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barbie-nightmare-house · 8 months ago

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I only got into true detective about a month ago and I'm happy to find people in the same boat; if you don't mind could you share some of the deeper thoughts you've had about the show? Your interpretations/headcanons?

Fuck yes I can, goddamn I'm so excited

First, I think the first and fourth seasons are perfect reflections of one another. If you haven't watched S4, many apologies for spoilers. I highly suggest sucking it through a straw.

I’ve been reading the book Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness by Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson

In which, the philosophical concepts of self and universal consciousness are analyzed through the framework of the divine masculine and divine feminine. I believe this plays into the themes of both Season 1 and Season 4 of True Detective.

Nic Pizzolatto has expressed that Marty and Rust were written as men he could easily see himself becoming (How I Wrote True Detective - Behind the Curtain, particularly his statement at 3:20), which in essence, is an exploration of how masculinity manifests in different contexts. These are men whose flaws render them incapable of living 'normal' lives, yet enable them to demonstrate bravery in situations where most would not.

There is a lot of gendered discourse around Season 4 that I won't get into. Ultimately, I think it does a wonderful job of presenting the flip-side of the unbalanced masculinity in Season 1 by showing us unbalanced femininity. The women centered in Night Country are imperfect; they struggle with close relationships, with demonstrating faithfulness in relationships, with maternalistic nurturing, with regard for victims, etc.

So, both seasons together really solidified my understanding of the overall story. I'll be using balance, gender, time, and death as the themes here.

There are a few lines in Dancing in the Flames that stuck out to me:

“The psyche, as a self-regulating system, yin and yang in perfect balance, is a vision that historically has yet to be realized. […] In history, as in marriage, or in the individual, when a balance becomes stagnant, one or other of the energies moves out to new adventures. The spurt forces the complimentary energy to move also, until a new balance is found. So the spiral moves.”

It's kind of funny that I picked up this book right after my second rewatch of season 4. I'm big on synchronicities, just seeing shit that plainly ain't there. But here we go,

The imagery presented in Season 1 of True Detective appears to be inspired by some iteration of Cernunnos, a Celtic God of fertility, power, & blessings/weath; "god of beasts and wild places." Further, Cernunnos is the God of the Winter Solstice; the Dark Months (re: the significance of Season 4 Executive producer Mari-Jo Winkler saying, “Let’s look at season one of ‘True Detective.’ Hot, sweaty, male. We wanted to do [the] complete opposite. Dark, Ice, Cold.” in the True Detective: Night Country Podcast). "Cernunnos is the antlered god, part man and part stag. He is born on the darkest day of the year, winter solstice, and marries the goddess of spring, Beltane. About six months later, on summer solstice, he dies.

Among pagans, he is considered the god of fertility, animals, and wealth, and the underworld—sometimes he carries a purse filled with coin, for wealth. This connection to wealth and gold coins is found in the myth about Pluto (Hades), the god of the underworld, from which all wealth comes. Indeed abundance comes from what is deep in the earth and deep in our own psyche.

He is born on winter solstice and dies on summer solstice. This suggests his association with the rise of energy, augmentation, the increasing of light, lengthening of the day and peak experiences. He is a god associated with the potency and power of male sexuality, but not its completeness. Falling on the ground, broken, limp, is just as important an experience of the male psyche as standing erect. Also, the fact that he dies at the peak of light, the second half of the seasonal cycle brings, means that he does not hold the introspective qualities that the harvest brings and the completion of the diminishing of light.

Perhaps Cernunnos is balanced somewhat by his marriage to the goddess of Beltane. She is celebrated in a time when blessing comes from rubbing yourself with the dew of early May morning to soak in the blessing of Spring. Helen Chantler, the designer of our company, remembers watching the horned man in the forest on her BBC television growing up. It was an image that conveyed guardianship and the protector of the forest. Yet this image of the antlered man, so powerfully associated with Celtic myth and lore, has been widely depicted and enacted across indigenous cultures for thousands, or perhaps tens of thousands of years. Iconography of an antlered man, standing, have been found in French Paleolithic cave paintings" (reference).

Full disclosure, I am not learned in Celtic myth or any such topic. I don't know if this was the intended reference material for Season 1's Big Bad Spookiness, but I think thematically, this explains the unexplained in both S1 and S2.

I randomly picked up this book I hadn't yet read, which I bought at random in a used bookstore probably 5 years ago, flipped through, and landed on this picture.

Synchronicities dawg.

Woodman and Dickson have this to say:

"This is Cernunnos, Lord of the Animals. It is Shiva, or Dionysus archetypal energies long repressed by Christianity. Repression turned the Horned God into the Horned Devil, the root of all evil. [...] The Horned Devil is energy that is so repressed and cut off from the earth that it is best symbolized by Mephistopheles, the light and airy creature that floats above the earth. The Horned Devil is the disembodied spirit that manipulates, usurping situations for the gratification of its instinctual desires for domination-- sexual or otherwise. The Horned God, as Gary Lingen points out '...is a positive model for male power--free from the patriarchy and all other authoritative models--as he grows and passes through his changes during the wheel of the year, he remains in relationship to and not separate from the prime life and nurturing force--the Goddess.'

