#sceptre-of-luminescence

[ask-stranded-sides]

GUYS WHAT PART OF DON'T SAY IT DIDN'T YOU GET (*To the other voices*) Logan, Deceit, please take it calmly, Deceit, just concentrate in the matter on hand, okay? One problem at a time. Self care.

Self care. 

Deceit nods and gently helps anchor Logan in a way where he’s not constricted. The other takes a deep breath and they make their way forward. 

Deceit: “Self care. Yes, that’s an excellent idea.” 

[msu82]

I won’t get into the details of how long this took me, buuuut this is a commission for the lovely @not-so-innocent-bi-sander for her Sanders Sides Fanfiction “The View From Here!”

Here’s a link to the ongoing fanfiction’s Masterlist: https://not-so-innocent-bi-sander.tumblr.com/post/169509231801/the-view-from-here-masterlist

I have another commission for the same story coming soon! Stay tuned, and I hope you love it, Jordan!

I am also tagging @cloverlyanxious and @sanderstribute cause I know they were both interested in seeing this once it was finally done.

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[dustedmagazine]

Golden Light — Sacred Colour of the Source of Light (Iron Bonehead)

“Golden Light” is an unusually lambent name for a black metal band, and the black metal band calling itself Golden Light makes an unusually luminescent sort of black metal music. On Sacred Colour of the Source of Light, most of the genre’s sonic conventions are well represented: harsh, shrieked vocals, tending toward upper registers; a steady pulse of blast-beat-driven percussion; simple and insistent tremolo picking. But Golden Light provides idiosyncratic counterpoints: bright chimes and what sound like gently rippling gongs; synths that operate in conjunction with the tremolo riffs, but also shear off into their own horizontally expansive forms; thrumming basslines that shape the blast beats into organically viscous rhythms. It’s smart, more so it’s an affectively suasive enterprise, which manages to connect with black metal’s kvlt orthodoxy and then do some innovative stuff with it. The music moves in powerful waves, but they dulcify even as they envelope. The overall effect is oddly meditative.

Other bands have made meditative metal music; Sunn 0))), Om and some of Nadja’s experimentations come to mind. But those bands incorporated strong traditions of drone and devotional music into metal grounded in doom’s tendencies toward glacial pacing. The slow unfolding of songs enacts the calm profundities we often associate with meditation and religious wonder. Golden Light abandons none of black metal’s characteristic desire for the blast, and for blurringly fast work on strings. The blur may be key, and also the expanses across which the blurring stretches. Three of the four tracks on Sacred Colour of the Source of Light top seven minutes, and one is nearly twelve minutes in length. Golden Light operates at top speed throughout the tracks, their simple riffs and mesmerizing rhythms seem to seek the motorik sublimities of “Hallogallo” even as they achieve the unhappy intensities of “Hans Siste Vinter.”  

If there is a religious intent behind Golden Light’s music, that may be reason for a lengthy pause. Black metal that seeks to thematize a divine origin of being frequently gets bound up with fascism’s corrupt romanticisms. Unfortunately, Golden Light does the typical black metal thing, refusing to publish lyrics. But the band’s video for “Sceptre of Solar Idolatry” is a lot more trippy than it is terrifying or nihilistic. More substantively encouraging is the band’s embrace of the iconography and artwork of William Blake. In one of Blake’s most famous (and greatest) poems, he calls for a “Marriage of Heaven and Hell.” His poetry delights in integrations of apparent opposites, mingling them and moving his prosody toward livid and affirming ecstasies. If Golden Light embraces Blake’s ethos, as well as his icons, then the light produced by their music burns very bright, indeed. And these days we can use that.  

Jonathan Shaw

[full-moon-demon]

Tonight was a full moon.

A time of where the denizens of the Sea Kingdom father around in the Sea God Castle, where a banquet is held. The Feast begins.

It’s assumed everyone comes along, but there are unknowingly those who venture away. Wadanohara once took a break on one of these nights, heading to the arena commonly referred to as: Star Isle.

This night, no one went there, yet.

There were stories of a tall, silhouetted figure that roams the surface of the crystalline waters.

Though, it seems the entity was alone this time, none witnessing their presence; the figure was strolling, until meeting a certain point – The one place where one is most illuminated by the moon.

The entity on those waters stood facing towards the moon; unbroken stillness. The luminosity of the lunar rock coating the figure in light, at least the front half. Much of their supposed attire was mostly visible.

