#healing magic of cats

[astaldis]

@cake-shop-rarepair-bingo​        @whumpay​

Prompts: Bedsharing, Reluctant caretaker

Challenge: Type in a new pairing

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach & Merlin The Cat, Assire var Anahid & Merlin the Cat, Assire var Anahid & Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach Additional Tags: catfic, cats are best, the magic of cats, Purring, Cuddling, Comfort, Fluff, POV Merlin, Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach Has a Bad Time, Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach Whump, CATS ARE NICE, Sharing a Bed with a Cat Summary: Merlin The Cat is not only suddenly brought to a different place by his Witch, but, when he comes back to the apartment late at night from exploring the new garden, he finds a sick stranger in the bed he is not sure how to feel about at first.

Read on Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47326381

[euphorictruths]

Timid Heart- Justin and Annie Gerard

[hecksupremechips]

Thinking of vlr Akane is so conflicting cuz on one hand I’m so upset that she doesn’t ever get a moment to just rest and enjoy being alive again I’m upset that she just gets deeper and deeper into this role she’s built for herself and she loses her humanity and will never ever be that girl who died in the incinerator. But on the other hand, I need her to get so, so much worse I need her to be so obsessed with perfection she has this unique ability to change the course of history and she will burn everything and everyone to the ground in the blink of an eye if it means she can "reset" and get a perfect timeline and I desperately need her to never be satisfied with anything because really, is there anything that’s worth all the damage she’s caused?

[bonefall]

.. opinions on wind runner? i feel like im one of the only ones that genuinely hates her sometimes

If you feel like the only one who genuinely hates her, I think you need to look around more. Wind Runner is a very widely disliked character, because she's often used within the story as a small antagonist who "threatens" the authority of Tall Shadow. Gray Wing dislikes her. Thunder is openly cat-racist to her. She spends several books trying to break through the moor cats' xenophobia to join a group that came to HER LAND.

Then, when Moth Flight is old enough to be a relevant character in Forest Divided, Wind Runner is turned into Yet Another mean mom the very moment Moth displays ADHD. She's contrasted to her mate Gorse Fur, who is a Soft And Good Dad, and ultimately MASSIVELY punished with the harrowing events of Moth Flight's Vision (even though, for most of that book, she's completely right.)

Ask yourself why they're especially harsh on WIND RUNNER for being mean to her child, in the arc with Tom the Fucking Wifebeater and his redemption death, plus Thunder being forced to stop being mad at his abuser Clear Sky, please.

To me, Wind Runner is an intense, ambitious woman who's demonized for it in a way that men just aren't. She's subject to several misogynistic trends within WC, plus a huge helping of xenophobia that goes absolutely unexamined. If DOTC cared at all about women, it would have treated her with the nuance she deserves.

Wind Runner is treated with nearly endless suspicion by Gray Wing through books 1 - 3, while he's bending over backwards to suck Clear Sky's toes.

Her wanting to join the group that came TO HER HOME and being a bit pushy about it earns a stronger reaction from Gray Wing than Clear Sky murdering people.

She's pressured into changing her name "to fit in," and it's still not enough. She wanted to join the group so bad she changed her name, at the request of the Mountain Cats, for a chance of being better accepted

This came after she'd already saved Jagged Peak's life when a burrow collapsed on him. She's plenty trustworthy.

She keeps doing shit to try and prove herself to this group of assholes. Remember Bumble being dragged back to her domestic abuser? Gray Wing interprets this as a power struggle, when WIND RUNNER WAS NOT EVEN PART OF THE GROUP AT THE TIME.

From Wind Runner's POV, she did something that the Moor cats wanted done. It was fucking evil. It was committing violence against another member of the out-group the cats see her as.

But who actually has the power here? Tall Shadow does.

Gray Wing said it himself that she could have come up with some excuse for Bumble to stay, and she didn't. In fact, any cat could have spoken up. No one did.

and still. STILL. Wind Runner gets nothing. Her reward is Gray Wing surmising that actually, her doing their sick dirtywork was a political move.

It's more consistent as a motivation with how Wind Runner wants to join their group. The thing she's been doing.

