#Help Hilda

[redxv]

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•my message to the world

•At the end of the month, you will be celebrating Christmas.

•How will you celebrate without us for the second year in a row?

•We share in your celebrations.

°Why don't you share with us during these difficult times?

•am hilda 28y girl

•am pregnant like any woman at this world

•the difference between us i live in gaza

🚨 I am pregnant and suffering from a lack of food and medicine. I don’t know what the fate of my baby inside me will be due to the shortage of food and medicine caused by the war and high prices

😓😥🍉🇵🇸

•A small donation can make abig difference 🤲🤲

•The war has entered its second year and everything is getting worse 💔

•Please help me 🤲😥🍉🇵🇸

✅vetted ( u can see that in my posts)

https://gofund.me/69d9ed7c

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[comatoseauthor]

It’s, like, three a.m. why am I still up?

*looks at the 47 ao3 tabs I have open*

Ah, yes! I was reading about gay people being gay and depressing! How wonderful! Better get right back to it!

[inumbrapugnabimus-maybe]

i just think she’s neat

[blaithnne]

I like how I gave Frida two flags when she only needed one, meanwhile David has to squish both flags together. To be fair, it’s just like Frida to be incredibly organised and bring multiple back up flags, and for David to panic and not do that.

[bebrave-live]

[airborneice]

they live in my mind rent free

[stormy-nights-are-best]

The Deep Dive on Shadow Magic that you 🫵 asked for

I'm gonna try not to make this post too long so check out the ALT Image Descriptions for more insight.

I based my research on the principle that magic is integral to science and nature. So first of all, we should break down what a shadow is literally:

A shadow is a tear in the projection of a light caused by an Object (or individual).

1 shadow is always bound to 1 object. One object can produce several shadows at the same time (from several lights), but one shadow can't belong to two separate objects.

Shadows are 2D, but they exist in several planes.

Now let's break down each of these.

A shadow represents a soul. Belonging to a person, or something that's just real. That's why, sometimes, all a picture needs to look unsettling or dreamy is a shadow that either doesn't match the light's intensity or direction, or just isn't there.

That goes to say a shadow can't exist without its Object, but the human brain finds a shadowless body weirder than a bodyless shadow. Check it out:

This happens because a shadow is and always has been a sign that Someone Is There. A bodyless shadow still feels like somebody's, but a shadowless person doesn't even feel real. Old tales described faefolk and vampires as shadowless creatures for that reason.

If your shadow represents your soul, does that mean you're your shadow, and not your body?

Uh, no. Your shadow is an indicative that you have a soul, but you are not your shadow. Your shadow isn't a separate individual either. Let's look at the “Jungian Shadow”.

Literally speaking, from the perspective of the light, your shadow will always be hidden behind you, invisible, like in the first pictures of this post. The “Jungian Shadow”, named after psychologist Carl Jung (1875-1961), is the concept that your shadow is everything you hate and fear the most about yourself - it's the part of you that's so dark you don't let anyone see. Even the Bible nods to that on John 3:19-20 and Ephesians 5:11-13. Your shadow is all of your immoral urges, vulnerability and intrusive, dark thoughts combined.

Which makes these two interactions very interesting:

It makes you wonder what's up with Lena. It'd make perfect sense if Magica was Lena's shadow - which she is, for a while - because Magica is everything Lena hates and fears to become. But Lena is Magica's shadow.

If shadows aren't their own individuals, how did Magica create a person with their own thoughts and desires from her shadow? How come Lena isn't a walking amalgamation of the worst aspects of Magica?

We see Magica was able to jump into her shadow while her body got sucked into the dime, then she used her powers to form a temporary body she could cling to.

But what we see isn't necessarily true. It doesn't even make sense:

You can't just CREATE life with magic alone, and even if you could, it'd with much darker arts than just Shadow Manipulation and Transmutation.

↑ It would take a lot longer and a lot more power and materials than shown in the “flashback” anyways

Why is Lena a teenager? You trynna tell me Magica created a past version of herself, without her memories, just body and maybe personality?

This scene isn't even a flashback. It's the guys' imagination illustrating the poem Lena wrote. So not only is this scene not what Lena remembers, it also isn't necessarily true as something that Lena thinks she knows. Only Magica really witnessed what happened there.

Here's what probably happened: Magica was stuck in her quickly dissipating shadow and cast a desperate spell to latch onto somebody else's shadow just like Lena did to Webby.

