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What if... they were spider-bros tho?
Maglor - Maedhros - Celegorm
#Maedhros#Nelyafinwë#Nelyo#Maitimo#Maglor#Kanafinwë#Kano#Makalaurë#Celegorm#Tyelkormo#Tyelko#fëanorian#Silmarillion#Silm#Tolkien#spider-man: across the spider-verse#Spider-ified-elves?#Needs some workshopping but this was fun#TheAngbandMuseum
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today i decided to take a lil walk after my haircut and i was like "i'll just go down another block on this road" but didn't realize the block system had ENDED on that road. and then i was like "well i don't feel like turning back around, i'll just keep walking til there's a turn" but there were no turns even after over a mile of walking
so i pulled up my phone gps and saw that the two options for getting home were "turn around and walk that shitty road home" (easier but more boring) or "walk farther down this road, go into the public forest, and cut through there to get home" (more fun but more difficult)
and i ended up going with the latter
but i had then realized by the time i was entering the forest that the sun was setting. and my phone battery was getting low.
and my legs were getting tired but i couldn't stop and rest because i needed to be out of the woods before dark and i was cutting it awfully close
so like. irl horror game protagonist simulator.
#eliot posts#i undercut that fear a bit tho bc i was listening to shit on my headphones#specifically someone analyzing a will wood album#it took up a little phone battery but my phone wasn't that close to dying that listening to someth would make or break it#it's more just that the flashlight function on my phone drains battery REAL FAST#so if i was out in the woods long enough to need a flashlight i'd be FUCKED#but i got out just in time#the last leg of the journey after i got back on the roads was pretty dark tho#i think i walked like 5 miles today#on a more fun note on the way to my haircut i saw this upholstery workshop studio thing was open and looked inside#and the owner was a nice old man who talked to me for like a half hour and showed me some of his projects
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love sitting and thinking about watching a movie and then not actually watching the movie or any movie, for that matter
#personal#fallen off my film bro game :(#tempted to start a project again which i Thought was gonna be my thesis#where its like. reportage/collagey/diaryesque passages about the movies i watch.#basically like an illustrated letterboxd but with more content in it lsjkdf#like some little essays in there. itd be currated a bit#IDK i need to workshop it but i still think it'd be really fun#id make it a little book u could buy
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been rolling around the idea for a few months of a fusion mechanic for interstitial that isnt amalgam-based (pure self-indulgence for when me and my friends do a campaign) which is not... too entirely far off from what about pacrim would be interesting to me as interstitial-based mechanics (read: the drift)
#kbitycus talks#similar principles to me but i want to poke at how links play into it#also i think. like a set of playbooks based off different roles at the shatterdome (pilot‚ mechanic‚ gay scientist‚ marshal) would be fun#inspired by writing workshop convos.. its been rotating in my brain for the past few hours nyeow#im terrible at writing playbook moves but between redoing the anchored for 2e & just practicing i think itd be fun#i dont care abt the crunch or mech maintenance or whatever that kind of mechanic doesnt hold appeal to me#''the jaeger has its own harm clock'' is probably the extent of what you will get from me on that front#you get a lot of the basic interstitial moves & then maybe a pool of Specialised moves based on how your jaeger is built?#so you pick like. two or three of Those from a list of like ten#'my jaeger has a chain sword' 'my jaeger runs on nuclear instead of digital and can blow itself up' et#basically building your jaeger a character sheet#i think the stats would be the combined stats of you & your co-pilot(s). your links are their links are the jaeger's links etc etc!!!#these tags got out of hand. whoops#i dont necessarily think you need the playbooks to be in a jaeger i like the idea of playing a pacrim expansion except youre still on#that kh bullshit. theres just also a jaeger or two there#but obviously you get the option. fight some kaijus.#if your links are locked with your co-pilots do you get to keep one of their individual playbook moves after the drift ends#so long as that link is locked? theyre in your head!!#these tags continue to get out of hand SEND POST
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Oh yeah don’t dox yourself!! I hope it didn’t sound intrusive, I was just curious :)
You went to university for creative writing then? That’s cool!! I thought of doing that out of highschool but I’m in a gap year right now. I don’t think I can trust myself to write anything creative that I’m actually proud of in a structured setting (ik that sounds yikes, gotta get out of my wimp era eww). So I just watch free video lectures 😭 But do you recommend it?
