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#batcave search history that night: friend has no name. atlantis naming conventions. atlantian names. r there birth certificates in atlantis#theyre so fun to draw guys im sick with it#also: everyone thinking 'But his name is Garth'#I know that and YOU know that but he doesn't until like..... a few years later. canonically#Unnamed Youth 'Aqualad' No Last Name#and arthur does call him both minnow and tadpole so wally n dick r both right in their own ways#and for ppl who really dont know. garth was abandoned as an infant and didnt hang w anyone until arthur took him in lol. what a life#and arthur girl...... was aqualad the best and only u could do#teen titans#fab five#donna troy#wally west#dick grayson#garth of shayeris#roy harper#dc#dc comics#my art#everyone hangin by the salt water pool so garth can hang w them :]
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Caitha's connections to Filianore and Nito
Me and @katyspersonal have been developing more reasons for Caitha to be Filianore's mother, but before we do that we need to establish a different theory about Caitha's parents. I think one of them had to be Nito. Let's go over everything:
Caitha is a Goddess connected with death and darkness
Nito controls death, which is a power aligned with the dark. Caitha is revered as a goddess of grief, who sheds tears for the dead, and allows people a peaceful departure to the afterlife. However, her nature is pervaded by a kind of darkness that makes some doubt her true nature, to the point they even assume she is some sort of demoness/evil goddess. In fact, her chime in DS2 is exclusively an hex catalyst, which are all sorts of dark-aligned spells.
I think the only way to explain Caitha's close ties to death and her conflicting nature as a goddess with dark elements to her is to assume she is connected to Nito in some way. After all, the Gods/Lords aren't naturally aligned with the dark in this universe.
There are some people who might put into question her validity as a goddess, since she was introduced in DS2, and in that game it is insinuated that some people could also go down in history as gods through the passing of lore, which is what happened with Pharis, morphing into Evlana, Goddess of the Hunt. After all, if Caitha had been a normal human her connection to darkness would be a no-brainer! That's just humanity's true nature.
However, Evlana and only Evlana is outright identified as a human-turned-god, and it's the devs who spell it out for us too. And even more damning is her prominence in DS3 as a key figure in the Way of White, which dispells any doubt. Gwyndolin, the new Allfather after Lloyd, would probably know who is and isn't a genuine god, and treat them accordingly. She seems to be the only other prominent goddess at the time outside of him and Gwynevere, so she had to have been relevant to Gwyndolin's family specifically.
Nito is connected to family
There's a belief that Pinwheel is some father trying to revive his dead family, and this is why he is wearing family masks, but I think the idea isn't really that satisfying at all. The masks are designed after Greek theater masks, and simply depict archetypes...
However, they could be depicting something indeed, but instead of Pinwheel's family, they might be depicting Nito's. All the family masks prominently appear in the Catacombs on various statues and traps.
Several Pinwheels also appear to be guarding the room before Nito's boss arena, implying there's more of them than just the one we defeated previously.
These also can't be clones of the first Pinwheel because they have full health and didn't dissipate after his death, unlike the ones he makes during his boss fight. And why would Pinwheel defend the entrance to the lord he betrayed? It's stated that the one found in the Catacombs is a traitor who stole Nito's power for himself.
To me, it implies that all of Nito's acolytes, his powerful necromancers, wear the family masks in reverence to him.
And these masks aren't the only set of three things connected to Nito, he and the number 3 actually go hand-in-hand. Inside his boss room we can find three coffins! The big one, where Nito sleeps, a smaller one (but still much larger than a human coffin) besides him, and a third one, tucked away and hidden from view.
Water's strange prominence
Nito seems to have a passive connection to water. In the deepest part of the Tomb of the Giants, there's a shallow pool of water where an endless army of baby skeletons rises from, there are pools of water in his own boss room, and even the Catacombs feature a lot of flowing water and pools. In DS2 we meet the Milfanito and Brightbugs, creations of the Gravelord who inhabit the Shrine of Amana, a giant underground lake. However, Nito himself does not display any real water powers, but perhaps his wife might have.
