#paravani

[zeherili-ankhein]

You've probably seen this on my story but imagine this guy as Paravani

LMAO HE LOOKS SUCH A DIVA

That's exactly how I'd imagine him, sassy and slaying everyday 😌😌

Also he'd have better fashion sense than most birdie Vahans (other than Kama's parrot and Lakshmi's Uluka)

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Hello again~

Okay so I'm usually a bit skittish about shipping the gods (especially when they have spouses already and are in a heteronormative relationship (i think that's what it's called right?)) but I vibed with the Hera x Shachi hcs (maybe because I love Hera and I'd like her to be with anyone except Zeus atp ☠️) and that little bit about Hera, the Hindu gods and peacocks.

So like Shachi is confused as to how to approach Hera with her feelings and Vishnu (who's in the form of Krishna) catches a whiff of this along with Kartikeya.

Now, much like peacocks, they believe in presentation (megamind reference anyone? No? Okay T-T) And thus convinced Shachi somehow that she should fly on two peacocks (like literally stand on them) while more peacocks fly beside her doing flips in the air and whatnot while Krishna plays the flute in the background as Shachi confesses her love.

Long story short Shachhi actually goes through with the plan but fails (she loses her balance and falls of but plays it off) but Hera didn't notice as she was to engrossed in petting each peacock.

Shachi: um, Hera, I-

Hera: *in a baby voice, practically squishing one of the peacocks in her arms* oh you're such a good boy, you're so FLUFFY-

Shachi: yes, so anyway-

Hera: OH MY CHAOS IS THAT A BABY PEACOCK

Shachi: ok I'm done

HSJSKSJSJS IM DYING

Hera becoming a child with the peacocks is SO CANON

Shachi: *turns to Krishna and Kartikeya*

Kartik: Too many peacocks?

Krishna: I think so too yea

Paravani: It's never too many peacocks 🗿

[randomx123]

Paravani and Chitramekhala starring at eachother with those malice filled no homo eyes

[burningcheese-merchant]

I said sometime ago that Matar Paneer has a bird friend. Behold

To summarize, since I already explained before and don't want to bore anyone: Paneer found him in a tree as a little peachick, tragically orphaned after his family was attacked, killed and eaten in their nest by a predator. Not wanting him to be alone, she brought him back home and fought for him to stay, to which her parents eventually agreed (Paneer does not take "no" for an answer ever). Besides Pepper Jack, he's her best friend in the whole world and they're practically inseparable.

Extra bird factoids:

Obviously, his physical appearance is extremely abnormal. Instead of the typical green, his train/display feathers are a bold and impressive mixture of reds, oranges and yellows; nothing but warm, vibrant colors that almost make him look as though he's catching fire. Furthermore, and perhaps even more strangely, he seems to be made up of triangles: triangular "eye" patterns in his feathers, triangular markings underlining his eyes, triangular crest feathers, even triangular pupils... No one is certain why he looks like this; it's mostly been waved away as a bizarre phenotypic mutation

He is also abnormally intelligent. He appears to understand human/cookie speech and even responds when directly addressed/conversed with (as much as he can, being a peacock). He understands photos, he recognizes himself in mirrors, he's even demonstrated some problem-solving/critical thinking skills a few times. Extremely impressive for an animal (esp for a peacock, which are pretty dumb irl)

He sits at the table with the rest of the family during meals. His first night with them after being taken in, Paneer set him down next to her plate so he could reach the food (he was super smol), which her parents didn't like. They argued about it until Paneer grabbed Paravani + her food and sat down to eat on the floor in protest (Paravani is family, family sits at the table, if he can't sit there then she can't, either), after which they caved (MP is STUBBORN you have to understand) and let him sit. He sat on the table proper while he was a chick and got his own chair when he grew large enough

Paneer considers him her friend and her equal and does not take kindly to him being referred to/treated as a pet

He mimics Paneer's actions often. Like, if she tilts her head to one side, he'll do the exact same thing. It's cute

Paravani is very curious and adventurous in nature, and normally quite friendly/approachable unless you give him a reason not to be. Even then, he's slow to anger and usually becomes skittish instead; to truly anger him, you have to hurt Paneer, whom he is very protective of