Well, I hope you leave a door, but if not, your writing has still left me (and loads of ppl I’m sure) with a lot to think about regardless :)
Aww thank you, you're very sweet. And you weren't being intrusive at all! It's actually really nice to know that there's anyone out there who wants to see more of what I can do!
I actually didn't major in creative writing, but I did do a series of fiction writing workshops at my first college and an additional workshop at my transfer university. My transfer university had a creative writing contest and a literary journal, which is where I was published. So it's not the most prestigious achievement, but it is something under my belt, I guess.
Fiction writing workshops really are a mixed bag.
The best part of a workshop is how it forces you to get used to critiques, which is really valuable if you base your self-worth around being a good artist. There is no better way to separate your self worth from your art than having to get used to people talking smack about it. Plus, critiquing other writers helps you to develop the ability to read like a writer and self-edit yourself.
But none of the workshops I did taught me how to write. For reference, I did workshops both at a liberal arts school (which was a mistake) and at a state university (the course was framed as an intro course, but was really just a fun elective). All of the workshops technically had a lecture series for the first half of the class centered on learning the craft, but I didn't learn anything new from them.
Another issue with workshops is that the value of the critiques depends on how good the rest of your class is. In an intro class that is a fun elective at a state school, the critiques are pretty worthless. The critiques for the workshops at the liberal arts school were helpful, but you are also going to be up against self-proclaimed artistes who have the strangest and most pretentious "Golden Rules of Writing" you will ever hear.
Honestly, the best way to improve your writing is to just write and be critical of your own work. If you write consistently and are open to admitting where you are weak, you will get better. It certainly took me a long, long time to start feeling like I was good at writing, and I've been writing most every day since I was 13.
If you decide to go college and want to be involved in a workshop, skip the classes and see if there is a writing club on campus. The club will probably have an informal workshop where you can share and get critiques from people who have a passion for writing just like you do. If the club is anything like the one I went to, it'll be filled with people from a variety of disciplines who will have more valuable insight than any Artiste Writer can give you. Plus, you can make a lot of great friends.
#I also took a gap year between schools and honestly i wish i took a gap year before starting college#but yeah in summary:#1) do not go to a liberal arts college#2) you do not need to study creative writing to be good at writing#3) join a club of other writers#4) write every day#one day i will tell you all my fiction writing workshop horror stories like there really are some freaks out there in the world#((for reference: when I make fun of pretenious writing people i am making fun of myself; i studied english with a concentration in#technical writing and communication; i am extremely stuck up about books. like my xmas list this year was critical editions of classic lit#cause i like getting the historical context; the point is that i am in part making fun of myself))#((however i will relentlessly mock everyone and anyone for going to a liberal arts school like that is worthy of ridicule))#me rambling#ask#weetbixbb#also to get on my soapbox but the liberal arts school i went to killed my self confidence as a writer for a really long time#and also killed my confidence in my personality tbh but we won't get into that#like it's stark how cutthroat that enviroment was and who was designated as the Good Artists and why they were Good Artists
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I think whats worse is i have 3 build a bears that need new birth certificates and theres no way I can just walts in there with all 3 of them at once meaning I have to take at least 2 trips to a place I rarely go thats an hour away
#sassy speaks#babw#its not the end of the world tbh 2 of them need other stuff done anyways#one of them has a broken voice box and the other ones very old and very well loved and could use a restuffing#its just annoying i wish i had a workshop closer to me#actually its a good thing I dont tbh id be going broke way faster#unrelated but itd be fun to have them all on a shelf with their certificates hanging behind them AUOGH#since I have 0 space on my bed to have all of them out at once#like I have 16 and that doesnt count babies/smallfrys/lils/any other name tiny build a bears have gone by#and I have WAY more non babw plush i wish I could keep them all out but i just have no space#im so glad I got most of my certificates when I go my bears tho I have ones with bearville stuff one them#i havent been to a physical workshop for a while do they still have that big touchscreen in the middle#where you give them personality traits and stuff#i miss the good ol days where they had those keyboard with the gel thing on top#and the wash station......#if im remembering right the wash station last time i went was the aforementioned big touchscreen#i miss the one with the air blowing out of it.....#the bear I got last time i went into a workshop to get was stuffed SO stiff for some reason the stuffer was not messing around
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not to keep workposting but. every single day I come to work and i get rained on and i don’t have an umbrella. every single day i come to work and return home with arrows sticking out of me like in minecraft.
