#descendants tier maker

[dizzydizney]

Descendants ship ranking! The tiers are based on traditional wedding anniversary milestone gifts

Diamond - The OTPs of OTPs, my top faves overall Pearl - Some lovely alternatives, still feral over these (Bal wasn't even on here but if it was, they'd be between Buma and Gil x Jay) China - Don't NOT ship them. Would read fanfic for them but not obsessed with them Paper - No strong feelings, good or bad, but might lowkey ship a few couples here Divorce - Half I ship in a toxic way and half shouldn't be anywhere near each other in a relationship sense Restraining Order - Ships that give me a viscerally negative reaction. NOTPs on parade

(On the last couple of tiers: characters like Carlos, Evie, and Audrey are so fucking gay to me lol. I have ships for them that contradict that but the majority of ships with characters of the opposite sex is just a big No from me. And I know the Dizzy and Celia ships are probably the most PrObLeMaTiC of the bunch but those last four send me into a completely different dimension of ick so they had to be last lmao so sorry if you take issue with that <3)

[mythicaldemigoddess-of-deltarune]

Cozy Glow & Mane Seven At Top Of The Tier (2023)

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Credit for MLP/Equestria Girls Characters (300+) Tier List Maker goes to FPaez99

Credit for My Little Pony Franchise goes to the Creator: Bonnie Zacherle

Credit for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic goes to Lauren Faust

Credit for Equestria Girls goes to Hasbro

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even if you end up having mixed feelings about some of the characters, you might still like them, but not the actions they take.

and yeah it is possible that Rarity, and I do mean the pony version...

only wanted to be with Blueblood because he was a Prince...

I would rather have someone want to be with me for me, and not because I'm descendant of Royalty....and I don't really want to date anyone at the moment...I would rather play video games or watch a movie or show or read a book that has romance in it.

I don't mind getting some crushes on characters from a fictional universe, but falling in love....that is just another story...

even if it might seem that Blueblood was 100% in the wrong, but for all we know, he might of only acted that way because he knew what Rarity was up to...

but Rarity and Blueblood could both be in the wrong...

Blueblood should of been honest with Rarity, and Rarity shouldn't try to get Blueblood to be her Coltfriend just because he's a Prince.

and even if it's okay not everyone agrees with it, but even if Scootaloo's parents can be okay, but they could be in the Gray-Parent Tier at times.....but they aren't as worse as Spoiled Rich...

at least they do care about Scootaloo, even if they might not be perfect....but I still put them at the worst rank.

[platoniccereal]

decided to do the thingy and check whatever theories i believe/like according to this iceberg. honestly, da fandom should make an ask game out of it. there are some thoughts on it under the cut. i was reminded of it bc of this video, give it a shot, it's v interesting and well-made.

ok i checked everything in the first tier, but honesty, i'd like to give andrastians some crisis of faith and make their god a spirit and their prophet an elf or a dwarf. and most definitely she must be a mage. that would fit so nicely morally. don't like maker being a demon though, it would be too far stretched and gotcha, and the maker didn't seem malevolent.

i didn't check dwarf andraste because i don't remember the explanation behind it, but honestly, it's still curious.

i prefer skyhold being the place where solas created the veil over the solasan temple because i believe it would evaluate skyhold's significance beyond being just a fortress for a main character with some shady shit here and there.

i didn't check sandal being connected to a titan for pretty much the same reason i didn't cross stuff like sandal, or solas, or dumat being the maker, or andraste being connected to flemeth, or her straight up being mythal. connections here and there are interesting, but i don't enjoy over-connected plot points. they're fun for fucking around, but it's always better to have multiple complex scenarios and characters than to load this weight on a great few. leliana as the descendant of andraste, shartan anyhow connected to solas are also in this category. there were history and historical figures, i don't feel like it always needs to be associated with whatever figures thedas has now.

i crossed qunari being a result of the experiment, though i'm not sure about the implications because it may go even deeper into the selection stuff. ew. i'm even more not sure about that the qun might really be something to restrain their nature, it's just an unsettling theory with even worse implications. it would turn whatever the player was saying to the iron bull on its head, because suddenly qunari would be beasts that need to be controlled. as to their origin? i think it's still interesting that kossith were very different from modern qunari, and they could have been created by someone out of someone different and may have gone through the process of alteration due to the dragon-related stuff.

my understanding of the older lore is pretty common. evanuris are the actual old gods or at least have some type of a bond, the remaining two are the twins, so there would be a double blight. evanuris are captured and hidden in the sealed black city. since they'd hunted down titans, the latter created the blight and darkspawn, yada yada yada. i'm also not opposed to the idea that the taint ascended from the void. so it was something discovered by andruil. or she rather discovered titan's blood + the taint, i.e. red lyrium, since the taint doesn't cause the same symptoms as the red lyrium.

i like the idea of halla being sentient descendants of elves turned into them long time ago. it's even more sick if they're still not quite animals. it's not my canon, but that's cool. beings with consciousness suffering from their silence? yeah, definitely cool.

sera=andruil is also a pretty common one. i have a headcanon that solas is a creator of tarot cards as well, it seems to be quite in his style, and the boy loves drawing, too. considering that, sera's card would be an intentional thing.

[andmaybegayer]

Last Monday of the Week 2023-04-17

Mined Craft

Listening: I have had a bunch of The Longest Johns stuck in my head including Wild Mountain Thyme and John Paul Jones is a Pirate.

They've got those particular clear vocals that are just a nice sound to listen to even in absence of meaning.

Reading: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, the one about the planet of uplifted jumping spiders. Love every minute I get to spend with the current generation of Portia, a book that uses the phrase "girls will be girls" to describe female spiders descending into the slums to hunt males in their teenage years. Perfect book no notes.

Watching: Half-watched and did not quite finish The Grand Budapest Hotel, because the power cut a few minutes from the end. It's a Wes Anderson show alright, that style is so endearing. I watched it last when it came out and I had more or less forgotten the plot, I especially forgot that the bulk of the plot occurs like four framing devices deep.

Playing: Minecraft 1.19. As previously mentioned I used the Oracle Cloud free tier to host a 1.19.4 server and I'm now screwing around in there. Only one other person thus far has taken me up on the offer to use it, so if you're reading this feel free to hit me up so I can add you to the whitelist.

