#spirits

[thatsbelievable]

[madcat-world]

Leshen - Vulpes-Ibculta

[vivilisi]

Malkavian travels to umbra by astral projection.

A scene from my San Francisco vtm campaign.

Process of art

[scavengedluxury]

Liquor cabinet, 1941. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[tybimmit]

Finally someone speaking sense! Yes! I totally agree.

Another thing that OP hasn't included is that the rumors indicate that there will one season of 26 episodes or 2 seasons of 13 episodes as per the leaks. I would want the first situation as it leaves space for filler episodes and allowing the characters to grow and change.

Also both Nisha and Pavi are avatars which means it's going to be Raava vs Vaatu which I want to explore beyond the dichotomy of good and bad. Raava is the Spirit of Order and light while Vaatu is the spirit of Darkness and Chaos. But Darkness isn't bad, like the shadow of a tree is dark but not evil. Chaos isn't necessarily bad, I love Tumblr cause of the creative chaos over here.

I can't wait to see if they choose to go this way!

The New Avatar Concept is Good, Actually

The leaked concept for the new Avatar series is good, actually. To summarize, the new Avatar seems to be a nine year old earthbending amputee named Pavi. Her twin may or may not also be the avatar. Most of the world is barren and plagued with auroras and storms. And humanity now lives exclusively in seven safe havens across the world.

A post-apocalyptic setting with all new factions and cities sets the stage for characters to go on journeys again like in The Last Airbender, and it lets them introduce entirely new key places all over again. This was one of the main issues with Legend of Korra - most of it took place in Republic City, and when they did travel, they just stayed in other cities without really exploring. This gives a new series a reason to explore again. Meanwhile, there's still lots of past avatars to explore if we want to continue the story of the four nations in other projects.

And the ruins will probably tug at our heartstrings - but the ruins in The Last Airbender were also sad. We just weren't as attached to the ruined Air Temples, or the war-torn Earth Kingdom. But we did feel the impact of the war on the devastated Southern Water Tribe. The scars that the Fire Nation left on the Southern Water Tribe follow Sokka and Katara, and they lead to the invention of bloodbending.

The Last Airbender showed us all four corners of its world, and The Legend of Korra explored almost every special concept from The Last Airbender, from bloodbending, spiritbending, to metalbending, to the Banyon tree, and even made spirit energy into technology. A new series needs a big reset while at the same time going back to the mechanics that people liked about The Last Airbender: a young protagonist taking a trip around the world in a world scarred by war.

Oh, and the war part is just my speculation, but Legend of Korra ended with Varrick inventing Spirit Energy by harnessing the power of the Spirit Vines that are laying around everywhere. And then he made a deadly Spirit Cannon that can literally blow a hole in the boundary between worlds. Kuvira's cannon made a portal in Republic City. Guess what's going to happen to society after that? Development of Spirit Technology is going to boom, especially in the Earth Kingdom where the technology was invented, and in Zaofu, by the way, which is probably the safest place to ride out an apocalypse - except if it started there, I suppose. I'm guessing the new avatar, Pavi, and her sister will be born in the vicinity of the old Earth Kingdom, putting her close to all of this history.

And then one war - just one, with these Spirit Weapons, would likely destabilize the boundary between worlds so badly, that it could create permanent auroras, hostile Spirit Energy storms, and sandstorms. Honestly, this could happen even a decade after the season finale of Legend of Korra with how rapid that society progressed, but Korra could live a hundred years and this threat would be looming the whole time, and also just like weapons development in real life - the threat would just get worse and worse as time passed.

This doesn't make Korra the worst avatar. No avatar has had to keep the balance between post-industrial superpowers with technology that can wipe out the planet. She can't make people make the right choices. But she can preserve humanity after they make the wrong ones.

[leaslichoma]

Apparently in China peach wood (Along with the rest of the plant) is believed to have properties that repel evil spirits, a little similar to silver in European legends or iron for both European fae and West Asian/Middle eastern Jinn. Taoists sometimes keep swords made of peach wood because of this. This made me realize something. If you took a peach wood stick, and attached studs to it of both silver and iron you'd end up with a club or staff (or mace, flail etc.) that would have the weaknesses of many kinds of supernatural creatures while still retaining effectiveness as a normal weapon (peach is a hardwood and silver's poor edge retention doesn't matter for studs). You could even keep adding new stud materials to get something ridiculous that affects over 120 catalogued folkloric monsters. Since you just need a few little studs you could even get some really expensive materials like meteoric iron (a thumb tip sized meteorite can still cost like 10-20 bucks I think). I could somewhat feasibly make a weapon that affects every monster ever thought to walk the earth, from vampires and werewolves to jinn and jiangshi and even mankind.

[lackadaisycal-art]

If you're ever by a stream with a lot of trout, keep your eyes open for the little souls of Victorian businessmen that swirl about in there. You see, they didn't have enough fun in life, so this is how they make up for it. Or so I'm told.

[euphorictruths]

Justin Mays

[elizabugz]

[dragonagegallery]

The Mourn Watch

[weirdlookindog]

Jean Edouard Dargent (1824-1899) - Les Lavandières de la nuit (The Washerwomen of the Night), c. 1861

[buboplague]

[theveryworstthing]

the Lady Tall and her faithful servants are powerful beings of home and hearth. make sure to give a polite nod or wave if you see towers wandering just outside the village.

[foryoudae]

Forest Witch

[aqua-regia009]

The Specter of Death, 1907 - pastel on paper — Kazimierz Stabrowski (Polish, 1869-1929)