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33. saccharine

When Prudence had off-handedly mentioned that she would prefer to be given the still-beating heart of her enemies over flowers any day, she'd meant it as a joke. Not that it wasn't true. The usual trappings of romance - chocolates, love poems and the like - did seem excessively trite and saccharine to her. Anyone who truly wanted to catch her attention would need to be a bit more imaginative than that. She'd never really thought of Corazon as an especially good listener, but he proved that he'd been paying attention after a particularly frustrating incident that had had Prudence letting out a string of curses directed at the Roc they'd been fighting. Not only had it dodged three of her Eldritch Blasts, but it had caught her with one of its talons - she hadn't been badly injured, luckily, but it had torn her dress and Prudence hated sewing. Of course, she could get Dob to cast mending on it if nothing else, but it was the principle of the thing! The point was, she loathed that stupid bird, and she was only too happy to see it dead. Then again, she'd been denied the satisfaction of delivering the coup de grace herself, as Egbert had happened to land a lucky hit with his mace, neatly transforming the monster into a lizard no bigger than a dinner plate before he unceremoniously stepped on it, putting a stop to its Prudence-focused tyranny. An unsatisfying end, to say the least. And she'd been stewing about it ever since. She was snappy and irritable as they made camp, so she kept to herself, stalking off into the woods a few dozen feet away so that she could launch Eldritch Blasts to her heart's content until her ire abated. The stump she'd been targeting was entirely blackened and only slightly on fire by the time she sighed and lowered her hands. "Hey, Prudence?" she heard Corazon venture from behind her, his voice uncharacteristically tentative. She turned, her eyes still blazing with irritation. He was leaning against a tree with affected casualness, trying so hard to look cool and unbothered, but tension radiated off of him like an aura. He was inspecting his fingernails intently enough that she wondered if he was expecting them to hand over information. "Yeah?" she called in return, her mouth already curling at the delicious awkwardness she could so clearly sense despite the pirate's best efforts. He strode forward, reaching a hand into his coat pocket and pulling out a folded handkerchief. "I've got something for you," Corazon replied, a tell-tale tremble in his otherwise confident tone as he unfolded the square of fabric. A brief look of distaste flickered over his expression as he picked up the tiny lump of flesh that was smeared onto its centre, his fingertips now sticky with blood. Prudence's eyes widened as she beheld the small but gruesome gift with interest. Even crushed as it was, she could easily recognize a creature's heart. "Is this from... ?" "That Roc, yeah," he confirmed with a shrug of one shoulder. "Figured you deserved a token from it, you know, considering how annoying it was. You seemed annoyed, anyway," he rambled, his gaze flicking anywhere but at her face. "Of course it's lizard-sized and squished, which is unfortunate and probably not nearly as impressive. And I suppose it's hardly 'still-beating' either, but it's the thought that counts, right? I was thinking of casting minor illusion to make it look like it was beating, but I figure you'd know the difference anyway and it might seem disingenuous-"

He cut off as Prudence grabbed him by the collar with both hands, his eyes startled as he finally met hers. Maybe it was the adrenaline from the fight and her residual anger still boiling under her skin, combined with Corazon's anxious energy and stupidly sweet sentiment, but Prudence couldn't help herself. She yanked him toward her until she had captured his mouth in an ardent kiss. It took a moment before he seemingly recovered from his shock enough to reciprocate. The bloody handkerchief fluttered to the ground, the unfortunate lizard heart thumping down with it as Corazon wrapped his arms around Prudence. Stupid or not, she couldn't imagine a more romantic gesture.

A section from the second version of 'The Morning', 1809 by Philipp Otto Runge (1809, Öl auf Leinwand)

Oops I unlocked Ebb and Flow today and now all I want to do is make Rafayel edits

Be still my heart, and remember you're a Zayne main, despite how much Raffy is doing to steal you away lately 👀

Legends and myths about trees

Legendary tree deities (12)

Konohananosakuya-bime - Goddess of the cherry tree in Japanese mythology

Konohananosakuya-bime (Ref) is worshipped as the deity of Mt Fuji and her beauty as a symbol of cherry blossom.

Daughter of Oyamatsumi-no-kami, a mountain deity; also wife of Ninigi-no-mikoto (Ref2), and mother to the quarreling deities Hoderi and Hoori (Ref3).  She had an elder sister named Ishinaga-hime.

Their father, Oyamatsumi, wanted both her and her elder sister to be Ninigi-no-mikoto's wives, but Ninigi married only Kihananosakuya-bime. Because the younger sister was beautiful, but the elder sister was ugly, she was sent back to her father.