The Horned God, moreover, is an archetypal figure quite unlike most masculine images as they appear in culture. He is difficult to understand because he does not fit into any of the expected stereotypes, neither those of the "macho" male nor the reverse-images of those who deliberately seek effeminacy. He is gentle, tender and comforting, but he is also the Hunter. He is the Dying God--but his death is always in service of the life force. He is untamed sexuality--but sexuality as a deep, holy, connecting power. He is the power of feeling, and the image of what men could be if they were liberated from the constraints of patriarchal culture."

It's possible that Pizzolatto merely modeled the Big Bad Spooky Scary in Season 1 with paganistic imagery for fearmongering purposes, but I choose to believe that Childress, the Tuttles, and unnamed counterparts were worshippers of some bastardized version of Cernunnos.

It is indicated many times in both S1 and S2 that symbology associated with the murders is 'old', 'archaic', and looks like cave drawings. I believe the nature of the belief system associated with the Big Bad is transactional, given that it precedes Semitic religions.

What do you pray for when your primary goal is to live another day? You pray for abundant harvest, you pray for fertility, you pray for the sun to return.

What do you pray for when society becomes more collective? You pray for a bigger hut than the next guy, you pray for blessings.

What do you pray for when buildings scrape the sky? You pray for wealth, you pray for power.

I think the Tuttles and their counterparts belonged to a small group of worshippers who retained archaic beliefs and practices, which they attributed to the wealth or power their group amassed. Thus, they continued worshipping.

However, we only see the masculine aspects of this worship in Season 1. We see the vulnerable (women and children) victimized by physically and/or socially powerful men. We see this vulnerability overpowered through ritualistic abuses and murders, which demonstrates that the Big Bad have devolved to, or perhaps have always been, negligent of the inherent role of the divine feminine (Beltane, in this case, as the counterpart to Cernunnos). Thus, the Tuttles represent unbalanced masculinity, where they seek to overpower others in the name of worship. In reality, they are simply indulging in animalistic, individual desires. Truly, they may be neglecting and/or attempting to dominate the divine feminine out of innate fear.

"What is the way to appease the Great Mother, to keep her as Protectress and prevent her wrathful Vengeance? Give her what she demands-- blood! And likewise, invent a precise way to do it-- ritual! Thus, the first great ritual was a ritual of blood sacrifice, offered to the Great Mother-- to Mother Nature-- in a bartered attempt to quench her desire for blood. [...] Blood is indeed bodily life, and if you want to purchase life, you purchase it with blood. So goes paleologic; like magic, it works in partial truths; and like magic, since it is unable to grasp higher perspectives or wider contexts, it arrives at barbaric conclusions." - Marie-Louise Von Franz, Golden Ass of Apuleius: The Liberation of the Feminine in Man

Whatever, I won't get distracted by analyzing the psyche of side character antagonists. I won't! What I'm trying to say is:

They're worshipping an old religion, which requires blood sacrifice. This blood may be literal (murder), or symbolic (sexually abusing the innocent, i.e. symbolic blood of menstruation or deflowering).

As with all things, there is no inherent evil in worship, but this manner of worship represents a stark lack of balance. These are not praying men-- these are men attempting to manipulate nature, life/death, and femininity to their egoistic desires. Thus, they create imbalance.

This imbalance, in True Detective, is a microcosm representing greater imbalances of energy. Imbalance in society, in the universe, and in individuals. We are shown this lack of balance through complex characters.

Two characters, specifically, show us the energy required to correct universal balance; Rustin Cohle and Evangeline Siqiññaatchiaq Navarro.

I also won't get into the Messiah archetypes of these characters. I won't (I probably will).

This fucking long form analysis is going to be a bitch to read and is also a bitch to write, I'm struggling to collect my thoughts well enough to not communicate like we're playing Word Associations.

Okay. So. Rust = Divine Masculine. Evangeline = Divine Feminine. Hold onto that for later.

In the Southern states of America, such as Louisiana where the Tuttles have historical roots, power and wealth are generally understood as God’s Blessings. The Christian God. Which explains why the Tuttles used Christianity as a mask for their true beliefs and practices. Additionally, the immutable power of organized religion allowed the Tuttles and their associates access to vulnerable individuals to prey upon.

While the Tuttles practiced their underlying beliefs in secret, I believe Errol Childress’s murder of Dora Lange indicated his sentiments of rejection from his bloodline. Where the proper Tuttles secured social and financial power, Errol was essentially a grunt, despite enabling and participating in the ritualistic abuse and murder. He might have developed a coping mechanism of believing himself a profit. Frustrated that in the ‘real world’ the power and virility he exercised in private was not respected, he made a ‘show’ of Dora Lange’s murder. This could have been motivated by the following: - A rejection of the Tuttles secretiveness. We should be proud of our practices. Look, we’re untouchable. I won’t live in the shadows

A warning or punishment of the Tuttles. By displaying his practices proudly through Dora Lange’s presentation, Errol Childress places the Tuttles at risk for exposure.

