#How To Grow Grape Plants At Home

[lalunalando]

Ruins - CS55

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warnings: 18+! minors dni! smut, fluff, teasing, car sex, unprotected sex (wrap before you tap)

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Mallorca was a place that unless you had been there to see it with your own eyes, you wouldn’t believe such a place could be real.

Yet here you were, laughing along with your boyfriends family, glass of wine in one hand and his hand in the other, enjoying the beautiful weather at his family’s holiday home on the beautiful island.

Looking beside you, you couldn’t help the genuine smile planted peacefully on your face as Carlos joked around with his cousins, looking carefree amongst the people who made him the happiest in this world, which for the past few years has included you.

“So how are you enjoying mallorca so far?” His mother asks from across the table, bringing your attention back to the conversation amongst the women.

“I have never seen a place more beautiful, it’s like you take a breath in and you’re instantly at peace” you respond with a smile, feeling Carlos squeeze your hand to remind you he’s still there.

“We’re so glad you were able to make it this time, Carlos was so insufferable last holidays, always sulking about how much he misses you” his younger sibling Ana teases from the end of the table, earning a grape thrown at her by the embarrassed man to your right.

“I wasn't sulking!” he argues back with a pout.

“cabron, you spent more time pouting at her social medias than actually having a conversation with us” his best friend Roberto shot back from his other side, earning him a sharp elbow to the side.

“aww, obsessed much? i might have to tell my boyfriend i have a stalker” you jokingly teased, making his family burst out laughing around the table.

The Sainz family had been nothing but warm and welcoming since the first time you had met them, instantly accepting you into the family and making you comfortable.

Not having such a close relationship with your own family, this had meant the world to you that without a second thought they had welcomed you into theirs with open arms, Ana and Blanca instantly swapping secrets and clothes with you, Reyes showing you how to cook Carlos’ favorite meals for every mood, Carlos Sr teaching you everything motorsports related he could (excited when he learnt you were already a fan of it before and eager to learn the ins and outs of the industry), Caco making sure you were always safe on race weekends and taken as care of as Carlos was by the team, and even Teto who became a like an older brother figure to you (bullying included.)

You felt safe, you felt home, and you could never love anyone more than the man beside you.

The only downside you had found to this beautiful family trip, was the lack of alone time you and Carlos had been granted.

It had been a bit of a rough season so far, with his contract with Ferrari being announced to be ending at the end of the season, meaning while he was having an extremely impressive year on track, he spent every other moment off track in talks with other teams for a contract for the next season.

Luckily, he was in high demand so there was no issue with obtaining one, it was just about choosing who would be the best fit for him, and it had to be decided by the end of this summer holiday.

All you wanted was a little alone time, starting to grow needy by the day and constantly reminded by the teasing touches your boyfriend would leave you with, like right now as he ran his fingers along your thigh under the table.

It was frustrating, any time something was about to happen between the two of you, someone would pop up.

Like this morning, a heavy make out session brought on by his morning wood poking into your back when you woke up? Interrupted by his mother knocking on the bedroom door letting you know breakfast would be ready in 5 minutes.

Last night in the pool, thinking everyone else had well and truly gone to bed? Roberto cannonballing into the pool after noticing you two were still up to annoy.

You loved them all, and you couldn’t be more grateful, but you were getting needy and desperate for your boyfriend.

”Caro, are you feeling okay? you zoned out on us…” Reyes asks with concern, nodding for Ana beside you to top up your water for you.

“Oh i’m so sorry, must have just had a little too much wine before properly eating, i’m okay!” you assure her, gulping as Carlos’ hand trails further up your thigh.

She just nods with a smile before resuming conversation around the table

“Carlos behave, we are at lunch with your family.” you hiss quietly at him, leaning over to him so no one else could hear the conversation you two were having.

“but conejita, i can’t stop thinking about this morning, you looked so pretty all flushed just from a few kisses, so desperate for me” he responded, his breath tickling your neck and making you almost choke on the sip of wine you were taking.

“Please excuse me, i just need to go make a quick call home before it gets too late over there” you quickly stood up and made an excuse to step away for a second, unable to endure Carlos right now.

Stepping into the kitchen once inside, you braced yourself against the marble countertop and focused on calming yourself down again.

You could feel your skin burning from his touch and the wetness pooling in your panties from all the teasing he was doing, torturing you endlessly.

So focused on trying to regain your composure, you hadn't noticed Carlos come in behind you until he was winding his arms around your waist and pulling you against his chest, making sure you felt just how much he was also suffering with his jeans feeling especially tight against his crotch right now.

“Amor, are you okay? you look a little flushed” he smirks as he kisses down your neck.

“are you okay” you respond in a mocking tone, “of course i’m not okay Carlos, you can’t keep your hands to yourself and we haven’t had a moment alone in a week now!”

“aww, is my pretty baby getting needy?” he teases in response, hands starting to wander down to the hem of the short sundress you had opted to wear today.

You turned around quickly, placing your hands on his chest and pushing him away lightly to stop his torment.

“don’t act like it’s just me struggling, your zip looks like it might burst any minute now, might want to go take care of that mi amor” Placing a light kiss on his lips before returning to the group outside before he could react.

“So do you guys have anything planned for the rest of the evening?” Blanca asks as you settle back into the group, Carlos following right behind you.

“I was thinking about taking her down to the ruins for the sunset and a beach walk” Carlos responds quickly, grabbing your hand on top of the table as you tilt your head in confusion at him.

“Oh that sounds wonderful hijo, i’m sure she’s going to love that!” Reyes smiles at you both

“the ruins? there’s ruins here?” you ask excitedly, being a known nerd for that sort of thing.

“si, Necropolis de Son Real, it´s an old cemetery from the roman era and before” he smiles as he squeezes your hand, seeing your eyes light up in excitement.

Suddenly you hear an exaggerated sigh from beside carlos, before Teto speaks up

“So you're both abandoning me for the evening to look at nerd shit? Why do you hate me?” sending the table into a fit of laughter as he fake cried.

An hour later, you and Carlos were loading into his Ferrari to head down to the coastal ruins.

A 30 minute drive, but it was uninterrupted time together that you were looking forward to just spending in the presence of your boyfriend.

The smooth Ferrari 812 Competizione roaring to life under you, Carlos gives you a sweet smile as you set off, letting you have control of the radio as per your usual passenger princess duties.

Carlos couldn’t help but look at you lovingly while you sang along to “i like the way you kiss me” by Artemas, dancing in the little ways you could while remaining seated.

“i like the way you kiss me, i can tell you miss me

i can tell it hits, hits, hits, hits

not tryna be romantic, i’ll hit it from the back

just so you don’t get attached”

“mi amor, hitting it from the back is what got me attached, have you seen your ass?” he smirks as you swat his arm.

“i should have known you were just with me for my ass” you sigh.

“of course not conejita” he says as he squeezes your thigh before laughing, “you have a nice set of tits too”

Reaching the Santa Margalida coast, you were stunned by the beautiful coastline that awaited you. Getting to the ruins was going to be a bit of a walk but you were too excited to care.

Carlos watched in awe as you skipped up the trail, hair flowing behind you as a breeze moved your dress around your legs, he couldn’t believe he had been so lucky to find someone so beautiful and supportive, someone his family adored, someone he couldn’t wait to spend forever with.

“Carlitos look! look at the cool tomb remains” you exclaim as you finally reach the site

“thankyou so much for bringing me here, i love it so much, this is the coolest thing ever!”

”Mi cariño, i would do anything to make you as happy as you make me by just existing” he responds as he wraps you in his arms and places a kiss to your hair

You spent the next hour exploring around and taking pictures of the site, as Carlos secretly took pictures of you in your element.

Once you had explored it all, he held his hand out for you to take as you started the long trek back to the car.

“so, what has been your favorite thing about this trip so far?” he asks genuinely as you walk down the coastal beach.

“hmmm i’d love to say it was definitely the ruins, but my real favorite thing has been spending time with you and your family. Seeing how happy and carefree you are, i couldn’t love it more” you smile back.

“even though we’ve had no time alone until now?” he says as he pulls you in to wrap his arm around your shoulder.

“don’t get me wrong, i can’t wait to have you to myself in our apartment again” you laugh in response.

