#night illumimations

[oh-sunny-sun]

昨日,午後6時24分過ぎ頃にて.

街は冬の灯りに照らされていました.

Yesterday, around 6:24 p.m.

The town was illuminated by winter lights.

2022年11月3日 木曜日

[luviezy]

[06:07]

ryujin x reader, cw: angstangstangst

part 1

your eyes open to crumpled white sheets and the golden sun peeking in through the blinds, golden.

golden like ryujin's hair, like her touch. golden just like her. you gulp, looking down at your naked self, bronze. she deserves better, you know she does.

so, you leave her side placing a warm kiss on her forehead and one last sticky note on her night stand, illumimated gold by the desk lamp she forgot to turn off last night.

a/n: the beonze remark is not meant to be colorist, i just wanted to clear that up. your skin is beautiful.

[midwest-ghost]

Ready. Set. Go.... fuck yourself

@deetz-n-beej

"Puhleeze, don't actually tell me that you believe in this paranormal hocus pocus bullshit?" Claire scoffed, cleaning out her fake nails while Lydia lit the last candle in the dark room. A small pentagram, a mirror, and a bowl of spaghetti sat in the center of it of all illumimated in the darkness.

A dark smile grew on her lips as she sat her lighter down, "Well, you're the one who decided to come. You wanted to experience the paranormal. You can still chicken out of you like..."

"Not a chance. Everyone will call me a coward. My sorority will disown me."

Lydia's smile grew wider. Hook, line, and sinker, "Fine. That's your choice."

"Lydia Deetz, you shouldn't have been advertising for sèances. It totally makes you creepier as ever."

Lydia rolled her eyes, yeah and your comments still make you a total bitch. Lydia opened up her backpack pulling out the Handbook. Four years and she still had it. Still useful for information. But, she wasn't going to use it tonight. She had been waiting... plotting... for the chance for revenge. The courage to say his name once more. The chance to have a ghost do her bidding for once.

"Cool." She slowly opened up the book, staring at her note reminding her about the night, "You ready?"

"Duh! If that wasn't a stupid question."

"Alright, open your mind and your heart." Lydia as she reached for Claire's hand. She chuckled as she heard her groan as she began read from her script Spirits of the past, move among us. Be guided by the light of this world and visit upon us. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice."

"Beetlejuice? That's a stupid fucking way to start a sèance-"

[mira-nena]

Concept I need for reasons: going to a BTS concert with the girl/ NB pal of my dreams and we both look like femme deities in our matching BTS inspired looks and having the best night of our lives singing and dancing. Getting all goofy during Anpanman, looking at each other lovingly during Serendipity, going hard during Mic Drop. At the end we leave the stadium running out hand in hand, tired, breathless, hair sticking to our sweaty forheads, giggling as we both look at each other with the dumbest biggest smiles on our faces, illumimated by the orange glow of the street lamps. Everything is right in the world, nothing can beat this.

[dead-night-harringrove]

Upside Down Headcanons:

Gonna tag @kingbillyharringrove because the two of us have talked in depth about this before, and @paladin-cleric-mage because they requested me to tag them! Love you guys. Lots of this will be me babbling about cool facts too because I love biology so much.

The most commonly accepted and seen headcanon- the Upside Down wildlife (with the possible exception of the Mindflayer) are a form of semi-sentient plant evolution. That being said, I'm now going to break down the different plant aspects of wildlife I have developed and would like to share, as well as habitat, time cycles, and weather.

Parasitic Plants

I would like to bring to your attention Rafflesia Arnoldii, also known as the Stinking Corpse Lily. It has a putrid, decaying flesh scent and produces the largest known individual flower in the world. "It is parasitic on members of the genus Tetrastigma (in the grape family, Vitaceae). It has no roots or leaves and most of the time lives unobserved inside the woody stems and roots of its host." (Source) Also, it looks like this:

I can absolutely see the Democreatures being evolved from this beauty. In their larval stages, they would have to have a host to survive(as seen with Will, who was the host for what was probably Dart) There are many different types of Rafflesia that look very similar but are smaller however, so that's food for thought as well.

While we have not seen much in terms of the actual Upside Down (which is both a shame and a crime), it is easy to assume there are more living variants to the ecosystem than just the three we have been shown. It is, after all, an entire realm parallel to our own. And so, I would like to introduce you to Hydnora Africana, another unique parasitic plant, that grows in the roots of Euphorbia caput-medusae, a succulent. It's undetermined whether or not it has roots or a stem, though it's makeup lends it more towards having one root system and no stem. It's appearance is also fascinating, and it's far too easy to imagine some monstrous creature based off of it:

The fine white threads when in first bloom are just wide enough for beetles to get in through, but may find it difficult to escape through. After a few days the "teeth" pull apart so that the beetles may escape and distribute their pollen. (Source)