A personal demonstration of elevated dedication to his ‘god’, i.e., an attempt to prove he is more faithful than those who practice in secret. Errol was showing the world his power.

I believe the Tuttle’s practice of murdering and abusing innocents in the name of a, conceivably, pagan god, is due to a bastardized interpretation of the god’s power and purpose. If we consider that Cernunnos alone is the divine masculine, incomplete/imbalanced without the feminine counterpart, we see the space where men may lean into this lack of balance as an opportunity to enforce patriarchal dominance over the divine feminine. By abusing the divine feminine (women and children), the interpretation of Cernunnos becomes a rat-race of man’s most basic pursuits; power, wealth, and death. They lord over the divine feminine by sacrificing its counterparts (women and children) to Cernunnos. In a patriarchal interpretation (cisgender, heterosexual) of nature, men cannot create as women can, so the most they can achieve in the way of god power is taking life.

Then comes the spiral. In the first season, it appeared to be representative of the Nietzschean circular time theme. Given the events of Season 4 as a continuation of the spiral imagery, I have deduced that the S1 spiral is another perversion of old beliefs that the Tuttles have bastardized.

Rather than being a symbol of Cernunnos (real quick: peep Cernunnos vs. Carcosa?? 'He who eats time?' and absolutely chooooke on this interpretation) I believe the spiral represents his ‘wife’ or divine feminine counterpart– Spring. Or rather, Life. And thus, She is Time itself. The Tuttles pray to something that, again, EATS TIME. I'm sorry I keep saying this, but they only worship half of nature. It's a perversion. It's wrong. It's empty. S4 gives us the other half of the story.

In Season 4, the supernatural force, or ‘god’ is referred to with feminine pronouns: ‘She is awake, she is coming, she is here’. More on this later, but I think the spiral represents a larger concept than Cernunnos/Carcosa; Balance. Eternity. The Universe. I believed initially that the spiral was jagged, as opposed to the ‘perfect’ golden ratio, because it would have been carved or drawn with rudimentary objects by prehistoric humans. Looking at the galaxy in which earth exists (and others like it)-- I mean :/ I'm no science guy, but... come on now.

(cr. NASA / STScI)

(cr. Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC).)

(cr. Fibbonacci.com)

COME ON NOW.

Back to Cernunnos, he is the god of Darkness, and dies when Spring comes. However, he and his divine feminine counterpart never cease existing. They are married; opposite sides of a coin, constantly flipping; inextricably bonded. They are the same thing—and separate—and the same; flat time. (Side note: also found out the universe itself is 'flat' to our perception. I'm absolutely wrecked by this)

As Rust says, “Time created Death to grow the things it would kill.” So, from hereon, I will refer to Cernunnos’s counterpart, represented by the spiral symbol, as Time.

She is the spring, where life grows. In Season 4, we may assume that she eats in the winter. Despite the spooky Big Bad, overcoming evil, vibe of Season 4, it’s important to note that there is no inherent good or evil in the universe. There's just balance. While Navarro refers to the supernatural force as a “curse” that takes her people one by one, we must acknowledge that Death is the certainty of Life. Both states are suspended within time. Circular. Cyclical. Spinning. A spiral.

Ennis is a land of extremes, where Time and Existence appear to be a more ancient/raw form (prehistoric ice and such, significance of magnetic poles, idk I'm not a science guy).

As Time’s presence in Ennis is generally acknowledged by the indigenous people, it could stand that the descendants of those who existed on this land in prehistoric times would have a more innate connection to Time. On that land, where Time has more power, occurrences such as “the dead don’t stay dead” implicates that the laws of humanity are bent in favor of the unknowable reality of time.

Whereas the Tuttle’s represent unbalanced patriarchal masculinity, i.e., acknowledging ‘old gods’ and worshiping them for self-serving gain, demonstrated by their social powers and abuses– the Iñupiaq people exhibit instinctual balance and reverence for the old ways.

The Tuttles and counterparts mark victims with the spiral, almost as if to attract the acknowledgement of their god, whereas the Iñupiaq people mark the spiral as a warning of her presence. It is stated that ‘she’ exists where the ice is thin over the sea. To me, this indicates that ‘she’ is somewhat synonymous with the sea, or the ground beneath it, as, in the prehistoric time (where her power would be more observable) the water level would've been lower (idk, I'm not a science guy). Basically, I think ‘she is awake’ indicates that she has gone dormant/is hibernating under the ice.

Thus, Time calls the Iñupiaq to areas of thin ice in order to ‘eat’ them. This practice is representative of a balance. She is existence in perfect balance. She is life and death. In her presence, time becomes nonlinear (i.e., the visions experienced by the characters in S4). Time becomes a flat circle.

