#ghost element

[fujunfuren]

KWON NARA and JOO WON for Allure Korea 2024

[elodieunderglass]

And one amang, an Iyrysch man,

Uppone his hoby swyftly ran…

WAIT HANG ON - slamming the brakes on drawing this stupid picture - do you nerds even KNOW the etymology of the word “hobby”? The thing you do for pleasure? The thing you have too many of? The thing you spend too much money on and share with your friends? The thing tumblr probably is to you? Those hobbies?

It comes from a now-kind-of-extinct breed of Irish pony-horse. It was called the Irish Hobby. Supposedly the hobby got its name from the Gaelic word obann, or swift. They definitely were. They’d obann your pants clean off.

Fast tough little bastards, built for rough terrain and renowned for their speed and stamina, hobby horses belonged to the Celts, and their highly annoying style of mounted warfare. but their conquerors liked hobby horses a lot, kept them, used them for themselves, and found them useful enough, despite the fact that they also had famously useful things like mounted knights or horse archers. A lightweight Irish warrior, mounted on a hobby horse, was called a hobelar.

Reportedly and in depictions, hobelars rode without stirrups. Or saddles. Or bridles. Or - well - this is all sounding very improbable, because the hobelars COULDNT have just been charging around basically bare-assed on naked ponies, screaming, and somehow in the process undoing the composure of actual mounted armoured knights. Knights who, I remind you, had stirrups. Stirrups are useful! It’s quite likely the hobelars had some gear. And clothes. and weapons. And the ponies probably had some tack - I am picturing a bellyband that you could at least hang a saddlebag on, and a neck rope for catching the bloody thing, even if not a saddle. But the overall impression, somehow created by people on darling little ponies, was apparently quite striking and fearful.

I mean. God Forbid People Have Hobbies.

Anyway after a while, whatever people became the British had eventually conquered all of the rough terrain that hobbies were best at, and horse archers just got sexier, and mounted knights became aristos, and all the bog and forest people had been subdued, so it was time to sunset the hobelars. but WAIT! Hobby horses are still tremendously fun and appealing! They’re so fast! and you can ride them without a saddle! Sure, they’re not up to the weight of a mounted knight, or indeed a lot of guys… but surely we can still find a use for a hobby or two? In the back garden? Somewhere?

At which point an English king decided to keep hobby horses just for fun. No military application. No further development of the technology. Not for fun. Just as expensive, pleasurable, pets. Just for the joy of the thing.

And that is how hobby (activity done purely for pleasure) comes from hobby horse (small horse) possibly from obann (swift.) they’re very interesting and you should look all this up for yourself! because it sure sounds like Elodie doing a bit, doesn’t it?

Today, Irish Hobbies are functionally nonexistent. References for drawing include the Kerry Bog Pony, the Connemara, and (I personally think) Dartmoors and Exmoors. They’re said to have lent their speed to the Irish Hunter/Sport Horse and from there to the Thoroughbred, but every damn horse in the world claims relation to the Thoroughbred, and they can’t be THAT thoroughly bred.

At any rate - you can never have enough hobbies. Just be glad that yours aren’t expensive beasts with minds of their own, eating their heads off in the pasture! …Unless they are. In which case, you’re part of a proud tradition.

[astrxsee]

simon’s favorite position is missionary.. i will die on this hill

he loves seeing your eyes go wide when he finally sinks his dripping, thick cock inside of you. he loves feeling your tiny hands grab onto his large biceps, the prettiest sounds he’s ever heard dripping from your lips.

‘love seeing you take it, dovie’

he’s just so much bigger than you. his frame covering yours, he could cum in his pants just from the power he feels being above you.

but, god does he love it when you ride him like your life depends on it. when you do, he just can’t help but to fill you to the brim with his milky seed :(

[ikiprian]

Ghost Kitchen (brought to you by criminal entrepreneur, Red Hood)

Danny’s got the easiest job in Gotham.