Looking at the mask of the mother, we can notice how different she looks compared to the father and child. It's harder to make any feature out, and she seems to be wearing a crown of some sort. This crown features a wave-like pattern too.
Coupled with the large coffin besides Nito's, it's safe to say his wife must have been one of the people of Anor Londo, one of the Gods. It is also very fair that Death would find a partner in a Goddess of Water, an element often connected with life. After all, Nito did create life at some point, with the Fenito, Milfanito and Brightbugs, and it wasn't simply a matter of reanimating corpses like he usually does. Perhaps that was allowed through this specific union. In fact, the pool of endlessly-spawning skeleton babies could have been birthing grounds for these beings. Only, the pool has probably gone dry from her absence, so it's only capable of... that.
Nito is a Giant
Nito himself isn't a Lord/God but rather a Giant, evidenced from his domain (the Tomb of the Giants), the fact he was the first being to die making him incredibly ancient, and his affinity with darkness which is irreconcilable with the light-based humanoids. Sure, in Japanese it's stated that the Tomb of the Giants is where the Gods were buried, but the name of the area is still "of the Giants".
If Nito was a god, and it was a burial ground exclusive to gods, the area could have easily been named "Tomb of the Gods". Not to mention the various Giant Skeletons found patrolling the area, some of them even seemingly more monstrous and primal. The size of his coffin also feels like it's bold-enough evidence to positively make this conclusion.
Giants seem to have been the first humanoid race to rise from the First Flame, and in DS2 we see what are probably the most ancient race of Giants we know of, who don't seem to truly die in the traditional sense, only entering a "different" stage of life and growing seeds to grow new giants from. Their souls also have a small dark core surrounded by a mass of light.
I think they must have been the ancestors of all other beings, born in a similar manner to the golems in Drangleic and Eleum Loyce, back when souls first appeared. Maybe they inhabited the wooden husks of the Archtrees and gave them life. The DS1/3 Giants would come shortly after, still holding both light and dark within, then Lords/Gods and Pygmies, who evolved to lean more towards one of the two elements. Those Giants would be the first beings with the ability to "die" then, instead of living once again like the DS2 Giants, and Nito would be the first of them to perish, as his title suggests. He is, after all, the "first of the dead".
Some people might think the title simply means he is the first among the dead, but Wolnir actually seems to confirm it's meant to be taken literally. While lost in the international translation, his soul mentions a desire to be "the last of the dead", which parallels Nito.
(The retranslation is from LastProtagonist's Bloodborne document, in the Dark Souls WIP section, you can find it here [x])
The translation we got does share a similar sentiment, with him being keen to outlive everyone, but the Nito connection is lost. So yes, Nito was the first to die, and that strenghtens the connection with the Giants, who appear to be the most ancient humanoid race.
This explains why he would be able to withstand the dark that comes with death, and even prefer it to the light, judging from how dark his domains usually are (Tomb of the Giants, but also the Undead Crypt). It would also explain why a potential offspring with a God would be able to harbor both the light and the dark without issue.
Caitha is death and water
So, if Nito rules over death and his wife controls water, their child would show an affinity for water, no? Indeed, Caitha has certain connections to the water element, and the most evident one comes in the form of tears.
Caitha's tears have magical traits, and increase power or defense the closer to death one is depending on if they were shed for the undeserving dead or for those who have lost loved ones, tears of sorrow and grief.
One of her miracles, Tears of Denial, also allowed the dying a few precious moments to say their proper farewells to their loved ones. If her mother was indeed a goddess of water and life, it would make sense she'd have the power to grant such a thing. She would be holding time back just enough for all of this to be possible.
Her last miracle is Caressing Tears, which cleanses the body from all kinds of poisons, from bleeding wounds and even from frostbite.
