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phenikas · 2 days

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Request from @/kalidayaruka on Instagram!

Handsome Jack used Digi-Fireball. It's a critical hit! 🔥🔥🔥

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mask131 · 7 months

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Fragments of fright (10)

This translation comes from a small witch-and-occult centered section in a French magazine entirely dedicated to the Middle-Ages (Histoire et Images Médiévales, Medieval History and Images). It was the issue 51, August-September 2013). Written by Claire Goumot.

The Belladona

The Belladona, or Atropa belladonna, is a black-berried plant well known in the Middle Ages. It was nicknamed the Devil's Cherry or "Belle Dame", the Beautiful Lady, because of its incredible properties. Its botanical name, "Atropa", is from the same root as the name of the last of the three Parcae/Moirai - Atropos she who cuts the thread of mortal life. This was because eating belladona caused hallucinations, and could be deadly. This is why it was considered a a "plant of witches", and witches used it as an oinment to either poison people or fly all the way to their sabbath. But its common name comes from the cosmetic use Italian women had for this plant during the Renaissance (the "bella domna", beautiful ladies) - a few drops of belladona juice in their eyes dilated their pupils, which made their gaze more shiny and intense. As with all plants, when well-dosed, it as benevolent properties: it is appeased, can be an anesthetic, prevents spasms. It is still used by modern medecine to treat skin and eyes.

Salt

Since Antiquity, salt is a divine and magical element in many societies. It is believed that it can protect people from bad luck, evil spells, and that it can unveil the truth. Men of the Middle-Ages spread salt inside their house, and placed some on their doorsteps or in their pockets. Salt was a mark of wealth, because it was a rare and costly product in the Middle-Ages, that had its own tax. People who accidentally spilled their salt-pot took the habt of throwing a pinch of salt over their shoulder, as a way to mock Fortune and to show that they still had plenty more salt to throw around... With time, as witch trials were on the rise, salt became a protection against the Fiend. The one who spilled the salt-shaker could be accused of being a sorcerer, because it meant he couldn't actually grasp the holy salt. He then was forced to grab a pinch of it and throw it over his shoulder to prove that he did not fear the salt. A variation of this rite had the person throwing salt over their shoulder to blind the demon haunting them, and thus prevent any kind of misfortune or curse it could have caused. Today, to spill the salt-shaker is still believed to be a bad omen, and this is why people try to avoid passing it from hand to hand. By putting it on the table and letting the over person take it, you limited the risks of the salt spilling AND placed the next person to the test. It should also be remembered that ever since Antiquity, poisoners had the habit of putting their poison inside the salt - as such, not giving the salt container from hand to hand made you less of a suspect, and made the victim more "responsible" for their death, since they took the salt off the table on their own.

The book against witches: the Malleus Maleficarum

The Malleus Maleficarum, also known as the Witches Hammer, is a book of the 15th century written by two German Dominicans: Heinrich Kramer "Institoris" and Jacques Sprender. This manual for inquisitors and jurists detailed the process to identify, interrogate and punish witches. The first part of the book defines the "seal of the devil", aka the marks to recognize a witch (birthmarks, warts, beauty marks, parts of the body that do not feel anything, extreme skinniness, unbridled sexuality, presence of a familiar). Some details are quite... something, since the book details the most extavagant powers of the witches : they could use charms and tie knots to make men infertile, or they could steal men's penises to hide it in birds nests. The two other parts of the book are less amusing, since they are "practical" parts detailling several cases of witch trials, witch interrogations and witch executions. All those were done by the use of trials and tortures that harmed the flesh, "by fire or by water", "under the eye of God", to determine the guilt or innocence of the accused. One of the most famous accusations of witchcraft of history stays the one of Joan of Arc, who ultimately was proven innocent of witchcraft... But still condemned as a heretic and burned at the stake for this. The witch hunt will only end in Europe in the 18th century - with a total number of victims estimated between 50 000 and 100 000.

