#in my ability to keep it alive

[sweater-equestrian]

me: yeah idk i tend to kill plants and cant keep ferns alive :/

also me: convinces my dad to buy me a staghorn fern

anyways please behold my newest prized possession before i kill it :)

[miniagula]

movie sonadow would be so l umity-coded…and i say this bc their dynamic is similar to the games but with a different and tender perspective: they both empathize deeply with each other now, and this shadow is not as reticent or closed off bc of that. that being said: movie!sonic would ABSOLUTELY 'YOU'RE the sweet potato!' the hell out of shadow

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

my beautiful new children bleach and ammonia (do not separate) who i just got and already love oh so dearly

[david-watts]

if this is what awaits me on a daily basis then I don't think I want to be alive anymore

[lovenliterature]

Create, through me, through them

When i bake It is with grandma’s hands The recipes she made me as a child, drilled into me over and over Notes taken to preserve the legacy A family line kept in flour and butter I use her pastry brush and she guides me, helping me dip into the egg wash, keep the memories safe for the rest of them

Christmases are never the same of course But in this, I can keep a small part of her with me

When I whittle wood It is with grandpa’s skill One that skipped a generation to be sure Making a birdhouse to accompany the one we made together so long ago

Still standing strong and tall The lines of him clear in every bite of the saw, the grain of the wood My grandfather could build and repair and he left that legacy with me

Through him, i make a house a home, building shelves and cabinets Through her, i fill the house with love, making cheese straws and jam tarts They live in me, and i will continue to honour their memory

[mychemikuromance]

I might need to get a momento mori or something i stg I keep forgetting that I have a time limit on this earth

[bmpmp3]

in general i think itd be fun to try out more character designing techniques again. i have some intense habits coming from making little doodle comics that can only be described as: designed with the expectation that i'll have to draw it 7 times in a row

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

ough fuck just had a galaxy brain thought about the ff14 crossover that still won't mean anything to anybody BUT.

ok so john is a scholar.

yellow though? yellow is a SUMMONER.

[autrizzm]

thinking about how if lucy gray’s story took place way later down the line, say the 60-something hunger games, or if dr. gaul had a hand in the punishment rather than dean highbottom, the capitol might have punished her for cheating as well as coriolanus. and how best to do that? make her an avox. cut out her tongue or fuck up her vocal chords so she can never sing again. can you imagine how much that would destroy her

[thesinglesock]

saw grass today. which was weird because I was out in the woods and the snow was up to my elbows. but I walked on some trails that had been shoveled and grass was poking through. it was green. why was it green. we've had sub-zero temperatures for 4 months. how is grass? green?

[mymarifae]

idk how anyone can dislike the vbs daybreak frontline cover when it sounds like this

[chai-dye]

😭I'm god's bravest soldier I'm god's bravest soldier I'm god's bravest soldier I'm

[poisonouspastels]

@beegswaz genuinely i think my favorite tags on any of my work ever. i fucking love when people talk abt my characters like this

[thethingything]

deleted a bunch of the posts from yesterday because the paranoia finally caught up with me 🙃 but anyway we can't taste properly, we're constantly shaky and wheezy and dizzy, and the cough we've got has gotten significantly worse, and I called our GP to ask about paxlovid or similar treatment and got dismissed before I could even speak to a doctor and I really, really just want to go scream at someone but that would be a shitty thing to do.

I fucking hate that people keep going out while ill and not taking even basic precautions to avoid infecting others. I hate that we're basically at the mercy of everyone else because no matter how hard we try people still infect us and doctors just end up dismissing us. this is... what, like the 6th time we've had covid and we don't even fucking go outside.

I just want a break. I just want to be able to get on with life and get my shit together without being constantly screwed over by other people's reckless decisions and a frankly ridiculous amount of bad luck

[deathbind]

Serot's own arsenal of spells and generally how he applies necrotic magic differs from modern day Anactaci. You can clearly see the foundation he laid, but it has been over a thousand years. The order has evolved considerably in that time. There's also the fact that he was reborn at level one and has structured his skills to suit his present needs, but [hand waves]

There are different sects and roles within the Anactaci who call on the Plane of Death in different ways, but certain generalities can be relied upon. Their magic is largely geared toward what would be considered divination. They are the bridge between this life and the next, the messengers of eternity. They commune both with the souls of the dead and with spirits — chiefly spirits / entities on the Plane of Death but spirits of all types, including those like Refhremmit. Indeed, every City of Eternity has one Anactaci dedicated to communing with their patron. It is a sacred office.

Beyond that, their magic is deeply focused on the soul and the threshold between life and death. They are adept at identifying and countering curses or maladies of the soul. They are adept at identifying and addressing possessions or spiritual attachments. The skilled can manipulate the ravages of time on a body or object (a skill shared with the Manthu). The most skilled of all can leave their bodies behind to inhabit ritually prepared objects; these become the teachers of the Anactaci and keepers of the deepest mysteries.

Yes of course, they animate and preserve corpses, either directly or by calling a spirit to inhabit it. This is part of Meketi funerary rites. But, simply making dead things move is only part of their skillset. Indeed, it's the most basic part.

Anactaci are bound by sacred oaths to turn their magic to holy purpose and with a thought for balance always. However, a truly irate or unscrupulous Anactaci could do serious damage. Particularly if they are skilled. Insidious curses and nigh-undetectable possessions (i.e. slowly driving a person to madness with ill luck or nightmares; far worse curses are possible). Yanking a person's soul directly from their body, either holding it captive or causing it to become lost. Learning secrets from spirits or from souls that can utterly destroy a person. Causing them to rapidly age, turning to sun-bleached bone before their eyes, one limb at a time. Or causing them to wither, then return to their correct age, then wither, then return to their correct age — over and over until they don't know whether they're alive or dead. If capable of severing their soul from their body, they can possess others directly, influencing or totally overriding their will. They might not touch a person at all; they might sap all life from their home instead.

Fortunately, such corrupt Anactaci are rare — and swiftly dealt with.

[jesuisgourde]

i have managed to keep a pothos plant alive long enough that it's a little too big for the pot i have it in which first of all is amazing because i have whatever the exact opposite of a green thumb is and second of all means i need to buy a bigger pot which also means maybe i should buy a second plant to put in the pot the pothos is currently in

i think i'm starting to understand how people acquire so many plants