#including Alef

[kedamo-nogetoffthetable]

Well

Gangs all here

I chewed on a nearly inedible piece of Jerky like it was a dog toy while drawing this

[pathological-runaway]

There are forget-me-nots growing near the Isle Temple, and they have never been so numerous before. Ever since the first child stepped on the dark-green grass dotted with flowers, ever since they walked slowly towards the immense door, ever since the Elder’s mask was restored and their sleepy gaze met the curious eyes shining as brightly as the sun itself — forget-me-nots have been spreading wildly near the Temple walls, covering every patch of grass and painting the whole hill blue, as if reflecting the clear skies that once were above Isle of Dawn.

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There are forget-me-nots growing near the Isle Temple.

There have been, for a time so long no one can remember the place not having any. Perhaps the tiny flowers were adorning the lonely hill long before the Temple itself was erected, long before the Elder began shepherding voyagers towards the Light, long before the kingdom’s most glorious days, long before the Fall and the trapped souls.

There are forget-me-nots growing near the Isle Temple, and they have never been so numerous before.

Ever since the first child stepped on the dark-green grass dotted with flowers, ever since they walked slowly towards the immense door, ever since the Elder’s mask was restored and their sleepy gaze met the curious eyes shining as brightly as the sun itself — forget-me-nots have been spreading wildly near the Temple walls, covering every patch of grass and painting the whole hill blue, as if reflecting the clear skies that once were above Isle of Dawn.

Many children visited the Temple after the first one. They walked on soft grass, flew across the spacious halls, and called the Elder with their loud, pure voices. They stopped at the entrance and turned right, going to the neighbouring hill instead. They sat on the edge, looking wistfully at the desert below. They laughed, and their laughter sounded like the chime of bells, and talked to birds, flapping their arms in excitement, as if there were something birdish in them, too. They sat by the Elder, talking about their day, sharing their worries and the latest news from other realms. They laughed and they cried, and they sat silently sometimes when there was nothing left to say. They let the Elder braid their hair and talk to them about times long gone, and they made those adorable faces when the story took an unexpected turn. They left and came back and never returned — and the Elder greeted each of them with a soft smile, hoping quietly to see them again someday.

And forget-me-nots kept invading every inch of the hill, sprouting through the cracks in the floor and the walls and covering the half-buried boats with tiny blue stars.

And the whole place ended up looking completely blue, and the morning dew made it look as if the flowers were crying.

As if they were remembering

As if they dared not forget.

[lightkidshenannies]

'daleth's mask isn't on the door to Eden because he's less liked/respected than/by the other elders'

1) his mask is literally broken*. we see it reformed in his cutscene sequence in the temple. not that hard a leap to make from broken mask to mask not present on architecture (*see tags)

2) isle of dawn isn't affected by shattering, considering it's the introductory realm for new players. why would a realm largely unaffected by Eden have the mask of its elder on the door to something it has little active relation to, especially considering (2a) Daleth's the ferryman who shepherds children TO the kingdom of sky (2b) meaning that the Isle itself isn't part of the kingdom (as shown by the AURORA music quest - refugees fleeing TOWARD the kingdom + the fact that there are no clouds before the temple)

but yeah let's make the leap to 'they're mean to him that's why he's not on The Big Door >:('

[will-o-the-witch]

I've got some ideas for study that I might post about to hold myself accountable. Curious what y'all would be interested in seeing first!

Going through the alef bet and doing a dive into one letter each week

Same kind of thing but learning about astrological houses

Trying out different methods of identifying and communing my spiritual team, maybe writing reviews on how I feel about each method and what I think worked/didn't work.

Trying out more obscure or lesser-known divination methods, including people's homebrews if they have them, and people could request different kinds

And/or if there's just some kind of thing people would like to see from me, I'm interested in hearing what!!

[skykidsam]

Symbology in Statues

Isle Elder - Dawn - Daleth

Statue sits in the middle of a spacious room; once revived, the room opens up and birds fly freely through the space

Has one singular white candle to light

Face has a diamond element; in the elder's memory, this element seems to attract the boat-shaped mask (which also has a similar diamond-shaped element in the middle) to the elder's forehead like a magnet

Paint includes a standard line down the middle, below the diamond cutout, and two more lines on either side. The outline around the diamond is incomplete, missing only the top

Prairie Elder - Day - Ayin

The statue sits atop an uneven grass-covered mound, littered with large jars

There are three white candles in front of the statue, which are replaced by (or encompassed in) a large jar once the spirit is revived; there are also a few clusters of red candles leading up to the statue

Face has a diamond element

Paint includes the same standard line down the middle, along with the two lines on either side - but this time the diamond outline is complete

There are two engraved lines spreading diagonally upward on either side, emanating from the center diamond cutout

Forest Elder - Rain - Teth

The only statue that, within their temple, is hidden before being revealed via an unlocking mechanism that opens the floor and triggers the platform with the statue on it to rise

Platform is painted with a diamond symbol that resembles the one on map shrines

Has three white candles

Diamond emblem on the doors behind the statue resemble the mask this elder wears, but could also have other symbolic meaning

No diamond element on face

Same standard paint, but the top half of the diamond outline is missing

I didn't get to photograph it in the other statues but we can also note how the eyes are a shade of blue/cyan/aquamarine after lighting the candles but before meditating to revive the elder

Valley Elders - Sunset - Samekh

Statue is elevated on its own platform in the middle of the room

Three white candles in front, as well as many red candles surrounding the statues themselves

No diamond element

Just like the elders, everything is split in half - each side has one eye, and the paint is also split down the middle.

The diamond outline is also missing its top

Once the spirits are revived and the doors open, Eden sits menacingly behind the statues and seems to hint at... something

Wasteland Elder - Dusk - Tsadi

Statue sits just before the halls of the Vault, carrying a spear (engraved with a diamond) and a shield (engraved with a sun)

Three white candles in front, with several red candles bordering a map shrine behind

Diamond element on face

Same exact paint and engravings as Day/Ayin

Huge crack that severs the statue in half (but the statue is still standing)

From the front, depending on where you stand, two things line up perfectly with the diamond cutout - the map shrine, and the diamond in the gate leading to Vault

Vault Elder - Night - Lamed

The only elder whose statue only appears with all the other elders' statues

Five white candles, with some red ones leading up to it and a candle cake directly behind the statue

Diamond element on face

Standard paint with no engravings, except the top right quarter of the diamond outline is missing

Diamond cutout lines up perfectly with Rain's/Teth's directly behind

No way to see statue once revived because you're automatically transported to the top room of Vault, just before Eden

Theories

Statues are built to represent the elders, their temples, and potentially things that are very important to them

White candles may signify a level of power or influence. Dawn, having not received any elemental light from Alef/The Prince after he completed the Trials (and also being the only elder dedicated to the old ways of light worship and shepherding light creatures) likely had the least influence, and so they only have one candle. Night, being the closest in proximity to the king and also being shown in TTE communicating directly with the king would likely have had the most influence. All the others may have shared similar or equal influence

Diamond elements on faces may or may not mean anything at all. The only theory I have is that those represent our "third eye" and our connection to our intuition/higher selves/the Light. They may also serve the function of attaching masks to faces. I truly don't know

The paint, to me, just looks like it further highlights the diamond cutouts - the bottom center stripe looks like a candlestick and the lines on either side look like the light around a candle flame (or even hands cupping the flame)

Unsure of what the diagonal indentations mean

The central diamond cutouts may represent their inner light, hearts, or even souls. I also think whatever we see through that cutout matters. I think it shows us what was most important to them.

