#symboslism

[everymlmhybrid]

oh my god ew i forgot what this website looks like on desktop now

[liongoatsnake]

As the actual Theta Delta symbol isn't something that can be added within the text of a display names or bios on Twitter and the like, but Greek letters are, people on social media have substituted the components of the Theta Delta for the symbol itself.

We don't recall ever seeing it on any other social media prior to it taking off on Twitter a few years ago. If the use of the Greek letters in-text like this has been used before in place of the Theta Delta, at the very least it didn't become widespread until some years ago on Twitter.

It basically is just used as a visual signifier that the person using them is therian (or otherkin as the septagram does not have an acceptable in-text symbol equivalent).

- Oliver (he/him)

What are your thoughts on the use of "ΘΔ", and where do you see it as appropriate/inappropriate to use? Thanks!

This question might be better directed at my partner system House of Chimeras (@liongoatsnake), who wrote and published Symbols Found In The Alterhuman & Related Communities. I'm afraid that while I know about the theta-delta's general history, I'm actually not very well-informed of the history behind "ΘΔ" separately as a character set used by the therian community. I want to say it was started by Ember (@synanthropic) on Twitter in late 2019 or early 2020 (the earliest use of it I can find on Twitter through its search bar is here, when a polytherian mentioned it in a reply to a suspended account, and I know Ember's account was suspended sometime during the Naia debacle in 2019-2021, which makes me feel like I'm right about this timeline?), but beyond that, I'm afraid I don't know enough to say much on it besides things that are already obvious (i.e. that people shouldn't combine the symbol with known hate symbols/movements). If there's a major controversy connected to "ΘΔ," then I am entirely unaware of it and have no knowledge of such. Sorry anon!

[inubaki]

Exchange (temperature play)

-part 3

“Oh, you’re awake…” the soft stirrings of her voice drew Adam from the sight of the knife to the blank expression of Eve. Half shrouded in shadow, the light of the fire gave her normally docile demeanor a particular sharpness. Her gaze cutting into him with a serene calmness dispute the hovering of the make-shift blade. The numbness of sleep dragged Adam’s motions sluggishly when he attempted to jerk back. Something was binding him down but through the haziness he didn’t build the connection as panic became his only anchoring to reality. Eve was reaching for him with her other hand, ticking her tongue in a motion she normally reserved when settling the children. “The f—-“ words felt to heavy on his tongue. Jerking back made him dizzy in his struggle for distance. The biting of the bounds restricting his arms behind him gave some indication that Eve had used his own vain threaded rope. And the fucking knife he made her.

“Stop!!” He grunted with effort. Eve cooed back while simultaneously grabbing at his bound legs. “I’m so sorry Adam. Normally the nightshade works. I guess this is that ‘Immunity’ Lilith was talking about.” she shock her head with a disappointed sigh. “To late to make more…”

“Wha—-“ Adam moved to far without coordination and screamed when his shoulder met the fire. The blistering pain giving his body the needed push to roll away while shoving Eve back with his bounded feet. The scent of his own burnt flesh was almost as awful as the agony itself. It clung to Adam like a firm hand while his brain scrabbled between it and Eve.

Eve who admitted to drugging him on the regular. Binding him and what?! Adam could taste his own blood and grimly realized that he’s bitten his own tongue. Behind him Eve was raising again.

“Please, Adam. You’ll be fine as rain in the morning! You always are! Lucifer takes such good care of you!” she gushes as she calmly approaches. Adam, again tries to roll way when a sudden pain pierces through the back of his left thigh.

Lucifer had been the one to show him how to construct a knife. Explained the kinds of stone to use, how to apply a hilt and bind in padded cording. Adam had been patient and diligent in crafting each piece. And each completion Lucifer has taken his payment in gorging the points through Adam’s back. A pain so impossible he almost preferred the lion. But he thought only of Eve’s and the children’s protection.

“I’m sorry.” Eve repeated softly. “But this is the only payment they’ll take. You’re so special Adam. They take such good care of you. And though you, our boys will live comfortably this winter….”

