#sleepy lore

[sleepyselkiesiren]

For context: my partner and I watch Severance every week. My parents recently decided to Also watch Severance every week.

And then we get to Sweet Vitriol...

As soon as Celestine Cobel shows up on screen, I say, "Oh no she looks like my grandma."

"Oh no she talks like my grandma????"

"OH NO SHE ACTS LIKE MY GRANDMA."

But then I tell myself I haven't actually Seen my grandma in years (cause we cut contact) so maybe I'm just misremembering.

Then I get to my weekly call with my parents and tell them about my reaction, and my dad goes, "Yuuuuuuuuup. I didn't know if I should say anything...."

And my mom gets to tell us all about the delightful ways she grew up under the care of my grandma.

So yeah Sissy Cobel is real actually and she can hurt me

[sleepy-the-loz-enthusiast]

Rating things I've been hit in the face with in no specific order (also places I've faceplanted)

A flying waffle - 10/10, extremely silly, I cried laughing

A netball - 3/10, happened multiple times and each time has broken my fucking glasses and they refused to stay on my face after

A hoop and other gymnastics apparatus - 2/10, that shit hurts. Minus points for bad memory association

A football - 7/10, technically not hit in the face, but it landed directly on top of my head and bounced off really high. Really funny so bonus points

A garden trampoline - 6/10, kinda mid, funny seeing my friends loudly swear because ragdolling though

A professional trampoline - 4/10, infinitely more terrifying and could've fallen off

A thin safety mat - 3/10, broke my arm first time. Second time, satisfying neck pops but people kinda panicked. Laughed like a maniac but felt bad for making them worry

A road - 5/10, 9 year old me was so embarassed faceplanting the road in front of a ton of people. Funny in hindsight

A thick safety mat - 9/10, comfy and adrenaline rush funny

Someone's foot - 3/10, they apologised and it wasn't painful, but the shock was a thing that existed. This has happened more than once

A tesco brand pain au chocolat - 10/10, got jumpscared but fuck yeah free food from my friend

A lava lamp - 1/10, ow.

My weighted blanket - 6/10, was really tired at the time so it was a jumpscare

My massive goose plushie - 8/10, silly

A van sliding door - -1/10, OW. The person didn't know I was there so got hit full force. Think I might've blacked out? Happened a while ago so don't remember

A bowl of soup - 2/10, happened days after the door. Can't remember how this one happened, but turns out hot soup hurts

[sleepyselkiesiren]

I thought it was the Default

At age 14 I got my first homophobic sermon in church, so I googled to find out what a gay was

And I was like, "oh, I never thought of that as an option. Wait, what's sinful about this?"

Then I googled to find out what a straight person was and was so DISGUSTED I decided I would never do that ever, dang no wonder that's sinful straights should be sinful too, I hate all of this

Then I just completely forgot about it until years later I came across the term ace and was once again SHOOKETH that it is Not the default

*note: i know not all aro people are ace and vice versa, but the experiences tend to be similar so ive lumped em together (and im aroace)

pls throw your awkward ace experiences in the tags i love them

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[wolfheadghost]

Based off of a lil headcanon of mine that vessels like to fight eachother on sight like beetles

The winner of this fight

[biggiesnails]

Stupid little design notes for myself but I’m sharing it anyways

Also irrelevant sketches below the cut

Returning to my roots to get back into art by drawing eyes. Also street artist y/n and an old oc I forgot about

[perpetuallyexhaustedlibrarian]

I am LOVING Hiragi's tired dad energy in this chapter

Congrats dude if you weren't Team Mom before, you are now

[f1shart]

was perusing the ichabod tag and noticed my favorite gilf hasn't gotten fanart in a while.... so ermm old doodle !!!

baby icky is sauurr cute 🥰 when you age him down a glitch causes him to have these buck teeth so i took that and SPRINTED with it. speaking of buck wait omg his simzoo animal could totally be a deer...

[justabeewithapen]

Doey mainly sleeps on his stomach because that’s the orientation he is used to in monster form. If he needs to be somewhat alert he will sleep with his back to a wall in a more upright position because it is more uncomfortable which means if something happens he will wake up faster. Since he doesn’t really have a lap if there is a critter present they will lay on his stomach. For a brief period when they wake up and Bella or Lucas gets off, there will be a small indent on his stomach as his body naturally attempted to cushion them. It is gone almost as soon as he stands up though.