Dawn would likely have cared most about shepherding creatures toward the light

Day cared about storing light (even to the point of it blocking their inner light/heart)

Rain cared for their forest - specifically, they hold a special place in their heart for the sunny forest clearing that hasn't been tainted by polluted rain. Notably, this is also where Rain is featured next to the Nesting Guide in the painting from that season

Sunset, the twins, cared for Valley and competition - but they also care for the kingdom and the King himself, perhaps to their detriment

Dusk cared so much about conflicting interests that they were practically split in two; on one hand, they wanted to protect the vault and the kingdom from attack, but on the other, they cared for everyone across all of the realms and desperately wanted to protect them too

Night cared for all of the elders, but especially Rain, who is said to be related to Night in some way

And that's all I got for now!

[jewishvitya]

Ramblings no one cares about.

The fact that English is my second language messes with me in really random moments.

For example, if I have to write a sentence that includes the words water, face, sky - it always feels wrong, because in English they're singular but in Hebrew they're literally always treated grammatically as plural. "Water are" sounds wrong because it's wrong. "Water is" sounds wrong because it goes against my intuition as a Hebrew speaker.

Another example. If we're playing games involving words and I'm trying to guess, say, the name of a country that starts with the letters a, e, i, o, u - I'll get those mixed up. Because in Hebrew they'd all start with the same letter, alef. Or if I'm expected to avoid the letter s, any sh sound won't register as having s because in Hebrew there are separate letters. So "sh" is one unit in my mind, not two separate letters.

Because of these things, my brain turns to mush when I try to solve word puzzles and such. I'll feel pretty fluent, until something like this attacks me.

I never know when my intuition from my native language is going to complicate my second language.

[uniguinflutist]

Things that have happened to my Dragon Quest Sims in the Sims 4:

-Grandpa Hargon complaining that his "son" Malroth won't visit him.

-Malroth is a busy stay-at-home dad with twins, named after Alef and Loto, to raise while the Builder is at work as a civil engineer.

-Eleven is a teacher who tries his best to keep up with grading.

-Erik naming his and Eleven's daughter after Eleanor.

-Eight is obsessed with snowboarding and gardening.

-Eight and Medea love to take care of a cow they own. They make sure its clean and feed it treats everyday.

-King Trode is a part-time barista.

-Malroth cleaning up trash out of the ocean in Sulani when he has time off from the twins.

-The Builder being good at karaoke

-Yangus has returned to a life of crime while practicing his comedy skill.

-Angelo is besties with the Builder for some reason? (WTF do they have in common?)

-Loto grew up to become a femboy

-Hargon keeps breaking into the Builder's house, including during the twins' birthday party. B*tch we didn't invite you, don't eat our cake.

Yeah, suffice to say, things went off the rails.

[wishsparkleemoji]

Sky iceberg tier 2: Assembly braids

Full iceberg

Nintendo playground: In the golden wasteland lobby, just past the closets, there is a locked gate which won’t open unless you or a friend you’re holding hands with has one of two specific capes on (like the Office). If you or your friend do have one of the capes, you can enter the playground— which is an area that locks the camera so you can play in “2D” (there is an option to turn it to 3D in the level). The capes are available to buy to anyone playing on switch.

The war: If you’ve spent any time looking at Sky’s lore, it is fairly clear that, at some point, there was a war. The general themes of the golden wasteland (spirits, elder, the battlefield), the Aurora concert (the seed and eyes of a child), the consistent sword and shield imagery… something definitely happened here, though it’s unclear what.

Megabird: In Orbit, if you look up at the sky, there are a bunch of stars— many of which forming what looks to be a birdlike head. You can see it more clearly during the credit sequence. This is believed by many to be an entity known as the Megabird, who is basically the god of this world— the one who created everything.

Eggs in boneyard: To the right of the broken bridge, there is a tree that has some light blue eggs in its top.

King/Prince: An entity/entities which appear(s) most in concept art and the statues from the battlefield in GW. Very little is known about them, apart from them being the king of Sky at some point before the events of the game— completing the trials of prophecy and henceforth becoming ruler. It’s unclear if the King and Prince are separate entities. It’s a common theory that they were a skykid, or the first skykid, hence why the trials were easier for them. Their concept names are Alef for the Prince, and Resh for the King (more on that later).

