#Symbol: Tools

[empyreanmirror]

A thing about the intersection of veiling and being spiritually a part of the environment around you as literally as your own flesh and blood

[thyinum]

Day 6: Air & Water parallels

[superstarcadet]

"It's dark and lonely. Where did I go wrong?" Day Two of @byler-week! Now it's Mike's turn for the standard, but not-so-standard (but just equally as devastating) angst. Will it get better tomorrow? Stay tuned to find out!

Today's Prompts were: Light, Paranormal, Communicating, Green/Purple Color Scheme

Part One

[klaufir]

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[spearxwind]

And here's a piece I did for a friend of ha zaku and his tabletop oc Urraca B)

[violetmoondaughter]

The origins of the witch's hat as it is shown today are controversial.

In antiquity, the pointed hat may have been a symbol of power and wisdom. The conical figure points towards the sky, connecting the mind to the higher realm and conferring the ability to focus and concentrate energies.

According to some theories, the witch's hat originated from the Phrygian cap, associated with Mithraism, a Greek and later Roman mystery cult. Bronze Age priests wore tall conical hats made of gold and decorated with emblems of the stars and moon to show off their astronomical prowess.

This symbol of wisdom later became a sign of disgrace. Those who disobeyed the law, committed heresy or advocated religious ideas and practices at odds with the dominant theology of the time were required to wear a conical hat throughout the Middle Ages.

One theory is that the negative connotation arose from anti-Semitism: in the Middle Ages, an edict obliged all Jews to wear a pointed cap, called a Judenhut, to identify them and all heretics associated with black magic and Satan worship.

A similar theory holds that the image of the archetypal witch's hat arose from anti-quaker prejudice.

Another hypothesis proposes that witch hats originated as alewife hats, distinctive headgear worn by women who brewed beer at home for sale. Combined with the general suspicion that women with herbal knowledge worked in an occult sphere, the alewife hat may have been associated with witchcraft.

In modern times, the hat has become the main feature of the identity and power of witches and has recently been re-evaluated as an act of re-appropriation of female knowledge.

[puppyeared]

Remember how they pointed out that Palistrom wood was becoming rarer? Because Belos kept over harvesting it and not giving it time to grow back?

The University’s tree is blue. Its a big ass Palistrom tree

[1five1two]

[counting-stars-gayly]

They’re not going to rebuild Castle Byers because Will can’t rebuild his childhood, which is the reason he destroyed Castle Byers in the first place. He’d been trying to hold on to a level of carefree ignorance that no longer existed for him. The problems Castle Byers saved him from have been replaced by new problems that are bigger and stronger than a child’s fort. He needs to face them differently. Thank you and goodnight

[mosstrades]

been rewatching a pretty good series

[tarochimochi]

Losercake, everyday, daily

Day 74

[landoffreaksandfrogs]

POV: you are eridan

[completeoveranalysis]

[9]

EXCUSE ME LET'S SEE THAT AGAIN

FOR SCIENCE

AH YES

AH YES LOOK AT THIS WONDERFUL PIECE WE HAVE TO VIEW HERE TODAY

LET’S ALL HAVE A MOMENT OF APPLAUSE

THE MOMENT OF CLOSURE I WASN’T ENTIRELY SURE WE WOULD BE GETTING????

If Kyle had disappeared offscreen never to be seen again, I would have complained absolutely, but I would have understood, considering how everyone else in this conflict has SUCH HIGHER stakes! How do you find room for Kyle when your opponents are our beloved Syaoran and Evil Wolverine himself?

AND YET HERE WE ARE

A GIFT JUST FOR US

KYLE RONDART DEAD ON SCREEN

A BIG DRAMATIC MOMENT JUST FOR KYLE

AND IT’S NOT EVEN ABOUT HIM

HE WASN’T EVEN IMPORTANT

HE WAS JUST THE DECOY

COMPLETELY MEANINGLESS TO THE VERY END

AND YET WE STILL GET TO SEE HIM GO, WITH FURY :D 

It’s everything I could have wanted. 

NO WAIT IT GOT BETTER!

In his final moment Kyle UNDERSTANDS. 

He KNOWS now that he was only there to be used. Like everyone else, he was just a tool to Evil Wolverine and nothing more. 

He was only there in the first place to unknowingly take the hit. Evil Wolverine not just allowed him to die but intended him to die. 

Kyle dies knowing Evil Wolverine never gave a shit about him, and let him be murdered on purpose without defending him. 

WHAT A GIFT TO ME PERSONALLY.

Unfortunately I suppose that means the mirror isn’t actually destroyed after all, but still! I’ll take it! And the shadow Evil Wolverine hovering in the background framed by Kyle’s falling blood is PEAK design. 

[currymanganese]

Hey Storer and Calo

Any particular reason Claire wore what appears to be a bullet pendant around her neck when she gave Syd this look in Pop? And please don't say it's a play on "if looks could kill" or "glare daggers at" or "shot a look at" or I'll SCREAM!!!!! 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

[lord-squiggletits]

The thing about forged medic hands is that in my personal headcanon, I feel like all forged medic hands baseline should act like Pharma's Luna-1 hands; not the ability to transform into (basically) anything, but because from what I can recall, Pharma is the only instance of a TF medic who isn't just holding tools in his hands and operating that way, but he literally has panels in his arms opening up while his hands are transformed into another tool so he's operating like 3 or 4 tools at once and I think that's so fucking cool.

Especially since they're alien robots whose most prominent feature is transforming so it really feels like having hands/arms that can split or transform into a bunch of tools like a hyper-advanced Swiss army knife should just be like, baseline. It seems like a much better way to take advantage of worldbuilding based on alien robots instead of having forged medic hands just be like, normal shaped hands but extra speedy/flexible/graceful or something.

Just look at the way that real life robotic surgery systems have multiple arms with different tools-- because the fact that they're machines means they're not limited to human physiology's limitations of movement and using hands to perform.

Makes way more sense that forged medic hands should be able to transform their fingers into different tools or have extra limbs stored in their forearms to hold even more tools. Plus it would lead credence to Ratchet's claims that forged hands have certain abilities that constructed hands can't replicate. (After all it makes sense that building medic hands, as opposed to just finding someone who was forged with them naturally, would be really complicated and resource intensive, so in Functionist Cybertron no one would bother building cold constructed hands to the same standards as forged medic hands bc they're not seen as having the same value.)

Granted if all forged medics had similar capabilities to Pharma's Luna-1 hands, it'd be hard to make Pharma's Luna-1 hands stand out as distinct. Then again the fact that "they can transform into anything" seems like it would be extremely special considering that you can only pack so many transformations into a single pair of hands. Plus, in Lost Light, Pharma-Adaptus is shown being able to transform his hand into a freaking blaster which means due to Luna-1/Adaptus' blessings or whatever, his hands don't just hold sets of doctors' tools but can turn into things completely unrelated to the function of medicine at all, including apparently multiple kinds of weapons. Quite literally infinite transformation.

[thesilicontribesman]

Iron Age Curvilinear Decorated Sword Sheath, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford