#still be there for the sephirot

[scp-168]

Sometimes i hate you guys

[nmoroder]

that hokma post with him straddling a has given me the incredible reminder that like. only a is inflicted by the cognition filter right? so literally anyone else who was watching that go down is seeing the box straddle him LMAO

this might've been a moment of awakening in some of the nuggets... awakening of what, thats up for debate. just hoping the metal box the size of a full-grown human won't crush the manager to death (seeing his reaction though, he's rather comfortable. his awakening has already happened.)

[pettyeti]

#auraugust2023 Day 4: primal

スサノオ

→ masterlist

[blood-orange-juice]

*still procrastinating 6.5*

I love how FFXIV "Fiend" lyrics is literally Childe with the exception of the god's name and identity.

While we still can't connect those to anything in FFXIV.

[lobpoints]

Very funny the first thing Carmen said to Angela after directly appear in front of her face in person is that "you are supposed to be like me and think like me but here we are (disagreeing with each other over our chosen path)" especially with how the writer themselves answered in the QnA that Angela is not anything like Carmen even from appearance alone is on purpose because A simply couldnt do it and would also never make Angela like her in the sense because he view an act itself as inherently disgusting nor was Angela's conflict deep down is she wanted to be like her (rather that she wanted to be valued for what she is) like she doesn't even consider the possibility ig

[fates-theysband]

reading the teequeue lor lp now bc. Yeah.

[evorathesylvurr]

She stares

WIP progress shot of a set of drawings. This isnt a gif but i use animation mode for drawing a lot of the same thing over and over :3

[tovaicas]

bird acquired !!!

(any pronouns)

[electricscreaming]

Project Moon OC Ask Game

a total of 60 questions: 15 general questions, 15 project moon verse centered, 15 centered on nuggets from lobotomy corporation & library of ruina, and 15 centered on sinner ocs. many of them were sourced and adapted from the limbus oc server!

General

🏠 — What is the place they call home?

🌅 — What are they most proud of?

🌃 — What do they wish they could forget about?

🩸 — Do they have any scars? What do they think of them?

🖋️ — Are there any recurring motifs in their story?

🙏 — If they were a deity, what would be their domain?

👻 — What situations do they most fear happening? How realistic are these fears?

🕸️ — Do they have any triggers or phobias? Which ones?

💀 — What secrets are they trying to hide? How successful are they in this?

🚪 — Is there something they don't wish to admit to themselves? What is it?

🔭 — What job did they dream about having as a kid? Did they reach that goal? Why or why not?

🪀 — What were they like as a kid?

🧷 — What type of clothes do they prefer the most? Do they wear it often?

🍲 — What would they bring to a potluck?

📚 — Are they inspired by any preexisting works?

General Project Moon

💾 — What faction are they affiliated with? If not pre-existing, what's its specialization?

👾 — Do they love the city they live in?

🏚️ — Do they prefer the Nests or the Backstreets?

🗺️ — If they could choose, in what District would they live?

💭 —If they could change only one thing about the City, what would it be?

🗄️ — What Association(s) would they (or do they) affiliate with? What about Fingers?

🤖 — If they have no prosthetics, what kind of prosthetics would they get? If they do have prosthetics, what are their thoughts about them?

🍎 — What would their Distortion look like?

🌈 — What would be their title if they were a Color Fixer?

⚖️ — Do they believe in the "that is that, and this is this" way of thinking? What led them to believe it or not?

🌧️ — What would their worst possible end be like?

☀️ — What would their happiest end be like?

🚨 — What Abnormalities would they most resonate with? Whether they relate to them, share themes, or simply match each other!

🏔️ — Do they have any particular thoughts about the Outskirts?

🧳 — Do they have any items that would persist with them in every universe?

Lobotomy Corporation & Library of Ruina

🚏 — What was their life like before getting hired? How did they get into the Corporation?

