#numinism

[carmentalia]

just got the bucranium i had ordered for my lararium! :)

[art-lokiitama]

Here's a piece I made for the Guess That Artist game in the Haunted Heroes Discord Server! The theme was to draw fanart for a fanfic and I just couldn't help myself 🥺🥺

This art is from @numinous-scribe's The needle in our compass is trembling a wonderful fic I was really happy to read and re-read as I made this 🤗

It's a wonderful fic full of Demon Twins feels and it felt just right to draw, and was very fun to mimic the WFA artstyle to match it, too! Thank you so much to @arzuera for hosting this it was amazing!!

Cheers! ✨

[suzukiblu]

My fic for @dpxdcbigbang is officially live, with delightfully fitting art from @numinous-scribe, hahaha. Entirely unsurprisingly, it involves clone issues and Data EnKrypton and both Tucker and Kon being their own hyper-specific brands of ridiculous.

things that are fun to believe in: ghosts. aliens. magic. yourself!! It’s not like the world is spilling over with clones, is the thing; especially not genetically stable super-powered hybrid clones with– Wait, Tucker thinks, and lifts his head to stare blankly at the poster on his bedroom wall. Well, there’s a lot of posters on all of his bedroom walls, admittedly, but a specific poster on a specific wall.  “You’re a genetically stable super-powered hybrid clone,” Tucker says to his poster, still staring at the digitally-rendered face of a teen idol superhero. Superboy continues to grin cockily at him, because he’s a special edition poster and obviously isn’t gonna stop doing that.  Tucker, very slowly, reaches for his phone and types something into Bing after all.

[searchsystem]

Numinous / 72.Revival / Folder / 2024

[imaginal-ai]

"Nocturnal Visitor" (0004)

(More of The Spirits of the Night Series)

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[mx-legend-of-faye]

Wouldn’t it be just horrifying for the guardians of the Silent Realm in Skyward Sword to be corrupted by either malice or gloom from BotW/TotK and thus looking essentially like the blights that killed the champions?

And wouldn’t it be so fun to make Sky and Wild have to face that horrible combination of what’s probably somewhere in the top five of their worst nightmares?

Just imagine it, the Silent Realm bleeding through into the regular realm on Skyloft. The color slowly draining away into that haunting bluish-grey of the Silent Realm. Eerie bells ringing in the air. Gloom seeping onto the floor, because the Silent Realm has been corrupted, and it’s no longer a place Hylia has any control over.

The guardians of the Silent Realm with gloom covered weapons, eyes dripping gloom from them, and bodies becoming more and more coated in gloom as the guardians flicker in and out of view near the Light Tower on Skyloft.

And then the guardians awaken. You know, the guardians that have never been fought before and therefore have no known method of defeating them?

Yeah :)

[grxpfruit]

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[w2nv]

For the love of god stop touching the fucking wolfmen

[uniasus]

fic rec! 5K DC x DP fic, featuring whump for Danny

Summary: Damian goes investigating a government compound, and finds a familiar face strapped to a table.

Comments: Damian and Danny are twins in this fic, but I love how their reunion isn't loving. Danny doesn't really expect Damian to help him, and Danny doesn't have much interest in rekindling their brotherhood, just getting out. To that end, it's Damian who takes all the small steps. Helping him to escape, making sure he's not left behind, respecting Danny's boundaries. It's a gruff reunion between two hardened boys, but it feels all the more real because of it.

[so-true-overdue]

Ah, the delicate art of deception, Russia’s enduring magnum opus. In a world awash with superficial ephemera and algorithm-driven hysteria, it has emerged as a master puppeteer, manipulating the strings of disinformation to sow discord in the vulnerable Western psyche. The battlefield of choice? Social media platforms, of course—those gloriously fertile grounds where any unverified tweet or video clip can blossom into the viral infection of modern civilization.

Through meticulously crafted disinformation campaigns, Russia has weaponized truth, distorting it beyond recognition and serving it on a platter to the unsuspecting masses who consume it with insatiable gullibility. The irony is, while most of the Western world fancies itself intellectually superior, the very same platforms they created to exchange cat memes have now become tools of psychological warfare. And why wouldn’t they? What better way to dismantle a society than by first unraveling its understanding of objective reality?

Enter the antidote: verifiable journalism. Yes, that relic of an era when facts were sacrosanct and not merely alternative options on a drop-down menu. Only through rigorous, investigative journalism can we fortify the crumbling ramparts of reason against the onslaught of misinformation. In an age where everyone with a smartphone fancies themselves a beacon of truth, the numinous—a word traditionally reserved for spiritual transcendence—takes on new significance. It is through the sacred, almost mystical reverence for truth that we might reconnect with an epistemological certainty. The numinous, in this case, isn’t found in the divine but in the sheer act of seeking verifiable, unadulterated information—an endeavor that feels increasingly like an act of faith itself.

Yet, the dissonance remains palpable. Instead of scrolling through rigorously researched articles, many remain transfixed by whatever ideological poison is peddled by the latest bot, leaving the defenses of reason to rot. Because, after all, who needs journalistic integrity when you have a meme to confirm your worldview?

In this grim theater of cognitive warfare, it is not weapons but narratives that determine the victor. And unless we are willing to hold up verifiable journalism as the last bastion of intellectual integrity, the West may find itself losing more than just a few online arguments. It could lose the very essence of reality itself.

[totallyaspy]

I finished my last two models for my army this weekend. I did a very mild kitbash with Watch Captain Artemis by giving him a helmet. Had a good time working on my Evasor Assassin. I'm very happy with how Artemis sword turned out. The blue hue is not overpowering, and you can see the metallic under it, and the gold letters in the middle of the blade were much easier to do than expected. I'm going to try to do the last Assassin I need for my army this week before the team tournament this weekend and then I'm not going to paint anymore Deathwatch till I have at least 1000 points in T'au and World Eaters.

[cabinhome]

cute how we tiptoe around one another

Via numinous object

[kick-the-clouds]

We are losing touch with reality.

It's easy to reject science. It tells us things we don’t always want to hear. It often feels distant and cold, full of jargon and concepts that seem too complicated to matter. It's easier to believe something that feels simple, something that fits our existing views, something that doesn’t challenge the way we already see the world.

But science isn’t the enemy. It’s a light in the dark.

Imagine standing at the edge of a vast ocean. You know the waves are real because you see them. You can feel the wind, hear the rush of water. But someone tells you it's all a trick, that the ocean doesn’t exist. If you believe them, for a while, you might feel safe from the uncertainty of what lies beneath the surface. But the truth of the ocean remains. Denying it doesn’t stop the waves from coming.

Science works the same way. It helps us understand the unseen—things too big or too small for us to grasp on our own. Like gravity keeping us grounded, like germs making us sick, like the climate changing around us. Science shows us these realities, even when we’re afraid to face them.

Denial is tempting because it feels easier than confronting the unknown. But denying science leaves us adrift in a sea of misinformation. Only when we open our minds to what science reveals can we start to find solid ground again.

The beauty of science is that it's not there to control us. It's there to help us. To protect us. To give us a way forward, even when the answers are hard to hear.

Facing facts doesn’t have to take away wonder. It can lead to something greater. By embracing what science tells us, we open the door to awe, to a deeper understanding of the world, and to our place within it.

The truth is out there, waiting for us to see.

[luminary-rainchii]

doodle of my sky sona numin !!

[searchsystem]

Numinous / 72.Revival / Printed Matter / 2024

[imaginal-ai]

"Nocturnal Visitor" (0002)

(More of The Spirits of the Night Series)

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