[raayllum]

Watching a video on the history of unicorns (heartily recommend it) and in its discussion of the design of unicorns and how they got stapled onto religious iconography and then ideas of purity (including maidenhood/female virginity/innocence for better or for worse) it made me think about TDP, obviously.

I know pre-S7, I was thinking that the unicorn resting place was the Garden of Innocence, not Innocents. Now, the two concepts are related — in order to read the map to find the Garden, you need a true (innocent) heart — but the Garden of Innocents indicates that those who are innocent are multiple, and tied there. While it could be a referral to those who find the Garden, I think it's far more likely that the Innocents refers to unicorns themselves, and this is interesting for a few reasons. One is because arc 2 takes arc 1's skirting around the idea of "who is innocent? (implied)" and makes it much more overt and fraught:

Now, TDP evolves to question whether someone being innocent is a basis for whether or not they're spared in the first place — Rayla, Harrow, and Runaan are prime examples — but it is still worth thinking about people who were/are considered to be innocent (Ezran, a child punished for his father's crimes/choices) or should be (Leola) but aren't.

Next, I want to talk what we do know about the Garden before we get to the unicorns themselves, especially because this is more straightforward both in 1) the info we receive and 2) where we receive it being entirely in show canon.

As Aaravos says:

The map to the Garden of Innocents is special, Claudia. Only the true of heart can see it. A protection of sorts.

which raises the question of protecting it from what/who, and by proxy, who we're protecting the unicorns, alive or dead, from as well.

Then we have how Aaravos describes the Garden:

The unicorns had many secrets, and their oldest secret was the Garden of Innocents. A beautiful place hidden from prying eyes where unicorns could find peace and tranquility.

This both does and doesn't make sense. Unicorns having secrets makes sense because they have the star arcanum, and because 7x03 is also about secrets being revealed (Aanya telling Ez hidden history and showing him Duren's greatest secret of the fire rubies, etc). We'll debate later whether "peace and tranquility" refers to literal peace, or like... peace and tranquility in death, so let's put a pin in that for a second.

However, if the Garden of Innocents is their oldest secret... then how can it be also their resting place? Unless it began as a Garden where innocents would gather (themselves included, or those who could read the map or maps if there was more than one) to discuss and spend time together? And a place where the unicorns retreated upon being, presumably, hunted past that point. But as you can see, we very quickly spiral into speculation territory.

For now, let's go over what we actually know about unicorns (or at least, near as we can figure). We know they're connected to the Star arcanum (Tales of Xadia) and that their horns are immensely powerful and rare (3x06). We know from Terry in 7x03 that "they're all gone now". We also 'know' from both Tales of Xadia and the Book One novelization that humans hunted unicorns to extinction (which we're gonna put another pin in, for a second):

Unicorns were the most recognizable creature tied to [Star] magic, but, sadly, they have all but vanished from Xadia, as humans hunted and poached them to harvest for dark magic.

Perhaps the most valuable and sought-after prize of all was a unicorn's horn. Eventually, the humans hunted the unicorns until they disappeared completely from Xadia.

This matches up with what we see in canon, then: very few unicorns still exist; Claudia indeed hunted one for its horn and Viren tried for many years; and dark mages hunted many other magical creatures to extinction pre and during the Mage Wars that followed the expulsion. It fits.

And yet, this is where things start to get messier, however, simply because like most things in TDP, we have other sources that directly contradict all of the above claims from the book one novelization and Tales of Xadia. One such source is a page shown in 2x08 for a brief moment that was translated by fans and also exists in the Arc 1 artbook, which reads:

The only known creatures connected to the stars are the mysterious Startouch Elves and the rare, fascinating unicorns. Dark mages have tried to hunt the unicorns to better understand their power, but their stellar magic and their devious cunning make them almost impossible to hunt.