👔 — What floor do they work in? Did they work on any others before?

🔮 — What role(s) did they play at their facility?

📀 — What is their relationship with their Sephirot/Patron Librarian like?

📈 — What's their relationship with the rest of their team like?

🐦‍⬛ — What do they think of Angela? Do they know her personally?

📋 — Would they attend Hod's consultations? What would they talk about?

🪢— What type of Work they do best in; what do they specialize in when fighting?

✍️ — For Librarians, what do they think about turning people into books?

🎭 — Do they have any EGO gifts or battle symbols? Which ones?

🪶 — What Abnormality(ies) did they work the most with? Do they have a favorite? What about least favorite?

🧬 — What would their reaction be to discovering how Abnormalities are made?

💥 — What are they like when panicking?

🌱 — What was, or would be their reaction to the execution of the Seed of Light?

⏳ — If they could go back in time with this knowledge, would they still join the corporation?

Sinner OCs

💼 — Why did they accept to join the company, or seek it out in the first place?

🪞 — What are their opinions on their Identities and Mirror technology in general?

✏️ — How do they write their observation logs? Do they have any notable quirks in their writing?

⛓️ — How does their base EGO manifest? What does the room in it look like?

⚔️ — What's their weapon's name? Why did you choose it?

🛡️ — What's their base EGO's name? Why did you choose it?

🎨 — Do they have a signature color? What's its name and why was it picked?

📱 — Do they have a signature emoji? Which one, and why was it picked?

🌀 — Do they have a logo? What's it like and what does it mean?

⚓ — What would be their season EGO?

💪 — What kind of role their IDs end up having most often? (Tanking, debuffing...)

🌐 — What aspects of their story are consistent across every Mirror World?

🩹 — After their Canto, are they doing better or worse?

🚌 — Are they in the Bus branch or in another one? What are their thoughts on it, and do they wish they worked elsewhere?

👥 — Who are their most and least favorites out of the canon Sinners?

[santoschristos]

The Tree of Life - Binah - Kabbalah and the Sephirot

Binah is the womb from which all souls are born, Chokmah the energy that the soul is made of, and Kether the idea of the soul within the Monad itself. In fact at the level of the Supernal Triad, Kether is the self-realization of the Supreme Being that emanates from En Sof, Chokmah is its Living Spirit and Creational Force, and Binah is its Supernal Soul Body through which the Spirit may interact with the lower realms of creation. The soul has always been associated with a feminine energy by Kabbalists as well as many other traditions. Similarly Binah is the Supreme Feminine Archetype, while the Spirit, Chokmah, is the Supreme Masculine Archetype and Kether, the Supreme Union Archetype. Chokmah and Binah are El and Eloha, the creator God and Goddess of this system, together in Divine Union and balance they are Elohim. Kether, however, is neither masculine nor feminine, it just is. The god name associated with Kether is EHEI (Eheyeh), which means “I Am” or “To Be”.

The supernals are the “3 mothers” associated with the Hebrew Letters Shin (spirit/fire), Aleph (air), and Mem (water), which are also the 3 mother rays of Amon Ra: numbers, letters, and sounds that are used to write the name of God, from which all creation comes. The third ray, Binah (Mem), being the one from which all other rays and creational energies are birthed or emanated out from. We see this in the Kabbalah by the path that the lightning bolt or ‘flaming sword’ takes as it carries the creational energies down from source to Malkuth. Binah is the last of the supernals that it enters before coming into the lower realms. Thus, Binah is the closest of the supernals to the world of form, hence it is the original archetypal form, whereas Chokmah is the original archetypal force. These roles of form and force can also be explained through the beginning stages of creation.

Before the beginning of creation there was only En Sof. En Sof was everything, yet no-thing, everywhere and nowhere, all potential but nothing manifest… At this stage En Sof does not even know it exists and has no concept of creation. And then a contraction occurs. En Sof contracted within its own being and from this withdrew from an infinitesimal point. This point became the center and it was a void. But even in its state of void, it still contained the memory of the essence of En Sof that previously was there. This center point of all existence is called the Shekinah by some Kabbalists – the feminine aspect of En Sof. In the very instant that En Sof contracted and this void was formed, so too did the infinite capacity of En Sof move to fill the void, for there can be no place that is not one with En Sof. As the energy of En Sof moved into this infinitesimal point it became a concentrated and intensified spark of light. This spark of light is Kether (the Center Point of the Universe). In the same instant, the intensity filling this point became so great that there was an outward explosion of light and energy moving in all directions. This dynamic expansion is Chokmah (the Big Bang and the photons/energy of light). But the influence of the feminine aspect to define the space and allow for creation was still present as a reflection of the Shekinah, and this influence served as a vessel for the energy to pour into and then subsequently be channeled through towards manifestation. This vessel or womb that channels and directs the light is Binah (Primordial Matter, which leads to Gravity, which is an attractive force that draws things into form). Einstein’s famous equation E=mc2 can be related to the supernal triad, where E is Energy, whose essence is derived from Kether; c is the speed at which light travels outward from its source, which is Chokmah; and m is the mass of matter, which can be likened to Binah. The union of matter and the speed of light (mc2), Binah and Chokmah, releases an extraordinary amount of energy (sourced from Kether) that can be used for creation below the Abyss.

Thus the light flows on across the Abyss, through Daath, and on to Chesed then down the rest of the Tree until it finally reaches Malkuth. But it is Chokmah that generates the life force energy that enlivens the process of creation, while Binah is the womb that holds the egg that, once impregnated by Chokmah’s life-giving seed, becomes the vessel that gives birth to the other 7 sephiroth.

Geometrically, these initial stages of creation are represented by nothing (En Sof), the empty/black point (Shekinah), the full/white point (Kether), the line (Chokmah), and the triangle (Binah). Thus Binah is also the foundation of the entire Supernal Triad, whereas Kether is its root/source, and Chokmah its life force, and En Sof is the unseen/unknowable essence that flows through all of it. The triangle is the first form created and thus it is the primary key to the powers of heaven (the square and circle being the other two keys).

The supernals are in a realm that is beyond the human mind, thus any discussion of them can only be limited to metaphors and symbolic language. And because they are all just three aspects of a unity, it is difficult to say anything about any one of them alone. To say anything at all is to define, separate, and limit, thus not a true representation of the supernals. And yet, often in books these are the three parts of the Tree that are given the most attention – perhaps because they are the furthest from what we are acquainted with and hence the most mysterious and alluring. But truly, the only way to come to know and understand the supernal realm is through direct experience, which is the purpose of the ascension up the Tree of Life, which culminates in the crossing of the Abyss. This ascension brings one the vision of seeing God “face-to-face” – the inner and outer God. This experience may only be a momentary glimpse, but even that is enough to change your life, and it will give you the experience through which wisdom and divine light may illuminate your entire being.

[binah-beloved]

More An Arbiter content please, I love it sm

your coworkers say she's dangerous. what's left of your Sephirah, locked up in one of the cells. the Manager tells you she failed, that's why she's still like this. that she's pathetic and it's her fault she's still in agony, still in pain, while the other Sephirot could drag themselves out of that nightmare. the other employees skirt around her containment unit nervously. she's already torn a few to pieces. it's better to just leave her alone since she doesn't need anything. but the Manager wants data, wants enkephalin, and she's as good as an Abnormality anyways, to them. so they shove you to the door and plop a clipboard in your hands and point until it opens with a hiss, and you step inside with your hands shaking as the door swishes back shut behind you

a crackling, creaking sound fills your ears, the Arbiter slowly looking over at you, kneeling on the ground. she tilts her head, golden markings glowing a bit brighter when she stands with heavy steps. you can only stare up as she approaches, reaching claws towards you, closer, closer- and brushing her knuckles gingerly over your forehead. you blink in surprise, and the Arbiter makes a curious sound. rusty, ragged. a peculiar rumbling, faint and oddly soothing. she crouches slowly by you, the patterns across her carapace gleaming softly in the dim light. it seems she's content just being close to you. sitting nearby with no hint of the merciless violence she showed the others. after a moment you take a risk and fall into a sit beside her, and she makes that little purring sound once more

when your coworkers finally cave and gather to retrieve you, the Arbiter is cradling you securely in her lap without regret