The witch's broom

The broom is the most iconic emblem of the witch, and this since the Middle-Ages. Why attach such a usual and banal item to the figure of the witch? First, because women were deeply associated with the broom - just like the cauldron or the spindle, this was one of the tools of the woman's domestic work, and the cauldron and the spindle in fact would also go on to become magical items in folklore and fairytales. In the Middle-Ages, feminity and domestic work only make one. Then, we also have to recall that brooms were made of Genisteae, aka "brooms" (broom shrubs, broom trees), a plant usually used in magical potions or medicinal brew to fight venom or lower tension. It was this same Genisteae that the witches used in the skin-ointment that allowed them to fly and to go to the sabbath (though sometimes the ointment serves to cover the broom rather than the witch's body).

The broom-shrub has a strong symbolical meaning : according to the Bible, the broom plant's rigidity is a cuse because the shrub refused to open its branches before the Holy Family as they fled king Herodus. Witches thus use a plant cursed by God to get closer to the Devil. Outside of the witches domain, the broom-plant had better connotations: it was the emblem of Charles VI, and the one of Goffrey Plantagenet, who always wore some of it on him, hence his name (the "broom plant" is known in French as "genêt").

#fragments of fright #witch #witches #witchcraft #malleus maleficarum #belladona #salt #medieval folklore #medieval beliefs #medieval legends

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kawasemi0726-blog · 4 years

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Echeveria cv. Top Sprender 仕事が遅れに遅れ今日は1時頃から働いておりただ今休憩中🍵 ちょうどトップスプレンダーが花を咲かせているんですが綺麗ですね😊 これから明日、天童市の#七福心さん方で行われるイベント#グリーンサミット用の苗を選びます💪#echeveria #エケベリア #succulents #多肉植物 #山形 #置賜 https://www.instagram.com/p/CFkhqc_nyAK/?igshid=mowf25k7jp3j

#七福��#グリーンサミット #echeveria #エケベリア #succulents #多肉植物 #山形 #置賜

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chimmer-chim-chim-blog · 6 years

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Вы думаете о том же о чём и я? СЛИЯНИЕ!!! По сути это некий кроссовер по КрипиПасте и мультфильму Вселенная Стивена, но не совсем(?) Слияние Трендера и Сплендера!

You thinking about what I thinking? FUSION!!! Actualy it is… A sort of crossover between Creepypasta and Steven Univers, but not realy(?) Fusion of Trender and Splender!

(Заранее простите/I sorry from the begining)

I HAVE A SPLENDER, I HAVE A TRENDER…. AAAAAA SPRENDER MAN!

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resendeandreluis · 5 years

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E sprender a ser mais gentil comigo mesmo nesse processo Bom dia um ótimo domingo pra vc https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz5Rvayg8IC/?igshid=1ii6geoaccoe4

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designsciencefiction · 4 years

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Pitch Bible

TITLE

Moon be still as Bright

CREATIVE TEAM

Alissa Smaill

Karen Ryan

Joel Cooper

Harley Bennet

TAGLINE

We Earthmen have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.

LOGLINE

The air looks and smells like time, as if the land was haunted.

The Martians may be dead, but ‘Doesn’t an old thing always know when a new thing comes’.

Dead Dreaming World

SUMMARY

American myth of the frontier and colonization. There isn’t likely ‘to be a native problem’.

Sense of recent tragedy and death of the Martian’s and dread for Mars’s future if humans settle, they will undoubtedly ruin it.

Humans not acknowledging that the inevitable destruction of Earth is self-inflicted, and their way of life is guaranteed to do the same to Mars.

Who is the Martian? To them we are the martians.

FORMAT

One episode of a Miniseries of the Martian Chronicles.

MEDIUM

2D animation

FORMULA

Landing party

Visiting town

Meeting Martian

Sprender returning from town to kill 4 expedition members

Wilder’s conversation with spender

Spender dead

CHARACTERS

Spender: Archeologist of the expedition, on a mission to learn about the Martians. He runs away into town and returns more than a week later, on a mission to kill his expedition mates and stop word of the expedition’s success and the Martians deaths from reaching earth, hopefully delaying the next mission by at least another couple of years.