As you’re about 10 minutes away from the car, a summer shower starts as the sun goes down, making you and Carlos laugh as you run the rest of the way back to the car hand in hand, clothes sticking to you both the wetter they got.

Jumping back into the car, you couldn’t stop laughing about the unexpected turn of events as Carlos just admired the carefree attitude you showed towards it.

His exes before you would have cursed him out, probably blamed him for the weather shift or at the very least for not warning them (like he knew it was going to happen).

It would have led to fights that lasted days, him eventuality having to be the one to apologize even though he had done nothing wrong.

But you? you were sat in the passenger seat, laughing as you tried to unstick your dress from your skin, not phased at all that it had happened.

Without a second thought, Carlos reached over and grabbed your face, smashing his lips to yours like he needed the air in your lungs to breathe.

As you both pulled away for air, you gave him a confused look.

“not that i'm complaining, but what was that for? are you okay” you ask.

“i couldn’t be happier, just looking at you makes me realize how lucky i am to have you, i really do love you” he answers sincerely.

You smile and bring him into another kiss, enjoying this peaceful moment shared by just the two of you.

The sun having now set, no one around, just you and your lover.

The peace doesn’t last long though, as Carlos is getting hungrier for you as the kisses deepen.

Before long, he’s moving his seat back as far as it will go and pulling you over the center and onto his lap, making you straddle his thighs as one of his hands grips your waist and the other is tangled in your hair, holding you against him.

You can’t help but whimper as you grind down on his hard cock, the tight material of his jeans not making it easy for him and you could feel it all in the lace panties you wore that barely covered anything as is.

“the sounds coming out of you right now conejita are enough to make me cum at this point if you’re not careful, you’ve left me suffering too many times this week” Carlos groans into your ear before kissing down your neck.

“it hasn’t been any easier for me you know, i can’t do the same things you can when i’ve been in the shower” you tease back, grinding down harder onto him as he hisses.

“you’ve been greedy mi amor? touching yourself without me in the shower?” he growls, almost animalistic.

“don’t act like you haven’t done the same” you smirk back.

Carlos' hand that was tangled in your hair slowly trails down your figure, running lightly over your collarbones and nipples, before settling on your thigh.

He rubs his thumb on your inner thigh, slowly lifting the hem of your dress up your thighs until he can get a peak of your panties.

Seeing the barely-there black lace, he throws his head back and groans at the sight, feeling his dick twitch in his jeans.

“Were you trying to kill me today? what is this?” he asks as he brushes his thumb over your clit through the lace, making you whimper in response as he feels just how wet they are.

“Joder, eres tan guapa” he groans as he leans back a little to look, moving the lace to the side as he runs his thumb over the sensitive bud again.

“Carlos please, i-“

“i know pretty girl, i’ll give you what you need in a second, just let me admire” he drools, slipping his fingers through your folds at a teasing pace.

Without warning, he slips two fingers in to stretch you out for what's to come, making you almost scream in pleasure at the feeling.

“what a good girl, taking two so well for me, think you can ride my fingers pretty girl?” he whispers in your ear, biting and sucking at the skin of your neck, openly leaving marks his family will undoubtedly ask about later.

As you rock back and forth on his lap, his fingers curling inside you to hit the right spots as his thumb continues work on your clit, your nails are digging into his shoulders as you try to focus on keeping your pace.

With all the pent up tension from the past week, it doesn’t take long for you to feel your first orgasm approaching.

Carlos feels it too, knowing the all too familiar clench of your walls around his fingers, he’s desperate to bring you over the edge, using the hand on your hip to increase your pace as his fingers work you harder from the inside.

Your hand flies to the now fogged up window, leaving a hand mark on it as you scream his name and cum around his fingers, your hips stuttering in movement as you become overly sensitive.

He draws his fingers out once he knows you're done, looking you dead in the eye as he places them in his mouth and sucks them clean, making your pussy clench at the sight.

You decide to tease him back as he pulls them out, grabbing his hand and putting his fingers in your own mouth before sucking and twirling your tongue around them, making him growl.

He wastes no time in lifting you just enough to free himself from his jeans and boxers, before lining himself up with your entrance.

“do you think you have another one in you, mi tesoro?” he asks, slapping his tip against your clit and making you whimper as you nod, unable to speak actual words right now.

“good girl, that’s my pretty angel” he praises as he lowers you onto his cock, stretching you out even more at his size.

It didn’t matter how many times you’d done this, you’d never be used to his size.

It made sense that he was as big and thick as he was, the man himself being broad and muscular, but you could never truly expect JUST how big he was down there.

The first time you’d slept together, you’d been sure he was going to break you in half.

His hand had not been anywhere near enough over the last week, once he had had a taste of you he could never go back to anything or anyone else, the only way Carlos could describe how you felt around him is “made by god specifically for him” and he made sure it was known.

“fuck amorcita, you take me so well” he groans, his grip on your hip bruising as he settles you into a pace that drives you both absolutely wild.

“Carlos i’m not going to last” you moan, already starting to see the little white dots in your vision again.

“that’s okay princesa, either am i after the week without feeling you, but when we get back to madrid you better be prepared for an entire day of being used” he growls as he fucks up into you, making you yelp at the further sensation.

A few minutes later and you couldn’t hold on any longer, begging for him to let you finish.

“Carlos please, please, i can't hold on any longer can i please cum” you beg, tears lining your eyes as you crumble.

“let go amorcita, cum with me” he groans as he bruises your cervix from the final few thrusts he fucks up into you, feeling you squeezing his cock like a vice.

With his words, you’re screaming out his name over and over, leaving more handprints on the glass as his hand joins yours and squeezes, rain still falling around the car as it’s cloaked in complete darkness now the sun has fully set.

Carlos feels you let go and does the same, filling you completely to the point you can feel it coming out as he slowly thrusts a few more times, getting you both through your highs.

Finally lifting your head off his shoulder from where you rested while regaining your breath and balance, you give him a few light kisses before trying to slide off of his dick without making too much of a mess, unsuccessfully.

He quickly places your panties back into place over your pussy, making sure to give it a light tap for good measure as he chuckles.

All you can do is roll your eyes as you readjust your dress again, before climbing back over to your seat and getting comfortable for the long drive back.

“Well that will tide me over for about… 5 hours i think?” Carlos jokes as he starts the car up and pulls out of the parking lot.

“Try 7 days my love, we still have another week here” you remind him sweetly, a hint of teasing in your voice.

“Nope, i don’t care if my family hears anymore, i’m not going that long without you again” he states, kissing your hand before an evil smile places itself over his face.

“Besides, once Teto gets sight of the bruises i’ve left on your skin, there’s no way we’re hiding what happened today anyway.”

[travelingthief]

Dionysus Offerings/Devotional Acts

There'll be NSFW themes as he is the god of wine and ecstasy!

Offerings

Wine/Intoxication

Alcohol, specifically wine

Grapes

Wine corks

Wine glasses

Shot glasses

Goblets

Corkscrews

Sparkling cider

Grape flavored things

Cheese

Weed/hallucenigens

Nips (small alcohol bottles)

Bottle opener

Beer/soda tabs

Alcohol bottles with cool labels

Fruit/fruit seeds

Theater/Plays

Play/theater scripts

Play/movie tickets

Masks

Costumes

Nature

Pine cones

Fennel 

Wildflowers

Fig/fig newtons

Ivy

Leopard/cheetah print

Honey

Bull imagery

Donkey imagery

Bones

Antlers

Dead/preserved animals

Hiking gear

Seeds

Dolphins

Depictions of big cats

Wheat

Barley

Ecstasy

Concert/festival tickets

Various drugs (use safely!)

Sex toys

Your favorite music

Misc.

Locks of hair

Shaven beard hair 

Pride swag

Extravagant clothes/clothes that make you feel good

Devotional Acts

Wine/Intoxication

Drink alcohol/get drunk

Go to a wine tasting

Make wine

Eat grapes

Trip intentionally/spiritually

Learn about substance abuse/recovery

Destigamtize drug users

Learn about harm reduction

Use drugs safely 

Theater

Attend a play

Write a play/film/musical

Make home videos

Write poetry

Act

Dress up

Go to the movie theater

Nature

Go to the woods

Dance/sing in the woods

Meditate in the woods

Learn wilderness safety and first aid

Learn what to do when encountering a wild animal

Go off the beaten path

Explore new areas

Pick up litter

Forage

Recycle bottles

Grow fruit

Try new fruits

Ecstasy 

Attend concerts/festivals

Attend/throw parties/celebrations

Have sex

Masturbate

Have threesomes/swing/whatever your in to

Finally give into that one kink you’ve been repressing (you know the one)

Do drugs (responsibly)

Learn about consent/establish boundaries with partners

Death/Rebirth

Dionysus is a god of rebirth and resurrection. This association comes from his birth stories and has resulted in epithets like “twice-born.”

