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“Selkie”

For the Sea Calls to Selkies

like. what does laudna WANT. cut imogen out of the picture for a second. don't tell me that laudna wants a happy life with imogen or she wants imogen to succeed. what does laudna want for herself? what has laudna wanted for the last thirty years before she met imogen? what does laudna want right now? power? does she even want power for herself? does she just want the power so she can feed delilah, because delilah is telling her that that's what she wants? does she want the power to protect imogen? does she just want to be stronger, is she greedy, is she hungry for it? why? so she can be safe? so she can hurt the people who hurt her? what does she WANT. for herself. if this moon bullshit wasn't happening and you handed laudna a million gold pieces and told her she couldn't give that gold to someone more deserving, what would she do with it. what would she spend it on. her wild and precious unlife and all that jazz. what does she want!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ashleyisms for the soul

How do you want to do this?

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Goodbye, Faithful Caregiver.

-Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 91

F.C.G. || Fresh Cut Grass || Faithful Care Giver

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Selkie story 05… mouai

Land-bound Selkie

“My world was warm with April sun my thoughts were spangled green and gold; my soul filled up with joy, yet felt the sharp, sweet pain that only joy can hold.”

— fr. “I Thought That I Could Not Be Hurt”, Sylvia Plath

The Evermore Grimoire: Creatures

Selkies are mythological beings capable of therianthropy, changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. They mainly exist in the folklore tales of Ireland, Scotland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. Many tales tell of them coming in groups to the beaches at night and dancing by the light of the moon. It was also believed that if a person could sneak to the shore and steal the their seal skin, the Selkie was then forced to remain with them, unable to return to the sea unless they could get their skin back. Selkies were said to make good wives, but they always carried with them a deep and melancholy longing for the sea.

artwork by @juliedillonart​

And another selkie sketchy illustration