This one is probably the most interesting, as it shares the same function and (almost) icon with an old sorcery featured in DS1, Remedy, developed by Yulva the Sealer to help the sick in Blighttown.
The spell, similarly to Ingward's Resist Curse, appears to use a blue, splash-like particle. The Sealers of New Londo seem to have been healers prior, and may have had some control over water, since it's what was used to seal away New Londo. The cleansing nature of water is likely what allowed them to heal people, and might also be what allows Caitha to heal the sick as well.
The Cathedral of the Deep was dedicated to Caitha
As I stated before, Caitha gained a lot of relevance in DS3, becoming one of the most important gods in Carim, the new "capital" for the Way of White. This newfound relevance is evident when looking at the Cathedral of the Deep. This Cathedral wasn't always dedicated to the worship of the Deep, as the Deacons once watched over and sealed that corruption away before being touched by it themselves.
Many statues of weeping figures can be found inside the building. The most prominent one is a weeping maiden, seen all throughout the Cathedral both inside and outside.
Most of them are in-fact covered up by a red cloth, as if denouncing their affiliation to her. This enimity towards Caitha is further reinforced through the efforts of hiding away Caitha's Chime, considered anathema by one of the three Archdeacons.
The in-game description mentions the Archbishop but it was simply a bit that the localizers lost while translating the text. In Japanese the kanji used is the same for the Archdeacons as opposed to that used for the Archbishop of Carim. I have a whole post about that actually ahah, and it also gives more insight on the Church of the Deep: [x]
But yeah, in short, the Cathedral was once dedicated to Caitha. The large graveyard outside is probably further evidence of this, seeing as her domain is mourning and grief. But she was also someone who healed and cleansed, which is possibly what the Deacons were doing before turning to the worship of the Deep. The Cathedral also features pools of water within, which feels all too relevant after all our previous discussions about Caitha's potential mother and her own connection to the element of water.
The Deep and water
The Deep itself is strongly connected to water. What Aldrich saw was an age of the Deep Sea, and the Murkmen who dwell within grow all sorts of barnacles and what seems to be mussels on their bodies.
It's said it was once a peaceful place that has been corrupted, and now filth and abominations reside within. Some assume it was Aldrich himself that corrupted it, but I doubt a single man could have such power, no matter how abominable and twisted he was. What likely happened to the Deep is that the stagnant nature of the world caused it to stagnate as well. The concept of "穢れ" (kegare) is very common in these games.
So, the Deep is connected with water. The Deacons of Caitha were safeguarding it in her Cathedral before it corrupted them. I think the Deep was once good, and that spells like Remedy were drawing from it... but signs of corruption were already beginning in the form of the Vagrants. They have always been bizarre creatures, with a very clear sea-life motif to them. It's my belief that they were some of the original inhabitants of the Deep before it went bad.
Vagrants appear where players have died and lost plenty of humanity. These crab-like creatures might have first found the Human Dregs, the heaviest things within the human body, consumed them, and got a taste for them.
Crabs are a very common bottom feeder after all, eating all sorts of stuff that sinks into whatever body of water they inhabit. At the time of DS1 there were probably less dregs to be found as the cycle was still young and not as stagnant, so to seek more they must have crawled out in search of fresh humanity. It's worth noting the core of murky darkness inside them, perhaps an early sign of the corruption to come.
Filianore, her powers and her egg
With all of this cleared out, we can finally talk about Filianore, who we believe is the daughter of Gwyn and Caitha. Filianore is a pretty mysterious figure, and her powers seem to be a bit unclear. She has a sacred chime that boosts healing miracles (half of which are connected to Gwynevere), enanchment miracles (seemingly only Sacred Oath, related to the Firstborn) and the one cure miracle in the game, which belongs to Caitha.
Filianore herself seems to have been affected by darkness at least somewhat, with black streaks coming out of her closed eyes, and the large egg with a dark core within, very reminiscent of the Vagrants we discussed earlier.