She only actually gets to join the group after Thunder starts publicly hurling slurs at her for suggesting they need to be ready for Clear Sky to attack them. "What do you know about peace? Last time I was here you were NOTHING BUT A ROGUE WITH A ROGUE'S NAME"

Gray Wing even starts purring when she gives birth, because her ambition goes away briefly and she "stops bossing everyone around." this is treated like a sweet thing. god forbid women retain their personalities when they have kids

She loses her first premature child to a seizure and Gray Wing starts proselytizing his religion to her. "Maybe it's a good thing your weakest child died because Jesus has them now" I want to beat him with a hammer

When her second child gets sick, Clear Sky has a bright idea that involves killing it. I refer to this as his "reverse leper colony" suggestion. He only develops a sense of humanity towards the sick when his brother's pregnant wife is in danger. Wind Runner and her kitten barely seem to clock as people to him.

It's only after her SECOND baby succumbs to a horrible, painful death that she decides the moor cats are assholes, and she goes to start her own group. It's LONG overdue. I was extremely excited to see it.

Now. Listen.

I've been treated just like Moth Flight before. I've practically heard the scolding in Book 6 Chapter 3 verbatim. I'm not downplaying anything about Wind Runner being harsh to her; being yelled at like that never fixed the problem.

What I'm saying is that this is the SAME arc that summons the hollowed-out ghost of Storm to coo that Clear Sky "never drove anyone away" with his abusive behavior and gives Tom the Wifebeater a heroic redemption death.

So why is the scolding from Wind Runner treated as unambiguously harsh? What's the difference between her and them?

Why is it that outside of this little bubble of the community, you can get buried in a flood of people crying about how "Clear Sky made Summisteaks Butt he thought it was the right thing :((( He feels bad about shoving Thunder's face in a weeping, pus-filled wound and trying to kill him :((((" but Wind Runner is mean about Moth Flight not catching a rabbit and she should be skinned alive

Why is WIND RUNNER held responsible for the death of Clear Sky's child in Moth Flight's Vision, WHEN IT WAS COMPLETELY HIS OWN FAULT??

So, why should I hate her? Because she's mean to the idiot protagonists? Because she's Yet Another Bad Mom whose actions ARE treated as Bad in the story, in the arc famous for openly weeping whenever someone's mad at their abusive dad?? When she has this whole horrific, unexamined story about how incredibly bigoted The Settlers are towards her and the extremes she goes to in order to please them?

I'm glad she's mean, actually. She should have been even meaner. I think she should have a gun

[hiddenpie]

The thing about being the dream girl or angel is that everybody dreams of you but you’re never real. You’re forever an ideal, otherworldly.

When you show that you are human as well and not just a dream you are no longer the dream. You are just another human.

You let them down.

How do you deal with that?

It’s empowering yet somber..it’s bittersweet.

You’re judged as weird and made fun of yet people desire to exist at the frequency you do. This is not something that is to boast about because personally..it’s lonely. When what you crave and desire comes from a different source, the admiration and interest or fascination from others means nothing.

“All that glitters isn’t gold” understand that.

You are your own muse. The life force comes from you and people come to you for it. Literally.

What do you do with that?

Understand yourself more.

[muaka-safari]

The idea of healing when it comes to mechanical forms is fascinating to me, because regular healing – as in, biological – is the body regrowing lost cells to a bodyplan built into the dna... but the moment you have something like inorganic bodies, that goes out of the window

Especially if you bring into play the concept of healing magic

Because biological healing magic – fine. Usually the logic is it's basically just speeding up the natural healing process. Open wound? The skin regrows to cover it. Loss of blood? Speed up the body's ability to make more blood. The body knows how to heal, it just needs time to do so

But magically healing mechanical forms? Now the onus of knowing how to undo the damage is specifically on the healer; if you leave an injury, the body will never naturally heal. Does the healing magic include producing more metal to heal an injury? Or will it thin the metal and you have to physically add more to maintain integrity? Do you have to know exactly how you want it to reform, since the metal has no memory of what it should look like?

Anyway, I've decided the simplest form of magically healing inorganic bodies to their original form is very small-scale time magic

[spotaus]

Hi guys, this is usually what a doodle page ends up looking like <3 (oh, and @ancha-aus thought you might like this! Not writing but certainly fuel to my fire lol-)

This one is New Age filled!!! (Close-ups abd Lore beneath the cut!)

