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elysion-elf · 5 years

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Ellwood was the only son of Poppy Kirkend and Charlie Luther. Poppy had been young when she got pregnant. She wasn’t old enough to handle a baby. She had told her best friend, who in turn told her parents, who sent her away to live with her aunt in Florida until the baby was born.

Monet Gracey was a sweet woman. She owned a rather successful bakery and her husband was an accountant. They’d been trying for a baby for a few years with no success. So, they’d started talking about adoption. They’d filled out the paperwork, but nothing was coming up. They were lucky. Monet had a friend who worked at the hospital as the in-house social worker, and the minute the baby was born, she called Monet. The little girl didn’t want him, and she wouldn’t even look at him. She’d only given him a name because she’d heard it on the TV when they’d asked his name. Monet had closed the bakery down and gotten in the car, picking up her husband. They didn’t even get to meet the mother. She didn’t want to talk to them. Monet hadn’t argued, happily signing some papers. She loved the baby the minute she saw him. His mother had named him Ellwood. Perfect. Monet had known it had to be some sort of sign.

He was always a pretty happy child, and had been just as excited as his mother when she came home one day and told his dad that she was pregnant, and they’d be having a baby. He understood the days where he got a little less attention because of her, and he didn’t mind too much. He’d wondered, for a short time, why his sister looked different from him though. He’d asked his father, and he just said not to worry about it.

Ellwood had always been interested in video games, and his parents hadn’t even minded. It’d started with a Gameboy Color he’d gotten on his seventh birthday. He had started drawing characters for his own game, making up storylines and trailing behind his parents, telling them about it. He’d started coding a game in junior high. A simple 8-bit game about a little blue elf that was meant to destroy the villain who had kidnapped his sister. It was shit, but it was his first. And it had a special place in his heart.

Senior high was where he did best. He’d made other small flash games throughout school, while working on his favorite. He’d been working on the storyline and the designs for years, and his senior year was when the game finally released. It was in the same vein as Warcraft, a fantasy world populated by hundreds of different characters of all different races. He was the first person to make an account, and had slapped a logo on the boot screen for Broken Nymph Entertainment. The graphics weren’t great, and they moved like a flip book, but people thought it was cool. He’d gone and made a special item for anyone who signed up in the first couple months. Only seven people had it. He’d ended up making the game better and better as it went on, though he’d pulled some races from it, as their coding continued to break the game. His company, which had started in the high school computer lab, had grown, and now he could buy a building for his employees, instead of the small team of thirteen working out of his living room. They’d just moved into a warehouse in Florida, and the servers would go down from time to time. But it was nice, being a known company and a popular game. He’d coded a small area of the game to have a surprise. An Easter egg that you could only unlock if you read about it online after someone randomly discovered it, or if you discovered it yourself. It would open a new window on your computer, flash some coding and boot up Ellwood’s first game, about a little blue elf.

He had a security lock on his own character. He was one of the races that’d been removed from the game. Elysion had skin that was a very very pale color with slight lilac tint to it, long dark blue hair with white highlights, and one silver eye and one blue. His ears were longer, and he wore one of the limited edition armors that boosted his defense quite a bit, though he’d been sure the armor had been coded to be fair to everyone. He hated game breaking items. Elves like Elysion were similar to the dark elves, the biggest difference being the skin tone and the hair. All elves like Elysion had white highlights through their hair, signifying their connection with the gods. Ellwood’s character was a combat Mage Healer. He’d spent years leveling his combat and healing magics. He had a couple elemental spells, but not many. His staff was a custom make with an amethyst orb that was encircled by wooden vines. He had hidden his creator badge and some of his items, instead opting for a BETA badge. When his character was ghosted over, the name would popup with a purple bar beneath if that said BETA with a little badge that had a warhammer and drawing pen on it.