The Tuttles presence in Ennis via the mine has disrupted the circle. The softening of permafrost due to the mine's pollution has both awoken her, and disrupted the balance of her domain. Life and Death. Rather than taking her justified ‘fill’ of the dead, pollution has caused an unnatural rise in deaths, exampled by the stillbirths. The Iñupiaq stillbirths represent the inherent interruption of natural course. Thus, she is not just awoken, but angered. She's PISSED.

This explains why the events in Season 4 unfold as they do. In the last episode, an Iñupiaq auntie explains that ‘she (Time)’ was responsible for taking the Tsalal men or releasing them. She chose to take them, and ‘eat their fucking dreams’.

This statement reminded me of the theme of dreaming in Season 1. A theoretical physicist, Fred Alan Wolf, claims that “dreaming is vital to our survival as a species and a necessary ‘learning laboratory’ wherein the self and the universe evolve. In brief, matter evolves through dreams.” In the book Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Divine Consciousness, “the unknowable mystery we sometimes call God” can only be understood through finding individual and communal balance, which is historically and presently impossible due to patriarchal systems.

The significance of this, I think, is the overarching theme in both seasons: Time as an insurmountable force that weighs on the characters. Past, present, future are flattened and defined by suffering. We see the mostly faceless antagonists attempt to gain unnatural power over time– in Season 1, the Tuttles (and their counterparts) actions implicate a desire of procuring power and wealth through sacrificing innocent youth (balanced time), and in Season 4, they are searching for a microorganism that could provide insight into immortality, or at least further their material wealth and power– ultimately creating the imbalance of essential, unknowable truths: Time, Life, Death, and Dreaming. We also see the protagonists struggle under the weight of Time in a more intimate, consumable capacity.

The imbalance of energies is a human fault. This human fault, likely, has no true power in the universe. It is simply a disruptor, which will ultimately be self-corrected, as “the spiral moves.”

We see this correction in the form of an unlikely savior. In Season 1, this is Rust. In season 4, this is Navarro. They are both plagued with an undefined but obviously overwhelming burden of Time, and an innate connection to the unknowable.

While neither understands how or why, they have been called to a life which seems to deny human nature. Isolation, reluctant power (being a fuckin cop), and the responsibility of bearing witness to the soul-crushing examples of human failure. However, their actions and insight are ultimately the antithesis of the antagonists perversions of Life and Death. Both Rust and Navarro, though somewhat unwillingly, are called on to correct Time.

Their circular patterns become enlightened. They prevail. They balance the divine masculine and divine feminine.

I think this is most apparent in Navarro’s character arc. Particularly her statements, and the many examples of her being ‘called’ by Time. Her displacement from the community of people who share her blood, and thus her connection to the land, is significant because it has potentially inspired her to become a protector. With the social power of law enforcement, and the dual-perspective of those who perpetuate disbalance of time (cops, who ultimately are tools for high-level antagonists like the Tuttles), and those who keep it (the indigenous people), she is the perfect blend of energies to correct the balance. I think she was beckoned back to the land by Time specifically, (evidenced by her visions, like “listen”), with divine purpose. Her Inupiaq name meaning the sun’s return from darkness in itself is evidence of that. Her compassion for Annie K. has greater implications on the story than our understanding of justice.

If she was called to the land by Time, presented with the murder of Annie K. as motivation to expose Tsalal, thus exposing the mine, and ultimately the Tuttles, Navarro restores the balance of Life and Death, and ultimately Time, to the land. Her personal journey reflects the initial disbalance, the unknowable forces at play, and ultimately the correction of both. She encompasses universal truths.

God calls from places where the ice is thin.

God is talking to Evangeline directly.

In the spiritual statements that tell Evangeline to “listen”, as well as the many visions in which an individual (conceivably possessed by spiritual forces) points at her, God orders her to bear witness, which is also the purpose that Rust Cohle assigned to his existence in Season 1.

Like Moses and the burning FUCKING bush, Evangeline is plagued with visions; and is called to carry the burden of guiding others into the light.

As Rust said in the first season, “it’s the oldest story there is. Light vs. Dark” and “if you ask me, light is winning.”

Okay, that's all I have for right now. Sorry for using this as my excuse to go apeshit in the way I've been meaning to for weeks. If you'd like specific character headcanons or anything, let me know! Rust Cohle rents an apartment in my head and it fucking stinks in there.

#hope this answers your question lol #asks #true detective #true detective season 1 #true detective season 4 #true detective night country #rust cohle #rustin cohle #evangeline navarro

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deificdahlia · 4 months ago

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July's full moon is most commonly referred to as the "Buck Moon" by the Algonquin peoples, marking the period when male deer begin to grow their new antlers signifying themes of growth and renewal. During this lunation, the moon will be conjunct Pluto and asteroid Harmonia, marking a period of profound personal transformation and encourages the release of outdated structures. This alignment brings deep, buried emotions to the surface, urging individuals to confront and release unresolved issues. Amidst this powerful transformation, Harmonia's influence helps in finding inner balance and harmony, guiding you through a journey of emotional purging and renewal with the promise of achieving a deeper sense of peace and stability.