Darkstone: Darkstone is most present in collecting it during the Season of Abyss and activating some doors, and has been theorized to be the downfall of the kingdom of Sky, acting as a metaphor for climate change and nature vs technology. It has been theorized that this is what caused the war— the Isle, Prairie, and Forest not wanting to go further, while Valley, Wasteland, and Vault wanted progression. It has also been proven to originate from what looks to be sucking the Light from light creatures, primarily mantas presumably.

Constellation: In the “Concert in the Light” album, the song that plays during the credits can be found, so people can finally listen to the song on platforms other than YouTube (though the official version cuts off the second half, only including the part with Aurora’s vocals). In this album, the name of the song is “Constellation”.

Elders’ old names: In concept art, the elders all had names based off Hebrew letters. In order from Isle to Vault: Daleth, Ayin, Teth, Samekh (sometimes Sah for one and Mekh for the other to differentiate, but they share the name), Tsadi, and Lamed. They’re also sometimes referred as the time of day their realm represents: Dawn, Day, Rain, Sunset, Dusk, and Night.

Light Awaits: An early version/prototype/beta of Sky, before it was released as what it is now.

Chinese servers: Like many multiplayer games, China has their own version of the game with its own servers, and a slightly different way of running things. Based off some discord messages, they might choose the traveling spirit based on what the community wants rather than it being random, and have different events.

[lelanida]

Welcome to the official "I'm stressed, so drop ? in my askbox, and i will share random Sky au fact" part 3

Except this time, it's going to be a bit different

This time, we are sending the real asks!

Send questions to any of the Pantheon of the Kingdom au characters!

Including:

- All the elders (except Priestess cus she's canonically dead)

- All gods (except Four the Isle cus they're also canonically dead)

- Megabird

- Angst

- Even Alef may answer from the void (not like he has many things to do there)

Thank you, everyone, and take care of yourself!

[nonstandardrepertoire]

Parashat Yitro: אָנֹכִי | anokhi

I sometimes try to imagine myself at scale, fitting myself in to the largest space I can comprehend. I’ll start with holding the entire room I’m in in my head, then the entire building, then the street, the neighborhood, the city, stretching my awareness out and out to the nearest coastline, the nearest ocean, the great grand curvature of the Earth. I usually cannot get very far before my head starts swimming, before the smallness of me and the hugeness of this so so tiny planet overwhelm me and splay me out like so much insubstantial nothing.

[A short one this week, and probably again for the next few weeks. If you know, you know.]

In Shəmot 20:15, we read: וַיַּֽרְא הָעָם וַיָּנֻֽעוּ וַיַּעַמְדוּ מֵרָחֹק | vayár ha’am vayanú’u vaya’amdu meiraḥoq | “the people feared and wavered and stood at a distance” during the theophany at Sinai.

One might ask: How much of the theophany did they actually experience before pulling back from the mountain?

Rabbi Naftali Zvi Horowitz of Ropshitz (1760–1827) says that his teacher, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Rimanov (1745–1815), suggested שֶׁאֶפְשַׁר שֶׁלֹּא שָׁמַֽעְנוּ מִפִּי הַקָּדֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא רַק אוֹת א דְּאָנֹכִי | she’efshar shelo shamánu mipi haqadosh barukh hu raq ot alef də’anokhi | “that we [a] heard nothing from the mouth of the Holy Blessed One other than the letter alef of ‘anokhi’ [the first word of the first commandment]” [b].

[a] I have not spent a lot of time with this text, but I assume that R' Horowitz writes “we” instead of “they” here in reference to the tradition that every Jew who ever was or will be was at Sinai — that Torah was revealed to all of us in all times, not just the generation of the Exodus. [b] I am not 100% sure how to cite this text properly. On Sefaria, it’s included as section 13 of the Shavu’ot chapter of the Festival part of Zera Kodesh, but I’ve seen other people cite it more simply as “Zera Kodesh 2.40”. Hopefully that’s enough for you to track down the original if you want to.