[nmoroder]

hi im awkward, but oh my goodness i LOVE your artstyle :) im a little awkward person and i was hesitant asking this,, sending??? I dunno, but you go you icon☆ you've also cursed me into liking hokma.,,

moon walks away awkwardly

i am now casting a curse to inflict hokma loving lvl 2 (currently drawing an askblog thing abt him). and on a serious note i can understand ur anxiety to send asks, i am that smol crying trembling kitten when it comes to sending love for some reason. thank u for reaching out!!!

[picaroroboto]

I'm still a Canto behind, but it seems we're on a pattern now of getting new Sapling of Light powers every Canto, powers that are assciated with both the seven deadly sins and the branches of the Sephirot, in moments that have thematic overlap with the Sephirah of LobCorp and LoR.

And next up following the pattern would be Hong Lu's Canto + the Sephirah Chesed. It's a combination that works if you know Chesed - both he and Hong Lu have these personas of affected chill-ness, and are associated with the color blue and water symbolism (Hong Lu's Land of Illusion, Lin Daiyu's debt of tears; the rain screen effect during Chesed's suppression, "Rain is falling; this rain, the tears of all the employees. The downpour will never stop.")

Additionally the word "Chesed" is often translated in the bible as "loving kindness", and Chesed's suppression in LobCorp is associated with "Those who are Faithful and Trustworthy". It will be interesting to see how those themes play out with, or in contrast to, the story of Hong Lu and his family.

[sonicjustbecause]

Humans are hard to include in worlds filled by anthros (Sonic aestetic analysis)

Aestetic... a word I like.

This kinda work. Both of them have about same cartoonish proportions, similar head size, similar hands and feet size. The human girl has a thicker body and is bigger, but humans are tricky to include in a world with anthros.

The fact is, since we are humans, the specie is particularly familiar with us. What we are is written in our DNA. If you ask to a blind person to draw a fellow human, the drawing will turn out correct, the very same a person with normal sight woyld do.

So is tricky to avoid the uncanny valley and keeping them recognizable as humans. Humans are also rather large overall compared to hedgehogs and other beasts as specie. In fact we are included in the great apes group. Alongside the gorillas we are the also the tallest so pretty much big animals (but we are also slim).

Actual hedgehogs are as big as human hand, or so. Sonic doesn't need to be this small. Just more balanced.

Humans are always been a presence in Sonic world. Eggman is the most well known. And he has large hands and feet, like Sonic and the other. But his proportions are quite realistic and I think he should look bigger because actually, his head is smaller than Sonic's and the other...

In this scene from Sonic X it works well. Eggman's human features are exaggerated (like the typical human long nose compared to the flat noses of the other apes), and his head is about as large as Sonic's, making him fit the enviroment.

Those are very a little bit awkward. When I complain that the size are awkward is because of Eggman's small head.

This is no-no! She just doesn't match in the universe. Like, she belong somewhere else. Small hands and feet, anime proportions, vintage Italian style doll face...

Back in the '80s I saw some that were even closer to what Maria looks like. There were even drawings of girls who just looked like Maria around, some hanged on walls in my granparents home, I just can't find them not even online (the last time I saw them I was 16).

(Shadow likes those pictures...)

Surprisling Mario fits greatly despite being part of a completely different universe.

With modern style...