Learn how to preserve dead animals

Learn about different life cycles (plants, animals, etc)

Learn about your ancestry 

Foreigners

Dionysus is also seen as a foreign god with unknown origins. He also traveled through and invaded India.

Learn about immigration in your area

Learn about different cultures

Try foreign foods

Learn a new language

Learn about your ancestry 

Help immigrants in your area

Misc.

Grow your hair out

Manifest/Keep a manifestation journal. Sexual/creative energy is linked and can be used to manifest

Shed your old self

Self-reflection/self-exploration

Identify areas where you may overindulge (food, substances, spending, etc.)

[zombolouge]

Thought I'd share a pic of how my balcony garden is doing

The stand has a few plants that I don't know what they are bc they were just given to me, although top left is jasmine! There's also grape hyacinth, snapdragon, and daffodils in the hanging planter. Some violets and I think pansies down in the lower left, too.

I'm most excited about the big pots! A dwarf sweetheart cherry tree with a fuschia vine starter, then a blackberry and strawberry plant sharing a pot with some marigolds, and lastly a blueberry bush with a salvia and marigold for friendship.

I'm SO hyped to have all these berries. Not sure if they will fruit this summer (the tree def won't she's too new) but I'm pleased that they're all getting bigger and flourishing.

Also my lil cherry tree gave me a handful of flowers. I've been SO happy watching it grow. Here's a before pic from when I first brought it home:

And today:

And the flowers:

Sorry y'all I'm a plant nerd now so I might just have to do an excited yell abt them from time to time!

[apollomes-supremacy]

LO Dionysus design 🍇🎭

| Apollo | Persephone | Hermes | Ares | Artemis | Ganymede | Aphrodite | Eros | Zeus |

This will be a long post since Dionysus isn’t a character yet so I had to create him from 0.

The beginning of Dionysus’ introduction started on EP 93 (with Semele, Dionysus’ mother), but it has been more than 100 episodes and we got absolutely nothing from that plot, which is bad considering that other gods get involved in the og myth (Zeus, Hera and Hermes, mainly), but none of them (before and after the time skip) display any knowledge or memory of the event, especially Zeus, who is the one who accidentally kills Semele in the first place.

I already talked about it here, but im 100% sure that the child mentioned in episode 218 is Dionysus. He should be 10 yo right now and he’s the only character (vaguely) introduced who is around that age. Not to mention, Dionysus does have some connections with the Underworld. My main theory is that he will be adopted by HxP and will remain a child for the rest of the series (probably skipping the majority of Dionysus’ myths). And that’s honestly such a waste of potential. So I decided to give my take on him if he was in LO, like the redesigns I did with many other characters.

Design

My main inspo was 60′s and 70′s Hippie fashion, with a lot of patterns, accessories (crystals, evil eyes, beads, rings, etc), loose clothes and a more lazy/cozy look. He’s two shades of purple that split his face, which is meant to represent his duality as the god of parties and joy & god of wrathful madness. Hermes gave him nymph ears to use as a disguise when he was young, but he doesnt want to change them back because he grew up and feels comfortable with them. He has a very androgynous/feminine look, which leads to a lot of people thinking he’s an actual nymph.

In his true form (which can come out voluntarily, but usually happens when the god gets so mad that they are unable to control themselves) he can get really big. Leafs and grapes sprout everywhere, he gets another pair of arms made of plants’ stems and his eyes go full neon green.

Story

His story is very similar to the og myths, with just some small differences. He is born from Zeus’ thighs and goes to live with Demeter and Persephone as one of their nymphs to escape Hera’s wrath. There he starts to question a lot about himself, like his gender and his origins (he doesn’t know he is not an actual nymph), and when puberty hits, his body and his powers go crazy. Its also around that time when he meets and falls in love with Ampelos (and you know how that story ends).

When the wine he creates starts growing in popularity and Dionysus starts getting worshipped by some cities, Zeus decides that there’s no reason to hide him from Hera anymore, so he brings Dionysus to Olympus and reveals the truth, inviting him to become an Olympian. Dionysus says yes without thinking twice, so he moves in and starts to get prepared for his ceremony and his new life.

But there’s a problem. The Olympus lifestyle is way too different from Dionysus’. People are sophisticated, modern and even mean-spirited, while he is the complete opposite. It’s hard for him to fit in and he just wants to go home with the nymphs and satyrs, and he eventually does... illegally.

Personality & relationships

Dionysus is very outgoing and funny. He’s kind to everyone around him (not discriminating against nymphs, satyrs or mortals), but he can get very emotional very fast. He gets easily annoyed, which will prob just result in some unwanted vines around the house and a grumpy look, but the moment he gets mad is when everything falls apart (wrath form). Anger issues + no control over powers = no good.

He sees Demeter as a mother and Persephone and the nymphs as older sisters, while Silenus and the other satyrs served as fathers. His favorite brother is Hermes who kept an eye on him during his entire childhood and still cares deeply for him. He also has an interesting relationship with Apollo, he is very scared and intimidated by him (I understand why lol) but wants to start a friendship. Except for the fact that Apollo already has a soft spot for him, Dionysus is just oblivious to it. Ares is also scary and kinda mean, but he likes Dionysus and cares for him. He’s very indifferent towards Zeus, Hera hates him (he hates her too) and everyone else is pretty neutral, considering he doesnt know a lot of people outside of the nymphs and satyrs.

Powers

Dionysus is a fertility god (which in this universe doesnt mean that much), this means he has powers over vegetation (like Demeter) and mortals’ desires (like Aphrodite). Being the god of madness also means that he can make people so mad to the point of committing atrocities and completely losing their minds. In his true form, simply looking at him can lower your sanity. He also has the powers all the other gods have, like changing forms, cursing and blessing people, being summoned by mortals, etc. 

That’s all I have the energy to write rn. I tried to replicate the LO art style, and honestly I really liked the result! Hope you guys liked it too <3

(Also, Dionysus would be around his 20′s when the story takes place. He is Pansexual and is still confused about his gender but he’s fine with any pronouns).

[violettadecalda]

Elements: Air Edition

About the air element: The air element is linked to things such as divination, concentration, visualization, and prophecy. Air teaches us how to hone our scattered energy and focus it toward what we want. It teaches us to use our intention. Air can be a big cleanser and also a big charger. Just stand outside for a few momenrs on a windy day, letting it blow around you and play through your hair, and you will feel renewed.

Air in magic: The air element is often used in combination with smoke, feathers, trees, flowers, and plants. It is common to use the air element in both spells that require letting go, and in spells that bring you new information. After all, rumors can travel on the wind. Aromatherapy, hanging objects up, playing the flute or other woodwind instruments, and tossing things to the wind are all examples of using the air element in magic.

Forms of air include: wind, still air, breath, vibrations

Some air spirits include: Sylphs, zephyrs, faeries

Color: Yellow

Direction: East

Tools: Censer, athame, sword, wand

Tarot suit: Swords

Zodiac signs: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius

Symbol:

Air in daily life: The most obvious form of air in our daily lives is the air that we breathe. Everyone does it, everyone needs it. Speaking requires the element of air as well, as it carries the vibrations of our voices. We use air to cool off, and every time we look up at the clouds in the sky, we are interacting with the air element.

Air in the home: Similarly to how fire is used to keep our homes warm, air is used to keep them cool. Whether you are opening a window, turning on a fan, using an air conditioner, or fanning yourself with the playbill for your little brother's school performance of Legally Blonde in the stuffy auditorium, you are using air to cool yourself down. Air can also be very healing. How many times have you stepped outside to get some fresh air and take in the breeze while you were feeling sick?