#if i see another human being in the next 8 minutes i will go fucking crazy. also why are there so many stressors all the time. i just want#to go home and play cookie run or wobbledogs. like i shouldn’t be like this bc i love my job. but i am so distressed and scared and#exhausted by the sheer volume of tasks and of laser beams that make a lattice that i have to tip toe through in order to get to the gem.#like it’s insane. and i do not want to facilitate this workshop. please please please no one show up. LOL#purrs#literally like no one shows up to this stuff either it’s just insane like we spend all this time preparing and then no one shows up#at some point i have to be honest and say this. i love my job in theory. right now i do not love it though. i might not even like it. i am#scared and miserable and stressed all the time. i just want us to have enough staff and i just want us to have a break#im fucking tired of going unrecognized im fucking tired of being made fun of and hushed about. like the rest of these people fucking suck#honestly and idc if im a bitch or a loose canon for saying that. we are working so ficking hard and we need the BASIC things that everyone#else seems to have and it doesn’t fucking seem to matter. i literaly haven’t even been able to finish my fucking onboarding yet because#ive had to take on the work of all the vacant positions and it doesn’t even seem tofucking matter outside of us like everyone just thinks im#a student and i even got sneered at easier today as a joke but it s like it’s not fucking funny i work here JUST LIKE YOU!!!!!! I WORK HERE#AND I FUCKING NEED HELP!!!!! SHUT UUUUUPPPPP!!!!!!!
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Weird Al beach boys song best ever shitting My pants and decomposing
#talkingcore#I hit weird Al in my album adventure and this song is slaughtering me I am so happy#like it’s not just a beach boys parody that milks off of the surfer aesthetic no!!!!#it’s like Everything Pet sounds + smile era and like AHHHHHH there’s a part which is like wind chimes and not the smiley smile wind chimes#since that one is kinda Mwamp:/ no!! the smile version!!! and it sounds especially similar to the Brian Wilson version released in 2004#which like given this came out in 2006 100% influenced it to some capacity like it’s not just the melody but the layering of the vocals#it’s the instruments the mixing UGH it’s faithful in the most majestic way possible#idk the fact you can stick a harpsichord in there and immediately the little monkey in my brain is like 🤨 Brian Wilson? ACKCJCHH#time for my bi-annual rewatch of Brian Wilson’s SMiLE in concert#which like I think is hands down one of the best live performances like smile is fucking complex the variety of instruments is bonkers#like the whole workshop bit has them just turning on drills and shit! not even addressing the orchestration!!#so being able to recreate that at a near perfect level LIVE? like No Cuts???? absolutely wild it’s life changing#fun fact! it was watching that concert on youtube (it’s on youtube!) that made my beach boys brain spiral#like before august of 2021? normal. consumed music rather averagely. post august 2021? insane like the fact that in less than 4 months#I managed to skew my stats so much like at least 60% of 2021 became The Beach Boys#that’s not even addressing 2022 which got the most hit cause that’s 12 months! I think there’s maybe >10 songs out of the 100 that aren’t#the beach boys or okay at least beach boys related like I’m gonna count brian And Carl and dennis’ solo material in there too#especially given their overlap in production like Hell! how many songs were meant for Brian solo projects and were given to The Beach Boys?#Caroline no is credited just with Brian when it was released as a single even though she’s on pet sounds!!! AHGGGHH need to calm down
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One (1) singular person has shown interest in warriors au so I willl be brainstorming various names thank you
#the easiest is. fox clan for. snake and the support team#I don’t even have designs for fucken. zero and paramedic and sigint!1!!!#but like. hmmm. snow clan for fucken. yknow#uhh. the. philosophers right. they were a thing#star clan?!;!:?????#mgs warriors au#ugh I’m still workshopping actual names it’s TOO fun#I know that. at least boss is just Star#I know I’m missing two clans I don’t Care shh shh#ok I am fucked on the lore of mgs uhh. the fox unit becomes the patriots right.. they’ll need a name change#HHRGGH too much to think about#I guess instead of building mg’s vol and whoever tf just want to take#where was I LMAO uhh. he just wants to take over the clans. probably using dogs or some shit
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Anyway I hate "X meets Y" marketing as much as anyone else but if you think tiktok invented cliche genre books that dont have much originality than you must either be a teenager or only now started paying attention to like media in general
