I made this a couple months ago, a demonstration on how Silke’s spells work by concepting her Spirit Guardians spell.
She has only seen parts of her god through clipped visions and dreams, along with recovered murals, tapestries and other relics. So most of her spells are inspired by what she tries to piece together about them.
So far her spells are mostly focused on eyes, teeth and hands but she’s been gradually starting to form some silhouettes the more she learns.
Bard: Not all your life decisions have to be smart. Some can be purely for cinematic value.
Giant Crochet Snails // Rock Maker Stitches
prison of plastic is really good
I think that more fanfiction should be written with the aim to tackle the original meaning of hanahaki. Because when the concept of hanahaki disease was originally created, it was intended to be a metaphor for suppressing one’s feelings.
Your feelings are this beautiful garden of flora inside of your chest. When you express how you feel honestly, you allow for it to grow freely. But when you hide how you feel out of fear of rejection, and try to make it smaller and smaller, the flowers become cramped inside of you, until you choke on your own feelings. Every flower you cough up is something you’ve felt, but refused to say.
The whole “dying” thing is intended to be more symbolic especially. You’re killing off bits and pieces of yourself and how you feel, because you’re afraid to express yourself.
It’s not really supposed to be, “The one I love doesn’t love me back, and I’m dying from it.” Rather, it’s more along the lines of, “Repressing your emotions is bad for you, and it’s better and healthier to express them freely, even when it’s scary.”
Which is to say that, one, the cure for the disease should be telling the person that you are in love with how you feel. How the other person feels about the person afflicted should have nothing to do with it, as the trope is meant to be about feeling your emotions unapologetically.
And that, two, it’s not an inherently romantic trope. Obviously, it has romantic applications, but it can be written for any situation where a character is hiding how they truly feel. This can include a refusal to address a specific trauma, a desire to indulge in something that they’re ashamed of, and even really practical things, like wanting to ask one’s boss for a higher position.
Although (as an aromantic person myself) I don’t agree with this conclusion about the trope, this application would also avoid people calling it arophobic. When the thing killing the character is a refusal to be honest with themselves, rather than an unrequited love, it’s on nobody’s hands but their own to save their life.
There are a ton of ways that this interpretation of the hanahaki disease could be applied in new and interesting ways in fanfiction, and I’d love to read what things people could come up with!
"Why don't people recognize Link in TOTK" bc everyone imagines the legendary swordsman to be built like Ganondorf and Link doesn't bother correcting anyone bc being hailed as a hero is like on the bottom of his priorities, which are topped by things like "Bake one of every pie"
watching the 2018 milwaukee ballet production of dracula and y'all the dracula/jonathan pas de deux is amazing
Soo did y'all know you can get a soldering iron for 8 bucks? I didn't. I do now. I'm about to burn the shit out of myself.
*coughing blood and covered in wounds, on one knee, gripping my sword planted on the ground… And yet, smiling* Heh… And yet, despite everything… *I start glowing with mysterious power* I stay silly!
biologists will be like this is a very simplified diagram of a mammalian cell
chemists will be like this is a molecule
my illustration for @legacy-rebelsfanzine! this was super fun to work in and I've been looking forward to sharing it with you all 🩷
while everyone else is getting deeply solemn and serious messages from their gods i like to imagine that Artagan popped up for his weekly brunch with Jester, in complete disarray, his mai tai half spilled out of the glass, branches in his hair, going "oh god, JESTER, HOLY FUCK-"
Read Worm.
healing doesn't have to look pretty or be some magical process. healing is hard. it's draining and exhausting.
don't try to paint it as anything other than what it is. don't be ashamed at how rough it can look.
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Chef boyardee commercial where Jason is helping Alfred grocery shop and he does the commercial thing where he begs Alfred for the ravioli. Of course Alfred says no and they leave the store, only for the van to roll off the shelf and follow them to the manor.
Little did the can know that Alfred will not tolerate canned ravioli monstrosities in his home and has come prepared. As soon as the van crosses into the kitchen Alfred shoots it with his shotgun. He goes to bury it in the backyard alongside dozens of other canned shaped graves.
Everything posted in the last month or so! I’ve been working on a tattoo apprenticeship portfolio, and these will all be in it!
#kid goes to summer camp, becomes a furry
EVERYONE QUICK describe your oc story in the worst way possible
E M B R A C E • the • D A R K N E S S
thinks abt the hunter and raine dynamic that exists in my mind
does anyone have more posts like this im starting a collection
multiclass bard and rogue masquerading as a cleric..... brennan lee mulligan the man that you are
i think amity deserves to have goggles. as a treat
HELLO!!!11!!! OKAY, I AM VERY EXCITED FOR THIS RIGHT NOW, SO FUTURE ME APOLOGISES FOR THE CAPS LOCK BUT BRO LISTEN LISTEN LSITEN I AM CURRENTLY WRITING OUT CONCEPTS FOR A WHOLE FAN FIC FOR YOUR SCAMMERS TO LOVERS AU AND I AM A GENIUS SO Midoriya is quirkless and was in the support course yeah? Yeah, cool. SO There’s a lot of stigma in the world for quirkless individuals and Midoriya feels quite a bit of shame regarding it (no matter where he seemed to go, many people would still bully him for it) so he sort of hides it from his peers at UA. He doesn’t go Out of His Way to, but if someone thinks he has a quirk, he just rolls with it. I love writing out these little scenes between Midoriya and Monoma where Mono’s trying to figure out what kind of quirk this guy has. Is it something that enhances his senses? Something like Hatsume’s so he can see finer details better? Maybe it’s what helps him come up with support item ideas? Or maybe it’s intelligence-based like Principal Nezu? Maybe that helps him figure out all these technique enhancements for training students. So Monoma goes around trying to figure out what exactly his quirk is and how it works. Monoma goes about borrowing the quirk without letting Midoriya know so he can take an exam in class only for Nothing To Happen during it. He doesn’t feel suddenly smarter or anything so What The Hell happened. So his quirk isn’t intelligence, what is it? Monoma didn’t feel any of his senses enhance, so not that. It’s only later that he’s able to talk to Midoriya while he’s working on a support item for another student. “What the hell is your quirk??” “I don’t have one?” “What.” This isn't exactly an 'ask', I just really wanted to share this with you lmfao
Ahh that makes me so happy you’re writing a fic about my au 😭💕💕 also love that kind of concept haha, I remember reading a fic once where anytime someone would ask he’d just say a different silly power, and that’s the same vibes I think IT!deku would have! Being comfortable about being quirkless but not never missing an opportunity to mess with people <3
i can’t decide if this is the single coolest girl in the world for making danger her middle name or the silliest for not seeing the raw power of “millipede danger” which is the greatest name i have ever heard