This of course goes against everything previously discussed. Unicorns being creatures of "devious cunning" is a far cry from being merely compassionate and innocent. Being almost impossible to hunt doesn't jive with being hunted to near complete extinction. Two of these are from more 'neutral' perspectives... but the Book One intro is from Aaravos, and Tales of Xadian can sometimes have a more Xadian slant, versus the pages written by humans who were followers OF Aaravos.

So which is it?

This level of contradiction is present in about everything we do know about unicorns. From each respective piece, we can fit together certain things to get... glimpses at the full picture. Here is what the book one novelization from Aaravos says:

Unicorns were always the most selfless of the Xadian beings. There came a time when, filled with pity, they desperately wanted to help the struggling humans. After all, it was not the humans' choice to have been born without magic. But the First Elves were wary. They warned the unicorns that kindness was not always returned with kindness; it would be a mistake to trust the species. After all, if humans were supposed to be use magic, they would have been born with it. However, the unicorns' compassion ran deep, and they could not convinced. So, despite the elves' warning, the unicorns bestowed the ways of magic onto the humans. They gifted a few wise humans with powerful orbs called primal stones, which contained vast magical energy. Then they taught them to draw runes to attract and focus the stones' power, and to speak the ancient words used by dragons to release that energy as magical spells.

Here, we get a few crucial things:

The First Elves, specifically, were against magic being shared

The unicorns in general, not specific ones, gave humans magic

They gave humans primal stones, but not arcanums

Tales of Xadia gets both more specific and more vague in some ways:

One heart took pity on the plight of humanity. A unicorn, unique among her own rare kind, saw the strength and ingenuity of the human spirit where others saw weakness and beastly ignorance. Her name was Leola. While elves warned that if humans were meant to wield magic they would have been born with it, she gifted the wisest humans with secrets: the language of the dragons and the runes that shaped spells. With the unicorn’s gift, the most determined minds among the humans could finally harness primal magic. It was difficult and dangerous work, and few could bear the grueling path of a rune mage.

Here, we get:

Leola's name and her as the bearer of gifts, ie. specifically giving humans magic

She did not give primal stones, but secrets. This sounds much closer as to how Lujanne describes an arcanum (i.e. "a secret and a spark")

We see in S2 with Callum and S7 in making primal stones that connecting to arcanums and making primal stones is what is gruelling and dangerous

We know, thanks to S6, that Leola was not actually a unicorn, but nicknamed as one. We know that something she did made it look like, at the very least, that she'd given magic to humans, and she was executed for it. We also know that humans had primal magic to a degree before dark magic, created/developed by or alongside Aaravos, took shape, and that sometime during this period but before the Mage Wars, unicorns were hunted to extinction, leading to the exiling of humanity (from the book one novelization):

But the elves were right about one thing: humans were unpredictable. While most were good, some were not. [Invention of dark magic.] Dark mages and their followers began to hunt and poach magical creatures throughout Xadia, for they needed fuel for their spells. Perhaps the most valuable and sought-after prize of all was a unicorn's horn. Eventually, the humans hunted the unicorns until they disappeared completely from Xadia. The elves and dragons were disgusted and outraged by what they saw. They were convinced the annihilation of humans was necessary and inevitable. But at the last moment, a daughter of the elven leader proposed the Merciful Compromise.

So something took the unicorns out, with the blame laid fairly or unfairly on humanity's shoulders. The unicorns as a group were responsible for giving some form of primal magic, seemingly primal stones, to humanity... but Leola also gave humans magic earlier than that.

Season 7 actually complicates this even further, as we learn what's required (so far as Aaravos is willing to share; who knows, there could be alternative ways) to make at least one kind of primal stone:

[To make a Moon primal stone] requires an exceedingly rare ingredient that can only be found at a place where unicorns once roamed, the Garden of Innocents.

So, did the unicorns give humans primal stones... or were their bones/horns required to make primal stones, and the gift giving got conflated from "you're 'giving' me your bones" to "I need/am taking your bones"?

What I'm going to propose, therefore, is this:

All of the above accounts are correct, just not maybe in the way we'd expect.