Alef is a glottal stop; it makes no noise. It is the absence of noise, the cessation of breath. How can one hear this?

We read earlier in Shəmot 20:15: וְכׇל־הָעָם רֹאִים אֶת־הַקּוֹלֹת | vəkhol ha’am ro’im et haqolot | “And all the people see the thunder” — from this we know revelation is a moment where the senses commingle, where hearing and seeing and otherwise experiencing are not necessarily distinguished.

We know from Bəreishit 1:2 that before there can be creation, G-d’s breath must be free to move, to blow across the primordial waters, to carve out the small cosmological bubble in which all earthly life exists. We know from the blessing for morning light that creation is never complete, that it is renewed daily by constant action from G-d. When G-d’s breath is interrupted, creation unbecomes.

Alef, in gematria, has a value of one. At Sinai, we heard this alef; we experienced one. And not just any one, but the absolute, all-encompassing One of G-d. We were, for the flick of a glottis, united wholly with G-d, experiencing and being simultaneously all things, all places, all times.

I sometimes try to imagine myself at scale, fitting myself in to the largest space I can comprehend. I’ll start with holding the entire room I’m in in my head, then the entire building, then the street, the neighborhood, the city, stretching my awareness out and out to the nearest coastline, the nearest ocean, the great grand curvature of the Earth. I usually cannot get very far before my head starts swimming, before the smallness of me and the hugeness of this so so tiny planet overwhelm me and splay me out like so much insubstantial nothing.

Imagine doing this with the whole entire universe.

To lose all distinctions between self and not-self is a form of oblivion, a kind of death. A human cannot interface with G-d directly and survive. No wonder we begged for Mosheh to bear the terrible burden of being plunged into this incomprehensible unity in our stead.

Revelation is at hand, but who can stand to receive it?

[This has been an installment of One-Word Torah. You can read the full series here.]

[sitp-recs]

Top five drarry fanart

Oh look, an impossible ask 😭 this took me a minute, it was so hard to narrow it down! In the end I decided not to include any Drarry comics since I did a comic reclist recently. I’d love to know your faves too, anon!

1. Ice cream at midnight by @bluebutter-art

2. Smoking by @zigster-ao3

3. A Sword Laid Aside by @saulaie

4. Hogwarts Drarry by @alef-art

5. Relic radiation by @ihopeyoubothstaysafefromharm

🔥 spicy bonus: Weasley sweater by @cambiodipolvere

🔥 kinky bonus: Bondage by @peachbabypie

Top 5 things ask game

[starlight-skykid]

Introduction of Deceitful Skykid

Deceitful Skykid is a cruel, manipulative and sardonically playful Skykid who has been lonely for his entire life. He was rejected and ignored by everyone in the Kingdom of Sky, which includes the Ancestor Spirits, Elders and Sky Children. He once held the Virtue of Knowledge, until he became too lonely and resentful he decided to corrupt everything and everyone with Deceit. During Season of Shattering, Deceitful Skykid was enjoying spreading Deceit he decided to start the Art Theft War to spread so much Deceit to devastate the Kingdom of Sky. During the Art Theft War, Deceitful Skykid decided to create Dark Starlight to found the Dark Skykids to devastate the Kingdom of Sky even more. Next, he used art theft to provoke Sky Children and spread Deceit and Disharmony. Then, he decided to create a company that was originally meant to spread Deceit and Disharmony to all forms of fiction and entertainment and disrupt the harmony of every fiction and cartoon, all in the exact day when the Divine Skykids were founded in Cozy Hideout, Prairie Caves, Daylight Prairie: Deceitful Skykid Incorporated. After that, he did something unforgivable to the Kingdom of Sky: manipulating Sky Children, Ancestor Spirits, Elders, Alef, Megabird, characters from other fictional universes, indie game characters, The Transcended Skykids, The Dark Skykids, The Divine Skykids, famous people from Earth, every pony from Equestria, famous companies from Earth, Cartoon Network and famous film and animation companies from Earth to spread so much Deceit and Disharmony to the Kingdom of Sky. Finally, he shapeshifted into various and deceitful forms of himself, like "The Corrupted Skykid", "The Beloved Skykid", "A Skykid", "Indie Skykid", "Starlight Skykid", "Starlight Moth" to trick others and spread Deceit and Disharmony to the Kingdom of Sky. After the war, no one, even the Divine Skykids, or even Megabird, forgave Deceitful Skykid for what he had done to the Kingdom of Sky. He was so resentful and upset he decided to ask Shadow Milk Cookie to awaken his true power of Deceit. Deceitful Skykid was one of the Transcended Skykids before he was banished and forced to join the Dark Skykids by Starlight Skykid.

