#magi salt

[pamithebunterfly2007]

The I.M.P Army

Probably this took me like a fucking week to make this as here it is and here are some characters you probably know or don’t know that’s in our army! Also here’s like a much darker and more demented version of the army:

My group:

Pami/Me, Gale Cumulus (Elemental),Vendetta (Making Fiends), Stan Marsh (South Park), Andy Angel (fbubsp1234), Veruca Salt (CATCF) Johnny “Nny” C (JTHM) Dib Membrane (Invader Zim), Victor Frankenstein (Frankenweenie), Mei Lee (Turning Red), The Warden (Superjail), Lincoln Loud (The Loud House), Pomni (TADC), Angel Dust (Hazbin Hotel), Flippy (HTF) Tord (Eddsworld), and William Afton (FNAF).

@nicky-toony’s Group

Nicky, Noel, Nikki, Shawn, and Blaiden, The Dazzings (MLP EG), Kuromi (Sanrio), Jenny Wakeman (MLAATR), Kim Pine (Scott Pilgrim), Patrick, Pete, Joe, and Andy (FOB), and Kyoko, Sayaka, Mami, Homura, and Madoka (Puella Magi Madoka Magica).

And @gamerhyena33’s group:

HellHyena and Punk Monster, Mysterion and Professor Chaos (South Park), Shadow and Dark Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog), Pizza Steve (Uncle Grandpa), Numbuh 1 (Codename Kids Next Door), Dexter (Dexter’s Laboratory), Zim (Invader Zim), and T.K.O (O.K K.O, Let’s be heroes).

All thanks and credit to @nicky-toony for giving me this awesome base!

[greetings-inferiors]

In the first set of “the match” with slime vs blur that everyone expected to be a 5-0, not because either was better but because they were both not good and whoever won the first game would crumble, it was a game nine last stock nail biter. Honestly one of the hyped sets I’ve watched in a while. This event is going to be fantastic.

[anneapocalypse]

What is "the occult" in FFXIV?

Ever since I first laid eyes on the EE3 bit about Urianger's parents I have been noodling on one thing in particular. Encyclopedia Eorzea volume 3 refers to "the occult" as Urianger's parents' field of study (and the reason they were so absent from his life). Every since that discovery, I have been curious what that actually means. What is "the occult" in a universe where magic is real, measurable, and a highly legitimate and prestigious field of study?

So, where else is "the occult" referenced in the game?

Thanks to this invaluable searchable transcript, I've found a few other references in MSQ.

The first use of the term "occult" in MSQ that I've found is way back in the Gridania starter quests when some Ixali "Occultists" are trying to summon Garuda at the Guardian Tree. In isolation I'd take this one with a grain of salt since it's very early in ARR, but I think it's consistent with other usages. The description for Whorleater Extreme also uses the term, referencing "the occult knowledge of the Ascians," so from the start there is an association of the occult with Ascian magicks and specifically with summoning.

The only other mention in MSQ comes from Alphinaud in Endwalker, where he and Krile are giving us the tour of Sharlayan, and specifically Phenomenon:

Alphinaud: As the center of what would later become the Studium, it was established to promote the study of aetherological phenomena, hence the name. Alphinaud: Though with aether being a fundamental aspect of nature, its scope expanded to include every conceivable facet of life and even the universe itself. Alphinaud: And then, in the four hundred and thirty-second year of the Sixth Astral Era, Phenomenon was decreed complete and the Studium officially opened as a place of learning. Alphinaud: With a long and storied history, it is without question the world's leading authority in aetherology, the arcane, the occult, astromancy, and countless other fields, standing proud as─ Alisaie and Krile: ...Sharlayan's foremost educational institute!

Okay, so "the occult" clearly falls within the general field of aetherological phenomena and magic, though that we could have guessed already. Something that catches my eye is how in more than one place, "occult" is contrasted with or referenced as distinct from "arcane." This is the case in Alphinaud's speech above, as well as in the Blue Mage quest "Everybody Was Fukumen Fighting," wherein Bluehood says, "No occult tricks or arcane incantations can contend with the all-surpassing might of blue wizardry!"

In the Loporrit Allied Society quests, we also get this odd little quest "Hare-Raising Thrills," in which we're asked to make "Occult Paraphernalia" for a Loporrit called Thrillingway. Depending on crafting job, dialogue with Keepingway will elaborate thus:

"It seems he requires a pair of shears─but not just any pair. No, he desires blades sharp enough to carve fur clean off!"

"He wants a sturdy coil of rope suitable for binding all four limbs of…a 'friend,' allegedly."

"Seems he wants a highly acidic gel for some dubious purpose I did not have the heart to inquire about. Honestly, I think it's best if we don't know."

Which. I mean. Okay. lol. Do what you will with that.

But probably most illuminating is the use of the word "occult" in a couple of Red Mage quests, and in the Sky Pirate raid quests.

In "The Weeping City," Cait Sith says, "Thus did the Mhachi magi construct an occult device that would more securely bind the voidsent to their will..."

And in the Red Mage quests "With Heart and Steel" and "Traced in Blood" we have, respectively:

"The tomes with passages pertaining to the voidsent Lilith are all forbidden occult works..."

and

"...the secrets behind Lambard's occult transformation."

In both contexts, "occult" seems to be connected to voidsent, specifically to Lilith in the case of the Red Mage quests.