As a chick, he would hide in Paneer's hair when he was scared

He does get along well with the rest of the family - but while he got on with Pepper Jack and Golden Cheese right away (bird people + he could sense their kind natures immediately), he was terrified of Burning Spice for quite some time (it's mostly because of how he looks. He looks like a predator to him). It took a while of Spice deliberately appearing docile/nonthreatening and the others insisting that Spice is nice for Paravani to overcome his reservations. Nowadays he's as fond of Spice as he is everyone else

As I mentioned here, Matar Paneer takes after Kartikeya, Hindu god of war and victory and Shiva's second son. Kartikeya is known for having a peacock as a mount, named Paravani. Keeping in line with this, not only did I give Paneer a peacock as a companion, but one day, her Paravani will grow big enough for her to sit and ride around on, just like Kartikeya's. No one knows why this happens, either. It freaks a lot of people out. Once again his unique features are written off as "mutations + lol Beast-Yeast creature")

Matar Paneer always blames herself for his family's deaths. She thinks that, if she'd found them in time, she could've fended off the predator and saved them, and Paravani wouldn't have been orphaned. Giving him a home and good company was the absolute least she could've done for him...

[dance-world]

Vito Bortone - Teatro Massimo - photo by Giulio Paravani

[zef-zef]

Blixa Bargeld & Teho Teardo Rome, Italy, 19 November 2024

1-3: source: spaziorock © 📸: Tommaso Notarangelo

4-9 source: ocanerarock © 📸: Giulio Paravani

[southernsolarpunk]

Hey what the fuck is this news story?

“ But the world’s largest economies are already there: The total fertility rate among the OECD’s 38 member countries dropped to just 1.5 children per woman in 2022 from 3.3 children in 1960. That’s well below the “replacement level” of 2.1 children per woman needed to keep populations constant.

That means the supply of workers in many countries is quickly diminishing.

In the 1960s, there were six people of working age for every retired person, according to the World Economic Forum. Today, the ratio is closer to three-to-one. By 2035, it’s expected to be two-to-one.

Top executives at publicly traded US companies mentioned labor shortages nearly 7,000 times in earnings calls over the last decade, according to an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis last week.

“A reduction in the share of workers can lead to labor shortages, which may raise the bargaining power of employees and lift wages — all of which is ultimately inflationary,” Simona Paravani-Mellinghoff, managing director at BlackRock, wrote in an analysis last year. “

Is this seriously how normal people think? Improving the bargaining power of workers and increased wages are bad?

“ And while net immigration has helped offset demographic problems facing rich countries in the past, the shrinking population is now a global phenomenon. “This is critical because it implies advanced economies may start to struggle to ‘import’ labour from such places either via migration or sourcing goods,” wrote Paravani-Mellinghoff.

By 2100, only six countries are expected to be having enough children to keep their populations stable: Africa’s Chad, Niger and Somalia, the Pacific islands of Samoa and Tonga, and Tajikistan, according to research published by the Lancet, a medical journal.

BlackRock’s expert advises her clients to invest in inflation-linked bonds, as well as inflation-hedging commodities like energy, industrial metals and agriculture and livestock.

Import labor via migration or sourcing goods? My brother in Christ they are modern day slaves!! I feel like I’m in backwards town reading this what the fuck?!

“ Elon Musk, father of 12 children, has remarked that falling birthrates will lead to “a civilization that ends not with a bang but a whimper, in adult diapers.”

While his words are incendiary, they’re not entirely wrong

P&G and Kimberly-Clark, which together make up more than half of the US diaper market, have seen baby diaper sales decline over the past few years. But adult diapers sales, they say, are a bright spot in their portfolios. “

Oh now the guy with a breeding kink is going to lecture us. Great. /s

“ The AI solution: Some business leaders and technologists see the boom in productivity through artificial intelligence as a potential solution.

“Here are the facts. We are not having enough children, and we have not been having enough children for long enough that there is a demographic crisis, former Google CEO and executive chairman Eric Schmidt said at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit in London last year.

“In aggregate, all the demographics say there’s going to be shortage of humans for jobs. Literally too many jobs and not enough people for at least the next 30 years,” Schmidt said.