The other week, he’d gotten himself in a mid-level raid with some pretty low level players. He and another player had been basically carrying the team. He’d checked the name, and when he tried to send him a request, the server had gone down. He’d been furious. So, he was getting on every day, just looking for him, trying to see if he’d get in another raid with him maybe, or come across him somewhere on the map. He’d seemed like a great played, and he was a high enough level that Ellwood was pretty sure he was really into the game, and he had considered maybe seeing about getting him on Beta, possibly. Or...maybe just have someone to game with who was...well, capable.

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ghostflowerdreams · 4 years

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Writing Research: Tincture

A tincture is typically an extract of plant material, made by steeping the bark, berries, leaves (dried or fresh), or roots from one or more plants in ethanol (ethyl alcohol). Traditionally, in herbal medicine, vodka or brandy is used to make a tincture. Alcohol is used in order to break down the cell wall of the plant, allowing the plants bio-active compounds to be released and stored into the alcohol.

Occasionally apple cider vinegar or even vegetable glycerin is used. The latter are sometimes used for children’s preparations, or by those who abstain from alcohol of any kind, but they’re not as effective at drawing the medicinal components from the plants.

To make a basic tincture, fill a glass jar ½ full of dried or fresh herbs and cover with the solvent of your choice. Seal tightly and allow it to macerate for 4-6 weeks. Make sure to shake it several times each day for the entire week. Once enough time has pass strain the herbs with a piece of cheesecloth, bottle the liquid (use the ones with dark, amber-colored glass so UV rays don’t degrade the product over time), then label it with the name of the herb and the date it was finished. Store it away from direct sunlight.

Administrate the tincture orally, generally ½ teaspoon (or 2.5 milliliters) drops under the tongue and up to 2-3 times a day. It can be diluted with water or juice if you prefer. You can also turned your tincture into an elixir by adding honey to the finished product at a ratio of 2:1 (tincture:honey). Tinctures are one of the many ways to administer herbs internally. Teas, syrups, and herbal pills are some other effective ways to ingest herbs.

Tinctures date back to 1000 AD when alcohol was first distilled by the ancient Egyptians. After distilling alcohol became common practice, using the mixture to preserve plants and create plant-based medicine soon followed. For therapeutic reasons, cannabis infusion has over time become one of the most popular tinctures the Egyptians used.

In 1025, The Al-Qanoon fi al Tibb (The Canon of Medicine) was published, explaining many medical topics including herbal tinctures. It was the basis for the teaching of medicine in the West from the 12th-17th centuries, making these discoveries of the medicinal uses of distilled alcohol ingrained in Western medicine.

However, distilling wasn’t commonly known in Europe until the 1400s, and became widespread around 1500, though the Irish and Scottish peoples adopted distillery much earlier than the rest of Europe. By the Middle Ages, distillation was widely practiced by physicians, botanists, and apothecaries. The Victorians were enamored with tinctures, and during the Prohibition era in the United States, when alcohol was hard to come by, moonshiners applied the principles of distillation to make high-octane booze.

Any number of the elixirs and other medicines found commonly advertised were either cordials or tinctures. It wasn’t until pharmacology moved on to emphasizing pills that the usage of tinctures greatly declined.

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transnameswap · 6 years

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MASTERPOST: NATURE/EARTH

A suggestion given was of nature names and I mean... we were going to get around to it eventually so... here we go!

Masculine Names That Relate to Nature (+ Mythology Names)

Aegis - “shield” (Greek)

In Greek mythology, Aegis was Zeus’s goat-skin shield.

Ailin - “little rock” (Gaelic)

Arbor - “sells herbs” (Latin) [masc + neutral]

Argyle - “from the land of the Irish” (Celtic)

“from the land of the Gauls” (Scottish)

Ari - “lion” (Hebrew) [masc + neutral]

Ash - “ash tree” (English) [masc + neutral]

Basil - “imperial monarch, royal” (Greek, Latin) [masc + neutral]

Beaumont - “beautiful mountain” (French)

Benton - “bent grass settlement” (English)

Birch - “close to birch trees” (English) [masc + neutral]

Blue - “the color blue” (English) [masc + neutral]