Air in the kitchen: Though it may not be obvious at first, there are some cooking methods that utilize the air element. Perhaps the most common is drying, whether you are drying meat for jerkey or herbs for tea. Then there is cooking with convection heat, which is growing more popular, or cooking with microwaves. Also popular, as seen by the amount of fizzy beverages and whipped toppings available, is carbonation and aeration. There are several foods and ingredients associated with the air element, including~

Almond, anise, bamboo, brazil nut, caraway, chicory, dandelion, endive, hazel, hops, lavender, lime, mace, maple, marjoram, mint, mulberry, parsley, pecan, sage, acorn squash, artichoke, bitter melon, broccoli, cauliflower, eggplant, fennel, okra, rhubarb, spaghetti squash, alfalfa, cannelini beans, lima beans, mung beans, celery seed, chamomile, rosemary, scallions, amaranth, puffed rice, rye, apple, apricot, blackberry, currants, lingonberry, pear, pineapple, tamarind, pomegranate, black tea, chocolate, coffee, white vinegar, cabbage, celery, grape leaves, mustard greens, daikon, sunchoke, parsnip, hibiscus, macadamia nuts, walnuts, stevia

Herbs associated with air: Frankincense*, myrrh*, pansy, primrose, vervain, violet, yarrow, dill, clove, acacia, aspen, beech, benzoin*, bodhi, bracken, bromeliad, clover, fern, goldenrod, horehound, houseleek, mistletoe*, papyrus, pine, slippery elm, tobacco, rose petals

Stones associated with air: Fluorite, moonstone, turquoise, amethyst, rhodochrosite, topaz, pumice, alexandrite

Animals associated with air: Doves, hawks, eagles, foxes, turtles, ravens, spiders

Incense: Lavender, lemon balm, linden, frankincense, myrrh, violet, anise, chicory, mace, pine

Air on the altar ideas: yellow feathers, feathers in general, bird imagery, incense, censer, bells, flute, objects hanging above the altar

Divination with the air element: Nephomancy, austromancy, alveromancy, feather divination

Air work for spoonies:

Open up the window to watch the sky

Collect feathers or scatter them to the breeze

Keep a handheld fan nearby for when you need to create a breeze of your own

If you dont have your own windchimes, ring bells or listen to recordings of chimes on your phone

Use yellow pillowcases, blankets, sheets, curtains, or wall decorations

Hang beads or ribbons in your window

*Some herbs are unsafe or even deadly to ingest and can be dangerous to use. ALWAYS do research.

Sources:

[ratsoh-writes]

Their favorite flowers and fruit get extinct: Farmers and Dancetale

Peaches: well just end him why don’t you. His favorite fruit happens to also be his staple crop grown in his orchid. That’s not just his snack of choice. It’s his livelihood! Peaches is very depressed until rancher slaps some sense into him

Rancher: his favorite fruit happens to also be peaches. Rancher is less sad over its disappearance and more mad over the money lost. Fruit trees are expensive, it takes some years for the yield to make a good return on what you had to pay to plant and grow all the trees. The farm will have better luck turning into a cattle ranch then trying to start over.

Ram: so all the wild berries are gone? Bummer. But not life threatening. There’s other forage out there for ram to supplement his grocery bill with. He does worry a tad about the animals who relied on those bushes too though

Pitch: he’s more concerned about how such a common flower could just go extinct so easily. There was no signs of disease on the wilting plants? So how did they die so fast? Pesticides? A bug? Weather change? This research project will keep him busy for years

Cider: he will legit murder someone if the grapes his family grows just all die out someday. Sure they have wheat to make beer with still, but dammit he loved the grapes and wine! His family is gonna pour a fortune into finding out the cause, and attempting to bring the grapes back.

Barley: for once he’s working hard with his family to keep the business afloat while his grandparents hire researchers to find out what happened. Seeing how stressed every one is ignited the rare flame of worry in barleys soul lol.

Moose: he’s gonna be so sad that the wild huckleberries died out. He did really love them. But the wild animals loved them more. So to help stabilize the park animals population, moose and the other ranchers plant domesticated berry bushes around the forest to make up for the loss. They hope that the plants will last long enough to start regrowing the next year.

Maple: he takes like almost the whole season to notice his favorite flower just… hasn’t been around? Well… that sucks! Time to choose a new flower!

Pop: he only notices his favorite flower is gone when he decides to pick a bunch for his soaps and realizes he can’t find any! Pop searches for HOURS looking for the flower and eventually comes home in the dead of night, tired and defeated. This continues for the next few days until his dad and brother finally find out what’s been stressing pop out

Rhythm: no pineapple??? What’s life without pineapple! This is a disgrace! A disaster! He’s so sad- oh! It’s strawberry season now…. He’ll mourn pineapple when it goes into season later.

[brightgnosis]

As usual I went to Lowe's for one thing and came back with twelve instead- though I think today's haul may have actually been my smallest one ever: 2 German Chamomile plants, and a Common Rosemary (plus the bag of Moisture Control Soil we intended).

Came home, transplanted half the Yarrow to the other side of the bed and uprooted the rest (why did no one tell me that "one" Yarrow plant is actually like 20 sprouts), and planted the Chamomile on the same side. Got the spent tags from last year mostly pulled up from where they weren't necessary- and marveled at the fact that my Virginia Mountain Mint not only survived the Winter, but spread about a foot from its original planting site (I'm overjoyed! I can't wait to plant the Hairy Mountain Mint now!) and is purple when it sprouts (would have never anticipated that from what it looked like when I planted it last year. How beautiful)!

🕯️“ Blessed are you, Adonai, Creator of the Universe, who has created such diverse things. Amein. „🕯️

Decided at that point I was tired and exhausted, and so I came inside to rest. I may get to the Grape Vine and Lily / Iris pot today, or I may not. I don't think I will; I think I should call it good for the day and chill just to make sure I don't flare. But 👀 The garden. It's calling to me.

«Oklahoma - Region 2» ⬩ «Grow Zone 7a» ⬩ «Heat Zone 8»

[edensinking]

Four fictional crushes tag game! tagged by @esta-elavaris ʚ♡⃛ɞ(ू•ᴗ•ू❁)

I. King Caspian X

I was ten going on eleven when Prince Caspian came out, and my family and I had recently moved states. We were living at this farmhouse-like place with my great-grandmother. I became a little obsessed with playing in the backyard (which was massive, and full of plum and mango trees, an empty pond, and a chicken coop), and waking up every morning to a horse galloping in circles in the farmhouse across the street. I was living my best cottagecore life. Anyway, I forced my parents to take me to the movies, and basically, that second Narnia movie changed my life forever. I was bawling my eyes out and heaving by the time it was over, and I walked out of the movie theater (the same I've been going to for sixteen years now, holy shit) feeling like I lost something. It was from that movie that I acquired a taste for ill-timed, ill-fated romances. And I know there's a moment between primary and secondary school where (if you're self-aware enough) you come to terms with your childhood coming to an end. The feeling I had in the car on the ride home was exactly that.

II. Raoul de Chagny

I've been obsessed with The Phantom of the Opera since I was around fifteen or sixteen. I watched the movie a million times, and every time, I wished I could change the ending and give Christine and Erik an opportunity to be together. Many hours were spent reading fanfiction and sulking. So this one surprised me. I think it was last year that I rewatched the movie, or maybe it was around Christmas. What I'm getting at is I rewatched the damned thing expecting to feel the same kind of angst until I got to the part where they sing All I Ask. I realized I had a lover boy in my hands. And God knows how much I love my lover boys. Not only did I switch teams, I actually listened to All I Ask so many times in a row that I decided I would down the aisle to that song played by a string quartet. I don't even think I wanna get married ever. That's just how powerful being a simp for your girl and wearing a billowing shirt is.

III. Commodore James Norrington

This one's definitely the most recent of the bunch. I watched the movies when they came out, and I remember me and my brothers would crack the fuck up and yell “ELIZABETH” at each other because we thought his voice was funny—the effect I find his voice to have now, that I'm a grown-ass woman, is a completely different subject. I work in a creative field. Sorta. Kinda. And when I was working on the aesthetic aspect of one of my projects I told myself “You know what? I'm gonna make this one about pirates” which led to me rereading a Pirate AU I wrote ages ago and rewatching the PoTC movies with my family (I forced them to watch them with me so I'm starting to see a pattern.) I mean, I remembered years ago during a rewatch I was literally shook when I realized that hot albeit disgraced specimen was Norrington. But I still wasn't prepared for simping for him as hard as I am now. This is unrelated but my mother was growing a tomato plant years ago around the time I started learning Italian, and I learned the word for tomato in Italian is very similar to the word for Commodore in Spanish (my first language.) That's why, for the time we managed to keep that tomato plant alive, we called it Pomodoro Norrington. I think it only ever gave us one tomato and it was grape-sized.