There is also the plant Orobanche fasciculata, or Clustered Broomrape. They are endangered in many states, including Indiana! (Source) "Clustered Broomrape (Orobanche fasciculata), also known as Yellow Broomrape, has mostly 5-10 long, slender, 1-flowered stalks rising from a short, trunk-like stemusually 2-6 inches (5-15 cm) long. It occurs in the midwestern and Plains states." (Source) It is also nicknamed the Cancer Root, and it's a parasitic herb.  The species has both male and female reproductive organs, and is a perennial(meaning it comes back each year.) (Source) It is parasitic on the roots of Ambrosia and other members of the Compasitae. It is one of plants I have based herbivorous creatures off of, prey animals that act as a food source for Rafflesia and Hydnora variants. The reasoning for this is because of its medicinal uses. "The root is pectoral. The chewed root has been used as a dressing on wounds and open sores. An infusion of the leaves is used as a wash on sores. Forms of the plant that are parasitic on sweet sage roots have been used as a treatment of cancer." (Source) It looks like this:

Fungi

With the spores that are constantly in the air of the Upside Down, and the often-times toxic nature of fungi, it's all too easy to picture variations of wildlife as evolved sentience from them as well. Here are some good contenders for potential wildlife!

Hydnellum Peckii, or the Bleeding Tooth Fungus, is a creature I've actually drawn and designed before! Similar to the Demogorgon, it is a humanoid omnivore. "Scientifically known as hydnellum peckii, the young bleeding tooth fungus’s thick red fluid oozes through its tiny pores, creating the appearance of blood. The underside of the cap has tooth-like spines. As it matures, the mushroom’s pale pink centre becomes dark, almost black, in colour... The bleeding tooth fungus is a mycorrhiza fungus, engaging in a symbiotic association with the roots of a vascular plant. The fungus receives fixed carbon from the host and, in return, improves the host plant’s mineral absorption." (Source) It looks like this:

The Bleeding Tooth Fungus creature is a stealth hunter, lying in wait completely still. The blood colored fluid is also scented like blood, luring in unsuspecting prey for the creature to strike quickly and effeciently. It is not built for speed but rather strength and quick movements.

Armillaria mellea, also known as a Honey Mushroom, is a parasitic version that colonizes dead or dying plants, and will kill living hosts. It has an enzyme that gives it bioluminescence, and colonized plants where this fungus is present are known as Foxfire. (Source) It looks like this:

Creatures based off of these fungi would loan themselves to bioluminescence, in either a total glow or perhaps something with design, such as species patterns.

Bioluminescence

This one is purely self-indulgent and festures heavily into an AU I've had in development for months and talked about at length with @kingbillyharringrove and @wickedlittleoz for being a rare jarringrove au.

I like to headcanon that there are enzymes that exist naturally in the water of the Upside Down, and when ingested and entering the bloodstream have a reaction with white blood cells that cause a bioluminescent reaction. I like to headcanon that this is why, despite the darkness of the night, it is never truly dark. There's always a dull glow at the very least.

Day & Night Cycles

I love the idea of the Upside Down having a day time, and I now feel ROBBED knowing that the original concept art had considered it! I like the idea of the Upside Down having a Red Sun instead of a sun like ours. During the day, the world os illumimated in a reddish glow and colors appear distorted to what we are used to. The plants tend to have more bluish purple tones during the day.

The dusk and dawn times are brilliant and full of life, with all the glowing beasts and fungi bursting to life in the first hour after sunset and right before sunrise. The late night period is the darkest, when things are either sleeping or hunting. Carnivores have evolved so that their glow is hidden, patterned like the flora surrounding them. This helps hide them from prey animals who might have eyes and flee.

(Early concept art for the Upside Down)

Weather and Habitat

Now aside from the storm surrounding the Mindflayer, we don't have any real basis for the weather in the Upside Dowm aside from stale and still. My own headcanons include a few other phenomena including:

Acid rain storms. It's a world of death and shadows and decay. Acid rains fit in beautifully with this ideal.

Extreme heat waves, especially during the summer months when many of the creatures travel deep deep south or high high north towards the ever-frozen poles. Alternatively, the summer is when the heat-based creatures come out from hibernation or migrate back from their position at the equator.

Speaking of the equator, much like our world it's considerably warmer than the rest of the planet. Unlike our world, it's literally uninhabitable by the rest of the planet. It's a scorching barren wasteland with extreme volcanic activity and large pockets of gas below the surface of the earth that frequently boil over and explode. The gases are deadly to breathe in even for the native creatures.

Sand and glass storms. Sand storms are prevalent on the outskirts of the equator, where deserts line the center of the globe. Glass storms are closer to the center of the equator, where freak lightening and rapid heat rising keeps the sands crystalized and when the wind catches them and cools the molten sand rapidly, it turns into glass. It's not fun.

The Ocean

This one is fair game, and honestly? Not one I've put too much development into because the possibilities are wider than we can even imagine. I mean, hell. Our OWN oceans provide otherworldly horrors on a daily discovery basis. What would the Upside Down have to offer?

The only thought we've really put into it is @kingbillyharringrove and I decided that the deepest part of our own ocean was a connector to the Upside Down's. When it comes to the oceans, our worlds overlap consistently.