#seasalt talks#writing workshop#hot take but most media is generic and boring#just bc only now you're noticing doesnt mean tropes or fucking fanfic ruined culture#look at 2000s YA 70s bodice rippers or just the vast majority of any genre#romance in particular is suspectiable to this bc of the intense turnaround rate writers need to be profitable#at some point you just got to accept the picky eater inside of you and be ok with being selective about your tastes#no amount of bitching is gonna suddenly make every book a masterpiece that shakes your world#and frankly most ppl dont need that and are fine with having cute little predictable fun timez
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kinda on the verge of crying because i thought too much abt my future and how i really wanna do this job. staging at that place really opened my eyes and everything clicked but now i'm terrified i won't be able to do this great job that is perfectly fit for me and it will break me. wahhwah
#like it's a combination of computer stuff helping ppl AND doing creative workshop and all. some sort of routine but we're still doing#different stuff. i can make a difference and help out ppl. that month of staging in August flew by i was always sad when it was friday cos#that meant it was the week end already and another week went by and I didn't have much time working here.#I NEVER HAD A JOB OR TRAINEESHIP OR STAGE THAT MADE ME FEEL LIKE THIS :((( it literally doesn't feel like a job#i'm so fucking heartbroken to the idea i might not be able to do this job#cos they're a non profit organization and even tho they're looking for someone new + liked how invested i was they don't have enough room#for getting another person in the staff and they need to move.#but there's no like. business or company where i could do a similar job#there's prob only non profit organizations like them and it's hard to come by around here +difficult to get hired as they're paid by the gov#or other sponsors '#anyway i'm just hoping to not have to go to a job that'll fuck my body and brain more and truly wishing for a job like what i did at that#stage. literally love at first sight :'((( sniffles sniffles#ALSO THE LIL GRANMAS AND GRANPAS LIKE ME :((( IT'S SO NICE TO BE SURROUNDED BY CARING PPL#I LOVE HELPING THEM OUT#wAHHWAHHHH I MISS IT#my current job is kinda still the same but not really it's at the french job center. helping them out on the puter#still isn't as fun it's only paper work + they can lash out on us for stuff we don't have anything to do with#but i'm still helping out ppl + i have a counselor for the next 7 months to guide me. i hope i'll make something out of my life i'll enjoy#tomtom_is_rambling
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A Workshop for Creating Magical/ Fictional Crystals: A Guide from a Geologist
Hi folks, its me, here to talk about fictional writing again! Today I'm just tackling the idea of magical stones/mana stones by looking at existing minerals today and some neat properties that they have, and how you can apply these things to a fictional world. The goal is mainly to help you if you are stuck trying to come up with a unique magic system, or a unique identification/characteristic of your mineral.
First Things First: Mineral Shapes
I am exhausted, petered out, down-right fatigued by seeing every mineral depicted with having the crystal structure of calcite and quartz. There are soooooo many cooler, more interesting crystal structures, don't you think you would stop and take a look at a perfect cube in nature? It is completely unsettling.
Second: Color
Color within minerals can either be really important, or not important at all! It is your choice to decide if color is going to be something that means something to your mineral. But what are some times when the color is important? Well.... there are some elements that are called chromophores, this classification just indicates that these elements, when present, will determine the color of whatever they are in. So, if you wanted to treat mana like a chromophore, you could say, "Oh everything that contains mana turns green!" This could mean that regardless of the mineral, if that mineral is a specific color, it means it contains mana. This concept is exciting because you can just stop here and use minerals that already exist! You can also use it as an indicator for a magical ore! Chromophores are typically metals, so if you are making a new metal weapon, making the ore of that metal a unique color would make a lot of sense!
However, your mineral can also just be every color of the rainbow like quartz and perhaps that's what makes identifying your mana stones elusive and create an illusion of scarcity that your character can solve.