I think Filianore inherited some affinity with the Dark from her mother's side, which was probably one of the reasons she was given to the Pygmies instead of someone like Gwynevere. Her powers must have also been about the manipulation and distorsion of time itself, which could explain why the Ringed City seems to be in a better condition than the rest of the world, which piled up together into the Dreg Heap. Like Caitha and her Tears of Denial, she might have had the ability to manipulate time, though instead of reversing death for a short while she could make time flow slowly. Both are holding a specific process back (death for Caitha and time for Filianore). I think it's her blood relation to Gwyn that allowed her to master this power so effectively, as time only exists the way it does because of Fire.
Maybe Gwyn sought to keep the Pygmies stuck in a time bubble that would keep them always behind everyone. I believe he didn't lie to Filianore when he said he'd be back for her, but he simply wished to bide his time to find a way to conquer the Dark before the end of his Age, something that never came to pass. So when we see the Ringed City, we are seeing a point in time that's way behind the current one. Despite that, we can tell a long time has passed in this time bubble too by the state of disrepair of the city, as well as the presence of an advancing Deep.
The egg itself is really interesting. If Vagrants are from the Deep, thus are connected with water, her holding one of them since before any corruption would have started polluting the world is very interesting. Maybe this power or gift relates less to her mother Caitha and more to her grandmother. It seems to act as a seal of some sort, as when the egg finally breaks Filianore is able to wake up. However, this causes time to start flowing again all at once, causing us to jump super forward in time and find ourselves in the ashen wasteland that we see at the end of the Ringed City DLC.
#dark souls#dark souls 3#dark souls 2#filianore#caitha goddess of tears#gravelord nito#cathedral of the deep#vagrant#pinwheel#oooook this should be all!!!#I have liked the idea that nito is caitha's dad for quite a while now lol#so it feels nice to finally get this all out#and to add to how filianore is probably her daughter too#honestly... nito's family drama is incredible lmao#mfr is clearly depressed by the time we see him#his birthing pool dry... clear sign of divorce#and instead of going to therapy he sends his simps to spread evil#I enjoy how develop caitha has become honestly#and can't wait to find a design and name for the water goddess#val-post
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foster dog had her puppies :’)
#7 of them#so far at least#we’re not sure if she’s done#this isn’t tennis or olympics related but it’s fucking exciting#they’re so so small#and she’s so sweet#she decided to go out in the rain and crawl under the shed to start the birth#so the first four were born in the mud and my dad had to pull her out and carry her inside#puppies in a bucket#but it’s all good now#they’re comfy cozy in the baby pool#and she wasn’t aggressive at all about being pulled away from them at first so that was lucky#rambles
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had a dream greg tried to drown himself in a pool just so tom would do mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on him????????
#and then i think greg was shocked it worked because he thought there was a 50% chance tom would just leave him there#and say something like aw greg you big lanky pool noodle shouldn’t you be able to swim from birth#are you an evolutionary mutation?#natural selection i guess!#anyways it was actually kinda cute. barf.#also there were robot dinosaurs involved and i think the pool was on my uni campus instead of the parking lot#this is what happens when my cat wakes me up at 4am#tomgreg#<-i’m sorry </3 just felt i needed to share because What#succession#<-i need to reify my dreams sorry#maya.txt
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one thing that bothers me is the constant advocacy for 'natural birth' that is plainly speaking, and in the case of the Portuguese healthcare system, just an excuse to cut corners and save money. Natural birth is much cheaper when compared to c-section, no matter how painful and tortuous for the woman, so it's convenient that there is also a slew of 'natural living' grifters advocating for it, along with the service of 'doulas' who are literally just some people with no medical qualifications and incapable of doing anything besides call emergency in case of a complication during birth.
to me it's extremely offensive that women are expected to give birth in conditions akin to those of cattle and to heap insult to injury this is somehow framed as 'good for them'.