[frogbearwhatever]

Daily Drabble 364- Ink

Tracy wasn't sure about the specialist, Hector.

He knew his shit about the occult, sure, but he was young and scrawny. Could he handle combat?

* * * * *

She got her answer three nights later when some kind of squidman attacked them in the marshlands. It drowned Michaels and injured two others, and clearly it could see bettet in the dark than her men.

Then Hector stepped forward, taking off his jacket.

His torso was covered in tattoos. As he started to chant some glowed and he summoned a flaming orb.

He'd work out fine, Tracy thought as sighted on the illumimated monstrosity.

[hopefullymendes]

Tagged

Thank you @ruinrose​ and @thesmutofthemendes​ , my loves.

Bold what applies to you :)

I am a cuddler. I am a morning person and night person. I am an only child. I am currently in my pajamas. I am currently pregnant I am left handed. l am right handed. I am ambidextrous. I am a little shy around another gender. I bite my nails. I can be paranoid at times. I enjoy country music. I enjoy smoothies. I enjoy talking on the phone. I have a car. I have/had a hard time paying attention at school. I have a hidden talent. I have a pet. I have a tendency to fall for the “wrong” person. I have all my grandparents. (I hope the change doesn’t come too soon) I have been to another country. I have been told that I have an unusual sense of humor.

I have caller I.D. on my phone. I have bathed someone. I have changed a diaper. I have changed a lot over the past year. I have friends who have never seen my natural hair color. I have had major/minor surgery. I have had my hair cut within the last week. I have mood swings. I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life. I have rejected someone before. I like the taste of blood. I love Michael Jackson. I love sleeping. I love to shop. I own 100 CDs or more. I own and use a library card. I read books for pleasure in my spare time. I sleep a lot during the day. I watch soap operas on a regular basis. I work at a job that I enjoy. I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free. I am wearing socks. I am tired. I consume at least one alcoholic drink every month.

I have/had: Finished college. Smoked cigarettes. Ridden every ride at an amusement park. Collected something really stupid. Gone to a concert. Helped someone. Spun turn tables. Watched four movies in one night. Been broken up with. Taken a college level course. Been in a car accident. Been in a tornado. Watched someone die. Been to a funeral. Burned yourself. Ran a marathon. Your parents got divorced. Cried yourself to sleep. Spent over $200 in one day. Cheated on someone. Been cheated on. Written a 10 page letter. Had a best friend. Lost someone you loved. Skipped school. Gotten in trouble for something you didn’t do. Stolen books from the library. Watched the “Harry Potter” movies. Fired a gun. Been in a school play. Been fired from a job. Taken a lie detector test. Swam with dolphins. Attempted suicide. Written poetry. Read more than 20 books a year.

Gone to Europe. (SOOOOON)

Loved someone you couldn’t have. (Shawn tho)

Used a coloring book over age 12. Had surgery. Had stitches. Taken a taxi. Had more than 5 online conversations going at once. Had a hamster. Dyed your hair. Had something pierced. Gotten straight A’s. Been handcuffed.

My hair is naturally the color: Light brown Medium brown Dark brown Blonde Black Dirty blonde (some weird in between) Strawberry blonde Multicoloured Red

My eyes are: Brown Dark Brown Blue Green Hazel Light brown A combination of things Ice Blue Grey

People sometimes label me as: Slut Girly Ugly Nerd Fat

Some of my biggest fears are: Spiders/other insects Slimy things Dying Doctor/Dentist appointments Hospitals Needles Diseases Being alone in the dark Heights Small spaces Oceans/large bodies of water Holes Large animals Small animals Open spaces Lightning Tornadoes

I have: A friend with benefits A laptop in my room A television in my room Good grades (most of the time lol) My own car Married parents

I tag @shit-to-kinda-okay​ , @illumimate​ and @shawns-love​ :)

[thelananextdoor-a]

✦ @tabletread​; continued from HERE.

“I don’t know.” he said turning his head only slightly to acknowledge her before he went back to staring down at his hands. He was having one of those nights – one of the hard nights. He flickered his gaze back up towards the sky since he was sitting OUTSIDE. “..Hours..”

With a slight frown on her forehead, the hunter took a seat next to him.  First she looked at the beautifully illumimated nightsky, but then she set her eyes on his somber expression — he didn’t look like he was out there for the mere pleasure of stargazing.  ❝ Do you wanna talk about it? ❞

[reddit-lpt]

LPT: Mosquito in your bedroom at night? Keep the room lights off and use a cellphone light to brightly illumimate anything in the air or on the walls.

LPT: Mosquito in your bedroom at night? Keep the room lights off and use a cellphone light to brightly illumimate anything in the air or on the walls. No text found by ir88ed via reddit

[julizzapizza]

Whore

Handing your temple into the hands of the sun Gods Golden Afloat Choosing hands to defeat The goddess glows Flattered by all who woes at her feet Offering bread & beets Which will stay Which will leave Which sun rays illumimate the way What sun God will kiss the night away