And even with SatAM style

Both in Sonic and Mario, humans tend to have small eyes.

Roundish head, large hands and feet, noodle limbs just like the beasts... Eggman obioulsy has small eyes. I figure them being about roundish, like Mario's.

Now, we see some human eyes there. A western aestetic just look better within Sonic world (the aestetic is pretty much western overall, being based on rubber hose style). Maybe hands and feet size could be more balanced...

I don't like Eggman having Majin Bu style eyes like in SatAM and AoStH. I've read somewhere he has regular human eyes. There (Archie) he looks as if he is possessed by an entity, so I wonder, Sonic should try to save him at this point? I imagine is to show that Eggman is a psychopath, but it doesn't do the job. The shape and size of the eyes is fine.

This is a joke... 'never mix styles' I was told 'Characters should look like they're part of the same universe!'...

Even Eggman was changed to have a realistic look, and it sucked.

Elise should be with Cloud Strife and Sephirot, not with Sonic, if we are talking about the style.

Outside Sonic series...

Top Cat

A human and six cats. They fit perfectly in their universe. Like Sonic, the cats are bigger than real cat, still smaller than humans. Heads look perfectly in proportions.

Now, here we are in the opposite territory. The feline is bigger than a human. In fact he is a puma.

Just to show how well human and anthro blend togheter in Hanna&Barbera works. In addition they also have actual four legged beasts, like Scooby Doo.

In Japan antros are rare, yet it can still work it the style is consistent. In Dragon Ball and Dr Slump we have plenty of anthro characters who blend well with humans. And there are also actual four legged beasts.

Some Japanese anthros

[sentienttoastah]

gebdog❤️❤️❤️

And i didnt know how kiwihod looked like plus still cant draw kiwis. So its a ball of fluff until i figure out. yuri‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

I will draw binacat soon. Devilish feind she better stop breaking my coffee mugs

Gebdog… Dogbura… Gebhod kiwiverse yuri… 🥹🥹🥹

It’s so beautiful… I love your little doodles the kiwiws are just. Silly balls I love them so much I want to throw them against a wall…..

And I don’t know where the old post is but I’ve done all the sephiras (sephirots? Wtf are they called) before as kiwis. If you ever need reference ;))))

[chikos-workshop]

Shop update – On-going sale, new items and restocks!

September is half over and that means the sale is halfway done! Enjoy 20% off everything on Shopify and Etsy while you can!

(Cotton dolls are still additional 10% off on my shopify :3)

(Sorry I never announced this here I was exhausted after doing twitter announcement)

Shop Link

1. Collab merch - EGO buttons and Yan Sticker

Starting with more collab merch, we have a pair of buttons featuring the seasonal EGOs by @AzeruArts on twitter! Ryoshu and Yi Sang are contained neatly in their cells, ready to be dispensed :)

This will hopefully be an expanding series, let me know if there's any EGOs you'd like to see 👀

Button Link

Work getting you down? Yan’s there to keep you company as a sticker! Now you can be stuck to a desk together. Try not to distort :)

Another collab merch by @AzeruArts

Sticker Link

2. Double sided Angela Acrylic Block

Robot Assistant or Library Director. Both Angelas are now on sale! She comes in either an acrylic block or in a quicksand block. Watch the Light she cultivated gently fall in the background, or peek at the Carmen between the layers

Quicksand

Acrylic Block

3. Other Merch that Dropped and I Forgor to post here

Tiny Sephirot Standees

Tiny ALEPHs standees

4. Restocks & Other Notes

The (Note)Book of the Library makes a return along with the highly requested tiny librarian phone charms! The notebooks will come with an Angela bookmark, while supplies last.

Book Link

Phone Charms Link

If you see a phone charm design that sold out, feel free to contact me! I'll try my best to accommodate if I still have stock!

Also, the prices for phone charms will go up a bit after this sale (12 CAD per charm) to match the prices of other kc on my shop!