#mystic synesthesia

[phoebepheebsphibs]

i saw the mystic synesthesia title and i am so curious about it! as someone who has synesthesia, i’d love to know more about it?

So basically I had an idea about what if Mikey's mystic powers mix with his senses like sight, smell, taste, etc. And suddenly he starts seeing his family's ninpo in new ways - Leo's is rushing water and electricity, Raph's is hot and warm and feels like a giant hug, Donnie's is like rampaging plants and flora, etc.

As time goes on he finds that it isn't just his family's ninpo he can sense, but other people too! He discovers April has ninpo, and after discussing it with Draxum he uncovers that he can only sense their life force or ninpo when they are thinking of family. Mikey tries to feel Casey Jr.'s ninpo as well, though at first it doesn't seem to work and Mikey discovers that Casey doesn't yet consider the younger versions of the turtles family yet. He manages to sense Casey's ninpo by getting him to talk about his family from the future.

Anyways it goes on a bit from there, the guys all think Mikey feels left out or excluded or something because he's been acting clingy and asking everyone he knows family questions. Mikey reveals his synesthesia powers and tells everyone what they feel like to him. The comic ends with Mikey telling them that he can't sense what his own ninpo feels like and asks if they could try to sense it for him. They do, and find that Mikey feels like pure and bright sunshine.

Snippet hehe

[bishkebab]

I’ve never been the machinery type of autistic because machinery to me is geometry and history flavored; that is, yellow and red and math and right angles flavored, like physics and chess, and my brain is very organic and green and cups and biology and circle-y and doesn’t understand machines or chess at all; I would rather die than learn how my car works, or what a cosine is.

But anyway I don’t know if it’s about pop culture influence or something more visceral, but there ARE just a few machines that do have something soul-flavored about them, like trains- is there anyone who doesn’t see a train and smile? And I’ve completely lost track of how I was trying to get to my point which is that Combine Harvester shapes like the name of an old god in my mouth and it is definitely an entity and feeds on blood; not in a malevolent way, just in the way that any old creature emerging from the primordial fog has a hunger and must be fed.

[ashtrayfloors]

tonight, everything is synesthetic. sounds have color; tastes have voices. the sirens blaring down 794 are turquoise. maria callas' arias are magenta edged with gold. the wine i am drinking is a villanelle in my mouth. 

[from a journal entry, 09/22/06]

[mikfelt]

[ckret2]

Human with totally non-mystical synesthesia tells Goldie that he's obviously a circle. Does human survive unscathed

Bill's gonna be mildly insulted but he realizes he's talking to humans, here. Anything a human says about his shape comes from a place of ignorance. Bill didn't say anything about a kid calling him an isosceles monster last summer.

Fun fact! In the world Bill comes from, telling a shape he looks like a circle isn't just an insult because it's wrong. It also means "you look like you're inbred."

[nalyra-dreaming]

I have (re)watched Lambs of Gods now. (Tagging @slutaciouslestat as promised 😅).

Here‘s my… thoughts, roughly in order:

Arrogant asshole but the clothes really look sleek on him

Sam really knows how to use mannerisms for display of character traits (in this case: smoking). Holy moly.

That cast right? They had to leave the cast open in the back for… practical reasons. Like, a cast takes a while to dry, and then the night, and the day after… Good thing he is in the stable already 😬 (And imagining the handling inside, later?! 😬😅)

The fact that he is receptive to the reality/visions was a nice twist!

Why do they all shave him?!!! *grumbles* ;))

The stories as a means to tell the harsh past was very well done.

The baby Moses thing. LMAO. (And also as vicious as his reaction was I can understand it)

The inspector being called Barnaby. I mean…

I loved the stories woven into the clothing.

I also loved his face at getting told that was his hair 🤣

Think Sam learned to knit for this?!

Him becoming a sister was weirdly poetic and touching in its own right. I was so glad they didn’t stray to brother after the initial announcement.