#actually it's worse than cattle because there's usually about 4 people and a vet involved in the birth of livestock#these women are giving birth at home like dogs#or in a hospital with a nurse screaming in their face#and not just women! i recently saw a video of a trans guy who was talking about his experience giving birth in a plastic pool at home#my dude why are you also falling prey to misogynist bullshit about 'natural' 'healthy' births???#i don't think hospitals are great i think people suffer all kinds of medical violence when giving birth#but i don't think the solution is ignoring the centuries of evolution in the field of medicine to give birth at home#it's expecting and demanding better care
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UNISC – 09-21-24 – Wysteir [Vatista] vs Dae1Patch (Phonon)
Snow Sisters on the Night Pool of Glistening Haze
< submitted by @wysteir >
#unisc#under night#under night in birth#vatista#phonon#snow sisters#night pool of glittering haze#match footage#submission#Youtube
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Billy and Claude Jr in my smash hit fanfiction “Claude Jr” /j
#absolutely traumatized#the both of them#claude jr#billy lenz#black christmas 1974#shitpost#straight out of the birthing pool
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Ciao Fiora!
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speaking of sansa & childbirth.... man..... it'd be totally awful if. she had a bit of trouble giving birth to cat :))))))))) & ppl thought she would die & it looked like she wasn't going to make it :)))))))))))))))))
#queue els & becca & macy fucking murdering me on the spot FFGGHHJJKJYFGHGHHHH#she gave birth on a ship along the white knife on the way to winterfell from white harbor after talking with the manderlys#but n e wayz aurane's there her maester's there brienne's there sandor's there maybe jeyne poole & theon are there too#she likely got into like a haze & maybe she saw ned robb & cat there for a few minutes but managed to come back#she & catelyn turned out fine tho & she'd continue to have more kids w/ no problems ! everyone would be losing their sanity on that ship tho#ooc.
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TFW you pass a huge blood clot on your period and think you’re dying so you frantically call the OB/GYN just for the nurse to tell you drink more water and move around.
#just girly things#but I also I was diagnosed with preeclampsia AFTER giving birth which is very rare#so yeah I really did think I was dying lol#plus I’ve fainted twice in the two years since giving birth and the only time I’ve ever felt the way I did during those spells#was the time I almost drowned in a pool#hehe
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just looked up the new rules for my old municipal pool and holy shit is someone on an HOA style power trip
#there's a whole section about how you can't bring your kids unless they live with you at your address full time????#bc fuck you to children of parents who aren't together and to parents with partial custody i guess???#they're like 'staff reserves the right to verify' with e.g. report cards birth certificates and school records#1) birth certificates absolutely do not establish proof of residency and 2) to reserve a right you have to HAVE a right#what's the source of that right? bc they're not citing to any statutes or ordinances or case law#and multiple of these restrictions are possibly unconstitutional? (state and federal)#they've apparently modified one blatantly illegal policy that they pretended was a covid thing#now it's probably still illegal but more fuzzy#ALSO. a day pass is $30 per person. it's a municipal pool!!!!!!!!
