#the magic circle 2015

[insaneinsan101]

It's so wild that there's very little fandom content for The Magic Circle despite having really great ratings on Steam since fuckin 2015 and being very well liked.

[taylorswiftstyle]

The Eras Tour | Speak Now section | Version 7

Reem Acra custom (pictured similar)

During her “All Too Well” speech given on the first night of her Parisian tour dates Taylor said, "I think [this tour has] probably been the best experience of my life … But one thing I wish I would’ve gotten to do is … I wish I would’ve gotten to play all of our tours for you. And this tour, the Eras Tour, is a chance for us to bring you all of my favourite memories from those tours. Tours where I didn’t get to come see you in France—and get to collect all of them and experience all of it together."

And in that moment, a lot of her new costume choices (almost two dozen were added over the course of the opening weekend of the European leg) suddenly made sense. 

Why her 1989 skirts fall closer to their original 2015 tour circle skirt silhouette (the 1989 Tour had 8 dates in Europe). 

Why her Fearless dress so closely honours the black/white fringed Mandalay dress from the Fearless Tour (the Fearless Tour only visited half a dozen places in England). 

And, of course, why her Speak Now dress feels like a more voluminous take on the Reem Acra gown she wore on the original Speak Now tour in 2011. More star power = more skirt circumference. 

It’s even more apt that she would turn to that very same designer to recreate the magic. This particular gown is a custom take on Look 26 from the ‘Glamour A La Reem’ collection featuring beautiful almost seashell-like pleats and crystal embellishments. How amazing is it to see a more glamourous revival of a dress that was once just a simple, shin-length gown? And those ballet flats! 

A fun fact? Even for the dozen European dates of the Speak Now Tour, Taylor actually never wore her previous Reem Acra dress which debuted for the North American dates. For Europe, Taylor actually wore a different dress by Collette Dinnigan that (naturally) involved an on-stage costume change. 

Photo by Kevin Mazur/TAS24 via Getty Images

[mapsontheweb]

Map of werewolf witch trials

by subthings2

   Mapping the location of 223 witch trials that included accusations of turning into a wolf, mostly based on Lorey's online list (just under 200 listed). Blécourt gives a few corrections to Lorey's list, Klaniczay has 13 Hungarian trials, and Madar, Metsvah and Winkler collectively give 14 Estonian trials; Metsvah says there are 30 recorded in Estonia in total, but data on the rest weren't provided. When a location has multiple trials, the crosses form a circle around the city so as to not overlap - this is most obvious for Tallinn, Riga, and Sopron.  

   The initial point was to visualise how the trials spread over time, but what it also makes really obvious is how tightly clustered most of them are - this matches how regional the witch trials in general were, but also that beliefs in werewolves weren't evenly spread across Europe; hence the lack of anything in Great Britain, Basque Country, but weirdly also Scandinavia where southern Sweden is known for having a decent number of werewolves in its folklore.  

   Finally, after going through all of Lorey's descriptions, there's a few that stood out that I wanted to share (machine translated from German):  

   1619 Tonnis Steven von Grevenstein, shepherd in Kallenhardt (Electoral Cologne Office of Rüthen). “Out of pain and unbearable torment, I had to say that  I was a magician and a Wehrwolf, but God in heaven knows that everything is a lie and I have never seen a devil in my life.”  

   1652 Wilhelm Scheffern, shepherd from Metterich (di Metternich near Münstermaifeld, Kurtrier). One of the reasons he was talked about was because - in contrast to his successors - there were never any losses due to wolf attacks during his time as a shepherd. "It is entirely believed that the defendant could turn himself into a werewolf" (6th count) and "that he ... once made himself invisible in the field" (point 15). However, previously in points 2 and 3 "that his "The father was burned because of the vice" and "that the defendant's sisters were burned years ago because of the vice of magic." (Court verdict not received; according to Krämer, however, probably executed.)  

   1661 Cuno Jung, a shepherd from Westerburg, had not defended himself strongly enough against being called a werewolf. Because his parents were already under suspicion and his sister had been executed as a witch, he spoke out against the witchcraft trials. He also refused to take part in an execution as a lay judge. He once even tried to buy his way out as an observer at a witch trial. Executed in Westerburg.  

   there's also the WAR WLF of Lemgo, featuring this funky little guy that's also had several people write about the rather unfunky little trial  

   the single case aaaall the way up in Finland is Erkki Juhonpoika  

   Sources:  

   Willem de Blécourt, ‘The Differentiated Werewolf: An Introduction to Cluster Methodology’, Werewolf Histories (2015), pg 7  

   Gábor Klaniczay, Bengt Ankerloo & Gustav Henningson (ed.), ‘Hungary: The Accusations and the Universe of Popular Magic’, Early Modern European Witchcraft: Centres and Peripheries (1993) pg 254, footnote 122  

   Elmar Lorey, ‘Werwolfprozesse in der Frühen Neuzeit’, http://www.elmar-lorey.de/prozesse.htm (2000)  

   Maia Madar, Bengt Ankerloo & Gustav Henningson (ed.), ‘Estonia I: Werewolves and Poisoners’, Early Modern European Witchcraft: Centres and Peripheries (1993), pg 270-271  

   Merili Metsvah, Willem de Blécourt (ed.), ‘Estonian Werewolf History’, Werewolf Histories (2015), pg 210 & footnote 25  

   Rudolf Winkler, ‘Uber Hexenwahn und Hexenprozesse in Estland wahrend der Schwedenherrschaft’, Baltische Monatsschrift, 67 (1909), pg 333-4  

[uwmspeccoll]

Indigenous Nations Poets

A couple of weeks ago UWM Special Collections hosted an all-day LanguageBack poetry-writing workshop with 21 Indigenous participants, sponsored by Indigenous Nations Poets (In Na Po), a national Indigenous poetry community committed to mentoring emerging writers and nurturing the growth of Indigenous poetic practices, recognizing the role of poetry in sustaining tribal sovereign nations and Native languages. This was one of three workshops taking place in Wisconsin, and our session focused on the poetic use of Oneida and Ojibwe, two of the six main Indigenous languages practiced in Wisconsin. The workshop was organized and led by In Na Po founding director, UWM professor emerita of English, and 2015-16 Wisconsin Poet Laureate Kimberly Blaeser. Participants included young writers, community members, poetry scholars, and Indigenous-language specialists.

Much of the day was spent in Indigenous-language instruction and poetry-writing exercises. Participants also spent time reviewing selections from our extensive collection of poetry by Ojibwe and Oneida writers, as well as Indigenous-language materials in Oneida and Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa). One of the participants, poet and York University English professor Kenzie Allen (Oneida), a PhD graduate from UWM, was very surprised and deeply honored that her new collection of poetry Cloud Missives (Tin House, 2024) was included in the selections.