Adam could hardly hear her through his own screams. Eve had ripped the knife away and moved quickly to straddle his waist, pinning him in place with a strength Adam couldn’t fathom. Nothing he did could shake her off as he tossed and twisted against the bindings but her hold only drew tighter. In a last ditch effort, Adam screamed for the boys. Screamed for Abel and Cain, but only his own voice and night’s crickets would answer back. It was the sweetness of Eve’s voice that chilled the last hope he had as he felt her hand gently push through his hair, “They know not to come until sunrise. They know this means no fevers. Better hunts. Yummy berries.” Her fingers slowly balled in to a fist. “That Lucifer will fix you by morning. Of course he will!” Adam’s eyes bulged feeling the blade slowly tracing the intricate scaring over his back. The strange symbosl of Lucifer’s ‘promises.’ The ones his pale boys cooed so admiringly at. The knife nicked the middle of the marred flesh that made up the star.

“So good to us, they are…” Eve whispers and suddenly all Adam could feel was red hot pain.

Any sound he could have made was silenced as Eve was quick to repeat the motion across his neck.

Chocking, gargling and Eve’s soft assurances were all Adam knew before the night seemed to encompass his vision entirely. A weightlessness just short of the sensation of sleep cradled him as he fall limp. Eve’s voice left like a distant whisper, shorty to be replaced by a familiar hym.

Chilled hands caressed his cheeks in a familiar motion to a family dream. Everything was cold, even his burns when a pair of warm lips settled over his.

“I ACCEPT”

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[starpros-sunshine]

How are you a mysterious, emotionally unavailable, kinda rude, closed off, somehwat insane individual who's symboslism is all about mortality and the whole point of your story is that you're doomed by the narrative and then you wear your scarf with a cute big bow in the back. Is this what they call gap moe?

[johancosijns]

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Did my first print test for the Portals cardset. Still need to work on the size and layout a bit and here and there some color corrections but it feels good already ! #portalscardset #cardset #carddeck #visualization #meditation #guidedmeditation #meditationcards #psychology #symboslism #shamanism #kambo #frogwisdom #printing #wip #colortest #illustrator #drawings #handmade #belgianartist

[summerotakuchan]

HC:Kanna is a tiny malnourished

SHE'S WHAT!? 0-0

[dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram]

I know you don’t get into specifics a ton, but I’m curious if you think it would be possible for Louis to have a solo career that positively engages an LGBTQ fanbase, while he still remains closeted. You’ve talked a lot about the challenges that Louis faces with this so I’d love to hear whether you think it’s something at all realistic for him, and if so, what it would look like. This is a huge ask, I realize this but we discuss the challenges so much I’d love to discuss possibilities too. (1)

This is yet another comparison to harry, but his team has been able to do this pretty effectively, with the rainbow flags, and the innuendo and behaviour displayed by Harry himself on stage and in interviews, while still pushing articles about his gf and having said gf appear at his shows and in more low key settings. Louis is a whole other ball of wax of course, but I would love a conversation about whether there’s a strategy that could work for him without outing him (2)

Well (and perhaps if you’ve been reading my blog you know what I’m going to say) he is wearing a polari hoodie and putting pink triangles in his video.   I think it is interesting to think of different ways of engaging with gay culture.  Harry’s rainbows are so mainstream that they’re not outting and Louis’ symbols are so obscure they’re not outting (I don’t mean to repeat myself - but that is partly the point of gay culture - to have a wide range of different symbosl that can be both full of meaning and not meaningful at the same time).

As explicitly engaging with an LGBTQ fanbase - I think it’s really messy.  It comes back to the central contradiction of Louis’ closet - because he’s so much more easily read as gay, he has to stay much further away from gay things. 

In addition Louis’ LGBTQ fanbase (like Louis’ fanbase as a whole) are Larries. And partly because the way Louis’ read and mostly because of years of manging the way Louis is read, there’s much less space around him in general.

I’m sure anything is possible with time and careful image management. But there’s so much messy about marketing Louis I think it’ll be a while before it’s anything like a priority (or rather it’ll only be solved alongside a lot of other things).

[lilimot]

Lavinia: Maroon, mostly because it's just very appealing to her, but symbolically it's a very dark and aggressive color like her (uwu so edgy).

Collin: He likes green, mostly because it's calming and neutral, much like him.

Korabell: She likes blues and golds, and this is a good time to talk about the little color palette motif in my Kar'havelian stories. So basically, in Collin, Lavinia, Primeveire, and Korabell's stories, they're all connected by an other world called Kar'havel, and a lil motif I like to put in, since I imagine them in a visual medium, is our world is more associated with warm colors, and Kar'havel is associated with cool colors. So when ever something has cool colors, it's probably related to Kar'havel. New drinking game, take a shot every time I say cool, warm, palette, or color.