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ofluckandmagic · 22 days ago

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🦌CALLIOPE HEADCANONS🦌

CW: child abuse, referenced torture, heed with caution

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In the years following her first death, Calliope waited patiently in Elysium to be rescued, but eventually stopped trying to wait after Kratos left.

She was very depressed and desperate, so when the opportunity came in the form of Artemis collecting her, she jumped at it.

Her stag curse is a direct result of the mentality ‘sins of the parent are the sins of the children’, which Artemis held close. She was slain and reanimated countless times for over two hundred years, and it wore her down.

While Calliope made an effort to become part of the Huntresses, it was realistically a trap for Artemis to find an outlet to punish Kratos.

Despite her bitterness, Artemis did care about her huntresses, but it was very much an overbearing kind of care.

Calliope, though holding the brunt of the trauma, considered Artemis her first real friend.

Artemis’ death was entirely due to her begging Calliope to end her, believing the cycle would be broken if she did so. Callie opted for a painless route bc as much as Artemis had hurt her she'd never wish that pain on anyone.

No matter what universe, Calliope regularly has nightmares. Wether it’s of her death at Kratos’ hand, or the torture at Artemis’, it’s pretty common for her to experience such night terrors, and spend countless hours awake rather than asleep

Thyella was crafted by Vulcan after Calliope took her place as ‘Diana’ It is made from a manticore’s obsidian stinger, calliope’s flute by the same name, and calliope’s own blood.

When she took up the role as Diana, the only gods that had been resurrected were Mars, Vulcan, Jupiter, Mercury, Juno and Neptune.

Calliope took on Pluto and Proserpina’s roles as as a redult. Her role as a Death Goddess plays both into the lore surrounding Helblindi, but also is a direct result of Calliope surviving death/dying multiple times but never truly dying.

Her magic takes the form of blue fire, since it’s incredibly hot. Additionally, it’s a subtle reference to her death goddess role since spirits are often depicted as being surrounded in blue fire in many media pieces.

Calliope likes just being around people in silence.

Her nickname growing up was “αφθές” or Thrush bc thrushes have a flute-like call/whistle.

She has anger issues, due to unresolved trauma. But, she works through them via breathing excises.

The scars on her arms and chest are a result of the Blases of Chaos. But, her eye scar, and bandages come from protecting scars she got from Artemis’ huntresses.

Calliope has a habit of pushing herself beyond her physical limitations. She is physically disabled but often finds herself in a position of forgetting that’s the case until it directly affects her.

She distrusts strangers on a default. Calliope would tell you it’s because she has trauma, but it also is because she knows that the world is cruel. Despite her traumas, she makes an effort to be a ray of sunshine, and often makes an effort to help others when she can.

As she ages despite having no contact with Kratos whatsoever in centuries, Calliope takes up a lot of his mannerisms.

Her lyre is Kratos’ old one. She found it being sold at a market when traveling across the world in search of him. She is particularly fond of it.

“Though, in her defense, not that she was defending herself from anything except her own thoughts, Artemis’ death hadn’t been one out of vengeance. At least, not in her eyes. In the eyes of a younger Calliope, she’d gotten justice for years of torture and suffering, for broken wings and broken bones and an antler that no longer grows in all the way, broken halfway down. Artemis had deserved it. Because Justice was due. A much older Calliope would disagree. Justice, sure she had been seeking, but vengeance and justice go hand in hand. They’re inseparable. Two sides of the same coin.” -Calliope’s inner monologue about Artemis

#the themes are a heavy so marking this as mature.#calliope of sparta #about: calliope #cw: child abuse #cw: torture

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monigote001 · 10 months ago

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I feel like Alex would get along with my two oc's that also have antlers (one has reindeer antlers, and the other deer antlers)

Their names are Moon (deer) and Pluto (reindeer) btw

When I get un-artblocked I'll draw the three creatures communicating

~ Lil Moff Anon

Alex absolutely LOVES meeting new people, more if they are similar to her

but she's gonna try to fight with her antlers for pure fun

#scp fandom #oc #oc art #scp oc art #scp oc #art #doodle #Monti ask

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eldritchpluto · 3 months ago

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Hey!! Thanks for stopping by my blog. Sometimes I’m an eldritch being, other times I’m just a silly little guy.

🫀Juno/Pluto/Antithesis/Static/Hyacinth/Cicada

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#intro post #this needed to get updated-#anyways hi thanks for being here #feel free to send me asks or whatever

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saturnine-saturneight · 5 months ago

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1 to 5 tag

Thank you @cowboybrunch!!!

Rules: Follow the prompts, change one if you like, and tell the lovely world of writeblr a little something about your WIP! Answers to the prompts can be in the form of quotes or anything you’d like!

Tagging @marlowethelibrarian @rotting-moon-writes @fortunatetragedy and @davycoquette !

One word to describe your WIP:

Messy.

Two lines that are your favorite:

The only exchange of meaning between them are his blunt nails, dug into the flesh of their hand like a tender bear trap.