All that jerking off … “nothing“ mh hmmm. (Knowing Sam really wanted this part… I couldn’t be an actor 🙈😬)

I liked the address of the hypocrisy of the church vs the (supposedly) real belief

That shirt was really the perfect length wasn’t it

Throwing him out of the window… ouch

The oven.

I am in awe how someone so pretty can make such faces. Seriously. 🤣

The fairy tale visuals are quite breathtaking in their poignant simplicity

The reaction to the ring tone…. 😭

Like, I know these were cleaning the wound, but I probably would’ve reacted the same way

The butterfly -.-

Bathing day… 😌

That photo of lil baby Sam… 😻 (Yes, said in Jacob’s voice^^)

Ohhh that Father insinuating like that to Frankie… I would’ve flipped my shit. And to make her drink 😒

The low lighting they used (and yet everything was clearly visible which was nice) makes the pupils enormously large

Dying Day (lol)

Oh him having synesthesia is so interesting, I wonder if Sam and Assad discussed that?!

I didn’t think I‘d care so much for Frankie and her story but it was beautifully done

As was that scene with the colors 😭

Well, Father "Bob" got what he deserved

The oven. I think I said that before. Ahem.

They filmed really prettily

The mystical aspects of it all were very nicely done, nice and subtle

I did say that Father Bob had it coming, right

(Also, fathering a child while not even managing to errr... finish... and not knowing...)

I almost cried at the robes tbh

And I didn't expect this to have a happy ending...

So. Really liked it, didn't like that it was so hard to track down and watch, whyyyyyy can't I own a DVD of it?! *sighs*

Anyways, I'm glad Sam likes to do these roles that are quite special?! I hope he gets to do many more of these. 🥰

And, of course, probably the most famous of them all... 😈

[tangledinink]

are the colors mikey sees in the most recent tmwn oneshot actually auras or is it like some sort of synesthesia? i thought it was synesthesia at first but then i realized auras could actually exist in this world

(also i love all of your aus i fold them all up and keep them in my pocket)

It's a little bit of both? They are actual auras, which do exist in the world, but not all yokai can see them-- Mikey is special in that he can, and the experience of him being able to see auras is similar to (and based off of) synesthesia! When I write about him seeing auras/life colors, I'm absolutely thinking about synesthesia when I do it. Think of it kind of like a mystical version of synesthesia?

[synesthete-culture-is]

Synesthesia culture is trying to explain to people, yes I see vague "auras" associated with a person's personality; no I am not physic/mystic

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[colorbop-archive]

when: aug 20th - 03:40pm where: lunar laundromat who: open ( @roswellstarters​ )

Among the array of peculiarities that sprouted along Anton’s day-to-day life, there have been some favourites— like that time a mystical thrift store owner had pulled a supposedly lucky bucket hat from ‘the back’ and claimed that it was meant for him (he had gotten a free cupcake out of it, of that Anton’s pretty sure); and that other occasion, when, at a punk show, his synesthesia had painted snakelike shapes that lured him through a nook leading him backstage. The band had turned out to be real chill, as far as he can remember. 

He’s not surprised, then, to find something thumping in his machine, something he’s pretty sure was not included in his pile of colourful, vibrant laundry. Anton popped the gaping door open and caught a sneaker by the laces. Brows creeping up towards his bleached hairline, he shut the washing machine door and turned to the few scattered folk tending to their own chores.

“This anybody’s?”

[psychedelicstrains]

THE PSYCHEDELIC TAPESTRY

Weaving the Effects of Mind-Altering Substances, These aren’t just any effects - they’re a vibrant tapestry that can stitch together new perspectives and experiences, threading through the fabric of your consciousness. When you take a psychedelic, it’s like flipping the switch on a mind-bending carnival ride.

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"Visual effects" are the first to pop up, greeting you with a spectrum of colors and patterns that would make a kaleidoscope jealous. The world around you might morph and breathe, as if it’s alive and kicking.