According to Oyamatsumi, the younger sister was supposed to bring prosperity like cherry blossoms to the heavenly grandson, while the elder sister was supposed to bring eternal life like a rock. However, Ninigi-no-mikoto's rejection of Ishinaga-hime shortened the Emperor's life span and he soon became just like an ordinary human being.

Konohananosakuya-bime was conceived soon after her marriage, leading Ninigi-no-mikoto to suspect that she was carrying the child of the earthly deity. So she set fire to the maternity house she was in and gave birth safely, believing if a child of Ninigi as the heavenly deity would be born no matter what. The three brothers born at this time were Hoderi-no-mikoto, Hosseri-no-mikoto and Hoori-no-mikoto.

木にまつわる伝説・神話

伝説の樹木の神々 (12)

木花咲耶姫 (ｺﾉﾊﾅﾉｻｸﾔﾋﾞﾒ) 〜日本神話に登場する桜の女神

木花咲耶姫 (ｺﾉﾊﾅﾉｻｸﾔﾋﾞﾒ: 参照)は富士山の神、またその美貌は桜の象徴として信仰されている。

山の神である大山津見神の娘で、瓊瓊杵尊 (ﾆﾆｷﾞﾉﾐｺﾄ: 参照2)の妻でもあり、喧嘩の絶えない火照命(ﾎﾃﾞﾘﾉﾐｺﾄ) と火遠理命 (ﾎｵﾘﾉﾐｺﾄ: 参照3) の母である。石長比売 (ｲﾜﾅｶﾞﾋﾒ)という姉がいる。

父の大山津見神は姉と一緒にニニギノミコトの妻にさせたいと思っていたが、ニニギは妹だけと結婚した。なぜなら妹は美人だったが、姉は醜かったことから父の元に送り返された。

父の大山津見神曰く、妹は天孫に桜の花が咲くような繁栄を、姉は岩のような永遠の命をもたらすはずだった。だが、ニニギがイワナガヒメを拒絶したことで天皇の寿命は短くなり、やがて普通の人間と同じになってしまう。

コノハナﾉサクヤビメは結婚後すぐに懐妊したためにニニギから国津神の子を身ごもったんだろうと疑われ、天津神であるニニギの子なら何があっても産まれるはず、と自分の居る産屋に火をつけて無事に出産した。この時に産まれたのが、火照命、火須勢理命(ﾎｽｾﾘﾉﾐｺﾄ)、火遠命の三柱である。

I know I am late and I am so sorry, but I can't go to bed before I send my belated birthday wishes to the wonderful @myth-blossom 🥳 I am so sorry for being late, I was laying sick in bed the past days 🤧 But here it is, a screenshot I made just for you!

A while ago I asked you for your personal favourite FanFictions you have ever written and after reading them, the picture of Diana and 47 standing together under an umbrella stuck to my head 🥹 so I had to do this screenshot, inspired by this wonderful FanFiction you have written 🥰 I hope you like it!

I wish you all the best for your birthday! May the next year be blessed with good health and many wonderful memories 🍀

Thank you for being such an inspiring and kind part of this little fandom 💕

Hi Belle! For the prompt ask, Diana/47:

2. “Did you know you talk in your sleep?”

Rated G, featuring two awkward idiots in love, pre-romantic relationship

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The new safehouse in Vlissingen is tiny, even by Dutch standards, but it's a stone's throw from the harbour, offering them direct access to the North Sea. With three small bedrooms available, and no-one wanting to sleep in the postage stamp-sized living room, two of them had to share. And since 47 and Diana had been working together the longest of them all, they drew the short straw, in exchange for getting the largest room.

Diana didn't mind. Since 47 needed much less sleep than she did, she went to bed before he did. By the time her alarm went off, he was already on his morning run. She joined him once a week, but in general, she fell asleep and woke up alone, the other side of the bed always pristinely made. If it weren't for the red tie hanging from the wardrobe door and the faintest hint of his cologne lingering in the room, she would have believed he was staying somewhere else.

Which is why it startled her to wake up and find 47 next to her, laying on top of the covers in a t-shirt and pyjama bottoms, reading an ebook on his phone.

"47? What time is it?"

He stared at Diana for a moment, seemingly just as surprised to see her awake.

"It's 05:36," he replied.

"No run this morning?" she asked, the final syllable ending in a yawn. She turned onto her side to face him.

"It's raining," 47 explained.

"And so now you're reading here in silence instead?" When 47 shot her a funny look she couldn't place, Diana asked: "What?"

"Do you know you talk in your sleep?" 47 swiped to the next page of his book. Diana felt her cheeks heat up in embarrassment.

"Oh no..." She muttered. "I thought I had left that habit in the eighties."

"Not quite," 47 replied. Was that a hint of amusement to his tone?

"Please tell me it's nothing too embarrassing," Diana pleaded, draping her forearm over her eyes for dramatic effect.