"I would have to be an insane person to do that." "You are," Ron and Nat snap in unison.

Three songs from your WIP playlist:

Unlike Pluto - Worst in me The Antlers - Putting the dog to sleep Hozier - It will come back

Four feelings from your characters:

Desperation, glee, bloody rage, hope against hope

Five tropes featured:

Villain protagonist, tragedy of impulsiveness, vitriolic best buds, outlaw couple, dark and troubled past.

#tag games #project: reburial

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chevvy-yates · 2 years ago

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UNUSUAL OC ASSOCIATIONS

Tagged By @itzsassha, @wanderingaldecaldo and @imaginarycyberpunk2023. Thanks a lot! <3 Since I got tagged thrice, I can do all three, so I'll do my three boys ofc. (it's hard enough I nearly always leave Hizumi out all the time bc I got 4).

VIJAY

SEASONING: spiced paprika (hehe) WEATHER: sunny blue sky COLOUR: primary: turquoise, blue, purple, pink; secondary: yellow SKY: golden evening sun of Pacifica (Arki knows best) MAGIC POWER: mindcontrol HOUSE PLANT: phalaenopsis (common orchid) WEAPON: Malorian Arms 3516, cyberdeck with quickhacks SUBJECT: Marine Biology but also Computer topics SOCIAL MEDIA: cybergram MAKE-UP PRODUCT: some very light grey eye shadow CANDY: not so much a sweet tooth but; caramel candy FEAR: mantis blades ICE CUBE SHAPE: normal cube size METHOD OF LONG DISTANCE TRAVEL: DMC DeLorean ART STYLE: Vaporwave MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE: Kirin (dragon with deer antlers) PIECE OF STATIONARY: a tiny shell from Monterey THREE EMOJIS: 🌇 🐋 🍆 CELESTIAL BODY: Neptune and the Moon

RYDER

SEASONING: cinnamon WEATHER: rainy mood COLOUR: primary: black; secondary: purple & green SKY: dark evening clouds darkening the sun, promising rain MAGIC POWER: shapeshifter HOUSE PLANT: monstera deliciosa WEAPON: Nokota D5 Copperhead, mantis blades physical dmg SUBJECT: Avionics, Technologies and Heavy Industries SOCIAL MEDIA: none MAKE-UP PRODUCT: black nail polish CANDY: pistachio pralinés FEAR: his superior and the beast within ICE CUBE SHAPE: huge triangle METHOD OF LONG DISTANCE TRAVEL: Quadra Turbo R-V-Tech ART STYLE: Brutalism MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE: Black Dog or Hellhound PIECE OF STATIONARY: bottle opener THREE EMOJIS: 🪐 🛩 🍌 CELESTIAL BODY: Saturn and the Moon

THYJS

SEASONING: cardamom WEATHER: thunderstorms and hurricanes COLOUR: primary: white; secondary: grey & green (camo) SKY: dark sky with a storm cell full of lightning strikes MAGIC POWER: conjourer of lightning strikes HOUSE PLANT: Spathiphyllum (peace lily) WEAPON: 'The Headsman' Constitutional Arms M2038 Tactician, Projectile Launch System SUBJECT: Field Skills, Survival, Classical Music SOCIAL MEDIA: none MAKE-UP PRODUCT: palest powder he can find CANDY: center shock FEAR: big heights ICE CUBE SHAPE: huge sphere (death star) METHOD OF LONG DISTANCE TRAVEL: BMW E30 M3 (1991) ART STYLE: Impressionism and any classical art MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE: Thunderbird PIECE OF STATIONARY: Leatherman (multitool) THREE EMOJIS: ⚡️ 🧨 🎹 CELESTIAL BODY: Pluto

I'll tag randomly because Idk who did this already and who not. Sorry to bother you if you received this many more times now. Also, no pressure! @nervouswizardcycle, @gloryride, @wraithsoutlaws, @f001onthehill and @spicyraeman.

#cyberpunk 2077 #tag game #about: vijay steyr #about: ryder von scharfenberg #about: thyjs de wit

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(For Pluto) 6. Very curious about the "Carousel" part especially (For Effa) 15. 12. (if they even have a bed or a desk lmao)

6. How did you choose your OC’s name?

Pluto Carousel is literally just called that because I liked the sounds together lol (this is pretty much how I name all my Infraflux characters). The Pluto part was a vague connection to the underworld god since he's big and blue and stoic. However, I've since changed his antler design to something more fanciful and symbolic, so that got me thinking: Maybe one of his ancestors supplied the name "Carousel" by way of literally looking like a carousel creature? He's very very slightly inorganic (the tips of his horns and claws are natural brass) so it would make sense for that reason as well!

15. How does your OC take up space? What do they do with their hands when they talk, or how do they sit in chairs?

Effa would LOVE to take up more space than they actually do (ha ha small) so they compensate by looking haughty and talking loud. Lots of sweeping dismissive gestures and full body emoting. Of course when they have their demon hands out they REALLY take up space and everybody has to pay attention and make way for GIANT RAINBOW HANDS which I'm sure was part of the appeal of their partnership. Effa sits on chairs like a typical gay i.e.: never both feet on the floor.

