#Lotus Sans

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAGGIE MAGS !!!!!! @maggots-inmyguts @maggiereblogs

it would really suck if two twin towers were hit by an airplane today !

NOT MAGGIE !!!! DONT GRAB THE STRAY ALLEY CAT WITH YOUR BARE HANDS IT MIGHT HAVE RABIES !!!!!!!!!

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Drew this today to go along with a Twitter friend’s story cause I love it sm.

It’s a human Lurik AU where Rurik is trans🏳️‍⚧️ and Lotus is essentially his biggest hype man. He gives Ru all the love and gender affirmation he needs 😩💚❤️💕✨

Yeah, they’re both mentally ill gays with abusive parents. But at least they have each other ✨

[fizzy-loves-cats]

Found family moment (silly doodls)

[doodlesphxre]

okay am I the only person that experienced people calling Rurik Pudding and Lotus Cupcake.....

[fell-lotus]

"𝐇𝐢, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞'𝐬 𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐋𝐨𝐭𝐮𝐬, 𝐈'𝐦 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐧/𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟."

𝐑𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬.

𝐀𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝟏𝟔 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐦𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 / 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝

[𝐃𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨]

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭/ 𝐚𝐥𝐭 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐠, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠.

𝐃𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐠 𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝.

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥, 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐈 𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐬.

[mauricio-i-cant-move-move-it]

Inspired by "Хто я" by Лівінстон.

Gottey by me. Reaper Sans belongs to Renrink. Geno Sans belongs to LoverofPiggies (CrayonQueen).

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Alexandra via Instagram

[keepingitneutral]

Kendrick Bangs Kellogg (1934 – February 16, 2024)

One of the leading pioneers of Organic architecture was Kendrick Bangs Kellogg, an architect from San Diego in the United States of America. Although his first influences came after meeting the man responsible for coining the term “Organic Architecture,” Frank Lloyd Wright, Kellogg’s work, is unique. He believes that great architecture is born out of risks and these risks help make the structure distinctive.

His work can truly make the user experience the space and its surroundings. This experience is so acutely possible because of the detailing that goes into all his designs. Each element awakens different senses. The choice of material helps create a form, that although it might look heavy, instantly connects you to the ground and environment surrounding it.

Despite looking heavy, Kendrick masterfully adds a sense of fluidity into his designs, which bring about a sense of harmony between the structure and its context. Throughout his long and influential career, Kellogg has made many structures ranging from residences to restaurants.

1981 - The Sam Yen House, aka Lotus House, aka Moonlight House, 7799 Starlight Drive, San Diego CA.

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Is baby horror there? If so we we see them??! All the babies are so cute!!!!!

You know him, hopefully you’ll love him! -💌/👑

[pepperonipizzafan1]

doodlesi did today - i wasrewatching jacks sallyface gameplay

[ryin-silverfish]

On Erlang's mom, Lotus Lantern, and a neat little discovery

"Erlang's mom is Yaoji, JE's sister."

You can see that statement in literally every JTTW + adjacent fandom, both Chinese and English. Personally, it isn't as annoying as the "Nvwa is JE's daughter" thing, but does get a little tiring when everyone and their mother takes it as actual mythos.

So, in this post, I'll do a bit of digging, and trace the evolutionary trajectory of that claim.

Reading my Lotus Lantern Summaries first will be quite helpful, but if you haven't, I'll be linking to these posts when they become relevant.

The Start of It All

-As far as I know, JTTW novel is the first textual source that said "Erlang is JE's nephew". Specifically, in SWK's pre-battle taunts, he commented that "Hey, I heard JE's sister got chummy with Yang the mortal and gave birth to a son, is that you?" (JTTW Chapter 6)

-The same chapter also mentions that Erlang cleaved open the Peach Mountain to save his mom, implying she was imprisoned as a punishment for her forbidden relationship.

-The other roughly contemporary source, the Precious Scroll of Erlang, expanded on that story: here, Erlang's mom is Lady Yunhua (云花, literally "Cloud-Flower"), part of a trio of three sisters born of "Father Cloud" and "Mother Rain", who embodied the "Three Flowers", a Daoist internal alchemy jargon.