Lena used the power of Webby's friendship bracelet to pull herself out of the Shadow Realm by latching onto Magica's shadow and even becoming physical WITHOUT A BODY. Even if Magica's magic isn't as strong as the magic of friendship, she could've just as easily latched onto somebody's shadow, especially Scrooge's, if she just needed a body to grab his dime.

I'm saying creating a teenager is overkill. It's even impractical, given her circumstances.

And I think the way Magica insists she's Lena's family - aunt, to be more precise - until she wants Lena gone for good... points us towards a very obvious solution:

Lena was Magica's actual biological niece like in the original Ducktales, as Poe De Spell's daughter.

The exact time passed between Scrooge's raid on Mount Vesuvius and Magica's first attempt to trap him inside the dime isn't clear, but if it was thirteen years, it would explain why Lena is a teenager. Though that would imply taking over someone's shadow would erase their memory and freeze their age...

If you scroll back to the first GIF on this post you'll notice Lena is the only shadow who didn't have red eyes. Even Magica had red eyes. That means she wasn't a regular shadow, not even a person-shadow.

And notice that even though it looks like Lena was turned back into Magica's shadow, the next time Lena shows up (GIF 7), she does not emerge from Magica's shadow. That implies Lena was dragged into the Shadow Realm through Magica's shadow, not turned back into a it.

Another nod that Lena was never a shadow to begin with is the way she's alone in the Shadow Realm. Nobody else's shadows are following their Objects around, and when other shadow spirits do appear, they are:

Shadowy shapes, unlike Lena, who was still bodily while in the Shadow Realm

Made from Lena's feelings of fear and jealousy. Which means they were her “Jungian Shadows”, and a shadow can't have its own shadows, can it?

By the way, did you notice the sunlight from that window is purple in the Shadow Realm? I think everybody knows the color of Shadow Magic is purple because it's black light - or ultraviolet light - the only light that won't light up a room, but will highlight namely “dirty” bodily fluids in fluorescent blue the way “dirty” feelings are hightlighted here.

It's interesting that Lena chose a blue light for her room, too. Just saying. I'm not going too deep into this particular detail.

Back on track, the Shadow Realm is something like nisses' Nowhere Space from Hilda.

It's a pocket dimension you can enter and leave through every shadow (unclear if it's only every person's shadow or any Object's shadow). The way it most differs from the Nowhere Space, is that the Nowhere Space is a space separate from a house, while the Shadow Realm seems to envelop the physical world.

The reason I believe it's a pocket dimension is because Lena was afraid about what would happen to Webby if her tulpas took her outside, as if the Shadow Realm is only inside buildings. That could be because the inside of a building is a shadow in on itself. See how Lena only steps out of Webby's shadow once she's inside of the library? She also opens her eyes like she's just waking up.

This explains why Magica waited until the eclipse to make her move. Duckburg was under the moon's shadow, extending the Shadow Realm into the streets.

I wasn't sure Shadow Magic could be considered Dark Magic at first, but if it allows you to bring people's evil dark sides to life and ban someone into the Shadow Realm, I guess it can be pretty harmful. Tbf it's a magic completely based on lies, omission and your Evil Dark Side. It can also just be shadow-transportation or the power to turn yourself into a shadow though.

Anyways, one thing I haven't figured out is what could be the downside to Shadow Magic. Every Dark Magic comes with a price, be it something that directly affects the user (e.g. illness, curses, losses, etc) or a setback with the spell itself, (e.g. the “came back wrong” trope). Based on the inconvenience of shadows irl, the drawbacks could be:

Feeling cold all the time

Phosphenes

Sensitivity to light and/or poor eyesight

Becoming green (???)

Thanks for reading, this was.. Something. I'm getting too autistic about this show.

[garbagesharkk]

I CAN'T HELP IT, I LOVE THE SHOW-

REDRAW!

ORIGINAL IMAGE!

I would add the Timelapse but Medibang is being goofy and won't show me it >:(

[legionofpotatoes]

First day with Veilguard!

[travelling-on-the-octopath]

hey holst so what WAS that almyran child doing in your house !

[heweramber]

Doodle dump

I FINALLY HAVE SOME MOTIVATION TO DRAW SOME THINGS

[sunfloweraro]

I feel bad for Ravio in your pink bunny au bc the poor guy's bestie comes home, is doing kinda awful, gives up on life and becomes a bunny and then one day just. Is gone. Like.