And this ties back to the references in ARR as well, since from the beginning Ascians have been connected with the Void, even before we knew what the Void actually was. So it's safe to say at this point, I think, that "occult" can refer to magicks connected to the Void and to Ascians.

There's just one more reference I found that flummoxed me a bit, and that's this description of the Arcanist class, which refers to arcanist weapons as "occult grimoires." I found it odd initially because in most other contexts "occult" seems to refer to magicks seen as illicit, as opposed to the socially acceptable "arcane." But it does make a kind of sense, given that it is from Arcanist that we get Summoner. If summoning of primals is occult, then by extension so is summoning in the arcanist sense, even if it's not truly the same thing. This would seem to be the exception to "arcane" and "occult" being distinct categories, which leads me to believe that the distinction is more cultural than ontological.

So I think from the above, we can consider "occult" to be a fairly broad term that may be used in several distinct but overlapping senses:

Magic related to the summoning of primals.

Magic related to the Void, voidsent, and Ascians.

Magic which is taboo, forbidden, or otherwise outside of that which is socially accepted.

As a footnote, I think this is particularly interesting in the context of Urianger being introduced as our resident expert on primals, despite the fact that that's... really not specifically his field of study but merely adjacent to it. Urianger's primary interest is prophecy, and certainly plenty of prophecy seems to reference primals and Ascians and that's where we see him doing a lot of his research, but it's not the same field, merely overlapping.

Without more information we can't know for certain what his parents were actually studying. Maybe they were interested in primals, or Ascians, or the Void. Maybe they were studying Void-related magics. It's also possibly they were simply arcanists particularly interested in the summoner side and we shouldn't read much more than that into the reference to "the occult." Who knows.

But nonetheless, several of these interpretations would mean that in a way, Urianger has followed in their footsteps despite their making apparently little effort to guide him that way, which I find to be an interesting angle to his character and also profoundly sad in its own way--not that he found his own interests in those areas, but that the Augurelts had a child so naturally inclined toward their own interests and still took so little interest in him.

[merchant-wizard-and-jerry]

“Shop is open”

1 - Sand - 10 currency

2 - Magi Grass - 30 currency

3 - Elf Shoe - 25 currency

4 - Tile magic ball - 21 currency

5 - Infra-Oculum Falsum-Alis - 41 currency

6 - Squid tool - 35 currency

7 - Infra-Oculum Beak - 20 currency

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"Wizard Essentials"

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Staff - Amber Stave - 20 currency

Orb - Turkey - 10 currency

Robes - Infra-Oculum leather robe - 4 currency per robe

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"Consumables"

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1 - Health potion - 10 currency

2 - Mana Potion - 10 currency

3 - Energy Potion - 10 currency

4 - Purple/Green potion - 5 currency per vial

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"Salt"

@ignisuadaroleplay @bi-gender-sorcerer @damnable-druid @crickled-thorn-thug @serious-tabaxi @song-de-lune @the-mighty-dalob @cleric-posting @sorcererest-sorcerer @yeast-wizard @longshrimp

[labarch]

Threshold of Humanity: so about those demons huh?

Today, I conclude that the way Qifrey stands in doorways is the strongest proof we’ve had so far that Qifrey is, in fact, not human, but an artificial being born of forbidden magic. Or, as the witch society seems to name them, a “demon”.

Lots of images and spoilers up to chapter 69 under the cut!

On the outside looking in

Let’s start by saying that in this chapter, Qifrey is back to his old habit of looking as suspicious as humanely possible. The first page is the only one where we briefly see his eye, with a look I want to describe as sorrowful, bitter and knowing. For the rest of the scene his face will stay partially hidden, and he never looks full on at the castle guard he is speaking to. His demeanor is distant, in contrast to the guard’s confusion and panic. In fact, it is a little funny how dodgy he is acting, given that he does nothing but noble deeds this entire chapter – bringing an escaped criminal back into custody, taking his apprentice to safety, safeguarding the medical tower against further attacks with a layer of salt.

So far, this looks like Qifrey’s classic brand of guilt-ridden self-sabotage, but the framing of the scene provides extra context. The threshold to Ezrest’s castle acts as a physical barrier separating Qifrey from the other man. During those three pages, they are both often shown framed by that doorway: the guard safe within the walls, contrasting Qifrey the outsider. The first page has a gust of wind pushing his robes around him, like an invisible force keeping him back. And we do know, because Qifrey emphasises this again for us, that this castle does indeed possess a natural repulsive force that keeps out monsters.

We are told in chapter 47 that, not only drawing magic within Ezrest castle won’t function, but that the castle’s walls repels all magical artefacts. It is because of that property that, when Coco notices that the leeches have not approached the castles’ walls, Qifrey immediately concludes that their current monstrous form is the result of a magical experiment.

Of course, “demons” are not the only beings who would be unable to enter the castle: any active spell should be repelled, meaning that Olruggio, for instance, can’t enter with his beautifying mask. Coco, with the bracelet stuck around her wrist, technically shouldn’t be able to enter at all, and the same goes for the characters with active magic drawn directy on their skin, like Coustas, Dagda and Eunie. In fact, even if he were perfectly human, it would be only natural for Qifrey to not step inside, since he couldn’t go in without taking off his glasses, which contain spells both to hide his scar and to protect him from harsh light.