-She is also mentioned to be an immortal maiden of the Dipper-Ox Palace, where Queen Mother of the West resided. Erlang's dad, Yang Tianyou, is the incarnate of a "Golden Boy" acolyte, and they pretty much got insta-married after Yunhua revealed her true identity.

-In the Precious Scroll, Erlang's mom was also put under a mountain by SWK, and he went to QMoW to ask for his mother's whereabouts, pulling off the "carrying the mountains & chasing the suns" stunt on his way to rescue her.

-Pretty different from what you know, right? Here, Erlang was an only child, his mother was never explicitly said to be imprisoned under a mountain by JE's orders, and his father wasn't a run-of-the-mill mortal either.

-So what changed?

Erlang in the Premodern Lotus Lantern stories

-Well, the Lotus Lantern story cycle happened, and Erlang's own mom-saving story got copied over to his nephew Chenxiang.

-However, in all except one iteration of the Lotus Lantern tales, Erlang's parentage was never stated: this iteration is what I called Lotus Lantern 2.0, in which Erlang's own mom-saving story was canon too.

-It did leave out the "SWK put his mom under a mountain" part, though, despite lifting the name Yang Tianyou (and Lady Yunhua too, though her name in this story was Yuntai, "Cloud-Terrace") from the Precious Scroll.

-Similarly, the Lady of Mt. Hua/San Shengmu in all but one iteration of these stories wasn't punished by the Celestial Host, and Erlang putting her under a mountain was entirely his personal decision.

-In the one story that did, it was because she had whipped up a storm and ruined the mortals' crops while she was going after Liu the scholar.

-In fact, in all these pre-modern Lotus Lantern stories, San Shengmu and Liu's relationship was greenlit + Divinely Ordained by the Celestial Host.

The One TV Series to Change it All

-Yep, it's my childhood memory, the 2000s Lotus Lantern + Prequel shows that started the "Erlang's mom was Yaoji" thing!

-Here, she fell in love with the mortal Yang Tianyou after he sacrificed his own heart to save her, Erlang had an older brother named Yang Jiao who was killed together with his father on JE's orders, who also killed Yaoji via exposure to the Ten Suns after her release.

-That last part was probably inspired by the story of Nv Chou in the Books of Mountains and Seas, who was...this random sorceress/witch that got scorched to death by the Ten Suns.

-For a long time, I thought this was it: Erlang's mom being Yaoji was something the show-writers just pulled out of thin air, and entirely their original invention.

-Then I came across this little tidbit in Vol. 3 of the Tang dynasty text, 墉城集仙录...

-Translation: "Lady Yunhua was the 23th daughter of QMoW and the sister of Lady Wang of Taizhen, and her name is Yaoji."

-The last character, 华, is different from the 花 of Yunhua in the Precious Scroll story, but these two characters could often be used interchangeably.

-It must also be noted that the similar name/title is just a coincidence, and mythos-wise, Yaoji's legends never converged with Erlang's mom-saving story at all.

-But yeah, the Lotus Lantern + Prequel show writers probably saw the two names, went "Won't it be neat if we merge them into a single character?", and thus the most influential "urban legend" of Chinese mythos/folklore was born.

(Honestly, with the way myths and folklore evolve, maybe this version of the story would become canonized too after a hundred years or so!)

Edit: Check out the comments——@fate-magical-girls has informed me that the "Erlang's mom being Yaoji" thing had an earlier origin in the 1987 Teochew opera 三姐下凡!

Seems like Lotus Lantern Prequel has taken a lot more inspirations from said opera, aside from that bit: Erlang's three-pronged, double-bladed spear being a three-headed flood dragon he subdued, for example.

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If I made Spotify playlists of music I think Goth and Lotus (maybe also Palette and Rurik) would like, would anyone be interested in seeing them?

[fizzy-loves-cats]

Over and over I fuck myself over

[hexcia]

Introducing Pythium! A punk-rock band that performs all over the multiverse! With Aconite on vocals and Lotus providing the music, they're an unstoppable duo!

They're beloved by many monsters and humans (Acrylic included!)

They look familiar, wouldn't you say?

[fell-lotus]

Fav food? :3

Spicy Ramen topped with Pork katsu. Best thing I've ever tasted beside fried cheese balls

I cook alot and I have families so I get my food recipes from them. I also have a cookbook my mom handed down to me.

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