#tutelaries

[lailoken]

Inducing the Aid of the Oak Tree Lord

I had to run some errands that took me a ways away from home today, and while I was there, I realized I was actually fairly close to a butte that I occasioanlly visit in order to propititate a great, hollow-bearing Oak Tree which grows there. Since I've done some potent and highly effective magic with the help of the Oak Tree Lord recently, I thought I would go to him again with another request. Specifically, my stores of Hollow Water have begun to run low, and I've been needing to replenish it. We had some very wet weather not long ago, which made me think I would be easily able to retrieve the water I needed from another tree hollow I've drawn from before, but following a sudden spell of hot and dry weather, I was chagrined to discover a hollow that was very wet, but not full enough to retrieve water from. I was worried I might have missed my chance to get more for a while, but given that the Oak Tree Lord helped me find the last source of Hollow Water I drew from, it seemed worth going to him again.

Being an unplanned visit, I didn't have any of the normal tools I would have with me for such an endeavor—such as a flask for collecting water, a lance for drawing blood, or anything on hand for me to offer the Oak Tree Lord—but a mage must frequently make do. In the end, I collected 13 Galls from other Oaks around the butte, each of which I painted with my blood (thanks to the help of a nearby Hawthorn copse) and then fed to the Oaken Mouth of the tree I came to propititate. I also gave a wreath that I wove from dandelion flowers.

Literally minutes later, I was overjoyed (and a little astonished) to stumble upon exactly what I was looking for. The natural font was deep and pungent, and what's more, the tree which bore it was an old Oak itself. I carried out the necessary ritual actions and gathered the water using my emptied water bottle (which I will be cleaning very thoroughly after this.)

What I gathered has since been transferred into an old glass vessel that I found once I was done, being sold for only $6 at a nearby junk shop I'd never noticed before. This should definitely last me a good while.

The Grove Elders—an assembly of tutelary tree deities possessing immense wisdom and power—are a truly amazing group of entities to work with.

[leavingautumn13]

doing a little lore work for my pokemon emerald fic eye of the storm, so here's a sketch page

absol should be weirder.

so should mt. pyre.

[sum-queer-catz]

Anyone else get pissed off at the fact that "relationship" is often automatically assumed to be romantic/sexual?

[aikoiya]

Nah, dude. That's all fair. You do you.

And, you're right. It does kinda make the ghosts seem stuck, but at the same time... they're ghosts...

I guess that I just feel like... ghosts have always been portrayed as being stuck in one way or another. Whether stuck on a passion they had in life. Stuck on unfinished business. Or routines that they had when alive. Or literally stuck in the moment that they died.

While not necessarily canon to DP, it is actual ghost lore for ghosts to have habits or routines that they repeat ad nauseum even if they no longer need to. That's part of the tragedy of their existence.

If you ever play the Blackwell series (which I absolutely recommend, fantastic games), you'll see that one way to actively get ghosts to move on to whatever's next is to break them from their stucked-ness & be willing to do something else or make peace with something that happened.

I've always seen the whole ghost thing as being people not being ready to move on for one reason or another & that Obsessions are partially a manifestation of this.

I also think that it can kinda be likened somewhat to an addiction in a way. In that, you choose the start drugs & you choose to continue them because they make you feel good. At the same time, it narrows your life down & makes you miserable, which just causes you to pursue more drugs to make you feel better.

And in order to stop, you have to get to a point where you realize that it's not good for you & that it's not making you happy to a point where you WANT to stop. Sometimes even then, some part of you wants to cling to that comforting habit because it's familiar & comforting. Which makes quitting difficult. Because, somewhere inside, you still like it. It takes some people a herculean effort to stop.

So, I guess that I just see the Obsessions thing as more of an opportunity for complexity than a true limiter.

In this way, I've always seen the whole ghost existence in DP to be a temporary stop while the ghosts finish what's keeping them ghosts. Like, the goal of being a ghost is to get to a point where you can move on to what's next, whether that be the End or reincarnation or whatever.

This would also naturally make it very difficult for ghosts to grow as people because they are innately stagnant individuals. Because the thing about being a ghost is that it isn't supposed to be fun.

I literally have an entire long post with a Ted Talk on my hc of the mechanics of the ghost zone & how ghosts work & how the GZ is basically Purgatory. So, this is something that I'm innately interested in.

But, again. It is entirely in your right to think this way. I just enjoy ghost lore & theory.

Like, the whole point of me giving Danny a protection Obsession is to link him to a category of ghost/spirit called a Tutelary, which is a literal spirit of protection or hero ghosts known for protecting people & areas. Specifically, I liken him to a Greco-Roman Lar Praestite which are a specific kind of Lar that protects cities & city-states. Which Danny does. I also tend to make him a Psychopomp, which are spirits that guide souls to the afterlife & a specific type of something I call a Gatekeeper Ghost.

Gatekeeper Ghosts being the spirits of people who died in the creation of portals to other planes that now guard said portals in death. Psychopomps specifically having died in the creation of portals to the afterlife & guard the boundary between life & death. So, like ghostly boarder patrol.

I find the whole thing unessecarily interesting! :D

Maybe kinda weird but there is One (1) thing i really dislike in the Danny Phantom fandom.

The Obsession Fanon.

Because I believe it takes away some very important characteristic from Danny.

If you make his so-called 'obsession' protection you take away something very important.

The fact that he choose to do it.

He choose to help people. He continues to choose it no matter what. He still helps the people who bully him.

Why? Because as he said in an episode. No one else will.

