#its symbolism time baby

[calronhunt]

Do you have any more to share about how the new magic system works in your new Raphael story!! The idea that magic reflects the user symbolically is really interesting and i'd love to hear more about that.. (I coincidentally read a book recently-ish where characters had superpowers that were a reflection of the user and i've been so into that concept lately as a result LOL.. symbolism tastey)

YEAH!!! (also hmu with what that book is called cause I love this kinda shit so much)

I don't usually write magic systems because im worried about getting bogged down in the details and mechanics so I'm going super general and what I find fun. Everyone's magic is different, and it can change and warp as someone lives. I think thta as children everyone's magic manifests in the same way (not sure how quite sure how just yet) and as they come into their own person it gets personalized to that specific person. Raphael's emerged as small blue flames because he felt small but had a lot of energy and fire inside him. It warped and changed from trauma to reflect on his body as that's where most of his trauma concentrated. His ability to still summon the small flames if he tries really hard is due to him still having that spirit deep down.

The other thing that I wanna explore is that corrupted magic isn't like, inherently harmful. Its just the same as when magic initially changes, its just a reflection of what the user has gone through in life and who that person is. I know that sounds like im calling Raphael a monster because of his beast design, but it only looks like that because that's what Raphael sees himself as. Raphael isn't able to control his corrupted magic because he supresses it and refuses to understand it. It's a monster to be locked away and not thought about. He doesn't want to accept that that's him.

And just because I'm not sure when I'm going to talk about it, Lionel's magic as a kid used to manifest as small yellow flowers sprouting out of his hands. To again symbolize how small he felt and how fragile he was. I would need to really draw what his magic manifested after full corruption though. Both of these he's locked out of due to the churchs repression spell however

[lorebird]

In which Ford struggles so badly to relate to other people that he wonders if he’s really human at all. The more isolated he becomes, the harder it is to reconcile with his own humanity.

[sorryiliketoscreenshot]

"Whether scholar, skald, or scoundrel, a bard weaves magic through words and music to inspire allies, demoralize foes, manipulate minds, create illusions, and even heal wounds. The bard is a master of song, speech, and the magic they contain"

[anonymocha]

can u PLEASE draw more medblue i need more yuri beyond my comprehension

Baby Blue and Medicine Coquette just for you 💗🎀 Thank you anon you get me

Inspo^^ Re99 requests still open btw!

[itissadbutitsmy-artblog]

i was drawing him choking to death again but i stopped (hes suffered enough) and then th. this picture healed me

[m00ngbin]

Uh so there's a baby crying in the background. Btw.

[wheelercore]

For as long as i was obsessed with Rosemarys Baby i did not realize until tonight that Lonnie is literally Guy woodhouse. Im convinced Lonnies actor was cast in part because he resembles John Cassavetes more than slightly (Guy's actor). A win for the "lonnie was in on will's disappearance" team. This is the only proof i need honestly.

[end-orfino]

It just all feels more pointless now. I think i lost some of the spirit. I dont know if its temporary or how to get it back

[feardrummed]

pry ollie having a prototype golden bonnie plush as her childhood stuffed animal from my cold dead hands

[basingstokemercury]

So uh

Does communism not have any symbols aside from the hammer and sickle?

[theholidayslingerlikebadperfume]

i think it's quite silly that atheists are still pretending like you cannot prove gods don't exist in 2023 tbh. all gods start out as an explanation for natural phenomena humans could not explain and the god hypothesis has a failure rate of 100% so far for explaining those natural phenomena. for every single hypothesis that god has been the assumed answer for, they have failed. your argument of "you don't know what came before the big bang!" is literally just another god of the gaps argument but updated to reflect all the science we DO know about now. it's extremely unlikely that the god hypothesis will succeed on try one million and two tbqf.

"you can't prove god doesn't exist" yes we can prove that 99.999% of all gods ever created by humans didn't exist. why is your god any different? because u say the things that would prove him false actually prove his existence? yeah okay do u see how crazy u fucking sound?

like why are we still debating this in 2023???? please bro. how is it that every single time we've tried to prove a certain god exists, we come up with a new science field and learn even more mindblowing things in the process, none of which are the result of said god? idk if u wanna believe in santa claus as an adult, that's your business but pushing it onto society as a whole because you've convinced yourself santa is really going to torture you for eternity if you don't please him is like... next level.

[classycoffeecat]

I need to go to sleep...

But first I must tell you this hot-off-the-sleep deprivation prequel theory:

Dean in the photos is not our Dean... it is Dean JR. !!!!

[blackvahana]

There's definitely a constant thought buzzing in the back of my mind regarding ANVD and... the logical conclusions of some things. I can't help but think that the twins would've guided me to making it (If I am The Inevitable and Lev does actually know about it and so on) and then swamped it in BB symbolism and made me hallucinate that it was the Nightmares and then just. take it from me.

which, to be clear, symbolically - to our family - it is the Nightmares, metaphorically. In the way I say I think the game is based on this family it isn't the Nightmares, but it's also... sorry. I'm just looking at our close-knit current life things... Rip the baby from Kos - emphasis again that I'm talking on our close-knit metaphorical projections on the game, but the cyclical nature is fulfilled. I make realms, the Micolashs take them and use them, they end up being strangled alive by them, they claim those realms or That Realm as ANVD expands, they. become the host, I didn't think of that lmfao.

Just the constant symbolism of salt washing up on shore and strangling the water, which turned out to be eggs, the gravitation of my Leviathanic body to being white like Gold is outside my conscious choice when I only identified with and expressed myself in black and gold... and the fact that.... I wasn't allowed near the Hamlet in game and neither it nor Maria in thoughts let alone spiritual practice, I wasn't allowed to talk to "them". Kos apparently hated me based on something - but Lull seemed to support my attempts at reconciliation. Towards the end of our time together, Lull "got pregnant" and Maria "helped him deliver" in my body, which showed there was a breaking down of the "Maria & the Hamlet don't want to be near you" thing going on. I fully expect that it... was probably going to develop into him being like "actually you're a Godshard of Kos and you have to reconcile" and then into stitching realms andddd

Dont get me wrong, not a conspiracy, the twins... for all the fucking faith Black and Red had in them Grey was right in that they don't fucking think they do not plan properly they do not act like gods with the weight of millions on their back, but they... that's where that was going, full stop.

[arolesbianism]

Euphrasie vc haiiii Claudie can you help me with something real quick ^w^ (<- visibly trembling because one of her circle wall ornaments keeps looking smudged to her no matter how much she wipes is and it's now 3 am and shes been at it for the past 6 hours)

[heckcduparchived]

OOC

[merkerlerspeaks]

Zodi/Celeste/Raine is somehow both my baby and also the girl my inner little weird girl looks up to so much she adopts parts of her as her personality