I've been watching the Loading Ready Run Minecraft Through The Ages season these past few months, where they spend an episode or two in each version of Minecraft since 1.0.

Really fun to watch, and it's made me want to build a few farms to feed more endgame equipment than I usually get to. Normally I scrabble together a handful of diamond and barely touch "endgame" gear, so it'll be fun to do and besides, 1.18+ really strongly encourages enchanting and repairing as a core game mechanic.

Also now that I'm no longer quilting I need something to do with my hands while I listen to podcasts.

Making: Embroidering patches for the penrose quilt: start and end dates, a maker's mark, and a song lyric, in the tradition of the other quilts my mother has made in the past. Still in progress, again due to power outages, blanket stitch is finicky enough when you can see what you're doing clearly.

Tools and Equipment: In the event that you have used superglue as threadlocker, you can weaken the superglue with heat if you ever need to separate those parts again.

I had to fix a door bolt where the screw holding the bolt to the handle mechanism had backed right the hell out over the past few months and fallen apart inside the mechanism. I glued the bolt back onto the screw with normal superglue as threadlocker, only to realize the next day that I had not put the spring that holds the bolt in position back correctly, so I had to hit the bolt with my lighter until the glue liquefied so that I could disassemble the thing.

[spiribia]

If you're up for it, there's a Job Competency Tier List Maker on tier maker... I'd love to know how you rank Star Catcher :O

none of the other jobs are 'canon' for her ... so far. it sort of descends in skill as you go down the row. the last category was mostly super casual dabbling out of a curiosity of her adventurer heart

[sparrowmoth]

Honestly, my opinions on some of these characters change a bit depending on the ship they’re part of. (Like, I love Jannie, but I’m not a big fan of canon!Jane.)

Anyway, if you want to share your own rankings, you can find the VK/AK tier list here. Mutuals, I’d love to see your results if you share, so feel free to tag me! <3

[theprofessionalpromptmaker]

Steven Universe: The Movie meets Precure All Stars Memories

(Here you go! Some of these prompts are just Precure in general combined with Steven Universe in general. But some are specific to themes from the movies, so I hope these work!)

Person A has recently come to Earth and befriended some humans that they’ve turned into a magical girl/boy group. But Person B, Person A’s friend/relative/etc. from their home world that Person A and Person B protected as guardians together before it got destroyed and Person A assumed Person B died, comes to Earth. In their anger that Person A seemed to have moved on from them, Person B starts erasing all memories about Person A from the magical girl/boy group’s members.

Person A joined a magical girl/boy group, headed by an alien teenager, because Person A had no family and was desperate to belong somewhere. When the alien teenager’s family comes to get them, the alien teenager refuses to leave, and their family is ready to/tries to destroy Earth. Person B is the alien teenager’s older sibling who tries to find a peaceful solution, not wanting a whole planet to be destroyed during the alien teenager’s rebellious phase. But Person B winds up getting close to Person A and when they realize Person A has no family, offers a solution: their alien family will take Person A as a trade for the alien teenager, who will get to stay on Earth, as long as Person A stays with the alien family. Person A agrees, having grown close to Person B and finally finding a place to belong. (Bonus: Person A marrying into the family by marrying Person B.)

Person A is a magical girl/boy who was created by a group of benevolent alien scientists who raised them and taught them to defend their city/Earth, using the ability of the alien’s race to feed off memories but instead of turning memories into nutrients, Person A’s able to turn them into magical attacks/powers. Person A’s powers work by collecting memories to gain powers, but Person A always takes the memories from willing participants (or uses the power temporarily and then returns the memory). Person B is a magical girl/boy who was created by the same group, but got kidnapped and has been living on the streets, stealing to survive for as long they remember, and so has no qualms with stealing memories, thinking it’s a fair price to pay for Person B protecting their city/world from threats. Person A and Person B end up meeting and having to work together.

Person A is a magical girl/boy who is half human/half alien and raised by the friends of their alien parent. Person A’s alien side can transfer memories into magical attacks/powers, and Person A is able to do this as well, but due to being half human, they also have the unique ability to listen to other people’s re-tellings of their own memories and translate them into attacks, due to Person A’s human ability to empathize. Person A uses this power to use the memories of everyone they meet to become stronger and be able to protect Earth from threats. Person B is someone who loves to experience things firsthand, and has become friends with Person A, because Person A loves to hear their memories, good and bad, and Person B doesn’t realize they’re actually helping Person A grow stronger as a magical girl/boy until Person A winds up saving Person B from an alien attack and explains everything.

Person A lives in a world where magical girls/boys exist and can fuse together to form even stronger magical beings through dancing. Person A is a dancer, working on the choreography for a play/ballet/etc. they intend to audition for, and asks Person B, their close friend and fellow dancer (who for some reason, refuses to dance with people and only dances solo pieces) to help them practice. Person B agrees hesitantly, but when they’re dancing, and Person B finally starts to relax and get more fluid with their moves, the two end up fusing. Which is a shock to both, since Person A didn’t realize Person B was a magical boy/girl and both of them didn’t know Person A was one either. But to make matters more complicated, Person B explains to Person A that all magical girls/boys are actually aliens or descended from aliens, and the powers Person A seems to have are ones only a royal lineage of a super rare alien species have. Which means Person A will have a huge target on their back if they’re ever discovered. So Person B vows to protect them.

Person A was taken to Earth by their parent, a royal of their home planet’s main race, who was afraid if they let Person A be raised their own kind, they would turn them into someone bitter and cruel towards all life in the universe. Their own kind being militant and dangerous and spreading throughout the universe as it was, so Person A’s parent also stole a few magic items, and granted them to some close human friends to work as guardians for Person A, should anything happen to them. Person B is an alien of another race, trying to fight back against the oppressive regime of Person A’s species, but thinks Person A’s parent stole a weapon and took it to hide it somewhere in the universe until it was ready, and when they meet Person A, thinks they’re the weapon and starts trying to kill them. Person A has inherited the magic device of their parent though, letting them transform into a magical girl/boy.

- Mod Poss, the Professional Prompt Maker

(Head’s up: below is my new ending for requests -- not directed at the asker specifically, just a method to promote my Patreon.)