Of what one could make out, the figure appeared to have a “sorcerers” hat on, very similar to the sea witch’s hat, just bigger and with what seemed to be a large, glowing crescent moon on the side of it. The hat also having a darker navy strip across it. Their cloak blew softly in the mildly weak wind.

The crescent on the hat was accompanied by two smaller stars as decorations; all 3 radiating a light blue glow in reaction of the lunar luminescence. The figure’s cloak was cyan on the inside, decorated with a star pattern.

It went almost unnoticed earlier, but the silhouette appeared to be carrying a sceptre, a staff of sorts. Being the most luminescent thing, one could make out a bright yellowish-gold crescent moon, one pair of three stars, half a pair on either side of it.

The wind howls over the serenity and quietness if the area.

//Literally just a test of writing skill.

[astrolocherry]

☀️The sun projects, The moon reflects  🌙.The sun is youth, The moon is timeless  ☀️The sun is a mask, The moon hides behind the mask 🌙.The sun is seen, The moon is felt  ☀️The sun is King, The moon is Queen 🌙.The sun nourishes life, The moon creates life ☀️The sun is your divine father, The moon is your divine mother 🌙.The sun is worshipped, the moon is defended  

☀️ The House of your Sun:

Your day/diurnal house. It’s where you command your surroundings with pride and your sceptre that projects the golden icon of you as your constellation God, a ravishing and magnificent Lion for Solar Leos, Solar 1st and 5th people, or the ice sculpture of a mermaid with the sea goat’s tail for Solar Aquarians, Solar Capricorns, and Solar 10th and 11th house people. The sun stage is where the light is arranged to show you in your most radiant and royal light. This is where you display your most influential cosmic energy as well the planetary sequence that orbited your inner sun on the day you were born. The sun is the light of the eye, the interface between the inner and outer world, and the identity that expresses when it contacts the energy of day, people, and existence 

This is the energy that burns hot and cold. Spontaneous and free expression provides the sun with the centre stage.  

It will always demand to be in control, make its presence seen like it does in the sky, and vindicate personal convictions, positions, and honour 

When the sun burns very bright  (sun in leo, multiple planets in leo or the 1st house, sun conjunct ascendant, sun contacting jupiter, sun in the 5th house, jupiter in leo, sun in the 9th house, moon in leo, sun-mars contacts) there is a relentless desire for outward demonstration, creative expressive conduct, recognition and gratifying response, and self-realisation 

The sun can be inhibited from accessing and projecting its light when it is over shadowed by obstructive, suppressive, and undeveloped energy (saturn in the 1st house, sun contacting saturn, saturn in the 5th house, sun and influential planets in capricorn, sun in the 12th, sun in libra), it is watered down, lonely, and emotionally overwhelmed (sun and multiple planets in cancer or pisces, moon or neptune in the 1st or 5th, sun in the 4th, sun in the 12th, sun contacting moon, sun contacting neptune) the condition challenges the exhaustive and absolute ego demonstration due to an identification with the collective or larger than self experiences (sun in the 11th, sun in the 12th, sun in pisces, sun in aquarius, sun in the 6th, sun in virgo) or it is buried in the deep and suffuse unconscious and held there like a spinning crystal ball (sun or multiple planets in scorpio or the 8th house, sun contacting pluto, pluto in the 1st, pluto in the 5th)

🌙. The House of your Moon

Your night/nocturnal house. The place where you tug the gravity of the moon. The house that becomes flooded with your emotions, the place where your inner child follows you around playing hide-and-seek. It’s the place where you store your childhood comforter, your secret journal, happy family portraits and cracked family portraits. The moon is the glow reflected from the Mother Goddess back through you, shining the light lamp of the inner child’s innocence.  

This is the energy that is regressive, copes with situations in a way you may not fully understand, it activates largely when the environment intensifies, defences are raised, or we have reached a threshold of environmental management and become internally dysregulated  

Away from the sight of sunlight and public view, the moon is the emotional demonstration and emotional coping mechanisms, desperation, primitive desires, and vulnerabilities performed before loved ones and partners 

When lunar energy is immensely rich (sun in cancer, moon in cancer, sun and moon in the 4th and multiple planets in cancer or the 4th house, sun contacting moon, moon in the 1st house, jupiter in the 4th, moon-pluto contacts, moon-neptune contacts, moon in the 8th house) there is a deep identification with the emotional experience and the permanently unstable baseline. much of their purpose involves mastering the emotional realm and finding a sense of stability and belonging on a spiritual medium that never remains still 