Now, Deceitful Skykid is but a cruel, manipulative and resentful Skykid that always plays pranks on other Sky Children, Ancestor Spirits and Elders, and he loves to tease them. He does this with Dark Vault Kid all the time. He also tells some jokes about the Kingdom of Sky to Shadow Milk Cookie. If you ever meet Deceitful Skykid... try not to fall for his lies. And don't refer him as "A Skykid". He'll get extremely upset because that's his name in the past before he met Shadow Milk Cookie. And do not stand in his way of spreading Deceit and Disharmony to everywhere, including fiction and Earth. He will end up forcing you to be like him and join Shadow Milk Cookie's Cult of Deceit. Currently, Agodth is trying to send Deceitful Skykid's apology as "A Skykid" and Starlight Skykid's apology to the rest of the Divine Skykids, to give them advice, and eventually, become one of the Divine Skykids...

Deceitful Skykid loves to tell deceitful jokes about the Kingdom of Sky, tease Sky Children and prank Sky Children. He loves to mock the history of fiction and Earth. He considers cartoons as "childish, meaningless and full of boring Truths". He usually tries to play Shadow Milk Cookie's theme song on any instrument. Most Sky Children refer Deceitful Skykid as the "Ultimate God of Deceit", because he used art theft and mixed it with Deceit, Disharmony, Distrust, Destruction, Cruelty, Sloth, tricks and rumors. If any other deceitful characters are more powerful than him, Deceitful Skykid will have a duel with them to prove who is the most deceitful fictional character to ever exist. One time, he let Kar go because of her desperate request and her desire to be free from Deceit. If you compare Deceitful Skykid to Flock, they both had different ways of recovering from Isolation. One way for Flock is being rescued by a Skykid that freed her from her statue of darkness, thus being friends with that Skykid. For Deceitful Skykid, no one was there to help him, so Isolated Writer gave Deceitful Skykid the idea to start the Art Theft War to get rid of both of their Isolation, and to get rid of everyone's Isolation on Earth during Covid-19 Pandemic. However that led to them getting in big trouble and being targeted by Glowster, Agodth and the Divine Skykids... If only Isolated Writer sought help from the Divine Skykids, then he wouldn't have gave Deceitful Skykid the idea to start the Art Theft War... Constantly, Deceitful Skykid really dislikes Eternal Sugar Cookie for how she's treating Shadow Milk Cookie. For example, she keeps lashing out at Shadow Milk Cookie. Also, Deceitful Skykid gets really disturbed by how Eternal Sugar Cookie is acting most of the time, for example, being too zesty that she'll rizz up Deceitful Skykid, to the point he'll just try to escape her.

Deceitful Skykid: Phah, do you really think Pure Vanilla Cookie can heal me from Deceit? Phah! Deceit is much more better and powerful than Truth! There's no way Pure Vanilla Cookie can just heal me with some advice! And it was fun being disguised as "A Skykid" and other deceitful forms of myself! So spread Deceit like Shadow Milk Cookie! Deceitful Skykid Incorporated will forever be the Deceitful Utopia!