Want more prompts? At the $10 Tier on Patreon, patrons receive 10-15 prompts for every request!

[sparrowmoth]

@bunny-lou Ah, sorry!! This didn’t appear in my notifications and I didn’t see it until just now, but anyway, I’m glad you found the link! You have excellent taste. <3

Hi hello, not a mutual but tagging @hersilentlanguage because of the tier list they made and I think everyone should check it out if you like ships in descendants! 

Only ship I’d add is Humaudrey, which for me goes under fantastic but there are 52 ships on here like wow!!!

[mythicaldemigoddess-of-deltarune]

Credit For Helluva Boss & Hazbin Hotel goes to Vivziepop and Spindlehorse 

Credit for The Smash Or Pass: Hazbin/Helluva Tier List Maker goes to  SharkAxeSock ------------

I tried this out a few days ago on that TierMaker...

and yeah I put Ozzie and Fizzy as the....you know Smash and Marry one...

but then I put them in the Double Pass, like there are two versions...

where they are in the Smash/Marry and the other is Double Pass.

feelings for those two, and well The Embodiment Of Lust, would be like complex.

it’s like that song “Hot N Cold” by Katy Perry, or like the song “Take A Hint” by Victoria Justice & Elizabeth Gillies.

and if I had to describe my feelings for any version of Asmodeus,

it would be “10 Things I Hate About You” by Leah Kate.

I’m a Earth Angel (a Defective one that doesn’t work as perfectly as other Earth Angels), and my Blood Type is O RH D Negative, well I’m still procrastinating in checking to see if my blood type will turn out O RH D Negative for a third time.....I will try to get around to it when I can...          

I mean I know the last few times I tried, and half of them didn’t turn out very well, and only two might of turned out okay, but I would end up feeling not so great and I would have to either go lay down or sit down or be close to some cool air.

and I have to keep my eyes closed half the time and we did find out it works better if we get the blood from my left hand instead because it being closer to the heart.

and I guess I do have a small crush on both Ozzie and Fizzy, and well there are different levels of crushes, and we know that a lot of fans have fallen for the whole Ozzie x Fizzy ship.

I think that I made the right call, by placing Alastor in the “Date” part...

at least he wouldn’t try do anything and maybe he would respect the whole me not wanting to be touched at times and the times when I really need space and me time.

if Angel’s brother Arackniss was in as one of the choices, I would put him along with the “Date”...

if Ozzie and Fizzy were real, and they tried anything with me, I would slap both their hands away, all while saying “No Touchy”

and well if I were able to or allowed to, I would probably try that with the Real Life Asmodeus, and yeah if I were allowed to, if Jesus and Antichrist ever crossed a line....I still want to grab both of them by the ears.

I’m weird and those are the weird thoughts that come to my mind...

i can still believe in Jesus, but with some info I found that has to do with him, makes me want to grab him by his ear and scold him.

and if he is a descendant of King David as well, then he is still technically family.

I still see me being a descendant of King Solomon more of a blessing than a curse, so jokes on the ones from back in those ancient times and those in this modern times who still view being a descendant of King Solomon as a curse.

cause to me it’s a freaking blessing, means I don’t have to take that throne.

don’t know how that Toxic-Religious person who made me feel really bad before, by repeatedly misusing the words “may god have mercy on you” or “may the lord have mercy on you” at me, I know it was one of those two...

would feel or think about that info, well so long as I don’t run into them on here it should be good.

I mean they didn’t have to misuse those words at me, just because I believe in a Goddess now too, but they did and even if I tried to point out it was hurting my feelings, they kept throwing those misuse words at me, and I had to block them because they kept throwing those misused words at me, even when I pointed out it was hurting my feelings and making me cry.

even if not everyone who is religious is like a bad toxic type, there are some that wont listen to reason and will cause some kind of trauma to those who are religious or not religious, and there was no reasoning with that Toxic-Religious Jerk who couldn’t take a bloody hint that they were doing more harm than good.

there could be a lot of people that went through that, not just me.

anyway as weird as it is to say, and even if it were true...

if the whole how Solomon met one of his future wives is true, that it was because of Asmodeus, that would mean that The Embodiment of Lust is the reason why my Ancestor and Ancestress ended up together.

I mean if the story are true, and I know that Lady Godiva is one of my Ancestresses and the whole “Peeping Tom” came from a story that had involved her.

so maybe the story behind that whole Peeping Tom thing, could hold some truth as well.

picture Asmodeus fainting if Fizzy tells him that he accidentally played match maker for two people that would end up being my Ancestors, well mine and a few others who are Solomon’s descendants as well.

well we do know that Asmodeus of Helluva Boss, is like a Ficto-Counterpart of the Other Asmodeus....and Ozzie is suppose to be like the King of The Lust Ring...

who knows if there will be a King Solomon in Helluva Boss or Hazbin Hotel, but if there were, it would probably be like a parody song of “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from the Encanto Movie          

like picture Stolas and Stella singing the first part of the parody version of the song that goes “We Don’t Talk About Solomon”....

 picture Ozzie being the Dolores and Fizzy being Mariano in that parody.

I’m weird and that might be the weirdest and awesome thought that comes to my mind, but it’s okay that not everyone likes that idea.

anyway maybe some will find it amusing that I put both Fizzarolli and Asmodeus in both Smash/Marry and Double Pass, well not sure if many will find that a little amusing...

instead of posting the two versions separately, I decided to post them together.  

and if a Earth Angel did fall in love with Asmodeus, like let’s say hypothetically...

the song that might fit in that situation would be this...

“I Wont Say I’m In Love” from Disney’s Hercules Movie.

anyway I’m going to go watch a movie now, I might sign back on tomorrow or the day after tomorrow to check out more art on here and maybe post some theories and fan art.

also don’t read too much about that whole Earth Angel falling in love with Asmodeus thing, I did say it was hypothetically.   

[coochiequeens]

Hinamatsuri (雛祭り, Hina-matsuri), also called Doll's Day or Girls' Day, is a special day in Japan.[1] Celebrated on 3 March of each year,[2]platforms covered with a red carpet-material are used to display a set of ornamental dolls (雛人形, hina-ningyō) representing the Emperor, Empress, attendants, and musicians in traditional court dress of the Heian period.