The moon can be inhibited from reflecting its luminescence when it is invalidated by obstructive, suppressive, and patriarchal energy (saturn in the 4th house, moon contacting saturn, moon in capricorn, moon in aquarius, moon in the 10th house), it is strangled into numbness by relentless intellectualisation and rationalisation, distancing themselves from the emotional experience (moon-mercury contacts, moon-uranus contacts, moon in aquarius, moon in gemini, moon in virgo, moon in the 6th house, moon in the 11th house, moon in capricorn, uranus in the 4th house) or it can become a dormant, writhing entity in the individual, this is one who is capable of attaining both complete spiritual consummation or remaining at complete exile from the inner experience, pure emotion, empathy, and divine reunion (multiple 12th house planets especially accelerated by moon, jupiter, neptune, and pluto in the 12th, moon-pluto aspects, moon in the 8th, moon-neptune aspects, pluto in the 4th, neptune in the 4th, saturn in the 4th)

-C.

[fanesavin]

The Etherium Ring:

Item quest: Lost Knowledge of the Ancients

Item background:

Forged in the ruins of the Oblivion Vault on the Etherium Forge located deep in the heart of the Himalayas by a coven of ancient and incredibly powerful witches rumoured to channel the pure unfiltered power of the Ether, this ring is part of a set of six other mystical artefacts lost across the millennia. No one knows where they went or why they vanished, all that is known is that they are supposedly incredibly powerful magical artefacts that when paired together allow the wearer to access the unquantifiable power of the Ether.

Every piece is set in silver with some of the rarest crystals ever recorded; a rare, luminescent teal coloured stone only found at the impact site of a comet on the night of a full moon. Whilst alchemically inert and impossible to forge or craft without the correct tools it naturally possesses a strong magical aura which can power its enchantments for centuries or perhaps even longer. 

Any true Etherium artefact is worth a king’s ransom or more, and people have been known to kill to try and successfully become the owner of any one of these artefacts.

The set is rumoured to include: 

The Sceptre of The Ancients

The Etherium Crown 

The Etherium Necklace

The Etherium Cuff

The Etherium Ring

What the Ring Does:

The Etherium ring is capable of dimensionally shifting the bearer to a higher plane of existence, to the plane of existence on which ghosts and other such spirits dwell. Where spirits are typically invisible to the human eye without a medium through which to interact this ring permits the user to see and even interact with these spirits. However, in the process they are rendered invisible to any beings existing on a lower dimension though it is important to note that the lower planes of existence would still be visible to the individual wearing the ring (though they would not be capable of interacting with their plane of existence until the item is removed).

@nuadxa

OOC Note: Only the ring will be featured in this thread, the other items are entirely available for other characters to happen upon in their own threads or ventures. I am thinking of potentially using the necklace in the future but if you want to use the other items feel free to just let me know and then go wild with making up your own lore for what the other pieces are capable of doing! The necklace and cuff are featured above to give a general concept of what the set would generally look like appearance-wise.

[ask-stranded-sides]

Okay, broken rib, my time has come. Put something cold on the place hurt, don't let Logan twist, and you need to take constant deep breaths. Don't wrap anything tightly around his ribs either. For the pain, heat and cold, and when at the cave, try making a tea with wild lettuce (it looks like small yellow flowers, and if you break the stem white liquid comes out) which is a great painkiller and not that hard to find. Also probably call Virgil.

Deceit nods and Logan groans, a hand pressing to his chest. 

Deceit: “You heard them Logan.... deep steady breaths....” 

Logan: “Thank you for that revelation-” He winces. “But it hurts to do that.....” 

Deceit thinks a moment, wracking his head for memories and yet he can’t remember having any that pertain to that kind of healing. Logan touches his hand. 

Logan: “I remember... something........ it’s to prevent pneumonia... the breaths. As long as I do it.... not constantly but... keep doing it, I should be fine....” 

[msu82]

Based off of a scene from Season 2 | Episode 6 of “Arrested Development”

I had a Fun Time™ with this, as I’m sure you can see. My memeing ways have finally returned! (And, of course, those memeing ways still involve Patton).

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[ask-stranded-sides]

I am more then confused. What is this distinction? I had always considered Magician as both the italics and zalgo texts... considering they both answered as magician. Since the beginning, actually, the Zalgo test answered first. And said to be wanting to act for the good sake as well. I am confused, and a bit disgruntled I let myself be tricked.

Magician and the Zalgo voices, they both were referred to as the same. They were both the entity that looked from far away. Are they... are they 2 parts of the subconscious that split?!