And yet. I can’t help but see a very pointed parallel between Qifrey’s confidence that the castle will repel monsters, and the way the castle’s entrance seems to subtly repel him. In particular because it adds on to a long series of scenes featuring Qifrey’s anxieties around unnatural, magically created beings. This is at least the third time Qifrey brings up the creation of monsters in the days before the pact, which he calls “terrifying” and “a disgusting form of magic”. If the illustrations for those scenes are a glimpse into his mind, then it’s a mind full of nightmares. During their fight, the rogue Sage Engendil also lampshades how curiously familiar Qifrey seems to be with demons. Qifrey furthermore muses that he knows demons haven’t gone extinct, and in fact are still being created by witches to this day.

The demon in human skin

In short, my opinion is that chapters 68 and 69 together strongly hint at us that Qifrey is, or perceives himself as a demon. Now the question is: what new information would this reveal give us about him, his quest, and the way he has behaved so far?

First, we need to try and actually define what does and doesn’t count as a demon in that universe. Qifrey’s first halting description is “a monster, created with magic and by the hands of a witch”. A distinction is also made between magically altered animals that have adapted to their ecosystems and are useful or at least harmless to humans, and ferocious, uncontrollable beasts. So a demon is a new lifeform, artificially created through magic, that is inherently dangerous. The petty criminal from chapter 49 that got turned into a mindless and violent mass of giant leeches ticks all those boxes. Going by that logic, Coustas and Eunie wouldn’t fall into that category despite not being able to enter the Ezrest castle: modifying some of your body parts, or being turned into an existing animal wouldn’t count. Even Sasaran from the second test doesn’t seem to count as a demon: despite being hybridized with an animal, his consciousness hasn’t been affected and so he can’t be described as an “uncontrollable beast”, just a very heavily modified human.

One other interesting tidbit: “demon” is actually name dropped in chapter 59, a while before Qifrey’s fight with Engendil, when Beldaruit muses that a king who could use magic to gain power over life and death would become a “demon king”, someone capable of creating new lifeforms at will. This ties in the concept of demons to the other themes of the recent volumes, the dilemna of healing magic and resurection magic. What this could imply is that bringing someone back from certain death through magic carries the risk of altering them to the point where they would basically become a new lifeform, which has worrying implications for Dagda.  

Going back to Qifrey though, there are three things we know for sure about him: 1) he has been experimented on with a type of magic never attempted before; 2) he looks and acts perfectly human, and 3) despite this, he is convinced that this new magic is dangerous, and must not only be destroyed but also kept secret at all costs. Finally, we know that those experiments left no visible trace on his body, because the Knights Moralis would have inspected him when they rescued him from the Brimhats (and would have soundly kicked him out of the Great Hall had they found anything). Barring other special characteristics we might not know about, what makes him unique as a demon is that he is undistinguishable from a normal human.

And that’s already more than enough to explain why he is freaking out so much.

What I like about this demon framework is that it can apply to several of the existing theories around Qifrey’s origin: whether he is a rescucitated corpse from Slistas, a silvertree turned human (I am still firmly standing behind that one), or a homonculus created from nothing by the Brimhats. In all three cases, whatever weird symptoms or powers he might have as a result of his creation, the very fact that he cannot be told apart from a human is what makes him truly dangerous. Because it shakes the very foundation of magical society.

We remember the central law of the Pointed Hats: the integrity of the human body is sacred, and therefore magic cast on the human body is taboo. A demon with a human appearance is a mockery of that principle, and a walking dilemna for the Pointed Hats. Demons used to be killed by heroes, and forbidden magical artefacts must be destroyed, but what do you do when that magical artefact is a living, breathing person?

(Speaking of, I have been wondering for a while what the Knights Moralis even do with people who have had spells tattooed on them, and especially those whose bodies have been altered. They can’t let them wander around, even with their memories gone, their very appearance would give the secret away. Do they keep them hidden in some prison or on an island, like the brainwashed witches? Asking for Eunie and Coustas, I’m worried about these kids)

From that perspective, Qifrey’s secrecy makes complete sense. The existence of demons with human faces not only raises all kinds of existential questions, but in the short term it risks making witch society even more repressive than it currently is. The Knights Moralis are already merciless to anyone seen with a tattooed spell or other evidence of having been involved with forbidden magic. Can you imagine how paranoid they would become if they literally couldn’t tell apart a demon from a human? Anyone could be a demon, pretty much.

In particular, this scenario explains why Qifrey is keeping the truth from those who might be tempted to help or protect him. After all, where would it leave Olruggio if he sided with a demon against his own society? Where would it leave Qifrey, if the only solution to erase that dangerous new magic were to destroy himself, but Olruggio wouldn’t let him? It also gives context to his line in chapter 40 “You want me to stay as Professor Qifrey? I would also like that, if it were possible”, and his description of his life at the atelier as something almost like a dream. Professor Qifrey doesn���t exist, and he has no right to live that peaceful life.

Anger and hope

A final bit of character musing I want to add to this: this theory of Qifrey as a demon, and the way he wrestles with that knowledge, also sheds some light on his more erratic actions and mood swings so far. What makes his motivations difficult to follow is that he always seems tugged between two extremes: destructive anger and fervent hope. Both are actually coping strategies that he tries to use to protect himself against paralysing guilt.  