IV. Captain Georg von Trapp

He's A1 from Day 1. He's all that. He's the only man ever. From getting a summa cumme laude degree in Yearnalism to ripping that horreondus fucking flag, Christopher Plummer as Captain von Trapp was so fucking powerful he managed to bag me, my mother, and my grandmother. That's a tri-generational crush. Tonight we're baking cookies and rewatching the movie for the hundredth time because I've been listening to the soundtrack for days, and I'm on a serious musical withdrawal. And, yes, I'm forcing my family to watch this, too, I'm aware that's a problem I have.

Tagging: I'm gonna be honest with you guys, I haven't made much conversation in the short time I've been here so if you see this consider yourself tagged.

[pies-database]

TH13TEEN [She/her]

Name(s): 13, Dorothy, SW6

PHALANX code: ALTN-006-010

Nickname(s): Thea

Likes: Agriculture, Folklore, parapsychology, Floral tastes and smells, leatherbound books, corvids, folk music, the sounds of a forest, regional culture regarding the deceased, indie music.

Dislikes: Makeup, Attention, technology, spices, authority, brutalism, techno music, complete isolation, loud noises, when people forget stuff, repeating herself.

Personality: It may be easy to think she's a very nature loving girly pop princess. Alas. No, she is not a vegan, she loves animals but understand the whole "circle of life" schtik. She has spent most of her life in the woods, and it comes across. She lived long enough in civilisation to now have faint ideas of what she likes, and she will likely remain that way for what she thinks will be the rest of her life.

However, she is still rather young at mind. If you treat her with respect and kindness and don't push yourself onto her territory, she will get attached and your punishment will turn from "becoming a tree" to being slowly infected by different plants.

She is easily spooked, and unfortunately for literally everyone, her first instinct is indeed to attack. Or, well, curse.

Abilities: She is this universe's version of a true witch, essentially harnessing a connection they have to a separate plane of existence to make bargains. As witches get more powerful, the bargains get less costly as they learn how to properly barter. They can hex, summon and commend. The term 'witch' is gender neutral, and applies to anyone with this ability.

She also has the passive ability to grow plants and forest wherever she walks. This makes it really inconvenient for a trip to the corner shop.

Abnormal physical features: Most notably several long, sprawling cracks in her skin that are common from witches. The more cracks they have, the more the cracks splinter. They can be transferred to a secondary object [usually made of wood but can be pretty much anything] but 13 doesn't.

Said cracks will open to show a flowing green substance that is slightly luminescent whenever they attempt to use their magic. There are a few cracks below her right eye which spell out "13".

Otherwise just looks like a normal teen, apart from skin colour [a black] which will always represent the track colour irl [unless there's extenuating circumstance.]

Backstory: In late 2009, a 12 year old girl turned to her mummy and pops with concern after cracks started appearing in her skin. a few days later, her pops leads a team of heavily clad men into their living room, and her mummy grabs her hand and drags her out through the back garden, away from the scary men. Into the forest.

She wasn't stupid, she had listened in the assemblies. The forest was scary. It was dangerous; people went in and didn't come out again. But her mummy was dragging her there, and she did drag her feet so there really wasn't much she could do. And they kept on going deeper, and deeper, and she could swear she could see someone moving there, she really did - maybe it was one of the people who didn't come back out?

And when mummy stopped after what must've been at least 6000 hours, her feet hurt and mummy was sobbing. She wanted to go home, she didn't know where home was, and mummy wouldn't stop crying.

At some point she realised she had been glowing, and her stomach was rumbling more than it had ever been, and her skin was becoming a pure midnight black and she was alone. She screamed.

A few minute-hours later, and a kind woman emerged from the trees, concern written all over her face. Thea couldn't move. She felt it as her body rocked side to side as she was carried to a small clearing, and then went into somewhere that smelled of old and dust.

A few minute-hours later than that, and she was having grapes and a bottle thrust at her mouth, and she took it hungrily.

She didn't know it at the time, but she remained in that cycle of impossibly hungry to indulging for months, until 10th of March 2010 where her body finally stopped, broken in some impossible-to-fix way.

Eventually, she came to, and after weeping in the 5-months-stranger's arms, finally got acquainted with her situation. She would not be left like that, she simply would not. anyone close would stay.

This was the way of her world for 6 years, until the commotion with The Ministry Of Joy, where she was one again exposed to the horrible heavily-clad people. But this time she had footing, and in the honour of the people lost, she took her chance to strike.

Current residency: The Dark Forest: The State Home's crypt.

ASKS: OPEN

[k-half-blood]

Sebastian’s Loss

Warnings: death

“Hey mom… What’s up? I know~ I know~ I’m running a little late, but the gym-”

“Hey son… I… I know we had our dinner date planned, but… That’s gonna have to hold off…”

He didn’t understand what was going on… How did this happen? Who found her? He had made sure himself to hide her! Protect her!

Weaving between cars, hearing the annoyed honks, he didn’t care. Everything was going too fast, even though he was going over 100, it still felt so slow. Feeling the wind of a car barely missing him, his eyes shimmering the insane purple red.

Sirens sounded out behind him, Sebastian glaring back momentarily. Screaming sounded out around him, people going mad and insane. Usually Sebastian hated using his father’s madness curse, but at this moment he didn’t care. The only person on his mind was his mother.

“Mom?? What’s wrong?? Hey! Don’t leave with that? Why aren’t you answering-“

“Sorry mommy dearest can’t come to the phone right now.”

“I swear… if you hurt her…”

“Come find me.”

“MOM!”

He ran inside of the house, panicking at seeing the destroyed house. His eyes widened, feeling the tears pooling in his eyes. The red liquid running down his face. When he’s overtaken by his father’s insanity, his tears are thick and red like blood.

There was things broken, glass and broken wood across the floor. He was shaking in anger, the plants in the broken pot were beginning over grown- thorns scratch across the wooden floor.

“Mom…”

Growing up, Sebastian was close to his mother. His mother was his idol, always seeing her taking care of anything and everything by herself. He had never remembered much of Di before meeting him once he was an adult.

He remembered the smell of grapes, the sweet scent that always seemed to lingered. He remembered the color purple, such a deep royal purple and the color of deep wine red. He remembered the sound of his voice, a velvety smooth voice.

At first he always hated his dad, growing up with anger for someone leaving them. But his mother wouldn’t let him hate his father, always explaining that it wasn’t his choice and not to blame the god for leaving them. How could he hate the god when his mother protected him? Sebastian never understood why, but he knows when he hadn’t gotten to Camp Half-Blood.

There she was… Laying on the floor, still. It felt like his heart got stuck in his throat, making his way over quickly to kneel by her side. Blood staining her skin, more drops of crimson falling on her skin as he cried above her. “Mom… mom please I need you to open your eyes, please please please.”

He begged, hands clumsily shaking her as his words were jumbling up. His hands getting stained with her blood, sobbing and begging for her to wake up. Begging the gods to bring her back, begging anyone not to take her away. “Please please… I can’t lose her, I can’t.”

“No matter what happens hun, know I’m always here for ya.” His mother said as they were cooking in the kitchen, he laughed while walking up behind her. Stealing a bite of the stew, grinning at her. “That sounds so cheesy ma.”

“I’m serious bud.”

“But you’re not here now… are you ma?” He whispered, watching her body burn as he held her necklace in his hand. The boxing gloves, an old gift from his father to her, something she kept dear to her heart. His other hand flicked two gold coins into the fire. Already knowing people in his miles of radius was going crazy. His mother was his anchor, the reason he didn’t start anything drastic and the reason he always come home.

“Safe travels mother.”

Now that she was gone… Sebastian was going to show what Dionysus’ insanity really looked like. Taking off his tracking watch and throwing it into the fire as well.

Sebastian has gone radio silence.