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[ Perhaps ]

[ask-stranded-sides]

Well, you always have been in some level of danger, but because Magician isn't good at calculating when it's too over the top. In reality, he wants to help. The island, the cores breaking off, all that stuff, for the sake of solving a problem. Logan already knows this too. Also, it's been working.

Deceit sighs. “I suppose that’s true.....”

[ask-stranded-sides]

I've learn to trust magician, even if I think their methods are a bit extreme, not only for the sake of results but also because it's actually safer at times, and Remus and Logan's words about them. The quicker this is resolved, the quicker you all get better, and the quicker you might be able to leave this place without... more people getting hurt *points to Logan*

Deceit grunts: “Might I remind you that the whole reason Logan was hurt was because we were doing what the Magician wanted and trying to find Roman and Remus’ cores?”

He is not sure if this is entirely true because he cannot honestly remember considering he almost died.

He is not about to try and dreg up memories. The point is, he hates the Magician and he wants nothing to do with him at this point.

[ask-stranded-sides]

I have a question for Magician. Pal... what happens with Janus's name? We have never mentioned here, and you did something that last ask. If we mention it... will it do something bad? Will we break him before time? Or just confuse Dee?

D̯͉̺̺͕̰ͥo̞̣͎͂ ̜N͇̫͇̘͑̏̈́̓̂ͅO̱͕̟͚̣̫̠ͦͦͮͤ̓ͬͪT̹̗͙̞̮̖͔̑͂̄͗̉ͦͫ ̩̖̍̑͛ͯͦ͂ͧs̜̰̟͎̦͕͊p̘̫̩̭̦̪̙̌ͨ̒̾̊ͤe̮̍̈́̓ͯ̑a̟̙͍̘͓̫k͚̹͔̥̟̙̖̈ͩ̌̅͗ͬ̅ ̟̙͙͇̜ͬ̔͐͐̉͂t̖h͖̘̙̱̯̙̥̏̋ͬ̀̓̊̎a̝̞̿͗ͪt̪̲͍̮̘̩̄́̈́ͩ̃ͥ̓ ̩̙̲̣͗̀ͪn͌ͭã̬̻̪̫͈͙̮̍̔m̳̳̱̦̉̋̓ͤe̹̲̲̙̪̻͙.̪̖

Translation: 

Do NOT speak that name.

[ask-stranded-sides]

Your theory is likely dee, however it's probably better you tell the others about this instead of us, specifically Logan. And by the way you have a cricket on your shoulder.

Deceit jumps but finds nothing there. The lack of insects is unsettling. 

Deceit: “Very funny. Don’t tessssst me. anyways I don’t know if telling Logan is a good idea. He already has.... head issues.... would that really help?”

[ask-stranded-sides]

Maybe, when there's enough light, two of you could head out to try to find a but of medicinal plants? I hope Logan knows or remembers some. If you don't, Yarrow and Elderberries are good to treat the wound, and Birch leaves are a good analgesic. You might be able to find these around since they aren't very rare.

Virgil and roman look at each other and nod. 

Roman: “That sounds like a good idea. We should make sure he has medicinal plants.” 

Virgil: “We should wait for Logan to wake up. He might have better knowledge on what they look like.” 

[postmastered]

u.... uwu

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[ask-stranded-sides]

I am not speaking to any of the sides or Thomas. I am speaking to the one I know is hearing, the one who made this. I wanna tell you that I understand a lot know. I understand YOU. You do not desire bad. You are not evil... but you are wrong.

From the dark void just beyond your consciousness you hear a soft whisper. 