His anger at the Brimhats allows him to redirect his self-disgust towards those who made him. The true demons are those who willingly create monsters, he tells Engendil during their fight. These moments where he faces the Brimhats bring out a very different side of him, one that is confident, indignant and spiteful. Then, rather than being blinded by anger into chasing senseless revenge, he is calling on that anger to steel his resolve. He is using that indignation as a motivator to right a wrong done against both himself and witch society as a whole, even if he has to destroy himself in order to do so.

On the other hand, he seems to hold onto some hope that he might, somehow, erase the magic that created him but still miraculously keep himself alive. That is the side of him that fervently believes in the miracles of magic and in the power of creativity, inspired in him by Beldaruit, and passed along to Coco. His stance seems to be that he needs to dive into the ugly core of those experiments, and that maybe, just maybe, a way to save himself will occur to him just in the nick of time. It’s an interesting coincidence, by the way, that he is staring down the maws of water-dwelling demons while having those thoughts.

And on that note, hold on to indignation and hope when the going gets tough (but don’t brainwash your friends), and thank you for reading!

[neverlandfaerai]

(@rescuerivy) She spots Agatha and wave her down. "Excuse me, miss! Or sir? Um... friend?" She's worried about misgendering her. "Can you help? I tripped on the rocks and dropped my mask in the water. I really need it back!"

Chrono Magi Retreat Posts

Agatha recognized the effort in gendering, but chose to focus on the mask issue first. This one was obviously worried.

“What does your mask look like, and which rocks did you drop it at? I can take a look for you.”

Agatha gave a small smile. While she didn’t vocalize this, she wondered what Pokémon Ivy was- perhaps she’d run into other individuals at some point, but she didn’t know every species that existed.

After the exchange of information, the cecaelia disappeared into the black waters for some time.

Despite the lack of light, Agatha had little trouble navigating the darkness itself. Once she reached the sandy floors by the rocks, she found the mask, thankfully only carried a little ways from its original location.

After her ascent to the surface, her head popped back up from the waters. She lifted the mask in a tentacle, which dripped with salt water.

[Agatha returned Ivy's mask]

@rescuerivy

[your-fave-is-a-doppel]

OK, HEAR ME OUT: Henry Jekyll from Mazm would have a doppel!

it makes too much sense, because HEAR ME, and I say, HEAR ME, Jekyll definitely has so many chances of witching out, even when he’s permanently turned into Hyde from the lack of salt + the potion not working, that works so well into a doppel / witch form! regards, anon :3

Henry Jekyll from MazM story games would have a doppel form in Puella Magi Magia Record!

Request by: anon

[isleofdarkness]

Wow, that's really intriguing. What other abilities do ghost hybrids have?

Phasing- ghost hybrids can phase through matter. Those who aren't experienced, like Claudine, can't phase through living matter, but more experienced hybrids like Agony can phase through living matter, even humans (the hardest thing to phase through.)

Possession- it works a bit differently, a bit like how Jericho's power works in Titans. When he possessed someone, he transferred his mind briefly into their body, taking control of them but leaving his own body completely defenseless and unresponsive. Ghost hybrids can do this. It's risky with the amount of things that can go wrong in leaving your body unattended, but possible.

Ghostfire- ghostfire is a supernatural fire, similar to hellfire or holy fire. It's meant to protect ghosts from other ghosts- no ghost can cross a line of ghostfire. It can even contain some minor demons or, if lit by a powerful ghost or hybrid (like Want or Ghost Nolan,) minor angels. Claudine isn't at the containing demons and angels level, not even Agony or Chaos are, but one day it might be possible for her to do it.

Invisibility- ghost hybrids can turn invisible or translucent. It usually starts as an accident, they get scared and make themselves invisible to avoid getting hurt, usually not even realizing they do it. Frollo beat this out of Claudine when she was so little she can't remember it, but the punishments were bad enough that he trained her out of a natural instinct and she doesn't even know it.

Telekinesis- this is usually mild, knocking things over or moving things a few inches, though there are occasional exceptions like Chaos.

Ballistic power- ghosts can make things, usually glass but a more powerful ghost can do more, explode. Ghost hybrids can also do this. It doesn't come as naturally as telekinesis and invisibility, but it's something they can learn to do

Mild temperature changing- ghost hybrids can make the air around them get colder. Older hybrids can do this to the level of freezing water or creating frost (or even turning rain into hail.) They can also create wind, that cold paranormal breeze.

Mild pathokinesis- they can put out an atmosphere of certain feelings, usually danger, usually either on accident or in self-defense. A hybrid who's scared can accidentally cause others around them to feel scared, or they can put out an indescribable feeling that causes whatever is scaring them to get a run instinct.

Mild electrokinesis- they can alter electrical currents, causing lights to flicker. With training, they can even cause items to turn off and on, or even blow a fuse if they're particularly dedicated

Book stacking- if you know you know

Flight- ghost hybrids can fly in the same way they can run- not very fast or for very long at first, but they can slowly build up the ability just like a human can train to run

These are just the abilities for hybrids of normal ghosts- revenants and the like, ghosts of normal homo Sapiens or homo Superior. Hybrids of other ghost types- poltergeist, homo Magi, etc- can do more. Some may also find other random abilities, usually related to random things their ghostly parent could do, or they'll be more gifted in something (Agony got extreme pathokinesis and sensation causing from her mother, just as Chaos got her extreme telekinesis.) They do have a few weaknesses from their ghost parent- religious memorabilia, salt barriers, silver, holy water, Naem compelling, etc- but those aren't as major. What could send a full ghost to the afterlife probably isn't going to kill them unless the person trying to kill them knows exactly what they're doing.