Bran - “raven” (Celtic & Welsh) [masc + neutral]

Branden - “brown hill” (English)

Brier - “heather, a purple-colored flower” (French) [masc + neutral + femme]

Buck - “male deer” (English)

Brin - “like a hill” (Welsh) [masc + neutral + femme]

Canyon - “ravine, gorge” (English) [masc + neutral]

Cloud - “like a cloud” (English) [masc + neutral]

Colorado - “colorful” (Spanish)

Colt - “taking care of horses” (English)

Cypress - “strong, muscular, adaptable” (Greek) [masc + neutral]

Dagwood - “a shining forest” (English)

Dakota - “friendly companion” (Lakota Sioux) [masc + neutral + femme]

Dale - “valley” (English)

Eagle - “eagle” (Latin)

Eben - “stone” (Hebrew) [masc + neutral]

Ellwood - “coming from the elder wood” (English) [masc + neutral]

Everest - “courageous like a boar” (Germanic)

Falcon - “falcon keeper; the falcon bird” (English)

Fern - “fern plant” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Flint - “from an area with flint rock” (English)

Forrest - “from the woods” (English)

Garland - “a triangular bit of land” (English) [masc + neutral]

Garnet - “a person who makes door hinges, the gem” (French, Latin)

Glen - “valley” (Celtic) [masc + neutral + femme]

Glenwood - “a forest in a valley” (Gaelic) [masc + neutral]

[masc + neutral + femme]

Glyn - “valley” (Welsh)

Green - “coming from a green plac” (English) [masc + neutral]

Grove - “from a grove” (English) [masc + neutral]

Hawke - “hawk” (English, Germanic) [masc + neutral]

Haywood - “enclosed woods” (English)

Kodiak - “an island” (Russian)

Landon - “long hill” (English)

Laurel - “laurel tree” (Latin) [masc + neutral + femme]

Leaf - “leaf” (English) [masc + neutral]

“dear, beloved” (Old English)

Lee - “meadow” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Montana - “from a hilly land” (Latin) [masc + neutral + femme]

Nova - “chases butterfly” (Hopi) [masc + neutral + femme]

“new” (Latin)

Quill - “from the woods” (Gaelic)

Rain - “of rain” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Reed - “nature” (engish)

Ridge - “backbone of a mountain” (English) [masculine + neutral]

Rio - “river” (Spanish) [masc + neutral]

Robin - “the robin bird” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

“of shining fame” (Germanic)

Ruby - “ruby gemstone” (Latin) [masc + neutral + femme]

Sage - “herb, wise person” [masc + neutral + femme]

Sky / Skye - “the sky” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Silver - “precious metal, white metal” (English) [masc + neutral]

Sol - “the sun” (Spanish) [masc + neutral + femme]

Sterling - “pure silver” (English)

Storm - “tempest” (English) [masc + neutral]

Vale / Vayl - “lives in the valley” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Wren - “from the farm” (English) [masc + neutral]

Gender-Neutral Names That Relate to Nature (+ Mythology Names)

Arbor - “sells herbs” (Latin) [masc + neutral]

Ari - “lion” (Hebrew) [masc + neutral]

Ash - “ash tree” (English) [masc + neutral]

Aspen - “the aspen tree” [neutral + femme]

Aya - “bird” (Hebrew) [neutral + femme]

Basil - “imperial monarch, royal” (Greek, Latin) [masc + neutral]

Birch - “close to birch trees” (English) [masc + neutral]

Blue - “the color blue” (English) [masc + neutral]

Bran - “raven” (Celtic & Welsh) [masc + neutral]

Brier - “heather, a purple-colored flower” (French) [masc + neutral + femme]

Brin - “like a hill” (Welsh) [masc + neutral + femme]

Canyon - “ravine, gorge” (English) [masc + neutral]

Cheyenne - “alien speakers, a Native American people of the Great Plains” (Dakota language) [neutral + femme]

Cloud - “like a cloud” (English) [masc + neutral]

