TAROT”

The centre of the wheel contains four alchemical symbols; mercury, sulphur, water and salt. This represents the the four elements; air, fire, water, earth.

The wheel of fortune is ruled by Jupiter, the planet of good fortune, prosperity, healing, expansion and miracles.

Upright

- change

- Decisive moments

- Luck

- Fortune

- Unexpected events

- Destiny

- Opportunity

- A turning point

Reversed

- bad luck

- Lack of control

- Clinging to control

- Unwelcome changed

- Delays

- Disruptions

- Setbacks

[vermilionstarlight]

If I could have any one Skill from Disco Elysium speaking in my head, guiding my hand. It would be Shivers.

Idk man. It would fix me. To feel the oncoming rain and the biting cold and know it's alive and there for me. That it loves me. To get whispers on the wind of stories happening around me, lives of others both current and long past all living in the same city. To hear her voice.

To hear her voice would fix me. The voice of a city, of humanity. She's always there and always supporting me and I am a part of her and she is a part of me and we are inextricably intertwined, as is every single other person that lives as her.

She has seen me at the precipice. And she has seen me walking away from it. She is the precipice. And she is the long walk home. And she is the dying girl. And every girl who came before her. And every witness who stood silently by. We are keeping one another on this earth. She does not wish to see me dead, and nor do I to her.

She is beyond me, and around me, and with me, and part of me. A god. The only god I could bring myself to worship with true, unwavering conviction. A god of humanity. More than any individual could ever hope to be, and yet tied inescapably and inextricably to her humanity.

[slatesoft]

The idea that it's "cheating" to use references in art is wild to me. You need to o b s e r v e to understand. You're not gonna make a better, truer piece of art by refusing to look at things irl. Professional artists use references all the time and it's genuinely an important skill to be able to source your own references legally. Learn to shoot your own references, search for creative commons images to gather ideas from, study from real life. That's not just how you improve, that's how you make a piece of art.

[blood-orange-juice]

Once again about Childe and betrayal. I keep thinking of the definition of a hero by a certain psychoanalyst.

A hero is someone who may be betrayed with impunity.

[qingxin-dream]

i made a little garden for the love of my life.🥺👉👈

“What is this place? When I said some spaces in your realm are empty, I didn’t think you’d take me seriously.”

“Tsk, don’t tell me this Aranara is supposed to be me. How childish.”

“Oh? Is that tea? The more bitter, the better. It leaves the most fascinating aftertaste… Sit. Have a drink with me.”

“Don’t you think this is more suited to Buer’s taste? Huh, I look cute in it? I’m… going to pretend I didn’t hear that.”

“Another boring day drawing to a close. The least you could do is join me here before it gets dark, you know.”

“A hidden hot spring, hm? The water feels just right. You didn’t build this hideaway just for me now, did you? Hahaha.”

[wardensantoineandevka]

real talk, I need someone to ask Ludinus and the rest of the Vanguard for thoughts on paladins, whose power is actually generated by the strength of an oath sworn or devotion to a core principle or ideal they've chosen and isn't actually given to them by a god (or another external being for that matter, it's an internally generated divine power)

like, what's the verdict on that

also, ask them about warlocks too while you're there

[hisfluer]

i am not particularly strong in terms of visions or dreams and that's something that i've sadly accepted, haha. i am, however, rather clairvoyant in a sense and last night, as i was lying there trying to go to sleep, i had the persistent thought that i needed to ... meet with my divine.

lying down, i sent myself into a trance and a series of images flooded through my thoughts. i was in an egg and the shell was hard but light started shining through a soft spot in the shell as though it was showing me the way out. i had to be the one to break through.

and then the divine asked me to trust and reached out a hand to me. i felt my hesitancy to do so. i do not trust easy, unfortunately, even when it such a divine being asking me to do so — even when trust is a vital part of faith. i find it so difficult to just ... believe sometimes. i know that the divine knows that and that is why i'm being asked to do so.

high up, hand in hand, we're over the clouds and in the space between the atmosphere below and the vast night sky above and i can see the sun, the light that shines through the soft spot on the eggshell. i found something recently that seems to be a good tool for me to use in my life to actually get things done and i asked if they were the one to bring it to my attention (i was accrediting it to another face of the divine) and there's no like yes or no but i felt a strong sense of surety, i suppose? like i knew all along it was from them, i just had to remember that i knew? it's hard to explain. there was more discussed but it's rather private.

the trance began to slip away and i was brought back down to the body.

[spotsupstuff]

I wanna learn more about Blessing / Boreas. What’s up with all the bat flies with him? What’s his city like?