I love hybrids, man. They're so interesting and so easy to have fun with. I have so many different types of hybrids and they've all got rap sheets like this and it's so fun, I can't wait to tell you guys about them

[okaima]

Karelian words - Flavors

Čirpakko - sour (negative)

Hapiško - slightly spoiled, stale

Ihrasa - fatty (negative)

Imelä - sweet

Kačkera - tart

Kalaza - fishy, fish-tasting, delicious

Kargie - acidic

Kidžmerä - bitter (positive)

Kil'l'akka - extremely bitter, undone, unripe

Kirmie - acrid

Kusnoi - tasty

Lihaza - meaty, meat-tasting, fulfilling

Ludova - delicious

Mačkera - bittersweet (positive)

Magie - good, tasty

Mavukas - tasteful, savoury

Mehine - sweet, refreshing

Mehövä - fresh, juicy

Mezine - honeyed, sugary, very sweet

Moajas - very tasty, filling

Muigie - sour (positive)

Mytäkkä - fishy, spoiled

N'epsie - tasty, just right, not too salty

Razvani, razvaža - fatty (positive)

Ruvakas - resinous, tree-resin-tasting (positive)

Savukas - smoky

Sulaisa - "melting in mouth", umami

Suolani - salty (negative)

Tilliškö - vinegary, very bitter, very sour

Tuima - lacking in salt (negative)

Vihava - bad tasting

Vingerä - bitter (negative)

Voini - buttery, greasy (positive)

Ägie - spicy

Äimelä - cloying, unpleasantly sweet

[curoopeez]

I bet there's gotta be a reverse isekai out there. A story about someone who lived in a fantasy world and got reincarnated in our modern world.

"Damn, this world doesn't have any of the magic I'm used to. The magic languages don't work, so I can't make any spells. There are no spirits or demons to summon, no wands or crystals, I guess I'll have to live without magi-

Is that. Is that fucking salt? Is that motherfucking sugar? These extremely rare and powerful ingredients are abundant and cheap here?!?!?!"

[girlygirltournament]

(32 bracket base here by @mad-scientist-showdown)

This is the full 128 bracket!! Full list of matches under cut!!

Preliminary Polls

Round 1 Statistics

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6 (the finals!)

Directory

Bracket 1 - Side A

Mizuki Akiyama (Project SEKAI) Vs. Maria Campbell (My Next Life as a Villainess)

Flora (Winx Club) vs. Abby Sciuto (NCIS)

Mitsuba Sousuke (Toilet-bound Hanako-kun) vs. Forrest (Fire Emblem)

Enid Sinclair (Wednesday) vs. Pearl Houzuki (Splatoon)

Haley (Stardew Valley) vs. Sakura Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura)

Veruca Salt (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Willy Wonka) vs. Sonoko Suzuki (Detective Conan)

Cinderella (Cinderella) vs. Silena Beauregard (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)

Kim Possible (Kim Possible) vs. Amy Rose (Sonic)

Bracket 1 - Side B

Sakura Chiyo (Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun) vs. Lydia Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)

Caroline Forbes (The Vampire Diaries) vs. Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter (Sailor Moon)

Rosie Mayfield (Style Savvy) vs. London Tipton (Suite Life of Zack and Cody)

Momoi Satsuki (Kuroko's Basketball) vs. Tuesday Simmons (Carole and Tuesday)

Effie Trinket (The Hunger Games) vs. Stella (Winx Club)

Honey-Senpai (Ouran High School Host Club) vs. Victorique de Blois (Gosick)

Sakura Minamoto (Zombieland Saga) vs Madoka Kaname (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

Cure Sparkle/Hiramitsu Hinata (Precure Pretty Cure) vs Lindsay (Total Drama)

Bracket 2 - Side A

Lola (Shark Tale) vs. Colette "Coco" (Thea Sisters)

Therese Wolf (Fable Comics) Vs. Orca/Dex @labor9 (Tumblr User)

Princess Ozma (Wizard of Oz) vs. Aelita Schaeffer (Code Lyoko)

Webby Vanderquack (Ducktales) vs. Hiyoko Tosaka (Hatoful Boyfriend)

Fernet (100% Orange Juice) vs. Donko (Taiko no Tatsujin)

Blythe Baxter (Littlest Pet Shop) vs. Shezow/ Guy Hamdon (Shezow)

Numbah 3 / Kuki Sanban (Codename: Kids Next Door) Vs. Ami Onuki (Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi)

Jessica Day (New Girl) vs. Caitlin Cooke (6Teen)

Bracket 2 - Side B

Shirou Fuji (Mizutama Honey Boy) vs. Kitty (BBC Ghosts)

Rainbow Brite (Rainbow Brite) vs. Zari (Duolingo)

Momoko Ryugasaki (Kamikaze Girls) vs. Peaches (Ice Age)

Barbie (Sandman) vs. Tilly (Rent a Bridesmaid by Jacqueline Wilson)