UWM professor emeritus of English Lane Hall, co-founder of the Overpass Light Brigade, also joined us for the day, and as night fell we each grabbed a Light Brigade letter, marched from the library to UWM's Fire Circle (much to the curiosity of passerbys), and performed a series Indigenous-language light displays. Afterwards, we warmed ourselves with a meal of wild rice, frybread and buffalo tacos, and corn and venison chowder (yuuuumy!!). We ended the day with readings of work created during the workshop. Just magical!

Click or tap on the Alt image descriptions, and thanks to filmmaker Dusan Harminc for sending us these photos. Chi miigwech!!

Shekoli is an Oneida greeting.

Miigwech is "Thank you" in Ojibwe.

View other posts from our Native American Literature Collection.

[cv01doodle]

Personal Kirby Light Novel Masterpost!

(latest update: 12/14/2024)

(I've been planning to make my own list for a long time, this isn't intended to overshadow the one that's already out, it's just my personal list to keep track of the dates, translators, and upcoming/unfinished projects)

(i'm using the names from the wikirby btw tysm)

thanks to all the translators mentioned for their hard work 🙏 and thanks to the creator of the previous list as well! also thanks to takase-sensei for writing the novels lol

-2013-

Kirby and the Dangerous Gourmet Mansion?! translated by friendship-ended-with-pokespe (complete)

-2014-

Kirby and the Big Panic in Gloomy Woods! translated by friendship-ended-with-pokespe (complete)

Kirby Meets the Squeak Squad! translated by friendship-ended-with-pokespe (complete)

-2015-

Kirby: Meta Knight and the Puppet Princess translated by friendship-ended-with-pokespe (complete)

Kirby: Big Race in Pupupu Land! translated by friendship-ended-with-pokespe (complete)

-2016-

Kirby's Labyrinth Rescue! translated by friendship-ended-with-pokespe (complete)

Kirby and the Great Planet Robobot Adventure! translated by friendship-ended-with-pokespe (complete)

-2017-

Kirby: Meta Knight and the Galaxy's Greatest Warrior translated by friendship-ended-with-pokespe (complete)

Kirby Clash Team Unite! translated by makerofmadness (complete)

-2018-

Kirby's Decisive Battle! Battle Royale!! translated by makerofmadness (complete)

Kirby Star Allies: The Great Friend Adventure! translated by rhythmroute_ (complete)

Kirby Star Allies: The Universe is in Trouble?! translated by theultimateultimateweapon (complete)

-2019-

Kirby: Big Trouble in Patch Land! translated by rosakikoza (incomplete)

Kirby: Save the Rainbow Islands! translated by makerofmadness (complete)

Kirby: Super Team Kirby's Big Battle! translated by makerofmadness (complete)

-2020-

Kirby and the Search for the Dreamy Gears! translated by owls-gamblegalaxy (complete)

Kirby: Meta Knight and the Knight of Yomi translated by theultimateultimateweapon (complete)

Kirby: Uproar at the Kirby Café?! translated by hoshi-no-mahoroa (complete)

-2021-

Kirby Fighters: The Destined Rivals!! translated by owls-gamblegalaxy (complete)

Kirby: King Dedede's Great Escape Mission! translated by owls-gamblegalaxy (complete)

Kirby: The Mysterious Incident on the Pupupu Train?! translated by kachikirby (complete)

-2022-

Kirby: Welcome to the Starlight Theater! (untranslated)

Kirby: Lor Starcutter and a Magician of Falsehood translated by starcutter-and-lying-wizard (complete, deleted)

Kirby and the Forgotten Land: Start Running to the New World! translated by makerofmadness (incomplete)

Kirby and the Forgotten Land: Break Out of the Dreams of the Isolated Isles! (untranslated)

Kirby: Full Stomach, Perfect Circle, Dream Buffet! translated by kachikirby (incomplete)

-2023-

Kirby: Sever Evil with a Slash in a Flash! translated by owls-gamblegalaxy (incompete)

Kirby: Come on Over to Merry Magoland! translated by starcutter-and-lying-wizard (incomplete, deleted)

Kirby: Having a Blast at the Music Festival! (untranslated)

-2024-

Kirby: The Dream Onsen is a Good Hot Spring♪ (untranslated)

Kirby: Meta Knight and the Monster of the Magic Stone (untranslated)

Kirby: Snowy Mountain Nights are Eventful! (untranslated)

[sarasa-cat]

Pre-announced Dragon Age: The Veilguard game locations behind the cut.

This post is about my level of interest in the locations our party will visit.

Tevinter: While I have been curious about Tevinter since Dragon Age Origins, after I finished DA2+DLCs I felt that it was a missed opportunity to have not had a DLC or, at least, a big side quest that took us into Tevinter. After DAI came out I felt *cheated* that the game never took us over the Tevinter border.

DAO waved Tevinter around as the evil bogeyman, but that was fine given the scope of the game. On the other hand DA2 set up a lot of complex issues that would have been far more interesting, at least to me, if there was a brief visit to Tevinter. By the time DAI came out, there was no excuse especially given the main plot.

That said, a party of me in 2014-2015 was sort of thankful that none of the games actually _went_ to Tevinter during DA2 or DAI because, honestly, this is Bioware and the DA writing team we are talking about. My spideysense for potential cringe...

Right now? A big mix of contradictory, competing feelings but yes, yes. Yes I will buy this game just to take a trip to Tevinter.

Rivain: We are going to Rivain! We are going to Rivain! We are going to Rivain! GET IN THE CAR WE ARE GOING TO RIVAIN! (please do not fuck this up Bioware)

Honestly, given how differently Rivain thinks about magic, mages, and circles compared to the places we have been for the prior three games, I am so ready for this take and all of the compare and contrast that will come with it.

Arlathan Forest: Hell yes.

[preservationofnormalcy]

Left, a screenshot from the app, Right, PhaseTracker’s app icon.

ITEM FILE #7375

ITEM: "PhaseTracker"

ITEM HISTORY: PhaseTracker is an app by TherianInc that was released in 2011.

Traditionally, communities of lycanthropes and other therianthropes have had a broad range of methods used to safely track transformations - especially in the modern era, where secrecy regulations are paramount. Calendars are of course common, as are “marble calendars,” a device popularized in Europe involving a lever with a cup on one side and a gauge on the other. For each day without a transformation, a marble is added to the cup, causing the other end of the lever to move closer and closer to a “change likely” zone. While these devices are still in use, many young lycanthropes choose instead to use PhaseTracker on “magebroken” smartphones.