Then comes the "emotional effects," where feelings intensify like a love song on repeat. You might feel a profound sense of connection to the universe, or like you’re the main character in a cosmic narrative where every emotion is the climax. Don’t forget the

The "spiritual effects" can be a game-changer, too. You might feel a sense of oneness with all things, or have experiences that dance on the edge of the mystical. It’s a bit like meeting the universe and shaking hands with infinity. But hey, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows. Psychedelics can also bring challenging experiences, where you come face-to-face with your fears or shadows. It’s like attending a masquerade ball where all the masks are versions of yourself.

"cognitive effects," where thoughts swirl and dive like dolphins in an ocean of ideas. Your usual mental filters might take a backseat, letting you ponder life’s big questions without the usual chatterboxing of your brain’s default mode network.

Psychedelics Consciousness Spirituality MentalCarnival Visual Effects

[phoebepheebsphibs]

I’ve been randomly scrolling through Procreate to look at all the art projects I’m missing out on… I miss the days of my past where I didn't have writers' block and art block...

Ah, simpler times, when the ideas for comics flowed so freely...

Like when I came up with a plot of Mikey having mystic synesthesia where he could feel/smell/taste/hear his family's ninpo in different ways --

-- and then I completely forgot about it.

[nacricissa]

A slightly less racist Twilight

This is specifically attempting to remove the "overwriting the legends and traditions of an existing indigenous tribe" problem, not any of the other problems.

I don't think the werewolves being indigenous is important for anything other than racist reasons (ooh the mystical native is so much more magical type nonsense), so the werewolves can be a group other than "Particularly macho Quileute men, in the presence of vampires"

What traits must this group have?

Innate magic: this does not narrow things down, as many humans have innate gifts.

Hereditary magic: this is also true of humans (Bella= Charlie + Renée pretty solidly according to Edward)

Magic triggered by the presence of vampires?

Magic that makes them immortal once triggered??

Existing in the 1950s/1960s in Forks (this is when I assume the Cullens first visited Forks based on Emmett's and Billy's ages, but I may be missing a detail in my timelines)

Having legends about vampires which predate this

Is imprinting necessary?

Well, since I'm not trying to change that, I'm calling it a later problem, and so the innate powerset of this people started with someone whose innate talent was similar to Eleazar's, except it manifested in this truly hazardous sexual/romantic fixation, who then got obsessed with someone whose talent was somehow wolf-related and badda-bing badda-boom down the chain we go from there, adding other werewolf traits like the high temperature, good sense of smell, pack mind, and vampire synesthesia (converting the natural aversion to vampires many humans have- a real and normal sense Bella lacks in the same way someone born with a wonky inner ear won't have equilibrium- into a smell) along the way.

How old is this group?

I'm going to assume, for the sake of argument, that vampires are of European origin (see, some of the racism I am not trying to fix). There is nothing stopping vampires from having migrated to the Forks area prior to European colonization, but it is not guaranteed that a lasting impact would have been made.

Vampires can avoid being detected by humans pretty easily, if they don't feel like being dramatic today

Assuming vampires arose after the establishment of agriculture in Europe, the greater number of cities in their continent of origin would likely be a strong incentive to stay there, or return after a visit to this one

Even if there was contact, the legend may not have taken, or may have morphed beyond recognition by the time other vampires arrived.

The number of nomads in North America in the modern day is implied to be relatively low, with minimal risk of intersection despite the ability to run across the entire thing in like a day.

The first contact need not have resulted in the existence of werewolves, that could be the second, third, or whatever time a vampire entered the area that caused it.

Therefore, we can put the origin of the legend of the Cold Ones arbitrarily far back, if we wanted, except we don't want it to be a myth of the Quileute people in general, so if it originated before European colonialization, it must be a group of indigenous people from like, around, who've formed a group based on the fact that they know vampires are real; essentially a vampire-hunting society of professionals (these were very common among all humans everywhere, but mostly for making things, like weapons, or boats) from among whatever people were within a distance of reasonable contact.

This society would have been present during colonization, and would thus either have been

a) colonized

b) discarded as primitive nonsense or

c) both

If it originated after, we can do a similar thing, except this time the vampire-hunting society of professionals also includes Europeans from the get-go, and will end up being more European from day one.