@livealittleoc-cb @raiden-oc

[heyitsellebell]

elle’s diary - Page 21 - 06/12/23 @ 7:51pm

heya! Hope you’re well. Woke up around 12:30pm today and had some oats with frozen mango, grapes, and pineapple (and honey). ‘Twas delicious haha. After getting ready I went with my mum to our local community garden. There’s so much growing y’all - tomatoes, peas, zucchinis, spring onions, all the herbs, peppers, you name it - it’s all there. We watered our plot of crops as it was a hot day and we just planted some cauliflower seedlings.

After harvesting a few crops we packed up and went to our Bunnings. It’s my name day today so I got to pick out a lil plant as my gift from my mum. I ended up going with a ‘Duffii’ fern (I forgot its botanical name oops). It has these loosely curled fronds with heaps of leaflets on them. It looks straight out of a fairy land, so naturally I had to have it. I’ll attach a pic to this post :) We were also looking for a bunch of other things but couldn’t find them, no biggie tho the plant was secured.

We came home and I did a bunch of watering, mainly the shade garden. My mum and I also did some transplanting of a few plants, which went well. Ok onto production - I worked on ‘18’ for a while last night after last checking in. Did some fine-tuning of the timing of a bunch of synths. There’s no percussion in the song so anything that’s slightly rhythmic needs to be really on beat. I did that until late (3am ooops) and did the mastering. I’m gonna listen to it after I’ve finished writing this post and see how it sounds, hopefully all good!!! Alrighty, that’s gonna be all for now. Thank you for reading! All the best <3

lots of love,

elle xoxo

[tastesoftamriel]

You’ve probably gone over this before but tumblr’s search engine sucks butt. So, what would each culture’s staple crops and livestock (for both meat and byproducts) be? How much would globalization come into play, like how irl potatoes are originally from South America but have become one of the most important staple foods across the world?

Staple crops and livestock vary throughout the Provinces due to climate and geography, though trade over the centuries has meant that ingredients like saltrice from Morrowind and honey from Skyrim are in constant circulation around the continent. Nonetheless, here are some uniquely local ingredients you'll find across Tamriel.

Altmer

Summerset's temperate climate makes it the ideal place to grow all sorts of exotic fruit, especially stone fruit. From peaches to lychees, nectarines to cherries, Summerset produces the largest quantities of these fruits (with the trade embargo around the Great War and Dragon Crisis making them an extremely sought-after prize). And don't forget the wine! Summerset is also famed for its gorgeous vineyards and even more gorgeous wines. However, juicy and flavourful grapes are beloved by almost anybody, making them a valuable staple crop too.

Livestock in Summerset is nothing particularly exciting. Merino sheep are farmed for their wool, which is a luxury export beloved by northern Provinces, while meat comes in the form of cattle and chickens. However, High Elves particularly love their wild-caught fish and herons, which are populous on their home island.

Argonians

Once again, fruit is a major export from Black Marsh, but the fertile (if hostile) region is home to some of Tamriel's best agricultural soil. From cocoa and coffee beans, saltrice and coconuts, to padan and banana leaves and more, you'll find all sorts of wonderful plant-based ingredients in Black Marsh. However, something that has gained in popularity following the Argonian diaspora has been palm wine, a potent alcoholic beverage.

As for livestock, you'll find bantam guar, guar lizards, various poultry, goats, and even farmed frogs and lizards to be popular. Sheep and cattle are far less popular due to the upkeep required for them to stay healthy in the swampy environment, making beef and mutton less popular and more expensive than in other Provinces.

Bosmer

The Bosmer are famed for their meat and animal byproducts, particularly from timber mammoths and sugar mammoths. Whether it's meat, pelts, or milk, these beasts are much beloved by the Wood Elves who take great care in rearing them.

Other popular exports from Valenwood include alcoholic beverages like rotmeth and jagga, as well as kopi luwak- a luxurious type of coffee made from beans found in civet cat excrement, thus making them Green Pact-friendly. And of course, Valenwood produces some of Tamriel's finest cocoa beans, mostly used for export. However, have you truly lived until you've tried salted sugar mammoth caramelised milk chocolate from Woodhearth?

Bretons

In High Rock, sheep and cattle are the most popular livestock to farm due to their versatility, with a constant demand for their meat, horns, skins, and milk. While it's nothing exciting, the animals in the region are usually grass-fed and free range, spanning acres of farmland (which can sometimes result in cultists and the like infringing upon the livelihood of livestock). Chickens, geese, turkeys, and ducks are also popular for their meat, down, and eggs, with High Rock producing some of Tamriel's best duck meat.

With regards to staple crops, wheat is a major export and features heavily in Breton cuisine, especially in bread.

Dunmer

The volcanic ash of Morrowind is key to its success in growing all manner of weird and wonderful crops. Market stalls across Vvardenfell and Blacklight bustle with sellers touting mushrooms of all kinds, saltrice, comberry, marshmerrow, hackle-lo, canis root, and much more, all of which are consumed locally as well as across Tamriel.

Regarding livestock, it should come as no surprise that the big money is in bug farming. Kwama mines produce cuttle, scuttle, scrib jelly, and kwama eggs, making them the backbone of Morrowind's mages and chefs alike. Nix-hounds and guar are raised both by town Dunmer and Ashlanders, while wild nix-ox is also popular for those who can afford it.

Imperials

Cyrodiil spans terrain from the snowy Jerall Mountains to the swamps of Blackwood. As a result, the Province is relatively self-sufficient in that it produces the bulk of its own consumption, from livestock to greens. Speaking of greens, battaglir, a type of weed, is a staple in the Imperial diet, making wild-foraged and farmed battaglir a key crop in the region. Like Summerset, Cyrodiil is also famed for itswines, and is proud of its unique grapes of every size, flavour, and colour (including ones that taste like cotton candy).

Livestock in Cyrodiil is about as generic as can be: cows, sheep, goats, poultry, and horses. While meat is a staple part of the Imperial diet, milk is also important as it is used to make the cream and cheeses so prized by the Province.

Khajiit

What don't the Khajiit grow or rear? From Southern Elsweyr's rich moon sugar and rice paddies to the North's edible cacti and tea, the Province is full of exotic and scrumptious delights that are highly prized across Tamriel. Ingredients are valuable both raw and processed, and form the backbone of the Khajiiti economy. Samar Pekoe tea, for example, is wild-harvested from caves and is beloved by tea aficionados across the continent, and fetches a hefty price for its rarity. Pellitine cacao and coffee beans are also a staple in any self-respecting chef's kitchen.

In terms of livestock, you'll find guar, poultry, beef, and goat to be popular, as well as wild game like jerboas, terror birds, antelope, and addaxes. Game meat can often be purchased from Bandaari nomads, who hunt the animals themselves. Whether fresh or dried into jerky, who doesn't want some moon sugar-cured addax jerky for the road?

Nords

Foreigners in Skyrim are often shocked by the range of produce we're capable of producing in our cold and often inhospitable lands. Fish and horker are consumed in great amounts locally, as well as being one of the Province's major exports. Goat from the Reach, cattle from Whiterun, and honey from the Rift are always in high demand.

Apples and jazbay grapes are probably the most valuable crops in Skyrim, followed by wheat and other fruits and vegetables. The former two are used in cider and wine, both of which are valued across the Provinces.

Orcs

Wrothgarian Orcs differ from Betnikh Orcs who differ from Wood Orcs and so on... so in this case, it really varies. For Wrothgarian Orsimer, echatere is the main source of meat and milk, while in Betnikh it's fish, and in Valenwood, timber mammoth. All these groups also enjoy game, from rabbit and wolf to pheasant and venison, which features heavily in regional Orcish cuisine. Wild honey from Betnikh is also another notable animal product that bears mention here.

In terms of crops, there aren't many of note aside from valuable herbs and spices. Frost mirriam, which is also loved by alchemists, and wrathberries, known for their violently bitter taste unless prepared correctly, are two of the most important plants you'll find for sale at any stronghold.

Redguards

I've said it before and I'll say it again: goat, goat, and more goat. Unless you're a coastal Redguard with access to seafood, it's likely that your main source of meat and milk will come from goats. Whether it's feta or kebabs, it's almost always goat meat, as they wander all through Hammerfell like they own the place. However, Redguards are also renowned for breeding horses, and the uh... faulty ones are generally turned into food. Spiced horse blood sausage and spreadable horse 'nduja are a staple in households across Hammerfell.