The use of PhaseTracker is very widespread, allowing lycanthropic communities to track and share data about transformation probabilities. A family of PhaseTracker using individuals can then more easily plan safe “change days.” PT also comes with an emergency function - in the case of an unexpected change, a user can quickly summon either local community help or more official support such as the Office Metamorphic Support team or local Howl Together chapters.

Because of the app’s detailed moon tracking capability, PhaseTracker has found use in the witch and Yellow Circle communities, both of whose magic relies partially on the movements of heavenly bodies. A competitor app, MOON, was released in 2015 by witch coven Andromeda Starlight, but has failed to find purchase.

[tookishcombeferre]

Hello, I, as the wisened human that I am, with all my magical years of wizardly experience on this here planet called Earth, am here to tell you. If someone jumps in your asks, in your DMs, or whatever, and asks you a question you don't feel comfortable answering, wanna answer, or have the spoons to answer - delete it.

Let it fade away into the sunset. You do not owe anybody squat.

You don't have time for that crap to affect your peace or your life. You won't change 'em. You're not gonna win. I learned all the way back in 2015. Don't fight with or feed the annons. Just ... let 'em go. I'll likely get more now that I'm more active in fandom circles again.

But, you know what I'm gonna do? Delete.

So, block who you want. Keep yourselves safe from weirdos. Live your best little fandom life frolicking in the sunset where you do you with your buddies in your corner of the internet.

Fandom is weird. People are gonna do what they're gonna do. But, protect yourself. I did a lot of stuff as a kid that could have got me in hot water. Don't do what I did. Learn from me.

Literature will do what literature is gonna do. It's got age brackets, and genre brackets, and a whole host of other crap to keep it in its lane. Literature is literature. I'm probably one of the most anti-book censorship people on the planet. Within reason, people can read (critically) whatever they want.

But, to y'all people in fandom who promote stuff that's just not appropriate?

Nope. I don't want it. So, I block what I don't want to see. I'll fight to keep things out of spaces where very young people are gonna come in contact with what you're doing because that has no place other than disturb everybody's peace.

Fandom is shared space. Books people can consent or not consent to reading. Period.

17+ years in fandom, and here is my wisdom: protect your peace.

[batsplat]

the anon who sent the biopic ask here. afsfdfhhjkk I did in fact sent it to get you to talk about the movie version of sete/vale rivalry! I am also the sete anon after all.

anyways.

the vale selling his would to curse sete stuff had me screaming bc you see…….a while ago there was this gif set going around where 2020 or 2021 valentino’s leathers are unzipped and you could see how concave his chest is. and my first thought upon seeing it was “haha it’s actually concave bc valentino made a deal w the demon and gave him his heart in order to become the god of motogp, and also to curse sete:)))”

love the casey stuff, I think if we get the minds that worked on revolutionary girl utena in on this they could make it work. mainly bc rgu had really great visuals, lots of surrealist stuff and all that while having a pretty low budget. (yes rgu is also very complex and deals with stuff like csa, escaping the cycles of abuse etc but we’re not getting into that.) so, in some far far away alternative universe that studio makes a casey stoner inspired animated film (with huge budged) and it a cult classic. alternatively, satoshi kon could have also worked some magic w that set up I know. lots of great imagery there.

dovi biopic could actually work, if we use his story to make into a movie about the man vs corporate machine, how futile that struggle is, disillusionment and ultimately choosing to walk away. so, actually it won’t be a dovi biopic in the sense most ppl think of what biopics are? it would end up more grim than general audiences realize bc the movie will show that in the end ducati succeeded and have won world titles etc and dovi was a cog in that machine, and had his imput being downplayed etc. but also like dovi has his family, his inner circle, his self of self to fall back onto and the audience is obviously ends up on his side so it’s not downright depressing. (I wrote this w a specific director in mind even afdgghjk)

w dani&jorge………ok I’m gonna sound insane for this but. we need to maybe fully fictionalize this. have original characters, who are totally not heavily inspired by jorge&dani *wink wink*. get pedro almodovar to direct or something. this movie is now about jorge-inspired-character dealing with his closeted homosexuality, his fraught relationship w his father….like I am in no way trying to suggest that real life jorge lorenzo might be gay here! but his story does land itself to these themes if you think about it. the rivalry is underlined by homoerotic tension the two characters cannot acknowledge (even to themselves) within the setting of competitive motorcycle racing. buttt after their retirement? they discover that there’s a life outside of it all and maybe mayyybe the movie implies they could get together or something.

also love the sepang 2015 movie framing but yeah it would be considered the worst racing movie of all time, like 5.4 out of 10 on imdb, tge director wouldn’t be able to make another feature film for another 10 years after that. but good news it gets some reappraisal and a small but dedicated cult following like 15 to 20 years later.

wow, did not mean to type all of this out actually! but I do want to say that your answers never disappoint and it’s always a good read. have a nice day!

(follow up to this post) omg pls I love long asks, I'm gonna not take this in order because I NEED to skip to the casey/valentino rgu vision because?? yes? casey is like... such a magical girl... (magical girl transformation into leathers, is this anything) the rose imagery!! I want to rose imagery casey!! obviously again yes the thematic overlap between these two things is only,, loose at best, we are very much ignoring many of the things utena is actually About,, but. disparity between idealised roles and how those roles actually function, having those images interrogated/torn down... growing up!! casey realising his parents' dream was imposed on him rather than chosen... even just kind of. the aesthetic make up of utena, the core components of how it actually tells its story. the focus on duels and being challenged... formalised process of DEMANDING to fight the current 'champion'... the shadow plays...

this to me is casey and valentino

anyway if u squint it is like. kind of the same energy as paddock gossip. the skits are also.... yeah hm. hm

moving away a bit from utena and its very specific themes, I think what you really can also do with this vision is like... play up the culture clash vibes for casey? I've been meaning to make the post on this forever, but there's a specific theme that comes through in a lot of the stuff casey's said and written over the years that's really concerned with... well, the trip from australia to europe, the hardship associated at various stages with that, never quite feeling at home in this new environment, zero paddock friends, never learning italian and being sick with the concept of italy by the end of his ducati tenure, saying that europeans weren't as straight talking and honest as the anglos (valentino did also help turn him off the concept of the british, mind you), saying the europeans were more partisan, bad sports fans, really kinda... wrestling with a lot of his loneliness and feelings of isolation by attributing a lot of this stuff to this different european mindset. where some of his competitors were nasty in part because that's what they're all like in big bad europe. and idk, that's something that you can really dig into with these abstractions, when you're isolating casey and then making him accept this Challenge of facing the god - through motorcycle racing but also through ritualistic sacrifice - and eventually he takes on this task that he's supposed to, that's supposed to be his duty, but for some reason everyone still hates him for it... and you play up how it's not necessarily his individual agency that even brought him there. he's there to win, and yet they hate him for winning. everyone wants competition, nobody likes the competition when it's actually there