The earliest record of displaying the dolls as part of the Peach Festival comes from 1625, for Emperor Go-Mizunoo's daughter Oki-ko. Imperial court ladies set up equipment for her to engage in doll play (雛遊び, hina asobi). After Oki-ko succeeded her father as the Empress Meishō, Hinamatsuri legally became the name of the holiday in 1687. Doll-makers began making elaborate dolls for the festival (some growing as tall as 3 feet (1 meter) high before laws were passed restricting their size) and over time, the hinazakari evolved to include fifteen dolls and their accessories. As dolls became more expensive, tiers were added to the hinadan so that the expensive ones could be placed out of the reach of young children.[6]

During the Meiji period as Japan began to modernize and the emperor was restored to power, Hinamatsuri was deprecated in favor of new holidays that focused on the emperor's supposed bond with the nation, but it was revived. By focusing on marriage and families, it represented Japanese hopes and values, and as the dolls were said to represent the emperor and empress, it also fostered respect for the throne. The holiday then spread to other countries via the Japanese diaspora, although it remains confined to immigrant Japanese communities and their descendants.....see rest of article

[architectuul]

FOMA 41: In Search Of Theatrical Halls

Lemonot, a tandem that meets between architecture and performative arts to trigger and celebrate the spontaneous theatre of everyday life, is presenting five Forgotten Masterpieces that shaped their modus operandi. 

The first cholets were sighted almost fifteen years ago by Freddy Mamani Silvestre. | Photo © Lemonot

Five architectures seem at first glance completely disconnected, they are located in five different cities, designed by different architects, with different programs in diverse historical times. Yet they’re all united by the presence of prominent public interiors with a strong emphasis on the use of unique spatial languages, that make them great examples to investigate how to stage alternative forms of theatricality beyond specific theatre architecture.

In his “Texts on Theatre” describes Jacques Copeau how architecture doesn’t  simply contain the drama but produces it, by co-creating its meanings, conventions and aesthetics. Staging a performance, Copeau continues, “is about acting in architecture: it is a practice that demands we pay attention to distance, scale, style, person-to-volume ratio and the immaterial architectures of light, heat and sound. Furthermore, using performativity as a design tool outside the boundaries of fictional scenographies leads to real yet unconventional spatial experiences.”

Indeed, the uncanny linguistic features of these buildings, in terms of geometry, colors, materiality or the clash between architectural layout and designated purpose, affect the way people inhabit them, enabling a peculiar acting in space as the performing of collective rituals and daily routines.

The Solimene Factory was born from the friendship of Vincenzo Solimene, called  “Il Vasaio” (the Pottery Maker) and Paolo Soleri, who in 1950 traveled to Italy with the purpose to learn the art of pottery. Solimene entrusted him with the first and only project carried out in Europe, allowing him to design the factory for the production of ceramics.

Circular bases of round terra-cotta vases are embedded in the concrete cladding and decorate the facade. | Photo © Luca Bullaro

The building is as if carved into the rocks overlooking the sea, incorporating the objects it produces. From the outside a bright enamels mosaic in the form of a drapery, almost as a garment giving a hint of what is produced inside, constructed with sixteen thousand waste vases, glazed in copper green or in simple terra-cotta embedded into the facade.

Facade and section. | Photo © Luca Bullaro, © Cosanti Foundation

If the outside is wavy and sinuous like the Amalfi domes, the inside is geometric and defines the space towards the center. This fifteen meters central skylight illuminates the objects that are produced every day by expert hands. The interior, flared upwards, follows the same archaic principle of the object that is produced: the growth of the vase on the lathe. The ramp going through the floors, defines the four stages of ceramic processing and allows us to better observe the thousands of coloured and painted dishes, cups and vases.

The pieces are fired at the top floors and slowly come down to be painted in the main atrium, as you descend into the building you see this chromatic and also geometric change - from the material to its final creation. The building accompanies you throughout the production of a single object - starting with the terracotta and gradually seeing its final shape and colours. The objects become part of this scenography, framed in every gaze. They’re simultaneously actors and props that drive the public - constraining you to squeeze and linger among them. It is an architecture that screams the craft made with hands, which is still in full fervor today.

The building received the ASA Architectural Conservation Award in 2012. | Photo © Antoine Lassus

The Scala Theatre in Bangkok was without doubt the grand old theater and the finest movie theater left in Southeast Asia. Named after the Teatro della Scala in Milan, it first opened in 1969, showing the American civil war movie “The Undefeated”. Unfortunately, it has been recently closed down, probably due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and changing consumer preferences.

Its wonder is certainly due to the central location in Bangkok, one of the most chaotic cities in the world. The most interesting part of the building is not the enclosed screening hall. Rather, it’s the covered yet open foyer, whose elegant and geometric interiors are constantly and directly contrasted by the noise of the mopeds, by the smell of street food grills and tropical plants that can be seen from the windows. Its relationship with the city is definitely theatrical.

The foyer consists of a huge domed ceiling, set up with bronzed art deco flowers. | Photo © Antoine Lassus

In the past these kinds of theaters were usually situated in city centers and markets, where they became community gathering points as they supported the theater and the community.  In this line, the foyer of Scala theatre acts as a proper public space, as a shaded portico that offers shelter from the heat of Bangkok. This is reflected in its overwhelming but at the same time welcoming decorations - columns that drop from the ceiling, lights in the shape of geometric flowers, floors and walls covered with velvet fabric. Thai culture is eccentric, it is flamboyant and greets you by dominating your senses.

The architecturally significant cinema’s Art Deco stylings and interiors were designed by Jira Silpkanok, which with its velvet curtains, veteran ushers, and vast auditorium, evoked the golden age of film exhibition. Specifically, the foyer consists of a huge domed ceiling, set up with bronzed art deco flowers. You are conquered by the vaulted windows that frame Bangkok as a choreographed spectacle - by the different types of textures both on the base of the columns outlining the shadows. Two stairways converge at the top taking you to the second floor, while almost touching the long chandelier that illuminates the center. A visionary architecture, where as soon as you enter it seems to be in a ship, or a spaceship.

