#sebastiana

[theyareweird]

Black Butler: Sebastian Michaelis' Genderbend, Sebastiana Fan Art

Meet Mistress Ciella's lady-in-waiting and tutor, Sebastiana.

Source: Sebastian genderbend based on Yana Toboso's scribble, by Diana12784.

Source: Maryam Safdar @mari945 on DiviantArt.

[sysirauta]

Which hybrid is Fayza? I know she's half Hellgriff, but the other half? (I always have had the idea that she was half datyle due to her semi-bipedal anatomy and feathery wings, but I think that it has never actually been stated).

That is exactly how it is - a hellgriff mother named Sebastiana and a datyle father named Ivor. It wasn't any beautiful relationship, they both had an idea to get some benefits from their formal relationship, but ultimately backfired for Ivor who perished by the claws of Sebastiana.

(I want to make it clear that I don't have "good" or "bad" species, everyone has potential to be a major pain in the butt, just different ways. Hellgriffs are mostly known to be very knowledgeable and are eager to educate and share their knowledge, but their peer has also included a few very cruel individuals through centuries, and the history remembers that a way too easily. Sebastiana was one of those.)

[z-grist]

Missed the anniversary for this game. But anyways, happy 10th anniversary The Evil Within

[babylon-crashing]

Shrines of my misbegotten youth (by which I mean 2019)

There's a cemetery across the street from where I live where I kept a semi-permenant shrine, for about 7 months, off in a distant corner few folks ever visited.

Then, one day, I found that some lovely soul had come upon it and smashed it.

The nice thing about votive offerings is that it doesn't matter how many times you have to glue Santa Muerte back together, she still knows it's all about the love.

[artisthomes]

La Sebastiana, Pablo Neruda's home, in Valparaíso, Chile

[adribosch-fan]

El régimen de Maduro emitió orden de captura contra activistas, defensora de DDHH y reconocida periodista

Emitieron una orden de captura contra varios activistas, defensores de Derechos Humanos y una periodista de la fuente militar venezolana. La fiscalía pidió orden de captura contra Tamara Sujú, Wender Villalobos, Norbey Marín, María Sebastiana Barráez, Mario Carratú Molina y José Antonio Colina. Redacción | Primer Informe El fiscal general del régimen de Nicolás Maduro en Venezuela, Tarek William…

[czajnik]

cześć ola, mogę użyć twoją postać Sebastiana jako profilowe? oczywiście wpiszę twoją nazwę w opisie konta

Chcem powiedzieć, tak chętnie!! Ale w ogóle nie wiem o kim mówisz lolololol

[history-of-fashion]

1757 Unknown artist - Sebastiana Inés Josefa de San Agustín

(Museo Franz Mayer)

[chimchiri]

Name suggestions for bear butch + crow butch?

As before, we'll vote on them later on

Bear (left) suggestions - Mara - Eve (Evaline) - Leon (Leonida) - Abby (Abigail) - Seb (Sebastiana) - Chris (Christine / Christiana) - Rhys (Clarice)

Crow (right) suggestions - Lex (Alexandra) - Cas (Cassandra) - Raven - Dee (Adelaide) - Theo (Theodora) - Artemis

[godinvent]

Sebastiana, adopted daughter of Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte, Our Lady of Holy Death. She is as soothing, compassionate and protective as her mother. Character created by my friend @mythos321 for our story Protector.

This is one of my favorite designs I’ve ever made and the hardest I’ve worked on a piece in a while. I just kept wanting to add more and more to make her just right. I always take portraying the religions and mythologies my friends and I base ocs on very seriously, but I think especially for her as I’m a Methodist Christian and have been close to Christianity my entire life, as well as my mother being raised Catholic. I’m happy to actually be doing art again, I’ll be honest I’ve lost a lot of motivation in recent months and that scares me. Art is my entire life, I’ve done it seriously since I was 9 years old. I hope y’all like it!

[crovvlipso]

Sebastiana Sallow & Ophelia Gaunt.

[trippiwonder]

Names & Colors for Santa Muerte:

La Cabrona: (The-Goat)Refers to her darker nature

La Dama Poderosa: The Powerful Lady

La Flaca: The Skinny Lady

La Huesuda: The Boney lady

La Madrina: The Godmother

La Niña: The Girl

La Niña Blanca: The White Girl

La Niña Santa: The Holy Girl

La Santísima Muerte: The Most Holy Death

La Señora de las Sombras: The Lady of the Shadows

La Señora Negra: The Black Lady

Santa Sebastiana: St. Sebastienne

Symbolism:

Boney/Skeletal Physique: Her skeletal figure is associated with death.

Cloak: Invisibility as Death's constant prescence. (Magic involving protection and safety often emphasizes her cloak during spell-work.)

Halo: Divinity

Hourglass: Death's dominion over time.