also like. sleeping beauty him. pricked by the thorn of a rose and he's taken out of competition and has to recover and everyone criticises him for 'just' having his finger pricked with the tiniest drop of blood. idk a lot of his quite specific baggage and struggles are really made for abstraction. he's also got this... look. just a very specific vibe that I think you can magical girl-ify. vibrant red, a little bit delicate, as the shadows creep in on him

where it's kinda... he's unique, he's special, he's got All That Talent that allows him to take on a task nobody else has managed... but that's also part of what isolates him, that x factor of his raw natural ability that allows him to make it at the top of the sport In Spite Of All The Odds but also means he CAN'T get a quiet peaceful existence

and the rivalry with valentino, which, first of all they both make for great animated characters because they're incredibly distinctive (I would make utena!valentino so very very tall), but also that slight... element of menace. valentino constantly in the spotlight, and the brighter casey shines the more he's in danger - even if he rather wouldn't be the centre of attention. he still is.... even if he shies away from it, the world is still watching. valentino is still watching. and the gaze itself has consequences

literal glare of the camera lens, exposing casey in a way that makes him uncomfortable. unnerving and too bright and trapping him

casey looking at valentino and the changes in what he sees over time. the gradual adjustment of perception when he comes to learn of a different version of valentino (who is in turn still separate from Valentino The Person)

and that kind of animation style for the motorcycles and everything... thinking about specifically casey's phillip island 2009 which is his very first race win after his illness-induced absence and I've never personally been THAT big on white liveries (he still loves it though) but like. symbolism-inspired colour change for key step back into the fray, to a new moment of hope

his leathers also have like. a very specific vibe here. as do his interactions with valentino. the specific way they grasp hands idk I've got a vision

(they do also hug pretty warmly in parc fermé and there's a bit more to this race given it was a massive W for valentino as far as his title bid was concerned but he'd also been informed of a personal tragedy the day before - but we're gonna ignore all that here)

also OBVIOUSLY

the assen 2007 fight was SUPPOSED to be animated

it also lets you dig into kinda likeeee the weird elements of that rivalry where it switches from being a primarily on-track one to being a completely off-track one. like idk it feels you can play with that switch of them being real duels to just being. casey stabbing him while valentino taunts him. this disconnect where casey is now on top of the world in all the Actual Motorcycle Racing but the whole picture isn't quite as simple as that.... the ways in which casey can't entirely win....

other random fun bits of imagery/vibes:

again, you can have random animals running around in animation... tortoise turtle and the hare laguna '08 I will keep saying it

speaking of laguna '08, the most memorable move happens at the corkscrew... I think you can do something with concept of a corkscrew

laguna '08 overall is just a top ten anime battle isn't it, the fact that the whole thing depends on this. reversal. where rather than valentino always stalking his victims (inherently evocative) but is committing to obstructing casey from ahead (btw today's their anniversary!!! <3)

you have GOT to do something funky with pressers, like casey's relationship to the media is so fundamental to his entire story... essentially treat it as another form of combat imo. like give it the exact same visual lead in as the actual on-track battles, so that you have this collapse between the on-track and off-track

collapse between the identity of the rider and the bike. common thing anyway in the weird way these blokes talk about their bikes, obviously valentino is like. a number one offender for this. and obviously you can easily exploit this in animation!! and also if we're sticking with the yellow = infection stuff, then casey is constantly being at risk of overwhelmed by the yellow.... and once he's stepped away from that bike to go to honda instead, he has to see this thing that's separate from him but still somehow a part of him be infected

playing with how casey was inspired by valentino... you know the utena kinda. prologue of utena being inspired to become a prince... basically that vibe. stepping up to become a deity and being presented the blade to challenge a god. But Was That Really Such A Good Idea

you can do something with chequered flags I reckon. idk what but you do something with them

casey's obsessed with fishing. a symbol of childhood innocence and one of the things he would have loved to do when he was essentially being forced into making motorcycle racing his dream, something that caused controversy back in 2009 because he got backlash for going fishing during his injury absence (yeah I don't know what they were on back then too) and something he references when he retires on his pitboard 'going fishing'. it's innocence, it's his individual dream, it's peace away from the track... you can work with that

obviously valentino himself makes all this symbolism shit very easy given he did canonically give himself an eyeball helmet during one of his ducati races. like we get it buddy. that would SLAP in animation

okay I just need to say it. you know how in catalunya 2009 casey is just like. two seconds away from fainting on the podium and valentino/jorge are having their whole intense thing going on and are just. ignoring it. gets me every time, it's just such a bizarre discrepancy of vibes. like two different narratives are going on during that podium and they're just pretending like the other one isn't happening, except in casey's case that's extremely understandable and in the others' case?? idk I'd check on him?? power of animation I'm having casey literally faint and everyone ignoring it. maybe several times. sorry casey this is social critique on your behalf

if you have an equivalent utena walking up the stairs pre-race build up, it is so important to me to remember that casey crashed during the valencia 2009 warm up lap

something something valentino catalunya 2008 special italian football team leathers something casey's issues towards italy something them actually having a duel in that race while casey is just about trying to wrestle his italian manufacturer into making themselves useful for once... this is the first... second? turning point of the season. okay look there's several turning points. but crucially that's one of the big ones, when casey is starting to get the ducati situation sorted and they have a post-race test at catalunya and then casey goes on his little win streak that leads you to laguna. I think you can do something with the concept of italy here

something something taking on the number one plate symbolism

thinking of the utena stopwatch thing and how casey's mum was always making the notes for casey's races as a kid and they're included in his autobiography... like you've got this little kid with essentially performance reviews... idk something about constantly recording what he's doing. I can SEE that scene of animated kid!casey going around the dirt track while his mother is recording his progress with a stopwatch and notebook in my mind...