The Bellini Theater in Palermo was first called Teatro Travaglino, from the name of a Sicilian burlesque mask. A hidden truth is hidden in its name since the theater has had to change many faces throughout the centuries. Destroyed several times by earthquakes and wars and many times rebuilt and renamed, looking for a new identity. What we have today is an incomparable Architectural stratigraphy of historical facts.

The theatre was an open living room in between privately owned palaces where the public could go in for the first time. | Photo © Lemonot

The theater has been literally carved inside a noble dwelling, the gallery and the stage are built between private houses, in fact it is still possible to see the windows of the neighbors that overlooked the main stage. It was entertaining popular operas and due to this fact, the space was constructed around a small stage with few wooden benches. Initially the main gallery had only festive purposes, banquets were set up and dances were often opened; it is only later that great artists were presented and therefore had a primarily cultural purpose.

Destroyed, rebuilt and renamed. | Photo © Lemonot

Over time Marquises of Santa Lucia sacrificed part of their palace to build in 1726 a classic Italian-style theater with 4 tiers of boxes and entirely in decorated wood, it was called the theater of St. Lucia. The need for a more refined theater for the Elitè was entrusted to the royal architect Nicolò Puglia who accommodated more than 500 spectators.

Due to the disastrous earthquake that struck Palermo in 1726, the theater remained closed for several years, reopened only in 1742, enlarged and restored again, incorporating some neighboring houses of the Marquis Bellaroto.

In 1943 during the second world war it was also requisitioned by the US military and used as a movie theater for soldiers. In 1964 the building was damaged by a fire and subsequently recovered thanks to the intervention of the Teatro Biondo Stabile in Palermo and thanks to the professionalism of its director Claudio Grasso who regained the license from the Palermo police headquarters and returned the theater to its original function in 1980 until 2014.

It was reopened as a permanent exhibition venue. | Photo © Lemonot 

Since 2019 is hosting a mixed-media installation designed by Alfredo Jarr. This operation led to many controversies - since part of Palermo’s cultural community stated that a theatre should be open only for spectacles and actual plays. The theatre layout and the museographic stage set affect and update each other in a very interesting way: the usual relationship between the proscenium (the place for the spectacle) and the platea (the place for the audience) is inverted, since the public gathers to admire the exhibition from the first, while the artworks are hosted in the latter, emptied of chairs’ rows.

Furthermore, this peculiar theatrical framework, shifting the way we look at the artifacts, activates a spontaneous layer of performativity, otherwise left behind in most traditional museum environments.

The Cistern Chapel or the Sewage Cathedral is a former pumping station designed by chief engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette and architect Charles Henry Driver. Its construction became necessary in response to the the Great Stink of 1858.

The meticulous designs and bright colors have made the Crossness Pumping Station a real Victorian-style gem. | Photo © Lemonot

Its construction became necessary when the Thames became particularly polluted enough to raise a putrid smell throughout the city. The situation was aggravated by the unusually hot climate that hit the English capital and made the stench even stronger and unpleasant. To solve the problem, the Bazalgette plan consisted in the construction of two sewers to be placed in the outermost areas of the city. One of these was the Crossness Pumping Station which, at the time, had the function of draining the putrid waters to the east by running clean water into the Thames.

The complex is covered with decorations surrounded by cast ironworks forming columns rising up from the ground floor. | Photo © Lemonot

An architecture is made of joints and unconscious paths following geometric shapes and colored corners. The light is drawn to the central octagonal arcade, which supports a frieze of regimented yet twisting leaves and tendrils and on each column flowers, leafs and fruits decorate the capitals. At the time, the highly crafts fancy curlicues of cast iron weren’t seen as an unnecessary expense - it was the first time for such functional purpose to build with opulent and organic decoration of this kind.

Indeed, there is a great sacral charge within the main octagonal space that encourages the people to gather between the columns, inviting you to look up but also to hide among the industrial spaces - that become almost domestic.  All four engines were named after members of the royal family; Victoria, Albert Edward and Alexandra: for this reason the choice of colors, materials and different patterns follows a specific narrative, becoming a built embodiment of their personalities. The spatial elements are actually personified, transformed into architectural characters.

Sprawled over a high plateau above La Paz, El Alto is arguably Latin America’s largest indigenous city. At an altitude of 4800 m, colorful buildings arise and geometric facades are visible from the teleferico travelling above the altiplano. The first cholets, also called New Andean architectures, were sighted almost fifteen years ago by Freddy Mamani Silvestre. Since then, they proliferated: various architects have appropriated them in terms of style and copied them typologically.

Cholets became expressions of wealth and cultural pride after centuries of oppression and colonialism. | Photo © Lemonot

Cholet is a portmanteau of the high-class chalet - the pitched roofs of these mansions resemble the ones of Swiss cottages and the derogatory cholo, a racist slang for an indigenous person. Mamani ‘s buildings have a common language, two or three storey and a ballroom on the highest ceiling room filled with Andean symbols, casted columns and windows with different geometrical profiles cutting the whole space.  Using the colors of textiles are tracing inspiration from traditional garments and folkloric masks. These ballrooms are identified not only through iconographies but also by the use they make of it - from dances to ceremonies, to domestic inhabitation, to basketball courts or swimming pools.

Cholets are always designed in close contact with the buyer, triggering a personal and almost process of embodiment of the owner with the building itself. The building is to produce income. On the roof is our own home. The spatial experience can be read in completely opposite way, during the day the light from outside is absorbed by the colors and it seems to be in a video game, a confetti space. As soon as darkness falls, the LED lights direct you into the ballroom and surround every architectural element.

Not only the architecture itself is ornamental but the eccentricity with which the Aymara use and change the program of the space. The one of cholets is a controversial phenomenon, that nonetheless portrays the political, social and economic contemporaneity in Bolivia. On an urban level the cholets have become a symbol, recognizable monuments - able to immediately recall Andean identity nationally and internationally. Ultimately, the architecture of Crucero del Sur speaks the same language of the ceremonies that take place inside it. In these exuberant interiors, matter and performance achieved an absolute reciprocity.