"It's...mainly my name."

"Oh."

"Yes." He awkwardly cleared his throat.

"I'll...try to get some more sleep now," Diana decided. Her heart was pounding in her chest.

"I'll be here."

for the ask game: 💥🤔📚

if we can only do one, your pick :)

(Fanfic writer ask game)

💥 What is one canon thing that you wish you could change?

I've talked about some other changes in a previous ask, but I think Danny Phantom could have been improved by either re-writing the episode Memory Blank or at the very least, cutting a couple of the jokes. The base-premise is potentially interesting but it was definitely one of the ones where the show did characters dirty for the sake of jokes.

If I had to leave it mostly as-is, I would at least want to ditch the two random insert jokes where Danny "remembers" using his powers to peep in the girl's locker room. Not only is the base joke a gross, sexist "boys will be boys" gag, it also just feels really jarring and almost out of character for Danny in particular. That's not to say that Danny isn't canonically chauvinistic in other ways at times, but this one doesn't jive with how he reacts to similar situations (and behaviors from Tucker) in other, more character-centric episodes. The abrupt musical punctuation feels more like a sudden insert of Fairly Odd Parents humour and I would say it's probably only there because this kind of "adorkable misogynist" punchline is a common staple in both Butch Hartman and Steve Marmel's comedy styles.

Ideally though, since the main purpose of the episode is to give Danny his marketable DP insignia, I would rather do a full re-write around all three trio members actively trying to design a logo for Phantom. Rather than doing Danny and Tucker dirty by making them into boring butt-monkeys who live empty lives without Sam (and doing Sam dirty by making her seem like a weird stalker who changes Danny's suit without his knowledge or consent) we could have had an episode that let the icon have actual symbolic meaning for the whole of "Team Phantom". It's sad that one if the most iconic symbols of the show ends up being tacked onto a character assassinating goof-story when there were so many ways it could have been great.

🤔 Would you ever want to write something canon if you got the opportunity?

Going to go with a soft no on this one.

For one thing, I believe the best stories happen when someone has a specific story to tell, and at the moment my Deathly Weapons fanfic is the main story I feel the need to make exist. As a mystery nerd, I guess I could maybe do a decent detective story involving Batman or Gotham, but on the other hand I don't think it would be the kind of story Modern DC wants to sell.

From a practical point of view, I also think the things and stories I find the most fascinating within the Danny Phantom fandom would probably be too tonally serious to "fit with the brand" of official canon material. (Although it has been awesome to see some of the Phandom olds getting ascended to the level of official canon creators with the AGiT comics!)

As for Young Justice Animated I think I'm one of several fans who wouldn't mind being tagged-in (or at least a fly on the wall) if DC/Warner Bros ever decided to give it the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood treatment, kick Greg Weisman's Whedon-worshipping incel ass out the door and let some of the prominent staff who were dropped after Season 1 have a do-over to continue the story they were actually setting up. I think there was a lot of potential in that initial cast, and there were some really cool character-centric standalone episodes that could have come from things like digging into Artemis and Jade having a diegetic connection to Alice In Wonderland while living in the same city as Jervis "Mad Hatter" Tech. But as it stands, I found Weisman's multi-season vandalisation of his colleagues' work to be so egregious that I ended up blocking both the main series tag and his name for the sake of my blood pressure. Look, even when he's not writing like the kind of man who probably fantasises about impregnating his colleague's daughter, the Nostalgia-Critic-level incompetence at basic narrative coherence is just exhausting.

📚 Is there a fanfic or fanfic writer you recommend?

Many!

For today's tasting, I would like to recommend Developmental Milestones and the broader Cor Et Cerebrum series by @audreycritter. Actually, let's just make that a general rec' for all Audreycritter's DC stuff.

I really like their interpretations of the Batfam and Superfam. They do such a good job of capturing the humanity of these characters in their non-cape moments, and I love their approach to dialogue. I think it speaks volumes to the strength of their character-writing that, despite not being a reader who generally goes in for Original Characters, I have become deeply obsessed with their on-call OC Batdoctor Kiran "Dev" Devabhaktuni. He is indeed the light of my life. Developmental Milestones is Dev's focus story but plenty of others put the focus on the canon DC roster if you prefer.

Go enjoy seeing Bruce get yelled at by a deeply affronted, potty-mouthed British Doctor with a heart of gold, though he'll stringently deny it.

Thanks for playing!

Cheeky Kojiki

🌼💮🌸Spring is almost here, and all of Gachaville can't wait (except maybe for Dandelion the lion, who is allergic to pollen).

Gacha characters used (from left to right):

Starnova, Fangirl, Dandelion, Gizmo, Gamey, Robby, Myths, Bunny, Cameo, Lotus, Harlow, and Nora.