two-faced valentino... make it literal. Valentino The Racer and Valentino The Character and Valentino The Person as entities that casey meets separately

something about valentino's fucked up little fingers as his one vulnerability

valentino reeling in casey like a fish, is this anything

anyways. I love the dovi description... I still get like. nebulously sad about his 2020 where it's both kinda I get how this fell apart but it's so unsatisfying? which is the fun of it! narratively speaking. and the fact that he was such a big influence on the development of that bike, how possessive he got over that project and really saw it as his, how he ended up being unceremoniously dumped and he's seen them win again and again... again he does have the whole 'being well adjusted' thing working against him BUT idk there's a satisfying suitably cinematic story in there somewhere

and yeah I do see the jorge/dani vision!! I think that one's the one where I'm like. the least attached to the literal details and am quite happy to fictionalise it!! especially because lbr his path to his first title just Does Not Work narratively. like 2010 only works as a good conclusion of that arc if valentino is actually THERE to be defeated, or if jorge and dani actually have more of a title fight. and he does have an extremely queer-coded narrative!! you kinda have the actual family right, then the way he kinda... cycles through a few versions of what are essentially all found families, like he's got the whole manager situation which obviously in itself ends up a nightmare, then the coach turned manager he also split from then ?? it's kinda... that dimension of athletes where they're CHOOSING the people close to them (not that he's fully in a position to make a lot of these choices!!) and then has to cut ties when he becomes more aware of how those people are attempting to exploit him.... the whole number switching thing is explicitly framed as a form of liberation. his tendency to get Obsessed and a little Weird about all his major rivals (dani, valentino and dovi get the worst of this) like it's just a fun vibe to play with... the way the rivalry with dani is also a little Imposed from Above and also jorge doesn't get why dani keeps him at such a distance and is constantly trying to like. bug him into paying attention to jorge. he just makes for such a good coming of age story protagonist, like he's so vibrant and awkward and cocky and kind of ridiculous,,, prone to way too intense introspection and just overthinking EVERYTHING and he's trying to play a character while also wanting to find his authentic self or whatever... he's just such a Young Guy and his story with dani is full of that energy... yes

anyway. on to sete. you and me anon

valentino!!!! cuts!!!! his heart out!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE THAT omg.... I love the idea that he'd just. be motivated to destroy sete enough that he's willing to take the final step.... the one that ensures his rule over the sport will never be challenged in any meaningful way but he also cannot return from, a line that he can't un-cross.... AND y'know I've banged on enough about this idea that valentino really DID change his approach to his rivals after that, acquired a bit of distance which would be!! fantastic, it's also that element of not just him Losing something but also him not wanting to go through those kinds of complicated emotions at the hands of someone who had been a friend again... removes his heart!! exorcises his softness!!

I kinda love the idea of making it... the natural conclusion of where that particular journey was taking him. like the idea that that's kinda always where he was headed... it's why I think the sachsenring/brno 2003 thing is so neat, like the fact brno is the site of both the big comeback win against sete but ALSO where he agreed to ride for yamaha in the middle of the night. that you're drawing the line between 'he wanted to be his own man' (seemingly a harmless motive, even admirable) with what 'being his own man' involves, aka psychologically torturing his rivals (possibly a little questionable). another thing I adore here is his phillip island 2004 celebrations when he seals the title..... what a spectacle!!!! in retrospect it's just kinda,, oh look what a fun celebration! he's having fun!! it's all a show!! because sete has been erased from that celebration. and that race is the culmination of BOTH those arcs set in motion at brno 2003, it's his great yamaha victory while also being deeply cruel... and before that the sepang celebrations... I just like the idea that what people tend to see as Good valentino traits (joyous, fun celebrations) and Bad valentino traits (working to destroy his rivals) are fundamentally impossible to detach from each other, and the only way you get rid of them both is by suppressing who he is as a person... now I'm not saying that the devil tempted him to join yamaha but I'm not not saying that? works with the ibiza trip between sachsenring and brno too, like you can parallel that to sete contemplating honda the previous year (this did Not canonically happen but narrative efficiency). it's all their choice!! but they were also Twisted By Circumstances.... valentino's corruption arc why does nobody see this is valentino's corruption arc....

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 08/04/2024

Shiny Smily TALE

Season 8 No Album Release (Read More) Shiny Smily Story (OST Version) - HoloCure

Ripped by Ellie53

Well, would you believe it - its the eighth Season 8 rip being covered, on the eighth of April (half of eight)! And what better way to celebrate this than to cover completely uncharted territory for the blog - an UNDERTALE rip!!

I kid, I kid - though Undertale is definitely quite prominently featured on here, I feel as if it is rightfully earned. It and its psuedo-sequel in Deltarune feel almost like the frontmen of the SiIvaGunner channel in some way, as Season 1 began mere months after Undertale and its music began making waves online in late 2015. Such a hot topic was impossible to ignore, yet SiIvaGunner and Undertale have a fair bit in common that made the game's continued presence on SiIvaGunner feel very natural. There's the lore theming of course, I covered that briefly in Your Best Nightmario, but it also extends to the very core of what Undertale is: A game shamelessly rooted in silliness and absurd, internet-age comedy, yet still able to evoke such real attachments and emotions. The fit was all too perfect, and so the Undertale rips have continued year after year - Hoopache, Outertale, Determination is Magic, BUSTER HAND, and on and on and on. It may seem difficult to imagine that these all manage to stay fresh for so long, but they all find a way - and Shiny Smily TALE, eight years into the channel's life, shows that they're here to stay.

Immediately upon first hearing Shiny Smily TALE, I was reminded of one of the most recent UT/DR rips to have been covered on here, in kris gaming. Its reference was completely lost to me, being an arrangement in the style of stock music popularly used within VTuber circles, of which I'm terminally unfamiliar with - but the sheer vibe, the coziness, comfort of it all just made it such a wonderful listen. I don't mean to say that the VTuber world is one I oppose, moreso that its a part of the internet that still feels so nigh impenetrable to me - althesame, I love admiring it from a distance, just seeing how much passion and endearment is formed within these creators' communities.

And I immediately felt many of those feelings when hearing Shiny Smily TALE for the first time!! Shiny Smily Story has such a wonderful sound to it already, a vibe at once danceable and comforting - "Future Bass", I believe its typically called? - which turns the once-dramatic feel of SAVE The World into something far more pure-hearted in its arrangement here. Its as if all of those emotions still present from SAVE The World are spun into something far sweeter, spun like a legend of something exciting ahead, but with happiness and joy at the forefront. Without too much experience in listening to the original Shiny Smily Story, its hard to assess "accurately" how impressive of an effort this is, but what I DO know is of Ellie53's prowess in ripping - I was practically forced to during the great Raftmageddon incident of April 1st 2024. But even these jokier rafts rides, ones like Raft Ride at Freddy's and TiK ToK, on the clock, but the Raft Ride don't stop, no, show how good she is at merging two songs to such seamless (if, here, comedic) effect. Indeed, I can pick up on a lot of subtler touches done here to make the arrangement work, Shiny Smily TALE utilizes the various ebb-and-flowing sections of intensity and noise within the Shiny Smily Story theme, to punctuate the progression of SAVE The World where it best fits. For instance using a calmer section for the Hopes and Dreams leitmotif, only for it to build in excitement as it progresses, like the very song itself is pulling itself out of isolation and loneliness...allllmost commenting on Asriel's own struggles in Undertale?