Starlight Skykid: Just close your deceitful mouth, Deceitful Skykid!!!!! No one in the Kingdom of Sky will ever love and forgive you!!!!!!!!!!!! I DISLIKE AND HATE YOU SO MUCH THAT YOU'RE SUCH A DISGRACE TO THE KINGDOM OF SKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *crashes out at Deceitful Skykid and tries to fight him but gets stopped by Pure Vanilla Cookie*

Deceitful Skykid: You know what else is a disgrace to the Kingdom of Sky? YOU AND THE TRANSCENDED SKYKIDS AND DIVINE SKYKIDS!!!!!!!!!

Starlight Skykid: *gets a spear from Golden Wasteland* You want to fight, huh?!?!!

Deceitful Skykid: *makes Starlight Sister upset by saying insults to her* Phahahaha, she's just a rip-off of Fluttershy from My Little Pony!

Starlight Skykid: What did you just do to my sister!!!!!!!! *points a spear at Deceitful Skykid*

Deceitful Skykid: For real, it's very funny comparing her to a cartoon character that embodies kindness!

Starlight Skykid: Shut your *moth call* up. You're so *moth call* unfunny and I didn't even liked that joke.

Deceitful Skykid: Boy shut your *moth honk* up! Season of Shattering was peak! I've had a lot of fun during that season!

Starlight Skykid: What you did was harm others and stole their artworks without permission!!!!!

Deceitful Skykid: Well, that's because I was lonely and left out, okay?!!?!

Starlight Skykid: That's it. I'm telling Eternal Sugar Cookie.

Deceitful Skykid: Not that one zesty cookie again...

Eternal Sugar Cookie: *hugs Deceitful Skykid* Aahhhh you're so cozy to hug~!

Deceitful Skykid: Why is she more nicer to me compared to Shadow Milk Cookie... Is it because she understands me and she's desperate to comfort me really hard? Then what, she's going to comfort Isolated Writer next?

Eternal Sugar Cookie: Yes~ I really understand you and want to relieve your suffering~ And I'll comfort Isolated Writer really hard he'll regret refusing me~ And please, don't leave me, precious~

Deceitful Skykid: Ayo what did you just call me? That one zesty word??? Nahhh most zestiest line ever!

Eternal Sugar Cookie: *takes off Deceitful Skykid's mask and kisses his face* Aaaahhhhhh~ You're really shy, hmm~?

Deceitful Skykid: *blushes* Ayoooooo that's too zesty!!! *backs away*

Eternal Sugar Cookie: *hugs Deceitful Skykid even harder* Don't leave~! Precious child~!!!

[wildbeetlebugs]

I want to learn more of your own Sky AU tbh. It’s so interesting to see other’s interpretations of Sky and its various concepts that people include in their own versions

Oh lord here comes my yapping session

Okay so my au mainly consists of the seasons in a certain timeline similar to our world history and this time philosophy and religious themes onto it somewhat but to connect it.

So Ima start off first with seasons considering how I view them in a world history type of sense, out of all the seasons the most earliest spirits base from motif and design have to be the season of passage considering the masks are reminiscent to the concept art of the elders and their designs before but also to add a sort of tribal like look to them so I like to believe they were the earliest people from the beginning of the kingdom in Sky. Now I know a lot of people look at collab seasons and say they wouldn’t make sense in the kingdom of sky but I say that’s wrong by that is because in my au for example the little Prince and moomins would’ve existed within the the time of the dark war. Why? Because both co existed in the same timeline on which WW2 had happened in our irl world. Except the Little Prince season would’ve faced the war but the Moomins co existed differently in a seperate world not faced with war at all.

Now time to yap about religious like themes and also philosophy there are five bases from the philosophies aka the philosophy of the light, philosophy of the megabird, philosophy of the mind, philosophy of the earth and a banned philosophy which I made up called the Dualism of the Imbalance (my favorite one to explain so far)

Philosophy of the light is mainly a philosophy viewing as mentioned of the philosophy of light showing on how light is viewed itself as goodness, one’s spirit and energy in the kingdom and the most common amongst all the realms.

Philosophy of the megabird focuses on the megabird and it’s creations especially the people itself that they are all equal in terms of light itself and the goodness of the megabird of which they share altogether

Philosophy of the mind is also a common one which is practices of meditation, mind and mental being if oneself it’s mainly seen in vault.