Oh god not the AI tech bros coming into this shit too. Wasn’t the purpose of improving tech to give people more free time? So they can relax and spend time with family more and actually enjoy life? Isn’t our economy already bloated with useless pencil-pushing number-crunching desk jobs that ultimately don’t serve a purpose?

I’m not going to post the entire article but give it a read. It’s… certainly something. Anyway degrowth is the way of the future.

[nightmares-voicemail]

Maris!Richard, so you were willingly Akumatized, your memories should be in tact.

Anything in particular from that fight stand out?

Richard

"I don't know what are you talking about, I was manipulated like everyone else. I'd never help a terrorist like Riodinidae by my own."

Wisp

Cops can't hear you.

Richard

"Well it was a bit annoying that there was another guy with Shadow in his name, and even that little twerp had shadow powers. Not like any of them could hold a candle to me, but you know, get away from my theme you know?

"That clockface senti was a little confusing. I don't know why they couldn't just remake Sapphire Witch, guess Paravani must been exhausted from making all those sentimonsters. That'll teach them to instead of spreading themselves so thin, next time they should bet everything on their ace, the almighty Shadow Jeweler!

"Let's see, what else? Oh, when the kittycat got hit in the nuts, that was great. Too bad nobody recorded it.

"And of course that stupid goat had to show up just to annoy me. I don't even know which is more pathetic, that she showed up just because of me and then couldn't even take me down herself, or that she doesn't realize how obvious her little hate crush is."

Wisp

Did you just say "hate crush"?

Richard

"Yeah? Come on, it's so obvious. She can't get over the fact that she can't best me and her frustration makes her obsessed with me. She could at least admit it, not like I'd be interested, I have standards. But taking the L would be still more dignified than finding excuses to harass and 'fight' me. Hey, what that look supposed to mean?"

Wisp

Richard, by any chance, are you familiar with the term Homestuck?

Richard

"What the hell is that supposed to be, some joke about me being in foster care? Screw you."

Wisp

Nothing, don't worry about it. *scribbles down notes furiously*

Richard

"I can see your action tags you jerk! What are you writing‽"

[alexturner2005]

Arctic Monkeys @ Rock in Roma 16th July 2023, By Giulio Paravani

[marisverse]

What is the Marisverse?

Maris Stella is a Miraculous Ladybug Original Character Alternate Universe, or a MLBOCAU. The Kwamis remain the same, but the humans Holders have all been replaced by OCs.

Originally I was going to use only my own OCs but I borrowed some from friends (and some of their friends joined in.) Oh and a few canon characters from other series ended up in here.

I'll be focusing as my OCs here, and mostly the major ones (being the Holders) though if you have a question for some of the Kwamis, that might be fun too. I'll probably just be answering questions from friends and not interacting much with other posts- maybe.

Spoilers Below

Naota Yamaguchi- Ladybug Holder Maris Stella

Fletcher Aldaine- Black Cat Holder Tenechat

Yuu Akimoto- Temporary Rooster Holder Dawnbringer

Hikaru Reinhardt- Fox Holder Fennekit

Erica Cruz- Bee Holder Ceratina

Sonya Remington- Former Turtle Holder Lavinia

Arc Kingsolver- Turtle Holder Kaihonu

Ham Malderess- Dragon Holder Czar Wyvern

Alicia Thompson- Rabbit Holder Cheshire Rabbit

Justin Rhodes- Monkey Holder Discord

Yukari Akimoto- Butterfly Holder Riodinidae

Aron Vector- Peacock Holder Paravani

Carmen Vector- Eagle Holder Eatos Occasional Peacock Holder Sukima

For Hallie Mathews-Elakha (Tiger Holder Tigris Cantus) Hitomi Elakha (Horse Holder Nightmare) and related characters please visit @elakha-house-cube

For Natasha Alexton (Goat Holder Sylvana) and related characters please visit @facultativeactivity

For Juniper Kempton (Ox Holder Io) and related characters please visit @fluffybunnybadass

The Dog Holder and Current Rooster Holder are not my OCs so I will not roleplay as them, but for reference sake

Eva Talbot- Dog Holder Labros

Loaño Ishida- Rooster Holder Chanticleer

Further Holders will be added as the story proceeds

[ffloorageorge]

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[zeherili-ankhein]

I just thought up a headcannon:

You know the myth of how peacocks dance when it's about to rain, right?

