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[angelscatastrophe]

learning about actual infinite possibilities and limitlessness has honestly made me sillier.

I feel so overpowered, like wdym I can shift to a reality where all of the discontinued shows I loved never got discontinued????

[dekusbrokenart]

Art inspired by "Hell Followed With Us" by Andrew Joseph White. Excerpt:

He presses a small lever, and the blade springs out with a snap. An Angel knife, the same kind Steven held to my throat. Just like, I realize, the ALC's guns are Angel guns. Stolen from their dead bodies and turned against them. He says, "Because you could join us." The Angel killers. I'll be good, I'll be good, I'll be good. "Take their greatest weapon," Nick says, "and make them pay. You'll escape by making sure there's no one left to chase you. You'll make them suffer for what they did to you." Make them suffer.

[ertrunkenerwassergeist]

Can you tell us about flow laying? Like what are some of the cards used and what do they mean, how it's decided there should do one and who should be invited to it?

Do I have more info about flow laying? Oh boy, do I have more info about flow laying. (I have hand drawn charts!)

(This will be all over the place and very long, but please, bear with me.)

First off, the name. Why is it called flow laying? Well, because the cards literally read the flow of power travelling through the world. That way they can give information about the past and present, while they can only make guesses about the future. (Though most of the time they're very good guesses.)

Each card represents a person, a being, a concept, or a seat of power. Like the Black Ships represent the concept of unsuspecting danger drawing closer.

To your last question: In the case of The Games We Play, Rhea - as the owner of the cards - made the decision to lay them. (The reason was the too long and too cold winter) There's a preliminary reading upon which Rhea decides which people need to be present. It's an art form to read the cards and interpret who represents who and who to invite.

There are three big categories the cards fall into:

Active cards, sleeping cards and dead cards.

Active cards are depicting those beings/people/concepts which are actively part of what you want to know. Sleeping cards depict those who don't/can't actively play a part, but are still a factor to be considered. And dead cards are remnants that are still important, but are quite literally dead.

The next biggest categories are the domains in which the cards take their places. There are two of them. The Greater Domains and the Lesser Domains. Which Domain (group of cards) falls into which is dependent on infulence and power, so there's a certain amount of fluidity. Though it is considered a Big Deal when a Domain changes place.

Under the Greater Domains fall The Hunt, The Astrals, The Night, The Day and The Wilds. The Lesser Domains contain The Fire, The Black and the Royal Domain. There's also a group of neutral cards that don't owe their allegiance to one Domain or another, so they make a group of their own.

How many cards there are exactly constantly changes and depends on what the person/people laying the cards want to know. (The Greater Domain of The Astrals is the most stable at 30 cards. The six Astrals and the 24 messengers.)

The Domains of The Hunt and The Wilds represent those belonging to the Wooden Throne, which represents Galahd. The card Wooden Throne itself is considered neutral, since it doesn't belong to one Domain or another.

The Astrals are pretty self explanatory, I think.

The Night and The Day represent the Sister Goddesses and their servants. (Etro, for example, it the Queen of The Night. She is a sleeping card, because she cannot actively intervene in anything going on. Eos is the Queen of The Day. She is a dead card for obvious reasons.)

The Black is the starscourge with Ardyn as the Herold. He switches from a sleeping card to an active one, and it makes people in the kow very nervous.

The Royal Domain represents the roayal houses of Lucis and Tenebrae. The King is the king of Lucis, the Queen the queen of Tenebrae. There's also cards called the Shield (Amicitia), and the General (currently Cor).

The Fire is an interesting one because no one is quite sure what that one is about. It slowly cropped up over the span of decades and is mostly made up of sleeping cards with the odd active one.

Neutral cards other than the Black Ships and the Wooden Throne would be the Gates (Death) and the Chained Heart (the Crystal/Light/healing).

[brsb4hls]

Just saw Kiefer Sutherland live.

I hotta admit I mainly wanted to go cause I basically grew up with his movies and wasn't that familiar with his music.

I expected some decent Country, but there were some serious Rock'nRoll vibes going on, too.

The old man can rock, it was pretty rad.

[isbergillustration]

In honour of at last catching up on @hellofromthehallowoods I did a little painting of the feeling of this season.

[bennydwight]

The first mod anyone is going to make for Coral Island is absolutely going to be the ability to romance numerous partners at once

[king-of-men]

You know it's a good spaceship game when it offers, as a somewhat-situational method of getting the Khorne-blessed battleship off your convoy, the option of ramming it with both your heavy cruisers and pushing it into the nearby asteroid field. Making it take much more damage, since it's traversing the astroids sideways and also being constantly rammed, than your cruisers which are going bow-first! It eventually blew up, which admittedly did leave my cruisers in the middle of the aforementioned asteroid field, but nothing a quick micro warp jump couldn't fix.

[bookshelfdreams]

The tent had room for about ten people. A milk tooth deposited in a hole shows: children were among them. There is also signs of dogs. Inside the tent was a fireplace, a big slab of sandstone was used as a grill. By the way: today there's a youth hostel where hunters used to camp 15,000 years ago. The guests are enjoying the view. In the evenings, they light charcoal for barbecuing. Humans are an astonishingly conservative species.

reading a book about the Shaman of Bad Dürrenberg rn and it's making me feel feelings :')

[ghostofouryouth]

Oh no.

I'll refrain from posting any MWIII spoilers for those trying to stay unknowing.

But I'm in shambles.

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE NIGHT by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón.

So it turns out I've been doubling this title In Error--despite the reflected text on BOTH the cover AND the spine, it's just "The Night," and not THE NIGHT, THE NIGHT, which is what I'd been calling it. (Oops.)

Anyway! This came in a translation subscription box last year (it's translated from Spanish; the author is Venezuelan). The back cover says, "The Night is about palindromes and murderers, anagrams and social chaos, how words work and countries break down," which is fascinating (and I'm always here for wordplay!).

[lunadaydreaming]

I read Holly Jackson’s Five Survive months ago, and while it was decent, it just didn’t stand up to the standard A Good Girls Guide to Murder set.

But at the same time, I just can’t stop thinking about it? I just can’t let it go?

[fatfemmalewife]

got recognized at a place i just moved bc i was the person ‘wearing the dope angela davis shirt’ in the airport. honestly i think ive won a prize no one was competing for

[ghost-of-you]

1000000/10 experience screaming emotions in the rain and have the shuffle put on moodswings right after so you just keep screaming

[sheshallfromtimetotime]

I started watching Bad Sisters the other night (just finished ep. 5) and the actor playing the prick really deserves kudos, 'cause I truly want him to burn in hell. Convincing performance, sir.

[hajihiko]

What drawing app do you use?

Clip studio paint!

[variousqueerthings]

I’ve been watching movies from the thousands suns media festival, and what I’ve been partially zeroing in on is how many of the movies involve or centre on hunting. it feels good and healing to at least get to observe through a screen actions that are done in relation to the environment in which people live, including and especially actions related to death, which around these parts is something that socially is kept at arms length.