He is a good person and by just saying he has to because of an "obsession" I feel like you destroy that part of his character.

If you make his 'obsession' space you also take something away. As he mentioned he wanted to be an astronaut. By making it an obsession you take away this thing he loved. Because you end up 'forcing' him to love it because he has to to survive because of 'obsession'

Sure. The ghosts have a theme but they are more than that. Sure Ember has her music thing but she still dates and does other stuff. Youngblood plays games but he is a young kid.

What would you even give Johnny and Kitty? Love? With all the arguements they have?

I dont like the Obsession thing that Fanon seems to be convinced about is Canon and I will die on this hill.

And no. It isnt Canon. As far as I remember (and I watched the show three times but i may misremember some stuff) it was never truly mentioned as obsession. You have ghosts who have goals but the humans also have goals and you dont call that obsessions.

These ghosts are just bored out of their minds and decide to do ghost stuff and cause trouble because of that or to gain more power.

Ember doesnt sing because she wants to be a popstar. She straight up is a popstar because she gained more power from people knowing her name. (An example I know of the top of my head)

Just. Really dislike the fandoms obsession with Obsessions.

Okay that is all. 1am rant over.

[webby-mogai]

demi-cedural / demi-tutelary / demi-famial

[pt: demi-cedural / demi-tutelary / demi-famial /end pt]

Demi versions of cedural(link), tuterlary(link), and familial(link) attractions.

[flag 1 id: a demi flag with a large black triangle on the left, a thin dark teal stripe in the center, and two wider stripes around that. the outside stripes are light green, teal, grey and light grey. /end id]

[flag 2 id: a demi flag with a large black triangle on the left, a thin dark purple stripe in the center, and two wider stripes around that. the outside stripes are light purple, purple, grey and light grey. /end id]

[flag 3 id: a demi flag with a large black triangle on the left, a thin white stripe in the center, and two wider stripes around that. the outside stripes are light blue, blue, desaturated blue and dark blue. /end id]

[floretspell]

cedural-ish/tutelary-ish/wechselnd-ish relationship - a flag for relationships that are kinda cedural, tutelary, and wechselnd; also known as guardianship-ish, tutelage-ish, and wardship-ish.

made by us. tagging @radiomogai and @daybreakflags.

[nichelink]

Family Nichelink or Familial Nichelink: an All-Ages nichelink relationship/relationship dynamic where the people in it consider themselves family in some way and/or emulate a familial dynamic.

this is both a standalone term and flag and a flag for a subcategory of Familial nichelinks.

this may include, but isn't limited to:

familial attraction

non-rose/tertiary attraction like cedural, tutelary etc

people who have been close friends for so long they'd earnestly consider each other family

people who identify as "found family"

the people in the nichelink being desirfamily, dissofamily, dissoage etc

headmates in a system who have a close familial-like bond but don't have completely accurate words for how they view their relation

nichelink carrd

two options for a flag. i hate them both. feel free to remake the flag.

my flag inspirations:

dissomother

dissoperpetualchild

parentagender

tagging: @radiomogai | @everythingarchive | @shrubmogai | @dreaming-of-mogai | @desirdae-archive | @dissodic-archive | @a-agere-archive could be useful? | @neopronouns // ask to be untagged or to be tagged in similar/subset terms

[wut-igay]

so i commented this under a bunch of anti mogai posts so imma just use it as my intro for now lolz xD

I’m a demigirl azurgirl Xenogender girlflux fox.I am also a greyromantic-lesbian and a bisexual who also experiences unlabeled tutelary attraction and unlabeled attraction.I’m a fox therian a dollkin and OCkin.I’m a median system who has diagnosed adhd and anxiety and undiagnosed autism and rsd.am I valid or am I valid?

[redacted-coiner]

Acrocircus Attraction

[PT: Acrocircus Attraction]

Acrocircus Attraction, a Circus Attraction Sublabel(link) that also covers Potential Attraction(/Tutelary & Cedural Attraction) by being represented by the Acrobatics.

[ID: none yet]

[Tag] @radiomogai, @liom-archive, @tertiary-attraction-archive, @revenant-coining

[Master Post] Link Here

DNI is listed within my pinned post. Please go read it before interacting with any part of my content. Ask to tag.

[desilane]

Cryptic Affection

ㅤin summary, this is a digital "book" of poems ㅤinvolving about the experiences of a teenager ㅤ( the person with facial hair that is us ) with ㅤㅤbeing queer, mostly about aromanticism and ㅤasexuality, tertiary attractions and types of ㅤㅤrelationships.

ㅤ1st chapter ㅤ2st chapter ㅤ

[careful-disorder]

Icon of a guardian angel

"A guardian angel is a type of angel that is assigned to protect and guide... Belief in tutelary beings can be traced throughout all antiquity."

[lailoken]

A handcrafted Devotional Garland made from locally gathered hazelnuts, which I use as a raiment of honor when communing with, or calling upon the power of, the Hazel spirit I work with.

[catastrophe-coins]

Hypertutelar - Coining Post

[PT: Hypertutelar - Coining Post]

Hypertular is a term used when for those whose desires/experiences of tutelar attraction are significantly heightened.

This intensity can cause distress, dysfunction, and exhaustion but it doesn't always.

[fellomen]

got four hornsent ocs in the works

[fernifox]

[floretspell]

fictional cedural/tutelary/wechselnd relationship - a flag for cedural, tutelary, and wechselnd relationships with fictional characters; also known as a fictional guardianship, fictional tutelage, and fictional wardship.

made by us. tagging @radiomogai.