Sally (Ninjago) vs. Rainbow Dash (My Little Pony Generation 3)

Princess Pea (Super Why!) vs. Mai Oota / P-Chan (Gokinjo Monogatari/Neighborhood Story)

The Cat (Red Dwarf) Vs. Queen Red Riding Hood (The Land of Stories)

Arcee (Transformers Generation 1) vs. Gaby Solis (Desperate Housewives)

Bracket 3 - Side A

Cher Horowitz (Clueless) vs. Cornelia Hale (W.I.T.C.H)

Marianne Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility) vs. Clover (Totally Spies)

Perfuma (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) vs. Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls)

Lilligant (Pokémon) vs. Biscuit Krueger (Hunter x Hunter)

Allison Reynolds (The Foxhole Court: All For the Game) art by @detrinity vs. Isabella Garcia Shapiro (Phineas and Ferb)

Hello Kitty (Sanrio) Vs. Barbie (Mattel)

Mari Tsutsui (Rainbow Days/Nijiiro Days) vs. Ella (Total Drama)

Tahani Al Jamil (The Good Place) vs. Rosalina (Mario)

Bracket 3 - Side B

Elle Woods (Legally Blonde) Vs Daphne Blake (Scooby-Doo)

Ty Lee (Avatar: The Last Airbender) vs. Amulet Heart (Shugo Chara!)

Holly Munro (Lockwood and Co) art by @lucy-j-carlyle vs. Nikki (UP2U: World Traveller, Love Nikki, Shining Nikki)

Birdo (Mario) vs Lambdadelta (Umineko: When They Cry)

Smurfette (The Smurfs) vs. Regina George (Mean Girls)

Tsukimi Kurashita (Princess Jellyfish) vs. Todomatsu Matsuno (Osomatsu-san)

Blossom (The Powerpuff Girls) vs. Rarity (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

My Melody (Sanrio) vs. Nui Harime (Kill La Kill)

Bracket 4 - Side A

Emily (Stardew Valley) vs. Mitsuri Kanroji (Demon Slayer)

Nana Komatsu (Nana) vs. Lucia Nanami (Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch)

Bugs Bunny (Looney Tunes) vs. Minako Aino/Sailor Venus (Sailor Moon)

Rose Lavillant (Miraculous Ladybug) vs. Marie (The Aristocats)

Glinda (The Wizard Of Oz) vs. Hilda Valentine Gonreil (Fire Emblem)

Ichigo Momomiya/Mew Ichigo (Tokyo Mew Mew) vs. Coco (Bluey)

Princess Peach (Mario) vs. Starfire (Teen Titans)

Draculaura (Monster High) vs. Charlotte La Bouff (Princess and the Frog)

Bracket 4 - Side B

Bee (Bee and Puppycat) vs. Natsuki (Doki Doki Literature Club)

Bubbles (The Powerpuff Girls) vs. Strawberry Shortcake (Strawberry Shortcake)

James (Pokémon) vs. Kurako/Kuranosuke Koibuchi (Princess Jellyfish)

Platinum the Trinity (BlazBlue) vs. Aoi Hyōdō (Maid-sama/Kaichou Wa Maid-Sama!)

Mad Mew Mew (Undertale) vs. Minnie Mouse (Disney)

Tsunoda (Aggretsuko) vs. Cure Coral/Sango Suzumura (Tropical Rouge Precure)

Daisy Duck (Disney) vs. Cure Flora/Haruka Haruno (Go Princess Precure)

Yukiko Kanzaki (Assassination Classroom) vs. Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

[thetinyshiloh]

Nine People You'd Like to Know Better

Tagged by @thana-topsy, thank you!!

3 Ships Yyra Denirien x Teldryn Sero (OC x Elder Scrolls) - If you're following me and you don't know this... you must scroll tumblr with your eyes closed or something lmao. They are INCESSANTLY in my head 24/7/365. They are both so broken but trying their best and the most important aspect is that (in my canon story) their friendship happens FIRST and is MOST important before anything else occurs between them. I know all the smut I draw says otherwise, but I draw the smut because my main story is so slow-burn hahahaha. FemShep x Garrus Vakarian (Mass Effect) - I went hard for this one... it's almost like there's something about red-headed strong-willed women with snarky, non-human mercenaries with distinctive voices that just does it for me... Jude x Cardan (The Folk of the Air series) - Despite the fact these are "young adult" books, holy shit did they do something for me. Also 100000% better than any published erotica I've ever read AND a fantastic example of enemies-to-lovers. Anyways, I finished the main trilogy recently and these two have been rotating on a smaller platform in the background while Yyra and Teldryn continue to rotate in the foreground lol. I HAVE TO ADD ONE MORE, SORRY, I'M BREAKING RULES BUT NIKAIDO x KAIMAN (DOROHEDORO) HAS TO BE INCLUDED TOO, I am obsessed

First Ship I have such a hard time remembering stuff from my early life, but technically the first pairing of people that I fixated on (though this would be way before "shipping" was a thing I knew about) was Aerith x Sephiroth (despite how that canonically goes lol, but i guess i've always loved saying fuck canon).

Last Song "Magia" by Kalafina - Despite almost never watching anime, I binged Puella Magi Madoka Magica in one day (it's only 12 episodes) and holy cow that fucking show what the fuck. Anyways, the end credit song rocks and this is it.