Okay, okay, I won't quite go there - but the theme of community and love is one I do want to wrap things up with, adding one last little anecdote. Because it extends beyond the confines of just this rip, extending as far back as 2020, with Sarvéproductions' SAVE the Virtual World. Yes - the inverse joke of Shiny Smily TALE, Shiny Smily Story and SAVE The World, was made four years ago by another long-time excellent ripper: Sarvéproductions, the one behind Bloody Freddy and many more on the channel, across his many years of contributing. It's an equally lovely rip in its own way (likely more, for those attached to HoloLive!), but its the sentiment that Shiny Smily TALE shows that really makes it land for me - that Ellie53 wanted to pay tribute to HoloLive, and at once was able to make it as much of a tribute to a fellow long-time channel contributor, to a partner-in-crime on the channel! It's not a new thing to occur on the channel of course, rips like old town ribbon race and Green Panty Zone (Sequenced Ver​.​) were made in tribute to specific rips or specific rippers respesctively, but I love how interpersonal this exchange between Ellie53 and Sarvéproductions feels in particular, how well it all fits with the feel of HoloLive and VTuber communities in general - and of course, I love how genuinely fantastic Shiny Smily TALE sounds on top of it all.

[bohemian-nights]

- Nettles is specifically stated as a brown girl in the book. Take it up with George RR martin. The speculated actress for Nettles is a brown woman. You think she's black? That's okay since she's clearly of mixed heritage. However, you weaponizing race isn't going to go over well since main point is most of us wocs don't want a woc to be given this treatment in the show.

- "She is an adult by westerosi standards"? That doesn't mean anything. Do you also count 14-yo Rhaenyra as grown woman in the book when Daemon was "educating" her about seduction and sex? Do you count the likes of Helaena who was forced to give birth at 13-14 and adult simply because she was married? This is the same excuse people use to excuse the grooming of young girls in what's clearly a patriarchal society.

- IT IS GROOMING!! You're making excuses for Daemon's behavior. I'll give it to OP last time who called out your "i can fix him" behavior when yous said "he isn't all bad". They're 100% right!! We literally have lines from the book where he is teaching her how to act, giving her gifts, etc. She's a lowborn teen girl and he's a middle-aged royal prince. There is no world this isn't grooming!

- Him letting her go does not mean he loves her. Ya'll just be romanticizing sh*t. This is a grown man of 50. He does not need saving from his depressed and paranoid wife who lost her children just because of your misogynoir and self-insert fantasies!

You have to look outside your little bubble and realize Nettles/Daemon isn't liked outside of your little circle because of all the problematic aspects and not because of some shipping war. Is this is how you want a woc to be treated? Do you want to see women being pitted against each other just because you hate the other one? Over some white man...seven help us then

Her alleged actress and her first canon depiction back in 2015👆🏽 Black people have brown skin too dear(which is how Netty is described). She could be Blackish(never denied that just the insinuation she wasn't Black at all), but why should she even be Valyrian? I'm terribly afraid that the point keeps going over your head🙃

Daemon did groom Rhaenyra, but he isn’t the villain when it comes to Nettles. I’m sorry this isn’t a gotcha moment for you but she was a legal adult who he had a consensual relationship with. Him rescuing Nettles and put her, someone who wouldn’t be missed by anyone except him, above his own safety. That is nothing to sneeze about(and no, you can’t compare their relationship with Dumbnyra because it’s actually supposed to be romantic).

Instead of wanting her to have a rich character arc, you want to put Nettles into a box where she’s Rhaenyra’s Magical Negro/Mammy who helps her wake up and realize that she’s being groomed and wipe her tears away so that she can live another day.

You need to step outside of your bubble and acknowledge your misogynoir(which is a term created by and for Black women to describe our issues, not for whoever you are trying to hijack and use it for). Acknowledge that the sisterhood ends with racism. As a WOC you should know that.

Nettles is the victim of a woman who used racially charged language while ordering her to be murdered in her sleep. Rhaenyra isn’t just some poor unfortunate woman who lost her marbles(being mentally ill doesn’t excuse racism). She’s a queen who uses her power to punch down and she chooses Nettles as one of her many victims.

She chooses to try to make a Black woman(and potentially her baby) into victim(s) of a hate crime. I’m under no obligation to ignore that for the sake of the sisterhood(how dare you suggest I do).

I am under no obligation to sing a racist woman’s praises just because she’s a woman to stick it to the man. If that’s what you want from me or else you’ll accuse me of I’m pitting women against women, then sweetheart, you need to have several seats and take up your issues with GRRM (because he most certainly didn’t write your self-insert to be considered “a clear cut good person who you must worship or else,” which is why you are boiling over people like myself calling out your drivel).

[frogfacey]

I do really wish that the concept of orientalism was more widely known about* in the 2015-16 era of cultural appropriation becoming a topic people learned about and started applying to celebrities and media around them. I feel like due to a lack of vocabulary so many things were labeled as cultural appropriation when it should have been more accurately and productively seen as orientalism.

I feel like it was misguided to call, say, gwen stefani's harajuku girls appropriative because that carries the implication that their styling and contractually obligated behavior and Only Speaking Japanese Ever originates from an actual representation of a culture rather than building off of years of racist stereotyping.

like, the critique of katy perry's dark horse music video should not have been as focused on historical accuracy as it was. contacting egyptologists to discuss inaccuracies in the sexy neon fantasy cleopatra music video is fucking useless because it's not about if the tombs are accurate enough to no longer be appropriative or whatever the point is that the video could not exist without egyptomania and it is so entrenched in the western view of Ancient Egypt as a land of hidden treasures and magical curses because of that.

it also, as has been demonstrated time and time again, opens the critique up to the defense that "I'm not claiming anything as my own, I'm showing a love for the culture by (buying from actual sellers/hiring people from that culture/doing "research"/etc)" when that does not matter and is not relevant to the actual fact that your "show of love" is coming from an angle of exotism and fetishisation.

