#spell box

[prairiefirewitch]

I’ve been working with blue lotus as a dream herb for years in tinctures and elixirs and love the results, but it’s just as powerful as an ointment. This is my dream flight ointment and I pulled on that connection between Hekate and the Egyptian goddess Heqet (or Heket, as you like), using the narcotic, euphoric power of blue lotus to enter into deep dream space. I’ve also added peppermint, another herb associated with Hekate, and of course there’s eastern red cedar to continue with the plant theme of the kit. Hekate kits release tonight at 6pm CST. 🖤

[rosesforhekate101]

Getting Crafty

I’ve been getting my craft on in recent weeks. Part of the reason is because my laptop has gone full zombie. The other reason is that my kids are persuasive and I ended up with a collection of wooden project items and chalk board paint which they claimed they would use, but never did. The youngest got her coffin lid notice board but that left me with two boxes which I had not idea how to use…

[nipuni]

AHHH time to pack our computers for the move, I hope they arrive safely!! if anything happens to them I won't be able to play Veilguard for a while, getting replacements is more that we can afford at the moment 😭🙏

We don't own many things so we are sharing a truck with other people and it's a long distance trip and it will take a couple of days to make it there so I'm nervous!!

Moving far away was a lot easier five years ago when all we owned fit into two suitcases 😆

[badlyblurry]

dipper and a plaidypus

Mabel has Waddles, Stan has Gompers (kind of), and now Dipper has a plaidypus.

His name is probably Fred.

Or ‘Flannel’

[elisnightmare]

f1 Lena with kin list?

Another Lena!💞

Emotions and palettes are here

ID in alt and under cut

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A colored bust digital doodle of Lena Sabrewing from Ducktales 2017, done in a limited palette of shades of purple and pink.

She is wearing a collared shirt with a dark long-sleeved shirt that has lighter stripe over it.

She is facing the viewer, smiling and looking happy. Both eyes are closed, and there's a three little sparkles around her.

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[murder-of-seppucrows]

LEARN TO READ WITH LIL CAL! dave stop crying were not reading little red riding hood youre getting the saw wiki for bedtime or nothing

"dude stop shaking its not that hard"

[telekitnetic-art]

inspired by:

someone probably already did this exact poll but idc. we did it with lizzy we can do it again.

[ratatatastic]

how much longer do i have to wait before "cats fill up the sin bin like they get a special little bonus if they send a friend in there too" season starts again

[tigerr-cherry]

Here's some sillies I've been hoarding. Narinder is like really easy to draw

[booasaur]

Deadloch - 1x08

[atopvisenyashill]

Had some fun thoughts about Aegon’s sons while I was re-reading. This is the passage:

At the feast afterward, King Aenys compounded his misjudgment by granting the title Prince of Dragonstone to his presumptive heir, Prince Aegon. A hush fell over the hall at those words, for all present knew that title had hitherto belonged to Prince Maegor. At the high table, Queen Visenya rose and stalked from the hall without the king’s leave. That night she mounted Vhagar and returned to Dragonstone, and it is written that when her dragon passed before the moon, that orb turned as red as blood.

It’s kind of funny to me because Aenys is doing something normal - he’s just naming his oldest son as his heir (and also pointedly bypassing Rhaena as heir but that’s also incredibly normal behavior bc Westeros and Earth are a patriarchal hellscape).

But he always does shit like this. Every major decision Aenys makes is the one he’s “supposed” to make, almost like he’s following a script. The patriarch must have heirs, must make proper dynastic matches for his heirs, must support and defend his heir’s claim so the transition between their rules is smooth. He wants to live up to the legacies of both Aegon and Rhaenys, be decisive and strong but kind and charming as well, and he freezes right in the middle of the two into something obnoxious and indecisive.

So he takes the title “prince of dragonstone” a title created for Maegor by the lords and people and hands it to his son for funsies. He wants the titles and signals of legitimacy to belong to only him because he’s the first born so of course it belongs to him; that’s not just arrogance, that’s law. At the same time, “prince of dragonstone” was not an official title that Aegon gave Maegor as a sign of legitimacy, the way he tried to give Aenys blackfyre. See here:

Prince Maegor remained with his mother, sitting by her side when she held court. Queen Visenya and King Aegon were oft apart in those years. When he was not on a royal progress, Aegon would return to King’s Landing and the Aegonfort, whilst Visenya and her son remained on Dragonstone. For this reason, lords and commons alike began to refer to Maegor as the Prince of Dragonstone.

They call him that because he grows up there at his mother’s side instead of at his father’s with Aenys. And then not only does Aegon back down from fighting the Faith by betrothing Maegor to a Hightower, he is essentially rejecting this sign of legitimacy for Maegor by refusing to go to bat for an incestuous marriage that would make Maegor and Rhaena his heirs together. Maegor may have some symbols of legitimacy but they are not given to him by Aegon - he doesn't get Blackfyre or Balerion until after Aegon dies. He barely sees his father. He can't even give his father grandchildren. But he has this one thing, this title given to him by the lords and commoners of Dragonstone, the seat that once belonged to his father. And then Aenys takes that away. It’s his right! He’s the oldest son! Why is Visenya turning the moon weird colors when she knows her son is the younger!