He works as a fry cook at a shoddily-run, independent burger joint. Hardly anyone comes in, despite prices being criminally low, and portions insanely large, and while the manager looks like the average tough-as-nails ex-con, he lets Danny mess around in the kitchen whenever the place is empty. (Which is often. This place has to be the city’s hidden gem or something!)

Mr. Manager’s the only one ever there with Danny, except for sometimes when his buddies come over to smoke and play cards. Danny would find it shady, except part of his job is not to ask questions. Literally, he was told during the interview.

(It was a weird interview. Why would they need to hire someone who’s been in a gunfight before? Like, he has, but Gotham’s idea of “hirable qualities” is so bizarre.)

So instead he whips up some killer burgers with the frozen ingredients, and basks in the praise as the guys tell him he shouldn’t have, he does too much for this joint, ain’t that friendly!

Now, Danny’s a chef on the newer side. As a teen he’d preferred the look of Nasty Burger over anything with Michelin stars, and he only really took up cooking after Jazz moved out for college. But just like ecto-exposure used to turn the groceries sentient, Danny’s low-level ecto signature imbues all his food with something historically haunted Gothamites just love! And Danny’s never been one to half-ass a job when it makes people happy.

With fresher produce, real meat, Danny’s sure he can take his dishes to the next level. It takes a couple months of badgering, but his manager finally agrees to contact the mysterious store owner, who keeps the place going, despite profits Danny knows have to be in the red.

Danny spends the morning prepping. He pours his heart into his food, eager to impress. The big boss will be here soon, and he wants to prove that despite the dangerous location, this place has real potential!

It isn’t until the Red Hood shows up that Danny realizes he’s been working for a money laundering scheme.

[fujii-draws]

The Great Dusknoir (but human)

[the-californicationist]

The Fifth Element [Masterlist]

COD/Fallout TF141/F!Reader Polyamory Chapterlist

You always knew Vault-Tec was planning this. Their war began in a terrible flash right in front of your eyes. As the bombs exploded in the city around you, you had no choice but to crawl into a cryotank and hope for the best. You'd wait for the reinforcements. For someone. Anyone. But, no one came. Centuries passed by in an awful, infinite blackness, and you were suspended somewhere between life and death. Until one day… you woke up.

Chapter 01: Hydrogen

Chapter 02: Helium

Chapter 03: Lithium

Chapter 04: Beryllium

Chapter 05: Boron

[gauntletqueen]

When a non-horror game has a horror section, I often find it a little more effective or memorable than a full-on horror title's horror, in a way. I think that's because, for characters in fiction, they usually don't know they're about to experience a horror story, so they aren't mentally prepared at all. As the audience, we know that when we boot up Silent Hill, we're gonna see some scary stuff and can mentally prepare accordingly. But when some innocuous children's platformer or RPG or whatever suddenly throws genuine horror elements at me, I'm taken out of my comfort zone much more roughly since I don't expect it at all. I think that's neat :>

[sanctum-vii]

flustered

A (little bit late) Mushy May Day 20: Gardening doodle.

Thanks to @forlorn-crows for setting up the prompts!!

[derekfoxwit]

How Animation Discourse Can Feel At Times: The Complete Collection

[fairblade]

Worst Case Scenario

been thinking about @the-mountain-flower's swap au since its was posted, so here's an elemental magus!alinua

i like magus!alinua as someone who wants to help people out directly, but by her magus status is pushed into research a lot, so she does a lot of medical research - maybe she's studying elemental corruption in the hopes of reversing it, and that's what leads her to the storm. she's probably still something of an instinctual mage in her "bone wants to grow more bone" way, which might be why she's sealed

[radiance1]

Danny, thanks to a recent invention his parents made found himself as a tiny fucking whisp (Think of Venti's true form from Genshin Impact, he looks like that). Not only that, when his parents were working on something to turn him back to normal, Vlad just had to be a prick and try and capture him.

Safe to say, he was not fucking impressed.