Martians: Are telepathic and can make humans hallucinate. They are graceful, beautiful and philosophical people with a sophisticated yet simple society. Their reason for living is life itself and the enjoyment and fulfillment of a good life as possible. They have killed the previous three expeditions, so are presumably prepared to do what is necessary to save their planet and people.

Captain Wilder: leader of the mars expedition, taking a team through the dead cities of mars to find what has happened to what was once life on mars. She has respect for the race of mars and can understand spenders motives toward saving mars. She has plans to take out spender and return home yet part of her wants to help Spender and keep the human race off mars for as long as possible.

THE WORLD

The Martian’s reason for living is life itself and the enjoyment and fulfillment of a good a life as possible. They have killed the previous three expeditions, so are presumably prepared to do what is necessary to save their planet and people.

What the Martians had was just as good as anything we’ll ever hope to have. They stopped where we should have stopped a hundred years ago.

They have art and religion and everything.

“A once great race in decline relying on technology and advancement of the past”, with lack of curiosity and desire for more, the Martians are content with their very lifestyle to the point of not needing or seeking any advancement/development, instead they rather preserve what has already been built. ‘Decadence’

Congress plans to establish three atomic research and atom bomb depots on Mars. Then will come the mineral men and the travel men.

Isn’t it enough they’ve ruined one planet, without ruining another.

Result/End Moral

The human cycle, how the story conveys the toxic behaviours of man in relation to the environment and their very greed and demand for expansion/advancement.. (could be phrased better lol) ..

The story becomes a moment of self reflection. Gazing at it through an objective lens the narrative projects an unfolding message, without involving or seeking our guilt till the revealing end. The fragility of a society and world driven by mans desire to continue, to be, despite anything that obstructs its path (eg. health of planet). Highlighting mans insistence on moving forward, that the progress of the species is of higher importance than anything else, ‘man kind as a toxin’.

Rejecting the responsibility of our actions in pursuit of an alternate future.

Could we show this with a flash forward by spender or the captain? Bulldozed city or something.

#process

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vivianmusike · 5 years

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Terminada a leitura 36° do ano. Adorei esse livro. Gostei de sprender um pouco sobre outros deuses. Ler de novo sobre o Anasi. Ler outra obra do Neil Gaiman. #leitura #deuses #romance #deusesamericanos #neilgaiman https://www.instagram.com/p/BqNHfIghQuA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fm240bkvyn20

#leitura #deuses #romance #deusesamericanos #neilgaiman

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discrep2018-blog · 6 years

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Aprendiendo

En este grupo del colegi Javiera Londoño la clase de robotica emos aprendido mucho y esperamos sprender mucho mas de tecnologia y ser unas expertas ser las mejores tecnologas

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phenikas · 7 months

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"Don't talk to me or my giant robot boyfriend."

#rhack #handsome jack #rhys strongfork #borderlands #tales from the borderlands #borderlands 3 #SPrenders #gonna repeat myself but if Jack wasn't a dum-dum he would've just put himself in his giant robot he keeps at his casino #he'd get the company a new body and a new boyfriend #handsome jackpot #render

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phenikas · 2 months

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Request from @/VehementLaught over on Twitter!

How does Jack spend his days? By spying on the one who got away. How is Jack even alive? Well, that's a question for another time 😂

#request #SPrenders #vehementlaught #rhack #handsome jack #rhys strongfork #borderlands #tales from the borderlands #tftbl

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phenikas · 29 days

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What if? Episode 3 - Caravan Roof - Alternative Scene

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phenikas · 3 months

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"He's an easy lover, He'll get a hold on you, believe it, He's like no other, Before you know it you'll be on your knees."

#SPrenders #Handsome Jack #borderlands #borderlands 3 #render

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phenikas · 2 months

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Request from @hyperion-birb over on Twitter!

Listen, being a human is hard. Being an AI that was shoved into a human-like body and having to adjust to your old life is even harder. Of course Jack would literally cling to his bf anywhere and everywhere for emotional support.

#request #SPrenders #hyperion-birb #rhack #handsome jack #rhys strongfork #borderlands #tales from the borderlands #tftbl

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phenikas · 16 days

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