*known about outside of academic and literary analysis circles. a lot of people's first exposure to the concept of cultural appropriation at the time was several degrees separated from actual analysis through sites like buzzfeed making Top 10 Worst Cases Of Cultural Appropriation at the MTV Music Video Awards articles about it and those sites were NOT making articles about orientalism

[lnsfawwi]

I know it's not 2015 anymore, the Sokovia Accords is officially repealed in MCU but I still am not over this debate ok?

like what the fuck did team ironman expect? legally and politically, what did they realistically expect? did they actually believe that thing could've worked? on a UN level, HOW?

the Avengers were the only canon superheroes who existed in the entire universe at that time, the members were either americans (was nat a citizen? likely.), three of which were high-ranking current or former US servicemen, or hold some kind of refugee status (wanda) in america. others aren't even human and one of them was still technically american. so you are telling me you expect america to willingly and unreservedly relinquish the ownership and control it already had over the avengers?

even if they did, who'd call the shots? UNSC? a different committee that works just like UNSC? oh, right, UNSC is too unbalanced let's put it through the GA for a vote. by the time they convene a meeting, the world's already over 20 times.

circle back to the america problem. they held the monopoly in the superhero business, what would russia do? does anyone remember the arms race? oh, that's right, russia already had their own super soldiers for that exact reason. but they didn't tell anyone cus their super soldiers were insane and they had no control over them. how's france going to think? the UK? the EU?

if the avengers were communal, where were they supposed to be stationed? cus it'd be unfair to stay in the US all the time. it'd take longer for them to reach the other side of the globe and this american-centrism was precisely why the accords were proposed, wasn't it?

and what if there were more superpower people popped up around the world? let's say the UK had Union Jack, would he be an avengers too? would they train together? which country's laws and protocals would they follow? would he stick to Britain or is he going to save the day wearing his country's flag in fucking Ireland? would all of them have to wear symbols of their own country? because it'd be real funny if only the UK and the US had flag-wearing superheroes. if they all did, how can you realistically expect they'd be working for the common good instead of being agents of their own countries?

it's just some of the problems that simply can not be resolved if the UN (or any supra/international political body) were to enforce the Accords.

the Accords is in essence non-proliferation treaty, and that's another rabbit hole team ironman stupidly believed they could magically fix...

[heavenboy09]

Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 to The Most Magical & Sexiest Italian👩🏻🇮🇹❤ Goddess To Ever Grace This Earth 🌎

She is a Amazing Actress & a Incredible Model for Eternal Beauty. Hey that's Italian for ya 😉

Born 30 September 1964

She is an Italian actress and model who began her career as a fashion model before working in Italian, American and French films.

She has an eclectic filmography in a range of genres and languages, and her accolades include the David di Donatello, Globo d'oro and Nastro d'Argento awards. In 2018, Forbes Italy included her in their list of the 100 most successful Italian women.

Bellucci was represented by Elite Model Management and modelled for Dolce & Gabbana campaigns. She made her acting debut in the Italian television miniseries Vita coi figli (1991); she went on to play one of Dracula's brides in the horror film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and then enrolled in acting classes. After appearing in Italian productions, she had her breakthrough role in The Apartment (1996), for which she received a César Award nomination for Most Promising Actress. Bellucci came to the attention of American audiences in Under Suspicion (2000) and gained greater international recognition as Malèna Scordia in Malèna (2000). Bellucci starred in the period horror Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) and the comedy Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002). She portrayed a rape victim in the controversial thriller Irréversible (2002), and Persephone in the 2003 science-fiction films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.

Bellucci was praised for her portrayal of Mary Magdalene in the drama The Passion of the Christ (2004). She played a prostitute in How Much Do You Love Me? (2005) and Shoot 'Em Up (2007), and acted in diverse roles in other films, including The Whistleblower (2010), The Ages of Love (2011), and The Wonders (2014). Her role in Ville-Marie (2015) earned her the Dublin Film Critics' Circle Award for Best Actress. At the age of 50, Bellucci appeared in the James Bond film Spectre (2015), becoming the oldest Bond girl in the history of the franchise. She later appeared in films such as On the Milky Road (2016) and The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020). Bellucci's television appearances include the series Mozart in the Jungle (2016) and the original French version of Call My Agent! (2018). Bellucci made her stage debut in 2019 as Maria Callas in Letters and Memoirs. She also played Delores in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024).

Bellucci starred alongside her second husband Vincent Cassel in on-screen partnerships that spanned ten years. She has remained involved in modelling, and worked as a brand ambassador for luxury brands such as Cartier and Dior. Some media outlets have labelled Bellucci a sex symbol. Bellucci received the knight insignias of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2006 and of the Legion of Honour in 2016. She represents Italy as a permanent member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

PLEASE WISH THIS LEGENDARY & ICONIC ITALIAN👩🏻🇮🇹❤ ACTRESS, MODEL, SEX SYMBOL & GODDESS , A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊

YOU ALL KNOW SHOULD HER, & IF YOU DONT. YOU BETTER

YOU HAVE SEEN HER MOVIES 🎥 IN BOTH ITALIAN & ENGLISH & MORE.

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#MonicaBelluci #ItalianGoddess

[rjalker]

all of the public domain Legally Distinct™ keyswords in one post!

I originally drew these in 2015, and turned the absolutely terrible pictures into colored digital versions. These designs are public domain, meaning you can use them for literally anything and everything you want! Video games, books, movies, anything!

The files for them can all be downloaded here from the Internet Archive, along with the uncolored lineart if you want to make color variants! You can also edit the lineart and designs in any way you want! You don't need to keep them exactly like this.

Key to the Kingdom is the only "modern" one that I drew a few days ago. It has three variations since I couldn't decide which one I liked best, so I put it up to a poll for a drawing I'm gonna do. All of them are "canon" designs though :P

These are magical weapons that are intended to evolve as their wielder's character develops, branching out along different paths depending on the character's choices. The swords can speak and communicate with their wielder, who they usually choose themselves, though sometimes they're born directly from their weilder during Special Magical Circumstances™ (What circumstances? That's for you to decide for your story!)

And if you're looking at them and going ???? at Chipmunk's name, all I can tell you is that one literally came to me in a dream, and that was literally it's name in the dream, and who am I to argue when my dream's gonna give me such a cool looking sword design??

Enjoy!

[ID: Ninteen images, showing seventeen different fantasy swords against white backgrounds, with the name written next to each one. One of the designs has three variations.

The first is named Blazing Star. It has a hilt shaped like a skull, with the spaces for the handle forming the eyes. Most of it is light grey, but there are several blue crosses with four pointed stars on them that look like they’re made of sparkling gems along the length of the blade, which turns at a 90 degree angle at the top. Along the metal of the top part are darker angled squares of grey as though forming a grill.

The second is named Chipmunk. It has a cyan circular hilt with pairs of curves on either side like horns or thorns, and the color grows darker as it goes up the blade, going from cyan to teal, to royal blue, to blue-black at the top. The blade is narrower at the base and wider at the top, with stylized lines like clouds or closed fists on the edges, with the lines done in white as the colors of the blade get darker. Across the middle are two white zig-zags forming a bolt like lightning. The very top of the blade is split in two, with one section appearing like a stylized cloud or fist, and the other side having sharper indents and curves, like a bird or snake with its neck curled.