Lamp: Wisdom and guidance.

Owl: Wisdom, the night, and the omen of death in Mexican folklore.

Scales: Balance, she is neutral and unjudging but we should also balance our lives accordingly.

Scythe: Harvesting souls; reap what you sow.

World Globe: Dominion over all life on earth.

Colors:

Black: (default color of her cloak) Protection magick and hexes.

White: (Other cloak default color) Purification.

Red: Sex-magick, Romantic-love, Passion

Green: Legal/Court-Magick, Self-love, Healing(autoimmune), Justice

Blue: Wisdom-magick, Mental Clairty, Communication, Knowledge.

Purple: Healing, Transformational, Third-eye,

Brown: Grounding, Transitional

Rainbow: Silver = luck, Copper = breaking of negative energies, Gold = abundance/prosperity, Red = love/sex, Blue = wisdom/connection to spirituality, Green = justice, Purple = health/transformative thinking. (One specific spell targeting all aspects)

[kuroshitsuji-sama]

hiiii this is oddly specific but I was wondering if you had any sebaciel fic recommendations that follow the manga but reframe the canon, if that makes sense?

Ohhh dig my wounds and eat my dead body, if you will😭

I know exactly what you mean, it make sense because I can only dream about that kind of fic. I personally don't know anything similar to it, BUT!!!! I know fic that type - it follows first and second season of Kuroshitsuji and it's very good I promise. If you already don't know for this one - Those Gentle Slopes that Lead to Hell (whole fandom knows this fic🤣)

I would like to see more canon reframed sebaciel stories, especially manga part, Emerald arc and so much more but....seems like people in this fandom like to make Sebastiana nd Ciel OOC more than writing them in canon. Can't judge them because they are complicated characters, not for everyone, but still I am so sad😫

People, feel free to drop you favorite SebaCiel canon fic, if you have any😅

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Não Identificado • Sebastiana • Lost In The Paradise • Namorinho De Portão • Saudosismo • Se Você Pensa • Vou Recomeçar • Divino, Maravilhoso • Que Pena (Ela Já Não Gosta De Mim) • Baby • A Coisa Mais Linda Que Existe • Deus É O Amor

Spotify ♪ YouTube

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

The American continent is among the most dangerous regions for human rights defenders

Amnesty International report shows that Brazil and some of its neighboring countries make it difficult for HR defenders

The American continent is among the most dangerous places in the world for human rights defenders. Brazil is among the countries in the region where the situation is most serious. That’s what the global report The State of Human Rights in the World, published on Wednesday (24) by Amnesty International, points out.

According to the document, human rights defenders working to protect land and the environment faced “growing risks” in 2023, particularly Black, Indigenous and female activists. In addition to Brazil, Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico are listed as the American countries presenting the highest number of threats.

Although the survey does not mention specific cases in Brazil, the deaths of Sebastiana Gauto and Rufino Velasque, a couple of Guarani and Kaiowá rezadores (prayers who use traditional knowledge) can be remembered. They were found dead and charred in the house where they lived in the indigenous community of Guassuty, in Mato Grosso do Sul in September last year.

According to Amnesty International, “governments and non-state actors have used a variety of tools, such as harassment, stigmatization, criminalization and murder to prevent human rights activists from carrying out their essential and legitimate work in countries such as Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru and Venezuela."

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[bopinion]

2024 / 33

Aperçu of the week

“All we have to do is call our opponent a communist or a socialist or someone who will destroy our country.”

(Donald Trump. We'll see about that...)

Bad News of the Week

Since the end of the coronavirus pandemic - although there hasn't actually been one - I've been waiting for its successor in a slightly anxious mood. Another rapidly infecting virus that spreads worldwide, is potentially deadly and, above all, restricts all our lives again. Now it's here: Mpox. For the first time since Corona, the WHO (World Health Organization of the United Nations) has declared the highest alert level, a “public health emergency of international concern”. Because of the virus that was previously called “Monkey Pox”. Discovered in Congo at the end of 2023, it has now also broken out in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Kenya.

The initial figures spoke of 14,000 suspected cases. Based on the usual 50% rate and the reported 500 deaths, this means that one in twelve people who become infected will die. That's a lot. So it's certainly a virus that should be taken seriously. One day later, it was reported that the first case in Europe had emerged in Sweden. Then the first three in Asia in Pakistan. It's the usual pattern: on the one hand, every infectious disease spreads faster and more uncontrollably in times of international travel. On the other hand, specific cases are only discovered when they are specifically sought or tested for. So the numbers will now quickly go through the roof. Because the spread is already more advanced than we know.