12. What does their bed and/or desk look like? Tidy or cluttered - are they both the same, or is one neat and the other messy?

Effa has an apartment in the Trade Union (the second biggest country after Infraflux, very hypercapitalist) that's obnoxiously, impractically stylish and their bed matches this. It's probably easily big enough for someone twice their size, very soft, and looks atrocious (think colourful brown/orange/zebra patterning with gold pillows and burgundy sheets).

Effa doesn't have a desk, however they do have a workbench! Despite being a horrible little gremlin of a creature Effa is also a very competent magic user, and built and implanted their witchblades themselves (the metal bits on their spine that link them to their demon partner). Their workbench doesn't look much like a workbench though because Effa prefers to work hunched over "on the ground" so it's more like a weird raised floor with an anvil/forge near the back and half-finished magical materials scattered around and arcane drawings scrawled all over it. Imagine a messy child's playroom floor but there's knives and hammers and maybe a few spots of blood. Obviously this workroom is its own, very private place that is locked and kept separate from the rest of their tres chic apartment.

#infraflux #Green Lotus Rehab Society #OC Pluto Carousel #OC Effa #asks #character asks

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berdlyappreciation · 2 months ago

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Doodle page for my children.

Also I guess I drew Celeste in there but I don't like her.

Names for the siblings

Luna- the one with Antlers and green is a bnuny

Pluto- the one with tentacles and black is a bnuny

Venus- made of Marshmellow and pink is a bnuny

Celeste- ice girl with comedy and tragedy masks. I don't like her. is a bnuny

Other characters debuting here:

Gumdrop- Zombie candy rat, Venuses girlfriend/court jester

Torandy- I made him originally to cope with things I don't wanna talk about right now. Wolf.

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teeniquedesign · 2 months ago

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generic-cleric · 2 years ago

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Session 53

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There be Curse of Strahd spoilers here... probably

On The Road Again

When we begin the session, we immediately go into more discussion about the deities and I/Arabelle offer them some information to give the party an idea of what we are working with.

The Lady of the Forest, also known as The Seeker, was commonly associated with things like Divination, past, future, fate, flowers, vegetation, wildlife, life cycle. Out of character I gave the examples of the Three fates and Persephone so my players could understand the vibes I was aiming for. Her symbols include antlers, ravens / raven wings, wreaths of flowers. Her domains would have been Nature, Life.

The Lady of the Swamp, also known as The Weaver, commonly was associated with Connection to The Weave, Magic, Water in all its forms, dreams, nightmares. The examples I gave were Hecate, Mystra, and Eldath. Her symbols were usually spiders, snakes, boar tusks, reeds. Her domains were Knowledge and Trickery.

The Lady of the Mountain was also known as The Huntress. Her usual associations were death, Afterlife, precious stones, ores, and metals, lightning and thunder. I described her as having big Pluto vibes. Her symbols were a wolf head with ram horns, ram horns alone, and gemstones. Her domains would have been Death and Tempest. She also gets a little extra bit of lore: She is a grim reaper-like character, or rather a grim hunter. With a pack of wolves at her heels she hunts for those whose time has come to an end, never missing with her spear.

They go back to their home for the rest of the day to discuss this heap of information. They also spitball ideas as to who might make good champions. Vondal thinks Jander and Ireena, Bedlam thinks Victor and Stella.

Sergei says that he thinks Okrin and Jander would make good guardians while Ireena would make a good priestess. He knows that Okrin and Jander have zealous faith for their deities and sees that as an ideal quality. He also feels that they would be fully capable of preserving the longevity of the shrines. He also feels like the position of priestess is not unlike the position she would have had in the Church of Saint Alexei, had she stayed there. He’s also hoping, maybe a little selfishly, that some divine protection would aid her in the fight against Strahd.

For the first time, the spirit of the previous owner of Okrin’s cursed spear speaks to him from the weapon. Kavan also pushes for Okrin to take one of the positions of guardian. If he were not worthy to, he would not have been granted the benefits of the spear.

Okrin seems flattered but mentions he wasn’t really planning on sticking around after all this was over and done with. Jander says it sounds like a dream but he doesn’t know if he’d be accepted by followers of the Ladies since he’s a vampire. This is where Kavan chimes in and tells Okrin that Jander needs to stop whining, when Kavan was alive he was known as the Living Vampire because he drank blood. Jander is still skeptical and says times have changed a great deal. “Let’s cross that bridge when we get to it, shall we?”

They suspect that if Ireena takes the priestess position, she can still get her lycanthropy cured that way. “Does she even want her lycanthropy cured?” Bedlam’s player thinks to ask. I tell them that I and she don’t really know. She doesn’t like the pain of transforming, but she likes the power and freedom that come with her forms. I think the thought of trying to tame her lycanthropic nature has crossed her mind.

