The Strength of the Ordinary
I've been rewatching the RWBY series, and I've just finished Volume 8' "Dark". And I gotta say, I wanna bring up how it was ultimately Whitley and Willow Schnee (Weiss' bro and mom) who took down the Hound.
I'm not talking about Schees destroying a Faunus. I'm talking about how two casual civilians defeated Salem's horrible uber-Grimm. It wasn't the trained warriors that did it. It wasn't the light from Ruby's Silver Eyes did it. It was the local normals that pulled it off. And yes, I am aware that Willow can use Scheen Glyph Summons, but that's rather academic. The one who acted first to destroy the Hound was Whitley, who was also the one who figured out how to help the people of Mantle.
In so many media of this kind, there's always this focus on the extraordinary folk being the ones who have to do everything, to solve every problem. So these moments when the non-mains get to do something awesome are so important. It makes the efforts the protags make fighting to help them feel more real, more profound.
24 notes
·
View notes
(He’s gluten free, fyi.)
Happy Michaelmas! What is Michaelmas you ask? It’s an ancient harvest celebration that was an official holiday in Sweden until 1772. It marked the end of harvest, when the laborers’ wages would be paid and they would be given up to a week off. The nights and days following were considered magical. A young lady might see a vision of the man she would marry and vice versa.
Like Santa Lucia, it’s a Christian saints’ holiday and Kirsten would have most likely celebrated this festival so she’s helping me make dragon bread! The dragon represents the challenges in our lives and our own foibles to be tamed…or in this case eaten if you have a gluten sensitivity.
This is the cut hair silver eyed Kirsten that I found last week. She’s enjoying some baking before her trip to the doll hospital.
Each ingredient in the bread represents some aspect of the story; the yeast is the dragon’s frothing fury and the flour is the plentiful harvest.
Of course, we had to make a doll sized dragon too! (This was the second rising part of the process, but gluten free flour doesn’t rise quite like gluten full).
My husband walked in and teased, “I see you have a tiny supervisor.” “Thank goodness,” I replied.
36 notes
·
View notes
💿 #OnThisDay in 2017… Goldfrapp released ‘Silver Eye’, containing the track ‘Become the One’ inspired by a documentary about transgender youth. Towards the end of the documentary, one of the main subjects said: “I’m not changing who I am, I am becoming who I am!”.
⭕ #Lazarusheart at @Redbubble (link in bio) 👇https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/26104683?asc=u
1 note
·
View note
And to finish the nrc dorm sticker series, the diasomnia boys !!
added the tail for malleus because I think it's neat
2K notes
·
View notes
i think a side effect of loving mishanks for many people is becoming very endeared by the "rayleigh is mihawk's parent" au's haha :') first one's part of this fic i posted where smolhawk challenges rayleigh to a duel ⚔️✨️ second one's just a random kid!mishanks doodle. i think their shenanigans (incl buggy!) would be cute.
2K notes
·
View notes
Enel: “What would you do if I was kidnapped?”
Noah: “Nothing. I’d just wait for thirty minutes until until they let you go voluntarily.”
Idony: *coughs into her hand*
Noah: “Shut up.”
3 notes
·
View notes
These beauties stumbled into my life early this morning. A little worse for the wear but still lovely.
We appear to have a PC Molly, AGOT #19 and a PC Kirsten with both the dreaded silver eye and cut hair afflictions. Going to give them all a scrub, limb tightening and hair styling then Kirsten is off to the hospital.
But the best part was the trunk of clothes that came with them and this Pleasant Company treasure buried deep inside…
It’s missing all the little accessories but I’m a smitten kitten 🐈⬛. I’ll make some little ears for it and one of the girls will be purring with spooky season joy!
15 notes
·
View notes
sometimes a painting doesn't turn out the way you want to and you just gotta move on. anyways I submerged the boy in water (again)
2K notes
·
View notes
Y'ALL AIN'T GONNA BELIEVE ME, BUT JUST LAST WEEK I WAS TELLING MY FRIEND HOW MUCH I WANTED TO SEE THE ANIMATRONICS DRAG WILLIAM OFF LIKE THEY DID IN THE SILVER EYES.
I NEVER expected to actually see it!
2K notes
·
View notes
messing around with limited palettes and lineless art... cmyk and hedgehogs in sonic you will always be famous!!!
905 notes
·
View notes