What if Kartik (and maybe Paravani too?) starts dancing with Kaumari, as a signal of sorts for Indra to send rain, and peacocks dance to imitate the trio out of respect?

OMGGG THAT IS SO COOL HONESTLY

THEY'D ABSOLUTELY DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT

I feel like they do this every year because it's their job to send Indra a reminder like “yo sir it's your season”

They'd absolutely go full grand mode to dance with the peacocks with music and all and it's a whole show atp...

Also there's another myth I've talked about before, that frog one... So it would be funny if Kaumari and Kartik were the og one's who came up with the froggo vivah thing to call Indra lol...

*that time when even dancing didn't work*

Kartik:

Kaumari:

Kartik: what do ya say?

Kaumari:

Kaumari: i know what to do-

*cue to them getting to frogs married*

Paravani:

@h0bg0blin-meat

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Along side Vasant, this are some Indian Disney princess candidates

Chitrangada

Devyani

Shakuntala

Behula

Add yours...

MORE

Aranyani

Ushas

Suryaa (daughter of Surya)

Mohini

Kama (Cmon have you seen him? Flower arrows and a sugarcane bow? Literally princesscore) and Rati

Paravani (no arguments) and Kartikeya

[randomx123]

What if Chitramekhala is Albino??

I once thought of this, cuz we'd need some way to tell him and Paravani apart

Also, imagine him secretly doing Lord Shen imitations when no one's around to see him? (Except Saraswati is an aspect of Mahamaya, and Antarjani, so She always knows lol...)

[burningcheese-merchant]

Mythological Inspirations: Matar Paneer Cookie Edition

So, where did Matar Paneer- nah I don't feel like making this joke again. Indian curry dish + crazy lion lady + demon slaying goofball pretty boy. BOOM.

Next installment of "Merchant rants about how far she went designing these fankids into a void for 10 hours"

Same as/with/for Pepper Jack, I researched and took inspiration from Egyptian and Hindu mythology while drafting up Matar Paneer. If Golden Cheese is Ra, and Burning Spice is Shiva, and Pepper Jack is the bennu bird + Ganesha... what does that make our little lady here?

Remember how Shiva has two sons? Jack is already one, so Paneer is, naturally, the other one. She takes after Kartikeya, second son of Shiva and Parvati, god of war and victory.

Kartikeya's primary color is red. So Paneer's is, as well. It's her favorite color and what she likes to wear the most. (It's also partially because of Burning Spice lol. Red will always = Papa to her to some degree)

Kartikeya is armed with a divine spear called Vel, which was a gift from his mother. Though Paneer wields and favors her katar, she will one day carry a spear alongside them, also a gift from her own mother (can't wait to tell that story haha)

One of Kartikeya's symbols is a peacock; this is because he has a giant peacock (named Paravani) as a mount. Likewise, I had Paneer befriend a peacock, which will one day grow big enough for her to ride around on herself (can't wait to tell that story either! I personally like my little interpretation of Paravani. Matar Paneer and her little bird bestie haha)

Kartikeya has a very innocent and playful personality; he's quite silly and mischievous, and likes to mess with things for fun (ex: messing with planets' orbits, stacking mountains on top of each other, stopping the flow of the Ganges river, etc). Paneer is quite similar (something else I didn't know beforehand, I swear. Paneer being a little gremlin just like the god she ends up taking after is another happy coincidence), going on little adventures and making messes and having... destructive tendencies like her Papa lol. (But she never means any harm. She's a good kid, she's just a bit impulsive and reckless)

Sometimes, Kartikeya is depicted with six heads (varies by scripture). Bit of a stretch, but I thought of having Paneer own six masks, each one wildly different from the other, that she'll often wear for fun. (I'll explain this better in another post)

Kartikeya is credited with defeating many monsters and demons, minor and major. So Paneer will grow up to become a renowned demon slayer, just like him (spoiling the end of her story there lol)

Golden Cheese is clearly inspired by Ra, Egyptian god of the sun and head of the pantheon (it's extra obvious with her Awakened form lol). The stories vary wildly from what I've seen, but the most baseline concept is that Ra has 3 daughters. Believing her to be the most fitting, I chose to have Paneer take after Sekhmet, Egyptian goddess of war, chaos, plague and medicine.