-rubs my hands together like a fly- uuuuuu boy, time to shake my blatantly favorite child Hell yeah huhuhuhuhuuu

the batflies enter the scene a good while after the Mass Ascension- they are his coping mechanism after Zephyr collapses and goes dark!

from the comic where they talk about Euros' n Sparrows' relationship, one can probably guess how close these two are. Boreas might be the big scary dog of the whole Eo family that punches things in the face rather than take any miniscule amount of shit, but when it comes to Zephyr he is very open and sweet. she's the only person who can actually influence his opinions and ideas greatly, because he loves and trusts her enough to allow her to do so. so when she collapses, he takes it the worst out of everyone. in a very quiet way. his pain if for him to keep, nobody else can know he's hurting

bear witness to Ňuňu

this lil shit was basically Boreas' therapy dog. just.. very very feckin teeny

child...

she is as smart as your typical bat, but the thing was that when she accidentally made her way into his chamber, he didn't have much will in himself to send the animal to eeby deeby so she got to flutter about. and as animals do, girlie used the empathy trap card to figure out this person who doesn't seem to be posing any danger is Sad. so she landed on his head, crawled up to look into his eyes and chirped

n that was the straw that broke the camel's back and Boreas had his first grief-inflicted breakdown ever. Ňuňu stayed during it and even after it, so emotionally-empty-feeling Boreas decided to take her in. hardly can replace Zephyr, but at least he isn't alone

Ňuňu later brought friends and Bee decided that he will look after them then. even after Ňuňu passes away, he still houses and raises them. the younglings like sleeping on his antennas so he has to watch himself to not move them too much sometimes. Euros has a folder full of photos like that

to his city- the name kush is:

originally from me looking for latin words for Rage. ended up going with Desaevio, because Bee is indeed positioned in a fitting place for the word

and the storm connection plus the last two are the main reasons why the Ancients called the city as such. after project Abet Zephyr ended in such a failure, they had to vent some stuff out. and we are going to claim that it is anger because that isn't as pitiful as shame or embarrassment

(the fact that almost every translator i put it into gives me "i'm sorry" works wonderfully, too. because what else will ultimately Boreas do, but quietly mutter to himself a mantra of apologies when he'll be lying in his chamber 30 seconds from his death, drowning in his regrets and mistakes?)

Desaevio was capable of comfortably supporting over 5 million people (no other Iterator city ever reaches that far- the max is ambitious Gen 3 cities that only ever reached around an estimate of 2.7 million) but at times housed over 6-7 million. despite lying close to the geographical location of Bergen in real life, Desaevio is very far from reaching such nice vibes (the old towns Boreas' structure overshadows come close, though). it is way closer to New York, but more dystopian. if u look up dystopian city on google images u get to see pretty closely what it looked like. combine it with Coruscant from star wars for bonus authencity with the layering

made up of skyscrapers, with endless layered bridges for means of transport (most commonly expres trains), with what little decoration of the buildings chipped away by time without anybody caring enough to restore the beauty- the grey, gloomy expanse of Desaevio is as majestic to witness as it is absolutely harrowing

with it being a layered city and one with Boreas' consciousness/structure, some wonder when does one truly leaves the borders of the city and enters the giant's actual insides. it's hard to tell, with old models of Iterators not being all that enclosed and isolated like Five Pebbles is. there is no karma gate to tell you when exactly the walls turn from homes for people to homes for wires, tubes and alien-like organic life of a colossal Hivemind

despite the whole "Iterators are above the cloud level" thing, i like to imagine that it rains in Desaevio either way. at least- some levels are just straight up Wet like after rain. but it'd be those normal rains like we have, not the annihilating ones that the old towns need to bear with down below. or maybe it's just the upper layers' waste water seeping through the ceilings

most of light of the lower levels comes from streetlights, neon signs and Boreas' own systems once deep enough

cameras and such security systems litter all the streets and every public room- and the private homes are still accessable by overseers- and All of that feeds directly into Boreas' memory cache

this omnipresence is why Boreas later suffers with the fuckin

nobody is as unhappy with Boreas' omnipresence as Boreas himself. no wonder he's always ticked off, imagine being a witness to All of New York's road rage 24/7

[unbearable-lightness-of-ink]

so anyway I took another look at the old hatefic which went on pause because the source material is actually unredeemable but I still really stand by all the bits I added and the ocs and the concept overall so here's what I'm thinking:

actually go through and check which lines are mine and which are sourced so I can be sure I'm not plagiarising any phrasing. it's unlikely bc I remember really hating the source writing style and rewriting lots of entire scenes to be less painful to me but I need to be sure

rework some of the characters and setting to actually work for me, which also gives me tons of leeway for the plot stuff too. scrap anyone who isn't an oc and create ocs to replace anyone who's still necessary

figure out what's going on with all the characters who don't take off on a trauma bonding camping trip

figure out what the actual plot is. there's enough foreshadowing I didn't bother to figure out the meaning of that I should be able to do that, especially since I no longer have to be in any way beholden to the source worldbuilding

assess how gay it is and then make it gayer