The third is named Crystal Moonlight, and is cyan and sky blue. The hilt is circular but covered in spikes and crystal shapes, with the shaft of the blade thin and made up of three parallel sections, which branch out and twist at the top into sections with three spikes like a fork, twisting around to cross eachother.

The fourth is named Duality Mended, and is made of two separate blades that fit into eachother, one blue with purple detail, the other purple with blue detail. The hilt is round, with a pattern of triangles and circles on each side. On the blue, the triangles point outward, while on the purple side, they point inward. The blue hilt has two triangle shaped cuts in the side, and the purple has matching spikes opposite these. The shaft of each weapon is decorated with circles and squares, with another triangle cut on the blue side, and a matching spike on the purple. At the top, they turn into a pointed curve like a spiky question mark, with two spikes locked together. The metal sections here have the centers cut out in different shapes. The points of each blade narrow together to form a larger point.

The fifth is named Fall to the Stars, and has a round hilt with a spike at the top left, like an upside down capital letter Q. The inside of the hilt around the handle is curved like a dripping liquid that's frozen in place. Most of this sword of grey-purple scattered with small white four-pointed stars, with darker grey along part of the right side, crossing the hilt. The blade curves like a question mark, with the top section park purple metal, with holes cut out of the center, showing a light grey metal or rock that forms most of the top, almost like a hammer. The stone has two sharp points on the front, and a back with smaller points separated by curves.

The sixth is named Fire Thorn, and has a color gradient from red at the top, to gold at the bottom. The “crest” of the blade is a red spiral that is shaped like a dragon’s head with the open mouth on the left, and the lower jaw curling back into a tongue of flame.

The top section has serrated edges with blunted teeth, separated by small pairs of triangles that form hour glass shapes. The rest of the main section curves down below this, narrowing suddenly into a gold handle, then flaring out again into a curved spike like bone.

The seven is named Key to the Kingdom, and this one has three variations. It is shaped like a key, with a light grey blade with “teeth” at the top shaped like half of a hexagon, with notches in the sides. The hilt is made up of three loops, with darker grey above them connecting them to the blade. Version 1 has a solid blade and teeth. Version 2 has a diamond shaped hole in the center of the tooth section. Version 3 has the same cut out in the teeth, along with multiple diamond shapes cut out of the blade.

The eighth is named Path to the Sun, The eighth is named Path to the Sun, and is pale green, with the handle and one decorative wheel desaturated yellow, like dried grass. The handle has two spikes at the end, and appears as though it is wrapped in leather. Above the handle, the "blade" of the weapon splits into two, twisting backwards where they meet the decorative wheel or gear, which is yellow on the outside with different sections, with a green and yellow rings in the center. After this, the two split beams rejoin in the shape of a curved axe head with sharp points at the top and bottom, with one of the tines that form it twisting back behind it.

The ninth is named Queen of Swans, and is half black metal, and half white feathers, with half of the hilt made up of curves feathers, the other metal, and the handle itself the two twisted together. The black metal of the blade curves before twisting back into a sharp point, with the feathers on the other side mirroring it. Where the two connect, they fade between a short gradient of dark grey to light grey. Small white circles cut holes in the metal on the blade and hilt.

The tenth is named Ranging War, and is monochrome grey, with a dark grey blade that forms a blunt end at the top, with three triangles around a circle for the radiation symbol cut through the top, then a line of small cut out circles continuing down the center. The blade is in three sections, with a gap between the center and the outer edges, held in place only by their connection at the top. The two outer edges flare out and up suddenly before the hilt, forming a guard. The hilt is lighter grey, and flares out at the base, where it is striped with darker grey to form a pommel.

The eleventh is named Silver Light, and has a simple shape, with the inside covered in geometric shapes making it look like it's made of crystal. The hilt is a hexagon with a spoke on the lower left like a capital letter Q, with the spoke pink, the outer edges grey, and the inside dark orange. The blade is thin light grey, and the top section forming the "teeth" is darker grey with sharp pink edges forming two larger triangles on the right, and a smaller on on the lower left.

The twelfth is named The Final Light, and is black, red, white, and pale yellow. The top section is shaped like a capital letter A turned on its side so that it resembles the open mouth of a dragon, with four yellow eyes around the cut out center, which is shaped like a bolt of lightning. The core of the blade is black, which is visible through the bolt of lightning, part of the mouth and jaw, and protrudes from the back of the "head" as two short curved-back horns. The four eyes have white stripes around them, and behind them is yellow like a mane. The rest of the head is striped red and darker red, in straight lines and chevrons. The central part of the blade is twisted together black and red, with the red covered in larger yellow circles with black centers like large scales, and a white zig-zag connecting them. The hilt is shaped like the greek letter omega, mostly a circle, with the ends twisting outward rather than connecting. This section is solid black.

The thirteenth is named Ties that bind, and is shaped like a skeleton key that is made of light brown wood, with thin teeth in a complicated shape, with red ribbons tied around many of them, and on the hilt, with a scarf or bandana tied around the middle of the shaft. The hilt is a stylized rectangle with extra curves at the top and bottom, and a red diamond above it.

The fourteenth is named Time Splicer, and is mostly dark green, with the top section shaped like fingers with the thumb folded, holding a purple spike. The main section of the shaft curves in and out like repeating hourglasses, with dark orange circles in two of the sections, with ridges drawn on the green sections like tree bark. The hilt is a simple curved, solid purple hexagon, with a dark orange pentagon gem at the bottom as a pommel.

The fifteenth is named Token of Solitude, and it is the shortest of all of the weapons. It has a simple, silver blade that crooked back to form a skeleton key shape with three tines, and a pink hilt like half of a heart shape, with the handle wrapped in darker orange-pink.

The sixteenth is named Wolfsbane, and the head and blade are the same blue-grey with scattered white five-pointed stars. The blade twists in on itself, before forming a curved, random head like a battleaxe. The hilt is grey metal, with the handle wrapped in the darker grey. There is an acid green spike twisting and curving downward on the bottom off of one side to point downward. The seventeenth is named From the Shadows, and is purple, black, and grey, with each color a different blade tied together with thin wire in three sections. Each is jagged, in an uneven, zig-zagging shape, with the handle alternating grey and black, with a purple pommel. End ID.]

[cutejk123]

The Shape Girls (Butterfly magic)

Set during the years 2014-2015 (all girls except Tallie were 9-10 years old). All of them are my OCs

Janae (me)- Heart Butterfly

Kyla- Star Butterfly

Kelsea- Diamond Butterfly

Kacey- Square Butterfly

Abi- Circle Butterfly

Iylah- Crescent Butterfly

Georgie- Raindrop Butterfly

Paris- Lightening Butterfly

Sophia (newest member at that time)- Pentagon Butterfly

Tallie- Silver Heart Butterfly