With staple crops, you'll find that corn, coconuts, palm fruit and oil, bananas, coffee, cinnamon and other spices, and cocoa are plentiful. These are all consumed in great amounts within the Province, but are also highly prized across Tamriel.

[sunarin4256]

Godly Sibling headcannons

Zeus/Jupiter

Jade,Rook,Silver

• favorite game: ZAP. It's like tag but they're chasing each other around in high altitudes and whoever is 'it' gets to stroke the others with lighting

• play in the rain together, sometimes they fly above the clouds because of how pretty it is up there

• while Jade and Rook do manage to deeply unsettle Silver, he still treats them with the respect of a younger brother

• always sense weather changes before they occur

• all know Morse code (thx Silver<3) and use storms to talk across dorms

•they rarely get into fights, but when they do Rook and Jade are ganging up on Silver.

• Silver is a pacifist and rarely fights back, preferring to dodge but has nearly given Rook a new haircut

• Spa/Relaxation day: sitting together, reading, drawing or napping on Rook's balcony (it's closed in with glass) during a rainstorm

Poseidon/Neptune

Floyd and Malleus

• SWIMMING

• sometimes they take walks along the ocean floor, talking to the marine life they pass

• once they accidentally gathered an army of sharks

• Malleus teaches Floyd how to swim in his human form

• Floyd teaches Malleus how to use his tail and wings to maneuver in the water

• Sometimes they visit the stables of the equestrian club;talk to and groom thw horses

• marine life found Malleus terrifying at first which seriously dejected him, but Floyd was quick to cheer him up

• Floyd calls Malleus "big bro sea dragon"

• Spa/relaxation day: Picnic on the beach (sometimes Malleus helps with meal prep) Building sand castles and playing with shark pups during high tide

Demeter & Dionysus

Trey and Cater

• because they're both legal to drink in their home countries, Cater teaches Trey traditional wine distillery

• are often cooking together;Jelly, Jam Bread, Pies

• often found in the botanical gardens; Trey tending to regular and edible plants & Cater dealing with plants that used for alcohol (i.e. strawberries, raspberries, grapes)

• Trey and Cater are both terrified of bees, but Cater is the only one who it shows with

• Sometimes they sit in fields and frolick in flowers

• Cater is also able to grow the devil's lettuce, Trey helps him make edibles

• relaxation/spa day: chilling in a random field, meadow, or forest eating sing one of the strong ass edibles they made whilst staring at the clouds

Mars, Athena, and Hephaestus

Sebek, Azul, and Kalim

• one would assume that due to their godly parentage they wouldn't be very fond of one another (they're wrong)

• Sebek and Azul often play strategic board games (battleship, chess, ect.) And the occasional round of the friendship destroyer (uno) that they happen to drag Kalim into (he always wins)

• Azul and Kalim engineer marble race tracks/roller coasters for entertainment purposes

• Sebek and Kalim have sparred once and never again (Sebek was traumatized)

•Azul and Sebek are easy to get to relax, but Kalim (whose easygoing nature is a facade) is constantly in a silent state of stress and anxiety

• Spa/Relaxation day: dragging Kalim from his workshop and exploring ancient cities; Azul gushes about the history and culture, Sebek tells of wars and their tactics

Apollo

Riddle and Ace

• horrified to find out they were related

• warmed up to each other & eventually welcomed the idea of being half brothers

• Ace taught Riddle how to play guitar

• Riddle tried (and failed) to teach Ace archery... safe to say Ace is banned from coming within 2 feet of a bow/crossbow

• Thrive on sunlight, practically sunflowers

• Riddle found out that he ub have been taller (Ace was also pissed on his behalf)

• silly little jam sessions; usually piano and violin

• Relaxation/Spa day: Picnic in the sun. Maybe going to the beach, playing music together willy nilly (Anything really. Ace plans and gives Riddle freedom of choice)

Aphrodite

Jack and Jamil

• surprised but not

• both play matchmaker for their dorms

• Both don't mind dressing femininely & even go out together dressed femininely (Jamil keeps getting called ma'am)

• Have gotten mistaken for a couple whilst gossiping together in public

• Make fun of romance tropes in media

• Sometimes do each other's hair and for the heck of it jamil makes Jack braid his hair (giant hands and small details don't mix)

• Extremely skilled fighters

• Spa/Relaxation day: face masks, bubble baths, sweets, romance movies (to make fun of) manicures, the occasional picnic in a meadow (sometimes they bring Kalim and Vil)

Hades/Pluto

Deuce, Ruggie, Epel, Idia, Ortho, Lilia

• Hide and seek in the dark. They're so silly about it & idia has the hardest time hiding.

• They own a pomegranate orchard that only the Demeter & Dionysus kids know about

• All harass each other via shadows, gems, and skeletons

• All absolutely DESPISE the rain

• each have an uncanny trait about them.(to be detailed in a later post)

• Relaxation/Spa day: Graveyard exploration. None of them are afraid of ghosts and can see spirits in places with low or zero magic concentration. Wandering through the woods at night, especially during spooky season. Abandoned buildings, parks, ect.

Thanatos & Hypnos

Leona and Vil

• flabbergasted when they found out they were related

• bicker in public but get along just fine in private

• vil always smells like lavender and warm milk

• Leona smells kinda like dirt and graveyard

• Leona (who secretly loves kids) takes Cheka to see Vil during photoshoots via shadow travel

• Vil uses shadow travel to escape paparazzi

• Leona owns a massive pillow collection for when Vil sleeps over

• Leona is a very rare type of demigod so he doesn't have a cabin (honorary cabin 15 member)

• Spa/Relaxation day: Vil has a half glass half brick wood and marble balcony in his room. They collect a bunch of pillows and make a nest on the balcony. They do skincare (Vil made Leona a routine) then drink some warm milk and honey while watching studio Ghibli movies and taking naps (they're always best on rain rainy days)

[bijoumikhawal]

The Tzohar

When the world was first created, God filled the world with a sacred light, known as the primordial light. This was the light that came into being when God said, “Let there be light” (Gen. 1:3). It was not the light of the sun, for that did not come into being until the fourth day, when God created the sun and the moon and the stars. It was a miraculous light by which it was possible for Adam to see from one end of the world to the other.

When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, the first thing they lost was that precious light. Without it, the world seemed dark to them, for the sun shone like a candle in comparison. But God preserved one small part of that precious light inside a glowing stone, and the angel Raziel delivered this stone to Adam after they had been expelled from the Garden of Eden, as a token of the world they had left behind. This jewel, known as the Tzohar, sometimes glowed brightly and sometimes was dim.

As he lay on his deathbed, Adam gave the jewel to his son Seth, who passed it down to the righteous Enoch. Enoch grew in wisdom until he was taken into Paradise in a chariot, and transformed into the angel Metatron, the heavenly scribe and Prince of the treasuries of heaven.

Before departing this world, Enoch gave the Tzohar to his son, Methuselah. Methuselah slept in its glowing light, and some say that is why he lived longer than anyone else. Methuselah passed on the jewel to his son Lamech, who gave it to his son, Noah, who brought it with him on the ark. Indeed, God instructed Noah to do so when he said, “Put the Tzohar in the ark” (Gen. 6:16). Noah hung it on the deck, and for forty days and nights it illumined the ark. Noah determined whether it was day or night by gauging the brilliance of the stone. It was dim during the day, but it shone brightly at night.

When the ark landed on Mount Ararat, the first thing Noah did was to plant grapes, and when they grew ripe, he made wine and became drunk, and at that moment the Tzohar fell from where it had been hung in the ark, rolled into the water, and sank to the bottom of the sea. There it was carried by the currents until it came to rest in an under-water cave.

Years later, after the waters had subsided, the child Abraham was born in that cave. His mother had gone there to give birth, to escape King Nimrod’s decree that all new-born boys be put to death. For Nimrod had seen a sign that a child born at that time would overthrow him. After giving birth, Abraham’s mother grew afraid for the safety of her family, and at last she abandoned the infant in the cave and returned home. Then the angel Gabriel descended to the cave and fed the infant with his thumb, through which milk and honey flowed, and because he was fed in that miraculous way, the boy began to grow at the rate of a year every day. And on the third day, while exploring the cave, he found a stone glowing in one of the crevices of the cave. Then the angel, who knew how precious it was, put it on a chain, and hung it around Abraham’s neck.