Currently Reading Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain by David Gerard I recommend both of these so far, but I'm also only partially through them because I always take a thousand years to read nonfiction.

Last Film Dearest Sister (2016) - It's weird if I'm not watching at least one horror film in the past week, but this was actually two weeks ago? I think I need to re-watch it, but I thought it was pretty good!

Currently Craving I was craving salted nori today but I do actually have some and so I had it a few hours ago. Right now I'm not really craving anything! I guess this question is more about creative works but as usual, I go with food haha.

I tag: @downontheupside @mishikaiya @ocheeva @dontiform @perilously @fliinnie @orfeolookback @bendingsignpost @drowsy-fantasy

[jiubilant]

Three minutes before their morning Cyrod lesson, Gerd and her siblings watch a burglar wiggle through the drawing-room window.

They huddle in the doorway, she and Hedda and Helgi, who is only five—and Gitta the gap-toothed kitchen-girl, who, at Magister’s insistence, is allowed to sit in on their lessons. (He’d even bought her a slate.) Helgi hangs, wide-eyed, on Hedda’s skirt. Hedda hugs Gerd’s arm. Gitta stands apart, her face pinched and pale, munching her apron-strings in her anxious, mousy way.

And the burglar slips like a shadow over the sill, landing swift on silent hands and feet. She straightens. She’s one of the furred folk, Gerd notes with a start, who are not allowed inside the city walls: sleek as a squirrel,  her blue eyes bright, her tail sweeping the rug like a lady’s train.

Khajiit, Gerd thinks, hearing the word in Magister’s dry and patient drawl. (He teaches them words that aren’t Cyrod, sometimes.) Khaj, a region in Anequina. Iit, a suffix denoting—

“Morning,” says the burglar.

Then she lopes, earrings jingling, to the fireplace. She fingers the fine throw-rugs. Pats the antique chairs. Picks up, pricking her ears, the polished pelican-skull from the mantel. It occurs to Gerd that she should move, shout, say something—

But it’s Gitta who speaks first, her voice almost a whisper. “Where’s Magister?”

The burglar blinks down at them. She’s slipped her hand in the skull like a puppeteer.

“Magister’s feeling poorly today,” she says. Her voice is an amused, breathy rumble, like a panther’s purr. “Morbs. But he’ll be back here Morndas next”—the skull sagely nods—“so you’d best mind me mordacious-like.”

“Morbs?” Hedda’s brow furrows. “Is that like mumps?”

“Eh,” says the burglar. Rather than stashing the skull in some sack—which is, Gerd thinks helplessly, what a burglar ought to do—she thumbs a smudge from its bony cheek, then gently replaces it. “Makes you salt your coffee, is all.”

Gitta clears her throat. Her voice comes out a squeak, now. “Who are you?”

The burglar, after a moment’s grave reflection, draws herself to her full height.

“Today,” she says, lifting her chin like a Cyrod orator, “I’m your tutor. Salvete, discipuli.”

The children stare at her.

“I know,” says the burglar, “you don’t answer me da like that.” She clears her throat with a self-important air, her tail twitching behind her, then levels a look at them like a lance. “Salvete, discipuli—”

Four small voices, catching the hint, sing out in timid unison. “Salve, Magister.”

“There, now.” The burglar—who had, Gerd notes with wary fascination, called Magister da—looks pleased. “Quid agitis?”

The response rises baffled, but louder than before. “Satis, bene.”

The burglar nods, satisfied.

“Best call me Magis-trix,” she says. Then she grins, like a cat, with just her eyes. “On account of how I’m tricksy, see?”

The children stare at her.

“S’the feminine form,” says Magistrix, then waves them off. “Feh. Show me your slates.”

* * *

“Be off,” she says an hour later, dismissing them with a flick of her tail. “Begone. Best take your time on those translations, or I’ll be back.”

Some progress, she thinks with satisfaction, has been made. Grave Gerd, her hair parted in neat plaits, can conjugate irregular infinitives; curly-headed Hedda, who scowls at her slate while she works, can cuss in three new languages; wee Helgi, whose ears stick out like oars, can write the alphabet without wobbling at all. And, the rum-kate called Magistrix notes with a smug smile, they’d all laughed at her last joke.

All but Gitta, chewing her apron-strings again, who creeps up to her as the others tumble out to play. “Magistrix?”

“Reckon I’ve outlived that appellation.” She gives the girl a swift, sly smile. “Call me Shiv, mouse—”

“When my fa was feeling poorly,” Gitta says in a rush, her face white as the foamy frills of her classmates’ dresses, “we’d make him a posset.”

Shiv blinks down at her.

Then she sinks to one knee—slowly, so that the little squeaker won’t start. “A whassit?”

“A posset.” Gitta, her slate tucked under her arm, wrings her ragged apron. Her eyes flick to the fine curtains, then the fire, then the floor—everywhere, thinks Shiv, but to her face. “Two parts boiled milk, one part ale, and honey if you’ve got it—why’d you come in,” she adds in the same breath, “through the window?”

Shiv, without so much as a whisker-twitch, takes silent stock of the child: her hair, creeping sweaty from her cap. Her hands, twitchy. Her apron, too small, spattered with soupstains and pot-polish. She must run up from the kitchens, thinks Shiv, to show at her lessons on time.