This group would inherently be a secret society; most groups of professionals are, in this case to protect the fact that they can turn into wolves at will from society at large which might not like that. Imprintees and children are inducted by default, so Jacob would be a descendent of this society, but not an active member until the Cullens show up.

How old is this group?

This time I mean as in median age. Jacob says he's not ageing, but all the wolves from Ephraim's generation are dead, on a pretty normal human schedule. I would argue that this version could simply not include the immortality, only an age compression; you age faster, up to peak physique when your powers are triggered, then stay at that age until you are actually that age, then age normally. This makes imprinting on kids either slightly less weird, or even more weird, as the age gap is not guaranteed to "close" completely. But that's never going to be good so I'm not going to worry about it.

How does the presence of vampires affect the society?

In the books, the presence of a vampire is necessary for a werewolf to get werewolf puberty, and start presenting all the associated hereditary traits. This is important enough to the structure of the books I don't want to try to mess with it... as it comes to some of the characters. Things would play out very differently if Jacob or Leah knew they could turn into wolves from the get-go.

However, any good secret society needs an initiation rite, so exposure to the severed limb of a vampire to induce werewolfism in descendants once they come of age, which would probably be the time when the age compression would be least visible to outsiders, so about 23-25. This would presumably make the current werewolves' parents werewolves, but it doesn't have to. Descendants who choose not to be initiated, or who are excommunicated from the society would be able to pass on the gene, but not the access to a vampire bit on demand, leaving random potential werewolves out in the community, though those genes would slowly get diluted by the absence of the imprinting instinct, so the numbers would not exponentially increase.

I imagine Billy and Sam would be initiated before the start of the books, but anyone else is basically a coin toss. It's not like a lot of these characters histories' are super well-developed, and also New Moon is the book I've read the least so what development there is I am not very familiar with. There is also the option of maintaining the cannon lack of other werewolves by having the relic lost by a hilarious misunderstanding when the Cullens first arrive. Say, the society goes to hide it, so the Cullens don't know they can make more of themselves at will (Edward would in theory know, but he should also in theory know about the "vampire presence" theory from his first visit, which he doesn't, which means he is not paying much attention to the werewolves' theories about the world, only the treaty). However, instead of being hidden, it is tossed into the sea, or otherwise irrecoverably discarded, because the person assigned to hide it and the person doing the assigning didn't communicate very well, because all pack members were needed for a show of force, and pack members are notoriously bad at communicating with the uninitiated since they are used to working with people that are used to reading their thoughts.

The influence of the Cullens in forks would be twofold

First, random werewolves begin popping up in the community, joining the pack mind and being forced to join the society with a group-enforced silence law similar to the action of the Volturi upon the vampire community; we are organized, so we will destroy you if you try to divulge our secret. The power wielded by the society would be greater than just "We can turn into a wolf pack and kill you" because of the pack mind. Initiates can be taught much more quickly, because they can be guided through things by their parents through the pack mind, and the coordination and high skill workforce resultant of this would allow similar power dynamics that any clique would have in a small town. They would presumably end up with members in positions of civil or social power within the larger community. Incidentally, because of Jacob's teenage dismissal of society rules, he counts as a "random community werewolf"

Second, a resurgence of the professionalness of the society. Presumably, given the low concentration of vampires in the world, the trade of vampire slaying cannot readily be passed down. Instead, other trades, like accounting, law, medicine, and so on, are passed down instead to further the economic interests of the society in the community. The Cullens appearing the first time would represent a sudden need for what had become a mostly ceremonial tradition, sparking some amount of conflict within the group, as past and present incentives conflict. Some members would renew efforts to maintain the vampire-hunting knowledge, thus meaning the pack members during the time of the books would have a better reason to have foundational knowledge of the specific mechanics of how a werewolf pack takes down a vampire, the elements of a story most likely to be omitted over time because the strategy is really quite boring. Only real good writers can pull off writing more than the broadest of strategies before it gets boring. You don't read a lot of stories with more detail than "parry", a phrase it is difficult to take as instruction on it's own