Sekhmet's primary color is also red. More red for our little lady. (All the war gods like red, so predictable smh)

Sekhmet is extremely violent and bloodthirsty, as her profession suggests. Born from the fire in Ra's eye, her main purpose in life is to protect him, help uphold cosmic order, and punish mortals for disobedience towards either. Paneer is... quite temperamental lol. Very strong-willed, very easily frustrated, very emotional. Fiercely protective of those she loves. And she can be... vengeful. Very, very vengeful. I will not elaborate further because it's spoilery as fuck lol

Like most of the other gods, Sekhmet is a furry part animal, with a woman's body and a lioness's head. Also a bit of a stretch, but... a certain young lady is getting a lioness tattoo on her back when she's an adult, as a nod/homage haha. Also, Golden Cheese's special nickname for her is "little lioness"

Sekhmet is often depicted with a lotus in one hand, and an ankh in the other. There, now you know why Paneer has a lotus in her hair lol (she's also getting an ankh tattoo when she's an adult, on her left wrist since that's the hand Sekhmet is always seen using to hold it (Paneer is getting a lot of tattoos when she's older, as you can see))

The Egyptians very much believed in names having power (common idea in the ancient world, really, but they were extra into it), so Sekhmet, like all the other gods, has like a billion names lol. To keep things simple (I counted 15 names the first time I looked into her and I'm pretty sure there's more), Paneer only gets a few: "Red Lady" (this one in particular), "Lady of Slaughter", "Mistress of Dread" and "She Before Whom Evil Trembles". The first three, people in general give her as a result of her actions/accomplishments (demon slayer, remember?) and are meant in a positive, reverent way (sometimes with a small touch of fear, admittedly). The last one is what High Priest Cheesenbird calls her. He has a term of affection/endearment for both children

Sekhmet can breathe fire; in fact, the Ancient Egyptians often credited/associated her with the hot desert winds because of it. I think I said this before already, but Paneer is a fire breather, too (she can light her hands and feet on fire, as well. Not a full-on firebender but not too far away)

In an interesting contradiction, Sekhmet is a goddess of both disease and medicine. She's bitter and wrathful, and causes plague outbreaks as a form of punishment for mankind... but she cures them, too. She's feared and looked to for salvation at the same time. She's even considered a patroness of physicians and healers. So... Perhaps our little firebreather has a hidden knack for healing, too. A secret power. One that's only noticed by another healer who would know how to spot and nurture such a talent *cough*Pure Vanilla*cough*. Maybe. Perhaps 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Also, here's some doodles of more general things just because

There's little Paravani lol. Hopefully I actually start improving as an artist eventually, so I can draw Paravani better (or more in line with how he looks in my head. I don't really want a regular looking peacock, that's boring)

There's the little cheese lotus Paneer wears in her hair. Just used the one in the Golden Cheese Kingdom decor set as a reference 😅

Ankhs r cool 2 draw. Also, fun fact: they symbolize immortality and reincarnation. Reminds you of her mom, doesn't it? Haha

Tried to draw her katar (Indian knives. Basically Wolverine claws). They were a gift from Cilantro Cobra (she's alive and well in my personal canon ok 😫), and she went the extra mile to have little symbols engraved in both. Burning Spice's in one, Golden Cheese's in the other

She's supposed to have little green earrings that look like green peas ("matar" means green pea, "paneer" is the Indian cheese. Literally "green pea cheese" lol). Her design references the food she's supposed to be a lot more than Jack's, I think

Ok I'm done now. I'm sorry this post was so late. I'm also sorry this is all on paper and in shitty ass lighting, me no have drawing tablet. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk

[zeherili-ankhein]

@randomx123 Chitramekhala annoying/picking up a fight with Paravani be like