There are other things that can change the colors of minerals, like radiation damage, and electron exchange, but I think that is beyond what would be helpful! So lets talk about some unique color properties that happen in nature that seem magical in the first place! Maybe you don't need to design a mana stone, but you want a unique gemstone that only the royal family passes down or something (IDK).
The first one is the alexandrite effect! This is where a mineral can change color in natural light vs. incandescent light. (the mineral itself is not changing, but the lights contain different amounts of different colors that then get absorbed by the stone). Even if you don't use electricity in your fictional world, you could have the colors change in the presence of light magic. This could create fun misunderstandings about what the mineral is reacting to!
Pleochroism
Pleochroism is something that most minerals have, it is frequently used to help identify minerals in thin sections, however minerals are usually not pleochroic enough for it to be visible to the naked eye! Pleochroism is just a fancy name to describe the change in how light is absorbed based on the angle of the mineral! So if you scroll up to the first image where I showed a lot of crystal shapes, most of them have angles where they are longer and shorter! This will effect the way light travels in the crystal. Tanzanite is a popular mineral that does this.
Photochromism
This is when a mineral will change color (in a reversible way) when exposed to UV light (or sunlight), I am not going to go too into the details of why this is happening because it would require me to read some research papers and I just don't feel like it. The mineral that is best known for this is Hackmanite!
Alright! These are all the really cool color effects that might inspire you or maybe not, but now I am going to talk about how you might find your minerals within a rock!
When I see a lot of magical caves/mines, typically I see them with some variation of a geode honestly, but most minerals are not found like that! Now I am sure most of you guys have seen a geode, so I will not really talk about those, but I will talk briefly about porphyroblasts which is when the mineral grows larger than the minerals around it, this happens in metamorphic minerals!
sorry random stranger, but this is an image of garnets inside a finer-grained rock at gore mountain in New York!
Another way you might find minerals is in a pegmatite! This is when all minerals are really large! This is a formed from really slow crystalizing magma!
But something else to think about is that your mineral might just be massive, it doesn't have to have distinct crystals, it may be similar to jadeite where small grains grow together which leaves it looking smooth and seamless! A note about all of these is that you would have to mine into the rock to find these, there would not be any natural caves in these rocks! Caves are only ever really formed in limestones and maybe marbles (rocks that react with acid).
How can your characters identify these minerals?
Typically when you are out in the field you will look to see what type of rocks the minerals are found in (The overall texture of the rock will tell you how it formed). If you know how the rock formed, it will narrow down the amount of minerals you need to think about by quite a bit! Next, you are going to look closely at it and observe its crystal structure, does it have an obvious crystal? if so what is the general shape? If it is broken, how did it break? Did it fracture like glass or did it break along uniform planes. Some minerals have a thing called cleavage (breaks along planes of weakness). If a mineral exhibits this habit, it will again help narrow this down. Next we can look at color. Color can be misleading, because minerals like quartz can be any color imaginable, but minerals like olivine will always be green! The next thing your character can do is test for hardness, minerals all have a specific hardness that can help identify it as well.
After you go through all of this, your mineral might have some special property! This could be magnetism, fluorescence, reactions to acid, or any of the color changing effects I mentioned above! Other than that, your character can take it back to a lab and do a number of things to identify it, but the most typical thing would be for them to make a thin section (very thin piece of the rock) and observe it under a cross polarized microscope!
On that note folks! I hope this helped in some way in thinking of new magic mineral properties! I have other guides that explore some different fictional worldbuilding issues you might run into, but if you have any topics you would like me to cover please that I haven't mentioned already, let me know!
#geology#rocks#creative writing#fictional world#worldbuilding#dnd#dnd worldbuilding#worldbuilding stuff#writing resources#info post#information#writing
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jealousy, jealousy
˚✧₊⁎ The Vees ⁎⁺˳✧༚
warnings: violence, off page murdah, suggestive themes, possessive behavior
18+ only
watch out for red flags in real life and read at your own discretion ♡
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˚✧₊⁎ Vox ⁎⁺˳✧༚
• The least jealous of the three, but that doesn’t say much, does it?