Ravio's probably freaking out because Legend's been in this slow decline for a while and Ravio has been trying to pull him out of it but just can't and then he vanishes.

Oh yeah it is super rough for poor Ravio! Don’t get me wrong, Link is doing terribly too, but Ravio shoulders it all by himself and wont ask for help, which only makes matters worse for both of them. And then he snaps. And Link runs away. And doesn’t come back for months. Yeah… Ravio very much blames himself for everything—Link not getting better, and Link leaving him. He can sense he’s still out there and alive (they’re intertwined after all, two sides of the same coin) but he thinks Link doesn’t want to be found. He doesn’t want to come home. And now Ravio has deteriorated too.

I’m the author and I feel terrible for Ravio T.T their reunion in a few months will be very cathartic to write.

To help us all feel better, here’s a snippet of Ravio finally getting some comfort!

(and of course, my obligatory @thatonecrazysidekick tag!)

(and thank you for the ask!!!!)

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Fierce squawking. Ravio flinched when Sheerow landed on his head, panicked chirps escaping her. Why had she even bothered to come back? Didn’t she know he was awful and broken?

“Leave me alone,” he rasped, his voice strained and wet with tears. “Let me rot.”

“Absolutely not.”

Ravio’s head snapped up at the new voice. He sat up quickly, scrubbing at his eyes when he saw who it was, her royal purple hair braided down her back and her eyes narrowed—in annoyance? Concern? Ravio couldn’t tell when his vision was blurry. Her hands rested over her hips. “Hilda! I—erm…”

Hilda’s face softened. She made her way over to join him on the bed. Ravio turned away, his cheeks burning darkly. “No wonder Sheerow came to get me,” Hilda said, her voice much gentler than he deserved. Ravio sniffled, couldn’t look at her as shame burned bright within. “What’s going on, Bun? You look terrible. And where’s Link? Why isn’t he helping you?”

Her words, so soft, so concerned, made Ravio’s breath hitch all over again. And then he was dissolving into sobs once more, burying his face in his hands to hide himself away from her and wishing she would just leave him alone.

A noise of concern escaped Hilda and she shifted closer. “Oh, Bun…” She curled an arm around his shoulders, and Ravio… Ravio couldn’t help himself. He didn’t deserve the comfort, but he turned and latched onto her like she was the only thing holding him up in this sea of loneliness and misery; a light in the ever-persistent darkness that had become his life.

Hilda began to run a hand up and down his back, slow and sure. Her other arm squeezed him closer, holding him together as he shuddered and broke to pieces in her arms. “Just let it out, Bun. I’m here.”

[pidgeonlaguz]

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!! 💖💘💖💔💖💘💖

saw this shirt and decided immediately that i needed to put sylvain in it, all spiraled out of control from there

[majiburger]

i'm sorry but episode 3 of hilda hurricane is insane for the way it juxtaposes hilda and malthus. and juxtaposition between the two in itself isn't new, since the show does it a lot. but this one made me gasp because of how it positions malthus and hilda as the respective healers of their society who must live up to an image larger than themselves. there's this scene where a john visits hilda, and he's not conventionally attractive — he's not the "right" size a man should be, his teeth are wonky, but when hilda allows him to touch her, there's this gleam in his eye that shows her power on these people, the sense of acceptance and belonging she seemingly grants through her sessions. there's a huge queue outside her door just to soak in that power. and then JUST A FEW SCENES LATER, there's a crowd outside the church doing the exact same thing...with malthus. one of the women even says "touch him," and then the hordes of people line up to do exactly that. it's not a coincidence, the way this touch is framed, and it's just another incredible detail that adds to the whole imagery of god vs devil, saint vs sinner that the characters of the show have set up. they're both two sides of the same coin, really, and they're both living up to the larger-than-life expectations the people around them have thrust upon them. this might be obvious to people who have finished the show, but i'm just amazed by the set-up here, the intentionality behind them being narrative foils to each other, but also them being the exact same person in different fonts.

[blaithnne]

☆ @sketchbookweek — take 2 ˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗ day 3 — hurt/comfort ! ☆

Pov you’re not used to being the one getting the comfort

[lafirechicken]

What are they talking about wrong answers only. Go!