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#FOMA 41: Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri 

Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri are architects, educators and co-founders of Lemonot, a design and research platform based in London. Hungry observers and compulsive collectors of anthropic mirabilia, they’re interested in all those iconographic gestures that enable the mutual immanence among objects, bodies and rituals. Their academic research focuses on contemporary folklore as a trigger for unconventional spatial languages, between geometrical abstraction and material figurativism. They’re Programme Heads of the AA Visiting school El Alto and currently teach at the Architectural Association and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

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@annoyingmeviestan​ <3 I’m glad you did one! It’s as interesting to know what people are into as what they’re not tbh. Nothing more awkward than being like “ugh I hate avocados” and someone’s like “I love avocados :(((” jkldsjklgjkalsg. I really do hate avocados. In this metaphor the avocados are Devie. Blech.

Ooh so, I decided to do @hersilentlanguage ‘s tier list for ships, which may or may not have been a good idea? But these are my standings if my entire blog wasn’t clear enough on that already ;p

Plus these lists are... interesting

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I ranked all 52 ships from the tier list maker I created because I have zero chill.

Mutuals, please tag me if you decide to do this! It’s fun to see the results. <3

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Let’s Worldbuild a Warriors AU - What’s in a Name

Within the Clans of the Vale, names carry great significance. They’re used to quickly identify key aspects of a felid’s identity such as appearance, personality or skillset, homeland, and rank within the clan.

History

The felids who lived in the Vale before the Gray Family’s arrival had a general unspoken rule when it came to naming their children, name according to color. However, this was not always the case, as with two kittens the Gray Family met named Birch and Alder.

The origin of the two-part name came from the Gray Family, who came from a culture with fanciful names such as Quickwater, Sunshadow, and Graywing. Occasionally a felid would be named after their color, but not often.

The blend of these two traditions produced the two-part naming system. Kittens were named according to their appearance (a red kitten named Fire, a black kitten named Rook, and a tortoiseshell named Dapple). Originally, suffixes had no meaning and it was generally “anything goes”. Fire-eyes, Rookflight, and Dapplepelt, while seemingly normal names to onlookers, would be seen as odd and unfitting names to descendants of the Vale.

As the ages went on, gaining the second part of one’s name was used as a rite of passage, reserved for adults and accepted members of clan life. Leaders and deputies began using certain suffixes to quietly mean certain things. “Snow is pretty quick on her feet, so her name is Snowbreeze.” It soon became common practice that the suffix was to be symbolic of a felid’s skill, personality, or general competence. Just after the written word was invented, suffixes became somewhat standardized. Clans and deputies still had their own personal flourishes, such as the case with Thunderclan using -thorn as a substitute for “skilled fighter” and with Riverclan’s use of -song to replace -throat.

Upon the Fall of Skyclan, Cloudpath the Crownless forged the Vanguard, a training regime taught by skilled monster slayers for the purposes of teaching felids how to adequately handle monsters so another clan doesn’t fall. Only felids who’ve already earned their full name are permitted to join as to not endanger apprentices. Upon the first fireteam’s graduation from the regime, a new usage came to old, discarded suffixes and suffix system was re-standardized. Upon becoming adults, a felid would gain a body part suffix, such as -tail for agility or -heart for a strong moral code. Upon graduating the Vanguard, a felid would gain a more metaphorical name, like -bark and -rock for those same meanings.

Warrior and guardian names do not correlate. “Adderfang” does not mean “has fangs like an adder”, but instead means “dark brown tabby warrior with a temper”. Likewise, “Sandstorm“ and “Lionblaze” both mean “cream guardian with a temper”. The only exception is names based on life-threatening injuries, such as “Halftail”, “Tornear”, or “Crookedjaw”.

Prefixes

The Vale is a vague temperate/subtropical forest region, including flora and fauna from Eastern America, Central Europe, South Island New Zealand, Eastern China, and Japan. Any given animal or plant that can be found in those regions can be found there or in the surrounding area.

Some prefixes can have multiple meanings, as is the case with Dandelion-. It can be given to gold felids in reference to the flower and to white felids in reference to the fluff. Another example is the prefix Fox-, which can mean “a red felid with a white belly” in reference to the red fox, or can mean “a dilute tortoiseshell” in reference to the gray fox. Some names imply pattern, like Birch- means a gray tabby and other tree prefixes. Mothers prefer to not name their kittens after “filthy” bugs, such as mosquitoes, flies, and the like, but will name them after butterflies, spiders, bees, and others.

Prefixes that are too broad of a category such as Flower-, Bark-, and Bird- are not used. Words used in biomes such as Lake-, Meadow-, River-, or Marsh- are also not used because it’s a biome, not a plant or animal that can be boiled down into a simple color or two. Things that don’t have a color or change color too often are not used, such as Sky-, Wind-, Ripple-, Thunder-, and Breeze-.

The prefixes Sun-, Moon-, Star-, and Shadow- are not used due to the first three being sacred and the last one the name of a clan, which would be considered rude.

Names of abstract concepts such as Brave-, Quiet-, and Kind- are not acceptable as they do not have a color and will often be rebelled against by the kitten in question.

Suffixes

The role of the suffix is to identify a felid’s rank and individuality. A felid earns their suffix through their own merit and not being named after another. Suffixes come in three tiers: skill, personality, and appearance.

Skill suffixes are the highest tier and are given the highest priority. Felids with this suffix are normally specialists and don’t venture too far from the roles their skill makes easy.

-claw: A felid skilled in fighting. Felids with this suffix are usually large and burly, but can sometimes be brilliant strategists. They normally escort weaker members of society from settlement to settlement, such as young mothers, kittens, elders, shamans, and healers with their sick. -claw felids are the ones most likely to join the Vanguard. It’s unusual to see an older felid who hasn’t joined the Vanguard. Guardians with this suffix are named -thorn, -briar, -burr, -rose, and -thistle.

-foot: A particularly swift felid. Felids with this suffix are usually lean and muscled in the legs. Many -foot felids become messengers for inter-clan communications. Guardians with this suffix are named -breeze, -dust, or -bolt.

-leg: A felid strong at swimming. Felids with this suffix normally have strong limbs and carry a bit of fat on their bodies. An overwhelming majority of -leg felids are from Riverclan, but some Shadowclan felids gain it from time to time. Guardians with this suffix are named -water, -brook, -stream, and -creek.

-maw: A shaman skilled in hearing the voices of the gods. This suffix is sparse among shamans, but it does spring up every couple of generations. Shamans with -maw are highly revered by the spiritual or judged with contempt by the skeptical. Guardians with this suffix are named -feather and -light.