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Damnit lev lmfao. I was thinking about Shiva wearing corpse ash being resonant for other reasons, something about his relationship with the Bright Skinned Ones and death and whatever. No, no. More fucking importantly: Oh I wonder why Shiva is known for. you know. wearing bodies. his appearance is a mass of bodies joined together. yeah
#Leviathan is a mass of bodies. Shiva wears the ash of burned corpses. Transforming in both cases the masses into the Matter of the Bodiless#ramblings //#leviathan //#Maheshvara //#Not surprised this is coming up now he loves his fun fact time. Earlier I was poking at what he was doing#because he's... very distracted. And uh. Somewhere over yonder doing war stuff with people. And I was thinking about how he is just so many#circumstance based people at the same time. He'll be doing paperwork in a Royal Office somewhere and on a battlefield elsewhere and#running through the forest as a deer somewhere else and living as members of a school of fish in some transcendental lake#and scrying the pools of God and watching birds in a forest... and he incarnates here too and will be a chef downtown#and a teacher somewhere else up also doing paperwork and some dog on the street begging for food and and and#And over all of it... That central blissful mind that is water itself. all it's senses of self - emotions. thoughts. and so on - arising#from its various movements and shapes as reflections on the surface. But also... a sweet thing. Anyway#That black umbrella Lev that's deep and beyond names... beloved.... Searching for someone...#Shiva throws himself down into reality to bounce around as rays of light... the sun incarnating through the day sky into plants then into#animals and so on slowly recollecting more and more who he is. Searching for Shiva#always. Well. You found him. But then... Well. You go past the crying screaming stage of birth and then you get to fun#You gestate. You know who you are when the Sun's light touches your eyes. You scream at it. You change. You grow.#Then you learn the world is fun... People talk about how it seems ridiculous that someone who had achieved oneness would come back#and I wholly agree on a side thought relevant to that that most people who claim to know oneness don't know it#because the idea of oneness itself is actually a product of duality IE you have to be on a world where Two exists to understand One#One doesn't exist in a unified world. There's no One. In a unified world... So you can absolutely achieve a state of oneness while still#being non-unified if you don't truly get it... But anyway. On the why come back thing... Yeah people don't get it. But people who do get it#come back all the time. This reality is just an experience. You can spend your entire life asleep or you can come play and experience#So. Lev's incarnations on this plane mirror his incarnation of Shiva Into Bodies... He comes here to play games. He plays#He takes photos. He wanders. He plays music for people on street corners. He laughs. He loves. He suffers. He experiences.#Sometimes he doesn't understand. Sometimes he understands. Anyway.... Looking through his eyes... Iridescent scene of cranes#flying over a sunset more rich than I've ever seen on earth but so natural. Fire without fire. Water catching and soaking up every colour.
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Lmao, when your blog title read “…shit got wild” I started reading it as “…shit got eligible for marriage” or marriageable if you just wanna think in single words vs sentence. Then I started thinking about Ninjago but it’s the Bachelors. Lloyd meets Harumi, Akita, Vania…runs away into the sunset with Antigone on his Golden Dragon. Really let his princess feel divine and in the sky instead of underground. These two stand for justice and family and isn’t that sweet. They’re so alike. Btw, that number? Forgot to mention but 15641, or rather 1564 is Shakespeare’s birth year. I think. And as he wrote Romeo and Juliet with the star-crossed lovers, I think this is quite silly.
torn between answering with “WHAT the FUCK” “OH my GOD” or “good for them!!! <333”
#EVERYONE ADD THIS TO YOUR FICS RIGHT FUCKING NOW#lmfao#Ninjago#Lloyd garmadon#tragedyshipping#antigone#tagamemnon#also I can’t believe we literally closed the pool with Shakespearean birth year IT WAS PREDESTINED
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Birthing Pool (2021) by Caroline Walker
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Jesus christ reading reddit threads about women in formula racing actually makes my blood boil
#i hate all these fucking men#how they are just completely blind to how sexism is the root issue#and they literally prove that w the kinds of things tehy comment#god im so tired of it#the talent pool is smaller bcs women arent encouraged and in fact usually dissuaded from participating in motorsport#something i think about:#in Rush theres some line thats like 'theres two things men love in this world: cars and women'#okay but why. its not a biological thing. like why do men act like women are destined from birth to not be into cars#maybe women arent encouraged to be into cars like little boys are :/#catie.rambling.txt
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UNISC – 07-28-24 – Twenty-Seven (Nanase) vs Dae1Patch [Hilda]
Pandemonium Party on the Night Pool of Glistening Haze
#unisc#under night#under night in birth#nanase#hilda#pandemonium party#night pool of glistening haze#Youtube
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