[chicago-geniza]

Asking Stefania if she used the address number 13 because the building itself was at a 90-degree angle on the corner at the intersection of what were and were not "the ghetto" (colloquial) before the formal ghetto was bordered and enforced and it's a sexy prime (gd I hope that is also a stupid pun in Polish) with both inauspicious 7 and lucky 19. Also it would be fun to do an edible with Stefania I think. My instinct says probably more synesthesia/shape/"mythic/legendary" recurring significant numbers but it would be fun if she made those associations. She did a lot of weird shit for mystical math reasons. Also did her family do Pesach like Schulz's did she do the 13 attributes of Gd thing. Probably yes and would know about it regardless. It's fun to over-read her then filter it down

[monotonous-minutia]

top 5 opening scenes

this was harder than I thought and made me realize opening scenes usually aren't what do it for me in an opera. But here you go!

1) Les contes d'Hoffmann--Oeser's specifically, the others are good too but THIS ONE SENDS ME, it's exhilarating and mysterious and my synesthesia goes bonkers 2) Carmen. idk something about the way the music builds up after that spine-chilling ending to the overture and it's so perfectly evocative of a slow, hot summer day that's about to get crazyyyyyy 3) Cendrillon. Ever since I saw this one live just hearing the opening notes of the first act brings me to tears. I wish I was joking but I'm not. I actually literally will cry just hearing them. Plus the scene is just such a fun way to open the opera, and the fact that Lucette's appearance is so delayed makes it all the more impactful. 4) L'amour des trois Oranges because it's just. so ridiculous. 5) Die Zauberflöte, not least because it's the first opera opening scene I ever experienced, but also because it's so mystical and exciting!

thanks for the ask!!

[florspinae]

@umbraxreaper:ㅤㅤ“One last dance.”

ㅤㅤTucked in the night sky in the form of a silken dress,ㅤthe ponytail of the woman leaves plenty of room for movements to be made with ease.ㅤㅤ❛❛ㅤㅤWe could do a lot of things,ㅤyou and I.ㅤㅤ❜❜ㅤㅤThe sound of high heels echo in the floor beneath them,ㅤamong the silence under the unlight tapestry of the sky that seems to swallow all at will.ㅤToday,ㅤone without stars announcing how close the eclipse was.ㅤIt was custom of the culture of those Arias of Synesthesia to start some festivities within their borders and that was an occasion they couldn't miss in order to keep the balance of political views towards them.ㅤThat didn't meant they couldn't have fun.

ㅤㅤA guiding palm begins it’s path from the beginning of his forearm,ㅤgliding towards the palm and interlacing fingers together.ㅤA delicate pull towards the stage illuminated by chandeliers made of wood,ㅤvines and flowers.ㅤThe amusement of the woman was palpable,ㅤindeed.ㅤMultitude of questions rise in the corners of her mind:ㅤDoes he think of herㅤ?ㅤDoes he despise her looks,ㅤher voice,ㅤher actions,ㅤeverytime they cross pathsㅤ?ㅤHow much has the raven - haired boy changed since the start of their bondㅤ?ㅤAnd where that left herㅤ?

ㅤㅤCuriosity matches the slow pace of steps that seems to be remarkable for someone that isn't royaltyㅤ—ㅤconsidering how monstruous the opinions of the public are towards her,ㅤanyone that would be able to witness the dance would question many things.ㅤIt wasn’t shame the companion of them both under the many mystical lights by the tendrils of the world itself.ㅤㅤ❛❛ㅤㅤInstead of this being the end,ㅤit could be a new beginning.ㅤㅤ❜❜ㅤㅤThe zephyr of the night held whatever words she could have at the longitude of the throat,ㅤthe frost chill of the starting of the vernal time announced the static of lightning and the smell of petrichor could do nothing more than poise a magical charm to the twirls and turns as they came up closer and closer.ㅤㅤ❛❛ㅤㅤI could be the one to set you free.ㅤㅤ❜❜ㅤㅤ

[adam-ouston]

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