-nose: A felid skilled in tracking. Felids with this suffix are normally hunters, trappers, foragers, and those sent to find little Dawnkit who ran off a few hours ago. They tend to be very detail-oriented and often wear clothes with fanciful embroidery. Guardians with this suffix are named -shade or -ivy.

-tail: A felid with great agility or dexterity. Felids with this suffix have a similar body structure to -foot felids, but are generally smaller. -tail felids normally are messengers, hunters, or trailblazers. Guardians with this suffix are named -bark or -branch.

-throat: A felid skilled in the art of the voice. This suffix can be given to bards, diplomats, linguists, storytellers, or just those who are well-spoken. -throat felids are often revered for their wisdom and knowledge and those who earned it for their diplomacy skills often become captain or leader of their clan. Guardians with this suffix are named -voice or -song.

-tongue: A felid skilled in healing and medicinery. Felids with this suffix tend to be one of two personality types: sweet and optimistic, or the most brutally honest personality you’d ever met. There is no in-between. Guardians with this suffix are named -root, -leaf, or -berry.

-whisker: A prudent hunter. Felids with this suffix are much like -nose felids, but tend to be more simple and pragmatic. They are almost always hunters, but some become herdsmen. Guardians with this suffix are named -dawn and -dusk.

Personality suffixes comprise of the second tier. Felids in this category tend to have a wider range of roles in society, but some of them give them an inclination to narrower roles.

-back: A felid skilled in teaching apprentices and older kittens. These felids are normally no-nonsense and thrive in the teaching of young minds. Older kittens, apprentices, and young warriors heed their words and instructions. Kittens who may be difficult apprentices will often be given to -back felids as mentors. Guardians with this suffix are named -stone or -rain.

-belly: A felid with a nurturing personality. It’s essentially the younger version of -back and mollies tend to earn this suffix more often than toms. -belly felids can be dismissed as being soft baby-makers, but those who dismiss them tend to forget about the rage of a mother ursa. Most -belly felids will take to domestic services, spinning thread, weaving blankets or baskets, looking after the kittens of the settlement and teaching them life lessons. The role of laying the groundwork for a kitten’s life is integral to any society, one that -belly is meant to honor. Guardians with this suffix are named -flower or -moss.

-fang: A felid with a turbulent disposition that tends to mellow out over the years. These felids are full of energy in their youth and are often easily pissed off, mostly because of their impatience. They tend to be great motivators, if only because that means they’ll finally shut up about the lost sheep or why don’t the leaders kiss and make up already or why can’t Pebblepaw get the goshdang maneuver right it’s so simple! However, as the years pass, their temperament will calm down. It’s nothing like a -pad felid’s calmness, but it’s a welcome one nonetheless. They tend to do a lot of jobs in society, everything from messengers to hunters to cotton seed pickers. A lot of them find the hated job somewhat calming, probably because they’re sent to do it so often. Guardians with this suffix are named -storm or -blaze.

-flank: An optimistic felid with a comforting disposition. Morale has to stay up and these felids are generally the ones to do so. They like pranks and puns and silly stories, but also seem to know the right words to say to a grieving felid. -flank felids take up many roles in society, it wouldn’t do justice to list them all here. Guardians with this suffix are named -shine or -blossom.

-heart: A felid with a strong moral code and/or sense of justice. These felids are much like -fang felids in that they tend to be great motivators, but alternatively, they can be great deputies, captains, and leaders. -heart felids tend to be very outspoken and confident in themselves and are very popular choices in leadership roles, for better or worse. Guardians with this suffix are named -spark or -rock.

-pad: A patient, calm, and gentle felid. These felids tend to be rather emotionally stable compared to others. When they show strong negative emotions, it’s telling that something genuinely is wrong and action must be taken soon. They tend to make friends easily, even in other clans. -pad felids can be good babysitters or substitute mentors, while others like the company of animals like sheep, goats, or rabbits. Guardians with this suffix are named -cloud, -frost, or -mist.

Appearance suffixes comprise of the third tier. These are for felids who are now adults, but don’t show any skills or personality that a suffix may cover. Many of these can be jack-of-all-trades sorts and fulfill many jobs throughout clan life. Instead of organizing alphabetically, I’ll organize by priority.

-face: A particularly beautiful or handsome felid or one who models the clan ideal. It’s essentially a more flattering -fur or -pelt. -face felids don’t normally become guardians, so the less than a handful of times a -face guardian has graduated, they were named -soul, much to the disdain of other felids.

-stripe: A tabby with distinct stripes. Will be ignored in favor of -fur or -pelt if the prefix already alludes to this (such as Oak-). Guardians with this suffix are named -fern or -grass.

-spot: A spotted felid. Can refer to spotted tabbies or white cats with spots of other colors in their fur. Will be ignored in favor of -fur or -pelt if the prefix already alludes to this (such as Lynx-). Guardians with this suffix are named -dew.

-speck: A speckled felid. Is much like -spot, but has smaller spots. Will be ignored in favor of -fur or -pelt if the prefix already alludes to this (such as Sparrow-). Guardians with this suffix are named -flake.

-patch: A white felid with patches of another color. Will be ignored in favor of -fur or -pelt if the prefix already alludes to this (such as Swift-). Guardians with this suffix are named -puddle.

-fur: A competent longhaired adult. Guardians with this suffix are named -tuft.

-pelt: A competent shorthaired adult. Guardians with this suffix are named -coat.

All the suffixes mentioned here neatly fit into the “other” category. (Note felids age differently than humans do, so some ages will be skewed.)

-kit: A member of the clan under ten years old. They’re not allowed outside of their settlement without adult supervision. Older kittens commonly assist with domestic life, but still have plenty of time to be kids. Once they turn eight, they occasionally sleep with the apprentices to get used to being away from their parents or guardians.

-paw: A member of the clan between ten and fifteen years old. They all sleep in a single hut in their settlement. Generally, they’re not allowed outside the settlement without adult supervision. Before becoming a warrior, the deputy will assign them a task, be it organizing and leading a patrol on their own, sparring with a -claw or the deputy, escorting the shamans on their daily tasks, or simply doing domestic work.

