#salem memorial

[salemoleander]

Even if you don't watch every episode (which, unless you have to - my condolences to the HC Recap team - I assume most people won't) one way of narrowing things down that I HIGHLY suggest is picking at least one person from each of the mining teams to watch, because the vibes are wildly different and equally hilarious.

Team Blue Bin Bags - Spend the entire mining session roasting each other. Climactic moment involving a faux ad for project management software. Would sell each other to Satan for one cornchip.

Hypno

Iskall

Mumbo

Ren

Stress

Team Red Rashers - At one point Etho says, "I don't understand some things about social dynamics, I tell you," and that's this group's motto! Simultaneously the most competent and the most nervous team, like a bunch of racing greyhounds.

Bdubs

Etho

False

Jevin

Team Mustard Milk Tots - They get a lot done, which I think is mostly because 90% of their dunking is targeted at Doc. Very 'parents out for drinks' vibes, despite constantly descending into childish bickering.

Beef

Cleo

Doc

Skizz

Tango

Team Purple Pickles - Lowest intra-group antagonism, made up for by their choice to run straight towards environmental dangers. The cave diving and sculk could make it a horror movie, but everyone is so unruffleable (excepting X, who is perpetually ruffled) that it wraps back to comedy.

Joe Hills

Keralis

xB

Xisuma

[zegalba]

Alexander McQueen: In Memory of Elizabeth How, Salem 1692, autumn/winter 2007-2008

Bodice of burgundy molded leather; skirt of burgundy silk chiffon

[thoughtsofananon]

Could we get an avoid? You choose which flavor

help there’s been a shadow guy rotating in my mind constantly for (checks the date) FIVE MONTHS.

I exploded in the tags

[thereisacentipedeinmystudy]

my arts been really bad for a few months now - so as an exercise, here are some pretty basic sketches of some councilors

part two eventually probably

[st-whalefall]

When is the Long Memory going to explode into shrapnel and Oscar “God’s Spear” Pine going to make his own weapon hmmmm?

When is Oscar “Deer Kindred” Pine gonna start growing antlers huh?

[stuck-in1999]

September 1st = Spooky Season 👻🎃

[rwby-encrusted-blog]

Long Memory: Salem, You heathenous, selfish, vile, dark creature of the night! You've no Honour, no Merits of your own, and you've Forsaken everything worth living and Dying for!

Salem: And what would you know of Life and death, you over zealous twig-*BANG*

Harbinger: *Dropping a spent Shell* Eat shit You crusty Bitch! No gets to call her a Twig but me!

[fr-likes-chocolate]

I remember the time when I was at the Salem witch trials museum in Massachusetts with my family and nearly fainted from what I think was jet lag right when they started talking about the witches.

If I actually had fainted it would have been hilarious

[chaoticdesertdweller]

Blue Jay Motel

Salem, Virginia

[rabbitcruiser]

The Salem witch trials were ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor Sir William Phips on October 12, 1692.

[thefabelmans2022]

please reblog for sample size ☺️

[c0rpsedemon]

i <3 the whydah she's Literally my wife

[zegalba]

Alexander McQueen: “In Memory of Elizabeth Howe, Salem, 1692” Fall Ready-to-Wear 2007

[bestworstcase]

Do you think The God of Animals from the RWBY fairytails The Shallow Sea and The Judgement of the Fanus might be another powerful Afterian who decided to go through the door? Because looking at the stories I'm not sure, but the creation of Fanus in the stories does actually seem to be pretty similar to ascension so I feel like there was influence from it. Maybe someone brought a bunch of Tree leaves to Remnant and the tea or smoke made from it turned people or animals into faunus.

genuinely i think the god of animals—as in the inspiration for the mythical entity, i don’t think there is an actual ‘god of animals’ in the way that the brothers are real—Is Salem.

one of the faunus creation myths is about outcasts with nowhere else to go and nothing to lose choosing to jump into magical waters offered to them by a capricious, wild god, and emerging transformed and liberated from their unhappy fates only to be condemned by humans who perceive their changes as horrific. the other is about being transformed by the judgment of a god into beings who are then immediately blamed for leading grimm to a human settlement and exiled forever.

salem is “your grace” to some of her followers, particularly tyrian, and this is also the form of address used for ghira belladonna—she is literally addressed by her own followers in the form of a faunus monarch! there is a cultural adjacency to faunus baked into referring to her this way!

the world of remnant episodes on grimm and faunus imply HEAVILY that 1. faunus have historically been viewed by humans as adjacent to grimm and 2. there is a strong cultural perception that grimm are an existential threat to humans specifically, with faunus being at best an afterthought. and of course adam’s white fang carted grimm around no problem and menagerie just…doesn’t seem to have a grimm problem, so it’s entirely possible that grimm really don’t prey on faunus except incidentally.

in ‘after the fall’ as in V2 ozpin singles out The Faunus Member Of The Team for questioning after an incident, and while we don’t get to see it directly with velvet she is in tears when her teammates burst in, and of course with blake it is transparently obvious that ozpin suspects blake of being salem’s spy; it probably also bears repeating that back in the day ozma factored “the people telling me scary stories about The Witch who lives among Beasts and Monsters also enslave faunus and keep them in cages” into his assessment of these stories not at all, and doesn’t seem to have been all that fussed about the cages situation itself. the man is quietly racist but also, like, “beasts” in this context is a euphemism for faunus, we’ve all grokked this, yeah?

all of which is to say, there are a lot of small hints as to a cultural Connection between salem and faunus that together add up to, well, i think at one point she was similarly influential to the development of faunus myth as ozma was to that of human folklore, if probably not with the same degree of intentionality. like ‘the shallow sea’ is an allegorical retelling of salem’s plunge into the grimm pool told from the perspective of freely chosen transformation being a good thing. also the god of animals is said to be a shapeshifter and we know that shapeshifting is something magic users can do. also ‘the shallow sea’ Specifically brings up the grimm three separate times just to say “don’t worry about them, they’re not a problem in This story” which, Okay.

[charmingpplincardigans]

Went to Salem yesterday. Saw an incredibly lovely letter someone left at the Witch Memorial.

[saw-bathroom]

btw if someone knows how to make silent hill: shattered memories work on the ps2 emulator ToT , it gets all the graphics wrong! it doesn’t happen with the silent hill 2 and 3