So he ran into the zone, trying to hide out before suddenly being fucking summoned to some random place in front of a bunch of really dressed people who looked like they were going to a Halloween party but fell into a ditch and then got rained on and slipped in the mud trying to get out of said ditch.

Also, it smelt pretty bad.

Then a group of also oddly dressed people burst through the window and beat them up, with one of them screaming at the others to hold them back while he tries and restart the ritual because it obviously failed.

Which, rude.

He's the one that called for him not that other way around. The prick.

Not wanting to go back he sorta just, floated out of whatever they had going on in and standing off the side as the guy gawked at him before getting punched in the face with some kinda, blasty, thing by some guy in a coat.

Said guy who then proceeded to say that the guys who summoned him obviously botched the ritual to summon the ghost king, as it said prince instead.

Which yea, he's the prince so what.

Which they obviously botched too because that's an ice elemental, a rather weak one by the looks of it but an ice elemental nonetheless.

Which. Wow. Danny has never been so fucking insulted in his life.

So he very obviously had the right to freeze the guy's entire body below the head in retaliation before leaving. He unfortunately got caught by magician lady which, cool, but also like let him go.

He just rolled with it honestly when they brought him to their 'hall of justice' or whatever and being stared at by a round table of what he's starting to think are superheroes.

He'll take being stared down over Vlad any day of the year anyways.

[mil-liminal]

HEY listeners, it's me, your favorite middle-of-the-night unknown and unheard of gas-station attendant, Caro Greene! It's sure been a minute, but a lots been happenin' behind the scenes, I promise! Hoping to have a new episode about the weird stuff that goes on around these parts to entertain you real soon.

In the meantime, how 'bout you entertain me a little? Have you got a little story of the unexplained you're just DYING to tell someone? My ask box and comment section is open. And no promises, but if you're ok with me telling your story on air one day, make sure to include the phrase 'On Air' and a credit!

Talk to you soon!

xoxo Caro

[al-luviec]

sensei morro ref (is it really an au if it's part of your personal canon)

[stars-obsession-pit]

A GIW engineer was tapping away at a report on his computer when suddenly a white-suited agent stepped into the office and slapped a thick sheaf of paper down onto the desk. He turned and pulled the papers closer. “What’s this?”

“New assignment from the higher ups.”

Flipping through the first few pages, the engineer suddenly paused at the words in the headers. “Turing implants? Seriously? What, we’re chasing conspiracy theories now?”

“Is it really that much crazier than ghosts?”

“We know ghosts exist. I think I’d’ve heard if the Russians managed to make telepathic super-spies,” he replied drily.

The agent smirked and tapped the papers. “Evidently they got a lot further than you’d think.”

He sighed. “Ugh, whatever. Fine. But even if they were onto something, what’s that got to do with our work?”

The agent shrugged. “I wasn’t told too much about the specifics. Something about trying to tap into the signals used by ghosts to communicate?”

“But ghosts aren’t sentient, so why would we particularly care about whatever gibberish they spout?”

“Look,” the agent replied, a little forcefully. “It’s your assignment. Just do it. Read the file, and get back to me with whatever material requests you’ll need later. Okay?”

“Alright, alright,” the engineer replied, raising his hands placatingly. “I’ll take a look.”

Okay, so, to explain what I’m referencing:

The Turing Implant was a device from the comics that was designed by the Russians to allow people to intercept and hear all sorts of radio signals and even read people’s thoughts. It did sorta work, but it had pretty serious shortcomings and the only survivor of the project was a woman named Isabelle Cheranova (who’s a minor villain in at least one Batman comic).

Also the device couldn’t isolate the signals on its own, meaning the user would be constantly bombarded with an endless cacophony of noise unless they had an additional other device to solve that, but I’m not really touching on that aspect here.

Basically, when I saw that signal interfacing concept, I had the thought that it could potentially be tied in to the DP fanon “ghosts send chirps/purrs/etc from their cores” thing.

[serpentface]

This was going to be a panel of a little comic but I got too invested in drawing minute background details so, here.

[vseahn]

Chain!