Here's what I think happened, with perhaps a more extensive meta to follow on the first part:

Leola gave humans a form of Deep Magic (potentially Love). This allowed them to form connections with primal sources. Them nurturing "primal flames" in Ripples, therefore, does not refer to literal Sun magic, but "a secret and a spark, but enough to ignite the world with its magic" being steadily developed.

After her execution, unicorns helped humanity develop primal magic further (potentially somewhat in her honour). They're not squeaky clean, maybe, but were trying to do more of a net good than negative

Humans having primal magic was not doing enough to fuck with the Cosmic Council, and left the playing field too even, so Aaravos stirred up trouble, maybe encouraged the dragons to be upset about primal/deep magic usage.

This caused the first stage of the Elarion debacle ("and caught the dragons' hungry eye") and for the Stars to leave.

After primal magic was exposed as inferior or made an issue, humans turned to dark magic, and this gave Aaravos a way in. He needed to ensure they'd continue to be dependent on dark magic, and this meant disposing of alternatives.

Potentially, Aaravos encouraged people to hunt down unicorns to get rid of humans having more widespread primal magic and/or to make more (Moon) primal stones. If dark magic is corruption/compromise, than primal magic is more 'innocent', after all. Peace and tranquility indeed

Getting rid of the unicorns also had the bonus of getting humanity and elves split up, making Aaravos' manipulations much easier if they weren't in communication with each other, and letting him mess around to encourage the Mage Wars (and a potential invasion of Xadia back in the day).

I want to do more of a meta on Leola giving humans deep magic and why I think it makes sense later, but the unicorns and their secrets / contradictions within the text are a decently big part of it so, uh...

Hope you enjoyed?

CLAUDIA: I feel bad about Terry. You made the Garden sound so beautiful, like it's just some wonderful peaceful place of rest. AARAVOS: It is beautiful. It is a place of rest. Those are not lies. CLAUDIA: But it's not the whole truth, either. Just like the map and those feathers. We didn't tell Terry that unicorns come here to rest... forever. That this place is a graveyard.

[sleepyselkiesiren]

Dang, no one told me it would be so hard to get blue hair for my pronouns

Ft. Coral Island icon art style because I have a Problem

[sleepy-the-loz-enthusiast]

I know this is, like, pretty much an exclusively Zelda blog, but today I played a lot of pokemon Violet and I just had really strong nostalgia for an old pokemon game I used to play on roblox but no longer exists.

I'm curious now, was anyone else here for the peak of Pokemon Brick-Bronze? Because I remember I loved playing that game with my whole soul, it was so exciting to play it every day, until it was removed. Honestly homophobic...

But yeah, I can't remember exactly what the year was, but it was good times. I miss it a lot.

[sleepyconfusedpotato]

Bit of Exciting News!

Just a bit of news : For the comics class I'm attending, the lecturer said that we're attending a comics festival in my city, and for the end-of-semester assignment, each individual need to create a short comic with free themes and characters, exhibiting them at the festival.

You guessed it, I'm going to create a short comic of Jade's origin story! Of course, any Call of Duty elements will be removed (no Ghost HEUGH). It's not going to be too long, probably around 25-30 pages, but I'm really excited! ヾ(≧▽≦*)o

In response of this post, I spent the last day creating a character design sheet WIP for the characters as a requirement by my lecturer.

(Click for better resolution)

There are some asks of what Jade looked like as a kid and how Garnet (Eli) and Ruby (Gracie) looked like during their younger days, so here it is! And of course, the old man on the right who's the key figure of Jade's life, The Jeweler. Here it is!

The lecturer set the deadline in December which is CRAAAZYYY but that's what lecturers do, so when it finishes, you guys will also get a glimpse of the comic (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

[starryowlfella]

Finally trying my hand at illustrating the several pages worth of headcanons I have for these guys- (Nerding session alert)

I like to think of Star Children as very similar to stars in a physiological level. They're basically nuclear fusion reactors shaped like people, with an extremely dense (and hot, VERY hot) core that generates and burns energy at the same rate, resulting in their self-sufficiency and immortality.

In order to talk with one another in the vacuum of space, star folk use bursts of light and radio waves, which they create by changing their core's electromagnetic fields.

Their written language is possible to learn, but their spoken language is a mixture of waves, heat and gestures that a human cannot detect without equipment. On the other hand, since sound does not propagate in space, they generally do not hear very well.