Happy birthday!!!! 💕

I'm sorry its arrival has been stressful, but I sure hope your 25th year becomes your best one yet! You deserve all the good things ✨️

Aw thanks so much @myth-blossom :) 💙 That means a lot

Hi Ninja! For the truth & dare ask game :)

🧃 ⇢ share some personal lore you never posted about before

❄️ ⇢ what's your dream theme/plot for a fic, and who would write it best?

🎨 ⇢ link your favourite piece of fanart and explain why you like it

🧃Oh boy, personal lore! My first thought is that my childhood home is an unusual shape - it's round! Like a squat cylinder with a conical roof. This is my go-to answer whenever people ask me for a random interesting fact about myself.

❄️ I honestly don't know how to answer this one. I feel like any defined and specific fic idea I come up with that I get excited about is something that I intend to eventually write myself? But I guess my dream, in a more general sense, would just be for someone (anyone!) to write an epic love story longfic about H'aanit and Olberic. I know I've done it! But I'd love to be able to also read one that I didn't write!! XD 🎨Well, that's easy, because I commissioned it! XD This amazing art by @mrpuripurin is all that I could have hoped for and more! I could never find any H'aanberic art in the wild, and I resorted to drawing some myself, but commissioning an artist of purin's skill and talent to make custom art of my OTP just put me into a whole other level of excitement and flailing glee! <3

An Ecstasy by Frederick George Swaish

tell me, o muse, the tale (a vaguely modern adaptation of greek myths&tales. allegedly.)

of hades and persephone — 4k words, general audiences, no warnings apply, hades/persephone ; Persephone and Hades meet properly, on their own. It turns out that they get along well. Hermes is inescapable. Demeter and Hades are academic rivals. Also, Prometheus has messed up, but that's minor in the scheme of all this.

of pandora, prometheus, and sisyphus — 3.7k words, teen and up, no archive warnings apply ; Prometheus causes necessary chaos. Hades gets a new assistant. Pandora gets enlisted to help.

of how a group came together to try to figure out the game — 4k words, general audiences, no warnings apply, hades/persephone, achilles/patroclus, odysseus/penelope ; Persephone wishes it wasn't quite so hot. Odysseus just wants to sleep. Asclepius would like to put in a formal request for a break. Atalanta is ready to watch everything break.

Tagging System:

from the desk — snippets of writing. concepts of writing. words.

the game — the game itself

a whole person — characters, all combined

trip of fools — jason and the argonauts. the ship of theseus. the worst road trip they could possibly go on.

barbie — hermes

celestial blossoms — asterius/asterion, the minotaur

nobody — odysseus

reincarnating hivemind — cerberus

Lowkey kinda funny that Riven is a spirit, wait sorry someone who looks like Riven is in Spirit Blossom. Cause the event is canon, in the sense that the characters represent actual spirits that the people of Ionia venerate. Meaning that in Ionian mythology, there’s an actual mythological figure that looks like this 

co-existing with Riven in the same timeline.

Now I’m picturing spiteful villagers referring to Riven as looking like the living equivalent of like, a dead soldier monstrum mythos akin to like, el Silbón or something. 

Ugh I can't wait to be covered in tattoos head to toe I'm so excited

Oh all the nonverbal love prompts make me feral 👀 how about one of these for Diana/47?

4. Randomly hugging your partner out of nowhere (bonus points if you're not a physically affectionate person)

21. Giving your partner your jacket when they're cold

Both? Both is good.

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"That was lovely, thank you for taking me." Diana spoke softly as 47 led her out of the National Theatre and back onto the streets of Prague. The ballet had been a wonderful anniversary gift to look forward to, and Romeo & Juliet had been even more beautiful in person than she could have imagined. It was but a short 7-minute walk to Národní třída, the metro station that would take them back to their hotel. Major cities were much easier navigated by public transport, after all, and this way they could both have a drink.

As they descended the steps to the platforms, the temperature of the air surrounding them changed from a late summer's late-night lingering warmth to a chill that made her regret not bringing a thin jumper or at the very least a wrap to help her stay warm. 47 was wearing a suit, one of her favourite ones, so obviously the cold wasn't bothering him. Diana took a breath. She'd be fine; she just had to hold out for another twenty minutes or so.

Suddenly a warm weight was draped onto her shoulders, immediately enveloping her in warmth and the near-overwhelming scent of home.

"You looked cold."

Fuelled by the combination of the happiness surrounding their anniversary, the wine in her system and the love for her ridiculously charming husband, Diana pulled him in for an uncharacteristically public display of affection. 47 froze for a tick, before reciprocating the embrace, letting her nestle her head beneath his chin.

"Thank you," Diana whispered.

47 didn't let go until their train arrived.