-path: The leader of a clan. Leaders are most commonly the previous captain of the clan, and captains a former deputy. Most leaders are respected for their charisma, wisdom, and diligence. Many of them have spouses and families of their own, but all of them have mentored at least one apprentice. A leader does not have the gift of nine lives, but one would be rightly mistaken if one were to read their literature.

-spirit: A kitten or apprentice who died. This is tied to a religious belief that the gods will only bring warriors into Starclan. Upon a body’s (or whatever scraps of a corpse they can find) cremation, the shaman renames the kitten or apprentice -spirit as the flames consume the dead.

-ear, -eye, -face, -foot, -jaw, -pelt, -tail: The most common suffixes of renames. If an apprentice or warrior survives a life-threatening injury, they’re given the choice to take on a name that fits their new description, like Tatteredpelt or Clawedface. No one’s pressured to do it, but due to the aforementioned religious belief, apprentices are a little more fussed over if they qualify for a rename. Their injuries are nothing to be shamed about, but instead are a celebration of the felid’s survival.

Other Notes

Normally, felids don’t name their kids after others as to not strip their child’s individuality and in the early days, there was a tradition of no repeated prefixes within the clan as to not cause confusion. However, since clans have gotten much larger than forty felids per clan, this tradition is largely ignored. If there happen to be two felids from different clans with the same name, say, Robinpelt, they’ll introduce themselves as, “Robinpelt of Windclan”. If there are two felids from the same clan, they’ll use the name of their location or their occupation as part of their name, “Robinpelt of Hollow Village” or “Robinpelt the Smith”. Sometimes, if married to someone important, their title will evoke the name of their spouse, “Robinpelt, Wife/Husband to Darkpath”.

By the time an apprentice nears their graduation, they have a good idea as to what their warrior name will be. Warrior ceremonies are performed by the local deputy and sometimes the captain. Shamans perform the ceremonies for their own apprentices and for new leaders. Leaders perform ceremonies for new guardians.

In the Tongue of the Vale, there are two spellings for words a felid can be named after: one for being used as a name (the old words) and the other referring to the actual plant, animal, color, element, etc (the evolved words). Most are pronounced the same, but words used for names are spelled conservatively with old spellings. An example using our own language is as the following:

“Wait, so you’re saying that I have to spell my name ‘Aakclwu’, even though we don’t say it like that anymore, even though my name is ‘Oakclaw’? That tree over there is spelled O-A-K, this thing on my finger is spelled C-L-A-W. Why is my name spelled ‘Aakclwu’??”

Linguists and scribes are trying to update the language to be more user-friendly, such as scrapping conservative spellings in favor of the evolved words and updating words that evolved from consonant and vowel shifts. Shadow and Thunderclan, as a whole, don’t really like this, but Riverclan is quite pleased about the update.

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Rotokosan

Rotokosan

The state religion of the Morotoko Empire Rotokosan has rapidly spread, becoming an opposing force to the Erushan faith of the Ashonki Empire. The religion’s founder is also the political founder of the Morotoko Empire, Ifu the Pale. Born a slave and stricken with albinism, Ifu was put on display for his physical malformation where he suffered mockery and degradation. During his years of torment he was receiving visitations from his departed grandfather who gave him the strength to carry on. In his final visitation Ifu’s grandfather brought him a gift from Mama Tokko, a shard of godhood. Imbued with a shard of power from the goddess of all things Rotokosan escaped bondage into the wilds of Hypraxia.

An orator of preternatural ability and miracle maker Ifu sparked a great rebellion uniting hundreds of tribes and clans against the corruption of the Ashonki Empire and kingdom of Tha’raka. After Ifu led his rebels to victory and founded the Morotoko Empire and ruled for a near half century as a living god. In his five decades of rule his teachings would become the contemporary religion of Rotokosan.

In Rotokosan the universe was born in chaos and destruction after a previous existence consumed itself in cosmic wrath and despair. Pure divine power was shattered into untold trillions of shards each one resonating with raw power. A young goddess of life and creation guided by an inner voice collected a great number of these shards, bedeviled by corrupt and evil beings seeking the power for themselves. With cunning and might she defeated her enemies and gathered enough raw power to light a mighty flame in the center of creation banishing the unholy eldritch powers to the shadowy corners of creation.

At the heart of the religion is the belief that every person is on a journey with the goal to find these divine shards to bring about wisdom and enlightenment. These shards can be gained in a myriad of ways beyond faith and religious devotion including selfless deeds, courage in battle or the mastering of one’s craft. Some are born able to grasp these shards easier than others, it is their responsibility to lead and pull others out of darkness. Those who shepherd the ignorant are the blessed servants of Mama Tokko and brave guardians of the divine light in a dark universe.

Rotokosan teaches personal achievement for the benefit of the whole, those who use achievements for personal gain or to harm others walk the dark path. Rotokosan recognizes hundreds of dark gods and beings by name but collectively know them as the Shadow Chorus. The Shadow Chorus sing their dark hymns from their shadowy corners of creation luring the souls of the weak away from the light into their service.

Henotheistic in nature Rotokosan does not deny the existence of other gods going as far as recognizing some of them as good. However none of these other beings have as many shards of the old wisdom as Mama Tokko and thus inferior. Adherents of Rotokosan largely respect other faiths, rarely attempting to assert the dominance of Mama Tokko over their respective deities. Not a well known religion beyond the continent of Hypraxia missionaries of the faith concentrate their efforts on converting those within the Morotoko Empire to further unify the rising nation.

The Rotokosan afterlife is one of many tiers depending on how many shards of divinity one has acquired in life. For those who led simple lives a gentle paradise awaits them where they will be given further opportunities to elevate their soul. As one ascends higher in the afterlife the more powerful they become eventually suckling at the breast of Mama Tokko, the highest place for any mortal soul. As one can ascend they can also descend farther down the ladder to realms of abandonment and torment. The farther a mortal soul descends down the ladder the worse the torment becomes until there is no hope for redemption...only eternal night in the darkest gulfs of the universe where the Shadow Chorus sings.

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@black-and-queer Thank you!! I’m glad you’re enjoying them! <3

@hersilentlanguage​ your tier lists/templates are great! Here’s my take on the ships,,,