Primeveire and Korabell both have pretty cool colored designs because they both have the strongest connections to it, since they both have half Kar'havelian descent, though Korabell initially has more warm colors because she was raised so separately from Kar'havel and exclusively on earth, but once she's started to loose her connection to earth, her design changes where it's more cool colored with only a bit of warm. Whereas Primeveire has cool colors right from the get go, because her story takes place right after her mother's death, thus severing her tie to our world, and is about to become much more surrounded by her Kar'havelian heritage.

Collin and his family, exclusively him and his mother, with a few of his sisters, have cooler palettes to, you guessed it, show Kar'havelian descent, but Lavinia has a palette of what should be warm colors toned down and cooler than normal to show that even though she has Kar'havelian heritage, it has been sort of bred out, and so now her access to the innate magical abilities Kar'havelians are born with is very little, leaving her with her only power, psychometry. Honestly I just need to make a big post talking about Kar'havel and all that.

Primeveire: She likes greens. Symbolically because it's a very warm and homely color, much like her, though throughout her story she wears purple and blacks, since she's in mourning, and it symboslizes the Kar'havelian aspect like I said before.

Lilias: She likes greens and browns, mostly because she's a druid, so she has a great connection to the earth.

Betty: Oranges and cream, they make her seem young, but also just a bit mature for her age.

What is your OC’s favourite colour? Is there’s deeper meaning behind why?

[softforjackson]

ur fave got7 era and/or concept 💖🌷💖🌷💖

waht up karoline my love! uh this got really long so i put it under read more ahdhddjjd my fave got7 era n concept….. oh boy adhsajk !! i would have to say fly bc it means so much to me,,,,,,, not only is fly the most gracious thing to have ever existed on this planet, lyrically, vocally, rapwise, background track wise, n aesthetic wise n every time i hear that ‘bwwAAHHH oh oh oh BWAAAHH’ i start crying,,,but its also such an iconic era in that they got 5 wins which was the first time they ever got that many, n they also had their first world tour, n it was the start of their first trilogy, and it was the first time they all truly took part in songwriting for the album! its iconic! its also the first time a got7 member wrote a title song,,, jaebum wrote home run n even though its, okay its not strictly the Title title it was still promoted solely for a period of time ahdjsa liek every single song on that album is worthy of not only the most intesne body roolling, but also that joke dance yugy does where he like. u nkow he grooves n has that smile n stares right at the camera,, like okay heres a rundown of each side songbc im too extrato hold back n not do this,,, see the lgiht: fuckigb body rolls til my back snaps! therap n alaso jacksons singing part n the beat n the chorus nyes. yes thank u very muchu mark n yugy.thank u  cant: first glimpse of jinyougns msuic composing gneius oh booy also the dnacne broke both my legs n the rap oh goodness”!hARmoneies also backtrack lmao fish: frickin! hoyl what ab op! not hyped enoguh bc everytime that oooooooh woop wooP WOOp hits its like it smacks me onto the ground w no redemption! n i shake its hand n say thank u rewind: thank u yonugjae. thnak u youngjae for everytihng u have done for me i owe u everytihng ,,, thye backtrack especially its,, the bass dropoh bbbboy! also the hrewidin Rehiwind Rewiidnd reiwiind rewqwIIND thanks beehhhhiin on my knees; fricokihgn! cool! the beat! the feel! the verse! the precchorusu where the back is like ooooooooooooooh whooa ooooooooh ooooooooh n then theyre singing all cool and then hes all ‘begiing on my knees go me begigin oon my kennes’’ then oh boy were i stranded on a desert island this song would give me strengfth n something good;o ahahahah ohh boy this song not only helped me rekindle my relaltionship with my parents but also gave me 50 quid! thank u song. anywyas the fucki nharmonies ! holy moley thank u jabeum  n the naalso! oop this is already super long but the frekicijng concept!!! honey. Honey the baggy sweaters???? the pastel blue n pink colours???? the dreamy concept like especially in the dance wheere theyt all jstu like in the prechorus where they all slide n reach into the air n they jstu !!!! ALSO tjhey kept makign ahgase symbosl w their hands n it sjkust syper iahdjhsajkhd wowo i lvoe fly !! fuckiin love got7 ! oh boy

[johancosijns]

Strange Alchemy. #alchemystic #illustration #belgianartist #drawing #handdrawn #eyeballs #centipede #jungledreamer #thekey #symboslism #meditation #thirdeye #intothejungle #insidethedream