Ireena and Vondal take their wolfsbane tinctures and everyone turns in for the night. Except, they find out Ilya is a born werewolf. They are able to safely lock him in the wine cellar, though one of their couches is destroyed in the process. In the morning they find out from him that his lycanthropic nature just started showing itself not too long ago, some nights he can control it better than others, but he’s still learning. He tells them normally the Krezkov children get restrained in the cellar of the house. One of the nights Ilya wanted to prove himself and snuck out of the basement and ended up getting snagged by the werewolf pack.

Ilya doesn’t know that his twin Peitra was killed in the werewolf raid that night, nor does he know Peitra was brought back by the Abbess.

Around 10 am, the party leaves Vallaki for Krezk on a mission to deliver Ilya to his family. They decided to bring Ireena, Jander, and Lancelot with them this time.

They Let Ireena drive the cart this time with Jander sitting up front with her. Vondal, Bedlam, Ilya, and Lancelot hang out inside the cabin while Veledrel and Okrin sit on the roof of the wagon.

Okrin notices a foot trail branching from the main road. They pull over to investigate and find a spike pit without falling into it. At the bottom of it lie spikes and several skeletons, animal and human. Veledrel shoots some fire bolts into the pit to destroy the spikes and hopefully save someone in the future. On the way back to the wagon they muse and wonder who’s trap that might be.

They reach a point where the road branches off in several directions and resting near the signpost is a wagon and a family tending to the horses. After talking to them the party found out they are leaving Zeidenburg because a man’s head spontaneously exploded and they were afraid to live there after that. The party quietly suspected Lyssa as they boarded their own wagon again and headed on their way.

After a while of travel, the sound of a herd of goats comes from the woods. Bedlam is curious and has the wagon stopped and goes to investigate with Okrin, Veledrel says “let me know if you need anything burned!” and stays with the wagon and everyone else. In the woods, they find basically a gibbering mouther but made out of goats. Bedlam quickly calls for the rest of the party, and Vel because this definitely needs to be burned. They all fight the horrible creature and kill it after a few rounds and move on down the road.

They have a few encounters they avoid by helping Ireena make the animal handling checks to maneuver past them.

At one point the fog thickens and they see bodies hanging from the trees, all of them the same classes as the players. They are thoroughly creeped out by this but they carry on.

It starts getting dark and they decide to pull over and spend a night in the Tower on the Lake. It's like a second home at this point. They deal with their lycanthropic companions accordingly and have a decent night together.

They waste no time in the morning getting back on the road to Krezk. Jander takes some time to sleep in the wagon.

One of the notable interactions they had was at the next crossroads. They could see someone wearing a long red cloak followed by a carriage coming from Tsolenka Pass. They hear a familiar laugh and debate whether or not they should engage with Anastrasya, but they ultimately decide to see what’s up.

She rides up on an undead warhorse and heckles them. Bedlam inquires as to what brings her to these parts and she explains that she was in Ziedenburg inducting Bugomistress Wachter and she’s also now tasked with bringing this gift back to Castle Ravenloft. As it turns out, the gift is a young girl, and she’s part of a monthly tithe to Count Strahd.

Bedlam heckles her about Strahd running an orphanage with Gertruda being there too. Anastraya says they’ll probably just toss this new girl in the woods and let Volenta hunt her for sport, “at least that would be entertaining!” she laughs. She also mentions to them that Ludmilla fed some lady to her pet Hugo- some little pet the abbott was working on? Tore her to pieces like she was nothing.

Rahadin, on his own undead warhorse from behind the carriage, clears his throat, signaling to Anastrasya to get moving. Bedlam goes to pet her warhorse and casts dispel magic, causing her to fall to the ground. He laughs and she snarls, picking herself up. She swings at him with her claw attack, landing one and dealing 11 damage. She also shoves him prone and laughs at him. He picks himself up, his chest bleeding and his shirt ripped, he climbs up on the wagon and says “Okay guys enough messing around, let’s go” and they get moving. Anastrasya looks back at Bedlam and casts Message, saying “Tell me where I can find you tonight,”

To which he replies, “Meet me outside Krezk after nightfall, if you can sneak away that long." Once Bedlam was certain he was out of her sight, he let Veledrel heal him.

After driving on the road for a while, they notice the flickering of a campfire and the sound of a kerfuffle. The party pulls over to investigate and all roll amazing stealth. They approach the scene to find three beastfolk from the Abbey. After listening to them for a minute, they gather that the beastfolk have left the Abbey and are struggling to survive on their own in the woods. They were currently arguing over starting a campfire. The party didn’t really feel comfortable revealing themselves, so Veledrel ended up firebolting the fire into existence timed with the beastfolk striking the flint. They let the folk celebrate amongst themselves as they snuck back to the wagon and went along their merry way.

They rattle down the road for a bit longer and can see the Krezk junction just up ahead. We thought that was a perfect place to end the session for the day!

#Curse of Strahd #dnd #dndiary #session summary #session write up #session recap #dungeons and dragons #travel episode

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