#Lotus Creations

[lotusfaebell]

⊱ Ladies of Marvel Rivals ⊰

• Bonus: Cloak :D •

[billy-crudup]

At this point, we’re linked, so if a bad thing happens to you, it happens to me.  THE WHITE LOTUS 3.08 | Amor Fati

[wishful-aurosas]

doodle

[mewguca]

I finally got around to making height charts for them yayyyyy ^^

buncha extra variations under the cut

I'll make the refs proper soon!!!

[journeytothewestresearch]

Bad FSYY English translation

The four-volume Library of Chinese Classics bilingual edition of Creation/Investiture of the Gods (Fengshen yanyi, c. 1620) published in 2000 is the only full-length translation of the story available in English. I've had a PDF of the entire set archived on my external blog since May of 2020. It is serviceable for the general reader, but it is not great for hobbyist researchers like myself.

I'd like to provide an example showing how it is not very accurate and/or comprehensive. Chapter 12 describes how young Nezha inadvertently causes havoc in the underwater realm when washing himself in a river with a powerful magic sash. This eventually leads to Li Gen (李艮), a yaksha water-spirit soldier, to attack him with an ax. Gu Zhizhong's (2000) translation reads:

Nezha, naked and empty-handed, dodged the vicious blow, raised his Universal Ring and struck Li Gen on the head. How could the Yaksha withstand the magic weapon from Fairy Primordial! His skull broke open and he fell dead on the river bank (Gu, 2000, vol. 1, p. 239).

However, the full Chinese reads:

Standing there naked, Nezha dodged the advancing warrior's attack and upraised the Universal Ring in his right hand. This treasure was originally bestowed by the Jade Emptiness Palace of Mt. Kunlun to the Perfected Man of the Grand Monad to secure the items of his Golden Light Cave. How could the yaksha withstand the magic weapon as it struck downward on his head? His brains exploded from the blow, and he fell dead on the shore. 哪吒正赤身站立，見夜叉來得勇猛，將身躲過，把右手套的乾坤圈望空中一舉。此寶原係崑崙山玉虛宮所賜太乙真人鎮金光洞之物，夜叉那裏經得起，那寶打將下來，正落在夜叉頭上，只打的腦漿迸流，即死於岸上。 (I don't consider myself a translator, so please forgive any errors.)

You can see that quite a bit of information was left out. This happens throughout the entire novel. This makes me angrier the more that I think about. Why even bother to translate something if you are only going to paraphrase or even skip over passages? It seems like a pointless enterprise.

Source:

Gu, Z. (2000). Creation of the Gods (Vols. 1-4). Beijing: New World Press.

[ao3-anonymous]

Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (09/18/2023)

Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms.  Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.

Overall:

Over 1,000 Fics:

Over 5,000 Fics:

Over 10,000 Fics:

Source: AO3 Fandom Dashboard

[melabea]

Lotus Flower Scent

(pt: Lotus Flower Scent /end pt)

(id: a rectangular flag with 7 equally-sized horizontal lines. colors in order from top to bottom are pink, light pink, grey, white, grey, grey-blue, and darkish green. in the center of the flag is a dull red lotus flower smoke symbol outlined in white. /end id)

Lotus Flower Scent Flags; for any dynamic.

etymology; lotus flower, scent

symbol from here (link)!

for anon!

tagging; @radiomogai, @thecoffeecrew404, @omegarchive, @misceverchive

[christiangeistdorfer]

one thing i just realised abt five minutes ago and i will probably never get over is that in july i went to see the senna exhibit in italy and saw these ^^ stunning gorgeous jaw-dropping cars without even knowing that GÉRARD DUCAROUGE DESIGNED* THESE CARS !!!!!!!!!! LIKE EMMI BABYGIRL THATS YOUR DUDE'S CARS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lotus-duckies]

i did a thing

[cuteniaarts]

Ladies and gentlemen,

✨HER✨

[lotusfaebell]

⊱ Marvel Rivals | Costumes | Highlights | 1/? ⊰

[billy-crudup]

That’s funny, ‘cause if I’m being honest, all week, I’ve just been so sad. I just feel like my expectations were too high, or… I just feel like, as you get older, you have to justify your life, you know? And your choices. And… when I’m with you guys, it’s just so, like… like, transparent what my choices were, and my mistakes. I have no belief system. And I… Well, I mean, I’ve had a lot of them, but… I mean, work was my religion for forever, but I definitely lost my belief there. And then — And then I tried love, and that was just a painful religion, just made everything worse. And then, even for me, just, like, being a mother, that didn’t save me either. 

THE WHITE LOTUS 3.08 | Amor Fati

[wishful-aurosas]

✿ Ephemer Week Day 1: Favorite Canon Line/Cutscene

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Fashionably late as ever for one of my oshi weeks!~ However creativity is infinite which means despite the low spoons I still find myself being able to celebrate the countdown for Ephemer’s birthday! (•̀ᴗ•́)و I can’t wait to see what other Ephemer stans have in store!~ 🌹

[mewguca]

they have refs too. also here are their artfights:

[ELW] [NMMST] [NCTG]

[echoheart0324]

"Who can say if I've been changed for the better?"

(The first and second drawings show off more of their designs + chibi full body references since the initial full body refs I had were back when they were still Puyo OCs before deciding to make them their own thing instead.

Meanwhile, the third picture is in reference to Lotus and Maple drifting apart from each other, featuring their timeskip designs in the bottom row.)

More design/character notes:

Both Lotus and Maple’s hairstyles (mostly their bangs and upper hair spikes) are based on their respective plants (the lotus and the maple leaf), just upside down and exaggerated.

The timeskip design for Maple is very similar to his previous design with only a few adjustments (and a longer cloak that’s not shown here), since he’s the one still clinging onto the past, unlike Lotus. (It’s like watching your childhood best friend slowly gravitate towards other friend groups as time passes, while you stay the same.) This is ironic to the symbolism of the maple leaf, representing “change”, but it’s also known as a symbol for loyalty and strength/protection.

The gold flower symbols on Lotus have more detail to it since they’re the child of Wally (who’s in charge of the town they live in).

Lotus specializes in all elements of magic but prefers sticking to earth and water magic the most. Maple specializes in wind and fire magic but prefers not using it because he lives in a very flammable area and would rather not risk it (hence his sword).

( Anyways, this is for the OC brackets, run by @original-character-championship )

[local-creative-cryptid]

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