Though it's usually a voluntary action, it can happen as an instinct/reflex, their "alarm call" is a sudden, sharp, high frequency burst.

Oh, and alsooo

@luonnon-varainen Your tags made my whole week you have NO idea <333

And yes they do! Different wavelengths show, but are not limited to, different emotions and overall physical/mental state.

A healthy and happy star will normally glow a gentle yellow

I'll post more about it once I get more time off ansndkd thanks for reading till the end! Reblogs are greatly appreciated <3

[coffeesleep-ooc]

This is going to be a bit fucked up but hear me out

CW: im talking about cannibalism and related stuff here

so i was mindlessly scrolling thru tumblr and saw art of moshang looking at bingqiu being all smoochy and MBJ chomping SQH’s cheek

and suddenly thought, what if eating each other was part of demonic lore like hitting your crush is?

So I remember part of some indigenous history, and how in Latin America until recently most books were saying that indigenous ppl were cannibals before the colonization, but the actual thing wasn’t that indigenous ppl ate each other but more like, if they were enemies and one of them was defeated, it was a belief that eating that warrior’s heart would make you absorb the beat qualities of said warrior (which to me is still eating someone but with a whole different context ig?)

So my thought process went from aww cute moshang, to, what if demons complimented each other with biting? Like, in the: you are so strong, so capable, so good that i’d like to eat you? To integrate you with my own being????

we all know that LBH originally was biting SQQ like there was no tomorrow until SQQ taught him not to bite, but what if that was hiw own way of saying ‘i admire Shizun the most, you are the person i’d like to absorb into myself to always be with you. To have the strengths you have is to be complete, superior, etc etc’ ???? like MBJ hitting SQH was a way of saying he would be a strong partner, LBH biting SQQ could be directing him the top praise he could think of in demonic terms

also, lore wise, demons that fought and defeat strong opponents could symbolically (and literally) consume their strength to enhance themselves and honor the life the other demon/warrior lived…

and for demons that ate human flesh???

well, that could still be them disregarding humans because they never fought and defeated them, human flesh would be distasteful to consume for stronger demons and a sign of weakness!

now, im not saying that eating each other would be commonplace or anything, just that it could become a highly regarded ritual

and a tease-chomp that leaves marks would make other demons know how highly regarded one is to their partner or even family-clan

now im imagining a feiend demon of SQQ asking him if he could bite him and SQQ being in shock (TM) while LBH is between smug and jealous bc NOBODY TOUCHES SHIZUN! Same with SQH honestly

SQQ n SQH: why our husbands like to bite so much 😭😭😭

demons: wow, the consorts of Emperor Luo and Mobei-Jun are truly treasured!!!

also, i think LBH would be regarded as a truly strong and altive leader bc he refuses to do said ritual (maybe abyss ptsd? Maybe his human sensibilities??) but when he gets together with SQQ and bites him like there’s no tomorrow his subjects end up appeased in that regard despite their leader marrying and giving the honor of the bite to a human jejeje

also just…worshipping someone in such a bloody and messy way is hmmm, interesting to some parts of me

maybe I’ll put this in one of my fics idk…maybe the abo one since bites are a thing there too…? Idk but wanted to get this out of my head into the wild jaja

Edit: WAIT

Wasn’t it canon that MBJ had to kind of eat his father to receive his bloodline's power and become the actual regent of the northern desert??????

So my made up lore could fit in with sv lore, especially regarding the MBJ clan...

Now im imagining MBJ biting LBH and SQH only, first as a sign of respect, of a close bff relationship after some time knowing each other and trying to offer advice/one up each other with their human consorts, and the second one as a 'i need to integrate your whole being in my bones even though you are human and that would make me weaker instead'

But also MBJ only wanting to consume his father bc of power and not completely respect has me salivating in daddy issues -gets smacked-

You can't tell.me that MBJ is not a neglected child, look at his backstory!

[sketchingdemonss]

swords frum phighting YAYYY

+ abt thorn sword, he is based on sleeping beauty... Very cursed and very lethargic. constantly fighting sleep on account of the aforementioned curse