Philosophy of the earth is not that much popular but still common amongst the rest and this focuses more onto land itself and as mentioned earth. But due to the kingdom being revolved mainly in the sky it’s somewhat out of touch with the rest of the philosophies itself.

Now the big one is the Banned Philosophy known as the Dualism of the Imbalance mainly because it speaks about the philosophy of good and bad or the light and darkness. Created by the Eden elder Resh/Alef/the king it started out as progressing more further until it began to become an infatuation to becoming closer to the megabird aka a God. It even serves its purpose that Resh began to question his existence, the kingdom and the Megabird itself as it’s like: “If everything was Dark who created God?” Kind of thing and he come to a sort of conclusion that Darkness is not made without light and light is not made without darkness becoming a conclusion that this is how balance should work but due to the ignorance of the light we make it imbalance affecting the duality of both each other. After his defeat any philosophers or books written about the philosophy either burned the books or captured and execute these philosophers some either hide or ran away where they won’t be located.

Anyways yeah I like history and creating mosh mash stuff so much I like to add that type of stuff into things

[yochis-hebrew-n-yiddish-corner]

Hi I'm יְהוּדָה יוֹכֶבֶד Yehuda Yocheved (he/ער/הוא/היא) and I'm learning Hebrew and Yiddish!

I want to make the textbooks I'm using a little more interactive so I've decided to post one exercise from each a day. I'll keep track of correct translations and points for anyone who wants to join in. I wasn't planning to explain any grammar unless there were any questions and the textbooks assume you can read the alef beys.

Extra points for anyone who finds a mistake!

Hebrew textbook

Yiddish textbooks

Join me in learning!

[salvadorbonaparte]

US States in Yiddish

Alabama - אַלאַבאַמאַ

Alaska - אלאסקע

Arizona - אריזאנע

Arkansas - אַרקענסא

California - קאַליפארניע

Colorado - קאלאראדא

Connecticut - קאנעטיקעט

Delaware - דעלעווער

Florida - פלארידע

Georgia - דזשאָרדזשיע

Hawaii - האוואי

Idaho - איידאהא

Illinois - אילינוי

Indiana - אינדיאַנע

Iowa - אייאָווע

Kansas - קענזעס

Kentucky - קענטאקי

Louisiana - לואיזיענע

Maine - מעין/מײן

Maryland - מערילאַנד

Massachusetts - מאַסאַטשוסעטס

Michigan - מישיגן

Minnesota - מינעסאטע

Mississippi - מיסיסיפי

Missouri - מיזורי

Montana - מאנטענע

Nebraska - נעבראסקא

Nevada - נעוואדא

New Hampshire - ניו העמפשער

New Jersey - ניו זשערסי

New Mexico - ניו מעקסיקא

New York - ניו יארק

North Carolina - צפֿון־קאַראָלײַנע

North Dakota - צפון דעקאטע

Ohio - אָהײַאָ/אָהאַיאָ

Oklahoma - אקלעהאמע

Oregon - ארעגאן

Pennsylvania - פענסילוועניע

Rhode Island - ראוד איילענד

South Carolina - דרום קאראליינע

South Dakota - דרום דעקאטע

Tennessee - טענעסי

Texas - טעקסאס

Utah - יוטאַ

Vermont - ווערמאנט

Virginia - ווירדזשיניע

Washington - וואשינגטאן

(Washington D.C. - וואשינגטאן די סי)

West Virginia - וועסט ווירדזשיניע

Wisconsin - וויסקאנסין

Wyoming - וויאמינג

Disclaimer: I'm not a fluent speaker and don't currently have a Yiddish keyboard so I had to copy and paste these. Please tell me if there are any mistakes. Sorry for not always being able to include pasekh and komets alef. Some of these had alternative spellings in my textbook.

[pathological-runaway]

me: that's enough alef for today. i think i'm gonna write something that doesn't include them

alef: *haunts the narrative from beyond the grave*