#wisdom sage

[ardenzia777]

Pain in Paradise GOD LOVE IN PARADISE IS SUCH A GOOD SONG OMG Like holy heck, the moment i heard it, I HAD to draw!!! LIKE HAD TO THE PAIN, THE ANGUISH, THE DEPTH AHHHHHHHHHHH

[cam-stopped-eating-candles]

Calypso’s so baby girl but you didn’t hear it from me

[faithtrickedhope]

you’re haunting my reflection, father.

[sleepynegress]

Okay, so while I am waiting on my lunch, having let this marinate some... Art often trends (even w/o intention) toward a reflection of the current state of society in some way. Like the cycles of zombie and vampire popularity being statements on capitalism (Dawn of the Dead), sexually transmitted disease (i.e. AIDS in the 80s cycle) For what may be the first time...we're seeing what I think is a new reflection of the state of society w/ hatred and harm of Black women in visible spaces, post ignoring Black women, deep in a kind of circular hopeful gaslit delusion of society being able to fight its way out of a conservative majority hellbent on regression, and doing that as we live with the consequences of not being listened to:

So, in our art entertainment, we see Sage existing to consume knowledge she will never be able to fully use, because of the vessel it exists in and the world's perception of that. We watch her smile of inevitability as she repeats Homelander's "...like Caesar" and then moves her pieces & regularly self-lobotomizes... We see Claudia, a Black girl burnt to death twice made/raised to be the purest reflection of Vampire while never truly chosen, until the end. As her little girl body stands defiant on tendon-less bone, remembering faces and (strained smile) singing the song written to mock her as she's flash-burned to cinder. We see a Black woman leading with love raising her daughters with faith and tradition with respect and harmony with the greatest power in the universe, - and not the path of control and imposed ubiquity of patriarchal Christianity...I mean the Jedi path... We see her know a bad path, but love enough to allow choice, until she has none (I think she could be under the mask and wielding the red lightsaber BTW)... It's just...These are white writers and they know. It's smacks of proof of conscious denial. Black women especially, do not gaslight themselves about what we are or see, like whiteness does. We can't delude ourselves like that. ...Like genuinely can not. But we shoulder the wisdom, repeating it over and over...and head in hands, watch everyone else play-act surprised Pikachu as it all rolls down on them, and then us, at its heaviest... These three characters all uniquely reflect aspects of that current social place we are in, now. For the first time, in Black femme bodies (and not even ambiguous Blackness to make the sympathy easier in the gaze) in vulnerably centered situations in mainstream media spaces. The "I told ya so!" signs on all three are LOUD AF. The lady coming out of the well is a Black woman, now.

[thepersonalwords]

Light travels halfway around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.

Matshona Dhliwayo

[zelda-of-hyrule-tloz]

Echoes of Wisdom Headcanon Countdown

༺ Day 31▪︎ 68 Left

In the era just after the Imprisoning War, the Silent Princess began to bloom beneath the Great Sky Islands (which were sealed out of human view with a cloud barrier). They quickly spread over Hyrule in the age of the First Great Calamity, and it was the princess of the time - the only one capable of seeing the Light Dragon - that discovered that the flowers first blossomed from stray teardrops that fell like sprinkling rain. At the time, the royal family still knew the story of the Sage of Time (it had yet to become forbidden knowledge and the Forgotten Foundation was built for the purpose of remembrance). For this reason, the ancient princess named the flower the "silent princess," after the quiet sobs that still came from the Sage in her draconic form. It, too, became a symbol of eternal love as she cried for a hero yet to exist across time.

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Karkat: SHE HASN’T RESPONDED TO YOU YET BECAUSE SHE’S BUSY BEING OPENLY PATHETIC ON PESTERCHUM. GIVE IT SOME TIME

[satanasvincit]

Jaqueline Vanek

[sage-writes-n-coins-mogai]

I just finished listening to Love in Paradise from the Epic Musical: Wisdom Saga and Calypso is really out here trying to convince Ody to come back inside while he’s a having full on PTSD flashback and contemplating suicide and begging her to “let him close his eyes”

Like bffr, he’s having a moment the last thing he wants is sex from a woman who isn’t his wife (who he literally let Zeus kill the rest of his men for)

[mamaangiwine]

A constant thing that I tend to run into irl, whenever I meet a new person who also has an interest in the occult and/or magic, is the immediate assumption that they are more educated or experienced than myself.

It's like- guys, maybe, just maybe, in the era of the internet and information, perhaps we can give people the benefit of the doubt? That they might be educated? At least until they've shown otherwise?

Not every new person you meet is a "baby witch" and, even if they are, not every "baby witch" is looking for help from some random practicioner they just met.

[jellytheteawolf]

The demons are telling me to draw aphrodite ares yuri

[ardenzia777]

The Speedpaint for my "Pain in Paradise" drawing Love in paradise is so goood aahhh the pain my beloved

[secret-sageent]

Hi so that fan god games bit for Hades that was made has me in a chokehold. So anyway have rotten twink Hades

(Ignore how janky his proportions are in the bottom left one)

[thegoodmorningman]

You never know what is possible until you do it 🌞 Good Morning

[thepersonalwords]

Life is a sweet sour adventure. When you want to go it becomes sweet, when you remain, it becomes sour

Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

[zelda-of-hyrule-tloz]

Echoes of Wisdom Headcanon Countdown

༺ Day 63▪︎ 36 Left

Had King Rhoam not forbade Zelda's involvement with the Guardian research, she very likely would have discovered the Calamity's capability of taking control of them. She could have pieced together that the energy that powered them was almost like Ganon's malice, although essentially neutral. (That being said, the energy of Zonai technology was likely the true inverse - meaning it could have purged Malice from the guardians itself. She may have even discovered that, had she been allowed to pursue her studies). Although her power still remained a key in stopping the Calamity, this could have saved the lives of the Champions, the king himself, and many others... And after keeping Ganon sealed for 100 years, Zelda likely knows it too.