What will happen now? What will the states do? How will society react this time? And above all: what have we learned? There is a lot of talk in Germany about the need to come to terms with everything that has happened around COVID. Also to learn from the mistakes. There is a lot of need for clarification - for example with regard to the procurement of masks, the closure of schools, compulsory vaccination, curfews and unequal treatment in the retail sector. And what has happened since (drum roll please!): Nothing. What applies to politics also applies in private life. Some friends turned out to be conspiracy theorists, others were law and order hardliners, most were simply irritated and unsettled. There were even rifts right through families. Rifts that still exist.

And now we could all be facing the same situation, just as ill-prepared. And if Mpox doesn't develop into a pandemic, perhaps swine fever will spread to humans. Or bird flu. Or something else entirely, be it from the South American jungle or from the secret laboratory of some deep state. Or a revenant from the past spreads again - cholera still exists after all and first cases of polio are reported from Gaza. No, I'm not panicking. But I do have one or two worries. After all, humanity has shown itself more than once to be incapable of learning from the past. I would love to be wrong about that.

Good News of the Week

Venezuela is not giving up. It is wonderful to see how the people are fighting for democracy, no longer wanting to put up with the corruption of their “elites” and finally wanting to have a perspective worth living in. Just under a month ago, elections were held in the Latin American country, which could actually live in prosperity and peace but is suffering from dramatic economic decline, inflation and poverty since years. Or as investigative journalist Sebastiana Barráez says in the news magazine Der Spiegel: “Maduro has couped!”

Initially, the state electoral authority declared President Nicolás Maduro Moro, who has been clinging to power since 2013, the winner without providing any evidence - as is actually required by the constitution. The opposition has now had access to more than 80 percent of the printed protocols of the individual polling stations and has made them public. According to these, their candidate Edmundo González won with around 67 percent of the vote - compared to 30 percent for the incumbent head of government. So did Maduro commit electoral fraud? It looks like it.

The United Nations and the Carter Center had sent election observers to Venezuela. They have now criticized the election authority's actions and declared that the official result was not achieved democratically. The panel of experts speaks of an “unprecedented process in recent electoral history”. No wonder that most Latin American countries as well as the USA and Europe did not recognize the “official result”. And Maduro? He doesn't give a damn. The despot has further intensified the repression against the population with the help of the military, the National Guard and other state organs loyal to him. According to the independent rights organization Foro Penal, over 2,000 people have been arrested since the election. These include opposition politicians. And journalists. That speaks a clear language.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the US government has now offered Maduro and close associates of the regime an amnesty if they relinquish power. I wish the Venezuelans would keep up the pressure. And the international stage too. Until Madura and his clan really abdicate. Because then the country, which has already been abandoned by 20% of its population in recent years, could return to better times. In a survey conducted by the Gallup polling institute in December 2012, the country's inhabitants were among the happiest people on earth. It would be nice if this vague memory could become reality again.

Personal happy moment of the week

“Your application for an Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) has been approved. You are now authorized to travel to Canada by air.” Nothing more to add here. Taking off this sunday. Boy am I excited...

I couldn't care less...

...about the discussion that Germany “only” came 10th in the medal table at the Summer Olympics in Paris - behind hosts France and Great Britain, even though their populations are smaller. “What does it take for more medals?” asks the Tagesschau news channel. That is of little interest to me. Much more important is the charisma of athletes as figures of identification for a nation, the role model function for children, the motivation to surpass oneself. After all, it's not for nothing that the Olympic motto is “Taking part is everything”. In that sense, Eddie the Eagle really did fly.

It's fine with me...

...that the Democrats' party conference is now turning into a coronation mass. Because the most important decisions have been made: Presidential candidate and his (better in this case “her”) running mate. Normally, I would now say that political program content should not be completely secondary. But I don't care about that at the moment. The main thing is momentum. The main thing is optimism. The main thing is not to go back. The main thing is that Donald Jessica Trump doesn't triumph in November. Harris Walz!

As I write this...

...we're trying to catch a mouse. Apparently it was raining too hard outside and it wanted to get out into the dry. Now she's hiding behind a bookshelf and is afraid of us - even though we want to rescue her and set her free. Update: we've got her and she's fine. Second update: there seems to be another one...

Post Scriptum

It's good when someone doesn't look away but points. Even if it's about Israel committing an injustice. After all, you are then almost reflexively vilified as an Anti-Semite. In this respect, I am pleased that the European Union is showing more and more backbone in this regard. In this case, I am not referring to the maltreated Gaza Strip, but to the West Bank, where the Palestinian population is suffering more and more from brutal attacks by militant Israeli settlers - who can be sure of the backing of Benjamin Netanyahu's increasingly right-wing extremist government.

Once again, there have been attacks by extremist Israeli settlers on the population of the West Bank. And now EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has had enough. He will “present a proposal for EU sanctions against the supporters of the violent settlers, including some members of the Israeli government”. Including the government! That's a bombshell. I very much hope that he finds the necessary support for this. Because this massive problem is currently all too easily overlooked in the great shadow of Gaza.