• Running an enterprise goes hand in hand with being an Overlord. Vox prides himself on being everywhere at once but he knows his limits. If wants to keep this cushy life he built, and you safe, he can’t spread himself too thin. That means occasionally cutting back on distractions
• So go out, have your fun— playtoys even! He’s not worried. Vox has literal eyes on you 24/7, access to your phone and all its contents, your lifeline is constantly synced to his peripherals. Really! He’s not worried!
• The problem arises when Vox feels threatened or undermined. If he’s in the same room, no one should even be looking at you! And if some sorry soul dared to touch you!? That’d be the last time they have hands
• “I’ve been looking for you!” He says from behind as his claws creep around your shoulders. He’ll ignore the Sinner, bringing your attention to him as security drags them away. You don’t need to know how jealous he can get
˚✧₊⁎ Velvette ⁎⁺˳✧༚
• Sharing, shockingly, is not in her vocabulary! Not outfits, not credit, not the spotlight and fucking especially not you
• You’re her favorite project, she so lovingly calls you, which is a giant compliment. She dresses you every day so if— for some hellish reason— you left her side, she knows she has a visual claim on you. Vel quickly snaps and posts a pic of the two of you together before you go, just to remind her audience the fact you’re spoken for! Don’t you feel safe? And stylish?
• Unlike her partners, Velvette can multitask so having you around the studio can be an everyday treat! Unfortunately she has to split her focus, occasionally crashing the conversation to a stop so she can snap at someone
• Her eyes are sharp, they pick up on every little detail and seldom miss a thing. No one in her workshop would even think about approaching you, unless Vel asked, so it was all too easy to spot that new-nobody-model break his neck to check you out
• You’ve seen Velvette reduce even the oldest, most thick skinned to a puddle of piss in the street with her words. She doesn’t give anyone the chance to touch what’s hers. She’s shameless and loud, stopping the inappropriate behavior from across the room if she has to, “Oy! You! You’re fuckin’ fired, get the fuck out of here ‘fore I set you on fire!”
• As they run for the elevator, she debates if the clothes they’re wearing are worth keeping or not. With a glowing finger she swipes them off the model anyways, stripping them of her brand… and their dignity
• Velvette marks the occasion with a kiss to your cheek, stained with black lipstick, and another posted picture with a clever caption
˚✧₊⁎ Valentino ⁎⁺˳✧༚
• Val invented jealousy
• He handles it as well as everyone expects
• It’s not limited to you, either! Business partners, employees, friends (if he has any left), play things, he’ll be up and arms about anything that belongs to him. There’s only one way to cut the cord tethered to him, and he’s always the one to decide how and when
• Val may have a lot of toys but you’re not one of them. You’re special— precious, actually!
• He has tabs on you at all times. Tracker in your phone, jewelry with his name on it, a bodyguard if he’s feeling particularly paranoid that day!
• Val also loves showing you off. Love bites are his favorite mark of ownership, he’ll show off wherever is most recent so be prepared to swat his hands away. Everyone can look, but only he can touch. He has four hands, one of them is on you at all times in public
• No one should manage to get in spitting distance of you— but if somehow they did and had the gall to talk to you… he’ll break their nose on the spot. He’d make quicker work with a gun, but then he’d get blood on you and he doesn’t want that
• “You’re so fuckin’ hot tonight, baby, look how clumsy you’ve made this idiot!” Val cackles, poorly masking his rage, “Seriously, I think you’re trying to get me riled up.” You open your mouth to deny it but he laughs again, carefully pulling you closer with both pairs of arms, “I’m only teasing!”
• Looming over you, Val shoots said idiot a murderous glare that gives them a five second head start. He’s yet to lose this game of chase. He always returns, clean as a crappy soap ad, to shower you in gifts in lieu of an apology for disappearing
#hazbin hotel imagine#hazbin hotel headcanon#the vees#the vees x reader#vox headcanons#vox imagine#vox x reader#hazbin hotel vox#hazbin hotel velvette#velvette x reader#velvette headanons#velvette imagine#valentino x reader#hazbin hotel valentino#valentino imagine#they’re all messy but i love them#except val he knows what he did
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sorry im laughing so hard at remnant william like hes not. Meant to be one. hesjust a guy who doesnt Technically have morals but he knows dakota would yell at him if he killed a guy so he doesnt yknow. and hes trying so hard not to let people know like he avoids using the super syremgth and is generally pathetic and like dakota has no clue vyncent totally does but doesnt want to make things uncomfortable and ashe doesnt realise all other remnants are horrible killing machines who only want death . they bond
#vyncents had his surge none of the rest though.. williams actually a necromancer but again hes also in a dying body and a remnant so its a#bit fucky sometimes#and he has Some teleporter powers but hes not very good at it. no surge means i get free reign baby#ashe dabbles in necromancy but shes also got.. i need to include thebook bc it tells him her true name and would probably be how wavelength#finds out how to seal it before she goes all darquesse and destroys a city for fun#vyncent needs workshopping. why is he like that. im not copying his powers from the show i need it to ve cool and new fuck knows how though#dakota has the.. oh i forget the official name. superstrength+invulnerabity power. and im giving him taniths walk on walls ability#no elementals here bitch!!! fuck you!!!!