“Them as guard the gate,” she says to the girl, quashing a sharp, sudden pang in her chest, “gave me the stink-eye. D’you come in that way, mornings?”

Gitta, recognizing the joke, almost giggles.

Then she shakes her head, her eyes sober and wide, and says what they both know. “I’m not allowed. I use the servants’ door.”

Shiv nods. She studies the girl’s timid, tired face.

“Even so,” she says, very gently, “folk like you and me, who en’t good enough for the front gate”—she taps the child’s slate with a curving claw—“we find a way in.”

Gitta stares at her. Her little forehead, smudged with grease, creases.

Then, astonishingly, she smiles—hesitant as a candle, and as bright. “You’ll—you’ll try the posset?”

Shiv thumbs the smudge from her brow. “Possetively.”

[babymagi]

Magi characters and their dnd alignments?

i'm not a dnd nerd i had to ask my sister who is one what this meant nfjeksbfkjes but I think I got it (?)

Lawful Good - Aladdin, Alibaba, Sheba

Lawful Neutral - Solomon, Scheherazade, 8 generals

Lawful Evil - Sinbad

Neutral Good - Morgiana, Hakuei

True Neutral - Yunan, Koumei

Neutral Evil - Kassim, Kouen

Chaotic Good - Kougyoku, Kouha, Serendine

Chaotic Neutral - Hakuryuu, Judar

Chaotic Evil - David, Arba

this isn't everyone it's just everyone I can think of rn

i'm also not really an expert when it comes to this kind of thing cause I'm not a DnD nerd so take what I say with a grain of salt

[opalvvoven]

It would be nice to be able to go witch-hunting on the bus again. I did that once a few years ago when I was doing research for dragon and bear about local scope of witches while I was on call with some other magical girls.

Unfortunately the bus schedule has CHANGED 😭 So I’ll have to take a good, calculated look again at a proper route. And maybe this time I’ll use 3 bus lines instead of two, to get the whole town surveyed.

I haven’t heard from Bear in at least 2 years now, and I’m pretty sure Dragon is out of commission given his mundane family’s report on his health… so I suppose it’s up to me to keep the town safe for now. Unless any of the incoming university freshman are Magi, that is, but… I doubt it. Usually us locals have to save the students from witches even more than we do the other civilians, so I doubt anyone coming in has enough fortitude for a contract.

I am, of course, still working out the kinks on the gemstone concept on top of my duties as a new Puella Magi. N seems to know more about it than me, but everything he tells me, I have to take with a grain of salt, since I’m pretty sure I saw him working AGAINST the cause; but then again, my first dream of the girls was a rebellion.

For now, I fight witches and train further.

Goodnight !

[lotharx]

ᛏᛁᛗᛖ, ᛞᛖᚢᛟᚢᚱᛖᚱ ᛟᚠ ᚨᛚᛚ ᚦᛁᛜᛊ time, devourer of all things

Lothar polished his ax, rid it of the ichorous build up that had gathered since the past few months. The formidable weapon and his mess of tinctures were the only personal items the brute had brought to complete the trek. Others had, in a proclamation of life or death, brought certain photographs, perhaps a necklace of a loved one, a letter from someone who had met their demise. Something heartfelt and indelibly apart of them. His hands wrung restlessly around the wooden hilt; this weapon that was so good at tearing and bludgeoning - it was just as substantial and inherent to the brute as any sentimental belonging.

Oil had been slathered over the hilt, polished the carved wood anew, but his hands wrung around it long after the intended purpose was completed. He'd not a brain to be filled with inquietude yet here he sat, salvaged from a successful coupe on a nation, given refuge from magi intent to harm and he'd nothing left under his name. Witchers were reserved for the loss of identity; they could not own land, nor hoard a title but what difference was he from them now?

Iskaldrik was this harsh blight upon his life, this ragged tooth of childhood that often dug deeply into his ribcage just as tenderly as a wretched hug. Everything and nothing, the sum of who he was, destroyed in fusillade of fire and smoke. He could recall the smell of his parent's home well; the twang of salt, the warmth of the perpetually churning oven. Vinegar and malt was always a pungent scent, this nurturing burst of nostalgia that always had him peering up at the source; an adult now, but a husk that surrounded a child with nothing left to turn to.

The violence of life, how he'd become everything he sought to destroy. What worth was a lucky shot? As never ending as violence was, luck was not in such abundance. Lothar peered down at the runes that were indicative of this - lucky shot - a cruel mockery considering how unlucky his life truly had been. Riddled with scars, perpetuated by loss; the memory of everything he'd once ever cared for had crumbled beneath the Aetherians and his knuckles now turned white as he thought of returning. He'd made a promise, to those captured, and even those lost, that he'd be back to avenge them all.

A loose canon, a man with no titles or sentiments of his own - there was nothing for Lothar to lose except time. The longer they waited and remedied themselves, the higher the tally of the dead would be.

How sour his promise would be.

This was a turning point; himself or the identity he'd snugly wrapped in blinding rage and a double crested ax? Rage was a wildfire it burned and picked everything clean; but how often could Lothar start again? How often could be maneuver and evade, hide behind the colossus barbarian he'd created? A promise had been made, to return, to avenge. There was no time to rest his weary head.

The Ax stood - today was not the day promised, but there was much to be done.