Coral - “coral” (Greek) [neutral + femme]

Cypress - “strong, muscular, adaptable” (Greek) [masc + neutral]

Dawn - “the first appearance of daylight; daybreak” (English) [neutral + femme]

Dove - “dove bird” (English) [neutral + femme]

Dakota - “friendly companion” (Lakota Sioux) [masc + neutral + femme]

Denver - “one who belongs to a green valley” (English)

Eben - “stone” (Hebrew) [masc + neutral]

Ellwood - “coming from the elder wood” (English) [masc + neutral]

Emerald - “green gemstone” (Greek) [neutral + femme]

Farley - “woodland clearing” (English) [neutral + femme]

Fern - “fern plant” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Gaia - “from the earth” (Greek, Italian) [neutral + femme]

Garland - “a triangular bit of land” (English) [masc + neutral]

Garnet - “a person who makes door hinges, the gem” (French, Latin) [masc + neutral + femme]

Glen - “valley” (Celtic) [masc + neutral + femme]

Glenwood - “a forest in a valley” (Gaelic) [masc + neutral]

Green - “coming from a green plac” (English) [masc + neutral]

Grove - “from a grove” (English) [masc + neutral]

Hawke - “hawk” (English, Germanic) [masc + neutral]

Jade - “gemstone” (Spanish) [neutral + femme]

Jasper / Jaspar - “ornamental stone, brown, beige or red in color; also a variant of Caspar” (French) [neutral + femme]

Laurel - “laurel tree” (Latin) [masc + neutral + femme]

Leaf - “leaf” (English) [masc + neutral]

“dear, beloved” (Old English)

Lee - “meadow” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Montana - “from a hilly land” (Latin) [masc + neutral + femme]

Nova - “chases butterfly” (Hopi) [masc + neutral + femme]

“new” (Latin)

Rain - “of rain” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Raven - “black bird” (English) [neutral + femme]

Ridge - “backbone of a mountain” (English) [masculine + neutral]

Rio - “river” (Spanish) [masc + neutral]

Robin - “the robin bird” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

“of shining fame” (Germanic)

Ruby - “ruby gemstone” (Latin) [masc + neutral + femme]

Sage - “herb, wise person” [masc + neutral + femme]

Silver - “precious metal, white metal” (English) [masc + neutral]

Sky / Skye - “the sky” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Sol - “the sun” (Spanish) [masc + neutral + femme]

Sparrow - “the bird” (English)

Storm - “tempest” (English) [masc + neutral]

Tempest - “a volatile storm” (English) [neutral + femme]

Teal - “blue-green” (English)

Topaz - “gemstone” (Greek) [neutral + femme]

Vale / Vayl - “lives in the valley” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Wren - “from the farm” (English) [masc + neutral]

Feminine Names That Relate to Nature (+ Mythology Names)

Abilene - “meadow” (Hebrew)

Acacia - “thorny” (Greek)

the acacia tree, in Greek mythology, symbolizes immortality and resurrection

Alona - “strong as an oak tree” (Hebrew)

refers to the Virgin Mary (Basque)

Ama - “eagle” (Norse)

“born on Saturday” (African [they don’t tell me the language])

Amaryllis - “flower” (Greek)

Amber - the jewel one (English)

Ambre - “Amber” (French)

Amethyst - “a purple or violet gemstone” (Latin)

Andes - “from the Andes” (Latin)

Aria - “air” (Italian)

Aspen - “the aspen tree” [neutral + femme]

Autumn - “the season of fall” (Latin)

Avalon - “island of the apples” (Celtic)

Aya - “bird” (Hebrew) [neutral + femme]

Azalea - “the dry eart; a beautiful flowering shrub closely related to the rhododendron” (Latin)

Azure - “the blue hue” (Latin)

Blossom - “to bloom, to grow in all its glory” (English)

Brier - “heather, a purple-colored flower” (French) [masc + neutral + femme]

Brin - “like a hill” (Welsh) [masc + neutral + femme]