1) Night and Cross!

Night is actually very clingy once he's a teen. He doesn't usually realize it, but around the castle he'll snake to be closer to his Knights so long as there's no one he needs to keep his composure infront of is nearby. Cross is the one who's not used to physical touch (when it's not Ink ofc) so Night in his personal bubble makes his heart melt but also scares tf out of him <3

2) Error and Night's Meeting!

Error was carrying his whole life on his back and trying not to get arrested for unintentional property damage at this point, so when he saw the chance to get back at his brother and prove he was strong enough? Yeah, he got that on chance instantly. And was VERY smug when Nightmare chose him. (Also, Error is wearing gloves, so less Haphephobia)

3) Dream and Blue designs!

I think these are good tentative designs! Dream probably has a more regal fit, but he likes to play up that rugged exile look- He's inspired by Archers, while Blue takes on that classic Knightly-vibe. Their equipment is mostly stolen from Night's troops or brought with them from Blue's home kingdom.

Also, Dream is approx Killer's height at this point, shorter than Cross and *much* shorter than Apple!Nightmare. (Hc that Skeletons tend to be tinier in stature thanks to weird monster beauty standards. Horror and Geno's fam are outliers.)

4) Horror and Dust designs!

Horror is naturally a very *large* monster. He's very malnourished when Nightmare meets him, but by the time he's a Knight Nightmare has made sure that's no longer the case. He actually loves comfy, simple clothes, but to play up the whole 'strong mysterious' bit he wears a more barbaric Knight's garb. He doesn't mind acting scary, it's more fun that way :]. Dust is very very small, and envies horror sometimes for his size, but his tiny stature let's him control his body and move a lot quicker. He's very much based on a rogue, and usually covers the lower part of his face w/ a black cloth, and the upper part w/ his hood or mask. Dust only removes both to bathe, eat, or relax in a safe location. (Ignore that I can't draw the stupid gaster blaster lmao-)

These last two were space-fillers, but Cross and his Borzoi (Windmill, otherwise known as Milly (Killer named her-)) and really bad first wips of Ccino! I think Ccino was a chubby, happy toddler, but lost a lot of 'weight' (bone mass? Magic?) due to stress and pressure and bad eating habits. So it isn't until a while after the Coronation that he starts to relax abd feel safe enough to eat normal meals (Nightmare used to guilt him into eating snacks together, but as his boss (and younger brother) he can encourage it more often). By the time Killer shows he's still not quite healthy, but he's better. As more weight is lifted off his shoulders, the better he is. (That 'beauty' most people saw was a more stereotypical slimness, but Killer never stopped seeing Ccino as beautiful-) I think he never looked traditionally underweight, so no one noticed, and it was only much later that Night processed it. (And maybe it's why Dream hardly recognized him later on-)

[thishazeleyeddemon]

i also think sometimes he gets mad brain fog and whenever that happens Will is just like okay come here and has him sit down with his head on Will's lap while Will conjures some sunlight up for him

Holds his glowing hand over Nico's face until he feels better

[catattack08]

Not art but the miitopia archives gang bc they’re really cute to me

[thequeenofcarvenstone]

I love you boy.

[euphorictruths]

Catrin Welz Stein

[natureselements]

🖤✨shop magical items for your journey here✨🖤

[musubiki]

Madame Spring healing right next to Mochi weird trinkets and shit? That’s PokéCenter PokéMart baby! Traveling mages/the likes do refer to it as such I’m guessing

OOOOH SO TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MOCHI DOES SELL LITTLE POTIONS AND STUFF!!!!!! you walk into the general area of the Spring of Life(tm) and The Cat's Cranny(tm) and the pokemart tune starts playing

[hiddenpie]

Accepting that others will perceive you as they please and you cannot control it is one of the most freeing and necessary experiences in life imo.

The power is in being conscious of this and still showing up as you are.

Your biggest gift in this life and the ONLY thing nobody in this entire world can take from you is your relationship with yourself.

Never forget that. 💖

[tiptoelightlypastmymind]

sorry if you've tried to message me today i have a cold so this is basically me at all times rn:

[jaggeduar]

And that, Boys and Girls, is how you shoot yourself in the head!