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How do cards gain meaning in an occult sense? Like, both tarot and french-suited playing cards started as game pieces, but they have gained an understood meaning. Is it just someone whips up an organized table of connected ideas or is each card interpreted from a certain framework?
Oh good question!
Many things that we now consider staples of western magic are ideas that have been added to over generations by several layers of thinkers. Tarot Divination specifically is an excellent example of this!
In 1770, A french printmaker and occultist going by Etteilla published a book about how to do cartomancy with a 32-card Piquet deck. He writes down some simple but strict associations for the cards, and makes what is probably the first mention of reversals in carotmancy. He said that he learned the system "from an Italian." Now, its unclear how much of the system is his own invention, people have been doing cartomancy for as long as there's been cards, but the text presents a larval, bare-bones version of the cartomancy methods we know and love today.
Its 1780-ish. The Rosetta stone hasn't been discovered yet. Occult-inclined Europeans are obsessed with Egypt. That's where our boy Trismegistus is from! There's a concept in Egyptian mythology called The Book of Thoth, a mythical book of spells penned by the God of Knowledge himself. This was the Holy Grail for European Occult Egpytaboos.
In 1781, Antoine Court de Gébelin claimed that Tarot cards were the "original book of Thoth," Saying that Tarot cards had been used by ancient Egyptian priests for their own magical ceremonies, and that their designs contained ancient mystical secrets. This is 100% not true, but he writes a pretty fun pseudohistory for Tarot that involves Romani people bringing the decks to Europe through the Levant where they then taught its esoteric secrets to several Popes.
Then in 1783, Ettellia responded with another book. Manière de se récréer avec le jeu de cartes nommées tarots ("Way to recreate yourself with the deck of cards called tarots") Where Ettellia basically claims "uhm actually I knew about tarot divination way before Court de Gebelin published that big ass book. But anyway here's an interpretation of Tarot symbology that includes multiple references to Egyptian, Zoroastrian, and Greek mythology." But the smartest thing he did was include spread methods that involved Thoth and Numerology. Napoleonic Occultists fucking loved Thoth and numerology.
In 1788, he formed a little magical society for the express purpose of discussing and workshopping ideas for Tarot divination. In 1789, he made a TRULY smart decision, and published a Tarot deck that was Specifically For Magic, and that basically cemented Tarots place in magical history.
Occultists just kept iterating! Someone would speculate "maybe the suits correspond to the elements" and people went "yeah, they correspond to the elements! That makes this tool even more fun and interesting to use!" Then people go "What if the suits and the elements also correspond to parts of the Self?" and people went "Sure they do! That makes this tool even more interesting!"
But its also not just one thread. Eventually you get the Golden Dawn saying "The Major Arcana correspond to the nodes and paths on our version of the Quabbalistic Sefirot, you know, the hermetic version with a Q." and some occultists responded "Idk about that! Love what you've done with the color symbology though!"
The development of magical ideas is an iterative process. It is people whipping up a table of correspondences, but that table needs a mythology to keep it together. Originally, the mythology that gave tarot "power" was its Egyptian pseudohistory, but these days its the fact that occultists have been iterating on and fine-tuning this system for hundreds of years.
Humans don't think in tables of information, they think in stories. The cool thing about stories is that they're flexible. If magic is anything, its learning how to engineer stories to make the tables of information more effective.
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#Tarot#Occult#I was supposed to edit today but I couldn't pass up this opportunity for a micro essay#cartomancy
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