But of course, her son is the younger because Visenya and Aegon couldn’t stand each other, and by the time they got around to really attempting to fuck, Visenya was already a bit old. And Visenya is the oldest, maybe the least loved wife, but the original, the first wife. It doesn’t matter; Rhaenys had a baby first, Rhaenys is the one the line now descends from. And her son can’t even leave Visenya’s son a silly little title given as a nickname, a nickname he earned for being Visenya’s son, always on Dragonstone with his mother and never at King’s Landing. But Aenys stubbornly ignores this because this is how he operates. They’re the ones not following the script!

It’s exactly what he does when it comes to Rhaena and Aegon marrying; it never occurs to him that people will be angry because he has the right. Never mind the High Septon making it clear he wouldn’t approve. Never mind it’ll piss off Visenya and Maegor, the only competent generals with dragons that he has bc his kids aren’t grown.

The storm that greeted the king’s announcement took them all by surprise, though the warning signs had been plain enough for those with the wit to read them. The Faith had condoned, or at the very least ignored, the marriage of the Conqueror and his sisters, but it was not willing to do the same for their grandchildren.

There’s soooo much going on here in why Aenys acts like this. It’s not just the general royal/noble “i have the castle and the swords i do what i want” but a very specific Targaryen “i have the dragons i do what i want” and an even more specific “i have the divine right i do what i want.”

He is Aegon the Conquerer’s first born son and he can do what he wants. It’s in the script his father followed when Aegon used The Divine Right Of Dragons to subjugate most of Westeros. He completely convinced himself that he is allowed to run roughshod over social norms, politics, religion, his own family’s feelings, because he is Aegon’s son.

And Maegor takes the exact opposite approach. He is Aegon the Conqueror’s second born son of his least favorite wife and he will always have to conquer like his father to prove he is worthy of doing what he wants.

It is in effect the same problem basically every Targaryen past Aegon has had. They see him (and Rhaenys and Visenya) just as godly as the people of Westeros do. They are all demi gods aspiring to the immortality of the Conqueror while refusing to see the bigger picture surrounding him which is that Aegon didn’t do whatever he wanted and he was miserable for large portions of his life which is why he was so effective as King! He’s an annoying bitch but he’s an annoying bitch who realized that the throne was not there to make him happy!! It is only when Aenys and Alyssa give him Rhaena, and a new family to love, that Aegon lives happily again.

Basically every Targaryen ruler misses some aspect of this. They focus on how he conquered with dragons so they use extreme force and forget how often he conceded, how smartly he chose to sort his spoils of war, and put their yes men in powerful positions only to watch those dudes get eaten alive by their post. Or they focus on the concessions, on the miracle of his negotiations, the myth making around Aegon the Dragon, and do reckless, foolish shit without a thought for consequence because They Are The Blood Of The Dragon.

The Dragon was a man and not a god! He died of a stroke! Not of dragon fire or a thunderbolt sent from the gods themselves. Ultimately, what was special was his ability to know when to fight and when to negotiate and even that wasn’t always easy for him, see: the dragon’s wroth. But every Targaryen after him believes in The Dragon, The God, and makes a claim at his godhood, even his own sons. And all of them fall short because of their belief in his godhood, even his own sons.

[crimsonsycamore]

not super happy w how this turned out but i saw this post and procreate practically opened itself. i want unhinged chay :) i want him to show that he loves those who are His just as much as they love him. and i think considering he grew up around loan sharks and shit, he’s definitely hiding a darker side to him. which came out when he stalked his way to kim’s apartment :)

[pinetreevillain]

*GAAAAAAASP* PINE WHAT HAPPENED WITH YOUR AVATAR??? THAT'S LOOKS SO EPIC

It’s my little guy!!!! My little fellow, it’s his birthday :)

Also I wanted a change of look! Swapped from purple to red and I think it’s very fashionable!

[pyjamacryptid]

me surrounded by all of my medical paperwork that disability services deems “not enough evidence” to claim support, after applying for the 5th time:

[elisnightmare]

Lena, E1, yo-yo, please!

I haven't drawn Lena since... Idk?? I'm not even sure if I ever posted drawings of Lena. I remember drawing her at some point, but it was a few years ago, sooooo yeah

Emotions and palettes are here

ID in alt and under cut

[ID

A colored half-body digital doodle of Lena Sabrewing from Ducktales 2017, done in a limited palette of purple, green and dark blue shades.

She is wearing a collared shirt with a dark long-sleeved shirt that has lighter stripes over it.

She stands facing the viewer, her arms crossed over her chest. She looks happy and laughs.

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[glitteringpeachy]

Hat and a no hat version lmao