Thirteen days later Abraham’s mother returned to the cave, for she could not put the fate of the infant out of her mind. She expected to find that the child was no longer living, but instead she found a grown boy, who said that he was her child. She refused to believe it at first, but when he showed her the glowing stone and the sacred light it cast, she came to believe that a miracle had taken place.

Abraham wore that glowing jewel all the days of his life. Whoever was ill and looked into that stone soon healed, and it also served as an astrolabe to study the stars. Before his death, Abraham gave that glowing jewel to Isaac, and Isaac gave it to Jacob at the time he gave him the stolen blessing. For Isaac had intended to give the glowing stone to Esau, but Rebecca, who was a seer, knew well that it was destined to belong to Jacob.

Jacob was wearing the Tzohar when he dreamed of the ladder reaching to heaven, with angels ascending and descending on it. And he, in turn, gave the stone to his beloved son, Joseph, when he gave him the coat of many colors.

Jacob made Joseph promise to wear the stone at all times, but he did not reveal its power, which he knew well. And because Joseph’s brothers did not know that the amulet was precious, they did not take it from him when they stripped him of the coat of many colors and cast him naked into the dark pit.

Now snakes and scorpions lived at the bottom of that pit. And when Joseph heard them slithering and creeping in the dry leaves, he shivered in the darkness at the bottom of the pit. All at once a light began to glow, and Joseph saw that it was coming from the amulet he wore around his neck. And as long as Joseph remained in that pit, the jewel continued to glow, so that he was never afraid. At last Joseph heard Midianite traders calling out to him from the top of that pit. They pulled him out of the pit and brought him to Egypt, where they sold him into slavery and to the destiny that fate held for him, which was to become Prince of Egypt.

When Joseph was imprisoned in the dungeon, he discovered that if he placed the Tzohar inside his cup and peered into it, he could read the future and interpret dreams.That is how he interpreted the dreams of the butler and baker, and later the dreams of Pharaoh that prophesied the seven years of famine. It was that same cup that Joseph hid in the saddlebags of Benjamin, about which his servant said, “It is the very one from which my master drinks and which he uses for divination” (Gen. 44:5).

That cup, with the precious jewel in it, was placed inside Joseph’s coffin at the time of his death, and it remained there until Moses recovered Joseph’s coffin and was told in a dream to take out the glowing stone and hang it in the Tabernacle, where it became known as the Ner Tamid, the Eternal Light. And that is why, even to this day, an Eternal Light burns above every Ark of the Torah in every synagogue.

Pg 85-86, Tree of Souls by Howard Schwartz

[pinkiewitchcraft]

My Personal Wheel of the Year: Part Three:

🌱🌸Birth🌸🌱, the third festival, which takes place during the 20th of March all the way to the 20th of June.

These months focus on the birthing of spring as it finally arrives. It is the growth of nature. Of life. Of vibrancy. Of fertility.

Everything is coming back from the dead, or being born for the first time ever. Babies are here, animals running rampant and experiencing all of the wonderful things in the world, plants are flourishing with the warmth of the sunlight, and the refreshing taste of water to help them grow to their full potential, and life is fresh and springing with absolute joy.

This is a very special time for me, as I am always connected to nature, and always have been since I was a very small child. I always loved wandering around and observing all of the greenery around me, as well as the blue sky above, and the thick, white clouds, and most of all the beautiful, warm sun. I also had, and still have, a very imaginative mind and fantasized about the different worlds beyond this one, and had a very spiritual connection to this earth, and everything else beyond it.

It is a special time to learn more about nature and what it has to offer, and to take care of it as well as one can. And to remind ourselves that we wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the earth. For the earth births us and provides for us. Always.

• The beautiful Colors that I associate with Birth are: Greens, yellows, rainbow, bright colors, and glitter. Green for the beautiful flourishing nature, yellow for the bright sun which warms the earth and provides healing, rainbow for the rainbows of nature, and the happiness and hope that comes along with them, bright colors for the vibrancy, and glitter to represent happiness, as well as the sun rays which dance upon the clear waters of lakes, rivers, oceans, and anywhere else that has water.

• The Deities I associate with Birth are: Gaia

• The lovely Foods I associate with Birth are: Apples, pears, plums, prunes, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, bananas, mandarines and other oranges, cherries, grapes, raisins, onions, peas, tomatoes, garlic, mushrooms, lettuce, eggs, milk, butter, etc, and drinks symbolizing blood, aka life.

Other foods are baked goods, sweets, dairy foods and desserts, etc. Especially macaroni and cheese.

Eggs and milk are especially important, as they both represent fertility.

• Some lovely Plants I associate with Birth are colorful flowers of all kinds as well as leaves, and other items from nature are twigs, rocks, branches, seashells, pebbles, sand, dirt, soil, etc.

• Things to do for Birth include:

Appreciate nature and all that it’s done for you.

Be thankful for life. Write about how thankful you are for the growth of nature, the flourishing of all life, and the air that you breathe.

Write about your most favorite animals and favorite part of nature.

Look up different animals and plants and learn about how they work, live and function.

Listen to music about nature and growth in all forms (besides nature, growth is also who you are, how far you’ve come, and what you’ll do next).

Go for walks where there is nature. (Which is everywhere!!! 🌸💫💕)

Go outside and observe nature. Watch as everything moves as intended, smell the freshness of it all, listen to the sounds, feel the warmth, the fresh air, the soft wind, and the firm ground beneath you, and the soft grass. (This is also a form of meditation and grounding for me)

Open a window to let in fresh air, and observe nature from there.

Do some cleaning and rearranging. Add something new to your home.

Meditate (However you wish. There is no one way to meditate.)

Look up nature aesthetics.

Listen to soothing nature sounds for meditation.

Look up videos of nature and animals. I personally love watching cute animal videos, especially of silly cats, ferrets and dogs!! I also love how adorable cows, donkeys and foxes are.

Dress in the colors of Birth, decorate yourself in flowers and other plants, little animal dolls and nature toys/dolls.

Draw artwork of nature (plants, animals, water, landscapes, etc)

Decorate anything with eggs, flowers, twigs, branches, animal dolls, stuffed animals, baby animals, artwork such as sewing work, knitted/crochet work, painted work, drawings, etc, fill a cup of dyed water for blood, which symbolizes life.

[oceanremnants]

dark orange pearl, written by a traveling administrator.

flora, for quiet:

there's a lot of generic stuff. bet you'd find that interesting, though. those grass flowers you like are growing out here, too, and those weird frondy trees that live near our communications arrays

i'm pretty sure that ea said there's barely anything growing around her can so i am absolutely not expecting to see anything once i finally get there. lots of stuff in the expanse here though...

there are popcorn grapes out here, about a day's walk from home. upsilon's the only one of us who actually likes those, right? otherwise i'll bring some home on my way back

i saw one of those brain tree things. weren't they used to hold qualias before pearls or something? around it were a lot of those things i recognized from dad's alchemy book... all i remember is goldy's admin saying that they tasted good in soup to annoy her.

turns out the trees in the expanses outside of our retaining walls hold in heat, since i just went into an area with at maximum five of them and it was really cold.

did you know batnip can survive in the cold? i didn't. a lot of stuff can actually, it's really neat... lots of herbs i didn't expect to see here, mostly stuff you're growing actually. glad you're starting easy~

sorry for not responding to your overseers by the way. they didnt follow me in here so i guess whatever you needed has been dealt with? too far to head back now so i really hope it is.

there are mimic beetles here, which is pretty interesting considering how cold it is. i thought they were sorta sensitive to temperature... must only be the heat, which is why they're so rare in other regions i guess. they pollinate some of the small flowers here - the flowers use the heat from the grass that lives under this... "snow" stuff....

out of that place and it's more jungle up ahead, although it's still pretty cold here. you know those hugemassive trees? they really don't like the cold, apparently, and the only ones i'm seeing here are tiny shrubs. the weird core things - one of the ways of getting capital n Nectar if i remember correctly - are sort of shriveled and greyish blue. also they don't taste good at all. really do not recommend.

think that's aabout everything that'd be interesting to you?

sorry for not being super descriptive. hope the elemental make-ups of all the plants i found and as detailed of a pictures i can get with my overseer work well enough. see you in... probably not fifty cycles considering how many people are already asking for my help. oops.