#sand divination

[eleanor-arroway]

“The job is the unquestioned goal for all free citizens of the world – the ultimate public good. It is the clearly stated exit goal of all education and the only sanctioned reason for acquiring knowledge. But if we think about it for a moment, jobs are not what we want. We want shelter, food, strong relationships, a livable habitat, stimulating learning activity, and time to perform valued tasks in which we excel. I don’t know of many jobs that will allow access to more than two or three of those things at a time, unless you have a particularly benevolent owner or employer.

I am often told that I should be grateful for the progress that Western civilization has brought to these shores. I am not. This life of work-or-die is not an improvement on preinvasion living, which involved only a few hours of work a day for shelter and sustenance, performing tasks that people do now for leisure activities on their yearly vacations: fishing, collecting plants, hunting, camping, and so forth. The rest of the day was for fun, strengthening relationships, ritual and ceremony, cultural expression, intellectual pursuits, and the expert crafting of exceptional objects. I know this is true because I have lived like this, even in this era where the land is only a pale shadow of the abundance that once was. We have been lied to about the “harsh survival” lifestyles of the past. There was nothing harsh about it. If it was so harsh – such a brutish, menial struggle for existence – then we would not have evolved to become the delicate, intelligent creatures that we are.”

- Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World

[soracities]

Kahlil Gibran, excerpts from Sand and Foam [ID in ALT]

[timdrakemybeloved]

I think the funniest part of Percy bloodbending and controlling poison is that he just went liquid therefore under my control. His dad is the god of the sea so should he even really have power over freshwater?? Imagine if he just did that for everything and went dirt has water in it therefore under my control like?? The poison lady - can’t remember her name - was a primordial and so is Gaea so theoretically he could. Anyways op Percy for the win.

[inafieldofdaisies]

(WIP) Music Monday / The rules: Post a song that is relevant to your WIP or inspires it. I’m also including the lyrics.

What's worse, being wanted but not loved Or loved but not wanted? What's worse, hearin' what you wanna hear Or hearin' what's honest? Our love's misaligned 'Cause you're on my mind every night I ignore the signs And I don't know why 'Cause, baby, I saw the end when we began You couldn't love the way I can I tried to bargain with the stars For more than half your heart But you have more pieces of me than the desert has sand And I have less pieces of you than I can hold in my hand

one could argue if this goes harder for Mer or Jacob, since she's so difficult to pin down

We are looking up to the sky, searching for a reason why We are holding onto our hope, blinded by the smoke But we're coming in like a hurricane Heads down in the pouring rain We'll fight till doomsday When the world's in ashes Lost to all the havoc Raise our swords, and fight till doomsday When the earth is severed We will not surrender In this war, we'll fight till doomsday

I wake in the night all alone in my head Lost all focus Left me breathless Blinded by the light Twin flames, two hearts Can burn out in any second And twin flames, two hearts Can implode, live in the embers Twin flames, two hearts on fire We're burning together We burn We're burning together

I chase the high I beat you at your game There's no place to hide There only is one way I'll bleed you dry This is my domain

Tagging, @socially-awkward-skeleton @josephseedismyfather @quantum-lover @direwombat @corvosattano @strangefable @thesingularityseries @the-silver-chronicles @adelaidedrubman @wrathfulrook @clicheantagonist @nightbloodbix @jillvalentinesday @madparadoxum @onehornedbeast @g0dspeeed @shegetsburned @aceghosts @voidika @theelderhazelnut @unholymilf @trench-rot @josephslittledeputy @dumbassdep and anyone that would like to share some songs this week 🤍

[a-compass-without-a-needle]

"I've connected the dots"

"You didn't connect shit."

"I connected them."

[iniziare]

Tag drop: Jingliu

[rose-lalondde]

naruto but it's my modern fantasy world au

[fiercest-eigengrau-skies]

Patrons of Altered Fate

finally got this finished! tyrdove, my bg3 tav, and the patrons who have aided her. lore and singular patrons under the cut! :D

i'll probably do a full post about them at a later date, but for now, just their sprites.

"My ancestors oft spoke of divine heritors of old that provided them aid in their great journeys. Masters of a Pantheon of Altered Fate, whose forms have been touched by the strange magicks of the Feywild. My father and his father before him sought their favor, yet were met with a deafening silence.

"Yet, for me, they answered, and aided me they did.

"The first, my pacted patron, whose name has long been lost to history even before the Scourge of the Sea was met with the Faerûnian coast: the Arbiter of Fate. His command of the Cords of Fate are not something to be trifled with, able to read an entire history from one's Cord. My ability to be used as a conduit of my aura magic, as my mother referred to it, stems from an unutterably ancient blood pact they made with one of my ancestors of old.

"The next of my patrons, the Rhapsody of the Sands. It was he who stepped when my life was fated to end at the hands of my damnable father, his mastery of chronomancy unmatched. So, too, is he called a god of war, a representation of war in its truest horror. As just, I flew on his righteous wings to strike my father down in the house that became my prison.

"The last of my patrons who has answered my call, she calls herself a Guide of Crossroads. As I ran from my burning house, scorched and damaged in more ways than one, she came to me, my path at a crossroads, and offered me healing and aid. She provided me a path forward, and allowed me to meet with my divine benefactors.

"Much of what I know is owed to them."

From the journal of Tyrdove Sentio, 1536 DR

[artjunk13]

Divine Sands light column Sims 4 CC

It seems that some columns are blessed by the gods.

13 variants

Light switch on/off interaction

Can be found with "Divine Sands" keyword or in outdoor light category

Need cats and dogs pack*

Hey this is my first construct mode object, i hope you will like it!

Enjoy 😃

Link to download

[sandcastle-art]

DIVORCE 💔

[god-slayer-apprentice]

Just finished Inferno and it’s great. I can really see the way it shaped fiction, if nothing else. BTW which circle of Hell are you going to?

[waraxarcana]

@ferromagnetiic asked: 💭 + Biological family 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓬𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓷𝓼 — send 💭 + a topic to receive a headcanon about said topic. (Always Accepting!)

Hawkins is the sole child of a couple who were second to the bottom of Augur's caste system. His mother was a cook for a much better off family while his father was a laborer who worked to construct the capital’s various temples. Hawkins was close to neither, though he did gain his love of architecture and interior design from his father, spending many hours pouring over the blueprints of various buildings that his father worked on.

Unfortunately, his father was unceremoniously killed by a man of a higher caste who had cheated him, and his mother quickly remarried, though her new husband wanted nothing to do with Hawkins. He choose to leave home when he came of age, traveling to one of the coastal towns, and didn’t bother to remain in contact with his mother. He never even received news of her death years later, though that was likely due to her having a “shameful” emotional breakdown and taking her own life.  

[monsterhospital]

8.13.23

[ppeuppeuppeu]

i-i took a nap, and i fvcking dreamt of ryan corr i sht you not. i did not want to wake up yet but i cant have nice things, even in dreams.

[andromedaspark]

The fact that some people will never see the ocean fills me with such a unique sense of dread.