#divine grass

[clitmasterslit]

[saydesole]

Grounding 🌳🌻🧘🏾‍♀️

[asexxxualauthor]

Imogen: “I don’t think I want to save the gods if they don’t care about me.”

FCG: “Have you tried getting to know them?”

Imogen, known for her limited patience and absolute willingness to just rip information from people because if she’s not learning what she needs to know right away then it’s a waste of her time: “What does that have to do with anything?”

[eleutheria4ever]

believe it or not, i’m divinely protected and there will be consequences for wronging me

[urbeautifulandiminsane]

[andrumedus]

Man finds himself on the earth whether he likes it or not, with nowhere else to go. What then is to become of him? Obviously we can't stand still or we shall be destroyed. Then if there is no room for us on the outside we shall, in spite of ourselves, have to go in: into the cell, the atom, the poetic line, for our discoveries. We have to break the old apart to make room for ourselves, whatever may be our tragedy and however we may fear it.

William Carlos Williams, in his introduction to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

[otherkin-confessional]

I think I might be an angel, and the thought scares me.

I'm not religious and never have been– I don't believe in, serve, or feel any attachment to a god or deity, but something in me is still drawn to the concept of divinity, purity, holiness. I feel like my purpose is to watch over the world, to guide humanity through their struggles and teach them what is right.

I'm worried that to call myself angelkin would be appropriating something I know very little of, and I truly would hate to offend. But I can't deny the phantom wings on my back. Can divinity and atheism coexist?

I'm not sure what to do. Advice/reassurance/feedback of any kind would be appreciated. I feel so lost.

–⛅

🔮

[thisisnotthenerd]

in peace

It’s difficult to think through the red-tinted rage, seeping through wires and metal to meet a glowing blue arcane battery. The pain is blinding, all-encompassing, but secondary to the sight of Otohan Thull brandishing her swords.

Orym and Ashton lie unconscious on the ground, Imogen and Chetney struggling not far off. Laudna and Fearne stand, magic crackling at their fingertips even as their wellsprings are exhausted from fighting her off.

It’s a matter of simple calculation; there is no hope of outrunning her, there is no hope of outlasting her. 

Fresh Cut Grass, Faithful Care Giver, holds a coin of the Changebringer in shaking hands, vibrating with the sudden onslaught of stress and panic, the result of too many blessings shared, too many gifts of healing. Bell’s Hells is laid out by this Exaltant Fury, by this General who thinks of them as targets to exterminate.

She hovers above them, the psychic hum of her blades loud in this enclosed tunnel, an ambush predator preparing to strike.

Fresh Cut Grass sends a prayer to the Changebringer, to their Lady of the Open Road, to the Bringer of Luck, to She Who Makes the Path, not for clarity nor courage, but a certainty that the road might open to Bell’s Hells. They roll around Otohan, not seeking a path to flee, but simply enough room to do what must be done.

Their hand glows with divine light, brighter than any Exandrian day.

Thull’s eyes widen as the bolt shoots straight and true, not for her, but for an arcane core of glowing blue.

The last thing Fresh Cut Grass sees before light takes their vision is the faces of their dear friends.

They die with a smile.

Guiding Bolt: A flash of light streaks toward a creature of your choice within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 4d6 radiant damage, and the next attack roll made against this target before the end of your next turn has advantage, thanks to the mystical dim light glittering on the target until then.

Arcane Battery: An arcane battery is an artificially created energy source that draws from local leylines to power various magical effects. For this reason they are also sometimes called arcane accumulators. Many arcane batteries power automata, such as aeormatons and golems. In the Post-Divergence, arcane batteries are scavenged from ruins across Exandria.

When attacked, these batteries release copious amounts of spell energy into the surrounding space. Upon detonation, every creature within 30 feet takes 20d8 force damage, and any machinery surrounding the battery is irreparably destroyed.

I am alive.

I am alive for the first time.

And I am alive, not because I was made by D or Dancer or even the Changebringer.

I’m alive because they made me alive.

And it’s the connections that I made with all of them. And it’s a feeling of joy.

And I’m happy to do this, because they saved my life and I’ll save theirs.

[ivaspinoza]

the dualitiy that exploded in the beginning

[rozecrest]

can’t stop thinking about the divine principality trying to turn the twilight mirage from a garden into a lawn

[revvethasmythh]

I think there is a lot of importance to the fact that FCG, an aeormaton from the Age of Arcanum, was designed (as far as we know) to be a practitioner of divine magic. Like, considering how superior everyone in Avalir felt about Zerxus’ status as a paladin who worshipped no god, I cannot imagine what an achievement for Aeor it would have been to not only have clerics on hand with no connection to any deity, but that these cleric were not even flesh and blood.

Per the Care and the Culling, all we’ve heard is that the aeormatons used for it were “caretaker” bots, but Vitro Isham did look visibly taken aback when FCG told him that he practiced divine magic, indicating that this was not common, at least not from what modern Exandrians know of Aeor. That would make FCG pretty important, wouldn’t it? I mean, he basically proves the conceit of Aeor’s ideology, in this case, at least in their eyes—that the gods are unnecessary, that you don’t need to worship them to wield their power. It does make me question whether or not FCG was originally designed for the Care and the Culling or if he was altered for it, as Vitro suggested. And even then his target must have been of immense importance to be sent a cleric bot in the middle of the Age of Arcanum

[starfish-comics]

Bloodmoon Island was not our favorite of the places we've been so far.

[ilions-end]

people talk about achilles' two god-begotten immortal horses, balios and xanthos, but no one ever seems to mention the third one, pedasos, who was just a regular horse. what was life LIKE for that one

[coldcanyon]

uhg i wanna go back to hetch hetchy before we leave. literally water history has become sososoosos interesting to me. Like this whole state is just sooo superficially stable im so interested to see how the next few decades play out.

[wherefore-whinnies]

fire emblem

[urbeautifulandiminsane]

your honour my client pleads “just a girl”