Cheyenne - “alien speakers, a Native American people of the Great Plains” (Dakota language) [neutral + femme]

Chrysanthe - “flower of gold” (Greek)

Clementine - “compassionate” (Latin)

Coral - “coral” (Greek) [neutral + femme]

Daffodil - “Narcissus flower” (Dutch)

Dakota - “friendly companion” (Lakota Sioux) [masc + neutral + femme]

Dawn - “the first appearance of daylight; daybreak” (English) [neutral + femme]

Dove - “dove bird” (English) [neutral + femme]

Ela - “earth” (Hindi)

Emerald - “green gemstone” (Greek) [neutral + femme]

Farley - “woodland clearing” (English) [neutral + femme]

Fern - “fern plant” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Fleur - “like a flower” (Latin)

Flora - “like a flower” (English, Italian, Latin)

Gaia - “from the earth” (Greek, Italian) [neutral + femme]

Garnet - “a person who makes door hinges, the gem” (French, Latin) [masc + neutral + femme]

Ginger - “the spice, ginger woman” (English)

Glen - “valley” (Celtic) [masc + neutral + femme]

Hazel - “hazel tree” (English)

Iris - “colors of rainbow” (Greek)

Ivy - “climbing plant” (English)

Jade - “gemstone” (Spanish) [neutral + femme]

Jasper / Jaspar - “ornamental stone, brown, beige or red in color; also a variant of Caspar” (French) [neutral + femme]

Jasmine - “jasmine flower” (English)

Jewel - “precious stone” (English)

Keithia - “forest or wood” (English)

Lana - “little rock” (Gaelic)

Laurel - “laurel tree” (Latin) [masc + neutral + femme]

Lee - “meadow” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Lily - “lily flower, a symbol of purity” *Latin)

Magnolia - “magnolia flower” (English)

Meadow - “meadow” (English)

Misty - “covered by mist” (English)

Montana - “from a hilly land” (Latin) [masc + neutral + femme]

Nova - “chases butterfly” (Hopi) [masc + neutral + femme]

“new” (Latin)

Olive - “olive tree” (Latin)

Olivia - “olive” (Latin)

Opal - “jewel” (Sanskrit)

Pearl - “pearl; birthstone for the month of June that is said to impart health and wealth” (English)

Poppy - “poppy flower” (English)

Primrose - “the first rose” (Latin)

Rain - “of rain” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Raven - “black bird” (English) [neutral + femme]

Robin - “the robin bird” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

“of shining fame” (Germanic)

Rosa - “rose blossom” (Latin)

Rose - “rose blossom” (Latin)

Rosemary - “sea dew, fragrant evergreen herb” (Latin)

Rosetta - “rose blossom” (Italian)

Ruby - “ruby gemstone” (Latin) [masc + neutral + femme]

Saffron - “saffron spice” (Arabic)

Sage - “herb, wise person” [masc + neutral + femme]

Sapphire - “sapphire gemstone” (Hebrew)

Sky / Skye - “the sky” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Savannah - “grassland without trees” (Spanish)

Sol - “the sun” (Spanish) [masc + neutral + femme]

Summer - “summer season” (English)

Tempest - “a volatile storm” (English) [neutral + femme]

Terra / Tara - “Greek goddess of nature” (Greek)

Topaz - “gemstone” (Greek) [neutral + femme]

Vale / Vayl - “lives in the valley” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Willow - “willow tree” (English)

Winter - “season of winter” (English)

Yasmin - “jasmine flower” (Persian)

Other Things To Consult

Babble: Flower Names

Babble: Fruit Names

Babble: Gem Names

Babble: Nature Names

Behind the Names: Flowery Names

Behind the Names: Foresty Names

Behind the Name: Earthy Names

Our Tag (/nature)

Our Water Masterpost

Hope this is resourceful for y’all! uwu

[Finished at 12.11.17 23:01 PST.]

#mod jax #masterpost #masterlist #nature #neutral #masculine #feminine #earth #tree #flower #season

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