Ȳ̠̗̦͙͈͌ͧ́o̖͉͉̜̺̯͙̾͗̈͌͗̾u̙̳̺͇̱̤̼̅ͤ ̫̺̱ͯ̎͊̐̉ͅͅw̯̖̼̅̐̀ͫôͫ͆͊ͥ͗u̠̻͑̌̔̍̆̊l̓͒̓̌̓ͩ̈́d̼̙̻̲ ̭̯̥̻͈͚̤͗͆n͉ͪͣ̎o̪͑͗͒͑̍̚tͪ̐ ̀̂ͬ̂͑u̦̤͖ͫͥ̄n͓̞͓̠d͑ͫͪ̏̏ͦe̼̲̹͖͓̘͆̊ͬ̽̈́̓ͅřͨs͌̊̎́̈́͋̋t̔a̖͛͗͌ͧ͐͗n͙̻̝̗̬̺͛ͮͭ̾ͦͮ͋ͅd͈͇̋ͅ.̱͇̙ͭ ̺̹̦͉̽͋̌ͧ̐͋ͯ ̲͗͌ͤ͂̈ͯT͙̺̭͉̫ͫ̔̋͌ͭ̓ḥ͇͖̯͙̓i͖̪͍̲͇ͪͮ̊̈́̉͂͒ș̥͂͛̂ ͣ̄̔͋ḭ̖̺̐̃s̳͚ͯ͛̈́̌͌̄ ͍̙̖t̝̦̻̄̂ͦ̏h̼̰͈̖̟̞̭͂̌ͯͭé̪̺ ̟̻͙͂̅̋̅͒o̮ͤ̒ͥ̎͌̂̀n͔l̞͕̼̥̜͇̆ͥͬͦy͔̹̪̮̋́̔͛ͅ ͂̑̉̓̽w̙͋a͔ͩ̽͑̅̉ẏͣ͗ͭͅ ͔̘͈͚̂̊̅͆ͥt̺͙͕̦͗o̙̠ ̫̮̩̟͙̹̝ͫ̿̓́̌͊́f̘͕͚̦͇̃̑ͫͨ́͋i̬͙̦̩͕̮͛ͬ͗̌x͈̥͈̮̱̺̃ͫ͗ͬ̚ ͇̼͓̊̓ͯ̏ͣ̃h̠͓͚̬̪͔̍͆i̼͓̞̘̭͆̐̔m̗͍̰̪̯̭̼.̲͙̟̣͈̥̋̌̾ͫͥͅ

̮̹͒͆ͩ̊̒I̥̋t̟̦̼̤̥̳͎ͨ̐̀͗̌ ̜̮̻ͮ̑ͮͯ͌͋i̯ͭ̔͗́̉̈s͛ ̮̠͓ț̦͍̏̋ͩ̏̉̄ͥh̬̠̗̱̺̔͋͑ͭͣe͓̫̭̯̦̱̫̊̇͂̊ͦͭ ̺̦̗̜͖̜͇ỏ͎̼̦̝̟̓ͬ͂̿͆̚n͔͉̪̖̟͉̈́̅̊́ͅl̟̤ͯy̘ͩ͂́̑͊́̃ ̼͓̦ͭͤͭ̉̂w͖͋̽̒̿͊a̹̤͈̙̬y͙̲̹͙̹̔ ͪ̒͐ͭ̑ͩt̤̺͔̉o͉͓͚͒͒̒ ̱͛ͧ͋ͫ̽̽̍p̱̙͎̻̐ͧ̇͒̈r͍̺̼ͧ͊͗̈̈́̚e͇̒ͥ̄̋̈̈́v̜̣͍̮̏̉ͅḛ͇̣̤̎͆̾̐ͭ̔̈́n̯̭̲̰͎t̻ ͔̓ͥd̻̫͖̘͈̰ͮ̐ͭ̉̒̾ͅi̗̹̜̠̽̈͂s̪̓̒̉ͨa̔s͉̙̻͑̓̍t͖̯̑̚eͪ͐͊̓̑ͩr̦̦̜̳ͮ̈͒̚ͅ ̳̮͕̬͑̉̓ͥ̑a̬̱͙͋̏ͅn̜̺͕͚̲͆̏ͪ̐ͤ͗d̞̞̘͍͎̾͋ ͚͕͕̣̟̳̹͛ͭf͓̗̺̰̯̯̍ͮͤu̺t̠ͭ̐ü̞͖̱ͨ̓̄̑ͫ̚r̩̗͇̐ͯ̋e̟̗̫̣̓͌͑ͦ̇ͨ ̯̮̙̤͓̟͈̒́ͨș͍̤̥̠̣ͨͣ̈ͧͅẽ̘̼̦̘l͉̙̝̲͔ͩ̉͌ͨf̖͉̟̥̺̀ͥͭͩ̇̊ͪ ̲͎̭͗́̃ͤͮͩ̚d̬͈͚̉ͮͨ̽̅̀ͯe̼̘̠̙̎̈́ͭ̂̎s͚͇̫͒̓̍ͯ̊t͚̜̼̭͕̮ͥ̌ͬ͊ͭ͗̍r̭̥͎̰͌ͥ̚u͉̳̣̤ͣͤͩͅc̏ͯt͆̄͑ͭͪ͂̈́i͇̬̳̗̱ͤo͍̳̼̞͉n̠̝͈̬̪͆̓ͮͮ̅̚.̺̭̗̩̞̮̒ͤ̈